Fu Tang

Just as Li Congjia was about to say something, Li Ping came over with sweat profusely and said, "Your Majesty, General Yang is in a hurry."

Yang Ye?Eight hundred miles in a hurry?

Li Congjia was a little surprised. Compared with the enemy Kara Khanate in the west, the war on the Tubo side had always been relatively smooth. Suddenly an emergency occurred, which made people puzzled.

After Li Congjia took it over and took it apart for a look, Shi Xueting said, "It seems that there is no need to guess."

Li Congjia sneered: "Nausiruddin Sobkta is good at playing the qin, and he even learned how to play from east to west."

While negotiating with Datang, he sent troops to support Tubo.

In fact, there is only one Lhasa king left in Tubo's fight. Before that, the Lhasa king was just a stubborn one. Yangtong originally bordered Ghaznagi, no... Ghazni turned around and contacted King Lhasa, ready to help.

Ghazni had no other choice. In terms of strength, it was best for them to join forces with the Kara Khanate. However, this was the most unlikely choice, and they could only choose Tubo as the next best thing.

Of course, Tubo hopes to have reinforcements. They also wanted to go to the Kara Khanate for help before, but there is a Ghazni in the middle, so this matter is very difficult to handle. Kara Khan’s most important thing is to support them with some gold and silver treasures. .

But what King Lhasa lacks most now is gold, silver and treasures. He is short of people!

Although the Tubo separatist forces have been relatively peaceful these years, they have fought each other from time to time. As long as there are wars, there will be casualties. The young and strong labor force is the main force of the war. After many years, no one can stand it. The king of Lhasa said before that he wanted to negotiate a world. The co-lord ended the chaotic situation in Tubo. Although this proposal sounded absurd, almost all Tubo separatist forces at that time agreed.

Why?Is it because everyone has been against each other for so many years, and it is about to hurt their vitality, and the Tang Dynasty is watching from the sidelines. If the Tubo people become the emperor of Tubo, they may still be like princes, but if the Tang Dynasty occupies In the end, they can only be prisoners.

So this seemingly unreliable proposal at the time almost succeeded.

It's just that they didn't prevent Datang from sending people to make trouble, and they didn't trust each other enough. The idea was good, but the ending was very tragic.

Over the years, Datang has defeated several Tubo tribes, but there are always some people who will escape. The king of Lhasa took these remnants, but it is still not enough. There is no way for such people to fight Datang. After all, the battle of Datang consumes heat. The weapon is money, and the fight between Tubo and Datang can only be filled with human lives.

This is a very helpless thing, but they have no other choice.

The king of Lhasa also thought about whether to surrender. If the fight continues like this, Tubo may disappear from this world.

It’s just that the terms of surrender were not agreed upon before. The king of Lhasa hopes to become a member of the Datang Federation like Funan, so that he can still be the king of Tubo and have some rights in his hands. Datang disagreed, either to surrender completely and let this plateau become Datang's territory, or to fight to the end.

At the beginning, King Lhasa only thought that Datang wanted to bargain with him. Of course, saying this was putting money on his own face, so another way of saying it was that Datang was testing his bottom line.

King Lhasa felt that this was his bottom line, and it was impossible to back down, so he also said very firmly: "Either become a member of the Federation, or continue to fight."

Since the founding of the country, Datang has basically not accepted threats very much. It was like this before when it was not strong enough, let alone now, since you don't let go, let's fight.

Then King Lhasa was almost disabled. Just when he felt that he might not be able to last for two days, the envoy of Ghazna came over and expressed that he would deal with Datang together with him.

The king of Lhasa was overjoyed, but he was somewhat skeptical, because the Ghaznagi envoys did not say that they would support secretly, but that they would deal with them together. What did this mean?This is what it means to fight side by side.

The king of Lhasa does not believe that there is such a thing as the world's pie, after all, it seems that Ghazna does not want to dare to take the initiative to be an enemy of Datang.

He had a reasonable suspicion, and the Ghaznagi envoys did not hide it. After knowing the reason, Lhasa King was naturally very relieved, and began to discuss with Ghaznagi how to join forces.

There are many things to consider in the union between countries, and sometimes it will consume a long time, but now neither Ghazni nor Tubo have so much time to procrastinate, and the kings on both sides know in their hearts that if they delay Any union going down is just a joke, and can only wait to be broken one by one.

So both sides are very humble, you take a step back and I take a step back. Among them, the king of Lhasa retreated a little bit more. After all, Ghazni is still relatively strong now, at least stronger than his bunch of defeated generals. If he wants to take advantage, he may not No, what if the only ally is scared away again?

