Yang Ben rode on horseback and looked at Xiping City in the night, observed for a while, and ordered: "Order, send 2,000 infantry to each of the other three city gates to block the city gates, not allow any noise, and not allow any Tubo soldiers to escape!" ”

"No!" Duan Xiushi clenched his fists and agreed, and immediately went to make arrangements, and soon 6,000 infantry rode away and headed to the south gate, north gate, and west gate respectively. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Half an hour later, Zhao Ziliang waved forward, and the entire army slowly approached the east city wall, he beckoned again, and brought Xuan Eighteen to order: "Your Huya Army has been practicing for a long time, it's time to put it to real use, take your Huya Army to seize the city gate, and after opening the city gate, raise fire at the city gate!" Don't let Ben Shuai down! ”

Xuan 18 clenched his fists and said solemnly: "Don't worry, if the Huya Army can't take the city gate, the last general will come to see you!" ”

"Good! If you can complete the task this time, the task of scouting and scouting in the future will be handed over to your Huya Army, at this time, your own duty, let my personal team do this is still a little reluctant, after all, most of them have not been scouts! ”

"No!"

There are a total of 500 people in the Huya Army, Li Siye took away 100 people, Chu Ge took 100 people, Zhao Ting also took 100 people, and there are still 200 people left in the main army, all of which were brought this time.

Xuan 18 summoned his 200 soldiers and divided them into three echelons, the first and second echelons were responsible for climbing and raiding, and the third echelon was responsible for covering with repeater crossbows.

At the beginning, the distance was far away, and Zhao Ziliang and others did not find that there were Tubo soldiers standing guard and patrolling on the city wall, but when Xuan 18 and his soldiers touched the city wall, they found that there were actually Tubo soldiers standing guard on the city wall, but now late at night, the Tubo soldiers standing guard were asleep against the battlements of the city wall.

Throwing the climbing iron hook would make a sound, and Xuan XVIII was worried that it would alarm the sentry on the city wall, so he thought about it and made a series of gestures to several team officers around him, and the team members quickly understood what he meant.

"Up!" With Xuan 18 waved his hand, the soldiers of the Huya Army touched the ground of the city wall, there were ten strong soldiers in a circle hand in hand, and eight soldiers stepped on their shoulders and stood on their shoulders with both hands to form a two-layer human ladder, and after these people stood firmly, six soldiers below climbed up and stepped on the first layer of human ladder to climb the second layer of human ladder, and then formed the third human ladder, followed by four more soldiers climbed up, forming the fourth human ladder, and the fifth human ladder was composed of two people, these two people stepped on the human ladder and climbed the human wall, Then he hooked the iron hook to the battlements of the city wall and lowered two ropes, one of whom drew his dagger and touched it to the two Tibetan soldiers who were napping, and the other soldiers continued to lower more ropes for the comrades below to climb the city wall with ropes.

Five minutes later, Xuan 18 climbed the city wall with more than 200 Huya soldiers, he walked to the front and pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist, and asked the soldier Xiaoma who climbed the city wall first: "How is the situation in the city tower and under the city tower?" ”

The pony squatted next to the city tower and whispered: "There are a hundred people sleeping in the city tower, there is no one in the city gate, there should be four hundred people in the barracks under the city wall according to the size, and there are people standing guard and patrolling in front of the barracks!" ”

Xuan Eighteen thought about it, and immediately gave an order with a gesture, leaving fifty people to solve the hundred Tubo troops in the city gate tower, these people are the people who control the city gate and the drawbridge, and only by solving these people can the city gate be opened, and he will take the rest of the people to solve the provocative army in the barracks and guard the city gate after the city gate is opened and the drawbridge is lowered!

The two hundred Huya army quickly separated, fifty people escaped from the dagger and touched into the city tower to kill the one hundred Tubo army who were sleeping, Xuan 18 took the remaining 150 people to slowly touch the city wall to the side of the city gate hole, he divided fifty people to guard the hole, and after the city gate was opened and the drawbridge was lowered, he ignited the fire to inform the main army outside the city, and he himself divided the remaining 100 people into two teams, one team was led by him to attack the barracks under the city wall on the left, and the other team was led by his deputy to attack the barracks under the city wall on the right.

Everyone was lightly moved, Xuan 18 looked at the two sentry posts in front of the barracks door on the left side and a patrol of four people walking back and forth, and then waved his hand to the soldiers behind, and several soldiers slowly stepped forward and squatted down and took out their crossbows to aim at the several sentry posts and patrols at the door of the barracks, and the Tubo soldiers pulled the trigger.

"Whoosh・・・・・・ "Whoosh" With a wave of crossbow arrows fired, several Tibetan soldiers in front of the barracks fell in a pool of blood.

"Up!" Xuan Eighteen waved his hand, took the lead and touched into a barracks with a horizontal knife, and the others entered a barracks according to their needs and groups, and the killing soon was staged silently in each barracks, and a burst of bloody gas quickly emanated from the barracks.

The 500 Tibetan troops stationed near the east gate were killed silently, without making a single movement, the city gate and the drawbridge creaked, and as the city gate was completely opened, a soldier lit a torch with flint and stood at the city gate and waved it non-stop.

