The grassland under the night is filled with a layer of gray-white mist, as if the demons lurking underground have spit out a trace of white gas, strange and frightening, this is a depression, the long-term immersion of the river has turned this area into a swamp, everywhere there are hidden murderous traps, on the edge of the swamp, more than two hundred large food cavalry escort His Royal Highness Prince Agush, they are afraid and uneasy, quietly waiting for the next move of these unknown attackers, in a swamp in front of them, The screams and struggles disappeared like phantoms, and the water surface returned to calm, except for the strings of blisters still bubbling, indicating that the scene was not a phantom.

Thousands of black-pressed cavalry surrounded them, with cold lances and steel crossbows pointed at them, and even the most stupid people would understand what it meant to resist.

Cao Hanchen urged him to step forward and said loudly: "We are the army of the Tang Dynasty, are there any people among you who understand Chinese?" ”

He shouted three times in a row, and finally a big food officer stood up and said in stiff Chinese: "Our envoys sent by the caliph to the East, here are His Royal Highness Prince Agush, you must not be rude." ”

Prince? Cao Hanchen and Guan Ying exchanged glances, they caught a big fish.

"You have trespassed into my Datang territory without permission, and now you are prisoners of war, if you dare to resist, we will kill you!" Cao Hanchen waved his hand, "Confiscate their weapons and horses, and take them away!" ”

The sky was about to dawn, and the eastern sky was already turning white, in the hazy morning mist. The cavalry of the Tang army returned to Bachang City, they had received news from the prisoners of war that the 20,000 Great Food Army had occupied Shule, and Pei Leng, the king of Shule, was defeated by the Great Food Army, and had led the remnants of the army to withdraw in the direction of Khotan, but to Cao Hanchen's surprise, the front army of the Great Food did not immediately come east to join the Tubo army, but waited for the arrival of the rear team in Shule.

Cao Hanchen realized that there was no point in going to Shule again, so he ordered someone to send a letter to Wang Siyu as soon as possible. At this moment, there was an elusive chaos in Anxi, the Tang Army, the Tubo Army, and the Great Food Army were staggered, distributed in the corridor from Qiuzi to Shule more than 1,000 miles long, and only a group of scouts who probed for intelligence were rushing on the grassland, and the information they brought was quietly and silently changing the situation of the war.

On the second day after Cao Hanchen was stationed in Bachang City, Wang Siyu's former army brigade arrived at Axiyan City, a small city east of Bachang City, and the Tubo army had been left far behind by him. At noon, Cao Hanchen sent the captured Dashi nobles to the Tang army camp.

Like Cao Hanchen, Wang Siyu also thought that there was no point in going to Shule at this time, on the contrary, he should take advantage of the fact that the Great Food Army and the Tubo Army had not yet converged, first concentrate his forces to kill the Tubo Army, and then turn around to deal with the Great Food.

As for the captured Prince Agush, he has always been silent and disdainful of talking to these low-ranking officers, and he wants to see the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Or the supreme commander of the Don Army.

Wang Siyu was not interested in him, but was very fond of his horse, which was a majestic Arabian thoroughbred, about one and a half feet long, seven feet high, and snow-white without a single miscellaneous hair. Tall and burly, strong and mighty. The limbs are well-proportioned and slender, and the long ponytail flutters in the wind, running like a cloud.

He Wang Siyu galloped back from afar, like thunder, rushed to the gate of the camp, only gently pulled the horse's head, the horse stopped sensitively, he jumped off the horse, gently stroked the docile horse's head. As if caressing his beloved lover.

"If the general likes. Just take it! ”

Cao Hanchen stepped forward and said with a smile, he also liked this horse very much. But he knew that the horse could not belong to him, so he sacrificed it to his commander.

Wang Siyu looked at this BMW dragon foal reluctantly, for a long time, he let out a long sigh, shook his head and said, "You still know that you want to give this horse to me, can I keep it for myself?" How could I lose this life for a horse? ”

He handed the horse to his soldiers and commanded: "Give me a good life and feed, and do not be careless." ”

Wang Siyu was just about to enter the camp, at this time, he saw a few horse scouts galloping in the distance, they rushed to the camp gate, jumped off their horses and reported: "General Qiyu, the Tubo army has about five or six thousand cavalry heading to the northwest, and they are in an unusually hurry, and they have not even spread their flags. ”

"It's strange, the north is covered with snow-capped mountains, but it's not their way back to their hometown." Wang Siyu looked back at Cao Hanchen, "You came from Bachang City, what news is there?" ”

Cao Hanchen scratched his head, "Bachang City is very quiet, there is no special news. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said: "Guan Ying seems to have heard something last night, and led hundreds of brothers out to patrol the sentry, and when I left in the morning, he hadn't come back yet. ”

"He's a scout, and his sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of ordinary people, so there must be something unusual." Wang Siyu strode back to the tent, spread out the map, just north of Axiyan City is the main peak of the Tianshan Mountains, Khan Tengger Peak, a large grassland under the mountain, there is nothing special, Wang Siyu's eyes moved to the northwest along the hand, and finally stopped at a small city, and the name of this small city is called Big Stone City.

