Xiao Bojin and Da Bojin were originally a country, that is, today's Kashmir region, and later divided due to the invasion of the Tibetans, and some pro-Tang Bojin nobles moved to the northwest to establish a new Bojin State, which is the Xiao Bojin State, the King of Xiao Bojin has been subject to the Tang Dynasty, and once honored Li Longji as his father.

The strategic position of Xiao Bojin is extremely important, Tubo once occupied the four towns of Anxi, but was recaptured by the Tang Dynasty when the Emperor Zetian, the Tubo people who lost control of the Silk Road were not reconciled, in order to avoid the edge of the Tang army, the Tubo people decided to open up a new road, bypass the big Bolu, through the small Bolu into the secret road (now the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan), cut off the Silk Road to the east and west, the first ten years, the Tubo people sent troops from the big Bojin to capture the small Bojin, and controlled more than 20 countries in the Tocharian region.

Immediately, Zhang Xiaosong, the deputy envoy of the Shule Army, ordered Zhang Sili, the deputy envoy of the Shule Army, to lead 4,000 Hu troops to attack the Tubo army, they traveled day and night, doubled the road, crossed the green ridge, passed through the Bole River Valley, arrived at the Xiaobojin realm, and the Xiaobolu army that came to meet the Tubo army in the north and south, the Tubo army was defeated, and was killed and captured up to 10,000 people, which was more than 20 years earlier than Gao Xianzhi.

In the twenty-fifth year of Kaiyuan, the Tucai people rebelled in the Western Regions, and the Tubo people took advantage of the Tang Dynasty to have no time to look south, and sent troops to capture Xiaobojin again, cutting off the Southern Silk Road.

After Tianbao took Xiao Bojin in the year, Gao Xianzhi rebuilt the Suiyuan Army in Xiao Bojin, appointed Zhao Chongyu, the former Shule guard and capture envoy, as the Suiyuan Army's soldiers and horses, and led 2,000 troops to garrison the city of Ayuyue, but due to the surrender of the Shu Shiguo to Tubo at the beginning of the year, the supply route of the Tang army was cut off, and life became increasingly difficult. The soldiers were sick and the combat effectiveness was low, in August, the Shu Division ** marched into Xiaobojin, besieged the city of Abiyue, and sent people to build a new rattan bridge in the valley of the Suoyi River, which has been more than two months now.

A round of blood-red earth sun slowly rose from the sea of clouds, a new day has come, but the Tang army of Abayue City is a day of darkness, and today the rattan bridge on the Suoyi River will be completed. On the opposite side of the river valley are the dense Tubo people, not to mention tens of thousands.

The city's food has long since run out. The horses were also slaughtered to the end, and they were besieged for several months. The Tang army was already wounded and sick, and there were only more than 1,200 soldiers who could fight, including the 500 Lianyunbao defenders who crossed the Tanju Ridge to come to the aid, and they were faced with 10,000 fierce Di Shu Division**, and they barely held the city of Akuyue by relying on the dangerous terrain.

Most of the inhabitants of the city had fled before the arrival of the Zoshi people, leaving only the king and a few nobles and thousands of old and weak people, and the empty streets and houses looked desolate in the cold wind. On the city wall, the soldiers gathered in twos and threes, staring blankly at a long rattan bridge pulled up on the Suoyi River, and they seemed to hear the wolf-like howls of the Tibetan people on the other side.

"General Zhao, did you say that the marshal would send someone to reinforce the army?" The deputy general He Lou Yurun was worried, seeing that the Tubo people were about to be killed. He was extremely worried about his morale, and when tens of thousands of Tibetan troops attacked, the soldiers' will to fight would probably collapse.

The siege means of the Shu division are weak. There were almost no siege weapons, so they did not attack in a big way in the past two months, but only dug trenches outside the city to prevent the Tang army in the city from killing and destroying the vine bridge.

Zhao Chongyu is about forty years old, he is tall and slender, his face is scorched, and he has a hooked nose, he looks suspicious and difficult to decide, in fact, he has regretted it, he has seen that although the number of the Shu Division is large, but the combat power is not strong, and even a weak brigade, their purpose is not to attack, but to trap themselves, so as to repair the bridge across the Suoyi River, if they do not hesitate to fight with them at the beginning, they may not lose.

