It was still noon, but the sky was dark.

The strong wind and drizzle were even sags. It was already the summer after the Dragon Boat Festival, but it changed on this day. Suddenly, it seemed that it was winter again overnight. The wind blew and was blew.

Songtsen Gampo once again came to the front of the gate, stood with his hands behind his back, watching from afar.

The little Lei Pass has been blocked by the way for more than a month. From the beginning of not caring about it, to the later division of troops to find a way, to the current inability to advance and retreat, Songtsen Gampo's heart is the same as this day.

Zanpu's intimidating aura made the guards wearing tiger and wolf jewelry cautiously and dare not say anything.

Gardongzan dismounted from afar and came on foot.

“Zamp.”

"Which military situation is it?"

Gar Dongzan bowed his head and reported in shame, "It's bad news again. Qiongbang Bose attacked Gansong Village several times in Gansongling, and suffered heavy losses."

Songtsen Gampo was prepared in his heart, but he still couldn't help but feel dizzy after hearing this. He shook his head, "How many casualties?"

"More than 3,000 casualties."

After hearing that he had only been injured for more than 3,000, Songzan Gampo breathed a sigh of relief, but Dongzan immediately added that Qiongbang Bose's injuries were all elite Gui soldiers.

Songtsen Gampo's eyes turned black and almost fell down.

Gardongzan stepped forward and quickly supported Zanpu.

"I can't get through Lei Pass, and Gansong Village is not available. Now I can only wait for news from Ningyuan Town. But I guess it's not easy."

Qiongbang Bose, also known as Qiongbang Se Suzi, is now the second second in the Tubo Dynasty to Niangshangnang, and is also the representative of Hou Tibet, the three major forces in the Tubo Kingdom. In the era when Songtsen Gampo's father Langri Luzan, Qiongbangse, who was the Tibetan prime minister of the Tibetan area at that time, killed the King of Hou Tibet, and then presented the entire Hou Tibet area and more than 20,000 households to Langri Luzan. For Tubo, this was a huge gift.

It is precisely because of this that in the era of Langri Luzan, Qiongbaobang Sesuzi also became the top upstart in the Tubo Dynasty. Langri Luzan was overjoyed and rewarded all 20,000 households to Qiongbaobang Sesuzi, and asked him to continue to manage the Tibetan area, so that he could stabilize the Tibetan area and focus on dealing with Subisenbo.

You know, at that time, there were only tens of thousands of households in Tubo, and Qiongbao Bangse alone received the reward of 20,000 households. How shocked.

But for Tubo, who was determined to conquer Subi, he could not fight on both sides, especially the population of Later Tibet was not much smaller than that of Tubo, and his strength was not weaker than that of them. So he simply asked Qiong Baobangse to preside over Later Tibet, which was also considered to be a use of the barbarians to control the barbarians, so he would concentrate on dealing with Subi in the north first.

Later, Langri's strategy was quite successful. With the support of Subieni's clan, he finally successfully destroyed Subi.

Subi was stronger than Tubo at that time. Tubo, who started in Yalong, Shannan, was like a snake swallowing an elephant. After capturing Subi, Langri Lunzan also used force to suppress Subi while reusing some of the old subi nobles who surrendered Subi, such as the Niang clan.

The Niang family was once a local territory in the era of a small plateau state. Among the twelve city-states of the Subi Alliance, it was one of the traditional twelve major families. It was very strong. However, later, Subi's civil strife and the queen was incompetent, so the Niang family had to ask for help from Tubo. In the end, the Niang family led Tubo to destroy Subi, and naturally the Niang family made great contributions.

After destroying Subi, Langri Lunzan still used some political means to preserve Subi's royal family on the surface, and used his children as local leaders to manage the territory, and then married the daughter of the Tubo royal family, which generously rewarded Subi's old nobles.

For example, Zeng Gu, who acted as the leader, was rewarded with the Bisong Castle and 1,500 slaves.

After this, Tubo not only had a few populations, but also added a large number of farmlands and vast pastures in Subi. Tubo also began to form the Tubo cavalry that later dominated the plateau.

At the same time, conquering Supi also allowed them to have a large amount of salt-producing land. With salt, Tubo also controlled the Supi people's tea-horse salt cloth trade, and wealth began to flow to Tubo.

However, the rapid expansion of Tubo, especially Langri Lunzan's appreciation of the Tibetan upbringers Qiongbaobangse and Subi's new nobles, also made Tubo's old Shannan nobles dissatisfied.

The upstart group was valued, but the old nobles in Shannan could only remain silent.

Among the upstarts, Supi and Senbo, represented by Niang and Wei, even competed for merit and profit with the upstarts of Tibetans represented by Qiong Baobangse, which made a mess. However, Langri Lunzan's handling was to further reward and use the upstarts, and appointed Niang's motherbuzhi Shangnang as the grand list.

At that time, the patriarchal subjects were rebellious, and then the matriarchal subjects rebelled. The marriage between Qi Xiangxiong and the origin of the ox, Sunbo, Neni, Dabu and others were completely rebelled. Langri Lunzan was also poisoned to death by guards from the old Tubo aristocrats.

Songtsen Gampo was only thirteen years old at that time.

