In the evening, night falls, and because there is no sun, the sky ushers in the night early.

Ten miles outside Songzhou City, where the Tang Army was originally stationed, several Tubo soldiers were loosely riding horses, wandering listlessly, looking in the direction of Songzhou City from time to time, with a longing look in their eyes.

One soldier complained loudly: "It's too much! Why should they be able to party and enjoy the celebration in the city, so we have to patrol outside the city? It's just bullying! ”

Another soldier also shouted: "That's it, you didn't see the wine seized today, wow, it's really fragrant, I can't walk!" I heard that drinking half a bowl can make people drunk, and the service is very enjoyable! ”

After listening to the words of the two of them, several other soldiers also quit one after another, and rode listlessly, complaining all the way, touching their empty stomachs, and nibbling on a few bites of bread to vent their dissatisfaction.

The soldier at the head sighed, he also wanted to go back to drink and celebrate, but when the military order was issued, he couldn't help it. "Don't talk nonsense, everyone uses snacks, maybe we can share a few sips of wine when we go back."

"Big brother, how long do we have to change the guard?" A soldier asked.

The man called the eldest brother looked up at the sky, estimated it, and gave an approximate time: "There is still an hour, everyone will endure this hour." ”

The rest of the group sparsely answered, and continued to ride their horses around, completely distracted from patrolling.

The Tang army had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, each led 10,000 by Cheng Yanjin, Liu Lan, and Zhi Zhi Sili, and walked around the mountains and forests, avoiding the sentries of the Tubo people through the woods, and approaching the south gate of Songzhou City from the south.

Outside the south gate is a forest, the Tubo people did not think that the Tang army would come to the south gate in a big circle to ambush, so there is almost no fortification here, which also gave the Tang army great convenience, 30,000 people quietly hibernated in the forest outside the south gate, waiting for the opportunity to come.

The atmosphere in Songzhou City seemed to be very high, and everyone was cheering and cheering for this hard-won victory.

Because they won the Tang Dynasty and captured a city, although the loss was great, but after all, they still won, Songzhou City is in their hands, the Tang King must have a fear, whether the war is and that is a matter of the future, at least for now... They can celebrate the victory!

Songtsen Gampo sat in the chief seat, holding a wine, calmly looking at the cheerful crowd. From beginning to end, he behaved very calmly, without a trace of frivolity.

Lu Dongzan put down his wine glass and looked at Songtsan Gampo, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he felt.

Although Songtsen Gampo is young, he is not arrogant or impatient, his mind is calm, even if he is celebrating the feast now, he can still keep his eyes clear, which is the quality that a person who has achieved great things should have, and it is Lu Dongzan's luck to be able to assist him.

"Why doesn't Zamp drink?" Lu Dongzan picked up the wine glass again and touched it lightly with Songtsen Gampo.

"I always feel that the Tang Army's retreat is a little strange, and I feel uneasy." Songtsen Gampo looked at the huge wooden tiger placed in the square a few hundred meters away, and his eyelids jumped.

"Zampu, there is no poison in the wine, and no enemies have been found outside, it seems that we are too worried." Lu Dongzan took a sip of wine and sighed: "Good wine!" Datang is worthy of being Datang, and on our plateau, we can't drink such good wine. ”

Songtsen Gampo also took a sip, and the spicy wine made him cough several times, and finally put down the cup and said to Lu Dongzan beside him: "Prime Minister, I always feel that something is wrong, you go and send a few more troops out to find out the whereabouts of the Tang army, maybe our sentries have been killed, and the Tang army is marching towards us..."

"Good, good! I'll arrange it. Seeing that Songtsen Gampo was worried, Lu Dongzan had no choice but to get up, pull over an entourage and give an order, and then return to his position after the entourage left.

"It must be that the Tang army has put too much pressure on us during this time, and their sudden withdrawal of troops has made us a little uncomfortable, and it will be okay to rest for a few days."

Songtsen Gampo looked at the huge wooden tiger in front of him and nodded: "I hope so." By the way, Prime Minister, have you ever heard that after the defeat of the Tang Army, they will leave the totem on the flag as a trophy gift? ”

"This..."Lu Dongzan scratched his head, a little stunned. He has learned a lot of Central Plains culture, not to mention the Tang Dynasty, all dynasties have never heard of such a custom, and now he is reminded by Songtsen Gampo, and he really feels that this wooden tiger seems a little abrupt.

