Crusade against Nanzhao - mountain roads and dangerous roads to kill 1
Because of the suppression of bandits, Bai Shuixiu has always been kind to Peng Yangang and Hun Ying, and he just heard Hun Ying's question, so he replied forward.
Li Fei stepped forward and interjected, "How do you say this? 」
Bai Shuixiu coughed dryly and continued, "The number of regular soldiers has been reduced too much, and the enemy is prone to suspicion, so I will be more careful to take precautions!" Too many strange soldiers are easy to leak and hide, and it is not easy to achieve the effect of surprise attacks. What's more, this mountain road is difficult to walk, our army is numerous, and it is in a state of marching, if there is a scheme, what should we do? The commander-in-chief does not know the art of war, if the enemy does not ambush, it is a great luck, if the enemy ambushes here, we are all turtles in the urn. 」
Peng Yangang, Hun Ying, and Li Fei all felt quite reasonable, and said as they walked that the guard had arrived on the bank of Jinxi, there was a small wooden bridge on the stream, and hundreds of soldiers of the guard army had crossed the river, and Tian Dawei, the deputy envoy of Shannan Xidao Observation and the commander of the guard, had also crossed the bridge, and the rest of the soldiers would cross the bridge one after another. Suddenly, I heard a muffled sound in the distance ahead.
After a while, I suddenly heard the roar of people and horses, and the sound of swords, guns and blades intersecting.
I saw that there were countless soldiers on the other side of the river to kill, and the Tang soldiers who had just crossed the river were in a hurry, and they rushed forward one after another.
Hun Yang and Peng Yangang and others were still in the north of Jinxi and had not yet crossed the stream, and they were terrified when they saw that the Tubo soldiers were about to come down like broken bamboos, but they didn't know how many Tubo soldiers came across Jinxi, and they didn't know what to do.
Bai Shuixiu saw that Tian Dawei and others were besieged by the Tubo soldiers at the other end of the stream, Tian Dawei retreated while fighting, unable to get closer to the bridge, but was forced to go up the mountain by the Tubo warriors, Bai Shuixiu hurriedly sent spies to the rear army to investigate the enemy's situation, while reporting to the deputy commander of the rear guard Fengzhou soldiers and horses Xia Yuqing, and did not wait for Xia Yuqing's order and reply, he urgently ordered Peng Yangang and Hun Yang to quickly cross the bridge, strictly ordered Peng Yangang to hold the small wooden bridge and never allow the Tubo soldiers to destroy the bridge or prevent our army from crossing the river, and divided the troops led by Hun Yang to rescue Tian Shuai, It is necessary to rescue Tian Shuai back to the north shore.
After it was properly handled, Bai Shuixiu rushed to Xia Yuqing to explain the original situation, Xia Yuqing was in the rearguard and the army escorted, and after Bai Shuixiu rushed to the Chinese army to explain, Xia Yuqing said that it was done properly.
After the spies reported that the rear army was invincible, Bai Shuixiu immediately said to Xia Yuqing: "General Xia, the Tubo troops are insufficient and cannot surround all our army, so they want to break the Jinxi Bridge, block our rear guard, and prevent our army from aiding the forward army and the main force of the central army. In addition, Tian Shuai is the chief general of the rear army, if there is negligence, it will affect the morale of the army very much, and it is urgent to rescue Tian Shuai. 」
Xia Yuqing heard that what he said was very reasonable, so she asked him, "How should this be allocated? 」
Bai Shuixiu said: "Shuhan (Bai Shuixiuzi) suggested that at present, additional reinforcements should be sent immediately, galloping to aid Hun Tiejin (Hun Xuanzi), leaving Wu Bai soldiers and horses to stay in the north of Jinxi in case the back road is cut off, and send people to Pegasus to inform Vice Marshal Li Hui to come to the rescue and respond, and the rest of the soldiers and horses should all cross the stream. 」
Xia Yuqing nodded and said, "Go on! 」
Seeing Xia Yuqing's approval, Bai Shuixiu continued: "After Tian Shuai is rescued and the condition of this army is stable, leave 2,000 soldiers and horses to defend the south of the bridge, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will go all out to attack south to assist the other armies to break out of the encirclement. 」
Xia Yuqing said, "That's very good! Tell the whole army to do so! Intensify the dispatch of troops and horses to cross the bridge, so that Yan Zhongquan (Ji Mingzi) deputy general 1,000 soldiers and horses to cross the bridge to assist Hun Tiejin to rescue Tian Shuai, deputy general Li Chuanying 2,000 troops to help Vice General Peng guard the bridge, there must be no mistake! 」
The heralds went their own way!
