Chapter 688: Poor Tubo
There are two poles in the world, one is the South Pole, one is the North Pole, and there is a third pole, which is Mount Everest under the control of Tibet.
"Songzhou, Maozhou, Yizhou, Yazhou, Huichuan, Yaozhou to the west of the Qiang Department has been in contact with our Tang troops, and has fought several battles with the East Tubo troops, although no one has asked for favorites, but the offensive momentum of Tubo has been united by our Tang Dynasty to unite the Qiang people from all over the country, firmly blocking them on the Jinchuan River and the Nuoyi River, and they are not allowed to advance an inch. Moreover, the elites sent by my Tang Dynasty this time are all southern soldiers, with the Wuben army as the command, and the losses are not large, but the largest Lieba tribe in the east of Tubo is on the front line of the Jinchuan River, and was ambushed by our army, and the five thousand people under the bombardment were poked eight hundred, and more than two thousand were dropped, and the rest were scattered. ”
On the large sand table of the General Staff, Uncle Li Jing was holding a baton and pointing on the sand table, which was covered with various small flags representing the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, and Qiang people.
"Well, Li Ji Aiqing really lived up to my high expectations, hehe, well done, this is not a general person, when the old boy Lu Dongzan came to Chang'an as an envoy, he mentioned this person, saying what is the famous general of Tubo, this is good, a cannonball, it flew into the sky, hahaha......" Uncle Li was so happy that even the little tongue in his throat was exposed.
Everyone is also happy, well, at least Tubo's eastern strategy has been temporarily suppressed, and the soldiers have been lost, and after more than ten consecutive battles, the Tubo side has lost three Dongdai, that is, thousands of households, and even lost a member of the eastern military leader known as a famous general, with a loss rate of nearly 10,000 soldiers, and on our side, the loss of the Qiang people is also thousands, but the elite of the Tang Dynasty has not suffered much.
"Your Majesty, there are these, now that Yangtong and Dongnu have the support of my Tang Dynasty, they have stabilized their own territory, at least in one to two years, Tubo does not dare to take it lightly, if he dares to make a big move, in the end, hehe, it will inevitably be a lose-lose situation." Li Zongdao also liked to diligently say with a long beard.
Over there, Zhang Liang also smacked his mouth and said: "This time, we are on the chessboard, and we have dropped a wonderful piece, what can the Tibetan barbarians do?" Now he can't do anything, and wants to increase the population and strength by taking advantage of the conquest of the southeast, but unfortunately, they are a chess game, and they have calculated for His Majesty first. ”
---------------------------------------------------- hooligans said hooligans, a group of old ruffians laughed maliciously, God knows if these gangs of old men want to go to the chrysanthemums of the Tibetan barbarians, well, I am also very evil.
Everyone was talking and laughing, but before the meeting, a liaison between the Academy and the General Staff hurriedly rushed in, it was my subordinate, and naturally delivered the information in his hand to my hands.
"Your Majesty! Great joy, great joy. I hurriedly stepped forward and called up excitedly: "Your Majesty, please look here, it seems that it is not too late for me to have good news on the west line of the Tang Jiannan Road, here, the land of Nanzhao has also been shaken by life, and this time Nanzhao is much quieter." ”
The information in my hand had already been snatched by Su Dingfang, who was squatting next to me, and looked at it in detail, "Oh, how do you say this?" Uncle Li asked with great interest. Since the appearance of the sand table, this three-dimensional, more intuitive model is far more popular with the Datang military group than the map.
"Half a month ago, Jiannan Dao observed that the Tang Lord Zhao Nanzhao and the heads of the tribes in Yongchang, Yaozhou, and Queensland were in the Dianchi Alliance on the edge of Queensland, in order to integrate the hearts of the tribes. I think you already know this news. I said with some heaviness.
"Well, I know that, too! The southern barbarian is really hateful, if it weren't for the fact that what the south needs is stability, and Jiannan Dao is using troops, the old man would have ordered Li Jiaiqing to split that hateful barbarian alive! Uncle Li immediately puffed out his eyes, in the eyes of the ancients, the parents who had hair and body were the most cherished, which was clearly the greatest insult to the human body. Although the generals on the side had already heard this military information, they still had a look of indignation on their faces when they heard what people said.
