Chastity Layman

Gal Dongzan is not a person who gives up easily.

Although he suffered a big loss last night, there were only a thousand people who closed the door and called him. He led more than 10,000 people and only suffered a small setback. Could it be that he has to admit defeat? How can this be compared with Zanpu explain?

Even his elder brother can't explain it. You must know that he is still old, and how many people are staring at the position of prime minister. His elder brother is also the son of the prime minister, and he has made great achievements in countering rebellion. He is also Zanpu's confidant. A strong contender for the position.

But the qualifications are too low after all, and the Gar family is not a serious four Shang family or the Tubo royal family. Their family can enter the Lun family, but they are not pure enough. Many nobles just regard the Gar family as Zanpu Just the family dog.

If he was defeated like this, then he would just become a target for them to attack Big Brother.

Gar refused to admit defeat, thinking it was just a moment of carelessness.

Sixteen thousand people can't beat a thousand people, and the reputation of the Nagar family will be lost by him, and this level must be won.

The sun rose high.

Gal Dongzan's eyes were red, and holding a treasured sword, he first caught several scapegoats in front of the pass, and beheaded them directly in front of the battle.

Garr's patience was almost exhausted. After the murder, he began to rearrange the attack. Today's task is not only to continue to pile up the soil, but also to take down the wall of sheep and horses in front of the pass. The soil they carried on their backs, how can they Become the defense of the Tang people.

Almost all the thousands of Gui soldiers were dispatched to cover Yongding with a volley of bows and crossbows, and nearly ten thousand Yongding were sent up regardless of casualties. The place was too small, so they lined up.

Those heavy carts were also refitted and dispatched again.

By the way, Gal Dongzan is also in his thirties, but the son of the former prime minister, and now the younger brother of Zanpu, the former first general in the Tubo court, has always been smooth sailing, and he has been praised even more these years. Pu favored him at a young age, but he already held an important position in the court.

When did he suffer such a big loss? If the person guarding the pass was Qin Qiong, or Han Wei, the Ningyuan Army envoy, and others, then he would have recognized it, but it happened to be an unknown person, a thousand people guarding such a building. The small pass can make him suffer such big losses one after another, how can he bear it.

The cowhide war drums rang all day long.

No Tubo general dared to persuade him.

This Lun Dongzan was sitting in front of the battle with a knife in his hand. He had already chopped down more than a dozen people today, but if there was even the slightest bit of fear and hesitation, he would immediately kill the killer and swing the knife himself.

The dozens of heads were stuck on the spears and stood in front of the battle. Gar Dongzan would not let them go if they died, so he forced people to tie a fox tail on their heads.

Thousands of Tubo soldiers fired arrows at the top of the city uninterruptedly, intending to suppress the defenders, while tens of thousands of Yongding were driven to transport soil non-stop.

It's just not going well.

The Tang army seized those earth bags last night, and after building a wall of sheep and horses in front of the pass, the defenders became even more powerful.

Ningyuan's army defended three-dimensionally, occupying all the favorable terrain, and then relying on the narrowness of the pass and the strength of their own bows, they shot the Tubo people for a day.

In the evening, the cowhide war drums of Tubo finally became silent.

The drums were broken, and there was no progress, except that countless corpses were left behind, and a mountain of earth was barely piled up in front of the Tang people's sheep and horse walls.

If you want to pile forward, you can't get through it at all. The closer you are to the pass, the greater the casualties. As a result, many Yongding threw down the soil bags early, then turned around and ran back.

In the end, Gal Dongzan, who commanded before the battle, had to temporarily change his order. Instead of piling up the slope of the passage, he directly piled up a mound of dirt, trying to seize a little high ground terrain, so that he could shoot at the Tang army on the sheep-horse wall and the pass first. .

Since there is no way to pile up the soil properly, then shoot people first, and shoot down your thousand guards, and then pile up again, how do you stop it?

