The smoke of war rises everywhere

The letter stated that after taking the medicine prescribed by Zuo Shaoyang, Empress Changsun had completely recovered in one month. The emperor was very happy and gave it generous rewards. She also selected several medical books from the Prince's Library to send them to Zuo Shaoyang. As for the matter of sending troops to the Western Regions, it is necessary to be fully prepared.

After seeing this, Zuo Shaoyang didn't know whether to be happy or depressed. It was a good time to unite Duomian and others to destroy Tubo, but it would be difficult to continue to fight against Tubo after the Tubo power became stronger and the Western Regions were unified.

Zuo Shaoyang wrote a reply letter, detailing the analysis of the development momentum of Tubo, warning Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin that if Tubo is not destroyed while it is not yet prosperous, it will inevitably become a conscience to Datang.

Zuo Shaoyang naturally did not expect that Li Shimin would send troops to the deserted Western Regions to fight against Tubo. Therefore, for the sake of Gangrenbuche, he gritted the bullet and put forward a request, that is, once Tubo captured the small eastern countries and approached the border of the Tang Dynasty. He asked Li Shimin to immediately send troops to Tubo for the sake of saving Empress Changsun. Otherwise, Tubo would turn around and attack Xiangxiong and Gangrenbuche. He would not be able to regard himself as the Dharma King. He helped the emperor and hoped that the emperor could help this. He even said that if the mountains and waters did not turn, he might ask for his own future.

After writing this inappropriate letter and sealing it to the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, the envoys of the Tang Dynasty set off to return to the Tang Dynasty.

This time the emperor rewarded Zuo Shaoyang with several large boxes of medical books, and he had no time to read them. Now he had no time to take care of the issue of improving medical skills, so he had to think about how to keep the mandala.

The several large boxes of gold, silver and jewelry awarded by the emperor came in great use. Except for some of them used for the construction of mandala and the construction of handicrafts with great vitality, the rest were used for combat preparations.

He began to buy horses in large quantities. Now he could not place his hopes on Li Shimin, and he had to make preparations. The Tubo army was not invincible. As the population of Gangren Buche Mandala increased sharply and its influence expanded, Zuo Shaoyang began to see a glimmer of hope. He wanted to arm the people of the Mandala, and perhaps it could be used at the last moment.

He developed a combat readiness training plan and took a certain amount of time every month to conduct combat training. He was not good at this, so he hired generals with rich combat experience from Xiangxiong to help with training.

With his wealth of money, a large number of war horses were purchased from all directions at preferential prices and sold to the mandala to the herdsmen for credit. In just half a year, the horses in the mandala had reached 20,000!

The herdsmen who received the favor of the Dharma King were even more admirable, and participated in training strictly in accordance with the requirements of the Dharma King.

A year later, there were already 20,000 cavalrymen in Mandala that could be put into battle!

These combat troops are usually herdsmen, and their weapons are distributed to individuals. They can be put into combat with a command during war.

Zuo Shaoyang was very satisfied. With this army, he could at least feel a little relieved.

Li Shimin did not pay attention to Zuo Shaoyang's advice. Even after a few years, Tubo had conquered all small countries and tribes in the eastern region and burned the war to the border of the Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin did not even mobilize his army to prepare for the response.

Finally, the two tigers met.

In the twelve years of Zhenguan! The first battle between Tubo and Tang Dynasty started. Although the Tang army finally won, Li Shimin also felt the strong force of this army from the Western Regions Plateau. Only then did Li Shimin regret not obeying Zuo Shaoyang's words. After he found that the Tubo army was a strong opponent, he was even more unwilling to exert his strength to fight the other party to the death, so the marriage was carried out naturally.

In Zuo Shaoyang, the fifth year of becoming the Dharma King, that is, the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Princess Wencheng married far away from Tubo.

When Zuo Shaoyang heard the news, he was completely disappointed with Li Shimin. He also knew that this period of history could not be rewritten. Look at it, changing his destiny can only rely on himself.

Zuo Shaoyang immediately wrote a letter saying that the people were suffering from the place where he became the Dharma King and hoped to receive the gifts and support from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

He knew that as long as he wanted money, Li Shimin was very generous, and at this time, the Tang Dynasty had already had a strong national strength and could give it to him.

Li Shimin was still very grateful to Zuo Shaoyang for saving Empress Changsun's life. Moreover, he also guessed the purpose of Zuo Shaoyang asking him for money at this time. If a sharp blade was placed behind Tubo, it would definitely play a huge role in restraining Tubo. Therefore, this time, Li Shimin not only enthroned Zuo Shaoyang, the King of Gangren Buche, and sent him a huge amount of gold, silver and jewelry, but also sent an elite cavalry of 10,000 people as Zuo Shaoyang's guards, and came to Xiangxiong through Tubo.

