This bloody battle lasted until the end of the first watch, including the main general, including the main general, 5,000 Tibetan soldiers were divided and surrounded by the Tang army, each broke through, and finally the whole army was annihilated, and no one surrendered, the whole army died in a dead battle, and the Tang army also paid the price of more than 1,000 casualties.

At dawn the next day, the kings of the fifteen countries received the news that the Tang army had annihilated 5,000 Tibetan troops, and they immediately boiled, rushed out of the camp, and led the army to kill the oases all over Anxi.

Although the 25,000 Anxi coalition troops did not dare to provoke the Tibetan army, they were not afraid of the Tibetan herdsmen, and once the Tibetan army perished, they went to various oases like wolves and tigers to grab land, kill Tibetan herdsmen, and rob their cattle and sheep.

Of course, there are more than 500,000 sheep and more than 100,000 stone wheat in the camp of the Tubo army, which is the military rations of the Tubo army, and now belongs to the Tang army.

The decline of Tubo's national strength has long been destined to be in Anxi can only survive, the existence of thousands of soldiers is only a symbolic meaning, once the Tang army is determined to restore the Anxi Jiedu Mansion, then it will not be too difficult, as long as the strong force annihilates the Tubo garrison, and at the same time Enwei and Shi conquer the Anxi countries, then the restoration of the Anxi Jiedu Mansion will be a matter of course.

Guo Song appointed Lu Yang to continue as the guard of Shule Town, and he ordered the army to rest for ten days, and then he was about to go to the Great and Small Bolu, where there were still 4,000 Tubo troops, but this decision was opposed by the veteran Lu Yang.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Lu Yang said slowly to Guo Song: "The envoy doesn't want to leave trouble for Anxi, and he wants to understand the mood of the big and small Bolu, but after all, the time that the envoy has stayed in Anxi is too short, and he does not have a deep understanding of the situation in Anxi like us." ”

Guo Song nodded and smiled: "You go on, if you can convince me, I will give up attacking Big and Small Bolu." ”

"This first starts with why Tubo did everything possible to ask the imperial court to give up Shule, Tubo's national policy is to capture Anxi and Beiting, and at the same time open up a shortcut to Tocharo and the Hezhong region, Shule is the key to this shortcut, so when the national strength of Tubo can no longer support them to occupy Anxi and Beiting, they retreat to the next best thing, and only want to keep the Shule shortcut, which is why they can not Qiuzi and Khotan, but they must be Shule."

This point of view is completely consistent with Guo Song's original idea, Guo Song deeply agreed, and he asked with a smile: "What does this have to do with big and small Bolu?" ”

"There's a deep relationship!"

Lu Yang said unhurriedly: "If the passage of Shule is lost, then Tubo can still go to Tocharo from Big and Small Bolu, which actually returns to the situation five years ago in Tianbao, when Tubo tried to get involved in Tocharo, he controlled the little Bolu king, and the little Bolu king asked Gao Xianzhi for help, in order to eliminate Tubo's attempt to get involved in Tocharo, Gao Xianzhi launched the battle of Little Bolu at the beginning of the sixth year of Tianbao. ”

Guo Song nodded slightly: "I understand what you mean, what you mean is that the Tubo army that eliminated the big and small Bolu will completely block the channel for Tubo to expand westward, and will force them to counterattack Anxi. ”

Lu Yang nodded, "That's what the humble post said, this is also the strategy that the old prince repeatedly emphasized back then, blocking Shule and letting go of Bolu, Anxi can survive, blocking Shule and breaking Bolu, Anxi will die, of course, this point of view is a bit of appeasement and compromise, and it is also a way for our Anxi army to be too weak and ponder for self-preservation." ”

Guo Song took a few steps and said to Lu Yang: "Although what you said makes a little sense, my thoughts are different from yours, but I can indeed slow down the attack on the big and small Bolu, let Anxi stabilize for a year or two, and then consider attacking the big and small Bolu." ”

Lu Yang smiled: "I want to hear the envoy's thoughts?" ”

"The reason is very simple, just like the general himself said, your strength was too weak at the beginning, and you had to compromise, once Anxi's strength became stronger, I still hope to block the channel for Tubo to recover from Tochar and Tianzhu's food and materials, and trap Tubo in the plateau, so that their internal contradictions will erupt and slowly decline."

Lu Yang smiled bitterly, "My thoughts are indeed a little too weak. ”

"Envoy, what are we going to do next?" Next to him, Li Bing asked.

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said, "First go back to Qiuci to rest for a few days, and then start the northern expedition to Shatuo!" ”

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Guo Song left 1,000 defenders to defend Shule, and the army immediately returned to Qiuci, and seven days later, the Tang army arrived at Qiuci City.

