Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 953
Champaomabe doesn't have any equipment for defending the city, such as bed crossbows, trebuchets... nothing.The only things he has are the rolling stones at the top and the foot of the city, and a few large oil pans.

But at this time, Champomarpe suddenly realized that he needed a lot of people to move the rolling stones and logs at the foot of the city to the wall, and he also needed people to bring firewood, so that his oil pan could be burned.But it will take time to gather these people, but the army of Xiangfu Kingdom has already arrived outside the city, and it is estimated that they will attack the city soon, will he still have time?
What's more, the army of Xiangfu Kingdom outside the city seems to be much larger than he imagined.

Han Tao's troops didn't even intend to set up a camp, or they had no plan to set up a camp at all. They drove some Tubo people out of the city, and no one knew that they broke down a few Tubo tribes along the way.At this time, these Tibetans were forced to find some trees, withered grass, and tents, and lit more than a dozen piles of bonfires outside the city, as well as countless bright torches, illuminating the night sky outside the city bright red.

As soon as they arrived at the city, Lian Su, the company commander of the trebuchet machine, led his people to work nervously. They wanted to unload the parts of the remaining eighteen trebuchets from the bullock cart as quickly as possible, and then assemble them into one Set up a trebuchet, and build a trebuchet launch position.The engineer battalion carefully unloaded the gunpowder packs on the bullock carts and distributed them to the catapult machines.

Shangpo Mabi had seen that thing before when he was fighting with the Han people with Yingcheng Lin Buchi, and knew it was a catapult, but he had never seen such a big catapult, and he wanted to hit the city wall at a distance of [-] steps. trebuchet.In addition, he couldn't believe that the army of Xiangfu Kingdom actually transported such a heavy thing to the city of Huangyuan.There are also people who are drinking loudly, chopping and sawing trees, most of them are making siege tools.

Under the contrast between the offensive and defensive sides inside and outside the city, Champomar suddenly lost his confidence in defending Huangyuan City.

The south of Huangyuan City is surrounded by mountains, and a small river flows from the west around the city to the east. This river also becomes the natural moat of Huangyuan City, guarding the northeast sides of Huangyuan City, while the west side is surrounded by The city of Huangyuan was cut off.Therefore, without passing through Huangyuan City, it is impossible to reach the ancient road of Huangyuan City and Huangtang Pass in the southwest.And only through the ancient road of Huangyuan City and Huangtang Pass, can we reach Qingtang City, the capital of the Tubo Kingdom of "Jiaosiluo".

This kind of terrain was originally very beneficial to the defensive side, so Han Tao made sufficient preparations, and even tried his best to surprise as much as possible in order to increase the speed of the march along the way. Han Tao exhausted all means.However, having said that, if everything is forewarned, it will be abandoned. Even if the city is well defended, if the defenders are not prepared, the result can be imagined.

Shangpo Mabi was a little flustered in his heart, but he forcibly suppressed the urge to retreat to Huangtangguan Tianxian because retreating overnight would inevitably cause great chaos in Huangyuan City.No matter what, he had to persist for one night. Even if the army of Xiangfu Kingdom planned to attack the city overnight, as long as he couldn't hold on, the opponent would have to build a ladder all night!And after tonight, the reinforcements from the seven major tribes will definitely come. Even if the troops left behind by the seven major tribes in Huangyuan are defeated, as long as they wait a few days, the tribes belonging to the other three cities and the army of Qingtang City will come to rescue .

Thinking of this, Shangpomarbi felt a little more at ease, without the initial panic.

As if it was a routine, a cavalry jumped out from the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom and shouted at the top of the city to persuade him to surrender, but Shangbo Mabi couldn't listen to a word, and made the archers shoot wildly, taking it as his answer .The army of Xiangfu Kingdom didn't seem to have much sincerity in persuading them to surrender, so they quickly stopped such meaningless things.Inside and outside the city, caught in a strange confrontation, the two sides are busy nervously, making their own preparations.

But this confrontation was very short, and soon it was interrupted by the explosion of gunpowder packets fired by a catapult.

The trebuchet company finally made all preparations before shooting, and the gangsters tentatively launched a shot towards the city.

This time, the firing angle was a little low, and the shooting distance was not enough. It hit directly under the city wall, creating a crater as large as Zhang Xu.Such a loud noise scared the soldiers and civilians in Huangyuan City who had never seen a gunpowder explosion. A few soldiers even lost their legs and fell to the ground.But standing on the city wall more than half a mile away, Shangbo Mabi, who knows some Chinese, can hear the angry scolding in the army of Xiangfu Kingdom, as if scolding for wasting a gunpowder bag. They are obviously not satisfied this time Launching, he saw a group of people holding a few odd-shaped wooden boards and gesticulating, and some people were paddling quickly on the ground, as if they were counting, and some people shouted loudly, and they made all the trebuchets a little bit. Can't understand the adjustments.

