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- The next day, the Tang army began to attack Qingtang City.
Compared with Tubo¡¯s weak siege, the Tang army¡¯s siege seemed grand.
In the open space under Qingtang City, 20,000 cavalry were standing in rows. In front of them were divided into ten siege phalanxes with 5,000 men in units. In each square formation, there are one hundred catapults, one hundred ladders, and one hundred crossbows. Among the five thousand people, only two infantry were used for the three hundred siege equipment, and the remaining three thousand infantry were the real leading soldiers in the siege.
Du Junchuo stood at the position of the central army and began to slowly command and mobilize. Next to him were General Su Dingfang and Deputy General Cheng Mingzhen.
Because, after giving the task of siege to Du Junchuo, Su Dingfang chose to remain silent and acted as a spectator. I saw Du Junchuo raise his flag, and the big drum "dong dong dong" was beating, and the sound of the drum was loud.
The Tang army began its first siege.
In the first wave of siege, Du Junchuo sent a phalanx of 5,000 men and gave the order. The 5,000 men of the Tang army began to push ladders and bed crossbows slowly towards Qingtang City, and the catapults behind them also He started throwing big rocks towards Qingtang City non-stop. When the siege infantry reached a distance of 800 steps from the corner of the city wall, the bed crossbow soldiers stopped. They began to choose an effective location and aimed the bed crossbow at the tower of Qingtang City.
Because Tubo had many years of experience in Qingtang City, this city was tall and solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
However, Lu Dongzan captured Han craftsmen at the foot of Liangzhou City to make things such as ladders and catapults. These engineering equipment had been burned by Li Ke when Lu Dongzan's army retreated. Therefore, even in the tall Qingtang City, there were neither catapults nor crossbows on the towers, but only tens of thousands of Tibetan defenders.
Therefore, facing such a defense, the Tang army's catapults and crossbowmen simply regarded Qingtang City as a training ground and the Tibetan soldiers as moving targets.
I saw that every big stone thrown onto the city wall could kill many Tibetan city guards.
The bed crossbows are even more ferocious, and their accuracy is very high. One long arrow can often kill two or three Tubo defenders. The Tang Army's bed crossbow unleashed its power, and a two-meter-long arrow shot out of the air, whizzing towards a Tubo centurion on the tower. Before the Tubo centurion could recover, he found that he had been shot. He felt a strong push, and then felt a pain in his chest, and found that he had been nailed to the pillar behind him.
He kept screaming and calling, but no one around him was willing to help him.
Because the long arrows and catapults of the Tang army showed their power, and the Tubo defenders on the city wall were thrown into confusion. They only wanted to avoid the long arrows and big rocks so that they could save their companions.
And when the centurion, who was nailed to the pillar, shouted weakly, he saw a stone as big as a fan hit his head.
Zhuo Qing, who was watching the battle from a distance, had no expression on his face. He was just like a stone statue watching the densely packed Tang army infantry under Qingtang City that were attacking Qingtang City.
Two hundred steps!
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Eighty steps!
Fifty steps!
When they reached a distance of fifty steps, the Tubo defenders recovered from the chaos and began to resist effectively.
They saw their archers showing off their power and shooting arrows at the Tang army's infantry.
The infantry of the Tang Army were knocked over by a hail of arrows, and the pace of the siege was curbed.
However, just as the rain of arrows from the Tubo defenders ended, a scream was heard from the city tower, "Ah -" a Tibetan archer fell off the city wall.
Because the crossbowmen of the Tang Army began to show off their power, they turned their attention to the archers on Qingtang City.
With a "swish" sound, a two-meter-long arrow shot out of the air and towards Qingtang City, pinning the Tibetan archer to the wooden pillar of the tower behind him.
With the power of the bed crossbows, the Tibetan archers were restrained, and the infantry of the Tang army began to advance towards the city, while the ladders were also constantly moving towards Qingtang City.
In just a few breaths, the Tang army had already reached Qingtang City.
The Tubo archers could not take advantage, so they began to throw large rocks down the city and hit the Tang army's siege infantry.
¡°Ah¡ª¡ª¡± screams continued, some of the Tibetan defenders were nailed to death by long arrows, and some of the Tang army¡¯s siege infantry were killed by large rocks.
The scene can be described as tragic!
However, after all, the Tang army had very few crossbowmen, and there was no way to completely suppress the Tubo archers.
Therefore, when the Tang army's siege infantry captured Qingtang City, they also dropped hundreds of corpses halfway.
