The loss of Songtsan in Langri made Nie Chizan and Mu Chizan who were rushing to Fuqi City extremely angry. They originally thought that with their current strength and the advantage of fighting on the plateau, they could completely keep the Tang soldiers out of the city and let them attack. Return defeated.
But that thunder, which seemed to be something that shouldn't exist in the world, quickly tipped the balance of war.
The death of Langri Songtsan in the battle also shocked the whole Tibetan people. For a while, the whole holy city was in panic.
Some people had already asked Zanpu to make peace with Tang Bing and were willing to give up the land of Tuyuhun to express their greatest goodwill.
However, the ministers during Lu Dongzan's period, headed by Garzhanzhuo and Tunmi Sangbuza, hoped to take this opportunity to avenge Lu Dongzan, and even hoped to use all their forces to drive the Tang soldiers out of Tuyuhun.
Garzandhuo walked into the Potala Palace with a gloomy face. This time, it was not him who came to see him on his own initiative, but Mangsongmangtsenzenpu who urgently summoned him.
When he arrived at the top of the Red Mountain, the palace that symbolized the highest power of Tubo, Tunmi Sambuza, Chisang Yangduntu, Saidang Songdun and others who had always been close to him had already arrived here early.
A young man wearing noble Zanpu clothes saw Garzandra walking in quickly. He immediately stood up from his chair and walked down quickly regardless of the sideways glances of other courtiers.
He took Garzandra's hand and asked anxiously: "Has our Dafeichuan really been lost?"
"Yes, Zampu, the land of Tuyuhun has been occupied by them now." Garzandhuo looked at the young man Mansong Mangzan with a complicated expression and said with difficulty.
As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the Red Palace of the Potala Palace suddenly became depressing, and many ministers showed disappointment and even despair on their faces.
They originally thought that they had learned all the advanced knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, and after so many years of hard work, they had enough strength to compete with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but they did not want others to enter Tubo as if they were in an uninhabited land.
Moreover, the entire offensive was so powerful that it ran so arrogantly from the easternmost part of Tubo territory to the westernmost part, and then attacked Langri Songtsan from front to back.
Mansong Manzan blankly let go of Garzandro's arm and murmured: "Why do people in the Tang Dynasty have thunder? Why is it so powerful that even our strongest warriors cannot come back alive. Could it be that it is so powerful?" Is it really God who is helping the Tang people and giving up on us?”
Garzandra looked at Mansong Mangzan, slowly held his arm and walked to the throne, asking Mansong Mangzan to sit down.
The sound of a needle dropping could be heard in the silent Red Palace, which was filled with lifeless depression.
Defeat is not terrible. What is terrible is that the Seven Tianchi Kings have now been completely wiped out. Langri Songtsan has also died in the battle. They were killed by thunder before they even had time to fight with the Tang soldiers on their horses.
They did not die at the hands of Tang Bing, but under God's thunder, because God was helping Tang Bing.
But now, out of Tubo's 400,000 troops, only the 150,000 troops in the Holy City are left. The other soldiers and horses were either bombed to death in Tubo or Dafeichuan.
Garzandhuo patted Mansong Manzan on the shoulder comfortingly, turned his head and looked at a young man in his thirties and said: "Ashnu, do you know why people in the Tang Dynasty have thunder? The mysterious man said Have you ever gotten up?”
Ashinu was dressed in Tibetan clothing, and his hair was also in the style of the Tibetan people, with a small braid showing outside the hat.
Looking at Garzandhuo's questioning eyes, recalling everything between him and the mysterious man of Tang Dynasty, he said cautiously: "Back to the Prime Minister, I haven't heard that mysterious man talk about it, but I only know that Taiyi City is very mysterious. Even he doesn’t fully know what’s in it.”
The mysterious man is Li Zhong, the former prince of the Tang Dynasty. For the sake of safety, Li Zhong has always let everyone in Tubo who knows his existence call himself the mysterious man.
Through Ashinu, he has sent a lot of valuable information to Tubo over the years, and his relationship with the Tubo royal family is extremely good.
Moreover, he, Garzandra and others successfully avoided the suspicion of Princess Wencheng and others, and their identity was only known to a few people in Tubo.
It is precisely because of his cautiousness and his understanding of Li Hong over the years that his little actions in the past few years have always puzzled Li Hong, wondering who is secretly working against him.
Including cement, etc., he secretly smuggled it for the Tubo people. He knew that Li Hong would definitely find out, but he was always obsessed with it. His purpose was to divert Li Hong's attention by smuggling cement.
Then take this opportunity to see if you can find out what shocking secrets are going on in Taiyi City's medicinal food room.
After finally getting the chance to steal, he finally quietly transported some things from the medicinal kitchen. After contacting Tubo, because the matter was so important, Li Zhong did not even go through Ashinu, but directly contacted Lu Dongzan.
Garzandra knew that his father must know something, otherwise, he would not have gone to Yumen Pass to pick up the goods in person this time.
But he didn't expect that he would be discovered by the Tang Dynasty people, and he would eventually die on the way back.
