Chapter 93: The veteran is powerless to return to the sky
He didn't expect that his original plan to spend ten years dealing with Tubo would be realized in less than a year! The main forces of nearly 800,000 on both sides combined were all mixed together because of such a small prince as himself.
And the war has been fought so far, and the situation has long been no longer something that either side can stop if they want to! Li Mao understood that the more crazy the enemy became, the moment of the real decisive battle was about to come.
This time, Azhasi's army stormed for three days, and the north and south walls of Qamdo City in the middle were broken through one after another by the Tibetan death squads with ladders! However, in the end, the Tang army, which had the advantage in equipment, was all slaughtered above the city!
However, after so many battles, the veteran Azasi seems to have finally realized Li Mao's strategic intentions, so he turned his black hair into a white head overnight.
"General Wang, Zampu has sent someone to inquire about the battle situation in Qamdo, and in addition, Li Yi's Turkic vanguard army in my northern territory is menacing, and I am afraid that it intends to attack the capital! Zamputa ......"
"Got it! Got it! What do you shout! Is this king deaf? It's all come to this point, what's the use of being anxious! This king has already explained the situation in a book, and did he not transfer the rest of the army to defend the cities of Luo? After looking at Azashi's gray-haired and haggard look, although he had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, he finally closed his mouth and stood aside very interestingly.
"Generals, Li Mao's strategic intentions are now very clear, he used the Yang plot of the cage tactics in the front, and now he is using himself as a bait to lure the main force of our Tubo to besiege, in fact, he wants to wait for our army's food and grass to run out and the fighting spirit is sharply reduced, and then carry out the encirclement and suppression plan! The blame for this defeat lies with me, the manager. For today's plan, we can only take advantage of the fact that the two armies of Li Yi and Gao Xianzhi have not yet been combined, and the main force of the remaining army will slowly withdraw to the royal city! ”
"General, when our army retreats, how can the Tang army take advantage of the situation to pursue it! After more than a month of fierce fighting, the officers and men in the army have long been sleepy and lacking, and I am afraid that they will collapse at the slightest touch! ”
"This king has already thought about it, only withdraw the real elite, and the rest of the old and weak will be led by the king himself! Intercept the enemy! "This ...... The general must not! "Don't persuade you anymore, this king has made up his mind, tomorrow the army will rest and recuperate, and the north and south armies will also shrink their forces and move closer to the city of Luo! And don't stand stupidly, hurry back to the royal city and tell Chide, and say that this king has no face to go back to see him, and the matter has come to this point, and I can only die to repay the country! Whether my centuries-old foundation in Tibet can survive depends on Her Royal Highness Princess Jin Cheng, let him quickly send someone to Chang'an City to sue for peace! Don't mention any requirements, cut the land, and call the ministers...... As long as the Tang Emperor does not destroy Tibet, let Chide agree to come down! Be quick! I'm afraid that Li Mao won't give us a chance if it's too late......"
Azhashi said that in the end, he was in tears and couldn't cry! To this day, he still can't understand why the good situation in Tibet will turn things around in one day? He regretted that he regretted why he didn't make a decision in the first place, as long as he put all the 500,000 troops under the city of Qamdo, instead of dividing the troops into three routes, maybe the result would not be as it is today.
He also hated, hated Li Mao'er for having nothing to do when he was full, and a prince with fine clothes and jade food would actually come to Tubo, a place where birds don't, to fight against his own fortified city! also carefully planned such a big play.
However, Azhashi regrets at the moment, but he is still a veteran of a hundred battles, even if he wants to withdraw his troops and flee in the end, he still puts a big smoke bomb on Li Mao's frightened forehead.
"Your Highness! Oh no, early this morning, Azashi put more than 20,000 cavalry in front of the battle, and from the binoculars, it seems that the one who will lead the army is Azhasi himself! ”
"What old thief is here in person, this is too much for the king to face, give me the binoculars, I want to see if this old thing has three heads and six arms, and he dares to fight with this king when he arrives, and his mother's son doesn't want to live......"
Li Mao finally saw Azashi in military uniform with his own eyes through the telescope, and the old boy was at least 1.9 meters tall, and his burly figure was not decent! Such a spirited Uncle Azhashi really amazed Li Mao.
"Chase for your life! That old boy can look good! It's so handsome at this age! It's a pity, how can the hair be all white, it would be better if it was blacker! "Your Highness! That's all there, can you see anything else useful? What kind of hair is not white, Azashi is only fifty years old, and the spies have already described his appearance before, are you wrong! ”
"That's right! Isn't that old guy riding that brown horse? The hair is white, but he is wearing a helmet, and the two pinches next to his ears can't cover it...... Hurry up and move all the remaining crossbow arrows to the city, he is here in person, how can he not invite him to drink a pot! ”
After Li Mao said this, he still held the telescope and kept watching and observing Azhasi's situation, but it was strange that Azhasi's old thief took the lead in the front of the team, but his posture didn't look like he was about to attack immediately!
So the more Li Mao looked at it, the more she felt that something was wrong! "Chasing life, did you just say that the spies had seen Azasi before and said he was full of black hair?" "That's right! It was the palace guards who went to investigate, and they also drew a portrait, there can be no mistake! ”
"Dog's day! The old boy was sad all night! Ha ha...... No, no, since his mother is white-headed, where did he come from to have the courage to fight this king, he is the commander of an army, he will never be so reckless......"
"Your Highness, what's wrong, haven't the Tibetan thieves been storming Qamdo City before?" "No, it used to be before, in the past, it was the old boy of Azashi who was forced by the pressure of the cage warfare method to take this king and our Tang Dynasty as a bargaining chip, but now in this situation, he has already reached a dead end, even if the jade is burned to break through the city of Qamdo, what can he do, and he still wants to capture me Li Mao alive with one or two thousand remnants of the army? Moreover, at this time, the two armies of Gao Xianzhi and Li Yi had already tightly bitten the two armies of the north and south that he had divided out before! It's harder to join forces than to climb to the sky! ”
"That'...... So what does he want to do now? "What? Dog days are going to run away! That's right, the old thief on the dog day is to run with oil on the soles of his feet! Chase your orders, immediately order someone to go to the watchtower to raise a flag to inform Gao Xianzhi, Li Yi, and let them launch a general attack! In any case, we must bite to death the armies of the north and south of Tibet! If this king is not mistaken, they will retreat on this day or two! Other than that! Inform Wangcai to pull out all the war horses in the city to slip away, it's time for us to play! From now on, they don't need to attack the city gates, let's dig them up first...... "From now on, they don't need to attack it, let's dig it ourselves." ”