Before Princess Jinyang led the army to defeat Tashina, although the royal court of Luo was in a hurry, it was not yet at such a critical time as the country was ruined. Because from Danba Osong down, no minister thinks that the Tang people have the heart to occupy Tibet: compared with the Tang Dynasty, what advantage do the Tang people have in this bitter cold land of Tibet? They all believed that the Tang people's attack on Tibet, as before, was to extort their money and occupy their land, so that they could spend more money to redeem them.

But after the Tang army defeated Tashina, Luo Shi woke up and down: The Tang people are going to destroy their Tibet!

Faced with the fact that the Qing and Tang Dynasty had lost and Tasina had lost hundreds of thousands, the powerful people became cowardly, feeling that the "geographical advantage" of the Tibetan Plateau could no longer stop the murderous Tang army, so they moved the capital one after another. Where to move? Of course, it is the vast western Zhangxiong, which can give people a sense of security.

But many powerful people are not happy, especially those big nobles whose family business has been in Luo for generations, who wants to go to Zhangxiong, a place where thousands of miles of people are uninhabited? If Tubo is a bitter cold place in the eyes of the Tang people, then Zhangxiong is the "Tubo" in the eyes of the Luo people, and not many people are willing to leave the prosperous place of the national capital - compared to other places in Tubo, it is extravagant and prosperous; There are also some people who think that if they abandon the national capital, the hearts of the people will be scattered, and the tribes will be divided, and it will be difficult to recover the lost territory in the future. Both factions persuaded Danba to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty, and it was a big deal to cut the land and lose money.

The pros and cons quarreled in the main hall.

In the end, what made Danba decide to stick to the national capital was the words of the Dharma King, who said: The Tang army came from afar, it was already a tired division, and it could not endure a long battle, on the contrary, the Tubo army waited for work, and when the Tang army was not stable, the surprise attack on the Tang army would be victorious, so the morale of the Tang army would be discharged, and the morale of the Tubo army would be strong; Second, the city walls are thick, both sides are built by the mountains, good for defending the city but not conducive to attacking the city, if the Tubo army loses the field battle, with the city wall can also hold on, the grain stored in the city and the cattle and sheep of various tribes are enough for the 250,000 army in July and August, as long as it holds until November, the weather is very cold, the Tang army will not be able to fight this battle, and it will have to retreat if it does not retreat.

His Holiness expressed his determination to live and die with the capital of the country, which made the young prince Danba's blood soar. The words of this Sangga Dharma King are extremely tempting, and they cannot and cannot prevent Tenzin Ji from destroying the Buddha. Because of the position of this Dharma king, some wavering ministers also firmed up, after all, it is best not to abandon the country, how can the desolate place in the west be compared with Luo Ji?

But there are still people who have abandoned and run away - the leader is the second prince Osong.

He had already been persuaded by the powerful people who supported him: if Logica held on, Danba's prestige would increase, and Zampu would not have his share, so it would be better to take advantage of Danba's inability to take advantage of Danba's inability to take his men and horses to occupy a good place and accumulate strength to fight Danba; In case the country was broken by the Tang army, then he took the tribe away, and he also left a fire for Tubo, and the great task of reviving the dynasty in the future will be on his "Osong Zampu".

As soon as Osong left, he took with him 40,000 or 50,000 troops and tribes who supported him. These 40,000 or 50,000 people did not go to Zhangxiong, but to the Yalong River valley south of the Tibetan River, which was the origin of the Yalong tribe of the Tibetan Dynasty, with a mild climate and fertile soil. He led 30,000 or 40,000 people out of the city with wagons and horses loaded with goods and food, but of course he could not go quietly. When Danba heard the report, his eyes were red with anger, and he was about to send troops to stop him.

The Great Minister Wei Jie Yixi persuaded him, saying that the hearts of these people had been divided, and if they did not stay together, they might become a scourge; Besides, the Tang army is about to fight, so don't fight your own people at this time, save the loss of men and horses, and wait for the Tang army to be repulsed, and then settle accounts with the second prince.

