The counteroffensive of the Tang Dynasty, Ashste Wenbo and Ashid repeatedly discussed. The total strength of the Tang Dynasty must have been more than them, but the main direction of attack was the chalk team from the direction of Pei Xingjian and Fengzhou, the chalk team of Youzhou and Yingzhou was the side response, and Cao Huaishun's chalk team was mainly to defend the Central Plains. The two of them guessed wrong, Pei Xingjian, who is now the best in the world in terms of knowing people, will not use Cao Huaishun anyway. Rather than keep tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands, and use it, it may be bad:

Do the math, there are a lot of troops in your hands, and almost all of them are cavalry. And the chalk of the Tang Dynasty was mostly infantry.

But the chalk team comes from various tribes, and it can't be well commanded in a unified manner, and at least half of the tribes don't have much will to fight. If the battle is unfavorable, they will flee or surrender immediately. In this way, I still don't dare to touch it.

It's basically right, but the two still ignore an important point, that is, personal command ability:

So the two thought about it, and called the leaders of the various tribes, and finally decided to camp in Montenegro (Baotou Daqingshan), according to Montenegro, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended with the help of the mountain, and materials can be transferred from the north of Yinshan. First extinguish the sharpness of the Tang Dynasty chalk.

There were many clan leaders who were too timid to fight, and when they heard this, they immediately raised their hands in agreement.

The main battlefield became a storm mountain.

Then the chalk of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably come to Montenegro. The two of them thought of the problem of grain and grass almost at the same time, a very normal idea, starting from Shuozhou, almost half of them were Hu people, mostly Turkic people, good cover. The distance is not close, and the 200,000 chalk troops have to eat and drink. Because of the preparations made in advance, Youzhou, Taiyuan and Yanzhou have hoarded a large amount of grain since last year, which saved a lot of money for the Tang Dynasty this time. However, it is impossible for hundreds of thousands of chalk troops to go to Taiyuan and Yanzhou for a meal, and then come to Montenegro for a decisive battle, and then go back when they are hungry. It is necessary to transport grain and grass from Taiyuan to Montenegro, and there is an opportunity in the middle.

And the two stayed in the Tang Dynasty for a long time and were very familiar with the Tang Dynasty system, including the military establishment. The most powerful warrior of the Tang Army is the Mo Swordsman, and there are already fewer of them. The larger the area, the more difficult it is to forge and build, not only the area is large, because it is necessary to maintain the sharpness, but also requires a good steel mouth, so sometimes even the enemy's horses and powerful soldiers can go down with a knife and split it in half. But there are no considerable soldiers to play, but it is a serious waste. The decline of the Tang Dynasty army can also be seen from this. But if it doesn't decline, they don't dare to rebel.

The second is cavalry and infantry, and the best warriors in cavalry are archers, one must be good at archery, and the other must be good at riding, and there are also very few. Mostly lance cavalry. There are many infantry and classes, crossbowmen, spearmen, spearmen, swords and logistics soldiers, as well as a small number of medical soldiers, who are not necessarily proficient in medical skills, but will simply bandage and stop bleeding from wounds, or remove arrows, and simply apply medicine, not as later generations thought, Tang Dynasty soldiers were injured or sick, and they relied on their bodies to carry them. It is about the same as the nurses of later generations, but all of them are men, and sometimes the doctors even teach some crude medical knowledge.

The weakest ones are the heavy soldiers, and those who do not go to the battlefield are only escorted to the heavy rollers, and sometimes they are replaced by civilian husbands.

The two immediately had a brief discussion, and asked Ashdwinbo's nephew Ashdeluping to lead a chalk of 10,000 troops to secretly infiltrate Shuozhou, turn into herdsmen, and lurk in various Turkic rebel tribes. Use these rebels to report the news, and if the baggage troops are huge, let them pass. If the army is small, eat the rollers heavily.

Without food and grass, hundreds of thousands of chalk troops can stay in front of Montenegro for as long as they can. Even because there is no food and grass, it will be defeated. If these 200,000 chalks were defeated in one fell swoop, the Turkic dream of recovering a great power would be realized.

Very well thought out.

But they never talked about Qinling, Pei Xingjian's marching and fighting style was completely different from Xue Rengui's, and he was a resourceful soldier. On the style of Qinling's march, it happened to be Pei Xingjian's nemesis: but these two people......

A good show was staged in Shuozhou.

February arrived, and a lot of big things happened.

The Tubo storm was no less than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the death of Mangsong Mangzan was officially announced, and everyone in Tubo was shocked. But when he heard that Mangsong Mangzan still had a son left in the world, he clapped his hands and celebrated: especially the ministers and nobles who were loyal to the Zampu faction.

