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    Chapter 606: The War is Rising. The letter stated that Queen Changsun fully recovered within a month after taking the medicine prescribed by Zuo Shaoyang. Emperor Longyan was very pleased and generously rewarded her with generous rewards and even selected some medicines from the Prince's Library.  The classics were sent to Zuo Shaoyang.  As for sending troops to the Western Regions, we need to be fully prepared.  After Zuo Shaoyang looked at it, he didn't know whether to be happy or depressed. It was a good time to join forces with Duo Mi and others to destroy Tubo. However, he had to wait for the Tubo power to become stronger and unified the Western Region, and then he would fight against the Tubo.  It's very difficult.  Zuo Shaoyang wrote a reply, detailing his analysis of Tubo's development momentum and warning Tang Taizong Li Shimin that if Tubo was not destroyed while it was still in its infancy, it would inevitably become a nuisance to Datang.  Zuo Shaoyang naturally did not expect that such words would get Li Shimin to send troops to the desolate Western Region to fight against Tubo. Therefore, in order to strengthen his power, he put forward a request, that is, once Tubo captured the small eastern countries, the troops would arrive.  At the border of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was asked to send troops to Tibet immediately for the sake of saving Queen Changsun. Otherwise, Tibet would turn around and attack Xiangxiong and Gangrenbuche.  He cannot be the Dharma King himself.  He had helped the emperor, and he hoped that the emperor could help him. He even said that if things don't change, he might still ask for his help in the future.  After writing this nondescript letter and sealing it to the envoy of the Tang Dynasty, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty set off back to the Tang Dynasty.  This time the emperor rewarded Zuo Shaoyang with several large boxes of medical books, but he had no time to read them.  Now he had no time to worry about improving his medical skills. He had to think about how to keep the mandala.  The several large boxes of gold and silver jewelry gifted by the emperor were put to great use. Except for part of them being used for the construction of the mandala and cultivating a handicraft industry with huge vitality, the rest were all used for war preparations.  He began to buy horses in large quantities.  Now we cannot pin our hopes on Li Shimin, we must be prepared. The Tibetan army is not invincible. With the population of Gangrenbuche Mandala increasing sharply and its influence expanding, Zuo Shaoyang began to see a glimmer of hope.  He wants to arm the people of Mandala, which may be useful at the last moment.  He developed a combat readiness training plan and set aside a certain amount of time for combat training every month.  He was not good at this, so he hired generals with rich combat experience from Xiangxiong to help with training.  With the support of his large amount of money, a large number of war horses were purchased from all directions at preferential prices and delivered to the mandala, and were sold to herdsmen on credit. In only half a year, the number of horses in the mandala had reached 20,000!  And among the herdsmen who received His Holiness¡¯s favor, Zuo Shaoyang kept his head straight and participated in the training strictly in accordance with His Holiness¡¯s requirements.  A year later, there were already 20,000 cavalrymen available for battle in Mandala!  These combat troops are usually herdsmen, and weapons are distributed to individuals. In wartime, they can go into battle with an order.  Zuo Shaoyang was very satisfied. With this army, he could at least feel a little more at ease.  Li Shimin really did not pay attention to Zuo Shaoyang's persuasion. Even a few years later, Tubo had conquered all the small countries and tribes in the entire east and brought the war to the border of Tang Dynasty. Li Shimin did not even mobilize the army to prepare for the response.  Finally, the two tigers met.  The twelfth year of Zhenguan!  The first battle between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty began. Although the Tang army won in the end, Li Shimin also felt the strong military power of this army from the Western Region Plateau.  Li Shimin then began to regret not listening to Zuo Shaoyang's words.  After he discovered that the Tubo army was a strong opponent, he was even more unwilling to devote his country's power to fight to the death with the opponent, so the marriage went ahead naturally.  In the fifth year after Zuo Shaoyang became the Dharma King, which was also the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Princess Wencheng married into Tibet.  When Zuo Shaoyang heard the news, he was completely disappointed with Li Shimin. He also knew that he could not rewrite this period of history.  It seems that you can only change your destiny by yourself.  Zuo Shaoyang immediately wrote a letter, saying that where he was the Dharma King, the people were suffering, and he hoped to receive financial support from the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.  He knew that Li Shimin would be very generous as long as he asked for money. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was already very powerful and could give him money.  