Zhao Ziliang saw the shaking fire at the gate of the city, and without any shouting and killing, he knew that Xuan Eighteen and the Huya Army quietly solved the five hundred defenders at the city gate, and immediately turned his head and said to Duan Xiushi: "Pass the order, all departments enter the city in order, after entering the city, the first battalion will go to the south gate, the second battalion will go to the north gate, the third battalion will go to the west gate, and the others will follow me to the Taishou Mansion and the nearby military camp!" ”

"No!"

The army quietly entered the city without alarming the Tubo army in the city, until the defenders of the three city gates in the north, south and west, the Taishou Mansion and the Tubo army in the city camp were all besieged in the barracks, and they did not find that they were in a desperate situation!

Zhao Ziliang rode a horse and came to the gate of the Taishou Mansion under the arch guard of the generals, and a group of Tubo soldiers and a Tubo general escorted out.

A school captain stepped forward and reported to Zhao Ziliangyu: "Commander, Tashi Mai, the general of the Tubo Army, and the two hundred guards of the Taishou Mansion have all been captured by us, I don't know where these prisoners are going to be held?" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and then ordered: "Pass the order, and all the captured Tubo prisoners will be imprisoned in the military camp in the city to be disposed of!" Bring this Tashi here and let the others go! ”

"No!"

A pair of Tubo soldiers were escorted away, and the Tubo general Tashi Mai was tied all over, and was escorted to Zhao Ziliang by two Tang soldiers, Zhao Ziliang glanced at this guy and asked in Tubo language: "How many men and horses does Dazaru Gong have in Linqiang?" The lord of Tubo, Si Songde, is still in the army? ”

Hearing this, Tashi Mai twisted his head to the side, and snorted in his nose: "Hmph, I, Tashi Mai, am a real man, and I will not betray Zampu and Tubo!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's face was pale, and the murderous aura in his eyes swelled, he reached out and pulled out his waist knife and slashed it down, a knife of blood splashed out, Tashi Mai's head rolled to the ground, and the corpse also fell to the ground and continued to be drawn, and a large amount of blood spurted out from the broken neck.

Zhao Ziliang inserted the waist knife back into the scabbard and shouted: "Order all battalions to close the four gates, from now on the Huya Army will take over the matter of the reconnaissance and cavalry outposts, scatter around the city, and go to Linqiang to inquire about the military situation of the Tubo army, and the fourth battalion will be responsible for patrolling the streets in the city!" Mr. Wang, you will write a notice to the people, and after dawn, you will send people to beat gongs and drums to announce to the people in the city that Xiping City has returned to the rule of the imperial court! Cen Shen, you are responsible for collecting all the materials in the city that can be used to defend the city, and after dawn, send people to cut down trees in the mountains and forests outside the city to make rolling logs and build trebuchets! Bring the bed, crossbow and other equipment to the west wall and install it! ”

The terrain in the west is higher, and if the Tibetan army comes to attack the city, it will inevitably attack the west gate and the west city wall, and will not choose to attack the city from the other three walls.

Cen Shen and Wang Wei agreed: "Obey!" ”

Er Zhu, the commander of the escort army, clasped his fists and asked, "Marshal, what should be done with the captured prisoners of the Tubo army?" The news that Xiping City was recaptured by our army could not be concealed for a long time, and the Tubo Marshal Dazarugong was likely to raise a large army to attack after learning about it, and at that time our army still sent people to guard the prisoners, in case the prisoners made trouble, I was afraid that there would be a big problem! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Er Zhu's words, pondered for a moment and said coldly: "The herald ordered that all the Tubo prisoners be taken to the military camp in the city to be executed, and none of them were left, and the corpses were dragged outside the city to be buried overnight!" ”

Zhao Ziliang has long understood the reason of not being in charge of the army, although he is not very in favor of killing prisoners, but the notoriety that needs to be borne by killing prisoners is insignificant compared to the safety of the entire army and the overall situation of the Western Expedition!

"Yes!"

No one stood up to persuade him, and he knew that he couldn't persuade him, once Zhao Ziliang made a decision, he couldn't change it, and after all, this was related to the lives of 15,000 people, and no one dared to take this responsibility.

After dawn, Zhao Ziliang walked out of the backyard of the Taishou Mansion, the city has become lively, and the people in the city learned that the Tang army had recaptured Xiping City and walked out of their homes, and many people gave food and drink to the soldiers in the army.

In order to speed up the collection of materials to defend the city, Zhao Ziliang found Wang Wei and asked him to mobilize the people to go out of the city to cut down trees and collect stones, and the people in the city learned that the Tubo army could come to attack the city at any time, and there was a lack of materials to defend the city, so they followed the army out of the city to cut down trees and collect stones, and drove ox carts, horse carts, and mule carts out of the city, and soon there were ox carts, horse carts and mule carts from outside the city to transport stones and wood!

Zhao Ziliang was nervously arranging and deploying city defense matters, and a personal soldier came over with a dusty face and hugged his fists and reported: "Dashuai, the third lady sent a villain to report the good news to Dashuai, the fourth lady and the second young lady gave birth at the same time, the fourth lady gave birth to a daughter, and the second young lady gave birth to a son!" The fourth lady and the second young lady both said that they should ask the handsome to name their children! ”

"Raw? Good! Zhao Ziliang said with a long-lost smile on his face, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "The girl is called Qingqing, and the little grandson is called Zhenfan!" You take a rest first, eat something, and then go back and tell the third lady, the fourth lady, and the second young lady, let them recuperate, and go back to see them when Ben Shuai quells the rebellion in Tibet! ”

"No!" (To be continued.) )