Chapter 71: Winning
Rather than go back and die in humiliation, it is better to die here in battle, and it is better to die vigorously than to be accused of dying!
On Qinling knew in his heart that he had offended many people by being rampant and tyrannical over the years, and the nobles in Tubo were eager to kill him, and even Zampu was looking forward to his early death every day.
If he can win the Tang Dynasty and hold heavy troops, the nobles in Tubo can still be afraid of him and talk about Qinling, as long as he doesn't know Tubo himself, Zampu will be helpless to take him even if he hates him again!
If he is defeated and flees back to Tibet, he will definitely become the target of everyone, and he will become a loser who everyone shouts about, and he will definitely try his best to kill him on Qinling.
If he dies in Wuhai City, he will become a general who guards Tibet and dies for Tibet, and his Gar family can also take the opportunity to retreat bravely and save the entire Gar family.
If he is defeated and returns to Tibet, those nobles will definitely pour dirty water on him, and Zampu will also take the opportunity to attack him, even if the Gar family has done their best for Tibet, they will not be able to avoid this ending.
There is an old saying in the Tang Dynasty that if you have a high merit, you will be killed!
"Brother, hurry up! If you don't leave, it's too late!"
Zanpo also knelt down and begged the Qinling to leave quickly, but the Qinling was the Dinghai Divine Needle of the Gar family, and it must not fall here.
"Abba! Let's go!"
On Qinling's son, Non Gongren, also persuaded Non Qinling to withdraw.
"I'm not leaving, on Gongren, after I die, you will be the patriarch of the Gar family, your uncle will assist you, and the future of the Gar family depends on you!"
On Qinling took his son's hand and confessed his last words.
He advised his son that after returning to Tibet, he should be a low-key person and stop making great arguments about Tibet.
The Great Treatise can bring supreme power, but it can also bring endless pain and abyss, if the Gar family still has someone to do the Great Treatise of Tibet after his death, it will be a devastating disaster!
But no one listened to the Qinling, and after seeing that the persuasion was fruitless, someone suddenly attacked and knocked the unsuspecting Qinling unconscious, and everyone was shocked!
"What else are you doing? Don't hurry up and escort Da Yan away, Gong Ren, hurry up and carry your Abba away!"
Zanpo woke up from the shock and hurriedly commanded everyone to act, let Non Gongren carry the tomb on his back, arrange manpower to protect them, and arrange for manpower to resist the pursuit of the Tang army, so as to buy enough time for them to escape from here.
They believed that as long as the Qinling was alive, they would be able to lead them to regain what they had lost in the future, and they also firmly believed that the Tibetans would understand.
But they underestimated the hatred of the nobles and Zampu for the Qinling, if they didn't take advantage of the weakest time to deal with him, when he became strong again, they would be the ones who should suffer, and for their benefit, they would also solve the Qinling anyway.
As for their enemy Datang, it is a big deal to surrender if they can't beat it, and it is not a big deal to be a vassal to Datang, and when Datang's strength weakens, it is the time for Tubo to find a place to return.
For them, it's better to kill the Lunqin Tomb than to keep the Lunqin Mausoleum! On the Qinling Tomb they can't sleep, and when the Qinling Tomb is dead, they will have peace of mind!
Especially Zampu, he has no authority at all when he is alive in Qinling, and he doesn't put his Zampu in his eyes at all, if it weren't for the fact that the Zampu family has been in Tubo for thousands of years, it has already been deeply rooted, and it would have been overthrown by Lunqinling a long time ago, and the current king of Tubo is a member of the Gar family!
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The Tang army surrounded the City Lord's Mansion, and Li Jing rode to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion and shouted to the people inside:
"Listen to the people inside, you have been surrounded, quickly put down your weapons and come out to surrender, and you are limited to surrender within a stick of incense, otherwise there will be no one left!"
There was silence in the City Lord's Mansion!
They didn't plan to come out and surrender, and swore to live and die with Wuhai City, which was just to buy time for Lun Qinling and others.
A stick of incense burned quickly.
There was still no movement inside.
Li Jing ordered someone to pull in the Shenwei cannon and use the cannon to open the gate of the city lord's mansion.
The artillery pushed the Shenwei cannon over, and when the cannon went down, the gate turned to ashes, and the Tibetan soldiers hiding behind the door turned into ashes with them.
"Kill!"
The soldiers of the Tang army went inside, and the two sides started a life-and-death battle.
Although the Tibetan soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they still changed something, and their fate was either death or capture.
Soon, the rebellious Tubo army was completely resolved, and the Tang army soon occupied the entire city lord's mansion and began to search everywhere for the whereabouts of Non Qinling and others.
It turned out that nothing was found.
"What? Didn't find the Tomb of the Qin? ”
Li Jing wondered.
"Yes, I didn't find the others in Qinling!"
The pro-soldier responded.
"Bring those captives!"
"Yes!"
Li Jing decided to ask the captives in person about where Qinling had gone, and his own soldiers took the order and soon brought the captives to see Li Jing.
"Where did you go to the Great Treatise on Qinling? Where is his family? ”
On Qinling, such an important person, how could he let him run away, he also planned to capture the Qinling alive and return to Chang'an, first parade through the streets to show the public, and then return the Qinling to Tubo in exchange for some benefits.
