People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1228 Life and death are worthless in front of gold and silver.

There was a loud "rumbling" sound, and the huge rolling stone hit the city wall with strong flames.

The entire city wall suddenly shook violently.

The roar was so shocking that even if it didn't hit anyone, all the Tibetan soldiers on the city walls still turned pale and looked trembling.

In the light of the fire, the Tubo soldiers couldn't help but raise their heads and look into the distance.

At dusk and sunset, at the end of the line of sight in the distance, a large black banner stands among the Chinese army.

A young general in black clothes and armor sat on a lightly armored war horse with a stern look on his face.

In front of the soldiers on both sides of the banner, there were more than a dozen catapults of different sizes.

Wei Hongji, a former general who was nearly sixty years old, wore a black brocade robe and silver armor, and quickly commanded hundreds of soldiers on both sides to continuously throw stones.

The small rolling stones crossed the city wall and smashed into the city, while the large rolling stones hit the city wall hard.

Not only were these stone throws far more powerful than before.

Even those big rolling stones hit the city wall directly with burning flames.

In an instant, countless tiny cracks appeared on the city wall, and then quickly spread to the feet of the Tibetan soldiers.

The entire city wall is crumbling.

Fortunately, at this time, the rolling stones were finally pushed down and rolled directly towards Tang Jun in the distance.

There are whirling rolling stones above and rolling boulders below.

The generals of Tang Dynasty and Tubo were fighting with all their strength.

……

Under the black banner, Li Xuan waved her hands expressionlessly.

The next moment, the two groups of right guard soldiers were already carrying tall vertical shields and quickly stepped forward.

Stand thirty meters in front of the troops.

The shield was quickly thrust into the ground at an angle, and the soldiers behind immediately carried the wooden stakes on top.

The entire shield array formed an inward arc and spread out directly.

More soldiers used their bodies, hands and feet to press on the wooden piles, trying their best to keep the shield formation stable.

With a "bang" sound, the rolling stone hit a shield on the side hard, causing the shield to shake violently.

The next moment, the rolling stone had already rolled down the side, and finally rolled down the side of the two armies and along the foot of the mountain.

With a "bang", a rolling stone hit the middle shield, flew directly over the shield, and finally hit the row of shields behind it hard.

Then it rolled down to both sides without hurting any Tang soldiers at all.

Li Xuan's eyes were fixed on the city wall sternly.

Rolling stones flew down, and he wanted to see whether there were more stones on his side or on the other side of the city wall.

People, weapons, bows, arrows, and walking space must be left. How much space can be given to stones on the city wall.

Once it comes time to rely on people below to send things up, there will be a significant difference in efficiency between the two sides.

And Li Xuan has an even greater advantage, and even the advantage is getting bigger and bigger.

……

Li Xuan estimated the time in her heart, raised her head with an expressionless face, and ordered in a cold voice: "Pass this order to the commander-in-chief, and the soldiers who dare to die in the front army will attack the city in half an hour, and the results will be three times.

Cui Ding, the general of Zuo Jinwu Guard, led five hundred Jinwu Guards, followed by Cui Ding.

Qiu Zhenmu, the commander of the right guard, attacked again; Tang Zhenxing, the commander of the left defender, attacked again.

The right-leading army guard general Hete Changzhi, the right-leading army guard Zhonglang general Li Duozuo, followed him again.

Finally Zuo Qianniu Weilang sent Zhou Qian to follow the king. "

"Here!" All the generals solemnly handed over their hands at the same time.

Li Xuan has put his cronies at the front of the queue, even himself.

As time passed, the frequency with which rolling stones were thrown from the city began to decrease rapidly.

Li Xuan suddenly spoke: "Archers, three rounds of arrows fell, daredevils charge."

"Here!" Li Zhu stood on one side, cupped his hands and turned around.

Hundreds of crossbows were quickly carried out, and the next moment, the soldiers fell to the bow.

