In the distance, there were like a tide, overwhelmingly coming.

On the rolling mountains and on the beacon tower on the top of the mountain, the beacon soldiers lit the wolf smoke.

The wolf smoke rose.

On the piers on the top of the mountain peaks, wars were rising one after another.

The eleventh year of Zhenguan, at the end of May.

Tubo invaded in a large number of troops, and the troops headed directly to Songzhou, the gateway to western Sichuan.

In the Songzhou Governor's Office, Qin Lang, who was seized by the imperial edict and was appointed as the prime minister of the Central Secretary and the Minister of the Secretariat, was appointed as the chief minister of the Central Secretary and the Minister of the Secretariat. Qin Lang, who was in charge of the military affairs of the Jiahe Qudao, faced the request of the generals of the generals.

The generals asked to lead troops to fight to fight Tubo.

Everyone must defeat the arrogant little tyrant outside Songzhou and prevent the war from burning into Songzhou.

"Xuan Xiang, our Ningyuan army has a thousand soldiers who have lost contact. Yak Fort, Zishan Fort, etc., and guarding them outside, how can we sit and watch? Please let us send troops!"

Qin Lang held the teacup in his hand and allowed the generals to ask for battle in a fierce manner, but was unmoved.

He blew the two tea leaves floating on the tea water in the teacup and said slowly, "Although Ningyuan Army has a thousand soldiers and thousands of troops, there will be no danger for a while. Whether it is the Zishan Stone Castle or the Yak Castle in Duomia, they all occupy the danger. Built on the mountain, there is only a rugged mountain road that can lead to the mountain. One man on the mountain is a pass, and no one can open it. Even if dozens or hundreds of people guard it, it can block dozens of times of the enemy. It is completely fine to hold on for three or five months, and it can even be a year of guarding it."

When Qin Qiong guarded the Songzhou Governor's Office, he not only cared about one acre and three-point land in Songzhou, but also captured Dangxiang. Even the farther away Bailan and Duomi were included in regular patrols. Later, he simply built a fortress, a post station, and a troops there.

Although there are not many soldiers in the fortress, the several fortresses built are located in a critical position and are on the road that must be passed. They are all set up for danger and are easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are enough food and equipment stored in the fortress, which can support them to guard for three years.

Although a fortress usually has dozens or hundreds of soldiers, if you add the nearby Qiang tribe, hundreds or thousands of people will be able to guard a village by risking them for one year in the first half of the year.

Qin Qiong's arrangement was also very simple at the beginning. These soldiers passed by not only declared the sovereignty of the Tang Dynasty, but also protected the trade routes and maintained connections with the Qiang.

Of course, it is also a defense against Tubo. With such a few nails being nailed there, the small Tubo people dare not easily cross the line and attack again. If a large group of troops come over, it will be difficult to pull out these nails. If they bypass them, these fortresses can of course play an important role behind them.

Although the generals of Ningyuan Army are calling fiercely, saying that reinforcements are like putting out fires, everyone knows in their hearts that the soldiers guarding the fortress outside will not have anything to do for a while. The fiercely shouted, but they just wanted to find an opportunity to lead troops out to grab credit.

Qin Lang was very confident in the fortresses that Qin Qiong had established outside and the troops stationed there. In history, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo had been fighting each other for many years, and there were a large number of fortresses on the border. The most famous one was Shibao City. Both sides fought for each other and changed hands several times.

It is said that Shibao City usually has only a few hundred troops stationed, and it is a square mountain city, which is very dangerous and guards the important traffic routes, becoming a must-fight place for the Tang and Tibet.

First, Li Yi led his army to attack for a long distance, captured Shibao City, and then divided his troops to defend various places, curb Tubo, and renamed Zhenwu Army. From then on, the Tang army traveled to Yi in Helong and other places, and expanded the land for thousands of miles. Later, Gai Jiayun defended Longyou and lost Shibao City. Since then, the Tang army has launched several attacks on Shibao City, but failed to capture it.

