Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 2431 Surrounding but not attacking

Early the next morning, Zhang Erhei and Xu Jian brought soldiers and horses to the tower, waiting for the attack of Tubo soldiers and horses.

However, what they didn't expect was that there was nothing outside the city, and there were no Tubo soldiers at all.

Seeing this situation, both Zhang Erhei and Xu Jian were taken aback.

"What's going on, isn't Tubo going to attack the city today?"

They think this is impossible, it doesn't make sense, they ran so far, just want to destroy them, if they don't break through the city, how can they destroy them?
It is impossible for them not to attack the city.

"Could it be that Tubo has some conspiracy?" Zhang Erhei thought in his heart, Tubo's behavior is a bit abnormal, then they must have a trick.

But what is the trick?

Xu Jian focused his eyes, and after a while, he suddenly let out a noise. Hearing this, Zhang Erhei quickly asked, "Why, do you know what's going on?"

Xu Jiandao: "General Zhang, how long can our food and grass last?"

"Up to ten days."

Speaking of this, Zhang Erhei immediately understood that their food and grass can last up to ten days, so Tubo only needs to surround Gancheng.

After their own food and grass are finished, they can't go out of the city.

"That's right, that's right, they are besieging and not attacking because they want to waste time with us. If that's the case, the situation is not good for us. You know, our plan is to use their non-stop siege, To consume their vitality, and then wait until their soldiers and horses are seriously damaged, we will destroy them in one fell swoop, but now they don't attack the city, they just consume us, then we have to go out of the city to fight them."

Zhang Erhei was a little nervous, because something unexpected would make people feel uneasy.

"Since we have to go out of the city to fight sooner or later, we might as well go out of the city and fight with them while we still have food and grass. Our Tang Dynasty has a strong army, and it is not impossible to win."

After thinking about it, Zhang Erhei proposed to go out of the city to fight.

However, Xu Jian smiled lightly, shook his head and said, "General Zhang, please be patient, listen to me, our food and grass can't last long, so can Tubo's food and grass last for a long time? If we give their food and grass to If they are destroyed and they can't support it at all, will they retreat or siege the city madly? They want to consume us. We have a lot of ways to make them unable to wait. So, why should we rush out of the city to fight? Let’s just destroy their troops first.”

Hearing Xu Jian's words, Zhang Erhei said, "What do you mean?"

"Tonight, just send someone to set fire to the Tubo army camp. Burn their food and grass every night, so that they have no food and grass to use, so they have to attack the city as soon as possible."

This method was also used by Du Wen when he was in Longcheng, and now Xu Jian used it again, it turned out to be so perfect, Zhang Erhei slapped his head, why didn't he think of such a method before.

"That's right, that's right. If Tubo wants to waste money with us, it depends on what they can afford. Tonight, we will send people to burn down the Tubo barracks. We must let their barracks be swallowed up by the fire and make their food and grass sharp." reduce."

Xu Jian smiled and nodded.
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Night is coming.

Although the New Year is over, the weather here is still cold.

The Tubo barracks were ablaze, and teams of soldiers kept patrolling.

They knew that Datang had hot air balloons, so they were very cautious. However, when they were patrolling, some bright spots suddenly appeared in the night sky, and the outlines could be seen clearly soon.

"Datang... Datang's hot air balloon..."

Someone shouted, and immediately someone shouted loudly to inform the others, but while they were shouting, rockets fell from the sky and burned the barracks.

No matter how heavily guarded Tubo is, as long as Datang is willing, burning their barracks is not the same as playing games?
The fire raged quickly, and even if Tubo was prepared, it was impossible to control all the fire.

The fire was burning, and the shouts in the barracks continued.

After those hot air balloons finished doing this, they left without stopping.

Han Du ran out from the big tent, looking at the burning barracks, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Damn, damn..."

He knew that it must be because Tang Jun had guessed their intentions, so Tang Jun was burning the barracks, trying to destroy their food and grass. If their food and grass were short, how could they continue to spend so much with Tang Jun?

The firefighters came and went, yelling non-stop, and soon someone ran to Handu and reported the situation.

"Of the ten granaries, three were burned down, and the remaining grain can only last for ten days."

The distance of ten days is not short. From Han Du's point of view, the food and grass of the Tang army in Gancheng City is almost the same ten days.

But if they have the same number of days as Datang, then their plan will basically be impossible to succeed, and if the Tang army comes to burn their barracks every night, then their food and grass will only become less and less, and finally they will be passive. But it was them.

After simple consideration, Han Du nodded and said: "After putting out the fire, let the soldiers rest well. Tomorrow, we will continue to attack the city."

Since it is not good for them to spend time with Tang Jun, they can only take the initiative to attack Gancheng as soon as possible and destroy Tang Jun.

After Han Du's order was issued, it quickly spread in the barracks.

Early the next morning, smoke was still rising from some parts of the barracks.

After Han Du got up, he brought his soldiers and horses directly to Gancheng. On the tower of Gancheng, Zhang Erhei and Xu Jian were already waiting.

"Your method is still easy to use, these Tibetans finally can't wear it anymore."

Zhang Erhei said excitedly, Xu Jian smiled and said, "It's just that in the future, we will face a lot of pressure."

Zhang Erhei didn't care about this, and said, "Don't worry, they won't be able to capture Gancheng."

The two people were talking on the top, but Han Du under the city was too lazy to talk nonsense. After a roar, he directly waved his weapon and rushed over with his soldiers and horses.

On the side of the Tang army, after the Tubo soldiers and horses rushed over, they fired sharp arrows and killed these Tubo soldiers and horses.

The Tubo soldiers and horses kept dying and falling down, and the smell of blood permeated again after a day's pause.

die, die.

Soldiers and horses on both sides died, but when Tubo attacked the city, there must have been more deaths, and they failed to capture Gancheng after so many people died.

As night fell, the Tubo army did not make any progress.

In this case, they could no longer continue to attack the city and could only choose to retreat.

(End of this chapter)