17. Bon forced the palace
In the end, less than a hundred of the 11,000 Western Fanyu who were captured by the Tang army were willing to return home.
Most of the 29,000 captured Xifan soldiers were escorts and archers, that is, the poor free people. Compared with Yong, they had no choice. The Tang army "escorted" them, and the first stop was Jincheng County, the key of the Yellow River, which is Lanzhou. If the Western soldiers dared to resist locally, Gao Moro and Wei Yasha would "stand on the Tai Sui" and slaughtered 5,000 of them before talking...
"In fact, for Gao Moro and Wei Yasha, it may be more thoughtful to them to slaughter us one after another. After all, they think that 30,000 of us will have to eat food, killing a group of them can reduce the logistical pressure of some of the marchs, killing them all the way to Shanzhou, even Ganzhou, and Suzhou..." At this time, the hearts of Xifan's prisoners of war were as heavy as the gloomy snow clouds in the air.
They settled the friendly forces and the prisoners respectively, and Gao Yue and Wei Gao met in private.
In fact, what Wei Gao said about the city beside the Fanluo before was also a trick.
The Fengyi Army, Dingwu Army and Yining Army would not go from Songzhou or Diezhou to Taoshui, because it is winter now and the states are heavily iced and snowy, so the army is completely unable to move.
Gao Yue and Wei Gao's real intention was to draw out two generals from each of the three armies, including cavalry, gunner and gunner, and the soldiers of the other three generals rest and rest in the Xishan camp in Shudu City.
The three armies have a total of six generals, plus the cavalry and cannon guns, a total of 25,000 people. They went a little by little: first go to Shudu, then go to Lizhou Road, Fengzhou Hechi, then go to Chencang Road to Fengxiang, where the patrol obtains supplies, then go out of Anrong Pass in Longshan, to Qin and Wei boundaries, and meet with the Shence Army. Then Shatuo and Tuyuhun's cavalry wander along the Yellow River on the northern wing, and Gao Yue sent to Diezhou, Dangzhou, and Baoyi's Qiang cavalry of Sibo Daye wandered in the Taoshui area. Gao Yue, Wei Gao and Shence Army were in the middle, heading west along Lanzhou, and holding Western-French prisoners of war all the way!
When the soldiers of the six generals began to leave Wuyou City and headed towards the west mountain in a mighty manner, the Qiang and Manchus who were placed by Wei Gao fell into the country and received letters and official hats from the Tang family. They all actively built long-range fortifications, and grazed their own cattle and sheep, occupied the grasslands on all sides of Wuyou City, and some sent their tribesmen to "occupy the place" in advance to the plump grasslands of Yizhou and Songzhou, even though the mountains were still covered with heavy snow.
Yong, who voluntarily returned, had a brave and powerful man named Xu Budaize, a man from the Yueru area of Xifan. Because he missed his mother and wife and children at home, he was unwilling to give him up, so he traveled nearly three thousand miles away.
Gao Yue praised his courage and filial piety. In addition to giving him two cotton coats, he also gave him a donkey and ten grams of barley noodles (280 kilograms). Xu Budai carried 200 kilograms on the donkey. He carried the remaining barley noodles on his back. He bent over to Gao Yue and bowed to him, kowtowed him repeatedly, calling him a living Bodhisattva. Then he leaned on a thick wooden stick and pulled the donkey, and went back to the direction of the Lengmochuan without looking back.
Lunmang Ren was discouraged and covered in blood. He lay on the city wall. Looking at the entire city, along the Tuo River, all besieged Tang Family City, which surrounded his Tang Family City. These Wudu Qiang and Xishan Qiang were driven away by them as vanguard cannon fodder. They couldn't help but sigh that the situation was overturned. In addition, Wei Gao sent him a letter earlier, warning him to understand the principle of "Jizi going to Yin", recognize the general trend as soon as possible, and give Wuyou City. Not only will nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command have a way out, but he can also get the equivalent gift from the Emperor of the Tang Family - as your identity as the Great Denmark of the South Road, at least you have a first-rank military officer in Chang'an City, and you can also enter the palace to sing and dance to the Holy Lord and the ministers during the festival. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
"What is Zanpu thinking about? Can you come to save Wuyou City?" Lun Mangre raised his hand in great pain at this time, frowned hard at the wrinkles that had been intersected by his eyebrows.
In fact, Zanpu was not idle at the Hongshan Palace. He fell to his beloved Concubine Bo Yong's knee in despair, using this as a pillow.
The defeat of tens of thousands of soldiers on the Pingrong Road, and tens of thousands of people died and disappeared on the way to the collapse. It had already reached his ears. Zanpu burst into tears at that time. He actually knocked on the pillars of the palace with his head despite the obstruction of his guards and ministers, shouted: "Cai Bang Mangcuo, return the army to Ben Yongzhong! Ben Yongzhong wants to summon all the affairs of all kinds and stop Cai Bang Mangcuo's crimes!"
Now, the entire plateau is divided by the eighteen states personally designated by Songtsen Gampo, and there is almost no black mani flag at the doorstep. The bodies of the dead of war are left on the Pengpo Snow Mountain, thousands of miles away from home. Every household can only find Bon wizards to hold the "Huling" and "burning corpse" rituals, hoping to give the dead of war a comfort.
The Bon wizards took the opportunity to spread rumors, saying that since Chisong Dezan ascended Zamp's throne, he introduced evil Buddhism from the ghost land of the Indian dynasty and suppressed the mountains and rivers of Dafan under the black pagoda of the Samye Monastery. We have no longer protected the gods, so we have been defeated repeatedly against the Tang soldiers.
The folk Bon religion attempted to make a comeback, but the palace did not stop.
Cai Bang Mangcuo knew that Zanpu wanted to punish him, so he simply refused to retreat but advanced. When he arrived in Luoshe City, he would gather a large number of officials who were hostile to Buddhism and attempt to revive Bon religion, as well as Queen Cai Bang, including a large number of "Dochanbu" and "Sangmen Benbo Master" who served the palace in the palace, now they stood in the palace in a dense manner, in front of Zanpu's throne, with a very unified caliber. "Hongshan was hit by lightning before, and each pond and garden suffered another flood in the autumn, including this defeat in the army, which was all due to Zanpu's worship of Buddhism. Please Zanpu destroy Buddhism in the entire plateau."
Concubine Bo Yong couldn't help but pale when facing this scene that was almost like forcing the palace.
Zanpu also lacked the strength to refute. He just accuses Cai Bang, a great scholar standing in the crowd. Mangcuo said: "When it comes to this disastrous defeat, isn't it because of your commander, incompetent command, and trust in Shang Qixin'er's instigation? No matter what, Ben Yongzhong must first cure your sins."
But Cai Bang Mangcuo was very cunning and insisted that the defeat was caused by the country's worship of Buddhism. Even if Zanpu wanted to cure my sins, he had to expel all Buddhist monks from India and Han Yin.
"Bastard, damn..." Zanpu was exhausted both physically and mentally, gritting his teeth.
At this time, the leader of the Bon Master, also the Imperial Master of the Palace, Xiangriwule from Xiangxiong area, warned Zamp with a gloomy face that if Zamp did not obey their advice, insisted on continuing to believe in Buddhism, and punished the great treatises of the people, he would no longer preside over the ceremony in the general assembly, nor would he astrology, curse and pray for a good harvest and victory for Zamp.
Zamp clutched the blanket sitting tightly with his hands. He knew that he was on the verge of tearing his face. He was not afraid that Xiangriwule would not be astrological or cursed, but he was afraid that this person would not preside over the conference.
Chapter completed!