Tubo had just married the daughter of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Facing the request of the Tang army to transit, although he knew it was inappropriate, he was not easy to refuse. So the ten thousand cavalrymen passed through Tubo successfully and arrived at Xiangxiong Gang Renbuche.

The leader of this cavalry was Xue Wanchai, the general who had besieged Hezhou!

Zuo Shaoyang was very surprised, but he still admired Xue Wanchai's generals very much. In Hezhou, he had a deep impression of the orderly advancement and retreat of Xue Wanchai's army and the bravery of fighting. With him to help him, he really felt like a tiger.

Xue Wanchai obviously received Li Shimin's strict order and asked him to obey Zuo Shaoyang's command, so he was very respectful to Zuo Shaoyang.

With this army of battles, another famous general in the Tang Dynasty and a huge amount of wealth, Zuo Shaoyang felt very at ease.

Xue Wanchai also understood what the emperor had for him to put him here. So he helped Zuo Shaoyang to provide advice, quickly strengthen the team, and further develop the economy. To strengthen the team, it is obviously not possible to rely on Gangrenbuche Mandala alone, and Xiangxiong cannot do it, because Xiangxiong is already a small population and has scattered residences. So the two of them set their sights on Nipola and Tianzhu!

There is a mountain tribe in Nibhar (Nepal), called Gurkha. This is the birthplace of Nepal mercenaries that became famous later. These mountain people are accustomed to fighting in plateau environments, are hard-working, and have the natural duty of professional soldiers. They have the idea of ​​using people to eliminate disasters for others. They are the most professional ethical among mercenaries. After taking the money, they can fight for their masters.

So Zuo Shaoyang hired Gurkhazan people on a large scale, recruiting almost all adult Gurkha men, and forming a full-time Nibharu mercenary with about 5,000 people.

The economy of Gangren Buche, led by handicraft industry, continued to develop rapidly. In addition, Zuo Shaoyang's superb medical skills, like gold-absorbing stones, continued to attract people from all over the world to the mandala. These people mainly came from the poor Tianzhu and Nipola.

In the fourth and fifth years from Zuo Shaoyang to the Western Regions, Sang Xiaomei and Bai Zhihan gave birth to a daughter and a son for Zuo Shaoyang respectively.

Although Zuo Shaoyang had five children in front, Zuo Shaoyang left and came to the Western Regions before he could remember. So those five children were not around him for long. Zuo Shaoyang poured all his efforts for his children on these two children.

Unfortunately, Sang Xiaomei's daughter was a bit wild, just like a boy, she only likes to dance with guns and sticks, and doesn't like to study medicine. However, Bai Zhihan's son was very introverted. Since she learned to read, she liked to stay alone and read and write, especially interested in medical books. So Zuo Shaoyang gave him high hopes.

In the 18th year of Zhenguan, that is, when Zuo Shaoyang became the ninth year of the Dharma King, with the injection of large sums of gold, silver and treasures of the Tang Dynasty every year, Gangrenbuche Mandala developed rapidly, with a population of nearly 10,000! In addition to the 10,000 regular Tang troops and 5,000 Gurkha mercenaries, the troops in Zuo Shaoyang and Xue Wanchai had more than 60,000 people who could fight for the people and during wartime! There were already 80,000 troops available for dispatch!

Faced with the growth of Gangren Buche, King Xiangxiong was somewhat worried, but the Dharma King Zuo Shaoyang was enthroned by the Tang Dynasty and supported by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Although he was inserted into his heart like a poisonous sting, King Xiangxiong was still helpless.

In recent years, Zuo Shaoyang has developed the economy on the one hand and the army on the other hand. At the same time, he has spent a huge amount of money to buy high-ranking officials in Tubo and the people around Zanpu and put his own spies.

In the past nine years, Tubo has conquered the entire eastern country and tribes, bordering the entire Tang Dynasty. Only Yang Tong and Xiangxiong remained in the Western Regions. Li Shimin became more and more aware of the power of Tubo. The more he did, the less he dared to attack easily. Therefore, increasing the support of Zuo Shaoyang's military power in Gangrenbuche Mandala became an important move to restrain Tubo. Originally, he was just grateful to Zuo Shaoyang for saving Empress Changsun, so he gave him a lot of gold and silver. Now, it has become an important military force that helps the security of the Tang Dynasty and deliberately supported it. In this way, Li Shimin invested exponentially.

