For several months, an atmosphere of oppression and tension has shrouded the capital of Tibet. Since last year's Battle www.biquge.info of Shibao City, when Enagu annihilated Wang Zhonghe's 50,000 Tang army, the princes and ministers of the country have quarreled over the next situation and divided into two factions.

One faction believes that this victory made the Tubo State proud and frustrated the spirit of the Tang Dynasty, and washed away the shame of the Battle of Qinghai Lake and the capture of Tuyuhun, which was a great meritorious battle. The other faction believes that Datang is strong, and the battle of Shibao City will anger Datang, leading to the next cruel revenge of Datang.

The two factions quarreled endlessly and refused to give in to each other. One faction thinks that the other side is timid and fearful, which undermines the dignity of the Great Tibetan State. The latter faction accused the former of rejoicing in the great success, ignoring the overall situation, and putting the Tibetan country in a dangerous situation, which would cause a catastrophe of national destruction.

The representatives of these two factions were all powerful figures in the Great Tibetan State. The faction that sang the hymns was dominated by the Suvi king Wulingzan and the nine major ministers of state of the Tibetan state, Lang Meise and Modong Zebu, who sang praises for this battle and strongly advocated the promotion of Ernaraku to the post of general of the Shenchuan Prefecture. This Subi king has no Lingzan actually has a great background, although he is not the prince of Zampu with Danzhu, but even if the Great Tubo Kingdom Zampu with Danzhu is also polite to Wulingzan.

Wu Lingzan was born in the Subi country, which was originally a small country in the area of Qinghai Lake in the north of the Tubo country. With the strength of the Tibetan state, the sub-contiguous state was conquered by the Tibetan state, and the two countries became one. The Subian country is famous for its abundant materials, because the place where the Subian country is located is rich in water and grass, fertile heaven and earth, and is a big granary. Moreover, the population of the Subi State was also extremely prosperous, and when it was conquered by the Tubo State, the population of the Subi State was even more than that of the Tubo State. It was only because the king of Subi was too cowardly that he succumbed to the iron hooves of Tibet and gave the great land and millions of tribal subjects to Tibet. This also directly contributed to the rise of the Tibetan state.

After the annexation of the Subi State by the Tubo State, in order to calm the people's hearts, it adopted a gentle policy towards the subjects of the Subi tribe, and took a fancy to the large amount of products and manpower of the Subi tribe. Within a few decades, almost half of the soldiers in the army of the Tibetan State were from the Subi tribe, and half of the grain and grass rumors were produced from the land of the former Subi country. In order to make the subjects of the Subi tribe have no dissent, Tubo Zampu paid great respect to the descendants of the Subi royal lineage. Not only did they continue to be crowned kings, but they were also extremely respectful in terms of treatment and etiquette. The reason is very simple, if you stabilize the king of the Subi tribe, you will stabilize the people of the Subi tribe, and you will be able to better exploit manpower and material resources from the Subi tribe.

The position of Zampu was passed to the hands of the ruler belt Danzhu, and of course he would do the same, so this generation of Subi King Wuling Zan is also the object of the ruler belt Danzhu. On the side of Zamp's throne, there will always be a golden seat, and that is the seat of the Tomb of the Dead. Even if the prime minister leans on Xiang Yele, he has no place in front of the throne, which shows that there is no Lingzan's honorable position in the country.

In the controversy over the Battle of Stone Castle City, Wu Lingzan was the one who sang the praises. The representative of the other faction who is worried that there will be serious consequences is the prime minister Leaning on Xiang Yele. As a prime minister of the Tubo State who was deceived by Wang Yuan outside the city of Wangzhou and fled in embarrassment with an army of 30,000, Yi Xiang Yele has the forbearance and vision of a politician. After the Battle of Shibao City, Yixiang Yele tried his best to oppose Wu Lingzan and others to continue to send provocative signals to the Tang Dynasty, and made various insults to the Tang Dynasty to anger the Tang Dynasty. He advocated that although the battle of Shibao City was won, it should immediately negotiate with the Tang Dynasty about the boycott of the two countries, and return the bones and prisoners of the Tang soldiers who were killed in the battle, so as to show peace and sincerity and appease the anger of the Tang Dynasty.

However, his ideas were left behind by the ruler belt Danzhu who was also in the excitement of the war at that time, and the mind of the ruler belt Danzhu was more inclined to the faction of Wuling Zan, not only showing off his might after the war, but also ordering people to send a letter of honor to humiliate the Tang Dynasty. Yixiang Yele sighed deeply, but he was helpless. He could only silently prepare for the upcoming revenge of the Tang Dynasty, and it was his advance preparation that the Tubo State had expanded its soldiers and horses to 400,000 before the Tang Dynasty's three-way attack. Yi Xiang Yele's vision made the Tubo Kingdom actually prepare before the strong enemy attacked.

But even so, Yixiang Yele still advocated a truce with the Tang Dynasty, as the actual head of the Tubo country, he knew the Tubo family background better than the ruler and Danzhu, he knew that Tubo was not the opponent of the Tang Dynasty, the harassment of the border and the small fights were one thing, and it was another thing to really provoke the Tang Dynasty to destroy the country in a big way. In fact, the Tubo State had a lot of advantages in border operations, because the mobile combat ability of the Tubo cavalry was stronger than that of the Tang Army, but in the real siege operations and large corps operations, the discipline of the Tubo soldiers and horses was lax, and the problem of single combat methods was exposed. Just when the Tang army had already begun to attack, he still made a statement to Zan Puqi and Danzhu, preparing to go to Chang'an in person to negotiate peace with the Tang Dynasty. This move caused a large attack by Wu Lingzan and others, if it weren't for the great trust of Yixiang Yele in Yixiang Danzhu, I am afraid that he would be dismissed from the position of prime minister because of this matter.

