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For more than two months, Zhao Ziliang has been idle, except for regular inspections of defense, nothing else, government affairs in various parts of Longxi have Cen Shen, Gao Shang, Dugu Wense, Du Fu, Wang Zhen and others to deal with, Mrs. Meng and Princess Xinping have come to Linqiang with their children, and live in the backyard of the county government, Zhao Ziliang is very idle every day, in addition to teasing his son and daughter, he is diligent in practicing martial arts.

Mrs. Meng looked at Zhao Ziliang, who was playing tricks, and couldn't help but say, "I said, can you play so casually to have an effect?" I see that the officers and men in the army are sweating profusely, what is the effect of you just playing a few casual tricks? ”

Princess Xinping hugged the child who had just been born for more than two months and smiled: "Third sister, I think Xianggong is very good-looking!" ”

Mrs. Meng said: "It's good-looking, it's a fart? When you fight, you have to be able to kill! ”

Zhao Ziliang stopped and said: "I see that you only understand a fart, my kung fu has reached this level, I don't need to practice anymore on weekdays, as long as I move my muscles and bones every day and ensure the smooth flow of qi and blood, I can maintain my kung fu without regression!" ”

At this time, Wang Can came over and hugged his fists and said, "Dashuai, King Bailan is here!" ”

Zhao Ziliang turned around and said, "Oh? It's finally here, where has he been? ”

"It's about ten miles outside the city!"

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "No matter what he says, he is also the king of the clan." Let's go to the city gate to meet us! ”

"Yes!" Wang Can agreed, and immediately beckoned the surrounding soldiers: "Go and prepare the horses!" ”

Zhao Ziliang rode a horse and just arrived at the gate of Xicheng, King Bailan arrived, and he saw a thin old man with a white beard and hair galloping with dozens of horses, although he hadn't seen him for seventeen or eighteen years, Murong Jieyan had aged a lot, but Zhao Ziliang still recognized him at a glance.

"This old thing, it's all old like this, and it can ride a horse so fast!" Zhao Ziliang muttered in his heart, patted his horse to meet him, smiled and hugged his fists loudly: "King Bailan, I haven't seen you for many years, you should be old and strong!" ”

"Hahaha・・・・・・ the handsome man is more powerful than before!" Murong Jieyan said with a smile after stopping to stroke his chest and saluting.

"Please go into the city and talk!"

"Please!"

Zhao Ziliang took Murong Jieyan's arm and walked into the county hall together, there were already a number of low tables on the left and right sides of the hall, after the two sat down, a maidservant girl sent wine and meat, and Zhao Ziliang entertained Murong Jieyan and his party to eat meat and drink.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Ziliang put down the wine bowl and said: "King Bailan, I have something unpleasant, this time you are not authentic, let the Tubo people come over to occupy the land of Jiuqu of the Yellow River and the west of the Longyou River, so that my dynasty suffered heavy losses, how can you say that you are also canonized by our dynasty, is it too unrighteous to do so?" ”

When King Bailan heard this, he put down the wine bowl and didn't feel embarrassed, wiped the wine stains on the corner of his mouth and said: "Dashuai, it's not that my Murong clan doesn't want to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty and the emperor, you also know that the troops of Longyou and Hexi were already empty before the Tubo people came, and even our Murong clan's men and horses can't stop the 200,000 troops of Tubo!" If the soldiers and horses of Longyou and Hexi are not transferred, as long as the Tubo people have any changes, I will definitely not sit idly by, after all, I still have the soldiers and horses of Longyou and Hexi as the backing, and if I can't fight, I can retreat to Longyou and Hexi, but my backing is empty, what do I do to fight with the Tubo people? That's right, I took money from the Tibetan people, and when they came down from the Kunlun Pass, I turned a blind eye and didn't see it, and let them pass, but what if I didn't let them go? Am I going to take the lives of all my people? ”

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment, drank another bowl of wine and said: "Okay, I don't blame you King Bailan for this, and the court will not pursue you Qiang people in this matter, but now that I have an army of more than 100,000 here, you King Bailan should also make some efforts now, right?" ”

King Bai Lan asked, "What do you want me to do?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "A month later, I will lead a large army to attack Dafeichuan, and you will lead your people to raid the Tubo army from behind!" ”

King Bailan frowned and said, "Attack Dafeichuan? There is also the defense line of Shibao City in front, you haven't even broken through the defense line of Shibao City, how can you attack Dafeichuan? ”

"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own way to break through the defense line of Stone Castle City within a month!"

