[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 22

At the beginning of this great victory, just like Wu Xu and Li Xiaojiu, the government and the public did not believe the authenticity of the news. It was not until Xiao Li Xianggong's official victory report was sent to Chang'an that people in the Tang Dynasty knew that this was not a dream. !

Compared with the joy of the victory of the subjects who didn't know the truth, the ministers of the Zhengshitang all looked serious, and there was no sign of joy at all.

Because, Mr. Li had a sentence at the end of the memorial to the victory that made everyone feel as if they were drenched in ice and snow.

This sentence is not long at all, less than ten characters, that is: Kill all the Tubo soldiers.

After these words, there was no other content, nor did it say any reasons for the killing, nor did it even mention who was responsible for the killing and how it was done.

It is ominous to kill and surrender, this saying has existed since ancient times.

It is heroic for you to kill tens of thousands of people on the battlefield, but it is cruel and inhuman to massacre enemy soldiers who have surrendered...

After watching Mr. Li's Zezi, the ministers of Zhengshitang immediately divided into three factions.

A group of upright young people headed by Wei Shuyu and Changsun Quan strongly condemned Su Dingfang's indiscriminate killing of innocent people and demanded that His Majesty Li Xiaojiu severely punish him.

One faction is the queen party of the imperial party headed by Xu Jingzong and Cui Yixuan. They don't care whether Su Dingfang is doing right or not. They only see that the emperor and empress value Su Dingfang very much. They will definitely not severely punish Su Dingfang at this critical moment. The leader is Mr. Li, so no one can offend him if he offends him!Therefore, several people from this faction tried every means to defend Su Dingfang.

The last faction is the old and hard-working faction headed by Li Ji. They have not expressed any opinions, but are still carefully analyzing the process of this Wuhai victory...

The two opposing factions refused to give in to each other, and couldn't win the support of Mr. Li Ji, so they looked at the emperor and empress one after another.

This situation not only gave His Majesty Li Xiaojiu a headache, but even Wu Xu couldn't bear it.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there have been countless battles, big and small, but such things as killing and surrendering can be avoided as much as possible...

In the battle of Wuhai, more than 7 of the 2 Tubo army died, and more than [-] people surrendered in the end. Li Sanlang explained them in six words, which was indeed a bit cruel.

If it were another person, he would have been sprayed into scum by the imperial censor!

Now, just a few ministers from the Zhengshitang crusade in front of His Majesty Li Xiaojiu and Wu Xu, and they are still silent to the outside world.

Wu Xu has also read Li Sanlang's book, and knows how difficult it is for Su Dingfang to annihilate the [-] Tubo army with fewer victories and more.Moreover, because the Tang army was seriously short of personnel, the Tuyuhun land that it won could only be temporarily handed over to Nuohebo. Su Dingfang was working so hard for nothing!

It would be a bit inhumane to condemn Comrade Lao Su because of those Tubo captives.

Moreover, don't look at Wei Shuyu, Changsun Quan and others all catching Su Dingfang and shouting violently. It is estimated that there is no one here who doesn't understand, who is the one who really ordered the killing and surrender? !

With Li Sanlang's temperament, he would never take these more than 2 Tibetan captives to eat and drink for free!

These people can't be kept, and they can't be released, so they have no choice but to kill them!

There should be no one here who does not understand this principle, but it is understandable intellectually, but it is difficult to accept emotionally.

Wu Xu was silent for a long time, and finally asked Mr. Li Ji for his opinion.

"Li Xianggong, if you were you, how would you deal with these Tibetan captives?"

After the Battle of Wuhai, nearly one-third of Su Dingfang's cavalry was lost, and even the personal guards she sent to Li Sanlang suffered a lot of casualties, which shows the strength of the Tubo army.

More than 2 captives are almost four times the number of troops under Su Dingfang and Li Sanlang!

If it was Li Ji, what would he do?

