Chapter 485: It's Time to Go Back
More than 60,000 Tang soldiers marched in a hurry, and it took only one hour to reach the small city fifty miles away.
When Zhang Yi and the others saw that small city, they remembered the gap between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty.
Although it is said to be a small city, the scale is not much different from a small town in Datang, and the total population is estimated to be less than 10,000.
For such a small city, the defense capability is naturally very poor, and besides, they have never thought of resisting the Tang army.
When Zhang Yi and the others arrived, there was no one on the city wall, all the Tubo people who could run were gone, and the Tubo people who couldn't run away or didn't want to run, no one dared to go out with weapons, and everyone stayed at home honestly.
"Tonight, let's rest in this little city."
Wang Zhe said and waved his big hand and directly asked the soldiers to enter this small city.
A team of 60,000 people is enough to fill such a small city, and at this time, not to mention that everyone can have a bed to sleep in, it is already good to be able to sleep under the eaves.
Of course, before entering the city, Zhang Yi had already told Wang Zhe that if he didn't want to cause too much trouble, he would take care of a little soldier.
Their target is those Tibetan troops, and now that the Tibetan army is almost fighting, they are just scaring those Tibetan nobles, and there is no need to do anything against civilians.
If the soldiers also learn to burn and loot like those Tibetan soldiers after entering the city, it will definitely provoke the resistance of those Tubo people, although they will be killed by the Tang soldiers without exception in the end, but the Tang army will definitely have a little loss.
Rather than that, it is better for everyone to take care of themselves, and stay here for one night anyway, and then leave after dawn the next day, and not have to make so many things out of trouble.
Wang Zhe listened to Zhang Yi's words, so he immediately asked people to pass the order.
According to Zhang Yi's words, the original words were passed on.
At this time, the discipline of the Tang Army was still very good, basically the orders were issued, everyone would consciously abide by them, and few people would disobey the military orders.
60,000 Tang soldiers spent a night in this small city.
And this night, the news of the Tang army's defeat of the Tibetan army has also spread wildly.
In just one night, the entire Tang Dynasty and the entire Tubo almost knew the outcome of the war!
The more than 100,000 troops of Tibet were almost wiped out, while the Tang army lost less than 10,000 people, this is almost a massacre, a massacre with a huge disparity in strength!
After the Tibetan state suffered such a blow, the whole country panicked.
Now the 60,000 Tang army is advancing towards the depth of the Tubo state, and it seems that the Tang army does not intend to let them go if they win, which makes the Tubo people even more alarmed, especially those Tubo nobles and royal families.
During this time, Tubo has always been in a state of intrusion on Datang, and they estimate that Datang's patience with them has also reached the limit, otherwise it is impossible to attack them when Datang is so difficult.
Regardless of whether the Tang army won by luck this time or how, in short, the Tubo people are now powerless to fight against the Tang Dynasty.
In order to put an end to the rebellion in Tibet in the future, Datang will definitely think of starting with the royal family, defeating the existing people, and then supporting a regime close to Datang.
In this way, it is bad news for most of the Tibetan nobles, and it will definitely affect their interests.
And the current Tang Dynasty, or the current Tang Army, has the strength to change the dynasty in Tubo.
Although the Tang people will not adapt to the plateau when they enter Tibet, which will affect their combat effectiveness, it is not a problem of the Tang army's combat effectiveness now.
It was already difficult for the Tibetans to organize a large-scale army to resist the invasion of the Tang army.
The only thing they can do is to bow their heads to the Tang Dynasty, ask for something to talk about, and then try to follow the Tang Dynasty's wishes, as long as they can keep their current position.
However, these are not what Wang Zhe needs to take care of now, and he will not withdraw until he receives the order to withdraw the army or encounters a major accident.
Since they have won this war in Qingtang, they should expand their results to the maximum, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste?
The 60,000 Tang army marched straight in, marching hundreds of miles a day, and almost did not encounter resistance from the Tubo people, even if some Tubo lords sent troops to block the Tang army, but they were defeated in an instant.
The quantitative gap is too great.
Those lords basically only have a private soldier of a hundred or a few hundred people, and even those big lords are only a private soldier of more than a thousand people, compared with the more than 60,000 Tang troops, it is simply a child.
In three days, the Tang army swept almost the entire east of the Tubo Kingdom, if it were not for the many natural dangers in the way, Wang Zhe estimated that he would have to visit the palace in Tubo at this time.
However, now the Tang Army is not feeling well, and as the altitude continues to rise, more and more Tang soldiers have altitude sickness.
Altitude sickness may not seem like a big deal, but it can be fatal for soldiers marching to war.
Wang Zhe also knew this, so he immediately withdrew his troops after a sweep.
No matter when Li Er's order came, he would retreat for hundreds of miles one after another, and wait for him at a lower altitude.
And they are so oppressive, now that the nobles of Tibet are about to jump over the wall, it is time to give them a little space.
The most important thing is that the peace talks team sent by Tubo to Datang has already set off overnight.
If the Tubo people want to go to the peace talks, it means that they have bowed their heads, and they will retreat a few hundred miles to wait and see, if they really can't talk at that time, then they will beat him again.
The Tang army withdrew, and the Tubo people breathed a sigh of relief.
If these Tang troops do not withdraw, then the royal family of Tubo will have to consider moving the capital, because according to the marching speed of the Tang army, if this game continues, it will not take long to kill them under the royal capital, and then the king will be broken, and it will not be good to destroy the country.
And when Wang Zhe withdrew his troops, it was time for Zhang Yi and Xu Jingzong to return to Chang'an.
In fact, Zhang Yi had long wanted to go back to Chang'an, but Xu Jingzong used the excuse that His Majesty Li Er's edict had not yet arrived and forced Zhang Yi to continue to follow Wang Zhe.
And now that the Tibetan peace talks team has rushed to Chang'an, there is no need for them to stay any longer.
If the Tang army can win the battle against Tubo, then their task will be considered a successful completion, and they will not have to worry about what Li Er will do to them after they go back.
Even if Xu Jingzong had some mistakes before, there were many places that were not implemented according to Li Er's ideas and intentions, but now that the result is the same, Li Er will not be idle and come to trouble Xu Jingzong, an old minister.
Thinking of this, Xu Jingzong smiled.
"Let's go, let's go back, it's time to go back to Chang'an!"
Zhang Yi said, and together with Xu Jingzong, he brought the servants he brought from Chang'an, and rushed back to Chang'an from the territory of Tubo.