At night, thousands of Qingyuan troops also arrived at Damangpo as scheduled.
Together with the Changxin Army that arrived in the afternoon, as well as a second-class army and a third-class army that Qing Xinyao transferred from the city, Zhang Liang can currently mobilize more than 10,000 men.
To the east of the Tubo camp is Xichuan City and to the west is Damangpo. Breaking out can only go south or north.
More than 10,000 people were enough to blockade the north and south roads of the Tubo camp.
But Zhang Liang did not do this. Instead, he asked several teams to drive directly into the Damang Slope and set up camp to rest.
Then people were sent to light piles of bonfires in the open spaces to the north and south of the Tubo camp.
There are two rows of bonfires, one in the south and one in the north, from the moat to the Big Python Slope, looking like two long snakes.
From time to time, one or two cavalry patrol teams would be seen passing by the bonfire.
Jin Feng and Ninth Princess arrived at the top of Damang Slope. Zhang Liang and Qing Xinyao were not there. Only Qing Mulan was observing below with a telescope.
"Did you see anything?" Jin Feng asked.
"Brother Liang is indeed amazing!" Qing Mulan put away the telescope and praised.
"Tell me what you think." Jin Feng smiled and sat on the stone.
"The Changxin Army and the Qingyuan Army have been on a long-distance attack, and they captured the East City Gate and Baoer Mountain last night. They must be very tired. Sending them to surround the Tibetan camp will make them even more exhausted, which will not be conducive to the subsequent battles."
Qing Mulan said: "The Iron Tiger Camp has blocked Mao'er Ridge. To the south is the intersection of the moat and the Jinma River. Let Danzhu run around as he pleases. He has nowhere to run, so there is no need to send people to blockade it. It is better to let the soldiers rest.
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Setting up a bonfire will make the Tibetan soldiers think that we may attack them at any time, and they will definitely feel nervous. This is the same principle as Mr.'s strategy of tiring the enemy."
"Yes, there is progress." Jin Feng said with a smile.
In fact, Zhang Liang's move was also a tactic to tire out the enemy.
It's just that the situation is different from Jin Feng's previous situation.
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Tubo camp.
Qing Mulan's guess was good. Looking at the bonfire outside the camp, the Tubo soldiers were very nervous.
The people Danzhu brought were all veterans who had been on the battlefield for a long time. They had long been used to life and death.
Fighting is a great test of the physical strength and energy of soldiers. Sometimes it is common for both the offensive and defensive sides to fight for more than ten days during an offensive and defensive battle.
Therefore, finding every opportunity to catch up on sleep is the basic quality of a veteran.
Many veterans were standing energetically just a moment ago. The captain said they could rest. They just lay down on the ground and fell into deep sleep in less than three minutes.
But at this time, no one in the huge Tubo camp could sleep.
Too many things have happened in the recent battles that they cannot understand.
Flash bombs, repeating crossbows, grenades...
These things were things they had never seen or even heard of when they followed Gada to conquer the grasslands.
The Tibetan veterans were not afraid of death, but feared God.
Many veterans firmly believe that the Dakang Army must have been blessed by God.
With this thought, my belief collapsed instantly.
Once faith is shattered, there is no difference between a veteran and a new recruit.
I can also be so nervous that I lose sleep.
Chinese army tent.
Danzhu and Wu Zhe sat opposite each other, neither speaking.
They all guessed Zhang Liang's plan.
But there is no way to solve it.
The two of them sat in silence until dawn.
Danzhu called his personal guards: "Give me the order to cook all the meat and let the brothers eat it as they please!"
The guard's eyelids twitched and he opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything and just agreed and ran out.
He understood that the final battle was coming.
Wu Zhe sighed, stood up and bowed to Danzhu.
Danzhu, who had always respected Wu Zhe, did not return the favor this time, and did not even raise his head to look at Wu Zhe.
Instead, he pulled out his sword, took out a soft cloth, and wiped it carefully.
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There were also bursts of smoke drifting from the campground at Damanang Slope.
The soldiers got up one after another and prepared to eat.
Jin Feng, who always likes to sleep in, got up early today.
By the time he arrived at the command tent, others had already arrived.
Just as he was about to say hello, Qing Xinyao's bodyguard came in: "Sir, an old man came out of the Tubo Camp and said he was the teacher of His Highness the Princess and asked to see His Highness."
"You came out of the Tubo camp and called yourself my teacher?" The Ninth Princess frowned slightly.
There are officials in the palace who specialize in teaching the princes and princesses, called Tai Tu.
The Ninth Princess had had several teachers since she was a child. However, these teachers were either dead or still in the capital. How could they come out of the Tubo camp?
But this kind of lie will be exposed immediately, and there is no point in lying.
The Ninth Princess, who had always been smart, was also a little confused at this time.
"Could it be that he wants to assassinate you?" Qing Mulan said.
"It's unlikely. If he really wanted to assassinate him, he wouldn't have come out of the Tubo camp, so we would definitely be on guard against him."
Princess Ninth shook her head: "Did he say his name?"
"He only said that his surname was Wu," the guard said, "and that he had a mole on his eyebrow."
After speaking, he pointed at his forehead.
"Impossible!" Ninth Princess suddenly stood up.
"Know?" Qing Mulan asked.
"Sister Mu Lan, do you still remember Taifu Wu?" Ninth Princess asked: "He's the one who likes to hit his palms!"
In order to win people's hearts, the emperor sometimes arranged for the children of some important officials to enter the palace to study with the princes and princesses.
Qing Mulan went to the palace for a while when she was a child. Later, she was sent back by Concubine Qing because she was too poor at studying and always provoked the prince to tease her husband.
"I remembered that at that time I couldn't memorize poetry and calligraphy, so he always slapped my palms."
Qing Mulan said: "But didn't I hear that his house was ransacked?..."
At this point, Qing Mulan's eyes widened: "You don't doubt that he's not dead, do you?"
"My surname is Wu, I call myself my teacher, and I have a mole on my eyebrow. Who else can I have besides him?"
The Ninth Princess said: "I heard that he escaped back then, and I even asked my father about it. Now it seems that my father must have lied to me."
"If that's the case...that's too..."
Qing Mulan didn't know how to comment on this matter, so she asked: "Then what are you going to do?"
"Bring the person over first and take a look before we talk." The Ninth Princess nodded towards the bodyguard: "Bring the person over."
"Remember to search yourself, don't miss any place!" Qing Xinyao reminded.
"Yes!" the guard agreed, turned and left.
After a full ten minutes, Wu Zhe came in with him.
"Master Wu, it's really you!"
Ninth Princess and Qing Mulan both stood up.
Although Wu Zhe was much older, the two of them recognized each other immediately.
"Your Highness, Miss Mu Lan, we meet again."
Wu Zhe entered the enemy camp without any nervous expression at all, as if he had returned to his own home.
After staring at Ninth Princess and Qing Mulan for a while, he said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for more than ten years. You have become grown-ups. I never thought that I would have the opportunity to see you again in this life."
"I didn't expect to see Taifu Wu again!"
The Ninth Princess asked directly: "Master Wu, you are not looking for me to reminisce about old times, are you?"