Later, the famous general Wang Zhongsi guarded Longyou and defeated Tubo many times. However, facing the dangerous situation of Shibao City, he still refused the emperor's will to attack and attack. Later, the emperor ordered the deputy envoy of Longyou Jiedushi Geshuhan to command more than 60,000 troops in Longyou Hexi Shuofang and other towns to replace Wang Zhongsi to attack Shibao City.

Geshuhan ignored the danger of Shibao City and issued a desperate order to attack and fight. In three days, the Tang army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and finally captured Shibao City and captured more than 400 Tubo defenders.

Shibao City is known as the Iron Blade City, and its sturdyness is quite famous. Of course, in the battle of Shibao City, tens of thousands of troops were not only facing a dangerous mountain city. At that time, the Tubo people guarded the whole country, and there was actually a complete defense around Shibao City. Even when the Tang army came to remove this important nail, Tubo also launched several armies to aid. The two sides fought in Shibao City and around it.

The Ningyuan Army in Songzhou guarded the forts outside, and they were all guarding the dangerous situation. Although there were no such systemic friendly castles as Shibao City, it was difficult for the Tubo people to easily capture it. It was more difficult for them to chew a solid mountain city than to attack a large city on a flat ground.

It’s useless for you to have too many soldiers, and there is no place to spread. Most of the small hills and fortresses are chosen, only one small road to the mountain, and then there are cliffs on three sides, and there is a flat ground on the top of the mountain. If you are a pass, you can’t open tens of thousands of men.

Unless he forced himself to fill his life like Geshuhan, he would have to block it.

Qin Lang was not the kind of ruthless and cold-hearted person. He would not leave the dozen fortresses outside the pass to guard thousands of people. He knew very well that this battle would not be fought for too long, and the Tubo people did not really come to attack Songzhou City.

Qin Lang hoped that Tubo would really come to attack Songzhou City. This was a strategic fraud by the Tubo people. Songzhou was just a cover, and he would retreat with a shot.

The Tubo people might want to pull out those nails, because these nails were obstacles to their annexation of Duomian, Bailan, Dangxiang and Qiang, but they were not the first thing to do.

They came to Songzhou first and attacked and extorted, and they must have wanted to take advantage of it. At that time, they would use this to extort the Tang Dynasty and use it to intimidate the Qiang. In the next step, they would turn back to deal with the Qiang. If they didn't get it, they might have any other means of killing one to warn a hundred.

Only after the Qiang subjugated could they truly free up their hands to deal with the forts that Ningyuan army had left. At that time, they would blockade them everywhere and become completely alone. There was no need to attack and could not hold on for too long.

"Don't underestimate Tubo too much. Although Zanpu is young, don't forget that Tian Khan raised his army at the age of sixteen and took command at the age of eighteen. The current crown prince is also twenty years old and sent troops to quell the Tuyuhun country and captured the enemy's Khan. The Tubo Zanpu can quell the rebellion in the middle of the country in his teens. He has fought invincible forces on the plateau over the years. How could he be a false reputation?"

"I know you and others are all elites in a hundred battles, but don't underestimate the enemy. Tubo is coming in a fierce manner, so we must be careful. You don't have to argue anymore. I will draw up a strategic countermeasure."

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Thirty miles west of Gansong Ridge.

Rolling mountains and winding river valleys.

Tubo Zampsongtsen Gampo was riding on a horse and looking at the Tubo army winding through the valleys, very proud.

Prime Minister Shangnang led a group of nobles to surround the king who was only twenty years old.

"I'm finally coming to Songzhou, and I'll be able to see the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains."

"The Tang people are arrogant. This time we are coming with 200,000 troops. We must let the Tang people know how powerful our Dafan is."

The Tubo army came all the way, and the Qiang fled when they heard the news. None of them dared to compete with Tubo. Even the Ningyuan army in Songzhou retreated into the fortress city and dared not fight.

