Chapter 476: Qingtang City is broken
This time, Zhang Yi did not stop Wang Zhe from attacking Qingtang, and even supported him to take Qingtang City at one time, which surprised Wang Zhe and those generals.
They thought that Zhang Yi would have to make some kind of moth this time, but now it seems that this guy is not just a blind command as he imagined.
"Okay, since Jingyang County Bodu let us attack, then if we don't take Qingtang City, we will be a little bit sorry for Jingyang County Bodu's expectations."
Wang Zhe said half-jokingly, and at the same time waved his hand and directly asked people to order troops.
"Don't, it's none of my business, if you win, the battle is yours, if you lose, you have to carry the pot, I just wish you success."
Zhang Yi said and bowed to the sky, and smiled and asked Wang Zhe and them to start attacking the city.
In fact, now they have almost no problem if they want to take Qingtang City, and the continuous infighting has drastically reduced the Tubo soldiers in Qingtang City and the Tubo Qingzhuang who can fight with knives.
Before, Qingtang City also claimed to have 100,000 combatable men, and after this infighting, I am afraid that there will be no one or two out of ten.
The Tang army was quickly assembled, but the Tubo people on the wall of Qingtang City were still like that, and even from outside Qingtang City, they could see that many people on the city wall threw away their weapons and ran away.
Such a situation is extremely favorable to the Tang army, the Tubo people have no intention of fighting, and it is already a certainty that they will take Qingtang City.
"Without further ado, let's attack!"
After the army was assembled, Wang Zhe didn't say anything, and simply gave the order to attack.
The soldiers of the Tang Army, who had been impatient for a long time, howled wolf one after another, waving the weapons in their hands and rushing towards Qingtang City.
This time, Wang Zhe kept an eye on it, and did not continue to trap Qingtang City from all sides, but only attacked from three sides, and deliberately opened a gap on the remaining side to let those Tubo people who fled for their lives run there.
After all, the battle of trapped beasts is very terrifying.
However, it would be too naïve to think that Wang Zhe would be so kind to let these Tubo people go, there are Tang army archers on both sides of this gap, and it is not easy to rush out from here, and it is already extremely lucky that one or two of the ten people can rush out.
60,000 Tang troops overwhelmingly slaughtered Qingtang City from three sides, and the Tubo soldiers on Qingtang City saw this scene and their legs weakened.
If it was before, they still had the courage to hold on, because at that time they still had the support of the people behind them, and the morality in their hearts and the eyes of the people made them unable to retreat.
But after last night's civil strife, everything has changed, and the people no longer look at them like they look at their relatives and friends, but look at them like enemies, not to mention the support of the people, when the Tang army attacked them, those young people did not stab them in the back with a knife, and they were already thankful.
What's more, after last night's civil strife, their number has decreased sharply, and even the number of young and strong Tubo in the city has also decreased sharply, and now there are less than 50,000 men, women, and children in the entire Qingtang City, how can they be the opponents of the Tang Army.
You know, there are sixty or seventy thousand heavily armed Tang troops outside the city, and they are not a ragtag army, those Tang soldiers are all regular troops, fully armed, well-equipped, and there are many tactics that they can't understand.
In a situation where defeat is inevitable, no one will be stupid enough to die in this place, even those loyal and righteous people do not want to die in this place like this, because the civil strife that broke out in Qingtang City made them ashamed.
So, when the Tang army outside the city began to charge with magic weapons, some people began to throw down their weapons and escape.
Running away is such a thing, even if there is an infectious disease, as long as there is a first, then there will be a second, third, and countless next.
There are more and more Tibetan soldiers who escape, and there are fewer and fewer Tibetan soldiers who hold on, and for those Tibetan soldiers who escape, no one can stop them, because anyone with a little rank and status has already run faster than them.
In particular, the group that followed the Tubo generals had already been gathered together, and when the Tang army broke through the city and neglected to take precautions, they rushed out from the northwest where the Tang army's defense was weakest.
Most of the Tibetan soldiers chose to flee for their lives, and only a small number of people remained, unable to defend the city wall at all, and the Tang soldiers drove almost all the way in, and there was no decent resistance at all.
From the beginning of the siege to the destruction of the city, it took less than a quarter of an hour, which shows how fast the Tubo people were defeated.
As soon as Qingtang City was breached, thousands of Tibetan troops who had already been prepared immediately rushed out from the northwest direction of Qingtang City.
In the northwest direction, it is the opening left by Wang Zhe in order to prevent the Tubo people from trapping the beasts.
"General, those Tibetans will really flee from there."
A general galloped from a distance on a war horse.
"Under the temptation of life, they will naturally run from there, and when there is a way to go, they will not choose to open up another path on their own."
As he spoke, Wang Zhe directly urged the horse to sit down and began to walk towards Qingtang City, and while walking, Wang Zhe also gave orders to the generals who had just come over to report the battle situation.
"Send cavalry to block the Tibetan soldiers everywhere, in this battle, try not to let these Tubo people escape, I will slaughter all the Tibetan soldiers in Qingtang City and the surrounding areas."
When Wang Zhe said this, there was a fierce light in his eyes, and what the Tubo people had done during this time had greatly exceeded the limit of what they could accept, so now, it was time for Datang to ask them for interest.
"No!"
The general bowed his hand when he received the order, and immediately turned his horse's head and rushed northwest.
Since Wang Zhe said so, then he must personally lead a few cavalry teams to pursue those Tubo.
If the Tibetans wanted to break through the encirclement, they had to break out of the place they had set up in the northwest where the archers were ambushed.
And if thousands of Tibetan cavalry want to rush out from there, at least two-thirds of the men and horses must be left, and the Tubo cavalry that can rush out there at that time is estimated to be only about 1,000 people.
In that area, there were already nearly 10,000 Tang cavalry waiting, and once those Tubo cavalry rushed out, they would not hesitate to strangle them.
"Qingtang City, Qingtang City, after so many years, our Datang army can finally step in."
Wang Zhe and Wang Zhe sighed with emotion in front of the vicissitudes of Qingtang Ancient City.
For a long time, the Tubo people have used Qingtang City as their base for encroachment in the direction of Hehuang, and now they directly take Qingtang City, which is to directly defeat the Tubo people's arrangements for many years.
And they are not just as simple as taking Qingtang City, this battle, the entire Qingtang City is almost dead, if the Tubo people do not immigrate in large numbers from other places, then the term Qingtang City will become history completely.