On the road beside the forest, a large group of soldiers were on their way.
Wearing brown camel hair military uniforms, they lined up in a column formation unique to fast marches. The scouts were spread out widely, and even the army's cavalry was dispatched to expand the scope of the reconnaissance.
Search forests, mountains, lakes and swamps carefully to make sure there are no enemies.
They had to be so careful.
Coming all the way from the Jiankang Army, the light troops advanced quickly. Except for water and arrows, all the large baggage troops were left there. Camping at night was a big trouble.
Who says that the commander-in-chief won’t take risks? Strategically speaking, he doesn’t take risks, but tactically he still does it occasionally.
The army of 7,000 soldiers crossed the Qilian Mountains, made a large detour to the border of Shanzhou, looted the rear of Tibet, and cooperated with the main force. What kind of adventure is this? What if we are surrounded by the enemy and run out of food? That would be great.
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Guan Kairun sat on a horse, spread out the map and looked at it carefully.
Beside the road were groups of soldiers passing quickly. After each battalion, there were also a large number of camels loaded with various supplies.
Zhou Yiyan, who was appointed as the training envoy of the Ganzhou regiment, recruited three thousand tribal troops and drove a large number of camels to follow. They were not only reserve auxiliaries, but also capable of acting as cavalry in combat.
There was no way back for Zhou. Lord Wumu's wife and daughter left behind in the city were rewarded to him by the commander. Zhou Yiyan did not dare not to take them, but once they were taken away, his way back would be cut off. Lord Wumu could not
Will let him go.
"How far is it from Yu Haijun?" Guan Kairun found Yang Yi, the emissary of You Yi, and asked.
Yang Yi is about thirty years old, with a horse face and a scar on his face. He looks ferocious and fierce. And he is indeed more brave in fighting. He likes to rush to kill, just like his father.
"Military envoy, we are not far away, only twenty miles away. There are tribes grazing over there. Let's gather the cavalry and charge them for a while. We will definitely win. There are still horses in the tribe, and we have a lot of infantry in the army.
If you know how to ride a horse, grab the horse and then rush to kill it, and then rob it again!" Yang Yi said, waving her arms as if holding a knife in her hand.
"Gather your 500 cavalry together, and then draw 2,000 cavalry from the infantry army. Under your unified command, capture that tribe first. We didn't bring much food and grass with us when we sent the troops, and we need to replenish them urgently. There are still 1,000 cavalry.
It belongs to you too, but you won’t participate in the battle, just hang around in the periphery, hunting for any fish that may have slipped through the net.”
The grassland is so empty that you can often walk for ten and a half months without seeing a human being. As long as the peripheral interception lines are arranged, the news will not leak out so quickly.
"I will obey your orders!" Yang Yi left happily.
Close and continue looking at the map.
Yu Haijun was established by Tubo. The original city of Longyi in Xihai County of Han Dynasty was located in the area of today's Gangcha Temple. Passing through the Qilian Mountains to the north, you can reach Gansu and Suzhou. When Tubo attacked Hexi, an army came out from the north.
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In fact, there are a total of five roads from the Qinghai Lake area to the north of Hexi, namely, "Five roads including Dadou, Jiankang, Sanshui, and Zhangye in the southern mountains of Ganzhou." They are all transportation valley roads in the north and south of the Qilian Mountains.
Shui and Zhangye are the first four roads.
Suzhou is the fifth road, "... more than a year ago, the Turks invaded Suzhou with thousands of horsemen and more than 10,000 baggage, intending to go south to Tuyuhun. (Gongsun) Wu Da led 2,000 people...to attack them in a hurry, and they were defeated.
Squeeze it into the Zhangye River."
This is one of the routes from Ganzhou Jiankang Army going south to Qinghai Lake Fish Navy.
To the east of Yu Haijun is the old Han Linqiang County. After passing this abandoned county and heading east, you can reach the Wei Rong Army. Sixty miles east of the Wei Rong Army, there is the Baishui Army. They built a city in the fifth year of Kaiyuan and managed 4,000 soldiers (
Today Huangyuan).
Sixty miles east of the Baishui Army, they can reach Linfan City (to the north of today's Huangzhong County, there was a Zhenhai Fort in the Qing Dynasty, and Luobuzangdanjin once raised troops to besiege it). Further east from Linfan City is the Heyuan Army and Shancheng County
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The whole journey from Yu Haijun to Heyuan Army is 490 miles, and there are many tribes in the middle. Now they are moving westward and southward one after another, trying to stay away from the battlefield and graze their cattle in the rear.