Mr. Li Ji probably also thought that the Empress Dowager would definitely ask his opinion, and he said calmly after hearing the words: "If I am an old man, I am afraid that I am not as decisive as Mr. Li..." His old man only had this sentence, and there was no more He said.

The meaning of these words is very obvious, Mr. Li Ji obviously supports Li Sanlang's decision.

Since old man Li Ji also affirmed Li Sanlang's actions, Wei Shuyu and others have nothing to say.

Wu Xu couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, feeling that Comrade Su was indeed a good general, every time someone stabbed him, someone would clean up the mess for him.

Chang'an didn't intend to pursue Su Dingfang's crimes anymore, but there are still people in Wuhai who wish to kill Comrade Su a hundred times...

This person was not Lu Dongzan and his son, but Mr. Li, who had just submitted a letter to Chang'an to report his victory, and secretly pleaded for Su Dingfang.

"Who told you to do this?" Mr. Li's face was pale, and even the color of his lips was so pale that he could hardly see the blood. It's like a poisonous snake staring at an ignorant field mouse.

Comrade Old Su scratched his head, completely unable to understand why Mr. Li was so angry.

In other words, he didn't say it himself, would it be good to kill all the captives?

Is it because it was too bloody?

Su Dingfang was still at a loss, but his beast-like intuition made him subconsciously dare not ask 'why', and just stood there obediently listening to the training...

Li Sanlang tried his best to suppress the nausea that was still rising, seeing Su Dingfang's stupid face, he couldn't help snorting.

This damn guy, even killing a few people makes him disgusting, so why not just kill him!

Mr. Li didn't dare to think about those bloody things anymore, he straightened out the thoughts in his head, and then said to Su Dingfang: "This time, Lu Dongzan actually ran away..."

Comrade Old Su has been frightened by Mr. Li's attack recently. Hearing this, he quickly admitted his mistake: "It's all my fault!"

"Of course it's your fault!" Li Sanlang couldn't help squinting at him when he heard that, and dared to interrupt him!

Su Dingfang shuddered at the sight, and hurriedly shut his mouth, pretending to listen obediently.

"Now that the Tubo army occupying Tuyuhun has been wiped out, Lu Dongzan will definitely not be able to stay in Tuyuhun, so he can only retreat... However, the Bailan tribe is difficult to defend, and Nuohebo is also reluctant to part with this piece of fat..." Li Saburo poked back and forth on the sand table in the center of the big tent, and frowned, "If I'm not mistaken, reinforcements must have been sent from Luoxie City..."

Thinking of this, a sneer appeared on Li Sanlang's fair face, "Those idiots would never have thought that Lu Dongzan would lose so badly..."

In fact, the news of the defeat of the Tubo army in Wuhai was spread on purpose by Li Sanlang. At first, the small tribes attached to Tubo could not believe it at all. The tribes such as Dangxiang and Misang all sent their tribesmen to watch near Wuhai. .

Until he saw with his own eyes that Su Dingfang hacked to death a bunch of Tubo captives viciously, and issued a declaration that he would leave Tubo and go to Datang without killing them.

Even so, there are still many tribes who do not believe that the mighty Tubo army will be completely wiped out under the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty (indeed, Lu Dongzan ran away with more than 1000 people =.=), such as Tubo’s southern ally Nipura Guo, didn't believe it, and sent a letter to Mansong Manzan, saying, "Speak up if you have something to say."

It was the skeptical attitude of the Nipaluo Kingdom that made Galqinling firm. The news of Wuhai's defeat was just a suspicious formation by the Tang army, so when he left Luoxie City, he only brought 3 horses with him, leaving the Gar's family able Most of the troops under his direct control were left over to his brother.

It was not until he saw his father Lu Dongzan that Garqin Mausoleum realized that he was wrong.

But it was too late to regret.

