In the Fifth Qi's view, the rebellion in the Western Regions and the collusion of the Great Cannibals were indeed a great victory, and the troops were difficult to fight, but if they wanted to go deep into Hexi, they were also faced with the supply problem of the Tang army, and the grain output in Hexi was certainly not low, but it was still difficult to feed the army, and it was necessary to transfer grain from other places.

The imperial court transferred grain to Hexi, passed through Longyou, crossed the Qilian Mountain, and reached Zhangye. However, the rebel Zhuhu planned to transfer grain, and the cost of the Gobi in the Western Regions was twice as high as that of the imperial court.

Qin Jin smiled bitterly, shook his head and said:

"The Fifth Prime Minister Bo Gu Tong Ji

Fifth Qi was stunned.

"This, this ......"

The Fifth Qi also used the experience of the imperial court in using troops and allocating food as a reference everywhere, and took it for granted that Zhuhu and the Great Food Soldiers and Horses would be the same, but as everyone knows, if the war in the world depends on this complete logistical supply as a guarantee, there will be no Mongolian iron cavalry sweeping the Eurasian continent in hundreds of years. Qin Jin sighed secretly, this kind of opponent is what he is most afraid of in battle, and desperate destruction can destroy any resistance.

It is not because the opponent is cruel and ruthless, but because the soldiers and horses who have no worries about attrition have the ability to maneuver and turn to battle is far more than several times that of the soldiers and horses who need logistical supplies. In other words, when the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty went out to fight, they needed the central government to uniformly allocate various materials, and then requisitioned and distributed them locally in the counties along the border. If you cross the border, you need to organize a larger number of people to follow the supply, and the reasonable speed of the army is inversely proportional to the distance of the people's supply.

Once the speed of the march exceeds a certain percentage, it will face the danger of running out of food at any time, and once the food is cut out, even if the army of hundreds of thousands of people collapses in an instant.

These are all things that Qin Jin has thought about many times a long time ago. Therefore, we must be cautious in the large-scale use of troops in Hexi and even in the Western Regions, and as long as we send troops, we must win a battle. Previously, he sent Zheng Xianli to govern the four towns of Anxi, and the troops and horses he led were not more than 10,000, so the pressure on supplies was naturally not very great.

But only in this way did the rebels in the Western Regions collude with the big cannibals to take advantage of the loopholes.

In addition to this, there is another reason why the rebels of the Western Regions dare to collude with the Great Cannibals and drive straight into the Western Regions. That is, Tubo, which has always coveted the Western Regions, was defeated by the Shenwu Army in a battle, and it was no longer able to develop into the Western Regions, and of course it could not prevent the Great Cannibals from trying to get involved in the Western Regions.

Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages, and the central dynasty's complete control of the Tibetan tribes will have more advantages than disadvantages in the long run, and the problems brought about by this can also be solved one by one. All the plans are already being planned, and when the dust settles in the war in Hebei, Qin Jin can dispatch the elite of the Shenwu Army to Hexi.

Suddenly, Fifth Qi proposed:

"The Hui Khan Moyan Siluo relied on our army to successfully control the Hui tribes, why not order the Hui tribe to go south from the Tianshan North Road and attack the chaos in the Western Regions to alleviate the crisis in Hexi?"

It was also a way to transfer back the soldiers to participate in the war, but Qin Jin believed that this chess piece needed to be used in a more appropriate place. Moreover, the rebellion within the Hui has just been quelled, and Moyan Siluo has just seized the position of Khan, and his rule is not very stable, so let him send troops to face a strong enemy now, once defeated, it may even rekindle the rebellion on the grassland, but it will become a problem for the Tang Dynasty.

Qin Jin's worries, Fifth Qi thought it was very reasonable, but he didn't need to let go of the strange army of Hui Su, he felt that it was still a pity after all. After thinking about it, I didn't have a good idea, but fortunately I poured myself a drink, drank two large bowls of wine, and tore off a piece of mutton in the basin on the table, put it in my mouth and chewed it mechanically.

"Okay, the fifth prime minister doesn't have to worry too much about this matter, the energy of the imperial court must be mainly in Hebei, and you must not take it lightly if you have everything under control!"

Fifth Qi was a little drunk, so he said disapprerovingly:

"As soon as the thief Siming dies, his sons are all mediocre, and no one can serve the public, the Hebei rebels will inevitably fall apart again, what will be the recurrence?"

……

Hebei, Xingzhou Yuan Township City. It had long since become a dead city, and a man in ragged clothes, with dirty, unkempt hair, and scrawny hair, was digging desperately in a corner, digging ...... He had just found a hole in the corner of the wall, and as long as he caught the mouse, he would have a place to eat today.

This embarrassed man with eyes shining for a mouse is Shi Siming, the emperor of the "Great Yan Dynasty". Shi Siming has been trapped by his son in this dirt city where birds don't for half a month, and after the betrayal of his relatives, the only thing he can do is to live, so he eats up everything that can be left in the earth city, including the only eunuch who is loyal to him, Li Gou'er.

