Fortunately, the Tibetans did not ignore the Tang army's challenge, and the war letter sent by Wang Zhe was quickly replied to, and the Tibetans agreed to a decisive battle outside Qingtang City in three days.

After receiving the reply, Wang Zhe basically bought time for them to raise gunpowder, and after three days, the gunpowder would definitely be able to be transported to Qingtang City.

However, he would not be stupid enough to believe that the Tibetans had not moved in the past three days, and during these three days, he had to be careful to guard against the sudden attacks of the Tibetans.

After all, compared to a decisive battle in the open, a surprise attack is obviously a more cost-effective way to fight, especially if the opponent's defense is lax.

Therefore, Wang Zhe can't be careless at this time, and be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

The Tang army is on guard, while the Tubo army is about to make a fuss.

A large part of these Tibetan armies were composed of the private soldiers of the major noble lords, and less than half of the real regular armies were under their command, which can be said to be difficult to command.

And at this time, they are facing the same troubles as the previous Qingtang defenders, that is, the lack of salt.

originally thought that this problem could be solved after arriving in Qingtang, but who knew that Qingtang would fall when they arrived, and Qingtang was gone, so their problem of lack of salt naturally could not be solved.

If you can't eat salt, the morale of the army will be unstable, and someone will definitely get up and make trouble.

Although the Tubo people have now accepted the Tang army's war letter, there will still be many Tubo troops who secretly want to attack and harass the Tang army.

They don't have salt to eat, but the Tang army does, and the Tang border army will never be short of salt.

Although these small forces could not defeat the Tang army and snatch salt from the barracks of the Tang border army, they could capture some Tang soldiers from the battle, and as long as there were prisoners, they could use these prisoners to make conditions with the Tang army.

There is nothing wrong with exchanging a Tang Army prisoner for a pound of green salt, even if human life is no longer valuable, half a catty of coarse salt is still worth it.

Now it doesn't matter if they can change to green salt or coarse salt, as long as it is edible salt, they are very satisfied.

If they can catch dozens or hundreds of Tang prisoners, then at least they can solve the problem of salt shortage in their own troops, which is more cost-effective than the salt that the Tubo generals who are waiting for their heads to distribute every day.

Wang Zhe and other Tang army generals also felt that the Tubo people were about to move, but at this time they had to hold back and couldn't take the initiative to attack, at most when the Tubo people attacked and disturbed them, they were counterattacking.

Although this is very aggrieved, they also have to endure it.

Wang Zhe chose to believe in Zhang Yi's tactics!

And the people he sent back to collect gunpowder were not slow, and at this time they had already gotten a lot of gunpowder and were transporting it to Qingtang.

However, according to Zhang Yi's method, they must pray that the weather will be clear in the next two days, and if it rains at this time, then they will really fall short.

But fortunately, there is very little rain in the Great Northwest, especially in this season, when there are two rainy days a month, they are already smiling and blooming.

The Tang army still couldn't hold on, and let those Tubo people take turns to scold and fight, they just guarded in Qingtang City.

After a day of scolding, the Tibetans gained nothing.

However, without the order to attack, they could not attack Qingtang City, but at this time, even if they had the courage to attack Qingtang City, with their little aristocratic private soldiers, they would only go to death.

So now it can only be a stalemate, and no one has been able to really provoke a fight.

However, in order to appease the soldiers, the Tibetan generals also came up with some related policies.

Now the biggest problem of the Tibetan soldiers is that they can't eat salt, they have everything else, but they just don't have salt to eat.

But there is a lot of salt on the Tang army's side, if they can defeat the Tang army, then everything will be solved.

And how to arouse the greatest fighting spirit of the Tibetan soldiers is a problem that the Tibetan generals need to solve.

A certain amount of salt is exchanged for a head.

When such a policy was introduced, the Tibetan soldiers were even more eager to try.

However, when this policy was introduced, the gunpowder of the Tang army had already been transported to Qingtang City.

"His daughter is a woman's, and these Tubo people have been driven crazy these days."

Watching boxes of gunpowder be moved into the warehouse one after another, Wang Zhe could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"General Wang, in the middle of the night tonight, immediately let people bury these gunpowder in the places we have demarcated before, those places are the necessary places for the Tubo people to enter the city."

In order to avoid long nights and dreams, Zhang Yi directly asked Wang Zhe and them to prepare to bury gunpowder, after all, they were going to fight with Tubo the next day.

Of course, although he said that he wanted to have a decisive battle with Tubo, Wang Zhe already had a plan in his heart.

In the middle of the night, Wang Zhe personally led people to the location they had demarcated before and began to bury gunpowder.

After burying the gunpowder, it was almost dawn, and Wang Zhe directly began to arrange the battle for the next day.

More than 60,000 Tang troops against more than 100,000 Tubo troops, although the number of Tubo troops is more, but in terms of overall combat effectiveness alone, the Tang army is not afraid of them at all.

But Wang Zhe and they definitely won't want to fight like this with these Tubo people, we can't use it if we have brains, no.

Under Wang Zhe's arrangement, the troop arrangement was quickly arranged, and the 20,000 Tang cavalry were regarded as the main force of this battle, and they just went out of the city at dawn to prepare for the battle with Tubo.

And the other 40,000 infantry, Wang Zhe, did not intend to arrange all of them to fight against the Tibetans.

After some arrangement, in the end, only 10,000 infantry followed behind the 20,000 cavalry to meet the challenge of the Tibetan army.

The other more than 30,000 Tang troops were arranged by Wang Zhe in other places.

On the other hand, the Tibetan army arrived at the agreed place early, and nearly 100,000 troops were scattered outside Qingtang City in a crescent moon.

The 30,000 Tang army was a little small in the face of the 100,000 Tubo army, so as soon as the Tang army came over, the Tubo army seemed to be a little impatient.

"Even such a few people dare to give us a war letter, I'm really impatient, watch me go and split them all."

A Tibetan general with a big axe shouted loudly, and most of the soldiers behind him were tiger-backed.

On the white horse at the front, the Tibetan lord glanced at the general with a sideways face, and the general with the axe immediately did not dare to speak.

"Intelligence shows that the number of Tang troops is about 60,000 to 70,000, and now they only have 30,000 people on the battlefield, which means that they still have a hand, so we can't be careless, if they set up an ambush, then wouldn't we be fooled?" The Tibetan lord said leisurely.

Anyway, now that they have the initiative and advantage, he is not in a hurry to attack the Tang army immediately.