Chapter 102 Let Songtsen Gampo and Jie Li be your companion

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "I can't explain this matter clearly in just one word. Come in first, let's talk slowly!"

Fang Xuanling did not contradict Li Jiancheng. As Fang Xuanling's strategic goal in his political career, he was a loyal minister, not a discrepancy between right and wrong.

If the king is not secret, he will lose his ministers. If the ministers are not secret, he will lose his body. Fang Xuanling is also very clear about this principle. Fang Xuanling doesn’t care how many women Li Jiancheng will be included in the harem. If Li Jiancheng is willing, Fang Xuanling’s young girl who lives in Shuangju, Fang Xuanling can also send Li Jiancheng to the palace.

However, the deposed princess of Qi has different identities, which involves the ethical principles of Confucianism. This is the bottom line and the principle. We must never give in.

After entering the warm pavilion, Li Jiancheng told Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng how Li Yuanji joined the line with Goguryeo Yuan Sugawen. Yuan Sugawen was preparing to imitate the Yang Xuangan Rebellion that year. At the critical moment when the Tang army conquered Goguryeo, he used the navy to send the 50,000 prisoners trained into the army to Youzhou to cut off the Tang army's retreat to the east.

Hearing this, Fang Xuanling changed color in shock.

If the deposed Princess of Qi had not stood up at the critical moment, and once Li Yuanji succeeded, the Tang Dynasty might have just seen a little bit of the shadow of a peaceful and prosperous era and would soon repeat the mistakes of the chaotic era in the late Sui Dynasty.

Wei Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's so dangerous..."

Fang Xuanling sighed and said, "The deposed Princess of Qi is such a smart person. Hongnong Yang Family is well-known!"

On the surface, Yang seemed to have betrayed Li Yuanji and reported it to Li Jiancheng secretly before the Li Yuanji incident, which was pushing Li Yuanji into the fire pit. In fact, it was not the case. It is different from Yang Guangdong's expedition to Goguryeo in the east. Even if Li Jiancheng launched an expedition to Goguryeo in the east, he would never conquer the country's troops south.

Moreover, the Tang Dynasty had already built warships on a large scale and trained naval forces. With the dozens of pallets of Goguryeo, the power of sea control could not be controlled at all. The Tang army navy could take the back path of Goguryeo at any time. Of course, the most important thing was that even if Li Yuanji's troops controlled Lulongzhai (the predecessor of Jishanhaiguan), the long coastline was full of supply locations for the Tang Dynasty's army's eastern expedition.

Under the attacks between inside and outside, Li Yuanji will undoubtedly be defeated. At that time, even if Li Jiancheng saw that his mother would not kill Li Yuanji, the civil and military ministers in the court would definitely not tolerate Li Yuanji. At that time, Li Yuanji committed suicide in prison, which was probably the most decent ending.

Li Jiancheng looked at Fang Xuanling and said, "What memorial is General Chen sending?"

Wei Zheng took out his memorial and placed it in front of Li Jiancheng's case.

Li Jiancheng opened the memorial and said in surprise: "Great victory?"

Just as Songtsen Gampo "pretends" to Chen Ying's trick, he ordered a direct army that pretended to be his own and returned to Songbang Fort lightly, while the real elite heavy armored cavalry were ambushed in secret, preparing to give Chen Ying a center to blossom.

As the saying goes, the devil is one foot taller and the road is one foot taller. Chen Ying also adopted the same suspicious plan. Now, the anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance Army has achieved brilliant results. They swept through dozens of tribes around the Yalong River Valley in one breath like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and grabbed tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and more than 60,000 war horses.

As for the forage they burned and the Tubo people killed, it is impossible to estimate. Chen Ying took out money worth millions of yuan one after another.

As the anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance Army successively wiped out dozens of tribes of all sizes, they developed morale and confidence. When they learned that Songtsen Gampo sent more than 50,000 troops to urgently return to the Songbang Castle City, the tribe leaders of these anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance Army were happy when they saw more than 50,000 people.

The 50,000 Tubo army is worth 150,000 yuan of wealth. If they buy food, they will be able to lie on the food and roll over for three years.

The anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance army had a total of: "If you do it, you will die, and you will die for thousands of years!"

