Chapter 479 Plateau Flame Smoke

After the Yellow River emerges from the source of the river, it travels a hundred miles eastward and flows into a large lake. The water of this plateau is the sea of ​​cypresses. The sea of ​​cypresses is composed of two lakes, shaped like gourds, and the water is extremely clear and dark green. When the sky is sunny, the clouds in the sky and the surrounding mountains are reflected in the water, which are clearly visible. They are like two pure and flawless sapphires, embedded on the vast plateau at the source of the Yellow River.

The Tubo people also lived by water. Wherever there were lakes and rivers, the grasslands would be lush and the land would be fertile. Therefore, Baihai also once became the logistics base of the Tubo army.

In the battle in August of the 11th year of Tianbao, Geshuhan was unable to attack the Tubo army in Baihai for a long time and was defeated by the Tubo reinforcements. He suffered heavy losses, but the Tubo army was also seriously injured. They eventually gave up Baihai and retreated to the hinterland. Baihai was placed by the Tang army and settled here with tens of thousands of Tuyuhun people, and also stationed a plateau sentry of 500 people.

Time gradually passed, and when the Tuyuhun people gave birth to children here, grazed and fed water, and had adapted to Bai Hai's life, a military disaster that would change their lives was quietly coming.

It was August of another year, and tens of thousands of Tubo troops crossed Zishan. Zishan is today's Bayankala Mountains. It was named after the sun shining on the snow peaks and showed a magnificent purple color. The mountains are so high that they are covered with snow all year round.

Compared with the Han army, the Tubo army had absolute advantage in plateau combat. They could adapt to long-term long journeys and often marched thousands of miles on the plateau to attack a distant target.

This time, the Tubo army was divided into two expeditionary forces, east and west. The eastern army attacked Longyou, while the western army attacked Anxi. According to the Tubo people's strategy, if they wanted to attack Longyou first, the Anxi army would inevitably come to support Longyou, so that the military strength would be empty in the hinterland of Anxi, and then their main force would attack Anxi again. At the same time, the Uighurs also attacked Beiting from the north. The two armies cooperated to completely drive the Tang people out of Anxi.

It should be said that this is the truth of history. After the Anxi Rebellion broke out, the Tubo army took advantage of the emptiness of Longyou Hexi, occupied Helong, plundered the resources of the Tang Dynasty to strengthen the strength of Tubo, and at the same time cut off the Tang army's support to Anxi, making Anxi an enclave and eventually annexed by Tubo. The time was coincidental, at this time.

In history, Dazhalugong, Shangxi Dongzan monk Shang Jiasu led his army to invade 100,000 and eventually captured Chang'an. After plundering Chang'an, there was no clear record of how many young and strong Tang women were plundered by Tubo people. However, judging from the importance of the plunder of population in the Tubo people, Chang'an, a metropolis with a population of one million, should have suffered great destruction.

After Li Qing'an, a strange man, changed the history of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an might not be captured by the Tubo people again, but Tubo still sent troops according to the historical trajectory. It was still these three people, Dazha Lugong, Shang Xi Dongzan monk Jiasu. The difference is that Dazha Lugong attacked Longyou, while Shang Xi Dongzan monk Jiasu mainly attacked Anxi.

Under the sunlight, 50,000 Tubo troops appeared upstream of the Baihai. They set out from Luoshe and marched northward, passed Namcuo Lake, arrived at the Wild Horse Post, and continued northward through the Tanggula Pass, and then arrived at the Sinuoluo Post Station. After a little rest here, they continued northward. Soon they arrived at the Yak River, the source of the Yangtze River, which is now the Tuotuo River. They advanced east along the Yak River and arrived at Zhonglong Post. At a slightly lower terrain, they crossed Zishan and arrived at the south of the Baihai. They would attack Baihai from here.

The main general Dazhalugong is about fifty years old this year and has been fighting against the Tang Dynasty for many years. He even gave himself a Chinese name Ma Chongying. During his decades of military career, he has experienced countless battles against the Tang Dynasty. Huangfu Weiming, Wang Zhongsi, Geshuhan, and Li Qing'an today have more victory or loss. However, the most profound battle in his impression was the Battle of Shibao City at the end of the sixth year of Tianbao. Li Qing'an intercepted nearly 100,000 reinforcements from the Tubo army with three thousand weak brigades. The Tubo army suffered heavy losses, and even Zanpu died in that battle.

That battle made Dazhalugong unforgettable. Today he fought against Longyou again and would revenge the failures and shames he encountered with a hundred times killing.

"Governor, look at it!"

A Tubo soldier pointed in front of him and saw a stone fort built on a high slope several miles away. This was different from the Xingsu Fort they built in Xingsuchuan. The terrain was low. It should be said that it was not a castle, but a Tang army's checkpoint, and it was also their beacon tower.

While they discovered the outpost, the Tang army seemed to have discovered them. Three thick smoke rose from the fort and reported to the distance. This was the alarm of the attack of the enemy troops.

Dazalukong was furious and immediately ordered: "The First Army entered and destroyed this fortress!"

Ten thousand cavalry of the Tubo army were dispatched, like a black avalanche on a snowy mountain, sweeping towards the lonely Tang army outpost.

This Tang army outpost is called Xiyue Fort, which is more than twenty miles away from Baihai. It is named after the Xiyue River that crosses Zishan. There are 60 soldiers stationed, most of whom are Tang soldiers from Tuyuhun.

