PFC Chapter 212 Gumo Province Alliance!
Chapter 212 Gumo Province Alliance!
The small cannon continued to bombard.
Li Shimin, Li Chengqian and others stood in the back, with their mouths open and their ears covered to avoid being hurt by the loud noise and vibration.
Guo Xin didn't need to be taught, because he opened his mouth as wide as possible and was directly frightened by the power of the small cannon.
Boom boom boom!
Under his witness, the city wall of Gumo Prefecture collapsed in less than three rounds of artillery fire.
Also witnessing the event were the people of all ethnic groups in the city who did not have time to climb up the city walls, including caravans coming from three directions and a small group of Uighur cavalry!
Everyone was shocked by the firepower displayed by the Tang Dynasty in an instant.
God! !
The Tang Dynasty really invited the gods!
Only gods have the ability to make thunder like this!!
Everyone knelt down and bowed devoutly in the direction of the small cannon.
Even those Tibetan soldiers who were not killed in the explosion immediately knelt on the ground trembling all over, waiting for the judgment of the gods.
"It's almost done, let's go into the city!" Li Chengqian said calmly.
Only then did Guo Xin retract his chin.
This time, the way he looked at Li Chengqian changed completely.
Become like Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and others, full of admiration and awe, real awe.
In this way, under the eyes of everyone, the Tang Dynasty soldiers crossed the collapsed city wall and entered the city.
The Han people and merchants in the city were in a trance and in tears.
They never thought that one day they would see the army from their motherland.
Flowers, wine, Hu cakes, mutton...
They took out everything they had at home and presented it to the Tang Dynasty soldiers they loved so much.
Guo Xin burst into tears as he watched the Han people and businessmen sincerely worship him.
The soldiers also had tears in their eyes.
Was the Tang Dynasty in later generations really so weak that the mere appearance of a motherland’s army could move so many people?
The turbulent Tang Dynasty would eventually see its day of decline.
No, this must not happen!
Their love and cherishment for the Tang Dynasty made them more determined to destroy Tubo, including the endless grassland ethnic groups in the north.
It is these evil-minded foreign races that take advantage of the situation every time the Central Plains is weak or in internal turmoil.
The only way to stop this phenomenon is to destroy it with force!!
Li Chengqian did not disturb the soldiers from accepting the cheers of the people, but he still sent a small number of troops to control another city gate to prevent the Tibetans in the city from taking the opportunity to escape.
At this time, representatives of the Uighurs, representatives of various vassal states in the Western Regions, including representatives of the Han people, came before the crowd together.
They did not speak, but bowed respectfully to show their submission.
Li Chengqian introduced Guo Xin as the contact person, after all, they would leave in three days.
In this situation, Guo Xin must come forward to appease everyone and win over the people's hearts.
After a touching reunion between the wanderer and the soldiers from his motherland, the next step was to purge the Tibetans in the city.
As for those Western Region vassal troops who surrendered to Tubo, Li Chengqian did not kill them, but directly took them over and transformed them into vassal troops of the Tang Dynasty.
With their assistance, all the Tibetans hiding in every corner of the city were caught and imprisoned one by one.
At the same time, Li Chengqian spread the message through merchants, asking neighboring countries to come to Gumozhou for a meeting.
There were relatively powerful countries such as Yanqi, Yuli, Weixu, and Wulei to the east of Qiuci, Wensu and Weitou to the west, and even Shule and Shiguo in the far west.
Everyone who can be notified must be present!
Of course, Li Chengqian could not wait until all these vassal states arrived, and the final alliance still had to be hosted by Guo Xin.
Fortunately, there are already many representatives from various countries in the Western Regions in Gumo Prefecture, so a small alliance can be held.
The matter of forming an alliance with these representatives was left to Guo Xin, while Li Chengqian led people to recruit troops in Gumo Prefecture.
Whether they are Han survivors or natives of the Western Regions, as long as they are willing to join the army, they can enjoy the tax exemption policy of the Tang Dynasty.
Han people who join the army can immediately obtain cold weapons such as Tang horizontal swords and compound bows!
As for the flintlock rifles, they needed to be transported from the city of Kucha in the rear.
Because Li Chengqian had no intention of stopping his journey just like that.
There is more than a day left, and there is still a lot to do.
He learned from Guo Xin that there were also two thousand Tibetan troops stationed in Weitou Prefecture, located southwest of Gumo Prefecture.
To reach the location of Weitou Prefecture, one needs to go south through a small desert, with the majestic Kunlun Mountains behind it.
It was the Tibetan outpost closest to the plateau.
Only by eliminating the Tibetan garrison in Weitou Prefecture can Tibetan influence in the Western Regions be completely eradicated.
And use Weitou Prefecture as a bridgehead to resist the counterattack that Tubo may launch at any time, giving Qiuci City and Gumo Prefecture in the rear time to react.
Therefore, Weitouzhou must be taken.
At this time, Hou Junji came to report that all the Tibetan surrendered soldiers had been gathered and detained, and asked him whether to kill or keep them.
At this time, Guo Xin had already reached a preliminary agreement with representatives of various vassal states.
Under the powerful firepower just demonstrated by the Tang Dynasty soldiers, the representatives of the Western Regions countries were very sensible and willing to return to the rule of the Tang Dynasty. They also expressed their willingness to send domestic soldiers to join the Tang army to jointly resist Tubo.
"Your Highness, everything has been settled!" Guo Xin said with a group of representatives.
Li Chengqian shook his head: "It's not enough to negotiate, we must tie them to the chariot of the Tang Dynasty."
"What will your highness do?"
Li Chengqian laughed: "It's very simple, let them slaughter the Tibetans with their own hands."
Guo Xin was stunned at first, then nodded heavily: "That's right."
Afterwards, more than 3,000 Tibetans, including surrendered soldiers, were gathered in the square in the center of the city.
Representatives from various countries in the Western Regions, including the Uighur forces, have also received Guo Xin's call.
They all knew that this was the Tang Dynasty's way of preventing them from acting like fence-sitters.
But now the knife is at their necks and they have no choice.
They also believed that since the Tang Dynasty had fought back into the Western Regions, it would be able to repel the counterattack of Tubo.
Rejoining the Tang Dynasty at this time is better than adding icing on the cake.
So, under the witness of the people of the whole city, the massacre began.
Nearly a thousand Tang soldiers surrounded the square, guarding against the possible desperate fight launched by the Tibetan captives.
Representatives from various countries in the Western Regions and local people came to the Tibetan captives with knives in hand.
They looked at the Tibetan masters who had just been riding on their heads and acting arrogantly, and slowly raised their butcher knives! !
The massacre began.
Those Han people and Western Region vassal soldiers who were willing to join the army were also forced to take up their knives and join in this bloody massacre.
what did you say?
dare not!
If you don’t dare, don’t even think about being a soldier of the Tang Dynasty. Get out of here.
Many natives from the Western Regions withdrew from the army, but more natives who hated the Tibetans joined.
As for the Han survivors, they were the group that suffered the most persecution from Tubo.
There was no need for Guo Xin and others to mobilize. Men, women, young and old all went into battle, picked up their weapons and rushed into the Tibetan captives.
The Tibetan captives naturally could not sit still and wait for death, so they rioted.
But what greeted them was the terrifying flintlock rifle!
Boom boom boom! !
After a volley of gunfire, the Tibetans became obedient.