Danba listened to his advice, but sent troops to withhold Osong's grain, leaving him only four or five carts, for a very grand reason: the coward wanted to leave, and the grain should be left for the purpose of defending the city. These grains are Osong's "family food", including the grain of the accompanying tribes, all belong to him, the great lord, according to the system of the palace can not be forcibly requisitioned, but at this time Osong can only pay grain, otherwise it will cause anger in the city, should take the grain to buy the road, he thought angrily in his heart. Danba felt very happy, although he was pulled away by his wolf-hearted younger brother 20,000 troops, but at the same time there were 50,000 fewer people to eat, and more than 100 carts of food, which was still very cost-effective.

Within two days of Osong's departure, the Tang army on the east road drove to the foot of the city.

At the bereavement of King Sangjiafa, Danba sent 50,000 cavalry to raid when the Tang army was camping. However, the Tang army had already prepared, and the 30,000 Longwu army defeated the Tubo army at a disadvantage. Seeing that the situation in the city was not good, he sent 50,000 cavalry, which was intercepted by the 30,000 troops of the Tang army, and the Tubo army was divided into several strangles and strangled while fighting, and the city immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops. More than 100,000 troops fought fiercely in the eastern wilderness from morning to afternoon, and by the time the Tibetans retreated, the Tang army's camp had been set up in an orderly manner.

The first strategy of the Tubo army failed, and the royal court realized that it was probably not advantageous to fight with the Tang army in the field, because only 50,000 of the 230,000 troops in the city were standing troops, and the others were all temporarily conscripted, and they had no experience in battle. Although he felt that the cavalry was very aggrieved to be used as infantry, the royal court had no choice but to adopt the second strategy that King Sangafa said - to defend the city.

But what made the Tubo people strange was that the Tang army did not immediately attack the city, and until the Hexi army also camped in the north of the city, the Tang army still did not attack the city.

Some of the ministers of Tubo were overjoyed, feeling that the Tang people did not want to attack the city, but wanted to use the siege to threaten the royal court to get more benefits. Danba was said to be moved, so he sent envoys to the Tang Army's East Camp for peace talks - Princess Jinyang was in the East Camp, and of course the peace talks had to find the right master.

Princess Jinyang sent Chinese soldiers to join the army, Li Kuang met with the envoys, and the conditions for peace talks were very simple: surrender, go to the dynasty, and serve the Tang Dynasty as the master.

Danba is angry, you can cut the land, you can lose money, you can't surrender, after "going to the dynasty", will they still be in Tibet? In a fit of rage, the peace talks were closed, and the Tang people will fight if they want to, see how long you can fight!

This strange quiet day made many generals of the Tang army puzzled, when the marshal tent was discussed, Princess Jinyang did not set the date of the siege, only said that "the armies are waiting for the siege order", but five days have passed since the military meeting, all the armies have been properly deployed, and the Tubo people are not stubborn to the end, why did the marshal not give the order to attack the city?

Zhujun muttered in his heart, but Princess Jinyang was very stable, and when she met Wuxianghou who was in a hurry to ask for battle, she only said, "Don't worry, wait", if it weren't for the fact that her prestige in the army had accumulated, the voice of asking for war would not be suppressed.

A few more days passed in "wait".

On this night, when the moon was overcast and the stars were twinkling in the sky, Princess Jinyang took a dozen guards and a Taoist with a high crown to climb a mountain peak thirty miles northwest of Luoqi City.

Several guards and a Taoist servant were carrying torches, Princess Jinyang and the Dao man stood on the protruding rocks on the mountain, all looking up at the starry sky, no one spoke, and under the mountain wind, everyone's clothes were blown to a loud noise.

At midnight, a meteor came from the east, streaked across the city of Rakha, and landed on a hill more than 150 miles to the west.

The Taoist in Tsing Yi stretched out the torch forward, and the Taoist looked down at the astrolabe in his hand, and after a long time, he raised his head and said to Princess Jinyang: "Yingfu stayed in the well for more than a month, and broke into the ghost house until night. If the corpse is piled up, there will be a movement of the earth; The guest star enters the West Hill, where the earth moves, one hundred and fifty or sixty miles from east to west. ”

Li Yuzhen looked at the place where the stars fell, and then looked back at Luo Qicheng, and the cool voice seemed cooler in the wind, "I don't know if it's east or west?" ”

The man smiled, "What difference is there between the east and the west?" "Together, the earth will be used by this princess, both in and out of the city, but it is only a slight change in the rhetoric that is spread.