The two sides hit it off like this, and Yang Ye was saying to his subordinates at this time: "We can't be too eager to fight. Although we are sure of winning now, we still have to fight steadily and try not to leave room for the opponent to come back. If we can reduce the loss of some soldiers, when the squadron returns to the court, they will say that we have fewer casualties, but more prisoners, so it will save face."

It's no wonder Yang Ye is so cautious, because Datang's hot weapons are relatively advanced now, once a war is decided, there is basically no doubt about the outcome, so in this case, the consumption of weapons and the casualties of soldiers have become the most important factors in evaluating this battle. War becomes one of the statistics of failure.

Among them, the number of casualties is more important than consumption. If there are fewer casualties but more consumption, the court minister will not mind.

This is also beneficial, after all, it is because of such caution that Yang Ye did not capsize in the gutter.

Ghazni and Tubo originally wanted to catch Yang Ye by surprise, so in a battle, the King of Lhasa deliberately made people pretend to be defeated and fled, trying to lure Yang Ye and the others.

As a result, Yang Ye looked at the back and felt that the front was the king's tent of the Lhasa king. The most elite and most powerful army of the Lhasa king must be there. In order not to let his soldiers fight with their lives, he resisted the impulse. It was withdrawn.

The king of Lhasa lost hundreds of soldiers, but still failed to attract Yang Ye, so he had no choice but to say to Sarah, the general sent by the Ghaznavid dynasty: "The general sent by the Tang Dynasty is very stable in fighting, and he has never been aggressive. .”

Sarah was a little surprised: "He used to be like this?"

After thinking about it carefully, the King of Tubo said, "That's right, it's always been like this."

Sarah's expression became serious, and the generals who could keep their minds steady and not be dazzled by temporary victories or signs of victory were people with great wisdom, so he couldn't help being vigilant.

King Lhasa was hesitant to speak, he felt that such a simple ambush might be useless, it would be better if Sarah suddenly appeared with Turkic soldiers when they were fighting, it would definitely scare Yang Ye, and maybe he would be surprised when the time came He couldn't hold his ground anymore.

Sarah didn't look at King Lhasa's expression, but after pondering for a while, he actually talked about this possibility with King Lhasa. King Lhasa breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly discussed the new tactical arrangement with Sarah.

And Yang Ye was indeed taken aback by them, because he didn't know why the Turkic people appeared, and he was too cautious, so he withdrew his troops at that time. It wasn't a loss anyway, it was just that he didn't win. After the army that emerged was the Ghaznavids, he turned around and rushed eight hundred miles.

Because he was fighting abroad, Yang Ye didn't even know about the dispute between Datang and Ghazna, and he still wondered why Ghazna sent troops suddenly.

After Li Congjia read the [-]-mile rush, he turned to Shi Xueting and said, "I'll write a letter, and you can send it over quickly."

Shi Xueting nodded, and then he watched Li Congjia write a word on the paper with a pen: hit.

He was speechless for a while, and after reading it for a while, he said, "Aren't you going to write more?"

Li Congjia waved his hand: "I'm too lazy to write, he should understand what I want to say."

Shi Xueting had no choice but to send this letter to the front line of Tubo, and when Yang Ye received the letter with the seal on it, he was in a daze.

But soon he realized that he was indeed not as flexible as Zhao Kuangyin and the others, but he was not stupid, he was just more stubborn. If Li Congjia said to fight, then he would fight. As for why Ghazni went crazy, he cared so much Woolen cloth?

Both King Lhasa and Sarah thought that they had caught the Tang army by surprise. As a result, except for the first time they found that the Tang army retreated quickly, the second time the Tang army started to fight steadily again, and they didn't care about the number of people.Are there many Tang people?

At the beginning, King Lhasa said to Sarah: "Tang people are the most cunning and cunning, maybe they will use divorce schemes to separate you and me. The general and I should work together."

Sarah was a little dazed. Although they were close, the languages ​​of Tubo and Turks were still different. The most important thing was that the king of Lhasa now spoke Chinese!

In recent years, Tubo has been sinicized to a great extent, coupled with the idioms in his mouth popping up one after another, it is inevitable that some words in the Turkic translation will not convey the meaning. In the end, the translator simply gave up the idea of ​​trying to translate idioms, and simply translated It is enough to express this clearly.

This time Sarah understood, and he said solemnly: "Please rest assured, King Lhasa."

Apart from their confidantes, the two of them were very wary of others, for fear of being caught off guard by accident, but it turned out that Yang Ye hadn't even thought about playing those false tricks.