Lou Wenda and a group of officials are not in Qiuzi, they are busy with the Anxi countries to determine the scope of the oasis, this is a particularly time-consuming negotiation, both sides have previously determined the oasis land, there is no problem with the principle, the kings of all countries have signed a commitment, no one dares to go back on their word in front of the powerful Tang army, but the specific operation inside is a little cumbersome.

It is impossible for the Tang army to take away an oasis in every small country, and the Tang army is mainly stationed in the four towns of Qiuci, Shule, Khotan and Yanji, so the oasis land can only come from these four countries, which involves the issue of land exchange, for example, the oasis handed over by Gumo to the Tang army Sancheng, the area is determined, and then the Tang army exchanges this oasis with the bordering Qiuzi country for their land to the west, so that the land of the Tang army can be connected.

Other countries do this, which requires negotiations, and land area determination, etc., which is very cumbersome, and it is impossible to do these things in a year.

Of course, there is also the town of Jimo, where the oasis belongs to the terra nullius and is occupied by the Tang army, and then the Tang army will build the town there, and the banks of the Mohe River, the Puchang Sea and the surrounding oases belong to the Tang army.

This involves a very important issue, that is, immigration, from the Central Plains to the Han people to Anxi Tuntian.

This is what all dynasties have to do, the Tang Dynasty in the Kaiyuan period of large-scale immigration to Anxi, migrated more than 100,000 people, called the Long March Jian'er, later the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the Tang Dynasty had no time to take care of the Western Regions, so that the Western Regions were gradually occupied by Tubo and Hui, and many Han people have returned to the Central Plains.

But how to get the Han people to voluntarily come to the Western Regions from the Central Plains, which needs to be tempted with interests that are enough to move people's hearts, Guo Song considered moving 100,000 people from the group of refugees who fled from Longyou to Hexi to Anxi, first of all, military dependents, just like in Fengzhou, with vast land and twenty years of tax exemption huge benefits to tempt the people.

This will not be implemented until the land is handed over in Anxi, at least until next year.

After five days of rest, Guo Song led an army of 15,000 to the north.

There are two roads to Beiting, one is the Wusun Road to the north of Qiuzi, Guo Song walked through it that year, and more than a dozen soldiers died in the event of a flash flood, and the other [Youyou Reading xt.xyz] Road is to take the Silver Mountain Road, but the Silver Mountain Road is controlled by the Shatuo Army, which is very dangerous, and it can be called a man who can not be opened.

Guo Song did not plan to take the silver mountain road, but to take the Wusun road, although the road is a little harder, but I heard the businessmen say that it is easier to walk these years, mainly because there is more snow melt in recent years, resulting in frequent flash floods, and a valley that was originally sealed by boulders was actually washed away by the mountain torrents, forming a new river valley, so that there is no need to go over the mountains and mountains, but along the river directly through the valley from below.

Guo Song found a few guides and walked towards Wusun Road with an army of 15,000 and 5,000 camels laden with grain......

The fiasco of Zhu Xie Jinhai in Shazhou and Guazhou undoubtedly set off turmoil within Shatuo again, but this time it was not easy to discuss, and the six elders outside the Ministry of the Moon Department all unanimously stated that the Ministry of the Moon Department would either execute Zhu Xie Jinhai or compensate the huge losses of the Six Ministries, including personnel and materials.

Shatuo Khan Zhu Xie Liang was very embarrassed, and he also wanted to kill Zhu Xie Jinhai to apologize to the various departments, but Zhu Xie Jinhai knew that the elders would not tolerate him again, so he did not come to Yiwu at all, but fled directly to Gaochang, which was the territory he controlled.

In desperation, Zhu Xieliang had to negotiate with the other six ministries on compensation.

The chiefs of the six Shatuo tribes, including the Secret Division, the Pre-Branch, the Lieshan Division, the Wusun Division, the Jinshan Division, and the Yiwu Division, gathered at the location of the Divisional Secret Division to discuss how to collectively claim compensation from the Division.

The Sixth Ministry reached a consensus in one day, killed a soldier of the Sixth Division, claimed 300 sheep, and demanded that the Ministry of the Moon Department take out all the pig iron and copper ingots in the inventory and distribute them equally, and the Ministry of the Moon Department could not monopolize them.

If the Chuyue Department refuses to compensate them, then the Shatuo Alliance will be dissolved, and the Shatuo people will only be left with a tribe of Chuyue.

This list of claims made Zhu Xieliang stunned, the compensation for the sheep alone will cost three million, where can the Ministry of the Moon get so many sheep to compensate the six departments?

At this time, Zhu Xie Jinman offered Zhu Xie Liang a plan, and he might as well use Tingzhou to put pressure on Guo Song and force him to release the prisoners of war of the Shatuo Army.