After Zheyu captured Zhuo Qing, he spread the news to Qingtang City. As the chief general of Qingtang City, Zhuo Qing was captured alive by the Tang army, which gave the Tubo Jingqi in Qingtang City a fatal blow. **《》* When he heard this news, the Tubo Jingqi had fallen into confusion without distinguishing the authenticity of the news. Because, the guardian of Qingtang City for several years made Zhuo Qing the spiritual pillar of the Tubo Jingqi in Qingtang City. Now he suddenly heard that his chief general was captured alive by the Tang army, and the Tubo Jingqians could

Are they very calm? So, with this exciting news, the Tang army's offensive became more and more fierce. They burst out with unprecedented combat power to fight against the Tubo elite cavalry, while the Tubo elite cavalry fell into confusion and was killed by the Tang army. In addition, Zheyu's 20,000 ghost-faced cavalry, it took not long before all the Tubo army joined the Qingtang City Tubo army. Some of the Tubo elite cavalry were killed by the Tang army, and more of the Tubo elite cavalry chose to surrender and became prisoners of the Tang army.

After Qingtang City was completely controlled by the Tang army, Su Dingfang led the army slowly into Qingtang City. Su Dingfang and his group had just settled in the General's Mansion in Qingtang City. Before Du Junchuo reported the results and casualties of the siege, he saw his personal soldiers hurried into the hall.

"Report to the general, Xue Rengui, Tuyan, Yuwen Guo, and Zadler, four generals, to ask for a meeting!" The personal soldiers reported to Su Dingfang.

"Well-they are so fast!" Su Dingfang whispered.

Cheng Mingzhen, Li Yan, Li Zong, Zheyu, Du Junchuo and Li Xianzhong were also quite surprised. They did not expect that the four of them could return to Qingtang City so soon. Could it be that their battle ended so quickly?

"Let them come in!" Su Dingfang said lightly.

The personal soldiers took the order and left.

Su Dingfang did not speak, but quietly waited for Xue Rengui, Tuyan, Yuwen Guo, and Zadler, and saw the four of them strode into the hall of the General's Mansion.

"See General!" Xue Rengui, Tuyan, Yuwen Guo, and Zadler bowed to Su Dingfang.

"Tell me about your achievements!" Su Dingfang asked lightly.

"Return to the general, we met Sang Xiong's 50,000 Tubo elite cavalry on the road. After more than an hour of fighting, we wiped out this Tubo elite cavalry and killed the Tubo general Sang Xiong." Yuwen Guo replied to Su Dingfang.

"Have you wiped out 50,000 Tubo elite cavalry?" Su Dingfang asked.

"Yes, 50,000 elite cavalry were wiped out!" Yuwen Guo replied affirmatively.

"Who killed Sang Xiong?" Su Dingfang continued to ask.

"Sang Xiong and General Tuyan were in battle and were shot to death by Xue Li!" Yuwen Guo continued to answer.

At this time, a soldier walked to Su Ding's side with a box in his hand.

"General, this is Sang Xiong's head!" Yuwen Guo continued.

Su Dingfang did not continue speaking, but signaled the soldiers to open the box for him to see. The soldiers took the order and slowly opened the box. Then they saw the ferocious head of the Sang Xiong was exposed in the box that was one foot square.

Su Dingfang looked at it very carefully and looked at it carefully before a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Yes, you did a good job. Sang Xiong's head is sent to Zhalan and handed over to Your Highness. Your Highness will like it very much!" Su Dingfang ordered.

"No" Yuwen Guo replied.

"How many people have you lost this time?" Su Dingfang continued to ask.

"Youzhou Iron Cavalry lost two thousand men!" Yuwen Guo replied. When he talked about the number of people he lost, his face turned ashen.

"Tuyuhun Spirit Cavalry lost three thousand!" Tuyan said ashamed. The 30,000 Tuyuhun Spirit Cavalry fought with Yuwen's 15,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry. The Youzhou Iron Cavalry only lost two thousand, but his 30,000 Essence Cavalry lost three thousand. How could Tuyan not be ashamed?

"The Turkic Spirit Cavalry lost two thousand people!" Xue Rengui replied.

"My horse soldiers lost two thousand people!" Zadler also spoke.

"You wiped out 50,000 elite cavalry in Sangxiong at the cost of only nine thousand people. You fought well in this battle!" Su Dingfang smiled faintly, "Four generals, please sit down!"

"Thank you General!" Xue Rengui, Tuyan, Yuwen Guo, and Zadler took the order and then sat down.

After the four of them sat down, Su Dingfang continued, "General Du, you continue talking!"

"No" Du Junchuo took the order and continued, "General, this time we captured Qingtang City, the army suffered little losses. The infantry lost less than 6,000 people, and the cavalry only lost more than 5,000 people. Mainly, they were intercepted and killed by them when they were fighting in the streets between Qingtang City and Tubo Jingqi. We wiped out and captured 60,000 Tubo Jingqi, of which 30,000 Tubo Jingqi was killed, 30,000 Tubo Jingqi was captured, and the rest escaped from Qingtang City. As for how many people escaped, it is not clear yet."

"Yeah——" Su Dingfang nodded.

Xue Rengui, Tu Yan, Yuwen Guo and Zadler were shocked when they heard such impressive results. They did not expect that Du Junchuo had only used such a tall and sturdy city like Qingtang City to break through the city.

