Chapter 35: Take the Qiangtang Road

Of course, the map on the screen was drawn by Lu Xiaoning according to the historical atlas, and the core area of the entire Tibetan Weizang Siru, as well as the peripheral subordinate states such as Subiru, Nibora, Zhangxiong, and Yang.

To the east and north and to the west are the Tang Dynasty, and to the south of Tubo is Tianzhu.

Feng Changqing, Li Siye, Duan Xiushi and others couldn't help but be amazed when they saw it.

Wei Shiyao, Ado Peiluo and other Hu leaders even looked at them with straight eyes.

Nothing else, because the map is so detailed and clear.

Adopero even saw the territory of the Tursh Cavalry in the northwest corner of the map.

"It's a pity." Feng Changqing sighed, "If you could have obtained this map five years earlier, Tubo might have been destroyed long ago." ”

"It's not too late to get this picture." Cui He (Lu Xiaoning) paused slightly, and then said, "If nothing else, at this moment, Tubo Zampu Ruler Zhudan has also learned the news of the defeat of the Yang Tongjun in the Sailu River Valley, but the Yang Tongbu sent troops not from the instructions of the Ruler Belt Zhudan, so he will not retaliate against the Tang Dynasty for the sake of the Yang Tongbu, and he has no ability to retaliate, because Tubo at this time is already internal and external, and it may fall apart at will." ”

For such a judgment, Feng Changqing also agrees.

From the height of Feng Changqing, it can be seen that Tubo's current situation is extremely bad, because in the north and west directions, it has been continuously attacked by the Tang Longyou Army and the Anxi Army.

In such a situation, the external troubles are already extremely serious, so the internal worries are bound to follow.

Since ancient times, internal and external troubles have been twins, and they have always been born together.

Thinking of this, Feng Changqing was also excited, could it be that the Anxi Army really had a chance to destroy the Tubo State? If the Anxi Army really destroyed the Tubo State, he would be able to rank alongside famous generals such as Su Dingfang and Li Jing, and leave a name in history!

But soon, Feng Changqing dispelled this idea again, because it was too difficult to defeat Tubo.

Lu Xiaoning: "The population of Tubo is less than a fraction of that of the Tang Dynasty, but the territory is extremely vast, 5,000 miles from east to west, 2,000 miles from north to south, and there are hundreds of large and small tutu states in the country. ”

Hearing this, Feng Changqing breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Lu Tianshi's mind is also very clear.

He knew very well that mortal warfare was not an immortal fighting method.

Hearing Lu Tianshi say that he would send troops to destroy Tubo, Feng Changqing was really worried, worried that Lu Tianshi had just gone down to the mortal realm, knew nothing about human affairs, and had no ability to move mountains and reclaim the sea, so the situation would be very tricky.

Now it seems that his worry is unnecessary, Lu Tianshi is actually very aware of the difficulty of attacking Tubo.

Cen Shen echoed: "What Lu Tianshi said is extremely true, it is precisely because of the vast territory of Tubo and the dangerous roads on the snowy plateau that the sage has set a national policy of protracted attack, that is, through a period of twenty to thirty years, from Anxi, Longyou and even Jiannan and other directions, continue to attack Tubo, consume its national strength, weaken its military strength, and when it is weakened to a certain extent, mobilize heavy troops, drive straight into Luo from the right direction of Longyou, and completely destroy it. ”

Lu Xiaoning said: "Li Longji still has strategic foresight, and his execution ability was also strong when he was young, and the national policy he set for Pingbo is still very powerful, if it wasn't for that rebellion, this plan would have been realized, but it's a pity." ”

Hearing Lu Xiaoning mention the rebellion again, Feng Changqing couldn't help it anymore and asked, "Lu Tianshi, ...... the rebellion you are talking about?"

Lu Xiaoning didn't want to mention the Anshi Rebellion, because in his plan, the Anshi Rebellion had changed from a big trouble before to an excuse for the Anxi Army to enter the power center of the Tang Dynasty.

What's more, the Anshi Rebellion was not so easy to stop.

The outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion has a very complex historical background.

Li Longji is really not worried that An Lushan will rebel? He was actually worried, too.

But Li Longji still handed over the three feudal towns to An Lushan, and even handed over Ma Zheng to An Lushan to manage, the reason is very simple, two cups of poisonous wine, Li Longji must drink one glass, he would rather An Lushan rebel, and never allow the stitching monsters of the family gate lord and the imperial examination clan group to grasp the military power of the Tang Dynasty.

