Was there really a beast war on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau?

Yes! During the period of Songzan Gambu, the Tibetan king, the animal war on the plateau reached a peak just like the Central Plains in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the profession of animal trainer also made an unprecedented breakthrough in that period, that is, from operating a single species to operating multiple species at the same time. Before that, most animal trainers were only familiar with one kind of animal and could tame and control it. For example, Qin Fei, the founding father of Thailand, is a standard animal trainer. His skill in horse training is far from that of Bole. He was granted a fief because his horse training was appreciated by the Zhou Emperor, which led to Thailand. In the most cruel period of the war on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, a new generation of animal trainers, who can only manipulate one kind of animal, have met the needs of the war, can manipulate many kinds of animals and are familiar with the weaknesses of enemy fighting animals. Later, people who know this profession only refer to this kind of person who is familiar with all kinds of animal habits, can control his own fighting beast in battle, and can fight back according to the weakness of the other fighting beast, which is called a real animal trainer. So Tibet is also called the birthplace of animal trainers. And those fighting beasts who participated in the beast war also have their special titles on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They are Swiss beasts guarding the four sides!

After historical precipitation, with the demise of the beast war, those fighting beasts gradually evolved into Swiss beasts who guarded the four sides, also known as guardian spirits. In people's minds, they are auspicious animals to protect their homes, but most people don't know that these auspicious animals used to be an indispensable fighting force to protect their homes. Master Jamba, if you understand this layer, I can tell you something about the history of the war mastiff. I remember I told you in America that in the history of Tubo, there was such an army, and every soldier was equipped with a war mastiff. They created an unbeaten myth in the history of war! Yes, it is a light army. In order to let everyone know more about the relationship between the light army and the war mastiff, I must first talk about the development of animal warfare and the historical environment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at that time. In fact, animal wars have been recorded in many stories in Tibet, but people have never paid attention to them. When the animal war was introduced into Tibet or since ancient times, it is impossible to verify and I can't explain it. The earliest animal wars of Tubo in historical records can be traced back to the period of the Seven Red Kings (the Seven Red Kings are the legendary seven generations of monarchs who established the Tubo Dynasty). It is said that all gods descended to earth with their own magical powers, turned into rainbows after death or climbed the ladder to return to heaven.

Legend has it that the seven generations of Tubo monarchs after the founding of the People's Republic of China were different from ordinary people. There is a foot of light on their heads, which was given to the Tibetans by the Six Gods as kings. There is no body after death, which belongs to the light above the head. However, since the eighth generation of Tibetan king Zhigongzam, they can't return to heaven, because Zhigongzam was shot by one of his ministers, Ron, and Zhigongzam means' killed Zampa'. According to the historical documents of Tubo Dunhuang,' Ben Wang (referring to Gongzanpu) is the son of the gods. Although endowed with an ordinary figure, he is quite different from ordinary people and has great magic power to fly to the sky. Mania and arrogance often make subordinates compete with them and test their abilities. "For the last time, he found a minister named Liang Dazi to compete. Luong claimed that he was not an opponent and didn't want to compete with Zhigong, but Zhigong struggled desperately. So the dragon said to Zhigong, "I am a minister and you are a monarch." . It's a big violation for me to fight with you, so I hope you can wear goggles when you fight, decorate your shoulders with a dead fox, and wave a knife over your head after you fight.' In fact, this is a trap for volunteers, because volunteers have the blessing and shelter left by their ancestors, and Ron can't kill him, so volunteers are cheated. Ron added:' I will provide you with music before the war. Please allow me to bring 200 cows.' Stop paying tribute, don't look at these things, just want to fight. Ron carried ashes on 100 cows, and another 100 cows were tied with hair. In the war, Ron beat gongs and drums in the name of supporting music, and the cattle ran amok. Hair and ashes rub against each other, and dust covers the sky. All the soldiers can't see it, only the mirror on the chest of Zhi Gong is shining. Ron shot and killed the volunteers, and thousands of troops were useless. Zhigong also failed to disappear into the light like his ancestors.

