The post-Turkic tent has been destroyed, and the burning wreckage can be seen everywhere in the snow in the north wind of the call. I don't know what deeds I did before my death, the corpses have been frozen into ice sculptures, and they have been piled up together at random by the Hui people, which looks very terrifying.

In front of the monument of Viga Khan, a tall figure stopped here. He wore leather armor common in the Tang army, with a padded jacket underneath and a red coat behind him.

Holding a helmet made of camel leather, his eyes are fixed on the ancient Sogdian letters clearly visible on the stone tablet, like ghost drawings.

I can't understand it at all!

"Come on, give this stele to this section and scrape all the words on it!

Not a single one to stay! ”

The person who spoke was none other than Fang Youde, the envoy of the Tang Youzhou Festival. He set out from Mokou, and along the way he had already subdued the Fugu Division, Ba Si Mi (i.e., Abe Si Division), Qi Bi, Ba Ye Gu and other departments. These tribes all promised to send people to Lingzhou City to participate in the alliance in the future, and respected the Tang Emperor Li Longji as the "Heavenly Khan".

The Fugu Department even sent a cavalry team headed by Fugu Huaien to help the Tang army, and Fang Youde to do miscellaneous work, and help the Tang army to absorb the remnants of the Later Turkic Khanate.

Only the Hui Hui in the nine surnamed Tiele is powerful and unruly, and has not yet expressed his position. Of course, they didn't turn their backs.

Now, Fang Youde is camping here at the Viga Khan Monument, waiting for the Hui envoy to come to the business council.

Why Huimeng?

Of course, in order to unite to deal with Tibet, at least we can't drag the Tang Dynasty back.

When necessary, these steppe tribes must participate in the war against Tibet as "mercenaries" of the Tang Dynasty.

That's where the power of diplomacy comes in.

It relies on its own strength to extend the distance of power projection to the limit.

In this alliance, Li Longji will personally bring the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and relevant people from the Ministry of Rites to Lingzhou, and follow the deeds of Taizong in that year to set up a monument and swear an oath in Lingzhou.

From September to October of the twentieth year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty (646), Taizong integrated Mobei and invited thousands of envoys from the grassland tribes to meet the alliance.

Therefore, the leaders of the Tiele tribes distributed in northern Ningxia, Qinghai, and Inner Mongolia learned that the Tang king was going to Lingzhou in person to meet and surrender, and they all personally led a team to Lingzhou, or sent envoys to arrive.

On the occasion of the alliance, Taizong was in high spirits, so he improvised a poem, gave a five-word poem, and ordered the stonemason to engrave the poem on the stone tablet to remember it, and the history was called "Taizong Lingzhou Le Shi".

This is the pinnacle highlight of Zhenguan, Li Longji always takes this incident as an example, and thinks about rebuilding the glory of the year.

This time, Fang Youde wrote a letter to persuade Li Longji to come to Lingzhou City (also known as the surrendered city) under the control of Shuofang's army to participate in the alliance after destroying the Later Turkic Khanate. Brother Ji, who was so happy, agreed almost without thinking.

Li Linfu and others persuaded to no avail, and finally could only agree that Brother Ji would go to Lingzhou at an appropriate time next year.

But Brother Ji is the emperor, and it is impossible to leave those things to him to do. Therefore, what Fang Youde is doing now is to quickly get rid of the things that have not been done after the destruction of the Turkic Khanate.

No matter how big or small!

"Jie Shuai, this monument stands here, quite eye-catching. If the inscription on it is erased, it is inevitable that there will be good deeds in the future who will talk nonsense. If you don't ...... Directly knock down the stele and smash it, once and for all. ”

Zhang Xun, who was beside him, suggested quietly.

"This stele is a testament to the alliance between the saint and the Turks, so how can it be destroyed at will? The Turks betrayed the alliance first, and we counterattacked last, and this is justified.

The destruction of the stele will inevitably be unacceptable. ”

Fang Youde, who was standing upright, waved his hand, obviously disagreeing with Zhang Xun's bad idea.

It's cool enough, it's just too rough.

"Ordered the craftsman to write on the stone tablet: Li Longji, the sage of the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic Khanate is here after the destruction."

Fang Youde commanded indifferently.

"Well, my subordinates will do it."

"Well, go ahead."

Fang Youde waved his hand and motioned for all the soldiers around him to step aside.

After everyone left, Fang Youde stepped forward and touched the stone tablet of the alliance with his hand.

"It's all Khan, and they still come out to be demons, I really don't know whether to live or die."

A somewhat sickly smile appeared on his face, and he continued to mumble to himself: "Yes, next, there will be An Lushan left." When An Lushan is solved, I can return to my hometown. ”

For a while, Fang Youde's heart was filled with an inexplicable emptiness. He no longer knew what the meaning of his existence would be after solving these things.

At this moment, there were footsteps behind him. Fang Youde turned around and saw Yan Gaoqing cautiously walking over and saying, "The Hui envoy is here, and his attitude is very unkind. ”

"Take me to the tent!"

