Crown Tang emperor

"But the merchants of the Tang Kingdom are indeed buying these goods in large quantities. A pair of beaks and three feathers can be exchanged for a package of cooked silk and fine silk, so many people are looking for this kind of goods. It is also said that the Queen of the Tang Kingdom Compared with the phoenix, the red-feathered and red-beaked pheasant is the remnant of the phoenix, and it can be woven into wings and worn as utensils, which can help its national fortune."

The attached country doesn't even have a surname, so naturally it doesn't have a standard of measurement.Tang country silk is the top luxury in its realm, and the standard to measure how much is to wrap it around the body.

"This kind of statement is credible. The wealth of the Tang Dynasty is beyond measure. If it can benefit the rule, how can it be stingy with goods?"

Hearing this rhetoric, the vassal monarch nodded, and there was even envy in his words. I don't know whether he was envious of Tang's wealth, or envied that Tang's empress had found a fetish to maintain her ruling power.

But he still asked cautiously: "Did you ask the merchants who used to come and go, whether this kind of thing is true?"

The other official was mainly in charge of attaching the royal manor and fields. After hearing the words, his face showed sorrow. Of course, he kept such a kneeling posture, with his head and face on the ground, so the king naturally couldn't see his expression.

But his tone of voice is enough to show that he is in a bad mood at the moment: "In the past years, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty who were doing business were chased, killed and looted by the Tubo garrison. This year, no one dared to deliver goods near Daowu City. , I can only go to Dajian Furnace to pick up the goods, otherwise this relationship will be cut off."

When the monarch Yi Ling heard this, his face suddenly became gloomy, his whole body was filled with negative energy, and he said angrily: "With money, they don't want to come?"

Although the attached state was subjugated, in order to stabilize the regional situation, Tubo still retained its royal family's manors, pastures and slave households.When a person is alive, there must always be something to sustenance.The power of life and death is gone, so enjoying Tang's goods that others can't enjoy has become an important way for the monarch to maintain his dignity.

Moreover, due to geographical factors, the Fuguo was at the center of the Tang-Tibet trade, so it acquired precious goods from the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, and then transported them to Tubo, whether it was gift giving or trading, they could get a lot of money.

Compared with the powerful national power of Tubo, even when the attached country was the most powerful, it was far from its opponent.At present, there are rebellions one after another in the Greater Tibet area, but the attached royal family can still maintain its puppet status and accept the protection of Tubo.

Even as early as a few years ago, there were voices in Tubo that wanted to levy tribute from the vassal king's family, but they were all suppressed by the nobles of the vassal state who had made friends with the state.

Therefore, the goods from the Tang Dynasty also have extremely profound significance for the attached royal family, which can not only maintain their extravagant enjoyment, but also protect their political status.Therefore, the attached royal family also maintained close contacts with a group of merchants from the Tang Dynasty, and each benefited from each other.

"It's not because of the amount of money, the Fan Kingdom's guards are getting more and more arrogant, and the merchants are extinct. As long as they get close to Daowu City, their lives will be lost."

The monarch's retainer said again with a bitter face.

When the monarch heard this, he also had a sad look on his face, not to mention that he did not have the power to instruct the Tubo garrison at all, even if he had, he would not dare to transfer that Tubo garrison away from Daowu City.

Prior to the outbreak of military turmoil in the Tibetan area, the various ministries in the middle school were unwilling to continue to accept the enslavement of Tubo.But after seeing the fierceness of Tubo, the monarch was afraid of this from the bottom of his heart, lest he would offend Tubo, so he simply took the initiative to recruit Tubo troops into the country to suppress the rebellion.

With the cooperation of the royal family, the turmoil in the Tibetan area was quickly quelled.However, it is easier to ask the gods to send the gods away. After that, Tubo maintained its army in the Tibetan area for a long time, and directly recruited the attached royal guards.

Up to now, the attached royal family has little power to protect themselves. No matter how arrogant the Tubo garrison is, they can only grit their teeth and bear it.

But now the existence of the Tubo garrison has seriously affected the life and future of the attached royal family, forcing the monarch to seriously consider this issue.

"Should we cut off the offerings of several families this year and let them take the initiative to transfer the garrison away?"