"Tell me about the situation in Qingtang City!" Su Dingfang continued.

"General, there are 500,000 Tubo civilians left in Qingtang City, and one of the great chieftains. He is the eldest brother of the Qingtang City guard. His name is Zhuo Wang, and thirteen small chieftains. All of these people have been detained in the dungeons of the General's Mansion, and there are forty officials from the Tubo royal court, all of whom have been detained in the dungeons of the General's Mansion." Li Xianzhong reported to Su Dingfang.

Because, when Du Junchuo first captured Qingtang City, he ordered Li Xianzhong to be responsible for this matter, such as counting the number of people, capturing officials, confiscating wealth, etc.

Su Dingfang did not say anything and continued to listen to Li Xianzhong's report.

Li Xianzhong continued to reply, "Qingtang City has prepared food and supplies for Lu Dongzan's army. Now it has been captured by us. The food and grass in the city can be eaten by our army for half a year. The arrows in the arsenal are enough for 300,000. I searched the mansions of the thirteen small chieftains and obtained 8 million guan of silver and 10 million guan of money. Li Xianzhong reported carefully to Su Dingfang.

After Su Dingfang listened carefully to Li Xianzhong's words, he then spoke, "Save all the confiscated silver coins in the treasury of the general's mansion, let the Ghost Face Rider be responsible for the guard work!"

"No" Li Xianzhong and Zheyu responded at the same time.

"The other food, grass and supplies will be left to General Li for the responsibility!" Su Dingfang continued to order.

"No" Li Xian took the lead.

"Everyone, we have captured Qingtang City. The army is not yet adapted to plateau combat and cannot continue to fight. Therefore, it needs to be revised for a few days. Lu Dongzan's 150,000 army may only take three days to arrive at Qingtang City. We must be prepared to defend the city." Su Dingfang said lightly, "So, let's talk about your suggestions!"

When Su Dingfang said this, everyone knew what he meant, that was to fight against Lu Dongzan to defend the city, let Lu Dongzan 150,000 cavalry attack the city, and let Tubo cavalry attack the city, this is indeed the weakness of the Tubo army, and the Tang army is good at defending the city. Therefore, Su Dingfang's tactics were to use his strengths to the enemy's shortcomings.

Therefore, after listening to Su Dingfang's arrangements, the generals had no suggestions or opinions.

"Do you have no suggestions?" Su Dingfang asked lightly.

The generals expressed no different opinions.

"Since that's the case, then the general will be appointed--" Su Dingfang began to order.

The generals maintained a solemn expression and waited for Su Dingfang's military orders.

"Du Junchuo is the garrison of Qingtang City, and Cheng Mingzhen is the garrison of Qingtang City. You two will be responsible for the comfort of Qingtang City in the future and will fight against Lu Dongzan's army. In this battle against the city, except for the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, Tuyuhun Jingqi, Turkic Jingqi, Ghost Face Cavalry and Chongqi Camp, other troops will participate in the battle against the city!" Su Dingfang ordered.

"No" Du Junchuo and Cheng Mingzhen followed the command.

"Li Xianzhong, appoint you as the governor of Qingtang City, and be fully responsible for the public security of Qingtang City and the supply of food, grass and supplies of the army!" Su Dingfang continued to order.

"No" Li Xian took the lead.

After Su Dingfang's order was issued, he glanced at the generals present, "Do you have anything else to say?"

None of the generals spoke, and the atmosphere in the hall became very serious.

After a while, Zheyu spoke, "General, what should I do if the 500,000 Tubo civilians in Qingtang City? The war is imminent, and keeping them will be a disaster!"

Zheyu's words were self-evident, that was, it was necessary to massacre the city, otherwise if these people rebelled, it would cause danger and trouble for the army to defend the city. When Zheyu said this, except for Tuyan's face a little pale, the other generals had a calm face, as if it was not surprising to them to massacre 500,000 Tubo people. In fact, Tuyan's Tuyuhun spirit cavalry was also like Turkic spirit cavalry, which burned and killed plundering soldiers, but Tuyan killed 500,000 people at one time. He did not dare to issue such a military order. He could not do so indifference, so he looked pale.

"Well——" Su Dingfang pondered for a moment before speaking, "Your Highness meant to recruit young and strong Tubo to build a few pipelines leading to Chang'an in the northwest. As for women, children and the elderly——————Su Dingfang pondered for a moment, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"Zheyu, Tuyan, let me leave this matter to you!" Su Dingfang said coldly, "Select the young and strong Tubo to send it to Zhalan to His Highness, and all the others rushed outside the city to kill!"

"No" Zheyu said coldly.

Tu Yan also whispered to the order, but he was very shocked.

Because he only met the cold-blooded and ruthlessness of these Tang generals today. In the past, the Tang generals would be treated very favorably, not to mention killing civilians, even prisoners would be treated very favorably. But the Tang generals in front of him kept killing prisoners and civilians, and even women, children and the elderly were not spared. Even if they selected young and strong people from 500,000, they could only get less than 200,000. The remaining 300,000 would be killed. Tu Yan couldn't think of who changed the deeply rooted benevolent and pedantic thoughts of these generals and trained them into cold-blooded and ruthless professional soldiers?

Suddenly, Tuyan thought of Li Ke and Northern King Li Ke.

Yes, only he has this ability! Tu Yan thought so in his heart, and his thoughts returned to the scene of meeting Li Ke.


Chapter completed!