470th Qingtang Riot
"General, there is a riot in Qingtang City!"
A Tang soldier hurried into the big tent.
"Oh? Let's take a look. ”
As he spoke, the general went out with the generals in the tent.
Zhang Yi and Xu Jingzong happened to go to the big tent to find the general of the border army, and they just happened to meet.
The chief manager appointed by Li Er has not yet arrived, and the person in charge of the border army is the original general of the border army, named Wang Zhe.
"General Wang, in such a hurry, are you going to get there?"
Seeing that Wang Zhe and the others were in a hurry, Xu Jingzong hurriedly asked.
Wang Zhe saw that it was Xu Jingzong and Zhang Yi, and he also arched his hand and said: "There is news from the front that there is a riot in Qingtang City, let's go over and see if we can take the opportunity to enter it." ”
When Wang Zhe spoke, there were already soldiers who brought the war horses over.
"Let's go!" After Xu Jingzong and Zhang Yi glanced at each other, they also asked for two horses to follow Wang Zhe and others to the front line to observe.
"It seems that our economic warfare is starting to show results." Xu Jingzong looked at Zhang Yi and laughed.
There's nothing cooler than surrendering without a fight.
Wang Zhe looked sideways at Zhang Yi and the two, he only knew what Zhang Yi and the others were doing, but he didn't know the specific things.
When he received an order from His Majesty Li Er to cooperate with the actions of the two, he asked the two of them what they were going to do.
At that time, Zhang Yi just smiled and said that he was going to use the money of the Tang Dynasty to defeat the Tubo people, and Wang Zhe was just smiling at that time.
Of course, he knew that if he had money, he would definitely be able to win against the Tubo people, but he didn't say anything, after all, he didn't know what Zhang Yi and the others were here for, so it was not easy to make a vain evaluation.
And then Zhang Yi's every move was watched by him, at the beginning he didn't know what was going on, he felt that Zhang Yi and they transported a large number of large quantities of green salt to Tubo, which was purely the behavior of the enemy, and it was not until the end that Zhang Yi asked them to cooperate with the performance of the play, he probably understood Zhang Yi's purpose a little.
But even if he knew what Zhang Yi wanted to do, he was still not very optimistic.
Could it be that just a few truckloads of green salt can cause turmoil in Tibet?
But now it seems that the turmoil in Qingtang City seems to have something to do with the actions of Zhang Yi and the two of them.
Anyway, let's go over and have a look.
The group soon arrived at the foot of Qingtang City, and countless Tang troops besieged Qingtang City to the point that they did not have to worry about safety until a large number of reinforcements from Tubo arrived.
"How's it going?"
As soon as Wang Zhe arrived at Qingtang City, he immediately asked the generals in charge of this area.
After the general gave a military salute, he immediately reported the incident to Wang Zhe.
"Well, the sudden flames in the middle of the night, and some shouts of killing can be heard, which means that something must have happened in Qingtang City, otherwise they would not dare to show their decline at this critical juncture."
"Pass the order down and prepare to attack the city!"
"Assault!"
As he spoke, Wang Zhe directly began to command the army to prepare for the siege.
There is a riot within the enemy, this time is a golden opportunity, no matter what the result of the riot is, what the enemy's losses are, it is a good thing for him, he must seize this opportunity to fight hard.
If he is lucky, he can directly take Qingtang, and if he is unlucky, he can also scare the Tubo people, and by the way, consume their living power.
The Tang soldiers besieging Qingtang soon organized a wave of offensive and began to storm Qingtang City.
There was turmoil in the city, and the Tubo people also thought that the Tang army would take the opportunity to attack the city at this time, so they also took precautions.
But taking precautions does not mean that they will be able to hold it, and the Tang army opened fire at the beginning, which directly made the Tubo people a little unbearable.
Tubo originally had an army of more than 20,000 people to defend Qingtang City, but when the Tang army attacked two days ago, the Tubo army was tight, and the nobles in the city would send people to support, and even many Tubo people in Qingtang City would spontaneously take up arms to help in battle, so that they could protect Qingtang from being captured by the Tang army.
And now that the Tang army has been attacking for so long, the city wall of Qingtang City has always been full of Tibetan troops, and neither those aristocratic private soldiers nor those fierce Tibetan people have been seen.
"It seems that there is indeed a big turmoil in Qingtang City, and I ordered all troops to storm Qingtang City at all costs!"
Wang Zhe saw the opportunity and directly decided to launch a general offensive at this time.
If they can take advantage of those Qingtangs, then this battle will be extremely beneficial to Datang.
Next, they don't need to continue to attack Tubo, they just need to hold Qingtang, the Tubo people were occupied by the Tang army, which is equivalent to being choked, and they can't be arrogant.
After all the Tang troops received the order, they also charged towards Qingtang City fiercely.
During this time, the Tubo people were indeed a bit excessive, but any Han people who were a little hot-blooded would want to teach these Tubo people a hard lesson, not to mention the Tang border army that guarded this place day and night.
If it weren't for the order from Chang'an, as well as the problem of military rations and grass, they would have wanted to teach these Tubo people a lesson.
It's heartbreaking to see them behaving recklessly on their own soil, so now that they've seized the opportunity, everyone has to vent it.
And their way of catharsis is to break through Qingtang City and let these Tubo people pay for their blood debts.
The attack of the Tang army just now was already unbearable for the Tubo people, and now the Tang army directly launched a general attack, and they were all desperate with them as if they were ruthless, and they couldn't bear it even more.
After a while, the first Tang Army soldiers had already attacked the head of Qingtang City.
With the first, there was the second and third, and soon, more Tang soldiers attacked the head of Qingtang City.
The Tubo people in the city obviously also thought that the Tang army would attack the city, but they did not expect the Tang army to attack the city wall so quickly, and at this time, the Tubo people in Qingtang City took up arms to help their army on the city wall.
Now Qingtang City is surrounded on all sides, if the city is broken, then the Tubo people in the city have nowhere to escape, so the Tubo people in Qingtang City are also clear about the severity, at this time they have put down the previous disputes, and rushed to the direction of the city wall with weapons.
They had to arrive when the Tang army broke through the city walls and salvage the situation.
There are 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Qingtang City, and the Tubo people are fierce and good at fighting, as long as they can make all the people soldiers, it is not so easy for the Tang army to take Qingtang City, even if they take it, they have to pay a great price.
"General, look!"
Wang Zhe and others did not participate in the siege of the city, but took charge of the overall situation outside the city.
At this time, the Tang army had already attacked the city, but now the city was waving flags.
"Countless Qingtang people are coming to help in the battle under the city wall."
When Wang Zhe saw this flag, his expression was also slightly sluggish, and when the flag was played, it was obvious that he was asking whether he wanted to continue fighting or accept it when he saw it.
While Wang Zhe was pondering, Zhang Yi on the side suddenly said: "General, in my opinion, let's withdraw our troops first." ”
As soon as Zhang Yi said this, there were more than ten eyes around him.