As soon as this idea came to mind, the monarch denied it.The nobles in Tubo are not stupid people who are blinded by profit and wisdom. They understand that only if this garrison is here, the attached royal family will obediently offer sacrifices year after year.

If he really threatened this, maybe those Tubo nobles would directly abolish him as a puppet.He felt uncomfortable being a dog for Tubo, but I don’t know how many Hu chieftains in the Greater Tibet region are eager to be a dog for Tubo, after all, only by being a dog can they have the right to dislike them.

The monarch originally wanted to ask whether the so-called red feathers and red beaks purchased by the Tang people at a high price were true, but in the end it brought up a topic that gave him a headache, and he didn't intend to ask about it in detail for a while.

But just as his mind was empty here, a courtier who was kneeling on the ground suddenly shouted: "Can you take advantage of the riots of those foreigners to temporarily transfer the Tubo garrison away from Daowu City? After all, there are rumors that the Tang State is collecting these The strange goods are still to kill the foreign army..."

When the monarch heard this, his eyes brightened for a moment, and he felt that there was room for manipulation in this matter, so he clapped his hands and said, "Think carefully, but don't let the Japanese army suspect me!"

It is not without reason that the vassal monarchs and ministers became slaves to the subjugated country.

In fact, the Tubo troops stationed in Daowu City noticed these unusual signs a few days before their discussion.

After all, in addition to protecting the attached royal family, the reason why they are stationed here is to control the situation in the Tibetan area.Such an unusual move in the realm, they naturally have to pay attention to it.

What the garrison of the Fan Kingdom heard was almost the same as that of the princes and ministers of the Fu Kingdom. Of course, the generals stationed here already knew about the coup d'état in the Tang Kingdom. The so-called consolidation of the Queen's rule was just a gimmick.And the feathered arrows made of red feathers and red beaks will make them bleed, which is even more deceptive.

But despite this, the generals stationed in the territory of Fan Kingdom still dare not neglect.Because this means that as many Hu tribes participated in the search for these rare goods, as many people in the Tibetan area hoped that they would die badly.

So as early as a few days ago, the garrison of the Fan Kingdom had been mobilized frequently to investigate the source of the rumors, and some small-scale battles had even occurred in some places.

"The Fan Kingdom has more than [-] troops stationed here, and their power is not weak. I only hope that the Qiang tribes in this area can entangle more Fan Kingdom troops."

The source of the rumors is naturally Guo Yuanzhen, this guy is full of bad things, of course it is impossible to make a strategy just to divert the tiger away from the mountain.

Guo Wanjun said that he wanted to buy the forces of the Qiang soldiers to attack Daowu City, Guo Yuanzhen felt a little unreliable.But this time he came to the west, he led only more than 200 soldiers from Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, plus Guo Wanjun and other caravan guards, and the number of soldiers was less than 1000. If he did not rely on the local Qiang forces, it would be very difficult Make it possible to garrison the Fan country.

It is difficult to achieve each other's intentions by simply buying, but if they arouse each other's greed, they will have fun themselves.So he ordered Guo Wanjun, including some other merchants from the Tang Dynasty who wandered here, to spend a lot of money to search for rare goods, and naturally some money was used in the process.

The Tubo garrison was dissatisfied with the thieves of the Hu tribes in the Tibetan area, so they spread out to investigate the source of the rumors. They would definitely find that those Hu tribes had accumulated a large amount of goods from the Tang Dynasty.The existence of these goods is enough to show that those Hu tribes had close contacts with the Tang people, which is a kind of criminal evidence.

The Hu tribe was not reconciled to the looting of property, and even the massacre of the tribe, so naturally they wanted to rise up and resist.Fighting like this is much more effective than simply buying.

Of course, in this process, there will definitely be some merchants from the Tang Dynasty who do not know the truth and will be affected, and it is inevitable that people and goods will be lost.

But there is no way to do it, even Guo Yuanzhen did it on purpose.The next step of King Yong's shogunate will definitely strengthen the control of central Shu, and the Tang and Tibetan trade routes that exist in central Shu must also be part of the control.

