This unprecedented heavy rain also put the Tibetan people in a desperate situation, their leather armor became extremely wet and heavy after being damp, and the stumbling belts were deformed, and they could not be freed. （)

Seeing that the Tang army retreated one after another, at first he couldn't help but kneel on the ground, bow to the sky, thank the sky for having eyes, and the prayer was not finished, and the left and right told the Tang army to kill again. I didn't believe it at first, so I sent someone to investigate again, saying that Wen Yanzhao, the commander of the Tang Army, personally went out and drove all the troops to turn around and kill them back. Chu Du said angrily: "How can this be reasonable, the boss is out, and there is no one in the Tang Army?" ”

Le Ma moved forward, and sure enough, he saw that the banner of the commander of the Tang Army was moving towards the military grain city, and the left and right military horses were clustered, and it was a mess. Chudu was shocked and suddenly heard the sound of killing in the rear of the side, a new force was rushing over, it turned out to be Liu Fengshan, who was surrounded on the top of the mountain, took the opportunity to kill, Liu Fengshan knew that there were few soldiers, and he was unable to engage in a comprehensive battle with Tubo, so he went straight to the first capital, and he was unstoppable for a while.

Chu Du shouted, turned the horse away, the road was muddy, the horse lost its front hooves, fell and gnawed on the mud, was rescued left and right, and continued to escape. The coach rushed in a hurry, causing the Tubo army, which had already fallen into a desperate situation, to collapse on all fronts.

Chudu ran to Fengxiang Mansion in one breath to gain a foothold, collected the remnants of the defeated soldiers, counted the number of people, and lost 20,000 people, but fortunately, most of the people who died were newly attached to the Tang people, and the loss of their own military horses was not very large.

In the old days, I heard that the princes of the Tang Dynasty were strong, and the first capital did not think so, but today I knew that the rumors were true, and the first capital restrained its arrogance, refused to hold on to the city, and refused to fight again.

The Kwantung princes are strong in morale, because each town leads the army independently, and the perennial confrontation and fighting, the excellent generals at the bottom are easy to come out, so the quality of the generals in the army is higher. Soldiers regard serving as soldiers and eating food as a lifelong occupation, and the quality of soldiers is generally high, and under heavy rewards, morale is high, and combat effectiveness is extraordinary.

On the other hand, the garrison in western Beijing, because it is directly under the imperial court, is contaminated with the bureaucratic atmosphere. The promotion of generals is more important than ability, and it is easy for low-level generals to rise and difficult to rise, and when they reach a certain stage, there is no chance of promotion. The low-level soldiers were selected and sent by the towns, and most of them were filled by criminals, who left their hometowns, were poorly paid, and their morale was low. However, because of the high quality of the low-level generals, the combat effectiveness of small groups is still strong, and it is easy to win in small-scale battles. However, due to the serious atmosphere of the middle and upper echelons of bureaucracy and the general low quality of the generals, almost every large-scale battle with Tibet was bound to be defeated. This is also the reason why whenever the Tubo Koubian is located, the Tang army in western Beijing is often scattered and garrisoned, but they do not dare to fight large-scale battles with Tubo.

Fortunately, this heavy rain fell from the sky, otherwise it would have collapsed completely, and even the gods would have been unable to save it.

After the defeat, there was good news that Wen Yanzhao, the commander of the Tang army, fell ill, and the towns almost fought each other in order to snatch military merits, and the Tang army was unable to continue to catch up westward because of infighting.

Chudu seized the opportunity to step up the deployment of Fengxiang Mansion's defense, repelled several Tang troops who were advancing, and formed a confrontation with the 100,000 troops that came slowly under Fengxiang Mansion.

Good news followed, the Xuanwu Festival made Han Hong fall ill in the army due to his advanced age, and had to go back to Chang'an to recuperate. Tang Army Commander Wen Yanzhao fell ill and died at the foot of Fengxiang City.

Taking advantage of the leaderlessness of the Tang army, the first capital took the initiative to attack and recovered several key passes outside the city that were captured by the Tang army, which brought the battle situation into a stalemate.

Throughout the summer, the two sides confronted each other under the city of Fengxiang, Tubo came from afar, Fengxiang was a new annexed land, it was difficult to raise grain and grass, and it was also very difficult for the Tang Dynasty to transport grain and grass, but because of the thick foundation, the situation of the Tubo people was slightly better.

