Chapter 404: Clever Tongue
The light inside the big tent was dim, but as soon as Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan stepped into the big tent, they felt more than a dozen fierce gazes. After adjusting his eyes to the dim light, he immediately saw more than a dozen Tibetan generals standing with their hair draped on both sides, staring at Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan with murderous eyes.
A large, rough wooden scheme was laid out in front of it, and black smoke was rising from the two black iron pots in front of the desk. The air was filled with a special pungent smell of burning grease, mixed with the fishy smell in the big tent, like entering the abalone. Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan frowned, and their hearts were disgusted.
There was a person sitting on the big chair behind the wooden case, with a big disc face, a pile of oily horizontal meat, yellow messy hair combed with dozens of small pigtails, and a pair of eyes staring at Wang Yuan and Gongsun Lan who walked in.
"The envoys of the Tang Jiannan Jiedu sent special envoys Wang Fang and Gongsun North to meet the general." Wang Yuan stood still in front of the case and bowed his hand. Wang Fang and Gongsun Lan naturally came up with pseudonyms temporarily, and Wang Yuan knew that the Tubo people would definitely know the news of their new deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and their real names must not be exposed to them.
"Hahaha." The Tubo general on the seat burst out laughing for no reason, stood up and walked over slowly, stood still in front of Wang Yuan, looked the two up and down for a moment, and glared: "What did Xian Yu Zhongtong send you to do?" ”
Wang Yuan said: "My family commander sent a villain to discuss the matter in front of you with you. Because I don't know why, the soldiers and horses of your country appeared in the territory of our Datang and camped in front of our Wangzhou, and I came to inquire about the reason. ”
"Hahaha." The Tibetan commander opened his mouth and laughed, and the dozen or so generals in the tent also leaned forward and laughed wildly.
"Come and beg for mercy, beg for mercy, and go around the bend and say what are you doing? Don't you know the purpose for which my army has come? If Xian Yu Zhongtong is afraid, let him surrender to Xianwangzhou, but there is no need to bother with words. The Tibetan coach said loudly.
"Yes, yes, ask Xian Yu Zhongtong to come in person, kowtow and beg for mercy in front of my Shenchuan Metropolitan Commander Iron Blade General Sinoro, and say something we like to hear, our Iron Blade General may spare his life, hahaha." The generals next to him also laughed loudly.
Wang Yuan stood in place expressionlessly, and after they finished ridiculing and teasing, he quietly spoke: "It turns out that the general is a soldier and horse envoy of the Shenchuan Metropolitan Government, and he is disrespectful." General Iron Blade, I am an envoy sent by the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and I have come to negotiate with your country, even if you are not sincere, you should not be so presumptuous and rude. When such words of yours are spread, will the people of the world not laugh at the soldiers and civilians of your country for not knowing etiquette and being rude? ”
"Etiquette? Hahaha, okay, I'll give you courtesy. Come, bring them stools and sit them, and listen to what they have to say. It's okay left and right, anyway, it's time to have fun. Ironblade Sinoro laughed.
Someone brought up the stake stool and placed it at the bottom, Wang Yuan thanked him and sat on the stake, and someone brought milky white tea, Wang Yuan was sick to his stomach when he smelled it, let alone drink this thing.
"Tell me what you're here for." The Iron Blade General returned to his seat, his feet resting on the wooden table with a playful look.
"General Iron Blade, I, the Tang Dynasty, am fighting against Nanzhao, and the war is in full swing. The 30,000 troops of your country suddenly entered our Tang realm, and it seems that there is a intention to cooperate with Nanzhao to confront our Tang Dynasty. ”
"Hehehe, no need to confirm it, you guessed it. I can't see your Tang Dynasty bullying the weak, Nanzhao sent an envoy to ask for help from my Great Tubo Zanpu (honorific title, similar to the emperor), and I ordered myself to lead the army to come to help, and give severe punishment to your Tang Dynasty's bullying of the weak, which is the reason why we appeared in front of your Wangzhou. ”
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "I understand, it turns out that your country is really allied with the Nanzhao Congress, and this is to jointly start a war against our Tang Dynasty." ”
"So what?" Iron Blade said coldly.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "General Iron Blade, I didn't come to have a war of words with you, you know, we are not afraid of fighting." It's not like there hasn't been a war between our two countries over the years, and I, the four towns of Tang Anxi, have made Gao Xianzhi Gao Dashuai fight less with you in the north? You should know best whose fist is hard. ”
Iron Blade Sinoro's face became embarrassed, Gao Xianzhi mentioned by Wang Yuan was the name that the Tubo country did not want to hear, this Gao Xianzhi had fought countless battles with the Tubo in the area of Longyou, Anxi, and each time the Tubo soldiers and horses were defeated, he was a victorious general, and it was also a nightmare in the Tubo army. This iron-bladed general also fought with Gao Xianzhi on the northern border, and if he hadn't run fast in that battle, he would have lost his life, Wang Yuan's words evoked a nightmare in Ironblade Sinoro's heart, and it also made him angry.
"So what are you going to talk about? Let's just fight. At this time and that time, let's see whose hands Netzhou will fall into. The Iron Blade General gritted his teeth and spoke.