Fang Youde frowned slightly, his face gloomy.

It seems that something bad is in mind.

Soon, the Hui envoy was taken to the Chinese army tent of the Tang Army and met with Fang Youde.

Wearing a fan-shaped crown and a red round-necked robe up to the knees, the messenger bowed to him.

The salute is there, but the attitude is a little perfunctory.

"The envoy is coming, but is it about the merchant council?"

Fang Youde sat on a high stool, put his legs on another high stool, and asked in an impatient tone.

"Hui Fang Jieshuai, my main backbone Pei Luo will personally lead his troops to pursue the remnants of the Turks, and time is tight. Is it possible to change the location of the alliance to the moraine?

Lingzhou City is a long way away, and my lord is worried that it will delay the military affairs. ”

The envoy asked in a calm tone.

This request is extremely unreasonable, and Hui also knows it. But then again, isn't it the rule that the price is all over the place, and the money is paid back on the ground?

"What if the marshal doesn't agree?"

Fang Youde squinted his eyes and asked rhetorically.

When the Hui envoy heard this, he replied unceremoniously:

"I heard that the monarchs and ministers of the Tang State did their own thing, the emperor made a policy, and the hundred officials and generals implemented it.

Fang Jieshuai is naturally stubborn, but such a military event, is it better for Jieshuai to write back to ask the emperor of the Tang State?

In case the section commander agrees, and the emperor does not agree, wouldn't the section commander be in a dilemma?

If you go to Chang'an quickly, it won't take you a few days. The despicable can wait, or go back and tell my lord. ”

The attitude of the Hui envoy is very clear: Aren't you just a general with troops? It's not your turn to speak yet!

The Uighurs have no fear, and they are not without support.

The power of the Hui people has penetrated deep into the north of Shazhou and even the Western Regions, and if they unite with the Tubo people, the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty will face great pressure.

Although this is also a thankless move for the Uighurs to break the net, it also shows that the Uighurs are not lambs to be slaughtered.

They have the ability and the means to fight back.

All the generals in the tent glared angrily at this Hui envoy, but they did not dare to act rashly. Before Fang Youde opened his mouth, they would not do anything, which was where Fang Jieshuai's strictness in governing the army lies.

"You're quite right."

Fang Youde stood up and walked up to the Hui envoy step by step, staring at the Hui envoy who was a head shorter than him.

This Hui envoy was also bold, and he looked at Fang Youde without showing weakness.

This time he was not brainless, but wanted to test Datang's attitude towards the alliance. If Datang is imperative to this grassland alliance, then it will not care about the little "rudeness" of the envoys.

After all, this bit of face is not worth mentioning at all compared to real money for cattle, sheep and livestock!

However, at the moment when the Hui envoy was stunned, Fang Youde fiercely pulled out a short knife from his waist and stabbed it directly into the abdomen of the Hui envoy!

Then the handle of the knife turned, and there was no life!

The face of this Hui envoy was distorted, he never expected that Fang Jieshuai, who commanded the battle at a very high level, would be so unworthy of martial arts!

Use such nasty methods to attack and kill the emissary!

Soon, his eyes fell wide, as if he didn't understand why this was happening.

"Come on, the Hui envoy assassinated Ben Shuai, but he was not good at learning and was killed by Ben Shuai. Send the body of the assassin to the Hui Ya Tent, and tell Guli Peiluo: The Tang Emperor is the Ninety-Five Emperor, and assassinating Ben Shuai is disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty and the emperor.

However, this may not be his original intention, but the people below hate Datang and have bad intentions.

For the sake of the righteousness of the alliance, Ben Shuai doesn't care about this little thing. If Guli Peiluo compensates our army with 950 horses to show respect for the Tang Sage, and do it immediately.

Then this matter can be regarded as if it never happened, and it will not be an example.

If not, whether Datang will be invited to return to the alliance this time is a matter of two words. ”

Fang Youde pointed to the corpse of the Hui envoy and opened his eyes and said nonsense, Yan Gaoqing, Zhang Xun and others in the handsome tent were all surprised and had no opinions at all.

In the army, as long as anyone can lead the soldiers of the three armies to win the battle and finally implement the rewards for their military exploits, then he is a god-like figure, and his words are more effective than the emperor's words.

And following Fang Jieshuai, the summary sentence is: Die slowly in battle, make many meritorious contributions in wartime, do not owe rewards in arrears, and be a soldier with dignity!

After the body was dragged away, Fang Youde looked around at everyone and excused himself as if nothing had happened: "These Hui people just don't clean up, don't they say?" Clean up, and they'll be honest for a while. ”

"Wise and wise!"

The generals saluted together.

"Well, today's camp, the goal is to return to the tent, first along the river for fifty miles, to see if Guli Peiluo knows each other."

Fang Youde ordered casually.

So the generals went about their own business, as if they had become numb to such a "willful" military order. After all, no matter how big a thing is, it is no bigger than the cross-defense zone to use troops to know the next feudal town.

Even did this kind of thing, Zhang Xun and others believed that Fang Youde could do other things, except for rebellion.

