Chapter 234

Xue Rengui led his army through Shanzhou (now Ledu County, Qinghai Province) to Dafeichuan in Hunan, Qinghai.

Xue Rengui stayed in Guo to be sealed and led 20,000 people to guard the baggage in Dafeichuan (now the Qieji Kuangyuan in the southwest of Gonghe County, Qinghai Province).

Subsequently, Xue Rengui led the army to attack lightly. Defeated the Tibetan army at Hekou (present-day Maduo County, Qinghai Province).

Xue Rengui took advantage of the victory to occupy Wuhai City.

However, Guo Zhifeng did not obey the military order and led the rear team to advance.

The Tubo army attacked with more than 200,000 troops and defeated Guobu, and the Tang army was completely lost. Xue Rengui was forced to surrender to Dafeichuan.

The Tubo army confronted the Tang army until August, and after the main force was gathered, Qinling commanded more than 400,000 troops to attack the Tang army.

Xue Rengui put up a stubborn resistance without danger or food.

But in the end, Xue Rengui was forced to "make peace with Qinling". After the war, the Tibetan army occupied the four towns of Anxi.

The Tang Dynasty was forced to move the Anxi Protectorate to Xizhou (present-day Turpan, Xinjiang), and Tuyuhun was completely annexed by Tibet.

Yes, the 100,000 elites of the Tang Army have been lost!

In the third year of Tang Yifeng (678), the Anxi dispute, in the fourth year of Xianheng (673), the Tang Dynasty restored the four towns of Anxi, and in the second year of Yifeng (677), it was controlled by Tubo; In the third year of Yifeng, the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo Qinghai Lake, the Tang army of 180,000 was defeated by Tubo! Yes, the Tang army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties!

In the Qinghai defensive battle in the first year of Long Live Tongtian (696), in the third year of longevity (694), Wang Xiaojie defeated the Tubo general Bo Lunzan Blade and the Western Turkic ten surnamed Khan Ashina who was supported by Tubo in Lengquan near Qinghai Lake. In the first year of Long Live Tongtian (696), the Tibetans invaded Lintao. Wang Xiaojie, as the general manager of the Subian Road march, took the members of the Wai Lang, Zuo Xiaowei Lang, and Lou Shide, the deputy envoy of the Heyuan Army, as his deputies to attack Tibet. The battle was fought in the Surokhan Mountain, and was defeated by the brothers of Lun Qinling and Zanpo. Yes, the Tang Army suffered 100,000 casualties.

In the above three strategic decisive battles between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, the 300,000 Tang Iron Army hated the battlefield.

Then, in the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), the first Tianbao War between Nanzhao and Tang, in the twenty-seventh year of Kaiyuan (739). With the support of the Tang Dynasty, Pi Luo Ge moved the capital to Taihe City and established Nanzhao. Establishment of the Nanzhao regime.

The support of the Tang Dynasty was a very important factor, and the Tang Dynasty supported Nanzhao. It stems from the Tibetan struggle for control of the Erhai region. At the beginning of the establishment of the Southern Zhao, Pi Luo Ge pursued a policy of reconciliation with the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty's goal of resisting Tubo was partially realized.

However, due to the border official Jiannan Jiedu envoy Xian Yu Zhongtong and Yunnan Nanjun Taishou (the former governor of Yaozhou has been changed to a county) Zhang Qiantuo was arrogant and mediocre, ignoring the existence of the aggressive threat of Tibet. Blindly suppress Nanzhao. As a result, the contradictions have intensified.

In the seventh year of Tianbao (748), Pi Luo Ge died, and Zi Ge Luo Feng succeeded to the throne. Zhang Qiantuo first used Ge Luofeng as Pi Luoge's stepson, trying to replace it with Pi Luoge's sister-in-law Chengjie in the succession to the throne to fight against the pro-Ge Luofeng forces. Zhang Qiantuo also sent people to insult Ge Luofeng who came to see him, and even insulted Ge Luofeng's wife and daughter who came with him.

Ge Luofeng also heard that Yu Zhongtong had led 80,000 troops to march into Yunnan in three ways, and finally forced Ge Luofeng to rebel.

Ninth year of Tempo (750). The Nanzhao soldiers preemptively attacked and sent troops to capture Yaozhou. Kill Zhang Qiantuo.

In the following year, Xian Yu Zhongtong led a large army to Qujing.

Ge Luofeng did not intend to break with Tang, but at this time he sent an envoy to apologize for his sins and ask for peace, expressing his willingness to repatriate the captives and compensate for the losses.

