When the east wind was surging, the western part of the Tang Dynasty was invaded by the 400,000 troops of Tubo and the four towns of Anxi, which caused the situation in the northwest to suddenly become tense. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xue Rengui, the general of the right guard, was the general of the march of the Luosa Road, and the general of the right guard, Ashina Daozhen, and the general of the left guard, Guo Beifeng, were his deputies, leading 50,000 troops to crusade against Tibet through Shanzhou.

Tens of thousands of well-equipped troops silently followed the team in front of them, and struggled through the Dafei Ridge in front of them. In addition to the 15,000 baggage soldiers, all the soldiers rode in pairs, and all the baggage was carried by horse-drawn carriages.

The snow-capped mountains in the distance seem very close, but they are actually very far away. Tens of thousands of soldiers set out from Shanzhou and walked more than 200 miles, and they saw so many snow-capped mountains along the way, but they never passed under a snow-capped mountain.

If it is in the Central Plains, even if you wear a single coat to climb the mountain, you can sweat profusely, but since the army went to Chiling, climbed the mountain and crossed the grassland and wore winter clothes, you can feel the biting chill every morning and evening, and occasionally there are snowflakes in the sky.

Many officers and soldiers fell ill during the rapid march of several days, suffering from headaches, inability to sleep, inability to eat, physical weakness and difficulty breathing.

When I was camping at night, I was going to boil medicine for the sick soldiers, but I found that no matter how much I boiled the water, it would not boil.

As for rice? After going to Chiling, cooking rice is basically raw rice, and you can't eat fragrant meals after burning the fire for a while like in Datang.

Climbing a hill on the side of the road and looking at the marching army, Xue Rengui's weather-beaten face was slightly sad.

"The march is too slow, you have to speed up."

"Chief, at the moment, it is the fastest speed of our army, and no matter how fast it is, it can't keep up." Guo Zhifeng heard Xue Rengui's dissatisfaction, his eyebrows furrowed, and he said expressionlessly.

"Hey!" Xue Rengui also knew that it was impossible to speed up the army at the moment, and there were some evil sects in the old Tugu Hun land. On Chiling, even a battle-hardened general like him sometimes feels that he can't breathe. I saw some weak people in the army, when they marched in the mountains, they were even weaker and had unbearable headaches.

In this era, no one knows except that Li Yu knows that it is because of the altitude reflection, and people who live in low-altitude areas all the year round suddenly go to high-altitude areas due to lack of oxygen and cause physical discomfort. People all over the world only attribute the adverse reactions of the Tang people entering the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the local miasma, but they can't say the reason.

When night is approaching, the whole army finally crossed the Dafei Ridge to build a camp at the foot of the mountain to repair, with the exploration of the Malay report, here to the east is the Yellow River Jiuqu, to the south is the stone mountain.

The Tang army camped is the Dafei River in the south of Dafei, the Dafei River is in the northwest-southeast direction, belongs to the valley plain terrain of the Pingchuan River, the south of the Tang Army is the widest part of the Dafei River, up to more than 120 miles can enter the Stone Mountain.

Xue Rengui thought about it for a few days, and at the current speed of the march, it was simply wishful thinking to cross the Jishi Mountain, which was wider and steeper than Dafeiling and Chiling, to reach Wuhai, and cut off the back road of the Tubo army to defeat Tubo.

In this battle, since receiving the appointment of the imperial court to lead the army to invade Tibet, Xue Rengui waited for the idle time of the prepared grain and grass transfer generals, studied the map for more than ten days, and formulated several battle plans.

The Tibetan Prime Minister Qinling claimed to have an army of 400,000 to attack Anxi, and this time the invasion of Tubo seemed to be able to take advantage of the main army of Tubo in Anxi, and the empty troops stationed in Tuyuhun could catch him off guard.

But Xue Rengui didn't think about it so easily, two practical problems were placed in front of Xue Rengui: first, the army sent out was only 50,000, and Tubo had been operating in Tuyuhun for several years, which can be said to have a deep foundation, and the current army was empty, but there were still no less than 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses left. Qinling learned that I led the army into Tugu Hun to cut off its back road, and I would lead the main force back to help, and it was not easy for 50,000 soldiers and horses to fight Qinling's 400,000 troops.

Second, Xue Rengui himself did not know about the tomb of the great minister of Tubo, and was not familiar with the topography of Tuyuhun, and more importantly, this battle was a long-distance attack with a difficult and dangerous journey, there were no reinforcements, and the baggage was carried with the army.

Think about it, if you want to win, you have to fight quickly!

When Qinling led a large army to come back, he quickly eliminated the Tubo army stationed in Tuguhun and occupied the dangerous pass facing Tubo itself to prevent Tubo from going north to reinforce the army, so as to wait for the purpose of annihilating the Qinling army.

For this reason, Xue Rengui formulated an extremely bold plan, before Tubo did not reflect it, to go south to occupy Wuhai City, the main route of Tubo in the north to Tuyuhun.

But in reality, the march of the army with baggage was slow, and it could not achieve the goal of surprise and quick victory.