The death of Lu Dongzan made Garzandra very sad. Based on his intuition, he felt that his father's personal trip to Yumen Pass of the Tang Dynasty to pick up the goods was probably related to the thunder.
Chidu Songjie listened to the conversation between Garzhanzhuo and Ashinu, and the expression on his face changed from hope at the beginning to calmness, and Garzhanzhuo saw it one by one.
Garzandra knew that after he became prime minister, Tridu Songjie had been dissatisfied and had always hoped to replace him.
But he did not believe that Chidu Songjie would become the Tang people's spy in Tubo like Li Zhong of the Tang Dynasty.
After the two of them finished speaking, Chidu Songjie walked out from the crowd on both sides, saluted to Mansong Manzan, then saluted to Garzandro and the Vice-President, and said: "Zanpu is now an adult. We Perhaps we can show our sincerity by sending envoys to the Tang Dynasty to propose marriage, like the great Songtsen Gampo Zampu did.”
"So what if we have so many warriors who died? Our marriage proposal has been rejected two years ago. If we ask for marriage again this time, will they agree?" Vice Minister Chamo looked at him and asked.
"Of course they would not agree in the first two years, because we defeated Tuyuhun, and the Tang people would think that we were demonstrating. If they agreed to propose marriage at that time, others would think that they were submitting to us. But now that they have defeated us, they are the superiors. The country will naturally agree. As for the death of so many warriors, there is a saying in the Tang Dynasty that it is never too late for a gentleman to take revenge. As long as we give our wise and brave Zanpu some time, I believe that Zanpu will be able to lead us to recapture Tuyuhun. ." Chidu Songjie talked eloquently and was not afraid of Deputy Prime Minister Chamo.
After Lu Dongzan's death, Chamo was originally appointed as the Prime Minister, but after Garzandra came back from Tyuhun, Chamo, a fool, actually voluntarily gave up the position of Prime Minister to Garzandra.
This made Chidu Songjie feel like he was insulted. After all, in his opinion, no one was more qualified to be the prime minister than him.
Except for this Chamo who was more prestigious than him, Chamo voluntarily gave up the position of prime minister because Lu Dongzan's second son Garzandra returned to Tubo. This was Chamo deliberately making him look bad.
Garzhanzhuo looked at Chidu Songjie. His proposal was very tempting. If he could be the Zanmeng of Tubo for the current Zanpu, a princess of the Tang Dynasty, at least the Tang Dynasty would treat them less. A lot of hostility.
And he can also be like his father, assisting a Zampu who has Princess Tang as Zanmeng. Isn't this like inheritance and can bring greater good luck to Tubo
"Mu Chizan and Nie Chizan also died under the thunder. Now we no longer have the strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty. We can only recharge our batteries, wait patiently and wait for a comeback." Garzandhuo looked at Mansong. Mangzan said solemnly.
"Should I ask grandma about these things? Or ask "Gu Xin" for his opinion?" Mangsong Mangzan seemed to be more than ten years older than Li Hong.
But in fact, compared with Li Hong, in terms of age, Mangsong Mangzan is only about four or five years older than Li Hongcai.
Songtsen Gampo had only one son: Mangri Songtsan.
However, due to his early death, after Songtsen Gampo died young, Zampu of Tubo became Songtsen Gampo's grandson, and Mangri Songtsen's son, Mangsong Mangtsen, succeeded him.
The grandmother in Mangsongmangzan's mouth is the still-living Princess Wenchen. She enjoys a high reputation throughout Tubo and is worshiped and respected as a god like Songtsen Gampo.
Guxin is unique to Tubo and is equivalent to the meaning of national teacher and Dharma king.
Because they believe in Bon religion, every time Zanpu is in office, there will be a Bon monk to assist Zanpu, but he will not have absolute power like the prime minister.
Garzandro thought for a moment, then exchanged glances with Vice Minister Chamo, and agreed to Mangsongmangzan's suggestion to ask Princess Wencheng and King Dharma.
In the tall, majestic, majestic, solemn and solemn Potala Palace built on the Red Mountain, discussions are ongoing on how to reconcile with the Tang Dynasty.
The culprit was currently on horseback doing the homework of knowing oneself and the enemy and being able to survive a hundred battles.
"You said Songtsen Gampo died at the age of 34?" Li Hong asked in surprise.
"Yes, the Protector, there is absolutely nothing wrong." Pei Xingjian left Yuan Shuji behind to guard Tuyuhun to prevent Tubo from raiding again.
And he took advantage of the gap between Tubo's defeat and led 10,000 people to Li Hong's camp, saying that he would follow Li Hong back to Tubo again.
During this period, the imperial edicts flew into his arms like snowflakes. If Li Hong hadn't been in the dangerous territory of Tubo, he might have been beheaded by His Majesty ten or eight times.
There is only one reason, and that is the failure to settle down and protect the safety of His Royal Highness.
So now that he finally reached His Highness the Crown Prince, Pei Xingjian refused to leave.
He would rather be scolded by the sensible Crown Prince here than be frightened by the imperial edict every day.
He was really afraid that one day he would not die on the battlefield, but would be frightened to death in the Western Region by the imperial edict.
(End of chapter)