The Flourishing Tang Dynasty: Beginning with Marrying Yang Yuhuan

Chapter 163: Divorce plan

Without the Lu family, they rose rapidly by stepping on the Wei family as relatives of the emperor.

Therefore, the conflict between the two families is a combination of new hatred and old grudge. Even if they cannot say that they love each other, they are at least extremely jealous of each other.

This time, Chidezuzan let the people of these two clans serve as vanguards, intending to resolve the conflict between the two clans.

Li Heng was deep in thought, Gao Xianzhi said: "Your Highness, these two men are both talented generals and should not be underestimated. If we don't quickly support them, the Dadou army may not be able to hold out for long."

Wang Jue said: "The Tubo people are good at field battles, but not at attacking strongholds. If we dispatch the Chishui Army to help, there is a risk of failure. If the Chishui Army fails again, Liangzhou will be hard to defend. But if we defend the city, we can be sure it will be safe."

Because of the previous defeat, Wang Jue had lost the courage he had in the past and began to fear the enemy.

This is the negative impact on morale that Yang Yuhuan mentioned before.

Li Heng now urgently needs to eliminate this negative impact, and the best way to eliminate this negative impact is to win a victory.

Li Heng pondered for a long time and said, "Chide Zuzan wants to resolve the rift between the Wei clan and the Meilu clan through this war. So why don't we use this war to deepen the conflict between the Wei clan and the Meilu clan."

"Your Highness, this is a good plan!" Gao Xianzhi instantly understood what Li Heng meant, "I will prepare it right away."

"Okay." Li Ying smiled knowingly and nodded.

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Wei Lunmangzhi Lalue marched all the way to Panhe County. While he was looting Panhe, a small group of Tibetan soldiers secretly transported Wei's army's spoils out of the city.

This behavior was keenly captured by Wei Lunmangzhilalue's cousin Wei Qianhu.

Captain Wei secretly followed this group of soldiers with strange movements to their base camp, and found out that they were actually the soldiers of Wu Lu, Shang Qi, Xin'er and Bella.

Captain Wei was furious and came out with his men to question them.

When these soldiers from the Meilu clan realized that their actions had been exposed, they immediately attacked Captain Wei without further ado.

Captain Wei never expected that the thief would be so brave. He was caught off guard and was beaten to a pulp. He only escaped death with the desperate protection of several of his personal guards and barely managed to flee back to Panhe City.

Captain Wei cried and reported the situation to Wei Lunmangzhilalue.

After hearing this, Wei Lunmangzhilalue slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying: "They are a despicable family without the Lu family, they only do such sneaky things! But if it were just that, it would be fine, but now they dare to attack us! This is intolerable!"

After Wei Lunmangzhila finished speaking, he took his cavalry and went to find Meilu to seek an explanation.

On Shang Qixin'er and Bella's side, the Wei family also failed to steal the spoils and suddenly launched an attack.

Therefore, both sides spontaneously went to the other side to ask for an explanation.

The two groups of people collided in the Dadouba Valley. As soon as they met, the opponent's arrows suddenly came at them.

Now both sides thought they were being ambushed and started fighting.

Halfway through the fight, Shang Qixin'er Bella and Wei Lunmangzhi Lalue suddenly felt something was wrong, because during the melee, they checked the arrows shot by the other side and found that there were a large number of Tang army standard arrows among them.

The two of them immediately realized that they had fallen into a divisive plot.

So both sides called off their attacks.

But as soon as the troops were called back, a large number of Tang troops rushed over.

The leading vanguard among them was Li Siye.

The Tubo army had just withdrawn and was completely unprepared. Li Siye was extremely brave and rushed to their front in an instant, defeating the Tubo army and forcing them to flee all the way out of the Qilian Mountains.

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Inside the Tubo camp.

"Forget it. I can't blame you for this failure."

The Tibetan king Trisong Detsen looked at the dusty Shang Qixin'er Bella and Weilun Mangzhi Lalue and shook his head and sighed.

Deputy Commander Shang Jin praised him and said, "The Emperor of Tang killed three sons in one day, yet he was willing to give such an important position as the governor of Hexi to Li Heng. This was completely beyond our expectations. If we had known that Li Heng was here, we would never have underestimated the enemy and been defeated."

"Yes." Lu Mangbao Jie Qi Dun agreed, "If there is only one Li Heng, it would be fine. The key is that he has generals such as Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Li Siye under him. These generals are all brave and capable people who can carry out Li Heng's orders very well. If it were someone else, they might not be able to hide it from the two generals."

It belongs to Lumangqidun, the Tubo commander who had previously attacked Xiaobolü. He had suffered a loss at the hands of Li Heng and his men once, so he had a deep understanding of the situation.

However, Trisong Detsen only agreed with half of Lumangqidon's statement. He believed that the other half was due to internal reasons of Tubo.

If the Lu and Wei families did not have new or old grudges, they would not have been so easily fooled by Li Heng.

With a unclear understanding of the enemy commander's deployment, the enemy's strange tactics, and internal conflicts within Tubo, it was impossible for them not to be defeated under this triple attack.

Chide Zuzan pondered for a while and said, "Li Heng is just a young commander, there is no need to be afraid of him. Victory and defeat are common in the military. This time, our army lost only a few thousand people, which is not a big deal. It is rare that General Wei and General Meilu stopped halfway. Today, I will host a banquet for the two generals. I hope that the two generals will work together to achieve more achievements in the future."

Trisong Detsen did not pursue the failure, but considered its root cause and seized the opportunity to promote reconciliation between the Wei and Meilu families.

Wei Lunmangzhi Lalue and Shang Qixiner Bella were moved by Tride Zuzan's broad-mindedness and said in unison: "Thank you for the grace of not blaming us. We will definitely work together and make amends for our crimes!"

"Okay." Chide Zuzan was very happy. He asked the two to go down and rest first, and ordered people to prepare a banquet.

After the two men left the tent, Shang Jin praised them and said, "Zanpu, this Li Heng is indeed a man of outstanding talent. If he were in Hexi, it would be disadvantageous to us."

"That's true." Chide Zuzan nodded in agreement. "He used a strategy to alienate us this time. How about we use a strategy to alienate him as well?"

"That's exactly what I was thinking." Shang Jin praised Qi Jue while stroking his beard. "The Emperor of Tang has never trusted his own sons. If we can alienate the Emperor of Tang and Li Heng, it will be of great benefit to us in governing Hexi in the future."

After the two of them decided on a policy, they began to discuss the specific methods.

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Changan.

Li Longji received two memorials one after another.

The first letter was a petition from Lü Xiang impeaching Li Heng for killing soldiers without authorization, and the second letter was the news of Li Heng's great victory.

After reading the two memorials, Li Longji pondered for half a day and summoned Li Heng.

Li Longji first asked Gao Lishi to bring Lü Xiang's memorial impeaching Li Heng to Li Heng, and asked, "Do you think Shiba Lang's handling was appropriate?"

Li Heng quickly glanced at the memorial and said respectfully, "Father, I think it is very appropriate. My eighteenth brother is familiar with military affairs. He must have had his reasons for killing Commander Lu."

Li Longji asked: "Then do you think Lü Xiang is making trouble out of nothing?"

"General Lu is Lord Lu's brother. Lord Lu was confused for a moment out of consideration for their family relationship. I beg your Majesty to forgive me."

As Li Heng spoke, he knelt down and pleaded for mercy on behalf of Lu Xiang.

(End of this chapter)