The small room was crowded with more than a dozen people, all of whom were high-ranking and powerful people in the Tibetan country, and the death of Zampu Sisongde made everyone feel cold in their hearts, and the originally ordinary room seemed to exude a gloomy coldness, which made everyone feel cold, and more than 10,000 soldiers inside and outside the post station were demoralized and had no heart to fight. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Dazarugon did not expect such a thing to happen, he did not expect that the originally good form would become so passive and unfavorable, and now it was not a temporary military defeat, but because of the death of Si Songde, he and all the ministers and generals of the Tibetan State present may face a complete collapse politically.

After being silent for a long time, Dazaru Gong finally spoke with a gloomy face: "There is also bad news, it was sent at noon today, the Tang army still has two large armies, one has reached Michuan, and the other has hit the southwest of Taoyang County, although they have suffered heavy losses due to the rapid attack speed and the combat power of the plateau terrain, but as long as they are given some time to adapt, when their two roads of men and horses have eased up, they will definitely continue to the Xijin army, if they recapture Shibao City, capture Dafeichuan and Fuqi City on the west side of the West Sea, That would cut us off our way home! You say what are we going to do now! ”

These words were like pouring a scoop of cold water into a pot of boiling oil, and the whole room suddenly exploded, and the timid shouted that it was over, even the battle-hardened generals were worried, and many people kept drinking tea with teacups to hide their worries and irritability.

A minister stood up and saluted: "Marshal, we now have nothing more than two choices, either escort Zampu's coffin squad back to Luo, or use Zampu's death and revenge for Zampu to inspire the soldiers, break through Xiping City in one fell swoop, defeat the main force of the Tang army, and go straight to Jincheng, as long as Jincheng is captured, we can wave the army to force Chang'an, the capital of Tang State, and the remaining two armies will inevitably come back, and then there will be no danger of our back road being cut off!" ”

Another minister said: "Marshal, at this time must not lead the army back to Luo, Zampu was shot by the Tang army in the marshal's army, no matter what, the marshal is suspected of not protecting Zampu for being killed, although we know that the marshal cannot be blamed for this, but those people in Luo will definitely not think so, the marshal's opponents will definitely put the basin on the top of the marshal's head, I am afraid that before we return to the law, they will set up another Zampu, and then the new Zampu will inevitably be guilty of the marshal!" ”

Another said, "Have we been hiding the news of Zampu's death from it?" This matter cannot be concealed for a long time anyway, and if Zampu's will is not transmitted back to Luo after a while, those people will inevitably be suspicious, and who can guarantee that there will be no internal ghosts planted by Luo and those people in the army? Besides, are we never going back? In my opinion, we must return to Luo, but not now, we must at least defeat Zhao Ziliang, destroy his army, use the head of the Tang army to pay tribute to Zampu, and fight the Tang State to sue for peace, so that the marshal can return to Luo with the power of a great victory, and Luo will not dare to dispose of the marshal at will! ”

The other Tubo generals also agreed when they heard this, "Yes, marshal, we must not go back now, we must kill Zhao Ziliang, the general of the Tang army, and defeat the 200,000 horses of the Tang army. ”

"It will indeed be very troublesome to lead the army back now, which is extremely unfavorable to the marshal, but if we choose the second one, if we can't defeat the Tang army and kill Zhao Ziliang in a short time, then we will have the crisis of being cut off from the back road, once we are cut off from the back road, we will be surrounded and annihilated by the Tang army, please think twice about the marshal!"

Dazaru listened to everyone's suggestions, and after thinking about it for a long time, he made up his mind and said: "Tomorrow, gather all the people and horses and the above generals to come over and discuss how to attack Xiping and annihilate the Tang army!" Within 15 days, if we can't break through Xiping City and kill Zhao Ziliang within 15 days, then withdraw our troops and escort Zampu's coffin back to Luo! If we can break through Xiping within this time limit, then we will wave our army to the east to attack Jincheng and force the other two Tang armies to come back! ”

When everyone heard this, they stood up and saluted: "Yes, Marshal!" ”

Xiping.

Zhao Ziliang walked out of the Taishou Mansion with a knife and looked up at the sky, today's weather is good, yesterday took advantage of the arrival of the Tubo army to gain an unstable foothold and carelessness to kill the Tubo army by surprise, killed more than 26,000 people of the Tubo army, captured more than 6,000 people, and seized countless grains, grasses, ordnance, cattle, sheep and horses, which made Zhao Ziliang have a lot of confidence in holding Xiping City, sufficient grain and grass and equipment and materials to defend the city are much more important than sufficient troops.

Zhao Ziliang and the generals came to the city wall of the west gate, inspected the city wall up and down and inside and outside, the soldiers were busy in the open space outside the city, several soldiers took bundles of ropes from the moat to the west, measured the distance with ropes, made a mark every hundred steps, piled a small pile of stones at the mark, and then poured white lime water on it to make it stand out until 1,200 steps, because this is the longest distance that the trebuchet can throw.

Cen Shen reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Commander, the first batch of equipment and materials to defend the city have all been transported to the city wall, and yesterday's seizure has also been transported into the city, we are ready for all the preparations we can make!" It's just that the more than 6,000 Tibetan prisoners captured yesterday are still locked up in the military camp in the city."

