In May 1792, the Chinese Empire launched a war against the Dangxiang Pseudo-Xia.

The Chinese army did not rush into Lingxia to seek a decisive battle with the Dangxiang army, and Huaxia, which had absolute strategic superiority, calmly launched an attack on the front line of Hengshan.

There are many Tubo tribes in the Hengshan and Qingtang areas, these tribes have a large population and good productivity, and they are one of the most important allies of the Dangxiang Pseudo-Xia at this time, and can provide a large number of soldiers and grain and grass supplies to the Dangxiang people.

In addition, the terrain of Hengshan is conducive to defense, and it can also provide cover for the southern part of the pseudo-Xia.

It can be said that the area around Hengshan and Qingtang is the most important control area of the party's pseudo-Xia except for Lingxia - although this control area is more like a semi-ally.

The commander in charge of the development of Yokoyama undoubtedly chose Zuo Helin.

As an officer from Shaanxi Province, he was familiar with all the forces on the front line of Hengshan and Qingtang - in the Western Regions, Zuo Helin once resisted Pars's army with reinforcements from Qingtang Fan.

This favor will be of great benefit to the development of Qingtang.

At this time, Zuo Helin had a special battle group drawn from the Shaanxi Provincial Field Army, with a strength of 5,000 troops, and Xu Shiyang gave him 2,000 Sauron soldiers from northern Liao.

Seven thousand troops are enough to deal with Hengshan and Qingtangfan.

According to Zuo Helin's understanding, all the Tibetan tribes in the Hengshan and Qingtang areas have a total of about 200,000 people, less than 300,000 people.

If you mobilize to the limit, you can mobilize an army of 100,000, but only 20,000 or 30,000 of them are troops with horses and armor and good combat effectiveness, and the other men are similar to auxiliary soldiers, although there are many horses, but they are almost no armor, and they are not a strong force in the cold weapon army.

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At the end of May, Zuo Helin led a team into Longxi.

He did not rush to attack, but first wrote letters to the Tubo tribes who were familiar with him, inviting them to negotiate in Longxi.

This is probably a salute before the soldiers, but there are only seven small tribes that actually come to Longxi, representing a population of less than 10,000.

Moreover, these seven small tribes are also second-class citizens in Tibet, because they are more or less of Han Chinese blood - during the heyday of the previous dynasty, they passed through the Western Regions and reached the Green Mountains.

But with the decline of the dynasty, the Western Regions, far from the ruling core, became a burden, and naturally it was the first land to be abandoned.

It's just that at that time, many Han people and a small number of garrisons were isolated in the far western regions, and after living with the locals, the descendants they left behind were not much different from the Tubo, Uighur, Qiang and other ethnic groups, and only in the stories passed down by word of mouth among the old people could they remember the distant glory of their ancestors.

But that's enough—enough for themselves and for the real Tibetans.

The Tibetans would look down on them, and this contempt would make them more inclined to the Han regime in the interior.

So, as soon as Zuo Helin beckoned, they came, bringing with them two thousand soldiers - although these soldiers were poorly equipped.

Zuo Helin was very disappointed that only this person could support him, he originally thought that his face combined with the empire's national strength should be able to attract more allies.

At the beginning of June, Zuo Helin was still waiting for the other Tibetan tribes to make a final decision, but he didn't expect that before he launched an attack, the Tubo people would come to provoke him first.

The most powerful leader of the Hezhou Tibetan tribe, Zan Pumeng was leading 7,000 cavalry to approach Longxi from the west, and he was echoed by the general (and lord) Yu Zang Huama, who was stationed in Lanzhou in the pseudo-Xia, who had 20,000 soldiers in his hands.

The two Tibetan commanders who attacked, Meng is the direct descendant of Songtsen Gampo, the first co-ruler of Tibet, although he is currently only the leader of Tubo in Hezhou, but his status in the hearts of all Tibetans is very respected.

And Yuzang Huama is the lord of Tubo in the Lanzhou area, he betrayed Tubo ten years ago and took the lands and tribes around Lanzhou to take refuge in the Xia Kingdom.

The emperor of Xia was very appreciative of this, and married a princess of the sect to Yuzang Huama, which made him become the general of the Xia country, and his strength actually surpassed that of his previous master, Meng Zheng.

Meng Zheng's relationship with Yu Zang Hua Ma was not very good, because Meng Zheng was considered an ally of the Xia State before, and Yu Zang Hua Ma was only his subordinate.

Now Yu Zanghua Ma has become the concubine of Xia Guo, so this former subordinate has become an equal to himself, or even a little taller, which makes Meng Zheng's mentality a little uneven.

If it weren't for the fact that the pressure of the Han people was too great this time, it would be impossible for Meng to cooperate with Yuzang Huama to attack Longxi.

This joint attack was brokered by the famous local lama and living Buddha Wu Jieqila.

The Tubo people and the party people all believe in Lamaism, Wu is very respectful of the status of both in Hezhou and Lanzhou, he asked the two to jointly send troops to attack the Han people as a living Buddha master, Meng Zheng and Yu Zang Hua Ma still give face.

It's just that the two still didn't choose to join forces, but went out separately and fought their own.

This gave Zuo Helin a chance to break through, and a traditional general like Zuo Helin especially likes to seize this opportunity to decide the outcome with one blow.

On June 18, at the ferry near the Taoshui River in Xizhou, Zampumong was riding a horse, looking to the east.

After crossing the Taoshui River, after walking one hundred and fifty miles, he could reach the city of Longxi.

There are 7,000 Han troops there, and the strength is about the same as his, so in the heart of this Tubo Zampu, as long as that traitor Yu Zang Huama can contain some Han people, then he has a chance to win.

Ah, by the way, there are still two thousand traitors on the Longxi side, but those mongrels have no combat effectiveness, and Zampu, who has the blood of Songtsen Gampo, does not take them seriously at all.

The only thing to worry about is that Lanzhou is much closer to Longxi than Hezhou, and Yuzang Huama has 20,000 soldiers, and it is very likely that he will occupy Longxi before he arrives.

In that case, all the loot will fall into the hands of Yuzang Huama.

When Meng Zheng was in Hezhou, he had heard that the Han people in the east had invented a brand new weapon, and the weapon in his hand could break a person's head into pieces, and the best Qingtang tumor armor could not resist a fraction, and the power was very huge.

Meng Zheng was very keen to get his hands on some of those weapons, which would make his warriors stronger and his position more secure.

It would be even better if we could catch some Han artisans - not only the craftsmen who made weapons, but also the other craftsmen Zanpu.

The skilled craftsmen of the Han people have always been the treasure of the various ministries, and the same is true for Zampu.

If he can't enter Longxi before Yu hides the hemp, then the traitor will definitely plunder all the population of Longxi, and he won't even have a single hair left, and Wu Jieqila's face will not be good.

As for the resistance of the Han people, Meng Zheng did not pay attention to it, and he did not even think that Huaxia, which had just destroyed Dajin, was very strong—because this Tubo had never seen the Jurchens, nor had he ever seen the might of the Chinese army.

He had seen the local Han people, these remnants of the former dynasties who had degenerated into tribes and scattered, after hundreds of years of wind and rain, had indeed lost the prestige of the previous dynasty rampant in the Western Regions.

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