8. The clever tongue is still praised
Who is the visitor? I am afraid that I will have to have another decisive battle with the other party to find out clearly.
But Shang Jiezan now has no capital to inquire: on Fengxiang and Jingyuan alone, there were 70,000 or 80,000 Tang troops surrounded his Pingliang from three aspects, and Shang Jiezan had only 10,000 or 20,000 troops.
If you want to brag about the combat effectiveness of the Dafan warriors, you can’t say that Dafan warriors can fight four Tang soldiers at one time, right?
Although Shang Jiezan spent a lot of effort to build a brand new city in Pingliang according to the regulations of Xifan, the destructible sand castle has been lost. Now that his team's flanks are all exposed, he can only rely on Longshan Pass and Zhengsheng Pass behind to obtain supplies from Longyou. This front is really too fragile.
But if you rashly abandon Pingliang City, it is not equivalent to the Bai helping the Tang army build a city. This loss will be huge and you will lose all your face.
So in Pingliang City, Shang Jiezan was anxiously calculating gains and losses.
At this moment, his servant, Soma, rode a horse and ten ascended birds, and brought Chisong Dezan's instructions from the city of Lossia as fast as possible.
Soma half-kneeled in front of the master of the Lordless Lord, and said to Shang Jiezan: "The god Zamp said that if a shepherd can protect his herd before the snowstorm comes, it is worth losing a few tents."
Shang Jiezan hurriedly asked Soma: "The god Zanpu...is he going to discuss peace with the Tang family?"
Soma nodded, "That's what Zamp should mean. He said that the temptation has been completed, and there is no need to make a glass of bitter wine into a jar."
"Where is Ma Chongying!" Shang Jiezang was embarrassed.
Soma shook her head, meaning that even the god Zampo could not give anyone a clear answer.
"The front line in the future is probably going to retreat back to Longshan. It's all my fault for being incompetent. I was defeated first by Gootouyuan, then by destroying sand castle, and now I have to lose Pingliang to protect myself and my subordinates to retreat to Shanzhou... But what is certain about this theory is that the Tang family must have new generals and are competing with this theory, is it?" This fashion knot is obvious. Could it be that Cui Ziyang in the blue shirt?
No, no, Shang Jiezan doesn't dare to be so sure.
The only thing he could confirm was that the most valuable thing he had captured by the Tang army was not the frog flag, not the hat, clothes, nor the umbrella seal, but the wooden slips that looked ordinary at first glance - the abominable and cunning Tang people. They must have found the key points of our Dafan army and the rules of marching and police in the wooden slips to surprise attack and destroy the sand castle.
"Soma, tomorrow you will burn down everything in the city, including all the books, and then we will retreat." After a long time, Shang Jiezan ordered a little painfully.
"Abide by the order, the great treatise of the noble and great Na Nang family!" Soma received the order.
Then in Pingliang City, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Shang Jiezan summoned all the secrets and enemy defense envoys and publicly told them that we would burn the city and retreat.
Suddenly, the Western Foreign Army generals were very depressed and puzzled: At the beginning, you had to defend Pingliang, but now you have to burn it and run away. Isn’t this strategy inconsistent?
So Shang Jiezan was so clever and said to everyone:
"We built a city in Pingliang, but the Tang family was building four or five cities in Chaona, Anqiu, Sunqiu Valley, and Huating to confront me. In this regard, only 15,000 people, they nailed 80,000 Tang soldiers to this belt for three months, so that they could not support the northern line of Shuofang. In order to build these four or five cities, the Tang family consumed hundreds of thousands of stones of food and hundreds of thousands of coins of money. This is our success. The gains and losses on the battlefield do not necessarily have to be measured by the outcome, and the blood lost by the Tang family is not just the life of soldiers."
As soon as he said this, the simple and vigorous Western British generals nodded frequently, which was very understandable.
Then Shang Jiezan made up the accounts for the generals:
"So should Pingliang City be destroyed? This theory believes that it is to be destroyed.
We built a Pingliang City. In order to siege this city, the Tang people built five cities, and we spent only one-fifth of the Tang people.
If we do not burn it, the Tang people will occupy Pingliang City at no cost, and the cost of building the city will be equal to giving it to the Tang people for free;
If we burn it, the Tang people would almost build a Pingliang City again, which would continue to cause a heavy burden to the Tang family.
Therefore, the original thesis of Pingliang City was determined to burn it. If so, the Tang family might make a small profit, but we will definitely not lose."
"Oh!" The generals twitched their tongues and suddenly realized.
On January 9, the third year of Xingyuan, Shang Jiezan ordered soldiers to accumulate a large amount of reeds and dry firewood in all corners and buildings of Pingliang City that had just been built, poured on the oil and fire from Ganzhou, and then threw torches. The fireworks soared into the sky and gathered into several huge smoke columns. The walls of Pingliang City and the towers were twisted and groaning in the fire, making a bursting sound.
On Gaofu on the north side, Shang Jiezan immediately looked at all this, and there was no open-mindedness that he had said to the generals before, "The Tang family may make a small profit, but we will definitely not lose." All kinds of aggrieved and tragic emotions surged up, and immediately pulled out the "Dafan Sword" in the sheath.
This big sword, also called "Sugan", is made of the smartest woman in Xifan (the people of Xifan believe that the best sword must be made by women). It is trained with the best pine trunks in Nanmen Mountain. Its sword blade is the same as other Xifan swords, like the skull of an old frog, and the sword body is like hanging pine leaves. From the blade, you can see the patterns that distinguish between Yang iron and Yin iron. This extremely sharp sword can cut off the three hardest trunks in one go.
This kind of search is only ten in Xifan, and the five great theories of Chisong Dezan each rewarded them.
Now the blade of Suogan has passed Shang Jiezan's braid, and instantly cut off his black and shiny hair, only an inch away from Da Lun's neck.
Soma has quick eyes and quick hands, blocking Da Lun's arm, and then knocking down the rope. "Da Lun must not be discouraged by the gains and losses for a while. Zamp cannot live without you, just as if he cannot live without his right hand."
The rope fell straight down with a slight sound, piercing into the land, and the passing grass leaves were all cut into two pieces by the sword body, and took off with the wind and flew to Pingliang City, which was already a sea of fire in the distance.
The sound of war drums sounded from afar, and the Tang cavalry, covered with the empress of the Great House, were hung on all sides of Pingliang. When they saw the fire in Pingliang City, they all served the generals and appeared from various roads. When they saw the Western Fan soldiers burning the city to retreat, they shouted and chased after them like hungry wolves.
"Soma, hurry up, go!" Shang Jiezan pulled out the rope again, inserted it back into the sheath, and then turned the head of the mount.
A sing of a horse, Shang Jiezan pulled the reins, looked back at the vast mountains and rivers of Pingliang to Jingzhou with infinite melancholy, and shouted, "Let's see you again, the beautiful land of Jingyuan, I, Shang Jiezan, will definitely come back!"
Chapter completed!