Chapter 518

"Here, from now on, no one is allowed to approach without my order!"

Li Siye said suddenly.

"Adult ......"

"Violators, behead!"

Li Siye slashed with his right hand, and the Wuzi steel giant sword in his right hand emitted a sword aura, which slammed on the ground with a bang, and the earth and stones flew violently, and the dust and smoke rolled, leaving a deep sword mark on the ground. In an instant, everyone was silent, and one by one subconsciously retreated.

"Yes, sir. ”

I don't know who whispered.

Li Siye never deliberately puts on a show, but if he gets serious, it means that this matter must be very serious. At this time, no one dared to provoke him.

"Childe, is this the key to the war you told me?"

Li Siye said secretly in his heart.

By this time, he had already understood why Wang Chong had left him in this box. Sheep plague rarely occurs on the grassland, but when it does, it is a disaster. Unlike the people of the Central Plains, the people on the grassland don't know so much about medical skills and prescriptions, and the sheep plague is dead, and they don't know how to bury the sheep corpse like the Central Plains people.

Coupled with the herds of people on the grasslands, the number of cattle and sheep is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more. Therefore, once sheep plague occurs, it is a large-scale and large-scale disaster.

For the people of the grassland, this is definitely a matter of talking about tiger discoloration.

It's just that the grassland has always been hostile to the Central Plains, and the cattle and sheep eat after the water, and after eating one place, they will change to another place, which is particularly mobile, so sheep plague has always rarely happened on the grassland. Many herders don't even know what sheep plague is. This also makes it possible for the steppe nomads to be exploited.

The meaning of this thing prepared by Wang Chong is self-evident.

If it was before, Li Siye must have strongly opposed it. But now, the 180,000 elites of the Southwest Anhufu have been defeated, Li Zhengji's 60,000 reinforcements have been ambushed and suppressed, the southwest gate of the Tang Dynasty has been opened, and nearly a million Li people have no shelter, completely exposed under the combined forces of Mengshezhao and Wu Sizang.

To be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself.

“...... It's just, does that really work?"

Li Siye sighed secretly in his heart.

Even if he understood the purpose of these things, Li Siye still didn't understand Wang Chong's intention to arrange this. Whether these sheep plagues can cause harm and how much damage it can cause is a matter of the future, but the crisis of the southwest army is imminent. Moreover, even if he completes the task, the army of Uszang will not lose the slightest.

- Does this really work?

"Here, bring me a bag of food!"

Li Siye took a deep breath and said suddenly.

"Yes, sir. ”

Soon a soldier brought a bag of soybeans and grain with the army. Li Siye didn't let anyone get involved, and took matters into it himself, mixing the bag of soybeans and peas with the rations.

"Buzz!"

After doing all this, Li Siye suddenly shook his wrist, let out a breath, snapped, closed the box, and then raised his head and looked into the distance.

From here, you can see flocks of cattle and sheep roaming in the dense grass in the distance, like clouds, boundless, everywhere. If you look closely, you can also see the shepherds in the flock, they have barley horses under their crotch, they are tall, standing in the flock, even if they are far away, they are extremely eye-catching.

The only ones who can ride such horses to graze are the shepherds of Uszang.

"The two armies are fighting, even if you dare to fund the army, then you are our enemy, and I am no wonder for everything!"

Li Siye looked at the shepherd in the distance, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"The whole army obeys the order, all the Usz Tibetans, don't let go of any of them!"

Li Siye's breath was restrained, and the breath of his whole body suddenly became extremely cold.

"Yes, sir!"

With an order, the army roared, and the next moment, more than a thousand elite horsemen rolled up the smoke and dust from slow to fast, and rushed straight into the distance.

"Ah——h

"It's a Tang person!"

"Let's go!"

......

Bursts of screams came from afar, and the shepherds of the Chilechuan were in a panic, and many of the shepherds of sheep tried to flee into the distance, well, it was too late. At this moment, the two countries are at war, how can Li Siye give them a chance to escape?

"Boom!"

The sound of horses' hooves is even more urgent!

With the sound of hurried horses' hooves, no one knew that in the rear of the Uszang army, another "war" had already begun.

"Before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first", this is the eternal truth of marching and fighting, even if it is recorded in the war book. However, this is only a military strategy in the Central Plains, and it has never been a problem for the Wusi Tibetans, including other ethnic groups on the steppe.

Wang Chong once studied that the logistics of the Wusi Tibetans were completely different from those of the Central Plains.

A large-scale war in the Central Plains requires two to three years to prepare, and such a long reserve can only last for a few months. Once it has been more than three or four months, there is no way to fight the war. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Taizong was in power, the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous, but in the war against the Goguryeo Empire, because the Goguryeo people were strong and clear, the logistics of the Tang Dynasty could not keep up.

However, these four months were already the longest battle in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty's war. And for this reason, Datang even stockpiled more than three years of grain in advance!

For the Central Plains Dynasty, such a war was not something that could be easily waged.

But the Tibetans and Turks are different, they want to fight a war, they can move thousands of miles at any time, and they don't have to worry about logistics to keep up. If it were like Datang, which had to be subject to such great restrictions and prepared so many years in advance, the people on the grassland would have no combat effectiveness for a long time, and it would be impossible for them to become a border trouble for Datang.

In the final analysis, it is not that the Tibetans and Turks do not have food problems, but that their eating habits are completely different from those of the Central Plains.