It only took one day to barely build up this three-foot-high earth mountain. Although it could suppress the Tang army in the sheep-horse wall that was as tall as a man, behind the sheep-horse wall was a six-foot-high pass wall. There are two higher pass castles on the cliffs on both sides.

Still unable to lift his head after being shot.

Although they tried their best to defend the earth mountain, but after counting, there were more casualties today, and the total number of Gui Yong's casualties was almost 3,000.

Before the pass, the corpses of the Tubo people were already piled up layer upon layer, piled up like a mountain.

There's not even room to step down.

Gal Dongzan had no choice but to ask people to raise the white flag and asked Tang Jun to let them collect the corpses before they came to Guancheng. Although it was not hot yet, thousands of corpses piled up together was still very scary.

There was even a stench starting to come out.

The veterans who closed it were fine, they were just like the vendors who killed fish at the fish stalls, they could no longer smell the smell of fish after a long time, and the veterans could also ignore the smell of blood and corpses on the battlefield.

But the brothers Qin Li and Qin Gui couldn't do it. They were very excited when the battle started yesterday, but after two days of fighting, they have already been vomited several times by the stench everywhere on the battlefield.

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It's not that they're afraid of dead bodies, it's just that the smell is really unpleasant. They are pampered in the capital on weekdays. Although they practice riding and archery and love to play polo, they often get sweaty. The smell of sweat can't be compared with this smell. The young master who often puts incense on his clothes and hangs incense balls on his body when he goes out, is about to vomit bile from the stink of this corpse.

Qin Lang just patted their shoulders, "I'll get used to it when I spit it out."

Gal Dongzan also wanted to vomit.

It was not the first time he smelled the smell of bloody corpses on this battlefield, he was disgusted by Tang Jun.

It's been two days, and the casualties have exceeded 3,000. They haven't even touched the wall of Leiguan.

Thousands of casualties, two days, in exchange for a small earth mountain?

So fucking disgusting.

In the end, they had to raise the white flag and ask the people of Tang to let them collect the corpses. If they didn’t collect the corpses, the Lei Pass would become a corpse pass. They wouldn’t have to attack the city anymore, and this place would become a world of maggots and flies.

The Tang people allowed the body to be collected.

But only corpses are allowed to be collected, weapons and arrows are not allowed to be picked up.

Yong Ding, who was sent to collect the corpse, was empty-handed, but the smell was too strong, so he had to cover his mouth and nose with a cloth.

It took almost a day to restrain thousands of corpses in front of the gate like the Shura field.

Originally promised to Zanpu to win Leiguan in three days, but the third day has been collecting corpses.

Corpses were lifted out of the bloody corpses, many of them even had a little life left, but they were too seriously injured to receive timely medical treatment.

Gal Dongzan ordered that Gui's soldiers should be rescued, while for Yong's young men and slaves, the seriously injured would be killed with a knife. If the injury was not too serious, they would simply be bandaged and thrown aside to fend for themselves.

In order to prevent further decay of the corpses and cause plague, Gal Dongzan had to have the corpses burned directly.

Thick black smoke rose into the sky, and thousands of corpses burned for a day and a night.

On the fourth day, Songtsan Gampo sent an envoy to ask why Leiguan had not been captured yet.

Gal Dongzan was too ashamed to answer.

He had no choice but to go back to the Tubo camp in person and plead guilty to Zanpu. Although he objectively stated the unexpected tenacity of the Leiguan guards and the fact that the terrain of Leiguan is indeed dangerous and difficult to attack, these words did not satisfy Zanpu .

The prime minister, Shang Nang, also reprimanded him loudly for his incompetence, and even rewarded him with a fox tail, and the second and third ministers ridiculed him even more, even leading his elder brother to be ridiculed.

"Please Zanpu give me all the craftsmen in the army, and give me some time to build a batch of catapults. I will definitely be able to win Leiguan."

Songtsan Gampo shook his head.

The opportunity has already been given, but Gal Dongzan failed. This was originally given to him as a credit, but he messed it up.

