The southwest of the Tang Dynasty is the land of Bashu. The world is dangerous and the three auxiliary ones are connected to Sichuan. The setting sun in the sky has not even set, so here we raise our hand and all the mountains.

A poem tells the natural scenery of the Bashu land, with many mountains and peaks, like swords standing. When evening comes, it turns dark in a blink of an eye.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the night was darker faster. Suddenly, a thunderbolt exploded out of thin air, and in an instant, heavy rain poured all over the sky.

"Give up, abandon, abandon all!"

In the heavy rain and dark night, a crazy roar suddenly came, but saw a team of messengers riding horses out of the rain, and kept shouting: "According to the order of His Majesty Songzan, abandon the overloaded ox cart. Everyone goes lightly, everyone must go lightly, ah..."

The messenger who was talking suddenly cried out and fell from the horse's back. A team of messengers behind him was startled at first, then furious, and yelled: "Who set the cold arrow, who set the cold arrow?"

It was raining heavily, the night was dark, and there were noisy people and horses everywhere, and the voices of the messengers could not be penetrated.

These people rode their horses to the assassinated comrades, looked at them with anger, suddenly gritted their teeth and roared again, shouting: "It's the arrows of the Batozan tribe. You are so brave. Get out of the murderer, get out of me, get out of..."

Another thunder exploded in the sky, illuminating the faces of the commanders.

The heavy rain in the dark night formed a thick rain curtain, just like a river pouring directly from the sky. In the heavy rain, countless oxen screamed, and it was very difficult to drag the heavy cart forward. However, the ground became more and more muddy, and many oxen carts were trapped in it.

The messenger was still furious and scolded the murderer to come out.

Suddenly, a war horse slowly walked out of the night, and a Tubo general in armor was sitting on the horse. The man looked very cold and arrogant, and he said sternly: "I am the leader of Battozan. What is the intention of calling me out?"

A team of commanders pointed directly in front of the scimitar and said furiously: "Why do you need to fire a cold arrow? We are the commanders of His Majesty Songzan. Do you Battozan's troops want to rebel and quickly hand over the arrows?"

The general on the opposite side sneered again, suddenly reached out and wiped the rain on his face, and said in a sequel: "I killed everyone because he should kill them. The goods of these ox carts were snatched by my Battozan tribe, and no one can order them to be abandoned. Although Songtsen Gampo is Puzan of the entire Tubo, my Battozan tribe also has a large temple to support me."

When he said this, his eyes turned cold and he suddenly shouted: "Get out of here, I'm too late to kill you together..."

The messenger was furious and was about to sprint to kill the horse when suddenly hundreds of cavalry gathered in the night. Seeing that they were all soldiers from the Batozan team, the messenger's face turned pale and subconsciously tightened the reins.

One person was unwilling to accept it and roared in the heavy rain: "It is for everyone's sake to abandon the ox cart, so that it can speed up the marching. The Han people have been chasing us, and we have suffered a lot of losses. This master of Battozan, please order you to abandon the baggage and move forward quickly. Don't be greedy, greed will lose your life..."

The general opposite finally hesitated for a moment, and his eyes looked at the ox carts that were trapped in the mud through the rain. He was about to nod in agreement, but a strong wind blew overturned the rag covering the ox cart. At this time, another lightning flashed in the sky, and a yellow light flashed on a certain ox cart.

That's the color of gold.

The hesitation in the general's eyes suddenly disappeared, and instantly changed to a kind of greed and reluctance. He suddenly pulled out the scimitar from his waist and shouted: "Get out quickly, don't be clamored, no one's orders can do it, Battozan's treasure will not be lost, Songzan's own failure in planning and was eager to turn around, but we all asked our coalition forces to discard the looted goods. This matter should not be mentioned, otherwise the knife will be chopped to death."

Cooperating with his harsh yell, hundreds of cavalrymen around him suddenly set their bows. The messenger on the opposite side was full of anger and shouted in grief: "You will regret it, you will definitely regret it. We are going to report to Songzan Gampo, and you will look good when you return to the plateau..."

"Shoot the arrows, kill them all!" The general suddenly waved his scimitar and instantly cut a messenger to death. The cavalry surrounded him shot out an arrow at the same time, instantly shooting dozens of messengers to death.

The heavy rain poured down, and the water flow on the ground instantly dyed red.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of people were killed, and they were all in the Tubo compatriots. However, the general of the Batozan army did not take it seriously at all, and just gave a cold reminder: "Close your mouth tightly, try not to let the news spread. In the past few days, Songtsen Gampo has sent countless messengers every day, and dozens of them died could not tell whether they were attributable to the reduction or lack. As long as we don't tell ourselves, no one knows that the messenger is dead."

Hundreds of cavalry around him nodded quickly, and their expressions seemed extremely calm. One of them seemed to be a priest of the Batozan army, and he pondered and reminded: "It's better to be careful, after all, these messengers are all Songzan's direct descendants."