Just as Li Sanlang expected, Lu Dongzan knew that the situation was not good when he saw Dayan Mang Buzhi fall during the Battle of Wuhai, and immediately led his 3 troops to break through desperately.But Li Sanlang's plan was not so easy to be deciphered by Lu Dongzan. Lu Dongzan ran out of this ambush circle at one end, and entered another ambush circle at the other end. When he rushed out of the second ambush circle, his More than half of the 3 horses were exhausted, and this is not the end...

The next rain of arrows falling into a horse pit is already a trivial matter. The most terrifying thing is the black stones that Tang Jun threw into their troops that would explode.

The Tang army's bombardment was so chaotic that the Tubo army still had no fighting spirit. Those who could escape all ran away, and those who could not escape all surrendered.

Lu Dongzan is the coach, and he didn't run away so easily.

But he was resourceful after all, seeing that the situation was not right, he had already changed his conspicuous clothes, pretended to be an ordinary Tubo soldier, mixed in with the disorderly army, and ran out after finding a weak point to attack.

Even so, Lu Dongzan also took four or five arrows during his escape, fell off his horse three or four times, and was wiped by the artillery fire once...

There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that if you survive a catastrophe, you must have good fortune in the future.

Lu Dongzan was lying on the simple bed, thinking of these words, his depression and anger subsided a lot.

However, Garqin Mausoleum was not reconciled to such a failure. After listening to Lu Dongzan's account of Wuhai's defeat, he immediately discovered the problem.

"You said General Tang brought thousands of people to challenge, maybe this is all their troops..." Garqin Ling analyzed: "Otherwise, Tang Jun would not have to let Nuohebo summon the old troops to regain the lost ground..."

After the Battle of Wuhai, Nuohebo couldn't wait to lead his troops to recover Tuyuhun. Garqin Mausoleum already knew about it. Thinking about it now, if the Tang army had no one available, how could Nuohebo work for nothing and let Nuohebo take advantage of it?

"And that kind of black stone, the Tang army will definitely not have many..." Otherwise, if the black stone was directly used in the previous ambushes, Tubo would not even be able to escape these 1000 people!

"Li Xiang's thoughts are hard to figure out..." Lu Dongzan certainly knew his son's thoughts after hearing what he said, but he was already a little frightened by Li Sanlang's scheme, and of course he didn't want his son to fall into the other party's trap, so he moved The topic asked about the situation in Luoxie City.

"Zanpu will definitely be displeased with Wuhai's defeat this time, and those old fellows from the Yangtong Department will definitely make trouble for our Gar family..."

"Don't worry, Dad, my son already has a plan to deal with this matter..." Garqin Ling is quite confident in his arrangement in Luoxi City, especially before he left, he secretly ordered all the defenders of Pibo City to return Loot some cities, in case his younger brother Zhengzan Zangdun can't overwhelm the other departments - even Zanpu doesn't know about this.

The arrangement of Galqin Mausoleum is not incomplete, but what he didn't expect was that his secret deployment of troops just gave Ren Yaxiang and Wang Xuance's army, who had been coveting Pibo City for a long time, a big loophole!

Ren Yaxiang took thousands of horses until he entered the city lord's mansion of Pibo City, still couldn't believe that the city had been taken down by them without bloodshed...

"What's going on here?" Ren Xianggong couldn't help asking when he saw Wang Xuance.

Wang Xuance's expression was normal, seeing Ren Yaxiang's question, he just said: "Don't worry, Mr. Xiang, let's talk in detail..."

After all, Wang Xuance asked the soldiers under his command to station in the city lord's mansion first, and then asked a few personal guards to bring the Pibo city guard they had captured, and then let Ren Yaxiang into the hall of the city lord's mansion.

"Master must be wondering why Pibo City, which was heavily guarded a few days ago, was taken down so easily?" Wang Xuance didn't make any circles, and directly expressed his guess.

"The general thought, it must be something about Mr. Li that caused the people in Luoxi City to panic, so he secretly transferred the army of Pibocheng..."

The author has something to say: Tubo is almost finished =. =