Chapter 539: Anxi Coalition Army

In the past few days, the kings of Anxi countries have gathered in Qiuci to discuss the plan to fight against Tibet, Qiuci country, Yanji country, Shule country, Gumo country, Khotan country, Zhu Jubo country, Weitou country, Pancheng country, Wensu country, etc., more than a dozen kings of small countries gathered in one tent to discuss the future of Anxi.

Seeing that the Tang army entered Anxi with 20,000 elite troops, and the Anxi Tubo army only had a few thousand people, and the Tubo army was driven out of Anxi and was unstoppable, rather than waiting for the Tang army to win a complete victory before negotiating, it was better to clarify the future matters one by one now, and the Anxi countries would at least not be so passive, and they could get more benefits.

Of course, Guo Song knows the mentality of Anxi countries well, and of course he knows that he will take the initiative if he negotiates after driving out Tubo.

But Guo Song had to think in the long run, considering that the Anxi army and the Anxi countries were living in harmony, so he decided to distribute the future benefits in a win-win way.

This meeting of various countries was not so much a discussion on jointly dealing with Tibet, but a general negotiation on the distribution of interests after the war, so the time was relatively long, and the Tang Army negotiated with other countries, and the countries were also negotiating with each other.

The deliberations had been going on for three days, and it was finally time to conclude.

Guo Song got up and said to the monarchs with a smile: "Everyone, since everyone has reached a consensus, we can put it into action as soon as possible, I will summarize it one last time, this attack on the Shule Tubo army, mainly the Tang army, supplemented by the coalition forces of various countries, everyone works together to defeat the strong enemy, and secondly, the principle of land distribution after the war is also clear, the recovered oasis is divided into three or seven, the Tang army accounts for thirty percent, and each country accounts for seventy percent, everyone has no opinion!" ”

This is the core of the negotiations, the land distribution of the oasis, before that, the little bit of land of the Tang Army, I am afraid that there is not even a small half of it, and there are still thirty percent of the Anxi countries, and the other nearly seventy percent was snatched away by the Tibetan herdsmen.

This distribution is actually the division of seventy percent of the land in the hands of the Tubo people, the Tang army took three percent, and the Anxi countries took nearly forty percent, and everyone was satisfied with this result, for the Tang army, thirty percent of the land has more than 100,000 hectares, enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people, and the Anxi countries took forty percent, they are also very satisfied, if there is no Tang army, they may not even get one acre of land, and the remaining thirty percent of the land in their hands will be snatched away by the Tubo one after another.

This is a win-win solution, and everyone except the Tibetan people is willing to accept it.

Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Guo Song said: "Since there is no opinion, then everyone will sign an agreement to determine the land distribution plan we have discussed in writing, and we can allocate land according to this land after the war." ”

Lou Wenda drafted an alliance agreement, which was signed by Guo Song on behalf of the Tang Dynasty and stamped with a large seal, and other kings also signed and pledged, and after three days of hard work, the Tang army and the Anxi countries finally reached an alliance agreement for long-term peaceful coexistence.

In fact, most of the kings came with their troops in person, some had two or three thousand people, some had three or four thousand people, and some small countries only brought more than a thousand people, and the coalition army of the Western Regions countries totaled 25,000 people, plus the 20,000 people of the Tang army, a total of 45,000 people.

Among the 20,000 people in the Tang army, Anxi also sent 2,000 people, led by Lu Yang, the guard of Qiuci Town.

Early in the morning, the war drums roared, the trumpets whimpered, and on the steppe west of Qiuzi, the banners were like clouds, the armor was shining, and the army of 45,000 began to assemble.

Lu Yang, the town guard, was the Shule town guard of the year, and was named the prince of Pingyuan County by the imperial court, General Yunlu, he is sixty years old, his beard and hair are white, he is still old and strong, his eyes are sharp, and his waist is straight.

Guo Song looked at the assembled armies of various countries and sighed: "There are actually 25,000 troops, so many troops, what do you need the Tang army to do against a few thousand Tubo troops?" ”

Lu Yang shook his head and said: "That's because the envoy has never seen them fight, 25,000 troops, it sounds like a lot, in fact, they can't even beat a thousand Tubo troops, they also gathered tens of thousands of troops back then, and fought with 3,000 Tubo troops near the end of the city, but the whole army was defeated in less than half an hour, one ran faster than the other, and from then on they were afraid of the Tubo army." ”

Guo Song smiled dumbly: "Isn't this a rabble?" ”

"That's pretty much it!"

