readx; Distance is the main reason why Li Qing'an can't get the latest information, Chang'an and Tocharian are thousands of miles apart, even if you use the way of flying pigeon relay, it will be ten days later at the earliest, and at this time the Anxi army has launched a war against the Tubo people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tocharian is bounded by the Amu Darya River and is divided into two parts, north and south, the main cities and countries of Tocharian are distributed on both sides of the Amu Darya River, but they are mainly concentrated on the south bank, and on the north bank there are countries such as the State of Xie Su, the State of Wang Ting and the State of Gumo, among which the State of Xie Su is currently occupied by the Tang Army.

Xie Su is the southern edge of the Fergan Basin, where the mountains are continuous, the terrain is very complex, there are snowy peaks and icebergs, there are deserts and seas, and mountains and valleys stretching for hundreds of miles can also be seen everywhere.

To the south from the state of Xie Su is the kingdom of Wangting, which is an extremely important country in Tocharo, with a large area of arable land, very developed agriculture, and the population is second only to the Yueshi country, and the capital city of Bushi is the second largest city in Tocharo.

It is precisely because of the very important position of Wang Tingguo in Tocharo, the Tubo people stationed heavy troops in the royal court, and more than 40,000 Tubo troops were stationed near the capital of Wang Tingguo.

In March, spring in Tocharian has arrived, the spring breeze blows green on both sides of the Amu Darya River, the ice breaks, the ice melts, the river roars, rushes and rushes, and the huge roar of the rushing water against the riverbed can be heard dozens of miles away.

The Amu Darya River turns north from the Bushi City, a city and a river are about ten miles apart, standing at the head of the Bushi City, you can clearly see the turbulent river in the east.

In order to strengthen the connection between the two banks of the river and prevent the kingdom from being divided, the Tubo army used 2,000 craftsmen to build a pontoon bridge on a relatively gentle river at the fork of the Amu Darya River and the tributary Kulu River, and connected forty flat-bottomed boats with thick iron chains to connect them on the river surface, so that the pontoon bridge was in the shape of a bow. Then a wooden plank was set up between the pontoon boats, and the Tibetan army walked quickly on it, and in less than a cup of tea, 10,000 Tibetan troops could cross the river and sail to the north.

Therefore, this pontoon bridge has become the focus of the Tubo army's defense, the Tubo army stationed 10,000 heavy troops on the north bank of the pontoon bridge, if the Tang army comes to attack this pontoon bridge, it will definitely not be able to take it for a while, and the Tubo reinforcements can arrive immediately.

The main force of the Tang army of about 80,000 troops has walked out of the valley to understand the Soviet State, and the troops are divided into two routes, one of the 30,000 troops along the Amu Darya River and approaching the Bushi City, while the other 50,000 troops quickly took the Kunon City, and continued to go south to cut off the connection between the Gumo Kingdom and Wang Tingguo, and approached the Bushi City in the west, so that the two armies formed a combined encirclement of the Bushi City, and the intention of the Tang Army was very obvious, that is, to concentrate troops to annihilate the 40,000 Tubo troops near the Bushi City.

The situation in Bushi City is critical, and the main general of the Tubo army stationed in Bushi City sent people to Shangxi Dongzan of Ashu City for help as early as the beginning of discovering the main force of the Tang army.

Since the commander of the Tubo army, Xi Zhu, sent people south to report the news, he stood on the head of the city every day and looked south, eager for the arrival of reinforcements.

At this time, Li Qing'an, the commander of the Tang army, had arrived at the Tang army camp about thirty miles west of Bushi City.

In the big tent, Li Qing'an was engrossed in the sand table to check the situation around the Bushi Kingdom, and behind him stood several generals, one of whom was Tian Qianzhen, the general of An Lushan.

Tian Qianzhen led the army to surrender Li Qing'an after An Lushan's failure to march into Guannei Dao, at first Li Qing'an was not worried about him, and ordered him to be the deputy general under Li Fei Yuanli, responsible for building the Tang Straight Road, but with Li Qing'an's return to the west, Hexi's 10,000 Tang troops also rushed to Anxi under the leadership of Li Fei Yuanli to help in the battle, Tian Qian Allah moved to ask for help, willing to go to Anxi to make meritorious service, Li Fei Yuanli agreed to his request, brought him back to Anxi, and in the battle of the last city, Tian Qianzhen led 3,000 Tang troops to be the first to kill the Tubo army, killing many enemies, and it was the last battle, Tian Qianzhen won the trust of Li Qing'an, promoted him to Zhonglang general, and attacked Tocharian together.

Tian Qianzhen is all-round in civil and military affairs, can fight well, and is known as the second marshal of Youzhou, that is to say, his status in the Fanyang Army is second only to Shi Siming, although he has been with An Lushan for a long time, but Tian Qianzhen is a very ambitious person, and he is also eager to open up territory for the Tang Dynasty and pass on through the ages.