……

In the winter of the twenty-seventh year of Kaiyuan, Tubo sent troops to attack Shanzhou and fought against the Anren army at the forefront of the Tang army. The Anren army has more than 10,000 troops, and it is the ace army set up by Guo Zhiyun, the governor of Shanzhou and the ambassador of Longyou Jiedu in the seventh year of Kaiyuan.

The Tibetans were fierce, and the Anren army fought and retreated, and after briefly repelling the Tibetans, they retreated to the city of Suirong (Huangyuan County, Xining City, Qinghai Province), not far to the east. This is the west of Shancheng (Xining City), the east of Qinghai Lake, the north of Qilian Mountain, the south of Lazhi Mountain, the territory of the mountain is high and the water is long, the slope is steep and the cliff is steep, the terrain is dangerous, and it is like a pass.

The Anren army blocked this place, and for more than ten days, the Tubo people did not advance an inch, so they had to retreat to the east of Qinghai Lake.

Soon after, the Tibetans continued to exert their strength in the area south of Shanzhou.

During the Kaiyuan period, the Tang army made some gains on the plateau west of Kuozhou south of Shanzhou, extended its forces to the plateau area, and established several small military towns there as outposts.

They are: Jin Tianjun guarding the Hongji Bridge of the Yellow River, Wuning Army guarding Baigu City, and Weisheng Army guarding Wanxiu City.

This is the eastern edge of Dafei Sichuan, and it is the first line of defense for the Longyou Jiedu envoy to face the Tibetans.

The Tubo people exerted their strength again, and the three military towns were lost again in a short period of time, and the remnants retreated to the Jishi Army garrison in Kuozhou.

Subsequently, the Tubo army pointed directly at Kuozhou and fought with the Jishi army guarding Kuozhou.

The Jishi Army has a total of 7,000 soldiers, which is slightly less than the Anren Army, but the position of the town guard is the main road to enter Tianshui in the snow area since ancient times, which is very dangerous.

Gathered more than 10,000 elite Tang border troops in Longyou, and after five days of bloody battles with the Tubo people, the Tubo army finally retreated.

The unusual behavior of the Tubo people made Du Hope unable to sleep and eat, and he wrote a letter to the imperial court, stating that the Tubo people were about to move in the defense area of the Longyou Jiedu envoy, and it seemed that they were testing the weakness of the defense, which was very strange.

Du hoped to predict that the target of the Tubo people was probably the Stone Fort City (called the Iron Blade City by the Tubo people) that was occupied by Li Yi, the king of Xin'an, by his stratagem!

It is hoped that the Tang army can increase the number of troops in Longyou and strengthen the defense of the periphery of Shibao City.

However, because of the previous incident, Brother Ji had a prejudice against Du Hope, who was "unassertive", so he hated Wu and Wu, and he didn't take Du Hope's writing seriously. Now his mind is on the Lingzhou side.

Joining forces with the various tribes of the grassland Tiele and reproducing the glory of Taizong back then is what Ji Ge wants to do the most at present.

……

Although Anaye took care of him all the way, Fang Chongyong still felt cold on the road because of the wind and snow, and had to temporarily stay in Jiuquan City, the capital of Suzhou, to temporarily stay and recuperate.

After he recovered, he went to Dunhuang, Shazhou. In order not to catch people with sore feet, Fang Chongyong asked Yan Zhuang to report to Shazhou with his own letter, and explained that he was sick and couldn't hurry. Otherwise, it is a felony for an official to go to a different place and overdue!

Because of his father Fang Youde's relationship, Fang Chongyong received the courteous care of Shi Jixian, the assassin of Suzhou, and the residence for recuperation, the best courtyard in the largest family in the city. The food used is all carefully selected.

If it weren't for the fact that Fang Chongyong didn't trust people he didn't know, he was afraid that there would be more than ten people serving around him.

To be honest, for example, Chongyong's treatment in Ganzhou was much better. It can be called "diligent and prepared" and responsive.

Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief. Although Fang Chongyong was sick, his mind was still clear, and the more he stayed in Suzhou, the more he felt that something was wrong.

When Fang Chongyong was slowly recuperating and hesitating, the imperial court actually sent a letter over!

After getting a solemn reminder, he traveled all the way, and finally found Fang Chongyong and his party in Jiuquan City, the capital city of Suzhou, next door to Ganzhou.

In front of the hospital bed, Fang Chongyong said weakly to Anaye, who was taking care of him: "Read the official document." ”

"Wang Huailiang, the assassin of Shazhou, was dismissed for his crimes, and Fang Chongyong, a member of the Ministry of Rites, temporarily replaced him and disposed of his affairs. After the vacancy is filled by the imperial court, another appointment will be made.

What does this mean? ”

Anaye asked, confused.

"It's not interesting, I'll sleep first, don't wake me up when Brother Ji comes."

Fang Chongyong didn't bother to complain, now call for sick leave, let himself be quiet and quiet first.

I'll talk about the about Brother Ji later.

(End of chapter)