The fiefdom of the Tianzhu King was as expected, most of the cattle and sheep had been taken away, and only a few lucky herdsmen were still guarding it.

Now there are no extra men to guard them, except for a few who are left to lead the way, everyone else is dead.

"Lord Wang, there is not much dry food left, at most it can last for seven or eight days, if you continue to pursue......"

Wang Xuance stood beside Li Kuan a little worriedly, originally thought that he could replenish some supplies here, but he didn't expect Fu Yun to arrive a few days earlier than the forward battalion, and he had already gone west.

Li Kuan: "Pass the order, the army will move and go south." ”

"Lord, you can't open it anymore...... Wait, is it going south? ”

Su Lie was stunned, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

"That's right, the south is where the Heyuan County of the former Sui is located, and it is also a relatively wealthy area in Tuyuhun, the climate is not so bad, we sweep in the south for a month, which can not only allow everyone to adapt to the climate of the plateau, but also replenish supplies, and the most important thing is to destroy the living force of Tuyuhun. At that time, even if we don't go after Fu Yun, when he comes back, there will not even be a herdsman, what tricks can he toss? ”

Li Kuan thought of a sentence that Taizu once said: If you lose your land, you will lose your land; If people lose land, people and land will survive.

To deal with Tuyuhun, he can't be beaten by their nose, and he originally planned to force Fu Yun to send troops by sweeping Tuyuhun's tribe.

Unexpectedly, Fu Yun ran too fast, and it was estimated that he would not have time to accept the news that the various tribes were swept away.

Miscalculated!

However, fortunately, it is still too late to adjust the strategy, but I don't know if when the two armies of Li Jing and Hou Junji converge here, they will find themselves running away again, will there be any opinions?

The forward battalion that he led seems to be about to become an independent battalion.

"It is very difficult to continue west, it is too risky, and it is a pity to withdraw the troops. Lord, I support you to go south! ”

After thinking for a moment, Su Lie agreed with Li Kuan's opinion.

The forward battalion was full of horses, and there was not much baggage, but it was soon on the march.

……

The geographical location of Tuyuhun is still very important in this era.

To the south can reach Yizhou, to the east to Jinzhou, the northeast can deter Liangzhou, an important node of the Silk Road, to the northwest is to Shanzhou, and the southwest is to Tubo.

It is very difficult for Datang to fully control Tuyuhun, but there is still a good chance to do it around the West Sea and several important passes within Tuyuhun in his hands.

Although Datang has no shortage of war horses, the high-grade war horses produced by Tuyuhun are urgently needed by Datang.

Li turned around and headed south with the forward battalion, and within two days he encountered several small tribes one after another.

At this time, there is no need for Li Kuanduo to order anything, after the army, it is natural that the chickens and dogs will not stay.

After resting for a day and continuing south, the forward battalion came across a tribe of party members.

The ancestors of these Tangut people are still subservient to Tuyuhun now, and their strength is still relatively weak.

However, the blame is that he took refuge in the wrong master.

After nearly 100 casualties, the forward battalion wiped out the party tribe of several thousand people.

In the following days, Li Bandan led the forward battalion around the southern part of Tuyuhun in a large circle, attacking all the tribes he met back and forth as if he were cultivating a field.

There was no decent resistance at all.

It wasn't until the county seat of Weiding in the former Sui period, that is, near a small city near the fiefdom of King Tianzhu, that it encountered the scouts of Li Jing's department, and the forward battalion was regarded as the first time to join the large army.

"The last general has seen the Grand Steward!"

In addition to reconnoitering Tuyuhun's movements, each scout of the Tang Army had an additional task, that is, to inquire about the whereabouts of the forward battalion, and since he had encountered the scouts sent by Li Jing, Li Kuan naturally wanted to hurry up to meet this top boss.

"Humph! His Royal Highness the King of Chu is so majestic, His Majesty ordered you to lead the forward, but he didn't let you be a horse thief. ”

What Li Kuan has done in the past two months, Li Jing has basically inquired clearly.

To be honest, he didn't approve of this method.

"Boss, the Tuyuhun people have invaded my Datang, it's not once or twice, if you don't take this opportunity to completely eliminate the hidden dangers now, who can guarantee that they won't bring greater losses to Datang in the future?"

"The land of Tuyuhun is still a little valuable near Liangzhou and Jinzhou, like the surrounding areas now, or further west, the food is tasteless, even if it is given to Datang, it can't be controlled."

Li Jing said a very realistic sentence.

"Boss, the Tuyuhun people can control it, why can't I control it? Could it be that in the eyes of the general manager, my Datang can't compare to Tuguhun? ”

Li Jing: ......

"Fu Yun is now heading west, if he guesses correctly, he should want to retreat to the end, and the last general will ask to lead the forward battalion to pursue Fu Yun."

Li Kuan himself had been entangled some time ago, so he could naturally guess the problem that Li Jing was facing now.

"And the end is still more than a thousand miles away from here, even if everything goes well, it will take at least half a month to arrive, and the further west, the more unsuitable the soldiers are to the climate here."

"Tuyuhun is now at the end of the strong crossbow, and there are still some decent soldiers and horses in Fu Yun's hands, as long as they are destroyed, at least the frontier of the Tang Dynasty can be kept stable for ten years, if the general does not want to continue to the west, the last general also understands, but I ask for permission to allow the forward battalion to continue the pursuit."

"The Grand Administrator, the Admiral also thinks that the pursuit should continue."

Li Daozong said something for Li Kuan.

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord. Think again, Boss! ”

"It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to sell the name of the overlord?" Li Jing's mouth muttered, and his eyes suddenly burst into essence, "Okay!" Since His Royal Highness the King of Chu is not afraid, Ben Jiang naturally has nothing to fear. The order was sent down, and those who were unwell were all left behind, and the rest of the people brought enough dry food, and the army set out early tomorrow morning. ”

Li Shimin ordered to attack Tuyuhun this time, and the total strength of each marching route reached 100,000 people, but some of them never caught up with the large army, but fought separately in Tuyuhun, and now Li Jing can really mobilize about 50,000 or 60,000 people.

However, it is natural that there are not so many people to pursue Fu Yun, and many people have already been unable to adapt to the situation.

Therefore, the actual number of people who went out the next day was about 30,000 or 40,000 people.

Li Kuan continued to take the lead in leading more than 3,000 soldiers of the forward battalion to the west.

It is now the end of March in the ninth year of Zhenguan, and the snow has begun to melt, revealing green grass; It has greatly alleviated the situation of horse material tension.

The rest of the pursuit depends on who can survive to the end.

Once the last city was captured by the Tang Dynasty, Fu Yun couldn't help him even if he didn't want to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army.

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