With the help of the advantages of watchtowers and mountains and rivers, the soldiers and horses of the Dongnu Kingdom have obtained a strong defensive force, so that the Tubo Empire does not dare to act rashly, however, the soldiers and horses of the Dongnu Kingdom themselves are not strong, and the troops are also very small, that is to say, the army of the Dongnu Kingdom only has a strong defensive strength, but not offensive.

In this way, the East Woman Kingdom is equivalent to the turtle of the animal kingdom, although the defense is strong, so that many hunters have no way to start, but it does not pose a threat to any animal, and of course, it cannot deter any opponent.

It stands to reason that a small country like this is no threat and is located in the depths of the mountains, it should not attract the attention of the big countries, but the Dongnu Kingdom is sandwiched between the Tubo Empire and the Nanzhao, and the Tubo wants to dominate the world, and the biggest enemy is the Tang Empire.

The East Woman Country is located between the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, and Nanzhao, which is destined to be a tragedy, and it is almost impossible for the East Woman Kingdom to live its own life honestly, which is the sorrow of a small country.

In order to survive in the cracks of the great powers, the East Woman Kingdom must learn to balance the interests of the big countries, for so many years, the East Woman Country has always done this, and even by the world as a 'two-faced Qiang' and because the strength of the Tang Dynasty is stronger than that of Tubo, therefore, the East Woman Kingdom chose to belong to the Tang Dynasty, but secretly also expressed loyalty to the Tubo Zanpu.

However, this balanced way of survival has recently been broken, after the loss of Pingrong City, Tubo urgently needs to open up another road to Nanzhao, and the East Woman Country is the only way to this new road, for this reason, Tubo can no longer meet the secret allegiance of the East Woman Kingdom, but requires the East Woman Kingdom to break away from the Tang Dynasty, officially allegiance to the Tibetans, and to pay tribute to the Tubo every year, allowing the Tubo army to be stationed in the territory of the East Woman Kingdom.

At the same time, the newly appointed Queen of the East went to Chang'an City in person to inform the Tang Emperor of the ambitions of the Tang Dynasty, so as to use the power of the Tang Empire to deter the possible military adventures of the Tubo Empire.

The purpose of the Dongnu Kingdom to take advantage of the situation to protect itself, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers naturally understand it very well, but once the Dongnu Kingdom is annexed by Tubo, the interests of the Tang Dynasty will also suffer great losses, for this reason, the Tang Emperor Li Longji agreed to the request of the Dongnu Kingdom, and immediately sent Li An to escort the King of Guichang back to the Dongnu Kingdom, and let the Ministry of Rites Lang Xi Yu go with him to appease the ministers and people of the Dongnu Kingdom, promote the national prestige and policies of the Tang Empire, and make the people of the Dongnu Kingdom turn their hearts to the Tang Dynasty.

After listening to Zhang Erniu's report and looking at the map in front of him, Ang Lee's situation around the Dongnu Kingdom gradually became clearer, and the various actions of Tubo gradually became clearer.

In Li An's view, the reason why Tubo planned to assassinate the Eastern Queen was because the Eastern Queen opposed Tubo's proposal, which aroused the anger of Tubo Zampu, and they chose to attack in the territory of the Tang Dynasty in order to blame the Tang Empire and let the people of the Eastern Female Kingdom understand that their king was killed by assassins in the Tang Dynasty, so as to hate the Tang Dynasty in their hearts and pave the way for Tubo to enter the Eastern Female Kingdom in the future.

Tubo has hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the reason why they chose this kind of conspiracy instead of sending the main army to attack is because the geographical location of the Dongnu country is extremely dangerous, and all the checkpoints that can allow the army to pass are built with tall watchtowers, and the large-scale army cannot be deployed at all, and it is even more difficult to break through these watchtowers.

"Although the Tubo army is extremely strong, if you want to break through the strong defense line of the Dongnu Kingdom, you will have to pay an extremely heavy price, and only outwitting is the best way, which is the fundamental reason why Tubo won over the Dongnu royal family and assassinated the King of Guichang."

Li An frowned and said leisurely.

Zhang Erniu nodded approvingly and said: "Captain Li, what I'm most worried about now is that the Great Ministers and the Four Ministers who are defending the west will collude with the Tubo, once they let the Tubo army enter the Dongnu Country, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

"What, do you suspect the Great Phase and the Four Phases?"

"No, I'm just talking about things, because only the two of them take refuge in Tubo, the threat to the Eastern Women's Kingdom is the greatest."

