Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 816 If you don't give money, it doesn't count. Slightly

In the fifth year of Shaoming, in July, 120 miles south of Luoxie, on the north bank of the Yangchabu Zangbo River, Qushui City.

The so-called Yangchabu Zangbo River is the later Yarlung Zangbo River, and Qushui City is the later Qushui County.

Since ancient times, it has been the transportation center from Lhasa to Shannan, Nyingchi, Shigatse and other places.

After hearing that the Tang people had occupied Luoxie, the Qingtang feudal lords from all over the place jointly elected Tashi Degun, the Ali royal family who occupied Burang (Pulang County), as the king.

The feudal lords of Shannan and Nyingchi also sent troops to participate. The coalition forces totaled [-] cavalry, and they jointly vowed to drive the Tang people out of the land.

Li Cunhui took the lead and led his army south to block the key point of Qushui City, so as to avoid leading the war directly outside the city.

The founder of Ali's royal line is actually my old acquaintance of Zhang Shengren, that is, Jidni Magun, who also praised Pu.

However, after the brief honeymoon period between the two sides, as Zhang Ting's forces withdrew from Tianzhu, Hezhong and Anxi, and shifted their attention to the east, Jidnimagun quickly said goodbye to Zhang Ting.

The current Ali region should actually be called the Greater Ali region, because in addition to including the Ali region of the later republic, it also includes most of the later Kashmir region.

At this time, heading south from Ngari area is directly the place where Zhang Shengren's blood vessel exploded when he heard it.

He sealed it up by himself, thinking that it could be used as a bridgehead to control Tianzhu, and use Tianfangjiaobao as the capital of Zhenyuan Kingdom.

The ruler of Zhenyuan Kingdom, Zhang Bingzhong, was originally a native of Little Bolu who lived in the Congling area.

After Xiao Bolu Kingdom was eliminated by Gao Xianzhi, Datang established Congling Shouzhuo here as Datang's actual control place.

Xiao Bolu's race should be a mixture of Tocharians from Kashgar and Han-Tibetans.

When the Central Plains was strong in the Han and Tang Dynasties, they and the Tat people (the ancestors of the Tajik people) who lived next to each other jointly called themselves the Han Ritian Race.

That is to say, they believe that their tribe is the descendant of the princess of the Central Plains and the tribe who followed her from the east.

This is actually a narrative of the mixed blood of Han people and Indo-Europeans, and it is also a symbol of the strength of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Even during the years when Datang controlled Congling, the upper echelons of their tribe could barely speak Chinese.

Whenever he thinks of this, Zhang Ting is speechless for a while. He has such a good relationship with the Central Plains. Zhang Bingzhong's niece Cao Yanmian is also Concubine Cao Shu, one of Zhang Ting's four concubines.

As a result, as soon as this old boy gained a firm foothold in Zhenyuan Country, he colluded with Jidnimagun and married Jidnimagun's daughter. It seemed that he wanted to completely treat Zhenyuan Country as his own territory.

But now, Jidnimagun has passed away, and his three sons, Beiji Ripagun, Tashi Degun, and Dezugun divided the Ali Dynasty into three parts and established a separate regime.

And Zhaxi Degun, who was elected king this time, is the most powerful among them, and Zhang Bingzhong married Zhaxi Degun's sister.

This time he dreamed of being able to enter Luoxie City and become Zanpu of Quanqingtang, and Zhang Bingzhong was behind it.

The lord of Zhenyuan already felt that he couldn't sleep or eat well. He didn't expect that Zhang Ting could really become the emperor of the Central Plains.

Originally, he thought that Zhang Tie would definitely be bumped to death in this impossible dream, which was also an important reason why he dared to close the door and become a king.

Now, seeing that he has caused a lot of trouble, of course he has to persuade more people to join him in the same boat, so that he may be able to fight.