He said this and smiled coldly, saying again: "Even if Songzan is suspicious, we can completely push it to the pursuit of Han people. They are just dozens of messengers, not as good as the wealth of the Batozan army."

The priest was obviously a greedy Tubo man. He nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "It's true, it's true that it should be killed."

He suddenly turned his head and looked at more than a dozen ox carts not far away, and said with excitement: "This time we have snatched so much wealth, the Batozan tribe will surely take off again. Maybe he can be promoted to an intermediate tribe, and even be received by the lamas of the big temple."

The general of Batozan was shocked and laughed: "If that's the case, Songzan can't do anything to me in the future..."

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The Batozan tribe's killing of the messenger was just a glimpse of the situation. In fact, many Tubo tribes have been doing this in recent days.

The Tubo Plateau is an extremely chaotic country. In the past, various forces often attacked and killed each other. Although Songtsen Gampo unified the plateau, this unification was very limited.

Those who are as powerful as the Tang Dynasty still have various forces that are dragging their backs in China, and the Tubo country is even more unbearable because there is a force on the plateau that is almost above the imperial power.

That is the lama in the big temple.

Buddhism has a great influence in the Tang Dynasty, but it will never dare to blatantly resist the emperor. It is completely different in Tubo. Every large temple rules a land and many tribes.

This is similar to the ancient vassal system. Nominally respects the emperors of the central government, but in fact they all have their own scheming. The Battozan tribe killed the command soldiers, and other tribes also did this.

Today is the tenth day of the war in Jiannan Road. With the continuous force of Han Yue's army, Tubo troops scattered in various parts of Jiannan continue to gather. Although gathering together can reduce the risk of being strangled, it also highlights new problems.

For example, Songtsen Gampo wanted to retreat quickly, but the tribes were reluctant to throw away their supplies. These goods were plundered by them, and they did not have to hand them over to the emperor after returning to the plateau.

Tubo people are greedy by nature and believe that they are my saying that if they enter my pocket, they want to throw away their treasures and wealth, they have to use a knife to cut and kill them.

But Songtsen Gampo can't force it now.

In the past ten days, he retreated all the way, and his direct cavalry had lost more than 20,000 people. He only had 200,000 direct cavalry in total, which is equivalent to losing one tenth.

During the past ten days, the Tubo army scattered all over the country continued to gather, and the number had exceeded 450,000. Songzan no longer had the ability to threaten other tribes. Even if he had the ability, he would grit his teeth and not do this.

Because the losses in Tubo were too serious.

Sometimes the army was rushing wildly, and a few shining things suddenly threw out from the woods on the roadside. The thing fell to the ground and exploded into flames, which could at least kill dozens of warriors.

When the march was tired, they camped carefully. In the middle of the night, dozens of Han people rushed over, with fast and fierce killing, and they would never fight. They would kill a few people and run away.

Zeng Ye sent troops to pursue him, but soon found that no matter how many people were sent out, they could not come back. Since then, Tubo could only grit his teeth and suffer harassment and reduce personnel, and he never dared to send troops out to pursue and retaliate again.

When Songzan invaded Jiannan, he led 300,000 troops. Later, he found that the war was simple, so he quickly transferred another 700,000.

This 700,000 is actually an imaginary number, and the real number of people is probably no less than one.5 million.

The reason why the troops doubled was that all tribes had selfish intentions. During the second invasion, they knew that they were going to plunder and make money. Almost every family and every unit sent twice as many troops.

But how much is left now?

All the remaining soldiers who invaded Jiannan Road continued to gather, and in the end they only had 450,000. That is to say, in just ten days, more than one million coalition forces were killed by Han Yue.

What a terrifying number, it makes people feel numb.

Tonight it was raining heavily, thunder roared and the pouring rain seemed to pour down. Songtsen Gumbu, who was on the war horse, wiped his face hard and shouted loudly: "How many tribes choose to abandon goods?"

"Report to Your Majesty, no one abandoned it..."

"Damn it!"

Songtsen Gampo roared all his life, looking extremely angry, and shouted: "Why are these damn tribes unwilling to leave their wealth? The supplies are difficult to move forward quickly, and they clearly want to stay and let the Han people kill them. Damn, damn, these greedy idiots..."

Suddenly, his eyes turned to a high priest beside him, and his eyes were burning: "Are our ox carts protected? How many are there left now?"

The high priest looked up and thought for a while and said uncertainly: "It should be no less than one hundred big cars, after all, the number is increasing every day. The soldiers did not forget to loot when they fled. Although they were chased by the Han people, we snatched more property."

"Okay!" Songtsen Gampo clenched his fists heavily, with a clear hint of excitement in his expression.

A general next to him took the opportunity to insert his mouth and said excitedly: "Our team is in front, so 90% of the money is hoped to be protected. We robbed gold, silver and treasures, which can double the national treasury in an instant. As long as we return to the Tubo Plateau, we can immediately recruit new troops."

"Okay!" Songtsen Gampo clenched his fists again and spit out a heavy breath of excitement.

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Chapter completed!