In the tent, Rao Miwo, the king of Yangtongtu, was drinking wine.
Before sending troops, Rao Miwo expected that Seluburg would be a tough nut to crack, but he didn't expect it to be so hard. The 60,000-strong army from the east and west of the Yangtong State had been attacking for nearly a month, but they still hadn't broken through.
So, Rao Miwo vented his dissatisfaction on Yang Tong's great talk about Bojiba.
Yangtong Dalun Bojiba is also the prime minister of Yangtong State and a confidant of Tubo Dalun Dongzebu.
This time Yangtong Tubang sent troops to Selvbao was also deliberately instigated by Bojiba in accordance with Dongzebu's wishes. The purpose was to ask for directions for Dongzebu and explore the bottom line of Tubo Zanpuchi Daizhudan.
Rao Miwo also knew these inside stories, but he didn't mind.
If you can really annex Xiaobolu, why not do it?
But Rao Miwo never expected that Seluburg would be so difficult to chew.
At that moment, Rao Miwo said with a dark face: "Big talk, didn't you say that Seluburg can be taken in half a month? Why have we been attacking for a month and thousands of sheep and Guiben have not been taken yet?" ?”
"Ahem, your Majesty, please calm down." Bojiba rolled his eyes and added, "According to my observation, there are not many Tang Dynasty defenders left in Selüburg. If we fight again tomorrow, we will definitely win."
"Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow again, how many tomorrows are there?"
When Rao Miwo was venting his emotions, Prince Dobsang walked in quickly.
"Father, Olang sent a small team back and captured a Han courier."
Aurangze was the centurion sent to hunt down the Tang Army cavalry that escaped from Selüburg.
"Is it a messenger from Khotan?" Rao Miwoton was in a hurry. What he was most worried about was that Li Siye from Khotan Town would lead a large army to help, which would be a big trouble.
"Yes, but father, don't worry, Li Siye did not send a large army to help." Dobsan said, "So, we still have enough time to attack Selüburg."
"Did Li Siye send reinforcements? That'll be fine." Rao Miwo breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.
As the saying goes, a person's name is like a tree's shadow. The small countries around Anxi were extremely afraid of Li Siye, even more so than the two military envoys Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing.
After a pause, he continued: "Dobusan, watch the Han messenger carefully. Kill the sacrificial flag tomorrow morning, and then you will personally lead Dongdai, the king's imperial guard, to launch a general attack. We must capture Seluburg before sunset. .”
"As ordered." Dobsang bumped his chest with his fist and proudly left Rao Miwo's tent.
Rao Miwo sent Bojiba away again, and then called in the musicians and female slaves.
After a while, the sound of Zhamunie and bone flute sounded in Rao Miwo's tent.
The war was a big deal and the prince's business, he just wanted to enjoy the wine, food and beauties.
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Lu Wen was handed over to Cisang Yundun's guard, which played into Lu Xiaoning's hands.
Lu Xiaoning immediately instructed Cisang Yundun to hand over Lu Wen to Tenzin Quzha, who then took Lu Wen to the slave camp, together with tens of thousands of slaves from the Yangtong tribe.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about Tubo’s military system.
At the beginning, the Tubo army took their families with them when they went on an expedition. The soldiers were dedicated to fighting, while the family members were responsible for grazing and farming to provide supplies for the troops on the front line.
In the first fifty years of the Tang-Tibet War, the Tubo army basically followed this pattern.
Therefore, every time the Tibetan army was defeated, it always lost a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, women and children. Xue Rengui in Dafeichuan and Hei Te Changzhi in Liangfeichuan repeatedly seized a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, women and children from the Tibetan army.
But after suffering a lot, the Tubo army learned its lesson, and later changed its strategy.
Women, children and livestock no longer accompanied the army. Instead, slaves were dispatched to accompany the army to ensure logistics. If it was a short campaign, slaves would be responsible for transporting food. If it was a long-term siege, slaves would farm the fields.
The number ratio of slaves to warriors is not fixed and is determined based on actual needs.
The King of Yangtongtu sent troops to attack Seluburg this time. He recruited a total of 40,000 sheep and warriors and 40,000 sheep and slaves. The King of Yangtong planned to capture Seluburg first and wait until spring to put the 40,000 slaves in place. Cultivate highland barley, so that the Yangtong army can form a stalemate with the Tang army coming to aid at Sailubao, and wait until the Tang army retreats before sending troops to attack the Xiaobolu Kingdom.