I can crush you with force, why should I play tricks with you?Back then, Datang used methods because he didn't want to fight, didn't want to waste resources and didn't want to suffer casualties, but now that troops have been sent, why worry?

The only thing that gave Yang Ye a headache was that the Turkic soldiers were as fierce as the Tubo soldiers. These people with faith seemed not afraid of death, and rushed to die while shouting that they would sacrifice their lives for the true God/Allah.

Datang's hot weapons have not yet reached the point where they can wipe out the enemy without stopping. As long as there is a gap, the opponent will dare to charge up with crowd tactics, and then tear a hole.

Yang Ye didn't have a good defense against this tactic, so he could only be more careful, so he couldn't achieve zero casualties, and instead had more casualties than before.

Naosirudin Sobk Taqin is also in a hurry now. If he joins hands with Tubo to win, Ghazni can still hold on for a while. Once he loses, maybe the Tang army will come back and beat him after beating Kara Khan. At that time, Ghaznaj will be attacked from both sides!

So you can't keep it, you must do your best to fight this game!

The expected third-line battle did not come, and Datang was still fighting on two fronts, but Yang Ye's pressure suddenly became very heavy.

It can be seen from the recent frequent battle reports.

Yang Ye had seldom sent battle reports so frequently before, and he didn't send them to Beijing at all for smaller victories. Once he did, he would behead more than a thousand levels.

Li Congjia had a bit of a headache. At the beginning, he was still thinking about which general to send over if the battle was on the third front, but now that it has become a third-line battle, he can no longer send someone with a higher official position than Yang Ye, otherwise Yang Ye has worked hard there for a year. Turning around and parachuting a boss, this is bullying honest people.

Li Congjia has always been very considerate of the generals, and he refused to bully too hard, so after thinking for a long time, he finally decided to find a better seedling among the low-level officers and send them over, which can not only exercise, but also assist Yang Ye , will not steal Yang Ye's limelight.

But such a person is not easy to choose. First of all, the most important thing is that his style is similar to that of Yang Ye. As we all know, Yang Ye's style is steady. There are too few people younger than him who can have this kind of stability.

Fortunately, I finally found one, and it was selected from the Tiance Mansion. Although it was said that the Tiance Mansion would follow Zhao Kuangyin to make meritorious service, Li Congjia didn't let them all come out. It is the older and younger ones, and some young officers who don't care much about staying on their own initiative.

It's just that there were some twists and turns in the middle-this one didn't want to go!

Li Congjia was very surprised, and couldn't help calling someone over. Speaking of this person, Li Congjia still had some impressions, or he had an impression of the child's adoptive father—Lu Youyuan, when Tiance Mansion was still in the Western Regions , Li Congjia knew this man as soon as he came into contact with them. At that time, Lu Youyuan was still a sergeant riding Cao Shen.

Later, Lu Youyuan adopted a war orphan and named him Lu Xun. Now Lu Youyuan has joined the military as the secretary of the Tiance Mansion, and Lu Xun also strives for success. At the beginning, he took his father's place and became a cavalry soldier. Father's career, but later the child showed talent during the drill, so he was transferred away and became a small captain. From the point of view of grade, it seemed to be demoted, but he had real power in his hands. Managing people is no longer managing horses.

Later, Lu Xun started his glorious journey. Speaking of raising such a son, Lu Youyuan was very pleased. The only thing that made him uncomfortable was that Lu Xun, for some reason, loved his family too much.

It's fine that Tiance Mansion didn't have any chance to go to war before, but the last time they went to fight the Kara Khanate, they gave up this good opportunity because the child loved his family.

Lu Youyuan beat him up before, but this time His Majesty wanted to send someone to Tubo again, and chose Lu Xun again, but this time Lu Xun wanted to give up again, when Lu Youyuan got angry, he beat him up violently.

So when Li Congjia summoned Lu Xun, Lu Xun's face was blue and purple, which was really scary.

Li Congjia had seen him before, a very handsome young man, turned his head into a pig's head, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Lu Xun said vaguely: "I was beaten by my father."

Li Congjia laughed immediately. He has never beaten his son, but he also knows that in this day and age, it is normal for a father to beat his son when he is not going his way. However, he heard that Lu Youyuan has always had a good temper, so he couldn't help asking : "You must be angry with him."

Lu Xun smiled wryly: "He thinks I'm not motivated."

Li Congjia also felt that the child was too unmotivated, so he couldn't help asking, "Why don't you want to go?"