At this time, the ladder also slowly moved to the bottom of Qingtang City.
The Tang army began a large-scale assault on the city!
¡°Kill¡ª¡± Zhuo Qing yelled, ¡°Kill them off the city wall!¡±
"Archer, hurry up, aim at the ladder!" Zhuo Qing said angrily.
Under his command, the Tubo defenders began to slowly counterattack the Tang army, and soon took advantage of their own surrender to suppress the Tang army's crazy siege arrogance.
However, it curbed the siege arrogance of the Tang army's infantry.
Without crossbows, catapults and other city defense tools, the Tubo people could not contain the Tang army's ladders. Hundreds of ladders were slowly approaching Qingtang City. The highest-end wooden box on the ladders was opened, and dozens of people rushed out of it. Named Tang Army infantry, they rushed towards Qingtang City.
¡°Kill¡ª¡ª¡± The Tang army infantry rushed out of the wooden box and attacked the Tibetan defenders on Qingtang City, creating opportunities for their companions under the city wall.
Although there were not many Tang army infantry in the ladders, there were enough people rushing out of the hundred ladders, reaching more than a thousand. This force rushed towards Qingtang City and occupied a southeast direction of Qingtang City. The location created an opportunity for the companions under the city to climb the city.
"Quickly - stop them!" Zhuo Qing shouted to the guards around him when he saw that the Tang army had controlled the southeast direction of Qingtang City.
"Nuo¡ª¡ª" The generals of the personal guards around Zhuo Qing took the order and saw more than 3,000 Tubo city guards killing towards the southeast of Qingtang City.
"Kill¡ª¡ª" When the two sides met, they were both feuding and their eyes were red with blood.
So, as soon as they made contact, the swords met, blood flowed, and flesh flew.
However, these three thousand Tubo defenders did not prevent the large Tang army from swarming to the top of the city, because their companions on the top of the city created opportunities, and the siege infantry below the city continued to kill towards the top of the city.
"Follow me!" Zhuo Qing roared, and he personally led his two thousand personal guards to the southeast of Qingtang City.
Zhuo Qing joined the battle group and effectively curbed the Tang army's attack. In addition, because of Zhuo Qing, the Tubo defenders became more fierce. The Tubo defenders became more confident and blocked the Tang army like a wall. When one Tibetan defender fell, another Tibetan defender took his place.
Such constant fighting has resulted in the loss of a lot of Tang army infantry at the top of the siege wall. The Tang army's infantry are constantly decreasing, while the Tibetan defenders are constantly increasing. Gradually, the Tang army lost its advantage on the southeastern city wall.
"It's time to retreat!" Du Junchuo said to himself.
Immediately, he issued an order to retreat.
Ming Jin retreats his troops!
Hearing the signal to withdraw troops from his own formation, the Tang army attacking the city retreated like a tide.
In fact, Du Junchuo's siege was just a test. He wanted to find out the Tibetan people's city defense strength and deployment.
And now, after experiencing such a siege, he has understood the advantages and disadvantages of the Tibetan defenders, and naturally there is no need to continue to siege the city and consume the lives of his soldiers.
The Tang army retreated, and the Tibetan defenders on the top of Qingtang City breathed a sigh of relief.
However, Zhuo Qing, the guard of Qingtang City, looked even more ugly.
Because he knew very well that today's siege was just a tentative attack by the Tang army.
However, with just such a tentative attack, the Qingtang City that he was guarding was almost breached. If this was a large-scale siege by the Tang Army, how would he defend the city? He knew very well that the Tubo people were not good at defending the city and were suitable for night fighting. But with one hundred thousand fine cavalry, he had to face the Tang Army's more than one hundred thousand troops and the thirty thousand heavy cavalry battalion. What could he do about such a night battle and death?
Therefore, at this time, Zhuo Qing hoped that reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible.
Because, with such a stubborn defense, he knew that sooner or later, the Tang army would break through Qingtang City.
He heard about the battle on the southern front and said that the Tang army attacked cities and villages along the way, slaughtering cities and killing prisoners. Therefore, he did not dare to think that if the Tang army really captured Qingtang City, what would happen to the 100,000 defenders and 500,000 Tubo civilians in Qingtang City? Will he really be tricked and killed by the Tang army?
The afterglow of the setting sun shines on the towers of Qingtang City, making it warm and comfortable. But Zhuo Qing didn't feel it at all. Instead, there was a wave of two wings attacking his heart, which he couldn't get rid of for a long time.
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