Chapter 35: The Tibetan Princess

In the city of sin, the palace of the little Bolu is filled with rich sandalwood, the drums are bursting, the silk wind music is melodious, dozens of Tibetan musicians sit on both sides, playing musical instruments attentively, in their hands, pipa, flute, beep, zha nian, long drum, and high and low dharmapi drums and other musical instruments play the magic and heroism of the snow-capped mountain plateau.

In the center of the palace, fifteen young and beautiful Tubo girls are dressed in fairy-style long skirts, with streamers in heavenly clothes, and hairpins with beautiful arms, dancing gracefully and charmingly, like a heavenly maiden descending to earth, stepping on music and dancing, sometimes waving with long belts, sometimes swaying slowly, and giving birth to lotus step by step.

At the top of the palace, a middle-aged man lay lazily on an ivory couch painted with gold and silver, he was the little Bolu King Su Defeat, he was obviously not interested in the light and charming Tubo girl, he seemed to be waiting for something?

At this time, the drumming stopped, the flute was thrown high, as if a cold breeze was blowing from the snowy mountains, and the fifteen dancers were divided into three clusters, and they slept next to each other, as if feeling the breeze in a dream, Su Chengli sat up straight all of a sudden, and looked at the palace gate excitedly.

A Tibetan fairy wearing a white ribbon appeared, her appearance was beautiful, her eyes were crisp, as if she was a goddess of the snow-capped mountains coming in the wind, in the hall she waved the ribbon, lightly opened her lips, and the hall resounded with her heavenly singing.

"I went to the harmonic book, I went to the harmonic book, if the door to the song is opened, the princess of the gods of heaven will invite five, the princess of the god of Zengshen will invite five, the princess of the god of Lu will invite five, a total of one or five people in three and five, and I will have sixteen people in the harmonic book."

Sue was so fascinated by her singing that he unconsciously stood up and danced with his princess Garan.

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"Why are you grieved, my king, that my father Zampu did not feed your subjects?"

After the dance, Princess Garan and her husband Sue Lost walked side by side in the garden behind the palace.

"It's not! It was a few nobles who opposed my desire for Tibet, and he wanted to get porcelain and silk from the Tang Dynasty, not Tibetan furs. ”

"Then why doesn't the king skin these opponents and make them into musical instruments for me?"

Princess Garan smiled delicately, and her plump and rosy lips seemed to talk only about music and dance, but when she said it, it was easy to wake people up at night.

"Also, I'm tired of seeing your queen's human skin, my king, can you give me her daughter, I prefer her fresh and soft skin."

"No! She was only thirteen years old, and she was betrothed to the prince of Daboru, and I could not break my promise. ”

"Humph!" Princess Garan snorted softly, her delicate smile was gone, she suddenly quickened her pace, and walked towards the palace, "Guards, pack up your things, I'm going back to some cities." ”

"Nope! My princess, you can't go. ”

Su Fuli hurriedly chased after him, and faintly heard his pleading voice, "Princess, don't go, I promise you." ”

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'The sea is dry and icy, and the clouds are gloomy and bleak. ’

From Lianyunbao to Xiaobolu to cross the Hindu Kush Mountain, the cloud peak is towering, the air is thin, the glacier of thousands of miles can not see the edge at a glance, Tanju Ridge is a shortcut to enter the Xiaobolu, the mountain range is steep, many cliffs and cliffs, the ridge is forty miles long, and the lower ridge is the city of Across.

After capturing Lianyunbao, Gao Xianzhi reorganized the army, leaving 2,000 wounded and sick soldiers to hand over to the sick Bian Lingcheng and a group of civilian officials, while he led 8,000 elite soldiers to wave his army to Xiao Bolu, and after three days of marching, the army began to cross Tangju Ridge.

The mountains here are thousands of zhang high, the ice hills are undulating, the ice towers are numerous, the ice cliffs are like walls, the cracks are like nets, you have to walk close to the cliffs, the cold wind is cold, and people are even more unstable to stand, and if you are not careful, you will fall down a thousand zhang of ice cracks.

Suddenly, with a series of desperate screams, a war horse slipped and fell into a crack in the ice, and more than a dozen Tang soldiers were also brought down and fell into the abyss together.

Time seemed to have stood still at this moment, the cold wind swirled on the edge of the snow cliff, and the Tang army silently looked at the abyss under their feet.

After a long time, the Tang army continued to move forward, as if nothing had happened, and the long procession marched on the snow-capped cliff road, like a black ant colony as far as the eye could see.

The sky gradually darkened, and the team walked through the treacherous cliff path to a relatively flat snowfield, Gao Xianzhi looked at the surrounding terrain and ordered: "The army is stationed in camp, and the officers above the rank of captain are ordered to hold a meeting in the big tent." ”

After the military order was issued, the soldiers began to get busy, set up camp, there was no way to cook on the snowy mountains, the soldiers used snow dry food to satisfy their hunger, most of them fell down and wrapped in blankets and fell asleep, sleeping on the ice field was extremely dangerous, a little warmth was not enough to freeze to death in a dream, but nevertheless, the soldiers were extremely tired, everyone huddled together, and fell asleep.

The lights in Gao Xianzhi's big tent were dim, and more than a dozen lieutenant officers stood solemnly, waiting for the commander's military order, Gao Xianzhi paced back and forth in the big tent with his hands behind his back, and after a moment he said slowly: "We should go down the peak tomorrow, but the thing I'm most worried about is that the soldiers don't dare to go down the mountain." ”

"Marshal, the military order has arrived, so there is a reason not to dare to go down the mountain." Li Siye said.

Gao Xianzhi shook his head and said with a wry smile: "I originally thought the same way, but Jia Chongjun's army didn't join us because he didn't dare to go down the mountain, how could I not consider this risk." ”

Everyone stopped talking, Gao Xianzhi did make sense, the road up the mountain was straight and steep, the ice was thick and slippery, and the way down the mountain should be the same, the feeling of falling at any time was chilling to think about, I don't know how to solve this crisis.

Gao Xianzhi walked a few steps, suddenly smiled, and said to everyone: "Don't tell the sergeant about this matter, besides, when to pull out the camp to listen to my arrangement, everyone go down first!" ”

Seeing that the big man seemed to be confident, everyone left one after another, but at this time, Gao Xianzhi gave Li Qingan a look and asked him to stay.

"Commander, please command!" Needless to say, Li Qing'an knew that Gao Xianzhi had a task to hand over to the scout camp.

Gao Xianzhi pondered for a moment and said: "Under the mountain is Ah Kuyue City, I think, if there are Ah Kuyue natives who come up the mountain to meet the Tang army, then the Tang army's fear can be eliminated, and it will be much easier to go down the mountain." ”

He glanced at Li Qing'an and asked, "You, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Li Qingan smiled, "Dashuai wants to emulate Cao Mengde's Wangmei to quench his thirst!" ”

"Exactly!"

Gao Xianzhi nodded with a smile, and said: "I'll leave this task to you, whether you send someone to dress up, or really catch the Ah Xuan Yue natives, in short, before noon tomorrow, the Ah Xuan Yue natives must go up the mountain to meet the Tang army." ”

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