At this time, Lu Yang pulled a young civilian officer over and smiled at Guo Song: "This is my youngest son, Lu Jian, who is currently in the military of the Qiuzi Army, and the envoy has seen him back then. ”

Guo Song remembered that a group of children, who were only seven or eight years old at the time, are now actually in the army, and they are still in the military.

Guo Song smiled and asked, "Is the dagger I gave you back then still there?" ”

Lu Jian took out a dagger inlaid with gems from his arms, and said a little embarrassed: "That's it, the envoy gave it to me." ”

"Go ahead! There's something looking for you over there. ”

Lu Yang sent his son away, looked at his back and shook his head and said: "This kid is good at everything, but he is too shy, not like my son, his two brothers are much more decisive and brave than him." ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "The nine sons of the dragon are different, not to mention mortals, and the most lacking thing in the army is civilian generals, Ling Lang has a bright future." ”

"Thank you for your evaluation!"

The two came to the Anxi army, the two thousand Anxi army had already finished the formation, they were young soldiers selected from the four thousand Anxi army, said to be young soldiers, in fact, most of them were almost forty years old, there were really few young people like Xie Tianshan and Lu Jian, but they were in good spirits, full of energy, and high morale.

At this time, the king of Khotan, Ajuluo, shouted: "Guo Yuanjun, you will be sent in the end!" ”

Guo Song nodded, explained a few words to Lu Yang and Li Bing, and walked quickly to the high platform, the high platform was temporarily built, 45,000 soldiers finished lining up under the high platform, fifteen kings stood on both sides of the high platform, and there was a white jade seal on the table in the middle, which was the big seal of the Marshal of Anxidu.

This is a military seal carved by the countries of Anxi using high-quality white jade, not a seal of the imperial court, but more of an honorary nature, after all, it has nothing to do with the alliance of various countries and the seal itself, but by its own strength.

This big seal was engraved in the fifth year of Tianbao, the first was obtained by the Jiedu envoy Meng Chaling, then Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, and finally Guo Xin, but Guo Xin did not actually own it, but only kept this big seal, the reason is that the strength of the Tang Army in Anxi declined, and countries no longer recognized it.

Now that there are 20,000 elite Tang troops, this Marshal Seal has appeared again.

As Lu Yang said, the countries of Anxi now only look at strength and interests, the strong are respected, of course, Tubo is also very strong, but Tubo is plundering their interests, although strong, but not respected, only can protect them, and at the same time have strong strength, will win their respect from the heart.

Guo Song stepped forward and raised the new military flag of the Anxi Army with one hand, the red black dragon flag, the same as the Hexi Army, but the three big characters of 'Hexi Army' on the other side were changed to 'Anxi Army', and he held up the Marshal Seal of the Marshal with the other, and the 45,000 troops cheered.

Guo Song shouted: "Brothers, let us use this banner to plant the Tibetan military camp and drive the Tibetan people out of Anxi completely!" ”

The cheers once again flooded the entire steppe........

When the time of departure came, the horsemen packed up their belts, doused the bonfires with water, took their spears from the rows of weapon racks, carried their bows and shields behind their backs, and hung their swords on their saddles.

At this time, a huge eagle flew in from the east, hovering in the sky, and some Anxi soldiers stretched their bows and arrows, but they were held down by the Tang soldiers on the side.

"This is our scout general, don't be rude!"

The fierce son is here, it is the king of eagles, it does not need to send letters at a fixed point like other letter eagles, it can find its owner even if it is thousands of miles away.

In the army of ten thousand horses, its sharp gaze locked on its master, circled twice in the sky, slowly fell, retracted its wings and landed on Guo Song's shoulder, and rubbed its sharp beak shell on the master's face affectionately.

Guo Song patted its head lovingly, and took out the red letterbox from its leg, at this time, several generals surrounded it, and the letterbox was 100,000 urgent red, indicating that there was a major military situation.

Guo Song looked at the contents of the letter and smiled at everyone: "It is a battle report sent by Shazhou, the two Hexi armies defeated the Shatuo army in Dunhuang County, killing more than 13,000 enemies before and after, and Zhu Xie Jinhai led the remnants of the army to flee back to Yizhou. ”

The surrounding generals immediately cheered.