On Qinling put down the affairs in her hands, and looked down on this pair of orphans and widows in her heart, but she had to do some superficial work, not to mention that this little queen mother died and her husband had no master, no matter what she said, she would only nod. So in preparation for the burial of Zampu, and the enthronement of the new Zampu. But in the Potala Palace, the Wulu clan is having a second conversation with Princess Wencheng. In the first conversation, no successful worker did not dare to say all the situation, but only vaguely expressed his goodwill towards the Tang Dynasty. But Princess Wencheng didn't make a sound, this is a sad princess, every time the king of the Tang Dynasty sends a messenger to ask one or two, but that is Kecha, after all, she is just a woman from the clan, not a descendant of the Tang Dynasty. After Tubo became hostile to the Tang Dynasty, the father and son of the Lun family were even more sluggish to her. However, this princess is quite kind-hearted, leads by example, and personally teaches the Tibetan people to cultivate textiles, and is very prestigious among the Tibetan people. It's just folk, high society, which continues to see her as a pitiful worm.

After hearing Wu Lu's words, Princess Wencheng did not say anything.

Without the wisdom of the Lu clan, he immediately knew her hesitation, and did not say any more, and respectfully took his leave. This was a paving stone, a work that laid the groundwork for the second meeting

It wasn't until Non Qinling publicly expressed his support for her son to become the new Zampu that the matter became a foregone conclusion, and she found Princess Wencheng again.

Princess Wencheng still didn't say anything.

is also old, when he married into Tibet, he was only sixteen years old, and he is fifty-five years old this year, he is not doing well, the environment is bad, he looks like an old woman of sixty or seventy years old, Wu Lu can't help but sigh, in another thirty or forty years, will he be like her?

But immediately put your mind on business. The reason why Princess Wencheng didn't make a sound was the bane left by Lu Dongzan, who promised so many promises to the Tang Dynasty back then, and in the end? The old princess didn't quite believe her words.

So he took out a few pieces of paper from his bosom and said, "This is a letter written by the new emperor of your Tang Dynasty, and there is his seal below." I'm not very familiar with the things of you Central Plains people, and I think Her Royal Highness the Princess can tell it:"

Princess Wencheng took it from the hands of the Wulu clan, which was forcibly extorted from Li Wei by the Wulu clan in Qinghai. It's just to make preparations for today. But he didn't say it, for fear that Li Wei would be suspicious. Li Wei looked at it, these letters leaked out, but they didn't have much effect, and he didn't know what her little head was thinking, so she took it. There is also a way to collect the books issued by Li Wei, which is more convincing. However, Li Wei's book making is also a holy decree, even if he goes to the official's house, he should be a living bodhisattva, and he may not be able to get it without Lu personally going to the Central Plains.

Princess Wencheng looked at the fat and powerful handwriting, not only strong and powerful, but also full of wealth and nobility in the words, and she liked it very much. This is the character written by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and in the future, Taizong's handwriting will be good, but it will be too charming. Then he raised his head in confusion and asked, "Zanmeng (not referring to the princess, but referring to the queen mother, this word has many meanings), what do you mean?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, will you take a look at this again?"

took out a few poems written by Li Wei under her persecution, and it was also a "love poem", it was not good to be without Lu's family, and her own Chinese poems were not good, but her appetite was very strong, and Li Wei had to write a very good poem, so that she gave birth to a son for Li Wei. Holding his son and playing coquettishly, and being charming and gentle, Li Wei had no choice but to take out Li Shangyin's "Untitled", which was difficult to say goodbye to when he saw the prime minister, and Dongfeng was powerless and a hundred flowers were remnant.

Wu Lu accepted it with a smile, and forced Li Wei to plagiarize several poems. Sometimes when I'm troubled, I take out these poems and read them. I was afraid that the paper would be worn out, so I copied it several times. It is usually well kept, and it is the first time that these poems have been made public to a third party. In addition to Li Shangyin's "Untitled", several poems by Zhang Jiuling, Wang Wei and Wen Tingyun were also tampered with. There are also Liu Yong's "Rain and Frost Bells" and "Bee Love Flowers".

"Your Royal Highness, can you compare this handwriting?"

Princess Wencheng is appreciating, these poems are masterpieces through the ages, she herself is talented, pleasing to the eye, after listening to Wu Lu's words, she asked puzzledly: "What is the purpose of Wu Lu Zanmeng?" ”

"This is what your Emperor of the Tang Dynasty wrote to me."

Princess Wencheng was surprised at first, and then she didn't believe it, she just didn't believe it!

The handwriting is not very popular now, maybe it was imitated by people, the emperor's handwriting is beautiful, and I heard that there are many people in the Central Plains who are learning.

