readx; There is a big river about 30 miles away from the west of Ashu City, called Yueshi River, it is also the mother river that Yueshi country depends on for survival, the big river finally flows north into the Kulu River, a tributary of the Amu Darya, winds in the mountains and valleys, rushes out of a huge canyon one after another, these canyons are hundreds of miles wide, narrow only a dozen miles, the land on both sides of the valley is flat, the climate is mild, the land is very fertile, it has always been the most important grain producing area of the Yueshi country, the many populations of the Yueshi country are distributed in the major canyons, since the Tubo army occupied Tocharo, These canyons became an important source of military rations for Tibet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At first, the local residents were still able to endure the humiliation and give food, but as the war situation became tense, the Tubo people became more and more desperate to urge for food, and even sent small detachments to go door to door to grab food, and the unbearable Tocharians finally broke out in an uprising.

A small detachment of 50 Tibetan people was surrounded by more than 1,000 people near a village called Papa, and they had just come out of the village, with several wagons full of looted grain and two dozen cows and hundreds of sheep.

More than a dozen Tibetan soldiers were still satisfied with their faces, but they did not expect that a widow, who had been insulted and had all her belongings looted, committed suicide by jumping into the river with her two children, and the death of their family finally triggered the eruption of the volcano in the hearts of Tocharians.

Enraged, the villagers rushed out of the village carrying the bodies of the women and children who had jumped into the river, armed with sticks and long knives, and caught up with the Tibetan detachment, surrounding the fifty Tibetan soldiers.

"Are you going to rebel?"

The Tibetan centurion scolded loudly in the stiff Tocharian language, he drew his long sword and rushed towards an old man, he felt the need to kill Liwei, the Tocharian looked at him coldly, if his eyes could kill, this Tubo centurion would have been cut into meat sauce.

"Kill him!"

I don't know who shouted, the Tocharians suddenly broke out, they roared angrily, rushed up, and struck and slashed at the Tibetan centurion with wooden sticks and swords, and there was a terrible scream, and the Tibetan centurion was seen to be blurred with flesh and blood, and died tragically on the spot.

The rest of the Tibetan soldiers were taken aback, and drew their swords to defend themselves, at this time, thousands of stones rained down on the heads and faces of the Tibetan soldiers, and the Tibetan soldiers were smashed to the point that their heads were bleeding, and they saw that the situation was not good, and they shouted and began to flee in all directions.

"Kill them!"

More than 1,000 Tocharian villagers launched, dozens of them besieged one person, and soon knocked the Tibetan soldiers to the ground, cut off their hands and feet, cut off their heads, and the crowd erupted in cheers from time to time, they raised the heads of the Tibetan soldiers, and recaptured their cattle, sheep and grain.

The same thing happened not only in the village of Papa, but also in all parts of the Yue clan and in the countries of Tocharo, and many nobles who had sneaked back to their homeland became the leaders of these uprisings, and they organized one after another Tocharian [***] to drive away the Tibetan troops stationed in their land, and a series of uprisings broke out in Tocharian throughout Tochar.

．．．．．．． In the palace of Ashucheng City, Shang Xi Dongzan paced back and forth worriedly with his hands behind his back.

Three days before the full moon, he once again welcomed the envoy of the Mansur Caliphate, Abu A. Zarik, this envoy disguised as a merchant and the Shiite Muslim leader with the same name and surname has convinced Shang Xi Dongzan, although there are still some doubts on this envoy that are not clear, for example, it only took seven days for him to go back, although the caliph is not far behind the Tang army, but this speed is also a little too fast, and secondly, he disguised himself as a merchant twice, didn't he encounter the interception of the Tang army? The other great food merchants are extinct in Tocharo, so why can he get by?

These doubts are obvious, but for Shang Xi Dongzan at this time, these doubts have turned a blind eye to him, many Tocharian nobles sneaked back to the Tocharian countries, they fanned the flames, and led the Tocharian people to break out in various countries at the same time, many of the Tubo squads who went to the countryside to grab food were beaten to death by the rebels, and the situation in Tocharian was extremely critical.

Not only that, the military rations of Shang Jiasu's army stationed in Lancheng were only enough to supply for five days, and he sent people to Shang Xi Dongzan three times a day to urge him to ask for food, although Shang Xi Dongzan still had a little grain in his hand, but he didn't dare to transport food to Shang Jiasu anymore, this was not because he was afraid of being hijacked by the Tang army again, but Shang Xi Dongzan got the news, Shang Jiasu was ready to go south to Xinde, and it was because there was no food in his hand that he couldn't move, once Shang Jiasu got the food, they would inevitably retreat south to Xinde, at that time, he left Shang Xi Dongzan alone in Tocharian to fight against the Tang army, Isn't he just a dead end? Therefore, Shang Xi Dongzan would rather let Shang Jiasu go without food, but also tie him to himself.

At this time, the big cannibal became the last straw for Shang Xi Dongzan, and only by uniting the big cannibal to defeat the Tang army was the only way to save the Tubo army, it was in this way that all the things that Zarik showed were too common sense to be important, the important thing was the handwritten letter of Mansur brought by Zarik, which could not be faked.

