The caravan of the Tang Dynasty arrived at the Yalong Valley, the royal city of the Six Yak Tribes, and Pibo City last winter.
The Yalong people are mercantile, which is basically the same as nomadic peoples like the Turks. The main reason is that their own output is not enough, so they need merchants to make up for the shortcomings.
The caravans from the Tang Dynasty did not bring many goods. Even if they were a little rare, they were nothing to the plateau tribes.
But if there is a powerful empire behind the merchant, that is another story.
The name Datang is no longer unfamiliar to the Tibetan people.
News of Zilebu's defeat had long since spread back to Shannan. It was rumored that the Sui Dynasty had been replaced by the Tang Dynasty, and it had shown its strength on the battlefield.
There was no shortage of voices in the ears of the nobles to seek revenge against their enemies, but when Tubo was in civil strife, no one mentioned it anymore. The merchants of the Tang Dynasty were even cordially received by Qizong Nongzan after they came to Pibo City.
The "merchants" were troubled when they saw the great achievement so close at hand. In the end, they decided to offer the cold food they carried instead of trying to make a desperate blow. After all, they were not dead soldiers, but spies.
They brought a lot of cold food powder, which was secretly prepared by the imperial doctor with a complete set of techniques and extremely effective. It was enough for the King of Tubo to eat for a year and a half without any problem.
Soon this thing was regarded as a miracle medicine by the Tubo people. Apparently their body structure was no different from that of celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
More than a year later, the young Tubo Zanpu couldn't bear to part with the cold food, but there was not much left, so Zan Zong Nong Zan cherished it very much and did not dare to eat more.
Now he just wants to trade with the distant Tang Kingdom as soon as possible. There are many good things in that powerful country, such as Hanshi Powder, which allows him to see the gods.
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Qi Zong Nongzan's spirit became obviously excited. What he didn't know was that the toxins had slowly eroded his flesh, blood and bones, affecting his nerves.
In recent months, due to the increasing dosage, a fishy odor has gradually emitted from his body, and the fragile parts of his body have also shown mottled marks. He is often numb and itchy. The next step is likely to be
fester.
This situation was very common among the Central Plains aristocrats during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, so celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties would use strong incense to cover up body odor. Once there were festering stains on the head and face, people would become crazy.
The reputation of famous celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties is largely due to the medicinal effect of Hanshi Powder.
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Qizong Nongzan knew nothing about this. He felt that every time he took Hanshi Powder, he would see the gods waving to him. Maybe it was really magical.
At this time, Qizong Nongzan felt that he was full of energy, and the flame of ambition was burning in his chest. He looked back at the warriors spread out like clouds on the wasteland, and waved his arms vigorously, with a fanatical and ferocious look on his face.
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The warriors of the Yalong tribe raised their jagged weapons like waves and howled loudly. As the whimpering horn sounded, it meant that the war had begun.
The Yalong knights of the brigade put the clothes they took off on their horses, and under the leadership of the leaders, they urged their mounts to rush into the cold river without hesitation.
The Yalong tribe's counterattack was resolute and sudden. They crossed the Yalong River not far east of Sangye Temple and immediately rushed towards Sangye Temple.
There are only more than a thousand Supi people stationed here. The role of their station at Sangye Temple, as Subimaru expected, is to serve as the vanguard of the Supi army going south, and secondly to defend against the Yalong tribes.
Suddenly crossed the river to counterattack.
Therefore, they noticed the movements of Yalong's army first.
The general who led the army responded immediately. The Yalong tribe's army was too numerous and they were no match. So more than a thousand people immediately evacuated Sanye Temple and retreated to the north.
In the internal strife of the Tubo people, no one thought too much about strategic and tactical issues. Even the smartest Tubo generals were full of interest in head-on fighting.
If there are few enemies, try your best to pounce on them and kill them. If there are too many enemies, then run away and call more people to fight the enemies. A slightly more flexible way is to try to bully them when there are few enemies.
This is what they did when they attacked the Tuyuhun tribes. The combat effectiveness of the Tuyuhun tribes was not as good as that of the Tubo people, and there were often conflicts among the coalition forces.
This allowed the Tubo people to find a lot of fighter opportunities, and beat the Tuyuhun people into panic.
Internal strife among the Tubo people generally looks like this. There are no ambushes or sieges for reinforcements, and they have no food routes to cut off.
As soon as they rush forward, the victors will take advantage of the victory to pursue it, while the losers will flee all over the mountains and plains. It is primitive and brutal, and there is no strategic or tactical thinking to follow.
What everyone competes for is whose soldiers are braver and more numerous, as well as how disciplined the battlefield is.
The reason why the Yalong Tribe was able to establish the Tubo Kingdom was because they had advantages in all aspects. Langri Lunzan and the kings of the Six Yak Tribes in the past dynasties carried out a series of military and political reforms for the Yalong Tribes.
