Chastity Layman

It's been an eventful year.

The Supreme Emperor died, then the queen died, then the prince broke his leg, and then Qin Qiong also left.

Qin Lang rushed to Songzhou with Silang, Wulang and Liulang, and galloped all the way for thousands of miles. Just after Jiange, he met an urgent post horse on his way, and the governor of Jianzhou, warrior Yi, came to greet him.

"Tibetan invaders?"

The dusty Qin Lang was also very surprised after hearing what the Anlu county magistrate had finished speaking. The governor of Jianzhou, Wu Shiyi, is the second brother of the servant of the imperial court and the prince's family order, the warrior Xun. The three brothers of the Wu family broke up the family and supported Li Yuan's uprising soldiers. They also made many meritorious deeds. , he was given a coupon to avoid death, and he was granted the title of Duke Ying, etc., and his two elder brothers, Samurai Ling and Samurai Yi, were also granted the title of county duke and held important positions.

Although after the Xuanwumen Incident, the Wu family was suppressed because they were the confidantes of the Supreme Emperor, but because the samurai Xun and Qin Qiong arranged a child marriage with Qin Qiong on the spur of the moment, they were able to use the power of the Qin family to revive again. Although the Wu family is not as good as it was in the Wude Dynasty Favored, but now it's not bad.

The mausoleum of the eldest warrior is the Shaoqing of Sinong Temple, the county magistrate of Xuancheng, the second elder warrior Yi is the governor of Jianzhou and the magistrate of Anlu County, the third eldest warrior is Ying Guogong, the servant of the household department, and the prince's family order.

Tubo's entry into Kou Songzhou was actually not a whim, and traces can be found long ago. Qin Qiong sits in Songzhou, and has reported to the court several times that Tubo is ambitious and has evil intentions. Even in Murong Cheng's previous murder of his brother and rebellion against Tang, there were shadows of Tubo people behind him.

It's just that the imperial court didn't take Tubo too seriously. After all, the Tang Dynasty was thousands of miles away, surrounded by countless barbarians, and Tubo's threat to the Tang Dynasty could not be ranked first.

The Tang Dynasty has been keeping a close eye on the Turks, Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, etc. Since the destruction of the Eastern Turks, the surrender of the Western Turks, and the destruction of Tuyuhun, the important opponents of the imperial court are still Goguryeo, Xue Yantuo, etc. The threat of Tubo to the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court In the evaluation, it is not even as good as Dangxiang and the Qiangs in the western mountains and weak waters, and far inferior to the barbarians in the central and southern regions.

However, under Qin Qiong's letters again and again, the emperor still made some response arrangements. For example, on the west line of Jiannan, three border defense centers were established in Songzhou, Weizhou, and Xining, each with a governor's office and a town. The army further strengthened the control of the Dangxiang Qiang and the Xishan Qiang groups, building cities, building roads, stationing troops, emigrating, and so on.

A lot of things that should be done have been done, and the Qiangs have basically been rectified, and they are generally included in the control system of the Tang Dynasty.

And the imperial court's suppression of Tuyuhun's rebellion last year was even more fierce and beautiful. It wiped out Tuyuhun in one fell swoop and no longer kept it. It established four governors' mansions, stationed troops and garrisoned Qimin, and the actual control line moved forward thousands of miles again. .

These can be regarded as unexpected active defense effects on Tubo.

And it was the battle to eliminate Tuyuhun last year, coupled with the court's active defense strategy in Xichuan in the past two years, that made the emerging Xiboye royal family feel like they were in trouble. Expanding to the north of Qinghai, who knows that it has encountered a heavy setback.

Not only did the plot fail, but now Datang has expanded to their borders step by step.

Qin Qiong sits in Songzhou. Although he has been sick in recent years, he is very strong. He has never had a good face when facing Tubo. The conflict between the two sides around Supi and Domi intensified.

Qin Qiong has always refused to recognize Tubo's occupation and rule over Subi, and asked Tubo to withdraw from Subi so that Subi could be restored to the country. He also sternly warned that Tubo should not continue to enter the territory of Domi Kingdom in the north.

But Tubo called Domi Nanmo, claiming that Nanmo belonged to Tubo, and the boundary between Tang and Tubo should be Mt. Manmoli, which is also called Zishan in Tang Dynasty.

The Governor's Mansion of Songzhou refused to admit it, and sent a patrol to Bailanqiang, and set up a stone fort at Zishan Pass, and sent patrols to go out of the pass to patrol the territory of Domi on a regular basis. In fact, the Yak River was the boundary. It is the original boundary between Domi and Supi.

There were frequent conflicts between the patrol cavalry of Songzhou Ningyuan Army and Tubo Su Piru's soldiers and horses.

After the Battle of Pingtu and Yuhun, the Songzhou Ningyuan Army began to build a new fort by the Yak River (Yushu), called the Yak City, and built two post stations, Zhonglong Station and Tongtian Station, not far away.

The Ningyuan Army increased its garrison and recruited Domi Qiang, Bailan Qiang, Dangxiang Qiang and other Qiang tribes to be close to the city, all of which made it difficult for the Tubo people to sleep and eat.

In the end, it was a prince Supi who caused the war. Years later, a prince Supi fled from Tubo, and Tubo sent troops to chase him down.

The prince successfully crossed the Yak River through all kinds of dangers and entered the patrol area of ​​the Ningyuan Army. The Tubo Army pursued him across the river and finally encountered the Ningyuan Army.

The Ningyuan army ordered the Tubo pursuers to retreat across the Yak River and not to cross the border, but the Tubo people were not willing.

The two sides had been constantly at odds on the border, and the patrol cavalry captain of the Ningyuan Army was also very violent, so let's do it.

The Ningyuan Army patrolled only fifty cavalry, with one hundred and fifty Tibetan cavalry, which was actually a formation of a cavalry regiment, while the Tubo chasing soldiers were a Dongdai, that is, a thousand households and a thousand cavalry.

The two sides started a cavalry battle by the Yak River. You came and went. In the end, Ningyuan's army insisted on killing 5 people and wounding more than 30 people. At the cost of killing 73 people in Tubo and capturing 317 people, Tubo fled in embarrassment. After crossing the Yak River, it is said that many people drowned in panic.

Ningyuan Xunqi cut off the heads of the Tubo people who crossed the border, and brought back the captives and the man who claimed to be Prince Supi back to Yak Castle.

After some interrogation, it was confirmed that this was indeed Prince Supi.

Supi used to be a big country. In the Sui Dynasty, it was called the country of women. It was a country ruled by a queen. It was a matrilineal clan regime where women ruled. .

Many years ago, there was a civil strife in Subi, and the big and small queens were at odds. In the end, the little queen invited Tubo to send troops. After the Tubo led the troops to attack the big queen, they refused to leave. In the end, they had conflicts with the little queen, so they simply sent the little queen as well. It was destroyed, so Su Pi perished, and Tubo directly annexed Su Pi and changed its name to Sun Bo.

Under the reform of Zanpu Songtsen Gampo today, Subi even became the fifth Ru of Tubo, and became an important part of the Five Ru Sixty-one Dongdai system.

Subi has hundreds of thousands of household registrations, a large area and a large population, especially the livestock and salt industries. It can be said that Tubo expanded rapidly after annexing Subi.

After Su Pi was annexed by Songtsan Gampo and his father, the treatment of the old nobles was not bad. Old Zanpu treated the nobles of Su Pi very well, and even granted high-ranking officials to those who enfeoffed land and slaves, and even surpassed Tubo for a time. Later, the old nobles rebelled and poisoned the old Zanpu, causing chaos in Tubo.

Some nobles in Subi also took advantage of the chaos to stand on their own, but no one expected that the young Songtsan Gampo would soon put down the rebellion with the help of his uncle and other veterans, and became stronger. Soon Supi was brought under the rule of Tubo again.

However, Songtsan Gampo showed no mercy to those Subi nobles who had rebelled, and launched a large-scale purge ruthlessly.

Many Subi nobles lost their territories, slaves, property, etc., and most of those who survived were forced to move to Luoxie City, the new capital of Tubo.

Where there is oppression, of course there is resistance.

A Supi prince finally managed to escape from Luoxie.

Of course, Tubo couldn't allow it, so they sent people to chase after him.

Supi is extremely important and indispensable to Tubo. Supi is rich in products, not developed through livestock, rich in salt, but also produces gold, cinnabar, musk, etc. Its trade reaches Tang in the east, Tuyuhun in the north, and Tuyuhun in the west. The countries of the Western Regions reached Tubo and Tianzhu in the south, and their trade was also very developed.

For Tubo, there is no reason to give up the fat piece of Su Pi. Once Prince Su Pi escapes to Tang, it is very likely to become an excuse for the Tang people to interfere with Su Pi in the future. After all, Qin Qiong has never promised Tubo to Su Pi. Rule, always said Su Pi is a subsidiary of the Central Plains.

After the failure of the chasing team, Tubo reacted quickly and immediately mobilized more soldiers and horses to cross the Yak River, vowing to take back Prince Supi. Because of the loss he suffered in the Yak River, Tubo became angry and issued an order at all costs.

Soon the Tubo army came aggressively. The soldiers of Songzhou Ningyuan Army stationed in Yak Fort sent people to escort Prince Subi to Songzhou, and at the same time called the nearby Domi, Bailan and other Qiang tribes to defend the fort.

Thus began a war.

"How is the battle going?"

Qin Lang felt that Zanpu from Tubo should be a very difficult person according to the legend. He raised troops to quell the rebellion in his teens, and then went through a series of in-depth reforms. He could be said to be the true founder of the Tubo Empire in history. Such a person , there is no reason to be so impulsive.

But if you look at it from another angle, it seems that you can understand his thoughts.

Although Tubo has dominated the plateau in recent years, it is still a remote and small country after all, and now it has a strong army. Datang may not have any thoughts about Tubo, but it is normal for Tubo to have such a powerful neighbor as Datang.

Tubo dared to go to war with Datang. It was nothing more than to show that they would never give up on Su Pi's heart. Secondly, they probably felt that on the plateau, Tubo could have some advantages such as the right time and place. Although Datang was strong, it did not. Fa ran to the plateau to compete with them.

This is an adventure, but it is also a temptation of Tubo.

"Tubo came here all over the country, claiming to have 300,000 people. The king sent an envoy to Songzhou to write a letter, saying that the prince will not return, and I will go deep until the city of Songzhou."

This is very arrogant.

In fact, Tubo had a lot of contacts with Datang. In these years, almost every year, there were envoys.

Tubo asked Datang to marry him more than once, but Datang didn't agree, who is Tubo worthy?

"You mean that Tubo invaded the country, and the soldiers pointed directly at Songzhou?" Qin Lang frowned.

"Yes."

"Where is the Tubo army now?"

"It is said that he has defeated Duomi and Bailan in a row, and he will lose Dangxiang again when he reaches Hequ."

"Have Yak Fort, Zishan Fort, Tongtian Station, Zhonglong Station, etc. all fallen?"

"The news is cut off, so I don't know the situation." The governor of Jianzhou, the warrior Yi, told Qin Lang that Tubo was aggressively invading, but at this time Qin Qiong died of illness, and there was no leader for a while. The state has also received a transfer order from the Governor's Office of Yizhou to call up troops to prepare for reinforcements in Songzhou.