The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 507 The Thing From Heaven
There are no telephones these days, and there is no cellular internet.

The transmission of information depends entirely on people running around, and it is really slow when the distance is longer.

The nomadic Mangpo branch near the West Sea quickly mobilized soldiers and horses to come for reinforcements after receiving the request from Shibao City.

When they set off, they didn't know that Shibao City had been breached, so they just wanted to hurry and were not alert.

When they were marching tens of miles away from Shibao City, they were suddenly hit hard by Tang Jun, and they didn't even react for a while.

The Tubo soldiers who were driving the yak herd couldn't even organize a decent resistance, and they were rushed away by tens of thousands of Tang army cavalry.

Next, it was the crazy pursuit of the Tang cavalry.

Stone Castle City is located at the entrance of the mountain pass, and through Stone Castle City is a vast plateau.

The height here is not beyond the bearing capacity, and Tang Jun can also display good strength here.

There are fleeing Tubo soldiers all over the mountains and plains, as well as those unattended yaks running around.

Ge Shuhan, who was so excited and determined to die for the emperor, led his soldiers and horses to hunt him down frantically.

At the farthest point, he even almost chased to the west coast.

The corresponding results are naturally very good. Ge Shuhan himself reported tens of thousands of cuts, and the leader of his troops, Mang Buzhi, was also not in the battle.

Tens of thousands of yaks and horses were seized, and after returning to Shibao City, there was another feast of beef.

Ge Shuhan, who had won a complete victory, quickly promoted his title from Uncle Xiping to Marquis Xiping, which really made Tang Jun's blood boil with excitement.

Everyone is screaming to make contributions to Datang.

Naturally, Li Yunze would not be discouraged by the soldiers' desire to fight, so he sent troops to attack Kuozhou, which was the outpost of Shibao City, after making some adjustments.

Kuozhou was captured by Tubo a few years ago, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city were slaughtered.

This time Li Yunze counterattacked and came back, naturally he wanted revenge.

Unlike Shibao City, Kuozhou is a city built on a plateau.

Not only is the city wall low, but there are no defense equipment to speak of.

It's just that after surrounding Kuozhou City, Li Yunze didn't rush to order the attack on this city that seemed to be taken in a single battle, and even let go of many messengers asking for help.

The generals in the army were puzzled by this. Why did the emperor not allow the siege of the city when victory was within easy reach?
But Ge Shuhan saw Li Yunze's plan, he wanted to attract Tubo to take the initiative to rescue him.

The area on the plateau is very large, and the tribes scattered all over learned that the important stone castle city was lost again, and they all hurried over to support it.

Of course, the Tubo people were not stupid, and they would not go directly to the main force of the Tang Dynasty. They gradually gathered together and formed an army presided over by Zanpu's son Langzhidu.

With the passage of time, more and more people gathered around Langzhidu.

Facing the envoys from Kuozhou, Langzhidu couldn't wait too long. After all, they were fighting on their territory, and the pressure from all aspects was too great.

After hastily gathering tens of thousands of troops, they went straight to Kuozhou.

Li Yunze was waiting for reinforcements.

Surrounding the points to fight for aid is the key point.

According to history books, at this time Tubo had an army of hundreds of thousands, Li Yunze did not believe this.

Although the climate of this era is mild and the yield of highland barley has increased, it is impossible for Tubo to support hundreds of thousands of troops with its national strength.

You must know that with the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, before Li Yunze expanded his army, it was only 60 to [-] troops.

The only explanation is that all people are soldiers, as long as they are herdsmen, they are soldiers.

For such an army, Li Yunze really didn't care.

What they rely on is nothing more than the plateau topography and plateau hypoxia.

In terms of terrain, after breaking through the natural barrier of Shibao City, the road is basically smooth.

Even though there are countless lakes and high mountains, there is no stone castle so dangerous that there is only one path, at least the soldiers and horses can be deployed.

The altitude sickness, which is regarded as insurmountable, is also called gas disease in this era.From Li Yunze's point of view, it's not that miraculous.

He had been to the plateau before he encountered the system, and he didn't even have an adaptation period, he just went up, wandered around after going up, and there was nothing wrong with it, and he felt no different from being down there.

Some people are born able to adapt, but those who can't adapt no matter what, just don't go up.

In addition, Rhodiola, saffron and other obvious drugs are assisted, and the gas disease is not as terrible as imagined.

The soldiers and horses of Langzhidu drove a large group of yaks to Kuozhou. They never expected that when they were still a hundred miles away from Kuozhou, they ran into the main force of the Tang army very simply and neatly.

It wasn't until this time that Li Yunze ordered someone to unfurl his own dragon banner.

Knowing that the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty actually came here, the first thought of Langzhidu was not "It's time to make a contribution", but "XX who is riding a horse, why is the Emperor Tang here?" ! '

The Great Tang is overwhelming the world, beating invincible opponents around.

With such a great reputation, Tang Huang came here in person, and he must be surrounded by the most powerful army in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Just his tens of thousands of herdsmen.
Langzhi wanted to run away, but he also knew that the result of running away at such a time would be that the whole army collapsed and was hunted down.

In desperation, they could only bite the bullet and go forward to fight, hoping for a miracle, such as a gust of wind blowing down the Tang army's flag and killing their emperor.Or maybe Tang Huang's horse stumbled and threw their emperor to death.

The idea is naturally very wonderful. If it comes true, he who defeated the Tang army and killed the Tang emperor will definitely become the next Zanpu.

Unfortunately, this can only be thought about.

Tang Jun used the infantry as the chopping board to entangle the Tubo army, and used the cavalry as the hammer to strike fiercely from the two wings.

Faced with the heavy attack of the Tang army, the Tubo army, mainly herdsmen, was unable to resist at all, and was destroyed like snow melting in the spring.

