Tibetan military camp.

"Haha, the general is really a genius in the sky, and he can solve the crisis with strange tricks at such a critical moment, so that our army can turn the crisis into safety, and now the Tang Emperor has issued a holy decree, whether it is Xue Rengui or Li Xian, they will never dare not listen, in this way, most of the Tubo warriors can be saved, and I Tubo can also take advantage of the opportunity of peace between the two sides to recuperate, at most another ten years, I believe that my Tubo will be proud of the world again, if there is a chance, Hugh said that it is the four towns of Anxi and Tuyuhun, that is, the entire Western Regions are also my Tubo."

Su Hegui was originally a Tuyuhun person, but when he spoke, he regarded himself as a Tubo person, and he was not ashamed at all, and tried his best to pat the fart of the Garqin Tomb.

Although Garqinling hated Su Hegui's personality very much, he knew that if he wanted to take Tuyuhun in the future, it would be impossible without this person, so he was also very polite to him, and now listening to his words of touting himself, there was a faint smile on his face.

"Hehe, now after these days of fighting, the 200,000 troops under my command have been killed and wounded, more than 20,000 have been captured by Xue Rengui, more than 10,000 have been captured by Li Xian, and there are still 140,000 Tubo warriors in the army, and since the Tang Dynasty has negotiated peace, it will naturally return the prisoners, so I still have 170,000 troops in my hands, how can I wait for ten years with such a strong force? As long as there are three years of time, I believe that we will be able to recapture the four towns of Anxi and Tuyuhun, and then we will have to rely on the help of General Su. Garqinling was proud in his heart, and his prejudice against Su Hegui was also a lot less, so he smiled and bowed his hand.

Where had Su Hegui seen the Garqin Mausoleum so polite to him? I couldn't help but feel flattered, and hurriedly returned the courtesy.

But at this moment, he suddenly saw the general Cha Li Buhua break into the tent and shouted: "General Qiyu, something is wrong......

"Hehe, what could be wrong? Could it be that Tang generals Xue Rengui or Li Xian violated the emperor's will and refused to negotiate peace with our army? Garqinling was in a good mood, and he didn't care about the spy's words, and said gently: "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

But he heard Cha Li Buhua say: "General, according to the report of the spies, last night General Xue Rengui's tomb of more than 20,000 prisoners were all killed, poor my Tubo warriors are about to return, and they actually suffer this misfortune." ”

"What do you mean?" Hearing this, Garqinling was immediately shocked, and hurriedly asked, "Is this true?" ”

I saw that Cha Li said without tears: "Yes, the last general has already seen the heads of the two captured generals Aruye and Zai Fei on the flagpole of Xue Rengui's camp!" Since they were all killed, I believe that the other soldiers will not be spared. ”

Hearing this, Garqinling clenched his fists and rattled, and only sighed after a while: "Obviously, this is Xue Rengui's plan, he wants to provoke me with this, make me lead the army to fight, and then put the responsibility for sabotaging the peace with me, so that he can openly go against the will of the Tang Emperor and launch an attack on our army, therefore, we must hold back, so as not to cause a greater disaster, fortunately, although Li Xian, a thief, is vicious, he still preaches morality, and the prisoners of war in his camp are fine, so we should redeem the prisoners from his hands as soon as possible." ”

But before he finished speaking, he saw the captain of the guard, Lidozan, hurriedly enter the tent, and said with a pale face: "General, it's not good, according to the report of the detective horse, last night, the Tang thief Li Xian killed more than 10,000 captives in his camp, but they all saw the hope of going home, and they died so tragically, general, you have to avenge them." ”

I saw Lidozan crying as he spoke, pulling the robe of the Garqin Mausoleum, and kowtowing. Even blood came out of his forehead.

When Garqinling heard this, he was also so angry, his teeth clucked, his hands were clenched, and his nails were deep into the flesh, and he almost couldn't help but order the whole army to attack Li Xian's camp immediately, but he always retained a trace of clarity in his mind, knowing that it was already like this, even if Li Xian was killed, the more than 30,000 Tubo warriors would not survive, not to mention that he was not sure of killing Li Xian, but would let the Tang army find an excuse to start a war with them, although he was not afraid of war, but he must consider the distribution of benefits after the war, If, at the cost of losing a large number of the main forces of Tibet, he only won a victory without any benefit, which was actually no different from defeat for Tibet.

The more serious problem is that after this battle, no matter whether it is won or lost, the Tubo state will lose a large number of men, which will have an absolutely disastrous impact on the development of production and the ambition of Tubo to become a military power.

As for the practice of some generals fantasizing about catching Li Xian, and then taking the opportunity to blackmail the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to redeem it with grain and land, he didn't even want to think about it, not to mention that there were many masters around Li Xian, and even Li Xian himself was an enemy of ten thousand people, and it was impossible to catch it, even if they could catch it, Gaozong would say that Empress Wu's heart might be happy, after all, Li Xian's military exploits were impressive, and he had faintly threatened her status, so as long as there was a group of traitors around Empress Wu, Li Xian will not bring any substantial benefits to Tubo, but will let Tubo take the rations for him to eat in vain.