Although Tian Qianzhen followed An Lushan to rebel in history and made great achievements for An Lushan, but after the history of the Tang Dynasty turned a corner because of the arrival of Li Qing'an, Tian Qianzhen's fate also changed, whether it was Yan Zhuang, Cui Qianyou or Tian Qianzhen, they were all sharp knives, the knife itself was not guilty, the key was the person who used the knife, An Lushan held the knife, this knife became a butcher's knife to cut the ordinary people, making them fall into the darkness of history, and Li Qing'an took the knife, they became a war knife for the Tang Dynasty to open up territory, and achieved fame.

At this moment, Tian Qianzhen silently watched the sand table, the information on the sand table was extremely detailed, and the garrisons of the Tubo army in each place were more or less marked by small flags, although Li Qingan did not tell everyone about it, but Tian Qianzhen understood Li Qing'an's strategy, after the assassination of Tubo Zampu, many Tang army generals at that time strongly advocated an immediate attack on the Tubo army, which also included the main generals such as Lifei Yuanli and He Ba Yurun, but Li Qingan never stood still, which made many people puzzled.

But Tian Qianzhen understood the reason why Li Qing'an did not move, first of all, the first was the death of Zampu, the Tubo people were eager for revenge, and their morale was booming, so they did not fight for the time being, and after the Tubo army calmed down, it was likely that the internal division would be caused by the death of Zampu, if they were in a hurry to attack at that time, it would make the Tubo people hate the same enemy and abandon the contradictions between them, so Li Qingan has been holding his troops still, which is actually a clever strategy to brake by not moving.

The second is that Li Qing'an is waiting for the water of the Amu Darya River to melt, and naturally divides the Tubo army into two, so that the Tang army can concentrate superior forces to break through, which is also a strategy that Tian Qianzhen is very much in favor of, precisely because he understands Li Qing'an's strategy, Tian Qian's heart will rise a kind of sympathetic admiration, following such a commander, it is more promising than following An Lushan, although he was originally a general, and now he is only a lieutenant general, but Tian Qianzhen does not care, he only hopes to have more opportunities for meritorious service.

At this time, Tian Qianzhen couldn't hold back any longer, so he suggested in a low voice: "General, I suggest that we immediately build a pontoon bridge in Tanfu City, so that before the Tubo people discover our strategy, our vanguard can cross the Amu Darya River first." ”

Li Qing'an glanced back at him and asked with a smile: "If we besiege the city and send reinforcements, and then destroy their pontoon bridges and cut off their back roads after the Tibetan reinforcements go north, what do you think of this?" ”

Tian Qianzhen was dumbfounded by Li Qing'an's bold plan, but he quickly calmed down and said, "I thought this plan was too risky and not too appropriate. ”

"Tell me, where did you take the risk?"

Li Qingan stood up straight and smiled at everyone: "Everyone come and listen and brainstorm!"

The people around were all around, and with the encouragement of the boss, Tian Qianzhen blushed and said: "The key is that we don't know how many reinforcements the Tubo people will come, if they come with 10,000 or 20,000 people, maybe they can still fight, if they come with more than 50,000 people, then the comparison of forces is not good for us, we divide the army into two ways, but it is easy to be broken by each of them, and after the Tubo army crosses the river, the battlefield will be moved north, and at the same time, they will not be divided in half by the river, and the river will lose its obstruction effect, so I think that this plan is too risky, The general adopts this strategy, which will do more harm than good. ”

He Ba Yurun, who was next to him, was a little unconvinced, and asked with his hands on his chest: "If there are only 20,000 or 30,000 Tubo reinforcements, wouldn't it be better to let them cross the river?" ”

Tian Qianzhen shook his head and said: "It is impossible to only have twenty or thirty thousand people, the strength of Bushi City itself is forty thousand, according to the principle of reciprocity of reinforcements, they will at least send more than forty thousand reinforcements, if only twenty or thirty thousand reinforcements are sent, this reinforcement is meaningless." ”

"You haven't fought with the Tibetans, how do you know the habits of the Tibetans?"

"Okay, let's stop talking."

Li Qing'an saw that the generals looked down on Tian Qianzhen, and he knew that this was because Tian Qianzhen was a general, so he interrupted everyone's words and said: "I have received a pigeon letter from the scout, Shang Xi Dongzan mobilized 50,000 troops to the north to aid Achuan City, which is already one hundred and thirty miles south of the bridge, and now I am not worried that the Tubo reinforcements will cross the river to the north, but that the Tubo army in Bushi City will take the opportunity to retreat south after the reinforcements arrive, and we will be passive at that time, so I decided that we should destroy the pontoon bridge as soon as possible." ”

Speaking of this, he turned back to Tian Qianzhen and smiled: "General Tian, there are only 4,000 Tubo garrisons in Tanfu City, I will give you 6,000 people, you give me all the Tubo troops in Tanfu City, and build a pontoon bridge for the Tang Army from there, if you can succeed, I will remember you a great achievement." ”