"You're quite poisonous, and Dazarugon wouldn't have thought I'd take someone to stab him in the ass. I can do you this favor, but my people can't die in vain, what do I get? ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "In fact, now Dazarugong's situation is very difficult, Tubo Zampu was shot and killed by me in his army, the government and the opposition in Tubo have cut off the supplies and reinforcements to him, the weapons, bows and arrows in his hands can not be replenished, the grain and grass can only be obtained by plundering the nearby herdsmen and farmers, this is not long, I want to defeat him is only a matter of time, but I don't want to wait so long, so I look for you to make a move, and when you defeat Dazalugong and destroy his army, all the seizures will be yours!" We don't want all of them! ”

Murong Jieyan was a little moved, and after weighing it, he asked, "Is what you said true?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "My Tang Empire will not lose an ally for such a small thing!" ”

Murong Jieyan laughed and said, "Hahaha・・・・・・ Okay, I agreed to this matter!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Then we have reached an agreement on this!" King Bailan, since you have promised, you have to fulfill your promise, if my army appears in Dafeichuan a month later, and you don't come on time, when I defeat the Tubo people, then don't blame me for not being merciful, I will never be soft on the dishonest and betrayed! ”

Murong Jieyan was a little angry, "Hmph, since my Murong clan has agreed, I will definitely do it, and I will never do anything treacherous!" ”

"That's the best!"

Murong Jieyan and his party stayed in Linqiang for one night and returned the next day.

After sending Murong Jieyan away, Zhao Ziliang brought Zheng San over and instructed: "You go find some saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal, and come over with dozens of catties of each!" Send it to the barracks outside the city, I'll be useful! ”

Zheng Sanhu agreed suspiciously: "Okay, I'll go find someone to send it over immediately!" ”

Shibao City is blocked at the key point of the march, during this time Zhao Ziliang thought for a long time and did not think of a feasible way to take it, if the attack will inevitably be heavy casualties, when Ge Shuhan in order to take it, more than 20,000 people died under the attack, Zhao Ziliang thought about it, can only use gunpowder to blow up.

In fact, gunpowder was already available, but the Tang Dynasty had not yet used it for military purposes, and the power of the explosion could not be stabilized because it did not form a fixed formula.

Zhao Ziliang was born as a soldier in his previous life, and he also studied black powder, under the correct mixing ratio, saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal were ground into a powder state and then mixed, and then made into a granular state, in this state, the black powder burned rapidly, sufficiently, and thus exploded with the greatest power.

It took more than ten days and more than 100 tests to finally find the most correct ratio production process and record it in detail.

It's one thing to know the formula, but it's another thing to make the production process, and it's another thing to be able to make it into the most fully burned granule state, Zhao Ziliang is the experience and method that he mastered only through personal experiments, if it was someone else, even if he got it, his notes might not be able to make the most powerful black powder.

On October 16, Zhao Ziliang led the army from Linqiang to Dafeichuan, the army marched to the Shibao City and stopped, to go to Dafeichuan, the army must pass under the Shibao City, it must withstand the bow and arrow of the Tubo army on the Shibao City, the attack of the thunder wood rolling stone, there is the Shibao City blocked, of course the army can not pass with peace of mind, can only capture it to pass, after all, no one wants to be beaten and can not fight back.

After setting up camp, Li Sheng asked, "Dashuai, how to fight this stone castle city?" There are only two ways up the mountain, one front, the other side, both are not easy to attack, the strong attack will inevitably cause heavy casualties, back then Ge Shuhan was a strong attack, and it took 20,000 people to take it! ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Of course you can't attack!" Tonight thou shalt call five hundred men, all with shields, and hammers, and cut for me a hundred and ten holes in the stone wall at the foot of the mountain. ”

Li Sheng was puzzled: "Dig a hole? What's the use of that? Can the stone castle be scavenged? It's not something that can be done in a day or two! ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "You just take someone to do it, I have my own use!" ”

"No!"

At night, Li Sheng took 500 people with shields to touch the stone fort city, and the Tubo army above saw the Tang army smearing it, and immediately became vigilant, they thought that the Tang army was going to attack at night, but the Tang army did not touch the mountain, but only tinkled at the foot of the mountain.

When the Tubo army heard these sounds, they thought that the Tang army was going to dig up the stone fort city, and they all laughed and scolded the Tang army for being stupid.

After a busy night, more than 100 caves of all sizes were dug on the stone wall at the foot of Shibao City, and Zhao Ziliang personally led a team of people to transport black powder explosives bags to Shibao City, stuffed them into the caves that were punched out, and then connected all the explosives bags with a long lead.

After being busy for a while, he finally installed the explosives fort and installed all the leads, Zhao Ziliang beckoned, a soldier handed over a torch, Zhao Ziliang took it and shouted: "Stand back, everyone stand back・・・・・・ back again・・・・・・ back down and ・・・・・・ again."

When everyone retreated to two hundred meters away, Zhao Ziliang lit the fuse, put the shield behind his back and ran away, not only did the Tang army watch the excitement from a distance, but even the Tubo people didn't know what the Tang army was doing, so they all stuck their heads out on the mountain to see what the Tang army was doing.

"Boom・・・・・・boom・・・・・・ "Boom Boom" shook the mountains, rocks splashed, smoke and dust rose everywhere, thunderbolts sounded one after another on a sunny day, and the Tubo troops on the stone castle city stood unsteadily and fell down one after another, one by one they were so frightened that their hearts and galls were broken, lying on the ground like earth, and trembling all over.

The sound of the explosion continued for more than ten minutes, and after the explosion ended, the foot of Shibao City was mostly smaller, and the Tubo army on the mountain dropped their weapons and erected white flags.