CHAPTER XXXI
A day later, Xiao Qubing met with more than a dozen envoys from the Tibetan Subi tribe. But seriously, it should be a chief envoy, a deputy envoy, ten guards, and two monks. Of course, it is the Bon monks.
"Honorable Tang Anxi Jiedu envoy high school king of the mountain, Subi envoy Sando Rinchen on behalf of my king Wulingzan to greet you!"
After waiting for three days, he finally saw the main lord of Anxi again, Gao Xianzhi, the envoy of Jiedu, and Sando Rinchen, the envoy of Subi, hurriedly made a big bow according to the Tibetan etiquette, and lowered his head, just waiting for the other party to ask.
Gao Xianzhi said coldly: "Unasubi did not send you to ask for help here, can you be sincere?" ”
Sando Rinchen was overjoyed: "So, Zhongcheng promised to send troops to help?" ”
Gao Xianzhi snorted: "How do you know if you are sincere or false?" ”
Sando Rinchen pointed to the young deputy envoy beside him and said respectfully: "Don't dare to deceive Zhongcheng, this is the eldest son of my king Wulingzan, Sinuoluo, if Zhongcheng agrees to send troops, Xinnuoluo can be kept as a hostage." ”
Gao Xianzhi sneered: "Without Ling Zanduan's good calculations, if several Han soldiers are lost in the Tubo Plateau, what good will it do to kill his eldest son?" Didn't Ling Zan think something could be bullied? ”
Sando Rinchen broke out in a cold sweat, and said with a trembling voice: "I don't know what kind of sincerity Zhongcheng needs us to provide?" ”
"Sincerity is only one thing, and the other is that you don't think you have the ability to stand on your own behalf of Tibet? How many soldiers do you have? How many soldiers and horses did Tibet have? Coupled with Zhangxiong's soldiers and horses, how can these two families let you stand on your own? Gao Xianzhi shook his head.
When Gao Xianzhi first met the Subi envoy, he did not talk deeply, and many questions were not studied in detail. In the past two days, Gao Xianzhi gradually calmed down, and discussed with Feng Changqingyi, both of them found many problems, and this Subi tribe was not capable of standing on its own behalf at all.
Sando Rinchen hesitated for a long time, and finally confessed: "My king said that if the situation does not permit, he is willing to lead the tribe to attach the Tang Dynasty, and he only needs Zhongcheng to send troops to respond." ”
Gao Xianzhi laughed: "The family is attached, how much credit can a certain person have?" It is even more not worth sending troops for this. There is a way, but you can replace Tubo Zampu and dominate the snowy plateau. ”
Sando Rinchen was overjoyed: "What way? ”
Gao Xianzhi was silent. Sando Rinchen thought for a while and understood: "If this is really the case, we are willing to belong to the Tang Dynasty, be the loyal dog of the Tang Dynasty, and write to the Tang Emperor to show merit for Zhongcheng." ”
Gao Xianzhi nodded with satisfaction: "Feng Er, tell them about our plan." ”
…… When Feng Changqing finished finishing the plan, the two Tibetan envoys and the two Bon monks were actually quite disappreciative in their hearts. But when they were taken to the wilderness in a carriage and saw the "Five Thunder Heavenly Heart Rectification Method", the four of them instantly praised this method for being wonderful, and the two monks even brightened their eyes, and the corners of their mouths showed a cruel smile.
In order to pretend to be a god and a ghost more thoroughly, Xiao Qubing also taught them a mechanism. The statue of the god of tears, and a live demonstration. In fact, it is very simple, using the principle of air pressure, the hot air of burning incense rises into the pipe above the idol, and then the air pressure becomes higher and higher, squeezing out the tears or blood that have been placed in advance from the exit of the eye, and there is a miracle of the idol's own tears.
The two monks did not understand the scientific principles, but this did not prevent them from understanding the mystery of this mechanism. After explaining it a few more times, what Xiao Qubing didn't expect was that the two of them suddenly bowed to themselves and were grateful. One was ecstatic, the other was crying bitterly, maybe the two religions were fighting too much on the plateau. And the emergence of these two methods can undoubtedly quickly defeat the opponent without the strength to fight back.
After doing this, all that remains is for Feng Changqing to finalize the specific details with them. The Subi prince Sinoro was still left hostage, and he was to be placed under house arrest for at least a year in this remote courtyard. And Gao Xianzhi's side also sent two people to follow this group of people from the Subi tribe to Tubo. In short, it is the beginning and end of Feng Changqing, and he is fully responsible.