Zhao Ziliang listened to the report and said: "Yesterday, the Tubo army was defeated and fled, it will take time for them to clean up the remnants of the defeated army, I am afraid that they will not come to attack the city today, while there is still time now, I will pass my order to Duan Xiushi, and all the Tubo prisoners will be taken outside the city to be executed!" ”

Cen Shen was stunned for a moment, and immediately agreed: "Yes, handsome!" ”

As Zhao Ziliang's order was conveyed, Duan Xiushi, the general of the Tang Army, who was responsible for guarding the prisoners in the military camp in the city, immediately ordered the soldiers to divide the Tibetan prisoners held in the military camp into six groups, each with 1,000 people, and escort them to the open space outside the west city gate.

With the mobilization of soldiers and horses and the prisoners being escorted to the outside of the city one by one, the streets of the city were full of onlookers, and the people were quite puzzled, since the prisoners had been imprisoned in the military camp in the city, why should they be escorted outside the city?

As the Tibetan captives moved towards the west gate step by step, the onlookers also walked forward, they wanted to see what the official army was doing when they escorted these Tibetan captives to Chengcheng.

Among the crowd of onlookers were three burly, ragged, blond, blue-eyed Westerners, one of whom had a long bow on his back and a long sword hanging from his waist, the one on the left was even more burly and tall, with a two-handed broadsword hanging from his waist, and one on the right holding a shield and a short sword at his waist.

Xiping City was not the main route of the Silk Road, and there were not many Hu merchants in the Western Regions, and the appearance of these three blond and blue-eyed Western barbarians here attracted the attention of many people, but now the Tang army escorted so many captives out of the city that the people temporarily forgot about them.

The Westerner on the right asked, "Charlie, what is the Tang army doing when they escort so many Tibetan prisoners outside the city?" ”

Charlie in the middle didn't say anything, and he couldn't think of what the Tang army was doing when they escorted these captives outside the city, Tony on the left said: "I think the Tang army should want these Tibetan prisoners to clean up the moat outside the city, so that if the Tibetan army comes to attack the city, it will take a day to fill in the moat so wide and deep, and many people will die!" ”

Jason on the right shook his head and said, "I don't think so!" ”

Charlie in the middle said, "Let's go over and have a look, won't we?" ”

Tony was surprised: "Come and have a look?" I said boss, the Tang Army forbade civilians to go out of the city, and if we can't go out, how can we follow them? ”

Charlie said: "Yesterday, when we were mixed with civilians to help clean up the battlefield, I secretly hid three sets of Don Army armor! ”

Jason smiled: "I don't think you even thought of our back road, if the Tang army can't defend against the barbarian attack, we will wear the armor of the Tang army and escape in chaos, right?" ”

"You're right! Let's go," Charlie said, squeezing through the crowd and walking to the side, Tony and Jason following him.

The three of them soon came to the city wall, Charlie took them to the weeds behind a house, took out a large bag, opened the bag and revealed three sets of somewhat torn Tang Army armor, one set for each of the three, the most burly Tony felt a little small, Charlie and Jason were dressed very well.

After putting on the helmets, the three of them lowered their heads and walked to a stone ladder next to the city wall, on the stone ladder there were constantly Tang soldiers carrying materials up and down, Charlie and the three of them in order not to arouse the idea of the Tang soldiers, they also carried a rolling log from under the city wall and walked up the stone ladder to the city wall, fortunately, the Tang soldiers were busy, and no one noticed that the three of them were impostors!

The three of them felt a pile of rolling logs and squatted down, just enough to use this pile of rolling logs to cover their figures, and stretched their heads out of the wall to watch, only to see a group of prisoners with more than 1,000 people being escorted to the open space outside the city, these prisoners were surrounded by heavily armed Tang troops in the middle, on three sides were sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, one of which was a large pit with a length and width of 100 meters, and this pit was only several zhang deep.

Jason asked in surprise, "What are they doing?" ”

Charlie shook his head and said, "I don't know, let's see!" Don't make a sound, don't be discovered! ”

The three of them looked at the situation outside the city, and saw a general of the Tang Army wearing a red blood-red cloak, a red feather and wagtail helmet, and a bright light armor, riding a jujube red Western Regions high-headed horse to the periphery and shouting: "First regiment, enter-"

"Roar!" The Tang infantry phalanx facing the big pit collectively roared after hearing the order, and then each platoon of soldiers marched towards the Tibetan prisoners who were surrounded in the middle.

The Tibetan captives were horrified when they saw this, and they retreated in the direction of the big pit, and some of the captives wanted to flee to both sides, but the Tang soldiers who were blocked on both sides stood their shields on the ground, and sharp spears stretched out from the gaps between the shields.

The advancing Tang infantry phalanx advanced to the front of the Tibetan prisoners and stopped, the shield array stood neatly in a row, with a loud roar, countless spears between the gaps in the shield neatly stabbed together in the shouts of the officers, the outermost Tibetan prisoners were stabbed one after another, blood splashed out, the Tibetan prisoners who were stabbed fell to the ground screaming, and later some of the Tibetan prisoners were terrified, kept moving backwards, and a row of Tibetan prisoners near the edge of the pit was squeezed down into the pit. (To be continued.) )