Chapter 128: Dusk in the Eastern Capital (7)
This seems to be an unjustified dispatch......
The distance from the Yinzhijia River to the Purple Mountain Pass is long, there are many checkpoints along the road, and there are many large and small countries, which is consumed, and the 50,000 horses of the Qinling Tomb are exhausted.
Guo Yuanzhen won't think like this, his best skill is strategy, if he really wants to let him go into battle, he may not be as good as Tang Xiumo, but in terms of military vision, among the rising stars, few people can match. On Qinling broke through his own level, and when he reached the rear, he drew some relatively strong soldiers from the Western Regions to support. These countries are very small, which also makes the Tibetan people cold, and psychologically they are very afraid when they see the Tibetan people, and they can't stop it at all. As for some checkpoints guarded by the Tang army in the rear, after several transfers, the troops were very small, and they could not stop the army of Non Qinling.
Once they entered Fuluochuan, the two Mu Tang Dynasty pursued a policy of peace, allowing Qinghai to obtain a large amount of grain, and so that the Qinling Tomb did not have to worry about supplies, as long as the Tubo people acted quickly, Qinghai would be eroded. Moreover, this person is very good at using soldiers, can march in front, and can take advantage of the urgency of the Tang Dynasty army to rescue Qinghai, ambush and shake
Therefore, in any case, the Lun Qin Mausoleum cannot be allowed to successfully go east.
However, the terrain of the Western Regions is different from that of Qinghai, which is mountainous, and often builds a checkpoint in an important place. The terrain of the Western Regions is bordered by Kunlun Mountain in the south, Jinshan Mountain in the north, and Tianshan Mountain in the middle, and the abdomen is very flat.
Of course, there are mostly deserts in the middle that are deserted and difficult to fly, but with the help of melting snow water in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, there are many oases that can be supplied, and even have a developed agricultural system. These roads are very flat, such as Tingzhou to Xizhou, and the avenues that can be found on the map are Huagu Road, Yimo Road, Sahan Road, Breakthrough Road, Dahai Road, Wugu Road, He Tunnel, Baishui Diversion Road, Yinshan Road, and nine roads.
It's hard to put an army in one place and hold a checkpoint.
On the eastward direction of Qinling, a hard battle is destined to begin. However, Guo Yuanzhen was very clever, and did not directly regret the soldiers of Qinling, but only followed closely from more than 20 miles away and waited for the arrival of the army of Heizhi Changzhi. On Qinling led the army to counterattack and set up a large camp to hold on.
The two notes were entangled for more than two days, and on Qinling continued to send scouts to reconnoitre, and as soon as he moved, the black tooth Changzhi also moved. But the march was steady, unhurried, and even slowed down, and it was difficult to find a flaw in the heavy weight of the grain. Then he looked at Guo Yazhen's military camp dozens of miles away, and secretly frowned, there were still people in the Tang Dynasty, especially this Guo Yazhen, in the battle of Qinghai a few years ago, he was just a barnyard general, and he grew up like this a few years later. Thinking about Wang Fangyi in Khorasan and Tang Xiu in Broken Leaf City, the more troubled I become.
When evening came, a large camp was set up.
No Tang army dared to attack the camp, but it was different from Li Jingxuan, who was first blind and arrogant, and then cowardly as a mouse. This is a sober understanding, Li Wei has also repeatedly said that on the Qinling Tomb can not be underestimated, and on the handsome talent, few people in the Tang Dynasty can match. Don't blindly try to take advantage of him, if you have this kind of thought, you will be smart and be mistaken by wisdom. But he can't be cowardly, when he arrives in the Western Regions, and puts it in the Tianshan Mountains on Qinling, he is a fierce tiger, and he is also a sick tiger.
This is a strategic contempt for the enemy and tactical respect for the enemy.
and Li Jingxuan just reversed.
It is the most headache of the Qinling, this Tang Dynasty army is entangled behind it, and it does not dare to enter rashly, and the countries at the checkpoints on the road in front of them are not worried, but as long as they are not careful, they can let the Tang army on their side bite hard.
This problem has also been solved.
Not far from the place where Qinling camped is Poshanhai, there is a very nameless small lake, but in addition to some vitality by the lake, there are flat Gobi deserts with hard gravel around Poshanhai. This is the favorable terrain that the heavens have given to the Lunqin Mausoleum.
The next day, on Qinling led the army to camp and arrived at Poshan. Suddenly sent 10,000 cavalry and rushed towards Guo Yazhen's army. In this empty Gobi desert, it is difficult to facilitate the place where you camp. But after Guo Yuanzhen arrived here, he had already ordered the whole army to be on alert.