This is the earliest recorded story of animal wars, and it is also famous. Other famous stories include the story of mouse king and king, white yak, egg-laying hero and so on. In the later epics "Ban Ma Guatang" and "King Gelsall", there is a lot of information about animal wars, so I will list them one by one. By the time the Tibetan king Song Zan Gambu arrived, the animal warfare was mature. All tribes on the plateau found that human military strength was insignificant in front of fighting animals, so most of them tried to develop the scale of animal warfare in their own countries, and each country had one or two kinds of guardian spirits. The most common guardian spirit on the plateau is yak, which is a fighting beast with huge size, strong impact and easy domestication, and was the main force of animal war at that time. As you just heard the story, the patron saint of Tubo was originally a yak. At that time, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau where Tubo was located was like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Central Plains. There are Tubo Domi, Tangut and Prynne in the east, Supi, Tuyuhun and Hall in the north, Xiangxiong and countless small countries in the west. At that time, Tubo was not the most powerful, and its national strength was only stronger than that of Supi, Prynne and other States, and it was comparable to Tangut and Tuguhun. At the strongest time, there were many elephants in the west, which were huge, powerful and had the strongest guardian spirit. The murals in the inverted temple fully illustrate this point. Their guardians are wolves and Jin Peng, and fighting yaks with wolves has an innate advantage, which is enough to deter other small countries on the plateau. It was only during the Songzan Gambu period that Xiangxiong, the king of Tibet, failed to make progress and his national strength declined. However, the thin camel is bigger than the horse, and the Tubo can't chew the hard bone of Xiang Xiong.

Songzan Gambu, the king of Tibet, is said to have been very talented since he was a child. He is a rare military genius for thousands of years. His father was killed by a traitor. It is said that he caught his father's murderer at the age of thirteen and avenged his father with his extraordinary intelligence. At the age of fifteen, he has been able to pull out his pride and aim to unify the plateau. At the same time, the young Tibetan king knew that the western elephant male was the biggest force on the plateau, just behind him. If he wants to fight the bull elephant, he can't. If he sends troops to attack other countries, he may be used by elephant men. Therefore, if Tubo wants to grow and develop, it must conquer Xiangxiong. Just when the young monarch was at a loss, it was a match made in heaven. Elephant king personally sent two talents to Songzan Gambu, that is, the founder of the light army, and later became the right-hand man of the Tubo monarch, and has always been favored by the two families of Webster's and Niang's who perished in Tubo. The bride's family and Webster's family used to be Xiangxiong nobles. What happened to them in Xiangxiong is another history book. In short, they were no longer satisfied with the rule of King Xiang Xiong and defected to Tubo. When they saw Songzan Gambu, the first thing they said was that they were willing to build an invincible light army for the Tibetan king. This suggestion coincides with the idea of the young Tibetan king, so he left this top priority to two people. The so-called knowing people and being good at their duties is nothing more than that. From then on, the Tubo man changed his spirit of dominating the world and began to hide his strength, enrich the people, change laws and regulations, promote production and grasp the economy; Resist foreign enemies, spread marriage, and share with sects. He is forbearing, waiting, waiting for the day when his invincible army can fight! If the strength of Qin State lies in Shang Yang's political reform, then the strength of Tubo is the ruler himself, who has both the arrogance of Chu overlord and Zhuge Liang's amazing talent. The whole plateau is undercurrent in a tense but calm atmosphere, gestating an unprecedented change, which is destined to be completed by Songzan Gambu, the greatest Tibetan king in plateau history.

