On the first day of the ninth month, the scout battalion sent a sentry back to report that the situation in Langketang had been clearly investigated, and there were about 1,000 Tubo soldiers, 700 infantry, and 300 cavalry, and sent a detailed topographic map of Langketang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Half a day after Duan Xiushi led the army to set off, Zhao Ziliang immediately led the main force to follow up, because the people of the Nibora country were more familiar with this generation, so Zhao Ziliang ordered the Nibora 3,000 mountain infantry to lead the way in front of the army.

On the afternoon of the second day of the first lunar month, the Western Qin army was marching rapidly towards Langketang, and Duan Xiushi sent someone to report the victory.

"King Qiqi, General Duan sent a villain to report that our mountain battalion has successfully captured Langketang, killed more than 600 Tubo soldiers, captured more than 300 people, and blocked the surrounding area in a timely manner to prevent the news from leaking! The scout battalion has sent people to contact our department, and sent the enemy situation of Dingri and Malatang, there are 1,000 Tibetan troops in Dingri, and 1,500 people in Malatang, General Duan asked for orders to attack Dingri immediately, and capture these two places before the Tubo army in Dingri and Malatang did not discover our army! ”

After listening to the report of the person who reported the victory, Zhao Ziliang asked, "Does the scout camp have any reports on the enemy situation of Gongtang and Starzang?" ”

"King, the scout camp has sent spies to these two places to investigate, but there is no news yet!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and then said to the victorious Tanma: "You go and tell Duan Xiushi, just say that if the physical strength and morale of the soldiers allow, this king will allow him to lead his troops to immediately attack Dingri and Malatang!" ”

"Yes!"

On the morning of the third day of the first lunar month, Zhao Ziliang led the main army to arrive at Langketang, at this time Xiushi had already led most of the soldiers of the mountain battalion to attack Dingri, and Zhao Bei, the deputy general of the mountain battalion who stayed in Langketang, led the soldiers who stayed behind to meet the main army.

Langketang is located in a mountain col where tens of thousands of Tibetans live. Before entering it, riding a horse and walking in the procession, Zhao Ziliang saw many long ropes tied to two big trees on both sides of the mountain pass in front of the small city, one end of the rope was tied to the trunk, and the other end was tied to the big stones around the ground around the big tree, and many colorful small colored flags and streamers were tied to each rope. These small buntings and streamers are like the umbrella surface of a huge umbrella, and under the blowing of the wind, these ribbons and small buntings are constantly fluttering, and there is a whining sound, which increases the sense of slaughter and depression on the plateau.

After entering Langketang, Zhao Ziliang found that there was no city wall here, not even a low wall, and the houses of each family were basically made of stones, with different heights, some were stacked neatly, wide and tall, and some stone houses were piled up in a messy manner, and there was a possibility of collapse at any time.

What makes the soldiers of the Western Qin Army strange is that the Tubo people always like to tie a long rope on the top of their house or in front of the door, and many small buntings and ribbons are tied to the long ropes, which almost form the characteristics of Tubo and can be seen at any time, and these small buntings and ribbons have hardly stopped fluttering since they were tied, because there is always wind here.

With the arrival of the army led by Zhao Ziliang, the Tubo people here were driven to both sides of the road by the remaining mountain battalion soldiers to greet them.

Zhao Bei, the deputy general of the mountain battalion, quickly understood what Zhao Ziliang meant, and immediately shouted to the Tubo people on both sides of the road: "Everyone kneel, otherwise there will be no forgiveness!" ”

An obese middle-aged Tubo man who was standing beside Zhao Bei with a bent bow and grovel hurriedly shouted to all the Tubo people in Tubo and translated Zhao Bei's words.

The Tibetans on both sides did not react, they looked at this fat middle-aged man who groveled and flattered the Western Qin army, eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood.

Seeing that the Tubo people did not react, Zhao Bei immediately raised his hand and waved it and shouted: "The first brigade of the third regiment, kill!" ”

The soldiers got the order, they used weapons to slash and stab the Tubo people in front of them, whether adults and children or the old and weak women and children were all cut down, stabbed to the ground, a scream came far away, blood soon stained the road, in the blink of an eye, nearly two hundred Tubo people were killed, and the Tubo people on both sides of the road in front of them began to be confused, many people were very emotional, turned around and had a physical confrontation with the soldiers of the Western Qin Army standing behind them, but these people were soon severely and brutally suppressed, and the corpses fell one by one.

Finally, some timid Tibetans chose to kneel down and surrender, and after these kneeling, the other Tibetans hesitated a lot, and gradually gave up their insistence and knelt on the ground one by one.

Zhao Bei pressed his sword and walked quickly to Zhao Ziliang's horse, bowed down on one knee and said, "King, grandson Zhao Bei greets!" The Tibetans of Langketang have surrendered to you, and those who do not accept have all been killed! ”

Zhao Bei is Zhao Hu's eldest son and the eldest of Zhao Ziliang's grandchildren, who is eighteen years old this year.

Zhao Ziliang soothed the restless war horse, kept stroking the horse's mane with his left hand, and said: "Some of them are timid and afraid, so they kneel down and submit, while more people are not convinced, and they are not willing to surrender, the reason why they kneel down is because they know that it is futile to resist now, so they choose to swallow their anger, they hide their anger in their hearts, waiting for one day to erupt!" This king wants sincere surrender, not false surrender! ”

Zhao Bei was stunned, but he quickly understood, "Yes!" Grandson understood! After speaking, he got up and turned around, pulled out his waist knife, and ordered loudly: "All the soldiers obey the order, kill - not one is left!" ”

The shadows of swords and swords kept flashing on both sides of the road, blood kept splashing, and the Tubo people fell one by one in a pool of blood. The middle-aged Tubo fat man who was following Zhao Bei turned pale with fright when he saw this situation, and his whole body was paralyzed on the ground and trembling constantly.

