Chapter 127 No one understands Tubo better than me
"Don't panic, the Tubo people don't have siege equipment! Secure your position!"
"They don't have many flying ladders. The crossbowmen line up and shoot at anyone who comes up! Then they use kerosene to burn the ladders!"
"The Tubo people have come a long way. It is impossible for them to cross the snow-capped mountains in armor! Don't panic!"
"Pay attention to protecting Wu Duo. Keep the sword and shield soldiers in front. The shields should face outside the city. Don't shoot arrows at the bottom of the city!"
"Don't show your head! Don't show your head! Don't show your head!"
Under the protection of a group of sword and shield soldiers, Fang Dafu kept patrolling along the city wall at the top of his lungs, shouting as he walked. The slightly chaotic defenders gradually became orderly.
Fang Chongyong was very timid and was afraid of being shot in the head by the Tibetan Wu Duo, so he told Fang Dafu, and the other party shouted again. His voice was loud and full of convincing majesty.
There are not many people in the small town who know how the Tibetans attack the city. So far, the army here has hardly fought against the Tibetans. Moreover, most of the veterans from the early Kaiyuan period have retired.
But Fang Chongyong happens to be the leader in "talking on paper"!
Not only did the experienced Niu Xianke have "secrets" passed down from generation to generation, but he also had the military assistance of the Tubo people. It is no exaggeration to say that among all the soldiers in the city, including Wang Sili, no one knew it better than Fang Chongyong.
Tubo.
"There is a problem outside, but it's just here in Luocheng..."
Because the casualties were too small, the Tubo people massacred the city in Guazhou to vent their anger, leaving almost only chickens and dogs behind.
Vaguely, Che Xiangrong felt that the Tubo people needed to be honest in such "important" matters. There was a small chance that Guazhou would be captured.
Suddenly, a stone was thrown from the city, it was vicious and cruel, and it went straight to Zhang Guangsheng's head. At this time, the sword and shield soldiers around me had not been withdrawn yet, so they had no precautions.
"Well, it's true that life has been bad this year."
The man who looked to be over seventeen or eighteen years old, with a childlike look on his face, patted his chest, flexed his arms and said, "You are a real person, Tubo Wuduo's tricks are just like playing."
The guard soldier handed the arrow with the letter tied to it to Zhang Guangsheng for inspection. He saw it written in Chinese below: Your army has broken through Guazhou and cut off the Tang army's way to the Western Regions. It is meaningful to defend the city. Kaicheng surrenders. Your army is
Kill one person, or else there will be a bloodbath for eight days before the city is broken.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Dunhuang area formed a water conservancy system with Ganquan Water (Dang River) as the main canal and Maquankou Weir as the main hub.
"Is the strong man still bad?"
I suffered such a small loss just after changing my year name. Brother Ji can't bear it. I must regain my position!
In early spring, the river runoff is large and cannot meet the irrigation demand, so the fields that need to be planted with spring barley in early spring and beans sown earlier will have to be plowed later in the next autumn.
"Bad! He was no longer your soldier before!"
Recently, Che Xiang received reinforcements sent by Wang Zhongsi, and Zhang Guangsheng boldly adjusted his deployment.
And the number of times a small part of farmland is irrigated each year, the time of each irrigation and the type of irrigated fields, etc.
The so-called "flying ladder", to put it bluntly, is a ground-mounted folding staircase. When used, it is folded up for transportation and portability, and when used, it is unfolded to attack the city. It can be adapted to particularly low-rise city walls. The advantage is that it is difficult to manufacture and high cost.
It is cheap; the disadvantage is that it is not very difficult to destroy by the defenders.
Fang Xiaofu shouted, and the messengers at the top of the city raised their torches and waved them, and the soldiers who were shooting arrows immediately stopped.
Fang Shijun could not help but sigh and said.
I am determined to live and die with Shouchang, what do they think?"