At the beginning of the establishment of the light army, it set a goal different from any other arms. Niang and Webster thought that the beast war had reached its peak and it was difficult to break through, but the soldiers were different and could be stronger and faster. If we can't shake the momentum of the fighting beast, we must change our strategy flexibly. Only people can better communicate and coordinate with others and cope with the rapid changes in the battlefield. It is impossible to say that man is inferior to fighting animals. Under the guidance of this theory, they completely broke the conventional arms establishment and divided the lowest combat unit into a team of five people with a squad leader; The fifth team is a squadron, with a squadron leader and a deputy squadron leader; Five squadrons form a brigade, with a captain, a vice captain and four staff officers. The basic unit of positional warfare is brigade, and unified dispatch is implemented. The captain died under the command of the vice captain, and the vice captain died under the command of the staff. If the top commander of a brigade dies in battle, the whole brigade can be disassembled into parts on the spot and divided into squadrons led by the squadron leader. If it is a sneak attack, interception, assassination and other tasks. , each team as a combat unit. Because there are only five people, there is great mobility and flexibility. The bride's family and Webster's family tried their best to make this army have terrible fighting capacity even if there was only one soldier left. These soldiers not only have the characteristics of ordinary soldiers whose first duty is to obey orders, but also have more extremely special abilities. They can March 200 miles day and night, and have excellent survival skills in the wild. They can lurk under the snow or pretend to be moving haystacks. At least one member of the five-member team "Benben" can identify herbs and treat people, and is proficient in anatomy, and can carry out simple marching operations at that time; Master of witchcraft, proficient in all kinds of murder and torture tactics, good at poisoning; A scout who is familiar with all kinds of terrain and can know the number and orientation of the enemy by distinguishing the traces of horseshoes and cattle and sheep; An archer who can draw a hard bow and shoot 200 steps; A person who knows the art of camouflage and can use various environments to create traps to catch wild animals and people. ...

This does not include later special occupations, such as animal trainer, magician, mechanic and weather magician. These soldiers are usually proficient in many skills. At that time, Xiang Xiong was the strongest guardian spirit on the plateau, and the light army also had combat drills with the yak army. The Tibetan king found that it was difficult for the light army to gain any advantage in positional warfare except to avoid the front of the yak army, disperse it and break it one by one. Whether they can defeat the elephant male army with the strongest guardian spirit is very worrying. Therefore, the Tibetan king decided to find out the characteristics and weaknesses of the elephant-male guardian spirit, and Tubo needed a new guardian spirit, a stronger guardian spirit, which could restrain the elephant-male guardian spirit. He married his own sister to King Xiang Xiong as a gesture of friendship, and signed a series of peace treaties, which won the favor of King Xiang Xiong. Saimaga, the sister of the Tibetan king, undertook the important task of exploring the spirit of guarding the elephant. She wrote the information in a scarf full of turquoise and sent it back to Songzan Gambu. The world only knew that Samaga was left out in the cold, symbolizing men's bravery and women's cowardice with turquoise and headscarves, and encouraging Songzan Gambu to fight against elephant men, but did not know that the headscarf also contained the secret of the guardian spirit of elephant men. Samaga used Tibetan, which was still a first-class secret at that time and had just been created. At the same time, with the efforts of Niang and Webster, they also discovered the power of an animal, the Tangut Mastiff. The Tibetan mastiff in the tribal guardrail stayed in the patriarch's backyard for several years and finally met Bole. In order to master the domestication method of this brand-new guardian spirit and crack the elephant-male guardian spirit, the Tibetan king ordered that every squad of the light army should have soldiers who are proficient in domestication, and it is not limited to a single species. In this way, a brand-new career was born.