At the beginning of the war, Wu Lingzan, Lang Meise, Modong Zebu and others preached that the Tubo army was about to defeat the Tang army, so Yixiang Yele proposed to tighten the defense, focus on defending the periphery of Luozhi City, lead the Tang army deep into the hinterland, and finally annihilate the Tang army by taking advantage of various advantages such as water and soil incompatibility and difficult logistics supply. But this idea was once again vetoed by Wu Lingzan and others. It wasn't until the Battle of Shibao City, when the Beichuan army was defeated by the soldiers and horses of Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi, that Danzhu suddenly realized that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was extraordinary, and realized that the original plan of relying on Xiang Yele was the most feasible way.

It was not too late to make amends, and the ruler belt Danzhu fully adopted the strategy of relying on Xiang Yele, although the Tang army had wiped out seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses in the battle for Shibao City and several cities in the west, but the first battle after shrinking the defense was effective. In the Battle of Namtso Lake, the Tang Army's Northern Route Army was completely annihilated, which made Danzhu overjoyed. At this time, Yixiang Yele still had a cautious attitude, and put forward a request for peace with Datang for the third time.

This time, Danzhu was really angry, and angrily reprimanded Yixiang Yele, and ordered Yixiang Yele not to say such things again, and put all his energy into fighting to the death with Datang. Yixiang Yele had no choice, and only then did he force Erna Gu to attack the camp of the Jiannan Army, mobilize soldiers and horses from Beichuan Capital to reinforce Pibancheng, and so on. However, the outcome of the battle terrified everyone in the city of Logos. The 160,000-strong army attacked the 60,000-strong Jiannan Army, but returned with a great defeat and a loss of 60,000 soldiers and horses, which was simply unbelievable.

Ernaragu sent Wangmu's head to the city of Luoqi, saying that this battle was a great rout caused by Wangmu's disobedience to military orders, but in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that it was not a problem of which general, but that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses was really poor. 160,000 against 60,000, this is a huge advantage, so you can lose, then there is nothing to say. In a fit of rage, Danzhu wanted to remove Erna Gu from his post, but was persuaded by Yixiang Yele. Yi Xiang Ye Le took out the secret letter that Ernagu had written to him privately and showed it to the ruler with Danzhu, which described in detail the use of an extremely powerful weapon of the Tang army in this battle.

"Five hundred steps away, after hitting the ground, it burst and roared, and the two zhang radius were scorched earth, and there were injuries within ten zhang. The soldiers thought that the gods and Buddhas would send fire to punish our Tibetan people, so they were terrified and collapsed. The power of this thing, coupled with the fact that most of the soldiers are new soldiers, it is difficult to give orders, so it is difficult to win. Even if there were 100,000 soldiers and horses defending the city, the city was in danger, and the Tang army captured the city overnight. But they did not attack, and seemed to have a plan. …… The prime minister pondered carefully, where to go, and prayed for a clear ......"

As he read the letter, he was terrified. The weapon described in the letter is too exaggerated, 'there is scorched earth within two feet', if there is such a powerful weapon, then there is no need to fight, it will definitely not win. And he wrote these things in secret letters, rather than in public letters, because he did not want to cause panic in the whole country, although sooner or later the secret would be known. But with Wangmu as a scapegoat, it is worth keeping this secret for the time being.

The ruler belt Danzhu was a little at a loss, and he was a first-class general among the generals of the Tubo country, brave and strategic, and sophisticated. Otherwise, it would be impossible to defeat the famous Wang Zhonghe. Now that he has said so, it shows that although it seems that the Tibetan soldiers and horses have the advantage, in fact, there is no chance of winning. Danzhu had never felt that his Tibetan Nation had been annihilated in this war, but now he was deeply anxious about it. Will the country of Tibet, which has been passed down for a hundred years, be destroyed in its own hands?

"Prime Minister, what should I do now?" Danzhu was reluctant to ask, but he unconsciously asked this sentence in his mouth.

Yixiang Yele said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about Zampu, the minister plans to go to Pibo City to verify whether this matter is true." If the Tang people really have such a powerful weapon, then the old minister will desperately persuade Zan Pu again, let's negotiate peace with the Tang Dynasty. ”

"But...... If the Tang people had such a murder weapon, how could they negotiate peace? "The ruler takes Danzhu Road.

Yi Xiang Ye Le said: "It is still impossible for the Tang people to destroy my Tubo, as long as our army retreats to the city, with the topography of my city, and then 200,000 soldiers and horses refuse to defend, it is impossible for the Tang people to break through the city without 200,000 troops." Don't forget, the city of Raksha is backed by high mountains, and the surrounding Jiqu River is wide and deep, which is our natural danger. There are also three strong city walls in our city, and the terrain is high, even if the Tang army has siege weapons five hundred steps away, it will not be useful at all. The old minister wanted to negotiate peace with them, but he didn't want things to come to that point. If the siege of the north of the city is really broken, even if it is not breached, it will be in name only. ”

Ruler Danzhu frowned and thought for a moment, and finally said: "That's it, the matter has come to this, and it can only be like this." Let's take a look at the authenticity, and then think about it in the long run. ”

Yixiang Yele nodded in agreement, turned around and whispered before retreating: "Zampu, there is something I must remind Zampu, this matter must not be spread, otherwise I am afraid that rumors will cause turmoil." In addition, please pay attention to the fact that the king of Subi did not praise their words and deeds, and the old minister has recently heard some rumors about them, this ...... There is no real evidence, and the old minister can't say it, but during the time when the old minister left, please be careful. ”

Qi Dai Danzhu was stunned, opened his mouth, but closed it again, and just nodded slowly and said, "I know, you can rest assured." At this point, the only person I trust is you. ”