Except for Dianhe City, which is larger, the other three cities of Ruoqiang are similar. The perimeter of the three cities is only two miles. You can go around the city just by smoking a cigarette. Dianhe City in the west is the largest, with a circumference of eight miles.
The main city among the four cities of Ruoqiang.
The gate of Qitun City is on the west wall. There is only one gate for entry and exit. The beacon is in the southwest corner. In fact, a sentry tower was built in the southwest. The top of the sentry tower was piled with hay and firewood.
There are no civilians in the city, only 300 Tibetan garrison troops, and dozens of young women who were kidnapped by them for the soldiers to vent their anger.
The Tibetan army occupied five military cities in July. It is now November, and the nights are very cold, but it has not snowed yet. Generally, the first snow will not come in southern Anshan until December.
At the third watch, ten thousand Tang troops surrounded Qitun City out of sight. Liu Yong personally led a thousand heavy armored infantry to ambush outside the city. Once the Tang troops opened the city gate by surprise, they would rush in.
The surprise attack on the Tang army consisted of thirty people, and the leader was Li Ye. He selected thirty agile and highly skilled soldiers from the scouts to follow him.
Thirty of his men were fighting against the wall. Li Ye had a dragon on his back and climbed up to the top of the city very quickly. He had fully mastered the Suzaku Kung Fu, and he could carry weapons weighing dozens of kilograms up the city with ease.
The city walls in Anxi are almost all made of rammed earth, which is quite strong. However, due to years of erosion by wind and sand, the walls have become pitted and have large gaps, which made it easy for Li Ye to climb the city.
In just a moment, he climbed to the top of the sentry tower. The top of the sentry tower was piled with firewood as high as a person. He pulled out the Panlong tree from behind and did not push the firewood down the city at once. That would be too much movement and could easily be captured by the city.
The defenders above found it.
He moved the firewood down to the city in small steps five times. The movement was very small and basically undetected.
There was no more firewood on the top of the sentry tower. Li Ye squatted on the top of the tower and looked around. He saw several piles of faint fires. This was where the sentries gathered. They were warming themselves by the fire before, but now they fell asleep.
The fire gradually extinguished.
Of course, lighting a bonfire on the top of the city wall to keep warm will not have the effect of a beacon fire. The nearest Putao City is also forty miles away, and you can only faintly see the blazing beacon fire several feet high. The heating bonfire does not even reach the city wall. It cannot be seen at all.
not see.
But this gave Li Ye a great convenience. All the Tubo soldiers on the city walls were gathered together. There were four groups in total, east, west, north and south, and there was a bonfire on each city wall.
There was a top board at his feet, and there was a ladder underneath. You could go down the ladder by pulling the top board open. Li Ye gently opened a crack, and a weak light immediately came out.
He looked towards the sentry tower through the gap in the ceiling. There was a weak oil lamp burning below, and next to him were two Tibetan soldiers, wrapped in blankets, sleeping soundly.
Li Ye took out two throwing knives and saw two cold lights flashing. Two Tibetan soldiers were shot through the head by the flying knives and died instantly.
Li Ye first threw a rope ladder in, then jumped into the sentry tower, opened the door and walked to the city wall. The city wall was very narrow, less than one foot wide, about two meters at most.
Li Ye threw the rope ladder down, and the thirty men on it began to climb up the city quickly.
The first person to go to the city was Yang Li. Li Ye whispered to him: "I will kill the soldiers to the west, and then you can bring your brothers over there!"
Yang Li nodded and squatted down, and the soldiers behind him squatted down behind him.
The nearest fire to them was on the city gate, about a hundred steps away from them. Li Ye bent down and ran against the city wall. He was only seven or eight steps away from the fire. He could clearly see the enemy's situation.
Seven people, all tightly wrapped in blankets.
At this time, a Tibetan soldier who was closest to Li Ye suddenly stood up. This startled Li Ye, who hurriedly squatted down and hid his body in the shadow of the wall.
The Tubo soldier muttered something and urinated while standing on the wall. Li Ye felt murderous intent in his heart. A cold light shot out from the dragon in his hand. The Tubo soldier's head suddenly disappeared, leaving only a section of his neck.
Bloody, the body fell heavily into the city.
