The Tang Dynasty is the most powerful dynasty in the history of our country. In its heyday, it truly achieved the "all nations come to dynasty". A powerful dynasty naturally gave birth to many outstanding generals. Putting aside those outstanding generals, today I will tell a story about a civil official. As a civilian, he was a general for the first time, and with his own little military knowledge and extraordinary ability, he destroyed "India" alone.
This civil servant is the "diplomat" Wang Xuance of Datang. How exactly did Wang Xuance achieve the myth of destroying "India" by one person?
During the Tang Dynasty, with the prevalence of Buddhism, Datang and Tianzhu, namely India, had close contacts. However, India at that time was divided into several countries, namely, East, West, South, North, and Central India. In the 21st year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty sent Wang Xuance as the envoy and Jiang Shiren as the deputy envoy to China and India again to visit Princess Wencheng who was married to Songtsen Gambo.
After a long journey, Wang Xuance and his team finally arrived in Central India. Unfortunately, King Jieri, the king of Central India, was just killed by the rebellion of Prime Minister Alonashun. The former King Jieri established a friendly relationship with Datang, and at this time the delegation of Datang suddenly arrived. Alonashun's throne was wrong, he was afraid that Datang would interfere in internal affairs. How could Alonashun easily surrender the throne before he got his hands.
So Alonashun sent people to intercept and kill the delegation and the group, and captured Wang Xuance and Jiang Shiren alive. Finally, with the help of the sister of the former king, he escaped. As a Datang official, he was humiliated in a small foreign country. This tone can be tolerated. Qi and Qi Wang Xuance also knew that Alonashun couldn't be helped by the two of them alone.
Wang Xuance asked Jiang Shiren to go to Tubo to visit Princess Wencheng to borrow troops, and he went to Nepal to borrow troops. Relying on the relationship of Princess Wencheng, Songtsen Ganbu readily lent Jiang Shiren more than a thousand soldiers. At that time, Nepal's Princess Chizun was also married to Songtsan Gampo, and Wang Xuance borrowed an army of more than 7,000 from Nepal through the prestige of Tubo. In the name of Datang, he borrowed thousands of soldiers from neighboring countries, barely making up an army of 10,000.
Although Wang Xuance is only a civil servant, but China has a history of war for thousands of years. The ancients left a lot of war experience for future generations, relying on the influence of the art of war, Wang Xuance still knew a little about fighting. Wang Xuance used the "Fire Bull Array" used by Tian Dan during the Warring States Period to easily defeat Alonashun's army.
Alonashun was so scared that he quickly fled to East India, and bewitched the king to send troops to fight back against Wang Xuance. The King of East India gave Alonashun tens of thousands, but Alonashun was wiped out once again and his people were captured alive. Because East India had aided Alonashun, Wang Xuance originally wanted to destroy it as well. The king quickly came to ask for peace and expressed his willingness to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Xuance gave up. So Wang Xuance took Alona Shunhe back to Datang with the spoils.
Wang Xuance's own wisdom is indispensable for Wang Xuance to fight back after escaping. Of course, it is even more inseparable from Datang's foreign policy and Datang's reputation. Datang’s policy of friendship with neighboring countries gave Wang Xuance an opportunity, and more importantly, Datang’s national prestige was able to borrow soldiers. It was the prosperity of Datang that gave Wang Xuance the confidence. It shows how important it is for a country to be strong.
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