The Tibetans listened to Li Hong's words and shook their heads like rattles.
If we allow your Tang cavalry to enter the city, what difference will that make you abandoning the city and surrendering?
I let you go in alone because I wanted to discuss with you whether we can avoid attacking the city and give everyone a decent way to get over today's incident.
"Your Highness, the Honorable Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, I'm sorry, we cannot open the city gate to let you and all your soldiers in together. You can only select a small number of people to accompany you in." The Tibetan explained solemnly.
"Do you think I can't break into the city gate and need your help?" Although Li Hong had a relaxed smile on his face, the arrogance and murderous aura in his tone made the Tibetans feel frightened.
If the demon king before him continued to use his thunder to attack the city, not to mention the city wall, even the Potala Palace in the holy city would probably not be able to withstand the explosion of the thunder.
The only thing that the Zamp and the Prime Minister were worried about was that the Tang cavalry would break into the city and destroy the Potala Palace that the previous great Zamp had worked so hard to build, so they sent envoys out of the city to negotiate peace.
This was also what the Zamp and the Great Prime Minister said after consulting Princess Wencheng, the Holy Mother of Salvation.
It is hoped that she can come forward and, as a member of the Tang royal family, invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty to come to the Potala Palace alone to negotiate peace.
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"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, I have no intention of offending your majesty, nor do I mean to belittle the bravery of your soldiers. Our great Zamp sincerely hopes that after many of us have died in the war, we can sit down and talk about peace. We have been friendly with the honorable Tang Dynasty for generations, and the marriage of the Holy Salvation Mother to our great Zamp is an important proof of this. We hope to be friendly with the Tang Dynasty forever..."
"So you ignored the opposition of the Tang Dynasty and occupied Tuyuhun, and then you still felt it was not enough and sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty in places like Khotan?" Li Hong interrupted the Tibetans and asked.
When the Tibetans were leaving the city, they were told by the Holy Lady of Salvation not to engage in a verbal confrontation with Li Hong, as that guy was too good at talking.
When he was in Chang'an City, even his father and his mother were often left speechless by his sophistry.
"We sincerely apologize to the Tang Dynasty. Although it was Tuyuhun that first attacked us, we are willing to apologize to the honorable Tang Dynasty for this matter. Also, our Zamp, in order to show the Tang Dynasty our sincerity in maintaining friendship with the Tang Dynasty for generations, is willing to discuss with you in the Potala Palace about returning the land of Tuyuhun." The Tibetans told Li Hong their plan without reservation.
Li Hong looked at the city gate with a disdainful smile and said, "First of all, you got one thing wrong. Tuyuhun belongs to our Tang Dynasty, not to you Tubo. It originally belongs to our Tang Dynasty. How can you say that your Tubo Zanpu should return it to our Tang Dynasty?"
Li Hong turned over and dismounted. Immediately, Quan Yi, Wufawutian, Liebao and Jingzhe also dismounted at the same time. They looked at the Tibetan man vigilantly, as if they were going to kill him immediately if he dared to make the slightest movement.
Li Hong circled around the Tibetans, patted them on the shoulder, and said calmly: "The initiator of a war is not necessarily the winner. Similarly, the initiator of a war is not necessarily the party with the right to stop the war. War is never a game where if you want to fight, I will fight with you, and if you want to negotiate peace, I should sit down with you to negotiate peace! Since you have chosen to start a war, then you should be prepared to be destroyed, right?"
“… Please, Your Highness, for the sake of the fact that the Holy Goddess of Salvation was once a princess of your country and for the sincerity of our Tibetan king, can you please stop the Tang cavalry from continuing to invade our Tibetans?” The Tibetan man’s eyes were full of unyielding spirit, but he still pleaded.
"Then open the city gate and let our Tang cavalry enter the city." Li Hong stood opposite the Tibetans and said firmly.
"We can't open the city gate for your army. We Tubo only welcome you to enter our holy city. Please, Your Highness of the Great Tang, don't embarrass a small envoy like me, okay?" The Tibetan raised his head and looked at Li Hong.
"Since there is no other way, let us open the city gate ourselves. Quan Yi, Lawless, prepare to attack the city." Li Hong never talks nonsense. Today, for the sake of Aunt Wencheng, he has given the Tibetans a chance. Since they don't cherish it, don't blame him.
"Wait a minute." The Tibetan was shocked. He never expected that the other party would not give him a chance to bargain.
"Say, show your sincerity, otherwise, I don't mind razing this holy city in the eyes of you Tibetans to the ground." Li Hong's cold expression was full of murderous intent.
The Tibetans looked at Li Hong, who was full of murderous intent, and were at a loss for a moment.
What sincerity did the Tang prince want? He didn't know. Perhaps the Tang prince had no intention of negotiating at all. He just wanted to capture Luoshui City and, through this battle, forever nail Tubo to the pillar of shame of defeat.
