Chastity Layman

The mountain wind mixed with the smell of blood rushed towards the face, but the young brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui were extremely excited, their faces turned red as if they were half-drunk.

Before Thunder Pass.

The Tubo army dropped another pile of corpses.

The front of the pass is less than a hundred steps wide, such a narrow terrain, the condescending shooting of the Ningyuan Army on the six-foot-high pass wall of Leiguan, and the two fortresses on the cliffs on both sides of the pass, Rao Gal Dongzan did it in advance. After making preparations, let those mediocre men carry the planks and carry the soil forward, but as soon as they got close to the shooting range, they still suffered heavy casualties.

Tang bows are strong, not to mention guarding the pass and guarding from a high position, and there are many big crossbows on it.

"Ugly is nothing more than that."

The young Qin Li brothers were eager to try, and the fifth Qin Xun had helped Ling return to Chang'an, but the two brothers resolutely stayed.

I also followed Qin Lang to the front line as I wished, but my elder brother has been standing still, even refusing to display the commander-in-chief flag, just like today, Tubo tried to close one after another, and every time they sent 1200 Yongding to hold up the soil , Qin Lang only asked Guan Guan to respond appropriately.

The so-called appropriate response is to close the pass although there are elite soldiers gathered, countless bows and crossbows, and even many ballistas and artillery vehicles that have been reinforced earlier, but Qin Lang ordered that they should not be used easily.

Tubo came one hundred, and when it was closed, only a hundred archers were allowed to fight back, two hundred came, and two hundred were returned. In the latest round of attack just now, Tubo dispatched about a thousand people, but only 300 crossbowmen were ordered to fight back in Guancheng, and no ballistas or artillery carts were dispatched.

As for Qingqi going out of the pass to kill and raid, it is even more forbidden.

Qin Li didn't feel satisfied holding the longbow, and Qin Gui also pulled the empty string there, "How about we rush out and kill for a while?"

Qin Lang ignored the two little brothers, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and he was talking about such young people who treat war as a trifle and feel excited, but they have not really seen the cruel side of war.

They thought that this war was just like playing polo in ordinary times. Fighting bravely and fiercely was honor and merit. Just now, they shot arrow after arrow and stood on the high wall. The two brothers competed and shot and killed several Tibetans. Yong Ding can be regarded as his first military achievement, and he got it very easily, without even sweating, it was as easy as shooting and hunting with the disciples of Xunqi in Chang'an.

They didn't feel anything about the corpses of the Tubo people who hadn't come yet to be taken away under the city.

For them now, war seems to be just a game.

Standing on the pass, Qin Lang didn't show any expression, but his indifference was just because he had already understood all this in his chest.

A group of generals from Ningyuan, including Han Wei, praised the two young masters for their bravery, and even a member of the army who came from a noble family used the adjective "Ji Qiu Bu Diao".

This made the brothers unavoidably a little smug.

"War is not a child's play. Every soldier's life is extremely precious, so we can't be careless. If one day you become a general in the army, you have to cherish every subordinate. Every soldier can't be neglected, and you can't sacrifice in vain. .”

"War is not about showing off martial arts, nor is it about killing and killing. You have to be in awe, and you have to be compassionate. Everything is about victory."

The two brothers nodded, but Qin Lang understood that they didn't fully listen or understand.

Pass down.

Gal Dongzan was a little angry. Although this was just a test, the counterattack of the closed Tang people was far beyond his expectation.

In less than half a day, hundreds of people died after several trials, but fortunately, he almost tested the defenders' strength.

He increased his troops time and time again, and the strength of Guan's counterattack also increased, but in the last three attacks of increasing troops, Guan's counterattack did not change, that is, about 300 crossbowmen counterattacked. He speculated that there were only about a thousand people in the gate, and the other party was relatively calm.

It must have been divided into two waves of defenders to ensure that the troops can respond.

The big ballista and the catapult did not appear, so it is estimated that they should be used at the most critical time.

"How's the cart going?"

"About 100 vehicles have been rushed."

"Okay, send out the carts and dispatch Gui soldiers to cover Yongding's carts with bows and crossbows to fill in the soil!"

Gal Dongzan decided to get serious.

It was just a trial just now, and I was also preparing to push the cart.

The whining horn sounded again, and Tubo began a larger-scale attack. Those who dug, loaded, pushed, unloaded, covered with wooden signs, and covered with bows and arrows all had their own division of labor.

"It's a pity that there are no cannon carriages."

Galdong admired this majestic pass, and felt a little regretful. Tubo criss-crossed the plateau. Although they sometimes had to face mountain fortresses when they conquered Subi, those fortresses were dangerous, but they were not too difficult to attack, because They don't necessarily have to attack hard.

Queen Supi's castle was built on a dangerous mountain, very tall and dangerous, but when they captured it, they first surrounded it, and then used spies to open the gate and break the city.

The Tubo people are not good at equipment, and the only craftsmen are also obtained from places such as Han slaves or Niboluo.

However, Gal Dongzan still firmly believed that as long as he was willing to pay some price, he would be able to successfully win this Thunder Pass within three days.

Leiguan will be the first pass that he leads the troops to capture, and it is the stepping stone for his fame and career. In the future, he will capture more cities and fortresses.

Close and fight back again.

