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Chapter 781 The Tubo people are no longer the same

Amidst a burst of "dirty, dirty~" horn horns, an astonishing army of Tibetan people gradually began to gather at Dazhen Pass.

Because there were too many people, after countless footsteps stepped on the ground, the rising smoke and dust looked like it was covering the sky and the sun from a distance.

It's just that all the above fell into the eyes of a group of netizens who were currently standing on the top of the city of Dazhenguan.

Except for Caishen, Shizi, Yunqing, and Xiaobailian, these four novices who participated in such a large-scale offensive and defensive battle for the first time were very excited and nervous mentally.

The expressions on the faces of the other veterans were extremely calm.

This is indeed the case. They had already learned the Tibetan siege tactics in Kucha City.

It is nothing more than driving the various soldiers under his command forward to fill in the moat first, and then attack the city with ladder ants; the main attack is to use cannon fodder troops to consume their city defenses, as well as arrows, Wood, rolling stones and other defensive materials.

When it is almost done, the Tubo people will personally launch the attack.

It's just that this war of the Tang Dynasty is an internal battle. Behind it is the entire Chang'an City and Guanzhong, and there will be a continuous supply of supplies.

Especially during this period of time, the equipment manufacturing base outside Chang'an City was producing non-stop 24 hours a day.

With the adoption of steam engines and assembly lines, the production efficiency of arrows and other combat supplies was simply unimaginable to ancient people.

Spend money?Isn't this a joke?

Even though the Tibetan army was probably exhausted, they still had plenty of supplies.

In addition, compared with the Jin, Jurchen, Mongolian and other armies in the past, the Tibetan army in front of us is far behind in terms of momentum, and it is really nothing.

So, they really don't feel there is anything to be nervous about.

The calm mood of Hu Biao and others soon had an unexpected effect.

Facing a terrifying number of opponents, the soldiers of the Anxi Army and the members of the bad guys' action force, who were originally very nervous, saw how calm their general was.

My mood suddenly became calmer.

The only thing left in my heart is the beautiful expectation of receiving a reward for every battle achievement I get before the war begins...

There are a few points that need to be explained about the current situation on the Great Shock Pass battlefield.

The first point is that Dazhen Pass, an ancient pass with a history of thousands of years, was built under the huge Long Mountain in a canyon between the two mountains.

The overall shape is exactly a square with a length and width of 500 meters, and the height of the city wall is just over six meters.

Although the overall scale is small and the checkpoints are not very majestic, the terrain is relatively dangerous and just blocks the Guanzhong Ancient Road from Chang'an on the west of the Silk Road.

Dazhenguan faces the direction of Longxi and is also under the city in the direction of the Tubo attack.

The area of ​​​​the open space is not too large. Under normal attack conditions, 5000 people can be invested at one time.

If there were any more, it would be impossible to get rid of.

This is equivalent to invisibly restricting the opponent's advantage in strength.

Because in the vision of Hu Biao and others, they had cut down all the trees on the bare mountains and mountain valleys based on the need to strengthen the walls and clear the wilderness.

As far as the eye can see, there are various camps of Tubo people.

The number of troops actually preparing to launch an attack is small.

Second point, standing on the city wall and looking down, even with telescopes in their hands, Hu Biao and the others could not see where the end of the Tubo camp was for a while.

According to the Bad Person Action Force, they risked their lives to go out of the city at night to investigate some news.

In this narrow area before the Great Shock Pass, the leader of the Tubo army was Shang Qixin'er, the great enemy of Hu Biao and others.

He has about 10 elite troops of the Tibetan people under his command, and about 10 servants of various ethnic groups.

In addition, there were a large number of civilians, numbering around 6 to [-]; they accounted for almost [-]% of the strength of the Tibetan army attacking the Tang Dynasty.

As for the other [-]% of the Tubo troops, they started to take a detour separately.

We plan to pass through Longshan, a [-]-mile-long mountain range, and other passages leading to ancient towns and checkpoints such as Jingyuan, Longde, Jingning, Pingliang, Zhuanglang, and Qingshui.

From there, they entered the Guanzhong area and gave Hu Biao and others a pincer attack from both front and rear.

So now, in Dazhenguan, there are only 5000 Xin'anxi Army and 2000 bad guy action troops. The original 1 defenders of Dazhenguan, plus [-] Shence Army.

The total strength of all the above forces is 7000, and there are 5000 civilians, but it is necessary to deal with five or six times the number of attackers.

The nominal supreme commander of Dazhenguan was naturally Guo Zhu, the acting Duke.

It's just that even the military strategists behind the Guo family now look up to Hu Biao and Hu Shuai; naturally Hu Biao and the others have the final say in everything here in the Great Earthquake Pass.

As for the other 4 troops dispatched by the Tang Dynasty, where are they now?
On the third day of the Great Shock Pass, Tutu Chengcui was led by the Shence Army. This dead eunuch used the excuse that other passes must also be guarded and must not be taken advantage of by the Tubo people.

Extraordinarily decisively, he just left with the army.