Li Cunhui was not in a hurry, he didn't even wear armor, the coalition army on the opposite side had arrived in early May, and now it was the end of July, the battle still hadn't started, the two sides were still facing each other across the Yangchabu Zangbo River.

However, the southern bank of the river where the opponent was stationed and its surrounding areas were originally the territory of the Lhasa royal family. Now that Zanpu has already voted, Li Cunhui does not believe that the small nobles and common people below have much willingness to fight.

Most of the coalition forces on the opposite side came from afar. Given the traffic environment on the Qingtang Plateau, they couldn't bring much supplies. Food and grass must be provided by the local feudal nobles to the south and west of Qushui City.

This is not a small number. There are almost [-] troops, and there are thousands of mules and horses. People eat and feed, even mountains of gold and silver cannot bear it.

At the same time, Zhou Jun's supplies had already been hoarded in the women's country area, which is the area around Yushu City in later generations.

As soon as the snow melted, 10,000+ peasants were recruited from the Huangshui Prefecture, Songpan Xuanwei Envoy, and Kangding Xuanwei Envoy, and more than 2 yaks began to be transported to Luoyang. In addition to the previous seizures, there is no need to worry about supplies.

So Li Cunhui calmly waged a war of attrition with the opponent. It didn't believe that the nobles under the original Lhasa royal family who had been responsible for providing food and grass for the coalition forces could bear it.

Sure enough, ten days later, on the fifth day of the eighth month, Li Cunhui set up a sentry in the sentry tower on the hill and found a commotion in the opposite army formation.

Later that night, people who claimed to be from Gyantse and Qiongjie swam to the north bank of the river, expressing their willingness to respond to the army.

Li Cunhui ignored them, hacked them all to death, and threw their bodies into the river. What kind of joke are you talking about, just three or two kittens came here just to gain trust?

Regardless of whether it was true or not, Li Cunhui felt that before the local tycoon on the opposite side could not hold back, he would not take any action until he saw Big Yu himself.

Ten days later, Zhou Jun was celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 100th. Someone traveled more than [-] miles from the lower reaches of the Yangchabu Zangbo River and came to Li Cunhui's barracks to see him in person.

The person who came was none other than Lu's headed family who was heartless, and he fell to the ground crying as soon as he entered the barracks. It turned out that their family caused the coalition riot ten days ago.

As a result, hundreds of people who had not yet had enough heart and teeth were killed, and the king Zhaxi Degun, who was elected by the coalition forces, also detained the heartless eldest son and nephew, declaring that if there is no Lu Shi and others, they will not provide military supplies on time. He will kill his whole family.

"Mr. Cunhui, that Zhaxi Degun didn't want to be aggressive at all, because he knew the power of Datang.

This pig and dog-like thing basically wants to hold the [-] army in its hands, and wait until the locals are exhausted to occupy our land. "

The gray-haired man has no heart and tears, his nose is full of tears, he has suffered a big loss now, if he knew it, he might as well take refuge in these Tang people.

Li Cunhui burst into laughter when he was on the spot. Sure enough, Tashi Degun still has some tricks. No wonder he was able to confront him stubbornly under such unfavorable circumstances.

It turned out that he didn't intend to enter Luoxie at all, but just wanted to consume the strength of these tycoons west of Luoxie, and then facilitate his annexation.

Tashi Degun's base is located in Burang, which is the Pulan County of the later Republic and the western part of Nepal, which is [-] miles away from Luoxie.

With such a long distance, even if he entered the logical area, unless he was willing to move to the logical area, he would not be able to control it.

But if you get more logical, you will be far away from the basic market, and there is a high probability that you will be pinched in the hands of others like Chiwang Xu Zan.

Since this is the case, it would be better to simply destroy the local tyrants such as the Wulu family in the south and west of the Yangchabu Zangbo River.

Then annex the territory close to his basic panburang and other places, which is not much better than running into logic to be a puppet.

