When the Luo army captured the Baicang Pass of the Qingtang Dynasty, the Tang army, which had secretly assembled in Xining Road and Jiannan Province, brazenly sent troops, crossed the border, captured the border cities, and advanced six and seven hundred miles respectively in three days, capturing the military towns and forts along the way with lightning speed, and capturing hundreds of thousands of tribes.

When the royal court received the military report, the Tang army on the eastern route had already crossed the Damara Mountain, crossed the Tongtian River, occupied the third military town in eastern Tibet, Sando, and marched west into Gamuli; The Tang army on the southern route had already passed through the Mangkang Pass, occupied Zuogong, the second military town in the southwest of Tubo, and entered Ranwu Lake in the west.

If the royal court was struck by lightning, at this time, it was known that the Tang Dynasty sent troops not only to attack Qingtang, but to attack the entire Tubo!

This is simply a sinkhole, and the pit is dead!

The two princes and powerful ministers did not think that if they had not been selfish and engaged in internal strife, how could they be abducted into the pit by the Tang people, and scolded the Tang people for treachery, and hurriedly ordered after the court meeting, on the one hand, to recruit the troops of thousands of households and thousands of lords from all over the country to rush to the east and south roads, and on the other hand, Shangren Gyatso, who ordered the attack on the Qing Tang Dynasty, to immediately abandon Naqu, wave his army to the east, and block the main force of the Tang army at Gamuli - the 160,000 army led by Princess Jinyang herself.

Shangren Gyatso was dumbfounded when he received the military order.

Seeing that Naqu City can be captured in less than two days, this will be about to retreat, and the more than 10,000 soldiers who died together in the siege of the city have been filled into the pit in vain?

Shangren Gyatso was so angry and painful that he whipped the ground and scolded: "Tang dog bullied me! Don dog bullied me! "I smashed three tea bowls in a row. But no matter how angry he was, he could only give up attacking Naqu. That night, the order to withdraw troops was secretly issued to the battalion. At dawn the next day, the army retreated thirty miles south, and then marched east to Gamuli.

However, the speed of the Tang army was beyond the estimation of the royal court of Luo and Shangren Gyatso.

When Shangren Gyatso led his army to gallop 500 li, and two days later it was only 50 li away from Gamuli, the vanguard of the Tang army had already occupied Gamuli Castle.

Built on the cliff of the Aza Pass in the Nianqing Tanggula Mountains, with only a narrow path leading to the castle, the castle is a stone fort city, which was originally built to store grain for the defense of highland wolves, and later became a military defense fort. Shangren Gyatso originally wanted to take advantage of the castle's easy-to-defend terrain and the abundance of food in the fort, so he held on to the danger and waited for the arrival of reinforcements from the Luo Dynasty to keep the Tang army out of the mountain pass. But at this time, the mountain pass had been lost, and with his existing strength of more than 50,000 people, to block more than 100,000 Tang troops in the plateau wilderness would be simply looking for death. Shangren Gyatso scolded angrily again, if it wasn't designed by the Tang Army, how could his 80,000 army lose so much in Qingtang? When he received the urgent order from Luo, he suddenly figured out why the Hexi army was not active in attacking Naqu City, that is, it was to consume the strength of them and the Qingtang army.

With a fierce wave of his whip, Shangren Gyatso ordered the whole army to turn, turned his horse south, took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain and took a shortcut to reach the town of Tashina before the Tang army.

Tashina is 190 miles from Gamuli in the east and 570 miles from Lam in the west, and the castle is built on a high hill, although it is not as dangerous as Gamuli Castle, but it is also conducive to defense. If Tashina were to be lost, there would be only one military town east of Rinzi, and the terrain of Rinzi was flat and not conducive to defense. It would be better to keep the Don army at Tashina. Compared with Gamuli is only a territory of a thousand households, Tashina's population is larger, it is a military town of 10,000 households, and there are 10,000 standing cavalry, if an emergency call order for the mobilization of the whole clan is issued, at least 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry can be summoned, plus his more than 50,000 soldiers, and more than 100,000 troops are stationed in Gaogang Castle, as long as it lasts for five or six days, the reinforcements of the western and southern lords recruited by the royal court can arrive.

