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Volume 1: Never give up being a Lingnan native Chapter 258: Auxiliary troops vs. cannon fodder

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    The Tibetan army besieged the city three days later than expected on Tuesday. The main reason was that most of the Tubo tribes who were busy nomadic could not believe that Fuqi City, with Commander Kilixu personally in charge, would suddenly fall into the hands of the Tang army.  Therefore, a tribal ranger was specially sent to confirm.  .???????? When the Tubo tribes scattered everywhere discovered that this was indeed true, and that the soldiers who escaped from Fuqi City were not exaggerating, they quickly stopped their nomadism, hurriedly summoned the young and strong soldiers of the tribe, and followed the instructions of the Tubo Lord  The system of dispatching troops with red wooden tablets implemented by Chide Zuzan in the past few years began to gather towards the nearby big boss tribes, and then the big bosses led their soldiers to march towards the Fuqi City area.  Speaking of the red book wooden slip system of Tubo, we have to mention the Tibetan king Chide Zuzan who personally formulated and vigorously promoted this system.  Chide Zuzan, also known as Chidaizhudan by later generations, was the thirty-sixth Zanpu of the Tubo Kingdom, also known as the King of Tibet.  During his reign, in order to strengthen the centralization of power, he brought household registration, taxation, military registration, etc. in various places under the management of the imperial court, and established a red book wooden tablet book for record keeping. This is where the red book wooden tablet system came from.  If we talk about duplicity and the ability to go back on one's word, this Chide Zuzan is definitely one of the best among the Zampu recorded in Tibetan literature.  Since he came to the throne, he has been in constant conflict with the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that he has been fighting every day for three days. After the fight was over, he shamelessly sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to sue for peace.  I don¡¯t know if the emperors of the Tang Dynasty at that time really had nothing to do with the rogue surname Chi Dezuzan, or they also liked to play this kind of cat and mouse game. In short, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty not only married Princess Jincheng to Chi Dezuzan,  Dezuzan actually had many serious peace talks with Tubo. It was not until he came to Longyou on Tuesday that he signed the Chiling Peace Treaty in the past few years.  However, if we take into account the fact that Tubo brazenly launched a full-scale occupation war against the Bolu Kingdom without the consent of the Tang Dynasty, then the Chiling Peace Treaty between Tang and Tubo actually only restricted the actions of the Tang military, but did not affect the Tubo Kingdom.  There are not many restrictions on expansion and invasion.  Because the Tubo army arrived three days late, Zhou Chengye took the opportunity to make more preparations in Fuqi City. Therefore, when the densely packed Tibetans approached Fuqi City from several directions, they had more than a thousand soldiers and few generals.  The soldiers of the Rong army did not have much fear and fear.  Zhou Chengye, who traveled through time, knew that after the Tubo people completely consolidated all the invaded Bolu territory, they would launch a fierce attack on the Tang Dynasty in Longyou and Hexi. By then, the armistice agreement between Tang and Tubo  That is to say, the end of life.  Since the Tang Dynasty and the ambitious Tubo Kingdom had no basis for truly peaceful coexistence, why couldn't they take advantage of the Tubo army's westward movement to gain a stable foothold in the Bolu and Congling areas to seize the territory that originally belonged to the Tuyuhun people?  If a thief steals it, it¡¯s not necessary for a robber to get it back!  Tuesday is about being that hateful bandit in the eyes of the Tibetan people!  During these three days, Zhou Chengye personally served as the "political commissar" in the army of later generations. He was divided into five groups every day, and each group held collective conversations with a hundred Suirong Army soldiers, telling these most basic soldiers about the advantages and disadvantages of the Tang Army.  The disadvantages of the Tubo people encouraged the soldiers to strengthen their belief in victory when faced with a siege by a large army, obey the command and dispatch of the general, fight bravely to kill the enemy, and achieve earth-shattering feats.  The grassroots soldiers of the Tang Dynasty's frontier army were not afraid of death, and their combat effectiveness was also very impressive. After being personally encouraged and spurred by the general Zhou Chengye, who regarded the soldiers as brothers, their desire to fight and win became more and more fervent.  So when the soldiers saw tens of thousands of Tibetans approaching Fuqi City on war horses, not only did they not have any fear, but they showed a rare impatient look.  The place where the north city wall and the west city wall turn 90 degrees is the focus of the Suirong Army's defense this time. Fire Chief Wei Xiangchun and his nine brothers were looking intently at the Tibetan cavalry who were gradually approaching outside the city.  Longbow soldier Le Sinian held a bow in one hand and turned to his leader in a low voice: "Old Wei, General Zhou said that we will fight a smart defensive battle this time. What does it mean? I'll tell you later.  Should we try our best to shoot a few more Tubo cavalry, or save our energy and wait for the Tibetans to chop their heads when they climb the city?" Wei Xiangchun rolled his eyes at Le Sinian, and then cursed: "You idiot!  You must have been distracted when you were talking to everyone, and you only listened to half of what the general said about smart defensive warfare, which means that we must preserve ourselves as much as possible. If we see the Tubo people being arrogant, we will hit them hard to stop them.  We were scared to death; if we see that the Tubo people are thinking of retreating, then we will pretend to be a little scared and dare not challenge them, and tie them up outside Fuqi City!" Le Sinian was a little embarrassed and asked again: "But  , how should we judge whether the Tubo people are arrogant or have given up?" Wei Xiang??? replied: "This is not something we worry about. When the time comes, the brigade commander (one hundred soldiers) and the captain (50 soldiers) will give us orders. We will fight how they want us to fight."  " Another spearman Wang Maocai also came over and said: "Old Wei, do you think the general can really fulfill the promised reward after the war? If true, as long as I kill five in this battle?  The Tibetan rebels can be allocated fifty acres of prime land in Heyuan, and they can easily get a wife from now on!" Wei Xiangchun looked at Wang Maocai with a longing look on his face, rolled his eyes again, laughed and said: "What a damn prospect!  Isn¡¯t it just fifty acres of land? Look how jealous you are! If you follow our General Zhou, there will definitely be wars in the future. Dividing the land is just a fringe benefit. Promotion is what makes a man!¡± ¡°Yes,  Yes! One look at our General Zhou, he is not a calm leader. The local idiots will suffer a lot in the future! " "Nonsense, what is restlessness? I should say it is professionalism, don't you know?  Come on, if anyone lets a Tibetan dog go up to the top of the city, I will kick him off the top of the city!" Wei Xiangchun roared, picked up the long knife in his hand and slashed forward and downwards.  In the observation hole of a newly built watchtower on the city wall, Zhou Chengye was observing the movements of the Tibetan people outside the city with a clairvoyant face and a serious face. Next to him stood the young general Lei Wanchun.  Jia Erlong and Ge Shuhan personally guarded the North Gate and South Gate areas, accepting Zhou Chengye's dispatch and command from the watchtower.  "Inform me, general, that the Tibetans will launch a probing attack today. Our army only needs to dispatch 500 regular soldiers and 500 Tuyuhun auxiliary soldiers to defend, repel the Tibetans' offensive, and ensure that they cannot attack the city.  "Yes!" "My subordinates take orders!" Lei Wanchun immediately stepped out of the watchtower after receiving the first combat order.  As expected by Zhou Chengye, the Tibetans, who were still waiting for the follow-up troops to gather, did not launch an all-out attack on the city, but only launched a small-scale siege battle in order to explore the scale and strength of the Tang army's defense in the city.  Le Si Nian, who was highly skilled in archery, lazily shot arrows at the bottom of the city, specifically targeting the Tibetan soldiers running in front. Almost every time he shot an arrow, he could knock down a Tibetan soldier.  There was also a Tuyuhun soldier guarding the city with him, and his archery skills were obviously worse than his.  Several rounds of arrows were fired, and some of the arrows shot from the crenel where Le Si Nian was hiding hit, and some missed, which made the Tubo people below the city feel that the Tang army at the top of the city was just ordinary.  On the first day of the siege, the Tibetans launched two rounds of probing attacks. After leaving more than a hundred corpses behind, they stopped attacking the city.  On the second day, Zhou Chengye still ordered another 500 soldiers on duty and 500 Tuyuhun soldiers to join the battle, and repelled three small-scale offensives launched by the Tubo people.  Within two days, five large Tubo tribes with more than 5,000 people took turns launching probing attacks on Fuqi City, which were easily handled by the Tang army guarding the city.  On the third day, the commander-in-chief Zhou Chengye suddenly ordered that all the soldiers in the city, including the nearly two thousand Tuyuhun soldiers who were transformed after capturing Fuqi City, all climbed to the top of the city to participate in today's battle to defend the city!  Zhou Chengye could see clearly through the telescope that there were at least ten large Tubo tribes outside the city. That is to say, 50,000 Tibetan troops had arrived at Fuqi City, and a large-scale siege was about to begin.  The Tubo people who were the first to arrive outside Fuqi City not only launched a probing attack, but also took the time to make various preparations for a large-scale siege in the past few days.  Some temporary siege equipment was rushed out, and there were more and more sandbags used to fill the soil.  "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo  " The desolate and distant horns of horns sounded everywhere outside the city, and the large-scale siege war launched by ten large tribes finally began.  In the vast wilderness, groups of Tubo soldiers had dismounted from their familiar horses. They held up wooden shields and shields, and carried arrow pots behind them, facing the rain of arrows fired from the city.  Carrying the long ladder used in the annexation of the city, they charged towards Fuqi City without fear of death!  Many of these Tibetan soldiers who led the charge were not Tibetan people, but slaves that the Tibetans had kidnapped from Tyuhun, Bol¨¹ and other places in the Western Regions over the years. They were cannon fodder for the Tibetans. If they disobeyed orders and were afraid of fighting on the battlefield,  , will be ruthlessly hacked to death by the butcher's knife behind him.  Going forward was the merciless rain of arrows from the Tang army, while retreating was met by the even more merciless butcher's knives of the Tubo people. These cannon fodder either wanted to seek transcendence, or they wanted to make great achievements and get rid of their slavery, so they showed crazy determination to fight.  Lei Wanchun, with several messengers, was shouting all the way to boost the morale of the defenders at the top of the city: "The general has ordered that today's battle to defend the city will not distinguish between Han and Tu soldiers. As long as they can kill the enemy bravely, they will all have important consequences after the war."  Reward! The Tuyuhun brothers who have joined the Suirong Army are likeIf you perform outstandingly in this battle, you can not only become a regular soldier, but also win the treatment of Tang Dynasty citizens in Longyou for your family!  " Hearing this, the eyes of the Tuyuhun people who participated in the battle to defend the city suddenly glowed red, and they inspired a bit of bloody courage out of thin air. The Tubo people used slaves as cannon fodder, so Zhou Chengye encouraged the Tuyuhun people to work for themselves. It was really a bit.  Different approaches but similar results (to be continued) q
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