The peoples on the grassland mainly eat meat, and they eat meat for meals, and there is no problem at all. But for the people of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, if they eat meat every day, eat meat every meal, and have no other staple foods, they will definitely be very excited and eat and drink a lot at first, but after three or four days, they will immediately get tired, and after a month, the army will have no combat effectiveness at all.

The staple food of the Central Plains people is rice, chestnut, millet, sorghum, etc., which are naturally different in habits. The storage, transportation, planting, and cooking of these grains are quite troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive. Not to mention, the diet of the Central Plains people also pays attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, cooking, boiling, steaming, frying, and scorching.

There is only rice, no meat, there is no taste in the stomach, and it will be soft and soft when fighting.

Therefore, when the people of the Central Plains fight, they must have the habit of making a big fire and having a big meal before the war. There is a saying that when you are full, you have strength!

In the Central Plains, the people are accustomed to this, whether it is the god of war, or the saint of soldiers, or the ancestor of the ancient soldiers, there is no way to do anything about this situation, but to conform to the water potential, so the book of war says that "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food goes first", the nature is like this, how can it be changed?

But the steppe peoples are different, and the eating habits are far less complicated, just cook it, and even it doesn't matter if it's raw.

And the army went out, and the shepherds followed, and the army became a solid backing for the shepherds in the front, while the shepherds drove herds of cattle and sheep in the rear, providing rations for the army. Cattle and sheep feed on grass, do not need to plow, do not need a plough key, do not need a lot of water, do not need months to mature.

What's more, cattle and sheep will never get moldy, and they don't have to worry about food storage.

Wherever the army maneuvered, cattle and sheep rushed there. There is never a problem of saying that it is not fresh, or that it is moist or mildew. As long as there is grass, the army will never lack food and grass.

Moreover, the army of the steppe peoples came from the shepherds.

They are now logistics officers, shepherds, and they are armies. Because there are too many cattle and sheep, the grassland people can even slaughter the cattle and sheep, make them into jerky, and smear them with salt.

Whether it's a top powerhouse or an ordinary herdsman, it's all the same!

In this world, what can really affect them is only the cold winter and frost in extreme weather!

Wang Chong once thought carefully that among the various options for war, only logistics was precisely the least worrying about the grassland peoples. This is true of the Turks, and so is the Us-Tibetans.

In terms of logistics, farming peoples and nomads are naturally not equal!

Therefore, the nomads do not have the same weapons and equipment as the Central Plains Dynasty, nor do they have so many populations, nor do they have such a splendid culture, and they do not know what military books and war strategies are, but they can also become the henchmen of the Central Plains Dynasty in all dynasties. In the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty, it will always be recorded like this:

In such and such a year, the Turks, or Koubian, or in such and such a year, the Tibetans plundered Koubian and took profits; otherwise, in such and such a year, Yingzhou, Youzhou, and a certain place were attacked by thieves Koubian!

Such records abound in the history books, and they will never be finished.

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But this point of steppe nomads is by no means unforfeited.

If they can bypass the army in front of them, go around the herdsmen in the rear, and kill all their flocks, they will be severely damaged. Under normal circumstances, this would never be possible. The Tibetans of Wusi will never give Datang such a chance. But now, all the Tibetans of Usz have been drawn to the Lion City.

Li Zhengji has been wiped out, and the pass is guarded by three large armies of Wusizang.

For the Us-Tibetans, the rear of the army was already impregnable, and there was simply nothing to threaten them. This also gave Wang Chong the best chance.

And these "plagued sheep" are the best gifts that Wang Chong has prepared for the Wusi Tibetans.

There are too many sheep in the Tibetans, and unlike the people of the Central Plains, no one has ever said a few sheep, or a dozen, dozens of sheep. Nomads have always herded hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of sheep, which is unimaginable for the farming people of the Central Plains.

Moreover, there is another characteristic of nomads, that is, they are tribal units. When grazing sheep, the time is naturally also based on the tribe.

Therefore, there is never a saying that one person has several sheep. It's all about how many sheep a tribe raises.

And that number has always been enormous.

When the number is large enough, sneak attacks have become useless. Shepherds can even leave their flocks to be killed by them. Hundreds of thousands of sheep stood still, even from dawn to dark. And when Li Siye and the others left, the herdsmen could come back at any time.

When the time comes, just make the slaughtered cattle and sheep into jerky.

- Such a raid is completely meaningless!

To deal with the Us-Tibetans, attacking the sheep grazing in their rear, it is useless to rely on ordinary methods. Therefore, the sword must be sideways.

And these plagued sheep were the gifts that Wang Chong prepared for them.

When a sheep is plagued, it quickly spreads to the entire flock. It is infected from one tribe to all parts, and more importantly, the grassland people do not know how to deal with sheep plague at all, and they do not have the habit of burying it. This means that an independent thing can easily turn into a huge disaster in the end!

In dealing with the enemy, we must not just superficially show him, but must let him feel pain to the bone marrow and to the bone! Only then will they learn a lesson.

War is not only a battle of troops, nor is it just a fist-to-flesh, sword-to-sword fight, but also a war of strategy!

At this moment, apart from Wang Chong, even Li Siye himself didn't know that if his plan succeeded, what awaited the Wusi Tibetans would be a huge disaster that would last for several years, or even more than ten years!

Without a huge flock of sheep, there will be a predictable pang *** on the plateau. And this famine will drain the national strength that the Tibetans have accumulated for decades, and make their ambitions come to naught!

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