Shang Wuxin thought that Li Cunhui immediately believed him when he heard it, and asked him impatiently if there was any way to cross the river. Unexpectedly, Li Cunhui laughed a few times.

"If Zhaxi Degun is so sensible, why should I cross the river to beat him?
It's not something we Han Tang'er can control to control this land of Qingtang. The imperial court only needs to be more logical.

Well, Zhaxi Degun, he can be named a prince or something, as long as he is willing to stay humble, he will be hello, hello, hello, everyone. "

After all, without listening to Shang Wuxinya's explanation, he was kicked out again.

Because the timing is still not here, and the local tyrants can still provide a certain amount of food and grass. These guys are at both ends, so if they don't let them hurt their bones, they will not know the benefits of taking refuge in the Central Plains.

Moreover, just as Tashi Degun thought, Li Cunhui also wanted to severely weaken these local tycoons. Since Tashi Degon is willing to take action, why not do it.

On August 25, Shang Wuxinya ran over again, this time he really couldn't stand it anymore.

While he was still outside the military tent, he took a group of local tyrants from the south bank of the Yangchabu Zangbo River and kowtowed step by step, all the way into Li Cunhui's camp.

And behind Shang Wuxinya and the others, there were dozens of poorly dressed monks standing. These were former Buddhist monks hidden on the south bank of the river.

Shang Wuxinya brought them here to express his willingness to convert to the Six Dharma Schools.

Afterwards, he asked someone to bring in three big boxes of treasures, all of which were various hidden gems and gold and silver artifacts. It seemed that he had indeed taken out all the things from the bottom of the box at home.

A coy beauty was also pushed to the front by Shang Wuxin.

"This is the second daughter of the Qiongjie family on the south bank of the river. I don't know if she can fall into Duke Wei's eyes."

Li Cunhui took a look, hehe!It's really beautiful, and it's clean and clean, unlike other Tibetan healthy women who always have the smell of not taking a bath all the year round, and he agrees three points just by smelling this fragrant little smell.

In fact, I don't blame Li Sanlang for being lustful. A brave general like him has always been in great demand in some aspects.

For example, Chang Yuchun in history, after King Kaiping went to war, as long as it was not the eve of the decisive battle, he liked healthy women the most. If there were no one, Heifer would not be unacceptable.

Li Cunhui was like this. He had just turned 30 years old and had almost forty wives and concubines. It is said that he didn't even know how many children he had. Jin Yi's personal guard counted them for him, and there were as many as 37.

So much so that with his honor as the Duke of Wei, Zhang Tie had to help him from time to time, otherwise the family's ostentation would not be able to open up.

This also shows the extraordinaryness of Murong Nobunaga. Among the unparalleled generals who are so close to the emperor in the past dynasties, Wei Qing 1000 years ago, Xu Da 500 years later, and a few others can suppress their inner desires. Just a few people.

However, although Li Cunhui is lustful, he is also very shameless!

He likes women very much, and he also likes gold and silver, but as long as he feels that the best time has not come, it will be sugar-coated and the shells will be thrown back.

I took your money and women, but I can still do nothing!

If you don't pay, it's not prostitution!
However, after the last failure, it seems that he has inquired about Li Weigong's reputation, and he has prepared a trump card.

When he saw Li Cunhui shamelessly preparing to say a few words on the scene, and then took the poor little beauty to the back to have fun, he still didn't have the heart to shout:

"Wei Gong, there are three hundred soldiers from Zhenyuan Kingdom in the coalition army on the opposite side. Zhenyuan Kingdom advocates loyalty, and it is Tashi Degun's brother-in-law!"

What!Li Cunhui's face turned serious, he stepped forward and grabbed Shang Wuxin by the collar, "But Tianzhu, that Zhenyuan country?"

"Exactly!" He had already inquired clearly, not only did he know that there were [-] soldiers from the Zhenyuan Kingdom in the coalition army, he even knew the list of officers among them.