Wang Yuan smiled and said: "To fight or not to fight is also a simple matter, if the Iron Blade General thinks that my Jiannan is a bone that is easy to gnaw, I will not comment." I am only here to remind your country outside of the war, don't act impulsively, don't fall for the tricks of Luo Feng of Nanzhao Guoge, and cause trouble. Once the war starts, there's no turning back, and that's what I'm going to say. ”
"So what? I don't care about this, I ordered me to lead my troops to assist Nanzhao, and I did what I was ordered, and other things were not for me to consider. Besides, what if you provoke the Tang Dynasty? Can you still have the ability to destroy my Great Tubo Kingdom? Look at you, you can't even deal with the little Nanzhao, and you are still ashamed to speak out here. ”
Wang Yuan laughed and said, "Can't you deal with Nanzhao?" Why did Na Ge Luo Feng ask you for help and form an alliance? Ge Luofeng knew very well in his heart, he just dragged your Tubo country into the water and messed up the situation to protect himself. Although I, the Tang Dynasty, and your Tubo country often have friction and war, it is all a small border friction. But once you send your army to the borders of our Datang Kingdom and officially attack our Datang City, it will be a declaration of war against our Datang. As the mainstay of your country, you should know what this move will bring, instead of ignoring the situation and allowing the situation to develop, which is disloyalty to your Tibetan country. ”
The iron-bladed general frowned and shouted: "Bold and rude, how can my Tibetan courtiers want you to blame the ministers?" ”
Wang Yuan said: "I'm not accusing you, I'm just telling the truth." Although my Datang has border friction with your country, my Datang does not have half of the covetous annexation of Tibet, on the contrary, it also gives more favors to your country. In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty married his beloved daughter Princess Wencheng to your country's Zampu Songtsan Gampo, and implemented the policy of harmony. Princess Wencheng brought you farm tools and seeds, and taught you Tubo people to weave, brew wine, make paper, and make iron, how many benefits did it bring to you Tubo people? Otherwise, would you be as powerful as you are today? Decades ago, even though the relationship between your two countries was not very harmonious, our Emperor Zhongzong still married Princess Jincheng to him at the request of your country's Zampu and Zhudan, and continued to pursue the policy of living in harmony with relatives. Your country's ruler Zhu Dan Zanpu also personally sent an envoy to the above table and wrote down the wish of 'contract for one family'. It's only been thirty or forty years, and your descendants of Tubo have forgotten the wishes of your ancestors, and actually abandoned the friendship between the two countries and brazenly used troops against our Tang Dynasty, which is no longer treacherous, but betrayed the will of your Tubo Xianzanpu, this move is really outrageous, shouldn't you reflect on this? ”
The iron-bladed Sino and a Tubo general were speechless by Wang Yuan's gushing words, and seemed to feel that after such an accusation from the other party, it seemed that what the Great Tubo State had done was indeed a little inauthentic, and there were indeed some things that were not good. And think about it, it seems that the Tang Dynasty has not really sent troops to capture the cities and lands of Tubo for so many years, except for the occupation of Tuyuhun in the northeast corner of Tubo, and Tuyuhun is the place that Tubo wants to conquer the most.
"No, no, you've confused us with your rhetoric. Since your Tang Dynasty is so benevolent, why did you attack Nanzhao? They are still your subjects. Here the three kingdoms stand on their feet and contain each other, you have destroyed Nanzhao, the next step is to deal with the land in the southeast of my Tubo, how can we sit idly by? ”
Wang Yuan sneered: "Your country has begun to sympathize with the Nanzhao Kingdom, in the early years, when Pi Luo Ge was the lord of Nanzhao, he attached himself to my Tang Dynasty, and when he used the power of my Tang Dynasty to capture the city in the southeast of you, why didn't you sympathize with them?" Today's Ge Luofeng is even more cunning than his father, and he immediately turned against him after consolidating the six edicts with the power of my Tang Dynasty. You are helping them now, just to get a helper to deal with my Datang. But have you ever thought about it, Ge Luofeng is against the Tang Dynasty today, and if you relax your breath, you will oppose Tubo. You want to keep them as dogs, but you don't know that they are unrestrained vicious dogs that will end up eating themselves. Not to mention anything else, they ask for help from your Tubo, let you send troops to attack Netzhou is a trick, once the Tang Dynasty and Tubo start a war, they will not be able to take care of Nanzhao, they can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight to reap the benefits of the fisherman, this truth is not understood by no one in your Tubo? ”
“……”
Iron Blade Sinoro and the others were speechless, they were just leading generals, how could they analyze the situation so thoroughly, and they couldn't understand these twists and turns. To put it bluntly, most of the generals of the Tubo State are brave and fearless combat ability, rather than brains and strategies, to put it bluntly, most of them are simple-minded guys with developed limbs, they rarely think about things at the general level, and they also know nothing about what Wang Yuan said, but the more they don't understand, the more they feel that it makes sense.
"To give a simple example, you will know the treachery of Nanzhao, you have been stationed here for three days, since you are the helpers of Nanzhao, they should attack the city first, and you will assist them. But how now? Forgive me for my presumptuous guesses, the reason why you did not stand still and did not attack Wanzhou immediately is probably because you did not reach an agreement on who took the initiative to attack the city first. Nanzhao Kingdom hopes that you will make the first move, so that they can preserve their strength, and when you suffer heavy casualties, they can take Netzhou in one fell swoop. When the time comes, theirs will be theirs, and you will lose greatly. Am I right? ”
Ironblade Sinoro licked his lips and didn't speak, and took off the big foot that was on the table. This is exactly what Iron Blade Sinoro has been most annoyed by in the past three days, and it was broken by Wang Yuan in one word.