This time the arrival of Zarik brought more stringent conditions to the Caliphate al-Mansur, not only to limit the profits after the victory of Tubo to Tocharo, but also that Tubo must be a vassal state of the Abbasid Empire, and pay taxes every year, that is to say, Tocharian is actually also Arab territory, and it is only a temporary residence for the vassal state of Tubo, although this condition is extremely harsh, but Shang Xi Dongzan breathed a long sigh of relief, which shows that the intention of the Great Cannibal to send troops is real, not to mention that he is not a subject country now, and he is willing to be a grandson, As long as the Arabs are willing to send troops, everything is negotiable.

Shang Xi Dongzan almost did not hesitate to agree to Zarik's request, and he said in a deep voice: "Please reply to Your Majesty the Caliph, our Tubo army has agreed to his additional conditions and become a vassal state of the Great Eclipse, and please ask Your Majesty the Caliph to send troops as agreed." ”

Zarik shook his head and smiled: "General Shang Xi Dongzan, some things can't be promised only by words?" ”

"And what are you going to do?"

"It's very simple, General Shangxi Dongzan writes a written guarantee, the number of words can be a little less, one page is enough, but the content must be written clearly, and no signature and seal can be missing."

"There's no problem with that."

Shang Xi Dongzan sat down, took up the pen and wrote a letter of guarantee, a political statement recognizing that the Great Food Empire was the suzerainty of Tibet, he stamped his gold seal heavily, he suddenly frowned, and asked, "Do you send it back like this?" But there are only three days left until the night of the full moon, are you in time? ”

Zarik smiled slightly, "General Shangxi Dongzan, there is one of my attendants outside the palace, he is carrying an eagle that can fly thousands of miles, and naturally it will bring the general's letter to our Caliph Majesty. ”

Shang Xi Dongzan was overjoyed: "Very good! I'm going to see you send the eagle away for myself. ”

．．．．．．． In the courtyard, an entourage handed a sturdy eagle to Zarik, Zarik stroked the eagle's feathers, tied the letter containing Shang Xi Dongzan's political statement to the eagle's leg, turned back to Shang Xi Dongzan and smiled, Shang Xi Dongzan had some doubts in his heart, this eagle's communication method was exactly the same as Tang Jun, and even the shape of the letter box was similar.

Maybe it's because the big cannibals have been fighting with the Tang Army for a long time, and they have also learned the Tang Army's method of communication? At this time, Zarik threw the eagle into the blue sky in front of him, looking at the eagle's vigorous and heroic posture, Shang Xi Dongzan just had a trace of doubt in his heart and flew out of the clouds, and the eagle flew away with all his hopes for the West.

．．．．．．． Huolu City, where the main force of the Tang army is located, is about four hundred miles away from Ashu City, and the eagle has just arrived at its destination after flying for half a day, and a crisp chirp sounded in the air, and it began to descend, flying towards an eagle tower that summoned it to return, a soldier has been waiting here for a long time, he stretched out his arm, let the eagle flutter its wings and land on his arm, the eagle's sharp eyes looked at him, and his throat let out 'cluck! The soldier quickly untied the letter on its lap, patted its head and smiled, "What a good messenger!" ”

The soldier rewarded it with a large piece of fresh meat, and the eagle took the meat in its mouth and flew towards the lush forest outside the city, while the soldier ran down the eagle tower and galloped towards the military office inside the city.

A scene before the advent of the great war in the military office, a group of soldiers patrolled back and forth in and around the military office, heavily guarded, the generals walked in a hurry, their expressions were solemn, some people gathered in the courtyard, waiting for the general's summons, and there were also scouts' quick letters, gathering information from all over Tocharian here, and the military officers of the marching Sima translated and sorted out the information, copied it into a standard format, and sent it to Li Qing'an's desk as soon as possible.

The eagle trainer hurriedly walked into the military office and came to the front of the clerical room, which was the place to submit all kinds of information, and happened to meet Wei Jin, who came out of it and joined the army.

The falcon trainer hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Wei has joined the army, Zarik's letter has arrived. ”

"Ahh Give me the letter quickly. ”

Wei Jin also knew the importance of this letter, and the general had been looking forward to its arrival! He took the letter and walked quickly to Li Qing'an's room.

In the room, Li Qing'an is discussing the military situation with several generals, whether he can defeat the Tubo army is no longer the key to the discussion, everyone knows that as long as the Tang army fights steadily, this battle will undoubtedly win, the key is to completely annihilate the Tubo army, and not let them flee to Xinde, Xinde's Feng Changqing has already expeditioned to the hinterland of Tubo, Xinde only has 7,000 Tang troops, the strength is relatively empty, if the Tubo army flees to Xinde or Tianzhu, it will be an extremely heavy blow to Li Qing'an's Tubo strategy.

For this reason, Li Qing'an has sent the general Lifei Yuanli to lead 20,000 troops to detour to the Huwen City of Xiliu State, and cut off the Tubo army from going south to Xinde, despite this, Li Qing'an is still a little uneasy, he is worried about Shang Jiasu, and he has dealt with him in the last city, this person fights in general, but the escape is first-class, he was with hundreds of people, no food and no water, and he was able to escape the plateau where there are no people for thousands of miles, and now he has an army of 80,000, and the 80,000 army can't let them run anymore anyway. At this time, Wei Jin hurriedly walked into the house and whispered in Li Qing'an's ear: "General, Zarik's intelligence has arrived. ”

(To be continued)