All in all, the boundaries of Yunnan, you have been regarded as forbidden in Xifan? If you want to support Nanzhao, you will support Nanzhao, and if you want to support the three waves, you will support the three waves?

But Zheng Hui, the official of Qingping and the outside of the palace, gave him a reminder look of "don't get angry easily", so Yi Mu Xun pressed it down, thought about it, and replied to Qi Shengtuo and said,

Choosing an auspicious day, Yuan ordered the children of the whole territory to go out to Huichuan, and transported 150,000 stone japonica rice to Da Lun Mangre, so as to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army at Qingxi Pass. As for the entry of Brother Wang Luo Dong and the children of Qingping officials into some cities, it is very important, please allow me to discuss it carefully with you.

After withdrawing from the palace of Nanzhao, he hurriedly engraved the information that "the Nanzhao soldiers immediately came to aid with military rations" on the wooden tablet, inserted iron arrows, and let the envoys in the pavilion hold them, ride horses, and gallop to the northern Dengtai City, and send them to the reckless heat.

In this way, there was no longer a delay in talking about recklessness, so he raised the account and ordered the generals to send an order, except for the 3,000 Qinghai cavalry stationed in the north valley of Dengtai City, all the other battalions of soldiers climbed the Papaya Ridge, cut down the wood and stones, and set up a formation on the open slope in the north of the Papaya Ridge!

Not long after, that is, on November 9 of that year, a huge red flag was suddenly erected on Diancang Mountain, and a majestic horn was sounded, and news came out from the heavy buildings of Yang Tho City:

The king is going to send troops!

In an instant, Yi Mu Xun himself, under the leadership of dozens of "Yu Yi Chang" who rode horses in armor, hugged the banner out of the heavy building, and then the standing "Luo Thozi" warriors in the military camps outside the city started according to the direction of their respective camps, and soon gathered around Yi Mu Xun.

The Yu Yi chiefs of Nanzhao were all the king's guards and attendants, and they were all direct descendants of Qingping officials or generals, and they were the only characters who were allowed to wear swords in front of Yi Mu Xun, and they also shouldered the duties of standing army officers on the battlefield. The standing army of Nanzhao, that is, Luo Thozi, which is divided into two categories: infantry army and horse army, wearing rhino armor, oxtail inserted in the waistband, holding a halberd, waist knife, sword fighting, each is selected from the Nanzhao township, can ride a horse, can swim, shuttle in the mountains like flying.

Among Luo Thozi, Yi Mu Xun and the generals will also make a selection of a layer, the most brave warriors selected, it is called "negative platoon soldiers", platoon is also a card, as the name suggests, it is "carrying a shield" of the guards, these soldiers are wearing refined heavy armor, bearing thick copper shields, bows and arrows are difficult to enter, holding a seven-foot long sharp heavy spear, can be thrown, can also be assassinated, guarding in Yi Mu Xun and the Qingping officials, the army will be around, "sit up and defend each other".

Of course, when Yi Mu Xun led the standing army of Luo Tho, and when he left his royal capital and marched north, the "village soldiers" of the townships in the entire Nanzhao Kingdom, as well as other barbarian tribes, also brought weapons and food, and came to join the army like a cloud, and Yi Mu Xun's army immediately grew like a snowball.

The so-called township soldiers, more similar to the early Tang Dynasty soldiers, this group of Nanzhao households, weekdays in accordance with the production, military integration of management, divided into upper, middle and lower government, each government has a general, both in charge of civil affairs, but also in charge of military training, not only the government, but also the village grassroots also have military officers, thousands of families have governors, thousands of reasonable officials, hundreds of families have a general Zuo, so that the township soldiers are strictly controlled layer by layer, every winter leisure season, try the sharp maintenance of the weapons of the township soldiers, there is a bad loss of punishment that is, and every time they go out to fight, the township soldiers put on armor, Shouldering a spear, picking up a bucket of rice and five liters, taking out pickled fish breasts, and going to the battlefield - Nanzhao is limited by the military system of "living soldiers in agriculture", and does not pay much attention to logistics, and everyone brings their own dry food to the battle, so they can only condone the village soldiers to loot everywhere in wartime, and it is also a nation with abundant martial virtues.