At present, the merchants in the area that Guo Yuanzhen can notify have already sent warning messages through Guo Wanjun, and as for the others that have not been notified, there is no way to talk about supervision.One of Guo Yuanzhen's goals was to clean up a batch of them through the raid by the Fan army, so that these merchants would not dare to be greedy for profit after knowing the pain, and transport goods to enrich the Fan country.

Chapter 0647 a proud, unwilling to give up

There are more than 3000 Tubo troops stationed in the Tibetan area. Although the number of garrisons is not large, it is more than enough to control the Qiang and Hu tribes in the Tibetan area.

The larger ones of these Hu tribes have a population of only a few thousand, and the smaller ones even live together with hundreds of people. After the largest power in the region and the attached royal family have completely surrendered to Tubo, it is difficult for these tribes to gather together occasionally. what climate.

In the early years, Tang Jimi controlled an area as large as the Western Regions, with only a few thousand permanent personnel. Not only did the local states dare not resist, but they even had exchanges with Tubo, a powerful enemy.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, three thousand Tubo Jiazhong is enough to control the entire Tibetan area, provided that these local Qianghu tribes have not been organized on a large scale, or Tubo does not take the initiative to divide its troops.

However, Guo Yuanzhen's small actions during this period of time were for the purpose of dividing Tubo's troops.The so-called red feathers and red beaks can kill Tibetan soldiers. It doesn't matter whether Tang merchants bought a large number of them. What matters is how many Qianghu tribes have been affected by such rumors.

If it is not pursued and controlled, it is possible that this rumor will evolve into a slogan, which will directly trigger the Qiang and Hu tribes in the Greater Tibet region to revolt against the enslavement and plunder of Tubo.

But once there is a large-scale investigation, it will be difficult to mobilize the brigade.In the area of ​​eastern Sichuan and Tibet, there are ravines and mountains, and the terrain is far more complex than that of Tubo, so only small groups can be dispatched.

After the momentum was built, Guo Yuanzhen and his party sneaked back to the vicinity of Daowu City.However, the frequent search by the Fan army also brought them a lot of trouble.In order to ensure that their whereabouts were not discovered, most of the troops on this trip hid in the impasse in the distance, and Guo Yuanzhen only led a hundred people back.

These people said that they were the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion in Yizhou, but in fact they were all partisans that Guo Yuanzhen had recruited and trained in Tongquan County over the years, and they were very impressive in terms of obedience and combat effectiveness.Even though he was in an unfamiliar land, he didn't feel at a loss, instead he felt like he was at home.

Because Guo Yuanzhen often led them to the Shengqiang area in western Sichuan in his early years, hunting and looting the Shengqiang population and selling them as slaves.Therefore, their adaptability to this complex terrain even surpassed those of the garrisons of the foreign countries.

A group of people hid on the mountain where they could see Daowu City and the barracks of the foreign army, and they didn't feel irritable for several days.So much so that Guo Wanjun, who came here with him, was a little skeptical. Guo Yuanzhen and his followers looked more like people who often make a living in this town than himself.

After watching for a few days, although the Fan army came in and out frequently, they still kept considerable troops in the camp and around the city. At least it wasn't Guo Yuanzhen and his hundreds of followers who could directly rush forward and defeat them.

However, as the search of the surrounding territory by the Fan army gradually expanded and became more detailed, the situation gradually changed.At the very beginning, the activities of the Fan army were still cautious. A team of one hundred people set off early in the morning and returned in the evening. They did not hang around overnight, and occasionally escorted some prisoners back.

Gradually, some foreign soldiers began to stay outside. It should be that the search range was extended and it was too late to return.Correspondingly, when these teams return, the escorted materials and personnel will be even more.

This is also very normal, the so-called thief passes like a comb, and soldiers pass like a grate.The army itself is an organized violent group, and its damage to the people's livelihood and environment is far greater than that of bandits and bandits.

The Fan army itself is not a well-disciplined team. Burning, killing, and looting itself is a habitual practice. Previously, perhaps because of the military order guarding the barracks, there was no chance to go deep into the Qiang and Hu tribes to search, but now there is a legitimate reason, of course they must Do a search.

The Tibetan area is a transit point for the trade between Tang and Tibet. The midsummer season is the time when the trade is most frequent, and the Qiang and Hu tribes are more or less stockpiling some goods from the Tang Dynasty traded.Fan soldiers who entered their tribe and saw these goods were greedy in themselves, and because of the rumor, naturally there was no reason to let it go.