The bowstring is thundering, and the arrow is like a locust.

Gar was carefully observing the number of bows and arrows. Well, it was still the same as the previous few times. It seemed that his guess was right, the defenders were no more than a thousand.

This is almost in line with the intelligence collected by Tubo from the various departments of the Ningyuan Army. Although the Ningyuan Army is strong, it only has 5,000 soldiers in the end, but it governs the Songzhou Governor's Mansion and Dangxiang, Bailan, Domi and other Qiangs. , has many castles and fortresses, and how many people can there be in each place.

Just like the few fortresses they encountered when they came, the small one had less than a hundred people, and the big one had only two or three hundred people.

Yong Ding walked forward on the rough and crude wooden rafts, carrying bags of soil, and there were improvised carts, full of soil bags, which creaked and were slowly pushed forward. Cover, covered with rawhide.

The car was extremely heavy and moved slowly, and a large group of Yongding surrounded the car, pulling and pushing.

When Yongding entered within a hundred steps of the city, Tang Jun's bows and arrows finally began to show their power. The wooden rafts played a lot of roles and blocked many bows and arrows, but people still started to shoot arrows.

Gal sent out his family's fine cavalry, dressed in iron chain armor, holding spears and bows and arrows to stand behind to supervise the battle. Anyone who dared to be afraid of the front would shoot directly.

The Yongdings had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward, rushed to the bottom of the city and quickly dropped the soil bag, then turned around and came back. The second batch of prepared Yongding continued to follow...

The casualties are much better than the previous few times, but the progress is really slow.

Those wooden carts that had been placed with high hopes were really too heavy and too slow, and they often got stuck when pushed, and sometimes even the wheels were broken, or the cart fell apart.

The pass, which was not wide at all, was blocked by these cumbersome big guys, limiting the speed of filling.

Gal Qi sent people to kill several craftsmen and slaves, and ordered them to improve their carts. While temporarily abandoning these carts, they replaced them with humans carrying soil, but in this way, the casualties began to increase a lot.

The Tubo Gui soldiers used bows and arrows to cover the pass, but the Tang army condescended to shoot arrows at the pass, which had many advantages and a much stronger range.

The two sides continued to shoot arrows back and forth, while the mediocre men desperately dug and filled the soil until the sun slanted to the west, but they didn't fill in much, let alone directly fill in Guancheng, and they didn't even come out with a prototype.

Seeing that the men and horses were exhausted, Gal Dongzan had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw.

As a result, after some counting, there were thousands of casualties today.

It is estimated that there will be no casualties when the Tang army is closed, which is a big contrast.

The bigger problem is that it is getting dark, and there is such a low slope filled in before the customs, what should I do?

"Yong Ding went back to the camp to rest, and took a thousand Gui Ding to be on duty here, and the Tang people were not allowed to go out and destroy it. We will continue to fill in tomorrow."

Gal Dongzan ordered.

night.

As expected, the Tang army came out of the city to attack, but they did not directly attack the Tubo camp, but under the cover of closing the defenders' bows and crossbows, they directly occupied the slope that the Tubo people had filled in during the day, and then began to move the soil.

They did not remove the soil, but transformed it.

Originally, the Tubo people planned to pile up an earth slope directly to the high pass of Liuzhang Pass, but now that the Ningyuan army came out of the pass, they changed the direction of the soil that these Tubo people had worked so hard to transport and pile up during the day.

The soil was directly piled up in front of the pass to form a horizontal sheep and horse wall, which became a defense of the narrow wall.

After hearing the news, Gal Dongzan who rushed over was furious. How can this be unreasonable? Thousands of casualties during the day only piled up such a small amount of soil, and you want to change it into the sheep and horse wall of the pass wall of Leiguan?

He mobilized the Tubo soldiers to rush forward to stop them, but who would have thought that behind the Tang army was a high pass and pass fort, and the crossbowmen on it had already been waiting.

The Ningyuan army in front of the pass also quickly occupied the favorable terrain of the earth slope, using the earth slope as a cover, while continuing to move earth to repair the wall of sheep and horses.

The night was dark and the wind was high, and the Tubo army came to fight fiercely, but they lost to the Tang army. Occupying favorable terrain and narrow passes, although there were more than 10,000 people in Gardongzan, no more than 1,000 people could really rush to the front. You have to face multiple pincer attacks from up, down, left, and right.

Sergeant Ning Yuan, who was out of the customs, fought back, and continued to move soil and build walls without stopping.

Melee all night.

At dawn, Gal Dongzan found that the low slope where the mound had been transported all day yesterday had disappeared. Instead, a wall of sheep and horses as high as half a man had been erected at the pass. Mounds of earth transported over during the day.

And counting the men and horses again, Gar found that he had lost thousands of people in the scuffle last night. The ones he lost during the day were basically Yongding, while the ones he lost at night were all Gui soldiers.

The most irritating thing is that although the Tang people caused them huge losses last night, it can be deduced afterwards that there were not many soldiers and horses dispatched by the Tang army, only a few hundred people, and the archers who were closed were still ahead of him. Estimated number of thousands.

This result made Galdong Zanyusong almost vomit blood.

"On Dongzan, do we still need to continue digging the slope?"

"roll!"

Gal Dongzan growled at this blind subordinate.