If it weren't for the remaining [-] Shence troops, they would have been supported by Hu Biao and others with massive amounts of money, and would have been gradually led by Li Zaiyi who climbed up.

And in the past six months, the hearts of those who have been completely won over by Li Zaiyi will be taken away by the dead eunuch Tutu Chengcui, making the disparity in the strength of the two sides here in Dazhen Pass even greater.

The third point is that today is already the morning of September 26, the fifth year of the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty.

That is to say, the Tubo army officially appeared on the sixth day before Dazhen Pass; the attack currently being prepared is also the first attack launched by the Tubo people against Dazhen Pass.

The reason why it took so long was that Shang Qixin'er launched the attack.

That's because it took the Tibetan army almost three days to reach the battlefield.

After everyone basically arrived, the sound of "ping ping ping ping ping" was heard all the time in many camps, and it didn't stop even at night.

There is no doubt that this is the siege equipment they have been working on day and night.

Anyway, in the eyes of Hu Biao and others, the Tubo people have been struggling until today, and they have just waited for the first attack...

At about 09:30 in the morning, the Tibetans, who had been struggling all morning, finally launched an attack.

As expected by Hu Biao and others, the Tuyuhun servant troops of approximately 1 people were divided into two groups.

Half of the people, protected by swordsmen, shieldmen and archers, carrying bags of soil, rushed towards the Great Zhen Pass like ants.

The other half of the people were behind, ready to replenish them at any time; it was officially started. Among the inherent routines of ancient city sieges, filling in the moat was one of them.

There is not much to say about this aspect.

It was nothing more than the people on top of the city constantly shooting arrows at the targets below, making these Tuyuhun people pay a sufficient price before filling up the trenches.

In this process, except for Hu Biao and other people who had one stone, two three, or even two stone strong bows, they performed very well after taking action.

There were also a thousand crossbowmen from the Anxi Army, and their performance also impressed both sides.

That's because the prototype of the powerful individual crossbows in these people's hands was originally a drawing produced by the Mohist family. It was similar to the divine arm crossbow of the later Song Dynasty and was very powerful.

Even those Tyuhun people carrying a bag of soil and preparing to fill trenches.

Almost every position around him was guarded by a sword-and-shielder holding a leather shield; there were also some archers carrying out suppressive counterattacks below.

But under the command of these powerful crossbows, the leather shields in the hands of the swordsmen and shieldmen looked like a joke; they were easily shot through, knocking the people behind them to the ground.

So don't look at the unspectacular moat in front of the Great Earthquake Pass.

It is only 500 meters long, more than two meters deep and three meters wide.

It took a whole day for the Tubo people. Not only did the 1 Tuyuhun people suffer casualties, but more than half of them were killed and injured. The other Qiang army that came up in the afternoon also suffered more than [-] casualties and wounded, so they could barely fill the gap. Got here.In order to complete it as quickly as possible, this kind of death-filled task of filling the moat.

Both the Tyuhun and Qiang people threw their dead and even the wounded into the ditch together, which greatly saved the process of carrying soil back and forth, and they achieved this.

In short, after a day of fighting, the opponent suffered nearly [-] casualties, but our own side only suffered about [-] casualties.

Among the more than 700 casualties, most of them were hit by arrows in their arms because of their good armor protection. They were quickly carried down and received good treatment by many doctors accompanying the army.

Not only are there no worries about life, but there is no need to worry about disability.

Under this situation, the morale of the defenders who had been shut down by the earthquake was greatly boosted.

But what they don't know is that everything today is just the appetizer; from the second day on, their pressure gradually increases day by day.

Within a few days, the pressure I endured reached an alarming level...

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Early the next morning, the sky was barely bright.

The trumpet sound from the Tibetan camp once again kicked off the battle.

Under such a commotion, I had just made hot porridge with a bowl of millet, and blew on the porridge bowl with my mouth, "huchi, huchi~", intending to blow it to cool it down before eating.

This one is in the modern dimension, as a college cyclist.

He immediately frowned and couldn't help complaining: "What the hell! Are these Tubo people mourning their father? Don't they know that not eating breakfast for a long time will cause serious stomach problems?"

What made Shizi's reaction so great was not that he had any worries or fears in the face of the Tubo people who had filled up the moat yesterday and were about to officially attack the city today.

It's just based on the Xuange Camp team, which will make novices throw shit in the battle to defend the city.

That is to say, pouring gold juice, this is a tradition that I don't know whether to treat rookies preferentially or to torture them; the combat mission of letting the leader pour excrement fell on the head of the rookie Shizi this time.

Damn it!He has never eaten pork, and he has never seen a pig running?

Xiang was originally smelly, but after being heated, boiled, and boiled by the fire, he could tell how ecstatic the smell would be after he thought about it.

So before the war started, he had already foreseen something in his mind:
Even if he repelled the first attack of the Tibetans later, he would not be able to eat half a mouthful of breakfast between battles.

Even for lunch and dinner, whether you can eat it or not is a problem.

