People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1304: Go out of the city shirtless, lead hundreds of officials, and present the national seal
Towering red mountains and white city walls.

Under the red umbrella, Wu Lu, who was in his early thirties and with a gorgeous face, looked at the tall arrow tower in the Tang Army camp in the southwest.

She knew that the Prince of Nanchang County of the Tang Dynasty, whom she hated the most, was standing there, and maybe he was watching from there at this time.

Without Lu's eyes falling on both sides of the camp, Longqu River and Luoxue River had been completely blocked.

Behind the newly built tall dam, the river is filled with water.

From time to time, river water rushes over the dam and into the wide, dry river in front.

At this time, countless soldiers were standing on the river and began to dig towards the north, as if they were about to dig under the city wall.

Once the dam releases water, the city wall, which has suffered a summer of damage, will immediately collapse.

No one even knows where it will collapse.

Once the Tang army is allowed to enter the city, everything will collapse completely.

Thinking of this, Wu Lu couldn't help but clenched her fist tightly.

Tang Jun.

Mrs. Lu raised her head with a solemn expression and looked outside the city.

At this moment, in the fields outside the city, in addition to the Tang Army camp in the southwest, there are two Tang Army camps in the southeast and east.

Behind the Tang Army camp was vast farmland.

Countless farmers are preparing highland barley and wheat in the fields. In another half month, the grain will be mature.

By then, the Tang people would have completely harvested the food, and the food shortage in Luoshu City would become more and more serious, and the situation in the city that was already difficult to suppress would immediately break out.

……

"Is it really irreversible for Lin Zhou?" Wu Lu turned around and looked at his brother Chisang.

Chi Sang shook his head helplessly and said: "The Tang army has occupied Linzhou, and the treasures hidden in Linzhou have been found by the Tang people. Our retreat is gone."

Mrs. Lu fell silent. After a while, she finally said: "If Zanpu and I choose to surrender, is there any chance to assassinate the King of Nanchang?"

"There is a chance." The look on Chi Sang's face suddenly calmed down, and he looked at his sister solemnly and said, "The people of the Tang Dynasty are careless. As long as they get close, there will definitely be a chance. But you have to think clearly, once the King of Nanchang dies, the people of the Tang Dynasty will rush in." If they come to the city, they might go crazy and massacre the city completely."

Wu Lu sighed with emotion, then shook his head and said: "We can't hold on to the logic anymore. There is no need to hold on here. Only by killing the King of Nanchang can we have a way out."

"Where to go?" Chi Sang lowered his head and said bitterly: "Now the whole of Tubo has fallen into the hands of the Tang people. Linzhi and Shigatse have fallen into the hands of the Tang people. There has been no news from Shannan and the south for a long time, and there is more news from the north. It was long ago..."

"We still have Xiangxiong." Without a word from Lu, Chisang couldn't help but get excited.

Yes, they still have Shang Shung, but...

"The rebels are now west of Shigatse. If the Tang people hadn't stopped them, they might have killed them by now, and we wouldn't have been able to return to our hometown." Chi Sang couldn't help but shake his head.

"Damn Tianzhu, damn Nibala." Wu Lu cursed bitterly.

She had originally wanted to mobilize Tianzhu's elephant cavalry and Nibalo's reinforcements since last year, hoping that they could defeat the Tang army under Luoche City, but she did not expect that these two families had promised well, but now, there is no news. No more.

Chi Sang remained silent, knowing the reason behind this.

The fastest way from Tianzhu to Luoxe is through Chongsa, but Chongsa is the territory of the Gar family. Since they killed Zan Xiruo last year, the news of Tang Dynasty's invasion of Tubo can no longer be concealed.

The people of Tianzhu have not forgotten the Tang Dynasty.

Whether it was Xuanzang back then or Wang Xuance later, as well as the Tang Dynasty's power in the Western Regions, the people of Tianzhu understood the ferocity of the Tang Dynasty, so they were even more hesitant on this matter.

Coupled with the road blockage of the Gar family, the Tianzhu people simply stopped taking the detour and waited south of Chongsa.

They can't come, and actually don't want to come.

Chi Sang sighed softly and said: "The current problem is not only the food and grass problem for the people in the city. According to people who came back from the east a few days ago, more than a dozen city-states in the east and south have all fallen into the hands of the Tang Dynasty. , The officials in the city were panicked, and they were all afraid that the Tang people would come into the city. "

"Then they will fight tooth and nail." Wu Lu clenched her fists tightly, her eyes full of resentment.

Chisang lowered his head and said: "There are already rumors circulating in the city, saying that the royal family should accept the canonization of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the king goes to Chang'an and says a few good words to the saint, he might not only be able to come back, but also marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty... …”

Lu Shi slowly turned around in disbelief and looked at her brother.

Chisang smiled bitterly and said: "Some of this is the meticulous work of the Tang people, and some of it is the complaints of the nobles whose city-states were completely taken over."

"Let the Qu family handle it. Shannan should have fallen. The Gar family will not let the Qu family go. Let them clean up the inside and outside of the house and eliminate all the noise." Bu Lu gave the order with a stern expression.

"But, you were still talking about assassinating the King of Nanchang just now." Chi Sang was a little stunned.

"There is no conflict. Let someone send a letter first and agree on a time with the King of Nanchang. We will take the opportunity to kill him and create chaos. Then we will take Zanpu and fight out of the city, cross Shigatse, and return to Xiangxiong. Xiangxiong Those rebels who failed to invade Tubo must be angry with the King of Nanchang, and we can cooperate." Lu's eyes were filled with calculations.

Chisang fell silent, and finally nodded slightly and said, "I will make arrangements right away, but there is one more thing. The water in the city is also insufficient. Someone suggested that some of the spring water from Hongshan should be given to the people."

