Chapter 610: Surrender
Delhi China made one last attempt. Organized all the forces at his disposal and launched the most fierce attack on Taiyuan City so far.
Although Li Ze's brigade has not yet arrived in Taiyuan City, it is not long before Delhi Chinan and Ashdulla are driving around the world in order to attract Li Ze's cavalry that arrived in advance, in order to buy him a little more time.
If they can take Taiyuan City, then they will have a strong city to rely on, and use Taiyuan City as a stronghold, waiting for Raza to defeat Han Qi's troops in Yinzhou and other places before entering Hedong, then the whole game of chess will be alive.
After a whole day of fighting, there was a river of blood and corpses under Taiyuan City, but Taiyuan City was still in the hands of Xue Jun and others. At this last moment, the clan army finally broke out with strong combat effectiveness. Both the Xue family and the Sima family knew very well that they had lost Hedong, and if the Tubo people were allowed to conquer Taiyuan City, the two major families would inevitably cease to exist. I believe that Li Ze is very willing to see the Tubo people kill them.
The entire war in Hedong was Li Ze's plan to kill people with a knife.
Right now, they are already making the last struggle for the continuation of the family.
Now, even if they wanted to surrender to the Tibetans, it would be impossible. The Tubo people in Hedong are about to become a delicacy on Li Ze's plate, and no one will stupidly surrender to them at this time. That would only make Li Ze even more overjoyed. They can only hold on to Taiyuan City and hold on to this last bit of hope.
As long as Han Qi is still there and Li Cunzhong is still there, Li Ze is always not good at what they do to those people who desperately defended Taiyuan City, although they were defeated and lost in Hedong, they always persevered to the end, and contributed to the final annihilation of Delhi Chinan.
When the last rays of sunlight disappeared from Delhi Chinan's eyes, a eclipsed Delhi China gave the order for a general retreat. The remaining nearly 20,000 Tibetan troops retreated to Longshan, west of Taiyuan City, and began to build a large camp on the mountain.
With the retreat of the Tubo people, above the city of Taiyuan, there was a thunderous roar of joy, countless people were waving the weapons in their hands and jumping, laughing, crying, they finally repelled the enemy, everyone knew that the Tubo people retreated, and if they wanted to come again, it was basically impossible.
But Xue Jun didn't laugh, and Sima Fan dared not laugh.
For ordinary people, this battle is indeed won.
But for them, they lost.
Lost completely.
Li Ze is coming soon, and how to deal with Li Ze is no easier than dealing with the Tubo people.
The day after Delhi Chinan struggled to build the Yongsan Battalion, Ashdullah fled with less than 2,000 cavalry. On the third day, Xenobud, who was even more miserable, with only a thousand cavalry left, also returned in disarray. Three groups of men and horses gathered in Longshan, and they were followed by Zuo Qianniuwei, Zuo Weiwei's brigade of cavalry.
On the fourth day, Zhang Jia's 20,000 infantry of the right guard arrived, and together with the two cavalry that had arrived in advance, they surrounded Longshan.
On the fifth day, Zuo Qianniuwei led by Wang Sili arrived.
On the sixth day, Li Ze only led his personal guard battalion to the camp of Wang Sili under Longshan, but the right Qianniuwei led by his wife Liu Ruyan was nowhere to be seen.
At this point, Delhi Chinan, which is on top of Longshan, has fallen into a heavy encirclement, with no way to go to the sky and no door to enter the earth. The total annihilation of the army is a foregone conclusion.
However, the entire Taiyuan City presents a paradoxical situation.
Li Ze arrived at Longshan, which was not far from Taiyuan City, but Taiyuan City did not open the city gate to welcome his entry, and even Xue Jun and Sima Fan did not go to Longshan to meet Li Ze, Taiyuan City, the gate was still closed.
Li Ze did not pay attention to Taiyuan City, for him, Xue Jun Sima Fan and these people were no longer important, and the person he wanted to see the most now was Delhi Chinan on Longshan Mountain.
After a lot of effort, he finally wrapped this Tibetan nobleman in dumplings and killed him, which was not the best way, and it was impossible to receive the maximum benefits.
Of course, if the mountain was now surrounded by Tubo and Tocharo, Li Ze would not hesitate to give the order to attack.
Each person has a different use.
Tubo is still a big country and a powerful country for the current Tang Dynasty, and under the governance of Tocharo over the years, the military threat of Tubo to the Tang Dynasty is still very huge. Li Ze didn't want to, when he raised troops to the south, Tubo in the northwest came to harass him from time to time.
This time the strategy has been successful seven or eight times, Li De led by Zuo Wuwei and Zuo Jin Wuwei of nearly 20,000 combined cavalry has cut in from Suizhou, cutting off the line of communication between Xiazhou and Yinzhou, and now Liu Ruyan led the right Qianniuwei is closely following, defeating Laza's main elite and severely damaging Tocharo's own strength, this battle can be regarded as a perfect end.