The Fan soldiers who went out gained a lot, which stimulated the Fan troops who stayed around Daowu City. The change brought about was that the Fan troops sent more and more troops, the round-trip cycle became longer and longer, and the harvest was even greater. It was so rich that some of the residents in Daowu City were expelled to store the materials looted by the Fan army, and the Qianghu population who were arrested for trading with the Tang State, who were suspected of being connected with the Tang Dynasty and spreading rumors.

However, it was not without consequences for the Japanese army to do so. The people in the Dazang area were already fierce, and there had been constant rebellions for many years.Such aggressive looting by the Fan army naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the local people. Some of the Fan troops who returned here gradually showed signs of having experienced battles, and even experienced varying degrees of attrition.

The local people blatantly colluded with the Tang Dynasty, and spread rumors with ulterior motives. Now they even took the initiative to attack the Jiabing troops sent by Tubo to investigate, which naturally made the Tubo garrison furious.So next time when the Fan Kingdom sent out manpower again, the armored equipment would be more sophisticated and the army would be bigger, and when they returned again, they would bring back not many raw animals, but baskets of bloody human heads!

The situation has been developing in the direction expected by Guo Yuanzhen. The Qianghu native people in the Tibetan area and the Tibetan kingdom have deep conflicts, and what is lacking is an opportunity to trigger it.

When the first bloody conflict occurred, the most important thing was no longer whether the natives had illicit relations with Tang and who made the rumors, but that Tubo wanted to drive the natives to extinction, and the natives fought back. Just to survive.

As a result, the Tubo soldiers stationed around Daowu City dispatched more and more, and the frequency of returning to rest became slower and slower.Those Qiang and Hu tribes who fought independently and were not organized were naturally not the opponents of these well-armed and wolf-like soldiers, but they lived in the depths of the gullies, and the Tubo army wanted to completely suppress their riots. Very difficult.

"The fire is almost ready, and we are going to attack Daowu City before noon!"

In the early morning of a certain day, I saw more than [-] Tubo soldiers mobilized again near Daowu City. In addition to those who had not returned before, there were only more than [-] people staying in Daowu City.

Of course, in addition to the Tubo headquarters, there is also a part of the local Hu tribe's servant army, about 2000 people. Although Guo Yuanzhen and others are only looking at it from a distance, there is a clear difference in the armor and even the momentum of these servants from the Tubo army. .

"This is going to attack Daowu City? Just relying on the current hundred people?"

Guo Wanjun's eyes widened when he heard this, and asked again in disbelief.

After Guo Yuanzhen heard the words, he shook his head and said: "How is it possible? There must be someone watching the situation and planning a retreat. I can dispatch 50 people with me. Brother, you lead the rest to stay here. Once you see most of the foreign army returning, immediately Guard against smoke on the hills. When thieves come from the east, you will get a bunch of smoke, and another bunch in the southeast and northwest. After the smoke is out, you will immediately run to the place where the thieves are empty. Mark along the way, and how to meet up later, I will remind you."

"Five, 50 people? Ke-ke Daowu city, there are still thousands of soldiers!"

Guo Wanjun was so shocked that he almost bit his tongue when he heard the words, he forced a smile and said, "Mingfu must be joking!"

Guo Yuanzhen glared immediately when he heard this, and said solemnly: "This moment of life-and-death race, how can you laugh at it! I told you just now, brother, you must keep it in your heart. Once I rush down the peak, I will be powerless to look back. Echo, then our hundred and ten lives will all be thrown here."

"It's, it's true! 50 people, going straight to Daowu City? But there are still..."

"Ha, back then, Ban Dingyuan's 36 soldiers were able to conquer the Western Regions. Now I have 50 Jiatu soldiers, and I can't beat the small barbarian state in the southwest. Even if I succeed, I don't deserve credit for it."

Seeing Guo Wanjun's appearance, Guo Yuanzhen laughed, then took out the little dry food left and concentrated on eating.

Seeing that Guo Yuanzhen was so calm, Guo Wanjun had truly learned that the desire for meritorious deeds of this kind of celebrity was far beyond his imagination.Earlier, Guo Yuanzhen rushed to discuss friendship with his peers. In his heart, he still underestimated this young man who joined the army in middle age, and felt that the other party was only mediocre.