The Tang Dynasty in this era is so powerful, as long as there is no sand sculpture emperor, as long as there is no internal turmoil, it is impossible for the Tubo people to break through the city of Chang'an no matter what.

In history, the Tubo people broke through the city of Chang'an, burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of crimes. They even established a puppet court and supported the puppet emperor.

Thanks to Guo Ziyi's recapture of Chang'an City, otherwise, Guanzhong would stop growing grain and raise yaks instead.

After a great battle, even Langzhi, the leader of the Tubo army, could not escape, and more than 5 people fell on the battlefield.

The army of the Song and Ming dynasties lacked horses and elite cavalry, which made it difficult to pursue and maximize the results even if they won on the battlefield.

Datang is different. Datang not only has elite cavalry, but also has many excellent horse farms, which can provide tall and strong horses.

These horses have outstanding endurance and can carry armored soldiers and even wear horse armor.

The Tubo cavalry collided with the Tang army's iron cavalry, and there was no possibility of victory at all.

Under the frantic pursuit of more than 5 Tang cavalry, the more than [-] people brought by Langzhidu were almost wiped out.

After the great victory, the Tang army returned to Kuozhou, broke through in the first battle and cleaned up the whole city.

After that, basically no Tubo army came again, and lost nearly 10 horses one after another. Tubo is already injured here, and now it is busy mobilizing manpower to guard the capital, so how dare it come again.

It doesn't matter if you don't wait for Li Yunze from the Tubo army, if you don't come, then I will go by myself.

He mobilized soldiers and horses from the rear, and almost all the elite soldiers from Longyou Hexi were gathered up the mountain.

In more than two months, the Tang army near Shibaocheng and Kuozhou has rapidly approached [-] people.

Gao Shi, who was in charge of the army, approached Li Yunze and said very simply, "Your Majesty, we must retreat down the mountain immediately, otherwise we will all starve to death on this mountain."

Nearly [-] soldiers and horses, plus the food, drink and chewing of the civilian husbands and the livestock accompanying the army, the daily consumption is an astronomical figure.

The lands of Hexi and Longyou were not areas rich in food, and military supplies were all transported over long distances from the distant city of Chang'an.

Now it is even more exaggerated, and it will be transported from Longyou, Hexi to the plateau.

In Gao Shi's words, if you send ten shi of grain, you have to lose a farmer or an animal.

Datang's logistics support capabilities are simply not enough to satisfy so many troops fighting on the plateau.

"I know."

Li Yunze is a true hexagonal fighter who has been tested in battle for a long time. Of course, he knows the limit of logistical support capabilities.

Originally, his plan was to arrange for Ge Shuhan to station here after breaking through Shibao City, so as to continuously harass Tubo and weaken its war potential.

But the Tubo people sent big gifts one after another, and the loss of nearly 10 horses has already greatly weakened their war strength.

Li Yunze, who sensed the opportunity, immediately decided to destroy Tubo in one go, and completely eliminate this huge hidden danger for Datang.

Tubo appeared almost exclusively for the purpose of pitting Tang Dynasty.

In history, not only Chang'an City was broken, but also the entire Western Region was eroded. From the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty never regained this side.

The story of the white-haired soldiers in the Western Regions has been passed down for a long time.

However, with the fall of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo also fell into a slump, and there have been almost no bright moments since then.

What else can I say, it can only be said that Tubo is dedicated to cheating Tang Dynasty.

Now that he has the opportunity, Li Yunze is determined to use his golden fingers to completely eliminate this hidden danger.

The cost of a [-]-strong army plus civilian husbands and livestock accompanying the army is nothing. In the industrial age, all kinds of supplies are the most indispensable.

"When I was dreaming, Emperor Taizong entrusted me with a dream and told me that there is a grain storage place for Tubo people near the army."

Li Yunze smiled and told "Gao Qing's family, you can take someone to bring back all the military supplies."

After hearing these words, Gao Shi looked at Li Yunze as if looking at a sand sculpture.

Emperor Taizong asked for a dream or something, and he recognized it.

But Emperor Taizong knew about the grain storage area of ​​the Tubo people, that is really ridiculous.

To put it bluntly, even if Emperor Taizong knew that the Tubo people's grain storage area was nearby, wouldn't the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty be blind?
The vicinity of the place where the army is stationed has long been turned upside down. No one can see a target as big as the grain storage area?
In the end, even if Emperor Taizong really had a dream, and even if all the Tang army scouts were blind and couldn't see such a large grain storage area, could the Tubo people be fools?This kind of place either transports the food away, or simply burns it down, and it is impossible to leave it to the Tang army.

Facing Gao Shi's eyes, Li Yunze said with a smile, "Just go to Qing's house to see, if there are, then the army will continue to send troops, if not, how about returning to the court?"

Gao Shi, who felt that he was being treated as a fool, sighed helplessly, saluted and left the tent of the Chinese army.

Leading a team of Tang troops, they went to the valley Li Yunze mentioned in a bored manner.

He felt that he was crazy to make such an agreement with the emperor. If it was recorded by the historian, he would become a fool who would be ridiculed by future generations.

The valley Li Yunze mentioned is very close to Daying, which is about twenty miles away.

Like this distance, basically every day there will be horses passing by.

Sighing, Gao Shi turned around the valley and came to this valley, and then looked at the mountain of grain bags piled up in the valley, and fell off his horse as if struck by lightning.

Sitting on the ground in silence for a while, Gao Shi suddenly got up and knelt down to pray to the sky.

"Emperor Taizong sent something from heaven to help the Great Tang eradicate Tubo. The boy begged Emperor Taizong for forgiveness. God bless the Great Tang!"

(End of this chapter)