"You know that there is a price to be paid for talking nonsense!" Li Cunhui was really anxious now.

Because he knew that Zhenyuan Kingdom advocated that Bingzhong was the person his emperor's adoptive father hated the most, and if there were soldiers from Zhenyuan Kingdom on the opposite side, then he would definitely arrest them all.

"I would like to issue a military order. If there is no one, please Duke Wei behead the head of the servant!"

"Okay!" Li Cunhui yelled, "Murong Xinchun, you lead five hundred iron cavalry to cross the river with Dashang and set off fireworks."

They were able to cross the river several times to reach the camp of the Zhou army, which proved that they must have a very hidden ferry.

Otherwise, the reconnaissance cavalry of the army on the opposite side spread out more than [-] miles along the river to search at any time, and it is impossible for them to cross the river if they want to.

Murong Xinchun immediately took the order and left. Among the [-] cavalry brought by Li Cunhui this time, there were [-] Beiwei Cavalry Battalion of Regret Mountain Capital and [-] Cavalry Cavalry Battalion of Youyu Linwei.

Among them, the Beiwei Iron Cavalry Battalion was commanded by Murong Xinchun. Although this man had at most the commanding power of Duke Yuhou, his force was powerful. Apart from his cousin Murong Nobunaga and a few others, he had few opponents, so he just used it to rush into the enemy formation.

On the south bank of the river, not long after Wuxinya left, someone reported the whereabouts of these people to Zhaxi Degun. After all, Wuxinya searched for the only gold and silver left, dozens of people crossed the river, and the movement was not small.

Zhaxi Degun didn't care at all, because he just wanted to force Shang Wuxinya and others to flee, and forced them away so that he could embezzle these people's land near Houzang.

And Zhaxi Degun also knew that Shang Wuxinya and others must have a secret ferry somewhere, but Zhaxi Degun was still not afraid.

His reconnaissance cavalry has set the reconnaissance distance to [-] miles up and down the river, with enough warning time, and there are watchtowers on every high place along the river, so any movement of troops on the opposite side is basically transparent.

"Zanpu, the people from the Tang Dynasty on the opposite side have left the camp for about five or six hundred horses and are heading downstream." Sure enough, the trusted generals came to report after a while.

Zhaxi Degun looked at Dongdai, marshal, lieutenant general and leaders in the tent and laughed, "People in Zhou want to defeat my [-] army with [-] riders? You are overwhelmed by the fact that a gnat can shake a tree!
He ordered the reconnaissance cavalry along the way to closely investigate the downstream movement, and the army still focused on guarding against the Zhou army crossing the river. As long as the army on the opposite side could not cross the river, the five hundred cavalry were just here to die. "

On August 28, Li Cunhui mobilized an army of [-] in his headquarters and began to try to cross the river to attack.

This really made Tashi Degun firmer in his mind, and he arranged all his heavy armored infantry and strong archers to the river bank to fight bloody battles with the main force of the Zhou army.

As for the downstream, he kept [-] fine cavalry and [-] rangers, and set up barriers with antlers and stones at key points in the tent for defense.

In Zhaxi Degun's mind, he defended with ten times as many troops, so he was afraid of only five hundred cavalry attacking.

On August 29, [-] cavalry led by Murong Xinchun arrived two miles south of the Zhaxi Degun coalition camp.

Murong Xinchun saw that the camp on the opposite side was well-organized, surrounded by thousands of cavalry, and thousands of civilians were also defending behind the horses and earthen walls with bows and arrows and wooden guns, so they couldn't rush in at all.

So he simply led the troops to retreat on a small hill, let his subordinates disarm and insult the opposite side loudly on the hill, and ordered the sharpshooter to shoot the fox tails that had been prepared to the opposite barracks.

This gift of a fox tail is the most insulting way among Tubo men. According to the custom of Tubo in history, the brave are rewarded with tiger and leopard skins, and the cowards are demoted with fox tails.

