The twelfth year of Zhenguan, that is, five years ago... The Tang Dynasty and Tubo fought in Songzhou.

At that time, Tubo was in an upward period. "In modern times, he was strong and eroded other countries, and his territory was vast and he won hundreds of thousands of soldiers."

When attacking Songzhou, Tubo first sent troops to defeat Tuyuhun, Dangxiang and Bailan and Qiang, which was to use the great victory to force 200,000 troops to sweep the Tang Dynasty Songzhou.

At that time, Songzhou was only about 10,000... Because Songzhou, as a lower governor's office, had not many troops. Chen Zi'ang said in "Military Prosecutor of Shangshuchuan", "When I was in Shu, I saw the rumors that Song, Pan and other states had no more than 10,000 troops stationed." During the Wu Zetian period, the threat of Tubo to the Tang Dynasty was increasing day by day. The Tang army's garrison in Songzhou seemed to have more troops than in the 12th year of Zhenguan (AD 638). Even so, there were still less than 10,000 people.

Based on this, it is inferred that the Tang army had less than 10,000 defenders in Songzhou in the 12th year of Zhenguan (638 AD). Second, the purpose of Han Wei's attack was to observe the Tubo army, and naturally he would not bring out all the defenders.

Based on the above two points, Han Wei led the Tang army with only a few thousand people, at most no more than 10,000 people.

To use 10,000 people to fight against the 200,000 people in Tubo, you can imagine how cruel the battlefield in Songzhou would be at that time.

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"Tie Yu... I can only give you fifty people. These fifty people are given to you. You must give me five hours to stay here. No matter how fierce the opponent's attack is, you must give me five hours to stay here."

After listening to his Shangguan's order, Tie Yu hurriedly bowed to accept the order.

Without hesitation, he immediately took his fifty people to a place called Luoyanpo. During the Songzhou Battle, 200,000 Tubo people attacked Songzhou, and the battle would be in the area of ​​Gansongling... Because Gansongling is an important passage between Songzhou and Dangxiang, Dangxiang is west of Gansongling. The Tang Dynasty once set up a rail-to-rail army in Gansongling.

Luoyanpo is a place to guard against enemy attacks. It is crucial, but there is really not enough manpower, so you can only send fifty people to guard it. If it is not discovered, then everyone will be happy. However, if the Tubo people are targeted, Tie Yu's fifty people will probably be completely killed, and I don't know if they can defend for five hours.

Unfortunately, Luoyanpo was finally discovered by the Tubo people, and all of Tieyu's fifty brothers were killed in battle. You should know that at that time, Tubo dispatched at least ten thousand people to attack Luoyanpo, but Luoyanpo still held on for three hours.

Until Tie Yu fell down, blood covered all the iron feathers. Seeing his brothers dying one by one, and he couldn't do it anymore, Tie Yu felt that he was dead. Even if he died, he would be worthy of his glorious title as a soldier in the Tang Dynasty.

But just when Tie Yu was about to die, he suddenly remembered his wife and daughter. What should they do if they had no self?

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty's pension was very good, and his wife and daughter should be fine.

The Tang Dynasty also had clear regulations on the pension system for the deaths of war and the disabled soldiers. It was to bury soldiers who died in battle and give money to their families. For disabled people, land was given priority, and for soldiers who unfortunately disappeared due to war, land was given to relatives.

The rulers knew that combat power was an important reason for ensuring victory or defeat in the war, so they had very clear goals in military construction. It is precisely because of this that the rulers treated the soldiers well, allowing the soldiers to fight without any worries, which was an important reason for victory.

Just after Luoyanpo fell, the governor of Songzhou, Han Wei, rashly left the city to fight with him and was defeated by the foreign army... Then the Tang army turned into a defensive position, and Tubo attacked the city for more than ten days without any progress. On August 27, Li Shimin used Hou Jun to gather, and held Sili, and Niu Jinda to rescue him in three ways.

On the sixth day of the September 1st, Niu Jinda led his vanguard to arrive, attacked the Tubo camp at night, killing more than a thousand people. Songtsen Gampo led the army slowly retreated, and the battle in Songzhou ended.

Some people will definitely say that the battle of Songzhou is too hasty... Indeed, the battle of Songzhou is a battle of face between Li Shimin and Songtsen Gampo.

In terms of the scale of the battle in Songzhou, the battle between the two sides lost thousands of soldiers and then stopped their troops. Compared with the battle between the large corps that often took tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands in the later period, the war at the city of Songzhou was at best a small border friction.

The Battle of Songzhou was an encounter between the then overlord (Tang Dynasty) and the emerging challenger (Tubo).

The Tang Dynasty wanted to maintain the "world order" in East Asia that it had worked hard to build, while Tubo sought to gain the recognition of the overlord and won the respect that challengers deserved.

Therefore, the Battle of Songzhou is a war full of "face" meaning.

After this battle, after the Battle of Songzhou, the benefits obtained by Tubo were obvious. He married Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty and improved his prestige among the surrounding forces. At the same time, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet and brought advanced Han culture to Tubo, promoting the progress of Tubo society.

The benefits obtained by the Tang Dynasty were mainly two aspects.

1. Tubo withdrew his troops from Tuyuhun and Dangxiang, and the Tang Dynasty restored control of the above-mentioned tribes.

2. Tubo and the Tang Dynasty maintained a peace situation for twenty years, and the security of the western border of the Tang Dynasty was guaranteed.

The only suffering was the dead soldiers...especially the 50-man team in Luoyanpo, they fought to the last one, but in the end Han Wei did blame all the blame on these fifty people, saying that they had to go out to fight without permission.

All of these fifty people were sentenced to dereliction of duty, so none of these fifty people were given a pension. This is a small thing that cannot be even smaller. It will be ignored in history, but the consequences it brings to the parties involved will be forever.

Tie Yu was not dead in the end. He came back excitedly to report, but was notified by someone familiar with him and asked him to escape quickly because the superiors were going to use his team to take the blame. The charges had already been dropped and the crime of dereliction of duty.

Tie Yu cried violently. At that time, Tie Yu's belief in the Tang soldiers was lost. Fortunately, he had friends in the army. Then Tie Yu followed the army from Chang'an back to Chang'an. However, after he returned, he was hit again. His wife was already dead, and his daughter was almost abducted.

With deep regret, Tieyu began to raise his daughter alone, and his daughter was named Yaya.

Tieyu once swore that no matter who it is or who dares to touch his daughter, he will fight with the other party. No matter who you are, even God cannot do it, watching his daughter be knocked down by someone.

Finally Tieyu got angry. He was once a good soldier in the army. Even if he hadn't performed for several years, he was more than enough to face these three gangsters.

"Die me...!"

Tie Yu moved forward with anger and punched the man in a short slap.

I saw that this fist was not only heavy, but also very fierce. I heard a scream and the man was beaten to vomit blood and fell to the ground.

Then the two men in black panicked immediately and shouted quickly to the distance: "Come here, come here, someone is causing trouble!"

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Chapter completed!