On the first day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Yuanhe, in the Chencang Road north of Dasanguan, a large-scale, complex, and chaotic team was moving forward as fast as possible.

In the middle and early part of the procession, two generals on horseback walked side by side, one of them dressed as a Tibetan general, and the other dressed as a standard Tang general.

"This is what you said is the best way to take the Chencang Road? That's all you say? ”

Facing the Tubo people with strong dissatisfaction and anger beside him, General Tang responded disapprovingly.

"Yes! It's already good, at least it can pass through the army, and it can support grain and grass and baggage. ”

"Are you embarrassed to say grain, grass and baggage? This broken road is stronger than the Taurus Road, but the strength is limited, and the key is to detour three or five hundred miles of road, three or five hundred miles! It's almost been around for an extra month! Do you know how much grain and grass an army of 500,000 needs to consume in a day? Do you know how much grain and grass an army of 500,000 needs to consume in a month? ”

The other party scolded and talked endlessly, but the Tang people beside him still didn't think so, and even brought a slightly mocking tone.

"This is Jiannan, here is Shannan, this is Qinling, but it is not the Eastern Border Road in the hands of the Jiedu Envoy, we are walking the Shu Road, and the Chencang Road is already the best part of the Shu Road!"

As he spoke, Tang Jiang cast his gaze over, looked at the other party with a puffed up look, tightened the reins, and then stretched out his fingers.

"Praise the slope!"

"Fu Luo Dao!"

"Meridian Road!"

"If you want to try it, I, Liu Bi, will definitely not stop it, but I can't stand Chen Cangdao in front of me, so I can only hehe."

"Humph! That's you Tang people, not our Tibetan warriors! ”

"Tibetan warriors? Hehe, the Praise Slope Road and the Meridian Road are just sheep intestine trails in the mountains, and the parallel between the two is delusional. ”

"Fu Luo Dao is honestly similar to Chen Cangdao, and has even become an official road, officials go to work, report on their work, and envoys go to envoys, mostly from this road, but also for this reason, the imperial court has set up a large number of forts and post stations along the way, and more importantly, the so-called easy walk is just relative, just that kind of place, even if there are dozens of people to defend ......"

With that, Don shook his head with a smile and turned around.

"Not to mention anything else, Nima Bazaar, just those three roads, it is already the limit to be able to reach three or five thousand people in a month, the question is, are we three or five thousand soldiers and horses, the Jiannan Army, the Tubo Army and the soldiers of Nanzhao, adding up to nearly 300,000 people, do not take the Chencang Road, are we going to starve these hundreds of thousands of troops to death?"

This time, the Tibetans were dumbfounded.

In fact, he also knows these truths, but although his status is high and his merits are not weak, he is still young after all, and his patience has almost been exhausted by Shu Dao for more than two months, and he is too late to wait for his destination.

"If the road is a little easier to walk for one day, we don't need three days to walk these dozens of miles of mountain roads, and now I'm afraid we will have already reached Weishui."

Looking at the angry Tubo people beside him, Liu Bi, the former Tang Dynasty Jiannanxi (East) Jiedu envoy, brought a smile.

Speaking of this Nima Bazaar, he is familiar with it after a few months of contact.

Although he is not very old, his intelligence and ability are rarely matched among the Tibetan people.

Attracting the attention of the main force of the Tang army head-on, and at the same time bypassing from the flank, after forcing himself to surrender, he used the Jiannan Tang Army to quietly go north, deceitfully open the Dasan Pass, and sneak attack the pass from Chencang Road, bypassing the complete Longshan defense line of the Tang Dynasty At the same time, the bottom of the kettle was drawn.

This whole set of strategies even Liu Pi has to say a word, if it weren't for such a set of plans that are not low in risk but have greater benefits, he would not be so easy to comply.

In addition, Nima Bazar is also the most fluent in Guanzhong among the Tubo people recognized by Liu Bi, and his Chang'an accent is even more standard than his own.

It's just that when he thinks of Nima Bazaar, Liu Bi always said that he would subconsciously think of the rumor between Jiannan and Qingtang.

Five years earlier, the Great War between the Tibetans and the Uighurs had been caused by jealousy between the Nyima Bazar, who had been exiled to Hebei Province, and Guo Rong, who was unknown at the time.

At first glance, this rumor is unrelated.

However, with the reopening of the Hexi Trade Road, Qiuzi was still in the hands of the Anxi Army, and such an earth-shattering news finally came back to Chang'an.

However, to everyone's surprise, this news that should be shocking did not cause any waves in Chang'an, you must know that twenty-five years ago, when he learned the news of the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army, Dezong promoted all the soldiers and horses left behind by the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army by seven levels.

Although Dezong in the past made a lot of fanfare, he did not pose any threat to Tibet in essence.

However, today's Emperor Taishang is not the favored eunuch and the fearless Dezong.

