While Zhao Ziliang listened to Charlie's explanation, he took a few pieces of white paper from the patrol captain's hand and read it.
Although he didn't know Latin, he could understand the pictures on the paper.
Beiting had built a paper mill. , he also personally watched the manufacturing process of the paper mill.
Although some of the pictures above were different from those he had seen, he knew that these should be the technical information of papermaking.
Zhao Ziliang stuffed a few pieces of paper into his arms, looked at Charlie and asked: "Mr.
Charlie, are you sure you are businessmen from the Eastern Roman Empire?
You must know that lying is not a good habit.
Sometimes it may lead to death."
Seeing Zhao Ziliang's eyes, Charlie felt confused and confused.
He finally regained his composure and quickly turned his eyes away and said, "Your Excellency, General, we are really businessmen of the Eastern Roman Empire."
Zhao Ziliang said: "I didn't see your customs clearance documents among this pile of things, and I didn't see anything that could prove you.
I only saw the formula of papermaking and the production process technology.
This is our Datang Empire."
The top commercial secret has actually been obtained by you.
First, you have no customs clearance documents, second, no identification, and third, you are carrying banned technology.
Do you think I will suspect that you stole this thing?"
The faces of Charlie and others changed greatly.
No matter what era it is, even if they go to a hostile country, anyone must go to the official of their country to get an identity certificate to prove the legitimacy of their identity.
Without an identity certificate, it is very likely that they will be considered If you are a spy or a fugitive, the Tongguan Certificate is equivalent to a passport.
When you go abroad, you have to go to the local government to have an official stamp it, which is considered registration.
If you don't stamp it, you will be considered as smuggling, and you will encounter checkpoints.
It's impossible to get through.
Tony turned to look at Charlie and said angrily: "Didn't you say that no one knows Latin?
Look, people can recognize it just by looking at it."
Now that it has been discovered, there is no use in denying and concealing it.
Charlie has no choice but to admit: "Okay, General, this thing was indeed stolen by us, but we are not the masterminds, we are just employed by others."
Zhao Ziliang asked: "Who is the employer?"
"Count Lapur of the Eastern Roman Empire" "Don't tell me which country you are from.
You are from the Eastern Roman Empire.
They will not have blond hair and blue eyes."
Charlie smiled bitterly.
He knew that he had met an Easterner who understood the Western world, so he had to say honestly: "Sir, our hometown is the north of the Far West.
We have no country but we have lived in the Eastern Roman Empire since we were young."
"Understood."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and ordered the patrol captain: "Lock them in the barracks under the city first, and then interrogate them properly after the war is over."
"Yes, Commander," the patrol captain agreed, waving to the weapons behind him: "Take him away."
As soon as Charlie and others were taken away, Wang Can ran up to the tower and clasped his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said: "Commander, there is news from the Fourth Route Army.
After the Second Young Master arrived in Liangzhou with 50,000 troops, he met with the Tubo army led by Tieren Xinuoluo.
The army fought several battles under Wuwei City, and both sides suffered heavy losses.
However, our army was gaining momentum and took some advantage.
After two consecutive defeats, part of the Tubo army retreated into Wuwei City for defense, while the other part stayed outside Wuwei City to establish camps and compete with the Tibetan army in the city.
For the time being, our army only Able to confront the Tibetan army" After hearing the report, Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment and said to Wang Can: "Give Zhao Ting an order not to act too hastily and to wait for the opportunity.
After all, Hexi is my territory of the Tang Dynasty.
As long as we don't abandon Hexi, the Tubo people will not stay there for long."
Wang Can cupped his fists and said, "Yes, I will go and send a message to the second young master right now."
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Doba Station.
Dazalugong looked at all the generals of Qianhu and above and said: "Everyone, what has happened has already happened.
No matter how sad we are, it will not help.
The Tang army killed Zanpu.
We must avenge Zanpu, otherwise we will not be able to do anything."
Yan Huiluozie" The Tubo generals all touched their eyes which were red from crying and said: "Yes, we want to avenge Zampu.
Please give the order from the marshal to attack Xiping immediately."
Dazalugong knew that if he wanted to arouse the anger of all the soldiers, he would have to wait a day or two to let all the Tibetan soldiers know that Zampu was killed by the Tang army.
He should allow some time for the soldiers to brew their emotions.
He said: "Send the order and let the whole army wear silk clothes."
Su, wearing sackcloth and wearing filial piety, announced to all the soldiers that Zanpu died at the hands of Tang Army General Zhao Ziliang.
We will avenge Zanpu, kill Zhao Ziliang, kill all the Tang troops in Xiping City, send troops to recapture Shanzhou, and capture Jincheng from Starting tomorrow, troops will enter Xiping City."
"Yes, Marshal" On June 15th, the Tibetan army came back.
At noon, nearly 100,000 people surrounded Xiping City.
This time, the Tubo people learned the lesson from the previous day and set up a camp.
There were fences around the camp to stop the horses.
In order to prevent the Tang army from leaving the city for a surprise attack at any time.
On the west city gate, Zhao Ziliang and others were observing the formation of the Tibetan army besieging the city.