The situation was very critical at that time. Fortunately, it received the full support of my mother, uncle and the royal family. At the suggestion of my uncle Lunkoer, Songtsen Gampo attracted the kind words of comfort to his mother, Shangnang and Qiongbang Bose, and received the support of the upstarts in Houzang and Subi. At that time, these upstarts also knew that the old nobles in Shannan of Tubo could not tolerate them.

Therefore, the unanimous thing was to quell the rebellion. Finally, with the assistance of Niangshangnang, Qiongbangbo, Lunkoer, etc., Songtsen Gampo quelled the rebellion. He exterminated all the rebels among the old nobles of Shannan, the basic Tubo region, and nationalized their fiefs, people, slaves, and property, completely dismantled the Shannan Yalong Group among the three major Tubo forces.

The Shannan aristocratic group, which was originally the basic Tubo region, was killed after this chaos. In the past dynasties, Zanpu was only the leader of the alliance, and in the end it was the alliance era of aristocratic clans. But after that, Tubo entered a new era, and Zanpu's authority rose extremely high, and even began to transition from a tribal alliance to a feudal kingdom.

Over the years, Songtsen Gampo has been very generous to the heroes of Niang Shangnang and Qiongbang Bose, and these two people have been appointed as Grand Prime Minister and Two Prime Minister in the court over the years.

Niangshangnang not only assisted Songtsen Gangbu in establishing a new system in Tubo, but also had irreplaceable contributions to stabilizing the situation in Subi. Qiongbao Bangse not only successfully stabilized the Tibetan area, but also defeated the rebellious conspiracy against Zanpu more than once. Especially when Meng Wimbledon rebelled, he saved the lives of the Zanpu brothers.

However, Songtsen Gampo was still secretly guarding against these two extremely capable figures. After all, his father was poisoned to death by his ministers, and Niang Shangang and Qiongbang Bose were not only top figures in the court, but also great nobles holding ten thousand households and fiefs, and their strength was too strong.

Songtsen Gampo has been dealing with it carefully, such as using the Gar family, using the former Daxiang son Mangxiang Songba to consolidate his arms and prepare for military affairs, and commanding Tubo troops.

In fact, he hoped that these two people with too strong abilities would die unexpectedly, and he would not have to worry all day long to sleep.

But now it is an Eastern Expedition, and the powerful Tang Dynasty is facing, so we naturally have to be consistent with the outside world.

Qiongbang Bose's defeat was not good news.

This two prime minister has made countless contributions and has shown extremely excellent military capabilities. But now he has led tens of thousands of troops and is defeated in Gansongzhai.

This shows that Tang Jun is stronger than he expected.

"It's not right. Songzhou is stronger than we expected. Qin Qiong is dead. Han Wei cannot have such ability. Maybe we have all been deceived. The Tang people were prepared for a long time. There must be more than Songzhou soldiers here, and even more than Jiannan soldiers. I suspect that the elite soldiers in Long have been transferred here to increase their defense, but have been deceived by us."

Songtsen Gampo said worriedly.

Gardongzan has been thinking about this issue these days and came to a conclusion similar to Zanpu. At this time, he nodded and agreed.

"Is there no news about Monkwomichin?"

"Not yet, the borders of Songzhou are full of mountains, and the roads are difficult to walk. It is even more difficult to find a route that can be attacked. The monk Guomiqin army has only 10,000 people, but they are not birds, so they can easily fly over the snow-capped mountains."

"Meng Guomiqin was unknown when I was my father, but he took the initiative to fight during the Pota rebellion. At that time, Qiongbang Bose failed first. Monk Guomiqin only led a light army, but wiped out the rebellion in one fell swoop. It was very impressive." Songtsen Gampo still had many high expectations for this Monk Guomiqin.

The ten thousand troops he commanded were surprise soldiers, and the direction of the attack was uncertain.

Now Qiongbang Bose is defeated by Gansongzhai. I guess there will be no good news on Shangnang's attack on Ningyuan Town on the other side, so I can only rely on Sengguo Miqin.

"As long as Monk Guomiqin makes progress, we can bypass the Daxue Mountains and penetrate Songzhou behind the Tang army's defense line, we still have a chance."

Gardongzan was silent for a while.

Finally, he persuaded Zanpu, "I think the opportunity is not great. The Tang people are too strict in defense. As Zanpu said, they may have been prepared for a long time and deliberately set up a net to lure us. We paused here for more than a month. Now the number of casualties gathered everywhere is nearly 20,000, and ten stops have been broken. And I am still worried about behind us. When we came before, Duomian, Bailan, Dangxiang and Qiang were all fleeing, and we didn't sweep and chase them. Now that we have been so long, we haven't seen these Qiang falls. I am worried that if the Tang people here were prepared and deliberately set up traps to lure us, then they have no reason to let go of the Qiang people behind us. The Qiang people can gather 200,000 to 300,000 people at any time. Once we advance and retreat, the Tang people and the Qiang tribes will attack each other on both sides, and we will be in danger!"

Songtsen Gampo said unwillingly, "Will we retreat here? Don't forget the purpose of our Eastern Expedition. We are to show the strength of Tubo to the Emperor of Tang. If we retreat like this, wouldn't we be ridiculed? Not to mention being despised by the Qiangs such as Dangxiang. How can the Qiangs surrender in this way? How can we seize the Tuyuhun land from the Tang Dynasty?"
Chapter completed!