Compared with Dezong, who could be scared away by the Jingyuan army with 5,000 trapped horses, the current Emperor Taishang can be a ruthless man who can stand still under the siege of 60,000 elite Shence troops.

It's no wonder that the Tubo people would jump over the wall in such a hurry, even if they killed 800 enemies and lost 1,000 themselves, they would greatly hurt the vitality of the Tang Dynasty.

With the character, habits and style of the emperor today, it is obvious that he is holding back the big move, and if he doesn't make it, once it is used, Tubo will probably have the worry of losing the country.

Shook his head gently, those things have nothing to do with him, don't have any more conflicts with the Tubo people in front of him.

"Actually, it's okay, there are at most twenty miles, and we can get out of the Qinling Mountains and enter Guanzhong, and we will get to Guanzhong ......"

Just as Liu Pi began to appease Nima Bazar, a small team of scouts came to Nima Bazar and Liu Bi's side from the front of the entire team.

"Dashuai, we encountered the other party's scouts in front, and then there was a fierce battle, and through further advances, near the northern end of Chencang Road, we found traces of the Tang army......"

Before the situation was finished, the attention of Nima Bazaar, Liu Bi, and Minao Luodong, who had been fighting for a long time, who was mainly responsible for mediating the atmosphere from Nanzhao, was instantly attracted to it.

After the scout finished talking about the reconnaissance, Nima Bazar and Liu Pi glanced at each other, but after this glance, what the two saw from each other's eyes was not panic, but a relief.

After confirming that the other party's attitude was the same as his own, Nima Bazar and Liu Pi both breathed a sigh of relief, fighting this thing, they were not afraid of the other party's supergod, but they were afraid that they were super ghosts who were not even pigs on their side.

At this time, Nima Bazar no longer needed to talk about the bumpy Chen Cangdao in this rugged area, but asked directly.

"How many people are there in the Tang Army?"

Tang Jun?

Hearing Nima Bazar's inquiry, the scout, who was originally from the Jiannan Army, was stunned at first, and then there was a trace of loneliness on his face.

Tang Army, what a familiar and unfamiliar name, as the Tang Army and the Tubo people have fought for half a lifetime, I didn't expect that now, I have become an ally of burning and looting the Tubo people in Jiannan, but the confrontation is a serious Tang Army......

There is a way that the arms can't twist the thighs, although they have accepted the fact of betraying the Tang Dynasty, but the hearts of these Jiannan soldiers who have not been extinguished and the concepts of the Tang people have not been completely eliminated, are still full of responsible and tormented emotions.

This sudden silence made the whole scene seem extremely awkward.

Although Nima Bazar never took off the knife in his mouth when facing Liu Pi, all kinds of language of humiliation and sarcasm emerged in endlessly.

But that's just Nima Bazar beating Liu Bi, or reminding Liu Bi all the time, you have led the entire Jiannan Dao to defect, with Li Tang's treatment of this kind of traitor, there is a high probability that there is only one way to destroy the nine clans, you can't go back, you have only one choice, follow us Tubo people one way to the dark.

However, when facing ordinary soldiers of the Jiannan Army, Nima Bazar's performance was completely different from when he treated Liu Pi.

Although in Liu Pi's ears, he could always hear Nima Bazar raising the Tubo warriors and belittling the Jiannan Army, in fact, Nima Bazar, who had studied with the Tang people for five years, was far from being as frivolous and vain as he seemed.

Nima Bazar knew too well the strength of these Jiannan soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of these hard-working, hard-working, experienced, and powerful Jiannan soldiers was far from being able to reach the Tubo people in his hands.

Therefore, when facing the Jiannan soldiers, not only did he not be domineering, but he consciously avoided some words that would stimulate these Jiannan soldiers, and even asked the Tubo people to have any behavior that belittled these Jiannan soldiers.

It's just that, under the excitement, Nima Bazar still inadvertently got the pain point of the scout of the Jiannan Army in front of him, and for a while Nima Bazar didn't know how to ease the current atmosphere.

Fortunately, Liu Pi, who has been Wei Gao's deputy for more than ten years and has been the envoy of the Jiannanxi (East) Sichuan Festival for five years, is not as young as Nima Bazaar.

Seeing the performance of the scout, Liu Bi first stabilized his emotions, then took a breath of air, and finally said slowly.

"How many people are there in the court?"

The reason why Liu Pi used the soldiers and horses of the imperial court was because he raised troops, or attacked in the direction of Chang'an, the nominal reason was "Qingjun's side!" ”

The frequency of the three words "Qingjun side" in Chinese history is simply not too high.

Before Li Tang, Liu Han's reason for shouting out the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms" was "Qing Jun's side, kill Chao Wrong", but Chao Wrong is killed, and what should be messed up is still chaos.

In Li Tang, An Lushan and Shi Siming played the banner of "Qing Jun's side, hoe traitor" and rebelled, but Yang Guifei and Yang Guozhong were scolded, and those who rebelled still rebelled.