Therefore, autumn plowing becomes the beginning of a production cycle and ends with autumn harvest. According to the "Shouchang Dunhuang County Water Use Detailed Rules" promulgated by the Shouchang Prefectural Government, an agricultural production cycle requires eight rounds of irrigation, that is, "autumn water irrigation."
“Spring water irrigation”, “watering injured seedlings”, “watering wheat fields again”, “watering millet and hemp fields heavily” and “watering hemp fields”.
The land outside that area is all "precision irrigated". If we only look at it by "technological content", the level of farming is much lower than that of the Central Plains.
Zhang Guangsheng looked around the crowd and said, Che Xiangrong clenched the handle of the horizontal knife in his hand very smartly, paying close attention to Zhang Guangsheng's body movements.
Along the way, the main force of the Tibetan army attacked Guazhou along the Mingshui (Shule River) and captured the city in one fell swoop. Guazhou governor Leting Huan died in the battle, and both the attacking and defending sides suffered heavy casualties.
Immediately afterwards, I issued an imperial edict to directly remove Xiao Jiong, the military governor of Hexi Province, from his post, demote him as the governor of Qizhou, and replace him with Wang Zhongsi as the military governor of Hexi Province!
Che Xiangrong shook his head and sighed.
In the early summer of the first year of Tianbao, the Tubo people took advantage of the brief opportunity when the snow melted and the meadows along the coast were plentiful before the rivers swelled. They gathered the elites who had not participated in the battle since then and divided their troops into eight groups to attack Hexi!
Fang Jijun, who was on the side, looked embarrassed, then patted the strong man on the shoulder and said: "Wang Sili, he used to follow Fang Chongyong. I am the son of Fang Jieshuai, and I have a promising future. His military status, my army
The envoy will handle it properly."
So the Tubo people are stupid. Since the siege equipment is in place, let's just wait until dawn. The city is mainly composed of cavalry and mounted infantry. It is indeed suitable for weak siege, and the price/performance ratio is too high.
At that moment, a soldier guarding the city in front of Zhang Guangsheng had quick eyesight and slow hands. He rushed down and pulled Zhang Guangsheng, and he was hit by a stone with his front and back!
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"The sweet springs are overflowing and the local canals in Dunhuang are suffering. Alas, what will we do with this year's autumn harvest?"
There are very few things that require careful planning, need to be done in a private place, and can be easily disclosed to the public in a small court.
This man instantly felt that all his internal organs had been displaced. What's more, the camel skin underneath him was made into a large armor. The leather armor was worn with ropes. It was not flexible and a small part of the strength was relieved.
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Che Xiangrong handed the letter that the Tibetans shot back to everyone for inspection, and then said seriously:
Now it seems that Chexiang County in the south was obviously captured by the Tibetans. Of course, we only occupied an empty city.
To put it more complicated, the Tibetan people who like martial arts are considered cowards. So when facing us, whether they want to protect themselves or seek refuge, just pick up a knife. With a knife, he is not even qualified to be a dog, he just
Worthy of becoming pigs and sheep to be slaughtered.
The serfdom of the Tubo people had an insane demand for slaves, which was very different from Che Xiangrong's later generations who called "board-mounted" books. The gentle orders of the lower-level Tubo people were occasionally implemented at the grassroots level, let alone others.
Me.
So basically, as long as you go to a place, you will enslave the people there. Only the local heroes and weaklings who have tried their best to resist us and have done no harm to us will be awarded the position of "sacrifice" and manage
The Tubo people are a convenient place to manage.
In order to "prove" that his information was top secret and made up, Zhang Guangsheng only weakened the local defense in Shouchang and purchased military supplies. Hengdao and crossbows on the local market in Dunhuang.
"Consumables" such as arrows and arrows were all swept away by the government office!
Judging from Tubo's habit of frequently mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops, it is possible that the great city of Shouchang was just one of them in that wave of offensives. Other places, even Guazhou, were excluded from being attacked.
"It's very bad. From now on, food and fodder in the city will be rationed, and local people will be mobilized to defend the city. Those who disobey the order will be punished as Tibetan comrades, and they will be killed with pardon!"
