"Is this the etiquette of your Tang Dynasty? By launching an attack on our Tibetan army without authorization, are you declaring war on us?"
General Huyan said this very angrily, but he was not a brainless person. The spies in the army had reported to him earlier that the Tang army had a variety of weapons that were very powerful.
But he didn't believe it at all at that time. In his opinion, these people had never seen the world, so they spread rumors. Today, he saw two new weapons. One was naturally a cannon that could kill them. This thing made such a loud noise, and there was fire and smoke, so of course he knew it was powerful.
The other is the crossbows used by the soldiers in front of him. When shooting arrows just now, these soldiers had different movements from their archers, and the arrows shot from the crossbows seemed to be farther and faster. Just these two new weapons made him dare not act rashly. Although he was very angry in his heart, he would never cross the line, so as not to lose his life in vain.
He was very clear about the current situation. Even if a conflict broke out in the border area, the deaths would be in vain. Just as Chang Sun Chong said, the Tang Dynasty was not prepared for a war with Tubo, and Tubo was also not prepared for a war with the Tang Dynasty.
"General, please don't make false accusations. We've already blown the bugle call. We just hope you'll come out and complete the formalities with us. Once we've erected the monument, it will mean both sides recognize the new border, and there will be no further issues between us. But your hearing may not be working well, so we've tried a different way to remind you. Unfortunately, our soldiers are new to this new weaponry, and they made a slight mistake when adjusting it, which is why this happened. We deeply regret it."
Listening to Chang Sun Chong's words, General Huyan's rage intensified. "Are you all done with a simple expression of deep regret? Two dead and three wounded on my side, are you just going to let it go like this? If that's the case, the morale of the entire camp will plummet before sunset today."
Midu Khan didn't know what to say. He had seen Li Xiang being so shameless, but he didn't expect that Li Xiang's two subordinates were also so shameless. But at that time, Li Xiang was facing Tuyuhun, and these two people were facing Tubo. It seemed that in the eyes of the young generation of generals in the Tang Dynasty, there seemed to be not much difference between Tuyuhun and Tubo.
"These are two lives lost. Is it enough for the general to just express regret?"
General Huyan put his hand on the hilt of the sword, with a threatening look on his face.
"Otherwise, we will pay for the funeral expenses and apologize to you. As for the rest, the general will just mark the way and we two brothers will take care of it."
Cheng Chumo shouldered his knife, looking nonchalant. To him, they were just a few ordinary soldiers. If you're not convinced, we can just kill them for a while. It doesn't mean you're stronger than us. With a force of a thousand, we can take on several of you.
"Leave the operating soldiers to me, one life for one life."
General Huyan thought of a solution. If he wanted to maintain his reputation in the army and the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, he had to take this approach. If you kill two of us, then I have to kill two of you too. This is the best solution.
"What the general said is very fair, but I don't want to do it."
Chang Sun Chong said with a smile, in the eyes of Midu Khan, that expression is as annoying as it can be. If you want to provoke him, now is enough. You are the one who benefited from it, you can't add fuel to the fire, right?
"You are really going too far, someone come here!"
General Huyan waved his hand angrily, and the cavalry behind him dispersed in battle formation.
You all come from the military, so if you encounter a civil servant, this trick of yours might be very effective, but Chang Sun Chong and Cheng Chuliang are both military commanders, and their fathers have both come through war. If you want to scare these two people with a formation, you are probably making a wrong calculation.
"Prepare for war..."
As the commander-in-chief of this battle, Chang Sun Chong also had the demeanor of a great general. After he said these two words, thousands of soldiers behind him quickly changed their battle formations. When the first two rows of soldiers retreated, General Huyan realized that there were dozens of crossbows behind these two rows of soldiers.
The reason we threw the artillery shells at the gate of your camp just now was to let you know the power of our stuff. Although we only have about a thousand people, these dozens of crossbows are no joke. If you dare to charge, we will throw these things into your ranks in an instant, and it is hard to say how many people will die then.
Behind and on both sides of the crossbow, soldiers have already stood with crossbows in their hands. This thing can shoot far and fast, and can shoot ten arrows in an instant. Even if you have more people, can you dodge it?
Midu Khan did not bring many people with him. Apart from the two hundred guards around him, no one followed him. He did not want to cause disputes in the border area, not to mention that it was just a procedural action. However, he did not expect that it would turn out like this now, with a tendency to start a fight at the slightest disagreement.
"Old Huyan, think carefully before you give the order. It's not us who caused the border conflict, but you who are now the one who is fighting. We are merely defending ourselves. If you cause a war between the two countries, I don't think your Zamp will let you go."
If Li Xiang were here, he would definitely not say these words. At worst, we can just start fighting. But Changsun Chong and Cheng Chumo are still a little guilty. If a fight really breaks out, it will be difficult to end well, and we will be in the same predicament as Tubo.
General Huyan appears aggressive on the surface, but his brain is still online. Now he has brought out more than a thousand people. Although there are still many people in the barracks, if more troops are mobilized, then it will definitely not be on his side. If a thousand people fight against a thousand people and win, that is the so-called border conflict.
But if tens of thousands of people were to surround and attack these thousand people, and eventually all of the Tang people were killed, then this would be a war. The most important thing is that even if we dispatched ten thousand people, we might not be able to capture these thousand people. If we fail to capture them, then our Tubo would lose all face...