And now, three trenches outside the city have been dug, and it will be useless to rush out again, Zhao Chongxuan sighed in annoyance, turned his head to look in the direction of Tanjuling, and said in a trembling voice: "The marshal should have received the news, and the reinforcements are coming to us!" "From Qiuzi to here, the journey will take eight or ten days, and you still have to prepare, and it will be spring at the earliest.

All the soldiers around him could hear his faint voice, which showed that he himself had lost his confidence, and for a while, no one spoke again, only heard the sharp chirping of the goshawk overhead.

"General, Tubo Army! The Tibetan army is coming! ”

One of the soldiers suddenly pointed to the rattan bridge and cried out in horror, and everyone looked south in unison, and their hearts sank into the abyss.

I saw a thick and long contingent of the Tibetan army began to appear on the vine bridge, as if it was an endless giant snake, constantly wriggling and elongating, on the opposite bank, the dense Tubo army was still increasing, not to mention 30,000 people.

They shouted low slogans, the sound of leather drums beat rhythmically, and the murderous spirit echoed on the Suoyi River, making all the Tang soldiers feel hopeless, hunger, wounds and diseases have been tormenting these soldiers far from their homeland, and now, the last hope in their hearts has been cut off, and some even cover their faces and cry in a low voice.

Suddenly, in the northwest direction of the city of Aguyue, a loud horn sounded in the valley, like the crowing of a rooster at dawn, the sound was sharp and crisp, and the sky above the city of Aguyue shrouded by death, hope finally came.

Trumpet! Trumpet! The sound of trumpets stirred in the dark valley, and the brave Tang soldiers suddenly slaughtered out of the valley, they were like a black dragon, and like a flood that burst the embankment, roaring, rushing, and the murderous aura swept the whole land, and even the Hindu Kush Mountain trembled and changed color.

The Tang army on the city was stunned, the Shu division army was stunned, and even the Tubo army, which was halfway across the bridge, was dumbfounded, and stopped at a loss. Or retreat? The newly repaired Fujibashi began to writhe uneasily.

But the Tang army did not hesitate, their goal went straight to the newly built vine bridge, which is also the place where the Shushi people used heavy troops to protect, Li Qing's army arrived at the city of Ayuyue yesterday, but he did not attack immediately, he was looking for the best fighter, the tiger who traveled thousands of miles did not eat the meat is unwilling, he disdains the weak Shushi people, he wants to relive the glory of Shazhou in the past, he wants to make the Tubo army hate in the Suoyi River Valley, whether it is 10,000 or 100,000.

In front of the sharp elite of the Tang Army. The fear of Datang in the bones of the Shushi people began to attack, their legs were weak, and they trembled to fight, but in front of them were greeted by a neatly arranged human wall, and one after another Xue Liangmo knives flew in front of their eyes, although the number of people was only hundreds, but the momentum was like a mountain, flesh and blood, severed limbs flew in the air in an instant, wailing, hysterical screams of fear.

This is the five hundred Mo swordsmen specially brought by Li Qing, led by Tian Zhen and Li Fei Yuanli, the Mo swordsmen of the Doulu Army. They are an iron fist that will play a special role when attacking fortifications. Li Fei Yuanli returned to the Doulu Army last year, but he has not been reused by Bai Xiaode. After nearly two years of grievances, until Li Qing came back, at this moment, he was like a raging tiger, cutting a bloody road in the Shushi army, and rushed straight to the vine bridge, his fierce appearance and brutal slaughter. It is a chill to the hearts of the enemy.

The army of the Shu division deployed at the head of the bridge was about 3,000 people, most of them were infantry, and because the Tubo people began to cross the bridge, most of the Shu division army had withdrawn to the big camp and began to prepare for the attack on the city of Ayuyue, and there were still about 1,000 people left at this time. This is the best fighter that Li Qing is waiting for.

The Tang army's sudden attack caught the Shu division army who stayed at the bridgehead by surprise, coupled with the cowardice formed by the surrender to the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, it was like a house slave who betrayed his master. In front of the majestic master, they could not wait for the main force of the battalion to come to their aid, and their psychology collapsed in an instant, and they threw away their armor and weapons and fled to the battalion.

Li Qing didn't care about the Shushi people, his focus was on the Tubo army, at this time, the Tubo people who were inspired to kill were about to rush to the bridgehead, the nearest was less than twenty steps away from the bridgehead, they could already see their blood-red eyes, and they could hear indistinct crazy shouts, and it was too late to demolish the bridge.

"Mo knife hand block! Crossbowmen! ”

"Sword and Shield Army Perimeter!"

