Chapter 358 Seizing the City

When the Vajra City was being built, it happened that the Tang Dynasty gave Nanzhao a copy of the Diamond Sutra, so it was named "Vajra City".

This is Geluofeng's summer palace, connected to the west end of the north wall of Taihe City and built of rammed earth.

Under the night, a hand touched the top of the rammed earth city wall. Then, someone poked his head out and looked at the guard in the distance with a pair of bright eyes. The guard was still some distance away from him. There was a cliff under this section of the city wall.

Because the terrain was too dangerous, it became a place where defense was neglected.

He decisively jumped to the top of the city, squatted in the shadow, untied the rope from his body, tied one end to the battlements, and threw the other end off the wall again. After a while, Tang soldiers climbed up one by one, a total of sixty-eight people, and then

Wang Tianyun’s journey to Cangshan is almost rare.

Sneaking through the city wall that was more than ten steps wide, they hung ropes from the other side of the city wall, climbed down, and rushed to the dark summer palace. Wang Tianyun had already observed the defenses of King Kong City with a telescope, and knew that this place was now under fire.

It is vacant.

After inserting a single knife into the crack of the door and pulling out the door bolt, Tang Jun filed into the summer palace and found that this so-called palace was only the size of a temple in Chang'an.

After searching, it was found that there was a gold crown, gold robe, and gold tent in the Buddhist hall, which should have been used by Ge Luofeng when he made himself king. Although both the King of Yunnan and the King of Nanzhao were kings, Ge Luofeng wanted what he wanted.

Obviously it is the power of the king.

"Wife the monkey and wear the crown."

Wang Tianyun cursed and threw down the golden crown in his hand.

In his opinion, Nanzhao's national power was not as strong as that of the Tang Dynasty, and it was ridiculous for Ge Luofeng to want to rely on it to stand on its own. But on the other hand, he also knew very well that if this battle could not be won, it would be the Tang Dynasty that was ridiculous.

The Tang Dynasty, when all nations came to the dynasty, sent out a large army but could not do anything to the small Nanzhao? But this situation seemed to be going to happen. This battle was much more difficult than expected. In fact, the Nanzhao army's tenacious resistance

, which has impressed Wang Tianyun in his heart.

He must once again maintain the majesty of the Tang Dynasty just like he did when he attacked Xiaobolu Kingdom from thousands of miles ago.

After searching for a while, everyone found some dry food and wolfed it down. Wang Tianyun walked up to the high pavilion and looked southeast with a telescope.

Because King Kong City is built at the highest point on the top of the mountain, you can overlook the entire Taihe City from here. The city is brightly lit, the royal city is built in the center of the city, and patrols holding torches are moving on the top of the outer city, which is heavily guarded.

Look.

"General, give the order?"

"Wait." Wang Tianyun gave the order as expected, "Let's rest for half an hour to recover our strength."

The soldiers were surprised and thought that after finally sneaking into King Kong City, they should cooperate internally and externally as soon as possible to help Wang Zhongsi capture Taihe City. How could they rest in peace at this time? It would be better to have a wild carnival after capturing the city.

However, Wang Tianyun was very clear-headed and saw that there were three city gates, namely the Weng City Gate, the City Gate, and the Wang City Gate, which needed to be conquered. With just sixty-eight of them, it would be difficult for them to sneak past and open the city gates in sequence. Moreover, if the main force had not yet

Come on, even if you open the city gate with this small number of people, you can't capture the city.

What he could do was to take advantage of the Nanzhao army's unpreparedness when the main force was attacking the city, strike at its front and back, and cooperate to seize the city.

I hope Wang Zhongsi can have enough tacit understanding.

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Today, the Tang army only attacked the city for a while in the afternoon. They withdrew their troops early and made a pretense of setting up camp at the foot of Cangshan Mountain.

However, Wang Zhongsi had no intention of setting up camp. He was just making a show to confuse the Nanzhao army. As soon as it got dark, he asked the soldiers to stop and take a rest early.

From the time of rest at Youshi to Haishi, the team called up the soldiers one by one and issued military orders, saying: "Attack Taihe City at night, set off immediately."

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who had just woken up from their sleep rubbed their eyes, thinking that they were dreaming of attacking the city. They raised their heads and looked at the city on the hillside, and they were actually a little afraid of its solidity.

The generals then encouraged: "We will break this city tonight, and we will reward you based on your merits."

This time Tian Shengong's troops were the vanguard again and had set off in advance. They had gained experience in sneak attacks on Dashuzhai, and they would use the same tactics to attack Taihe City.

They couldn't see the road clearly at night, so they held each other together with ropes. They didn't care whether they were stones or thorns under their feet. They walked boldly, following the direction led by their comrades.

Marching with a heavy load, they hummed up the hillside. When they arrived at Taihe City, they had exhausted a lot of energy. At the same time, the defenders on the top of the city also discovered them and quickly blew their horns.