After the new commander of the Tang Army and the former envoy of Hedong Jiedu, Zhu Xie Zhiyi, arrived at Fengxiang City, he continued to implement Wen Yanzhao's strategy, besieged Fengxiang City without fighting, and simmered slowly.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi used to be a Shatuo people, the ancestral home of Longxi, Tubo and the Uighurs were at war, afraid of the Shatuo people to make a rebellion, want to migrate to a distant place, the Shatuo people rebelled to the Tang Dynasty, for the Lingwu Festival to make Fan Xichao take in, Fan Xi Dynasty after the town of Hedong, Shatuo people into Hedong. Zhu Xie insisted on accumulating merit as the envoy of the Hedong Festival, but because of the mutiny in the tube, he had to defect to Li Mao and made the history of the Danzhou assassination. The four thousand Shatuo warriors were organized by Li Mao into the Kokang Army, and Zhu Xie Zhiyi was appointed as the soldier and horse envoy.

Li Mao made several expeditions to the north, and the Kokang army was the main force, and he made great achievements. In the early years of Changqing, the imperial court sold troops, and the then prime minister Duan Wenchang recommended Zhu Xie Zhiyi as the envoy of Shannan Xidao Jiedu, and took the opportunity to transfer him from Youzhou to weaken Li Mao's strength.

It is a good thing that he was promoted from Thorn Shi to Jiedu Envoy, Li Mao couldn't delay the good future of others, so he had to let him go to Shannan. The Kokang Army also became history in the subsequent sales of troops, 4,000 Shatuo warriors, most of them went south to Xiangyang with Zhu Xie Zhiyi, and some of them were incorporated into the Fifth Division directly under the government, called the Shatuo Battalion.

Zhu Xie Zhiyi served as an envoy for two and a half years, was impeached by the imperial history, and was demoted to Fengzhou Sima. At the beginning of the Baoli calendar, Wang Shoucheng played it as the envoy of Guiguan and moved to the southern capital. After the fall of Wang Shoucheng, Zhu Xie Zhiyi was affected and dismissed from office and returned to Chang'an to live idlely. and Wen Yanzhao, who is also idle, often have contacts and sympathize with each other.

Wen Yanzhao was seriously ill and went to Li Han and solemnly recommended Zhu Xie Zhiyi. There are more than one general in the court who can be the commander-in-chief, but there are not many people who are willing to contribute wholeheartedly to the imperial court. Wen Yanzhao's seal also suggested that Liu Wu and Li Quanzhong should be transferred back to the court, or sent back to the town, so as not to be hindered in the army.

Li Xiao didn't believe in this Shatuo man very much, and still kept Liu Wu and Li Quanzhong in the camp as deputies, ostensibly to assist Zhu Xie Zhiyi, but in fact to monitor them.

At this moment, Li Mao was returning to Youzhou from Yunzhou, and when he heard about the changes in Guanzhong, he sighed: "It's a pity that Wen Yanzhao is an old general, and his loyalty and courage are useless." Zhiyi is also a famous general in the world, but unfortunately he has no real power, and he is hindered by Liu Wu and Li Quanzhong. Li Quanzhong is extremely selfish, and I look at this battle. The lamentation was not over, and I heard that Li Hanqi used Zhu Kerong as a general to unite the army and gallop to help Fengxiang.

He said to Zheng Xiaozhang, Wencheng and others: "Your Majesty is too careful, this is the way to defeat, I don't expect Chang'an to be guaranteed." ”

In order to cope with the drastic changes in Guanzhong, Li Mao built the Generalissimo's Mansion according to the original plan, and personally served as the generalissimo, with Zheng Xiaozhang and Chang Mucang as deputy marshals, Zheng Xiaozhang was in the rear of the town, and Chang Mucang was in charge of the military staff and staff office with the army.

Hu Nanxiang and Li Deyu are the chief and deputy envoys of the Generalissimo's Office Military Material Institute, in charge of the logistics, weapons and material supply of the whole army; Xie Biao and Xia Ren were appointed as the chief and deputy envoys of the Generalissimo's Office Protector Academy, in charge of personnel transfer, military discipline and military law of the whole army.

Cai Wencai and Xi Xiangling are the judges of the Generalissimo's Mansion Judge's Office, and handle the affairs of the Generalissimo's Mansion.

With Zheng Xiaozhang as the general manager of the government affairs, he comprehensively coordinates various ministries and bureaus and local administrative and economic affairs. Clerk Cheng and Chen Guangdao are also the deputy general managers.

The General Administration of Political Affairs and the Military Headquarters jointly established the General Administration of Military and Political Mobilization, which is responsible for military mobilization and material procurement.

With Wencheng, Wang Jian, and Zhu Jiu as Youzhou, Liaodong and Yanbei, they stayed in the government and stayed in the rear.

The 10th Division of Ma Xiong'an was stationed in Shenzhou to assist Tian Bu in guarding the direction of Weizhou. Huang Renfan Zhenyingmo Erzhou. Song Menglong and Li Hongshui were stationed in Pingzhou. Appointed Zhang Xuan as the general of the palace and led the troops to guard Youzhou. Ma and Dongzhen Silla. Gawain Town.