Lu Xun kept his mouth shut, but Li Congjia seemed very patient: "Tell me, don't worry about anything."

Lu Xun also felt that it was a bit unreasonable to refuse again and again, but he did have a hurdle in his heart. He never told his father about it, but for some reason, when he saw Li Congjia, he immediately I think I might be able to get the answer from the emperor.

Lu Xun said in a low voice: "When I was young... I ran out of the house once because of my love for fun, and got lost in the mountains. When I finally found the way back, I found that my family members had been killed, and many people in the village had died. Later...afterwards, I never dared to leave home again."

This home deserves to be his home after he was adopted by Lu Youyuan. Others only think that Lu Xun loves home too much, but who knows that he is just a psychological shadow of childhood?He was just afraid of walking again and seeing a ruined wall when he came back.

This is a psychological problem. Li Congjia is not a psychiatrist. He can't treat Lu Xun's illness, so in the end he can only say: "The Tiance Mansion is in Chang'an, and your father is also in Chang'an. Unless Chang'an falls, he will Nothing will happen."

Li Congjia was just expounding such a fact, which is not any consolation, but I don't know whether his tone was too calm, or his aura was too strong, which gave Lu Xun confidence in a strange way, although it would not make him walk out of the haze immediately, But he was appeased.

Lu Xun immediately said that he would go back and think about it. Li Congjia didn't blame him. This kind of psychological trauma can't be cured in a short while. In fact, he didn't have much hope.

However, capable young officers are not just Lu Xun, so look for them again.

What surprised him was that the next day Lu Xun replied that he was willing to go there, but Li Congjia was quick and had already sent the order to dispatch another backup candidate.

According to the normal procedure, Lu Xun had already lost this chance, but Li Congjia wanted to give him another chance out of selfishness. After all, it was not easy for this child to muster up the courage to walk out of the house.

So he directly wrote another dispatch order. Anyway, one sheep can be herded and two sheep can be herded, so let Yang Ye do it.

When Yang Ye heard that two young military officers were coming, he was relieved at first, and then he felt a little headache. He was very worried about what would happen if two devil kings came.It was only two days ago that he found out that Zhao Kuangyin's team had been stuffed with the crown prince, the prince of Shu, and the sons of other big men in the army.

This is a national war, they are all stuffed, Yang Ye's army is already very pure, this time... if two are stuffed in, what will he do?

He didn't feel at ease until the name was in his hands. If the name is not very familiar, it proves that he should not be a related household. Although the emperor personally ordered it, there are still fewer constraints.

Yang Ye Anxin waited for the new officer to come to help him share the responsibilities. Of course, he thought that he must bring someone to familiarize himself with it at the beginning, but... I don't know if he can echo with Director Zhao?

Yang Ye hadn't contacted Zhao Kuangyin before, and he thought it was not easy for Zhao Kuangyin to support the national war alone, but when he heard that the crown prince and the prince of Shu had gone, he felt that everyone knew about this war. Shouldn't be a big deal.

Can Zhao Kuangyin send out some soldiers to harass Ghazni, at least to reduce the pressure on them?Yang Ye didn't want to help here, but two novices came, so he would probably be more cautious.

While thinking about it, he sent a letter to Zhao Kuangyin.

After Lu Xun and the others traveled thousands of miles to Tubo, Yang Ye saw that the two were in good health and had no altitude sickness, so he immediately felt relieved, and then looked at the information of the two, and he knew how to arrange them.

When Yang Ye was alone, he basically never divided troops. After all, there were not many people who were capable of leading troops. Although the two who came now looked immature, he knew through contact with them that they knew what they were doing, and they were capable. Yes, so you can try to divide the troops.

At the beginning, Yang Ye didn't dare to divide them too much. He led a team of 2000 people and tried his best to be a guerrilla. The main attack was naturally Yang Ye's army.

Lu Xun and the other person didn't mind, they could do whatever they were asked to do, and they were very obedient.

After two days of observation, Yang Ye felt relieved, and at this time Zhao Kuangyin's reply letter also arrived. This guy probably learned from Li Congjia's simple style, so he replied with one word: Good!

But no matter what, Yang Ye was more at ease in his heart, and he didn't worry about dividing his troops, after all, someone had his back.

However, he later realized that it was too early to rest assured.

He fought against Tubo and Ghazni again, and after a small win, Yang Ye received a shocking news just after returning to the army, but before he could react, the deer patrol soldiers over there had come over and said : "Leader Qi, General Lu wants to ride home on horseback, no, no, no, he has already rushed out of the barracks on horseback, we... can't stop him!"