Because in Li Longji's view, An Lushan's rebellion is not very harmful.

However, the alliance between the family lords and the imperial examination clan has already mastered the power and financial power of the Tang Dynasty, and once the military power of the various feudal towns is also taken by them, the Tang Dynasty will soon change its surname.

Unfortunately, Li Longji was a little overconfident this time.

But before it happened, Li Longji wouldn't think so.

So it is useless for anyone to persuade him now, because Li Longji thinks that reusing Hu people is Li Tang's foundation.

At that moment, Lu Xiaoning interrupted Feng Changqing and said: "Don't talk about the rebellion, now just talk about Tibet, if the Anxi army fights along the northern foot of the Snow Mountain, from Da Boluguo, Zhangxiong, and Zhuo Shute all the way to the southeast, if you want to fight until Luo Some finally destroy Tubo, it is indeed wishful thinking, even if there is this Heavenly Master, it is absolutely impossible to do it." ”

Li Siye frowned and said, "But if you don't march along this route, which way should you go?" You can't travel thousands of miles to make a detour to Tuyuhun and march from Dafeichuan, right? ”

"That's definitely not going to work." Lu Xiaoning said, "Let's go here, Qiangtang Road." ”

"What? Qiangtang Road? "Feng Changqing, Li Siye and Cen Shen and others are all discolored, Qiangtang is a barren land, there are almost no people in a radius of thousands of miles, the key is that you can't even find a drinking water source, how to go?

Qiangtang is now a large no-man's land between Nagqu and Ali.

Even in the 21st century, the population of China exceeded 1.4 billion, and there were still large areas of uninhabited land in Hoh Xil and Qiangtang, so it is conceivable that Qiangtang was more than 1,000 years ago.

At that time, the area of no man's land had to be one or two thousand miles away.

In such a vast and large no-man's land, how can the army supply food and grass?

There are also people and horses drinking water, and the amount of water in the Gobi Desert is very scarce.

Although there are lakes, most of them are saltwater and cannot be drunk.

At this time, Feng Changqing finally couldn't help but question: "Lu Tianshi, I'm afraid it's not okay to go to Qiangtang, right?" ”

Cen Shen, Duan Xiushi, Li Siye and even Lu Wen also nodded subconsciously, they all agreed with Feng Changqing's judgment, it is definitely impossible to go to Qiangtang, no one can pass through Qiangtang.

……

At this time, in the political hall of the Red Hill Palace Fort in Luo.

The nine political ministers of the Tibetan Empire, also known as the prime ministers, had gathered in the government hall to discuss how to deal with the defeat of Sayluburg, whether to launch a large army to retaliate, or directly send people to sue for peace.

Or is it backed by force and then made peace?

"Revenge must be taken!" Prime Minister Dong Zebu said impassionedly, "It is indeed a felony for the king of Yangtong to send troops without the will of Zanpu, but in any case, Yangtong is a vassal state of Tubo, if Tubo allows the vassal state to be bullied by the Tang Dynasty and is indifferent, then what do other vassal states think?" ”

Another prime minister, Mei Se, also echoed: "This is not only a matter of face, but also a big question of the life and death of Tubo, the Anxi army will never stop advancing after destroying the Yangtong army, they will definitely continue to march to the southeast along the northern foot of the snow-capped mountain, Zhangxiong and Yangtong are likely to suffer from military disasters, if Yangtong is destroyed by the Anxi army, the door to Weizang will be completely open, and the Anxi army can directly threaten Luo in the next step!" ”

Tubo Zampudan took Zhudan but did not rush to make a statement.

In fact, he was only fifty-one years old, and he had been in power for fifty-one years.

However, Dandai Zhudan already looks like a seventy-year-old man, one is that the wind and snow on the plateau urge people to grow old, and the other is that they are too tired of state affairs, especially in the last ten years, the ruler belt Zhudan has aged very quickly.

It was clear that Dong Zebu and Mei Se wanted to take the opportunity to gain military power.

It's just that he is not in a hurry, although his prestige is not as good as before, but it is not something they can shake.

In the end, he didn't even need to take Zhu Dan to make a move, and he suppressed Dong Zebu and the two of them.

The final result was led by the general Dazaru Gong Ye Ru to Yangtongguo, the first thing was to severely punish the Yangtong royal family, and the second thing was to apologize to the Anxi army and make peace, if the Anxi army insisted on continuing to march into the army, it would be blocked in the territory of Yangtongguo, and then the ruler took Zhudan to lead Sanru to reinforcements.