Qingtang City is the front line, leaving the men to fight with the enemy. Women and children move to the rear with their cattle and sheep to graze. This is the right way.
Theoretically, it's true. Tens of thousands of troops from the Tang Dynasty were stationed in the Xingxiu Sea area. Their banners covered the sky and the sun, and their power was astonishing. Unless the women, children, and livestock were moved to the rear, the men could not fight with peace of mind, but...
Under the blue sky, there are white clouds and wild flowers.
The large group of cavalrymen held horned bows and rained arrows like locusts. The hundreds of Tibetan cavalrymen who stood in front of them only resisted for a moment before being submerged in the thicket of war horses.
Yang Yi held a horse-drawn horse in hand and caught up with a Tubo man who was fleeing on horseback. With a slight poke, the enemy fell down immediately.
Baihu was not dead for a moment. He just stood up unsteadily, and several horses rushed towards him. He was unable to avoid them and was knocked away.
Five hundred cavalrymen of the Jinglue Army acted as the vanguard, leading two thousand Ganzhou Uighurs, Longjia, Tuyuhun, and Tatar tribe troops to attack and kill everywhere along the Huangshui River Basin with rich water and grass.
The Tubo tribes were in the process of being transferred, and the best ones were drawn to the area north of Qingtang City, hoping to lure the Tang army to go deep and annihilate them in one battle. Except for a few soldiers and horses left behind, almost all of them were old and weak, and of course there were large herds of cattle and sheep.
The Tubo people knew their own weaknesses, so they planned to move the old and the weak to Fuqi City, Shudun City, and Jingbian Town.
Fuqi City, the capital city of Tuyuhun, is not small in scale. After being repaired by the Tang and Tu two countries, it is still somewhat presentable and can accommodate many people. It is near today's Shinaihai Town on the west bank of Qinghai Lake.
Shudun City, the old capital of Tuyuhun, is located on the southeast coast of Qinghai Lake, near today's Chahan City. During the Tuyuhun period, a large city was built here and lake embankments were built. It is now dilapidated, but it has a somewhat defensive role.
Jingbian Town, in today's Guide County, was established in the middle of Zhenguan. In the second year of Yifeng, the city was expanded, Jishi Army was established, and 7,000 troops were in charge. The city is pillowed on the Yellow River in the north and is adjacent to Dajian in the west. The situation is dangerous and it belongs to Kuozhou.
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On the other side of the northwest bank of the river, there is the Yingbian Army, placed by Ge Shuhan, and the Jishi Army is at the horns of each other.
Jishi Army, the Yingbian Army area, connects to Kuozhou in the east and divides into Dahe and Shan; to Jiuqu in the southwest, it is an excellent horse herding land; and to Dafeichuan in the west. The land is fertile and the agricultural products are abundant. During the reign of the Kingdom of China, it was
In the transportation center of the upper source of the Yellow River, people were recruited for farming and the harvest was great. The seven-level pagoda of Duofu Temple in the city was a famous Buddhist city in the western Xinjiang of the country (Gao Shi once wrote a poem).
The Tubo people's large-scale transfer of old and weak, cattle and sheep will of course cause a lot of chaos. And because they are in a marching state, it will be difficult to deal with if they are caught, and they will basically die.
Yang Yi's troops rushed into a tribe that was moving and killed them wantonly.
The tribal troops from Hexi were particularly ferocious. They would kill the men with a knife when they saw them, and surround the women and children. At the same time, they also sent people to collect the cattle, sheep and horses.
For the grassland people, women, children, and livestock are all property, and adult men are competitors. Therefore, if the superior officials do not restrain them, anyone taller than a wheel can be killed, and then the women can be taken home and enjoyed.
Give yourself children, and raise them as slaves.
This is the naked law of the jungle, the weak eat the strong. Today's Central Plains also has a taste of this. In troubled times, the big-headed soldiers like to kill the enemy men and then take their wives and daughters home. Don't talk about chaste and fierce women, women
In this era, whether in the grasslands or the Central Plains, nothing is better than goods. After a woman's husband is killed, it is common for a woman to change hands and give birth to children for different men.
The customs of the Tang Dynasty were very different from those of the Southern Song, Ming and Qing dynasties where ethics and ethics flourished. Strictly speaking, it was a bit "Hu", and the legacy of the Northern Dynasties was really common.
After a round of fighting, seeing that the resistance of the Tubo people had completely collapsed, Yang Yi sent people to restrain his troops and not allow any more mass killings.
