Taihe City, the capital city of Nanzhao.

"Great witch god, your devout believers are willing to exchange twenty years of life for two days, only two days, just give me two days. I, Pi Luo Pavilion, will exchange for a new future for Nanzhao......"

Nanzhao believed in ghost religion and worshiped nature, and the witch god was their biggest and highest god.

As Pei Min and Xu Yuan expected, Pi Luo Ge contacted Tubo early and became a brother with Tubo.

This time, the Tang army sent 60,000 elite soldiers, while the soldiers of the whole country in Nanzhao were only more than 10,000, and the six edicts had just been unified, and the people of the edicts were unstable, and the strength of the two sides was completely disproportionate.

Without an alliance with Tubo and no help from Tibet, Nanzhao could not be an opponent at all.

In view of the great strength of the Tang army, Tubo and Nanzhao specially formulated a strategy to lure the enemy into depth.

But...... They failed!

The overall plan was to completely disrupt the army of a Tang Dynasty named Xian Yu Zhongtong.

The most unpredictable thing about the art of war is his uncertainty.

Just like in "The Art of War", the army is like water.

Many times, an unintentional move will instead determine the victory.

The Tang Dynasty's participation in the army was unintentionally sabotaged the strategies of Tubo and Nanzhao.

In order to compete for merit, Xian Yu Zhongtong led the vanguard troops of the Tang Dynasty, drove straight in, and directly killed the city of Cangshan and Erhai Taihe in one go.

This kind of reckless and stupid play has unexpectedly achieved miraculous results.

Xian Yu Zhongtong played the deterrence of the Tang Dynasty and caught Nanzhao and Tubo off guard.

According to the general principle, the task of the vanguard army is mainly to open the way.

In case of water, the bridge was built, and there was no way to open the road, clearing the obstacles for the follow-up army and providing a safe and comfortable route for the army.

Xian Yu Zhongtong was unusual, directly leading the vanguard of the 15,000 Tang Army, abandoning the follow-up troops behind, and his lone army went deep into Cangshan and Erhai.

This abnormal use of troops has unexpectedly achieved results.

According to the original plan of Nanzhao and Tubo, they found an opportunity to ambush the logistics of the Tang army, and then annihilated the Tang army in one fell swoop.

But he didn't want to lead the Tang army directly to Cangshan and Erhai, but the logistics of the Tang army did not enter the ambush circle.

This time, Nanzhao and Tubo were completely dumbfounded.

If they attacked the vanguard army that was less than Zhongtong, they would certainly be able to win, but they would also expose their whereabouts.

Even if the Tang army of 15,000 is completely eaten, the Tang army still has a main force of 35,000.

Tubo transferred 10,000 soldiers and horses to support this time, and Nanzhao lured the enemy all the way to defeat, with only 5,000 combat strength.

The Don army stood the same with the superiority of troops.

Nanzhao is small and weak, and it can't afford to stand the tug-of-war.

Defeating Xian Yu Zhongtong for some reason can only get a victory, but it can't achieve victory.

Only by defeating Zhang Qiu and Qiong's large army can the victory be determined.

But in this way, it is equivalent to letting go of Xian Yu Zhongtong's vanguard army, and exposing Nanzhao's national capital Taihe City to the claws of Xian Yu Zhongtong's vanguard army.

Taihe City has less than a thousand soldiers and horses at the moment.

Although Taihe City was built in imitation of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, it can not be compared with Chang'an at all.

At this moment, as long as Xianyu Zhongtong forcibly attacked Taihe City, it would not take two hours, and the capital of Nanzhao would fall.

In this southern expedition, the Tang army will be a great success.

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West of Taihe City, twenty miles away.

Xian Yu Zhongtong, who joined the army, looked at Taihe City in the distance, and he never dreamed that things would go so smoothly.

In this southern expedition, there was almost no follow-up of soldiers and horses, and he only relied on his vanguard army to defeat Nanzhao's resistance army.

Because it was too smooth, Xian Yu Zhongtong had the idea of taking the lead alone, and accelerated the march all the way, leaving the rear troops behind, and killed Cangshan Erhai alone.