But complaints are complaints, this guy did not discount the tasks assigned to him at all after he executed them.

Immediately, he put down the porridge bowl in his hand which was still hot to his mouth.

He picked up a manure spoon with a long wooden handle and danced a beautiful gunfire like a big gun; No!It should be after the dung spoon flower.

Like a general, he shouted:
"All officers and men listen to the order and go. Come with me to the city to kill the enemy."

With such a sentence, the hundred and ten old and weak Tang Dynasty border troops assigned to him picked up a load of Xiang or dry firewood, and followed the cross and began to climb the city wall.

At this time, Cross, who was rushing towards the city wall first, didn't know that this meant that his last chance to eat during this mission was ruined by him.

If he knew how the subsequent battle would develop, he would still take a few sips of the bowl of porridge, no matter how hot his mouth was.

He would not let himself die in battle and become a legendary starving ghost...

Not long after, not including the [-]-man dung-throwing team including Shi Shi, the other two thousand or so defenders also climbed onto the wall facing the Tubo people.

After entering their respective positions, they began to prepare in a hurry.

That's right, there are currently only about [-] garrison defenders at the top of the city.

Because a section of the city wall is only 500 meters long, and 2000 people are placed on it, it is already reaching the limit. If there are any more, people will not even have room to move.

Therefore, in desperation, Hu Biao organized a total of more than 3 troops, 2 of which were organized into ten batches.

It is planned that these ten groups of troops will take turns to go to the city to ensure sufficient physical strength.

In addition, there are more than 1 people left, who serve as supplementary personnel after casualties of combat troops, and are also used as reserve troops on the battlefield.

Frankly speaking, there is no problem at all with Hu Biao's arrangement.

The real problem is that the tactics used by Shang Qixin'er this time are quite unconventional.

Because soon after, when I put down the dung spoon and put on the telescope cross, I squeezed to the edge of a wall and took a look outside.

Immediately he discovered a result that made him not sure whether he should be happy or sad.

What makes him happy is that in this battle, he shouldn't have to throw shit.

What made him sad was that it wasn't that Hu Biao was kind enough to let others take over such an unseemly task, but that in the next battle, the method of throwing shit might not have much effect.

Specifically, among some offensive troops who should be party members.

Shizi saw a variety of siege equipment like those in ancient war movies, such as rams, ladders, building carts, Lu Gong's carts, heavy ballistae, catapults and other siege equipment.

Among them, the ram was a large triangular frame covered with cowhide and wooden boards, with a thick log protruding from the middle. This thing was used to ram the city gate.

As for the ladders, except for the common large ladder style that is carried directly by a group of people and set up directly on the city wall.

There is also a folding type that is directly installed on the car, which not only moves much faster; it is still completely unfolded and placed on the top of the city. It is almost impossible to push it with a wooden fork.

The building cart is a large cart with a tall pole erected on it.

There is a wooden bucket on it that can be used for fighting. It is used to observe the battle situation on the battlefield. There is nothing more to say.

Heavy ballistae and catapults are just old models, far less advanced than the ones made by Lao Huihui outside Xiangyang City, so I won't mention them.

There were twenty or thirty gates each, and they were slowly pushed over, which made people have a headache.

To say that the thing that gives everyone on the city a headache right now is the Lugong car from the Tibetan side.

This kind of gadget is said to have been invented by Jiang Ziya as early as the Yin and Shang Dynasty, during the legendary war against Zhou. It looks like a huge thing.

Looking at it from a distance, it is as dazzling as rat droppings in white rice.

The main reason is that this thing is more than three feet high, which is two or three meters higher than the city wall of Dazhenguan. As long as some wooden boards are put down to build a bridge, the people inside can go straight up the city wall.

In addition, this thing is dozens of feet long, and the interior of the car is divided into four levels, with ladders on each level for going up and down.

Looking from a distance with a telescope, one can see that there are two to three hundred warriors in the car; in addition to weapons such as swords, guns, halberds and spears, they also have many one-handed crossbows, bows and arrows.

In this way, they could condescendingly shoot at the defense personnel on the city wall.

Faced with such a terrifying thing, perhaps using stones and ballistae may still have some effect, but bows, arrows, dung-throwing and other methods are basically ineffective.

The only thing that makes people happy is that there are only two of them in Shizi's eyes.

And even if an astonishing number of wheels are installed, each one is driven by hundreds of strong men, and the moving process can only be described as a turtle speed.

So before this thing gets close, it will be hit by the improved Eight Bull Crossbow.

As for whether it can be destroyed, it depends on the performance of the ballista unit commanded by Yuan Hai, a former game migrant worker.

correct!If he remembered correctly, Shizi still remembered that the veterans of the team had mentioned that during the last mission to guard Xiangyang, Yuan Hai was engaged in the job of throwing excrement.

So he just had to grit his teeth and get through this mission; for the next mission, there would naturally be other rookies doing the dirty work of throwing excrement.

I don’t know when Cross Cross made the decision to join the team in his heart...

(End of this chapter)