Army within the army.
Chen Li and others wore helmets and armor and sat cross-legged on the ground. Their postures were upright and their eyes were not squinting. Unexpectedly, a murderous aura condensed in the tent.
Ashina Danai was sitting at the top with a stern gaze. When he saw that everyone had arrived, he opened his mouth and said, "The army has been resting for ten days. All the units are still in good condition. It is all thanks to your efforts."
Having said this, he looked around at everyone, then ordered the guards to take out the map sent by the Supi people, place it on the ground, and beckoned others to come over and take a look.
There is no need to expect maps drawn by the Supi people. There is no papermaking technology here. There is only a rough parchment scroll with some simple drawings of mountains and rivers.
The names of some large tribes are sparsely dotted on it. There are only a few cities, but there are quite a few temples.
In fact, a temple roughly represents a small town, which is always the most densely populated place in Shannan.
"This is Luoche City, the former royal capital of Tubo. According to reports from the Subi people, after the King of Tubo was poisoned to death, Tubo fell into civil strife, and his son led his people to retreat to the Yalong Valley.
Now he has led his troops to kill him and succeeded him as the new king, with the intention of reunifying Tubo."
Ashina Danai slid his finger southward again and clicked: "This is the Yalong River. I heard it is a big river. The river is very fast. The Tubo people don't know how to build bridges. They always swim across the river. That's what they say.
It’s not too wide to come...
There was a battle between the Supi and the Yalong people by the river. The Supi people were defeated, and the Yalong people crossed the river and reoccupied the city of Luoxue."
Chen Li interrupted and clicked twice on the map, "The Yalong River looks like the Yangtze River to the south of us, and here is the Yellow River. The Supi people are in the north, the Yalong people are in the south, and there is another river in the west.
Xiangxiong hiding.
Take a look, does this look like the Three Kingdoms at the end of Han Dynasty?"
Ashina Tong'er stretched his neck and looked at Chen Li with a confused look on his face. He, a Turk, knew what the Three Kingdoms was not like.
Ashina Danai also wanted to give this guy a kick. He had heard the story of the Three Kingdoms, but as an authentic Turk, how could he know so much about the history of the Central Plains?
Wu Tong was also illiterate and didn't know where the Wei, Shu and Wu capitals occupied. However, he made good friends with Chen Li, and everyone nodded in approval, but it was absolutely impossible for him to speak.
Cheng Dabeard was smiling "sillyly". He felt that Chen Li and Ashina Danai were a bit difficult to deal with. Thinking about it, they were both relatives.
One is a descendant and the other is a brother of a noble concubine. It is normal to have a secret rivalry. I just hope that they will not cause trouble and implicate Cheng Zhijie.
On the contrary, Hou Junji agreed: "What General Chen said makes sense, but here it was Sun Quan who crossed the river and destroyed Cao Wei. What's inappropriate is that, according to General Chen, wouldn't we become the Huns?"
Chen Li and Hou Junji looked at each other and laughed.
The others looked at them angrily, which meant that everyone was a person of some status, otherwise they would definitely have to punch these two guys who were showing off their knowledge.
Ashina Danai snorted heavily and suppressed the situation.
Chen Li didn't have any disagreements with him. They marched all the way and everyone cooperated quite well. They would joke and chat a little to lighten the atmosphere, but it didn't make him, the coach, feel offended.
He brought the topic back again, "This place is called the Nagqu River by the Subi people, and Subimuluo led his troops to retreat to the north bank of the Nagqu River.
We have never seen this place. According to Hou Sima, it is equivalent to the gateway to Supi. There are two mountains in the northwest. I heard that they are the sacred mountains of Tubo. I don’t know if they were made by father and son or someone else. There is another mountain in the south.
The Great Lake is the incarnation of wife and mother."
No one was interested in these myths and legends, and they all felt very uncomfortable looking at the two mountains winding there.
Because this meant that the Tang army had to bypass the mountains and walk a long way to enter the hinterland of the south of the mountains.
With these two mountains, plus the Snowy Mountains in the north, it is no wonder that the Tubo people call the place where they live Shannan.
There are mountains and big rivers, which may cause unimaginable trouble to the army.
Except for Ashina Tong'e, everyone here can be said to have experienced hundreds of battles. Listening to Ashina Tong'e's description of the terrain, there was no intention to joke anymore.
During the discussion, everyone felt that they should wait a little longer. The Yalong people occupied Luoxue City, but there was no news of marching northward. Instead, Subimuluo sent someone back, saying that the Yalong people wanted to make peace with Subi Mara.
The terms of the negotiation must have sounded like nonsense to the generals of the Tang Army.
The new king of Tubo abandoned Zong Nongzan and wanted to marry Subimuluo and let the Subim people return to Tubo rule.
Two queens, if you marry one, what will happen to the other? From the thinking of the Central Plains people, this kind of evil intention is too obvious. Even if the negotiation fails, they still want to cause civil strife among the Supi people.
With the Tang army coming for reinforcements, all the Yalong people's calculations were meaningless.
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"I heard from the little queen of Supi that the Xiangxiong people have joined forces with the Yalong people. If we don't come, the Supi people have little chance of winning.
I heard that they looked like this when their country was subjugated. They were pushed to the ground by the Yalong people and the Xiangxiong people..."
After hearing this, Chen Li muttered to himself that the alliance between Wu and Shu was the essence of the Three Kingdoms, but now he would no longer joke about it, "The Xiangxiong people restored their country before, and now they are following the Yalong people.
Seeing that Yalong's people are just powerful.
I feel that they may not be sincere, I am afraid that if the Yalong people lose even a little bit, the Xiangxiong people will scurry away, and maybe even stab them in the back..."
Cheng Zhijie found an opportunity and said: "The Supi people have never paid attention to the Xiangxiong people. I guess it's the same reason. I heard what they said, and they all said that the Xiangxiong people are treacherous and only trade with them.
buddhist temple.
Then when we engage in battle, we can attack the Xiangxiong people, and maybe we can frustrate the Yalong people's army and decide the outcome in one battle."
Everyone nodded. This was at the tactical level, and it was a feasible strategy.
Hou Junji was unwilling to accept the crowd and immediately said: "The Tang army has come all the way, and it is so inconvenient to transmit news from Tubo. I thought that the Yalong and Xiangxiong people did not know about our arrival at this time.
You can use this to make some articles, for example...the Yalong people must cross the Nagqu River to attack, and the army can wait for the opportunity to attack them halfway across the river.
Moreover, they had crossed the Yalong River by force before and defeated the Supi people. If they fought again, they would definitely underestimate the enemy. It should be very easy to lure them across the river. It would be better to place the decisive battle place on the bank of the Nagqu River. The generals thought
how?"
Ashina Danai looked at everyone's expressions and smiled, trying to look confident, but his face was really weak and he looked a bit uglier.
"If this battle is fought like this, wouldn't it be tasteless?"
This chapter has been completed!