Li Shimin was still very grateful to Zuo Shaoyang for saving the life of Queen Changsun. Moreover, he also guessed Zuo Shaoyang's purpose of asking him for money at this time. If a sharp blade was planted behind Tubo, it would definitely play a huge role in containing Tubo.  .  Therefore, this time, Li Shimin not only consecrated Zuo Shaoyang, the powerful Dharma King, with great fanfare, and sent him a huge amount of gold, silver and jewelry, he also sent an elite cavalry force of 10,000 people as Zuo Shaoyang's escort.  , took the mighty road to Tubo and came to Zhangxiong.  Tubo had just married the daughter of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Faced with the request of the Tang Dynasty army to transit the border, although they knew it was inappropriate, they could not refuse.  So?Ten thousand cavalry passed through Tubo smoothly and came to Xiangxiong Gangrenbuche.  The leader of this cavalry turned out to be the general Xue Wanzi who had besieged Hezhou!  Zuo Shaoyang was very surprised, but he still admired Xue Wanji's generals. When he was in Hezhou, he was very impressed by the orderly advancement and retreat of Xue Wanji's troops and their bravery in combat.  With him here to help me, I would be even more powerful.  Xue Wanji obviously got Li Shimin's strict order to obey Zuo Shaoyang's command, so he was very respectful to Zuo Shaoyang.  With this army capable of hundreds of battles, commanded by a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, and a huge fortune, Zuo Shaoyang was determined.  Xue Wanji also understood the emperor¡¯s purpose of placing him here.  So he helped Zuo Shaoyang make suggestions, quickly expand his team, and further develop the economy.  To expand the team, it is obviously not possible to rely solely on Gangrenbuche Mandala, nor is it possible for Shangzhong, because the population of Shangshung is relatively small and the residents are scattered.  So, the two set their sights on Niboluo and Tianzhu!  There is a mountain tribe in Nibala (Nepal) called Gorkha.  This was the birthplace of the later-famous Nepalese mercenaries.  These mountain people are accustomed to fighting in plateau environments, can endure hardships and stand hard work, and have a natural instinct to be professional soldiers.  In his heart, he has the idea of ????taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others. He is the most professional among the mercenaries. After taking the money, he can work hard for his master.  Therefore, Zuo Shaoyang hired Gorkha mountain people on a large scale, recruiting almost all adult Gurkha men, and formed a full-time Niburo mercenary army of about 5,000 people.  The economy of Kangrenbuche, led by handicraft industry, continues to develop rapidly.  Coupled with Zuo Shaoyang's superb medical skills, it is like a stone that attracts money, attracting people from all over the world to the mandala.  These people mainly come from poor Tianzhu and Niboluo.  In the fourth and fifth years after Zuo Shaoyang arrived in the Western Regions, Sang Xiaomei and Bai Zhihan gave birth to a daughter and a son respectively to Zuo Shaoyang.  Although Zuo Shaoyang already had five children, Zuo Shaoyang left and came to the Western Regions before he could remember, so those five children didn't actually stay with him for long. Zuo Shaoyang poured all his efforts into his children.  on these two children.  It's a pity that Sang Xiaomei's daughter is a bit wild. Like the boys, she only likes to dance with guns and sticks and doesn't like to study medicine. However, Bai Zhihan's son is very introverted. Ever since he became literate, he likes to be alone quietly.  I read and write on the side, especially interested in medical books.  So Zuo Shaoyang had high hopes for him.  In the 18th year of Zhenguan, which was the ninth year that Zuo Shaoyang became the Dharma King, Gangrenbuche Mandala experienced rapid development with the infusion of large sums of gold and silver from the Tang Dynasty every year, with a population of close to 100,000.  !  As for the troops in the hands of Zuo Shaoyang and Xue Wanzi, in addition to the 10,000 Tang regular troops and 5,000 Gurkha mercenaries, the number of combat personnel available for the people in peacetime and the army in wartime has reached more than 60,000.  !  A total of 80,000 troops are available for deployment!  Faced with the growth of Gangrenbuche, King Xiangxiong was somewhat worried, but Zuo Shaoyang, the Dharma king, was canonized by the Tang Dynasty and had the support of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Although it was like a poisonous thorn planted in his  At the heart, King Shang Hung was still helpless.  In recent years, Zuo Shaoyang has developed the economy on the one hand and the army rapidly on the other. At the same time, he has spent huge sums of money to bribe senior Tibetan officials and people around Zampu to install his own spies.  In the past nine years, Tubo has conquered all the small countries and tribes in the east, bordering the entire Tang Dynasty.  Only Yangtong and Xiangxiong were left in the entire Western Region.  Li Shimin realized more and more clearly how powerful Tubo was, and the more he became aware of it, the less he dared to use weapons easily.  Therefore, increasing the support of Zuo Shaoyang's military power in Gangrenbuche Mandala became an important move to contain Tibet.  Originally, he was only grateful to Zuo Shaoyang for saving Empress Changsun, so he gave him a large amount of gold and silver. Now, he has become an important military force that contributes to the security of the Tang Dynasty and is deliberately supported. As a result, Li Shimin  The gold and silver invested in this increased exponentially.  