But in the recent period, seeing Guo Yuanzhen's tricks, he teased many Qiang and Hu tribes in the Tibetan area, including thousands of garrisons of the Fan Kingdom, to kill each other. This effect has far exceeded his imagination.Compared with his so-called buying Qiang and Hu Zuli with money, it is a foolish plan.

Now seeing Guo Yuanzhen's dozens of people dare to attack the city that is still guarded by thousands of soldiers, the shock in my heart is even more shocking.

After a moment of silence, Guo Wanjun said again: "No matter how great a meritorious service is, you still need to save your life to enjoy it. Otherwise, the Ming Palace is just an unnamed corpse in the mountains and forests. That His Royal Highness, King Yong, is it really worth the Ming Palace to sacrifice his life for his service? "

When Guo Yuanzhen heard this, his eating hand paused for a moment, and he grinned after a while: "I have been born so far, and I have spent most of my life in sloppy half my life. Although my parents didn't expect me to achieve great things. When I first met His Highness, His Highness didn't let me go. Treat each other like ordinary people, how you treat me, I should do it! I am proud and unwilling to give up!"

After saying this, Guo Yuanzhen continued to eat, and when he finished eating, the soldiers were ready.

After checking the armor and bow and knife on his body again, Guo Yuanzhen patted Guo Wanjun on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Brother, take care!"

A group of people climbed rocks like spirit apes, and quickly walked down the peak, and soon their tracks were hidden among the dense vines and forests on the rock wall of the peak.Guo Wanjun stared wide-eyed and searched down Fengling. After more than half an hour, he vaguely found the trace of this group of people near a mountain stream at the foot of the mountain.

After getting off the peak, Guo Yuanzhen and his party of 50 people took a short rest in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, checked the armor and equipment with each other, and then rushed towards Daowu City.

Between the Chuanling Mountain Road, there was a sentry post of the Fan army, and soon there was a sound of soldiers shouting and asking questions. Guo Yuanzhen followed the prestige, raised his hand and shot an arrow, and the arrow went straight into his throat.

"Hurry up, get the horse first!"

After shooting and killing the sentinel who dared to show up, Guo Yuanzhen ignored the rest, and followed the route he had memorized before, and quickly went to the nearest barracks of the Tibetan army.

When a group of people arrived at the camp beside the valley, the Fan army in the camp was already on alert. A little over a dozen soldiers of the Fan army and nearly a hundred servants of the Hu tribe saw that there were not many intruders, so they simply rushed out of the fence. wall.

Before they got close to each other, Guo Yuanzhen and others had already controlled the string like flying, and shot and killed more than a dozen people first.Such a vicious killing method made Hu Zu timid, and he was out of touch with Fan Zu.After seeing this, more than a dozen Fan soldiers also turned around and fled.

"Save your life!"

Guo Yuanzhen hung the bow behind his back with his backhand, drew his knife in his hand, and swung his arms to chop and kill. He beheaded several people all the way without waiting for his feet to be stamped. superior.

When all the entourage got on their horses, they drove the other hundreds of horses in the camp with their knives, rushed out of the camp, and rushed towards Daowu City several miles away.

Chapter 0648 breaks thieves like bamboo, and plunders the capital

Outside Daowu City, the field of vision is wide. As Guo Yuanzhen and others rushed to the barracks on the side of the valley, even if there were no warnings from the surrounding guards, the guards inside and outside Daowu City were also alarmed and hurriedly waited. Start organizing your defenses.

But it is said to be an organizational defense, but it is actually a mess.Although the soldiers of the Fan army who stayed in this area rushed back and forth to give orders, there are many Qiang and Hu in the land of Tibet, and there are also many dialects and dialects.

Although the Fan army guarded here, they were not able to understand the utterances of the hundreds of clans. The situation was already urgent when they were suddenly attacked by the enemy. Coupled with the language barrier, this made the scene outside the city even more chaotic.

Dian horses have short legs and a short body, so they are not strong enough to run.The distance of several miles cannot be crossed in a single rush. Guo Yuanzhen and his party rode their horses from the valley to the plains outside the city. Although the speed was faster than running, it took almost a quarter of an hour.

