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Inspired by this, Tang Kuan shook his spirits, and once he took office, he went all out to re-establish the Jingzhou Mansion Army under the command of the regimental training envoy, as an army that could be called upon at any time by obeying himself, firstly, it could be used to defend the city and prepare for war, and secondly, he also set up a private guard for himself that could protect the safety of his family. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Don't say it, Tang Kuan, the new official, took office and set fire to the general, and actually received unexpected results: Xiang Zhifei didn't know what kind of considerations, not long after Tang Kuan formed a 2,000-strong Jingzhou Mansion Army, he proposed to Tang Kuan that the heavy responsibility of Jingzhou's city defense be handed over to Tang Kuan, and he and Wang Huaizhen divided the two Shenhe armies and stationed them in front of them, in case Tubo invaded on a large scale and directly threatened the safety of Jingzhou's city defense.

Xiang Zhifei was in charge of the military affairs of the Western Xinjiang provinces on behalf of Cheng'en, and Tang Kuan had just arrived, so it was inconvenient to disobey his wishes. As a result, Xiang Zhifei led 15,000 soldiers to Zhenyuan, about 100 miles northwest of Jingzhou, and stationed in Zhenyuan, holding the northern road where the Tubo people attacked Jingzhou; Wang Huaizhen led 20,000 soldiers to camp in Hezhou, 300 miles away from Jingzhou, to prevent the Tubo from attacking Jingzhou from the south road. Tang Kuangang led the Jingzhou Mansion Army, which he had just formed, to take on the important task of connecting the two armies and reporting the military situation in Western Xinjiang to the imperial court at any time.

Sooner or later, the Tibetans would cross the border between the two countries and launch an attack on the areas around Helong and Jingyuan. This can be seen even by ordinary people living in western Xinjiang. Therefore, although the imperial court and Tubo had just signed an armistice agreement, Xiang Zhifei, Tang Kuan, and other military and political officials stationed in western Xinjiang still did not relax their detection of the movements of the Tubo army, especially the 100,000 "Scorpion Army" known as the Changsheng Army.

When the news came from several scouts that the Tibetan general Nasimo personally led 100,000 "Scorpion Army" north and moved to the border between the two countries, Tang Kuan could not suppress the panic in his heart, and was eager to draft a proclamation, imploring the imperial court to continue to increase troops and transfer food to the western Xinjiang in case of contingencies. But the recital was only halfway drafted, and Tang Kuan involuntarily stopped the pen in his hand. He remembered that when Yu Chengen was there, it was precisely because of the constant request for the imperial court to allow the Shenhe Army to expand the number of soldiers that attracted the emperor's suspicion of him. Now, instead of Yu Chengen in charge of the military affairs of the western Xinjiang is Xiang Zhifei, the number two person in the Shenhe Army, he does not ask the imperial court for troops, but he is the Jingzhou assassin who has only been in office for a short time, and he is eager for the imperial court to increase troops in the western Xinjiang. Once he had this concern, Tang Kuan immediately dispelled the idea of going to the court alone: he would rather take some risks than make such a low-level mistake out of impulse and panic, and lose the trust of the emperor and the king of harmony.

However, as soon as the 100,000 "Scorpion Army" led by Nasimo arrived at the border between the two countries, without waiting for the Sino-Turkish border army to react, the troops were divided into two routes, north and south, and overnight, they broke through many border lines one after another, and successively captured the five prefecture cities of Liang, Yi, Xi, Gua, and Sha, cutting off the connection between Shanzhou, an important town in Longyou, and the rear, and the troops pointed directly at Jingzhou, where Tang Kuan was located.

In the face of the surging Tubo army, Xiang Zhifei, Wang Huaizhen and other battle-hardened generals couldn't hold their breath. On the one hand, they sent the news that the five prefecture cities had been conquered by the Tubo one after another to Chang'an with an urgent 600 li to report to the imperial court, and on the other hand, they issued an order to Tang Kuan in the city of Jingzhou, asking him to send a message to Zhenyuan and Hezhou every four hours while reinforcing the city defense of Jingzhou, so that they could timely launch a counterattack against the Tubo army in accordance with the instructions of the imperial court and recover the cities they had captured.

To everyone's surprise, a number of urgently issued military newspapers and recitals were like a stone sinking into the sea, and five days later, the imperial court did not even give a single word of instruction to the several military and political officials stationed in western Xinjiang.

Without the military order of the imperial court, and out of the consideration of preserving the strength of the Crane Army, Xiang Zhifei and Wang Huaizhen coincidentally chose the strategy of stationing troops in place and waiting for battle, thus losing the valuable fighter opportunity to launch a counterattack while the "Scorpion Army" in Tibet was not firmly established, and also objectively caused the 5,000 Crane Army under Luo Yuanqi to be wiped out along with the fall of Shanzhou City.

