"The chariots, the horses, and the pedestrians have bows and arrows at their waists. Ye Niang's wife went to see each other, and the dust did not see Xianyang Bridge. ...... You don't see the head of Qinghai, no one collects the white bones in ancient times, the new ghosts are annoyed and the old ghosts are crying, and the sky is cloudy and rainy. ”

This poem "Soldier Chariot Travel" is the famous work of the poet Du Fu, describing a war in Tianbao for eight years, in this war, Ge Shuhan, who replaced Wang Zhonghei as the envoy of the Longyou Festival, ushered in his famous work, of course, whether it is a good name or a bad name, people have different opinions, at least Du Fu does not think so.

Judging from the results of the battle, in order to take a small stone castle city, the Tang army dispatched nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to the 70,000 people in Longyou, there were also Turkic Tongluo cavalry who were ordered to attack, and they were led by Li Xianzhong, who was later named the king of Fengxin and given the surname of the country, and he was called Absi at that time.

How tragic the process is, the statistics after the engagement can be seen, the Tang army died in battle, amounting to tens of thousands, this concept of tens of thousands, some say 50,000, 60,000, some say 80,000, 90,000, even if only 50,000 people, it is half of the whole army, 50,000 corpses is what is the concept, you can fill in all the trenches in front of the stone fort city, and then pile up a slope as high as the city wall.

In other words, the Tang army finally stepped on the high slope built by the bones of his own brothers, and rushed into the city with a shout, and how many defenders were there in the city?

Less than a thousand!

This result, Wang Zhongsi had expected as early as two years ago, the smaller the castle, the more cost-effective the cost of defense, in order to fight out the thousand defenders, the Tang people were fought with fifty people for one, after the war, the Longyou land was mourned, this is the scene described in Du Fu's poem.

One will be successful, not only ten thousand bones?

In the end, the history books spoke very highly of him, calling him a generation of good generals, on the contrary, Ge Shuhan became a negative teaching material, indeed, judging from the results of the battle, it is said that although the victory is still defeated, it is simply the flesh and blood of the soldiers in exchange for black yarn, and the Song and Ming dynasties of later generations, just waiting to be sprayed to death by the successive imperial historians.

Ge Shuhan was not only not impeached, but was promoted all the way to the rank and became the most trusted border general of the Son of Heaven after An Fatzi.

Does this show from another side that Li Longji is already old and deaf?

Before talking about this question, let's take a look at the situation in the northwest border of the Tang Dynasty before and after the eighth year of Tianbao, in fact, in the sixth year of Tianbao, in the joint military operation between Anxi and Helong, the Tubo people were beaten to their lives, neither held Xiao Bolu, nor stopped Wang Zhongsi's attack on the Qinghai side, after that, due to the containment of the Hezhong region and the big cannibals, the target of the Tang army in Anxi was attracted to the past, and the two sides were able to start a tug of war in the area of Jishi Mountain, often you harass me today, and I will fight your grass valley tomorrow, Datang can often take advantage of it, but it does not fundamentally solve the problem.

After Tianbao pulled out the nail of Shibao City for eight years, the entire Qinghai was exposed to the iron hooves of the Tang army, and the Tubo people had to build a series of fortresses behind it, but they could no longer find a dangerous place like Shibao City, the Tang army became more and more brave the more they fought, the Tubo people repaired all the way, and the Tang army pulled all the way, only ten years of Tianbao, Longyou added three new armies, all of which were taken from the hands of the Tubo people.

This is a complete reversal of the strategic situation, the Tubo people lost a solid forward base, and the Tang people got a stable tactical support, after this battle, Ge Shuhan changed the previous tactics, and no longer fought with the Tubo people on a large scale, but gradually encroached, step by step, the battle line of the two sides, from the river to the Qinghai area, thus completely solving the suffering of the people of their own country.

After this battle, Longyou attacked every year, not only did not become poor, even the burden of the imperial court was reduced a lot, and even had the spare strength to feed, Sima Guang recorded in the "Zizhi Tongjian": It is the time (Tang Tianbao 12 years, 癸巳, AD 753) China is strong, from the west of Anyuan Gate to the Tang realm of 12,000 miles, Lu Yan looks at each other, mulberry and hemp are wild, the world says, the rich are not as good as Longyou. Every time Han sent an envoy into the play, he often rode a white camel and galloped five hundred miles a day.

This result fully illustrates a point, living and working in peace and contentment cannot rely on the mercy of the enemy, but only on the iron blood of the soldiers, and the Tang people never built the Great Wall, because they have a million border troops, and this is their Great Wall.

Is it worth the bones of 50,000 soldiers in exchange for the two countries' offensive and defensive changes, in exchange for the peace and contentment of the people of Helong, and in exchange for a strong neighbor who is going to perish step by step? In later generations, at the critical moment of the Liaoshen Campaign, Lin Shuai had a very famous sentence that can be made as a footnote.

I don't want casualty figures, I just want Tower Hill!

This is the reason why Ge Shuhan can win the trust of the Son of Heaven, when there is a peace in the north, there is no inch in the west, and there is a defeat in the south, only he, every three forks and five will send a good news into Chang'an City, every year on the birthday of the Son of Heaven, there will be a string of Tubo captives walking through the Vermilion Bird Avenue, for the Son of Heaven to enjoy, so intimate and close to the lungs, Li Longji is not happy?

The Tang Dynasty is bounded by Anshi, which is roughly divided into two periods, the early stage is incredibly strong, and the four Yi bin suits are not the kind of clothes that take advantage of the tributaries, but the ones that are served, and the later period is so rotten that it is suffocating, and the Son of Heaven is all in the hands of eunuchs, from the abolition to life and death!

However, even if it is rotten to this extent, the Hui Hui, who unified the prairie in the north, has not moved the brains of entering the Central Plains, and has basically achieved the same as the Tang Dynasty. This is in stark contrast to the late Sui Dynasty, when the heroes vied with each other to claim vassal status to the Turks, because the more than 100 years in the early Tang Dynasty left too deep an impression on the surrounding ethnic groups.

Li Longji alone has taken over more than 40 of them!

In history, an emperor like him who spared no effort and was determined to open the border lasted so long is almost unique.

Therefore, when almost all the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty said that An Fat Man wanted to rebel, even his clan brothers were no exception, he still stubbornly believed in his own vision.

The same trust, he also gave to Ge Shuhan, of course, a certain fat man betrayed his trust, this is another matter.

This stubbornness eventually buried the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and more importantly, since then, the Central Dynasty has never trusted the border ministers so much, but has forced out one rebellion after another, giving birth to one feudal town after another.

At least, in the eleventh year of Tianbao, he is still the Ming Jun who created the prosperous world, and in the eyes of Siyi, the awe-inspiring Heavenly Khan!

In this year, the "Discussion of the Tibetan System" drafted by him was read to hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers who were about to go on an expedition in Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, Longyou, Jiannan and other festivals.

At the foot of Jishi Mountain, on the side of Dafei River, on the side of Qinghai, 150,000 people in Longyou and Hexi towns, camped for thousands of miles, and held flags and disadvantages, just to wait for the arrival of one person.

It is the murderer who is about to become the fourth person who is also the envoy of the two towns, and the legendary notoriety can stop the crying of babies.

Their commander-in-chief.

Goshuhan.