Chastity Layman

  Chapter 1074 Zanpu looks around in panic

  Thunder Pass.

  Su Dingfang had just returned from visiting Qin Lang, and mainly reported some military affairs routinely, and then asked Qin Lang for instructions on military preparations and military strategies, and exchanged ideas on military tactics by the way.

Although he is much older than Qin Lang, Su Dingfang has always regarded himself as Qin Lang's direct disciple of Qin Lang's Art of War to the outside world, and he has been recognized by both inside and outside the Tang Dynasty. The generals can ask for it but can't get it.

At the age of fourteen, he began to join his father in organizing the Xiangyong to fight against the bandits. Su Dingfang has more than twenty years of fighting experience. Regarding the invasion of Tubo, the governor of Maozhou and the envoy of the Baoning Army agreed with Qin Lang. People want to sneak in and blackmail.

   It's just that they didn't expect the Songzhou run by Qin Qiong to be so strong, and they didn't expect that Qin Lang just happened to go to Songzhou to help the spirit, and then the emperor seized his love and returned to preside over the battle.

Thanks to Qin Qiong's theory of the Tubo threat all these years, the imperial court actually did a lot of things, such as setting up three governor's mansions for western Sichuan, setting up three frontier troops, and pulling out a lot of military expenses before and after. Many post stations, military depots, fortresses, garrisons, and beacon towers were built, and a lot of money, food, and equipment were stored in advance, and even many ordnance workshops were set up along the border, and many military and commercial settlements were opened.

Not to mention, Western Sichuan has also trained tens of thousands of Qiang and Di Xie Congjun troops, as well as the military cavalry regiments entangled in the Jiannan prefectures to train rural soldiers. Because of Qin Qiong's guarding in Western Sichuan, its military strength is slightly worse than that of Longyou. The real soldiers have enough generals, well-trained, sufficient food and grass, and strong borders.

  In this case, the Tibetans came here, simply asking for boredom.

Just like now, the war has been going on for so long, and the Tubo people have not really stepped into the territory of Songzhou, nor do they know the important information such as the military defense deployment, the commanding generals, etc., and Songzhou is only mobilizing troops in Jiannan. Ma, did not transfer troops to Yunnan, Shannan, and Guanlong.

Money, food and equipment are even more abundant. Tens of thousands of horses are now deployed in the west of Songzhou, without any logistical pressure, and they have not even mobilized the strong men and women, because the front line has already stored a lot of money and food. Some of these food are frontier troops. Some of the reserves are to attract business and investment, encouraging businessmen to come to start business, reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, and the grain grown is directly put into the military warehouse, and then exchanged for imports of important materials such as salt, tea, wine, sugar, and horses, and each takes what he needs.

Because of this, Songzhou did not make much mobilization at all, but kept the situation firmly under control. The soldiers were easily defending at the front line. There was a beacon tower intelligence system to monitor the movements of the Tibetans and mobilize troops. It is convenient, and there is no need to be exhausted and run around.

Su Dingfang actually didn't do anything during this period, but let the various ministries guard the pass castle, the beacon towers monitored the enemy's movements, and sent mountain light cavalry scouts out to intercept some small groups of scouts sent by the Tubo people to prevent them from crossing Songshan , and occasionally let Yebu receive the enemy's rear to do some small sabotage or something.

  Anyway, the troops are sufficient, the defense line is strong, and the food and grass are sufficient. Tens of thousands of people are gathered, and not many are on duty every day.

  By the way, they also sent people in turn to take care of the military settlements under the forts and fortresses in various military towns.

Although those conscripted followers of the Tibetan tribe and the militiamen of the Jiannan Regiment temporarily left home and could not take care of production, Su Dingfang did not treat everyone badly. The border guards are still the soldiers of Maozhou Prefecture in Songzhou, as well as the local regiments. Those who come will be rewarded with subsidies.

   Meals are even better. Not to mention that there is often meat, but at least the rice is enough to keep you full, and you can also eat meat every now and then. There are often fresh vegetables to eat, and of course there is no shortage of pickles and salt.

  In short, the Tang army is very calm and stable here, defending the city, training troops, and even farming and grazing.

  The outside is loose and the inside is tight, but it is always difficult for Tubo to get over the thunder.

  Back to Leiguan, after explaining something, Su Dingfang opened the booklet Qin Lang gave him. This is the first volume of his newly written Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

  After reading a few pages, Su Dingfang was so immersed in it that he couldn't help himself. He couldn't help clapping his legs and applauding loudly, which attracted all the soldiers to look at each other and look up from time to time.

  Finally, Han Wei, who came to Su Dingfang for dinner, asked him, "Why are you so excited? Watching the Three Kingdoms again?"

"I have read the Three Kingdoms countless times. This is the new book that Wei Gonggang gave me. It is called the Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is written about the events of our generation. I just read it for a while, and it is the story of King Zhongwu of Qi at the beginning. Really It makes people overwhelmed, Qin Zhongwu is really righteous, loyal and courageous..."

  Han Wei was also Qin Qiong's old subordinate back then, and he became interested when he heard about it, so he asked to watch it. Su Ding had only read a few chapters, and hadn't read most of them, so he was willing to.

So Han Wei could only sit aside and watch it together. The big boss watched the ups and downs of the moving story, especially when it was filled with people he was familiar with. , In the end, they formed a crowd and squeezed into a ball, and even joined the army because they couldn't see because they were crowded behind, so they simply asked people to recite.

  Su Dingfang had no choice but to give the book to a soldier who joined the army to read it to everyone.

