Chapter 453: Under the City
In the darkness of the night, an army marched for days and surrounded a city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info They were so contemptuous of the defenders that when they arrived, it was already evening, and they set up camp on the spot outside the city, because it was late, and even the camp was not set up, it was basically in the open air.
After dinner, the soldiers sat directly on the ground, lay down in their clothes, and there were not even a few sentry, but in this way, the defenders in the city were also frightened, and they did not dare to go out to meet the battle, so they could only close the city and defend it.
It wasn't because it was too late and they were worried about fraud, they had already discovered this army, and they would have already faced it. There are too few troops in the city, and it would be good to be able to hold it behind closed doors. Not to mention the strike. When it was found that this army was right, the defender had already hurriedly sent an order, hoping to get reinforcements, otherwise this city would not be able to hold it.
And in the same night, under the city of Shazhou, the main general of Tubo, Shanzhou left behind Tuoba Huaiguang, with guards are patrolling the camp, his dress is no different from ordinary Tubo, white tight-fitting left robe, hair braided. The face has ochre, red paint, painted in circles.
At first glance, it seems that he can distinguish his identity, in addition to the several guards who follow him closely, there is also his hat and lapel. The leopard fur has a collar, and now it is lifted to shield it from the cold. A red hair wrapped around its head, wrapped around its hair, and wrapped it into the shape of a spire.
Generally, some of the Tibetan soldiers wiped their foreheads, wrapped their foreheads with a turban, and exposed their hair on the top of their heads. Otherwise, it is a rope crown, a strap wrapped around the head, and even the hair is wrapped. The former is the majority, and ordinary soldiers have the leisure time to wrap their hair.
However, this distinction between identities is certainly not enough. What if people don't know him? And, of course, first of all, a badge that represents his identity. A piece of jade badge nailed to the coarse fur, Tubo adopts the system of sue body, there are a total of five places, the highest is now called Sese, later called the jade badge.
In addition, there should have been a leopard skin robe, which was the highest honor in Tibet, but he didn't wear it now, and he cherished it and kept it in the camp.
At the end of the patrol, there was no problem with the four major battalions surrounding Shazhou, and he actually expected that the Shazhou people would open the city and attack at night.
The four large battalions blocked the four gates of the sandbank, and Tuoba Huaiguang believed that according to his arrangement, no matter which major battalions the Tang people wanted to attack at night, they would be given an unforgettable lesson. If he can entangle them, then this Shazhou can go down in one go, and when he camps, he has made arrangements.
However, it would not have made him ignore the Sandbankers. According to the report, the mastermind of the rebellion this time was Zhang Yichao, who united several major clans in Shazhou to resist together. This person is said to have read military books since childhood, and has obtained the essence of Sun Wu and Bai Qi, and has seen the bone marrow of Tao Xuan, which cannot be underestimated.
It's just that, no matter what the method, strength is absolute. First, the Tibetan people are not afraid of night battles, and the Tibetan people can't see bad things if they don't have night. Unlike the Tang people, many of them are said to have no light at night, and often they can't see their fingers.
Second, the number of troops is there, and it is reported that the total strength of the Shazhou people should not be more than 3,000, but at most 4,000. No matter which major tents, the number of people will not be too bad for the other party, and the camp has to be defended, so it is no problem to resist the sandbank people.
Returning to his handsome tent, Tuoba Huaiguang looked at Shazhou City, he didn't expect that these Tang people would never forget their homeland, and they would dare to take advantage of the small defeat of the handsome to rebel.
However, even if the commander does not have a small defeat, these Tang people will not obediently obey. Tubo has coveted this Longxi, and the four towns of Anxi have coveted for a long time, more than a hundred years ago, they took advantage of the Tang people to take advantage of the enemy's rash advance, defeated the Tang army, and then took the opportunity to occupy here, but the good times are not long, at that time the Tang Dynasty was still very strong, and it was recovered in a few years, until the Tang civil strife, Tubo had another chance, but the four towns of Anxi were not at their fingertips.
On the one hand, the main direction of attack of Tubo is not here, and the prime minister led Shang Jiezan to lead 200,000 coalition troops, and the goal is to the east. On the other hand, the Tang people are not to be bullied, and several big defeats have made the national strength of Tubo exhausted, and the four towns of Anxi have resisted for more than ten years, and finally have to surrender. As a result, today, forty years later, these Shazhou people still remember Datang.
However, Tuoba Huaiguang thought that it was not only the Tang Tu that attracted these Tang people, but he vaguely felt that there was a problem with the management of the Tubo people. It's just that he doesn't know what went wrong.
