Chapter 85

Starting at dawn, the Jumi tribe who set off yesterday sent warriors back to the camp one after another with trophies such as horses, cattle, sheep, and slaves.

The huge river valley turned into a bustling market, and the Sogdian merchants who served for General Wang, such as Bai Zuojian and Ashina Mountain, launched a war fortune, wantonly buying spoils that could not be brought back by the Jiji tribes.

"Three pennies for a fat sheep, one penny for a lamb."

"You are too dark, this fat sheep is worth eight cents!"

"It's worth eight cents in Yele City, but this is not Yele City. I took it and rushed back. It's freezing cold. Where can I find so much fodder? If I rush back to Yele City, ten cats will be hungry at least." If six or seven of them are frozen to death, this business is really not profitable."

"Okay, what about this felt, this is the best white felt."

"Five texts."

"Only five pennies!"

"Didn't I just say that I have to ship it back before I can sell it at a higher price."

Fat sheep and three pieces of silver coins.

Second-time healthy cattle can only be sold for [-] to [-] Wen silver.

Xijian cattle cost 120 to 150 yuan a head, and pack horses are cheaper than Xijian cattle.

A 15-year-old male slave is worth at least 65 Wen in Yele City, but here it can only be sold for [-] Wen, and a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old beautiful female slave is only worth [-] Wen.

But as those Sogdian merchants said, there is neither much forage nor much food here, and it is not easy to transport it back in the freezing weather, not to mention that there are many small tribes waiting to grab it.

The small chieftains of the Jimi tribes who stayed in the big camp did not want the horses, cattle, sheep and slaves they had worked so hard to win back to starve and freeze to death, so they had to sell them to Sogdian merchants at a low price.

Although the sale is very cheap, but the sum of gains is quite a lot, both buyers and sellers are happy after calculating the money.

Naturally, Han Pingan would not miss this opportunity, and asked the Sogdian guards to collect 58 cows, more than 200 horses, more than 600 sheep, and 320 Han slaves, and asked Xu Haoran to escort them back to Baisha together with the old and weak women and children from Suda city.

The results of the battle of the Jiji tribe made the soldiers in Yele town extremely jealous, and there was no need to boost their morale.

What General Wang wanted was the envy of his subordinates. After accepting the gifts from the various tribes, he ordered the regiments to go out. Han Ping'an moved into the Chinese army's tent and stayed behind.

Bai Zuojian went out with the army, looked back at the camp that was getting further and further away, and couldn't help asking: "General, is it safe to hand over the camp to Han Sanlang?"

"You're worried that he won't be able to keep it."

"Han Sanlang is smart, but he is only 15 years old and has never led a soldier before."

"Saburo has never fought a war, but his men Chen Biao, Jiang Tiezhu and those wolf cubs from Su Da's tribe have experienced many battles. Besides, we won't go too far. There are only a small group of Tibetans in a radius of two hundred miles, so nothing will happen. of."

Chen Biao turned out to be the brigade commander of the night watch team in Yele Town, and Jiang Tiezhu, who played the role of the Youyi Officer of the Duzhou Playhouse, turned out to be the leader of the Yele City Playhouse Team. With the two of them, there is nothing to worry about.

Bai Zuojian didn't ask any more, but said with a smile: "Mazha Tata must have never thought that we would go to war at this time. The timing of the general's conquest is really just right."

Now is really not the season for marching and fighting. Just arriving here from Yele City has frostbitten more than thirty soldiers. It is conceivable that there will be more frostbite and even death in the future.

The reason why the war started at this time is actually to avoid its edge.

All the people in Tubo are soldiers. Either they don't fight, or when they fight, they drag their families out and rush forward.Tubo's military orders are harsh, every battle, the front team will die, and the rear team will advance!

The area actually controlled by the Mazha tribe is nearly a thousand miles away. Counting the small tribes attached to it, the population is as high as [-] to [-]. If this battle is to be fought in spring, autumn or summer, then it will face [-] to [-] people who are not afraid of death. enemy.

Choosing to start the war at this time, it is difficult for Maza Tata to gather all his subordinates due to the heavy snow blocking the mountain.

Because they don't have the saying that the army goes first without using food and grass. They never bring food and grass when they go out, only horses and sheep.Go in and out only to drink horse milk or slaughter sheep for food, and the accompanying horses and flocks will eat grass wherever they go. After the sheep are slaughtered and eaten, they will shoot rabbits, deer and other wild animals for food. A hundred thousand troops will not raise fireworks .

But now it's freezing cold, how can there be grass for the sheep?

If they really drove the sheep out like before, they would starve to death and freeze to death within three to five days at most.It is also impossible to rely on hunting to fill one's stomach.

An Fuyan and Han Shimei racked their brains to deal with the Mazha tribe, and after several years of thinking about it, they came up with the idea of ​​sending troops in winter.

More than two months ago, An Fuyan and Han Shimei said they were inspecting the various prefectures, but in fact they came to investigate the transportation routes of grain and grass.

It's just that at that time they didn't expect that Mazha Tata would start the war first, but they just thought that once the war started, they would have to take advantage of the time to sweep away dozens of small tribes attached to the Mazha tribe that were closer to Yele City.

Otherwise, when Mazatata makes a big move, these dozens of small tribes will be able to wipe out the more than [-] soldiers in Yele Town under Mazatata's harsh military orders.