Li Zeke had never had the luxury of killing a character like Tocharo on the battlefield.
What he wanted most was to weaken the power of Tocharo to the greatest extent and pull the power of the various factions in Tibet to a similar level.
In the history of Tibet, the wars between the great nobles in the country, the struggle between the great nobles and Zampu, and the struggle between the nobility, Zampu and Buddhism led to the fall of the country. Now, Li Ze wants them to do it again.
Fortresses are always breached from within. As long as they fight to the death within themselves, they will have no time, no energy, and no ability to threaten Datang.
After three days of besieging the mountain, the Tang army did not launch a single attack on Longshan. Trapped in the mountains, Delhi Chinan understood what the other party meant.
"I decided to surrender to Li Ze." Delhi Chinan's tone was low, and he looked at Ashdulla and Xenobud. "Hopefully he can give us a better condition."
Ashdulla and Xenobud were speechless, in fact, they were indeed now at no end and surrendering to their opponents was their only way out.
Next, Delhi Chinan still showed the courage of a great Tibetan nobleman, he rode alone, descended Longshan, and surrendered to Li Ze.
And Li Ze, naturally, was overjoyed and received this Tibetan nobleman at a feast in the big tent.
When there were only Li Ze and several of his guards left in the tent, Deli Chenan, who had been warmly received, looked at Li Ze with some trepidation, and Li Ze's reaction was somewhat unexpected to him.
"I'm sorry for this war between us, but I'm just following orders, if Li Xiang can let us go back, I will swear in the name of the Living Buddha that I will definitely compensate Li Xiang. On the mountain, there are still 30,000 of my foot soldiers, and I also ask Li Xiang to offer a price, I hope to redeem me and my subordinates with money. "Delhi South Road.
"General Delhi Chinan, Tubo and I have been in the Tang Dynasty for many years, there have been brutal wars, and there has been a brotherly relationship, between countries, this is the case, I am not angry because of this, this is not a victor's pretense of generosity, but the actual situation is like this." Li Ze smiled: "I accept your surrender, but you, as the vanquished, still have to pay the price for this invasion." ”
"I don't know how much gold and silver Li Xiang needs to be satisfied? Delhi Chinan will surely do everything in its power to satisfy your appetite. When the other party said this, Delhi Chinan breathed a sigh of relief.
"No, no, no, gold and silver can't satisfy me!" Li Ze smiled and said, "We will release you and your subordinates, but, this will take time, General Delhi Chinan, you can leave with the first batch of your descendants of no more than three thousand people." ”
Delhi Chinan's face changed: "What about the others?" ”
"You have committed many crimes in Hedong, so they need to serve labor in Hedong to atone for their sins, and you know that Hedong, which is badly damaged, will need a lot of labor in the future." Li Zedao.
"Hard labor?" Delhi Chinan's face changed drastically. In his opinion, the soldiers who remained here to serve hard labor were tantamount to a death sentence.
"Our labor here is still very different from the hard labor in Tibet, at least, their lives can be guaranteed." Li Ze said with a smile: "And the number of years they serve depends on the degree of cooperation we have with General Delhi Chinan in the future." ”
"What do you mean?" Delhi China is a little confused.
"General, the reason why I say that gold and silver can't satisfy my appetite doesn't mean that I don't like money, in fact, I like money very much, but you pay me a lot of money but die, I have always used money lavishly, I am afraid that my left hand will come in, and my right hand will go out, and nothing will fall at that time, so I think we can change the way, after you go back, you can open your territory, so that our caravans can do business on your territory, of course, we also welcome your caravans to come to us to do business, We should exchange ideas and close economic and trade ties between our two sides, so that we can get more benefits from each other, and money will become alive and repeat indefinitely. ”
"Why are you doing that?" Delhi Chinan asked.
"It's easy!" Li Ze said: "I don't like your big talk of Tocharo, so I hope you can become strong and compete with Tocharo, and if we have close business contacts and have more interests entangled, I believe that you will definitely find that it is easier to do business than to make money from war." When we become close partners, I believe that there will never be such an unpleasant thing as this happening to Datang and Tubo again. ”
"You're trying to put me up against the big one?" Delhi Chinan was taken aback: "The strength of the Great Theory is unrivaled in Tubo." ”
Li Ze laughed: "Soon, he won't be able to stand alone." General Delhi Chinan, when the 100,000 troops led by Lazar were defeated and lost in Yinzhou, can you still do whatever you want in Tibet? ”
Delhi China was silent.
"And as far as I know, your great theory has many enemies in Tibet, he is almost about to become enemies with your Zampu, and his relationship with the Living Buddha of the Potala Palace is also quite bad, when he loses the powerful army on which he depends, what are you afraid of?"
Li Ze smiled extremely happily.