Chapter 474: An Inevitable Contradiction
The internal strife of the Tibetan people is destined to be inescapable.
Although the Tang army's attack made them re-twist into a rope, once the Tang army retreated, the primary and secondary contradictions began to change again, and they would soon return to a state of internal strife.
There is no way, whether it is soldiers in the army or ordinary people, they have to face a problem.
That's eating without salt!
People can't go without salt for a long time, and at this time, except for those nobles and some wealthy families in Qingtang City, other people, whether they are ordinary people or in the army, have no salt to eat.
If the nobles and wealthy merchants had a lot of salt in them, they could give some of it to the army for the soldiers to eat.
But the point is that they don't have much salt left in their homes now, and the devil knows when they will be able to buy the next batch of salt, and no one dares to say that they will give salt to others at this time.
Even they don't dare to let others know that they have salt in their house, because even if you donate a little salt, then others will think that you have a lot of salt at home, and then they will direct all their eyes to themselves.
All the nobles and the doors of the mansion were tightly closed, and their private soldiers and domestic servants were already patrolling the mansion in full gear, so that they could fight desperately at any time if there was a situation.
Qingtang City is full of wandering refugees, they have no food, let alone salt, they look around for food, once they find that there is a fragrance wafting out there, then they will gather around.
The Tibetan general no longer had the energy to care about the lives of the civilians, and now he had to worry about his soldiers.
It doesn't matter if those ordinary people don't eat salt, they don't have to do anything, those refugees just lie under other people's roofs and sleep all day long, even if they don't eat salt, they don't have much to do.
But the soldiers can't do it, they have to defend the city now, they have to fight, and they haven't eaten salt for two days, and the little salt they robbed last night is only enough to feed half of the soldiers, and the remaining part of the soldiers still haven't eaten.
Now some soldiers have begun to appear swollen, how can the soldiers maintain their combat effectiveness if this continues!
And at this time, he had no way to negotiate with those nobles and wealthy merchants.
When the Tang army had just besieged the city, everyone's salt had not been eaten, the situation was not so serious, and he was able to call them out for a meeting.
But since what happened last night, all the nobles and mansions are now fully armed and on guard in their mansions, and once anyone dares to enter their mansions, it will be desperate.
"General, what should I do? If it goes on like this, let alone wait for the Tang army to attack, we ourselves won't be able to stand it first, I have already sent people down to probe the wind, and some soldiers said that if this continues, they will plan to escape. ”
"Even, there are even some people..."
The general's voice grew quieter and quieter, but the general could hear it.
If there is no salt to eat, they abandon their defenses and go to the city to plunder, and when they have eaten their fill, they will decide their own way out.
In short, if that is the case, the situation will get out of control, and I will definitely not be able to command those soldiers.
And once such a thing happened, it was impossible for the Tang army outside the city to just surround them and not attack.
Think about how a barely defended Qingtang City would face so many attacks from the Tang army at that time.
Big head!
"Let's start with the east of the city!"
The general said with his eyes closed.
"Huh?" Several generals around didn't react for a while, what the general meant, what does it mean to start from the east of the city.
"Each of you will take a team of men and horses, starting from the east of the city, and collect all the green salt and coarse salt in the east of the city."
The number of nobles in the east of the city is the least, so the general chose to start in the east of the city first, because he will have much less resistance to attack the east side of the city first.
When the generals heard this, they immediately took the order, and they had no choice but to do so in order not to mutiny.
The poorest area in Qingtang City should be the area east of the city, although he may not be able to grab so much green salt, but at least he can let his soldiers eat a meal or two with salt.
At the very least, it can survive a day or two, and now it can only take one step at a time.
Fortunately, two days later, their reinforcements arrived, and by the time the reinforcements arrived, they were liberated.
Fortunately, refugees are now roaming around the city, so that all the doors of those who eat salt are closed.
After the gate was closed, they could not unite, and it would not be too easy to defeat one of them by relying on the strength of his Tibetan army.
When the time comes, you only need to grab it one by one, and it will hardly be difficult.
And those generals did exactly that, each of them led a Tibetan army, and grabbed it one by one, and it took more than half an hour to finish the work.
And this time they made a surprisingly big move.
Thousands of Tibetan soldiers plundered the eastern part of Qingtang City, as if they were not robbing their own people.
And those Tubo soldiers who were already red-eyed didn't care so much at all, they only knew how to rush in and grab people, and then put a knife on their necks and ask if they wanted to die or salt.
Those who have salt can live, and those who have no salt and no food will have only a dead end.
And the Tubo people have always been fierce, and the Tubo soldiers did this, and of course the Tubo people were not convinced.
The conflict soon erupted again.
Thousands of Tibetan soldiers and nearly 10,000 Tibetan people directly broke out in the eastern part of Qingtang City, and it was a kind of conflict that had no room for recovery.
Both sides have drawn their swords and have seen blood.
Zhang Yi and they had lunch outside the city, and then chatted for a while, and then heard that Qingtang City was lively again.
The east city of Qingtang City is facing their side, so there is turmoil on this side, even if they are not close, they can still hear a little movement.
"It seems that the uncle of Jingyang County is really not wrong, the old man admires and admires!"
Hearing the shouting and killing in Qingtang City, Wang Zhe smiled and arched his hand to Zhang Yi.
At this time, he didn't rush to attack Qingtang City as hurriedly as before.
"General, are we going to prepare for a wave of attacks on Qingtang City?"
A general asked, in his opinion, now that infighting broke out in Qingtang City, it was a good time for them to attack, if they rushed bravely, they could even directly kill all the Tubo people in the city!
"Hey, don't be in a hurry, you young people, you have to calm down and learn from Master Zhang Yi, ah!"
Wang Zhe looked at Zhang Yi with a smile, he knew that although it was also a good time to attack, he had a great chance of taking Qingtang City down.
But now is not the best time to attack, so he is still waiting.
"Come on, bring me a game of chess, I want to play a game with Uncle Jingyang County."
Wang Zhe suddenly turned his head to look at Zhang Yi and no longer looked at Qingtang City.
The soldier was ordered to go quickly in search of the chessboard.
"The general is so interested!" Zhang Yi smiled, the soldier brought the chess that Zhang Yi 'invented'.
"Come on, play a game with me!"
"But it's disrespectful!"
As he spoke, the two sat opposite each other and began to play chess.