He wants people to know that in this southern expedition, he is rarely in Zhongtong is the real planner, and Zhang Qiu and Qiong, who lead the army, are just watching the play in the rear.

He wants to be like Wang Zhonghe, and show his prestige in one battle, so that the world knows the name of Xian Yu Zhongtong.

In the face of Xian Yu Zhongtong, who was greedy for merit and rushed forward, Nanzhao and Tubo, who had exhausted their organs, let Xian Yu Zhongtong defeat him with his rich experience......

Wang Kezhao quickly ran to Xian Yu Zhongtong's side and said in a low voice: "Mr. Xian Yu, the little one has listened." Now Taihe City is in chaos, as long as my army is in the city, it won't be long before we can conquer the capital of Nanzhao. ”

Xian Yu Zhongtong and Wang Kezhao were not perfunctory to him.

In this southern expedition, Xian Yu Zhongtong specially appointed Wang Kezhao as a lieutenant in the vanguard army.

Wang Kezhao is timid and afraid, but not to mention that the military level is still very good.

Especially in the battle of Shunfeng, he was quite good at charging into battle and dispatching troops, and marching all the way also made Wang Kezhao make a lot of achievements.

Xian Yu Zhongtong, who recommended him, also had a long face.

Wang Kezhao tasted the sweetness and wanted to gain the merit of attacking Taihe City again.

Xian Yu Zhongtong said pointedly: "We have already achieved the greatest merit in this battle, how can we not leave a soup for the festival?" After all, Zhang Qiu and Qiong are as kind to me as a mountain, and they can't be ungrateful. ”

Wang Kezhao immediately woke up and said busily: "Mr. Xian Yu is really righteous and thin, and the small one will remember Mr. Da's great kindness, and take Mr. as the horse's head." ”

Xian Yu Zhongtong didn't speak, just squinted, looked at Taihe City, and thought: "King Nanzhao had better be interesting, otherwise don't blame you for Uncle Xian Yu's ruthlessness." ”

Where does Xian Yu Zhongtong have such good intentions, he simply wants to let Nanzhao go.

This killing chickens and taking eggs is not as good as raising their own respect.

Tubo is not easy to fight, but Nanzhao is easy to bully.

Solving Nanzhao in one breath is far better than letting Nanzhao live freely.

As long as you raise him, you won't have to worry about having no merits to gain in the future.

Therefore, Xian Yu Zhongtong rejected Nanzhao's request for peace from the beginning: when the Tang army decided to march south and the soldiers were about to enter southern Xinjiang, Pi Luoge, the king of Nanzhao, came with a begging tone and wrote a letter, in which he stated that "if the Tang army does not retreat, it can only surrender to Tibet." ”

It was also this letter that made Xian Yu Zhongtong see the pessimism of Nanzhao, completely ignoring Pi Luoge's begging, and boldly chose to attack at night.

Sure enough, the battle was successful!

Xian Yu Zhongtong knew that he had unintentionally sabotaged the strategies of Nanzhao and Tubo, and he didn't know what he had missed because of his stupidity.

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In the end, Xian Yu Zhongtong naturally did not wait for Zhang Qiu and Qiong.

Xian Yu Zhongtong waited stupidly for two days, wasting two days.

The plans of Nanzhao and Tubo, which had been blown up, were successfully implemented.

With the help of Xian Yu Zhongtong, Nanzhao and Tubo attacked Zhang Qiu and Qiong's follow-up army.

Because of Xian Yu Zhongtong's urging, Zhang Qiu and Qiong did not expect that there would be an ambush by Nanzhao and Tubo in the place where the vanguard army passed.

The 35,000 Tang army was defeated and collapsed.

Xian Yu Zhongtong, who got the news, escaped at night......

60,000 troops marched south to the Tang Dynasty, losing more than 40,000 and 10,000 captured......

Nanzhao and Tubo took the opportunity to invade Yunnan and plundered the ......

On the side, he was almost sure to win a good game, and he stinked hard.