After Jian Mucen raised his troops to rebel, he immediately sent troops to attack Pyongyang, and the Tang army in Pyongyang was only 3,000. The remnants of Goguryeo www.biquge.info captured Pyongyang in less than half a day, and the remnants of the defenders in the city immediately retreated to Liaodong.

Within a few days, the entire Goguryeo land south of Liaodong was lost. At this time, Li Yu stopped marching to other places after Xue Ne and Li Shangdan captured the Black Bone City. Even if it was close at hand, the choke point of crossing the Yalu water into the Korean Peninsula was not captured.

A very important reason is that the army is insufficient, with less than 30,000 troops to defend the cities of Anshi, Yuncheng, and Wugu, where are there enough soldiers and horses to attack the right bank of the Yalu water? What's more, the Goguryeo rebels in all parts of Liaodong have not yet been purged.

In the first year of Xianheng, that is, in April this year, a bad news came from Anxi, Tubo invaded the Western Regions on a large scale, captured 18 feudal states such as Baizhou in the Western Regions, and joined forces with Khotan to trap Qiuci to change cities.

Since Taizong pacified the Turks, the Tang Dynasty has never been captured by foreign enemies in more than a dozen states directly under the jurisdiction of the capital.

Tubo, which was once weak and not in the eyes of the Tang monarchs and ministers, has now reached such a powerful point that it can challenge the prestige of the Tang Dynasty.

This morning, Li Zhiqiang endured the pain caused by the wind disease and personally dealt with this major incident.

In view of the fact that the four towns of Anxi were captured by Tubo, Li Zhi decided to send troops in his heart, and asked the opinions of the Manchu civil and military on this matter?

Si Rong Taichang Uncle and Yongan County Gong Jiang Ke stood up for the first time and said: "Your Majesty, Tubo has brazenly entered my Tang Dynasty, and regards my Tang Dynasty as a child. Your Majesty should take the main force of Tubo into Anxi at this time, and General Zeliang should lead his troops out of Longxi to recapture the Tuhun land occupied by Tubo, so as to cut off the retreat of the Tubo army in Anxi, and then annihilate it. ”

Dongtai squire Zhang Wenqian stood up and said: "Your Majesty, it has been less than two years since the destruction of Goguryeo, and the imperial court has been fighting foreign wars all year round, and the people's livelihood is poor. This year, there have been frequent reports of famine in various states in the world, and this time the people have been excursion to Tibet, and the people may be unable to bear it. ”

"What does Zhang Shixuan mean, do you just let Tubo occupy Anxi?" Jiang Ke's face changed immediately, and he asked coldly.

Li Zhi's face was also a little unsightly when he heard what Zhang Wenqian said, and he had already made up his mind that he had to send troops to teach Tubo a lesson, and the court wanted the ministers to discuss who should be sent to lead the army, how many troops to send, where to enter the army, and the follow-up grain and grass matters.

"Jiang Xianggong, the old man is just showing that the people are suffering because of the military affairs, and I am afraid that they can't afford to send a large number of troops to fight against Tibet, not against the imperial court sending troops."

"Zhang Shixuan is not opposed to sending troops, so you Aiqing will come up with a charter for sending troops." Li Zhi said in a deep voice.

Among the prime ministers of the dynasty, since Liu Renliang begged for the old man to be raised, only Jiang Ke was born as a military general, and at this time Li Zhi asked about sending troops He had the most right to speak.

Jiang Ke said: "The minister thinks that it doesn't take too much to send troops to Tubo, the land of Qinghai is vast and sparsely populated, the sky is cold, and there is a geographical advantage in Tubo, which is not conducive to the conquest of the army in my Tang Dynasty." When tens of thousands of elite cavalry rode into Anxi to invade the interior of Anxi, seizing the city of Tubo in Qinghai and cutting off its way back would definitely inflict a heavy blow on Tibet. ”

After Jiang Ke's performance, other civil and military forces in the DPRK and China successively made suggestions and suggestions, more to supplement the deficiencies of Jiang Ke's troops. Especially in the area of logistics, the grain and grass needed for the expedition were determined to be supplied by the Hexi states.

At this time, the Hexi Prefectures were the richest places in the world, comparable to the south of the Yangtze River, and there was the Silk Road running through Hexi, and the business and travel were endless.

