In stark contrast to Wang Huaizhen's division of the South Route Army, Xiang Zhifei, who was stationed in Zhenyuan on the North Road, faced the 30,000 "Scorpion Army" led by Zhang Liang, who rushed all the way from Liangzhou, but conservatively adopted the strategy of only defending without fighting. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiang Zhifei was able to rise in the troubled times as a Confucian student, and became the second person in the Shenhe Army second only to Yu Chengen and above the powerful general Wang Huaizhen, and he had his own outstanding strengths. One of the most highly appreciated and highly recognized by Cheng Si is that no matter what the circumstances, Xiang Zhifei is the best at preserving his own strength among the generals of the Divine Crane Army.

In the turbulent times full of bloody turmoil, only living longer than others is the best choice to finally defeat the enemy.

Before Yu Chengen was forced to leave Jingzhou and go eastward, he never forgot to explain to Xiang Zhifei and Wang Huaizhen that no matter what happened in the western Xinjiang in the future, he would do everything possible to reserve enough strength for the Shenhe Army, in order to make a comeback in the future.

In this regard, Xiang Zhifei thought that he would not use it for Cheng Enming to say, and he could always keep this in mind. As for Wang Huaizhen, with the understanding of him from the two of them over the years, Xiang Zhifei didn't have to think about it, he could guess Yu Chengen's words before leaving, and when he arrived at Wang Huaizhen, most of them would go in and out of his left ear, which would not work at all.

In view of this, Xiang Zhifei was dissatisfied with Tang Kuan's busy forming a government army that obeyed his orders as soon as he arrived, and hiccups with himself, and discussed with Wang Huaizhen that the two should command the troops separately, and when they left Jingzhou and were stationed in front, they deliberately sent an additional 5,000 soldiers to Wang Huaizhen's command.

If you can save more than 10,000 troops, you can give your way to Cheng'en, and you can live up to your own principles of doing things, so it is enough. Xiang Zhifei said to himself in his heart with melancholy. As a scholar, of course he knows that as a general, his primary mission is to defend the land and defend the country, since it is difficult for him to lead the army to fight to the death with the invaders wholeheartedly, then he might as well create some favorable conditions for the enthusiastic Wang Huaizhen, at least do so, and also comfort his hidden conscience a little.

With such a contradictory and complicated mood, Xiang Zhifei reluctantly led the army to hold in Zhenyuan for five days, and seeing that the number of casualties under his command was more than 3,000, he no longer dared to delay or hesitate, and decisively ordered the three armies, abandoned the city and retreated north, and fled all the way in the direction of the river.

In this way, the first thing Tang Kuan who was stationed in Jingzhou City needed to face was not Na Simo, but Zhang Liang, who was regarded as the leader of the remnants of the Zhang family.

Zhang Liang, as the former uncle of the Chang'an court, was attacked by Li Jinzhong on the day of the Qingming Festival, driven out of Chang'an, and had no way out, so he had to travel thousands of miles to the capital of Tubo to defect to his concubine Nazhu's brothers.

After being accepted by Nasimo at the beginning, Zhang Liang still had a strong desire for revenge, and he was eager to borrow an elite soldier from Nasimo, and led by himself to immediately kill back to Chang'an, break Li Jinzhong's body into pieces, pull the prince who had just ascended the throne off the horse, and set up a new monarch, so as to be his sister and avenge the Zhang family. However, after staying in Nasimo for a long time, Zhang Liang immediately realized that the reason why Nasimo was willing to take in his so-called sister-in-law was actually to use him, a figure who was regarded by the Chang'an court as the leader of the Zhang family's remnants, to cultivate a puppet of the Han people in advance for the future invasion of Helong by Tubo, so as to counteract the resistance of the Han people. Under such circumstances, how could Nasimah borrow troops to avenge him?

In the following dozens of days, Zhang Liang confirmed his guess more and more with his personal experience. In order to avoid exposing Zhang Liang's true identity and bringing trouble to the diplomatic relations between the two countries, Na Ximo actually forced Zhang Liang to join the ranks of the Tubo people and named him Du Rizengjie.

Zhang Liang couldn't even retain his identity as a Han person, and he couldn't help but be disheartened for a while, so he replied to Qian Dashun, who came to meet with him and received his instructions on Furong's orders, that he planned to live in seclusion for a long time and was not ready to lead his troops back to Chang'an, and asked Qian Dashun to go back and tell Furong and her Zhang family that there was no need to count on him anymore.