To the relief of Shangren Gyatso, the Tang army did not attack Tashina immediately after capturing Gamuli, which gave them time to gather their troops.

Of course, Li Yuzhen did not understand military strategy, but he had to stop the army to recuperate.

In the previous battles, the Tang Army on the Eastern Road was all in a hurry to march and quickly fight to overcome the enemy, which was not difficult for the Xining Army to adapt to often trained in the Dafeichuan Heights, but it was a little unsuitable for the three forbidden armies of Zuo Shence and Zuo Longwu. Although they had spent the adaptation period of the plateau climate in Dafeichuan before the war, after more than a thousand miles of rapid marching and high-level attack in just a few days, even the iron men were too tired to rest, not to mention that this was a plateau with thin air. Nearly half of the forbidden army had already suffered from nausea and vomiting, headache and dizziness, numbness in the hands and feet, and weakness of different forms.

Li Yuzhen ordered the whole army to rest and recuperate, and moved the plateau with severe symptoms to the Lochin military town in the east of Gamuli to resettle, which is a river valley rich in barley, wheat, and soybeans, and the terrain is low, and the seriously ill soldiers can get better as long as they leave the plateau, and Lochin is the granary of the eastern part of Tibet, and more than 15,000 "seriously ill" people were moved over, just to strengthen the defensive forces there, and ensure the supply of grain and straw for the hundreds of thousands of attacking the Tibetan army; He also ordered that the soldiers with moderate symptoms on the plateau be placed in logistics, responsible for the transportation of grain, cattle, sheep, ordnance, as well as the maintenance of law and order in the occupied areas and the patrol of agricultural and pastoral areas. Those who are just chest tightness and shortness of breath and have mild symptoms will be alive again after resting for three or five days.

After a few days of resting and recuperating in the army, nearly 100,000 of the 140,000 forbidden troops were still able to march and fight, among which the medicine used by the Tai Medical Department to prevent and treat altitude sickness also played an effective role, otherwise there would be many more soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness. Li Yuzhen decided to make a credit to the Taiyi Department in the notebook, "Decades of hard work have not been in vain, and it is not in vain that the saint has invested so much money in the Taiyi Department." Li Zilan, who joined the army in the record room, wrote a notebook next to him, raised his eyes and smiled: "The saint is far-sighted. ”

"yes, it's a visionary." Li Yuzhen tapped his finger on Tai'a Jian and said, "Tubo is located on the snow-capped plateau, which has been a disaster for the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, but it relies on the plateau climate. Now that this benefit is not the disadvantage of the Tang army, the Fan army is not worried. ”

As he was talking, the guards outside the tent reported that King Deng was here.

Li Yuzhen smiled and said, "Zilan, you can lose." ”

Deng Wang Li Yihu is one of the generals of the Zuo Shence Unified Army, he was pushed out by the generals of the Unified Army to listen to the news, the army has been resting for three days, when did the marshal order the march?

Li Yuzhen made a bet with her secretary office to join the army yesterday, saying that the first person to come over must be King Deng. Sure enough, King Deng came. Li Zilan raised her head and made an expression of admitting defeat and gambling. She originally expected King Deng to be steady, and the first one to jump out of the roar would be the fierce and straightforward Zuolong Wu Tongjun and Wuxiang Hou Cheng Xiaorui, but she didn't expect Wuxiang Hou to hold back. Is this the majesty of Her Royal Highness the princess raised again? At the beginning, when the Marquis of Wuxiang discussed sending troops in Xining Dao, he was very fierce, saying that the army of Renzong was a rapid march to defeat Dafeichuan, and Xue Shouli, the governor of the expedition, became a prisoner of the Tubo people. That's right. However, after defeating Luo Qin, Wu Xianghou's voice seemed to be quieter. Li Zilan thought to herself that she should be a little convinced of the princess, so she stopped jumping out. It seems that Wuxianghou is not careless, and he also knows to push King Deng out.

King Deng is the third uncle of the princess, and he has always been close to the prince, so it is not good for others to come and ask the princess, but it is okay for King Deng to come and ask him.