There are also few disasters, the grain is harvested every year, and there is a fertile pasture under the Qilian Mountain, animal husbandry is the most of the Tang Dynasty, most of the country's horse husbandry supervision is located in the two places of Longyou, Hexi, there is no shortage of excellent war horses, only these two places are as many as 700,000 horses bred in the horse husbandry prison.

The horses bred by the Longyou Horse Husbandry Prison in Hexi have the blood of Persian horses, can travel thousands of miles a day, and are called Qinghai Cong, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is the strongest war horse in East Asia. When Tuyuhun and Tubo often went to the grassland around the Longyou horse grazing base in the west of the Tang River, they hijacked the horses they bred and left.

After some discussion, Li Zhili overrode the public opinion to take Xue Rengui, the general of the Right Weiwei Guard, who had been transferred to the Longyou area to guard against Tibet last year, as the general of the Luosao Road March, and the general of the left guard, Ashina Daozhen, and the general of the left guard, Guo Beifeng, as the deputies, led an army of 50,000 to fight against Tibet, and aided Tuguhun to return to his hometown to restore the country.

He also ordered Ashina Zhong, the general of the Right Xiaowei, to be the pacification ambassador of the Western Regions and the general manager of the Yuhe Road march to lead the Yuhe Army and save him from Khotan. The Western Turkic leader Ashina Duzhi was the general of Zuo Xiaowei and the governor of Luyan, and sent troops to contain the forces of Tubo in the Western Regions, echoing Xue Rengui from afar.

Li Zhi took Luo Su as the name of his division, and this move was not only to encircle Wei to save Zhao and force the main force of Tubo to attack the four towns of Anxi to divide his troops to return to defense, but also to attack Huanglong after the victory and capture the Tubo capital Luo Suo, intending to level Tubo in one fell swoop and solve this great trouble in the west.

Since his accession to the throne, Tubo occupied the thirteen prefectures south of Hehuang in the third year of Xianqing (658).

During the Longshuo period (661-663), the Zhuqiang of Xi'er Prefecture was descended, and the Tang Dynasty was attacking Goguryeo and Baekje at the critical moment when they had no jurisdiction over the West to extinguish the bath.

In the second year of Qianfeng (667), Tubo invaded the capital where the Qiang people lived, flowing, convincing, adjusting, and making together, and there were 12 prefectures, such as general, prostrate, instrument, er, rear, rate, and difference; In March, Li Zhi had to resign from the Qiang Twelve Prefectures.

In recent years, it has repeatedly plundered the Longyou prefectures in Hexi.

The reason why all this made Tubo succeed repeatedly, there was a rebellion in the Western Turks in the front, and then the main force of the Tang army attacked Goguryeo and Baekje, so that the Tang Dynasty had no time to take care of it, and gave Tubo an opportunity.

Now, the Western Turks have long been pacified, Goguryeo and Baekje have also been destroyed, and the Tang Dynasty has finally freed up its hands.

Those Qiang Prefectures are lost and lost, not directly controlled by the Tang Dynasty, but the four towns of Anxi are under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate. It was set up during the Taizong period, and now even the governance office has been occupied by Tubo.

How did this move make Li Zhi, who had just destroyed Goguryeo, swallow this breath?

At the court meeting, Li Zhi and his ministers had just finished discussing the matter of sending troops to fight against Tibet, and a guard outside the Lin De Hall hurriedly came with a letter in hand.

"Anton urgently."

The eunuch took two letters from the guards, opened them and presented them to Li Zhi.

When Li Zhi saw it, he was furious, and slapped it on the case in front of him and said angrily: "Goryeo Barbarian dares to raise troops to rebel? ”

The ministers of the court and the central government didn't know what was going on, and looked at each other suspiciously, didn't Goryeo just be pacified the year before last? Could it be that something is going on again?

Li Zhi handed over the letter sent by the Andong Protectorate to the eunuch and read it to the ministers of the court, only to hear Zhang Chao read: "In April, the relict of Goryeo, Jian Mou Cen, established the grandson of the former Goryeo treasure king An Shun as the king in Chongpan City, Jaeyeong County, and raised tens of thousands of troops to rebel, and the rebellions broke out all over the original Goryeo, and the major generals of Andong were outnumbered and in danger, so he quickly asked the imperial court to send a large army to rescue ......"

