In the camp, Gao Xianzhi told Wang Yuan what he knew about the court's controversy over the content of the peace talks. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This is all the news that the official in Anxi Town found out when he left Beijing, and Gao Xianzhi happened to go back to Anxi Town, so he learned all this. But in fact, Gao Xianzhi only knew the surface, he only knew that the crown prince Li Heng and the right minister Li Linfu were quarreling over the content of the peace talks, but he didn't know the real reason.

In fact, on the whole, the imperial court was satisfied with the content of the peace talks. After all, judging from the situation, it is impossible for Datang to further destroy Tubo. The performance of the four leading marshals made it very clear that if they wanted to destroy the Tibetans, they needed at least 150,000 to 200,000 additional troops before they could fight the Tibetans to the death in the cities of Luo, and only then could they be sure to take the cities of Luo.

Of course, Xuanzong wanted to do this, but reality did not allow it. In the half year that Datang sent troops to Tubo, because almost all the troops of Longyou and Anxi towns in Hexi were mobilized, these three towns are currently in a military vacuum. In this way, the burden of defending against the northern Turks actually fell on the shoulders of Shuofang and Hedongdao.

Before the start of the war, the imperial court sent 10,000 infantry from Shuofang's army to join the Hexi Longyou coalition army, and these 10,000 were abandoned by Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi in the Battle of Shibao City, and all of them were annihilated. The Shuofang army, which originally numbered only 65,000 troops, had only 55,000 troops left. During the crusade against Tibet by the two armies of Hexi and Longyou, the Shuofang army had to defend the Turks alone with these 55,000 soldiers and horses, which was already an impossible task in itself.

The establishment and responsibilities of the envoys of the major festivals of the Tang Dynasty are exquisite. Anxi Jiedu Town is far away in the Western Regions, specializing in dealing with the countries in the western regions of the Tianshan Mountains, and the overall strategy is to let these small countries in the Western Regions submit to the Tang Dynasty, so as to achieve a strategic encirclement of the Tubo State. The Hexi Army is the most important Jiedu military town connecting Anxi Town with the interior of Datang. It is the most important duty to defend the Turks in the north and to defend the Tibetans in the south, and at the same time to guard the Hexi Corridor, which leads to the Western Regions, and to cut off the communication between the Tibetans and the Turks. Therefore, the strength of the Hexi Army is second only to Fan Yang and Longyou, and the number of troops has reached as many as 73,000. The number of troops of the Longyou Jiedu envoy reached 75,000, although it was not as large as the 100,000 troops under the jurisdiction of Fanyang Jiedu, but because his main defense object was the large country of Tibet, it was understandable that he had such a large number of troops.

In general, the number of envoys and the number of soldiers in the imperial court have been studied. The current situation is made possible by considering the strength of the enemy to be defended, as well as geographical factors and various aspects. In other words, the nearly 280,000 troops under the jurisdiction of the four provinces of Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, and Hedong in the northwest direction of the Tang Dynasty were sufficient to cope with the defensive posture of the Turkic and Tibetan countries and the border of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, this is only under normal conditions.

When the Tang Dynasty took the initiative to mobilize the Hexi Longyou army to conquer Tibet, this balance was immediately broken. At first, the Turks were still waiting, and the fighting between the Tang and the Tibetans was not a day or two, and they did not plan to intervene. But when the news came that the Hexi Longyou coalition army had been almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Namtso Lake, the Turks suddenly realized that they had an opportunity. After two major battles with Tibet, their forces have been exhausted, and less than 20,000 remnants of the two knots remained. The only Shuofang army with more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, their jiedu envoy is still an incompetent scholar Zhang Qiqiu, who has not been in office for a long time.

The Turks only tested it slightly, and then they found out that Zhang Qiqiu, the only one with soldiers at hand, had no ability to fight. With a slight attack, they took the northern fortress of the Shuofang army. Then the Turks began to prepare for a large-scale military campaign.

Zhang Qiqiu would not have been able to fight, but at the moment he was unable to support himself, so he was busy asking the imperial court for reinforcements. The imperial court could only mobilize troops and horses from Hedong Province, which had already been returned to An Lushan, to support. Although the situation was stabilized for a short time, it was not a long-term solution.

Moreover, Hedong Road belongs to An Lushan, and it took a lot of effort to mobilize the soldiers and horses of Hedong Road in An Lushan. An Lushan is connected to the east. The Turks and Khitans were also ready to move, and the soldiers and horses of Hedong Province could not mobilize Yunyun. Not only did he say that he could not transfer troops, but he asked the imperial court to increase his troops. After going back and forth, it was Li Linfu who wrote a letter to An Lushan, which made the 55,000 soldiers and horses of Hedong Road reluctantly divide 30,000 to Hexi Road, stabilizing the situation on the border.

And Wang Yuan, Gao Xianzhi and others asked for peace or additional troops at that time. In that case, even if Xuanzong wanted to destroy the madness of Tubo, he had no troops to send, so he could only agree to negotiate peace.