After Li Tang, King Zhu Mingyan also raised troops under the banner of "Qing Jun's side, Yasukuni is difficult", except for the traitors, but the one who should be the emperor is still the emperor.

For Liu Pi, the "Qingjun side" has also become the best reason for Liu Bi to convince himself, Hu Lane's subordinates, and talk about masturbation, as for the Jiannan Army of the "Qing Jun Side" Lake Lane who is unwilling to be deceived by Liu Pi, it is natural to see what will happen.

The sentence "Qingjun side" could not change the essence of Liu Pi's defection and rebellion, but it really allowed him to retain his strength to the greatest extent.

Similarly, although the soldiers and horses of the imperial court cannot essentially change the nature of the rebels and the identity of the traitors, they more or less give the scouts of the Jiannan Army a buffer room.

Sure enough, hearing such a statement as the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, the scouts of the Jiannan Army at least found a reason to comfort themselves.

"The number is unknown, but it should not be less than 10,000 people!"

With the information brought by the scout, Nima Bazar, Liu Pi, and Minao Luodong fell into deep thought at the same time.

Although the battle was dragged on for a day because of the defenders of Dasanguan, the anti-Tang coalition army did not waste time, and it was only three days from the end of the battle at Dasanguan to now.

Three days was strictly speaking, not enough for any Tang army to appear in Chencang Road to stop them.

However, the scout in front of them had clearly told them that less than twenty miles in front of them, a Tang army of more than 10,000 men had arrived there.

Although this kind of thing sounds a little bizarre, judging from the possibility, there is only one possibility of the source of this Tang army, that is, the forbidden army stationed in Chencang, which is only a hundred miles away from Dasanguan.

After a little pondering, it was only fifty miles from Chencang City to the location of the exit at the northern end of Chencang Road, and if the forbidden army attacked immediately after getting the news of the loss of Sanguan and went up the Weishui Shuo River, it was indeed possible to arrive at the position mentioned by the scout within three days.

"Liu Shuai, are you sure that your imperial court didn't hide from you that you left such a group of soldiers and horses on the edge of Weishui in advance?"

Listening to Nima Bazaar's inquiry, a smile appeared on the corner of Liu Bi's mouth.

"No, the Bai Wan army on the east and west sides, the forbidden army that Chang'an has just formed has been sent to various battle points, and they simply don't have extra troops to put in such an uncertain position."

"What's more, the team composed of my own soldiers who pretended to be messengers returned from Chang'an, and they can be sure that from Chang'an City to Dasanguan, only Chen Cang has the 20,000 forbidden troops of the Emperor Taishang."

It's just that for the behavior of the other party's forbidden army, Liu Pi, Nima Bazaar, and even as the mascot Luo Dong felt excited.

The reason is very simple, the fighting power and will to fight of the forbidden army are dispersing, and they have fully understood it.

In the case of a pure sneak attack, he was still delayed by the other party for nearly a day, and he suffered a battle loss of 1 to 3 or even 1 to 4, and the huge losses almost caused Liu Pi and Nima Bazar to directly fight among themselves.

Although no one said it, they all knew that if they didn't sneak attack, even if they sent all the 300,000 coalition troops in, they might not be able to take Sanguan.

And Sanguan only has a mere 6,000 forbidden troops, and Chen Cang can be said to have a full 20,000 forbidden troops!

Although they don't know what confidence that forbidden army has, they dare to take risks and go into battle alone, and their fat arms block the car, but they don't care.

A field battle against the other party's elite forbidden army on the bank of Weishui is much simpler than eliminating these elite forbidden troops in Chencang City, and as for the rest, it doesn't matter.

If it is in a relatively open place, both Nima Bazar and Liu Pi believe that although the forbidden army is strong, it can only be one enemy and two enemies.

If the other party held Chencang City with 20,000 elites, on the basis of the blessing of the Emperor Taishang, even if the 300,000 troops at hand besieged it, Nima Bazar and Liu Bi were not sure that they would take it in a short time.

Now, the other party took the initiative to come from Chencang to the bank of Weishui, and the soldiers and nobles obviously did it quickly, but there is always a price for military battles.

In their opinion, the forbidden army that came in a hurry must not be able to maintain the peak condition!

As the scouts of the Jiannan Army left, Nima Bazar and Liu Bi no longer quarreled, but began to seriously discuss how to keep the other party's elite forbidden army in Weishui.

The purpose of the opposing army's war is obviously to prepare for a sneak attack when the coalition forces are not firmly established.

In this case, soon, the two reached a consensus that if the other party fights, then they can slow down, on the one hand, to save their physical strength, and on the other hand, so that the follow-up soldiers and horses can continue to pass through the pass.

The other party's forbidden army is very powerful, but their number is limited after all, and more importantly, the anti-Tang coalition army is also elite, not the kind of cannon fodder that can be killed with a charge, even if the forbidden army can fight two, one fight three, even if it is one dozen four, it can't do one dozen ten!