Chapter 73: The Queen's Thoughts
Li Zhonghua transferred 10,000 warriors from the Subi Kingdom to form a Restoration Army, and conducted strict training in accordance with the training of the Songzhou Army.
In March of the twelfth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, although Li Zhonghua tried his best to delay the pace of expansion of Tubo, Tubo Zampu Songtsen Gampo still swept away many obstacles, gathered 200,000 troops, and went straight to Tuyuhun's territory.
The Restoration Army, which had undergone strict training, launched a surprise attack on Fuzhou near Yazhou, driving away the local Tubo garrison, the leader of the Bailan tribe in Fuzhou, and proclaiming the Tang Dynasty as a vassal.
The Restoration Army did not stop the pace of the offensive, swept along the banks of the Jinsha River, expelled the local Tibetan garrison, and the leaders of the Qiang tribes surrendered.
At the same time, all the tribes attached to the Tang Dynasty were requisitioned most of their young and strong, and thousands of soldiers and horses were transferred from elsewhere to garrison the local area.
Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo did not know in advance that such a strong army would suddenly emerge near Songzhou Mansion.
And this 10,000-strong army was still the remnants of the Subi country that had nowhere to hide by themselves.
If you don't turn around at this time and insist on marching to Tuyuhun, you will easily be cut off by the Songzhou army.
This was obviously something that Tubo Pusongtsen Gampo did not want to see, so from the 200,000 army, 50,000 soldiers and horses were divided, and they turned around and rushed towards the territory of the Bailan tribe of the party.
50,000 against 10,000, apparently Tubo Zampu Songtsen Gampo attaches great importance to this so-called Subi Restoration Army, and intends to destroy them with the power of thunder.
Even if it was only a 150,000-strong army, it was invincible when it penetrated deep into the hinterland of Tuyuhun, and it did not encounter any decent resistance at all.
After Tuyuhun was attacked by the Tang Dynasty, he did not recover his national strength at all, and there was still strength there to resist the attack of Tubo.
The king of Tuyuhun abandoned the country and fled in fear, and the Tubo army plundered property, cattle, sheep and horses in the territory of Tuyuhun.
The person who led the 50,000 Tibetan army to attack was the eldest son of the Tibetan Great Lunlu Dongzan, named Ka Qinling, who was a famous general in Tibet, brave and strategic.
When Li Zhonghua received this news, he was also very depressed, you must know that this Kaqin Mausoleum is not a simple figure in history, and he once defeated Xue Rengui.
It is also a person who has controlled the Tubo dynasty for decades with his father Lu Dongzan after the death of Songtsen Gampo.
Such a person's strategy is comparable to that of ordinary people, and Li Zhonghua has to pay attention to it.
He ordered Xue Rengui to lead his troops to support the Subi Restoration Army, and reminded Xue Rengui that the general who led the troops in Tibet, named Ka Qinling, was a brave and resourceful person, and he must not be careless.
Subsequently, he ordered the Suvi Restoration Army to stop its expansion, stabilize the areas it had occupied, and defend against the counterattack of the Tibetan reinforcements.
At this time, Ka Qinling was still only a young general, in the war against the various tribes of Tibet, he won many victories, and in the information given by the spies, the so-called Su Pi State Restoration Army, only 10,000 horses, but he brought 50,000 horses, Ka Qinling felt that it was really not difficult to defeat the other party.
Let's say that Xue Rengui, after receiving Li Zhonghua's order, was also very excited, he had been in the army for almost a year, and he had never fought the enemy at all except training or training every day, and he was really about to hold back.
He ordered 50,000 soldiers and horses, and went to the front, and after arriving at the front line, Xue Rengui took over the command of the Subi Restoration Army, and sent the scouts out to inquire about the news of the Tibetan reinforcements.
The advance speed of the Subi Restoration Army is very fast, and now it has reached the plateau area, but when Li Zhonghua asked Xue Rengui to train his troops, he asked him to often lead new soldiers to go deep into the territory of Tubo to train troops, and he has long been accustomed to the climate on the plateau.
Li Zhonghua thought about it, but he still felt a little uneasy about Xue Rengui, although Xue Rengui in history, how powerful was he praised? But this was his first battle after all, and his opponent was Kachen Ling.