In short, it is not difficult to deal with Tubo warriors, how many Tubo warriors are brave and fearless?

What is really difficult to deal with are the slaves of Tubo, who are all soldiers and have a large number, often tens of thousands.Only by taking advantage of the time to defeat each of them and weakening the power of Maza Tata to the greatest extent can Yele Town have a chance of winning.

Naturally, Wang Qingxiang would not tell Bai Zuojian that this was a strategy that An Fuyan and Han Shimei had thought up long ago, let alone tell Bai Zuojian that Han Sanlang had come up with another strategy based on the strategy his father and his father-in-law had conceived earlier. A more ruthless and more poisonous plan.

I only know that as long as this battle can be won, the credit will be due to him, Ye Lezhen!
Although Han Shimei had merit as Baisha's keeper, but Han Shimei belonged to the crown prince, and at this juncture when the emperor painstakingly plotted to abolish the crown prince, he would not dare to show his merit even if he offered his credit to Chang'an.

Wang Qingxiang pretended to be silent for a moment, looked at the mountains and rivers in the distance, and said coldly: "The timing is in my favor, but I can't take it lightly. You must know that Yele Town is not the old Yele Town, and the Mazha Department is not the same as the old Mazha Town." Zhabu."

Bai Zuojian asked in a low voice: "The general, did you mean that Maza Tata would summon troops to fight?"

"Twenty years ago, he captured so many people and reclaimed so many river valleys. Now he not only drinks mare's milk and mutton, but also eats grain like us."

"I have inquired about the merchants who have been to the Mazha Department. Although they let the slaves farm the land, most of the grain they grow is used to feed livestock."

"As long as there is food and grass, they can send troops."

"Even if there is food and grass, I don't think they can send many soldiers."

"No matter how many soldiers and horses he can muster, the most urgent task is to clear up these small tribes in front of his house."

"The general is wise."

……

At the same time, Han Ping'an and Su Dasushi were looking at the newly hung map in the large tent of the Chinese army to settle accounts.

This map was made by Su Dasushi in the past two months. Mitif asked all the people who had been to the Mazha Department to inquire, and asked Pan Tuo to help draw it.

Compared with the map left by Wang Qingxiang that was picked up and thrown in the corner, this one is not only more detailed, but also pays attention to proportion.

The 39 large and small tribes attached to the Mazha tribe, the territories of 170 and eight warriors of the Mazha tribe, and the territories of 22 hundreds of household heads are all marked on the map.

The two wooden boxes just moved in are full of materials about various ministries of Mazar.

Where the tribes of all sizes lived, the general terrain of the settlements, and the approximate number of warriors and slaves there were everything.

"Master Anu should have captured the Quligele tribe by now."

"They made such a big commotion at night, it's hard to say if anyone slipped through the net to report to Qu Ligele. We can't use the word 'should'. Only when they escort the spoils back can we get the more than 600 people from Ligele's department back." crossed out."

"When it comes to loot, Gu Sili and the others can't sit still! Crazy, idle is idle, or let them make a small fortune."

"Let them get rich, who will guard the camp?"

Han Pingan asked a question back, sat down and laughed: "When someone comes to help us avenge, how can we not give him a sweet treat. Besides, this is just the beginning, if we don't give him a sweet treat first, who will help us fight the next tough battle? "

Su Dasushi couldn't refute, and asked with the grape wine: "You said that old man Maza Tata, has he received any news at this time?"

"Should have received it, but he can mobilize only two to three thousand warrior slaves now. It will take at least half a month to gather soldiers and horses, and it will take 20 days at the fastest to arrive at our place."

Han Ping'an thought for a while, and then said: "I'm not worried about that old man Maza Tata knowing about it. I'm just worried that the nearby small tribes will receive the news. Once they take precautions, they will definitely flee south with their families."

"People can run, but horses, cattle and sheep cannot."

"It depends on General Wang and Anu Shi. If we can clear up these thirty or so small tribes within ten days, then we will not only face [-] to [-] enemies less, but also save the enemy Mazatata's supply line has been extended by two hundred miles."

The big leader of the Shangxieqia tribe was the most greedy. The solitary army went deep into more than three hundred miles to attack the four small tribes farthest from Yandu, and tried to intercept the small tribes that might flee south.

Wang Qingxiang wanted to eliminate the enemy as much as possible, but he was not at ease when he saw that Xieqia's army had gone so far alone, so he sent Yele City Night Watch Team and Youyi Team together.

It can be said that the success or failure of the first phase of the battle depends entirely on whether the Xieqia Department, Yele City Night Watch Team, and Youyi Team can realize their strategic intentions.

It was useless to just sit here and worry, Su Dasushi asked again: "Crazy, you said that old bastard Mazha Tata, will he designate a place when the order is issued, so that all ministries can gather first?"

Han Pingan took a bite of the naan bread, and pondered: "Mazha Tata can only do this if he wants to be quick, but this way we have a chance to defeat each of them."

At this very moment, more than 200 Na Xuebu scouts from the west of Congling Mountain, wearing the armor of the Tang frontier army, roamed around within a radius of two hundred miles.While searching for and killing the fish that slipped through the net last night, they monitored every possible move of the main force in Tubo.

Su Dasushi recalled the overall plan and the countermeasures for various situations, and couldn't help laughing: "He must not have thought that we would dare to fight in such cold weather, and he must have never thought that we would dare to go out of the city to fight in the field."

(End of this chapter)

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