8. Clever tongue is still praised

Who is coming, I'm afraid that I will have to have another decisive battle with the other party to find out.

But Shang Jiezan doesn't have the capital to explore now: just on the front of Fengxiang and Jingyuan, there are seventy or eighty thousand Tang troops who surround his Pingliang from three sides, and Shang Jiezan's soldiers and horses are only one or two thousand.

Boast about the combat effectiveness of my Dafan warriors, but you can't say that the Dafan warriors can fight four Tang soldiers at once, right?

Although Shang Jiezan spent a lot of effort to build a brand new city in Pingliang in accordance with the rules of Xifan, but the sand castle had been lost, and now the flanks of his team were all exposed, and he could only rely on the Longshan Pass and the Victory Pass behind him to obtain supplies from Longyou, this front was too fragile.

can take the liberty of abandoning Pingliang City, which is not equivalent to helping the Tang army build the city in vain, this loss will be great, and it will also lose face.

So in Pingliang City, Shang Jiezan was anxiously calculating the gains and losses.

At this moment, his attendant Soma, riding on a steed and ten bird messengers, brought Trisong Dezan's command from the city of Rakhe as fast as he could.

Soma half-knelt before the master, who had no lord of the six gods, and said to Shang Jiezan, "The god Zampu says that if a shepherd can save his herd before a blizzard, it is worth losing a few tents. ”

Shang Jiezan hurriedly asked Soma, "The god Zanpu ...... Is this preparing to make peace with the Tang family? ”

Soma bowed, "That's what Zampu meant, he said that the temptation is complete, and there is no need to make an urn of bitter wine. ”

"What about Ma Chongying!" Shang Jiezan was embarrassed.

Soma shook his head, meaning that even the god Zampu couldn't give anyone a clear answer.

"After that, I am afraid that the front will retreat to Longshan. It's all my fault, I was defeated by Gou Touyuan first, then defeated by destroying the sand castle, and now I have to lose my peace to protect myself and my subordinates to retreat to Shanzhou...... However, what is certain in this theory is that the Tang family must have new generals, who are competing with this theory, isn't it? "This fashion knot praises and understands, is it Cui Ziyang in the green shirt?

No, no, Shang Jiezan is not so sure.

The only thing he can confirm is that what he captured by the Tang army in Gou Touyuan is actually not the frog flag, not the hat, the shirt, or the umbrella seal, but those ordinary wooden tablets that seem ordinary at first glance - the hateful and cunning Tang people, they must have found the key weakness of our Dafan army from the wooden tablets, and the law of marching and garrison, so that they can succeed in the surprise attack and destruction of the sand castle.

"Soma, tomorrow you will burn everything in the city, including all the papers, and then we will leave." For a long time, Shang Jiezan commanded a little painfully.

"Obey the order, the great and noble Na Nang's origin!" Soma commanded.

Later, in Pingliang City, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Shang Jiezan summoned all the Jie'er and the enemy's defense envoys and publicly told them that we would burn the city and retreat.

There was an uproar, and the generals of the Xifan army were very depressed and puzzled: at the beginning, it was said that you wanted to stick to the business and run Pingliang, and now you want to burn it and run away, isn't this strategy inconsistent?

So Shang Jie praised his clever tongue and said to the people:

"We built a city in Pingliang, but the Tang family built four or five cities in Chaona, Anqiu, Sunqiu Valley, and Huating to confront me, and with only 15,000 people, we nailed 80,000 Tang soldiers to this belt for three months, so that they could not cope with the northern line of Shuofang. In order to build these four or five cities and support these 80,000 horses, the Tang family consumed hundreds of thousands of stones of food and hundreds of thousands of pieces of money, which is our success, and the gains and losses on the battlefield do not have to be measured by victory or defeat, and the blood lost by the Tang family is not only the lives of soldiers. ”

As soon as he said this, the simple and robust generals of the Western Tibetan army nodded frequently, which was very understandable.

Then Shang Jiezan eloquently calculated the account for the generals:

"So should Pingliang City be destroyed? This treatise is to be destroyed.

We built a Pingliang city, and the Tang people built five cities in order to besiege this city, and we spent only one-fifth of the Tang people.

If we don't burn it, the Tang people will occupy Pingliang City at no cost, and the cost of building the city is equivalent to giving it to the Tang people for nothing;

If we burn it, the Tang people will almost have to rebuild a Pingliang City, which will continue to cause a heavy burden on the Tang family.

Therefore, Pingliang City is determined to burn it down, if so, the Tang family may make a small profit, but we will definitely not lose. ”

"Oh!" The generals screamed, and each suddenly realized.

On the ninth day of the first month of the third year of Xingyuan, Shang Jiezan ordered the soldiers to pile up a large number of reeds and dry firewood in all corners and buildings of Pingliang City that had just been repaired, pour oil fire from Ganzhou, and then throw torches, and the fireworks soared into the sky, gathering into several huge pillars of smoke, and the walls and towers of Pingliang City were twisted and moaning in the fire, making a burst sound.

On the high fu on the north side, Shang Jiezan, who immediately watched all this, suddenly did not have the open-mindedness that he had said to the generals before, "The Tang family may make a small profit, but we will definitely not lose", and all kinds of grievances and tragic emotions surged up, and immediately pulled out the "Dafan Sword" in the sheath.

This sword, also called "Suogan", it is made by the smartest woman in the whole of Western Tibet (the people of Western Tibet believe that the best sword must be made by a woman), with the best pine trunk in the South Gate Mountain, its blade is the same as other Western sword swords, like the skull of an old frog, and the sword body is like a hanging pine leaf, from the blade down three fingers, you can see the lines that distinguish between yang iron and yin iron, this sharp sword, can split the three hardest trunks at once.

This kind of rope gan, the whole of Xifan is only ten handfuls, and the five great treatises of the five realms, Chisong Dezan, are each rewarded with a handful.

Now Suo Gan's sword blade had swept past Shang Jiezan's braid, instantly cutting off the jet-black and shiny hair, only an inch away from Da Yan's neck.

Soma's eyes were quick, he stopped Da Lun's arm, and then knocked Suo Gan down, "Da Yan must not be discouraged by a momentary victory or defeat, Zampu can't do without you, just like he can't do without his right hand." ”

This rope fell straight down, with a slight sound, pierced into the ground and stood, and the blades of grass that swept by, all of them were blown into two by the sword body, and the hair that had been cut off by the great judgment took off with the wind, and flew to Pingliang City, which was already a sea of fire in the distance.

The war drums sounded in the distance, Pingliang was surrounded by the Tang cavalry of the queen of Daxing, and when they saw the fire of Pingliang City, they served the generals one after another, and appeared from various roads, and when they saw that the Xifan soldiers were about to retreat, they were like a pack of hungry wolves, and they took the initiative to pursue them with a roar.

"Soma, quick, let's go!" Shang Jiezan pulled out the cord again, put it back into the sheath, and then turned the horse's head around his mount.

With the chirping of horses, Shang Jiezan pulled the reins, looked back at the vast mountains and rivers from Pingliang to Jingzhou with infinite melancholy, and shouted, "Goodbye, the splendid land of Jingyuan, I Shang Jiezan will definitely come back!" ”

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