Cen Shen pointed at the Tibetan army camp in surprise and shouted: "Commander, look, why are these Tubo people erecting white flags and flags in the military camp?"
"Jinsu, all the officers and soldiers in the army are wearing sackcloth and wearing mourning.
Could it be that some important figure in the Tubo army has died?"
Wang Zhongsi's son Wang Zhen frowned and said: "If it is true that a big shot in the Tubo army died, then who died so that all the soldiers in the Tubo army would wear sackcloth and wear filial piety.
The officer thought that only two people had this qualification.
One of them was the Tubo Kingdom The main one is Xisongde, and the second one is the Tibetan marshal Dazalukong."
Zhao Ziliang touched his beard and shouted: "Xuan Shiba, send your people to check"
"Yes, Marshal" By the time the Tibetans set up camp, it was already afternoon.
Zhao Ziliang thought that the Tibetan army would not make any moves today, but he did not expect that the Tibetan army did not stop and immediately sent a large number of troops to approach the city wall.
"Commander, look," Erzhu shouted, pointing to the Tibetan army formation in front of the city wall.
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and saw the Tibetan army's formation split to both sides, and a large number of people appeared from the middle of the passage and rushed toward the city wall carrying frames and sacks.
"That's hiss."
When they saw the city wall clearly, they were all shocked.
Cen Shen shouted out loud: "The Tubo people captured the people around them to make them carry baskets and sacks with soil to fill up the moat."
Everyone took another look and saw, right?
A lot of dirt fell from the baskets and sacks carried by the people who were rushing towards the city.
These people ran to the moat and poured the soil from the baskets and sacks into the moat.
If If they ran too slowly, the Tubo soldiers supervising them would kill them with bows and arrows.
In order to survive, the people could only run towards the moat carrying baskets of dirt.
The generals were anxious.
With so many people carrying dirt to fill the moat, it would not take long for the moat to be filled in, and the defense of the city wall would be weakened.
Erzhu said anxiously to Zhao Ziliang: "Commander, order the arrows to be fired.
If they keep filling in like this, they can fill up the moat before dark."
Other generals also persuaded: "Yes, Commander, now is not the time to pity the people.
Without the obstruction of the moat, the Tubo can rush directly to the city wall and set up ladders to attack the city."
Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "It's not that I, Zhao, are soft-hearted, but that I can't do this.
The Tubo people really made a good calculation.
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On the one hand, they borrowed these people to fill the moat, but they themselves could fill the moat without losing a single soldier."
Fill it up, if we shoot with bows and arrows, on the one hand we will lose our hearts and on the other hand we will consume our arrows , our arrows are limited, if we shoot one, there will be one less.
Even if we shoot these people, the Tibetan army will still keep catching people.
How many arrows can we consume?
Even if we use up all the arrows If we shoot all the arrows, the moat will still be filled in.
In this case, why don’t we keep the arrows to shoot the Tubo people?
Don’t worry about them and let these people fill in.”
After hearing what Zhao Ziliang said, the generals all nodded, thinking that it was indeed reasonable, so they stopped trying to persuade him and allowed the people under the city wall to pour soil into the moat.
In just one afternoon, nearly 10,000 people filled up the moat near the west city gate.
After Zhao Ziliang gave the order, not a single Tang soldier fired an arrow on the city wall.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the people who filled up the moat retreated.
The Tubo army retreated into the camp after arranging guard posts and patrols.
Upon seeing this, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand on the city wall: "Deploy a guard."
"Yes, Marshal" There were more than a dozen hanging baskets placed on the city wall.
Each of these hanging baskets contained a soldier and some wood.
After the hanging baskets landed, the Tang Army soldiers in the hanging baskets carried the dry firewood to a place a hundred steps away from the city wall and stacked it.
The piles of dry firewood are all equally spaced apart, forming a straight line parallel to the city wall.
When it was about to get dark, Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "Let's light the fire."
"Yes, Marshal" A school captain agreed, holding a bow in his left hand and a rocket in his right hand.
He aimed at the pile of wood in the distance, drew the bow and fired the rocket.
The rocket shot into the pile of firewood soaked in kerosene.
With a "boom", the entire pile of wood was ignited.
The raging fire illuminated the surrounding area for nearly fifty steps.
As this firewood pile was ignited, other wood piles were also ignited by rockets.
The entire west wall was illuminated for nearly a hundred steps.
It was almost impossible for the Tibetan army to sneak attack close to the city wall at night, unless they were on the city wall.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who were on guard duty were dozing off or deserting, but this was absolutely impossible.
The soldiers of the Tang Army who were on guard duty and on guard were rotated every other hour, so there was no such thing as dozing off or deserting.
"You must be vigilant at night and never be careless," Zhao Ziliang told Duan Xiushi, who was on duty on the city wall at night.
Duan Xiushi clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, Commander, the general will definitely be keeping a close eye on you."
"The others will discuss with me at the Prefect's Mansion how to defend against the enemy tomorrow."
After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he walked under the city wall.
After hearing this, the others left the city wall and headed for the Prefect's Mansion
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