Wei Hongji walked quickly, waved his hand quickly to adjust the angle, and finally backed away.

The captain on the side waved the flag, and the next moment, hundreds of five-foot-long arrows flew out.

With a "buzz" sound, the crossbow arrows cut through the void like a rain of locusts and fell directly towards the city wall.

Hundreds of crossbow arrows were fired, and most of them hit the city wall.

In an instant, hundreds of Tibetan soldiers had their chests pierced by crossbow arrows, their blood spurting out, and they fell to the ground dead.

Even the vast majority of the crossbows shot through two Tibetan soldiers with one arrow before stopping at the end of their strength.

The city wall suddenly became much empty.

Almost instantly, more Tubo soldiers rushed up.

However, at this moment, above the head, more furious crossbow arrows have fallen like raindrops.

……

After three rounds, more than three hundred corpses had fallen on the city wall, and it was a mess.

Blood mud.

Even the bravest soldiers couldn't help but feel a little frightened when they saw this scene.

At this moment, a violent roar suddenly came from under the city wall.

The next moment, five hundred daredevils were already rushing forward from the city wall carrying siege ladders.

The Tibetan guards on the city wall immediately ordered their soldiers. Some of them hurriedly dragged the bodies down, while others hurriedly prepared their bows and arrows. At the same time, they prepared kerosene and rolling stones to deal with the attack launched by the Tang army.

Under the black banner, Li Xuan watched coldly as a death warrior was pierced through the chest by an arrow and remained indifferent.

Even if these daredevils are unsuccessful, they can still get a gold.

Life and death are often worthless in front of gold and silver.

What Li Xuan needs to do is to ensure that the gold and silver are delivered to the parents of these daredevils.

The rest is cold calculation.

"Step forward with the shield array, step forward with the crossbows drawn, step forward with the catapults, and prepare the Jinwu Guards." Li Xuan spoke, and Li Zhu quickly conveyed the orders one by one. The extremely chilling atmosphere quickly and nervously spread to the entire army.

While the death warriors were desperately rushing to kill, the shield array had moved forward 60 meters again, the crossbows had moved forward 60 meters, and the catapults had moved forward 30 meters, all getting closer to the city wall.

For a time, the Tang army's threat to the entire city gate greatly increased.

Seeing that the death warriors on the city wall were almost dead, Li Xuan decisively ordered: "Sing Jin, the death warriors retreat, crossbows, and catapults attack in three rounds. After three rounds, the Jinwu Guards come forward."

"Here!" Li Zhu immediately gave the order, and the remaining daredevils on the city wall immediately retreated like the tide.

The Tubo soldiers at the top of the city just breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, the crossbow arrows fell like locusts.

In an instant, there were another dead body.

At this time, the guard, who had already experienced this once, immediately called the Tibetan soldiers under the city to come forward without any hesitation. While replacing the city guard, he also quickly dragged the corpses down from the city with a cold expression.

Turning his head, the guard looked towards the city. Thousands of Tibetan soldiers were coming towards the city to support them.

It's so dense that there's no end in sight.

Outside the city gates, there were more Tubo soldiers, totaling tens of thousands...

A black shadow suddenly appeared in sight.

In an instant, the guard's expression changed drastically.

The huge rolling stone flew directly into the depths of the city, and then ran directly over the heads of dozens of soldiers...

In an instant, the ground was covered with corpses.

……

Rolling stones, crossbows and arrows, soldiers rushing to kill, the Tubo people's counterattack on the city wall relaxed a lot in an instant.

Li Xuan's eyes fell on Cui Ding who rushed to the top of the city. His long spear swept across and several Tubo soldiers fell to the ground.

The two pumpkin hammers hanging around his neck kept shaking, as if they would be thrown out at any time and smash his head.

Cui Ding is Li Xuan's favorite general, even more so than Qiu Zhenmu, Zhou Qian, Yan Tao and others.

