Chapter 1052: The Big Bang

"Reporting, Suzhou City is heavily guarded, and the Tubo people have increased their troops, and now the city is full of enemy troops!" Before Shen Long arrived at the city of Suzhou, Tan Ma brought back the news.

"Yuanzheng, if we attack hard, our army will definitely lose a lot!" Hearing this news, Guo Xin hesitated. There are Ganzhou, Liangzhou, Huizhou, Lanzhou, Weizhou and other cities in the past The important cities, after penetrating through these cities, were able to enter the territory of the Tang Dynasty. If they fought hard all the way, they might not have enough manpower.

"Don't worry, the general guard, the general will be prepared!" Shen Long replied confidently, and then continued to lead the army forward until it stopped a few miles outside Suzhou City. The Tubo people did not come out to attack, presumably they It is because I have learned the lessons of Yizhou before that if I want to wait for work with ease, I will first rely on the city to file the spirit of Datang, and then it will not be too late to attack.

Set up camp and rested for one night. The next day, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty began to get busy. The artisans in the army began to cut down the trees outside the city, preparing to make various siege weapons, while the rest of the soldiers and horses scattered to sweep Tubo outside the city. People's soldiers and horses tried to make Suzhou an isolated city.

The Tubo people were originally intent on defending themselves, and there were not many soldiers and horses left outside the city. They arranged the follow-up troops at a farther place, and they would wait for the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty to show signs of fatigue before they could join forces with the defenders inside and outside the city. , Completely defeated the Datang soldiers and horses.

"Hey, let's see how Datang will attack!" On the top of the city, the Tubo defender sneered, and then ordered people to prepare rolling stones, arrows and gold juice, etc., and give them a head-on blow when Datang launches an attack .

"Jinglue, let the villain go first in this battle!" Kang Guangde came to invite the battle again. He did not participate in the battle of Ge Luolu, and felt that his status in Shen Long's heart must be declining, so he wanted to take this opportunity to make up for it.

"Jinglue, Xiao Wang has just arrived and has not yet made an inch of merit. Let Xiao Wang take the lead this time!" The prince of Bahana also came to seek a battle. When he thought that Chang'an was ahead, he was extremely eager to break through the obstacles as soon as possible. Enter Chang'an.

"Jinglue, the last general has never fought against the Tubo people, so let the villain come in this battle." Gu Dulu also joined the ranks of the fight, and the rest of the servants also fought bravely. Come on, it is a foregone conclusion that Datang will win this battle, and he must perform well before he can benefit after the battle.

"Don't worry, everyone's thoughts on fighting are already known in this strategy, but now is not the time for a strong attack. How to attack Suzhou City has been determined in this strategy. Don't worry, there are still opportunities to fight!" Shen Long But he was confident, and after rejecting their invitation to fight, he immediately made arrangements.

He first let Kang Guangde, Prince Bahana, Gu Dulu and others continue to sweep the enemies around Suzhou City with their troops, and then let the Tang Dynasty troops line up at the west gate of Suzhou, and began to suppress the city with trebuchets and crossbows. head of the enemy.

The trebuchets kept throwing stone bullets to the city of Suzhou,

The crossbowmen also stood above the cloud chariot, higher than the city head, condescending to kill the enemy. He even moved the camp forward and erected a tent not far outside the city, as if there was a long-term siege. Intend.

Seeing this scene, the Tubo general laughed. It is a long way from Guazhou to Suzhou. If you want to besiege for a long time, I am afraid that the food and grass of Datang will not be able to support it! Moreover, relying on catapults and crossbows alone can't play a decisive role at all. At most, it can provide some cover for the army's attack. They still have to rely on soldiers to ascend the city to win the battle.

And once the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty start to use the ladders to climb the city, those rolling wood stones and golden juice crossbow arrows that have been prepared long ago will definitely inflict huge damage on them. Gradually learned the ability of Datang's army to defend the city, it was not easy for Datang to take down Suzhou City.

Once the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty received a blow to the head under the city of Suzhou, and they beat them out of spirit, the servants would be dissatisfied. At that time, the army of the Tang Dynasty would fight out from the city and outside the city at the same time, and the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty would undoubtedly be defeated.

The Tubo generals were still dreaming at the top of the city, but Shen Long was calm and did not launch a large-scale attack immediately, but continued to watch the catapults and crossbows attack the top of the city.

The Tubo people want to fight back, but their trebuchets and crossbows are far inferior to those of the Tang Dynasty, and they have no way to effectively kill the Tang army. If they go out of the city to fight, wouldn't they be in the hands of the Tang army? So they could only be aggrieved to watch the stones thrown by the Tang Army's trebuchets, and the arrows from the bows and crossbows kept falling on their heads.

After a whole day, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty did not start to climb the city. Although the loss of the Tubo army was not much, the feeling of being beaten and unable to fight back was simply too uncomfortable. He proposed to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Tang soldiers and horses, but was finally suppressed by the guards.

It was the same on the second day, but now the defenders were muttering in their hearts, did Datang plan to use this method to take Suzhou? This is obviously impossible, Datang must have some kind of conspiracy.

Do you want to lead the army to attack and test it? The Tubo defenders also had to seriously consider this issue. If they didn't go out to have a look, they really wouldn't know what Tang's plan was. For a while, the Tubo defender was in entanglement.

Fortunately, Shen Long didn't make him entangled for long. On the third day, Tang finally increased his troops. The troops of Kang Guangde, Prince Bahana and others scattered outside were all called back and waited outside the west gate. Command to attack.

The Tubo defender finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that Datang still wants to fight head-on, so let's do it! He dispatched another group of troops to defend on the western city wall, preparing for the Tang Dynasty's attack.

However, Shen Long refused to give the order to attack for a long time. Prince Bahan, Gu Dulu and others were a little anxious to wait, so they came to ask Shen Long, "Jing Lue, when will we start attacking?"

"Hurry up, we will attack when Suzhou's city wall collapses! You must be ready!" Shen Long replied with a smile.

Suzhou city wall collapsed? Prince Bahana and Gu Dulu looked at the top of the city with puzzled faces, and saw that the top of the city was still intact without any abnormalities, but they didn't notice that behind them, a soldier of the Tang Dynasty with a torch crawled into the city. into the tent.

Not long after, a huge roar sounded from the ground, and then the city wall of Suzhou City collapsed amidst the explosion, leaving a gap more than 20 meters wide.

Did the walls of Suzhou City really collapse? The prince and the others were stunned!