Li An frowned and pondered for a moment, and said softly: "Your concern is also very reasonable, but if there was a problem with the Great Prime Minister and the Fourth Minister, they would have allowed the Tubo army to enter the country a long time ago, why didn't they move for a long time?" What are they waiting for? Are you waiting for the right time? ”

"This is also true, maybe I am too worried, the big minister and the fourth phase are the uncles of King Guichang, how can they betray King Guichang? However, if some of the generals under the command of the Great Minister and the Four Ministers are bought by Tubo, it will still pose a great threat to the Eastern Women's Kingdom. ”

Li An frowned, nodded and said: "When you say this, it reminds me that early this morning, a middle-aged Langjun who claims to be a merchant in Nanzhao invited me to the daughter's building for a gathering, this person actually wants to persuade me to join Tubo, and the Tibetan thieves even dare to buy me, the captain of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the generals of the Dongnu Kingdom, this issue really needs to be taken seriously." ”

"What, they are really bold enough, even Captain Li dares to buy it, it's really unreasonable, this businessman must be a spy, did he catch it."

Zhang Erniu was furious.

Li An shook his head lightly: "This person is not small, and the guards he brings with him are powerful, but he is afraid that he is a big official in Tibet, but he did not buy me directly, but in the tone of a businessman, he praised my ability, saying that once I belong to Tibet, I can get the position of great theory, he just hinted, and did not say it explicitly, how can I arrest him?" Besides, this is the queen city of the Dongnu Kingdom, not the Chang'an City of our Tang Dynasty, and in the absence of sufficient evidence, we must not act rashly, so as not to give people a handle. ”

"Treacherous, this man is really treacherous, can we just watch him arrogant?"

Li An said with a confident face: "The purpose of our trip is to eliminate them all, so what's the harm in letting them be arrogant for the time being?" I have sent a number of brothers to keep a close watch on the Daughter's House to see who he will contact. ”

Zhang Erniu nodded again and again, agreeing with Ang Li's words.

In the evening, Li Fei Shouyu, Li Kunxiong, Li Feiyu, escort Xi Yu and other high-ranking officials of the Tang Dynasty, returned to their residence in the Queen City.

On this day, there were no accidents, and the three-way Datang inspection team was smooth and smoothly, and was warmly welcomed by the people of Dongnu Country.

However, in order to protect these high-ranking officials, Lifei Shouyu and other Tang soldiers were nervous all day, and they were not completely relieved until they were all safely brought back to their residences.

"Shouyu, Kunxiong, Feiyu, is everything going well today?"

Seeing the three of them walking into their room, Li An hurriedly asked.

"Big brother, everything is going well today, but it also makes us scared all the way, this is not Datang after all, maybe an assassin will appear somewhere."

"But no, who let the eldest brother be assassinated as soon as he entered the Queen City? Can we not be worried? ”

"Unharmed, the calmer our enemies do nothing, the more we can't take it lightly, I always have a foreboding that they haven't done anything today, and they are brewing a bigger conspiracy?"

The three of them expressed their feelings in turn.

Li An smiled faintly and looked at Li Fei Shouyu: "Who said that they didn't do anything today, not long after you left, they started to act." ”

"What action?"

All three of them looked surprised.

"They sent lobbyists, and they actually wanted to persuade me to betray the Tang Dynasty and join Tibet, which is ridiculous for you to say."

Li An said, laughed, and told the three of them the ins and outs of the matter.

When the three of them heard this, they all felt incredible, and sighed that the Tubo people were too arrogant, and even Tang Junjie like Li An dared to recruit them, at this time, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo were in a state of war, and they were hostile countries.

"Captain Li, Xi Shilang is in the study, let you go over for a while."

A soldier of the Dragon Warrior Army strode in.

Li An naturally did not delay, and immediately followed the soldier of the Dragon Martial Army and walked towards the study.

"Xi Shilang is looking for me."

Xi Yu smiled all over his face, picked up the portrait of Muyang Guo on the table, and asked softly: "Captain Li, I heard that this portrait was painted by you yourself." ”

"He is only shallow in his studies, and he doesn't paint well, which makes Xi Shilang smile."

"No, no, no, Captain Li's painting is excellent, exactly the same as the real person, but the name seems to be written incorrectly."

Xi Yu smiled at the corner of his mouth and looked at Li An with interest.

Li An was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "What, Xi Shilang knows the person in the painting?" Who the hell is he? ”

Xi Yu was also stunned: "Looking at Captain Li's appearance, it seems that he doesn't recognize this person, so why did he draw a portrait of this person?" ”

Ang Lee did not hide it, and hurriedly told the events of the day, and continued to ask who the person in the painting was.

"Captain Li, the person who painted this portrait is the Tubo Great Discussion of Wuzhi Guo, he is really cunning, he actually took apart the last two words, and lied that he was a Nanzhao businessman, by the way, what is he doing in Dongnu Country?"

Xi Yu frowned as he spoke.

"What, he's actually a Tibetan treatist?"

Li An was greatly surprised, he had already guessed that Muyang Guo was a great official in Tubo, but he didn't expect that this person was actually the right-hand man of Tubo Zanpu Chide Zuzan.

"It seems that Tubo Zampu is determined to win the East Female Kingdom! He actually sent the most powerful arguments to the Queen City. ”

A sneer appeared at the corner of Li An's mouth, and a hint of murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

Since Tubo Zampu wants to get the Dongnu Kingdom so much, Li An wants to give him a big gift, the head of Tubo. (To be continued.) )