In the days that followed, Xiao Qubing made gunpowder every day, and in order to increase the power, he also fine-grained gunpowder. Of course, this doubled the workload of Xiao Quai, but fortunately, the power was also doubled. The rest of the time, Xiao Qu's illness was mainly spent practicing horseback riding and archery.
Jiushi's sky-shaking bow has been put on the bowstring, and it does not need the tendons of the tiger, and it uses the ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber rope brought by Xiao Quai's later generations. Originally, it was a climbing rope, but I didn't expect it to be so good as a bowstring. The sound of the bowstring is very small, the energy consumed is small, and the arrow is shot very far. Gao Xianzhi was full of praise, saying that it was the best bowstring he had ever seen.
Three days later, Xiao Qubing completed all 150 catties of granularization**. Gao Xianzhi's face bloomed with a smile, and he was even more confident in the battle in the river. A bold idea gradually formed in his heart, he wanted to conquer the whole river, and then fight to Khorasan and occupy the capital city of Mulu, the capital of Khorasan.
Now the only ones who have to wait are the mercenaries of Qarluq. He sent people to pass the word when he was in Wuwei, and it should have arrived when they gathered their troops and walked on the road. As soon as they arrived, the 20,000-strong army of Anxi could set off, cross the green ridge and join the army of Ningyuan Kingdom, first destroy the Western Bahhana Kingdom that dared to assassinate them as soon as possible, and then attack Talas, the seat of another king of Shi Kingdom, to open up the northern route of the Silk Road. After that, he captured Samajian, and then fought all the way to Mulu City.
didn't let Gao Xianzhi wait long, and on the second day after Xiao Quzhi completed the ** production. Eight thousand cavalry of the Qarluq mercenaries arrived. Gao Xianzhi ordered the Qarlu mercenaries to garrison outside the city to rest, and Qarluq Yehuton Viga entered the city of Qiuzi to discuss the military.
The Qarluqs were a Turkic-speaking nomadic tribe who belonged to the Tiele tribe like the Uighurs. This is a very interesting people, on the one hand, they are very brave and good at fighting, on the other hand, they are rebellious and impermanent, they are in the land of four wars, as if they were born mercenaries, everything is respected by strength, who is strong and who is the little brother.
When the Turks were strong, Qarluq (the same is true of the Uighurs) were subordinate to the Turkic Khanate, and later Xue Yantuo arose, and they were subordinate to the Xue Yantuo Khanate, and then the Tang Dynasty's army fought here, and they became Tang mercenaries. Because of the Western Turks and the Later Turks, the Tang Dynasty intended to cultivate the Qarlu and Hui tribes to fight against the two Turks.
And these two tribes are indeed powerful, and the Hui helped the Tang army destroy the Western Turks almost a hundred years ago; Later, the two tribes continued to suppress the Western Turkic remnants; Later, after the rise of the Later Turks, the two tribes fought against the Later Turks together with the Tang Dynasty, and finally eliminated the Later Turks about ten years ago. Of course, the Tang Dynasty did not treat them badly, and all the living space left after the destruction of the Turks was given to the Hui and Qarluq.
However, Qarluq Yehutun Viga was very dissatisfied with this result, and the Later Turks were destroyed together by Qarlu and the Uighurs, so why did all the benefits go to the Uighurs in the end? Hui Ye Bone Protector Pei Luo was named Huairen Khan by the Tang Dynasty, and occupied the Later Turkic homeland, not only that, but Gu Li Pei Luo also took the opportunity to annex a section of Gelu in the Oude Mountain. It is equivalent to saying that the two families overthrew the big boss of the Houtur together, and Hui Hui unilaterally picked up all the equipment on the boss, and he didn't get anything, but he was also ransacked by Hui Gu Li Pei Luo in his hometown and robbed half of his belongings!
Now the Uighurs (who have changed their name to the Uighurs) are eyeing the remaining Qarluq, with a faint intention of annexation, how can this be called how can the Don Viga not hate? Therefore, this time Gao Xianzhi signaled Gelulu's entry into the war, and they came soon in order to be able to temporarily evade the aggressive offensive of the Uighurs, follow the Tang army, and expand their living space to the west in order to develop. At the same time, it also meant to hug the thighs of the Anxi army so that the Uighurs did not dare to be too unscrupulous.
As long as he can help Gao Xianzhi win the battle in the river, Gelulu can enter the vicinity of Talas and develop in the Broken Leaf Water Basin! Stay out of the way and fight the Uighurs again!