Chapter 26: The messy rushing general in the wind
Huangyuan Stone Fort City!
Huangyuan County is an important place between the Huangshui River Basin and the Qinghai Lake area. It has been known as the "bridge of sea and Tibetan" since ancient times and is a crucial strategic fortress in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Shibao City is backed by Huashi Mountain and faces Yaoshui River. It is located on a brown-red cliff. The front cliff is steep and the mountains on both sides are winding and colorful, like a goshawk spreading its wings, which is intimidating, and therefore it is known as "slaughtering eagles on the edge of the mountain".
In the future, this stone castle city was the one that allowed Wang Zhongsi, who had the 300,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty and the four towns, to almost frame Li Linfu to death, and made the famous general Geshu Han famous, and the poet Du Fu left behind the famous work of "The Carriage of the Warriors".
This strategic location, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, hundreds of thousands of warriors buried under the ridge in order to compete for this place.
Shang Zanpo was the commander of Shibao City. His father and grandfather were both famous civil officials in Tubo. During the Zhenguan period, he studied in the Tang Dynasty and learned his lifelong ability to govern the world. He made great contributions to Tubo's internal affairs reform. Shang Zanpo was born in a family of civil officials, but he admired the Tubo military god Garqinling since he was a child. He studied military practice and martial arts since he was a child. He became a new star general in Tubo. He had already replaced the older generation Qili Xu and Di Dayan.
Compared with Qilixu and Di Dayan's defeat in the attack on Tang, Shang Zanpo defeated the Tang army's sneak attacks many times in Shibao City, making the Tang army unable to advance, which is even more admirable and convincing.
Shang Zanpo was also very ambitious, especially the letter from his father not long ago, the crushing defeat of Qilixu and Di Dayan made Zanpu Chide Zuzan extremely dissatisfied with them, and was determined to promote some young and strong generals to replace outdated veterans. Shang Zanpo was one of the members of the assessment, but his merits were inferior. As long as he made a little more achievements, he could go further.
The commander of the ten thousand men is a general, and he is handsome when he goes further!
Although the general and the coach are a step away, the difference is self-evident.
Shibao City shook Shanzhou and Guzhou's throat, like a steel needle piercing into the key points of the Tang Dynasty, threatening the existence of Shanzhou and Guzhou at any time and anywhere. Shang Zanpo also wanted to imitate Marba, invade Shanzhou and Guzhou, to show their presence, accumulate merits, and strive to go further. However, Shanzhou and Guzhou are no longer as unlucky as Taozhou, Shanzhou and Guzhou connect Liangzhou in the Western Regions and protect the Hexi Corridor, which is extremely important for the Tang Dynasty.
Guo Zhiyun, the ambassador of Longyou, directly stationed in Shanzhou, and there were five armies in Guzhou. The guards were particularly strict. Shang Zanpo could not find the opportunity, so he could only keep holding on and peek in secret.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly received news from the south that the Tang army attacked the Tubo camp and plundered it, 25,000 sheep, 3,000 cows, and 3,000 horses...
Before the messenger could speak, Shang Zanpo was stunned. It was always their invasion into the Tang Dynasty and robbed the Tang Dynasty. Why did it turn around?
"Is Marba a donkey? He actually let Tangren rob his camp. Where are the others?" Marba said with some gloating, his tone of mocking.
This infighting is a human nature, not the patent of the Han people. Infighting in the Tang Dynasty was endless, and Tubo was actually not much better.
As a new star general, Shang Zanpo and Marba are currently the most prominent and are competitors. In recent years, Marba's record has indeed been beautiful, and is even more than Shang Zanpo. If it weren't for the past six months, when facing Pei Min, Marba had no achievements, Marba would have been promoted to the commander of the ten thousand men with the achievements of the nine enemies Taozhou.
Pei Min's original rumor may not have been able to succeed so successfully, Shang Zanpo's father did not secretly promote the fire to suppress Marba and improve his son's status.
Now that Marba is defeated, Shang Zanpo is not worried but happy.
The messenger ignored Shang Zanpo's attitude. The fight between gods had nothing to do with them and continued to report the situation. When he learned that Pei Min was stationed in Guangen Town and Marba was missing, his expression changed drastically and he said angrily: "Marba's crimes should be punished!" This was not a gloating, but really angry and anxious!
The Jiuqu of Hexi has great significance for Tubo and Tang dynasties, and can be described as "portal".
Whoever owns the Jiuqu land of Hexi will have the other party’s portal!
The land of Hexi Jiuqu is in the hands of Tubo, and Tubo can threaten the Longyou Fortress of the Tang Dynasty anytime and anywhere; if it is in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty can host troops in Qinghai Lake and compete with Tubo for the interests of Qinghai Lake.
Qinghai Lake has a status in Tubo, just like the Jianghuai area of the Tang Dynasty, and is the only center of Tubo's agriculture and animal husbandry. If Qinghai Lake is lost, it is equivalent to the goshawk's wings being broken.
This is also the reason why Tubo did not hesitate to use all kinds of despicable means to seize the Jiuqu of Hexi.
In order to prevent Qinghai Lake from being threatened and to threaten Longyou of the Tang Dynasty, the Hexi Jiuqu land could not be lost in any case. Guangen Town is located at the important point south of the Jiuqu land in Hexi. Once the Tang army took root in Guangen Town, it was like the Shibao City he occupied. It could threaten the Jiuqu land in Hexi anytime and anywhere. It was connected with Taozhou, with troops freely commuting, threatening the safety of Jiuqu land in Hexi at all times.
