The fire shone brightly into the night, and the moon was waning in the sky when the city was destroyed.
In the second half of the night, the drifting heavy rain stopped.
Looking back at Jiuqu City, which was already a vast ocean, Li Kuo felt a thump in his heart.
Is my strategy too cruel? Is this a bit excessive?
In addition to the Tibetan soldiers, there should also be herdsmen in the city. What's wrong with them?
No, no! If we don’t dig a dike and release water, we will never be able to force Tubo Zampu to flee in panic. If we don’t force Tubo Zampu to flee, the Tibetan army in Chiling will not come back to help. It will be me, the Tang Dynasty, who will suffer.
Soldiers and people! If you want to blame them, you can only blame them for being born in the wrong child. Don't blame him, Li Kuo, for being cruel.
His nation determines his stance, and there is nothing wrong with this matter!
Although he thought so, the young man was kind-hearted after all, and he felt guilty in his heart.
"Qilang, what's wrong with you?" Aina saw Li Kuo's melancholy expression and urged her horse to come closer and asked thoughtfully.
"It's nothing, I just have a headache." Not wanting Aina to get too involved in the matter, Li Kuo waved his hand and excused herself.
"Humph, you must be hiding something from me!" Seeing Li Kuo come around to talk about other things, Aina also lost her tender temper and said: "It's okay if you don't tell me. If you don't tell me, I will go back to the mouth of the river now and take care of you."
Let’s go with these three thousand White Wolf Clan warriors!”
Li Kuo was panicking now. He didn't care whether Aina left or not, but if these three thousand White Wolf tribe warriors were missing, it would really miss the important event.
"I said, I said it's not enough." Li Kuo smiled bitterly and said hurriedly: "I, I just saw that the whole city turned into a swamp, and I felt uneasy."
"Pfft!" Aina laughed immediately after hearing this. "I thought it was a big deal, but it turns out it's just for this. You, you are too pedantic and kind!" She paused slightly and said, "Did you know that the Tibetan people are
How to deal with other ethnic groups that resist it? Let’s not talk about it far away, just take Tuyuhun as an example. When Fuqi City was destroyed, the ferocious Tubo people rushed into the city and beheaded all the men, leaving all the women and children as herdsmen!
If you try to be righteous with them, it will make people laugh out loud."
"Oh! I understand. Are you afraid that the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty will use this matter to impeach you?" Aina rolled her eyes and patted her head. "It's strange to say that you civil servants talk so much about benevolence, justice and morality, but you
I don’t know that those useless things can’t be used for fighting. If you really want to attack a city, you have to rely on a knife handle.”
He never thought that she would think like this. Li Kuo was slightly stunned: "How others impeach is their business, and what I do is mine. Is it possible that I, Li Kuo, would ignore thousands of people just because I am afraid of the impeachment of a few corrupt scholars?"
"That's it, you're such an idiot!" Aina rolled her eyes at him and said, "How can you control so many people on the battlefield? You've read a few military books. Does Bai Qi, the God of War, know? He's enough to kill people.
After surrendering 400,000 troops, wouldn’t there be no one to make irresponsible remarks?” (Note 1)
"Do you know Bai Qi?" Li Kuo looked at Aina in surprise, not believing his ears at all. If Aina Tang Yan said it well, he could understand it, but her familiarity with the history of the Central Plains is a bit disappointing.
Amazed.
"What's all the fuss about this?" Aina curled her lips and said, "These are all what Suas told me, not to mention Bai Qi, but the other generals, as long as they can be named, I will
I know a little bit about them all. Let me tell you, that boy is really knowledgeable." Seeing Li Kuo's livid face, Aina realized that Suas had assassinated Li Kuo, and she stuck out her tongue brightly.
Say it again.
Strange to say, what kind of grudge does that boy have against Qilang? Since that night, he suddenly disappeared, leaving not even a single leather coat behind!
Although these words were stinging, Li Kuo didn't want to argue with a little girl, so he waved his hand to signal the other party to continue.
"So, only the strong can survive on the battlefield." Coming from a nomadic tribe, Aina has been instilled with many boys' concepts since she was a child. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. This is an eternal truth.
The loser has no right to complain. If he wants to blame, he can only blame his own lack of strength.
"Maybe." The young man sighed and raised his riding whip.
"Hey, I said, wait for me."
"Drive!" He whipped the horse's butt hard, and Aina followed closely.
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"After crossing this mountain ridge, we will reach the Double Dragon Valley!" Tuba held the horse's rein with one hand and waved a torch to guide Li Kuo.
"Well, tell the brothers to work harder. We must reach the valley before the Tibetans." Li Kuo nodded and said loudly.
"General, there are only five thousand of us, how can we guard two forks?" Dou Qing approached the horse and expressed his worries.
Li Sheng heard the words and said: "There is no need to guard the two forks. The art of war has it that the two roads should be guarded side by side. As long as we set up an ambush at the pass where the two roads meet, there is no way the Tibetans can escape from Shuanglong Valley alive."
Tuba glanced at Li Sheng with admiration and said: "This general is right. Although there are two forked roads in Shuanglong Valley, they meet at one point in the middle. As long as we deploy heavy troops, no matter which way the Tubo people choose to go, they will be defeated by us.
Army ambush."
"So, let's tell him that Tubo Zampu will never come back!" Zhang Yanji felt extremely arrogant. At first, their mission was just to force the Tibetan army to return for reinforcements. Who would have thought that now they would have a chance to capture Tubo Zampu alive! If he really captured such a
How many soldiers and horses is this treasure worth? How much land will be harvested and how much ransom will be paid? Isn’t it all up to them?
Not knowing that his friend had such a crooked idea, Li Kuo nodded: "It would be best if we could capture Tubo Zampu, but we must pay attention to concealment and never alert the enemy."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and the atmosphere in the army was very harmonious.
"General Li, General Li!" Xian Yu Yucheng galloped from a distance on a maroon horse. As he approached, the young man turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Report to the general, the scouts are thirty miles behind.
A large Tibetan army was discovered!"
"Pass my command to everyone to move forward at full speed. We must reach Shuanglong Valley within half an hour!"
Li Kuo tightened his grip on the reins and ordered in a deep voice.
Note 1: During the Battle of Changping, Qin general Bai Qi set up an ambush to surround Zhao Kuo's army and cut off Zhao's army's food route. King Zhaoxiang personally came to Hanoi and learned that adult men came to Changping to help in the battle. Zhao's army was besieged for 46 days.
The forage was cut off, and he fought desperately to break out. Zhao Kuo, the son of Ma Fu, was shot to death. Bai Qi collected more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers and surrendered them. Bai Qi believed that the Zhao soldiers were disloyal and killed them at night. Zhao Kuo then declined.
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