Of course, women and children are not the spoils of war for these tribal armies. Livestock can be divided among them to increase their enthusiasm. If there is another rebellion in the Hehuang land in the future, it will be easier to summon the tribes in Hexi to go south.
In the same way, if Shao Shude truly rules the land of Hehuang and there is a rebellion in the Hexi states, the Tubo and Qiang people from Hehuang can also be mobilized to go north to plunder the Uighurs, Dangxiang, Longjia, Tuyuhun and other tribes.
If it is Hexi and Hehuang rebel together...
Well, this matter is a bit troublesome. We need to mobilize a large army to conquer. Of course, the tribes in Hetao and Yinshan can also come over and make a fortune.
When it comes to walking a tightrope and striking a balance between tribes and tribes, Marshal Shao has done his best. He considers himself to be the best in the country and has not yet been able to get away with it. As for whether he will get away with it in the future, let’s talk!
"Leave some of the goods, cattle, and sheep to be escorted and hand over to the infantry. The rest, continue to search and move forward. We will not leave a blade of grass in this Hehuang grassland! Go west and kill!" After handling everything, Yang Yi
He got on his horse again, took two thousand riders with him, and headed west like a gust of wind.
At this time, Zhang Huaishen and Long Jiu were sitting across from each other drinking in Weirong Army City.
There are more than 5,000 Yumen Army soldiers, all of whom are cavalry. Now they are all heading east, towards the Baishui Army.
The three thousand cavalrymen who returned to the Yi army defeated a Tubo tribe in the area of the Weirong army, and captured thousands of Dingkou and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep.
Zhang Huaishen now feels more and more that the King of Lingwu County fights like a barbarian, but his military tactics are extremely pure Han Chinese tactics.
Use righteousness to combine, use surprise to win, and righteousness and surprise complement each other. This is clearly written in "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
Prince Lingwu has finally understood the art of war and read it thoroughly. Know yourself and your enemy, use your strengths and avoid weaknesses. There is no need for stunning works that will impress people, but only a steady victory.
The main force on the front is thick, dignified, and well-trained, so you have to go all out. Then, relying on the large number of soldiers and horses, you can separate several partial divisions and make large detours of hundreds of miles to harass your rear and shake your military morale.
As soon as your main force on the front line is shaken, they will start to squeeze forward and use various bad tricks, such as surrendering, alienating, and bribery, to further weaken your morale. In the end, the entire army will press forward and fight you, whether you can fight or not.
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I used this trick when I went to Liangzhou, and now I am still playing it in Hehuang! Everyone can guess it, but it is really difficult to break.
Shuofang's army is the most elite and solid main force of the Chinese army, but it's actually just a guise! It's very stable, with deep trenches and high fortresses. It won't waste time in fighting, but it will oppress you and prevent you from being distracted.
If this person fights, he will probably be laughed to death by many young and energetic generals, but if he actually fights, you will find it very difficult to deal with him. He is like a tortoise, with few flaws, and will not cause an unstoppable defeat or a tragic defeat.
Be invincible first, then wait for the enemy to be victorious! Prince Lingwu must be familiar with the art of war and understand this sentence deeply.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" has many essences in every sentence, but very few of them can be used flexibly.
"The King of Lingwu County ordered us to station troops here to search and suppress the old and weak of the Tibetan tribes. Let's see what the Tubo tribe will do next. Three groups of strange troops have detoured for hundreds of miles. Now, they should be very passive." Zhang Huaishen ate.
After taking a bite of the mutton, I felt that the sheep from Hehuang were not as delicious as those from Hexi, so I put down my chopsticks and said.
"That's fine." In fact, Long was not very confident about letting the Yumen Army go out to take risks. Hearing this, he got off the slope and said.
Along the way, Zhang Huaishen was the commanding envoy, and he was the deputy envoy. If Zhang Huaishen did not give the order, Long Jian did not dare to let the Yumen army come back, for fear that someone Zhang would report him to his in-laws.
There is another road to the west, and the military envoy Guan Kairun leads ten thousand soldiers and horses of the Han and Han Dynasties. According to the latest news, a lot of gains have been made.
It is reported that there is another road to the east, which is dominated by silver guns. We have not contacted them yet, and we don’t know what they are doing. But with the virtue of these Uighurs, they will not be lenient when it comes to burning, killing and looting.
The main force of the commander-in-chief of Lingwu County was still camping in Xingxiu Sea, constantly inviting the leaders of the Tibetan tribes to come and join the alliance.
What kind of alliance? Isn't it just a loss of sincerity? It sounds so nice.
The Tubo people don't know how to arrange their troops this time, so they will probably have a headache.
