Chapter 18 The Battle of Bluestone Post
"Master, can we win the Tang Dynasty with a sneak attack like this?"
The flattering Tibetan generals nodded and bowed towards the Tubo pair. This wave of sneak attacks on Tashi Pianba, the leader of the most powerful tribe among ten thousand people. (The name is made up according to Tibetan language, do not link it with history)
"Trash, what do you know? This is the wise decision of the four adults, Tunmi Sangbuza, Ludongzan, Zhisaidanru Gongdun and Niangchi Sangyangdun. If they win, they will send an army to stand on the ground."
"Can't we win?"
"If we can't win, we will shirk it by saying that I sent the troops privately, and I will be rewarded when I return."
"Four wise men"
"Then, if I hadn't been a good brother with Tunmi Sambuza, how could this matter have happened to me?"
"The master is mighty"
Being praised by his own slaves, Tashi Bianba was very proud. This sneak attack on Jiannan of the Tang Dynasty was the base of the former Shu Han. According to word of mouth from the elders of the clan, there was food everywhere. After defeating the tribe, they
People will not be blamed for starving to death due to lack of food.
As for those people from the original Tang Dynasty, didn't they know how to farm? Sir, I can exempt them from the crime of skinning them, as long as they are allowed to farm day and night.
Hahaha
Although Tashi Pemba is a careless and rough man, he actually has cunning and discernment in his heart, otherwise he would not be able to climb up to the four right-hand men of Songtsan Gampo of Tubo.
These four are not just simple characters. They allowed Songtsen Gampo to establish a huge and powerful Tubo Kingdom in Tubo, a place with strong religious colors. They followed the Tang Dynasty for more than 100 years. In the end, if religion had not held back the Tang Dynasty, it would have been so chaotic.
It is estimated that the land of China will be a different scene again.
This team of ten thousand people marched hard in the mountainous areas on the border between Bashu and Tibet. In order to keep it secret, Tashi Bianba actually ordered the team to stay up and down for two days, and safely arrived at the first outpost set up by the Tang Dynasty on the border.
Bluestone Post.
Qingshi Post, I wonder if Li Shimin has always had unruly people who want to harm me over the years. After the Battle of the Weishui River, he spent a lot of money to repair the guard towers and send more manpower.
The bluestone post faces the direction of Tubo. On one side is a thousand-foot cliff with a turbulent river below it. On the side is a towering rock over a hundred meters away. A hundred meters away, under the rock, is a vast forest, which can be said to be a natural shelter.
This outpost is the closest to the Tashi Bianba tribe. It is not big and can only accommodate about a hundred soldiers. This kind of outpost established in a key place is the most difficult to attack. There is no trick, it is just a matter of human life.
The lives of Tubo slaves are worthless
Tashi Bianba waved his hand: "Let the slaves check the woodland on the side, and then let them rush for a wave while the warriors of the tribe take a rest."
"yes"
Tashi Bianba's deputy arranged the order. The slaves were unwilling but could not withstand the swords and spears of the Fan soldiers. They had to take their own hoes and forks. One group of people entered the forest under the escort of steel knives, while the other group gritted their teeth.
Walk towards the outpost.
slave
I walked hungry for two days during the day and night.
no rest
We also have to search a dense forest area.
Pull it down
After walking a few steps inside, the slaves looked at the Tibetan soldiers holding steel knives from an unclear distance and squatted down in the grass.
Why so skilled
They were often beaten, and squatting down could save them a few beatings. Slaves who were not lazy and rested generally did not live long.
It's quiet inside the jungle
It was different outside the outpost. The serfs attacked the outpost.
It was made of stone. Although it was only six meters high, it didn't look very high. But this was a mountain road, only about ten meters wide. What was also helpless was that the serfs had no siege equipment.
How to hit someone with a fork and a stick?
Pile with corpses!
The slaves who were not shot to death on the way to the charge dragged the corpses of slaves who were shot to death by Tang soldiers halfway to the outpost wall, and then piled their corpses under the young tower as stepping stones.
Then what
The unlucky guy waiting to die first under the arrows of the next Tang soldier.
Those who die first will naturally be piled up.
Those who survive continue to gamble on luck.
above the outpost
Except for the normal rain of arrows and a few Tang soldiers who shot arrows to kill the attacking slaves at their feet, everything seemed somewhat smooth and orderly.
This wave of soldiers from the Tang Dynasty were too calm. If Tashi Bianba led people under the wall, they might be able to tell that something was wrong, but they were just slaves below.
They huddled together with their hands on their heads, praying to the Tibetan gods, big and small, to bless them and thank God for not dying. They had neither the mood nor the courage to see why the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were shooting them to death were so calm.
Tashi Bianba had no idea, so he drank some butter tea and some yak jerky and slept happily for a while.
"Is there anything unusual in the jungle?"
"Master, the slave who came back just now said that nothing unusual was found."
"How many slaves are missing?" It is normal for Tashi Pianba to ask this. Some restless ones always try to find a way to escape.
"Master, a team of thirty slaves ran away"
Tashi Bianba looked out at the forest land in front of him with an indifferent expression: "There are only thirty of them. It's really boring. There is no food and no swords. I want to see how many days these bastards can survive, hum."
The deputy glanced at his master to flatter him: "What the master said is that these bitches won't live long. The poisonous snakes and insects in the mountains will soon send them to hell."
Zaxi Bianba was very satisfied with the deputy's answer. He took another sip of milk tea and looked at the pile of corpses of slaves under the sentry tower. He sent someone to replace the group of slaves who were almost dead and let them rest for a while.
New slave comes up.
The composition of the Tibetan army, the ratio of a regular Tubo soldier to slaves is at least 1:5. Some people who are not rich enough to train many soldiers can reach 1:10.
The situation here in Tashi Bianba is that there are 3,000 regular Tibetan soldiers with 10,000 horsepower, and the rest are slaves.
The attack just now only killed two to three hundred people, just worthless slaves. For Tashi Pianba, the number of people who freeze to death, starve to death, beat to death and skinn every year is not this number.
Under the pressure of the steel knife, the second wave of slaves passed by the slaves who had just retreated, and rushed towards the outpost that wanted their lives.
God bless cow dung
I don't know that the slave rushed forward in order to prevent himself from being timid and shouted for blessing from the gods he believed in.
Maybe it was this divine blessing that played a role. Some slaves also started shouting.
stick god bless
Green Grass God bless
Cow tail god bless
Bless the highland barley god
A lot of strange slogans seemed to have been injected into their bodies, and the bodies of their brothers under the outpost did not seem so scary.
dash forward
Kill these Tang soldiers
Then they can get the delicacies rewarded by the master
Some of the crowds of slaves were unlucky enough to accidentally fall into the Wan Zhang Hang next to them. Most of them rushed to the tower under the rain of arrows and climbed up on the corpses of the slaves who had just died.
Huhu
As he looked at himself, his eyes gradually became level with the stone wall of the outpost. The slave who rushed to the front showed excitement in his eyes.
The credit for the first landing on the city belongs to him.
However, when his sight stabilized and he looked past the Tang army on the guard tower toward the Tang territory, fear occupied his heart...
Chapter completed!