Chapter Forty-Nine: The Burning of the City

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Qucang and Yongcang are the two largest official reserve warehouses in the Tubo royal city, which are specially used to store strategic materials. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now the canal warehouse and Yongcang are filled with all kinds of strategic materials, and every room is full of grain, grass, oil and salt and other daily necessities.

This is due not only to the wealth of Tibet, but also to an order from Songtsen Gampo before the Tang army sent troops. He emptied all the official warehouses in Tibet outside the royal city and transported them all to Luo.

The purpose of Songtsen Gampo was naturally to fight to the death with the Tang Dynasty, using the fortification of the city to drag down the spirit of the Tang army, and then break it in one fell swoop. Gathering all the supplies in the royal city has two major advantages: first, it allows them to stay in the palace for a long time, and they will not worry about the lack of supplies; Second, it can prevent the Tang army from breaking through their warehouses, obtaining their supplies, strengthening themselves, and bringing them inevitable losses.

Qucang and Yongcang are the most important lifelines of Tubo at present, and Songtsen Gampo attaches great importance to these two lifelines, and dispatches more than 1,000 warriors to guard them in case of any accidents. However, due to the attack of the Tang army, there was a serious shortage of defenders in some cities, and Dayan transferred 500 people from the two warehouses to serve as the defenders of the city.

There are only 500 guards in the two warehouses today, and with the rotation of guards between each other, the number of guards on duty at one time is more than 200. Two hundred men is a limited amount of space that can be defended by a large warehouse that can sustain a city's supplies.

They can only be deployed at key points and guard the necessary routes everywhere.

Feng Feng and Ping Hao, the two squad leaders, are the generals on duty in charge of the second half of the night tonight, they have just changed guards, and the two of them have been dragged up from their sleep, yawning for a long time, their eyes are full of mimi, and they look like they have not woken up from a big dream.

"Brother, why do you say that we are so lucky and put on this stall. Guarding a broken warehouse every day, I feel like I'm about to become a door god. Feng Feng pursed his lips and looked resentful.

Ping Hao nodded sympathetically and agreed: "No, staying in this place, our sons will count me down." said that I was not as good as the second stunned person next door, and I was angry. I want to teach the second stunned man to play with a knife back then, but now people say that I am not as good as him, isn't it just such a task? I really don't understand, this small warehouse still needs us to guard. ”

The guards arranged by Songtsen Gampo in Qucang and Yongcang are all the elite of Tubo and one of the ace powerhouses. It can be seen that Songtsen Gampo attaches great importance to these two warehouses, but he ignores one point, that is, people's hearts. As an ace powerhouse, they have a great record, and when they return home, they are admirable on the road.

Now the ace army has become the gatekeeper of the warehouse, and the difference between this is not the slightest bit.

As Ping Hao said, his qualifications and status are higher than those of the second stunned man next to him, but the second stunned man is a young general on the city wall, and he is the master who can fight to protect his family anytime and anywhere.

The special treatment made this group of battle-hardened teams have a strange mood, and the efficiency was greatly reduced.

"Huh......" Feng Feng was about to speak, when he suddenly felt a shadow flash in the corner of his eye, and hurriedly turned his head to look.

"What's wrong?" Ping Hao asked curiously.

Feng Feng said strangely: "No, it's nothing...... Maybe I was dazzled, and I just felt a dark shadow flying through the sky......"

Ping Hao smiled and said: "Look at the bad eye, how can people fly, otherwise it's a bat or something, let's just say yesterday, a cat ran into the warehouse at some point, and ran on the beam with a bang." I thought I was a thief and tossed people. ”

Feng Feng is also one of the victims, agrees with this statement, and does not say more.

Ping Hao yawned loudly and said muzzily: "You look, I'll find a place to sleep for a while." It's true, the city is not broken, and I am worried that the Tang army will not be able to fly in with wings. ”

Because of the dissatisfaction and grievances in his heart, even if he is a strong team, he also has a heart of slackness.

Ping Hao is wrong, although people don't have wings, but according to the convenience of the equipment, the superior skills can be used as wings.

While they were chatting, the team of Moon-Stepping Fragrance had already infiltrated the Qucang.

Qin Yu took advantage of the blind spot to avoid the defenders, and came to the warehouse where the oil was stored, and said in a low voice: "There is oil here, which can be used to fuel the fire, and pouring them on the grain will definitely be half the result." Yesterday I put a cat in the warehouse and played them for most of the night. The cat finally let me quietly put it away. The guards now know that there is a cat in the warehouse, as long as they are careful not to make too much noise, no one will pay attention to it. ”

Qin Yu's heart is meticulous, and he has always done a very perfect job in this detail. Just like the cat this time, as long as the cat that has been taken away by Qin Yu is not caught, even if there is a little movement, the guards will think that it was the cat, which is more convenient for the action of stepping on the moon and leaving incense.

This is also Duhe's overall plan, Tubo wants to play a tug-of-war and hold on for a long time. The Tang army, which was affected by the plateau climate, had no way to deal with it, and Du He was thinking about how to force Tubo and the Tang army to fight a quick battle.

