Chapter 165: Tubo is also in strife
Luoyang City
Pei Mansion
These days, unfavorable military information has been coming one after another.
Wu Sansi, who led his army back to the rescue, was defeated in the Yiluo Plain and the reinforcements were wiped out. Wu Sansi himself was also sentenced to death by the emperor in front of the gate of Hanjiacang City.
After Shangguan Wan'er's persuasion, the Empress Dowager finally surrendered to the emperor and issued an edict with the emperor to jointly attack Li Xian, who was creating a rebellion in Yangzhou outside, and Pei Yan, who colluded with the ministers inside and wanted to cooperate with the inside and outside.
Pei Yan sent all the people who sent the proclamation to Hebei Road, Hedong Road and Henan Road to transmit the proclamation to attack the foolish monarchs. The road to Hebei Road and Hedong Road is far away, and it is understandable that there is no movement. Even Henan Road, which is so close, comes back to report his life, which makes Pei Yan shudder. It seems that these people are in danger!
On the battlefield in Yangzhou, although Li Xian and Li Jingye had 300,000 soldiers and were crowded with power, one of them was the prince who lived in the palace and the other was a descendant of a famous family, but they had never been to the barracks since childhood, let alone marching and fighting.
In terms of battlefield experience, how can he be compared with the cunning Wang Xiaojie, and Heiqi Changzhi, who was promoted to a general by relying on military merits and able to make repeated military achievements against Tubo in the northwest battlefield?
In the Huainan battlefield, the troops of Li Jingye and Li Jingyou were unable to cross the Jintang defense line set up by Wang Xiaojie. In the Jiangnan battlefield, Heichi Changzhi led his army to kill the Yangtze River, went to Changzhou in one battle, and then surrounded Runzhou, an important city in Jiangnan, and attacked the city every day.
Therefore, in the Yangzhou battlefield, the rebels seemed to be fighting vigorously, but in fact they had no breakthroughs. They were already Changzhi, and Wang Xiaojie's two troops were compressed into a small pocket in a corner of Huainan and Jiangnan.
The war between all parties was unfavorable, and even the Tubo people who Pei Yan had high expectations also had problems.
Lun Qinling is also a top-notch general in Tubo history and a strategic master. He has long seen the situation of internal strife in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, Li Xian and Pei Yan took office.
Li Xian and Pei Yan repeatedly showed favors to Tubo, and agreed to all the compensation for land cedes. If Li Xian and Pei Yan took office, Tubo could gain Songzhou and Lingzhou without fighting, which would be very beneficial;
The second is that the empress dowager is on the throne. If the empress dowager really wants to gain power, the center of gravity will inevitably be suppressed internally, rather than expanding externally. The pressure faced by the Tuyuhun direction in the Western Regions is not great.
The most unfavorable thing to Tubo was Emperor Yang Yao ascended the throne.
Yang Yao was a freshman and ambitious. In Chang'an, he could humiliate the Tubo delegation; when he reached the meeting to conclude a peace treaty, the emperor was unwilling to discuss Gongren for his son; even the Emperor of Tang Dynasty even said that he would rather fight with Tubo than recover the Western Regions and Tuyuhun.
When this Emperor of Tang came to power, Tubo would really face a huge crisis.
Therefore, Lun Qinling himself firmly demanded to send troops to respond to the Yangzhou rebellion far away in the south of the Yangtze River.
In Lun Qinling's plan, Tubo should raise 200,000 troops to attack Guanzhong, which has weak troops, looted Guanzhong's wealth, and even set up an unmanned buffer zone of at least thousands of miles in Guanzhong. Then, imitate Dong Zhuo and completely burn the city of Chang'an, so that the Tang Dynasty's military and political center could no longer return to Chang'an, but stay in Luoyang.
In that case, the Tang Dynasty's expansion of Tubo in the Western Regions was beyond reach, and Tubo would have enough time to erode, digest the occupied Tuyuhun, the Western Regions, and even further erode Lingzhou, completely compressing the Tang Dynasty's sphere of influence to the east of Guanzhong.
However, the grand plan of Qinling, which could ensure long-term stability for hundreds of years of Tubo, was collectively opposed by Tubo Zamp and a group of anti-Gar family forces.