When more than 50,000 Tubo troops arrived at Tilinshan City, there were more than 300 miles away from Songbang Fort City. Of course, for the cavalry, they could reach Songbang Fort City in one night, and the Tubo warriors could use their swords in their hands to cut off the head of Chen Ying, the biggest enemy of Tubo.

Anyway, Songtsen Gangbang's order, no matter whoever kills Chen Ying's head, even a slave will be promoted to aristocrat and to Dongpu Punishi.

Of course, for Tubo, the reward is a bit high. You should know whether the Tubo dynasty or the slave society, their social class is fixed, the nobles are always nobles, and slaves are always slaves. Shang Yang's military merit system can't see any trace in Tubo.

Behind the 50,000 Tubo "elite" troops, about 30 miles away, Songtsen Gampo looked at the officials in the tent and smiled: "I think the enemy will be wiped out by us soon, haha..."

Tunmi Alu also smiled and flattered Songtsen Gampo and said, "Dear Zanpu, this plan has never been matched throughout history, even if Zhuge Wuhou of the Central Plains is not as good as he will be."

Songtsen Gampo was very helpful and said with a look of enjoyment: "Well, everyone, I will drink and wait for the news ahead slowly."

"Okay." Tunmiaru immediately called the soldiers to bring the wine.

This is a fine wine brewed by a good man, with a mellow taste and a little bit spicy, but in the eyes of the Tubo people, this is the wine that men should drink.

Tubo officials sat in Songtsen Gampo's tent, and everyone had all kinds of fantasies, fantasizing about taking Songbang Castle City and capturing Chen Ying, and regaining Songbang Castle without any effort. Chen Ying was the sister-in-law of the Emperor of Tang, and a wealthy man in the Tang Dynasty who was rich enough to rival the country. As long as Chen Ying was controlled in his hands, the Tang people would definitely be forced to negotiate peace. Not to mention extorting one million stones of food from the Tang people, the Tang emperor would probably be cautious. That scene was simply wonderful.

But they waited, there was no news ahead.

An hour passed.

Tunmi Aru said a little uncontrollably: "Zanpu, why is there no news yet? I'll ask?"

Songtsen Gampo was actually very anxious, but on the surface he seemed calm and waved his hand and said, "No."

After pausing, he pretended to be old-fashioned and taught Tunmi Alu: "You just can't calm down. People always have to prepare."

"Zanpu said very much." Tunmiaru flattered: "It is Zanpu, so I can't learn this calm servant."

Songtsen Gampo was very satisfied with Tunami Alu's attitude and reached out to pat the other party's shoulder: "You have to learn a lot. When I unify the world, you will be the Grand Marshal of the Great Theory. Don't let me down."

Tunmi Aru smiled and said, "Thank you Zamp."

Faced with the business awkwardness between Songtsen Gampo and Tunmi Aru, Yu Weng-ji was really disgusted. Songtsen Gampo, a doll that the girl hasn't quit, looks a bit like a moo-chicken.

The two continued to chat confidently.

Two hours passed, but there was still no news.

Tunami Aru frowned and said, "Why is there no news yet?"

Songtsen Gampo was also a little uneasy and said with a strong voice: "I'll do it, the time is almost over, I guess there will be news soon."

Tunmi Aru stretched out his thumb and said, "Zanpu, you are a magic trick."

Three hours passed.

Tunmi Aru: "Zampu, this..."

Songtsen Gampo finally panicked, it was dawn!

His dark circles were all out and he was still holding on. During this period, he sent someone to find out a lot of news, but they waited and didn't wait for anything.

Finally, Songtsen Gampo couldn't hold back his breath, stood up with a loud voice, and said loudly: "Come here!"

A guard trotted in outside and knelt on the ground and said, "Zamp."

Songtsen Gampo seemed impatient and said, "Hurry up and ask Ru Daren again..."

Just then, a loud shout came from outside, "Zamp, it's not good! It's not good!"

Songtsen Gampo yelled in his heart: "What kind of morality is it to be in a panic!"

The guard who came in panted and pointed outside in panic: "We are surrounded by the enemy!"

Yu Wenji stood up and came outside the tent. Suddenly, he saw dense Tang army troops appearing in all directions west, with at least tens of thousands of troops.

Yu Wenhuahe looked at the Anxi Army battle flag fluttering in the wind outside, and his heart was full of doubts: "How did the Anxi Army come from?"

In fact, these Anxi Army are all parallel companies.