Li Yuzhen's expression remained unchanged, and he said, "Mr. Yunjing, can you move the ground?" ”

Yun Jing looked up at the starry sky, looked down at the astrolabe again, and said for a while: "The corpse is shallow, and the heavenly corpse is not a serious disaster." ”

"That's good."

Cloud Mirror smiled, "The princess is merciful. ”

Li Yuzhen said in a light voice: "God has the virtue of a good life, and it is of course good to be able to die fewer people." ”

There are hundreds of thousands of people in the city, it doesn't matter if the powerful people die, those people are dead, who will do the farming and animal husbandry business, can they move people from the Central Plains? Don't laugh, someone is willing to move to this place in Tibet?

Yun Jing touched his beard, of course it is good to have fewer dead people, everyone is dead, what is the Daomen doing here, preaching to a herd of cattle and sheep?

In the early morning of the next day, Marshal Du issued a siege order, ordering all armies to fight, and at the second or third moment, he saw that the rockets of the East Battalion were launched, and the armies set off to attack the city.

It's finally time to attack the city! The Tang army was very excited, and at the first moment, the soldiers of each battalion were fully dressed in armor and sat in the camp tents, waiting for the rallying horn to sound.

Towards midnight, someone felt the ground tremble slightly, and the soldier who said this at first was teased, but after a while, more and more people felt the ground moving. There was a great deal of discussion in the tents. Someone said in a panic: "Could it be that the earth dragon turned over?" "The folk call the earth movement the earth dragon turnover. As the ground trembled, many soldiers panicked, they were not afraid of war, but they were afraid of natural disasters!

The army reacted quickly, immediately sounded the trumpet, and ordered the whole army to assemble - it was safest to stay in an open place when the ground moved, and this was known to the generals.

When the Tang army ran out of the camp and gathered at the school field of their respective camps, because they saw that the generals were calm and calm, the panicked soldiers also settled down.

Soon, there was a herald from the Marshal of the Chinese army to gallop to all the armies: "There is an earthquake in the city. ”

After the news reached the battalions in the army, the soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then the earth-shattering cheers erupted.

God bless the Tang Dynasty!

Although the Tang army was convinced that they could defeat Luo and did not need heaven's help, before the siege of the city, God suddenly sent disaster to the Tubo people, and Luo moved inside the city, doesn't this mean that God's will is in the Tang Dynasty? !

Providence is a very mysterious, unpredictable thing, and many times it is stored in people's hearts, which makes people awe-inspired. But as long as you believe that it exists, you can generate infinite power, or be crushed by it. At this moment, Tang Jun is convinced that the will of heaven is on his side, and the morale that bursts out can almost rise to the sky.

Xiao Yan felt a momentum at this moment, it was an invisible qi, because of the accumulation of beliefs, forming an unstoppable murderous aura. The autumn knife at her waist seemed to resonate with this momentum, and the blade snapped softly in its sheath. This sound was very slight, let alone in the earth-shattering cheers, but Xiao Yan heard it, not only did she hear the trembling of the autumn water knife, but she also heard the trembling of countless knives and guns on the school field. They are all inanimate objects, but at this moment they seem to be "alive". Xiao Yan's eyes flickered, remembering what her mother said, "Everything has a sight, hearing and perception, this means that all things have a spirit", she faintly realized something, and held the hilt of the knife in her hand, as if she could feel its joy and desire to fight.

Autumn water, it has not been out of the sheath for a long time.

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There was already panic in the city, the ground was shaking, the houses were collapsing, people were running out of their houses, screaming in panic, people were crushed by fallen wooden beams or stones, people were still wailing, because of the earthquake the corrals and stables were also broken, and the frightened herds of cattle, sheep and horses were running in all directions, causing even greater chaos.