King Deng entered the account and saluted, and said, "I heard that the Tibetan army is gathering tribal soldiers in Tashina, and some reinforcements are also coming to Tashina. Our army has rested in Gamuli for three days, and now there are still 70,000 or 80,000 people who can fight, so it should not be too difficult to attack Tashina before the arrival of Tibetan reinforcements. I wonder if the marshal has a plan and when he is ready to march? ”

"Don't worry, wait. Wait for Tasina to gather as many Tibetan troops as possible. Li Yuzhen said, "Our army attacked Tibet, not to defeat them, not to defeat them, not to defeat them, but to annihilate them with one blow!" If the Tibetan army is only defeated, it can hide in any highland mountain range or Maolin valley, and it will be able to jump again after seven or eight years. Even if we occupy Tibet, we will be caught up in one war after another in the near future. What our army wants to fight is not to win the battle, but to completely destroy them and eliminate the troubles of future generations. ”

King Deng was solemn, and as soon as he conveyed the meaning after going down, all the generals were secretly convinced. Yang Shuo, the head of the march of Xining Road, who was very senior in the army, said with some respect: "I thought that the princess was young and sharp, but I was still a little worried. Now it seems that it is a rare calm, far-sighted plan. Wait for a comparison, but it's been a long time old. The height is different, and the soldiers are also different. "All the generals said yes. Several commanders thought to themselves, that person would probably be their king in the future, and of course he would stand tall.

The lieutenant generals and commanders of the army unified their thoughts, and the impetuousness that bulged up like bubbles was calmed down.

Seven days later, the 100,000 Tibetan reinforcements sent to the east road -- half of which were logistical -- had arrived at Tashina, and Li Yuzhen ordered the whole army to set up camp, and the more than 4,000 people who had not yet disappeared from the altitude disease were stationed at Gamuli, and the remaining 120,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 Xining troops were marching towards Tashina.

At this time, Tashina had gathered 160,000 Tibetan troops, including 60,000 cavalry from the local tribal army, and more than 53,000 troops from Shangren Gyatso to attack the Qingtang Dynasty.

And from the Tang army's barracks, the news that "the army has withdrawn more than 40,000 soldiers to Xining Province because of the altitude sickness has been recuperated in Gamuli and has withdrawn more than 40,000 soldiers" was discovered by the Tubo people, which made Shangren Gyatso, Tashi Nawanhu, and the commander of the reinforcements, Tan Solang, all breathe a sigh of relief, as long as the Tang people do not adapt to the plateau, it will be easy to do, and they can fight this battle.

However, the Tang army was prestigious, and in the battle against the Tubo army, it had always won more with less. Even if Tubo defeated the Tang army's biggest victory, more than 100 years ago, the battle of Dafeichuan defeated the famous Tang general Xue Shouli, that was the 200,000 army defeated the Tang army's 50,000, this kind of disparity in soldiers can not make people proud at all. Now they only have 40,000 more soldiers than the Tang army, at most 50,000, and Shangren Gyatso really has no confidence in defeating the Tang army.

"Please ask the royal court to transfer some more troops, at least twenty ...... Fifty thousand, right? On Solang's tone was a little uncertain, in fact, he still wanted to ask for more, preferably 400,000, he felt that it was safer.

Tashi Nawanhu added with a sad face, "Three hundred thousand." ”

“…… I still want 400,000. "Shangren Gyatso doesn't have a good airway. He took 80,000 soldiers from Luo, and only 50,000 soldiers remained in the royal city, and they must not move a single one, and 50,000 cavalry from several lords in the south have been requisitioned to Ranwu Lake to block the Tang army of Jiannan Dao, and the royal court can still transfer more than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers? Thinking of this, he secretly scolded Kelsang Dama again, if it wasn't for the civil war for the position of Zampu, so many people would have been killed and wounded, and he wouldn't be worried about the strength of the army now.

"That's 400,000." On Solang, he waved his hand and picked up a brush to write a military letter.

Shangren Gyatso and Tashi Nawanhu glanced at each other and remained silent. They don't dare to open their mouths like this, it's naturally good to have this royal family speak, so they can ask for tens of thousands of more rides.

Before the letter had been received, Tashina had already started fighting.

Speaking of the Qingtang side, after Shangren Gyatso withdrew his troops, the Qingtang army was attacked by the Hexi army before it could take a breath.