Dashicheng is located in the northwest of the city of Hulu River, although it is in the territory of Gumo country, but in fact it is an enclave of Qiuzi country here, the reason is that there is a large area of high-quality pasture grass growing on the bank of the Hulu River, it has always been the place that herdsmen yearn for, especially in the late summer and early autumn of each year, a large number of herdsmen come here to hoard pasture grass for winter, and tents can be seen everywhere on the grassland.

Later, even the king of Qiuci, who was hundreds of miles away, heard about this, so he sent people to build a small castle on this grassland as a symbol of his occupation of this place. At this time, it is the early autumn season of pasture stockpiling, and thousands of tents are scattered on the grasslands around Dashicheng, and grass piles can be seen everywhere. It's like a rash on the ground.

In the afternoon, on the bank of the Hulu River, about ten miles south of Dashicheng, a group of Tang cavalry came from afar, more than 800 people, led by Guan Ying, the commander of Guoyi.

Perhaps because Guan Ying was born as a scout, his sense of smell was indeed much more sensitive than that of ordinary people, and during his night patrol last night, he overheard a piece of news, not long after they first passed by Bachang City. Guan Ying immediately realized that there must be some secret hidden in it, he sent someone to report to Cao Hanchen, and he led his cavalry to chase north, inquiring all the way, and finally came to Dashicheng.

Guan Ying saw that everyone was tired, so he waved his hand and said, "Let's rest for a while!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, many soldiers cried out, "Rest for at least two hours." ”

"He***. also bargained with Lao Tzu. Guan Ying smiled and waved his hand: "Two hours is two hours, but you are not allowed to fall asleep all." ”

The cavalry was overjoyed, they dismounted and rested, and tracked all night, everyone was tired, after drinking water and eating dry food, many people lay on the grass and fell asleep, Guan Ying and Cao Hanchen are different, he is also an ordinary soldier, and he can better understand the hard work of soldiers. There was no officer stand, and even many of the soldiers called him brothers, and to some extent he was also an incompetent leader, and he dismounted and drank a few sips of water by the river, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

But they were too close to Big Rock, and danger was all around them. Guan Ying slept for less than an hour. He was woken up by a violent shaking, "General! Checkmate! A lieutenant was shaking his arm desperately.

"What's the matter?" Guan Ying opened his eyes in a daze, and saw that almost all the Tang troops had already mounted their horses, and everyone's faces were nervous, he woke up suddenly, and crawled up, "What's wrong?" ”

"General, we have found the Tibetan outpost. About 300 people. It sped across the river. ”

"Three hundred sentinels?" Guan Ying seemed to have thought of something, but her mind was still a little confused. He shook his head vigorously, and forced himself to come to his senses, and at last he remembered a little, and urged his horse to the river, which was about five or six feet wide and crystal clear, and he hesitated for a moment, and a column of horses rushed across the river.

In the surprised eyes of everyone, he came back from the water on horseback, and said loudly to everyone: "Have you ever thought about it, most of us are sleeping by the river, and there are more than 300 horsemen in Tubo, and they didn't take the opportunity to attack us, what does this mean?" ”

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads, Guan Ying pointed sharply in the direction of Dashicheng, his face was extremely serious, and he said word by word: "It shows that it is more important for them to report the news than to attack us, if I am not mistaken, there must be an extremely important Tibetan figure hidden in Dashicheng." ”

Everyone's faces have changed drastically, and the answer is about to come out, who else will the big man in Tibet be besides their Zampu?

More than 800 Tang troops were silent, and Tubo Zampu, that is, the emperor of Tubo, was in a small city less than ten miles away from them at the moment, and there were only two or three thousand guards guarding them, and almost all of them's hearts were beating violently with nervousness.

"Rich and dangerous, are you willing to do this vote with me?"

Although Guan Ying was thin, his courage was greater than the sky, and when he saw that everyone was already a little tempted, he shouted loudly again: "Do it or not!" If you want to do it, raise your hand to me. ”

Finally, a Tang military captain raised his hand, and then more and more people raised their hands, and even some slightly timid people raised their hands under the leadership of everyone, attacking Tubo Zampu, which is unheard of, but it is also extremely exciting.

"Good! Since everyone is willing to do it, let me arrange it. Guan Yingyuan looked at the tents in the grassland and secretly thought: Maybe they can be used.

Just as Guan Ying guessed, the sudden arrival of the Tang army made the Tubo army in Dashi City become extremely nervous, their Zampu is in the city, if it is discovered by the Tang army, attracting a large group of enemies to attack, the consequences will be unimaginable, the messenger sent to the Tubo army for urgent help has left yesterday, and I don't know when the army will be brought in.

