Yang Xiu came and left, and Xicheng Xiushu appeared and disappeared. On the surface, for this war, they were like two stones thrown into the lake. When the ripples calmed down, everything returned to normal and left no trace. But just like the undercurrents surging at the bottom of the water, the change still existed and was still surging. Yang Zhao had no way of knowing what Yang Xiu did after he returned, what happened to Tang Shisan and other Tang sect masters. The only thing he knew was that the war was not only not over yet, but on the contrary, it was just beginning.

Originally, I thought that Yang Xiu's 70,000 Shu troops were restraining the Sui army near Jianmen Pass, and this march could lead to the attack without any obstacles. However, before he really entered the territory of the Great Sui country, he was accidentally intercepted in Jiuzhaigou and lost the three dragon, tiger and lion masters, which was not good at going out. However, after sending scouts to investigate the enemy who blocked the road, Nan Risongzan naturally could not give up the plan that he had prepared for a long time because of these 300 people. In his imagination, he believed that as long as he sent three thousand vanguards and used ten times the force to pounce with the top of Mount Tai, he could easily smash the blocking stone in front of him into pieces.

However, he did not expect that the three hundred sharp soldiers led by Yang Zhao were not easily eliminated as expected, but instead turned around and wiped out the three thousand Tubo troops, and even killed the three monks of the cymbal claw mallet. After learning about this, Nan Risongzan was naturally shocked and angry. He couldn't help but slapped the table and asked someone to find Yang Xiu, wanting to ask him why the situation was different from the agreed situation. However, he did not expect that not only Yang Xiu had disappeared, but even Tang Shisan and his many Tang sect masters were gone, leaving only a small official like sesame and green beans, as well as dozens of insignificant people such as personal soldiers and maids. Seeing this scene, Nan Risongzan couldn't help but be stunned and couldn't speak for a long time.

To be able to take the position of Zanpu in Tubo, where the aristocratic forces were mixed and the kingly power was weak, and to forcefully suppress the voices of all opponents and monopolize the power, Nan Risongzan is a natural hero. Such heroes have too short-lived personalities (Note: There are no typos here...), and they are extremely determined. They either do not make decisions, and once they make decisions, they will stand firm and carry things to the end. Without major changes in the world, they will never change their minds easily.

Joining forces with Yang Xiu to invade the Great Sui Dynasty was a decision made by Nan Ri Songzan after several considerations and balanced all aspects of the pros and cons. The wide range of the involvement was indeed extraordinary. If the invasion was successful, then we would not talk about the population, craftsmen, treasures and other benefits that could be plundered from the Han area, nor did we talk about the Gan, Liang, Yongzhou and other territories that Yang Xiu promised to be celebrating to Tubo after it was completed. Just Nan Ri Songzan's own reputation in Tubo would be elevated to a height that Zanpu had never dreamed of reaching in previous dynasties. With this huge reputation, he could let go of his hands and feet to deal with the old nobles who refused to submit to the royal power, so that the Tubo country could truly establish a unified system that puts the royal power first.

On the contrary, if he rashly retreats without getting any benefits, his strength will be damaged, and even the great nobles in Tubo will be ready to move. At that time, if an inappropriate response is possible, a domestic coup may be triggered at any time. Even if Songzan of Nan Ri can calm it down, it means that all his efforts since he ascended the throne will be wasted and must start from scratch. As for his ideal of revitalizing Tubo, he will never be able to realize it in this life.

Therefore, even in that moment, the Tubo Zanpu couldn't help but have the idea of ​​"Are I being fooled by the cunning Han people?", but the scene in front of him was really hard to get on the verge of being a tiger. Anyway, he had already broken up with the incredibly powerful country of the Great Sui Dynasty and turned against each other. Continue to rush forward, and there is a possibility of turning the world around. Retreat will at the same time induce external troubles and internal troubles, and finally fall to the point of having nothing. So how should you choose? Even a fool understands it.

Since he made the decision, Nan Risongzan made up his mind and decided to take a gamble. He first sent scouts to explore the road to see if he could go around the camp formed by the Sui army and attacked forward and backward. However, Yang Zhao had already been on guard against the Tubo people, and took the lead in catching all the roads that were accessible to the surrounding areas. Regardless of the big roads and small roads, they used Yin and Yang to "sky collapse and earth crack", creating more than a dozen small landslides to block them. Helplessly, the Tubo army had no choice but to attack from the front.

The exit of Jiuzhaigou is very narrow and cannot accommodate large forces to attack at the same time. The three hundred soldiers under Yang Zhao's command have a stable area and become more and more convenient to fight. As a result, the Tubo army naturally suffered heavy casualties. In less than twelve hours, three or four thousand more corpses of Tubo soldiers were added on the ground. If they were piled up in the middle of winter and then poured them on water, the extremely strong natural city wall would be blocked by the cold wind. Unfortunately, it is early summer in May, but there is no such good thing. If the corpses piled up there, it will smell bad in no time, and there is also the danger of a plague. Therefore, the best way to deal with it is to set the fire. At the beginning, Yang Zhao did ask someone to set the fire. However, before the fire was burned, the Tubo army's offensive had already come one after another, so he had no spare time to care about this unintentional business.

Nan Ri Songzan was also a veteran on the battlefield. After realizing that the three hundred stones in front of him were all smelly and hard, it was difficult to kick them away, he immediately changed his combat method. Dividing the soldiers under his command into more than a dozen teams and attacked in batches. This kind of increase in troops was the most taboo tactic of military strategists. However, Nan Ri Songzan himself had other plans. Among the more than 30,000 soldiers he led this expedition, only about 8,000 were directly under the jurisdiction of the Tubo royal family, and more than 20,000 soldiers were private soldiers of other Tubo nobles. Tubo Zanpu could order these nobles to follow him to fight, and then call on these troops to serve Tubo. But he had no right to bypass these great nobles themselves and directly dispatch the troops under his command. These great nobles each had private soldiers, so they were also very rebellious. In the past, there were many cases where aristocrats held strong troops and bullied Zanpu.

This situation is actually very common. In ancient Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the emperor divided the princes into vassals. In the later period, the royal family declined, similar situations often arise. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Zhuang of Zheng was a small domineering the Central Plains and regarded the Zhou family as nothing. King Huan of Zhou commanded the Zhou army, Chen, Cai, Guo, and the four countries of the State of Defense to attack Zheng, but in the end he was defeated by Duke Zhuang of Zheng. King Huan of Zhou was shot in the shoulder by an arrow by even the generals of Zheng State and escaped from the encirclement in a panic.

For example, the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Tuoba clan was only fifty years ago. When Empress Dowager Hu poisoned Emperor Xiaoming of the Northern Wei Dynasty to take charge of his own regent, the powerful minister Erzhu Rong marched into Luoyang on the pretext of avenging Emperor Xiaoming, and killed Empress Dowager Hu and more than 2,000 ministers in Heyin to control the government. After that, the Northern Wei Dynasty continued to insurgency. Finally, it was controlled by Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai and destroyed. However, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai still pretended to be in a false presence and continued to support the puppet emperor of the Tuoba clan, and maintained the Eastern Wei and Western Wei countries for more than ten years before they officially usurped the throne.
Chapter completed!