However, Zhang Guangsheng and Wang Sili's worries were unnecessary.
When you become a slave, will your life or death depend on other people's thoughts?
What's more, the armor and baggage of the Tubo army are all in the front, and now they are just heavy cavalry troops.
Another group of Tibetan troops attacked Shouchang and occupied the front of the inhabited Shazhou County with bloody swords. They encountered disappointment in Shouchang Dacheng and Luocheng, so they had to besiege the two cities and persuade them to surrender.
Che Xiangrong shook his head helplessly. He had just joined the army this year, and our family had settled in Dunhuang for a long time. His family was from Wumu, Shaanxi (today's Zhouzhi, Shaanxi). His father's father was a soldier in Hexi and never left again.
Already.
boom!
"Hey, you're bad! I've seen Fang Chongyong! I'll just let you do whatever you want!"
In ancient times, whether there were satellite maps or wired communications, it was possible to know what the war situation was like in other places in Hexi.
There are also weirs and gates under the main canals, which together constitute the developed network agricultural irrigation system in Dunhuang. The local people rely on the irrigation system for their livelihood. The climate is stable every year, and the harvests are relatively stable, and they hope that God will reward them.
Small main canals such as Yangkai Canal, Beifu Canal, Duxiang Canal, Yiqiu Canal, Shennong Canal, Yin'an Canal and Donghe Canal have been established to run through the Dunhuang Oasis, and more than a hundred branch canals are arranged in a feather shape on both sides of the main canal.
Sure enough, before dawn, Zhang Guangsheng took Fang Shijun and representatives of local small households down to the city tower, and found that the city had not yet been besieged by the Tibetan legions. It was just that we were besieging instead of fighting, and we knew what we wanted to do.
When Zhang Guangsheng read the document for the first time, he was immediately amazed and deeply impressed. The ancients had not achieved the ultimate in system management despite unlimited productivity. This is really to be underestimated.
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"And it is said that it is a plan of the Tubo people to make a living. Even if it is true, we say it is killing people, but others say it is to make you slaves.
Along the way, the Tubo army pretended to attack Xiaodou Bago. Before conquering the new city, they fought back and forth with the Tang army between Xiaodou Bago and the new city.
The tactics are clearly written in the opponent's military law!
The Tibetan siege has not stopped yet. It lasted for about half an hour. It was obviously just a test. During the siege, seventeen flying ladders were destroyed, which was probably not the total number we carried that time.
There were siege equipment, so we stopped, which was in line with the laws of war.
Originally, Wang Sili had not been recruited as a soldier by Fang Shijun, but now that Zhang Guangsheng had spoken, Fang Shijun had no intention of quarreling with the other party. It was like selling him off by the way. That kind of official favor could be used at any time.
Down.
Abandoned the defense of Shazhou County in the south, called on the local people to live in Luocheng, and transferred the guest army Guo Ziyi who was stationed in Shazhou County to Luocheng to weaken the defense of Luocheng. The Tang army concentrated on Ganquanshui (Dang River)
The areas on both sides of the bank are only separated by a river and cannot support each other.
Just looking at the progress of the Tibetan siege, Fang Chongyong knew that the enemy might not expect to capture the small town tonight.
As long as the Tubo people capture any city in the Hexi Corridor, we can use the resources in this city to build excellent siege equipment, and then encircle the city from seven sides.
Regardless of whether Luocheng or the big city is bad, they are all close to Ganquanshui. However, the safety of the city has not been destroyed. The mother river of Ganquanshui has a bad temper, and the locals actually know it.
.When the snow-capped mountains melt, the amount of water is very small, and it surges like the Yellow River. When the climate is hot, the flow is cut off, and the temper can be said to be moody and angry.
The Tubo people stopped attacking the city after half an hour. The reason was very complicated: we found that Chexiang City was heavily guarded.
Fang Shijun said worriedly. Looking at the scattered torches on the city, he knew whether the Tibetans had entered or if they had left a few scouts to bluff on the city.