For this reason tonight, Xue Rengui summoned the generals in the army to announce his new battle plan.

"In view of the fact that the march of the large army carrying baggage is slow and easy to lose its fighters, I hereby resolve. Tomorrow, Guo Beifeng, the deputy commander, will lead the baggage troops and 5,000 soldiers with a total of 20,000 horses to guard the baggage, grain and grass, and set up a fence on the Dafei Ridge to build fortifications to prepare for our army at any time. I and the deputy chief manager Ashina Dao really led the main force and rushed to Wuhai lightly. When the Qinling army returned to the east, the two armies were attacking their armies together, and they would surely defeat Tibet. ”

"Chief, Wuhai is far away, but this is going deep into the hinterland of Tibet, is it too risky to divide the troops?"

Guo Beifeng, Ashina Daozhen and the others took a look at the dissenting general and continued to sit in their seats, because both of them knew in their hearts that Xue Rengui's decision would not be changed, so they didn't have the mind to oppose it. What's more, Guo Zhifeng wished that Xue Rengui would divide the troops and lead the army alone.

Xue Rengui glanced at the general, and said with a serious expression: "As the saying goes, wealth and wealth are sought in danger, and war is the same!" It is precisely because of the danger of the sea that Tibet would not have thought that our army would attack this place for a long time, and if it could not be taken by surprise and cut off the back road of Tibet, it would be unfavorable to our army. ”

"Tomorrow, the whole army will set off according to the general's order!"

"No!" No one raised any further objections, and after Xue Rengui and the generals discussed the details of the division of troops, the generals returned to their respective camps to prepare.

Among the generals, only Guo Beifeng was the most excited, but he hid it well, and no one could see what he really thought in his heart.

On the second day, after the Tang army was divided, Xue Rengui and Ashina Daozhen led 30,000 elite troops lightly armed, and quickly marched through the Dafei River into the snow-capped mountains of Jishi Mountain.

After five days of arduous trekking, the Tang army had already crossed the Jishi Mountain, marched more than 400 miles, and tens of thousands of cavalry rushed to the plateau and grassland.

Along the way, many Tuyuhun and Tubo herdsmen who were grazing on the grassland suddenly saw a large force of Tang troops rushing towards them, and the galloping heaven and earth rumbled.

The banner used by the Tang army to identify and command the army was colorful in the eyes of these herdsmen who had never seen the world, and the banner displayed its majesty. The frightened group of herdsmen got up from the grass where they were sitting, quickly climbed up to the horses not far away, and kept pumping their horses and galloping, so as not to become ghosts under the Tang saber in no apparent terms.

Lobsang was originally a servant of the Gar family, but he was brave in battle, witty and flexible. Because of his many times, he led a small group of men and horses to take advantage of the Tang army to plunder the villages of Tang Longyou Prefecture, not only captured a large number of Tang slaves and grain, but also captured a large number of horses from the horse husbandry prison set up by the Tang State in the Longyou area, which was appreciated by the master Qinling. After ten years of hard work, he was promoted to the commander of the 20,000-strong army by Qinling, and this time he was entrusted with an important task to guard the important Wuhai City.

In Lausanne's eyes, a city like Wuhai City, located in the hinterland of Tibet, did not have to worry about the Tang people attacking it, and whether the Tang people came from the north or the east, the road was extremely dangerous.

Since guarding Wuhai, he chatted and farted with his generals at night, got drunk and smoked and then got on those female slaves, and led his men and horses out to hunt during the day, and lived a good life.

Last night, I chatted with the generals about the battle led by the prime minister to attack Tang Guoanxi, and Lausanne threatened that the prime minister would transfer us to fight in the north.

Unexpectedly, within two days, the Great Prime Minister Qinling transferred troops to Wuhai, and Lausanne was proud of his unservant prophet and immediately ordered the assembly of troops and horses.

Tibet is a combination of military and civilian, military governor is a local governor, the military system refers to the Tang military system and its own tradition to form a system of integration of the military and the people.

Since there was no war, Lausanne was not worried that Wuhai City would be attacked, so he only left a cavalry of 2,000 men and an infantry of 3,000 men to defend Wuhai City.

When the order for the transfer of troops was issued, Lausanne began to gather his subordinates grazing around Wuhai, and in view of the fact that it would take two days to assemble, he simply set the place of gathering troops and horses at the mouth of the river south of Wuhai City. There are abundant water and grass, and there are many wild animals, and during the time of gathering the army, you can continue to graze, and you don't have to waste food to war horses, and you can hunt, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.

The Tang Dynasty gathered troops and horses in Longyou to prepare for the crusade against Tibet, and the Tubo Prime Minister Qinling, who led the army in Anxi, learned of the Tang army's transfer from Xizuona. Due to the dispersion of the main army to the vast Anxi, it was difficult to return to the reinforcements in time to deal with the southward movement of the Tang army. The Tubo headquarters left behind in Tuyuhun was short of troops, so he could only order the Luosang army that remained in Wuhai City to lead the army north, and at the same time order the Tuyuhun troops to gather troops and horses to meet the Tang army.