"Your Majesty, the martial artists of our military academy have really made great contributions." Su Dingfang finished reading the information, and couldn't help but pat his thigh and cheer loudly. Uncle Li couldn't hold back this time, so he took two steps forward and grabbed the information in his hand, and looked at it with relish.
The old generals on the side were anxious about something, but it was Li Jing, the old man, who stabbed me. "Nephew, why don't you tell me what's going on?"
"Oh, okay, little nephew, let's talk about it, hehe." I pursed my lips and pointed at Erhai with my baton: "After learning this news, the two detachments of my Datang's Wu Ben Army marched under the starry night, and arrived at Erhai three days later. ”
"Say what? Captured alive? Uncle Cheng on the side was really happy, and rubbed his hands vigorously: "Wu Benjun, damn it, good, what a martial arts master, hahaha, tell me quickly, how can they get people out of such a tribe?" ”
The old guy jumped up and down in front of me, and I hurriedly lit the sand table and said: "Two detachments, one team in the west of Xiao Bo Lane's village to wreak havoc, attracted Xiao Bo Lane's attention, but they never thought that another detachment of more than ten people, with only the steel crossbow and various special weapons in their hands, tied up the armor plug that was still lying on the bed and slept into a human brown child, and escorted it to the scene of the alliance. It made those Nanzhao barbarians all feel cold, and Lord Tang's actions in the future are afraid that they will be more smooth.
Moreover, the leaders of those Nanzhao barbarians had no choice but to agree not to hinder our Datang to build a cement straight road south of Jiannan Road to connect the important places and city fortresses between the state capitals. As a result, we can firmly grasp this place in our hands through trade and transportation, and in the future, the strategy of the collapse of our Datang division is even more feasible. ”
---------------------------------------------------- Tubo was anxious, they never thought that their strategy against Yangtong at the beginning was clamped down by the Tang Dynasty, and the Dongnu Kingdom and Tuyuhun have now been infiltrated by the Tang Dynasty, and the source of the river, the West Sea, and the Douhe River in the hinterland of Tuyuhun were heavily armed by the Tang Dynasty, suppressing the Qiang people of Tuyuhun to the point that they could not move, and Doma under the Baihai Sea, That is, the source of the Yellow River, between Jishi Mountain and Purple Mountain, here is the Tang Dynasty in the name of the trade market, is building a completely masonry-structure military fortress-type town.
Although the city fortress is much smaller than Chang'an, it is actually not small, at least it can be easily inhabited by thousands of households, and there are many merchants from the Tang Dynasty and various ethnic groups who come and go here, and the perennial flow of traders is in the thousands, and there are even more garrisons finalized by Uncle Li and others.
Although the garrison of this small city named Huguan by Uncle Li is a Tang army in name, in fact, Uncle Li, an old hooligan, has played a trick, the number of Tang troops in this house far exceeds that of Yifu, and it is equipped with a large number of weapons to defend the city, and even the artillery that is now only supplied to the 16th Guards and Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty and the troops of the Military Academy is also equipped with five, as well as mortars, grenades and other long-range strike and short-range defensive weapons. All of them are equipped with steel crossbows, and when they are fully completed, the height of the fortress reaches three zhang, and the masonry concrete structure is completely used, which is simply a military fortress with a permanent surname, like a nail, firmly nailed to the junction of Tuyuhun, Dongnuguo, and Tubo.
It can be said that as long as there is sufficient ammunition, equipment, and food, the 2,500 elites of the Tang Army inside will not have a problem guarding for three or five months, not to mention, there is also an intelligence department stationed here in the Tang Dynasty, which can directly deliver news to Chang'an, the highest body of the Tang Dynasty's political axe, at any time.
"But how will the Tibetans react?" Hearing this news, it startled me, Uncle Li squinted his eyes proudly: "Tubo, what else can he do now, Tubo just wants him to move now, he doesn't dare, although now he Songtsan Gampo has changed his strategy and tried his best to make good friends with Yangtong, and he is also selling well in the Dongnu Kingdom on the side, at least Tuyuhun is there, does Tuyuhun dare to move?" Virtuous son-in-law, don't forget, Tuyuhun's royal capital is only more than 100 miles away from our current Xihai Prefecture, and now Tuyuhun is already a snail in the hands of my Tang Dynasty, and it is too late to kowtow and surrender, how can there be that idle effort to go to Tubo again. ”
(To be continued)