After thinking about it, today's situation was laid out, as long as the grain and grass saved by Tubo were destroyed, it would be impossible for Tubo to fight a war of attrition. The Tang Army, which has always been passive, will also turn the tide and take the initiative in the war in its own hands.

The raging fire immediately ignited, and the most important feature of the warehouse was dryness, and the grain and grass were set on fire with oil in the warehouse, which was tantamount to pouring some alcohol on a fire that had been poured with oil.

The fire ignited the oil, and the oil burned the grain, and in a moment half of the warehouse was surrounded by flames.

"Firefighting, firefighting......"

When the Tibetan army, who noticed the abnormality, found that the fire was rising, it was too late, and they exclaimed, shouting and urging.

They ran to the well in a panic with the bucket, but were surprised to find that there was no rope bucket to draw water from the well. Tubo is located in the highlands, and there is a shortage of water in the highlands, so even the whole territory of Tubo cannot find a very decent river. Most of the local people rely on well water for their daily life.

For convenience, a public bucket is tied to the well and tied with a long rope to draw water. But now, while the fire is burning the eyebrows, the rope barrel is gone.

The wells in Tibet are not wells in the Central Plains, and there is a lot of groundwater in the Central Plains, and in some places there is a steady stream of groundwater as long as it is a few meters deep. On the plateau, it is impossible to get water out without more than ten or twenty meters, and without a rope bucket, even if there is water, it cannot be punched.

The fire burned more and more, and the soldiers could only look at the well and be anxious, and after a while, someone found a long rope and made a new rope bucket. The rope bucket was placed in the well, and it was tragically discovered that the well had somehow blocked things, and the bucket could not sink to the bottom of the well.

This is naturally a masterpiece of moon walking, and the best way to make the fire expand is to cut off the water source so that people can't rescue it.

Therefore, before setting the fire, Tayue Liuxiang had secretly taken away the rope barrel, and then entered the well, and stuck a wooden plank obliquely on the stone walls on both sides to prevent the Tubo army from taking water for rescue.

Water can't beat it, and the fire can only burn more and more.

When this side was in a hurry, the other place received the same treatment.

Yongcang's soldiers and Qucang encountered roughly, and they were all strong soldiers guarding the warehouse, so that the strong soldiers had the intention of slacking off. When the qucang caught fire, they thought that a mansion was on fire, and then they looked at the excitement, but they didn't want to be just when they were making a fool of themselves, Tayue Liuxiang had already sneaked into the warehouse and made a move in the warehouse.

The same nearby wells are so well that they are unable to produce water for a short period of time.

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Outside the city, the Tang army camp.

Although it was night, Luo Tong and Xue Rengui did not rest, they were carrying out offensive and defensive drills around the characteristics of Luoqicheng, and they needed to be able to find out the flaws of Luoqicheng, so that the siege of the city in the coming day would be smoother.

And while they were in the midst of their deliberations, they got a strange situation in the city of Logos.

The two looked like they moved, walked out of the military tent quickly, and went up to the lookout to look.

The fire burned half of the sky red, and it was particularly eye-catching in this dark night where you couldn't see your fingers.

"What's going on?" Luo Tong was a little dumbfounded, they hadn't attacked yet, but it seemed that problems had already started on the other side.

Xue Rengui faintly felt in his heart that this was Du He's means, and said with a smile: "No matter what the situation is, anyway, we have nothing to do now, so let's add to them and cause some trouble......"

Luo Tong's eyes lit up, he understood, and hurriedly transferred his troops.

When Dayan learned that Qucang and Yongcang had caught fire one after another, his face lost any look. How could he not know what the two warehouses meant to Tibet, and for a while he even had the heart to commit suicide and apologize.

However, the general is a general after all, and he did not panic in case of trouble, and decisively ordered the people to be mobilized to fight the fire, and on the other hand, he was also ready to draw out some soldiers, hoping to reduce some losses as much as possible.

Just when he was dispatching troops, the news of the Tang Army's departure from the camp reached his ears. As a last resort, he could only let the soldiers return to the team and prepare to meet the Tang army.

Tibet is the largest city in the southwest, with a population of 200,000, and their power is still very strong.

Huangfu Haohua looked at the groups of people who were organized to rush to the fire, and he also felt a little jealous in his heart.

Their task has been accomplished, but not to the best.

Burning all the supplies is the result they want most, and now the fire is indeed ignited, but with such manpower, some can still be saved.

"Spread my command, everyone, in all directions. In the dark, I ordered all the houses near the two warehouses. ”

Huangfu Haohua's order immediately became the key to turning everything around.

The Tibetan people were put out by the organization, and they did not hesitate to follow the organization when a person cared about the country. But the same situation has happened in the people's own homes, and they will not care about the safety of their families to work for warehouses that have nothing to do with them?

With the accidental ignition of fires everywhere, the organized firefighting teams also went one by one, until they were all gone.