Seeing the Tibetan cavalry rushing over, he pushed out the archers and shot them with crossbows. However, in extremely cold weather, the effectiveness of bows and arrows is greatly reduced. Then he scattered the horses and the thistles, laid a simple line of defense, and then launched the trebuchet and dropped the gunpowder.
But there is no effective fortification, and the effect has been very weak.
On Qinling also led the main army to kill back.
Guo Yuanzhen's command ability was slightly weak, and his troops were weak, and he gradually fell into disadvantage. However, under his command, he actually struggled for nearly two days. By the evening of the next day, the soldiers had suffered heavy lives, and Lun Qinling took the opportunity to press all the reserves and rushed over at once. The Tang Dynasty coalition forces were exhausted and finally defeated.
In this battle, Tan Qinling killed more than 10,000 Tang troops. However, it dragged on for two days, allowing Hei Zhi Changzhi to gradually catch up behind, so that the Qin Ling could not expand the fruits of victory.
However, after this battle, Non Qinling suddenly made a decision not to go east, but to flee south.
The main Guo Yuanzhen also made the Qinling suffer enough, and more than 5,000 Tubo soldiers died in two days of fierce fighting. If the main force of the Black Tooth Changzhi is entangled again, even if it is victorious, there will not be many people left. Also, the silent slurping let him down. If you cooperate, even if you sacrifice a large number of troops, you will lose the entire Tang Dynasty, the Western Regions. Besides, the Hu people of the Western Regions still have a force to be reckoned with in their hands, and after a long battle, they don't cooperate, if they bite it, can they escape to Fuluo ......" or one, question mark. Taking into account the pressure of domestic opponents, the Qinling retreated.
On Qinling's southward escape, Hei Tooth Changzhi chased closely behind, Guo Yuanzhen once again collected the defeated army, and some soldiers fled to Tianshan in a hurry. But he still gathered more than 19,000 people and followed the black tooth Changzhi to the south.
On the speed of Qinling is very fast, but also out of the black tooth Changzhi, Li Jinxing and other generals unexpected, at this time Mo Si is still in the Wulu unscrupulous raid, the Tubo people lost not many soldiers, in order to talk about the wisdom of Qinling, will not be so anxious to flee back.
Therefore, Li Jinxing in front could not stop it, and after hearing the urgent report, he had to let Jiang Sijin lead 3,000 light cavalry to Yu Nan Mountain (the junction of Kunlun Mountain and Kara Kunlun Mountain) to block it, and ordered Yu Yan's troops to send troops to support, and then the army went southeast and attacked the Qinling Tomb with the army of Hei Ya Chang on two roads.
Along the Jade River, the Qinling fled quickly southward. At this time, the Jade River was not like the later Jade River, which had dried up, although the Tarim Basin was desertified, and the Jade River had also become a seasonal river...... However, the entire Yuhe River is rich in resources, and there are many large and small oases on both sides of the river, scattered with small countries and tribes. In order to seize the speed, the Qinling had no choice but to learn from Li Wei, put down the unnecessary baggage of Zhongshan, and killed all the more than 2,000 Tang Dynasty army captives captured. Burning, killing and plundering all the way along the Jade River, and rushed towards Yu Yan at high speed.
Jiang Sijin came to the South Pass of Yu Yan, and only had time to gather 3,000 hundreds of Yu Yan soldiers and hurriedly organize a simple defense line, and the army of Non Qinling was killed. Jiang Sijin was eager, and suddenly thought of some of what Li Wei had said. The soldiers were ordered to urgently build an earthen wall more than one zhang high, not to be strong, but to be tall and thick, and after the construction was completed, the snow water was melted and poured on the earthen wall. At this time, the terrain of Nanshan Pass is high, and the weather is extremely cold, and as soon as the water poured on it is cold, it immediately turns into solid ice.
On the Qin Tomb hurriedly reached the Nanshan Pass, but saw a large silver wall blocking the way. Dumbfounded, but there was no way, either they would take a detour from the Green Ridge Road to enter Da Bolu, but in that case, they would inevitably be caught up by Li Jinxing's army, and the army behind the black-toothed Changzhi would not be gone.
I had to order a strong wave.
After attacking for more than nine days, the Tang army behind the silver wall ran out of ammunition and food, and was broken by the Tubo people, and more than 6,000 Tang Dynasty coalition troops were all wiped out, but the army of the black tooth Changzhi behind also rushed over. Kill all the way. Then Li Jinxing's army also rushed over.
It wasn't until tens of thousands of troops from Yang Xi and Da Bolu came over that the two Tang armies left the plateau and retreated to the north.
In this battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and the Qinling came in a hurry, but it did not achieve the effect, but only 20,000 people remained, and they fled back to the city of Luo in embarrassment.
However, the Tang Dynasty army, including the army of the Western Regions, lost more than 70,000 people in his hands, and after the Tang army entered the war, it also lost nearly 40,000 troops, more than half of which were real Tang troops. The people of the Western Regions who were killed by the Tibetans were even more numerous.