Tian Qian was really excited, and hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Obey orders!" ”

Li Qingan didn't finish speaking, he said lightly: "If you fail, I will also investigate your crime of defeating the army!" ”

．．．．．．．． The pontoon bridge connecting the north and south of the Tubo army is located on the Amu Darya River thirty miles southwest of the Bushi City, composed of forty wide-sided flat-bottomed boats, the bridge deck is wide, can accommodate three war horses in parallel at the same time, this bridge can be said to be the life and death channel of the Tubo army, 10,000 Tubo troops guard the north of the bridge, and build a castle, even if the Tang army uses fire to attack, their bows and arrows are difficult to shoot to the bridge deck, and there are also heavy guards in the south of the bridge.

At this time, the army guarding the bridge had received news that Shang Xi Dongzan personally led 50,000 reinforcements to the south of the bridge one hundred and twenty miles away, and there was still half a day at most, and the forward could reach the bridge.

The Tibetan army immediately scattered and sent out more than a dozen patrols to investigate the surrounding situation, and sent 1,000 people to patrol the bridge to prevent the Tang army from destroying the bridge from the river.

The Tubo army was very thoughtful, and his prediction was not wrong, the Tang army was really going to attack the pontoon bridge from the river, at noon, it was the moment of the day when the wind on the river was the lowest, about two miles upstream of the pontoon bridge, suddenly two small boats appeared, fast and steady, and were rapidly heading downstream.

Since the pontoon bridge was built in a place where the current was a little gentle, and the distance was not short, five or six miles long, but in the river further upstream, it was rocky and turbulent, and it was impossible to sail at all, it was clear that the two boats were launched two or three miles upstream.

This point was also expected by the Tubo army, they deployed nearly a thousand sentinels in the gentle distance upstream, but the wise men of the Tubo army had a thousand thoughts, but they eventually made a mistake, they did not consider the other side of the river, this is an instinctive idea, the Tang army is acting on the north bank, it is impossible to appear on the south bank.

However, a Tang army scout launched an attack from the south bank, and there was a Tang army soldier with an excellent water surname in each of the two small boats, who was responsible for igniting the earth-shattering thunder in the small boats.

The boat is equipped with a special canopy, and there are straw men in the front and back, left and right, which can resist the arrows and splashing water of the Tibetan soldiers.

The two boats were getting closer and closer, and had already sailed within seventy paces, when the Tibetan soldiers fired a thousand arrows in unison, and a dense rain of arrows shot at the boat, and the arrows clanged on the canopy and the straw man, and in an instant, the two boats were full of arrows, but it was difficult to hurt the people in the boat.

Thirty paces later, two Tang soldiers found through the gap that they were approaching the pontoon bridge, and they ignited the earth-shattering thunder fuse on the ship almost at the same time. Laugh at! White smoke rose from the ground, and the two Tang soldiers turned over and fell into the river, and as soon as they entered the river, they desperately dived to both sides, and they both knew the power of the earth-shaking thunder.

The lead is only one foot five inches long, exactly thirty paces away, in order to blow up this pontoon bridge, the Tang army scouts have been tested many times upstream, the bridge deck has been crowded with hundreds of Tibetan soldiers, each of them carrying a basin of water, once the fire is ignited, they will pour water to extinguish the fire.

When the ship touched the bridge deck at the same time, hundreds of basins of water were splashed together, at this moment, the two ships suddenly exploded, and it was a continuous explosion, each ship had three earth-shattering thunder, only to see the ship burst out of a bright red light, the huge shock wave will blow the boat and the pontoon bridge together to smash, the explosion sound is like thunder, billowing black smoke rises into the air, the white waves are monstrous, the water column splashes more than two feet high, many Tubo soldiers were blown up to the sky, and the screams were drowned out by the huge explosion....... The Tubo soldiers on the shore were stunned, and some veterans who had participated in the Battle of Shibao City were terrified and shouted, "Heavenly thunder!" The thunder of the Tang Army is coming! ”

Many Tibetan people were even more frightened and panicked, thinking that at this time, the god of thunder was powerful, and they knelt down one after another, kowtowing desperately, and pleaded guilty to the god of thunder!

The smoke of gunpowder gradually dissipated, and the pontoon bridge was blown open into two large openings of more than 20 zhang long each, and was broken into three sections, one of which was long without restraints, and floated downstream with iron chains, and the two outer sections were washed by the river to the shore on both sides, and the pontoon bridge had completely disappeared on the river surface, and the river was full of fragments of ships and stumps and broken arms of Tibetan soldiers, floating away along the water.

Nearly 10,000 Tibetan soldiers silently watched the tragic scene on the river, and a sense of foreboding rose in their hearts.

(To be continued)