Guo Song was moved in his heart, patted him on the shoulder and said, "You endure humiliation in order to complete the task, you are all the best scouts, and each of you will have a great credit!" ”

The soldier bowed and said: "We are not afraid of shame, we will wash it away with the blood of the enemy." ”

"Well said, you continue to report!"

"The Tubo people let the Han people into the city and left it alone, let them find their own houses to live in, and each person could receive two small dry cakes every day, but the old people only gave half of them, and the conditions were very bad, and many old people died of illness and hunger."

Speaking of this, the soldier's voice was a little choked, Guo Song waited for him to calm down a little, and then said softly: "Go on!"

"Ninety of us all live together, Commander Zhang arranged for us to investigate the situation in the city every day, there are about 2,000 Tibetan soldiers in the city, there are several large warehouses, full of plundered money, grain and all kinds of materials, as well as tens of thousands of livestock, and hundreds of thousands of sheep, but the sheep are all slaughtered, and the mutton is placed in the ice cellar in the city."

"Is there a way to get in touch with the city?" Guo Song asked.

The soldier shook his head, indicating that there was no way, and he continued: "But Commander Zhang thought of this problem, so he agreed on three times, one on the third day of September, one on the sixth day of September, and on the tenth day of September, these three days will be done at two watches in the middle of the night, and the target will be the north city gate, so that Jun Ke can send people to shoot a rocket over the south gate at the third watch the day before the move, and they will know." ”

Guo Song calculated the time, and was shocked, today is the second day of the ninth month, he turned around and asked, "What time is it?" ”

"It's time to return to the first watch."

Before there was time, Guo Song glanced at Li Bing, and Li Bing immediately sent someone to arrange the rocket launch.

Guo Song asked again: "What if you don't have weapons?" ”

"We killed a Tibetan patrol and got a short sword, and used it to sharpen a batch of sharp wood, three or four hundred, which could be used as spears."

Cutting wood into a spear, Guo Song was a little worried in his heart, but he was quickly relieved, Zhang Yun and they were the most elite scouts, and nothing could stump them.

..........

At the time of the third watch, there was a dead silence in the city of Shanzhou, and the more than 200,000 Han people who had been captured lived in this big city temporarily, waiting for the return of the great minister Shang Jiezan and bringing them into Tibet.

Many old people would rather die here than leave their homeland, hunger and illness and poor living conditions, every morning a large number of old people's bodies are carried away and incinerated, I don't know whether it is sad or happy, seeing too many deaths, the people have gradually become numb.

A curfew was imposed at night, and only Tibetan soldiers patrolled the streets, and Zhang Yun and his men lived in a private house closest to the North City Gate.

One of the biggest advantages of the Tibetan sheep-herding management is that there is no one to take care of them.

There is nothing abnormal about them living alone, but it is different when a group of people live together, a group of strong young men get together, their words and actions are different, they are standard military temperament, and any Tibetan official will doubt their identity when they see it.

But the Tubo people don't care about this problem at all, they only have 2,000 people, mainly to prevent external security, where the energy and manpower to manage the life and death of more than 200,000 people, even the corpses are carried out for cremation is handled by the Han people themselves.

The time gradually came to the third watch, Zhang Yun stood on the roof, staring over the north city gate, although he left three time points, but his intuition told him that the coach would probably choose tonight.

Zhang Yun suddenly felt something, looked up at the sky, and saw a rocket flying up the sky above the Beicheng Tower, drawing an arc, and the red flame quickly disappeared from the sky.

Zhang Yun was overjoyed, jumped down from the roof and said to several subordinates: "Have a good rest, fight tomorrow night!" ”

..........

For a whole day, Zhang Yun sat alone in the room, using a short sword to finely sharpen a wooden spear, which was a standard ash stick, eight feet five inches long, the wood was fine and strong, quite heavy, and it was a weapon in itself, but it was more than long, Zhang Yun still decided to cut it into a wooden spear.

The wooden spear was finally sharpened, he blew heavily, the tip of the spear was very sharp, Zhang Yun looked left and right, and was very satisfied with this wooden spear.

At this time, one of his subordinates walked in quickly, "Commander, the two watches have passed!" ”

Zhang Yun threw the short sword to him, "You use this sword!" ”

This subordinate is called Zhang Yuanzhi, a brigade commander, strong in martial arts, extremely fast, usually he plays the vanguard, Zhang Yuanzhi took the short sword, and said with a smile: "The short sword of the Tubo people is still quite heavy. ”

Zhang Yun lifted the wooden spear and said, "Let's assemble!" ”

After a while, all ninety soldiers gathered in the courtyard, each carrying three or four wooden spears in their hands, Zhang Yun said to everyone: "The first thing to do in tonight's battle is to seize weapons, and then open the city gate. ”

Zhang Yun looked at everyone and saw that everyone had no opinions, he nodded and said, "Since there are no doubts, then pack your bags and get ready to go!" ”

The group finally packed up their bags, and one by one left the courtyard, and quickly groped down a narrow alley towards the north gate.