Now, Shi Siming stared at this unlucky mouse again, and soon the soil in the corner of the wall was dug up, and the head of the mouse was faintly exposed in the soil hole, and there was a pair of black oily eyes the size of mung beans on the pointed head, and there was still a trace of fear, maybe it had realized that its life was short.

Shi Siming didn't hesitate for a moment, his right hand grabbed it like lightning, and with a squeaky scream, the unlucky mouse was pinched off its neck before it even had time to struggle.

There are no people in the countryside of Yuanxiang, even this mouse is skinny, but some of them are better than nothing, Shi Siming tore off the mouse skin with his dirty and powerful big hands, and then put a small ball of bloody meat in his mouth, chewed a few times and swallowed it hastily.

A rat is not enough for Shi Siming, a seven-foot man, to even stuff his teeth, and on ordinary days, he can eat five catties of mutton and drink two catties of wine in one meal. Thinking about the days when the wine pond and meat forest and beautiful women were accompanied by beautiful women in the past, this hero who had disturbed half of the world burst into tears and cried.

Falling to this point, I am afraid that even the most powerful people will be desperate and angry.

At this time, Shi Siming had already vented all his anger, and he was now wandering around this projectile earth city all day long, and more than half of the birds and mice he saw had become food and stomachs, and even the insects in some dark corners had been sacrificed to the Five Organs Temple. Only in this way has he survived without food to this day.

After eating the mouse, Shi Siming sat on the ground tiredly, leaning weakly on the corner of the wall, and when he looked up, he found that he had unconsciously reached the edge of the earthen wall, so he struggled to get up and climbed up the dilapidated earth steps.

This earthen city is not even a mile in circumference, and it is not even as good as the walled fort in the border town, Shi Siming is attached to the broken female wall, and he pokes his head out cautiously, but he is startled. Everywhere I looked, the dense soldiers of yesterday were gone, leaving only the mess all over the ground.

"How is this possible? Are they retreating?"

Shi Siming almost couldn't believe his eyes, his pupils contracted violently, and the fire of survival that had been tormented and disappeared turned out to be blazing. However, this was followed by bouts of vertigo, and his body was already weaker than ever due to the prolonged hunger. Fortunately, I just ate a mouse, and after a while, the feeling of weakness in my body will be more or less relieved.

Ignoring the weakness of his body and the hunger that was gnawing at the thousands of ants all the time, he vigorously stood up with his half-squatting body, and tilted half of his body to the outside of the earthen wall, trying to observe the specific situation outside.

"Alive, look, the old guy is still alive......"

A burst of laughter suddenly came from outside the earth city, Shi Siming instinctively retracted his body but fell to the ground because of too much force, and as soon as it was dark in front of him, the whole person rolled down the earth steps, and he didn't know anything.

When he opened his eyes, the sky was already full of stars overhead, and the night breeze of late spring was cool, and Shi Siming couldn't help but sneeze.

After a long time, he finally remembered the situation outside Tucheng that he had seen during the day, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were gone, and it must be Shi Chaoyi's rebel who went elsewhere with the soldiers and horses. Once the strong flame of survival is rekindled, it is not so easy to extinguish.

Shi Siming used both hands and feet, and climbed the earth city that was not more than a foot high, and slowly poked his head out, this time he was more careful, he must not be discovered again.

At this time, the night was already deep, and the sound of fighting in the distance could be faintly heard, but the impenetrable military camp in the past was gone, and there was only one place where the lights flashed.

Suddenly, an idea jumped out of Shi Siming's mind, escape! He must take advantage of this opportunity to escape, even if it is a trap, he must take a risk, this Tucheng where birds don't, he is not willing to stay even for a moment.

As soon as he thought of this, thinking of doing it, Shi Siming turned over desperately and folded off the earthen wall, he was already weak, and this fall was not light, but fortunately, the earthen wall was only more than a foot high, so he endured the pain and moved his hands and feet, and he could still move, so he relaxed a little.

But the movement just now was not small, and Shi Siming was afraid of alarming the night watchman, so he lay motionless in place. I don't know how long he stayed up, but there was an occasional wind in his ears, and there was a dead silence, and he finally got up slowly, and ran away from the city wall step by step.

In Shi Siming's sense, the wild run had almost exhausted all his strength, but he didn't actually go far from the earthen city wall, his body was too weak...... The emperor of the "Great Yan Dynasty" who fell into Pingyang did not despair, there was a mulberry forest in front of him, as long as he arrived in that mulberry forest, he would be half safe tonight, and then he would find a way to recover some physical strength, and he would be one point closer to successfully escaping.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, Shi Siming feels that the mulberry forest is obviously very close to him, but no matter how he walks, it seems that he can't walk, and his feet are becoming more and more vain, as if every step is stepping on cotton!