Since the Han soldiers were not suitable for plateau combat and were not suitable for long-term living on the plateau, Geshuhan recruited nearly 20,000 Tang troops among the Tuyuhun people and Qianghu, and mixed a small number of Han soldiers in, and ordered them to station in the plateau castles and fortresses. Geshuhan went east to Chang'an and took away 50,000 Han troops, and threw the Tuyuhun Tang army on the plateau.

Due to the difficult journey and the information is blocked, most of the Tuyuhun people and Qianghu on the plateau do not know that Geshuhan had left Longyou. These troops lived a half-herd and half-army life, just like herdsmen.

The Zishan Pass has been calm for three years, but unexpectedly, three years later, the Tubo army suddenly came. When dozens of Tang troops in the fort saw the Tubo army coming in a huge situation, they lit the war and rushed out of the stone fort and ran towards the sheep and horse pen hundreds of steps away. At this time, the Tubo army had already been covered in the sky and killed. Xiyue Fort was instantly swallowed up by a group of wild cavalry. More than 40 Tang troops rushed out of the stone fort and died tragically under the battle sword of the Tubo army. Only a dozen people escaped.

When Dazhalu Gong saw that the Tang army had escaped, he was extremely angry and waved his sword and shouted: "Tell me my order, the army will wash the cypress sea with blood, and use the Tubo army's battle sword to dye the cypress sea red!"

The order for the massacre was issued, and the Tubo army shouted loudly, waved their swords and spears, and ran away to the Baihai twenty miles away.

The main pastoral areas of Baihai are concentrated in the south. In this place, more than 20,000 Tuyuhun herders migrated from Jishishan. They had become subjects of Tubo during the Tubo rule. After the Tang army captured Jishishan and Baihai, they promised the Tuyuhun people to re-establish the country. Under the temptation of re-establishing the country, some Tuyuhun tribes betrayed Tubo, one after another, went south to seize the most fertile land in Tubo, the once fertile land in Baihai.

But today, the beacon tower twenty miles away suddenly roared. The Tuyuhun herders were frightened and panicked, shouting for their wives and children. The tent was in chaos inside and outside. They no longer cared about raising the crowd and property, and pushed their families up to their horses and fled north. At this time, more than a dozen Tang troops fled from the south. Hundreds of steps behind them, black clouds rolled and murderous intent was overwhelming, about a few miles wide, like a black wave rushing towards them.

The Tubo people showed their strong combat power on the plateau. They ran wildly on the plateau with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, just like a pack of wild wolves. They arrived at the edge of Baihai Lake in just a quarter of an hour. From afar, they had seen the tents and the women, children and the elderly who were about to escape. They shouted wildly, with white teeth on their dark faces, and they waved their swords and came to the camp of the Tuyuhun people.

Dazhalugong waved his sword and roared: "Drive away all the kills!"

The cavalry was like a storm and storm, rolling up the tent. No matter men, women, young and old, they were slashed off their heads by the Tubo cavalry with a sword. They crossed the lakeside of the corpse. The weak child was lying through the chest by the Tubo cavalry with a spear and lying high towards the sky.

Fifty thousand Tubo cavalry kept fighting, and after killing one tribe, they rushed to another tribe. They wanted to use killing to punish these betrayers who invaded their land.

Bai Hai's massacre lasted for five days, from the south to the north. Except for more than thousands of herders grazing in the north, the remaining 15,000 Tuyuhun people and hundreds of Tang soldiers died tragically under the iron hooves of the Tubo army.

Dazha Lugong was not satisfied with re-occupying Baihai. He divided his troops into two groups, killing Dafeichuan and the other group, and led him personally to advance towards Wuhai and the Yellow River Jiuqu.

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The Longyou Jiedu Mansion is located in Huangshui County, Shanzhou, which is Ledu County, Qinghai. This is the place where the Lintao Army is stationed. However, the county with the most important strategic position in Longyou is not Huangshui County, but Shancheng County about a hundred miles west of Huangshui County, which is today Xining, Qinghai.

At present, the main forces of the 60,000 Tang army from the Anxi Army have arrived in Longyou. In addition, the 20,000 Tuyuhun Tang army recruited by Geshuhan and the 40,000 Guanzhong army led by Wang Sili. In this way, the number of Tang army in Longyou has reached 120,000.

However, the Tuyuhun Army was weak, and the Guanzhong Army could not adapt to plateau combat, so the main force of the Longyou Army was still a 60,000 army that came from Anxi. The 60,000 Tang troops were led by the Tochari Governor Li Guangbi, of which 15,000 were led by general Li Sheng to the Jiuqu area, while the remaining 45,000 were stationed in the Dafeichuan and Hehuang areas.

On the way back to Anxi, Li Qing'an made a short stop in Shancheng County, Longyou. As soon as he arrived in Longyou, he received an urgent report of beacon from the direction of Baihai.

In the temporary army in Shancheng County, Li Qing'an stood in front of a huge map and pondered without saying a word. This map was the Tubo mountains and rivers stolen by An Baoyu from the Tubo envoy. He drew red circles in four places: Baihai, the Yellow River Nine Curves, Dafeichuan and Shibao City. These four places are strategic important places that the Tubo army must fight for. Baihai is probably lost, so the next target of the Tubo army is most likely to be the Yellow River Nine Curves.
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