The Tang Dynasty court is turbulent, this is the unanimous idea of all those who understand the situation in the imperial court, just this morning, Li Shimin announced the appointment and dismissal of an important person, the head of the Ministry of Rites Sun Wuji was demoted to the Ministry of Rites, following Li Chengqian, Li Tai, Li Zhi The three princes were grounded, the eldest grandson Wuji was demoted again, which is undoubtedly a harbinger of the emperor to eradicate the party, which made the cause of death of the eldest grandson queen also confused because of some crazy words, and some people have even begun to welcome back Li Ke, the king of Wu, and set up a plan to become the crown prince, This remark has been recognized by Li Shimin's confidants and ministers in the court, including the four little adults, and has become the mainstream, and in the harem, because these political directions have become lively, most of the concubines think that King Wu's biological mother Yang Concubine is the most likely to enter the back position, so they join forces and want to eradicate it, but Li Shimin is quietly waiting for them to make trouble, because this is a bureau set up by him.

On the plateau, Yang Lin, who got the news of the death of Empress Changsun, bowed three times in the direction of Chang'an on the cold ice peak, and at the thirty zhang under his feet, hundreds of thousands of Tubo troops were slashing the thick ice wall with knives and axes, they never expected that the Heavenly Horse Yang Lin would use the ice and snow they were most familiar with to deal with them, thirty zhang, nearly 100 meters, and cut off the passage between the plateau and the outside world.

"Let them chisel! They just need to water more in the back, and they will never be able to open this passage. Yang Lin glanced at Brut, who was about to command the soldiers to smash the ice at the Tubo people under the ice wall.

The plateau is too cold, even the people of the Western Regions who are accustomed to the cold are a little uncomfortable when they arrive here, most of the soldiers' fingers have chilblains, if they are allowed to hold or carry the ice for a long time, their fingers and shoulders will not be used normally in the future, looking at Yanglin's pitiful eyes, Brut was a little moved, the golden order of the imperial court has reached the Western Regions, and in a few days, the troops of the other towns of the Zhenxi Army will come to reinforce, and the 15,000 Han troops that were originally under Qiuzi City have been pulled here, They will bring a large amount of grain, grass, gunpowder, oil and other military supplies, and then his subordinates will not have to defend so hard, after all, the other party is the strength of the whole country, 800,000 troops!

There are no trees in the glacial permafrost of the plateau, if you want to melt the ice, you must constantly burn the oil, the Tubo people are precisely because there is no oil, so they can only choose to use brute force to break the ice and snow, which leads to the consumption of their grain, grass and weapons is particularly large, in the big tent of Songtsen Gampo, he no longer remembers how many times he knocked over the butter tea bowl on his table, and the 800,000 army was blocked by 15,000 people for seven days and could not advance an inch, which was a great shame for him. What's even more terrifying is that in just seven days, his grain, grass and blades have consumed thirty percent, which is his ten years of accumulation, and the Tang State horse named Yanglin is simply too hateful.

"Zampu, it's not a way to go on like this, the consumption of our army is increasing day by day, and the reinforcements and supplies of the Tang army will continue to come, and when the time comes, the numerical advantage of our army will no longer be obvious, and we will lose the battle for a long time." Lu Dongzan suggested. Seven days have passed, although the Tubo soldiers have dug a tunnel thirty meters deep, but with his understanding of Yanglin, perhaps behind the ice wall, Yanglin has poured out another sixty meters thick icebergs, the army is so consumed, unless it is next summer, there is no possibility of breaking through the Tang army's defense line.

"So what can we do about it now?" Songtsen Gampo is not a brave and less wise person, but in recent years, after he established Tubo into a highly centralized slave state, his heart was a little inflated, in fact, if it wasn't for Yanglin's ice wall method to stop him, at this moment he would already have the entire wealthy four towns of the Western Regions, 800,000 troops, the number alone is equivalent to half of the total population of the Western Regions, and the power of fighting a war is not as simple as one plus one equals two.

"There are two plans, one is to take advantage of the fact that there are not many losses, withdraw the troops and return to Luo, in order to fight again in the summer of next year, and the other is to let a small number of elite troops change the direction of the march, march around the long road, take the glacier and snow, bypass the defense line of the Tang army, and copy their back road, but the glacier and snow are not so easy to walk, even if all the young and strong elites are sent, I am afraid that the casualties will be very large, which needs to be decided by you yourself." Lu Dongzan gave two plans.

Now the Tang Dynasty is using troops on all sides, it is an excellent opportunity for them to obtain benefits, for the Tubo people, as long as the Tang people can not adapt to the life of the plateau, they are fearless, and the war may bring him more benefits, so they are the strongest in the alliance army, and the number of soldiers, Songtsan Gampo's wishful thinking is very good, his purpose this time to send 800,000 troops is to seize the entire territory of the Western Regions and the original Tuyuhun region as a buffer zone with the Tang army, but unfortunately, his troops have not yet gone out of the plateau, I ran into the wonder of Yanglin.