60,000 people from the four divisions of Manor, Mother Dahai, Lu Zhen and Yan Qin entered the east of the river to the west, and turned to the river to go out of Guanzhong. There was a lot of opposition to Li Mao's crazy adventure, and even Zheng Xiaozhang expressed doubts, sending more than 100,000 troops to Guanzhong, in case Zhu Xie Zhiyi defeated the first capital, wouldn't Li Mao become a rebel and thief who plotted to usurp the throne?

Li Mao said to his senior assistants with great confidence: "One monk carries water to eat, two monks carry water to eat, and three monks have no water to eat. The battle in Guanzhong was made into raw rice, and there was no hope of victory. If I lose Chang'an in the future, I will have to clean up the mess. ”

At that time, Youzhou was full of momentum, and when it had to be sent, everyone stopped saying anything.

Li Mao said to Su Qing before leaving: "I don't know when I will come back, I will entrust you to take care of them at home, I have taken care of them one by one, and no one dares to disobey you. I transferred Zhang Xuan from Ziqing, and he led the pro-army to guard the palace, and handed over to him to handle anything at home. Xiaozhang and Shucheng have a lot of chores to do, so you don't bother them. ”

Su Qing said: "I understand, I don't interfere in politics, and women who have been involved in politics since ancient times have not ended well." Then he said worriedly, "I don't know when you will come back." I'm old and useless, so you might as well bring it with you if you see any of the sisters, and leave the children to me to take care of. ”

Li Mao said: "The battle will get bigger and bigger, how can you have the heart to take care of these, you are safe and sound at home, I can rest assured." He also advised: "Hui Niang is old, if it is suitable, she will settle her marriage with the leopard head, so as to accept her heart." How did I hear that she has been running outside lately, and she said that she was going to travel to Jiangnan, what happened? ”

Su Qing said: "It's not the bastard boy with the leopard head!" became the leader of a big fart, with his tail up to the sky, and he couldn't see a single figure. Hui Niang said this just to scare him, how could he really go to Jiangnan, you are reluctant to give up. ”

Li Mao said: "This kid is like you, just a tendon, and he can't pull back any eight horses, don't take it lightly, I can't say that she really went to Jiangnan." I think it's better to settle the marriage as soon as possible, and stop her crankiness. ”

Su Qing said: "It's not something that can be decided if you think about it, this matter has to wait for Qin Mo to get better, listening to Qingmo's meaning, I don't look down on our Hui Niang." ”

Li Mao smiled: "Women, long hair and short knowledge, and the leopard head is not her own, it's her business." I told Zhu Jiu that the marriage of the leopard head is up to his uncle. ”

After saying this, Li Mao stood up and walked out, Su Qing stood up in a panic, her eyes were red, and she grabbed her husband's arm tightly and refused to let go. Li Mao also suddenly felt a sense of melancholy, he took his wife's hand, walked to the door, stood still in the courtyard, looked around, as if he wanted to take away all the familiar things in this courtyard. Su Qing suddenly asked in horror: "You, don't you leave and won't come back?" Li Mao patted her hand and comforted: "I will come back, I will definitely come back, definitely." ”

The day before leaving Youzhou, Li Mao went to see two people, Monk Pingshan and Qin Mo. Monk Hirayama gave him a bone talisman, which is said to have opened the light and can ward off evil spirits. Monk Pingshan never gave gifts to Li Mao, and the relationship between the two has always been as light as water.

Li Mao kept the bone talisman close to his body, and he went to the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and he didn't know how many lonely souls and wild ghosts he wanted to create, in order to avoid evil.

Qin Mo was waiting for him in the courtyard, with his hands behind his back, standing against the wind, raising his eyes to the sky, and looking up at the starry sky.

Li Mao said: "Looking at the stars every day, you are so leisurely and elegant, can you see what the door is coming from?" ”

Qin Mo said: "Yingfu retrograde, purple and dark, the main country has changed hands, and this trip is auspicious." ”

Li Mao said: "How about going with me like this? ”

Qin Mo said: "I have jumped out of the Three Realms, I am not in the Five Elements, the fate of the dust is gone, why bother with the wealth of the world." ”

Li Mao said: "Fake model, selfish, only trying to be happy, even ignoring siblings." Maybe you can stay at home and have children with your Qingmo love. ”

Qin Mo said: "Thank you." ”

Li Mao said: "I'm here to say goodbye to you. ”

Qin Mo asked, "When will we meet again?" ”

Li Mao said: "Wait until you give birth." Take care. ”

Qin Mo said: "Take care." ”