What was the situation before the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty and Tibet?

Before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty had already had a crisis of rule. After the decline of the Tang Dynasty, Tibet began to expand abroad. The Tang Dynasty obtained an alliance with Tibet by marrying a princess. In the long river of history, the development and prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and Tibet almost shared glory and disgrace.

The Tang Dynasty has always crushed Tubo, and before the Anshi Rebellion, the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were stationed in the Hexi region, so they could crush Tubo.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo was almost defeated repeatedly, and the army of Tubo was almost rejected from the door of the Tang Dynasty again and again, during the Wu Zetian period and the Tang Zhongzong period, there were fierce generals who would attack the Tubo army to defeat, and Tubo therefore also asked the Tang Dynasty to make peace, it can be said that before the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has always been stronger than Tubo on the battlefield.

Because in the eyes of the Tubo people, the Tang Dynasty has always been a very powerful existence, and when there was a war, the army of the Tang Dynasty deliberately created the appearance of a large number of people, so the Tubo was afraid.

Because he clearly knew that he could not completely occupy this place, and there were still many excellent generals in the Tang Dynasty army at that time, he could not sit firmly in this place.

This is because the power of the Tang Dynasty was very strong at that time, and the strength was very strong, although the Tubo took the opportunity to take Chang'an, but did not grasp the power, so it only existed for a short period of 15 days, and finally withdrew in disgrace.

The Tibetan War of the Tang Dynasty had a significant impact on the course of history at that time. In the Tang and Tibetan Wars, the two sides planned and planned, and the opportunities were full of changes, and they widely used strategies and tactics such as long-distance drive, direct penetration, luring the enemy into depth, camera annihilation of the enemy, mobile defense, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, avoiding their sharp spirit, attacking their lazy return, suspicious soldiers blocking the enemy, ambushes, detours, long-range attacks, night raids, etc., which occupy an important position in the history of warfare.

In April of the sixth year of the <> Tang Gaozu Wude, Tubo captured Tang Fangzhou, which was the earliest recorded battle between Tang and Tibet.

In the twelfth year of the Zhenguan reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo Zanpu Songtsan Gampo led an army to attack Tang Songzhou, but was repelled by the Tang army. In the fifteenth year, Princess Wencheng of Tang married Songtsan Gampo, and the relationship between Tang and Fan was very harmonious for more than 30 years.

In the third year of Yifeng, Tang Gaozong sent Zhongshu to order Li Jingxuan and others to lead 180,000 troops to attack Tubo again. The two sides fought first in Longzhi, and the Tibetans retreated. The Tang army continued to go deeper, and fought fiercely with the main force of Tubo led by Non Qinling near Qinghai Lake, and the Tang army was defeated.

The Tang general Hei Tooth Chang Zhi led a death squad to attack the Tubo army at night, and the Tang army was able to retreat to Shanzhou when the enemy was in chaos.

Later, Princess Kaneshiro married Zamp Chid Zuzan and formed an alliance. He brought the advanced culture of the Tang Dynasty to Tibet. In 822, the Tang vassal alliance demarcated the borders and did not invade each other.

The Jokhang Temple in Lhasa also preserves a monument to the Tang Domain. The Tang army's courage to attack in a different way, with foresight and in a roundabout way, also shows that the Tibetans continued to recruit troops and food from the Qiang people. The Qiang people got tired and began to help the Tang army.

Later, the Yishi Rebellion, the Zhu Rebellion, the disaster of the princes, etc., the Tang Dynasty was defeated repeatedly and its strength was seriously weakened. The Tibetans seized the opportunity to win some, but the Tang Dynasty's Cui Ning, Li Sheng, Wei Gao, and Shi Jingfeng repeatedly attacked the Tibetan army.

In the sixth year of Tianbao, Gao Xianzhi captured Xiaobolu, and more than 20 small countries attached to Tibet in the vicinity were reattached to the Tang Dynasty. In the ninth year of Tianbao, he broke through the exhausted kingdom that was attached to Tibet. In the twelfth year of Tianbao, the Tang general Feng Changqing successively broke through the Great Bolu and the sowing immortals on the eastern main road of the Western Regions.

At this point, the Tang had achieved a complete victory in the war against Tibet. The Don also developed to its zenith.