Unexpectedly, in the end, he still let him run, and I don't know if I can catch up with him.
"What do I ask you? Why don't you speak? Are they all dumb? ”
Li Jing asked loudly, still afraid that they wouldn't understand, so he asked the Tuyuhun people around him to be in charge of translating.
The Tubo soldiers who knelt on the ground gritted their teeth, glared at Li Jing angrily, and wanted to bite Li Jing to death, and their hearts were full of bitter hatred for Li Jing.
"Can no one tell me? Or do you all want to die, even if you don't say it, I can guess if the Qinling has fled back to Tibet? ”
"Don't think that if Qinling escapes back to Tubo, he will be safe, on the contrary, he will only die faster when he returns to Tubo, I am saving him, do you know?"
Li Jing followed the temptation, hoping that they would be able to tell about the Qinling, and fled from that direction, and how long he fled, so that he could send someone to chase him.
Who knew that these captives were not allowed to enter the Qin Tomb, and no one was willing to betray the Qinling.
"Dog thieves, if you want to kill, you will kill, we Tubo warriors will never do anything to sell the Lord for glory, we are born Tubo people, and we are Tubo ghosts when we die!"
Suddenly, one of them stood up and roared.
The person who spoke knew at a glance that he was a military general of Tubo, and his grade was not small!
Burly, tiger-backed bear-waisted, doesn't look very smart, has been a prisoner, and dares to stand up and shout, isn't this looking for death?
Li Jing glanced at the other party, since the other party was so anxious to find death, it had to fulfill him!
Li Jing gave a look, and his own soldiers immediately drew their knives and cut off one of the opponent's arms.
"Ahhhhh......h
The Tibetan military general covered the bloody wound and let out an incomparably desolate scream.
"Answer my questions well, dare to talk nonsense, and watch your head."
Li Jing looked at the other party coldly.
Everyone's hatred for Li Jing is even stronger, and you can't kill people too much, but you torture people like this, it's really hateful!
"I asked again, in what direction did Qinling run away, how long has he been running, and if he dares to talk nonsense, it will not be a broken arm!"
Li Jing glanced around and said lightly.
"Humph! If you want to kill, you will kill, where is there so much nonsense! ”
Someone else stood up and said.
Li Jing was very dissatisfied with this answer, his eyes flashed, and his soldiers immediately drew their knives and stepped forward, directly chopping the other party into meat sauce.
Even if these people were so frightened that they trembled, they didn't intend to betray the Qinling, they were really loyal, and it seemed that they couldn't ask anything.
"Forget it, pull these people down!"
Li Jing waved his hand, and his own soldiers took all these people down.
"Is Your Highness worried about the Qin Tomb?"
Guo Yuanzhen, who had not spoken, asked.
"That's right! As long as the Qinling Tomb is still there, Tubo is my Datang's henchman, so no matter what, I must kill the Qinling, only in this way can the Tang Dynasty really sit back and relax!"
Li Jing was worried that the Lun Qinling would make a comeback, and after he left here, it was difficult to guarantee that Tubo would not counterattack.
"The regent doesn't have to worry, the people of Tubo have suffered from conscription and military service, and they have long been willing to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty, and they don't want to return power to the king of Tubo because they are greedy for power."
"On the defeat of Qinling this time, everyone in Tubo will not let him go, even if the Qinling escapes back to Tubo this time, he will definitely not live long."
"We only need to send envoys to reconcile with Tubo, and the Qinling will definitely not obey the fate, which will lead to the deepening of the hatred of the Tibetan people for the Qinling, and the gap between the Qinling and the king of Tubo will only get bigger and bigger."
"As long as we gradually divide them and make them more suspicious of each other, trouble will arise from within, and we will be able to solve the problem of Qinling without much effort."
Guo Yuanzhen proposed a discord plan.
"Good! What a brilliant plan, just do what you say! Immediately send an envoy to show goodwill to the king of Tubo, and I, Datang, am willing to reconcile with Tubo!"
Li Jing said with a smile.
"Regent, now that Tuyuhun has been recaptured, we must be careful that Tubo will send troops to attack Tuyuhun again after our squad returns to the court, if Tuyuhun falls into the hands of Tubo again, my efforts these days will be in vain!"
Guo Yuanzhen said.
"I decided to leave a strong army of 30,000 people here to guard Wuhai City and block the attack of the Tubo army, and send another 30,000 troops to guard the four towns of Anxi for a long time!"
Li Jing had already made arrangements to send troops to garrison the four towns of Anxi and Wuhai City respectively to ensure vested interests.
With 30,000 garrisons in Wuhai City and 30,000 soldiers and horses in Dafeichuan, even if the Lun Qinling is activated again, the troops led by the Lun Qinling can block the Tubo army back.
"Lord Regent, so it goes! We can rest easy, and we may even counterattack Tibet in the future. ”
Guo Yuanzhen said with a smile, if Tubo can be completely solved, then there is no need to send a heavy army to defend the northwest, and a lot of military expenses can be saved every year, which is a good thing for Datang.
Li Jing showed a hint of a smile, sooner or later, one day, Tubo will also become the territory of the Tang Dynasty.