Of course, he will not give up attacking Tang because of a little difficulty, the snow mountain is not unconquerable in the eyes of the Tubo people, a small group of well-prepared men and horses still have a chance to go out, so Songtsan Gampo decisively divided out 100,000 of the most elite young and strong troops to divide into several roads, with enough yaks and war horses from the other direction to march to the Western Regions, this is the benefit of his many soldiers, divided into 100,000 elites, there are still 700,000 troops here to contain the main force of the Tang army, as long as these 100,000 horses successfully cross the glacier and snow to reach the four towns of Anxi, At that time, the land of the four towns without soldiers will be quickly captured under the iron heel of this 100,000-strong army.

Yanglin won't leave the tank and chariot when he's fine, he doesn't want his face to freeze plateau red and be laughed at by his daughter-in-law, Li Chengqian and Li Tai competed for the position, but inexplicably fought in his own home, which made him expose a large part of his strength, which made him very unhappy, around the tank chariot after squeezing four bloated people There was not much space, he still sorted out a place to sketch his own map, this time he escaped because he had already prepared, so what about next time? Without an absolutely suppressive weapon, it is difficult to maintain the peace of the Horse House.

The 700,000 Tubo army chiseled up the ice day and night, just like the Tang army kept turning ice and pouring water day and night, because Yanglin had blocked all the roads they might cross, unless the Tubo people fought for thousands of miles, and in the relatively gentle terrain of the four towns of Anxi, Yanglin's movement speed was definitely faster than them, but it was a pity that Yanglin blocked all the roads of the Tubo people, and also blocked all his own roads, and he didn't know about the division of troops among the Tubo people.

At dusk, Changsun Chong led 15,000 Han troops to Guancheng, half a month did not see, his domineering momentum was gone, he learned that Yanglin only used 15,000 Hu troops to block the 800,000 Tubo army when he was completely convinced, the eldest grandson Empress died unexpectedly, the emperor was angry with the prince, the hard work of the eldest grandson family over the years was in vain, he went to Chang'an and did not know if it was possible to save his life, after all, as a turtle general, he did not rescue the emperor It was already a big taboo, and the eldest grandson queen did not die, Li Shimin will save some face for the eldest grandson family, but now it is different. "How's it going, I don't feel good when I'm frustrated!" Yang Lin did not comfort Changsun Chong, but he did not ridicule him, according to the military system after receiving the military power and materials in the hands of Changsun Chong, he also specially ordered someone to send a few good horses from the Western Regions for Changsun Chong to walk, this to Chang'an thousands of miles, relying on horses, Changsun Chong has to go for a while. "It's nothing, a family doesn't have a long-lasting prosperity, it's just that the decline of the eldest grandson's family is coming faster, and these cubs in Tubo are not easy to deal with, but don't hear the news of your death before I arrived in Chang'an." The eldest grandson Chong took the reins handed over by Yang Lin a little decadently, and said self-deprecatingly. "The eldest grandson's family is not so easy to decay, but it is certain that it will be suppressed temporarily, and you must be honest when you arrive in Chang'an, it is full of intrigues and tricks, if the eldest grandson's family makes another wrong move, it will really decline." Yang Lin didn't talk much to Changsun Chong, the night on the plateau was colder than the day, and Changsun Chong, who returned to the tent, kept thinking about what Changsun Chong's family had to do, and he couldn't sleep all night.

Li Shimin will not easily move the eldest grandson family, due to the operation of the prince and the eldest grandson Wuji over the years, the eldest grandson family has already taken deep roots in the Tang Dynasty, rashly do it to them, the economy of the Tang Dynasty will regress by at least two percent, this is not the main reason, Li Shimin's guilt towards the eldest grandson queen is priceless, he has a lifetime, it is impossible to raise a butcher's knife against the eldest grandson family, but Li Shimin, who is in the pain of losing his wife, is violent, and the decisions he made are mostly to vent the grief in his heart.

So the eldest grandson Wuji was demoted again, this time directly demoted to the Ministry of Rites, and became one of the many third-tier officials in the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately he was demoted again when he did not find his position, and was demoted again, within three days, the eldest grandson Wuji was demoted eighteen levels in a row, and now, he only has the position of a Chang'an city gate official, and he has to accept this position.

The time came to November, which was already more than a month after the ice defense battle of Yanglin, the reinforcements of the four towns of Anxi had arrived in Guancheng one after another, which was considered to have stabilized the main battlefield front, and the division of troops of the Turks finally walked out of the vast snow-capped mountains and entered the relatively gentle terrain of the four towns, this road was very difficult, and the number of people changed from 100,000 to 80,000, and it was precisely because of the attrition of 20,000 people that this army became more elite, and the leader was Lu Dongzan, who was known as the first wise man in Tibet. "Soldiers, Zampu's insistence is correct, from now on, the land of the Western Regions will become a paradise for our Tubo people, the wealth, grassland, and women here all belong to us, wave your swords, and slash and kill to your heart's content! Within three days, everything you grab will be your private property. “

Lu Dongzan announced his war oath, and less than a hundred miles away from him, 30,000 well-equipped cavalry troops were moving forward with difficulty against the wind and snow, they were the Tang Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, the main general Xue Li Xue Rengui. (To be continued.) )