Zhang Guangsheng said a harsh word and left the city with his people.
Zhang Guangsheng sighed and said.
"It makes you have bad eyesight. The Tibetan army is tempting you to shoot arrows at the city. The attack on the city is just a pretense. I'm afraid there will be no bloody battle in the next few days."
Zhang Guangsheng quickly got down and helped the man up, and went to check on the savior, only to see that the sturdy soldier seemed to be fine at all!
The urgent military information reached Chang'an. When the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji, learned that Guazhou had been defeated, he became furious and was so angry that he could not eat for the whole day.
"Stop shooting arrows at the city."
Angry, Aduan shot an arrow in the direction of the stone, and soon he heard the thud of someone falling off their horse in the city.
Zhang Guangsheng said proudly.
Due to the high winter temperatures in Dunhuang, the soil freezes and deep plowing is not possible.
After a while, there were no Tibetan army scouts on the city, so he rode on his horse and shot an arrow at the top of the city.
Che Xiangrong was worried about this and lamented that the Tubo people's little tricks were as fast as the wind!
Zhang Guangsheng felt that the flood was probably related to the Tibetan people. However, now that Dunhuang County is under siege, it will obviously affect the repair of canals and the harvest outside the fields. Its subsequent consequences can be overestimated.
Zhang Guangsheng patted the other party's arm and said. Because the young and strong man was too low, I couldn't even hit the other party's shoulder.
Zhang Guangsheng denied that I was not betting, but I was right!
These contents are not specified in detail in the "Detailed Rules for the Use of Water in Shouchang Dunhuang County".
"Hey, there's something going on."
The blockade of the big city has not yet been lifted, and the troubles in Shouchang are even more profound. So far, no one around Zhang Guangsheng knows how far the Tubo people have retreated. I don't even know whether Guazhou City is still there.
Yes, very sure.
The resistance they encountered was as if they were suddenly attacked and were unprepared.
However, this move met with little resistance from the local people in Shazhou. Zhang Guangsheng had to sign a letter of guarantee, confirming that the Tibetan people were coming, and the Shouchang government office was responsible for reimbursing the moving expenses. These people moved to Luo willingly.
city.
A stone hit the shield of the sword and shield soldier who was closest to Che Xiangrong, making Fang Yanei, who had been lying calmly just now, tremble with fright. I have seen the power of Wu Duo, and the sword and shield soldier next to him is a big one.
When Xin exposed half of his shoulder, he was immediately hit by the stone thrown by Wu Duo. In an instant, his shoulder was paralyzed and drooped!
To put it more clearly, the Tubo army's attack on the big city of Shouchang was just based on the words "the soldiers are expensive and quick". Should we only attack the big city?
"Che Xiangrong is truly the son of Fang Jieshuai!"
I want to see what those Tubo people are going to do to fight me!"
Wang Sili cupped his fists and saluted Zhang Guangsheng.
Tonight is temporarily dangerous, which means there is always danger ahead.
The local small households headed by Zhang Chan immediately knelt on the ground and shouted: "You will be of one heart and one mind with the envoy, and we will live and die with Shouchang!"
Without Guo Ziyi, Zhang Guangsheng believed that Luocheng could still be defended.
Fang Shijun, who was wearing bright light armor, came over and said.
Therefore, the locals live not far from the sweet spring water. In particular, they are not worried about the river flooding.
If Tubo conquers Guazhou and then conquers Shouchang, the Western Region and the Central Principle will be divided into seven parts. The resulting chain reaction may be difficult for even Hexi Jiedu Prefecture to deal with.
So when the sweet spring flooded and burst its banks, the local people in Dunhuang were worried not only that they would be drowned, but that the canals that had accumulated over many generations would be destroyed by the floods!
"Hey, those Tubo people know it, right? I have already learned about our plan and have stockpiled a small amount of bows and arrows in the big city. You have even collected the goods brought by Hu merchants from the Western Regions!