Chapter 15: Aftermath
Xuan Shijing looked up at the outside of the city, and the open space outside the city was covered with the corpses of Tibetan soldiers, and some of them were not dead, lying on the ground groaning in pain.
This is the Tubo people, for their own robes, the Tubo people who say discard and discard, Xuan Shijing can't help but despise, but he will not save them, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to himself, this sentence is the same in modern times or in the Tang Dynasty.
"Wang Jin, the Tibetan army has retreated, and it will not come to attack the city again for a while, send some brothers down, recover all the arrows on the battlefield, and take a rough look at how many Tubo soldiers have died. Xuan Shijing said that now the strategic materials in Shicheng can be recycled, after all, in the next few days, it is not sure how long it will last.
At this time, Gao Jun had already led the team to escape, leaving only a large camp full of devastation for the Tubo people, although it was only a moment of assault into the time, but it still caused a lot of trauma to the Tubo people, and the soldiers in the team behind Gao Jun were not a group of good matches, that night Gao Jun arrived in Boxian Town, took out the token and told these people that Shicheng was surrounded by the Tubo people, this group of reckless men picked up their knives and was about to rush to Shicheng to fight with the Tubo people, Gao Jun finally stopped, Explained to them his intention this time.
Listening to Gao Jun's words, a group of people laughed ill-intentionedly, and gave Gao Jun ideas on how to rectify the Tubo people, Gao Jun was also happy to listen to their ideas, several people summed up, and then replaced the armor of the Tang Army, put on the leather armor worn by the Liukou of the Western Regions, and ran to Shicheng overnight, around the camp of the Tubo people, and ambushed without alarming the enemy scouts, squatting all night, and waiting until the next day, the sky was just dawn, The Tibetan army left the camp to attack Shicheng.
After waiting for a while, Gao Jun ordered to attack the camp of the Tibetans, and more than 200 cavalrymen turned over their horses, roared and attacked the camp of Tibet, rushed into the camp, cut down when they met people, and burned tents when they met, exactly the same as the bandits in the Western Regions, but the robbers did not have the courage to enter the camp of this army.
Estimating that the time was almost up, Gao Jun hurriedly ordered a retreat, during this time, enough Tubo scouts ran to Shicheng to report the news, and when the Tubo army came to their senses, they couldn't escape.
"Brothers, evacuate quickly!" Gao Jun shouted.
Although everyone was on the rise, they still knew that the military order forbade them, so they immediately turned their horses' heads, followed Gao Jun and went away, and ran out of the area where the Tubo army was located before the Tubo army returned to the camp.
When the Tibetan army returned to the camp, where could they still see a trace of Gao Jun's shadow.
The enemy general rushed into the camp first, jumped off his horse, looked at the dilapidated camp, and scolded: "These damn Tang people! And you bunch of shit! It is a shame that the battalion of more than 3,000 people was turned upside down by 200 stragglers! ”
This enemy general has a breath in his heart, since the morning on the battlefield, he has never been comfortable, I didn't expect a small stone city, less than 3,000 Tang troops in the city, it turned out to be a difficult bone to gnaw, if you can't beat the stone city, let the prime minister know, how to gain a foothold in Tubo.
The more I thought about it, the more irritated I became, and yelled at the people below: "Hurry up and pack up the camp, count the damaged supplies, and all the scouts go out, find it for me!" If you find these people, you will have to break them to pieces! ”
"Yes!" The people below hurriedly responded, and now the general is angry, if anyone is one step slower, whether he can save his life is still two words.
At this time, Gao Jun and the team had already run to the northeast, this night and a morning, everyone was already very tired, and they wanted to find a shady place to rest well, so Gao Jun planned to take these two hundred people to Puchanghai, which was far away from the Tubo army and far away from Shicheng, and it would take a long time for the Tubo people to search there, and this time was enough for Gao Jun.
The Puchang Sea, said to be the sea, is actually an inner lake, that is, the Lop Nur of later generations, the team rests, naturally it is inseparable from the water source, the rivers around the stone city are afraid that there are Tibetan scouts wandering, for Gao Jun them, naturally it is not safe.
In the next few days, Gao Jun did not plan to harass the Tubo people again, this time, the Tubo people were wary, naturally they would not succeed easily, and after a few days, they also felt tired of being so vigilant all day, and that was the best time for Gao Jun to attack.
On the side of Shicheng, Xuan Shijing asked Wang Jin to arrange the soldiers on duty on the city wall, and let the other soldiers go back to the camp to rest, after this battle, there are dozens of wounded soldiers, and they need to go to the camp to find a doctor for treatment, and Xuan Shijing, there is no need to stay on the city wall, and he took Long'er back to the camp.
Xuan Shijing smiled and shook his head, it seems that he is really tired, this night, how can he sleep until dark.
For more than ten years, Xuan Shijing has developed a habit, whether it is in the Hou Mansion or in the courtyard of Yuan Shoucheng in Khotan Town, he always likes to soak in the study when he is idle.
Shicheng didn't have so many books for Xuan Shijing to read, so in desperation, Xuan Shijing could only stay in Cheng Chumo's handsome tent and look at the map of the Tang Dynasty.
The whole map was drawn on a large cloth and hung in the handsome tent, when he left the study last night, Zhao Ying took the map back and hung it in Cheng Chumo's handsome tent, which was also convenient for Xuan Shijing.
In the more than ten years that Xuan Shijing was absent, the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded a lot, and Xuan Shijing has not seen it very well, because the maps that he saw in the Hou Mansion were all drawn during the Wude period, at that time, there was still a large red ink dot in the north, and there were four big characters written next to it: Turkic tooth tent, the current map, there is no trace of Turkic, and the rest of the northern steppe is only a dozen tribes large and small, and the Turks have also been divided into nine Turkic surnames.
Eyes fell on the area of Hanzhou, Xuan Shijing smiled, presumably, there was already a lively scene over there, after all, Lu Dongzan's opponent was Li Jing.