The bad emperor of Tang Dynasty

In late October, the autumn wind gradually became cooler. This morning, as usual, Guo Nuan and the others did not go on missions other than training after taking over the task of escorting military supplies to the military stronghold in the Longshang Mountains a while ago.

This early in the morning, the Hai team lifted the curtain and stood in the tent with a serious face to hold an emergency meeting of the team.

"Didn't your six-member team just go to the east line of Qinghai Lake two months ago? Is there any doubt about the geographic military route survey I asked for?" Sea Team asked.

"No, the dangerous terrain in that area has been drawn by me on the map, and the hidden Tibetan strongholds, watchtowers, arrow pavilions, military grain storage caves, and the heavily guarded headquarters have all been observed in the surrounding terrain," Guo Nuan realized. This time, he might have to perform military duties, so he immediately stood at attention in a military posture and replied loudly.

"Well, now the superior has assigned a task to our team. You immediately set out from Huangyuan City and enter the city to search for a senior Tubo enlisted in the army, and kidnap him safely,"

"Promise," the six people responded immediately without raising any objections.

This day the task has started again, and now that the winter offensive is imminent, they must hurry up and rush to Huangyuan, a military center known as the city of tea and horses.

The sea team reported the information of the Tubo general in detail, and also depicted his image.

Regarding this sudden mission, although Guo Nuan and the others were at a loss as to what the purpose of this mission was, it was their bounden duty for soldiers to obey, and there was no reason to resist.

It is estimated that this Tubo general is an important person who has mastered the high-level military situation of Qinghai Tubo, Guo Nuan generally thinks so.

We set off, this time it was a secret operation, the deputy team Lao Gong told everyone that this task was directly ordered by the superior Zhechong Dudu's mansion, except for the commander and a few senior generals, there were only six members of the sea team and the seventh infantry participate.

Guo Nuan was a little speechless. My old man seemed to think highly of my abilities. I had just been a recruit for half a year and sent me to perform special missions. Could it be that I was a subordinate of more than 300 teams of ten infantry regiments? More than 3000 of them have passed the assessment of the Soldier King Alliance.

Come on, this time I'm afraid it's a narrow escape, Guo Nuan silently recited Buddha's blessing in his heart.

Although the six of them were infantry, in view of the needs of the mission, they were sent more than 20 horses, but these were not war horses for cavalry, but rally horses for transporting caravans.

Immediately pulled the tea in sacks, totaling more than 1000 catties. This was used as a cover. Huangyuan is located in the Riyue Mountains of Qinghai Lake. Guo Nuan also went to the last thousand-mile special training, so he stood far away on the opposite side of the mountain. I have seen the mountain city below from the temple.

More than [-] years ago, Huangyuan belonged to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but it was later occupied by Tubo, so it was divided into the international border of Tubo in the Tang Dynasty with the Chiling Mountains around this mountain city as the boundary.

There are many horse markets and tea food in Huangyuan City, and there are also mountain goods markets. The Tibetans want to trade the highland barley grown on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the horses and sheep bred in this mountain city to the Tang Dynasty. Especially the Tibetans are very fond of tea. It is a favorite, but tea is only produced in the Central Plains, and the Tang Dynasty needs a large number of horses to supply the cavalry, so the Tubo people who have a large number of pastures to raise horses use horses to trade with the Tang Dynasty, which has a rich tea production.

The Tubo people attached great importance to Huangyuan, the bridgehead by the Qinghai Lake. Since they occupied this city, they have been building solid fortifications. The mountain city is located in a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The towering snow-capped mountains are lined up, and the red Riyue Mountain is blocked in the west. In addition, the city wall is built with huge stones, which looks like a stone castle, with thousands of heavy soldiers guarding it. Very difficult.

It would be difficult to say that the Tubo army, which was protected by a large number of heavy soldiers, rushed directly into their mountain city to assassinate a senior general, let alone bring a stranger out alive.

Considering that a large-scale army is not suitable for hijacking an enemy general, they had to send small elite troops to execute it, but this painful job just happened to fall on Guo Nuan and his team, which really won the lottery.

The equipment for departure was excellent. For this secret operation, the sea team gave Guo Nuan and the others a pair of close-fitting soft armor, a double-edged sword, and several horned crossbows in the armory. The crossbows were hidden in the transport In the sack of tea, in case of emergency, everyone can use a dagger to cut through the sack and take out a powerful horn bow.

But the round shield is unnecessary, this guy is too troublesome, pretending to be a tea merchant cavalry team to sneak into the mountain city, Guo Nuan and the others dressed up before they set off, wearing felt hats and fur sweaters like ethnic minorities, as for the leader of the merchant gang It was Comrade Gong who put on a fake beard.

As a veteran, Lao Gong trained in Shuofang all the year round. His originally 25-year-old face was tanned like he was in his 40s. After adding a fake beard, he looked old-fashioned. His appearance really fit the image of a cunning and shrewd businessman.

In addition to the horse team, they also led seven donkeys. These donkeys are more hardworking, but they are much more honest than horses. Now in late autumn, the temperature around Qinghai Lake is gradually getting colder. As thick as one foot, it is almost ready for marching.

