Tibet

The top of the city was only two or eight feet high, and the kerosene sprayed out from the kerosene bags seven to eight feet away. Each soldier carried three bags of kerosene. The pitch-black and pungent kerosene sprayed onto the top of the city. Many Tibetan soldiers were sprayed. One head and one body, but I am confused, I don’t know what it is?

The heavy-shielded soldiers threw countless torches onto the city. There were fires burning everywhere on the city, thick smoke filled the air, and the Tibetan soldiers on the city were in chaos.

This was probably the first time that the Tubo army encountered a fire attack. It must have been the second time. Xiao Bolu had done it once. They had no experience at all. The fire oil on their bodies was ignited. Many soldiers ran down the city crying and screaming. Rolling on the ground.

Shang Jiezan shouted anxiously, "Don't be confused, don't panic, be careful of enemy troops attacking the city."

His judgment was correct. Li Ye gave an order, and the rapid drums of the Tang army sounded.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The sound of war drums was earth-shattering.

Two thousand Tang Army soldiers carried ten large siege ladders and rushed towards the east and south city heads.

In the chaos of the Tubo army, the Tang army began to attack the city. As large ladders were set up on the top of the city, the first to attack were still the heavy shield soldiers. In front of them were twenty heavy shield soldiers slowly advancing forward with shields in their hands. Advance, followed by two hundred heavy armored infantry in formation.

Li Siye personally went into battle and led a thousand heavy armored infantry to attack the south city head. On the east city head, Black Spear led a thousand heavy armored infantry to fight.

The fire-breathing soldiers retreated, and Shang Jiezan waved his sword anxiously and shouted, "Form up! Form into formation! Withstand the Tang army's attack!"

But it was too late. If we could still form a formation to resist the Tang army's attack at this time, then there would be no point in breathing fire. In the chaos, two thousand heavy armored infantry easily reached the top of the city, killing all the way, and killing the Tibetan soldiers to pieces. Flying across the sky, corpses piled up like mountains.

Nearly five thousand Tibetan soldiers began to withdraw into the city to continue resisting. At this time, the city gate was opened, and the main cavalry of the Tang Army entered the city gate from the east gate and south gate.

The two sides fought fiercely in the city. Although the Tubo army fought tenaciously, they encountered the two most powerful frontier armies of the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army. What's more, this was not a plateau, with an altitude of only two thousand meters. The Tang Army was also very adaptable. .

The Tubo army resisted desperately and refused to retreat. The street fighting in the city also limited the advantage of the Tang army's cavalry. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the number of the Tubo army was too small. The Tang army's 3,000 casualties would not change, but the Tubo army suffered 3,000 casualties. It's basically useless.

Seeing the critical situation, Shang Jiezan felt his heart burning. He suddenly saw the east city gate open, but there was no Tang army at the gate.

He was overjoyed, this was his chance to escape!

Shang Jiezan shouted, "Follow me!"

He immediately led five hundred Tubo cavalry to force a breakthrough and rushed outside the east city.

Li Ye watched them running out of the east city gate from a distance, with a sneer on his face.

Outside the east gate, five thousand Tang army cavalry had already laid a dragnet. Shang Jiezan led five hundred Tibetan cavalry to rush out. What greeted him was a storm of five thousand crossbow arrows.

The Tubo cavalry howled and fell off their horses one after another, leaving less than a hundred of them. Shang Jiezan was guarded by his own soldiers. Dozens of his soldiers were shot and killed, but he himself was not hit by arrows, but he could not escape death. Hundreds of soldiers from the Tang Army swarmed over and cut Shang Jiezan into dozens of pieces in an instant. A generation of famous generals died at the foot of Dabolu City.

The war was over. All 7,000 Tibetan troops were wiped out, leaving no one alive. The Tang army also paid the price of nearly 3,000 casualties, including 1,500 killed and more than 1,400 wounded.

Li Ye did not break his promise. The three hundred soldiers of the Tang Army who besieged Shang Jiezan were rewarded with 10,000 yuan. Among them, the twenty-seven soldiers who killed Shang Jiezan were each promoted to one level. The soldiers of the Anxi Army who snatched the head were rewarded. Zhang Xiang was promoted to two levels and won a bonus of two thousand gold.

There are many such lucky people in history. For example, Yang Xi, who snatched one of Xiang Yu's bodies in the decisive battle of Wujiang, was named Chiquanhou by Liu Bang. He became the ancestor of the most famous family in history, the Hongnong Yang family.

The street fighting was extremely cruel. In the nearly two hours of street fighting, thousands of people in the city were almost killed or injured. The last 300 Tibetan soldiers hid in the Dabolu Palace and resisted. The Tang army used an arrow array of 6,000 people to attack the palace. Everyone inside was shot dead, including the king, his wife and children.