Wulu sighed, took his son out, and said: "A few years ago, in order to arrest the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Da Xuan ordered the painter to paint many portraits of your Tang Dynasty emperors, you look at his portrait, and then look at my son." ”

Princess Wencheng's face became solemn, and she was stunned at the same time.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, you haven't understood yet? See how big he is? When do you estimate you were born? Also, do you really think that your new emperor of the Tang Dynasty is a man of God, and he can escape from the remnants of hundreds of thousands of troops? "No Lu Zanmeng...... Princess Wencheng has suffered for many years, and many people are also difficult to deal with in terms of temperament, but at this moment she was stunned, and said: "How is this possible?"

Seeing Princess Wencheng's expression, the Lu clan knew about the Long March, and finally let her take the second step.

Before the Battle of Shuozhou began, something happened in Luoyang.

The first is that the Bisu envoys finally arrived late, not that they deliberately delayed, the road was very long, and the Turks in the middle were rioting, and they were able to reach Luoyang in February, and the speed was already very fast:

The Turkic rebellion showed the loyalty of the Hui people, and Li Zhi specially set up a sumptuous banquet in Shangyang Palace to entertain Bisu's envoys. It's just that his son invited him here, and after the banquet, let him go to the East Palace.

Li Wei met with him and talked with him for a long time, this is to draw the bottom of the Turk's bed, if Tiele Jiu surnamed is in the back to attack the Turks, and the Tang Dynasty sends troops again, the Turks will become rats with bellows, and they will be angry at both ends. After that, the Turks had no more peace, and either they went to extinction or eventually declined.

Not saved, this is what Li Wei now thinks of the Turks. But he didn't plan to let them exterminate the clan, and he had a unclear relationship with the Central Plains. However, Shi Danai, Zhifu He Li, Ashina Sheer, Ashina Zhong, Ashina Simo, and Ashina Daozhen (the son of Ashina Sheer, the deputy marshal who went to Qinghai with Xue Rengui) all made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty

Therefore, if it is well controlled, they can be used as training objects. For example, this time the Tang Dynasty mobilized the people, and it was not necessarily a bad thing to work hard and lose money. For a long time, the Tang Dynasty went out mostly to Hu against Hu, and the lack of actual combat experience of the Han army was also the main reason for the decline in combat effectiveness. But there is a premise, there must be a great victory in every field, and the mortality rate is low: this is another training of the army, and it will not do much harm to the country. But there is a tribe that must be eradicated, the Kedun (Turkic Queen) of the Sui Dynasty was a matter of sesame rotten beans many years ago, but I didn't expect this Asid tribe to hold a grudge like this. Since it is a wolf that cannot be fed, it is useless to ask for it. But it's not the time to do it now

The envoy of Zhao Bisu was wary because Mobei was far away from the imperial court, and the information he received was very inaccurate, and there were many contradictions in the news. Therefore, Li Wei asked Bisu to send a heavy minister, and for this reason, if he was not an important minister, he would not know the inside story of the north.

It is mainly to inquire about the composition of the tribes in the north, not all of the Tiele tribes are loyal to the Tang Dynasty, such as the strong opposition of the Tongluo and Fugu tribes to the Tang Dynasty, as well as the ability of the Hui tribe to control the nine surnames of Tiele, the customs of each tribe and the living conditions of the people, as well as the strength of the troops and the situation of weapons. After talking for a long time, it was decided that to support them with a large number of weapons, which was free support. Let Hui Chun maintain control over the north and a restraint on the Turks.

I still can't understand that the Turks don't seem to be very powerful, why is it that a few years later in history, the Tang Dynasty is helpless? And it seems that after the Turkic **, they annexed the nine surnames of Tiele, enslaved them, and participated in the second invasion launched against the Tang Dynasty. It's not that the descendants don't care, it's the later generations, and they vaguely know a little bit, and they will definitely not sit idly by and watch this and the situation happen. The bottom of the bed may not be able to take a draw, at least it is necessary to keep the Tiele Nine surnames from being annexed by the future Turks and strengthening the enemy.

In order to support this time, I have been consulting with my parents and various prime ministers for a long time. In this regard, Li Zhi also agreed, after all, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the Bisu family has been very loyal to the Tang Dynasty for several generations. There are some disputes over the number of dwellings. In the battle of Qinghai, the loss of weapons was amazing, although a large number of iron weapons were plundered from Tuyuhun and remelted, and the war was about to rise again, and the iron has been insufficient. In order to get more iron, seafarers are even encouraged to import iron ore from abroad, whether you grab it, exchange it, or mine it yourself, as long as it is shipped to China, all taxes will be exempted. However, the current exploration technology is destined to be insufficient for iron ore. Otherwise, it is not abroad, but also domestic, and there are many iron ore resources that can be developed.