Guo Nuan and the others led the caravan wearing felt hats and changed into civilian clothes, as if they had taken off their military outfits. They traveled west and passed the large green prairie at the foot of the plateau. From a distance, there were several nomadic settlements. The tribe belonged to the Tubo people. Since their ancestors ran down the plateau and wiped out the Tuyuhun people, they invaded a large area of ​​lush grassland under the mountains. Originally, they were limited to the lack of minerals on the plateau. Thanks to this rich land Land, coal, oil, iron ore, copper ore, salt, and even gold have all achieved self-sufficiency. Because of the supplies of these minerals at the foot of the mountain, the Tubo people had their already powerful cavalry with pastures and ore smelting equipment and weapons. Then an increasingly powerful plateau empire was built. Because Tubo could collude with Huihe to monopolize the Western Regions and drive the power of the Tang Dynasty to the Central Plains, it competed with Tianzhu in the west and confronted the Tang Dynasty in the east.

The supplies on the grassland were poor, so Guo Nuan and the others traded some goat milk with some passing herdsmen as a caravan. Besides meat, he also foraged wild vegetables on the grassland.

"Hey, look, I found a few handfuls of green vegetables." Fatty and Liu Sheng found a lot of brown-red concentric grass on a soil slope. This wild vegetable is good, sweet and delicious, and the buckwheat bought by the herdsmen, After the peas were cooked by the superb cook Luo Cheng, everyone salivated.

"Quack, I don't know how this mission will be. Now it seems that we are not here to perform military duties at all, but to travel,"

Fatty imitated Guo Nuan's spoken language and sighed.

"Look, the prey we hunted on the road this time is several hundred catties. If we don't implement it, we can at least kill a thousand catties more. It happens to be sold at the exchange market in Chiling Mountain City, and everyone will become a millionaire. "Liu Sheng lamented that he has recently become a money addict. Although his family is well-off, the hundreds of taels of silver he brought were spent in Lingzhou City, where entertainment consumption is underdeveloped. It is really a strong spending power. Fortunately, there were no electronic devices in ancient times. Remittance, otherwise he would have spent more than that.

This time, Liu Sheng specially borrowed a falcon from Team Hai. This bird is very fierce. When the cowhide glove threw the falcon, the falcon quickly circled and flew into the sky, then swooped down on the grassland, and caught a tabby cat in its claws. Or sand ducks, sometimes this big bird with a wingspan of 1.2 meters can even catch a small antelope weighing more than 50 kilograms. When it flies leisurely up to tens of meters above the sky, and then lowers its claws, the antelope will fall to the ground and bleed. Then everyone swarmed over to pick up the prey.

Now most of the horses carry a large amount of tea, and there are also a lot of animal skins. The fat man suggested that after arriving in the mountain city, they should not be in a hurry to do the task. They should sell the tea and the skins of the prey they hunted along the way first. It is a task to make a lot of money. It is not too late for the reward to sneak into the enemy's interior slowly.

"Haha, you fat man is smart enough," Guo Nuan and the others agreed again and again, this is what everyone deserved after working so hard to perform the task.

I heard that there are more than [-] defenders in the mountain city. It is reasonable to say that such a castle that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is estimated that it will take more than ten times the army to break it, but the loss is also heavy.

Although Guo Nuan and the others were chatting and laughing, it seemed that they were not worried about the difficulties ahead, but their hearts were heavy.

After more than ten days passed, a group of people approached the other side of Qinghai Lake. Looking at the large grassland and rapeseed field in the west, they sighed a little. At that time, a big battle was about to start here, and the blood stained the green hills was just a disgrace.

There are many birds on the shore of the lake, such as bar-headed geese, wild geese, gulls, and Guo Nuan. They also saw several rows of bamboo rafts fishing on the lake. The cormorants standing beside the bamboo rafts looked like drowned rats. I just went fishing.

The fat man saw the host he met last time from a distance: "Hey, we just stole the bamboo rafts of the fishermen by the lake in the middle of the night, and now I saw the host on the lake again. It's really strange." I'm sorry, swimming across the enemy's stronghold on the shore in the middle of the night tossed the bamboo rafts to pieces."

"Let's go, we don't have time," Lao Gong said slowly. At this moment, the herds of cattle and sheep, together with the poetic and picturesque green waves of the lake, make people fascinated. When they got down, if it wasn't for Lao Gong's reminder, they wouldn't move any further.

Hiring a local Tu nationality as a guide, Guo Nuan and the others led the horse team along the shore of the lake and turned through the mountains towards the mountain city. It is close to Riyue Mountain. The name of this mountain is "Nimadawa" in the Tubo language.

Guo Nuan was a little speechless about the name of the mountain given by the Tibetans. Why do they always like to add the word "Nima" to their names? Naturally, Guo Nuan subconsciously thought of that hateful Tibetan princess, Doma.

"Now, brother has come to your door, Doma, you'd better not go down the mountain and meet brother, quack," Guo Nuan murmured, staring at the towering snow-capped mountains in the distance.