Most of them were the Han people rescued by the Beiwei Army from Tubo. These Han people who had been enslaved by Tubo for several years or more, learned that Chen Ying led more than 10,000 cavalry into the snow plateau, and all formed a system according to various towns and forts, following Guo Xiaoke to enter the snow plateau.

With the establishment of the Anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance, in fact, there was no secret to Chen Ying in Tubo Xueyuan.

When Chen Ying occupied Songbang Castle City, he found out that there were actually only two roads from Kangyanju City to Songbang Castle City. If it was winter and the river surface was frozen, there would be more ways to move forward.

The key is that it is summer now, and the Tubo people do not have a huge navy to transport the army. Chen Ying ordered Guo Xiaoke's troops to make arrangements in advance to wait for labor.

Songtsen Gampo and Tunmi Aru were both dumbfounded. They looked at each other with incredible expressions. They even thought that their ears were broken. How could it be? It was less than a night. How could it be surrounded by the enemy? After surrounding Songtsen Gampo, things were much simpler. Facing a big fish like Songtsen Gampo, Chen Ying deliberately surrounded and did not attack. Of course, it was not all not to attack. It was just a harassing attack. As long as Songtsen Gampo did not break through, they would never attack.

Songtsen Gampo originally thought that the battle would go very smoothly, so he didn't prepare much baggage. Even if he included all the yaks and sheep, they could only eat for more than a month.

Even if their jerky meat and food were saved, they could only eat for about two months. For this reason, Songtsen Gampo hurriedly sent a messenger to break through and issued an edict to the Tubo ministries to support the king. He called on all ministries to come and serve the king.

The fun was even greater. Due to the lack of unified command, the Tubo divisions were different from each other and their strengths were different. The army of the king came to destroy one branch, one or two branch, and one pair was eliminated.

At the end of June of the third year of Kaiyuan, the arrows were exhausted, and the hungry Songtsen Gumbu was exposed, holding a hungry sheep and surrendering to Chen Ying.

For this reason, the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, which lasted for half a year, finally came to an end.

It ended with the Tang Dynasty's complete victory.

Now Li Jiancheng couldn't smile even more bitterly. He and the Tang court had not yet had time to prepare and prepare to accept Tubo. Chen Ying had already taken down Tubo here and directly spread the territory for thousands of miles. Nearly two million Tubo people surrendered to the Tang Dynasty under the leadership of Songtsen Gampo.

Looking at the memorial, Wei Zheng pondered: "The war has been completed. It may be difficult to absorb and digest the work of Tubo in three to five years, especially in competing for people's hearts. This is a long time!"

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly and said, "Who said it was not? Originally, Anxi had many Hus and few Hans. Although the Tang Dynasty can now rely on the Anxi Army to be strong and can temporarily be dominated by the Han Dynasty, if this population situation does not change, there will be big problems in one or two generations."

Wei Zheng continued: "Since Emperor Wu of Han pioneered the Western Regions, immigration to the border has been a routine to solve the problem, but... not only Anxi lacks people, but also Tubo..."

Li Jiancheng was in pain and happiness at this time.

Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng and said, "The capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty was in the Guanzhong Plain. After the eastward destruction of Shang, the territory was 2,000 miles east of Hangu Pass. However, King Wu and Duke Zhou did not move eastward, only Luoyang created a capital. Qin destroyed the six countries, and the situation was the same. However, Qin did not move the capital eastward. After Emperor Gaozu of Han wiped out the world, he chose to set the capital. He did not choose Luoyang, which was moderate in geography but small in structure, but chose Guanzhong, which was geographically biased. Your Majesty, why do you think it is?"

Li Jiancheng said: "In fact, whether the geographical bias or not should be the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that the location of the capital must form a strong enough force to suppress the affiliated prefectures and towns. The Zhou and Han dynasties were relatively strong in Chang'an, and those who stood in Luoyang were relatively declining. We must learn from the lessons learned here."

Wei Zheng pointed to Chen Ying's memorial and said, "How to reply to General Chen's memorial?"

Li Jiancheng pondered and said, "The Xingtai system cannot be abolished, otherwise the vastness of Anxi will be in control of thousands of miles. If you ask Chang'an for instructions in everything, in the words of General Chen, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold!"

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly and said, "Who said no?"
Chapter completed!