"There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, how to divide them?" Mrs. Bu Lu glanced at Chi Sang indifferently, and then said softly: "Send the order and ask everyone to dig wells deep under the city. There must be water deep under the city. "

"Yes!"

...In the southwest camp, Li Xuan looked at the message in his hand and laughed coldly: "In five days, I will leave the city and surrender. I think it will be so beautiful."

Xiao Siye stood up, raised his hands and said: "The autumn harvest will not begin until ten days later. Now is the time when the city is most short of food. If we leave the city in five days and surrender, this will be equivalent to pushing all the hungry people in the city into our hands." Once we fail to solve the food problem, their opportunity will come."

"So, when I sent the message back, I did not accept it. I told them that on July 20th, when the weather is suitable and the solar terms are favorable, let Songtsan, the Red Capital, go out of the city shirtless, lead all the officials, present the national seal, and surrender to the Tang Dynasty." Li Xuan His expression was cold.

"Here!" Xiao Siye immediately handed over his hand, then quickly walked to one side and started writing.

Li Xuan glanced at Hei Te Changzhi who was sitting on the side, and looked at Wei Hongji without saying anything else.

Although Hei Te Changzhi was a surrendered general of Baekje, he came out of the mountains to surrender long after the Baekje Kingdom was destroyed. He had no idea that the Tang Dynasty had its own rules for surrender.

Now Xiao Siye only needs to follow this set of rules and ask the Tubo royal family to surrender. Then no matter what their intentions are, they will not succeed.

"Wei Canjun, on July 20th, regardless of whether they come out or not, we will open the dam and release the water at three o'clock." Li Xuan's eyes became cold.

He just wants the Tubo people to be dead and wounded. Only in this way, when the land is divided in the future, there will be less obstacles from the Tang Dynasty.

Hei Te Changzhi looked up at Li Xuan and nodded in agreement.

Wei Hongji solemnly raised his hands: "Here!"

"Take your time. After all, they are not that sincere about surrendering. The real bloody battle has never started, and the last bit of luck in their hearts has not ended yet." Li Xuan's last words completely shattered the luck in the hearts of some people in the tent.

……

Time has passed and it is already July 19th before I know it.

A black banner was erected in front of the camp, and countless cavalry drove in an orderly manner from the west toward the city gate in the east.

The left guard, the right guard, the right leader guard, the right guard, the left Xiao guard, the right guard, the right military guard, the Heyuan guard, the Yangtong cavalry, and the Supi cavalry, each with a thousand men, slowly drove to the east gate. Next, then line up.

The black banner moved slowly, and the generals in black clothes and armor passed in front of the army solemnly.

Countless soldiers lowered their heads at this moment, looking respectful.

On the city wall, Chisang, Qu Mangbu Zilasong, and Qi Nie Zhusong looked at Li Xuan below the city with ugly expressions as if he was reviewing an army.

They knew that the purpose of Li Xuan's appearance here today could never be simple.

Some time ago, the Queen Mother and the King of Nanchang were engaged in various pulls, and sometimes they even reached the final step of surrendering, but one party always regretted it at the last moment, even the Queen Mother who planned to assassinate Lu. Same.

Chisang understood the reason for this best. They were trapped in Luoxue City. Not only the Tang army camp opposite, but also the entire Tubo situation had completely lost control. Even no news from the outside could come in. .

Without reinforcements, people's hearts have become desperate.

Especially in the city, there are people from the Tang Dynasty who are spreading rumors. Today, the city-state of this family has been conquered and all the family members have been killed. Tomorrow, the family members of that family will take the initiative to surrender to the city and survive, but they will be outside the city...

The key is the morale of the soldiers defending the city. With lack of food and water, and no foreign aid, morale has been ruined.

However, the Tang people had not attacked the city at all in the past few months.

They don't attack the city, and they can't get out of the city. The soldiers in the city have already lost their determination to die.

If the Tang people really attacked the city in full force now, they really didn't have enough confidence to be able to defend it.

But the Tang people did not attack.

Everyone saw their purpose clearly, they wanted most of the people in the city to starve to death.

Someone once proposed that all the people in the city be sent out to the Tang people, but Lu refused because she was worried that the Tubo nobles would flee with them, and everything would be out of control.

Now, the final moment is coming.

Chi Sang raised his head, passed over Li Xuan's head, and landed on the water dam in the distance.

……

The black scroll moved forward. Li Xuan rode forward and stopped five hundred steps in front of the city gate. He had already taken out an imperial edict.

"Order of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." Li Xuan slowly opened the imperial edict.

The next moment, countless cavalrymen behind him immediately dismounted and then half-knelt on the ground.

For a moment, even on the top of the city, some people couldn't help but kneel down, but they were instantly pulled up by their companions.

"The Lord of Tubo, Chidu Songtsan, is sincere, loyal, filial and holy. He can be named the King of Tibetan and be appointed as General Zuo Xiaowei and General of the Army!" When Li Xuan said this, there was an uproar on the city. Datang The king of the country was rewarded for the third time. Are they really unwilling to attack the city? All the floods are just threats.

Li Xuan sneered softly at the corner of her mouth, and then continued: "Prince Nie Zhusong of Tubo, who is loyal, filial, benevolent and righteous, sincere and courageous, can be named the king of Xihai County and be appointed as General Zuo Xiaowei and General of the Army..."

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, cold murderous intent fell on Qi Nie Zhusong above the city.

Qu Mangbujila immediately pulled his cousin behind him and stared at Chisang like an enraged beast.

He knew that Li Xuan's attempt to sow discord outside had succeeded.

(End of this chapter)