Surprise is what matters in a surprise attack. Guo Yuanzhen and his party rushed out from the mountains, seized the horse, and then galloped here. The speed is not slow, but the actual time it took was almost half an hour.

In this kind of raid battle, the half-hour raid process is simply a joke. Even with a huge command of tens of thousands of troops, there is such a buffer time for contingencies, and it is enough to form a formation to meet the enemy.

But when Guo Yuanzhen and his party went to the outside of Daowu City, these guards were still in disarray, which shows that their quality is low.After all, it was just a group of local soldiers recruited by the foreign army on the spot, and they themselves were not familiar with the evolution of formations. Coupled with the language barrier, and the fear and panic of these native soldiers, this scene in front of them was created.

Seeing that the enemy has come to the front, but it is only a battle of less than a hundred people, and there is no obvious brigade accompanying them in the back, the generals and soldiers in charge of defending Daowu City are relieved. Drum and drove all the Qiang and Hu native soldiers to swarm up from the rear.

There are dozens of invading enemies in the area, and they can be piled up to death directly if they are piled up with people!

Words may not make sense, but the pain of the cane falling on the body is always real.After the Qianghu native soldiers in the rear were driven away, they rushed forward subconsciously. The people in the front were pushed by the rear. Although they still hesitated in their hearts, they could only wave their crude sticks in their hands to be brave and shouted. Raise your legs and run forward.

The first to greet them were the hundreds of horses driven here by Guo Yuanzhen and others.Although the Dian horse is tough, it is not good at short-distance charging. After running for several miles, it has little charge here.

But Guo Yuanzhen and the others didn't feel pity for these stolen horses, they drew their knives and slashed directly on the horse's buttocks. The horses were frightened by the pain, and naturally broke out a strong desire to survive. rushed forward.

So the Qiang and Hu soldiers who were also driven ran into the galloping horses head-on without any fancy.

Guo Yuanzhen and his party didn't take advantage of the situation and continue to rush forward. It wasn't because they didn't want to, but because the horses on their legs were disturbed by the noisy environment, so they just lingered.

After all, these horses are used in the mountains, and they are mostly used for transport. Even if the Fan army has elite and qualified war horses, they will never be placed on the periphery when the base camp is empty.

Although they couldn't take advantage of the situation and rush forward, Guo Yuanzhen and the others were not idle. They held bows and arrows in their hands and scattered them in all directions, like a celestial maiden scattering flowers, and the flying arrows kept falling towards the chaotic crowd.

These Qiang and Hu native soldiers were summoned temporarily, and it was naturally impossible for the Fan army to arm them in a decent manner. They each held bamboo sticks and wooden poles.As for the protection of the armor, there is no such thing at all. Those who were hit by the arrows all wailed and fell down, and no one was spared.

No matter how many such pawns there were, they would not be a threat at all. Soon, Guo Yuanzhen and the others were surrounded by no one, and no Hu pawns dared to get close to the shooting range.

At this time, the horses used by Guo Yuanzhen and the others were about to run out of strength, so they dismounted directly and drove them as before, slashing the horse's buttocks directly, letting the horses use their remaining strength to continue charging towards Daowu City.

After dismounting, Guo Yuanzhen and others acted more flexibly. A mere 50 people were divided into three groups, with 20 teams stretching out from each wing, and went straight to kill the chaotic Hu Zu crowd. The rest followed Guo Yuanzhen along the way. The horse galloped through the passageway.

Their armor is strong and their knives are sharp, and Hu Zu is no match for them. When they meet each other, they have almost no enemies.After the division of troops, the massacre line was stretched, and in a very short period of time, more than 100 unarmored Hu soldiers were killed on the spot.

Compared with the size of more than 100 Hu soldiers, the battle damage of a mere [-] people is really nothing.Experienced soldiers can ignore life and death and continue to surround and kill this small group of invading enemies.

But the problem is that these Hu Zu are not veterans with rich experience in the battlefield at all. Seeing their companions flying all over the place, and even being disembowelled, their hearts gushing out, each death is more ferocious than the other, and they are unavoidably frightened Bravery, almost all the Hu soldiers who approached the front line of the fight turned around and fled back.