In the past few days, the scouts of the Tang Army have figured out the rules of the Tubo army, and their rules are that there are no rules, and the patrols at the head of the city and under the city will come at any time, it is completely a matter of luck.

However, there is a rule, that is, the handover of the Tibetan garrison army at night, the handover at two o'clock every night, the successor soldiers will be a little energetic at first, but it will not take long to get sleepy and find a place to sleep.

Zhang Yun monitored for two nights, and he found that the soldiers of the Tubo army would gather in the city tower to sleep, and a lot of hay was piled up in the city tower just for them to sleep.

There were no soldiers in the city at night, but there would be patrols coming from across the street.

When the third arrived, a group of patrol soldiers left the north gate and walked in the direction of the south gate, they walked a little farther, Zhang Yun waved his hand, and then led his men to the city wall quickly, he asked everyone to stand against the root of the wall, and quietly touched it with a few men.

There was no patrol post at the head of the city, but there was a Tibetan soldier standing guard at the gate of the tower, his eyes fixed on the city.

Zhang Yun turned around and gave Zhang Yuanzhi a look, Zhang Yuanzhi jumped on the head of the city with a slight jump, the cat's waist ran a few steps, stood next to the city tower, slowly moved his feet, and looked sideways at the front of the city tower, the soldier standing guard was a few steps in front of him, he pounced on it like a leopard, covered the mouth of the Tubo soldier with his hand, and stabbed the short sword into the back of the soldier's heart.

Zhang Yun also jumped up the tower, picked up the soldier's short sword and shield, he walked quickly to the female wall and waved his hand below, and the soldiers rushed up to the city with wooden spears.

The gate of the tower was locked from the inside, and at least thirty or forty Tibetan soldiers were sleeping inside.

Zhang Yun waved his hand to get his men ready, he took two steps back, rushed forward, kicked open the gate of the city tower, and the Tang soldiers rushed in, stabbing the awakened Tubo soldiers with homemade wooden spears.

There was a terrible scream in the tower........

The screams were particularly clear in the night, and they still attracted a patrol team at the head of the city in the distance, and dozens of Tibetan soldiers rushed towards this side.

Zhang Yun ordered the city to open the bridge, more than a dozen soldiers rushed forward to lower the drawbridge, open the city gate, and a few soldiers ran down the city to open the door, but Zhang Yun led fifty soldiers to meet the battle, there were still twenty or thirty steps apart, they raised their arms and waved their spears together, and threw wooden spears at the enemy.

The Tibetan soldiers raised their shields to resist, but more than a dozen Tibetans were pierced through the body by wooden spears and fell screaming.

The Don soldiers threw three rounds of wooden spears and shot down nearly thirty soldiers, who rushed forward brandishing captured short swords and shields and engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy patrolmen.

At this time, Guo Song led 10,000 Tang Army soldiers who were already waiting hundreds of paces away, with 5,000 cavalry in front and 5,000 infantry in the rear.

"Look!"

A soldier pointed to the city and shouted: "It's on fire!" ”

I saw that the fire in front of the city tower flashed a few times and began to burn rapidly, which was the signal.

Guo Song waved Fang Tian's halberd and shouted: "Kill into the city!" ”

He took the lead, carrying Fang Tian's halberd to the city gate, followed by 5,000 cavalry, 5,000 infantry followed, they had a clear division of labor, Guo Song led a part of the cavalry infantry to fight with the enemy, Li Bing led 3,000 infantry to rob the warehouse, to prevent the soldiers of the Tubo army from jumping over the wall in a hurry and setting fire to the warehouse.

The sound of horses' hooves was like muffled thunder, rolling on the ground, and Guo Song and dozens of guards rushed into the city first, followed by thousands of troops.

At this time, the Tubo army has been alarmed, they all slept with Jia, they came out of the camp, met the Tang cavalry on the street, the two sides shouted loudly, instantly collided together, Guo Song roared, brandished Fang Tian's halberd like thousands of horses and thousands of troops swept away, more than a dozen heads rose into the air, blood mist filled the air, the cavalry behind also killed, the two sides fought fiercely on the street.

At this time, the Tubo soldiers also lit a beacon fire for help on the beacon at the head of the city, and the beacon fire was lit every dozens of miles, all the way to the main force of Tubo in the distance to convey the news of the Tang army's sneak attack.