It's late at night.

The sound of Sanskrit singing is still the same, but the monks have already changed a batch, and it is said that this time the dojo will be done for 7749 days.

A big man wearing a cloak and covering his face walked into the mourning shed. After offering three pillars of incense to Xue Jun and saluting, Xue Renzhong stood up and respectfully led the big man to the inside of Macha Temple.

Tang Degong had been waiting there for a long time.

Dahan took off his cloak and took off the masked scarf, and it was Li Rui, who was currently the general of the Tang Dynasty's Zuo Wuwei.

It has been more than a year since Li Rui took office with Zuo Wuwei, but for the whole of Qinghai or Tubo, this person has always seemed very mysterious.

Almost everyone thinks that Li Rui's arrival with Zuo Wuwei is a kind of clamping by Li Ze on Li Cunzhong, the general of Zuo Wuwei, and the arrival of this person is very likely to set off a wave of power seizure and even internal discord among Zuo Wuwei.

Li Rui is not an ordinary person, this person was surnamed Hu Ming Twelve, and he made great contributions when Li Ze overthrew the old Chengde group in the early days, and it was precisely because of the special merits of this person that Li Ze completely knocked down the Su Group almost effortlessly. It is precisely because of this that Hu Twelve was given the surname Li by Li Ze and renamed Li Rui.

Later, this person was under the command of Liu Chenglin, the right Xiaowei, and he made it all the way to Zhonglang General.

Last year, he was transferred to Zuo Wuwei.

Although the positions are all Zhonglang generals, the third person in the current Tang Dynasty army is the third person in addition to the general and the supervisor, but everyone believes that Li Rui was specially sent by Li Ze in order to take over Zuo Wuwei, and he is the inevitable candidate for Zuo Wuwei's next general.

However, this important Dalang Zhonglang general, after Zuo Wuwei took office, he seemed extremely mysterious and rarely showed up, and occasionally appeared in activities such as Zuo Wuwei's military parade, and he also came and went in a hurry. Not to mention the power struggle of Zuo Wuwei that everyone is expecting, Li Rui has not publicly handled many official affairs at all.

For such an important person, Tubo will naturally not take it lightly, and it took a lot of effort to inquire clearly, Li Rui, who looks as strong as an ox, is extremely unsuitable for the unique climate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Because of this, more often than not, this person stays in Ganzhou.

This made Delhi Chinan breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, judging from Li Rui's past record, this person is an extremely difficult opponent. Hu Twelve was born in the internal guard, with a delicate mind, and was extremely cunning in the use of soldiers, and was known as the spirit fox. This person cannot go to the battlefield, which is naturally good news for Tibet.

But now, Li Rui, who has been rumored to be in poor health for nearly a year, secretly appeared in Qamdo, looking at his vigorous appearance, where is he not suitable for the plateau climate?

"Thank you Li Zhonglang for coming to pay tribute to my father!" Entering the house, Xue Renzhong once again bowed to the courtesy.

Li Rui is not Tang Degong.

Although Tang Degong's identity is important, his identity background and future prospects are far from being compared with the one in front of him.

Li Rui picked up Xue Renzhong with both hands and said, "This is as it should be." No matter what the Xue family has done before, over the years, you have moved your family into Tubo, and you have worked hard for nearly ten years to manage the current situation for my Datang, all of which are hard work, and the head of the Xue family finally sacrificed himself, such merits, of course, Datang will not forget. I came to worship and kowtow a few times for the head of the Xue family, which should be due. ”

Speaking of Xue Jun's death, Xue Renzhong couldn't help but burst into tears again: "Daddy, he died too miserably." ”

Li Rui patted Xue Renzhong on the shoulder: "People can only die once left and right, and how they die is actually not very important." What matters is the value that his death brings, some people die and are worthless, but some people die and the impact is far-reaching. You don't have to be too sad, when we enter Lhasa, I will call the shots and hand over your family's great enemy to you to deal with, how about it? ”

"Thank you, General Li Zhonglang!" Xue Renzhong was overjoyed and bowed deeply again.

"Sit down!" Tang Degong pointed to the burning fire pond and said: "Li Zhonglang will come all the way to work hard, Renzhong has also worked hard these days in order to take care of the funeral, the leg of lamb is roasted here, and the wine is warm, let's eat and chat!" ”

The three of them sat down around the fire, and Li Rui said: "I said that now during your mourning, you will ban meat and alcohol, but the war is about to start, and Rusu can not be good for your physical strength. I'll just drink with Don! ”

"Thank you Li Zhonglang for your understanding!" Xue Renzhong said.

The three of them sat down around the fire, and each took out the knife he carried with him, and cut off the roasted mutton piece by piece. He took a big bite of the warm wine.

