On August 26, the eleventh year of Zhenguan, the weather, sunny and hot weather, showing a trend of high autumn air, while Songzhou City exuded a sky-high and murderous atmosphere.

Songzhou City is heavily guarded early in the morning, on the high city wall, it has already been densely covered with flags, in the open space outside the city gate, set up a high point general platform, in front of the point general platform, has been densely packed with fully armed soldiers, the black pressed soldiers, neatly lined up in the open space, like a torrent of steel, standing in the front, is Li Jing, Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, Niu Jinda, Duan Zhixuan and other famous generals, it can be said that the strong generals are like forests, and the warriors are like clouds.

Today is the day of the Tang Dynasty's western expedition to Tibet, several generals led people to gather in Songzhou City, including Tuyuhun King Nuo Haobo, Turkic Ashina Sheer and Ashina Zhong, An Yuanshou of Anxihu and other ethnic minority generals loyal to Li Er, usually they are brave and good at fighting, high in generals, once the order is issued, the soldiers dare not obey, thousands of lives, often in their thoughts, but at this moment, they are waiting here under the scorching sun, respectfully.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the heavenly khan in the eyes of the ethnic minorities, will see them off here.

"Woohoo"

"Peng Peng Peng Peng'

As soon as the auspicious time arrived, the trumpeters and drummers in the army began to act, and the passionate and loud sound of the horn and the passionate and surging drum sound made people's blood boil and their fighting spirit soared, and they were eager to kill the enemy immediately and make meritorious contributions to defend the homeland and the country.

In the sound of trumpets and drums, a group of well-trained cavalry rushed out of the city gate, the horses were vigorous and powerful, and the soldiers on the horses were freshly dressed and angry, and they still maintained a neat formation in the run, and at a glance they knew that they were the elite of the elite, although the number was not large. There are only about 100 horsemen, but it gives people an aura like thousands of horses and thousands of troops.

A well-informed person in the soldier whispered: "See, this is the emperor's hundred horsemen, the elite of the flying cavalry battalion, it is really powerful." ”

After Li Er's change in Xuanwu Gate, in order to prevent someone from learning his own coup d'état in this place, he set up camp on the left and right sides of Xuanwu Gate, nicknamed the Flying Cavalry Battalion, and selected 100 of them to be called "Hundred Cavalry", but I didn't expect it. This trip also brought out the hundred horses.

An Yuanshou, who had a beard on his face, looked at those flying horses fixedly, with envy and admiration in his eyes, and lowered his voice and said to Ashina Zhong on the side: "Tian Khan is really good, Xuanjia Army, Yulin Army, Zhenfan Army, Yangwei Army and so on. Oh my God, there are too many talents in Datang. It's really worthy of the Khan of the sky. ”

"Of course. Don't make a sound, the day Khan is coming. ”

The hundred horsemen separated from each other, and soon, Li Er drove slowly on the dragon chariot, and the gold-inlaid dragon chariot and the flagpole as high as six feet fluttered with a green dragon flag, which all showed. Sitting in it is the supreme emperor of the Tang Dynasty: Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

In ancient times, there was a clear hierarchy, even an ordinary flag, and it was also extremely exquisite. For example, the flagpole used by the emperor is six miles high, the princes use five thousands, the doctor uses four thousands, the scholars are three thousands, and there are six main categories of flags, one is called the Cangqi, the second is the green flag, the third is the Zhu flag, the fourth is the yellow flag, the fifth is the white flag, and the sixth is the Xuan flag. The six flags are distinctly colored, the blue flag is blue-black, and the sun, moon and stars are painted on it, which are mainly used for sacrificial occasions; The blue flag is cyan, and the green dragon is painted on it, as mentioned above, the Son of Heaven is the rising dragon, and the princes are Jiaolong, which is mainly used by the Son of Heaven and the princes; The vermilion flag is fiery red, and the vermilion bird is painted on it, which is used by the royal family; The yellow flag is yellow, and a unicorn is painted on it; The white flag is white, with a white tiger painted on it; The banner is black with a slight red color, and the turtle and snake are painted on it. The last three flags are mainly used in six departments of each three provinces, and cannot be used indiscriminately, let alone exceeded.

This time, the fanfare is to show the demeanor of the Tang Dynasty in front of Tuyuhun and a group of ethnic minorities.

Li Er, who was dressed in full costume, got off the dragon chariot, slowly walked up to the general, waved his hand gently, and soon, the sound of drums stopped, and the scene was silent.