Li Ye did not stop and went on a killing spree. Six human skulls rolled together. Li Ye waved to Yang Li and ran towards the south wall.
Yang Li led more than two dozen of his men to rush over. They were responsible for opening the city and controlling the city gates. There were also a few soldiers below. The city gates here were made of large wooden bolts with the levers of the wooden bolts on top. The huge wooden gates were pulled from above.
Once the wooden bolt is pulled up, the soldiers outside can open the city gate.
Several soldiers pulled the rope together to pull up the huge wooden bolt. The four soldiers outside also pulled hard at the same time, and the city gate creaked open.
The soldiers below lit the huozhezi. Liu Yong waved his hand and said, "Follow me!" He led a thousand heavy armored infantry in a line and ran towards the city gate.
At this moment, alarm bells suddenly sounded loudly in the city. The patrolling soldiers under the city discovered that the city gate was open and immediately sounded the alarm bell.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The siren sounded piercing, and the sleeping Tubo soldiers woke up one after another. They were all wearing armor, and they were not in confusion. They ran out of the military camp with spears. The patrol soldiers shouted: "The city gate has been opened, there is enemy activity."
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More than two hundred Tibetan soldiers rushed towards the city gate. There were still dozens of steps away from the city gate. A large group of Mo Dao soldiers wearing heavy armor came in. The Tibetan soldiers shouted and rushed forward.
The two sides fought instantly, with blood and flesh flying everywhere and heads rolling in.
At this time, Li Ye had cleared out all the dozens of Tibetan soldiers on the city wall. He stood above the west city gate and watched the battle of the Tibetan soldiers.
The soldiers who invaded Anxi this time were all authentic Tibetan soldiers. There were no Tuyuhun and Qiang people. They were all brave and fearless. Even though the soldiers in front were cut into pieces, the soldiers behind still rushed forward. No one turned around and ran for their lives. No wonder
The Tubo army could become a nightmare like existence in the Tang Dynasty. It is true that everyone has a strong will and is not afraid of death.
But the number of Tibetan soldiers was too small after all, and their spears could not pierce the armor of the heavy infantry. Just two quarters of an hour later, the last Tibetan soldier was killed, and the entire three hundred Tibetan defenders were wiped out.
A living mouth.
The Tang army followed suit and recaptured Putao City and Nuzhi City one after another. However, there was an accident when they recaptured Nuzhi City. A dozen Tubo soldiers went out to collect tax sheep and discovered the main force of the Tang army hidden twenty miles away. These Tubo soldiers were panicked.
After fleeing to Dianhe City, the Tibetan army in Dianhe City suddenly felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.
But in fact, the Tibetan troops in Dianhe City also knew very well that the five hundred Tubo troops in the city could not defend the city with a circumference of eight miles. This was not the stone castle city of Tianbao's fifth year. One man could guard the gate and ten thousand men could not open the stone.
Fortress, more than a hundred Tibetan defenders can make tens of thousands of Tang troops look at the city and lament.
In fact, it is impossible to imagine it. It is eight miles in circumference, which is equivalent to four thousand meters, and there are soldiers standing every eight meters. The feeling can only be said to be slightly better than the gruel cooked by Grandet.
Therefore, after discovering that the other three cities had fallen, the 500 Tibetan defenders of Dianhe City decisively abandoned the city and retreated to Qiemo City.
An hour after the Tibetan army withdrew, the main force of the Tang army arrived and occupied Dianhe City.
In fact, this was also a mistake made by the Tubo army. Originally, they had only a small number of troops, only about 2,000 people, and they had to divide their forces to occupy five cities. In the end, they were defeated by the Tang army one by one.
Although the Tibetan soldiers were not afraid of death, they were not afraid of death. The top-level strategy was wrong, and no matter how hard the lower-level soldiers resisted, it would not help.
Li Ye did not waste time. After taking Dianhe City, Li Ye ordered Yu Chiguang to lead 3,000 soldiers to guard Dianhe City and transport all the grain and grass supplies from the other three cities to Dianhe City to prevent the Tubo invasion of the Gasi grassland.
The army continued to invade Anxi, and Li Ye personally continued to lead the army to kill Qiemo City hundreds of miles away.
This chapter has been completed!