As bad news was passed back, the young Songtsen Gampo became increasingly worried.

Gansong Ridge is like a dangerous Great Wall, with an iron wall, and does not give him any chance to invade. Leiguan's offensive has been interrupted and attacked every now and then, but he just doesn't want the defenders of Leiguan to return to other directions.

Until now, Songtsen Gampo still has fantasies about other groups. Although Qiongbobangse's legion has been defeated, there are still several groups of troops outside. As long as they succeed all the way, they can still win.

The continuous Minshan Mountains Gansong Ridge protects Songzhou. Leiguan is the most spacious and convenient road. Although Leiguan is closely guarded, other sections are very wide and flat.

Although in addition to Leiguan, there are many river valleys that can reach Songzhou, those are small and dangerous paths, and some even have to cross high snow-capped passes, cross deep and narrow mountain streams and turbulent rivers. But the situation is now like this, Zamp can only rely on this.

The sun in the sky has come out, but it is as gray as a monkey butt among the leaves, vaguely, and like the blood seeping of the wounded Tubo soldiers who were killed by the Tang people in front of Lei Pass.

Ten miles away from Leiguan, this relatively open river valley area is surrounded by countless Tubo tents, and the war is in a stalemate, and there are still 100,000 people here.

So, except for some of them taking turns to tackle the key problems, the rest were very idle. The mediocre people were responsible for driving cattle and sheep to grazing in the valley. The Gui soldiers were fine, so they continued to rest and standby.

There have been some bad rumors in the camp.

Many warriors began to have no hope for this expedition and thought they shouldn't come.

Especially when the news of Qiongbang Bose also defeated came back, this voice became even more loud, especially the Yang Alliance Army in the army.

This time, Tubo conscripted 200,000 troops from the east, including not only Tubo soldiers, but also an allied army, which was the Xiangxiong army from Songtsen Gampo's brother-in-law, Li Mixia.

Xiangxiong is a plateau kingdom standing with Tubo. Like Tubo, Xiangxiong had already existed in the forty states of the plateau, and then the twelve states of the twelve states. The plateau ranged from forty states to the twelve small states, and later the three heroes of Xiangxiong, Supi and Tubo were established together, and now Tubo destroyed Supi, leaving only two heroes.

Xiangxiong, also known as Yangtong, was a country on the Ali Plateau in later generations. It was not very accurate to say that the country was, because in fact, even at this time, although Xiangxiong had passed on dozens of kings, its essence was still a small state alliance.

It is similar to Supi and others earlier.

Under this system of state alliance, Xiangxiong was actually very loose. King Xiangxiong actually did not have much control over the small states. The same was true in the early years. However, with the efforts of these generations of Zamp, Tubo was changing the loose tribal state alliance era in the past and began to transition to a feudal centralized state.

Songtsen Gampo's sister married Li Mixia, and Songtsen Gampo actually married Li Mixia's sister as a concubine. This kind of marriage like a marriage is a manifestation of the alliance between the two parties.

When the three heroes of the plateau stood together, Tubo actively attacked, using the strategy of connecting Xiangxiong and then destroying Subi. Under this strategy, the Tubo target Xiong both pulled and fought, and finally tied Xiangxiong to his own chariot. In the subsequent expansion war, Xiangxiong sent troops to assist Tubo many times.

During this Eastern Expedition, Songtsen Gampo also sent an envoy to Xiangxiong early, first meeting his sister Saimage, and then inquired from her about the detailed situation of the Yinlong Silver Fort in the Xiangxiong King City. The envoy conveyed Songtsen Gampo's plan and asked the princess to help persuade Li Mixia.

In fact, Songtsen Gampo's plan was still good. Li Mixia finally sent 10,000 troops to follow Zanpu to the east expedition.

Now there are ten thousand sheep in the camp in front of Lei Pass.

These Xiangxiong soldiers came from Xiangxiong's divisions, so they were not very united. Xiangxiong was just a tribal and national alliance after all, with a vast territory and a long history of the alliance.

The region is roughly divided into three parts: Li Xiangxiong, Zhong Xiangxiong and Outer Xiangxiong. Li Xiangxiong is actually the westernmost part of Xiangxiong, which is the Kashmir area at the intersection of India and Pakistan in later generations. Zhong Xiangxiong refers to the hinterland of the Ali area where Xiangxiong’s capital Qionglong Silver Fort is located.

The area of ​​Waixiangxiong is wider, including 39 tribes and 25 tribes in Beijia. Among them, the 25 tribes in Beijia have even reached the Supi border and are in Yushu, Qinghai, later.

The territory of the entire League of Legends is actually very vast, starting from Kashmir in the west, reaching Pamir in the north, Khotan, including the entire Qiangtang uninhabited area in northern Tibet, and extending to the east to the areas of Chamdo and Yushu.

It can be said that in the heyday of Xiangxiong, they actually included most of the snowy area.

After Tubo conquered Senbo and Supi, they expanded all the way from Shannan. The tribes in the eastern part of Xiangxiong's outer Xiangxiong were actually almost an enclave.

Now, the tribes in the eastern region have actually broken away from the alliance with Xiangxiong and have basically joined the alliance of Tubo, and have actually become affiliated with Tubo.