Although that person is not as good as the storyteller in the teahouse, he is still a scholar after all. He reads with ups and downs, which matches the ups and downs of the story. No one is willing to move.

   "No wonder, I didn't expect King Zhongwu to be so ambitious when he was young, let alone be so filial..."

Qin Lang still wrote the story very passionately. He replaced the role of Beiping Wang Luoyi in the original Sui and Tang stories with Duke Rong of the Sui Dynasty to protect his children. He was filial and filial since he was a child, and later he was recruited by the government as a county official. He was ordered by the superior to go to Xingyang County to send documents and gifts to the new prefect Tang Guogong Li Yuan. On the way, there were bandits attacking Tang Gong. Help...

  Then, they lost their money, got trapped in an inn, became helpless, and made friends with Shan Xiongxin, Zhai Rang, Huang Junhan and others...

After going through a series of incidents, Qin Qiong accidentally beat someone to death at the hotel on the way home, and was sentenced to be exiled to Donglai County. As a result, the brothers escorted them all the way to Donglai County, but accidentally discovered that Rong Guogong, who was guarding Donglai, had come to Donglai County. Hu'er turned out to be the sworn brother of his father Qin Ai back then...

This book is the same as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, historical novels, characters and history, etc. are known to everyone, but the characterization is extremely full, especially the details are excellent, the plot is ups and downs, and everyone reads the book with ups and downs , applauding for a while, cursing for a while, changing with Qin Qiong's experience.

   "I didn't expect Lai Liulang from Rongguo's mansion to be so powerful?" A young man joined the army said.

Su Dingfang stroked his beard and said, "You may not know it. Back then, Rong Guolai was known as the Iron Spear General, and his sons were all brave, and his sixth son, Laizheng, was called the enemy of ten thousand people. He was brave and good at fighting. , He fought repeatedly, won victories wherever he went, and was good at appeasing the soldiers. Later, all the enemies sang songs, and there were hundreds of battlefields on Changbai Mountain, fifteen or fifteen long spears, not afraid of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, but the sixth son of Ronggong!"

In Qin Lang's book, Duke Rong came to protect his son and replaced Beiping Wang Luo Yi, and Liu Lang naturally replaced Luo Cheng's image. It's Qin Qiong's story, so it's impossible for him to appear on stage, so this image has been adjusted first.

   This is indeed a young hero, and Su Dingfang admires him very much.

"Anymore?"

  Everyone can see the key point, it is exciting, but the first volume is over.

"This is Duke Wei's new work. It commemorates King Zhongwu. For the time being, there is only the first volume. Wei Gong gave it to me just to give me a sneak peek, and let me see if there are any omissions and mistakes in the book. Help me. It’s been corrected, but the rest of the content has to wait.”

  Everyone was very disappointed when they heard it. It was so wonderful, but it suddenly disappeared. Wouldn’t this be like a group of eunuchs going to a brothel?

   "Okay, let's have lunch first, I forgot lunch after listening to it, my stomach is rumbling with hunger."

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   Outside Leiguan, the Tubo Camp.

  Songtsan Gampo received news of several new defeats one after another. Grand Minister Shang Nang was defeated on the Minjiang Plain in Ningyuan Town, and the partial divisions of the other generals whom he placed high hopes on were all defeated without exception.

No matter how they divide their troops and how they rush to attack, they can't escape the surveillance and alarm of Tang Jun's beacon tower. Tang Jun can always intercept or ambush them at the right time and right place. Induce hatred and defeat.

  Up to this point, all the attacking soldiers and horses have been defeated, and they still haven't broken through the Songshan defense line all the way.

   And the battle reports sent back from the front line made Songtsan Gampo look pale.

Shang Nang lost nearly 20,000 horses, Qiongbangbose also lost more than 5,000 horses, and the other generals lost nearly 5,000 horses. Adding all together, the 100,000 people who were distributed lost nearly two thousand. Ten thousand.

  The most terrible thing is that most of the nearly 20,000 lost are Gui, the most elite fighter in Tubo.

  In addition to the Leiguan attack for more than a month, the total losses before and after have exceeded 10,000 people.

  Songtsan Gampo's heart was bleeding, and he even became extremely worried.

   Unknowingly, the Tubo army has lost 10% and half, and its combat effectiveness has even dropped by more than 20%. This is almost the limit of the battle damage that can be tolerated.

   "Qin Lang!"

   "Liu Lancheng!"

   "Su Dingfang!"

   "Qiu Xinggong!"

  "Han Wei, Yu Guni..."

All parties were defeated, but they finally brought back some useful information. During the battle, they also captured some Tang soldiers. Finally, they learned that the one guarding Songzhou is actually Qin Qiong's son Qin Lang, the son-in-law of the Great Tang Emperor, Teacher Prince, has the names of Poetry Immortal, Military Poetry Immortal, Book Immortal, and Sword Immortal, Qin Lang, Duke of Wei, who is known as the Four Immortals of Poetry, Book, Bing, and Sword.

  Not only did he succeed Qin Qiong in guarding Songzhou, but even Su Dingfang, Liu Lancheng, Qiu Xinggong, etc. were all famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, and the Songzhou defenders numbered 60,000 to 70,000.

   Tubo's complexion became paler and paler.

   Finally spit out a mouthful of blood.

No wonder that with the sharpness of the Tubo cavalry, they were still unable to break through the Songzhou defense line. It turned out that his opponent was not the Ningyuan army envoy Han Wei, but the Zeng Ping Dangxiang, defeated the Turks, destroyed Tuyuhun, Weizhen Lingnan, Wu Ya Qin Lang from Nanzhong.

  How could this be?

  (end of this chapter)