Chapter 363: Soaring Wolf Smoke

Zhang Yunwen was very frustrated, because Li Shimin gave him a task to be in charge of receiving the Tibetan mission. As for the officials of Honglu Temple, they have been withdrawn.

Hearing that he had done this errand, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but be a little speechless. He just beat the Tubo delegation Li Li, who is known as the first warrior of Tubo, but was sent to be responsible for receiving the Tubo mission, isn't Li Shimin afraid that those Tubo people will secretly poison themselves and give themselves to the yin, then the Tang Dynasty has lost a general who can fight well?

Although he thought so, Zhang Yunwen still walked into the post house like a resignation.

To Zhang Yunwen's surprise, Lu Dongzan was as enthusiastic about himself as fire, and the unpleasant things that happened in the Wangyun Pavilion were as if they had never happened. As for the other people in the mission, although they were not as enthusiastic as Lu Dongzan, they were not hostile, and their eyes looked at Zhang Yunwen indifferently, like strangers.

"Hehe, Prime Minister, a few days ago, General Ben didn't control his strength well, and injured the one in the mission, what's the name, uh, Zulun? Oh yes, Ashron, I wonder how he's doing now? Zhang Yunwen sat opposite Lu Dongzan, drinking tea and saying with a smile.

A hint of unnaturalness flashed on Lu Dongzan's face: "Thank you General Zhang for your concern, but this person is no longer in Chang'an now, and has returned to Tubo!" ”

"Oh, that's a pity, General Ben still wants to visit him!" Zhang Yunwen said regretfully.

Lu Dongzan snorted, but shifted the topic to other places.

Zhang Yunwen wondered in his heart, why did this Zulun leave Chang'an at this time, could it be that he stayed here without shame? This doubt flashed in his mind, but it did not cause Zhang Yunwen to care.

Seeing Lu Dongzan talking about other topics, Zhang Yunwen was also happy to change the topic and talked about Chang'an customs with Lu Dongzan.

This so-called reception is actually to accompany Lu Dongzan to walk around Chang'an City, eat and eat and other things that fulfill the friendship of the landlord. After doing it for two days, Zhang Yunwen felt that it was not too difficult!

However, what puzzled him, in the past, Lu Dongzan and these Tubo mouths kept saying that they wanted to marry the Tang princess back to Tubo and be Zampu's wife, but now why do they rarely mention it? Have they given up on this plan, or have they had some other plans?

If you give up, why do you stay in Chang'an and don't go back to Tibet? If so, what are the plans?

Shook his head and threw these thoughts out of his head. Zhang Yunwen looked at Lu Dongzan, who was also smiling, with a smile on his face, and said with a smile: "This Chang'an natural residence, the most famous thing is this wine!" Lord Minister, this wine must be tasted, and I promise that you will not be disappointed! ”

"Okay, old man, let's give it a try!"

Just when Zhang Yunwen was warmly entertaining the Tubo mission, Na Zulun rode a horse from Longyou all the way to Longyou, and then from Longyou to Qinghai, eating and sleeping in the open along the way, day and night, ran a horse to death, and finally arrived at Tuyuhun in 20 days.

After passing through Tuyuhun, we arrived at Tubo.

From Chang'an to Tubo, in addition to this road, you can also enter Tubo from Shuzhong. But if he wants to pass through Shuzhong, when he passes through those pass cities, he needs identity documents and other things, which he doesn't have, so he chose this sparsely populated but poor road.

A cold wind blew, and Zulun couldn't help but shrink his body, took out a piece of horse meat from his arms, put it in his mouth and chewed it, and swallowed it with difficulty.

He had cut off the flesh of the horse that had run away. When the horse died, Zulun cut off the flesh on the horse's limbs and abdomen, divided it into pieces, stuffed dozens of catties of meat into a package, hung it on the horse's back, and set off.

After a few days of walking in the vast grassland of Tuyuhun, the meat was almost eaten.

