Chapter 471: Zhang Yi's Reason (I)
"Countless Qingtang people are coming to help in the battle under the city wall."
When Wang Zhe saw this banner, his expression was also slightly sluggish, and the flag was beaten like this, which was asking whether he wanted to continue to fight 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.
Originally, Zhang Yi was just here to watch the battle, and he shouldn't have spoken out, because that didn't quite follow the rules.
However, because of Zhang Yi's reputation, he was not stopped by these generals.
However, his words aroused Wang Zhe's interest, or rather, Wang Zhe wanted to hear what he could say.
"Tell me why."
Successfully aroused Wang Zhe's interest, Zhang Yi said with a smile: "I'll talk about it when the general withdraws his troops first." ”
Zhang Yi's words made the people around him a little angry.
"Master Zhang Yi, do you treat war as child's play?"
"Lord Zhang, although you have contributed to the war with the Turks, and everyone admires you, but for the Tubo people, maybe we know more."
Many generals next to him began to speak out, and they all had some accusations against Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi didn't care about those people, but stared at Wang Zhe.
Only Wang Zhe has the right to speak here, so he only needs to convince Wang Zhe.
Wang Zhe turned his head sideways to look at Xu Jingzong beside Zhang Yi, and saw that Xu Jingzong thought for a while and nodded slightly.
After getting Xu Jingzong's nod, Wang Zhe no longer hesitated, and directly ordered the withdrawal of troops.
"General, this, we have all entered it, is it a little inappropriate to withdraw the troops now?"
"General, we can't withdraw our troops easily, we finally attacked it, and now withdraw our troops, hey..."
As soon as they heard Wang Zhe's order to withdraw their troops, the surrounding generals patted their thighs one after another, and at the same time, their eyes were a little unkind when they looked at Zhang Yi.
They worked hard to attack the city, but the result was that Zhang Yi's simple sentence immediately made their efforts go to waste, and the blood of so many soldiers was also shed in vain, so they could not be angry.
If you want to say that that kind of person misleads the country, in their hearts, it is Zhang Yi, who is lucky to have made a contribution in a war, and wants to use his set in every place?
However, Wang Zhe turned a deaf ear to the questions of those generals, and looked at Zhang Yi with a smile.
"I've ordered the withdrawal of troops now, so you can explain your reasons."
"Also, I can tell you, if you can't tell you that you are ugly, the consequences, think about it yourself."
Wang Zhe said this sentence with a warm smile, but the weight in the words was very sufficient.
Those generals heard Wang Zhe's words before they calmed down a little anger in their hearts, people like Zhang Yi, even if they were severely punished, they would still have to attack Qingtang City once later, and they would have to sacrifice more soldiers at that time.
Zhang Yi said with a smile: "The consequences are naturally borne by me, but it is a good thing that I let you withdraw the troops, and it is too late for you to thank me later." ”
As soon as Zhang Yi's words came out, he immediately attracted a roll of eyes from the surroundings.
Wang Zhe didn't say anything, still with a warm smile, and motioned for Zhang Yi to continue.
"It's just right to withdraw the troops now, and the army hasn't suffered major damage, which is why I want the general to withdraw the troops first and then I will say the reason, if I say the reason first, then it will take a little time, and the Tang soldiers on the battlefield will sacrifice more."
As soon as Zhang Yi finished speaking, the surrounding generals looked at each other.
In wars, how can there be immortals, especially siege warfare, in this era, they basically have to rely on the number of people to pile up, and they can attack now if they lose this number of men, which is already quite a good result.
Zhang Yi continued: "Now that Qingtang City is surrounded on all sides, the Tubo people know that they can't escape, so they will only fight to the death, think about the 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Qingtang City, once they do the battle of trapped beasts, how many men and horses will we have to lose?" ”
"And even if we can take Qingtang City, then when the follow-up reinforcements from Tubo arrive, what will we use to defend Qingtang?"
"Don't tell me that these people who are now fighting Qingtang, if we continue to fight according to this method, we will not lose 30,000 or 40,000 people, we will not be able to take Qingtang, and when the time comes, in the face of 100,000 Tubo troops, how long can our 30,000 people hold on?"
Zhang Yi's words were so fierce that the generals who had always wanted to refute him couldn't help but compare.
Now they have 70,000 people surrounding the 30,000 Tibetan army with the support of nearly 100,000 people, and when it is over, it will be the other way around, except that the besieging them will become 100,000 Tibetan troops, and their number will become 30,000.
This is a very simple calculation problem.
They can't hold out for long, especially if they are surrounded in Qingtang, then their logistics will not be able to keep up.
However, there are still people who disagree with Zhang Yi.
"But now we have the opportunity to take Qingtang but don't take it, and when the reinforcements from Tubo arrive, we will have no chance to take Qingtang, and at that time, what should we do?"
This is indeed a problem, now they can take Qingtang in an advantageous way, but the big deal is that they will retreat immediately after killing all the Tibetans, so that they can be regarded as victorious.
As long as they win, then they will not have at least once, and it has dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Tubo people, even if there are more Tubo people in the later stage, as long as they retreat to the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo people will not dare to chase down, otherwise, those Tubo people will be in danger of falling.
After all, the difference between fighting in the plains and fighting in the plateau is very big, and if they are on the home turf of the Tang army, these Tang border troops are confident that they can beat the same number of Tubo soldiers out of.
Zhang Yi also expected this, and quickly explained: "Don't worry, although we have withdrawn our troops and come back, we can definitely take Qingtang City later, and it will be an easier way." ”
"Well, if we're lucky, we can also kill the next 100,000 people in Tubo by the way."
Everyone felt more and more that Zhang Yi was bragging.
They are all from the military, and they know too much about fighting, so they think Zhang Yi is telling a joke.
The hundreds of thousands of Tibetan troops, in the plateau area, can be wiped out, not to mention whether they have so many people who are tough with the Tubo people, even if they can win, but in this place, if the Tubo people want to run, they can hardly catch up.
In the plateau, this is the home of the Tibetans, and they have too many advantages.
The only thing the Tang army had was the advantage of weapons and equipment, as well as tactics, and apart from these two points, they did not have any advantages.