"Maybe the Tang Army doesn't have many examples of failure, so I really haven't heard of it."

Lu Dongzan recalled that the Tang army's foreign battles were almost always one-sided victories, and he had never heard of them losing battles.

Even the Weishui Alliance more than ten years ago was only east. Suddenly. Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty, they attacked all the way, and the regular troops of the Tang Army did not dare to fight easily, so they had to sign the Weishui Alliance to withdraw their troops.

It can be said that the Tang Dynasty's current use of troops to the outside world is really a bit of a master's loneliness, and there is almost no failure, and the battle with Tubo is an accident, so Lu Dongzan can't give an accurate answer.

"The prime minister hasn't heard of it? That's strange, it takes a lot of effort to build this wooden tiger, right? Could it be that Tang Jun specially built it and sent it to me? That's unreasonable, isn't it? ”

Songtsen Gampo felt that there might be something wrong with this wooden tiger, and at first he was paralyzed by the wine next to the wooden tiger, but now that he thinks about it, the most problematic should be this wooden tiger!

"It's really a bit of a problem, be careful, why don't we go and find out what's so strange about this wooden tiger." Lu Dongzan suggested.

"Good. Go and see what is so quirky about this wooden tiger. Songtsen Gampo got up, and suddenly, someone came to report.

"Zampu, the sentinels sent out in the afternoon have returned, and they seem to have discovered something about the Tang army's whereabouts."

"Huh?" Songtsen Gampo and Lu Dongzan glanced at each other, and very tacitly put the matter of Muhu behind them, and asked the sentry about the Tang army's whereabouts.

The returning sentry took a piece of parchment and spread it out in front of Songtsen Gampo, and on the parchment was a very, very simple version of the Songzhou topographic map, which was even simpler than the original version that Cheng Chumo had taken out.

The sentry pointed to a place on the map and said: "Zampu, we have followed the Tang army's whereabouts for more than 20 miles, and found a strange thing, all the Tang troops seem to have dispersed to this place, and then they can't find any footprints, and the Tang army seems to have suddenly lost its trace!" ”

"Spread out? Could it be scattered to various cities? "Someone proposed.

"It's not impossible, but I don't think it's very likely, there are still many roads away from other cities, and the Tang army shouldn't disperse so quickly."

"This is strange, what is Tang Jun's purpose in doing this?" Everyone was amazed, and there was a lot of discussion about the purpose of the Tang Army.

"What does the prime minister think?" Songtsen Gampo suddenly asked.

"It's hard to say." Lu Dongzan squinted at the map and shook his head. "I don't know what Tang Jun wants to do, but the fact that I haven't seen Tang Jun in such a large area means that we are still safe at the moment... Ah, it is possible that the Tang army will now disperse its troops, so that it is difficult for us to search, and then gather together again one day when our defense is lax, and launch a round of onslaught..."

Lu Dongzan's statement was unanimously agreed by everyone, and Songtsen Gampo could not guess the intentions of the Tang army, so he could only choose to believe that Lu Dongzan's judgment was correct, so he decided to strengthen the defense of Songzhou, especially to learn more from the Central Plains people's method of defending the city.

"Okay, Prime Minister, let's go to Muhu now." Songtsen Gampo led more than a dozen guards towards Muhu.

The wooden tiger was placed in a large open space in the south of Songzhou City, near the city gate, and was heavily defended. But today many people seem to be drunk, and the originally tight defense has been much looser, and many people are lying on the ground snoring.

There were also some people who threw away their clothes and armor, and lay naked on the ground, looking drunk as a dead fish, but unfortunately no one picked them up......

Seeing this scene, Songtsen Gampo immediately frowned, and wanted to scold, but when he thought of the bloody battles of the soldiers, he softened his heart, and as if he didn't see it, he bypassed these soldiers.

Walking into the wooden tiger, Songtsen Gampo's ominous premonition became more and more powerful, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, waved his hand and said to the guards beside him: "Check this wooden tiger, if necessary, you can dismantle it!" ”

(End of chapter)