Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe geographical location of Songzhou is very important, choking Minling, controlling the source of the river, the left neighbor of Helong, the right of Kangzang", "shielding Tianfu, locking the yin", with a rotten word to describe it is a place where soldiers must fight.

Therefore, there will be a military town here since the Han Dynasty, but it is the first of the Tang Dynasty to put the state rule here. In the first year of Wude, Li Yuan placed Songzhou here and completely repaired the city wall.

Songzhou City is not very large, after all, it is mainly a military town, followed by a city with people. The whole city wall has twelve miles in a circle, but the city wall is not long but it is high and thick, the height is four zhang, that is, twelve meters, and the width is nearly ten zhang.

Songzhou City is also divided into inner and outer outlines, and the female wall (pheasant spy) and horse face are complete in the urn city (moon city).

So don't look at the city big enough, but it's strong enough and tall enough.

The Tibetan army has been besieging Songzhou for many days, but it is blocked outside the city and cannot advance an inch. Or it is said that there are small benefits, because the city is small and the city wall is not long, so that the remaining thousands of soldiers and horses plus the help of the people and servants in the city can defend the city wall without losing it.

Otherwise, no matter how long the city wall is, there will not be enough people defending on the city wall, of course, it can hold for so many days because the defenders of Songzhou are facing the Tubo people who are not good at attacking the city, and there are no siege equipment, otherwise Songzhou would have been taken by virtue of the numerical advantage of Tubo.

But in any case, Songzhou is still in the hands of Datang, which allows Niu Jinda, who has been rushing day and night, and the hard work of Wu Yuanqing and their 10,000 soldiers on the road has not been in vain.

The soldiers rested and ate, but Niu Jinda and Wu Yuanqing, who were officials, did not rest, but left the camp with more than a dozen guards and rushed to the outside of Songzhou City to check the enemy's situation.

Wu Yuanqing was right, Niu Jinda came with the intention of taking advantage of the arrival of the Tang reinforcements and not preparing for the arrival of the Tubo people.

Quietly came to the west of Songzhou City on the slope of the hill less than five miles away from the Tubo camp, Niu Jinda, Wu Yuanqing took out a telescope and observed it from afar, mainly to see the deployment of the Tubo army, the camp arrangement, etc., so as to make a plan for the night raid. Of course, the main thing to watch is Niu Jinda, and Wu Yuanqing is at most a fun.

The large camp of Tubo was stationed outside the west gate of Songzhou, and the 200,000 troops were camped in a semi-encircled position, and the interesting thing is that there was a temple in the endless camp.

I asked people who are familiar with the situation in Songzhou to know that this temple is called Sichuan Temple, which was located here as early as four hundred years ago, and most of the believers are the surrounding Qiang people.

"Lao Niu, this temple is not big or small, it seems that the cultivation inside is not bad, do you say that the Zampu of Tubo and those big officials will not live in tents, but live in this temple." Wu Yuanqing took a closer look at the temple and suddenly asked out loud.

"Yes and no." Niu Jinda groaned and said.

"Uh, what do you mean?" Wu Yuanqing didn't understand.

"I wonder if the prison army knows anything about the composition of the Tubo army?" Niu Jinda didn't answer, but asked another question.

"I don't know." Wu Yuanqing shook his head simply, and wondered even more in his heart, what question Lao Niu asked, he didn't understand it, of course the composition of the army is people, could it be a ghost?"

Well, he didn't understand what Niu Jinda asked at all.

Niu Jinda shook his head and asked more clearly: "The prison army has had several contacts with the Tibetan envoys, haven't they asked something from them, such as the composition of the Tubo army?"

"Composition?" Wu Yuanqing was puzzled, and then suddenly confirmed: "What you want to ask is where the soldiers in the Tubo army come from, right?" Where do I know this, the place names of Tubo are very difficult to remember, don't look at the small territory, there are not many people, but there are more large and small nobles in their country than our Tang Dynasty. The smallest nobleman has a certain number of private soldiers, and the big nobleman has a small nobleman and his private soldiers, and I really don't know what they are." At the end of the speech, Wu Yuanqing shook his head and said that he could not do anything about this issue.

He thought that Niu Jinda would be very disappointed, but he didn't expect Niu Jinda to nod and smile and said, "That's what I asked, what you just said is similar to what I understand. The composition of the Tibetan army was no different from that of other nomads, with the big nobles controlling the small nobles, the small nobles controlling the smaller ones, and then the layers down to the ordinary herdsmen. Such a structure is similar to that of the Turks and Tuyuhun. Therefore, it can be said that the Tibetan army is not monolithic, don't look at their total army of 200,000, but these 200,000 troops are divided into several or even a dozen big nobles and big tribal leaders. Although these people are all subservient to the Tibetan Zampu, the relationship between them is not necessarily harmonious, and there are even great and deep contradictions, and even hatred. In such a situation, the possibility of them living together will be very small, and besides, if they live together, aren't they afraid that their Zamp will kill them all and take their military power?"

Rub, Wu Yuanqing looked at Niu Jinda with wide eyes, thinking to himself, why are you so dark in your heart, darker than civil officials, the conspiracy and trickery are so open your mouth to analyze the rules and regulations.

However, Wu Yuanqing also had to be convinced, because Niu Jinda's analysis was really reasonable.

A centralized state like Datang can be said to have nothing else in this era except Datang.

You are like in the Tang Dynasty, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, that is, the world and everything in the world are the emperor's, the minister's official position is given by the emperor, and the generals are assigned by the emperor.

But other countries are different, they are like the kind of federal states of later generations, although the president is the supreme head, but down to the states, it is their own governors who speak effectively.

Your president's order will not be implemented if it is not implemented, and the local legislature, court, etc. can meet to discuss the legal rejection.

The same is true of the country composed of nomadic people, like the previous Turkic Jieli Khan, why he failed to seize the opportunity to enter Chang'an in the ninth year of Wude, a big reason is that the other Khan Tuli does not cooperate, and his subordinates also have their own calculations and are unwilling to let their people suffer losses.

And when it comes to Tubo, this is also the case, don't look at the official positions of their ministers, there are great ministers, there are great theories, and so on, but whether it is a big minister or a big theory, everyone has their own subordinate forces, and maybe there will be people who are particularly close to Songtsen Gampo who will live with him.

But most people certainly won't and won't, and even if Songtsen Gampo asks for it, these people have a way to refuse.

"So, I want to attack this temple with all my might, and the idea of killing the big bosses is no longer feasible?" Wu Yuanqing asked disappointedly.

"Yes." Niu Jinda nodded very facelessly.

"Do you have any good plans?" Wu Yuanqing asked rhetorically in an unhappy tone.

"There is."