As the requisitioned armies and the tribes to which these armies belonged moved into the city, nearly 400,000 men were added at once, and although the capital of the country was built very large, and the circumference of the four cities was fifty li, which could accommodate so many people, but these 400,000 people came in, and the houses were certainly not inhabitable, and there were tents erected everywhere, connected together, and when an earthquake came, the collapse of one tent often pressed down on the others, although compared with the collapse of houses, felt tents crushed very few people, unless they were very unfortunate to be crushed by wooden pillars, But the horror is not diminished. In particular, after the herds of cattle, sheep and horses rushed out, they rushed and trampled in all directions, knocked down tents, injured countless people, and killed many cattle in collisions with each other.

In fact, the ground movement is not strict, the houses built are not collapsed, and the buildings of the royal palace are even stronger, only shaken a few times, but because of the violence of livestock. Chaos, the palace and the city have become a wild beast, usually docile lambs have also become fierce beasts that collide with people, only spears and swords pierced, can stop them, those crazy yaks are to be killed by the joint efforts of several Tibetan soldiers, many people did not die from the earthquake, but died from the yak and horses under the gallop.

The army was dispatched to stop the herds and try to drive them back to the corrals, but it was harder than killing them. The palace was also full of horses and sheep, because the stables and sheep pens in the palace were also damaged, and even the masters of the "Zampu Guard" were dispatched to drive these crazy horses and sheep back and lock them up.

The earth movement lasted only two quarters of an hour, but the city had become a bloody field, mostly the blood of livestock, and dead cattle, horses, and sheep everywhere. And when the hearts of the people in the city were not settled, the Tang army attacked the city!

"Sacrifice people, heaven will punish unkindness!"

"The bowl teaches blasphemy, and the heavens punish you!"

"Heavenly Punishment Bowl Sect! Heaven punishes Tibet"

"God bless Datang, Datang will win!"

Under the eastern and northern cities, several teams of the besieging Tang army shouted in unison in Tubo.

The voice reached the city, and the faces of the Tibetan soldiers in the city changed.

Bowl sacrifices and witch divination are sacrificed with blood, sometimes with the blood of livestock, sometimes with slaves or prisoners of war, and often with human sacrifices in wartime. One of the reasons for the conflict between Tibetan Buddhism and the Bowl Religion is its opposition to human sacrifice. However, this custom has been practiced for a long time in Tibet, and Buddhism has worked hard over the years to change the sacrifice of slaves by some nobles and replace them with live cattle and sheep. But heavy sacrifices, such as pre-war witches, were still sacrificed to slaves.

As soon as the Tang army roared like this, the Tubo soldiers at the head of the city thought of the ground movement that had just happened in the city, and they thought of "heavenly punishment", and no one doubted this. The earth moves in people's hearts, and it is originally a punishment from heaven. It's just a matter of punishment, and it's up to the soul winners. At this time, as soon as the Tang army shouted, "Take people as sacrifices, and heaven will punish you unkindly", and many Tubo soldiers believed it; Even if you don't believe it, you think that there must be some other place that has angered the heavens, otherwise how could the heavens and the earth move? The Tang army roared "God bless the Tang Dynasty", many Tubo soldiers also believed it, otherwise how could they send disasters to Luo some cities when the Tang army attacked the city?

The defenders were distraught.

The Tang army believed in the will of heaven, and the Tibetan people believed in the will of heaven even more, and the more the ritual and law civilization were reached, the more they believed in the doctrine of heaven's will, ghosts and gods.

The Tibetan people are not afraid of war, the more harsh the environment, the more tenacious the temperament of the people, even in the face of the powerful Tang army attacking the city, the vast majority of the Tubo army has the will and courage to defend the city, but the providence makes them afraid. Heaven destroyed their belief in the Bowl Religion because of the punishment sent down by the Bowl Sect, of course, they could not doubt the gods, but the Tang Army's roar of "Bowl Religion blaspheming the gods" made them doubt the Bowl Religion, and some people remembered the words of Buddhism criticizing the Bowl Religion......

There are still many of the Tibetan soldiers in the city who believe in Buddhism, because their lords believe in the bowl religion and they must follow the lord, but many of the nobles believe in religion related to interests, unlike the soldiers who believe in religion is very simple. Under the panic of "Heaven punishes Tibet", these soldiers who believed in Buddhism immediately broke out their dissatisfaction with the Bo Sect in their hearts, attacked the Bo Sect, and became the driving force behind the collapse of the Tubo army's belief in the Bo Sect...... The people in the city were in turmoil, and there were not many people who had the will to fight.