The assembled Nanzhao soldiers and horses, there are 40,000 people, the flags are like forests, after leaving the royal capital and going east, first passing through the Dongcheng, and then following the post road built by the Tang government in the past, arriving at the West Lushui out of Tunzha after ten days.

At this ferry, Yi Mu Xun suddenly ordered to stop his progress.

At this moment, the army of Nanzhao is less than a hundred miles away from Sanfu City.

Later, Yi Mu Xun just asked Duan Jinyi, the official of Qingping, to lead 2,000 township soldiers to cross the water with tens of thousands of stone rice and carry them into Sanfu City, and then Duan and these two thousand township soldiers advanced to the Papaya Ridge position where the army of South Xifan Province was located.

Seeing that Nanzhao only had 2,000 people to help, Tan Mangre, who was preparing to confront the Tang Army, couldn't help but be shocked and angry, and hurriedly asked Duan Jinyi why? Don't hurry up and let the king of the east cross the west Lushui and come here to learn from me.

Soon after, the explanatory document of Yi Mu Xun arrived, which said:

This king noticed that the southwest side of Lushui Kunming City (Yanyuan County, Sichuan) is stationed in Tun under the Liluo style, and the king and the Liluo style have never shared the sky, and the soldiers and horses of the Nanzhao whole country are in Xilu, if the king crosses the river and goes north, but the Liluo style takes advantage of the weakness to attack my royal capital, what should I do?

In addition, a very unpleasant incident happened in the camp recently, two Nanzhao township soldiers were beaten and seriously injured by several drunken soldiers in the Huichuan camp when they ate the dried fish they brought with them, the reason is that the Tibetan people respect the fish in the river as a sacred thing, and the township soldiers offended them by eating fish, but my Nanzhao is to eat the fish and shrimp in the Erhai Sea for generations to grow stronger, after this incident, the whole camp was in turmoil, it is really difficult to enter the army, and you fight side by side.

After seeing the letter, he was so angry that his eyebrows were about to burn.

So he urgently sent a bird envoy to persuade and even force Yi Mu Xun to send troops as soon as possible to join him.

Over there, Zampu's envoys came one after another, one after another, urging him to go to war again.

In this way, the camp of Xibo and Nanzhao showed a strange state in the Shanzhou area: almost all the Xifan troops went forward and set up a formation along the Papaya Ridge, while Nanzhao's Yimu Xun was killed in Xilu, which was one or two hundred miles away from each other, and the important towns of Sanfu and Dengtai in the middle of Shanzhou were almost empty except for a group of fortresses built in advance.

After sending away the eighteenth flying bird envoy of Non Mangre, Yi Mu Xun summoned Zheng Hui and Duan Gupu in the tent, and made a ruthless decision: "Instigate Wei Gao, Gao Yue, and Lun Mangre to fight, and our army will wait and see what happens." ”

Then he paused, and added to the two: "Killing the reckless heat is equivalent to getting rid of the enemy in the west, and killing Wei Gao Gaoyue is equivalent to removing the great trouble in the north—it is better to lose both, and my Nanzhao will take the opportunity to take over the city and destroy the Liluo-style ronin." ”

The two Qingping officials received the order, and Zheng Hui suggested that Duan Jinyi in the camp of Nonmangre should be sent as soon as possible to send fine people to get in touch with the Tang army in Qingxi Pass, and tell him that there was a gap between Xifan and my Nanzhao, and that he could take the opportunity to march into the army, and if Xifan was defeated, Dengtai City would be returned to Nanzhao, and the north of Qingxi Pass to Qionglai Pass would be returned to the Tang family.

A few days later, the fine work sent by Duan Jinyi was "captured" by Liu Chaocai's scout team in front of the Muzha of Qingxi Pass, and then sent to the camp in Gaoyue, north of Wangxing City.

Gao Yue invited Wei Gao.

Wei Gao was overjoyed, and immediately said to Gao Yue alone: "It can be seen that there is a huge rift between Nanzhao and Xifan, what kind of conspiracy are you afraid of?" In the coming day, I will beat the drum for a decisive battle, I will occupy Qingxi Pass, and I will also take the stage city. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Gao also resorted to conspiracy and trickery, and also sent a fine work, and began to spread rumors in the Xifan camp: Nanzhao was rebelling behind the battle, and he wanted to attack the Tang army and kill all of them.