The area that Xiangxiong is now truly controlled is the Ali Plateau.

Xiangxiong, which has a history of 800 years, has long been old and corrupt, and is far less powerful than the emerging Tubo.

However, this time, Zanpu, the Tubo personally led 200,000 people to the east. Many people thought that this time, like the past, would defeat the enemy and seize a large area of ​​land, cattle, sheep, livestock, etc., and everyone could share a lot of spoils and seize it. But who would have thought that the last time Zanpu fought against Supi, all of them were defeated, but this time, the 200,000 people were defeated so embarrassed.

As we walked over, we had never really fought with Zhu Qiang, and everyone only focused on Songzhou. But who would have thought that if we didn’t even see Songzhou City, we would be blocked at the foot of Gansong Mountain.

The Tubo people are better. After all, these Tubo soldiers are brave and obedient in the past few years of reform and rectification, but the soldiers from Xiangxiong came differently. Xiangxiong may not be able to really order these people. They came not because of the order of Xiangxiong or because of the intimidation of Tubo Zanpu. They were only tempted by the various benefits that Tubo Zanpu and Xiangxiong told everyone. They thought that this time, they would get many benefits just like fighting Supi before.

Therefore, the nobles of various tribes were actively gathering up all the heroes of all kinds to follow the battle, but now they have not taken advantage of them. They stayed in this valley every day, and the people who were almost crazy, so naturally they were not happy.

The alliance between Tubo and Xiangxiong relies on marriage between the two sides and mutual oaths.

The loyalty of King Xiangxiong and the nobles of various tribes was actually stable by swearing together, but in the face of real interests, these are not worth mentioning. Otherwise, why would Tubo Zanpu be poisoned and rebelled by his old nobles in Shannan? You should know that among the old nobles who rebelled, there were many patriarchal and matriarchal clans, who were in-laws of the Zanpu family for generations, and they were not rebelled.

Songtsen Gampo was in a difficult mood and was very irritable.

He took the tiger, leopard skin guards and warriors, and rode slowly in the valley. He said he was going out to hunt, but he was not in the mood.

He now felt like a lost person who had missed into the jungle. The jungle was not only full of trees, but also filled with fog, covering his eyes and making him unable to see the direction.

Who was the commander of Songzhou City, and how many reinforcements of the Tang army came?

He knew nothing.

He now regrets that he underestimated the enemy.

Qin Qiong has been guarding Songzhou for many years, not only has he built an elite Ningyuan army, but he has also built Songshan west of Songzhou into an insurmountable Great Wall. He thought it was a Tang Dynasty border and should be able to easily invade, but who knew that now he couldn't even touch the border.

Riding on the horse, he tried hard to calm himself down and thought carefully to summarize.

At first, Songshan was very dangerous and the road was difficult to move. However, Qin Qiong set up many beacon towers here, putting all passages in Songshan under surveillance. Once the enemy was discovered, the beacon was immediately warned and sent to Songzhou.

Then Songzhou can quickly mobilize troops and defend the troops as soon as possible.

Qin Qiong also set up many bunkers, military towns, guards, garrisons, etc. in various valleys and passes, making the border extremely tight and there is no hole to enter.

Just like now, although they divided their troops into several groups, they were still difficult to invade and were always blocked by the Tang army. First, the fortresses and fortresses blocked the road, and second, the Tang army relied on those beacon towers to quickly mobilize troops to intercept them. Otherwise, how could the Songzhou army defend so many passes?

Another thing is that there is no only Ningyuan army in Songzhou now. With those thousands of people, they cannot defend so many places, and it is even more impossible to block 100,000 soldiers at Leiguan and defeat tens of thousands of troops in Qiongbang in Gansongzhai.

This only shows one problem, that is, Songzhou has indeed obtained Tang army reinforcements, and it may be as simple as the surrounding government soldiers, border town soldiers and united soldiers.

A terrible guess came to mind.

Is this a trap from the beginning to the end?

Or did Qin Qiong not die of illness at all, but just pretended to die and lure them to attack? Then, not only did Qin Qiong not die, but also mobilized many elite troops from Guanlong and other places early to set up a network here?

This is impossible.

If this result was true, it would be terrible. Although the Tubo people had long imagined the Eastern Expedition, the real Eastern Expedition was a top secret and even more uncertain. How could the Tang people have predicted it long ago?

But in addition, how can we explain the current foggy situation?

In the past few days, some people have begun to propose withdrawing troops.

Some people say that they will withdraw directly from Tubo, while others suggest that they adjust their direction and attack Victoria in the south, or go north to attack Longyou, or simply attack Tuyuhun.

Some people also say that it is better to go back first to sweep the Dangxiang Bailan and Qiang, and force them to surrender, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback next time.

After all, I thought that this Eastern Expedition had been defeated and that Songzhou could not be defeated, and it was impossible to even see it.

They all wanted to retreat, but were unwilling to fight again.

Songtsen Gampo did not let go, nor could he let go. The 200,000 people in the east could not retreat in shame. This was something he had never experienced in eight years of succession, and it was also a failure that he could not bear.

How could you be willing to withdraw your troops without seeing Songzhou City?
Chapter completed!