With these huge amounts of funds injected, Zuo Shaoyang spent nine years to build the mandala into a new city, and it was a solid new city.

With the help of Xue Wanhua, he built a tall city wall and a wide moat, which attracted the infusion of snow-filled snow in the snow. The city stocked up a large amount of grain, which was enough for the whole city's military and civilians to eat for several years. He also dug many wells to ensure that the city's drinking water is self-sufficient.

At the same time, Xue Wanhua had checked the terrain around Gangrenbuji countless times. Once the Tubo army came to attack, how to deal with it was already clear.

At this moment, the 200,000 Tubo army had already set up troops on the same border.

Yangtong is a great country north of Xiangxiong and is also Xiangxiong's last ally to resist Tubo. If Yangtong perishes, Xiangxiong will find it difficult to protect himself.

However, King Xiangxiong still firmly believed in the alliance with Tubo and did not even prepare for a decent war. The news spread to Zuo Shaoyang, and he knew that he could not have any fantasies in the target King Xiong.

So, just as the Tubo army attacked Yangtong and the troops were approaching the capital, Zuo Shaoyang's army also attacked Tubo and approached Luosian City!

This move to surround Wei and save Zhao has obvious effect.

Songtsen Gampo had to withdraw his troops urgently and return to the city of Lusie. Zuo Shaoyang's purpose was naturally not to seize the city of Lusie, because Tubo's troops were far more powerful than him at this moment, and he was a army of war. He was full of spirit and felt that he could not fight them head-on. So Zuo Shaoyang wrote a letter of help and sent someone to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty to Li Shimin, and led his army to withdraw from the mandala of Gangrenbuche.

Songtsen Gampo could not have imagined that a small Dharma king would actually get ground on Tai Sui's head and immediately asked the King of Xiangxiong Kingdom to hand over Zuo Shaoyang. Xiangxiong Kingdom could not hand over because Zuo Shaoyang had 80,000 troops in his hand, and the more important thing was that he had the support of the Tang Dynasty behind him. Moreover, the arrogant and arrogant Xiangxiong Kingdom also felt embarrassed in the face of Tubo's request, so he ignored it.

Songtsen Gampo used this as an excuse and reused the same trick, negotiated a ceasefire with Yang Tong, and then freed up his hands and concentrated his strength to start attacking Xiangxiong!

The war finally reached the doorstep. King Xiangxiong then realized that the lion of Tubo was going to bite people. He rushed to organize resistance, but Xiangxiong was like an old bull, and it was impossible to resist the fierce attack of Tubo. Soon, except for the mandala of Gangrenbuche, the entire territory of Xiangxiong was captured by Tubo.

Zuo Shaoyang had already known that Xiangxiong's army was actually vulnerable, so he did not give up the impoverished mandala to rescue Xiangxiong's army. Tubo originally hoped that Zuo Shaoyang would go out of the city to rescue him, but he happened to lead a snake out of the hole and gathered to annihilate it. Unexpectedly, Zuo Shaoyang stopped moving his troops and stood firm in the mandala.

The Tubo army surrounded the mandala, but found that the mandala was really solid. Songtsen Gampo did not order a strong attack, but instead withdrew his troops and attacked Yangtong.

When Yang Tong was attacked by Tubo for the first time, Zuo Shaoyang sent troops to remove their siege, but when Zuo Shaoyang Mandala was surrounded, Yang Tong remained silent. After the Tubo army captured most of Xiangxiong, he was freed to deal with him, and he had become a lamb to be slaughtered.

Zuo Shaoyang could not wait for Yang Tong to perish. Under the leadership of Xue Wanchai, his 10,000 Tang cavalry were elusive and constantly raiding the empty Tubo towns behind. The terrain of this cavalry was familiar and flexible, which greatly restrained Tubo's military operations in Yang Tong.

At this critical moment of life and death, Yang Tongjun also began to cooperate with Zuo Shaoyang's cavalry. When Tubo attacked, they held on. Once Tubo retreated, they chased and fought, which made the Tubo army exhausted.

However, Songtsen Gampo was a generation of heroes after all, and quickly adjusted his deployment. He fought several towns to Zuo Shaoyang's cavalry and concentrated on dealing with Yang Tong. He set up an ambush to surround Yang Tong's main force and annihilated it in one fell swoop. Yang Tong destroyed the country.

Then, Songtsen Gampo marched into the mandala and surrounded Zuo Shaoyang's mandala!

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Zuo Shaoyang had to defend the mandala. The 10,000 cavalry still fought maneuvers and raided the Tubo army.
Chapter completed!