The southern line of Pibo City was captured by the Tang army. Songzan Haiqing, the kingdom of Eastern Tubo, ascended the throne and became king in Pibo City and was awarded the title of minister. Gaoyi chieftain was named the prime minister of Eastern Tubo. Zhuo Qing, who was captured in Qingtang City, finally agreed to assist Songzan Haiqing after Li Ke did some ideological work, and he was also named the general of Eastern Tubo. However, Zhuo Qing knew it himself and knew the purpose of Li Ke's appointment as General of Eastern Tubo. Therefore, he was just traveling his own responsibilities, and he would not give any targeted opinions to Songzan Haiqing at all.

However, in addition to a great victory on the southern line, the war on the northern line also went smoothly.

After breaking through the Duomian defense line, the Su Dingfang army also advanced rapidly. The Bingfeng was approaching the Lusie City of Tubo's royal court. It was only penetrated deep into the hinterland of Tubo, and the army was unable to adapt to the plateau climate of Tubo, and many people fell ill on the way of marching. Fortunately, the drugs developed by the Taiyuan Royal College of Traditional Chinese Medicine were given timely treatment, which avoided the embarrassing situation where the army could not marching because it was difficult to adapt to plateau combat.

However, despite the preparations in this regard and the treatment work was done well, the soldiers' overall physical strength had dropped a lot and their combat effectiveness had been greatly weakened, which made Su Dingfang unable to order the speed of the marching speed to restore the soldiers' physical strength and put them at the peak of their combat effectiveness. Therefore, with the delay time in this regard, the army that could have reached the level of Lusue City took fifteen days to reach a hundred miles outside Lusue City.

A hundred miles outside the city of Lusie, it was called the Tianzangtai by the Tubo people. This was not only the place where the Tubo ministers and gentry members died, but also the place where many Tubo gentry ministers were executed that year. In that year, Tubo implemented reforms, and Songtsen Gampo strongly advocated Lu Dongzan to reform the military and political affairs of Tubo. Many ministers and gentry elders in China opposed it, and even warned them. However, in the end, Songtsen Gampo and Lu Dongzan planned to properly resolve the crisis. These opposing ministers and gentry elders were executed by Lu Dongzan here. Therefore, this place is also called the most noble Tai of Tubo, which means that all the people who died here were Tubo aristocrats.

When Su Dingfang's army arrived at the nobles' platform, they encountered trouble.

Because they encountered the defense line set up by the Tubo Jingqi.

Su Dingfang knew very well that the Tubo royal court had only 20,000 elite cavalry and 100,000 new army.

However, he was also clear that the chieftains and the nobles of the Tubo royal court also had their own private armed forces. The combat effectiveness of these private armed forces was very strong, and the cavalry quality was no less than that of Songtsen Gampo's personal guards.

After more than ten days of rapid marching, the army on his side was bound by the plateau climate, and it was difficult to exert its strong combat power.

The question now is, should Luoshe City be in front of you, should you take a risky battle and encircle Luoshe City? Or should you cultivate one day, then annihilate the enemy and take down Luoshe City? Su Dingfang was in a dilemma. The reason why Su Dingfang was so embarrassed was to fight for this day and half a day because he received news that Songtsen Gampo, the Tubo Kingdom, was preparing to migrate to the southwest. The Tang Dynasty targeted Tubo, with the purpose of solving Tubo and solving the enlightened king Songtsen Gampo of Tubo. If Songtsen Gampo ran away, what is the significance of this battle?

After pondering for a long time, Su Dingfang decided to let the army rest for a day, and then break through this defense line the next day, and approach the city. This was his decision after weighing and analyzing the pros and cons.

Because the army stationed by the nobles Taiwan is the last force to guard Luoshecheng. If their army fights against this elite cavalry without recovering its combat power, the Tubo people will find that the combat power of their army has been weakened a lot, then they will find that they may take advantage of this opportunity to counterattack. As long as their army rests for a day and maintains sufficient energy, the next day, the next battle will solve the obstacles, the Tang Dynasty's military power will shock Luoshecheng again. When the army arrives at Luoshecheng, Luoshecheng may not surrender twice.