Xia Yuqing said to Bai Shuixiu, "Shuhan, let's go to the front and see how the situation is!" 」
Bai Shuixiu said, "Without further ado, let's go!" 」
The head of the Tubo Snow Leopard Division, Po Ke Luomi, and the commander of the Thousand Commanders, Mu Yeruo, had been lying in the grass on the mountainside of Heyun Peak for two days and two nights, and so were the two thousand Tubo warriors behind.
If two days ago, the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan reinforcements, Nandao Jiedu, led the army to detour into the mountains under the scorching sun, it has been three days since he had a good meal and a good night's sleep, in order to fear that the cooking smoke would leak to the Tang army, he had to use dried meat and rain to stop the hunger and drink, and the Tibetan warriors endured the cold and mosquito attacks, just to give the Tang army a fatal blow.
In mid-August, the emperor of the Southern Zhao Kingdom, Bo Zhi, came to Tibet to express his intention to form an alliance, and the king of Tubo, Chide Zuzan (formerly known as Abandonment of Subordinate Shrinkage), was overjoyed.
Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Chide Zuzan immediately agreed to send troops to help, and gave Ge Luofeng the meaning of "Zampu Zhong", which means the younger brother of Zampu.
If the Southern Zhao and the Tubo alliance can break the left arm of the Tang Dynasty, the pressure on the southern Xinjiang of Tubo can be lightened, and the whole country can compete with the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food for hegemony in the Western Regions of Central Asia.
But this Nanzhao has always been a loyal vassal of the Tang Dynasty, even when Pi Luoge established the Nanzhao State, he had to rely on the Tang Dynasty to send troops and food, and greatly assisted to build the country, Nanzhao was naturally loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and it was really difficult for Tubo to win over Nanzhao.
But I didn't expect that people were sitting at home, blessings came from the sky, the Tang Dynasty fell out with Nanzhao because of a few cool officials, and the king of Nanzhao actually sent the emperor's brother Bo to form an alliance, which made the Tubo king Chide Zuzan very happy, and immediately decided to seize this golden opportunity, specially gave the Nanzhao king Ge Luofeng as the younger brother of Zampu, and summoned the Tubo Wuru - that is, the five sections of the Tubo department to come to the capital to discuss together.
At that time, Tubo was divided into five ru (Dao) and sixty-one Dongdai (thousand households) - generally speaking, the eastern Jiedu envoys mainly fought against the Tang army, the western Jiedu mainly defended or attacked the four towns of Hexi and the Green Mountains (Pamir Plateau), the southern Jiedu envoy was mainly responsible for defending and attacking Nanzhao, the northern Jiedu envoy was responsible for the conquest and attack and defense with the Uighurs, and the Qinghai Dao was responsible for the war affairs of the imperial headquarters.
Chide Zampu consulted with the envoys of the Jie Du, and decided to send the main force of the South Province and the army of the First Division of the West Province to aid the Southern Zhao, hoping to defeat the Tang army in one fell swoop and let the Southern Zhao completely annex to Tibet.
Chide Zuzan immediately pointed out the former chief general of the Black Fox Division, and the fruit fruit scorching sun, who is currently the envoy of the Southern Province Jiedu, is the commander-in-chief and leads the three generals of the Southern Province - a total of them:
Dozens of generals, including Wolf Ma, the chief general of the Mastiff Tribe, Shi Tide, the chief general of the Stone Sable Tribe, and Hezhemeng, the chief general of the Black Fox Tribe, and 40,000 Tibetan warriors went to Nanzhao to help in the battle.
In addition, Po Ke Luomi, the chief general of the Western Snow Leopard Tribe, also led 10,000 tribal soldiers to help in the battle, and was controlled by the scorching sun.
Guojie Scorching Sun is a well-known wise and brave general in the Tubo Kingdom, in the battles between Tubo and foreign peoples, he has repeatedly led the Tubo warriors, defeated strong enemies, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats.
Although Guo Yue Scorching Sun was born in the army, but he was brave and resourceful, and he was very shrewd, he did not enter Nanzhao with great fanfare, but based on the news provided by Nanzhao Bo and Tanma from all over the country, it was estimated that Nanzhao would be able to support for several days.