In Hexi, Liu Kui led the troops under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to launch two attacks.

In June of the eighth year of Qianning, Liu Kui led 20,000 cavalry of the Right Shence Army and the Right Shenwu Army to attack the territory of Shanzhou in two ways, and had a fierce battle with more than 10,000 cavalry of the Tubo Division of Qinghai in the territory of Huangshui County.

In this battle, the Tang army defeated the Tibetans, killed more than 8,000 Tibetan cavalry, captured more than 3,000, and the rest fled.

Immediately, Liu Kui led his army to capture Longzhi County and stationed 5,000 foot cavalry here.

In September of the same year, the armed forces of the Tubo monastery in Shanzhou united with the local chief and gathered 50,000 foot cavalry with the intention of recapturing Longzhi County.

Liu Kui immediately led 30,000 cavalry reinforcements, and the two sides fought fiercely twice in Longzhi County and Huangshui County.

In the end, Tubo was defeated, losing more than 40,000 soldiers, not only failed to recapture Longzhi County, but also lost Huangshui County, and more than a dozen large and small tribes became prisoners of the Tang army.

After three major wars in a row, the vitality of Shanzhou Tubo was greatly damaged, and it was unable to launch an offensive in a short time.

Liu Kui also immediately withdrew his troops and did not continue to attack Shancheng County.

The two major battles in Huangshui County caused the soldiers of the forbidden army to have some altitude sickness as Li Ye said.

If the offensive continues, this state of discomfort will be more obvious, and if the opportunity is seized by the Tibetans, it is very likely that it will fall short.

Subsequently, with the consent of the imperial court, Liu Kui set up the Qinghai Governor's Mansion in Huangshui, with Long Zhi as the governor, and devoted himself to conquering Qinghai Tubo.

The news that the Tang army had defeated more than 60,000 troops in Shanzhou and Tubo soon spread around Qinghai.

There is no doubt that the news of the return of the Tang army to Qinghai caused quite a stir in the entire Qinghai region.

Two hundred years ago, the Tang army once occupied half of Qinghai, but in the battle of Dafeichuan, the Tang army was defeated, and since then the Tang army has gradually lost the initiative in Qinghai.

Liu Kui is not Xue Rengui, and perhaps no Xue Rengui can use soldiers, but Tubo does not have such a character as Qinling.

At this time, although the Tang Dynasty was not as strong as the Tang Dynasty more than 200 years ago, it was much stronger than the fragmented Tubo.

The fragmentation of Tibet also gave the Tang army an opportunity to defeat the allied forces of Shanzhou and Tubo and occupy most of Shanzhou.

Although the tribes of Qinghai and Tibet were a little surprised or panicked, they could not unite to expel the Tang army, because they themselves were fighting each other and could not unite.

For a time, Qinghai Tubo acquiesced in the Tang army's occupation of most of Shanzhou. And the remaining forces of Shanzhou Tubo were also unable to counterattack because of their heavy losses before, so they were deadlocked.

In view of the failure of the Tang army in the Qinghai region during the early Tang Dynasty, Liu Kui adopted a step-by-step approach after occupying the two counties.

First of all, the city walls of Huangshui and Longzhi counties were expanded and strengthened, especially the county town of Huangshui, which was the front line.

In addition, ten towns and towns were built in the middle of Lanzhou to Huangshui County, of different sizes, for hoarding grain and grass and protecting grain roads.

At the same time, Liu Kui also equipped the Qinghai Governor's Mansion with a lot of assault guns and earth-shattering thunderbolts for defense.

In the Qinghai region, it is easy to attack, but difficult to defend.

Because after the arrival of winter, the roads were closed by heavy snow, and the roads became difficult, and it was inconvenient for the army to march.

At this time, the Tibetans may take the opportunity to counterattack.

In the short term, Liu Kui did not ask the Qinghai Governor's Office to capture many places, but only wanted to hold the existing towns and serve as a springboard for the Tang army to attack the entire Qinghai region.

The war in Hexi naturally spread back to Chang'an, but it didn't cause much of a sensation, after all, it was just to recapture two county towns that had been lost for a hundred years.

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"Captain Li, when you leave Yingzhou tomorrow, it will no longer be the territory of Datang, which is already the northernmost state of Datang.

To the east of Yingzhou is the Liaodong region controlled by the Bohai State, to the north is the gathering place of the eight Khitan tribes, and to the west is the residence of the Dongxi people.

Xi people are divided into East Xi and West Xi, West Xi now lives in the territory of Yanzhou, and has been subordinated to my Tang Dynasty.

To the west of the Xi people, there is the black car Murowei, a branch of the Murowei, which is relatively strong.

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In a mansion in Yingzhou City, there was a relatively large merchant brigade, with more than 60 carriages, all loaded with goods, and more than 300 cavalry.

In one of the rooms in the store, a man dressed as a shopkeeper was bent down and talking in front of a man who was unbuttoning his coat and baking a fire by the fire.

The man dressed as the shopkeeper is naturally a Jinyiwei personnel in Yingzhou, of course, this mansion is not Jinyiwei's, after all, there are not many Jinyiwei personnel in this Lulong area.

There are only a few people in this battalion, and most of them are recruited locals.

Of course, such people don't have access to too many secrets, and they mainly collect some scattered information.

And the man who roasted the fire was obviously from a martial arts background, even if he didn't wear a weapon, that ruthlessness could make people retreat.

This person's name is Li Chang, a person who likes to hear.

If you are more serious, it can be regarded as the Li Tang clan, but his surname is not from the Li Tang royal family.

The reason why he is considered a Li Tang clan is because his ancestor is the hidden prince Li Jiancheng.

Of course, it is not the descendants of Li Jiancheng's sons, after all, Li Jiancheng's five sons and heirs were all killed by Li Shimin, and it is estimated that they did not slip through the net.

Li Chang's ancestor is Li Jiancheng's daughter.

Although Li Jiancheng's son was killed, his daughter did not suffer.

However, more than two hundred years have passed, and by his generation, he has long lost the mark of the Li Tang royal family, and he is not a member of the clan. After all, after the Xuanwumen Change, Li Jiancheng's descendants were all removed from the sect.

Although hundreds of years have passed, this matter has long passed, but if he mentions that he is Li Jiancheng, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will make such a fuss.

This is a patriarchal society, and Li Chang is no longer a descendant of the Li Tang clan, and the reason why he is so called is nothing more than putting gold on his face.

As for the real or fake, there is no way to confirm it, after all, even the genealogy is gone.

Before joining Jinyiwei, Li Chang was just an ordinary soldier in the river.

On this trip, he was ordered to follow this caravan and enter the territory of the Xi people to investigate intelligence and understand the situation of the Xi people.

"Can you be more specific about what you know?" Li Chang asked this subordinate.

"Captain Li, the little one has never left Yingzhou, and what he knows is all what his parents said or heard from the businessmen who came from the south to the north.

And these places are very chaotic, and there are wars basically every day.

The Khitans are fighting with the Bohai State and Murwei, and the Khitans are also fighting internally. The brocade-clothed guard soldier dressed as the shopkeeper replied truthfully.

"Is it so confusing?" Li Chang frowned.

If it is as this subordinate said, then it is not easy to find information outside the Cypriot Island. Wars are frequent, and even if there is news, it is difficult to get out, and because of the war, the information is updated quickly, and the information that may have been spoed out before will soon be useless.

"The captain's trip is to the place where the Xi people go, it is slightly better, although wars also break out from time to time, but the scale is not large. However, the captain still has to be careful on this trip, so as not to be robbed by those tribesmen! ”

"Robbery?"

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