"Woo——"

Tian Shengong ignored the horn sound and quickly made arrangements, and a group of Tang troops rushed towards the city gate.

"Fire the arrow!"

When the Tang army came within a hundred steps, arrows rained down on them. They were well prepared, took up their shields, and rushed to the city gate despite the arrows. Taihe City was built on a hillside, which has advantages and disadvantages. Although the terrain of the mountain city is

It is high, but there is no moat.

Rolling logs and boulders fell from the tower and hit the shields, killing the soldiers holding the shields with a bang.

"Make up!"

Several other soldiers quickly raised their shields to fill the gap in the formation. Under the protection of the shields, two soldiers placed explosive charges and ignited them.

"retreat!"

The lead rope was already on fire. They retreated facing the city gate, still holding their shields high, as if they had formed a small moving fortress. However, in the process, some people were constantly hit by arrows or injured by rolling logs.

The arrows of the Nanzhao army were all tempered with gold juice. If an arrow is hit, it will suffer tremendous pain in this still hot climate in winter, and it is difficult to survive.

"boom!"

Finally, the match rope burned out, and the urn city gate that had been captured by Qu Huan and his troops was blown down again.

Dust and smoke were flying, and the wooden door swayed and hit the ground. The soldiers of Tang Dynasty cheered. However, their cheers came to an abrupt end soon, because they saw that the city cave was filled with stones.

Seeing this situation, Tian Shengong clenched his fists, and at the same time, Wang Zhongsi, Xue Bai and others also arrived.

"How many explosives are there in the army?" Wang Zhongsi asked.

"More than thirty bags."

"It exploded."

"Here!"

Tian Shengong gritted his teeth, ordered fifty shield hands, and escorted the explosives over.

But a man came out from behind Xue Bai and said, "Lang Jun, let me go."

This is Qiao Erwa, who has always been silent. He is just a farmer who doesn't talk much. He followed Xue Bai all the way south and didn't perform very well. But when Li Xiazhou was refining gunpowder, Qiao Erwa was one of the people who helped him, and praised him from time to time.

When you carry explosives to blow up mountains or rivers, it will be more powerful if you know how to place them.

"Okay." Xue Bai nodded.

Without saying a word, Qiao Erwa picked up the explosive bag, ran into the shield formation, and walked towards the city gate.

He didn't care at all about the arrows falling like raindrops on the shield above, nor did he look at the corpses on the ground. He just stared at the big rocks in the city cave.

When he walked to the city cave, he lit a torch first, looked at it carefully for a while, and then started stuffing explosives, but unlike others who put them all together, he stuffed a few packets here, a few packets there, and put all the explosives together.

After putting everything away, he looked back with unfulfilled interest.

In this way, there were more than ten fuses to the key point. Without hesitation, he stretched out the torch, lit one, and quickly lit another... The soldiers holding shields around him saw the first fuse burning shorter and shorter, Qiao Erwa also

When ordering something else, I couldn't help but remind him: "It's going to explode."

"Let's go!" Qiao Erwa cherished her words like gold.

The shield bearer hurriedly withdrew.

Qiao Erwa lit the last lead again. Seeing that the first lead had been burned to the end, she jumped towards the city cave and covered her ears at the same time.

On the top of the city, some Nanzhao soldiers saw his movements and were about to draw their bows and nock arrows.

"boom!"

"Boom!"

Amidst the deafening loud noises, the city cave collapsed, and the tower above was shattered. The city cave was still not blown through, but the outer city wall collapsed and was blown into a hill.

Some of the Nanzhao soldiers who were in the city tower were buried in the wood and rocks and screamed. The Nanzhao soldiers who were lucky enough to be standing on the nearby city wall and were not affected were stunned with fear.

Qiao Erwa was not dead. She got up from the ground and ran away. The Nanzhao soldiers who were in a daze on the top of the city were so shocked that they forgot to release their arrows and let him run back to the Tang army's formation. Qiao Erwa

He ran behind Xue Bai, still without saying a word, as if he had just played a song.

"Kill it!"

Tian Shengong shouted and rushed towards Wengcheng first, followed closely by Tian Shenyu and the soldiers of the third regiment.

But this was still far from the capture of Taihe City. Behind the outer city wall, there was a taller city wall, and Nanzhao's elite soldiers were ready, occupying high places and ready to shoot arrows at any time.

At this stage, human life is consumed the fastest.

The Nanzhao army did not dare to let the Tang army climb to the top of the city from the collapsed section of the city wall, so they had to fight hand to hand.

As a result, one wounded soldier fell down one after another, and the entire Wengcheng was quickly stained red with blood.

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Royal City.

There are heavy curtains in the hall and the candles are brightly lit.

Ge Luofeng picked up a golden crown, slowly put it on her head, walked to the bronze mirror and looked at it.

For a long time, he didn't come back to his senses until there were rapid footsteps outside the curtain.
To be continued...