Although the peace was negotiated, Xuanzong actually didn't want to be too happy in his heart. Although the peace agreement agreed by Wang Yuan and others was extremely beneficial to Datang, he was always upset. After receiving the terms of the peace agreement, the words of the crown prince Li Heng made Xuanzong's heart even more unhappy. That is the article in the peace conditions that Tubo is unwilling to submit to the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong originally thought that it was a pity that he could not lose Tubo, but now the Tubo people are not even willing to be ministers, which makes him very dissatisfied.

Therefore, Li Heng, who understood Xuanzong's thoughts, pointed out this point when discussing the terms of the peace negotiation, and asked to be sent back to redraft, and the Tubo people must be called vassals. This move immediately aroused Li Linfu's opposition. Although Li Linfu figured out Xuanzong's thoughts, this time he couldn't let Li Heng pass the proposal. First, the situation in the imperial court really does not allow it, and secondly, it is Li Heng, his sworn enemy, he said that he must say black, and he must not be allowed to come out.

As a result, the two sides quarreled endlessly over this matter, and even in the end, they no longer quarreled about peace, but exposed each other's shortcomings, lifted their own old bottoms, and attacked each other without a bottom line above the court.

Li Heng also let go this time, he thought that this time he was on his father's side, and in the end, his father would definitely help him speak. However, the holy will was unpredictable, and after three days of quarreling, Xuanzong suddenly announced that the peace agreement would be approved according to the original terms, and ordered Wang Yuan and others to immediately withdraw after signing a contract.

Li Heng was a little dazed, he didn't know why his father suddenly did this again, and he suddenly made himself not embarrassed. But then he soon learned that it was Gao Lishi and Yang Guifei who blew a lot of wind in His Majesty's ears, and His Majesty changed his mind.

Gao Lishi and Li Linfu are very close, Yang Guifei is naturally instructed by Yang Guozhong, the left minister, and under the joint efforts of the two prime ministers, even the father and emperor cannot ignore it. After understanding this, Li Heng was extremely angry and lost, and he also felt a deep fear.

Angry, what Wang Yuan promised was to ask for hundreds of thousands of yuan from himself and said that he would do Yang Guozhong's work, so that Yang Guozhong would not join forces with Li Linfu to deal with him. As a result, it didn't work at all, hundreds of thousands of people were fed to the dogs, and there was not even a little effect. Wang Yuan was bold, this was a tease on his head.

What is frustrating is that I thought that I had my father as the backing this time, but in fact, I was still too naïve. The father's heart can never be fattened by himself, and he can never guess, he jumped up and down like a monkey, and found nothing.

And what I am afraid of is whether my unconventional behavior this time will arouse the suspicion of my father. Will my father think that his usual calm and wooden is pretending, and will he be defensive of himself? What's more, this time he tore his face with Li Linfu in public, and someone had already told him in private that Li Linfu seemed to have grasped some handle of himself and was ready to make it public at the right time. Li Heng felt that this handle was Luo Yimen, which was his life. If Li Linfu learns of the existence of Luo Yimen and makes it public, then he will be completely finished.

When Li Heng was huddled in the Shaoyang Courtyard, trembling and suspicious, the imperial court's holy decree on peace was finally able to leave Chang'an and set off. Gao Xianzhi's prediction was not wrong, the holy decree was three days later than the scheduled time.

All of the above, Gao Xianzhi and Wang Yuan were unaware. All Gao Xianzhi knew was that there was a dispute in the imperial court because of the last article of the peace talks. The two sides of the argument were the crown prince Li Heng and Li Linfu, and he didn't know anything about the rest. And what Wang Yuan thought when he heard the news was that the crown prince Li Heng finally jumped out, but he was too stupid, what good would it do him to jump out at this time? And it can be seen from this incident that Li Heng is definitely not a good emperor, at this time it is obvious that the war cannot be carried out, and it is approaching autumn, so an agreement should be reached as soon as possible to end the war.

This person is by no means the person Wang Yuan wants to assist. The person Wang Yuan wants to assist has not yet been found, and it is not known whether he can be found in the future.

In the afternoon of the next day, the imperial decree arrived, and there was no sign of a great quarrel in the imperial court because of the terms of the peace agreement. Xuanzong was full of enthusiasm and praised Wang Yuan and Gao Xianzhi. They are also extremely satisfied with the terms of the peace talks. In the end, the two were asked to reach an agreement as soon as possible to withdraw their troops and return to North Korea. Xuanzong said that he hoped to meet the two in Chang'an a month later and personally give them rewards and rewards.

Wang Yuan and Gao Xianzhi did not dare to slack off, and immediately notified the Tubo side, which had been waiting for a while, to meet and exchange signed contracts between the two sides and reach an armistice and peace agreement. Three days later, the Anxi army returned to Anxi Town under the leadership of Feng Changqing, while Gao Xianzhi returned to the Jiannan army east with the Jiannan army, so that he could go to the capital with Wang Yuan to receive Xuanzong's summons.

This war, which lasted for half a year, finally came to an end. Both sides had their own injuries, but it was clear that the winning side was Datang. The person who benefited the most was Wang Yuan.