Of course, it is a big problem, the Tibetan people are very backward, and there is nothing to praise for creativity. And it's also their land, but there is not much arable land, and it is used to support the monks, although through marriage and the Tang people learned a lot of advanced technology, but that's all, Tubo itself, the divine power is very heavy, there is not much spare power to support the intellectuals.
There are no intellectuals, unless the real destiny favors Tubo, and Tubo produces a true king from generation to generation, who can continue to introduce advanced technology and continue to improve, and then continue to concentrate the royal power and suppress those monks, otherwise the Tubo people will always be like that.
Has there been a real king in Tibet? No. Therefore, the Tibetan people have been like that for generations, the glory has passed for a while, and then it has fallen silent.
For example, the Tubo people have occupied Hexi for so long, not to mention the progress of Hexi, and the overall productivity is still regressing, and the Tubo people only know how to grab and do not know how to manage it well. They did not trust the Han people very much and refused to appoint them.
This has led to the fact that in the past few decades, the Hexi region has not made an inch of progress, the city defense facilities have been corrupted, and even the important water conservancy facilities related to production have been gradually silted up, but the Tubo people have lived a luxurious life by oppressing the Tang people.
But these are none of the things that Tuoba Huaiguang does, he is just a traditional Tibetan general. The knowledge of this aspect is not very deep.
The most important thing is that he is loyal to Shang Wanwen, so he has won the trust of Shanzhou Jiedu to make Shang Wanwen trust, and when he fights with the fear of heat, he is left to guard the back road.
Now the most important thing for him is to recover the sandbar as soon as possible, so that this matter will not cause the people of the other cities to rebel.
After patrolling the camp, he was going to sleep, but it was destined that the night would not be peaceful. As soon as he fell asleep, the city suddenly beat drums and beat loudly, which woke up a bunch of Tibetans, who got up in a panic, picked up their weapons, and then looked left and right to see where the enemy was attacking.
It's just that no matter how wide they opened their eyes, they didn't see anything, and then the drums sounded on the head of the city, and after a while, they stopped ringing.
Tuoba Huaiguang hurriedly put on his robe and ran out to check. And now that he found that he had been tricked, his face was very unpleasant, but he still ordered to go down and let the soldiers in charge of guarding pay more attention to prevent the enemy from sneaking up.
However, tonight he wants to sleep, and it is difficult. After a while, another drum sounded, and unlike the drums on all sides just now, this time there was only one side on the west side. It's just that the sound spread for miles, and it still made the soldiers of the other large battalions quarrel.
Tuoba Huaiguang, his face is even more unsightly, what should he do if he goes on like this? If you don't keep it, just let the Tang people play the drums? What if the fake suddenly turns into the real.
Guard? After getting the news, he immediately gathered the soldiers and tried to let them arrive at the same time according to the distance of each place, in order to grab time, many soldiers were very tired. If they defend it like this, I am afraid that by dawn, the soldiers will collapse without a fight.
At that moment, he only ordered the soldiers on duty at night to continue to be vigilant, and then the others covered their ears, and their ears were not listened to, and their hearts were not disturbed.
Originally, he thought it was okay, the Shazhou people gave up, who knows, after half an hour, suddenly there was a loud drum beat, this time not so many people were awakened, he had already ordered, unless there was an urgent report, really found the Tang people, otherwise let the soldiers rest.
However, this time, even the vigilant soldiers sounded the siren, and now it was terrible, everyone was awakened again, and as a result... Apparently they were tricked.
The sandbanks took advantage of the night to rappel down with ropes, and then made a loud noise, alarming the vigilant soldiers, because the enemy situation was unknown, the soldiers also shot a few arrows with bows and arrows, and it seemed that they had won a lot, as if several sandbank soldiers had been shot.
However, when the soldiers went out to check, they found that the arrow was a straw man, but when they put on their clothes, in the night, it was not clear at first glance.
Tuoba Huaiguang was helpless, he could only divide the soldiers into two parts, one part was on duty all night, and then the other part, retreated a few miles to rest, this time he didn't camp, anyway, the sandbar was surrounded by regiments, and he couldn't run out if he wanted to, so he camped again tonight, so he didn't sleep.
As a result, just retreated a mile, the original Tuoba Huaiguang's Chinese military camp door, and shouted to kill again, this time Tuoba Huaiguang, not in a hurry, wait until the front line defense was returned by the soldiers, this time the Shazhou people were a large-scale attack, only to move forward, the result..., and when he led the troops to the front line, the Shazhou people retreated cleanly.