Although the Tubo lieutenant who stayed on the opposite side was also a prudent and experienced general, he really found it unbearable to endure such insults. He ordered rangers to scout all directions, and after knowing that the Tang people really had only five hundred horses, he immediately decided to go out to meet the enemy.

There are only 500 people on the opposite side, and they dare to dismount their horses and armor and insult them. If he still dares not go up, let alone the Gui (military households) under his command, even ordinary Yong (civilian households) will not look down on him. destroyed.

Murong Xinchun was overjoyed when he saw that the opponent was drawn out, he ordered his cavalry to dismount and line up on the hillside to defend with strong bows and crossbows.

The Tubo people rode their horses straight up the mountain, relying on ten times the enemy's strength, but this is a battalion of back-wei iron cavalry!Sixty or seventy divine arm bows plus other excellent bows and crossbows formed a large crossbow array, and there is also a geographical advantage, which is so easy to rush.

More than 400 Tubo cavalry rushed three times in a row. Apart from being shot to death and wounding [-] people, they didn't even touch a hair in the Beiwei cavalry battalion.

The Tubo lieutenant's face was so dark that he was about to drip water. He looked around, and he decided to call out the more than 2000 civilian soldiers behind Juma, and let them hold wooden guns and hunting bows, and went down the hillside. Block the downhill road and act as a refusal for horses.

Then ordered about [-] cavalry, [-] cavalry each, to lead the formation, and the remaining [-] cavalry all dismounted, with those wearing heavy armor and holding round shields in front, and those wearing light armor or no armor holding infantry bows behind.

Since Lao Tzu cavalry can't rush, then simply use heavy armored infantry to squeeze and see what you do!
Murong Xinchun waved his fist excitedly, and excitedly shouted to the officers around him in a low voice: "Masters, the opportunity to do meritorious deeds has come, let's ride our horses and charge now, and we will definitely be able to break through the Tubo army!
In today's battle, the first merit is ours, but we don't know who can win the great merit of this three-generation earl. "

According to the system of Zhang Zhou's military meritorious service, those who achieve huge results with one blow to a hundred will definitely be awarded the title of earl.

Even if it can't be hereditary, but after three generations descended, they can still shade their descendants to have a fifteenth-rank martial arts doctor and martial arts official.

Everyone naturally knew this, and all of them showed extremely excited expressions on their faces, and their fighting spirit soared into the sky.

At this moment, the Tubo infantry under the hill had moved away the corpses of the troops and were ready to attack.

'Whoo! It might as well sound a conch horn on the mountain, and the cavalry of the Wubaiwei Iron Cavalry Battalion, dressed in cotton armor and holding horse lances, swooped down amidst the loud shouts!

The Tubo lieutenant howled, his face pale. Just now, in order to defend against the enemy's bows and arrows, the soldiers in his front row did not carry spears at all, but Shangma sword and round shield. How could they withstand the impact of the iron cavalry.

The lieutenant yelled loudly, calling on his soldiers to put on their spears, and the archers in the back row immediately started firing.

But the Beiwei Iron Cavalry Battalion wore heavy armor, and didn't care about the arrows thrown at them. With a bang, the screams of the Tubo people rang out one after another.

The impact of the five hundred armored riders accelerating down the hillside was terrifying, and many Tubo people were even directly knocked into the air.

Murong Xinchun had sharp eyes and quick hands, he saw the Tubo lieutenant commanding in the distance, he shouted and shot three arrows in a row, the lieutenant screamed, fell off his horse and fell over, the surrounding Tubo armored soldiers saw this and ran to both sides even more frightened.

They were all like this, how dare the militiamen holding wooden guns dare to line up, and the Beiwei Iron Cavalry Battalion was more than 200 steps away from them, so these militiamen dispersed in a hurry.

The lieutenant general arranged a thousand rangers on the two wings of the formation. Seeing that the five hundred cavalry of the Zhou army scattered thousands of infantry in an instant, they did not dare to come forward.