The chief of the guard in charge of protecting Tri Song Dezan was called Zang Sita, and he was standing on the city wall at this time looking into the distance, and he had already faintly seen a black line, which should be the Tang army. Just now, the sentry reported that about 1,000 Tang cavalry had been found ten miles away, as if they were just passing by here by chance.

The Tang Army must not be allowed to discover the secrets of the city! On Zang Sita quickly made the decision to send 2,000 troops to attack and kill this Tang army, while Zampu was ready to evacuate at any time.

As soon as he gave an order, the two commanders each led a thousand people, one left and one right, and swooped down on the Tang army in the distance. Sita Zang Sita hurried down the city and ran to Zampu's dwelling.

Tri Song Detsen's condition has become more and more serious, in just two days, the toxin hidden in his internal organs began to attack again, the two Tubo doctors waiting around were also helpless, the antidote given by the big cannibal was used too much, and it had no effect, Tri Song Detsen was covered with blisters, his face was burned red, and he was already burned in a daze.

Now. This Tibetan Zanpu lay quietly on the bed, his eyes closed, and beside him was placed his handwritten edict, passing on the second son, and Shang Jiexi was appointed as the prime minister, in fact, this was just a formal legal document, as early as when he was still in Tocharo, Shang Jiexi had already supported the second son of Chisong Dezandi to ascend the throne, called Mudi Zanpu. He personally led his troops to defeat his rivals in the west of the Logos: the eldest brother Muni Zampu, who was immediately on the throne by the Nasang clan, took control of the situation in Tibet, and even if Trisong Detsen returned to Tibet, the city of Logos would no longer have a place for him.

At this moment, Ronzang Sita rushed in like a gust of wind, and he lightened his steps again. Slowly walked over to the bed and looked at Zamp. He felt sad for a while, so he turned back to the doctor and asked, "How is Zampu's condition, can he still ride in the carriage?" ”

Both doctors shook their heads, indicating that there was nothing they could do, and at this moment, Trisong Detsen's eyelids moved, and he slowly opened his eyes again, and saw that it was Sita Zang standing beside him. Then he set his eyes on the edict on the table. Said weakly: "You must bring my handwritten edict back to Luo and give it to Shang Jiexi." Let them stop fighting. ”

On Zang Sita nodded sadly, put the edict close to his body, and he whispered to Zampu again: "Just now someone found more than a thousand Tang troops appearing nearby, I have ordered my men to intercept them, please get into the carriage, I will take Zampu out of here." ”

Trisong Dezan shook his head, "I don't want to go anywhere, I heard that this is the best pasture for pasture, after I die, I will bury my body here!" ”

"No!" "I want to take Zampu back to Luo, and I must not stay in Anxi, I have already thought that I can cross the desert along the Xiduo River and return to Tibet in Khotan." ”

Trisong Dezan smiled slightly, did not answer his words, he sighed and said, "It's a pity! The big cannibals are not good at seizing opportunities, if they had marched into Anxi earlier, it would not be the situation it is today, and the Tubo army and the big food army will be eaten by Zhang Huan one by one sooner or later. ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly rushed in from outside the door, and he reported in horror: "Something is wrong! The Tang army suddenly killed from behind, everyone was defenseless, and the Tang army and the Tang army had already entered the city. ”

Bang! The medicine bowl in the hands of the two doctors fell to the ground at the same time, shattered, and was stunned, he suddenly screamed, turned around and ran out, and he hated so much that he almost wanted to kill himself, he already understood that he was fooled, and he saw a black line in the distance just now, not the Tang army, it was very likely that the herdsmen, the Tang army led his brigade out, but killed from behind.

The streets were already in chaos, and a Tang cavalry of nearly 1,000 people was extremely fierce, as if they were an iron fist that could break the mountain, breaking through the desperate resistance of wave after wave of Tibetan troops.

The streets are full of dead corpses, rivers of blood, most of them are the corpses of Tibetan soldiers, and there are also residents in the city who have been killed by the rebels, at this time the eyes of the Tang army have been killed, they have determined that in the interior of the city is the Tibetan Zanpu Trisong Dezan, and the ambition of making immortal achievements has also made them crazy, they shouted and pounced forward

The most tragic battle was in front of the gate of the house where Trisong Detsen lived, and the more than 200 Tibetan troops led by Zang Sita never took a step back, preferring to be killed rather than let their corpses become stumbling blocks to the Tang army.

Just less than thirty steps away from the fight, two doctors carried Tri Song Detsen to the courtyard in tears, the dazzling sunlight shone on his face, Tri Song Detsen greedily enjoyed the last sun, the light in his eyes had gradually dimmed, in the last moments of his death, he seemed to be muttering something, a doctor stepped forward close to his ear, and only heard his low voice intermittently in the blur: "What is that heavenly thunder of Tang Jun?" ”

At this time, Trisong Dezan left his last words in the world, with the last question, his breathing finally stopped, and at this time, the fierce battle outside the door seemed to stop at once

At the end of August of the seventh year of Xuanren, Tubo Zanpu Trisong Detsen died of illness in the small city of Dashicheng in Anxi.