Yang Yao was probably right at all. Tubo Zanpu really doubted Qinling's real intention to gather troops from all over the country to attack the Tang Dynasty.
Lun Qinling said it better than singing in public. If all the military power is handed over to the Gar family, Lun Qinling would attack the Tang Dynasty or turn around to attack Posa (Lhasa), Tubo Zanpo was unsure at all.
If Lun Qinling really attacks the Tang Dynasty, he can also use his power to secretly incorporate and eliminate generals and troops loyal to Zanpu. At that time, what else can Tubo Zanpu, who has been pulled out, challenge Lun Qinling?
Let’s take a step back, Qinling will never secretly do anything bad. However, in this battle, who will the huge profits robbed from Guanzhong? In 100, the Gar family will swallow it! Tubo is already a poor place, and if the Gar family robbed the rich Guanzhong, regardless of military power or financial resources, it is enough to suppress the forces of Zanpu in all aspects. How can Tubo Zanpu solve the problem of Gar family, which is the confidant, and truly unify the Tubo?
What was the Tang Dynasty tragedy? Can it be robbed Guanzhong and captured Songzhou and Lingzhou? The so-called century-old plan is that the Tubo Zanpu must win a great victory and solve the Gar family before it can be discussed. If the Zanpu family is defeated, the whole family will die. What is the so-called victory and the century-old plan have a Mao relationship with Zanpu?
From any angle, Tubo Zamp had 10,000 reasons, and would not allow the Gar family to gain huge military and political benefits through this large-scale military operation.
Therefore, Tubo Zanpu and Lunqinling both had their own opinions, and both sides had a very firm attitude, so the talks collapsed directly at the military conference.
Regarding Qinling's short-sightedness towards Tubo Zanpu, the ministers were deeply indignant. In anger, they returned to Tuyuhun overnight.
If Tubo Zanpu did not send troops, he had to use the more than 100,000 troops of the Gar family in Tuyuhun to directly enter Lingzhou and Guanzhong. Although the results of the battle may not be as brilliant as expected, they were enough to make a fortune.
When Tubo Zanpu saw that Lun Qinling really insisted on fighting with Posa, he forced his troops to send troops, and also used a trick to get rid of firewood from the bottom of the pot.
Zanpu directly ordered that the twelve Tubo tribes near the old land of Tuyuhun, together with hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep from the tribe, would be moved inward for 500 miles, creating a 500-mile vacuum uninhabited land between Posa and Tuyuhun.
Anyway, Qinling can attack the Tang Dynasty, but he doesn’t give any logistics resources. If you have the ability, the soldiers of the Gar family will go to the Tang Dynasty to rob on hungry days!
Lun Qinling was cut off from logistics resources and hit seven inches. He was so angry that he gritted his teeth. However, he was still a great minister of Tubo after all, so he could not lead his troops to rob the cattle and sheep of the Tubo tribe as food and grass! Isn’t that a blatant rebellion?
In desperation, Lun Qinling had to choose to reduce the scale of troops sent. It was estimated that it was 100,000, but it was reduced to 50,000.
Among them, 20,000 soldiers and horses were led by Lun Qinling's younger brother Garzanpo, and attacked Songzhou in Bashu; 30,000 soldiers and horses were led by Lun Qinling, and Lun Gongren and his son, and attacked Lingzhou.
In Lingzhou and Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty, they received a war report. Liu Rengui, who was responsible for military affairs in the northwest, judged the situation and directly chose the defensive policy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. The people who did not transfer in time also defended themselves from the deep grooves and fortresses. Anyway, they were relying on the cities along the way to fight against the Tubo people.
The Tubo people advanced for a month and fought for a continuous attack, and only captured three or four counties, with considerable casualties.
Liu Rengui's 60,000 reinforcements were still in Lingzhou City, waiting for the Tubo army with great difficulty!
Lun Qinling's offensive was curbed by the city wall strategy. Moreover, the Tang army's field capabilities and the Tubo army's logistics supplementary capabilities also made Lun Qinling dare not cross the cities along the way without fighting and heading directly to Guanzhong.
The rapid offensive of the Tubo people was also tightly restrained on the front line of Lingzhou.
At this point, all Pei Yan's foreign aids were hopeless, and in Luoyang, there were still the emperor's 20,000 elite cavalry, which had the advantage.
Chapter completed!