Suddenly, Ashram saw a flock of white sheep in front of him. As if he suddenly appeared in front of him, before this, Akuro didn't even notice that there was a flock of sheep in front of him. Seeing this group of sheep, Zu Lun's heart was immediately overjoyed, he pulled out his scimitar, stepped forward, and cut the fattest sheep to the ground with one sword.

The sheep immediately scattered and ran away, making a "bleating" sound.

Zu Lun grabbed the fat sheep in his hand, laughed, and was about to find another fat sheep to use as dry food, when he suddenly heard a young voice say: "You, who are you, why did you kill my sheep?" Lose my sheep! ”

Zulun turned his head sharply, and saw a little boy of eleven or twelve standing on the ground, looking at him with tears in his eyes. As soon as he flashed the scimitar in his hand, Zu Lun roared: "Where did you come from, little ghost, get out of the way!" ”

The child stubbornly looked at Zulun, but did not move a step.

Zu Lun's heart suddenly became angry, and he waved the scimitar that was dripping blood in his hand: "Little ghost, if you don't get out of the way, Lao Tzu will chop you with a knife!" ”

At this time, the shouting of herdsmen was heard not far away.

Zulun knew that he could not stay here for long, and he did not look at the child, but put the fat sheep on the horse's back, which was dripping blood, and clamped the horse's belly with all his might. The horses galloped, carrying the foot and the fat sheep as fast as they could.

However, I don't know what happened, more than 20 herdsmen armed with scimitars, bows and arrows followed behind Akuro, and chased after him. From time to time an arrow or two flew past Agarun and stuck in the grassland.

Zu Lun has a lot of hatred in his heart, isn't it just that he cut down a sheep, and he needs to chase me so desperately?

After running for a while, the herdsman chasing behind him finally disappeared. Just when Agaru was secretly proud, suddenly nearly a hundred knights appeared in front of him. The hundred knights scattered and rushed over, forming a siege, trying to surround Ashron.

Seeing that the other party was getting closer and closer, Zu Lun held the handle of the knife tightly, ready to let these Tuyuhun people see the power of the Tubo warriors.

However, when the Tibetan herdsmen were still more than ten steps away from Zulun, these Tuyuhun people took out their bows and arrows and aimed them at Zulun.

As a result, this Tibetan warrior became a prisoner of the Tuyuhun people very tragically. When the Tuyuhun people interrogated, Zulun only said that he was hungry in his belly and wanted to kill a sheep to satisfy his hunger. After inspecting it up and down, these Tuyuhun people tied Zulun to a yurt and prepared to dispose of it again tomorrow.

That night, Akuro broke free from the rope and escaped from the camp.

Pulled out of the camp and continued to flee southwest.

Finally, in early April, Zulun returned to Tibet.

When he returned to the city of Raksha, Songtsen Gampo knew that things were not going well when he saw that Zulun was coming back alone, so he summoned Zulun to him and asked him carefully.

Zulun didn't dare to hide it, and told the mission in detail what happened to the people in Chang'an. Hearing this, Songtsen Gampo frowned tightly and kept silent.

When Songtsen Gampo asked about Li Shimin's refusal to propose Ludong Zan's marriage, Zu Lun's heart moved, and he said to Songtsen Gampo: "Zampu, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty listened to the gift of Daxiangnian, and he was supposed to agree to this family affair. At this time, I thought that the Tuyuhun envoy stood up and said a lot of bad things about Tubo to the Tang Emperor, and these words made the Tang Emperor change his mind! ”

When Songtsen Gampo heard this, he slammed his fist on the throne: "What, those Tuyuhun people actually Tuyuhun people are like this to me!" ”

Standing up and walking back and forth in the hall, Songtsen Gampo said sharply: "Pass my order, let the 70,000 troops stationed on the front line of Tuyuhun go out on the whole line and attack Tuyuhun for me!" I must let those Tuyuhun people see, I Tubo is not easy to mess with! ”

Hearing that Songtsen Gampo had given this order, a hint of revenge suddenly flashed in Zulun's eyes, who made you Tuyuhun people dare to point arrows at me for the sake of a sheep and imprison me!