The order was short and urgent, but the Tang army immediately changed its position quickly with the order, and the movements were clean and neat, accurate and in place, unlike the original government soldiers, most of the soldiers in Anxi (including the Doulu Army) were hereditary military households, that is, professional soldiers, they were far more well-trained than ordinary soldiers, and they were well-equipped, so although the Anxi army was not many, it could dominate the Western Regions, which is the reason.

With Li Qing's orders one after another, five hundred Mo swordsmen rushed up to meet the enemy and blocked the only passage of the Tubo army.

'Peng! , the ground, the two armies collided violently, stirring up not waves, but the blood mist in the sky, the vine bridge shook violently, from time to time someone was killed and fell down the mountain stream, the screams echoed in the valley, obviously the terrain is more favorable to the Tang army, the two-mile-long vine bridge has been densely packed with the Tubo army, their total strength on the opposite bank reached 30,000 people, and the Tang army only had a few thousand, as long as they could rush ashore, the victory belonged to them.

But the current situation is by no means a large number of people can win, the road is only a narrow one zhang wide, at most five people can pass side by side, although they are wild, although their anger wants to melt everything, but unfortunately they are opposite the most ferocious military branch of the Tang Dynasty, the Modao Army, heavy armor, long knives, is the Tubo people's long sword can not match.

What's even more fatal is the 1,000 crossbowmen scattered on both sides, they have the most advanced bows and arrows in the world, especially the piercing arrows specially designed for the chain mail of the Tibetans.

Nan Jiyun on the left, Li Fei Shouyu on the right, the two as if a competition, each led five hundred military control bows and arrows, thousands of bows with the same zhang, ten thousand arrows together, in an instant, arrows like rain injection, arrows like flying locusts, even if the Tubo people with shields left and right to protect it is difficult to resist the cruel edge of the blood, within a hundred steps, a few rounds of arrows after the vine bridge is empty, the back of the Tubo army is all scattered, turn around and run, but it is too late, the Tang army cut the vine bridge, with the vine bridge falling, hundreds of Tubo soldiers finally failed to escape back to the other side, all died in the Suoyi River.

As the vine bridge was cut again, the balance of war quickly tilted to the Tang army, not waiting for the Tang army in the city of Acrosse to come out to attack, Li Qing's East Route Army has been like the autumn wind swept down the Shu division ** defeated and fled, this battle, killed more than 5,000 people in the Shu division, captured 3,000 people, only less than 1,000 people fled back to the Shu division country, and the Tang army only lost more than 200 people, which can be described as a brilliant record.

Nearly noon, there was silence outside the city, Li Qing stood on a small hill and scanned the battlefield, some of the Tang troops were counting supplies, some were helping the wounded, and a group of prisoners walked down the hill with their heads hung down.

"Dudu, are you looking for me?" Li Fei Shouyu heard Li Qing's call and strode up the hill.

Seeing that his face was full of excitement, Li Qing couldn't help but smile slightly, and asked, "I want to hear your opinion." How does this little Bojin take care of the aftermath? ”

Li Fei Shouyu was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't understand what Li Qing meant, they were here to rescue the garrison here, and it had nothing to do with the aftermath, Li Qing saw that he didn't understand, so he added with a smile: "Have you forgotten what I said to you before I came to the Western Regions?" ”

Li Fei Shouyu suddenly realized that what Li Qing said about the aftermath was how to deal with Xiao Bojin, he looked at the city gate that had just opened, and several people were walking towards this side, it seemed that they were the main generals of the Tang Army stationed here. Li Fei Shouyu's mind turned quickly, and he immediately understood what Li Qing meant. He wanted to let himself stay in Xiao Bojin, and Li Fei Shouyu immediately bowed down and saluted: "My subordinates are at the command of the governor!" ”

Li Fei Shouyu guessed well. Li Qing decided to let him stay in Xiao Bojin, Xiao Bojin's strategic position is extremely important, once he controls this place, not only the Tubo people can not get involved in the Western Regions, but also control more than 20 small countries around Tochar and the southern route of the Silk Road, which is a solid foundation for Li Qing's future development, so he has a premeditated plan. When negotiating with Gao Xianzhi, he decided to take this place.

And Li Fei Shouyu has been with him for many years, loyal to him, steady and shrewd and capable, and it is most suitable for him to manage this place for him. As for the rebound of Gao Xianzhidi, Li Qing has his own countermeasures.

