Since the envoys of Nanzhao left Chengdu Mansion, they have hurried back to Nanzhao along the way, wearing stars and moons, but brought the worst news.

The insulted envoy cried and complained about how Tang Joseon Yu Zhongtong's arrogant and unreasonable attitude insulted Nanzhao and the king, and then beat himself up and expelled him from Chengdu Mansion.

Ge Luo Feng was the second king of Nanzhao, and after only three years in office, his father defeated the other five edicts and founded the Pi Luo Pavilion of the Nanzhao Kingdom. When Ge Luofeng ascended the throne, he was already thirty-six years old, he put the Nanzhao governance in an orderly manner, Ge Luofeng has been smart since he was a child, can be literate and martial, good at planning and decisive, quite a generation of Ming Jun's actions and bearing.

Ge Luofeng sat on the dragon chair, supported his head with his right hand, and thought to himself: My father worked hard to create this majestic Nanzhao Kingdom in the southwest, and often said in his ear: "Our Nanzhao was ordained by the Tang Dynasty, and we should drink water and think of the source. Datang is a very powerful country, with millions of elite soldiers, thousands of fierce generals, a population 100 times that of our Nanzhao, advanced agriculture, rich products, can only be cited as foreign aid, not hostile to it, and the enemy will have endless troubles. Remember! Remember! ｣

It's just that people are not as good as heaven, and it has only been three years since my father died, and my Nanzhao Kingdom is about to be the enemy of the Tang Dynasty. That's not what I wanted!

The frontier officials who only hate the Tang Dynasty are too shameless, not only corrupt and ask for bribes, but also greedy for flowers, and even repeatedly sent people to Taihe City to slander and slander, Ge Luofeng thought: Is it tolerable, which is unbearable, endure to the limit, there is no need to endure it anymore, if a king is insulted by this, can not retaliate, dare not make a difference, then this throne will not be stable for a long time.

Although my Nanzhao is small, it is not a small country without a strategy to resist the enemy, and it is a small country waiting to be killed.

Ge Luofeng thought to himself: "Although I have already sent my imperial brother Bo to Tibet and establish a good relationship with Tibet, if this Xian Yu Zhongtong does not allow me to ask for peace with the Southern Zhao, I will return the whole country to Tubo, and when the swords and soldiers meet in the future, there will be a strong foreign aid. ｣

Ge Luofeng soothed the envoys with kind words, gave them some rewards, and told them to go down.

Ge Luofeng was not discouraged, and sent two groups of envoys to Chengdu Mansion one after another, and he would not start the war lightly until the last moment.

Even so, Ge Luofeng also made the worst plan, he called Qiao Yingchang, who was also the internal calculation official (the internal calculation officer was the official in charge of secrets and the most powerful among the six Qing Ping officials), to meet with the generals of Nanzhao and discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy.

All the generals of Nanzhao knew that the Tang Dynasty did not allow peace, and the crowd was indignant, saying that the Tang Dynasty was too deceitful, and they were willing to lead the troops to meet the attack, and they were determined to fight to the death with the Tang soldiers. Only Qiao Yingchang, the official of Qingping, stood aside and did not say a word.

Qiao Yingchang is more than 70 years old, before assisting Pi Luo Ge for decades, even won the trust of Pi Luo Ge, but also before the collapse of Pi Luo Ge, the assistant minister of the Tuo Gu, protégé of the old officials, all over the court, the prestige is high, when the dynasty is the first, his people are calm and strategic, loyal to the country, is the most relied on minister of the two generations of Nanzhao lords.