Forty thousand sheep and warriors were divided into two stations: 10,000 were stationed on the west side of Sailu Fort, responsible for intercepting the incoming Quy Nhon army, and 30,000 were stationed on the east side of Sailu Fort, responsible for the main offensive task.
Forty thousand sheep and slaves were stationed in the east valley.
At this time, Lu Xiaoning was using the camera to inspect the camp of Yangtong slaves.
It has to be said that the nobles of Tubo, Yangtong, Xiangxiong and other feudal states really did not regard serfs as human beings, but directly as animals, even worse than animals. The cattle and sheep horse pens for the animals would at least have a roof. At least it can protect them from the rain and snow, but the camp where the slave sleeps is directly in the open air, and the bedding only has a piece of tattered felt.
In the night, what appeared in the camera were skinny men with dull eyes. There was no expression in his eyes, except numbness, numbness, only endless numbness.
The tattered sheepskin coats they wore were so torn that they couldn't even cover their private parts.
Some of them were huddled up in the broken felt and shivering, some had their hands on their knees and looked up at the sky blankly, while more slaves were still working, either busy repairing their armors, or making tsampa, watching from the sun When the moon rises and sinks to the west of Congling Mountain without rest, this kind of treatment is simply better than that of cows and horses.
What is even more shocking is the inhuman punishment they suffered.
As the camera passed by, it was clear that many slaves' bodies were incomplete, with a slap missing, a leg missing, or even an entire arm cut off from the shoulder, but they still had to work.
Once they lose the ability to work, they will be executed in an extremely cold manner by the samurai.
The surveillance camera captured a tragic scene. Several slaves who had lost the ability to move were dragged to the river like dead dogs by warriors from the Yangtong tribe, and were thrown directly into the turbulent Sailu River.
Lu Xiaoning felt as if something was stuck in his throat, which was congested.
At that moment, Lu Xiaoning pushed the surveillance camera back to Tenzin Quza and whispered, "It's time to start."
"I sincerely obey the decree of the Yala Xiangbo Mountain God." Tenzin Quzha saluted to the night sky, and then spread out with a dozen other slaves to lobby other slaves in the camp.
"A spirit has appeared, the God of Yala Xiangbo Mountain has appeared!"
"The supreme Yala Xiangbo Mountain God said that all people are created equal."
"You have to suffer in this life because you committed sins in your previous life. This is all a lie."
"The God of Yala Xiangbo Mountain said that people are born and reborn to enjoy happiness. Those who committed sins in previous lives have already been reborn in the animal world and have long since become cattle, sheep, and horses."
"The true gods do not need our offerings."
"Those who persuade us to endure suffering and donate our poor property to the temple are all evil cult monks. They have betrayed the God of Yala Xiangbo Mountain. They should all be executed! All of them should be executed!"
Ever since, various viewpoints that subverted cognition began to spread like poisonous weeds in the camp.
All the slaves who were exposed to these views were completely shocked, and then they began to doubt, and then when the god of Yala Shampoo really appeared and issued the oracle, they began to fall into renunciation and anger.
It turns out that we have been kept in the dark by the cruel earth kings and greedy living Buddhas.
It turns out that we are reincarnated into this world to enjoy happiness, not to suffer.
Those damn liars, they should go to hell and go to eighteen levels of hell.
As the night grew darker, the entire slave camp had turned into a volcano.
However, if there are no external factors involved, it will still be difficult for this volcano to erupt.
But Lu Xiaoning has already prepared a little spark for this volcano, and that is Lu Wen.
"Brother, give it back to you." Tenzin Quza returned Lu Wen's black hammer armor and horse spear.
This armor and the horse were originally awarded to Tenzin Quzha by Dobjie in accordance with the rules.
Lu Wen was not polite. He immediately took the black hammer armor and started putting it on, and finally took the horse armor.
After hurriedly putting on his armor, Lu Wen strode towards the dozen Tibetan warriors gathered at the gate of the slave camp to warm themselves by the fire. Seeing this, the sheep and slaves in the camp stood up in confusion.