"See the Emperor"

"See the Emperor"

"See the Emperor"

The people present, as soon as they saw Li Er, immediately saluted him, because they were all wearing armor, they saluted with a military salute and half kneeled, because there were too many people, the back was too far apart, and the one in front knelt down before the one behind to follow, and for a while, the sound of worship was endless, and the sound echoed in the mountains, and the minority generals of the Tuyuhun king Nuo Haobo saw the sound of the Khan of the sky.

"All the generals are flat" Li Er waved his hand, and then asked the generals to be flat.

Don't look at Li Er as the emperor, but he was born in the military, full of energy, and his voice was deep and majestic, even a few hundred meters away.

After the soldiers were flattened, Li Er said loudly: "Today is a good day, and today is also a day of revenge, do you know why the emperor chose here?" It's very simple, in order to force us to send the princess to him and kiss, the Tubo people first went to Songzhou, revealing their wolf ambitions, and then borrowed and pretended to marry, repaired the road, secretly crossed Chencang, and used our tolerance and trust in it to wash Songzhou in blood, just behind me, piled up the heads of the victimized people into a hill, killed my people, kidnapped my women, and robbed me of my goods, the purpose of my oath meeting here is to remind myself, and also remind the soldiers, what kind of enemy you are facing, soldiers, Such a capricious villain, should we crusade? ”

"Crusade, crusade!" Old Demon King Cheng was the first to roar loudly.

"Crusade, crusade!"

"Crusade, crusade!"

The soldiers shouted as hard as they could.

Li Er waved his hand, signaled everyone to calm down, and then said with a heavy face: "The Tubo people have no faith in their words, and they have repeatedly committed crimes, and they have committed a lot of bloody cases in my Tang Dynasty, and the old and young women and children have not let go, and their actions are outrageous, just a few days ago, they also washed Hejiazhuang in blood, slaughtered the whole family of the old general He Panren, and hung the leader of General He on the city wall to demonstrate, even the two-month-old baby did not let go, soldiers, you say, should we avenge this revenge?" ”

"Revenge! Avenge! ”

"Revenge! Avenge! ”

"Revenge! Avenge! ”

A group of soldiers shouted together, and the sound was so loud that it soared into the sky.

The ancients emphasized righteousness, and they had to find a reason for doing anything, like crusading against someone, they would send a document, count the other party's faults and sins one by one, and put the righteousness on their own side, so that they had no scruples in their hearts, as if they were doing the right thing for heaven, and it was easy to get the support of the people.

Although I posted a crusade early in the morning, I will say it again here.

After waiting for the soldiers to calm down, Li Er continued to say loudly: "Today, you are going to set off, set foot on the land of Tibet, avenge the Tang Dynasty, and fight for the Tang Dynasty, it is a strange land, you are facing a group of barbarians who are not educated, inhumane, and like wolves and tigers. ”

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death! ”

"Okay, I really deserve to be a good son of my Tang Dynasty, I am in Chang'an, waiting for you to return triumphantly, waiting for you to have a banquet."

After the oath-taking meeting in Songzhou, the army of the Tang Dynasty officially advanced to Tubo, including the Tuyuhun king Nuo Haobo, the Turkic Ashina Sheer and Ashina Zhong and others also rushed back to their stations on the same day, and raised troops to crusade against Tubo according to the pre-planned plan.

The Tang Dynasty was divided into three armies, the center, the left and the right, marching to Tubo from Songzhou, Yazhou and Hezhou, and including the Tuyuhun king Nuo Haobo, the Turkic Ashina Sheer and Ashina Zhong and other soldiers sent two routes, all the way to attack Doma and one route to the Jishi Mountains, and the middle army of the Tang Dynasty leaned on each other, with an army of 250,000 troops, which opened the prelude to the crusade against Tubo.

Of course, to put it nicely is a crusade, and to put it badly, to put it bluntly, it is annexation.

On September 8, the left-flank army led by Li Jing came into contact with the Tibetan army, and defeated the enemy in only a quarter of an hour, achieving the first victory in the crusade against Tibet;

On September 12, the middle road general led by Hou Junji, with the help of the fire gun, only paid the price of more than 100 people, and took the first line of defense of Tubo on the border.

On the ninety-twenty-eighth day, Hou Junji and Tuyuhun King Nuo Haobo joined forces in Bowo and surrounded Siduo, the general of Tubo Youru

Like divine help, I don't know whether the Tang Dynasty soldiers are too sharp, or the Tubo people are afraid of the power of the Tang Dynasty's firearms, the Tubo army is often a touch of collapse, dare not fight, the Tang Dynasty and Tugu Hun advance smoothly, like a bamboo, straight to the capital of Tubo, some cities. (To be continued......)