Soon after, three platoon commanders came to report to the company commander that a total of 35 young men and women, and 51 elderly people and children had been captured.

The company commander said: "What we want is hostages, and all people, regardless of men, women, and children, if one is counted as one, they will all be taken away." ”

A platoon commander said: "What about the belongings in the manor? ”

The company commander said: "I'll give you five minutes, just get something valuable, and move quickly." ”

The platoon commanders were overjoyed and said, "Thank you, company commander." After saying that, he hurriedly commanded the soldiers to loot the property.

Soon after, the officers and men of the 1st Company of the Flying Tigers escorted the prisoners and quickly evacuated.

At dawn, all the 26 detachments of the Flying Tiger Army that participated in the raid returned to report to Deputy Chief of Staff Wang.

After a night of raids, the Flying Tigers captured a total of 2,159 Tibetans. It lost 124 people, one of which encountered the regular army of Tibet, and after a fierce battle, only 32 people came back from the entire detachment, and the rest were all killed.

In any case, the Flying Tiger Army has successfully completed its mission. Deputy Chief of Staff Wang wrote a battle report and reported it to the headquarters of the Flying Tiger Army, and he took his troops to station in place and waited for further instructions from the headquarters of the Flying Tiger Army.

Not long after, before the order from the headquarters of the Flying Tiger Army arrived, the Longyou Dao Observation Envoy sent someone to the door and asked them to send troops immediately.

It turned out that after the Tubo people learned that there was a surprise attack on the border and a large number of hostages were captured, they were not to be outdone, and also organized the same raid and captured a large number of Tang Dynasty people on the border of Longyou Road.

When Deputy Chief of Staff Wang saw this, he decided to organize another raid and continue to capture the Tibetan hostages.

Such actions soon spread across the border between the Tang Dynasty and Tibet, and war broke out for a while.

Soon after, a small-scale sneak attack by both sides turned into a large-scale military operation, and war broke out.

Concubine Yang's Chenghui Palace.

"Su'er, you have to pay more attention to your brother, he has been in a bad mood recently, told me that he was going to resign and quit, and said let me tell you that he wants to leave Chang'an and live in a different place." Concubine Yang said.

It turned out that Li Su's recent blow was indeed a bit big, first of all, Princess Mingzhu ran away, and then, Bai Yun, who he was most obsessed with, was a spy of the Japanese slaves, and he also abducted one of his sons, his concubine who lost her son, and she had to die and live all day long.

This is not the most important thing, Princess Mingzhu's defection caused Li Ke more trouble.

The news of Princess Mingzhu's defection, although the court tried its best to cover it up, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, such a big scandal soon spread in Chang'an City.

Many of the merchants who were detained in Tubo this time were closely related to the magnates of Chang'an, and the direct reason why the merchants were detained was because of the defection of Princess Mingzhu, so that the Tubo people got the news of the war in advance, but the merchants of the Tang Dynasty were not able to get the notice of the imperial court in advance.

The families of the merchants, for the dissatisfaction of Li Ke, the king of Shu, are inevitably merely words, although they should not talk about this matter in front of Li Ke, but the discussion behind it soon reached Li Ke's ears.

Li Ke felt that he was too cowardly and became a big laughing stock in Chang'an City! Wherever he went, he felt the eyes of countless people looking at him strangely. This pressure is also too great.

Therefore, he looked for Concubine Yang and proposed to leave Chang'an. Concubine Yang was reluctant to let him leave Chang'an, so she called Li Su and wanted him to persuade Li Ke.

Regarding Li Ke's matter, Li Su didn't think it was a big deal, but now that the war broke out suddenly, and the imperial court was not well prepared, many things needed to be straightened out.

He is so busy now, Li Ke is annoying him with these things, and Li Ke can't help but be a little annoyed.

He said: "Mother, how old is Li Ke, he is 26 years old, why is he still like a child?" Look at the he did.

At the beginning, the pearl princess was crying and shouting to marry, and the slave woman in the back, he was also going to die or live, so he had to get her some side concubine.

You don't know, his side concubine's concubine, or I gave it to him.

He didn't know how much trouble he had caused to the imperial court, and now that the imperial court was employing people, what an important position the Ministry of Agriculture was, but he was making a fuss here, which really shouldn't be. ”

Concubine Yang said: "He just knew that he was in trouble, so he was embarrassed to stay in Chang'an." But I'm just your two sons, and I don't want him to leave me.

Otherwise, talk to him and persuade him. ”

Li Su said: "Okay, then so be it." Mother, I'm so busy right now, so if you see him, let him go to me himself. ”

Li Su was so busy, he left Concubine Yang's Chenghui Palace, and as soon as he returned to the office of the Taiji Palace, the military and political ministers asked to see him one after another.

Tai Chi Hall, Li Su's office.

Li Jing said: "Your Majesty, Su Dingfang asked for the transfer of artillery troops, how do you think this matter will be answered?" ”

It is said that the matter of mobilizing artillery units is an internal matter of the army, and there is no need to consult His Majesty the Emperor. However, in order to prevent the secret of artillery manufacturing from leaking out, there were only two artillery manufacturing plants in the entire Datang, one in Chang'an and the other in the naval research institute.

The artillery factories controlled by the Naval Research Institute, which produced artillery, were all used to equip the Navy. The army's artillery, all relied on the Chang'an artillery factory to produce, the number was limited, by Qin Huaidao unified control, currently only equipped with one artillery division, the authority to transfer is in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor.

Li Su said: "The artillery is made for use, so you will transfer two regiments from the artillery division and transfer them to Su Dingfang." ”

Li Jing said: "Okay, the minister will do it when he goes back." ”

Then, Li Jing stood up and prepared to leave, but he hesitated and stopped talking.

Li Su asked, "General, are you still in trouble?" ”

Li Jing said: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to fight this battle in person. The old minister is old and does not have much time to serve the emperor, so while the old minister is still running, please allow the old minister to open up territory for the court and make a little effort. ”

Li Su also thought that Li Jing was old, and he wanted to train relatively young generals such as Su Dingfang to take over the position of Li Jing and others in the future, so that there would be successors to the Tang military.

Li Jing was going to the front line, and although he had a greater grasp of the conquest of Tibet, it was not conducive to the growth of young generals.

Li Su thought about it again and again, and said: "General, I understand your feelings, but Tubo is not our most important goal, the next step, the army will be further reformed and improved, and the affairs in the court are inseparable from you. ”