When the 30,000 "Scorpion Army" led by Zhang Liang and the 60,000 army led by Na Si Mo appeared in front of Xiang Zhifei and Wang Huaizhen almost on the same day, a decisive battle related to the survival of Western Xinjiang was launched in the north and south at the same time.

Wang Huaizhen is different from Xiang Zhifei, who was born in Confucianism, and is an out-and-out military background, and has always been known for being "stable, accurate, and ruthless" in the three armies. Before this large-scale invasion of Tibet, Wang Huaizhen had led his army to engage in many confrontations with small Tibetan troops that had attacked the border, but every victory was victorious, and the gains were extremely limited. The Tibetan army that clashed with him often collapsed at the first touch, and ran away, never leaving him a chance to be annihilated in one fell swoop.

Therefore, when Wang Huaizhen led the main force of 20,000 Divine Crane Army in Hezhou to directly face the attack of 60,000 "Scorpion Army" under the command of Nashima, Wang Huaizhen did not cower because the enemy's soldiers were three times larger, but thought that this was an excellent opportunity to fully demonstrate the strong combat power of the Divine Crane Army, and chose the most ferocious attack method in terms of specific tactics, not only to hold Hezhou City, but also to annihilate the main force of the enemy army in a battle.

In the first battle against the 20,000 "Scorpion Army" forwards who took advantage of the victory, Wang Huaizhen's troops won a complete victory, and only paid less than 20% of the casualties, they achieved the outstanding record of destroying 10,000 enemies and capturing 2,000, giving the arrogant "Scorpion Army" a blow to the head.

However, after all, the main general of the "Scorpion Army" who met Wang Huaizhen on the narrow road outside Hezhou City, known as the victorious general Nasimo in the Tubo Dynasty.

When Nasimo received the news that the striker had been defeated and more than half of them were damaged, he couldn't help but be surprised: the Divine Crane Army transferred by the Emperor of Middle-earth to garrison the western frontier was really extraordinary, and it was impossible to underestimate it. He immediately ordered the three armies to stop the attack, and then sent a number of scouts, strictly ordering them to quickly find out the strength of the defenders of Hezhou, as well as the strength of Jingzhou that could be used as a backup for Hezhou.

Three days later, when Nasimo learned from the scout that although there were 20,000 main forces of the Divine Crane Army stationed in Hezhou, the defenders of Jingzhou who could be used as their backup were only 2,000 and had only been formed for a short time, he couldn't help but smile with satisfaction on his face.

On the same day, under the personal command of Nashima, the 50,000 main forces of the "Scorpion Army" launched a wheel-like onslaught against the more than 10,000 Divine Crane Army under Wang Huaizhen's command.

In this way, after three days and three nights of non-stop bloody battles, the 20,000 soldiers of the Shenhe Army, from the command of Wang Huaizhen, to every soldier, were already sleepy and unable to fight anymore.

When another fully rested "Scorpion Army" sergeant rushed up like a wolf, Wang Huaizhen, who was soaked in the blood of the other party's soldiers, looked at the only hundreds of remaining Sergeants of the Divine Crane Army around him with bloodshot eyes open, and let out a strange cry on his back, raising his sword to kill himself. More than a dozen personal soldiers guarding him saw that the commander was about to kill himself, so they panicked and stopped him. Subsequently, the only few hundred surviving sergeants of the Divine Crane Army did not hesitate to use their bodies to block the attack of the "Scorpion Army" like a tide, covering Wang Huaizhen to escape almost single-handedly.

Nasimo stepped on the remains of the soldiers of the Crane Army all the way into Hezhou City, and before he could sit firmly in Wang Huaizhen's Chinese military camp, the casualties of the various armies reported by the commanders of the "Scorpion Army" made him almost lose his breath on the spot: In the Battle of Hezhou, 60,000 "Scorpion Army" spent nearly ten days before and after to completely annihilate 20,000 Shenhe defenders and captured Hezhou City, but they also paid a tragic price that had never been seen since the war between Tubo and the Chang'an Imperial Court, and the "Scorpion Army" killed outside Hezhou City alone far exceeded 20,000 peopleCombined with the number of wounded and incapacitated soldiers, there are now more than 20,000 soldiers under Nashima who can drive them to fight again.

"Fiasco, fiasco!" Nasimo repeated these same words in his heart, and listlessly gave the order for the whole army to rest and prepare for war in Hezhou, and at the same time sent a messenger to pass on the letter and ask for more troops to go north. (To be continued.) )