The ancient animal trainer once said that it is difficult to tame a tiger, ten times as hard as taming a wolf; It is difficult to raise a mastiff. It is better to raise three tigers than to raise a mastiff. If you have a fighting mastiff, hold your hand and cry. In other words, to train a qualified mastiff, all three tigers have been trained, and to train a qualified mastiff into a war mastiff, the hair of the mastiff trainer will be boiled white. Moreover, this beast has infinite power and often goes its own way. Even on the battlefield, it is often out of control because of strength. Ordinary soldiers will be dragged by mastiffs instead. Because of its fighting capacity, Guang Jun can control mastiffs. There were 300 mastiffs at that time, which should be one for each team. At that time, mastiffs were not war mastiffs, but reconnaissance mastiffs. Its sight, hearing and smell have greatly helped this invincible army, making it a terrorist army that can fight day and night. From then on, the light army began to temper itself on the battlefield. First, they helped Tubo recover Pihe Department, broke Tuyuhun in the north, crusaded the Tangut in the east, and even went as far as the Central Plains, and fought with Tang for many times. After the tempering of war, the war mastiff gradually became one with the light army. From the beginning of 300 to the final battle with Xiang Xiong, the Light Army has more than 5,000 qualified war mastiffs, and it has also been honed into a real iron army on the battlefield. Although the number is small, there are more than one hundred people. In the final battle, 5000 ordinary mastiffs were mobilized from the Tangut to make a mastiff truly become a person. This strange team was called invincible light army by later generations, and they kept this pattern until the whole army was wiped out. The so-called know yourself and know yourself. At that time, the light army already knew the combination of Jin Peng and Wolf Warrior-the guardian spirit of Xiang Xiong. Wolves are fierce and sharp, and they are naturally good at teamwork. In wartime, there were about 10 to 15 wolves in a group, each on its own side, with a total of about 50,000 wolves. At that time, there were about 1000 eagles in the Kingdom of Jin Peng. Although the number is small, Jin Peng's dual-catalogue torch fights in the air and falls from the sky. The Force is heavy and irresistible, and it is very good at pecking out opponents' eyes. The combination of a wolf and an eagle is really hard to break.

But it is not without cracks. Niang and Webster believe that wolves, unlike dogs, are greedy, bloodthirsty and violent and cannot be completely domesticated. Every time an elephant fights with a male elephant, let the wolf be natural and wild, just like a tiger leaving the gate to let them bite, which can be broken by their bloodthirsty and cruel characteristics. They prepared 20,000 yaks for this purpose, which made elephants mistakenly think that the patron saint of Tubo was only yaks. They covered yaks with grass ash and covered their hair with deadly venom. Four yaks were in a group, dragging huge retting trees behind them. These 20,000 yaks are a fatal meal for the Wolf Warrior. The light army and the war mastiff are hidden behind the yak. In order to prevent Jin Peng's claws, the soldiers all wore bronze armor, while the fighting mastiff wore golden soft armor.

At that time, the battlefield was at the foot of Rinpoche in Shenshangang, between the two lakes, and the two armies lined up to drive the animals. On the side of the elephant male army, in the air, a thousand Jin Peng spread their wings and screamed constantly. On the ground, 50,000 wolf warriors howled, stretched out their sharp claws, and prepared for action. Animal trainers used herbs to drive away the wolves they controlled; In the Tubo army, 20,000 yaks groan in the sky, and the wood behind them is like a weapon of death, which will not only kill the enemy, but also crush themselves. Ten thousand light soldiers formed a phalanx, dressed in bronze armor, armed with long arms and hard bows and arrows. Every soldier has a war mastiff beside him, all dressed in gold silk soft armor. He is neither angry nor arrogant, nor does he sit or lie down. He is neither hostile to wolves nor wary of the air. The divine light was restrained and stunned. The lake is full of water and cold, as if death is watching this land and smiling at his upcoming harvest feast. The drums are beating, the horn is ringing, and the blue sky and loess are moaning. The yak formation started reluctantly and slowly under the whip of the animal trainer. Because the Shenhu Lake is slightly higher than the Ghost Lake, once you start retting, you will move along the slope. Those yaks must run faster and faster, or they will be dragged to death by themselves. Grass ash also spread with yak's body, like fog and smoke, blocking Jin Peng's view in the air; The yak in the fog is even more invisible. The four yaks fixed together by a straight shaft are doomed not to escape from left to right, but to run forward!

This is how life works. The hooves of the beef brisket shook the earth, and the lake set off huge waves. In this way, they rushed into the wolf array with fierce eyes and resisted the sharp spikes with flesh and blood.

