Zhao Ziliang listened to Charlie's explanation, and took a few blank pieces of paper in the hands of the captain of the city patrol and looked at it, although he didn't know Latin, but the pictures on the paper could be understood, Beiting had built a paper mill, and he had personally watched the manufacturing process of the paper mill, although some of the pictures on it were different from what he had seen, but he knew that this should be the technical information of papermaking. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang stuffed a few pieces of paper into his arms, looked at Charlie and asked, "Mr. Charlie, are you sure you are merchants from the Eastern Roman Empire?" You must know that lying is not a good habit, and sometimes it can lead to murder! ”

Seeing Zhao Ziliang's eyes, Charlie only felt that his brain was confused, and the whole person was confused, and finally stabilized his senses, and quickly turned his gaze away, and said: "Your Excellency General, we are really merchants of the Eastern Roman Empire!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "I didn't see your customs clearance documents in this pile of things, nor did I have anything to prove yours, but only saw the formula and production process technology of papermaking, which is the highest trade secret of our Tang Empire, and it was actually obtained by you, you have no customs clearance documents, two have no identity certificate, and the third is carrying prohibited technology, do you think I will suspect that this thing was stolen by you?" ”

Charlie and others' faces have changed greatly, no matter what era, even if they go to a hostile country, anyone must go to their own country to get an identity certificate, in order to prove the legitimacy of their identity, without identity certificate, it is very likely to be regarded as a spy or a fugitive, Tongguan document is equivalent to a passport, and when you go abroad, you have to go to the local government to find an official to stamp the big seal, which is considered to be a registration and registration, if you don't stamp the big seal, it will be considered a smuggling, and you can't get through the checkpoint.

Tony turned his head to look at Charlie and said angrily, "Didn't you say that no one knows Latin?" You see, people can recognize it just by looking at it! ”

Now that it has been discovered, it is useless to deny and conceal it, Charlie has to admit: "Okay, Your Excellency General, this thing is indeed stolen by us, but we are not the mastermind, we are just hired by people!" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked, "Who is the employer?" ”

"Count Rapur of the Eastern Roman Empire!"

"What nationality are you? Don't tell me you're from the Eastern Roman Empire, they won't be blonde! ”

Charlie smiled bitterly, he knew that he had met an Oriental who understood the Western world, so he had to be honest: "My lord, our hometown is the north of the far west, and we have no country!" But we grew up living in the Eastern Roman Empire! ”

"Got it!" Zhao Ziliang nodded, and instructed the captain of the city patrol: "Lock them up in the barracks under the city first, and then interrogate them properly after the battle is over!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!" The captain of the city patrol agreed, and waved his hand at several weapons behind him: "Take him away!" ”

As soon as Charlie and the others were taken away, Wang Can ran up to the city tower and hugged Zhao Ziliang and said: "Dashuai, the news came from the Fourth Route Army, the second prince led 50,000 horses to Liangzhou and the Tubo army led by the iron blade Xi Nuoluo fought several battles under Wuwei City, and the losses on both sides were not small, but our army was booming, taking advantage of some advantages, after two successive defeats of the Tubo army, part of it retreated into Wuwei City for defense, and the other part stayed outside Wuwei City to establish a camp and the Tubo army in the city was each other's horns, and our army could only confront the Tubo army for the time being!" ”

Zhao Ziliang heard the report and thought for a moment, and said to Wang Can: "Give Zhao Ting an order, let him not be in a hurry, wait for the opportunity, Hexi is my Tang Dynasty territory after all, as long as we haven't given up Hexi, the Tubo people won't stay there for long!" ”

Wang Can hugged his fists and said: "Yes, the last general will go to send a message to the second son!" ”

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Dazaru Gong looked at all the generals of the thousand households and above and said: "Everyone, something has happened, no matter how sad we are, it will be useless, the Tang army killed Zampu, we must avenge Zampu, otherwise we will have no shame to return to Luo!" ”

The Tibetan generals touched their red eyes one by one and said: "Yes, we want to avenge Zampu, please give the marshal an order to set off to attack Xiping immediately!" ”

Dazaru Gong knew that if he wanted to arouse the anger of all the soldiers, he still needed to wait for a day or two, so that all the Tibetan soldiers knew that Zampu was killed by the Tang army, and set aside some time for the generals to brew their emotions, he said: "Pass the order, let the whole army wear vegetarian, linen and filial piety, and announce to all the soldiers that Zampu died at the hands of Zhao Ziliang, the general of the Tang Army, and we must avenge Zampu, kill Zhao Ziliang, kill all the Tang troops in Xiping City, and wave troops to recapture Shanzhou and capture Jincheng!" From tomorrow, the troops will enter Xiping City! ”

"Yes, Marshal!"

On June 15, the Tibetan army made a comeback, at noon, nearly 100,000 horses surrounded the city of Xiping, this time the Tibetan people learned the lesson of the previous day, set up a camp around the camp all over the fence to resist horses, in order to block the possibility of the Tang army to go out of the city at any time to raid.