Although the Tubo vanguard generals were a little careless and attacked several Ningyuan army castles, but they all returned in disgrace, it was just a small episode. The Tubo army suffered minor losses and suffered casualties in several small losses. For the Tubo army, which was more than 200,000 troops, this was just a drop in the bucket and was not worth worrying about.

The young Zamp did not punish those vanguard generals who underestimated the enemy, but gave each person a fox tail and let them hang it on their helmets to show humiliation and keep it in mind.

Zanpuling did not have to bother those small castles of the Tang people. The army passed by directly under the fort, and the Tang army huddled in the fort on the mountain did not dare to come down.

It's not too late to come back and clean up.

"Without the guards of Qin Qiong in Songzhou City, why should we stop our great army?"

Prime Minister Shang Nang said arrogantly that the full name of this Tubo prime minister is Niang Mangbu Jie Shangnang. He served as the Tubo prime minister. He is the most powerful person under the Tubo Zampo now. He relies on the contribution of supporting the young Zampo to quell the throne and later quelling Subi.

After leading his army to defeat Subi's rebellion and resistance, Shangnang adopted the method of revenge, publicized Songtsen Gampo's policy of accepting the followers, treated the Subi commoners the same as the Tubo headquarters, eliminated Subi's desire to resist and restore the country, and allowed the subi nobles to retain their territory and pay tribute according to regulations, thus dismantling the resistance of most Subi nobles.

Of course, Shangnang can be a great minister, not only to support and quell the chaos, but also to his identity.

The Tubo nobles either prefer or discuss.

The Shang clan represents the family of relatives who were married to Zanpu, and there are four major Shang clans.

If the name or official title of the Tubo nobleman has a character forum, it means that it comes from the Tubo Siboye royal family and the Tubo Yuanxun family.

Shang Helun basically controlled the most important official position in the Tubo country.

The Niang family was originally an old nobleman of Subi, but later took the initiative to join Tubo and led the way to destroy Subi, so they were also granted the identity of the clan.

Zanpu of Tubo has always claimed to be a descendant of the gods and descended to the earth to rule the people. The Sibuye family, which uses the Yalong River Valley as the base, claimed to be the son of the youngest son of the most noble god, the "Six Kings of Heavenly Fathers" and received support from all clans and became the co-lord of all Tubo, named Zanpu. The other clans served as Tubo officials, and were granted to the fief and proclaimed themselves, and were able to shelter clan members who did not hold official positions, thus forming a Tubo noble ruling group.

The Tubo Dynasty used Shanghe to distinguish the aristocratic status of officials, and the royal family originated from royal family members. The aristocratic status of Zanpu and his family members were named Shang.

For a long time, the Tubo Zanpu family basically only married four major families such as Wulu and Cai Bang, so the four tribes are also called the four major Shang clans.

In Tubo before Songtsen Gampo, although Zanpu was the co-rule of Tubo, Tubo was in the era of clan alliances at that time, and the country was a major event, and the system of discussing aristocraticism was adopted.

Now, there are three ministers and one minister in the Tubo country, and nine ministers with five general managers are assisting the government.

The Three Sells and One Discussion was discussed by three uncles from the father and grandparents and a respected elder in the royal family.

After Songtsen Gampo's father was poisoned, the ones who supported Songtsen Gampo were his uncle Lunkoer and Lunchen Shangnang.

Shangnang became the prime minister because of his achievements in pacifying Subi. However, the young Zampo also had the power to arbitrarily govern the country after several years of reform. After that civil strife in Tubo, Tubo is no longer a clan alliance, but is hidden in the prototype of a centralized state in the Central Plains.

This Eastern Expedition was advocated by the Great Prime Minister Shangnang after learning that Qin Qiong had passed away, believing that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. When Qin Qiong was in charge of Songzhou, he put a lot of pressure on Tubo and could not cross the Yak River.

Now that Qin Qiong died, Shangnang believed that he could take advantage of the situation and first defeat Songzhou to shock the Emperor Tang, then force Dangxiang and other Qiang to join Tubo, and then use Hequ as the basis to plan the next step of seizing Tuyuhun.
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