"Tomorrow, the whole army will pull out the camp and directly approach the Thunder Pass, and attack directly."

Songtsan Gampo rejected Gar's request on the grounds that since the fight has not been taken for several days, it cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise Songzhou will definitely send reinforcements to come, and it will only be more difficult to attack. Taking advantage of the fact that there are not many defenders closed, the most important thing is to attack and win in one go.

As for Gal Dongzan, Songtsen Gampo withdrew his right to lead the army, and also imposed severe punishments such as demoting his official position and reducing his territory as a punishment.

after one day.

Songtsan Gampo came to Lei Pass on horseback and carefully looked at the pass city. After looking at it for a long time, he had to admit that what Gal Dongzan said was right, this pass was indeed very difficult to attack.

The most important thing is that the front of the pass is too narrow, and there are too many soldiers to play a role.

If it is not easy to attack, you have to attack.

Songtsan Gampo quickly worked out a new attack plan with his subordinates. First, they used catapults and cannons to hit them, and then used crossbowmen to cover them, and directly hit the door with battering rams.

If the pass is too high to climb, hit the door.

After all, closing the gate is a weak point of defense. Although the Tang people must focus on defending the city gate, as long as they concentrate on attacking one point, there is still a chance.

After all, there are 200,000 people in Tubo, no matter how hard they are to use, even a wheel battle will exhaust the defenders.

The drums of war sounded again, and Tubo launched a fiercer offensive. This time, they no longer sent Yongding as cannon fodder to die, and no longer piled up hills and slopes. Instead, they directly threw stones and cannons, shot bows and arrows, and pushed to attack the city. gavel to the door.

Not afraid of casualties, regardless of the cost, it is a non-stop attack.

After a day of fierce attack, he just failed to capture it.

Songtsan Gampo frowned, feeling something was wrong.

"Leiguan can't have only one thousand defenders."

Gar Dongzan had a fox tail hanging on his helmet, and he was in a daze. When Songtsan Gampo called him a few words, he came back to his senses.

"It is estimated that Songzhou sent troops for reinforcements."

Songtsan Gampo felt very headache, so he had to ask several Shanglun generals, etc. Finally, everyone discussed for a long time and agreed that Leiguan is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and such a strong attack is really not easy to fight.

It is better to separate a few cavalry and find another way to bypass Leiguan to attack Songzhou. They believe that even if the road is difficult to find, there will be a way if they are willing to find it, even if it takes a long detour.

"What about here?"

"Continue to attack, hold back the defenders here, and attract more Songzhou troops."

"Qin Qiong is dead, who will preside over Songzhou?" Zanpu asked.

"It should be Governor Shi of Songzhou and Han Wei, envoy of Ningyuan Army. These are Qin Qiong's old subordinates. They have fought fiercely and have rich experience."

Songtsan Gampo thought for a while, then waved his hands sullenly, "Send the order to withdraw the troops."

The Tubo army suspended its offensive and sent out several troops to find another route to attack Songzhou. Zanpu led half of the army with 100,000 soldiers and stayed in front of Leiguan. Several soldiers and horses provided opportunities, and secondly, they still did not give up and wanted to continue to attack and win this level.

The Tubo army retreated ten miles and set up camp. That night, the flames of Tubo burning corpses shone in the sky for another night, and they stormed one day, causing more casualties than Dongzan's combined the previous few days.

at night.

Looking at the blazing flames of burning corpses, Qin Lang was drinking tea on the top of the pass city. Up to this moment, he still didn't let him raise his banner.

"The Tubo people have divided their troops."

Qin Lang just smiled when he heard the news, "The show is just beginning, that Songtsan Gampo hasn't really seen how powerful I am in Tang Dynasty yet."

"Are you going to send troops to attack the camp?"

"No hurry, take your time."

Qin Lang raised his teacup in the direction of the Tubo camp illuminated by the fire, "Do it!"