As a result of the final consultation, it was decided to support 100,000 arrows, 50,000 crossbow arrows, 5,000 angular bows, and 10,000 horizontal knives, which were new horizontal knives. In addition, there are 1,000 crossbows and 3,000 armor pairs.

When the wounded messenger heard this, he was overjoyed and immediately bowed down to give his salute

"No need, you Hui Tong people are the most loyal subjects of our Tang Dynasty, and this Turkic rebellion will inevitably be unfavorable to your Hui people in the future. Our court will not sit idly by. So saying, he helped him up. However, the Huituo people now live in the areas of Dule Water, Yulun Water (Orkhon River), Suoling Water (Seshuge River), and Yanwajia Water (Kusubo), which is also the best area in the north, which is also the result of the Tang Dynasty's intentional support: but the Turkic riots, the envoys can come, but this batch of materials is not easy to deliver, so they have to wait until the riots subside before they can be sent to Huifu to prevent the future.

After informing him of this, let him return to his pure state immediately.

At this time, Shuozhou's first victory reached the capital.

After Ashide Luping arrived in Shuozhou, he immediately heard the news that the chalk of the Tang Dynasty army transported grain to the front line, a total of 1,000 carts, each cart could almost load ten stones of grain. It's not much, the consumption of 200,000 chalks for five or six days. This is the first batch of grain and grass.

There were several hundred Tang Dynasty chalk troops escorted, and there were also 3,000 people. The chalk corps were small in number, and they were all escorted by old and weak soldiers. After inquiring again, there were no other chalk teams of the Tang Dynasty around. Overjoyed, he led a thousand chalk troops to gallop over.

Seeing so many Turkic chalks coming, the soldiers and civilians dispersed in a hurry.

To these soldiers and people, ask Shi Naluping if he is interested, laugh and seem to go to the front of the grain cart, with a knife to pick the car cover, there is grain in it, so he drove close to the water and grass, and came in a hurry, only food, the horse also wants to eat, so the water and grass, let the horse eat himself. Then he ordered the soldiers to take out the food in the car, take away what they could take, and burn it with a fire if they could not take it.

When all the Turkic soldiers got off their horses and were giggling and preparing to get food, the lid of the three hundred carts inside suddenly opened, and one thousand and a half Tang Dynasty jumped out with a Mo knife in his hand, or a crossbow.

Although there were few people, most of the strongest soldiers in the Tang Dynasty returned from Qinghai, and the general combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army may not be as good as that of the Turks, but the combat effectiveness of this Tang Dynasty was far above that of the 10,000 Turks. A batch of powerful crossbows were fired, and immediately there was a lot of talk about the Turkic warriors falling. Then Tang Jun put down the crossbow in his hand and killed in front of him with the Mo knife in his hand.

There is no need to use the crossbow, the Turks are also wilted, and they haven't fought with the Tang army for a long time, but they have a deep impression that the Tang army that can use the Mo knife is all one in a hundred soldiers. I just wanted to run away and get on the war horse, but the war horse was grazing, and it was still a few hundred meters away from them. These few hundred meters away became the road to death. The 1,500 Tang Dynasty chalk teams were divided into fifteen squads, and not only that, but there were also two brave generals, Zhang Qianxun and Xin Chenghe, who actually tried to surround the 10,000 Turkic chalks.

Zhang Qianxun, as the main general, also led two of the strongest teams to seize the front of the Turks, blocking the way of the Turks and preventing them from getting on the war horses. After fighting for a long time, Ashide Luping strangely found that his number was clearly several times larger, but like a straw, it was being harvested by the Tang army, which was less than one-sixth of his number.

I couldn't fight it, and I couldn't get on the war horse, so I had to flee with my legs.

But at this time, the Tang Dynasty ambush army in the distance rushed out again. In this battle, 10,000 Turkic soldiers robbed grain and killed almost everything. Including Asid Luping, he was also snatched up by a Tang army, and went down with a knife, this is a Mo knife, his body was cut in half from the middle, and he was cut in half, and he didn't die for a while, and the sound system was still operating, and he shouted several words in Turkic: "Pain, pain, so painful:"

Li Zhi heard that Hao Hao said three times in a row: "Good, good, good!" ”

It can be seen that there is this evil breath in my heart.

He also said: "Lian is ready to be fortunate in Ruzhou." ”

"No," Xue Yuanchao said. Your old man is happy and wants to go to Ruzhou to have a fun, but as soon as you go, the Queen Mother will inevitably follow, and only the emperor will be left in this capital to deal with political affairs, are you really so relieved? (To be continued.)