The envoy of Nanzhao complained: "Now these things Zhang Qiantuo is arrogant and mediocre, which makes Nanzhao and the Tang Dynasty have a disagreement. Now the Tibetan Zampu is sitting and watching us fight evil, and he has sent people to threaten Nanzhao and you. If Nanzhao and Datang continue to quarrel like this again, I am afraid that Tubo will compete with each other and the fishermen will benefit. Today, I ask Tang Guoju to survive and die, and to think about gains and losses. I can return the second city of Yaozhou to Datang, hoping to get Datang's understanding. Now that the Tibetan army is pressing the border, if I can't get the consent of the Tang State, I can only belong to Tubo, so the land of Yunnan is no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty. ”

However, Xian Yu Zhongtong held his own troops, ignored it, led the army into Erhai, and sent a large army to make a detour to Cangshan, in order to attack the abdomen and back and annihilate the main force of Nanzhao.

Under the pressure of the Tang army, Ge Luofeng sent people to Langqiong to ask for help from Tubo, and asked for it.

This is exactly what the Tibetans expected.

In the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), Tubo Zampu Chide Zuzan canonized Ge Luofeng as "Zampu Bell", gave a golden seal, and was called "Eastern Emperor".

Nanzhao received the support of Tubo, and the combined forces attacked, and the 80,000 Tang troops in Zhongtong were annihilated.

This was the first Tianbao War between Nanzhao and Tang.

Two years later, the Second Tianbao War was caused by Yang Guozhong's continued preparations to cover up Xian Yu Zhongtong's defeat.

In the thirteenth year of Tianbao (754), he ordered Li Mi to lead 100,000 troops and conquer Nanzhao again.

Li Mi's lone army went deep, supplies were difficult, and the soldiers were not accustomed to water and soil, and diseases were epidemic, and they collapsed without a fight.

The combined forces of Nanzhao and Tubo took the opportunity to chase and kill.

"The horns are full of urgency, and the bow is not flawless, and the blade is not in sight. The day is dark, and the sky is full of red dust. The blood of the Han Dynasty is a river, and the corpses are accumulated in the water. The three armies were defeated, and the Yuan Division sank into the river". Li Mi was killed in battle, and the 100,000 Tang army was annihilated.

The Second Tianbao War ended in a crushing defeat for the Tang army.

In the two Tianbao Wars, the Tang army lost about 200,000 deaths, and the military expenditure was greatly consumed and the vitality was greatly damaged.

The Anshi Rebellion broke out the following year, and the Tang Dynasty was unable to take care of Nanzhao, and Tubo achieved its goal of controlling Nanzhao for many years.

During the Zhide period (756-757), Tubo took advantage of the Anshi Rebellion to join forces with Nanzhao to seize Shanzhou (Xichang), Huitong (Huili), Taideng (Lugu), Kunming (Yanyuan), and enter Qingxiguan (Dadu Henan), approaching the western Sichuan Plain and threatening Chengdu.

In the first year of Guangde (763), into the Great Earthquake Pass, take Lan, He, Shan, Tao and other prefectures, so "Longyou is dead", in October of the same year, the Tubo army took advantage of the victory and drove straight into Chang'an. Emperor Daizong fled to Shaanzhou, Tubo entered Chang'an, and Li Chenghong, the nephew of the princess of Jincheng, was appointed as the emperor of Tang. The Tubo army occupied Chang'an City for 15 days, and then withdrew from Chang'an after plundering it, and Tunjunyuan (Ningxia Guyuan), Hui (Ningxia Zhongwei), Cheng (Chengxian, Gansu), Wei (Longxi, Gansu) and other places.

Baili Wuji told the story, so that Gao Rongrong and the other four people had palpitations, such a powerful enemy, although the four of them have been involved in the four books and five classics since childhood, but they have never heard of such a bloody war, but Baili Wuji is different, since he was a child, he was taught by his father Baili Yuanwang and the erudite Liang Zhen, these former war examples, have long been known.

Zhou Qiang naturally didn't dare to say that she wanted to go to Chengdu Mansion with Baili Wuji.

recounted the hundred miles of Mowgli for nearly half an hour, and solved the difficult matter that Meng Yanyi and Zhou Qiang wanted to follow to Chengdu Mansion, but they fell into more troublesome things.

After hearing about the four people of Gao Rongrong, who are powerful in Tibet, they are now deeply worried about the safety of Baili Wuji's personal expedition.

Gao Rongrong and the four of them persuaded hard to let Baili Wuji choose another general to lead the army, and they would not let Baili Wuji personally conquer. (To be continued......)