"By the way, Zu Lun, the prime minister didn't go back to Tibet, did he tell you anything?" Songtsen Gampo asked.

Zu Lun nodded: "The prime minister said that the 100,000 elites of the Tang Dynasty have gone north to the Western Regions to attack Gaochang, and the Tang Dynasty is empty, Zampu can give it a go and lead the army to Shuzhong!" At that time, the prime minister courted for Zampu in Chang'an again, and saw if the Tang Emperor agreed! ”

As soon as these words fell, Songtsen Gampo hesitated: "Is the prime minister really saying that? This is a war with the Tang Dynasty! ”

Zulun replied affirmatively: "The servant will not be mistaken, the great minister said this to the servant!" ”

"Good!" Songtsen Gampo made up his mind, "I have long admired the prosperity of Shuzhong, and now I take this opportunity, if I can take Shuzhong, then my Tubo is a granary!" ”

After pacing slowly in the hall, Songtsen Gampo paused: "Pass my order, order some soldiers and slaves in the four corners, as well as the children of various families, all of them are concentrated, and I will lead the army to conquer Shuzhong!" ”

As soon as these two orders were given, the entire Tubo suddenly became busy. The 80,000 troops stationed near Tuyuhun were divided into several armies and killed the tribes in Tuyuhun, Dangxiang Zhubu, Bailan Zhuqiang and other places. And the soldiers and servants of the whole city of Raksha were also gathered together, and there was an army of 100,000 men.

The 100,000-strong army drove yaks and carts of grain all the way to the southeast. Along the way, private soldiers and servants of large families continue to join the ranks.

When the Tibetan army arrived at Jishi Mountain, the entire army had 200,000 men.

Jishi Mountain is located in the east of Tibet, trending northwest and southeast. Over the stone mountain, it is the sixteen states of the river meander, go to the east, that is, the Zhang, Xu, Tai, Qiao Prefectures, and then go to the south, but it is Nuo and Kuozhou. To the south of the two states of Nuo and Kuo, is Songzhou.

In addition to Songzhou, which is the place where the Han people live, the two prefectures of Nuo and Kuo and the prefectures of Zhang, Xu, Tai and Qiao are all nominally belonging to the Tang Dynasty and are under the jurisdiction of Songzhou, but these prefectures and counties are all Qiang people, and their chieftains lead the prefectures to assassinate the history of the prefectures, and they have been successive generations.

Because this side of Jishi Mountain is an important passage for Tubo to enter Shu, so Songzhou Thorn Shi set up a beacon tower at the top of Jishi Mountain, if there is a large-scale transfer in Tubo, it is necessary to light a beacon fire to warn.

Guarding the beacon tower is a very boring thing, facing the slight mountains every day, listening to the roar of birds and beasts, occasionally seeing human figures, and hearing human voices, it is an exciting thing.

On the morning of the fifth month of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, a cool breeze blew, and the sentry who was napping against the stone wall suddenly woke up.

Look at the sky, a ray of sunlight shining down through the gaps between the stones. The sentry stretched, stood up, and went to the battlement as usual to take a look.

This hope made the soldier who was not yet fully awake frightened, and those sleepiness did not know where to be thrown.

I saw that at the foot of Jishi Mountain, dense figures gathered like ants, slowly moving southeast along Jishi Mountain. Look at these people, they are all armed with weapons, and they are murderous, even if you think about it with your toes, you can know that the other party is not good.

Look at the yak again, this is the livestock that the Tibetan people must bring with them when they fight. Yaks can be used as animal power to pull carts, can be milked for food, and yaks killed in battle can also eat meat, which solves the logistics problem of the army.

The sentry was slightly stunned, and then ran towards the beacon tower with a rolling belt.

A moment later, a black wolf smoke rose into the sky.

At the foot of Jishi Mountain, Songtsen Gampo sat in a yak-pulled car, looking at the rising wolf smoke, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth: Datang, I'm here!