They transformed from the most primitive tribe in Shannan into the most advanced force, and finally conquered the unyielding Xiangxiong and Supi.
This is actually the history of Tubo...
Now the new king led the warriors of the Yalong tribe to once again set foot on the land on the north bank of the Yalong River. After three or four years of silence, they launched a rather violent counterattack against the rebels.
This was not a mindless attack. For this war, the young abandoned Zong Nongzan and his ministers had been preparing all winter.
The reason why he finally abandoned his sect and persuaded the ministers to agree to his march north was actually because King Xiangxiong, Kageng Zeniexu, agreed to marry his daughter to him.
In exchange, Qi Zong Nongzan recognized Kagenze Nexu's rule over the tribes of Big and Little Yangtong. Once he defeated Supi, Xiangxiong would become a vassal of Tubo.
The monks in Xiangxiong Temple played a big role in this, because they did not like war, and the new king of Yalong tribe also visited their temple...
In fact, the judgment of Abandoning Zong and Nongzan is correct. The rebel nobles are only a small part. Many people do not resist the rule of Tubo and even welcome it. This situation is more common among ordinary herdsmen because they are in Tubo.
benefited from his rule.
That is to say, the Tubo people don’t know the saying: He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. Otherwise, the understanding would be clearer and more accurate.
Therefore, for the Yalong tribes, the only danger now is that the little queen of the Supi people has a high prestige among the Supi people, and the Supi people are quite good at fighting. The Supi people also got the nomadic tribes from the Duomi area.
, and the support of some mountain tribes in the east, it is difficult to completely defeat them on the battlefield.
Moreover, the Xiangxiong people's verbal promises are not that trustworthy. Once the Yalong people's army fails on the battlefield, or is even at a disadvantage, there is no need to expect the Xiangxiong people to fulfill their promises.
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No matter how much the Yalong people want to restore Tubo's rule, in fact, they cannot change the fact that the north bank of the Yalong River used to be the territory of the Supi people.
The Jiruojiang'en area where Luoxue City is located was the place where the Ji tribe thrived long ago. Their leader took Ji as his surname and was governed by the Subi people.
The person who occupies Luoxue City now is the Tibetan minister Xiewu Makun, who is a descendant of the Xiewu clan, a retainer of the Ji clan.
Yalong's army crossed the river and headed north, first occupying the Sanye Temple at the foot of the Yalong River, and then quickly moved north through Migu to the Jiqu River. This large river, which means good luck in the Tubo language, is one of the most important rivers in the southern region of Tubo Mountain.
It has brought great vitality to this land, gave birth to many ancient tribes, and also witnessed the history of various tribes in Tubo.
Although the Yalong people moved quickly, the Supi people, who were always on guard against them, quickly gathered at the critical moment and formed an army of more than 5,000 people in Chuza, standing ready on the north bank of the Jiqu River.
This was a fateful battle for both warring parties, so they acted very cautiously.
On the south bank of the Jiqu River, Yalong's armies did not cross the river easily, but stopped here. Neither side knew the tactics of attacking halfway across the river, but they still understood the simple truth. The river lay in front of them, so they had to cross the river.
Attacking the opponent is very disadvantageous.
However, the Yalong people have planned for a long time and will not be stumped by this difficulty.
Qizong Nongzan personally led more than 6,000 people to confront Su Pi's army by the river, but ordered his trusted generals to lead 2,000 people to the lower reaches of the Jiqu River.
We crossed the Jiqu River at a place where the current was the most turbulent and where the Subi people were least concerned.
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At the end of April in the sixth year of Yuanzhen of the Tang Dynasty, two thousand Yalong cavalry who crossed the Jiqu River launched a fierce attack on the Supi army.
A wise general from the Central Plains would not have done this. Two thousand troops were not enough to defeat the Supi people in a short period of time. If they attacked the rear route of the Supi army, which was Chuza City, they would definitely be the biggest enemy.
To a great extent, it causes the enemy to panic.
But the Tubo people were like this. It was good enough to think of dividing their troops to cross the river, but they were unable to deploy more targeted strategies and tactics.
A war involving more than 10,000 people between the enemy and ourselves began at the Jiqu River, but it was a war that determined the ownership of the hinterland of Shannan, and even whether there would be a name for Tubo in the future.
The Yalong and Supi people each sent thousands of troops and fought an "unparalleled war" here.
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At that time, on the north bank of the Jiqu River, less than a hundred miles east of Luoxe City, horns sounded one after another, and the sounds of killing broke out.
The wasteland warriors with oil paint on their faces, dark skin, strong bodies, and savage natures galloped forward on short plateau horses.
Stones of all sizes flew up into the air like raindrops and fell in the opponent's formation. The knights who were galloping were smashed to the head and bleeding, and they all screamed and fell off their horses.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves covered up all this, and the shaking river water rippled. Under the cover of the dust, the tribal warriors who stood side by side a few years ago waved their crude weapons and greeted each other fiercely.
passed.
This chapter has been completed!