Maybe they knew before they went out to war that their fate was as light as the grass ash they carried, and their blood would dye this land red. Thousands of years later, people will not remember them or celebrate them in the places where they have trodden. When the first bloody breath floated into the wolves, the wolves boiled, which attracted them to fight for it since ancient times and inspired their most primitive wildness. The animal trainer tried to restrain the wolves, but it was useless. When the first wolf left the team and rushed out, just like the domino effect, the wolves rushed to the cemetery that had been prepared for them like a torrent of water. A trained wolf knows how to deal with the enemy. A dozen wolves rushed at a yak at the same time, knocked it to the ground, grabbed its throat, and then jumped at each other. They know that when the battlefield is cleaned, it is the moment when the feast begins. Harvest, they harvest happily, but I don't know, death is also smiling and opening its arms to them.

When the battlefield smoke clears, the anxious eagle in the air can only see the bodies and twitching wolves in one place, and on the other side of the battlefield, the neat phalanx mixed with blue, black and gold is undoubtedly the most obvious target in the air. In what mood did they pounce on the enemy! The light army camp, half holding a pike, half squatting, taking an arrow and bending the bow, pointing the arrow at the sky, is still as steady as a rock, unhurried, and they know that their time has not yet arrived. The eagle swooped down at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour. This is a good attacker, attacking for more than nine days. This is the fastest attack on the plateau. The light army was livid and didn't blink. They're waiting ... waiting ...

The war mastiffs visually observed the distance between the eagle and people, two kilometers, one kilometer, five hundred meters, three hundred meters and one hundred meters. ...

When the war mastiff roared out of its throat, "Zheng-"arrow left the string and screamed at the top of his lungs. It is not an arrow or two arrows that greet the eagle, but a wall, a wall of death composed of sharp arrows. Jin Peng's potential for decline has reached the extreme, and it is impossible to fly high again. The arrow is like a broken bamboo, and the waves are uneven. The eagle is like a meteorite falling into the lake of death, and it can't lift a wave.

The eagle's wings were broken, and the wolf's body lay dead. The hundreds of elephants hidden behind the fighting beasts have been surprised without fighting, as if they are not facing ten thousand enemies, but endless killing machines, but a bottomless abyss of death. Just when the elephant army was in shock, the horn sounded again and the mastiff began to stir. At that moment, golden lions fell from the sky all over the mountain, and meteors fell into the elephant army, bringing the kiss of death. The lake reflected golden lightning, which was immediately covered with red, followed by light troops. They pulled out the crescent machete, and the blade was unstoppable. Xiang Xiong's soldiers' eyes were painted with blood red, and their hearts were devoid of fighting spirit. All they can think of is one thought: escape, escape, escape. ...

In the battle with Elephant Man, the combination of Man and Mastiff defeated the combination of Wolf and Big Jin Peng, and then swept the elephant man's 100,000 troops. In the light, there is no opponent. World War I was earth-shattering, and finally cleared the last obstacle for the Tibetan king Songzan Gambu to unify the plateau. The model of animal warfare has been completely rewritten. Animal trainers directly participated in the war as soldiers, which is unheard of in the history of animal wars, and the brand-new guarding spirit of the war mastiff is finally known to the world. They declared themselves the strongest fighting animals to the rest of the guardians on the plateau in a domineering spirit. The place where Xiang Xiong was defeated is also the well-known birthplace of the war mastiff. To commemorate the unbeaten light army, Shenhu was named Yongcuo on Mabian, which means invincible lake. At the end of Xiangxiong, Lhanag-tso Lake Lake is a ghost lake where the ghosts of hundreds of soldiers have gathered for a long time. Grief condenses into evil wind, pedestrians pass by and the fields cry. This is the real source of the names of the god fox and the ghost fox, but up to now, no one knows. Later, you also heard that the Geba people of Xiangxiong were incorporated into the light army because they lived with wolves. When this feature is applied to the war mastiff, it is said that the war mastiff has undergone an essential change. The original hard-to-tame war mastiff and the Geba people are almost like a perfect match made in heaven. The light army was founded by Webster's and Niang's, so the people of their two families took turns to appoint Ren Guangjun as the supreme commander, and these two families were always enough to control the two Tubo families until the light army disappeared, and the two families also turned against each other, each supporting a Zanpu, which eventually led to the collapse of the Tubo dynasty. The disappearance of Guang Jun and Sifang Temple has become the biggest suspense in Tibetan history.