Li Ye ordered all the property and food in the city to be moved outside the city, and hundreds of surviving residents were also sent outside the city. The Tang army lit a fire, burned the royal city to the ground, and destroyed the four walls.

All the remaining 6,000 residents will be gathered together. They will move to live in Xiaobolu. There will be no one left in Dabolu. All crops, farmland, and fruit trees will be destroyed, and the houses will be burned down.

From then on, the Dabolu Kingdom disappeared in the dust of history, and the Tibetan army also lost one of the most important logistics bases for its westward expansion. In the following ten years, many residents of Dabolu quietly returned to their hometowns, but the Tibetan army Never appeared in Dabolu again.

After resting for three days, the Tang army set off back to Xiaobolu. Li Ye left a thousand troops to garrison in Dundo City, Xiaobolu, for a period of one year. One year later, Xi Yuanqing would send another thousand troops to rotate and implement a rotating garrison system. , enabling the Tang army to station in Xiaobolu for a long time.

Time passed quickly, and it was September. On this morning, two messenger knights came to Chang'an Prince Qing's Mansion. These two were soldiers sent by An Lushan to deliver letters to Prince Qing Li Cong.

The two were brought into the palace. In the distinguished guest hall, the leading knight knelt down on one knee and presented two letters to King Qing Li Cong.

"My Jiedu envoy has no message, all he has to say is in the letter."

Li Cong read An Lushan's letter. The letter mentioned an important clue about Prince Li Heng. The prince and Hedong Jiedu envoy Cheng Qianli secretly colluded. A letter from Cheng Qianli to the prince was evidence.

King Qing Li Cong was overjoyed and hurriedly read Cheng Qianli's letter. This was a letter written by Cheng Qianli to the prince when he first took office as the governor of Hedong. However, he was intercepted by people from Anlu Mountain on the way, and the messenger died on the way. This letter Then it fell into the hands of An Lushan.

Cheng Qianli promised in the letter that he would be willing to send troops to serve the king if necessary.

With these words alone, Cheng Qianli caused a big disaster. What does it mean to send troops to serve the king when necessary? Without the emperor's edict, sending troops without permission is rebellion.

Of course, An Lushan did this under conditions. He wanted to replace Cheng Qianli and serve as the governor of Hedong.

The tens of thousands of troops of the Hedong Jiedushi were mainly stationed in Yunzhou, Yuzhou, Shuozhou and Daizhou. Their mission was to prevent the grassland nomads from entering the lower reaches of Hedong from Datong, Yunzhou. However, the Hedong Army was very close to Fan Yang, crossing the Taihang Mountains. .

In order to obtain the Hedong Army, An Lushan also prepared five thousand taels of gold to bribe Mrs. Guo. As long as Mrs. Guo blew her pillow, the emperor would definitely agree, but the key was to make the position of Jiedushi vacant.

Li Cong nodded. With this letter, Prince Li Heng would shed a layer of his skin before he died.

Li Cong rewarded the soldier who delivered the message fifty taels of silver. The two thanked him repeatedly and went down to rest.

Li Cong paced back and forth in the room. The key was how to operate this thing to achieve the best results.

Just then, the housekeeper came to report that Bian Lingcheng had something important to visit!

Li Cong quickly ordered: "Please come in quickly!"

Not long after, Bian Lingcheng walked in with an angry face.

Of course he came here for the wealth he had accumulated over the years. Bian Lingcheng worked as a military supervisor in Anxi and Beiting for ten years and accumulated a huge wealth of half a million yuan.

Because the emperor was in a hurry, he rushed back to Chang'an first, and then let several of his close men transport the wealth back to Chang'an for him. Unexpectedly, the Tibetan army captured Dunhuang, and his men could not survive, so they had to return to Anxi, but they disappeared halfway. , it is said that it was swallowed by the sea of ​​sand.

But there was still a young eunuch who escaped Bi Sichen's killing, and it took him several months to escape back to Chang'an with great hardships.

Only then did Bian Lingcheng find out that his wealth had been swallowed up by Bi Sichen, which made him mad.

He didn't treat Bi Sichen lightly, but he dared to engulf his wealth.

Bi Sichen was a member of King Qing Li Cong. Bian Lingcheng came to King Qing several times and asked him to immediately order Bi Sichen to send his wealth back to him.

Bian Lingcheng walked into the lobby and asked coldly: "Is there any news about Bi Sichen?"

Li Cong nodded, "There is news. The men I sent to Anxi just came back the day before yesterday."