Therefore, based on the above considerations, Garqinling's reason finally prevailed, and he solemnly warned himself that he must not act rashly, so as not to fall into the trap of Li Xian and Xue Rengui.

Therefore, Garqinling summoned all the generals to gather in the Chinese military tent, told everyone about the plot of Li Xian and Xue Rengui, and issued a death order, no matter how the Tang army provoked, no one should start a war against the Tang army, otherwise it would be immediately killed.

Although most of the sensible generals were able to understand this order of the Garqinling and strictly implement it, there were still a few people who thought that the Garqinling was a cowardly person and was afraid of Yunyun by the Tang army, and regardless of the generals of the Garqinling, they led the soldiers of their headquarters out of the camp and prepared to fight to the death with the Tang army.

These generals, led by the captain of the guard of the Garqin Mausoleum, Lidozan, gathered nearly 5,000 people, and tried to leave the camp in a noisy manner at the gate of the camp, but were stopped by the soldiers guarding the camp.

Seeing that he was intercepted, Lidozan was furious at the moment, and immediately swung his knife and slashed the camp general, who was furious and immediately called the soldiers to line up to meet the enemy, and the battle between the two sides was about to break out.

At this moment, Garqinling rushed to reprimand Lidozan and others, and angrily shot out when Lidozan retorted, but he captured Lidozan and randomly beheaded Lidozan without mercy.

"Lidozan, I have always treated you as a son, but you have violated military law, and I have no other way but to behead you to set an example, but you can rest assured, your parents, wife and children, I must treat my family as if I was a family member, as long as I have a bite to eat in Garqinling, there will definitely be no shortage of them, as for you say that I am cowardly, that I was afraid of being beaten by the Tang Army, hehe, I can't prove to you now, if you have a spirit in the sky, and open your eyes in the sky, within ten years, I will definitely satisfy you."

Garqinling beheaded Lidozan with tears, and everyone in the camp was immediately frightened, and no one dared to make trouble anymore, all according to Garqinling's orders, no matter how the Tang army provoked, they never responded.

Although this approach of the Garqin Mausoleum looks weak, it does make Li Xian and Xue Rengui helpless, originally they discussed, of course, in fact, it was mainly Li Xian's plan, and he really wanted to provoke Tubo by killing prisoners of war and force Tubo to attack the Tang army, thus causing the fact that he could not obey the order, but he didn't expect that Garqinling was an old fox, and he was not fooled, which suddenly made Li Xian secretly sigh in his heart for pity.

"From this point of view, if peace is to be completely restored on the western border, it will still need a difficult and complicated process, and the Galkin Mausoleum is so forbearing, and once it breaks out in the future, it will certainly bring disastrous consequences to the western region, and our army must make adequate preparations in advance. It can't be easily won like this time. ”

Li Xian knew that his plan could not be realized in the end, so he sighed in his heart and began to pack his luggage silently, preparing to return to Chang'an after the negotiations were over.

And it turned out that the negotiations between the two sides went very smoothly, and before the two sides talked about letting Tubo give up the four towns of Tuyuhun and Hexi, Garqinling took the initiative to put it forward, and later Li Xian proposed to Tubo to give out 20 carts of grain and grass and 10,000 taels of gold to compensate for the losses of the Tang army, forcing Garqinling to oppose it, causing the peace talks to break down, but Garqinling actually agreed happily, which made Li Xian's heart even more worried.

The peace talks between the two sides ended quickly, so that Li Xian's army had no need to continue to be stationed, so he had to hand over the military power to Tang Xiujing as the temporary commander in accordance with the emperor's will, but he led the palace guards to return to Chang'an on fast horses.

"I really didn't expect that I was originally ambitious to attack Tubo, but I didn't expect that the methods of Garqinling would be so powerful, first using counter-plots to arouse the suspicion of my father, my mother and Helan Minzhi and others, and then let me return to Chang'an and negotiate peace with Tubo, these people disregard the country's plans for their own selfishness, which is really hateful. Especially the prince, alas, I can't imagine that he looks so benevolent and filial, and he is also such a small-bellied and short-sighted person, so it seems that the purpose of his previous so-called benevolent and filial piety is actually just to accumulate fame for himself, so what is the difference between him and a person like Empress Wu? Hmph, originally I was deeply sympathetic to you, and I was going to find a famous doctor to treat you, since you are also a raccoon dog with the martial queen, then don't blame me for not talking about brotherhood, this time after returning to Beijing, I will definitely use clever means to make you and the two tigers of the martial queen fight, and then take the opportunity to reap the profits, so that you are afraid of enough. ”

At this time, Li seemed to have come to Chang'an with the news, and he already knew what was happening in Chang'an City, and he was naturally resentful of the prince and the Empress Wu along the way, and decided that after returning to the capital, he must teach them a lesson and get out of his chest. (To be continued.) )