Chapter 91: Confrontation between famous generals
However, what made the general Wang Azashi even more incomprehensible was that the army of Li Yi, the king of Anxin in the northeast, and the army of Gao Xianzhi in the southwest, the combat style of the two-front attack was also changed from the usual, not only did they not rush towards the Qamdo City where Li Mao was located, but they also showed extreme fatigue in stopping and stopping. And this kind of tactics is exactly what Azasi does not want to see, his original intention, it seems that the focus is on strangling Li Mao's isolated city of Qamdo, but in fact he wants to place his hundreds of thousands of troops in the middle route and echo the armies of the north and south.
As long as either of Li Yi and Gao Xianzhi ventured into the plateau and showed signs of eagerness to rescue Li Mao, then he could immediately order the army to open a gap and let his lone army go deeper, and then his middle route army turned its gun and directly attacked him, relying on the geographical situation to break the main force of the Tang army one by one.
But now, judging from Li Yi and Gao Xianzhi's steady play, the two of them clearly saw their strategic intentions, so that the originally simple strategy of encircling and sending reinforcements turned into a four-way stalemate in an instant.
So Azami was very anxious at this time, he understood that as the confrontation between the four sides of the battlefield lasted longer, the inferior would inevitably tilt towards his own side of Tibet, because the war would be fought in the end to compete with the national strength of the two countries, in other words, strong logistics support, Li Tang's national strength is now in full swing, and how can it be consumed by small Tibet.
Azasi had actually thought of this in the early days of the war, but the reason why he knew that he couldn't do it was because he had already seen the sinister intentions of Li Mao, the prince of Shou. As long as the cage warfare advocated by Li Mao is gradually unfolded in Jiannan and Qinghai, then there will be no suspense about the defeat of Tubo at that time, and the rest is only a matter of time.
And at this moment, the Qamdo New City he is facing is so strong and difficult to capture, which just proves the guess and foresight of his general Wang Azhashi, a small Qamdo New City is still so strong and difficult to attack, then in the future, if hundreds of cage cities like Qamdo are lined up along the long border of Tibet, and then advance layer by layer.
How will his tiny Tibetan kingdom respond? Therefore, for the sake of a glimmer of vitality in the Tibetan country, Azashi did not hesitate to boldly offend the authority of Chide Zampu and recruited many tribal leaders in Tubo, because at this moment, only by fighting to the death with Li Tang with the strength of the whole country could he save the day.
But what he never expected was that people were not as good as heaven, and the small city of Qamdo could now become a hard bone that was difficult to gnaw, which made people tasteless and a pity to abandon.
However, in order to take Qamdo and capture Li Mao alive before the army ran out of food and grass to reverse the situation, there was only one way to go in front of his general Wang, and that was to attack Qamdo City more violently at any cost. Perhaps this is the only way to cause a lot of psychological pressure on Anxin Wang Li Yi and Jiannan Gao Xianzhi, making them make certain mistakes in the panic.
In the second offensive, he discovered the disadvantages of the siege, and modified the previous method of rushing and rushing, this time not only scattering the slave army in all directions, but also more consciously adding some regular Tibetan soldiers among them to act as commanders and leaders.
In this way, the large trebuchets that Li Mao had arranged at the head of the city seemed to have become decorations in an instant. "Your Highness! Look at them all scattered and charged! Our trebuchets don't work at all, and now we can only shoot with our bows and crossbows! ”
"Then shoot! What's the use of a bunch of sparse people rushing up! When he reached the edge of the city wall, he didn't have to re-erect the pile to escalate the ladder and build the human wall, but Azasi's brain was still active, and if he had explosives now, he could really blow up the city gate...... But he never dreamed that Lao Tzu's city gate was a brick and brick decorating the dog's day, and if they carried the wood and hit it hard, I didn't believe that they could still knock down the five or six meters thick cement wall......
"Your Highness said yes! Now our city of Qamdo is simply a fortress with no exit, unless they can fly down from the sky! Judging by our subordinates, should we let some people go to the city to fight at the right time, so that they can have some hope in their hearts? ”
"Hmm...... It's a good idea to chase your life! If you can't even touch the hair of the city wall three or four times in a row, maybe the old thief Azasi will be disheartened, right! To let him see hope, to give him the illusion that he can almost take the city, but you have to grasp the size, don't play and play yourself to death, the person who puts it up must let the heavily armored Mo Dao team solve it! They can't kill ...... anyway." ”
However, just when Li Mao's side was changing tricks to provoke Azhashi, the army of Li Yi, the king of Anxin, was constantly expanding its own results, and the Turkic front army, which was good at fighting immediately, was like a dragon entering the sea and a tiger entering the mountain as soon as it entered Tuyuhun. Almost everywhere he goes, there is no piece of armor left, where will he remember what Li Mao said before to buy people's hearts and treat the people well!
At this time, they are completely equivalent to a group of vicious wolves, if it weren't for Wang Zhonghe's repeated dissuasion in front, I'm afraid Tuyuhun would have become a no-man's land long ago!
"Agul, Nazay, you dare to openly disobey the royal orders of His Royal Highness King Shou! Those Tuyuhun people are now all citizens of my Tang Dynasty, and you have no right to kill them! ”
"Huh...... General Wang, don't be angry, aren't you all killed? We are also acting on the orders of King Anxin, who said that he wants me to sweep away the whole territory of Tuyuhun within thirty days, and if we go to every place like you to persuade and appease first, then when will it be a head! Besides, we killed all the resisters with weapons, old people, children, women, did we kill? Even if you report this matter to His Royal Highness King Shou at that time, he will probably not say anything! ”
"You guys! You're just trying to loot more gold and silver! "That's right! We are rootless people now, to put it bluntly, we are carrying our heads to buy his life for His Royal Highness King Shou, isn't it normal to take some of the seizures that we deserve? Your Tang army is benevolent and righteous, but we are a Turkic army! Haha......"
Wang Zhongji couldn't help but stretch out his hand to his waist when he saw the arrogant expressions of Aguli and Nazayi, but fortunately, Zhang Xiaojing turned around and blocked the sight of the two with his body.
"General Wang, you must not be impulsive, we must focus on the overall situation, no matter how innocent the people of Tuyuhun are, but they are still our enemy country after all! Don't forget that they were still fighting back a few days ago, if it wasn't for the slaughter of Aguli and them, the rest of these cities would not be so smooth and bloodless. Let's hurry up and appease the people and read out the Tang law! His Royal Highness King Shou said that this time we must send all the kings, ministers, and magnates of Tuguhun to Chang'an, so that they don't have a chance to continue repeating! The people must also be completely Tang......"