However, the world is impermanent, the violent death of the eldest princess of Changning, and the sudden illness of Chide Zampu not only made the marriage contract just concluded between the Chang'an court and the Tubo two countries come to naught, but also made the Tubo Da Lange, who advocated the transformation of the Han Dynasty and the expansion of the territory of Tubo to the north, become the temporary ruler who replaced Chide Zampu. Under the joint initiative of Lange and Nasimo, the Tibetans sent envoys to the Turkic, Nanzhao, and Tuyuhun states to persuade these foreign states to form an alliance with the Tibetans to send troops to the Middle Earth and jointly divide the thousands of miles of fertile land between Helong.

Without waiting for the Turkic, Nanzhao, and Tuyuhun countries to issue a formal response to the alliance request of Tibet, Nashimo immediately went to Haikou to Da Yan Lange for the purpose of competing for the first prize, and was willing to lead 100,000 "Scorpion Army" as the vanguard of the allied forces of various countries, and take the lead in launching an attack on Middle-earth, and take Jingzhou, an important town in western Xinjiang, in one fell swoop before the allied countries sent troops, so that Tubo could show the hegemony of the alliance leader in front of the allied countries, and also lay the groundwork for Tubo to monopolize Helong in the future.

At that time, Yang Zong was ordered to return to Luo from Chang'an to ask for the feud, Lang Ge went against the previous normal state of humility and moderation, regardless of the strong opposition of Master Kampot and Xiao Tan Duocuo and others, defended his arbitrariness, and did not hesitate to openly tear up the contract just reached between the two countries, and decided to support Nasimo to take the lead in sending troops to Middle-earth, and invited Nasimo to the palace alone, and explained in detail that once he had captured all the cities in the western frontier of Middle-earth, he would no longer be able to kill and loot as before, and he must think in the long run, and unswervingly implement the strategy of using the Han Dynasty to transform the Han Dynasty. In order to permanently divide the two rivers into the territory of Tibet.

After returning home, after some consideration, he came up with this article, which used the popularity accumulated by Zhang Liang and the Zhang family in the Chang'an court for several generations, under the pretext of sending troops to avenge Empress Zhang, giving Zhang Liang the right to take charge of the army, and strictly ordering him to go with him on the expedition. At the same time, in order to prevent Zhang Liang from harboring dissent and defecting to the battle, Nashimo also made a special deployment, so that the eldest son Nazha led the strongest 3,000 heavy cavalry in the "Scorpion Army" to follow behind Zhang Liang, once the 30,000 Tubo army led by Zhang Liang launched an attack on Middle-earth and captured Liangzhou, Nazha only had to follow closely behind, and quickly took the Shanzhou of the Longyou Jiedu envoy, choked the retreat of Zhang Liang's department, and forced it to fight all the way forward to Chang'an.

Zhang Liangqing knew that Na Simo was deliberately using himself to contribute to the long-term occupation of Helong in the future of Tubo, and not to regain the status and rights in the Chang'an court for the Zhang family as he claimed to himself, so when he returned to his room, he begged his concubine Nazhu to intercede with her brother Na Simo, under the pretext that he did not want her husband to be born and die again, and only hoped that the two would stay together in some cities for a long time, and be ordinary people, so he begged Na Simo to let him go.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Na Simo saw Nazhu coming, he couldn't help but say, so he reprimanded her fiercely, and repeatedly accused her father Nabro of not coveting the glory and wealth of Middle-earth, staying in Chang'an, and also repeatedly led the army to fight against Tubo, so that the old department of Linyi was burdened by him, and for many years was bullied by Tubo and the surrounding departments so that he could not raise his head, if it were not for him to endure humiliation and bear the burden, he saved the main force of the "Scorpion Army", and took advantage of the civil strife in Tubo to fully support the accession of Chide Zampu to the throne, and made great contributions to his stability of Zampu's position. Maybe until today, Lin Yi will not be able to turn over, and he will still be a slave in the southern Xinjiang states. Seeing that Nazhu was counted down by his father in person, Nasimo was a little embarrassed, so he changed his tone and made a promise to Nazhu as a brother: as long as Zhang Liang can make military achievements in this expedition, then he is willing to intercede for Nazhu and his wife in front of Lange, and ask Lange to allow her and Zhang Liang to move to Linyi, so that they can live freely and no longer have to pay attention to all kinds of disputes in the world.

Nazhu received the personal promise of his brother, and naively thought that only her husband had made meritorious contributions, and from then on the two of them could return to their hometown and stay together for the rest of their lives. So, he hurried back to his room in a hurry, and persuaded Nasimo to forgive him, begging him to think about the future of the two of them, so he agreed to go down to Nasimo and lead the army to the battle.

Zhang Liang looked at the excited look on his concubine's beautiful face, and couldn't help but let out a long sigh from the bottom of his heart. Up to now, he has no other way to retreat, but to obey Nasimo, cheer up, and strive forward for Tubo and the Zhang family, and compete with the emperor who was born in the side branch of the Yang Sect. (To be continued.) )