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A diplomat of great ability in history, a man recruiting troops to attack a country

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In China's history of more than 5,000 years, there are countless famous generals who can fight good battles and leave traces of history, and there are countless wonderful stories about them. But you may not know that as early as the Tang Dynasty, there was once an unknown little person who single-handedly conquered the entire Indian Peninsula and achieved the feat of one person destroying a country. At the beginning of the sixth century, Li Yuan ended the chaotic situation of the division of the Chinese land and established the Tang Dynasty, and after his son Li Shimin became emperor, he made great efforts to govern and opened the rule of Zhenguan, so that the strength of the Tang Dynasty reached its peak. After the country's strength grew, Li Shimin sent Wang Xuance to lead a delegation to visit the Western Regions and the Indian Peninsula. After a year's long journey, the mission entered the Indian Peninsula through the Tea Horse Trail after visiting the countries of the Western Regions. At this time, India was divided into countless small divided countries, and the strongest of them was the Zhongtianzhu Kingdom. Just when Wang Xuance was preparing to return to China after inspecting the Tianzhu Kingdom, what he did not expect was not a grand welcome ceremony to greet him this time, but more than 2,000 Tianzhu soldiers. It turned out that shortly after the mission had just set out, King Zhongtianzhu, who had always been friendly with the Tang Dynasty, was drowned while bathing in the Ganges, and his subordinate Alona Shun took the opportunity to usurp the throne and occupy Zhongtianzhu. After the usurpation of the throne was successful, he was obsessed with the envoys who went to the Tang Dynasty with Wang Xuance, and prepared to rob them of the tribute they were going to offer to the Tang King Li Shimin, so he sent people to attack the mission.

A diplomat of great ability in history, a man recruiting troops to attack a country

Although the people of the mission resisted desperately, except for Wang Xuance and other deputies who were captured, all the others were killed. At this time, Wang Xuance could be described as extremely angry, in his opinion, this King of Zhongtianzhu not only did not treat himself with courtesy, but also dared to rob the Tang mission, was this not to punch The Tang in the face? Wang Xuance first took advantage of the guards' lack of attention and escaped one night, according to the practice of ordinary people, at this time it was difficult to escape back, and he should immediately run back to Chang'an to cry with Li Shimin about his tragic experience. Then wait for the Tang Dynasty army to step on Zhongtianzhu, but Wang Xuance is a person who does not like to take revenge. If he really went back to complain to Li Shimin and waited for the Tang Dynasty army to come, it would take two years to come and go, he couldn't wait for so long, he didn't remember revenge, he directly took revenge. Therefore, after Wang Xuance ran out of Tianzhu, he did not return to Chang'an, but went directly to Tubo, and in the name of the Tang Dynasty, issued an edict to the western countries including Tubo in the tea house to recruit troops. At this time, Tubo, in fact, the ruler Songzan Gampo had just married Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty, and the relationship with the Tang was very good, so he assigned 1500 elite soldiers to him. At the same time, Nepal, which received the edict, sent 7,000 people to listen to him. Wang Xuance, who had soldiers and horses, immediately led them to Zhongtian zhu and killed them. At this time, Alona Shun was still immersed in the joy of the success of the robbery, and when he heard that Wang Xuance had come with a large army to take revenge, he was immediately confused. But when he inquired that Wang Xuance had brought less than 10,000 people, he immediately relaxed.

A diplomat of great ability in history, a man recruiting troops to attack a country

In his opinion, this little number of people was not a threat to him at all, not to mention that this was still in his own home field, oh, and it was not a matter of hand to destroy the miscellaneous army that Wang Xuance had put together. Soon, Alonashun quickly gathered a group of soldiers and horses claiming 79,000 people and personally went out of the city to meet the battle. Also included is a group of elephant soldiers who can fight well. These elephant soldiers are huge, and people sitting on them can easily attack people on the ground, but people on the ground have a hard time causing harm to elephants and people sitting on them. In the face of Tianzhu's elephant soldiers, Wang Xuance did not rush to attack, but collected all the nearby cattle, and then tied the blades to the horns of these cattle, and then tied hay to the tail of the cow, poured fire oil, and lit the hay with fire when facing the enemy, and the cattle began to run forward after being burned. The Fire Bull Array not only disrupted the formation of the Tianzhu soldiers. And scared the elephants running around, many Tianzhu soldiers did not react, they were trampled to death by their own elephants. Seeing that Tianzhu's army was almost dead or wounded, Wang Xuance slowly gave the order, and the army began to attack. In this battle, King Xuan Ce effortlessly eliminated more than 3,000 people in Alonashun and captured more than 10,000 people, while the Tianzhu soldiers were trampling on each other and drowning when they died and injured more than 10,000 people.

A diplomat of great ability in history, a man recruiting troops to attack a country

Having suffered a defeat, Alona Shun ran back to Chabu City with the defeated soldiers overnight, and never dared to come out again. If he couldn't catch Alona Shun, how could Wang Xuance be willing to give up? Therefore, while letting his soldiers surround the city of Chagu, he taught them how to make the advanced siege weapons commonly used by the Tang Dynasty, such as siege vehicles, ballistas and ladders. When Wang Xuance let his men push the siege car slowly closer to the wall of Chagus City, Alona Shun and his soldiers standing on the wall were all dumbfounded, they had never seen these things, let alone how to deal with them. In this way, the tea city was beaten down by soldiers led by Wang Xuance for three days. Facts have proved that although Alona Shun's combat ability is average, but the escape technology is indeed first-class, this time although Wang Xuance captured the tea city and killed tens of thousands of Tianzhu soldiers, But Alona Shun still took advantage of the chaos and fled.

A diplomat of great ability in history, a man recruiting troops to attack a country

Alona Shun, who ran out, was very unhappy, so he borrowed an army from king Dong Tianzhu and prepared to avenge Wang Xuance. However, this time Wang Xuance did not give him another chance, he used guerrilla tactics to break through, not only completely destroyed the Tianzhu army, but also captured Alona Shun and his princess on the spot, and captured more than 12,000 people, more than 30,000 cattle and horses. Wang Xuance's battle record shocked the entire Eastern Tianzhu Kingdom, and immediately more than 580 cities surrendered to him. However, Wang Xuance was not satisfied with this result. Therefore, he led the people and horses to kill Dong Tianzhu in a mighty way. When the king of Eastern Tianzhu heard this news, he was immediately frightened and frightened, and quickly took out another 30,000 cattle and horses to reward Wang Xuance's soldiers, and also sent various rare treasures, expressing his willingness to submit to Datang and reconcile with Datang forever. Wang Xuance only then spared Dong Tianzhu and withdrew his troops back to China. After Wang Xuance returned to the Tang Dynasty, he was highly sought after by the people and rewarded by the emperor, but his story is now little known, because the Tang Empire in this period has just begun, and the fierce generals are like clouds. Memorable stories abound, so his stories are rarely mentioned. But it is undeniable that Wang Xuance's feat of destroying a country by himself is also a very wonderful page in Chinese history.

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