Tuoba Huai Guangqi exploded, the people of Shazhou have a city to rely on, the soldiers can rest well, but the Tubo people have no choice. In desperation, the whole army could only retreat a few miles, leaving 500 men in each place, and the other soldiers were ordered not to rise even if the sky fell apart.
After that, it was the direction of the Chinese army where he was, and there was another shouting and killing, Tuoba Huaiguang did not move like a mountain, you just fight, anyway, even if all 500 people are destroyed for you, you will lose 500 people, but when the time comes, it depends on how many dead and wounded you are prepared to take down these 500 people. If you have the ability to go out with three or four thousand people, you will not be able to sleep peacefully all night when the time comes.
Then, as soon as it dawns tomorrow, I will send troops to attack the city, more than 14,000 people, and consume all the men and horses on the sandbank.
Sure enough, the fight lasted for a while, and the front camp quieted down again, and finally the soldiers reported that the enemy once attacked the front camp, but because the number was too small, the front battalion soldiers and soldiers used their lives to repel the enemy. probably found that the Tibetan people were not fooled, and there was no movement after that.
The next day, even if it was later than usual, the Tubo people at least slept for a while, and Tuoba Huaiguang immediately ordered to bury the pot and make rice, and today it will be in this city.
However, there is usually not only one accident, not long after the Tubo soldiers got up, the gate of the sandbank city was opened, and the sandbank soldiers actually went out to battle this time.
Three thousand people, divided into eight small groups. There were about 800 people in the front row, three regiments on the left and right, and 300 people in each regiment. The number of people in the last row is unknown, but judging by the flag, there are probably about 400 people.
Tuoba Huaiguang reported, so he rode forward, put his hand on the pergola, and carefully observed, almost the whole army of the Shazhou people attacked. At the moment, he was worried, the people of Shazhou could not defend it, even if they could conquer this city, it would be extremely damaged, and it would be protracted and time-consuming, and now he could not afford it. Who would have thought that the sandbanks would attack on their own.
At that moment, Tuoba Huaiguang couldn't even care about the soldiers who had not yet eaten, and immediately ordered that the Chinese army of 5,000 people move forward, be sure to entangle the Shazhou people, and then order the other battalions to surround here, so that the rebels could not escape and were all wiped out outside the city gate.
At the moment, the Chinese army followed the order, and after the whole team, it slowly pressed up. In order to prevent the enemy from escaping, the Tubo people lined up a wild goose formation, like a wild goose, spread their wings, as long as they engaged, they could rely on the numerical advantage to surround the opponent first.
It's just that as the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, Tuoba Huaiguang suddenly feels that something is wrong, just now he didn't have time to think about it, whether there would be any tricks in this, but he felt that there was any conspiracy and trickery, and in front of the absolute strength, it was all snow under the sun, and it quickly melted.
However, the closer the two armies came closer, the more he felt that something was wrong, the other side was too calm, and it seemed that there was something certain to win, what was it?
Middle?? , Tuoba Huaiguang suddenly thought, what is in the middle of these eight small groups? Because his vision was blocked, he couldn't see what was in the middle, and he originally thought it was a hollow formation, but now, he felt that the source of the bad thing was from the middle lane.
However, it was too late... Originally, the two sides were separated by a few miles, but because both sides were moving towards each other, the distance was greatly shortened. I saw the Shazhou people, the front army was scattered left and right, revealing the middle part.
Cows, a lot of cattle, or fire cattle..., I saw the Shazhou people, igniting a fire on the tail of the ox, the ox felt the heat, and rushed forward like a madman, and soon broke through the short distance between each other, and rushed into the Chinese army of the Tubo people.
Tuoba Huaiguang felt that the world was spinning for a while, and he completely understood that from yesterday's camping to now, the series of actions on the sandbank were completely for today's fire bull array.
The constant attack on the camp was to force him back, otherwise he would have set up camp yesterday, not far from the gate, just two arrows away, for he knew that the sandbar had no city defenses, and the distance from which the bow and arrow could not shoot was enough to set up camp.
And several attacks overnight, there is also the purpose of clearing obstacles. If he set up camp yesterday, the Shazhou people would have no chance to break through, even if they had a fire bull formation, they would be hindered by the camp and traps. However, all this came to naught with the attack of the Deshazhou people last night, and now, Tubo can no longer stop the fire bull array.
The same bright blue world, the same situation, is also staged here hundreds of miles away, the same corpses are everywhere, blood flowing and drifting. (To be continued.) )