"After nearly a year of hard work, I finally have to wait for the results." Wiping a handful of oil on his mouth, Li Rui sighed: "In the past half a year, I have been suffocated to death." ”

"That is, Li Zhonglang will have such a temperament, so he can endure such loneliness, and if he changes to someone else, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it." Tang Degong said with a smile.

"If you can't do it, you have to do it even if you stand up!" Li Rui said with a smile: "I think that when I was undercover in the Su Group, it was much more dangerous than the current one, didn't I also cheer myself up and survive?" ”

"That's different!" Tang Degong said with a smile: "At that time, General Li Zhonglang was not yet a Zhonglang general!" ”

At that time, Li Rui was still a little-known little spy, and he was heavily punished by Li Ze for being smart. And now, he can be regarded as a success. After being in a high position, you can still endure loneliness, and the amount is naturally different.

"For you, it's not the same, but for me, it's all the same. Aren't they all doing things for Childe? Li Rui raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and said.

This makes people very envious, there are really few people who can call Li Ze a son instead of His Majesty. Even if it is a person from a secret camp, it is divided into three, six, nine and so on.

A year ago, Li Rui arrived in Qamdo.

He arrived in Qamdo earlier than the official document of the imperial court appointing him as the general of Zuo Wuwei Zhonglang.

When he first went to the plateau, he did not adapt for a long time, but in the end, the foundation was good, and after the first most difficult stage, he was more than accustomed to the climate here.

For a whole year, Xue Jun was using his last little ability to prepare ordnance and supplies for the rebel army in Qamdo, and Li Rui's 3,000 rangers also arrived in Qamdo secretly in phases and batches one after another. Like Li Rui, after these people arrived on the plateau, they also had a long period of discomfort, some of them became weaker and had to quit, and some of them slept on this plateau.

But the vast majority of people have now adapted to the climate and become brave warriors again.

Just as Li Ze said, with the military strength and economic strength of the Tang Dynasty, it is not a problem to fight Tibet, but the problem lies in the weather and climate here. When people on the plains reach such a plateau, sometimes they can't breathe, let alone fight, even if they walk a few steps faster.

And this is also the determination of Delhi Chinan to have the confidence to deal with Datang to the end.

The number of soldiers that the Tang Dynasty can send to fight in Tibet is limited, and so far, there is only one such force as Li Cunzhong's Zuo Wuwei.

The Tang Dynasty has been in this bureau for a whole year.

After the two serf rebel armies officially started and occupied Qamdo and Yushu, this plan took shape, and then in the following time, it was slowly revised and perfected little by little.

If Delhi China wants to start a war against Zuo Wuwei, his first step is to kill the serf rebels in the territory first, so as to ensure that when he clashes with the Tang army, the backyard will not catch fire. More importantly, he now needed to take out the serf rebels in Qamdo to ensure the unimpeded passage of the trade route from Yizhou to Tibet.

In any case, Delhi China South has to solve this problem first.

It is precisely with this judgment that after the Xue clan basically controlled Qamdo, the Xue clan's soldiers and horses entrenched in Qamdo did not take the initiative to provoke the Tubo army, but began to operate some important areas of Qamdo with one mind. Build fortresses, castles, build defensive networks, and start stockpiling large quantities of strategic supplies.

The alliance with the Grand Lama of the Red Sect Lomba ensured that the people of this region were extremely religious and convinced that this army was undoubtedly the divine army sent by the Buddha to protect them.

And the administration of the Xue clan Qamdo also allowed them to confirm this point again.

The serfs, who originally had nothing, had their own pastures, their own cattle and sheep, and their own land, and they herded horses and sheep, cultivated and labored, and worked hard for their own future, while the government here only collected a small part of the taxes.

The military expenses of the Xue army in Qamdo basically came from the input of the Xue family and the secret supply of the Tang Dynasty.

In recent years, the backbone military force of the Xue clan in Qamdo has grown to a full 10,000 people. Once the war starts, there will be at least tens of thousands of young people who can still be mobilized in Qamdo, and they will also be young and strong after a certain amount of military training.

Unlike Qamdo's business strategy, Abdullah, another serf rebel army rooted in Yushu, attacked everywhere and constantly harassed the big nobles in Tibet on the plateau.

Yushu is just a relatively stable stronghold of Abdullah, and in the final analysis, Abdullah can only be regarded as a rogue.

Now, Abdullah is cooperating with the grand strategy of the Tang army, desperately marching in the direction of Qinghai, and his actions are also interpreted by the Tibetan high-level as a military operation to converge with the Tang army.

And the real killer of the Tang people is in Qamdo.

The main target of Tibet is also Qamdo.

Moreover, the Tang people wanted to do a big job in Qamdo and reverse the balance of power between the two sides on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Li Ruicai nested in those canyons and ravines of Basu in Qamdo for a whole year.