Ge Luofeng saw that Qiao Yingchang didn't speak, so he asked, "Qiao Qing has any strategy to break the enemy, I hope Aiqing can teach him." ｣

Qiao Yingchang twisted his white beard and said, "I have prepared a plan to break the Tang Army, but I am just thinking about how to deploy troops!" Who needs to be selected for the big job? ｣

Ge Luofeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly went down the steps and said, "Aiqing, please make it clear. ｣

Qiao Yingchang said slowly: "The Tang army was recruited from all over the world and formed in a hurry, so if the soldiers are not accustomed to the generals, they will not know the soldiers, and they will be defeated. I have found out that the Tang army is each of the main generals of each province to lead their own army, and the soldiers and generals are not subordinate to each other, and the horse soldiers and foot soldiers are unified by each other, rather than being uniformly distributed and used. Betraying benevolence, sacrificing faith and righteousness, raising an unknown teacher, and cutting down benevolence with non-benevolence, this is also a defeat of three people. Xian Yu Zhongtong is greedy and narrow-minded, greedy is unwise, violent is not convinced, narrow-minded and prone to civil strife, and this is also defeated. Although there are few soldiers in our Nanzhao, the soldiers are fierce and have strong reinforcements outside, and it is easy to break the Tang army. ｣

Ge Luofeng rejoiced in his heart and said, "What is the strategy to defeat the enemy? May you be prepared for details. ｣

Qiao Yingchang said: "The Tang army is strong, I will not fight hard with the Tang army first, resist one by one, and lure the Tang army into the depths of the country. I have long known the character and temper of the leading general of the Tang Army. That's all it takes..."

Ge Luofeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and handed over the task of dispatching the generals to defend against the enemy to Qiao Yingchang, while he went to wait for the news of sending envoys and arranged the upcoming battle with Feng Luohao, the general of the Taihe City Garrison.

On the eighth day of the ninth month, the entourage returned to Taihe City with the head of the envoy, Ge Luofeng knew that there was no hope of peace, so he summoned the generals and buried the head of the envoy ceremoniously, arousing the hearts of the generals of Nanzhao to hate the enemy, Ge Luofeng swore that the blood debt would be repaid, and Xian Yu Zhongtong would pay the price of blood.

The fire of revenge is burning every Nanzhao general, and all the Nanzhao generals secretly swear in their hearts that the Tang Dynasty will pay tens of millions of Tang Dynasty elite soldiers for their barbaric and rude behavior, and they will die in a foreign land and be buried in the jungles and mountains of the southern country...

The Southern Route Army of the Tang Dynasty attacked Nanzhao from the southeast, although the distance was the farthest, but the action was the most rapid. Along the way, there was no trace of the enemy, and the people in the towns along the Nanzhao road fled, and the ten rooms were empty.

The terrain of Nanzhao is mountainous, but not very high, woods and grasses, all over the border, the rivers are mostly north-south, the inhabitants are mostly the Bai nationality and the indigenous peoples of Wuman, although the country is not long, but the two lords are benevolent and righteous kings, the people are supportive, although the southern indigenous peoples are relatively short, but brave and warlike, jumping and flexible, resolute character, quite strong, because the mountains and forests are all over, the mountain roads are rugged, so the soldiers are mostly foot soldiers, good at climbing mountain rocks, walking mountain roads, due to the terrain, Nanzhao cavalry is not rare.

The South Route Army marched to Hepuchuan, and the spies finally came to the enemy's tracks, and there were Nanzhao soldiers and horses in front of them, blocking the way. Wang Xuan, the general of the Qianzhong Provincial Army, the vanguard of the Southern Route Army, was a cautious man, and personally led 10,000 soldiers and horses to the enemy.

Although the name of Hepuchuan is Sichuan, it is actually a large plain in front of it, and a place in the vast forest in the back, and the Southern Zhao army formed a formation with its back against the forest, blocking the way of the Tang army.

The Tang Army's forward leader arrived, and saw Nanzhao's back to the forest, and the strength of the troops could not be known. Wang Xuan ordered the forward general Wu Daoyuan to shoot the position, and did not fight, looking at the Nanzhao army from a distance, waiting for the main force to come.

Not long after, Wang Zhijin and Ming Xiang led more than 20,000 soldiers from Jiangnan West Road to Hepuchuan.

The two sides lined up in a circle, the governor of Nanzhao's southern court, the general Long Shengyue slowed out on horseback, only to see him wearing a black gold beast helmet, wearing a soap robe and black gold armor, pedaling eagle's beak cloud root boots, holding a Zhu Yingmo rod, and a purple and black Xuan ice horse under his crotch, tall and mighty, very different from the ordinary people in the south.