This was indeed what Li Hong was thinking. He had been fighting with Tubo for nearly a year and a half. If he negotiated peace just because Tubo wanted to, wouldn't all his efforts for this year be in vain?
What he wanted was to capture the powerful Tibetan holy city of Lhasa, so as to intimidate other restless small countries and tell foreign countries that there was only one country with absolute say here, and that was the Tang Dynasty.
"I'd like to give you someone." The Tibetan suddenly said.
"Who are you?" Li Hong's fierce gaze was as sharp as a knife, making the Tibetans feel creepy.
"Your servant Chidusongjie greets His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty." Chidusongjie held his head high and said coldly.
One person? This incident reminded Li Hong that it might be the person who had been behind him and disturbing him in Chang'an City.
"Who are you giving it to?" Li Hong asked in a deep voice.
"A person whom we Tubo call a mysterious man." Chidu Songjie said with a serious expression.
Li Hong stared at Chidu Songjie without saying a word. This guy was very cunning and difficult to deal with. He sent Heng Qiao to contact him, but even when his troops were at the gates of the city, this guy did not give in, nor did he have any real evidence to say that he was on the side of the Tang Dynasty.
Now he gave me a mysterious person? Who could it be? Or was it just a bait?
"Do you know the identity of the mysterious man? The one who has been helping you Tubo and smuggling contraband items in our Tang Dynasty." Li Hong asked for confirmation.
"Zanpu knows the identity of the mysterious man. I don't know it, but I can convince Zanpu to tell you the information about that person, as long as you..."
"As long as I don't attack the city, I will follow you into Lhasa, and then you will convince your Zamp to tell me. If you cannot convince him, you have no responsibility because you have tried your best." After Li Hong finished speaking, he did not look at Chidusongjie. This guy was too cunning. All these words were actually just to lure him into the city alone.
He knew better than anyone that his father's letter for help to Aunt Wencheng would become a tool for the Tibetans to use if he entered Lhasa City.
The Tibetans could easily imprison themselves and then use themselves as a threat to break the siege.
Afterwards, they would escort me back to the Tang Dynasty using the letter for help from my father to Aunt Wencheng. The excuse was naturally that they were helping my father send me back to Chang'an.
And my father will have to accept the favor of the Tubo people, and when the time comes, he will be like a dumb person eating bitter herbs, unable to express his grievances in words.
"Your Highness, the Honorable Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty, please believe me. I promise you with the most noble and pure character of Tubo that I will be able to convince our Zamp and tell you who the mysterious man is." Chidu Songjie watched Li Hong take a crossbow, and then put a green arrow on the string.
Li Hong squinted his eyes and looked at a skull that was barely noticeable ten meters away from the city gate.
Needless to say, this skull was naturally the explosion point left outside by Heng Qiao when he was burying the explosives.
"Chidu Songjie, you have no chance. I said that I hope to see your sincerity, but now I only see your cunning." Li Hong raised his crossbow, aimed at the skull, and said lightly.
Chidusongjie was shocked. Indeed, he had just heard about the mysterious man yesterday. He had only one purpose, which was to lure the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty into the city of Lhasa and then use it to threaten the Tang people to withdraw their troops.
"boom……"
A loud explosion suddenly sounded like thunder. Chidu Songjie, who was thinking, felt his heart tremble, as if it was blown apart by the explosion, and slowly sank.
He turned pale all of a sudden, and stared blankly at the sneer on Li Hong's face, then slowly turned his head like a puppet.
“Boom…boom…boom.”
The earth-shaking explosion caused dust to fly on the walls of Lhasa City, accompanied by a strange smell.
The entire city of Lhasa seemed to be in the middle of an explosion, and seemed to be shaking in the explosion.
Even the snow-capped mountains in the distance seemed to have felt the strong vibration, and large piles of snow rolled down from the halfway point of the mountain.
A horn was blown in the Potala Palace, and as the dull horn sounded quickly, the sound of horse hooves also rang out from within the city.
"You...your heavenly thunder shattered the walls of our holy city?" Chidusongjie was now filled with shock and regret. He regretted that he should not have played tricks on this devil, and regretted not following the advice of the Holy Mother of Salvation to invite Li Hong.
"The only thing you can do now is to run over and tell your Tibetan soldiers to surrender. Otherwise, they will be blown to pieces by the thunder like the stones of the city wall." Li Hong said lightly while admiring the thick smoke billowing from the city wall in the distance.
"I don't believe it. I don't believe that you in the Tang Dynasty have so many heavenly thunders. Why don't we have them?" Chidu Songjie's eyes turned red, and his heart kept sinking.
He thought of the Tang man who was sent to alienate him and Tubo, the Tang man who disappeared late at night and appeared tired before him in the early morning - Heng Qiao!
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