After a while, it seemed that the adjustment was finally done. Suddenly, the army of Xiangfu Kingdom fired again. With a bang, a few soldiers somewhere at the top of the city were bullying their heads out of the parapet to look. This gunpowder bag just landed on the top of the city where they were. Champomarbie only heard a loud bang again, and then there was a scream from the top of the city. He turned to look, but saw a dozen or so soldiers fell down. In a pool of blood, and more than half of their bodies were torn apart, it was so miserable and shocking.

"Come some people, and carry their corpses down!" Champaomabi suppressed the fear in his heart, inspected the corpses of these dozens of soldiers with a straight face, called a dozen people over, and hurriedly smashed the large pieces of corpses Carried down to the city.Shangpomapee, who was following Shangpomapee, turned pale and asked in a trembling voice, "Brother, what should I do?"

"Stay behind the female wall, spread out, and hide, afraid of a bird!" Champomabi almost roared angrily, "This is called gunpowder, Lord Ying Cheng Lin Bu Chi said it a long time ago, I don't believe it , When attacking the city, they can also release this gunpowder weapon!"

As if in response to Champaomabi, outside the city, eighteen catapults from the Xiangfu Army came to launch on the assembly line, and vaguely heard the passwords sounding one after another, and the catapults were launched one after another. The gunpowder packs were all poured towards the head of Huangyuan City one by one.Amidst the bangs of the explosions, the city of Huangyuan seemed to be trembling.Most Tubo people are superstitious and believe in the existence of gods and Buddhas. At this time, the Tubo people in the city did not know what happened and thought it was the punishment of the Buddha.

I don't know how long the gunpowder package of Xiangfu Kingdom's siege lasted.Of the eighteen trebuchets outside the city, one-third of them would be inaccurate every time. If they hit outside the city, they might not be able to cause much damage to the city of Huangyuan. What is really desperate is the face. Helpless against powder packs fired by trebuchets.Han Tao seemed to understand this too, and ordered the trebuchets to be launched one after another, with terrifying loud noises, continuously hitting Huangyuan City in the night sky.For most of the Tibetans in the city who never knew what a gunpowder bag was, it was a nightmare night of being punished by the Buddha.

What made Champomabie even more annoyed was that, except for the more than 300 soldiers who had already reached the top of the city, none of the men he sent out to gather the rolling stones, giant logs, and oil pans came. Knowing that almost all the Tubo people in the city were prostrate, they were very devoutly begging the Buddha for forgiveness.

Champomabie's face was extremely ugly, and he gritted his teeth and looked around. He found that the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom would not send troops to attack the city for a while, so he wanted to send some soldiers to move the rolling stones and hard logs below the city to the top of the city.

But before he finished speaking, he heard screams from all over the city, he turned his head away in surprise, and was momentarily stunned.

In Huangyuan City, there are flames everywhere.On the originally deserted street, there were scattered and fleeing people everywhere, crying and shouting all over the place!
"Spies from the Xiangfu Kingdom have infiltrated the city!" At this time, Shangpomapei couldn't hide his inner panic, "There are two Han Chinese caravans in the city these days. A businessman from the country!" He looked at Shangpomabi in panic, but saw that the corners of Shangpomabi's mouth were bleeding, and he said viciously: "Idiot, the emperor of Xiangfu country came out of Song Dynasty, from Song Dynasty. It is not easy for the country to find a few caravans to be their spies."

"The general trend is over, withdraw! Go to Huangtang Pass!"

Almost at the same time, outside the city of Huangyuan, horns sounded in unison. Thousands of cavalry from the Xiangfu Kingdom left their horses and turned into infantry, surrounded by a dozen simple trench bridges and ladders, and attacked the city wall. .

I knew in my heart that it would be wrong not to resist, but at this time, neither Shangpo Mapi nor Shangpo Mapi had any determination to resist.The two barely gathered [-] elite guards, abandoned the north city, and fled to the south city.

It was only a quarter of an hour after the two of them left the south city, with a creak, the suspension bridge of the north city was lowered, and the city gate was slowly opened.

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In Kaifeng, Chongzheng Palace, the imperial palace of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Dezhao, the young emperor of the Song Dynasty, who became more and more irritable, threw the memorial in his hand on the ground angrily, slapped the table and cursed: "An old man like Dangjin is my son!" A trustworthy minister? Is this old man really my loyal minister? Do you think I am a fool or a fool, or really deaf and blind? I sent troops to provoke Xiangfu Kingdom without my will, and the result was obviously a big war Defeated, killed 1 people from the White Wolf Army of Xiangfu State, but the Northwest Frontier Army lost more than [-] people. It is more than twice that of Xiangfu State. The loss of teachers and humiliation of the country made them write that Xiangfu State sent troops to invade. , and it became a victory. If I hadn’t had another source of information, I would have been deceived by this old man.”

The memorial fell on the face of Lu Yuqing who was kneeling in front of him. Lu Yuqing didn't move, picked up the memorial, took a few steps on his knees, put it on the table, and then lowered his head with more and more wrinkles on his face. Let Zhao Dezhao vent his anger.

(End of this chapter)