Even Li Zhu couldn't compare to Cui Ding in this kind of battle formation.

Cui Ding is already very brave on his own, not to mention that he has a large group of fellow countrymen around him.

All of these people were incorporated into the Jinwu Guard sequence by Li Xuan.

Everyone helped each other and managed to stand firm on the top of the city.

Li Xuan waved his hand directly, and the next moment, the left and right guards, Qiu Zhenmu, and Tang Zhenxing had led their men to kill him directly.

At the same time, the shield array came forward again, the crossbows were raised again, and the catapults came forward again.

The closer to the city wall, the greater Tang's advantage.

Likewise, the closer they got to the city walls, the greater their danger.

……

"Commander, is it true that Lun Qinling is not in the city?" Xiao Siye couldn't help but stepped forward and looked at the city with worried eyes.

Regardless of whether Qinling is in the city or not, this is a completely different result.

Without Qinling, all they have to face is one city, but with Qinling, they may face ten cities, or even a country.

A trap.

Li Xuan raised her head with cold eyes, looked at the sky in the distance, and said softly: "He left, even if it was just to confuse us, he went far enough, and even in order to be able to come back within three days, he would He rushed back to Luocheng like crazy... At least he should have left Tanggula Mountain by now."

"Then even if he rushes back, it will take more than an hour." Xiao Siye looked at the smoke on the distant city wall.

"Even if we kill 10,000 pigs, it will take us more than an hour, right?" Li Xuan's indifferent face suddenly showed a hint of hope, and she heard him say softly: "Actually, I still hope that he can come back."

"The commander-in-chief wants him to see his failure with his own eyes?"

"No." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, looked into the distance, and said with some longing, "I hope he comes back, so that I can have a chance to kill him."

Xiao Siye opened his eyes in disbelief. Suddenly, he turned his head and looked at the city in the distance.

There, Cui Ding had just stood firm, and Qiu Zhenmu and Tang Zhenxing had just attacked.

Until now, they have not yet reached the point of capturing the city wall, let alone the entire city gate.

But inexplicably, Xiao Siye had a feeling.

In that city, Li Xuan had prepared enough means and was waiting for Lun Qinling.

While waiting for Lun Qinling to come back, he committed suicide.

……

"Drive, drive, drive!" Lun Qinling whipped his horse like crazy, looking at the smoke in the distance with a fierce look in his eyes.

The night was bright and the smoke was towering, and a trace of regret flashed in Lun Qinling's heart.

It's not like he didn't come back last night.

After he left using Zabala as a substitute, Lun Qinling even waited for Li Xuan's night attack all night.

Unable to bear it anymore, he quietly came back once.

However, the news coming from Tanggula Town was that Li Xuan was still staying in Tanggula Town.

Of course Qinling didn't believe such news.

But by dawn, there was no movement at the Tang Army camp.

Regarding Qin Ling, he was absolutely sure that Li Xuan was very patient and would not move until he was completely gone.

On the arrangement of Qinling Mausoleum is very clever.

Although he didn't know where the details that Li Xuan buried in the city were hidden, he had enough methods to let those details get the information he wanted them to get.

Apart from anything else, Qinling believed that under his own arrangement, he could still win it in three days.

Three days is enough for Qinling to make a round trip from Luozhe day and night.

But he never thought that not long after he left Tanggula Mountain, the checkpoints in the mountain were already erupting in smoke.

Fortunately, the city was now in sight. Even though the sound of fighting was getting clearer and louder, Lun Qinling felt lucky that he finally came back.

Behind him, thousands of cavalry reinforcements came.

As long as he goes back and recaptures the city, Li Xuan and his Tang army who are deep in the city will immediately be counterattacked.

Even under a sweep, they retaken the entire Tanggula Mountain, the entire Supi, and Dangxiang Tuyuhun...

Suddenly, a burst of fierce fire flashed in Lun Qinling's sight.

(End of this chapter)