The Sheng Tang Dynasty was the period when the Han Dynasty was at its most powerful. The battle flag of the Tang army was directed, and the nomadic people who were enemies of the Tang Dynasty could only surrender to it on their knees. However, there is one country that can repeatedly defeat the previously invincible Tang army when the Tang Dynasty is at its strongest, and this country is Tubo. The reason why Tubo was able to confront the Tang Dynasty with its weak national strength was that its power was indispensable to the QinLing.
On Qinling, the original surname is Gar, and its surname is a surname given by the Tang Dynasty. His father's name was Gar Dongzan, and he was the greatest contributor to assisting the Tubo chief Songtsen Gampo in unifying Qinghai-Tibet. Subsequently, Tubo and Tang Dynasty were peacemakers, and it was Gar Dongzan who served as a welcoming envoy.
For Gar Dongzan, Tang Taizong attached great importance to him, so he gave him the surname of "Theory", so that all five of his sons took the surname of "Theory".
After the death of Gar Dongzan, the Government of Tibet fell into the hands of his five sons. Of his five sons, the second son, in particular, was the most virtuous. This man was resourceful, used soldiers like gods, and had great prestige in the country. Seeing the Tang Dynasty annihilating the Western Turks, the Qin Tombs had already surrounded Tubo from the north, west and south. On Qinling understood that if the Tang Dynasty continued to expand, the next thing to be destroyed was bound to be Tubo. Therefore, On Qinling took the initiative to launch an offensive and captured the 18 Prefectures of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.
When Tubo was in trouble, Emperor Gaozong of Tang hurriedly transferred Xue Rengui, who was able to recruit the accustomed warriors from the Liaodong battlefield, and made him the governor of Some Provinces, leading an army of more than 100,000 to attack Tubo. This time, Datang was both elite and determined to solve the Tubo problem at once. Xue Rengui's official position showed that the ultimate goal of the Tang army was the capital of Tubo, Luoxi City.
The Tang Dynasty soldiers were fierce, and Tubo was facing the threat of annihilation, so QinLing actually raised 400,000 troops in the country and prepared to fight the Tang army to the death. You know, the entire Tubo population is only 3 million, if this war is lost, Tubo will inevitably decline even if it does not perish.
Compared with the Tang army, the Tubo people were more adapted to the plateau environment. Therefore, qinling was adapted to local conditions and adopted tactics of luring the enemy to go deeper. In order to pursue the main force of Tubo, Xue Rengui gave up his weight and personally led tens of thousands of elite troops to penetrate deep into the borders of Tubo. Seeing that the Tang army had entered the plateau, Qin Ling immediately sent cavalry to harass the Supply Line of the Tang Army. On the plateau, it was already difficult to transfer supplies, and once harassed, the grain and grass of Xue Rengui and others were cut off.
In desperation, Xue Rengui could only feed on the enemy, and he and his deputy general Guo Beifeng each guarded a camp, forming a corner. Xue Rengui ordered the soldiers and horses to go out to rob the cattle and sheep of Tubo, and warned Guo to wait for the seal before leaving. After he went out on his own, Guo Beifeng had to stay in the camp and hold on, so as not to be destroyed by the Qin Tombs. However, after Guo Beifeng was a famous general, he was arrogant and arrogant, who would listen to Xue Rengui. Not long after Xue Rengui sent his troops, Guo Beifeng took the initiative to attack The qin tomb with a heavy weight.
Guo Beifeng's irrational behavior was right in the middle of Qin Ling's heart, he commanded the army to attack on all sides, Guo Beifeng was defeated, and all the weight used was lost. As soon as Guo Waitingfeng failed, Xue Rengui immediately fell into isolation and speechlessness. He led his troops to retreat to the Dafei River, and the QinLing was in hot pursuit, encircling it. After fierce fighting, the Tang army was defeated, but the Tubo people also suffered considerable losses. So Xue Rengui was forced to make peace with The qinling, and then returned to China with the remnants.
Due to the fiasco of Dafeichuan, the Tang Dynasty experienced an unprecedented defeat. Taking advantage of the victorious attack, Qinling once again captured the four counties of Anxi and controlled the Silk Road. Subsequently, Tubo and Tang Dynasties repeatedly tugged at the Western Regions, and control of the Western Regions changed hands several times.
In 678, the Tang army made a comeback, and Li Jingxuan led an army of 180,000 people to fight against Tubo and fought on Qinghai Lake. As a result, the Tang army was once again defeated, and it was on the verge of total annihilation, and the general Liu Zhenli was unfortunately captured. This is the highest-ranking general captured in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the Tang Dynasty general Black Tooth Chang attacked Tubo at night, defeating the enemy's troops, and only then did he protect the main general Li Jingxuan and lead the remnants to escape.
After that, the Tang Dynasty was replaced by Wu Zetian's Zhou Dynasty, but the Zhou Army's record was not much better than that of the Tang Army, and famous generals such as Lou Shide and Wang Xiaojie were repeatedly defeated at the hands of Qin Ling, which confirmed the famous general Pei Xingjian's sentence: "Qin Ling is here, Tubo is untouchable."
Qinling repeatedly defeated the Tang army, and with the assistance of his three brothers, he helped Tubo's national strength to flourish and become a superpower. The history books say that "since the Han and Wei dynasties, the prosperity of Xi rong has not yet been." ”
However, Qinling was not a loyal vassal of Tubo, and this person had monopoly on power and completely overthrew Tubo's Zampu Chidusong, resembling Tubo's "Cao Cao". When he was talking about the dictatorship of Qinling, Chidusong was just a child, but when he grew up, he gradually began to realize the threat of Qinling. Chi DuSong was a male lord, and although he was silent, he was making movements in secret, ready to eliminate the forces of Qinling in one fell swoop.
In 698 AD, the Qin Tombs unified the army in Qinghai. In the name of hunting, Chidusong gathered an army to kill more than 2,000 of Qinling's henchmen and summoned Qinling to come. Knowing that Zampu had ill intentions and that he had a disobedient heart, he immediately gathered his followers to prepare for rebellion. However, in The Tubo country, zampu's status is equivalent to that of a god, although the Qinling is outstanding in battle, but how can it be compared with the gods? As a result, the people of Tanqinling turned to Zampu, and he soon became a loner. In desperation, a generation of gods of war Qinling had to commit suicide.
Subsequently, Tan Qinling's younger brother Zan po and son Ren Gongren defected to Wu Zetian and were reused, and were successively made the king of the county. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, almost every generation of commentators could produce high officials. It can only be said that the genes of the commentators are really very good.
After the death of QinLing, the military strength of Tubo was greatly reduced, and there were no generals in the country who could compete with the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Tubo was repeatedly defeated by the Tang army and was beaten very badly, and this situation was not reversed until the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty.