Chapter 2: The Fall of Tibet
Li Erlong's globe in front of the case was already a dazzling piece of gold, Li Erming people specially on his treasure globe, with gold leaf and gold powder, the territory now occupied by the Tang Dynasty is painted gold, and now, the whole of China, Southeast Asia, Australia, South America, North America, has turned into gold, looking golden.
However, surrounded by this piece of gold, there is a place that is very conspicuous, it is a dazzling white, and under that white, there are two eye-catching red characters, that is: Tubo.
In the past two years, the relationship between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty has indeed taken a sharp turn for the worse, since Songtsen Gampo failed to propose marriage, he left Chang'an with anger and returned to Lhasa.
In Lhasa, he announced a series of decrees prohibiting trade with the Tang people, prohibiting them from crossing the border and entering the territory of the Tang people without permission, and adjusted the defensive deployment of the border army.
In the current correspondence between Tibet and the Tang Dynasty, the enemy country etiquette is used, that is, the etiquette of reciprocity. This is a refusal to recognize the leadership of the Tang regime over the Tubo regime, and Li Er has always been angry about this.
Nowadays, there are no countries in the world that dare to rebel against Li Er's intentions, and no country dares to confront the Tang Dynasty head-on.
In October of the tenth year of Zhenguan, with a new round of grain harvest, the growing national strength of the Tang Dynasty, coupled with the death of his father Li Yuan, Li Er had no worries, and Li Er's idea of opening the side became stronger and stronger. If Li Er sent troops to Tibet. I am willing to be the first pawn.
The court lasted in such an atmosphere until the end of October. After the autumn harvest in Chang'an was completely over, Li Er began to collect grain on a large scale, preparing to send troops to Tibet.
The terrain of Tibet is very high, and many Tang soldiers will be exhausted when they enter the plateau, and the investigation made by Sun Simiao, the head of the Nanshan Academy Medical School, shows that this symptom is called altitude sickness, which is a kind of pathological reaction produced by the human body after being exposed to a low-pressure and low-oxygen environment, and it is a very common disease on the plateau.
At the invitation of Li Erzhi. Sun Simiao personally set out with the army with an investigation team to study how to solve this high-altitude disease.
This time, Li Er was collecting grain in the world, and Xu Yang clearly saw that his purpose was not only to take Tubo, but his ultimate goal was to use Tubo as a springboard, intending to get involved in Central Asia.
As soon as the qiē was ready, as soon as the court was ready, the Tang Dynasty began the prelude to sending troops to Tubo.
In the middle of October of the tenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty defended the frontier and controlled the Western Regions in Hexi, Longyou, Guanzhong and Xi. A long-term war with Tibet.
The two countries are fighting each other, and it is a scorching moment. Originally, in the Tang War, the two sides planned and planned, and the opportunity was widely used to drive straight in, go straight to the heart, lure the enemy deep, annihilate the enemy, mobile defense, wait for the opportunity to counterattack, avoid its sharpness, hit its lazy return, suspicious soldiers to block the enemy, ambush, detour, long-distance attack, night attack and other strategies and tactics. But now, the battle of Yiqiē has become simpler......
"Quick! Come on! The people of the Chengguan garrison are here! "On a battlefield on a plateau, a middle-aged man with a dark face fled for his life, running frantically down the mountain, shouting some nonsense that no one else could understand.
At this time, a group of warriors wearing Tibetan uniforms were passing by at the foot of the mountain, and when they saw the man running wildly on the mountain, as if they had heard some news of a plague, they were in a mess, and some people kept fleeing in all directions.
The leader of the Tibetan army was a middle-aged man, and he was seen riding on a tall horse, angrily reprimanding the soldiers around him, "Don't run, don't run!" All face each other head-on! The man shouted as hard as he could, but there was little attention in the crowd, everyone was running around with their heads in their hands, and the name of the chengguan seemed to have an invisible deterrent effect on them.
Seeing that no one was following his command, the officer man said anxiously: "The Tang people are not powerful!" As long as we fight together, we can defeat them! Don't forget, behind you is the city of Lhasa! ”
The general's words seemed to have some effect, and a small number of soldiers began to stabilize themselves, no longer holding their heads as they had just done, but just as they were about to assemble, they saw dozens of Tang army figures already appearing on the hill next to them, their dark black armor in the sunlight like demons coming from hell.
"Whoosh." When the Tang people saw the enemy at the bottom of the hill, they dug into their waists very neatly, pulled out a grenade, and threw it down the hillside.
"Run! It's hellfire thunder! "When those Tubo people who had been gathered with great difficulty saw those Tang people in dark gray armor throw out a dozen black rod-like things, the only reason they had left was lost, and they were left to flee for their lives without a clue.
"Boom! Bang! Bang! "The earth-shattering explosion sounded from the bottom of the valley, and thousands of Tibetan soldiers cried for their fathers and mothers, they originally thought that they were well-equipped, but in the face of this army of the Tang people, they were like children without the power of chickens, and the army called Chengguan was simply terrifying......
There were bursts of fire in the distance, and Songtsen Gampo sat pale in an empty hall, which was the top floor of his newly built Potala Palace, and this was the place where he received the people of Tibet, but now, this place of meeting the people, the first time he met was probably the army of the Tang people.
Lu Dongzan was standing beside Songtsen Gampo at this moment, his face was also a little pale, his eyes stared directly at the ceiling covered with patterns, and he didn't say a word.
"Lu Dongzan, this king now regrets that he did not listen to your advice and used his people to build such a flashy palace without authorization, and now he ...... Tibet will be destroyed at my hands, and I am sorry for the kings of my Tibetan dynasties! ”
Hearing Songtsan Gampo's words full of remorse, Lu Dongzan still had a blank face, and said in a slow tone: "Even if you don't build such a palace, the Tang Dynasty will still fight here and destroy our Tibet." ”
"What?" Songtsen Gampo was a little incredulous.
"The king may not have seen it, they have an army, it can be said that the devil from hell, it is them, it only used 7,000 troops, all the way to the city of Lhasa...... "...... (To be continued......)