On the tower of the West City Gate, Zhao Ziliang and others were observing the siege of the Tubo army, and Cen Shen pointed to the camp of the Tubo army in surprise and shouted: "Huh? Look, big marshal, how did the Tubo people erect white flags and flags in the barracks, and the soldiers of the whole army wore linen and filial piety? Could it be that some big man in the Tubo army died? ”

Wang Zhen, the son of Wang Zhonghei, frowned and said: "If it is true that there are big figures in the Tubo army who have died, then who is the one who can make the whole army of Tubo wear linen and filial piety when they die?" Xia Guan believes that only two people have this qualification, one is Si Songde, the lord of Tubo, and the other is Dazarukong, the marshal of Tubo! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his beard and shouted, "Xuan Eighteen, send your people to investigate!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

It was already afternoon when the Tubo people set up camp, and Zhao Ziliang thought that the Tubo army should not make any moves today, but he didn't expect that the Tubo army did not stop, and immediately sent a large number of soldiers and horses to approach the city wall.

"Dashuai, look!" Erzhu pointed to the front of the city wall and shouted.

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw that the Tibetan army formation was separated on both sides, and from the middle of the passage, a large number of people rushed towards the city wall with frames and sacks on their backs.

"That's ・・・・・・ hiss-" After seeing the city wall clearly, they were all surprised, and Cen Shen cried out loudly: "The Tubo people have captured the surrounding people so that they can carry the earth with baskets and sacks on their backs to fill the moat!" ”

When everyone looked at it again, it wasn't it, the people who rushed to the city fell a lot of slag on the baskets and sacks on their backs, these people ran to the moat and poured the soil in the baskets and sacks into the moat, if they ran slowly, the Tubo soldiers who supervised behind them would shoot with bows and arrows, and in order to survive, the people could only carry baskets of soil and desperately run towards the moat.

The generals are in a hurry, so many people carry mud to fill the moat, or it will not be long before the moat will be filled, and the defense of the city wall will be weakened, Er Zhu said to Zhao Ziliang eagerly: "Dashuai, give the order to release the arrows, and then let them fill it like this, and the moat can be filled before dark!" ”

Other generals also persuaded one after another: "Yes, Dashuai, now is not the time to pity the people, without the obstruction of the moat, Tubo can directly rush to the city wall and set up a ladder to attack the city!" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said, "No! It's not that I, Zhao, am soft-hearted, but I can't do this! The Tibetan people really have a good calculation, on the one hand, they borrow these people to fill the moat, but they themselves do not need to lose a soldier to fill the moat, if we shoot with a bow and arrow, on the one hand, we will lose the hearts of the people, on the other hand, it will consume our arrows, our arrows are limited, shoot one will be less, even if we shoot these people, the Tubo army will still keep catching the people, how many arrows can we consume? Even if we run out of arrows, the moat will still be filled, so why don't we keep the arrows and shoot the Tibetans? Leave them alone, let these people fill in! ”

The generals nodded after hearing Zhao Ziliang's words, thinking that it was indeed reasonable, so they stopped persuading them, and let the people under the city wall pour the soil into the moat.

In just one afternoon, nearly 10,000 people filled in the moat near the west city gate, and after Zhao Ziliang gave the order, not a single Tang soldier on the city wall released arrows.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the people who had filled the moat retreated, and the Tubo army withdrew to the camp after arranging the guard posts and patrols, and Zhao Ziliang on the city wall waved his hand when he saw this: "Arrange a guard!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

The city wall is used to put down more than a dozen hanging baskets, each of these hanging baskets is loaded with a soldier and some wood, after the hanging basket lands on the ground, the Tang soldiers in the hanging basket carry the dry firewood to the place 100 steps away from the city wall and pile it up, each pile of dry firewood has an equal distance between them, forming a straight line parallel to the city wall.

When the sky was about to get dark, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "Light the fire!" ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

A lieutenant agreed, holding a bow in his left hand and a rocket in his right hand, aiming at the pile of wood in the distance and drawing his bow to shoot a rocket, which was shot into the firewood pile drenched with fire oil.

As this firewood pile was ignited, other wood piles were also ignited by rockets fired one after another, and the entire west city wall was illuminated in a direction of nearly a hundred steps, and it was almost impossible for the Tubo army to sneak attack close to the city wall at night, unless the Tang soldiers who were on the city wall dozed off or deserted, but this was absolutely impossible, the Tang soldiers who were on guard and on guard were rotated every other hour, and there was no dozing off and desertion.

"Be vigilant at night, and never be careless!" Zhao Ziliang instructed Duan Xiushi, who was on duty on the city wall at night.

Duan Xiushi hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, the last general must be watching!" ”

"The others and I will discuss how to defend the enemy tomorrow!" After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he walked under the city wall, and the others left the city wall and went to the Taishou Mansion after hearing it. (To be continued.) )