The Tang army began to attack the city with its towering nest carts, and only scattered arrows fell from the city.

Several Tang army troops under the city continued to shout slogans that confused the defenders. Shouting such a neat slogan in the Tibetan language is obviously not because of the temporary movement in the city, at least it will take a few days of training! Many generals have suddenly understood what Princess Jinyang said, "Don't worry, wait", dare to wait for this place to move!

Of course, the generals would not think that Princess Jinyang was a god-man of the unknown prophet. Because Datang is easy to learn and prosperous, some easy to learn people are proficient in astrology and divination, and it is not a miracle to be able to know the movement of floods and earth. Princess Jinyang must be around the army with the army, and it is determined that there is a movement in the ground today, but it can be so accurate, not only the time and place are accurate, but also the vibration will not affect the Tang army camp - otherwise the commander of the Chinese army would have ordered the large army camp to move back - this must be the most powerful figure in the elephant number family, I don't know if it is the "three heroes of the elephant number" of the Taishi Bureau, or the "Mr. Guanyun Er" of the Daomen, or which one of the "non-ignorant and thoughtful" of Buddhism?

The elephant number guessed by the generals is drinking tea with a female Taoist priest with a sandal-crowned monk and a monk wearing a half-worn monk's robe on the hillside at the moment. The monk smiled and said, "Yunjing's Yi Dao has improved again. ”

Yun Jing said very modestly: "Heaven is constant, my generation is just a glimpse of a mirror." ”

The monk said: "Heaven is constant, but it is profound, and the one I diligently seek is nothing more than two words." ”

The sandal-crowned woman smiled and bowed, "The master is good." ”

After drinking the third cup of tea, the monk smiled and said, "Today's battle is not a military battle. It's time for us to go. ”

The sandal-crowned woman got up with a smile and bowed, "Master, please." ”

Yun Jing stood up and saluted, and watched a group of yellow-clothed monks and a group of green-robed Taoist priests drifting down the mountain, as for him, a "Wen Taoist" who only cultivated Taoist scriptures and Yi, it was safer to hurry back to the Chinese army camp.

The author has something to say: Remarks:

Yingfu: It is Mars, and the ancients called Yingfu.

Ancient Chinese astronomers divided the stars in the southern middle sky into 28 groups, which are a circle of stars distributed along the ecliptic (the great circle where the orbital plane of the earth revolves around the sun and intersects with the celestial sphere), called the 28 nakshatras, which are divided into four groups, that is, the familiar four elephants and four beasts, that is, the green dragon in the east, the vermilion bird in the south, the Xuanwu in the north, and the white tiger in the west, each group has seven constellations.

Among them, Jingsu and Onijuku are both the Seven Suzaku (Suzaku) in the south, and the Ijuku is the first of the seven Suzaku in the south. Four of the seven stars belong to what is now called Cancer, the stars are dark, and there is a star cluster in the middle, which is white like powder, which can be seen in the night, which is called the accumulation of corpse gas. When Mars passes through the ghosts, it is what the ancients called "the accumulation of corpses" - it is said that during the Wenchuan and Yushu earthquakes, there were this astrological signs.

By the way, it is easy to learn, easy to learn is very broad and profound, and astronomy and geography and water conservancy in ancient China are all branches of easy learning. Predicting natural disasters from the way of astrology and divination is a very profound truth, and of course there are very few people who can master this. People like Zhuge Liang, Yuan Tiangang, Li Chunfeng, Chen Jun, and Liu Bowen are all easy to learn elephant numbers. The most famous astronomer of the Tang Dynasty was the monk Yixing who was proficient in Yi Xue, and in ancient times, monks and Taoists had to ask for help in water control, because they studied Yi Xue and understood geography and feng shui. As for the "Book of Changes" interpreted by Confucius, it is mainly the scriptures, which talks about the principles of heaven, earth and man, and Fuxi's "Yi", Xia Yi, Shang Yi, and Zhou Yi, which mainly talk about the rules of heaven and earth, which are different, so the ancient study of Yi is not necessarily Confucianism.

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