Half an hour later, all the Tubo people in Langketang were slaughtered, and the corpses were everywhere, Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and waved forward, rode his horse into the city, and the army continued to advance, stepping on the corpses and blood of countless Tubo people to enter.

Zhao Ziliang pointed at the middle-aged obese Tubo who was paralyzed on the ground with a horsewhip: "You, keep up!" ”

The middle-aged Tibetan fat man was still trembling, and he didn't hear Zhao Ziliang's words at all, Zhao Bei raised his foot and kicked it over and shouted, "Did you hear that?" The king told you to come with you, hurry up! ”

"Ah, yes, yes, the villain gets up, the villain gets up right away!" The middle-aged Tibetan fat man immediately got up with his hands and feet, trotted beside Zhao Bei, and caught up with Zhao Ziliang.

There is a Tubo thousand households here in Langketang, although the Tubo army has been killed, but the house of the thousand households is still there, this is also the largest and best house in Langketang, the Tubo people implement the tribal military system, the local political governor is the military chief, but also the patriarch of the local tribe, so the thousand households of the thousand households are the tribal patriarchs here.

The army was stationed in Langketang, and Zhao Ziliang naturally lived in a large house with thousands of households.

Zhao Ziliang walked to the gate of the Thousand Households and took a look, and found that this house was somewhat similar to the houses of the big families in the Central Plains in style, and he pointed to the middle-aged Tubo fat man: "You are waiting outside, Zhao Bei comes in!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, the villain is waiting!"

Zhao Ziliang walked into the Thousand Households, at this time the inside had been cleaned up, and there were many sentry posts, Zhao Ziliang sat down on a big chair and asked Zhao Bei: "How long has Duan Xiushi been there, is there any news here?" ”

Zhao Bei replied, "Yes, Great King! General Duan led his troops to Dingri overnight yesterday evening, and there were people from the scout camp in front of him to answer them, and there were local Tibetan guides to guide the way, they had captured Dingri City, and the news came back early this morning! At this time, he should lead his army to march towards Malatang! ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "How many people did he take with him when he set off from here?" ”

"Two thousand!"

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "Duan Xiushi's troops are too thin, and they are more than enough for battle, but since they are divided into troops to guard the occupied territory, there is a bit of a shortage of troops!" Xuanyi! ”

"The minister is here!" Xuanyi stood up and hugged his fists in agreement.

Zhao Ziliang pointed to Xuanyi and instructed: "You go and pass on the king's will to General Nibra Luo Kalu, order him to lead the headquarters to Dingri after an hour, take over the local defense, and order the mountain battalion soldiers who stayed in Dingri to go to Malatang to reinforce Duan Xiushi, if Duan Xiushi takes Maratang, tell him to stand by on the spot, and no longer attack Qusanda in the north and Gongtang in the west, the Tubo forces in Qusanda and Gongtang in the west are too strong, and we used to win more with less than we had to do it when there was no way. Now we have enough troops, and we don't need to fight more with less! Wait for the arrival of the main force of our army before we do it! ”

"Yes, King!" Xuan Yi agreed, turned around and walked out.

Zhao Ziliang looked at Zhao Bei and asked, "Have you seen your father before you set off?" ”

Zhao Bei replied: "Before the grandson left, my father was still on the way back to Xinjing, and at that time, the great expedition was imminent, and the grandson could only set off with General Duan and the army first, and the grandson had already written a letter to the family!" ”

"Your father and son haven't seen each other for four years, and it's the king's misconsideration to let you go out with the army!" Zhao Ziliang said with a sigh, and then waved his hand and said: "Forget it, since you have come out with the army, you can fight with peace of mind, and you can't be half-hearted!" Go and call the fat man outside the door in! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Bei quickly brought in the middle-aged Tubo fat man who was waiting outside the door, and the fat man immediately knelt down when he saw Zhao Ziliang and said, "Zamu to meet the king!" Hooray, hooray, hooray! ”

Zhao Ziliang asked: "You are quite slippery, where did you learn it?" ”

Zamu replied: "Back to the king, when the villain was young, he went to the Chang'an Dynasty to meet the Tang Emperor as an envoy of the envoys of Zampu, so he knows some Han etiquette!" ”

"I see!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked, "Zamu, this king asks you, those people outside you are not really subservient to this king, so this king killed them all!" Are you truly surrendering to this king? ”

Zamu hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the king's martial arts are unparalleled, the world is invincible, the villain has also seen the world, even Tianzhu and the seventy-two countries of the Western Regions are all surrendered to the feet of the king, and now the chaotic Tubo has the strength to compete with the king's invincible iron horse, so the villain is absolutely sincere to surrender to the king, the villain swears by the Buddha, sincere allegiance to the king, if nonsense, break the oath, so that the villain will be sent to the eighteenth layer of hell, forever can not be reborn!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Zamu and was silent for a while, and then said to him: "Okay, this king believes in you!" The captured more than 300 Tibetan soldiers are handed over to you to command, you can choose some loyal people from among them to help you lead these people, if you are loyal to the king, there will be more soldiers and horses for you in the future, not to mention glory and wealth, if you have bad intentions and bad intentions, this king guarantees that you will be a hundred times more miserable than living in the eighteenth layer of hell! ”

"Yes, yes, thank you, King! The villain does not dare, and he will never dare to betray the king! ”