Strategically, however, the Tang Dynasty was victorious.
Li Wei has said this many times before, fighting against the Tibetans, you can't rush to success, you have to slow down with them, this country has a large territory, but the population is small and poor. Even if it was a pyrrhic victory, it was a big victory. As long as the Tubo people did not succeed after several battles, the domestic pressure in Tubo increased immediately, the contradictions intensified, and Tubo was not far from disintegration.
Even as long as possible, it was to exchange 400,000 Tang troops for the lives of 300,000 Tibetan soldiers, and this account was converted. The Tang Dynasty sacrificed 400,000 soldiers, the country was full of contradictions, and the people would have a lot of pressure. However, once Tubo really sacrificed 300,000 soldiers, it was not far from destroying the country.
But that's when the bad news came.
When the news arrived in Luoyang, it was all over the teeth, Dan.
Not only did the news of Tibet come to Tibet, but when the Turks in the north heard that the Qinling had fled south, they immediately took a large amount of looted wealth, cattle, sheep and people, regardless of the cold weather, and retreated all the way to the northeast. The elite troops of the Tang Dynasty were all in the south, and they fought with the Qinling Tomb, and they had no time to take care of anything else, so they had to watch him escort the people's cattle and sheep, and continued to burn, kill, and plunder unscrupulously along the way, and retreated to the desert. For a few months, the West has been a day of joy and sorrow. Khorasan and Sestan withstood the pressure of the Great Cannibals, and not only fought the two Great Eclipse armies back, but also shaped a warlike Persian army. At least this piece made Li Wei very satisfied, he knew that running Persia, with the current conditions, was a bit wishful thinking, so he only wanted the Persians to be the western watchdog of the Tang Dynasty. You can be a watchdog, you can't be a dung, a Caucasus and Napoleon, but at least a shepherd, not a Yorkshire, Maltese, Pomeranian, and Chihuahua.
The Tianshan South Road also satisfied Li Wei, with heavy losses, but the Tang army that really sacrificed was only more than 20,000 people, compared to the nearly 30,000 soldiers sacrificed by Rang Qinling, this price was worth it. As for the deaths of the people and troops in the Western Regions, Li Wei was really very concerned? In his heart, he was afraid that he wished that the various departments of the Western Regions would become weaker so that they could be easier to manage and control.
However, Tianshan North Road and Broken Leaf City, because of some unexpected expectations, did not make preparations in advance, and the losses were very heavy. In Broken Leaf River and Broken Leaf City alone, more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians were killed in battle. The tragic losses of the Turgish and the Wulu Land Department are even more numerous. Some small tribes were swept by the Silent Coalition Army, and the entire tribe disappeared into the long river of history.
At the same time, the Eastern Turks also became the biggest winners, capturing countless goods, more than 700,000 horses, cattle and sheep, hundreds of thousands of people and some other wealth. But because of the cold weather, only half of them were able to bring back to the Eastern Turks. The Turks fled, and at this time Wang Fangyi also led his army to Broken Leaf City. In a fit of rage, he retaliated against Che Bi Shi and the Ger Luo Shi Ministry. The population was divided and the losses of the ministries were compensated. In addition, from the wealth brought by Moufu City, he took out a lot of wealth and compensated the ministries.
It's also smarter.
I didn't want to run it, I wanted to run the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty government began to formally collect taxes, although this tax levy was very light, but it was very light, and the ministries were still hiding the population and paying less than half of the taxes. But the Tang Dynasty had to bear the responsibility of protection, so that it would be authoritative to speak in the Western Regions.
In the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, there was a bleak scene, but the wealth of more than two million partial money was distributed, and the complaints finally subsided. The ensuing war between the Chebi Shi tribe and the Qarlu tribe lasted until June of the following year, when some tribes fled to the northwest of Xuanchi and Qingshan, and let the Tang army catch up, slash and kill, escort the people back, and break them down into various tribes. Broken Leaf City also divided some, but instead of asking for men, it took the women among them.
The presence of women increases the reproduction of the population and facilitates the assimilation of the people.
Then a majestic checkpoint was built on the Nanshan Pass Road, in which a large number of allied troops of Yu Yan and the Tang Dynasty were stationed. The erection of the Yedao Xiongguan Pass meant that the Tubo people were completely expelled from the Western Regions, or they entered the Western Regions from the more distant Secret Road.
Overall, the war in the Western Regions gradually entered Nisheng, and the crisis was resolved.
But that's when the bad news came out.
A rumor suddenly arose in Luoyang, saying that the emperor was brave and went to Nanshan Pass in person, but Nanshan Pass did not hold on, and the emperor died in that tragic fierce battle!