"Now that Tibet has entered the Kou, and troops are being sent to crusade, and Goryeo is rebelling again, how can this be good?"

"Hey, it's been an eventful year!"

The ministers in the palace were discussing, Li Zhi noticed another book, opened it and looked at it, his face suddenly froze, it was actually Si Yan's good news document.

Xue Rengui, the former protector of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, was transferred to Longyou last year to guard against Tibet.

At the beginning of the year, Siyang decided that Andong had decided that he needed to seek the position of protector of the capital of Andong on the grounds that the feudal town could be the heart of the remnants of Goryeo.

Li Zhi didn't think much about it and appointed Si Yang as the protector of the capital, just ordered him to lead it in Youzhou, and the capital protector of the capital protection mansion alone was led by Wu Yang Yao.

Unexpectedly, this kid led his troops to Liaodong in March, and fought a battle with the Goryeo rebels in Anshi, and ambushed the Goryeo Silla coalition army in Da'an Mountain, beheading 18,000 heads, and capturing 7,000 people in two battles.

Si Yang had just turned thirteen years old, and such a result made Li Zhi stunned for a long time and didn't know what to say.

Empress Wu, who was behind Li Zhi, noticed that something was wrong with her husband, and said with concern: "Jiu Yan." ”

"Hey!" Li Zhi handed Zhang Chao the order of the book to Mei Niang, who was sitting in the curtain behind him.

When Empress Wu got it, she was dumbfounded: "Did Si Yang actually lead the army to run Anton to suppress the rebellion?" ”

After Mei Niang finished reading it, Li Zhi once again asked Zhang Chao to read out this report.

The ministers in the palace were shocked when they heard this, and they were even more surprised than they had just learned that Jian Mu Cen had rebelled, and a young man from His Royal Highness King Yan was able to lead the army to fight.

In three battles and three victories in one month, tens of thousands of Goryeo rebels were wiped out, and what was even more surprising was that Silla also participated in it, sending 10,000 troops to help the Goryeo rebellion.

"Your Majesty, King Yan privately led the army to fight in Liaodong without the order of the imperial court to transfer troops, which is not in line with the system, and it is suspected of privately recruiting troops to plot misdeeds, so he should be ordered to return to Beijing as soon as possible." After hearing this, Yushi impatiently jumped out to impeach Li Yu, and he was even more suspected of plotting against him.

As soon as these words came out, the court was suddenly silent.

Since the founding of this dynasty, the vassal king has served as the governor of the military capital, and can command the soldiers and horses of several states, but there is no military department of the imperial court and the troop transfer document issued by His Majesty, and a soldier cannot be transferred to the jurisdiction. King Yan actually led his troops from Youzhou to Liaodong, and this matter is big enough to be said by the imperial history, plotting ill intentions to raise troops to rebel. To put it mildly, King Yan is only thirteen years old, young and ignorant, the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and it is also for the sake of the country to bring troops to Liaodong to quell the rebellion without permission, and there is no need to be too harsh.

After a quiet while, many civil and military ministers in the court discussed with each other about the affairs of King Yan, and most of the ministers felt that King Yan was only thinking about the country and had no other intentions, and they also won three great battles to stabilize the situation in Liaodong and prevent the rebellion of Jianmu Cen from spreading to the entire old land of Goryeo.

"Your Majesty, Silla is a country and has no intention of being a minister. actually supported the remnants of Goryeo to rebel against our Tang Dynasty, and also sent troops to take the black bones, the purpose of which must be to use this city to prevent our Tang Dynasty from reinforcing the south of Andong Yalu Water. Silla secretly invaded the old land of Baekje last year, and this move must have been to seize the land on the right bank of the Yalu River in the former Goryeo, and when he saw that there was no opportunity, he supported the rebellion of the remnants of Goryeo so that he could take advantage of the water. ”

Jiang Ke connected the two documents and pondered for a while, and after thinking about Anton's current situation, he analyzed it to Li Zhi.

It can be seen that the ambition of the wolf son of Silla is not small, but fortunately, King Yan led his troops to Liaodong and pulled out the nails of Silla in Liaodong. King Yan made this achievement, and His Majesty should give him a good award and encourage him to lead the army to stop the Goryeo rebels from crossing the Yalu River. ”