Therefore, Su Ding decisively issued such an order.

The next day, the morning sunset shines on the earth, warm.

Su Dingfang was in the central army's tent. He asked Zheyu's 20,000 Ghost Face Cavalry and Yuwen Guo's 10,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry to act as the pioneer army to break through the defense line of the Tubo people in front of him, and let Tuyan's 20,000 Tuyuhun Jing Cavalry to be the reserve team of the vanguard army. When the vanguard army breaks through the defense line, he took the opportunity to suppress it and completely deal with this army, causing the Tubo people to have a shadow of the Tang Dynasty's powerful and impeccable place in the hearts of the Tubo people.

He himself led 40,000 Turkic cavalry, 30,000 heavy cavalry camps and 20,000 Yangzhou cavalry slowly followed the vanguard army. As long as the vanguard army broke through the defense line, he issued an order to make the 90,000 army marched rapidly to surround the city of Luss.

Yuwen Guo and Zheyu are both brave generals and powerful generals in the Northwest Army.

The two of them fought the same way, and they were both famous for their ruthlessness.

Therefore, when the two led their own elite cavalry into the defense line of the Tubo elite cavalry, the elite cavalry instantly collapsed. Without any effective resistance, they began to escape to Luoshecheng. Seeing their weak combat power and the panic when they ran for their lives, Yuwen Guo and Zheyu were very surprised. Because they fought against Tubo for two years, this was the least combat-free and cowardly Tubo elite cavalry they had encountered.

Is there something wrong?

Zheyu and Yuwen Guo thought so in their hearts.

However, the two of them did not relax their vigilance, but continued to chase and kill behind the escaped Tubo spirit cavalry.

Someone ran in front and someone chased behind. The distance of one hundred miles was completed in an instant.

Shown in front of Yuwen Guo and Zheyu is the majestic Potala Palace in the Lusher City.

Compared with the grandeur of Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, the Potala Palace has a unique sense of vitality on the Northwest Plateau. In addition to its magnificence, it faintly reveals the former kingdom of Tubo, and it is vaguely aura of swallowing the eight wildernesses.

"Have you arrived at some city?" Zheyu murmured to himself.

"Yes, we finally arrived in Luosie City!" Yuwen Guo replied in a heavy tone.

"I really can't imagine that we will be the first to enter some city!" Zheyu asked unimaginably.

"Yes--" Yuwen Guo also sighed.

After a while, the two sighed.

Yuwen Guo then said, "At present, with the two of us only have 30,000 troops, it is impossible to capture Luoshecheng. The only thing we can do now is to guard the four gate passages of Luoshecheng. Don't let Songzan Gampo escape. Leave the rest to the general!"

"Well——" Zheyu also agreed, "The only way to do this is to do it now. The most important thing is not to let Songzan Gampo escape, and everything else doesn't matter."

After discussing, the two immediately divided their troops and began to attack the four gates of Luoshe City, surrounding Luoshe City.

When the people in Luoshe City saw their cavalry fleeing back to Luoshe City, they clearly realized that the Tang army had arrived. They wanted to pack up their things and escape from the city, but as soon as they arrived at the city gate, they saw the defenders sealing the city gate and ordered the people to return to the city, saying that the Tang army was outside the city and everyone wanted to defend Luoshe City. The people had no choice but to return the same way, but on the way back they heard a lot of rumors, all about Tubo King Songtsen Gampo, saying that Tubo King Songtsen Gampo had already left the city last night and ran southwest. Now there are only tens of thousands of remaining soldiers and weak generals in Luoshe City, and there is no member of the royal family in the royal court.

The people just went out of the city to escape. As long as the royal court ordered them to defend the city to death, they would absolutely obey.

However, when they heard that the king had run away, they felt a lot colder.

Because, this means that Songtsen Gampo has given up on them, and their most beloved king has given up on them.

Therefore, they felt an indescribable hatred for Songtsen Gampo.


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