On the riverside, fierce battles are at the crux. Li Cunhui is not really doing nothing on the north bank of the river these days. On the contrary, he has built a large number of small wooden boats and assembled a considerable number of small trebuchets and bed crossbows these days. .

As soon as the battle started, Zhou Jun led the enemy's main force to the river, and immediately smashed stones and fired crossbows. The coalition forces, who did not know the actual situation, suffered a big loss and could only retreat the whole team.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Cunhui ordered a hundred ships to race to the opposite bank, and then began to build the pontoon bridge.

Tashi Degun's dream of relying on the Yarlung Zangbo River to defend it was instantly shattered, so he could only fight a positional battle by the river, and as more and more Zhou troops crossed the river, it became more and more difficult for the coalition forces to deal with it.

But at this moment, Murong Xinchun and five hundred cavalry rushed over. They first broke through the coalition forces' block five hundred paces away, and then lit fireworks to notify Li Cunhui.

After doing this, Murong Xinchun and the five hundred cavalry threw away all the burdens on the horse, such as Guduo, cooked copper mace, horizontal knife, bow and crossbow.

It can be said that, except for the god arm bow that cannot be discarded, all of them were thrown away. All the members held horses and rushed back and forth directly in the crowded Tubo coalition army, stirring up people everywhere and causing a bloody storm all over the sky.

After Li Cunhui received the firework signal, he beat the drums himself, and the whole army unfurled the banner of the Six Fazongs with the golden swastika on a silver and white background, shaking the roof tiles, and launched a full-scale attack.

The Tubo coalition forces couldn't bear it, but now they were hit hard, and they were in chaos.

In addition, the Ngari area where Tashi Degun is located was originally the headquarters of Buddhism, because it is close to India, and the impact of Lang Dama's policy of exterminating Buddhism is the lowest. Historically, the revival of Tibetan Buddhism began in the Ngari area.

They couldn't fight now, it seemed that there were Zhou troops rushing everywhere, and when they saw the silver and white golden swastika banner of the Six Dharma Schools, the soldiers of the coalition army immediately thought of all the legends about the Supreme Being.

And the rumor that scares them the most, 'The souls of those killed by the discipline knights of the Six Dharma Sects will be imprisoned in the Infernal Hell forever and cannot be reborn. '

Grass, this is still a hair!The coalition forces that could hold on for a while suddenly collapsed in just two quarters of an hour. Tens of thousands of troops scattered everywhere, or simply fell on the ground begging for mercy.

Under the escort of his cronies, Zhaxi Degun threw away all his luggage and ran to the Bailang area in the west.

Two days later, he managed to gather [-] people, and Li Cunhui led more than [-] horsemen to chase them.

The two sides fought fiercely for half an hour, Tashi Degun was defeated again, and only a hundred or so guards escaped.

On September [-]th, Li Cunhui was feeling lost because he hadn't caught Tashi Degun. Good news came from Kuba, west of Bailang.

Zhaxi Degun and his entourage were ambushed and captured by the headmen and monks in the Kuba area, and they were already on the way to be escorted.

In this battle, Li Cunhui used 3 cavalry and more than [-] Tubo auxiliary soldiers to defeat nearly [-] allied troops of Tashi Degun, behead more than [-] ranks, and take more than [-] prisoners.

Below Zhaxi Degun, hundreds of noble leaders from all over the country were killed and captured, and the coalition forces can be said to have been completely wiped out.

In particular, the five-hundred-back iron cavalry commanded by Murong Xinchun was said to be a Buddhist Dharma protector who came from heaven and could defeat a hundred with one.

With the results of this battle, the Zhou army could truly suppress these nobles and millions of people on the plateau.

Next, it was Guo Tiance's turn to complete the reconstruction of the political system here, especially the living Buddha system of the Six Dharma Schools.

(End of this chapter)