With the injection of these huge funds, Zuo Shaoyang spent nine years to build the mandala into a new city, and it was an impregnable new city.  With the help of Xue Wanzi, he built tall city walls and a wide moat, which attracted melted snow from the snow-capped mountains to pour into it.  A large amount of food was stored in the city, enough to feed the entire army and people in the city for several years.  Many wells were also dug to ensure that the city was self-sufficient in drinking water.  At the same time, Xue Wanzu has checked the terrain around Gangrenbuche countless times. Once the Tibetan army comes to attack, he already knows how to deal with it.  At this moment, the Tubo army of 200,000 troops was already marching to the border.  Yangtong is a big country to the north of Zhangxiong, and it is also Zhangxiong¡¯s last ally against Tibet.  If the sheep perish together, it will be difficult for Xiang Xiong to protect himself.  However, King Shang Hung still firmly believed in the relationship with Tubo.Treaty, not even decent preparations for war.  The tip passed the news to Zuo Shaoyang. He knew that he could not have any illusions about the target Xiong Guojun.  So, just when the Tubo army invaded Yangtong and reached the capital.  Zuo Shaoyang's army also invaded Tubo and approached Luoche City!  This move to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao had obvious results, and Songtsen Gampo had to urgently withdraw his troops and return to Luoche City to aid.  Zuo Shaoyang's goal was naturally not to seize Luoxue City, because at this moment the Tubo troops far exceeded his own, and they were a warrior capable of hundreds of battles. They were full of vigor and felt that he could not confront them head-on.  So Zuo Shaoyang wrote a letter asking for help and sent someone to Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty to Li Shimin urgently, and then led his army to withdraw to Gangrenbuche Mandala.  Songtsen Gampo did not expect that a little Dharma king would actually cause trouble in Tai Sui, and immediately asked the king of Xiangxiong Kingdom to hand over Zuo Shaoyang.  Xiang Xiong had no way to surrender, because Zuo Shaoyang had 80,000 troops, and more importantly, he had the support of the Tang Dynasty.  Moreover, the arrogant Xiang Xiongguo felt very embarrassed when facing Tubo's request, so he ignored it.  Songtsen Gampo took this as an excuse and repeated his old tricks. He negotiated a truce with Yangtong, and then freed up his hands to concentrate on attacking Zhang Hung!  The flames of war finally reached the door of his home, and King Shang Hung finally understood that the lion of Tibet was going to bite people.  Resistance was hastily organized, but Xiangxiong Kingdom was like an old bull, unable to withstand Tibet's violent attack.  Soon, the entire territory of Shangshung, except for Gangrenbuche Mandala, was captured by Tibet.  Zuo Shaoyang already knew that Xiang Xiong¡¯s army was actually vulnerable, so he did not give up the impregnable mandala and went to rescue Xiang Xiong¡¯s army.  Tubo originally hoped that Zuo Shaoyang would come out of the city to rescue them, but they happened to lure the snakes out of their caves, gather together and annihilate them.  Unexpectedly, Zuo Shaoyang stood still and defended the mandala.  The Tubo army surrounded the mandala, but found that the mandala was really impregnable. Songtsen Gampo did not order a storm, but instead withdrew his troops and attacked Yangtong.  When Yangtong was attacked by the Tubo for the first time, Zuo Shaoyang sent troops to break their siege. However, when Zuo Shaoyang Mandala was surrounded, Yangtong stood still.  By the time the Tibetan army captured most of Xiangxiong and had their hands free to deal with him, he had become a lamb to be slaughtered.  But Zuo Shaoyang could not wait for the sheep to perish. His 10,000 Tang cavalry, led by Xue Wanzu, were elusive and constantly harassed the empty Tubo towns in the rear. This cavalry was familiar with the terrain and maneuverable, which greatly restrained the Tibetans.  Military operations in Yangtong.  At this critical moment of life and death, the Yangtong Army also began to cooperate with Zuo Shaoyang's cavalry in combat. When Tubo attacked, they held firm. Once Tubo retreated, they pursued them.  The Tibetan army was exhausted.  "However, Songtsen Gampo was a tycoon after all. He quickly adjusted his deployment and gave up several towns to Zuo Shaoyang's cavalry. They concentrated on dealing with Yangtong and used an ambush to surround Yangtong's main force and annihilate him in one fell swoop.  Yangtong perished.  Then, Songtsen Gampo commanded the mandala and surrounded Zuo Shaoyang¡¯s mandala!  Seeing that the situation was over, Zuo Shaoyang had no choice but to stick to the mandala.  The ten thousand cavalry still fought on the move and harassed the Tibetan army.  At this time, the results of Zuo Shaoyang's nine years of hard work finally came into play. The tall and solid city wall, 60,000 soldiers and civilians who had been trained to defend the city, and 5,000 brave and skilled mercenaries, enough food and fodder for several years, alone  drinking water source.  The Tibetan army continued to attack for several months without being able to shake the mandala at all!  Instead, thousands of soldiers were killed and injured.  ro!  ~!
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