If he loses the first battle, it will undoubtedly seriously damage his morale, and it will not be conducive to the growth of Xue Rengui, a general.
So, Li Zhonghua ordered Zhuoma to find the Subi queen Tang Peng.
Queen Subi has been in a very good mood recently, the restoration army is like a bamboo, and has laid a lot of territory, Li Zhonghua once said that she will help the Subi country defeat Tubo, and will help her in the hometown of the Subi country in the future, rebuild the Subi country, and rule the entire Tubo.
Sometimes Tang Peng would think that if Li Zhonghua was her clansman, she would definitely summon him into the palace, always accompany her on the right, and assist her in taking care of the government.
Or his identity is not the queen of the Subi country, so can he be by his side?
Although Tang Peng is the queen of the Subi country, she is still a woman after all, and she is still a girl who has never experienced a man.
The customs of the Subian country follow the superiority of men and women, and a woman can have several men, and polyandry is practiced.
As the queen of the Subi Kingdom, of course, you can have as many men as you want.
However, Tang Peng's Subi queen is a bit different from the previous Subi queen.
Originally, Tubo was only a subject country of the Subi State, but because of the rapid development of Tibet, the previous Queen of Subi deeply felt the threat brought by the strength of Tubo, and invited a national teacher with a lot of money.
This national teacher is a Han Chinese, who gave advice to the former queen of the Subian State and won several battles, and the former queen of the Subi State also let this national teacher serve as the teacher of the Tang Peng clan and teach her schoolwork.
Because of this, although Tang Peng never left the Subi country since he was a child, he can speak fluent Chinese and can also write Chinese.
Probably because she was too deeply influenced by the national teacher, she didn't have any interest in the men in the clan, so she always refused to choose a husband.
I don't know why, since she met Li Zhonghua, she began to understand Li Zhonghua in many ways, and the more she understood, the more she felt heartbeat, and she couldn't extricate herself.
Although the two have not met much, Tang Peng can feel that Li Zhonghua should like himself a little, at least not hate himself.
It's just that Tang Peng knows her identity, she has her own mission and responsibility, and it is impossible to be with Li Zhonghua, and Li Zhonghua has a bright future, surrounded by beautiful women, and it is impossible to become her man.
So although in her heart, she really wanted to be close to Li Zhonghua, but she still tried to maintain restraint and not let herself think about it too much.
In fact, Tang Peng's appearance is more like that of a Han woman, and Tang Peng's suspicion more than once that his father is the national teacher.
It's just the harem of the previous queen, but there is not only one man, strictly speaking, which national teacher was at most fortunate by the previous queen and has not been officially canonized.
The child born to the queen, I'm afraid no one can say clearly, who the biological father of this child is, after all, in this era, there is no DNA parent-child contract.
Hearing Li Zhonghua summon him again, the Queen of Subi, Tang Pang, hurriedly ordered someone to wait for her to bathe and change her clothes.
This is also the difference of the Tang Clan, people living on the plateau, because of the severe cold and lack of water, rarely bathe.
But Tang Peng was deeply influenced by the national teacher, and if he didn't bathe for a few days, he would feel uncomfortable.
Although he clearly knows that the relationship between himself and Li Zhonghua is at most a cooperative relationship.
But Tang Peng still hopes to meet Li Zhonghua in the best and most beautiful manner.
After bathing and changing clothes, Tang Peng did not forget to spray a little orchid-scented perfume on himself, and then traveled in a sedan chair.
Tang Peng deliberately changed into the newly bought Han clothes, completely dressed as a Han court woman.
It is said that this kind of clothing is called palace dress, and it is a style that is loved to be worn in the Tang Palace, from the queen's concubines to ordinary palace maids.
It's just that on the top of the bandeau, a large piece of snow-white skin is exposed, which makes the Queen of Subi, Tang Peng, feel a little unaccustomed, and some blush appears on her face.
However, when he thought of Li Zhonghua's women, they were all dressed like this, and Tang Peng had no worries.
Refusing what Zhuoma said, when they wore this kind of clothes for the first time, Li Zhonghua seemed to look at them a few more times, and even the attitude of speaking seemed to be much closer.