Chapter 318 The National Confidence of the Tang Dynasty
"That's not necessarily true. Your Majesty almost made the Tibetan envoy angry and vomited blood before he got the good news today."
"I have even made a great ambition to avenge myself on Tubo and massacre the Tibetan people." Hongfu Nu said lightly, with a smile on her face.
Even the Tubos dared to invade the Tang Dynasty.
If you don't give them some color, do you really think that the Tang Dynasty is made of mud?
Li Ruoshuang sighed, looking slightly disappointed.
The emperor wanted to seek revenge against Tubo, so where did Zhao Chen come back?
"Don't worry, I've asked your father to plead with His Majesty. I'll go over to talk to the Queen later."
"Zhao Chen has made such great achievements, there is absolutely no reason to stay in the army. Soon, that boy Zhao Chen will be back." Hongfunu patted Li Ruoshuang's bare hands and said with a smile.
Li Ruoshuang pursed her lips tightly.
Although she tried her best to conceal her inner joy and pretend to be calm, her extremely joyful eyes had betrayed her.
"Mother, I will go with you to the palace to meet the Queen later..." Li Ruoshuang bit her teeth lightly and took Hong Funu's hand and said.
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Songzhou City was captured.
Zhao Chen had nothing to do, at least Niu Jinda never let anyone come over to trouble Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen was happy and at ease without having to do anything.
Niu Jinda doesn't see anyone every day, and he doesn't know what he is busy with.
The people who fled returned to the city and buried some food under their original houses.
Although it is not enough to eat and drink, it is not a big problem to insist on transporting grain and grass to the rear.
Songzhou City is undergoing reconstruction work these days.
Zhao Chen, Qin Huaiyu, and Cheng Chumo also visited around Songzhou City these days.
When the three of them had nothing to do, they went to the mountains to catch some game.
Although it was hard work in the military, Zhao Chen clearly felt that Cheng Chumo seemed to have gained some weight.
At least, this face has become rounder.
If he suddenly returned to Chang'an City, those who didn't know better would have thought that Cheng Chumo had come to Songzhou for vacation.
After ten days in a row, Niu Jinda, who had not seen him for a long time, finally thought of Zhao Chen, the hero.
In the Chinese army tent, Niu Jinda stood in front of the march map.
When Zhao Chen entered the camp, Niu Jinda just looked back and said nothing.
Zhao Chen would no longer stand there and wait stupidly, and sat down on a stool nearby.
I was thinking about whether I should change the taste tomorrow. After all, just eating barbecue every day is really boring.
"Zhao Chen, you told me about the situation in Tubo a few days ago, so I sent a scout to investigate."
"As you said, the environment in Tubo is extremely harsh. They have not advanced more than five hundred miles, and it will be difficult for them to penetrate further." Niu Jinda took his eyes back from the march map and spoke slowly to Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen had long anticipated this.
Tubo is a plateau and a natural barrier. How could it be so easy to conquer?
"But this time the Tubo army of 200,000 attacked Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty and massacred the people of Songzhou. If this revenge is not avenged, how will it be explained to the people of the world?"
"So, I think the army still needs to march westward, at least to give those Tibetan barbarians a painful beating." Niu Jinda cursed fiercely, with a ferocious look on his face.
Zhao Chen didn't know what Niu Jinda meant when he told him this.
I have already told him that Tubo is not that easy to fight.
He had just said it himself. The scouts had reported that the environment in Tubo was so bad that even marching was difficult. How could he fight against Tibet?
"Uncle Niu, I don't know if you are going to fight against Tubo to avenge yourself, or if you want to bring Tubo into my territory of the Tang Dynasty."
"However, both of these are not that easy." Zhao Chen raised his head, said something to Niu Jinda, and shook his head again.
"You are not optimistic about our battle with Tubo?" Niu Jinda frowned.
He thought that with such a powerful weapon as the sky-blasting cannon, Zhao Chen would support the war with Tubo!
"It's true that I'm not optimistic about it. Tubo is a plateau. Apart from grazing and growing limited crops like highland barley, there's really no other use for it."
"Even if we go to great lengths to capture Tubo, we still don't know how much we will invest in this place."
"If you have this money, you can spend it anywhere in our country. It will be a good thing for the people. Why spend it on these useless places?"
"Naturalization is not something that happens in a day or two. If you don't naturalize, there will be continuous wars. Every year, many of our Tang soldiers will have to leave their lives here."
"I really don't think it's worth it, kid." Zhao Chen said and shook his head.
He has always disapproved of direct confrontation with Tibet.
This is completely thankless.
If they were not full and sustained, no one would do such a thing.
Niu Jinda was a little hesitant. According to Zhao Chen, it would be best not to fight against Tibet.
But the people of Songzhou City died in vain?
If they don't fight, how can they explain themselves to the people in the world?
Will the emperor and officials agree with their ideas?
Niu Jinda was in a dilemma for a while. He was silent for a while and then slowly said: "No matter what, this matter can't be let go."
"Then I think you might as well kill all the captured Tibetan soldiers. Wouldn't that save some food?" Zhao Chen said to Niu Jinda with a smile.
Niu Jinda was a little confused at the time.
You can't do this thing of killing prisoners.
It will really cause anger and resentment.
Wu'an Jun Bai Qi must have been powerful enough. He killed so many prisoners, but his own end was not much better.
Niu Jinda did not dare to kill the prisoners.
But he vaguely felt that Zhao Chen said this on purpose.
Just to disgust him.
This boy's mouth is not an ordinary one.
"No matter what you do in the future, you must remember that we, the Tang Dynasty, will not kill unarmed prisoners, and this Tibetans are not just the ones we say we won't fight, so we don't have to fight them."
"There are 150,000 Tibetan soldiers. Excluding those who were routed, killed in battle, and captured, there are probably around 100,000 more."
"The people of the Tang Dynasty and the civil servants in the court will never care how powerful Tibet is or how difficult our army is."
"They only know revenge, hatred, revenge!" Niu Jinda said the last few words one by one.
Chen Tang, a famous general of the Han Dynasty, wrote a letter to Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty: Anyone who offends our powerful Han Dynasty will be punished no matter how far away he is!
This sentence is equally applicable to the Tang Dynasty today.
The people only know that Tubo massacred Songzhou City today. If you, Tang Dynasty, don't take revenge, you will come back.
That’s incompetence!
This matter actually has nothing to do with Zhao Chen. Anyway, he has already helped take back Songzhou.
Moreover, Niu Jinda had already talked about it to this extent, what else could Zhao Chen say.
There are many things that Zhao Chen alone cannot completely change.
The Tang Dynasty was a country with tens of millions of people, even if Zhao Chen felt that it was not worth such a big fight.
But there is always someone who will do it.
Maybe it would be better to change the way of thinking. The morale of the Tang Dynasty is so high at the moment, and everyone wants to fight.
Such strong national self-confidence...
After all, no solution was discussed, so Niu Jinda told Zhao Chen that there was news from Chang'an and that he would be able to return to Chang'an City soon.