This time, the Hexi Army is playing for real.

Compared with the Luo army, the Hexi army has siege weapons, stone throwing vehicles, large crossbow machines lined up, throwing stones and shooting crossbows a hundred steps away from the city, the Tubo soldiers on the city screamed in surprise, but the more they ran around, the faster they died, if they stuck to the wall and did not move, it was safe, but half of the defenders were women and children, and they had no experience in dodging the Tang people's siege weapons, and half of them died in fear.

"Ruined them! Ruined them! "Gesang Dama jumped in the city tower and urgently ordered the master to go out of the city and destroy the Tang army's stone carts and crossbow machines. However, they were blocked by the martial cavalry generals and martial cavalry generals of the Tang army, and the masters of the Qing Tang Dynasty had suffered many casualties because of the fight with the Luo army.

"Quick, quick, please send a mage to Grand Master Degongne, no, Master come over." Kelsang Dama sent people to ask the abbot of Jokhang Temple for help.

However, the Tibetan monks also suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Bowl Sect, more than 20 monks died in the Ascending Extreme Realm, nine monks in the Dongzhen Realm died, and the six temple protectors in the later stage of the Dongzhen Realm were killed and two were injured, and even the master of the congenital stage was seriously injured.

But the Qingtang side can't afford to protect it, and if the Qingtang King loses it, how can he fight against the Bowl Sect with some support?

Grand Master Degong quickly made a decision and decisively dispatched a Master of the Innate Stage of the Hidden Treasure and two Master of the Late Stage of the Cave True Realm. But as soon as these three appeared in the city, they heard three loud Buddha horns.

"Nan no Amitabha!"

Three yellow-clothed monks stepped out of the dense Tang army's infantry formation, and fell fifty steps away from the city, and the tall and thin round-faced monk in the lead said: "Tang Fanyin Temple, resentment, silence, and death, visit the Jokhang Temple's hidden master, King Kong Master." ”

The great monks of Buddhism are called masters, above the masters are masters, the acquired masters in the martial arts monks are called King Kong masters, and the innate masters are called masters.

There was silence both above and below the city.

Xiao Yan thought to himself, it is really a person's name, the shadow of a tree, as soon as "Fanyin Temple" comes out, it will be silent.

The martial arts masters of the Fanyin Temple rarely walk outside, and even if they travel, they often use pseudonyms, so the Fanyin Temple is very famous, but the grandmasters in the temple are not famous, however, the degree character generation is the congenital master, and the silent character generation is the acquired master, which is known to many people.

The faces of the three Tubo Grandmasters at the head of the city all changed.

Fanyin Temple is really in the Tang Army!

The dry voice of the head of the Fuzang master matched his skinny figure very well, "It's useless to talk more, let's find a place to see the real chapter." As he spoke, he jumped down into the city, and the two Vajra mages followed him.

The six grandmasters quickly disappeared outside the city and went to fight in the distance, otherwise the soldiers on both sides would suffer in the fight.

Xiao Yan looked regretful, this kind of grandmaster-level battle, even if you are a bystander, you can benefit immensely, it's a pity.

Her regret did not last long, as the Don army attacked again, and her attention shifted to the battlefield.

The author has something to say: Remarks:

Clerk's Office Joins the Army: Equivalent to an adjutant and secretary.

In other words, why is Tang Seng called Tang Sanzang, because he is a master of Sanzang and is proficient in Sanzang - Sutra Collection, Vinaya Collection, and Treatise Collection. The scriptures are Buddhist scriptures, the scriptures are called scripture masters, the Vinaya is the precepts of monks, and the monks who are proficient in the Vinaya are called lawyers. Writing a book to explain the meaning of the scriptures, or arguing the meaning of the scriptures, is called the Treatise on Tibet, and the Dharma Master of the Commentary is called the Commentator. So the lawyer in the Tang Dynasty refers to the monk.

What is hidden? Fu, is hidden (in the heart), or ambush (in a symbol, picture, or other incomprehensible way) hidden in a certain place, and the sutra (scripture). Fuzang is generally taught through guò empowerment, because what can be said is not the Tao, and it must be understood with the heart (somewhat similar to the Taoist 'Tao can be the Tao, the very Tao').

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