At that time, it was not their Tubo who invaded Taozhou, but the Tang Dynasty invaded Jiuqu land in Hexi.
The Jiuqu land in Hexi is not as important as Qinghai Lake, but it is also a place of animal husbandry with lush water and grass. With the Shen Ce Army on his side, how can they be comfortable in animal husbandry?
What's more, once the Jiuqu land in Hexi is lost, Shibao City will lose its strategic value.
As a new star general of Tubo, Shang Zanpo had his own talent and foresight. He thought about this and shouted anxiously: "Tell me when will the Tang army be stationed in Guangen Town?"
The messenger said: "Today's day!"
Upon hearing this, Shang Zanpo immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then laughed: "It's great, there's still a chance! Hurry up, immediately click the troops and follow me to the south and take back Guangen Town."
I was worried that I would not have the opportunity to make contributions, but I didn’t want the opportunity to make contributions.
Guangen Town has been abandoned for a long time, with the number of Shence Army only 6,000, and he has 20,000 cavalry available, which is enough to deal with it.
Time is tight, and Shang Zanpo no longer hesitates. He immediately reminded the deputy general to be careful of the Tang army's sneak attack and lead 20,000 cavalry to kill Guangen.
They are located at the northernmost point of Jiuqudi in Hexi, while Guangen Town is located at the southernmost point, only two hundred miles apart.
In Shang Zanpo's eyes, two hundred miles are indeed nothing more than that.
Shang Zanpo set off at dawn, and it was approaching Guangen Town at dusk that day, nearly two hundred miles away. Shang Zanpo arrived in less than half a day. Although there is the convenience of grasslands to travel, the time is also extremely terrifying.
Of course, this also varies from person to person. Shang Zanpo was a general in history who was good at using cavalry to raid. If history does not change, in the near future, he would take advantage of the time when the Tang Dynasty was tired of dealing with the Anshi Rebellion and rush to the city of Chang'an in one breath, forcing Emperor Daizong of Tang to abandon the capital and flee.
Shang Zanpo, a famous Tubo general, did not have the rich experience at that time, but he had shown his unique talent in this raid.
Pei Min, who received the news in Guangen Town, couldn't help but be a little shocked: "It's coming so fast!"
"How many people are there?" he asked again.
The scout said: "No less than 20,000..."
"Go to his grandfather!" Pei Min couldn't help but curse, and there were only 4,000 soldiers in Guangen Town, and five times the enemy came directly. He looked down on him so much. He turned his eyes and said with a smile: "Hurry up, hide the winch crossbow on the Tower City! Don't let the other party show it. I want to give them a big gift!" He smiled, shouting and ordered all the soldiers to prepare for battle.
The 20,000 cavalry were thriving, and dust covered the sky and the sun. From a distance, it looked like a surging wave, which was extremely terrifying.
Pei Min pointed at the opposite side and laughed: "Tubo children, the skill of digging the ground is good! Fortunately, we don't raise cattle and sheep, otherwise we would have ruined the flowers and plants in this land, and we would have to go with them."
As a soldier, his record was the only way to prove him. After a previous battle, Pei Min wiped out nearly 8,000 Tubo soldiers and plundered 30,000 animals with extremely small casualties.
The magical level of command and layout gave the Shenjian soldiers a deep impression, and he was particularly convinced.
The strength of the Shence Army has reached the level of elite force, but it has little practical experience and insufficient mentality, so it is not considered a real elite force. They used to face a very similar number of people and swung extremely well. Now they are shocked to see that the enemy is so powerful. Seeing that Pei Min is still making fun of him, he is calm and calm, and is inexplicably at ease, waiting for the enemy to attack.
Pei Min looked at the vast dust smoke and was curious. He didn't know what expression they would look like when Guangen Town looked like now. It's a pity that he couldn't see it with his own eyes.
Coincidentally!
Shang Zanpo actually had the same idea!
He had already arrived half a mile from Guangen Town, looking at the small black shadow in the distance, with a hideous smile on his face. His military philosophy is the word "fast". The biggest characteristic of the cavalry is mobility. He believed that as long as he puts his mobility to the extreme, he could take the lead in everything and be invincible.
He was extremely confident about his marching. He thought about the Tang army's soldiers who marched with two legs and knew that he would react to marching for two hundred miles within half a day.
In fact, he was arrogant and did not know that the sky and the earth were rich. His marching was indeed commendable, but it was far from shocking Pei Min: During the Han Dynasty, General Wei Qing could still march for 500 miles a day and a night without stirrups. If stirrups were paired with Wei Qing's ability, it would be possible to have 600 miles a day and a hundred miles apart. Shang Zanpo's current marching was faster, and how could he compare with his ancestors?
As he got closer and closer to Guangen Town, Shang Zanpo was eager to see Tang Jun's confused and shocked expression!
He shouted and continued to rush forward. If possible, he rushed into the city and decided the outcome in one fell swoop...
Shang Zanpo thought so, but when he entered Guangen Town within 300 steps, he was shocked to appear in front of him. A large-scale city!
There are many soldiers on the city wall, watching their arrival calmly!
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Shang Zanpo couldn't help but tie the reins, and looked at the scene in front of him and was stunned!
The war happened yesterday. The war situation was urgently reported. The troops took the middle of the night to reach Huangyuan Stone Fort City, and he took half a day to lead the army to kill!
It's only a day and a night!
The city wall!
What's going on?
How is that possible?
Haunted?
Chapter completed!