Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

About an hour later, the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan led a group of people into the Ganlu Hall.

The other ministers and generals in the DPRK were summoned by Li Shimin a long time ago, even Prince Li Chengqian and the others were here, just to see what Tubo was going to do.

"I have seen His Majesty Tang!"

Lu Dongzan walked in front of everyone, but slightly cupped his hands, looking very proud, and didn't take Li Shimin seriously.

Seeing this, Cheng Yaojin and the others almost couldn't hold back and rushed over to beat up Lu Dongzan first, but they were firmly held down by Li Jing, so don't be impulsive, the result depends on how Li Shimin responds.

Li Yi'an looked at the other party with great interest, thinking of the incidents of Tubo Chen Bing Songzhou and Zhishi's sudden request to marry the princess, one can be sure that Lu Dongzan's trip had been premeditated, and the Tubo people were full of ambition.

"You are Lu Dongzan?"

Li Shimin stood up and snorted coldly: "You Tubo army is approaching my city of Songzhou, do you still have the face to see me?"

Lu Dongzan said unhurriedly: "Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, you misunderstood. Our Tubo army just came to Songzhou and did not intend to offend. Not long ago, we defeated Tuyuhun and drove them to Qinghai. Last month, they attacked the Qiang tribes such as Dangxiang and Bailan, all of whom were not our opponents, and took advantage of the trend to attack the west of Songzhou."

He looked at Li Shimin with a smile, and said with the same haughty attitude: "I thought that going to the east would be Datang, so I stationed soldiers and horses outside Songzhou City. The number was not large, only about 30. As an envoy, I will Come to Chang'an to meet His Majesty Tang."

"Now that I see it, can you retreat?"

Li Shimin asked coldly.

"I haven't finished my words yet, Your Majesty the Tang Dynasty, don't rush us to retreat."

Seeing Li Shimin's expression, Lu Dongzan felt indescribably proud, and said, "Two months ago, we married Mo Heduo, Mo Heduo's daughter married Zanpu's son, and Zanpu agreed to send troops [-], go and help Mo Hedu take Siyehu, we and Turkic are already good friends."

Hearing this, Li Yi'an finally understood the purpose of Zhi Shi's trip. It turned out that he had found a big backer, someone was behind him, no wonder he was full of confidence.

From the position point of view, the current Mo Hedu and Tubo are joining forces, and the Western Regions and other areas are basically their territories. The Tang Dynasty wants to join forces with Si Yehu to fight back, but the road to the west is cut off by them, which can be said to be even more difficult. .

In this era, the combination of various factors such as the natural environment and living habits of Tubo made their people taller and stronger than the Turkic people, and their combat effectiveness was very strong, and their cavalry was also extremely fierce.

The combination of Mo Hedu and Tubo is a crisis for Datang.

Hearing that they had united, Li Shimin's face became more and more ugly, and he asked, "Minister Zan Donglu, what do you want to do when you come to Chang'an?"

"Naturally, it is a marriage with Datang, and the two countries will become good friends."

Zan Donglu smiled and said: "I heard that His Majesty the Tang Dynasty has a Princess Changle who is born beautiful, so I want to ask His Majesty the Tang Dynasty to allow Princess Changle to marry our eldest son Zanpu."

As soon as these words came out, many people in the hall exclaimed.

Li Lizhi is Li Shimin's most beloved daughter. Someone in the know has heard that Li Lizhi has been betrothed to the eldest Sun Chong and is waiting to get married when she grows up.

However, the princess is not very old now, and they, Tubo, have the courage to make this request.

This is simply a provocation to Li Shimin.

"no!"

Changsun Wuji was the first to stand up to object, saying: "Your Majesty, this must not be agreed!"

Although there was a lot of rumors about the marriage of close relatives in the past, Changsun Wuji and the others didn't care too much, thinking that it was Li Yi'an's method to get married with Li Changge smoothly.

"It doesn't matter if you don't marry the princess. Our army will immediately invade Songzhou and join forces with the Turks to break into the pass. Let's see how you, Tang Dynasty, stop it!"

Zan Donglu said calmly: "The 30 troops stationed in Songzhou, if they don't hear from me within half a month, they will do it directly. As for whether to marry or not, you have to figure it out yourself!"

After all, he raised his head arrogantly, and the provocative look at Li Shimin was even more obvious.

What he said was already a direct threat, threatening in front of many ministers and generals of the Tang Dynasty.

"I need to think about it!"

Li Shimin suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice: "Come here, take the envoy Zan Donglu down."

As soon as the Tubo people left, the Ganlu Hall immediately boiled.

"Your Majesty, I can't bear it, you give me 10 people, and I will go to Songzhou now and wipe them all out!"

"Tubo is deceiving people too much, this battle must be fought, Your Majesty! Yuchi please order me to fight!"

"Qin Qiong asks for orders to fight..."

For a moment, the generals in the main hall were so angry that no one wanted to destroy Tubo.

"We have just destroyed Jieli and conquered Goguryeo, which has consumed almost all of our national power. Currently, most of our troops are still stationed in Liaodong City and the desert. If we concentrate our troops to attack Tubo in the west at this time, let Xue Yantuo, Goguryeo and others know, it will definitely They will take this opportunity against us."

"Then recruit troops from other ways. If I don't fight this battle, I'm not going well!"

"Fighting is not a problem, but how to fight? Both Tubo and Turkic people are strong and strong!"

"enough!"

Just when they were arguing endlessly, Li Shimin shouted loudly.

The Lord Ganlu became quiet again in an instant.

"General Li, what do you think?"

Du Ruhui looked at Li Yi'an.

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Li Yi'an.

"Of course we have to fight. If you don't fight them, you will only intensify the situation and make more progress. The demands you put forward become more and more excessive."

Li Yi'an said.

"Sir, you are right, you must fight!"

Zhang Gongjin greeted him first.

Lu Dongzan threatened Li Shimin so arrogantly, he had to fight, if he didn't fight, he was marrying a princess today, wouldn't he want their Chang'an City tomorrow?This is even more humiliating than the Weishui alliance back then.

Human greed is endless, if they are not subdued, greed will always be there.

"How do you think sir?"

Li Jing asked again.

Li Yi'an said: "The success or failure of this battle depends on His Royal Highness!"

"I?"

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, wondering how he knew how to fight.

Li Tai in the field heard this and looked at him suspiciously, as did the others.

"Please continue, sir."

Li Shimin felt that there was no reason for Mr. to say this.

Sir never disappoints.

"First of all, His Majesty issued an order to gather all the soldiers and horses near Chang'an for a military exercise."

Li Yi'an explained: "As for how to practice and what the content is, I will discuss it with His Majesty later."

"The second point is to see if His Royal Highness is brave enough to follow me to Songzhou."

"Go, I'll go!"

Li Chengqian jumped up immediately, and agreed without thinking: "The Tubo people are too hateful, for the sake of Tang, I can do anything, even if it is to die."

Li Tai actually felt a little danger again.

"Your Majesty, please allow me!"

Li Chengqian added.

"Wait a minute!"

Fang Xuanling quickly said: "Your Highness is the crown prince. Outside Songzhou City, there are 30 Tubo troops stationed. It is a risk to go there. Sir, are you sure?"