Li Qing pinched his shoulders and smiled slightly apologetically: "Back then, your brother resolutely followed me." In the end, I only became my general, but you all have no complaints, I have always felt guilty about this, and I always want to have the opportunity to compensate you well, this time I asked Gao Xianzhi to get the right to appoint, which is to prepare for this, Shouyu, from now on, you are the Suiyuan army soldier and horse envoy, and you will firmly control Xiao Bojin for me. ”

Li Fei Shouyu is overjoyed, and the soldiers and horses of the Suiyuan army can at least be supplemented as the captain of Zhaowu, which is still secondary, and more importantly, this appointment also shows that he is Li Qing's number one henchman, and with his rapid development, his future is also unlimited, 'I have long said that those who dare to kill Tubo Zampu will never be a thing of the pool in the future. , Li Fei Shouyu secretly admired, and immediately arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, the subordinates will never let the Tubo people cross Xiao Bojin by half a step!" ”

At this time, Zhao Chongxuan and He Lou Yurun had already walked up the hill, he saw Li Qing for the first time, but he had heard his name for a long time, and he didn't dare to slack off, Zhao Chongxuan stepped forward and knelt down to salute, "The last general Suiyuan army soldiers and horses make Zhao Chongyu see Li Duhu!" ”

Li Qing didn't smile, he glanced at Zhao Chongxuan, and said coldly: "Zhao Chongxuan, are you guilty?" ”

Zhao Chongyu's heart sudden, and he immediately said: "The last general doesn't know, please Li Duhu make it clear!" ”

Li Qing walked in front of him with his hands behind his back, squinted at him, and snorted lightly: "I am not talking to you now as the deputy protector, but as the imperial court doctor, do you understand?" ”

Zhao Chongyu's face turned pale, although Doctor Yu Shi is only named, he also has the right of impeachment, and he doesn't even need any evidence, he can judge the case when he hears the wind, and the more important thing is that Li Qing took out this identity and made it clear that he was not controlled by Gao Xianzhi, so that he could not use Gao Xianzhi as a shield.

"The last general will not dare, but Li Yushi wants to convict the last general, at least he must come up with the crime, otherwise how can he convince the public!"

"Charges?"

Li Qing sneered and said: "Refusing to fight the city and allowing Tubo to enter the country, is this a crime?" ”

"This~" Zhao Chongyu had nothing to say, he really went out of the city to fight, and watched the Fujiqiao repair, if it wasn't for the reinforcements coming today, Xiao Bojin would be finished.

At this time, He Lou Yurun, who was next to him, stepped forward to defend him and said: "Lord Yushi, we are not willing to fight, there are too many injuries and diseases, and there are less than a thousand people who can fight, how can we resist the army of 10,000 people, instead of losing the city in defeat, it is better to stick to the city and wait for reinforcements, please know clearly!" ”

"General He Lou, how do you know that you can't do it without fighting? If you lose a battle and retreat to the city, I don't blame you, but you didn't fight a battle, if I hadn't arrived in time, tens of thousands of Tibetan troops would have entered the country, who would have borne this responsibility? ”

He walked up to Zhao Chongyu, nodded and said: "Maybe you have a hard time, maybe Gao Dashuai will take responsibility for you, so I won't dismiss you now, but you are really not suitable to defend Ah Xuan Yue City, go back to Qiuzi to report to Gao Dashuai!" I need to listen to Gao Dashuai's explanation before making a decision! ”

Zhao Chongyu saw that Li Qing had taken a step, he breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly stood up and bowed in thanks: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Li Qing glanced at He Lou Yurun again, and said: "Gao Dashuai should be in the Shushi Kingdom now, and you should also accompany General Zhao to prevent him from saying one-sided, and I will temporarily clean up the mess in Ah Xuan Yuecheng!" ”

"The last general obeys!"

He Lou Yurun is a general of the Hu people, he is not like Zhao Chongyu is Gao Xianzhi's henchman, he can take Gao Xianzhi out to speak, he can't, and Li Qing is the deputy marshal of Anxi, here, his words are orders, He Lou Yurun does not dare to disobey.

After sending the two away, Li Qing summoned Lifei Shouyu and whispered to him: "Gao Xianzhi will not be willing for me to monopolize Xiao Bojin, he will definitely send someone to be your deputy general, I will leave some veterans for you, and after I leave, you will replace all the officers of the Suiyuan Army for me." ”........