Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 974

Luo Siye was chewing a piece of jerky yak meat. The dried yak meat naturally dried by herdsmen on the plateau had a slight fishy smell and was very hard, so he had to chew hard to get it right.

By the fire.

It's quite comfortable, if it weren't for the pursuers behind, it would have been pretty good.

Guo Xiaoke, the deputy manager, handed over a map. Several circles had been drawn with charcoal on the sheepskin map.

"I figured it out. The army that suddenly appeared was not Turkic, nor Murong Ke or Murong Anyuan. It was his mother's Tubo and Western Qiang army."

Siye broke through Wuhai City, and King Tianzhu was defeated and fled.Siye, who had won a great victory, also escorted the captives and captured cattle and sheep to prepare to return to Qinghai Lake the same way.

But who would have thought that the soldiers and horses of the Western Turks and Murong Ke were indeed far away, but a cavalry was killed from the south.

At the beginning, Siye didn't know who the opponent was, so he took the battle in a daze, only to find that this cavalry was actually very strong, and Siye didn't take advantage of it.Of course, Deputy Chief Guo Xiaoke and others believed that it was because the main force of their Qin army did not come. This battle was mainly fought by Murong Shun's Tuyuhun soldiers. Their combat effectiveness was not good enough, so they failed to win.

But in any case, this really made Siye vigilant.

After the cavalry failed to win the first battle, they did not retreat immediately, but began to hang far away.

Siye sent more than a dozen Qingqi to inquire, and finally figured out the situation. It turned out that the opponent was the coalition army of Tubo and Xiqiang, but this Tubo army was not the 1 people on the Dafeichuan side. Didn't come over there.But this one is a new one.

"About 3 people, including [-] Tubo cavalry, and about [-] Xiqiang soldiers. Of the [-] Xiqiang soldiers, [-] belong to the Domi tribe and [-] belong to the Bailan tribe."

Domi is a Western Qiang country north of the Yak River. Tubo called them the Southern Kingdom. After Subi was annexed by Tubo, Domi was under pressure, and Bailanqiang, the Qiang country under the Zishan Mountain at the source of the Yellow River, surrendered to Tubo.

This time, the two countries were ordered by Nanri Lunzan to send [-] troops each to follow the Tubo army.They did not take the previous [-] Tubo road, but crossed the Yak River, crossed the Zishan Mountain, and then stepped across the source of the Yellow River, and went directly to the vicinity of Wuhai.

This route goes out to the north of Jishi Mountain and bypasses the Jishi Mountain from the west.

However, this coalition army was still a step late, and failed to arrive in time to reinforce Tianzhu King.When they arrived, Siye had already retreated from Wuhai City with the prisoners and spoils of war.

So they followed and chased, but they didn't take advantage of the first battle. For a while, these Tubo generals didn't dare to be careless.

Siye has been fighting for a long time, and his army has become more and more powerful. Although the Tubo people have not launched an attack yet, he knows very well that these people are just looking for opportunities.

They may attack at any time.

"We marched too slowly." Siye said.

Guo Xiaoke breathed a sigh of relief, and put the fire into the fire to roast.

"Damn it, you said it's already May in this damn place, why is it still snowing? Also, I feel tired and flustered without wearing armor, and even more exhausted when I go to war."

"It is said that this place is on a plateau and is close to the sky. I have heard His Majesty say that the sea is the lowest place in the world. On the other side of Qinghai Lake, the ground is seven or eight hundred feet higher than the sea. Now we are in these places. , is even higher than the sea surface, and the mountains around us are even [-] or [-] feet higher. Such a high place is close to the sky, and the air is thin, so people are prone to fatigue and are not used to it. Some people are prone to adverse symptoms, etc., but as long as they get used to it for a long time, it’s fine.”

Guo Xiaoke seemed to understand, "So we are on a huge mountain.

"I guess the Tibetans are going to attack us.

"When?"

Guo Xiaoke asked.

Siye looked at the map, "Don't forget, there are still [-] Tubo troops in southern Sichuan, and there are also the defeated soldiers of King Tianzhu nearby. They may join forces to attack us at any time."

"But in this damn weather, it's really hard to speed up the march."

Siye frowned, "Then leave those captive animals behind."

Guo Xiaoke was very reluctant, because there were tens of thousands of captives and tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, not to mention the many salt, cloth, gold and silver robbed from Wuhai City.

"Marshal, most of the spoils of livestock have already been assigned to the soldiers, I'm afraid they may not be willing to abandon them."

Everyone has fought so hard, and they have finally won the spoils of war, how can they just throw them away.

"I think the Tibetans may not dare to attack us. They only have 4 people, but we have more than [-]. They did not take advantage of their raids on us before."

"It won't be long before we reach Dafeiling, and we won't be afraid then."

Siye found Murong Shun and asked him to abandon the captives and spoils, but Murong Shun was also unwilling to abandon them.

"I'm afraid the soldiers won't agree." Murong Shun said, he, the prince who had just returned to the country, won the throne by mutiny and killing his father, all with the support of some noble generals. The generals Tuyuhun were already a little dissatisfied with sharing half of the spoils. They felt that the Qin people took more than [-]% of the spoils when they sent troops, but when they were divided, they took half.

Now let them throw away half of what they got, how could they be willing.

"Your Majesty, the Tubo people are nothing more than that. Let's go to Dafeiling immediately. There are tens of thousands of Qin troops there, let alone the Tubo people."

Murong Shun refused to agree. Although Siye was the marshal of Great Qin, there were more than [-] soldiers in the army at this time, and the Qin army under Siye's command was no more than [-]. It was impossible for him to leave the Tuyuhun army and retreat alone.

In addition, Guo Xiaoke, the deputy chief executive, was also reluctant to abandon the seizure, so he had to temporarily shelve this proposal.

"Send more horses, strengthen vigilance, and let the whole army speed up."

It's just that you have to march with tens of thousands of captives, tens of thousands of livestock, and a lot of spoils of war, and you have to brave the wind and snow, and you have to always beware of the Tubo people nearby. How fast is the march.

Fortunately, for several days in a row, the Tubo people just followed from a distance and did not launch an attack.

On this day, they finally walked out of the hot spring valley, and Dafeichuan was in front of them.

"Damn it, we've finally arrived at Dafeichuan. We're not afraid now. It's a good thing we didn't leave these things behind, or we'd be at a loss." Guo Xiaoke looked at Dafeiling in front of him, and then at the long line behind him. , couldn't help laughing.

Siye's brows were still furrowed. He thought that the Tubo army would attack them before they reached Dafei Ridge, but he didn't expect to see them come here.

This is so out of line.

On Dafei Mountain, Cheng Mingzhen also saw the return of the Qin army from the foot of the mountain, so the mountain gate opened, and a light horse rushed down the mountain to meet him.

When Siye saw Cheng Mingzhen, he immediately asked, "Is there anything unusual around Dafeiling?"

"Everything else is fine, but the scouts sent to the north a few days ago have never returned."

(End of this chapter)