The Tubo defenders were only two thousand, although they were strong and not afraid of death, but they encountered the elite Hexi army, and the strength was five times that of them, and the Tubo army was only wiped out, but it was this annihilation war, and the Tang army also fought hard for nearly an hour.

This is also the main reason why the Tang army and the Tubo army fought in history, and the main reason for the defeat and victory was few, the Tubo army was not like other nomads, the casualties collapsed to the third achievement, but the Tubo army did not retreat, and after a group of troops were all killed, the second group of troops came up, and refused to surrender.

Therefore, unless the Tubo army took the initiative to retreat in order to preserve its strength, the Tang army basically had to kill the Tubo army in order to achieve victory, so the Tang army's casualties were also very large.

At dawn, the war finally ended, the streets were full of corpses, and the 2,000 Tubo troops were slaughtered, but the Tang army also paid more than 700 casualties, which indeed fulfilled the old saying of 'killing 3,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves'.

The people in the city were so frightened that they hid in their houses and did not dare to go out, and they were terrified and stayed awake all night, until some brave young men came out and found that the streets were full of Tang soldiers, and they completely cheered.

The people of the whole city of Shanzhou were boiling, they rushed out of the house, banging on the pots and pans desperately, some were so happy that they laughed, some knelt on the ground and cried, no matter how to vent their inner emotions, the source of their excitement was the same, that is, they would not be taken captive to the Tibetan Plateau as slaves.

Many people ran into the street desperately, hugged the Tang soldiers and cried, and the people knelt on the ground to kowtow to the Tang soldiers in thanks, which was a kind of excitement to climb back to the world from hell and a kind of ecstasy to regain a new life.

Looking at the emotional gaffes of the people, many soldiers couldn't help but burst into tears.

Hundreds of elders were led to Guo Song, they knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, Guo Song hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to help them up, he said loudly: "Fellow villagers, now is not the time to be excited, when we withdraw to Hexi, everyone will sing and dance together to celebrate." ”

The beacon fire of the enemy army for help had been lit, and Guo Song saw that there were too many people, and once the Tubo army came back, it would inevitably cause heavy casualties, so he immediately ordered the whole army to evacuate.

The money, grain and materials in the warehouse were packed by Tubo, and had not yet been opened, and the grain and mutton were piled up like a mountain, and it was not easy to carry, Guo Song immediately ordered that the mules, horses, donkeys, cattle and other livestock were distributed to the people, and the grain and mutton were all given to them, and the soldiers consigned the remaining gold, silver, copper coins and various materials to a part of the livestock and war horses, and evacuated Shanzhou City with more than 200,000 people, and withdrew the army to the Great Doutu Valley.

Before leaving, Li Bing led 2,000 soldiers to pile up the corpses of the Tubo soldiers who died in the battle, burned them with fire, and the Tang soldiers who died in the battle were also cremated and taken away after the bones.

Li Bing led the army to search the city one last time to ensure that all the people had evacuated before they left Shanzhou City.

When they returned, with the local people of Shanzhou leading, they crossed the river on a shallow beach, without the need for rafts, the river was more than ten miles wide, but now it has entered the dry period, the water is only knee-deep, children and old people ride on livestock, soldiers and young men and women pull up their trouser skirts and flow across the river.

After the Haomen water, everyone rested for the night, lit a bonfire to cook, barbecue, the people had a big meal, the next morning, everyone continued to go north, walked along a valley for more than 20 miles, and saw the entrance of the big bucket valley in the distance.

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The 15,000 Tubo army has just arrived in Liangzhou, all the people of Liangzhou have withdrawn into the city of Guzang County, and the 8,000 Tang army is defending at the head of the city, Shang Jiezan is a little hesitant, whether to go directly around the city to the north, or to attack the city, it is a bit unrealistic to go north, their logistics supply will be cut off by the Tang army, but if they attack the city, they do not carry large siege weapons.

Just when Shang Jiezan was in a dilemma, he received an urgent report, and the beacon outside Lanzhou City lit a beacon for help.

This surprised Shang Jiezan, and when he left, he ordered that only Shanzhou City could light the first beacon for help, and it was obvious that something had happened in Shanzhou City.

There was only one reason for the accident in Shanzhou City, that is, the Great Dou Ba Valley was lost, and the Tang army came out of the Great Dou Ba Valley.

This is like a circular battle, they want to kill Ganzhou, but the Tang army rushed out of Ganzhou and smashed their lair.

Shang Jiezan was immediately anxious, and he didn't care about attacking Liangzhou, so he hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the 15,000 Tubo army rushed to the city of Shanzhou.

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The grassland in the north of Zhangye City is full of endless big tents, more than 70,000 big tents stretch for dozens of miles, nearly 300,000 people in Longyou who withdrew from the direction of Liangzhou and more than 200,000 people who withdrew from Dadoutugu, a total of more than 500,000 people live in the vast grassland here.

The war was not over, the 16,000 Tang troops were deployed in Liangzhou and Dadou Bagu, and the situation of the Tubo army in Longyou was also unknown, but under the extreme anger, the Tubo army was likely to attack Hexi in a big way.

"The Tubo people will not attack Dadou Bagu, the terrain over there is too dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, they can only attack Liangzhou, but to attack Liangzhou must have logistics support, Tubo mobilization of logistics and troops takes time, we have at least half a month to deploy."

In the big tent of the government office south of the refugee camp, Guo Song was discussing the next course of action with a group of officials and generals.

"The biggest problem for 500,000 people right now is food."

Guo Song said to everyone again: "It's early September, and Hexi will be closed by heavy snow in November, if the people of Longyou can return to their hometown before this, of course it's best, but we have to be prepared for them not to return to their hometown, Pan Changshi, how much grain reserves do we have now?" ”

Pan Liao got up and said: "Now the inventory is 200,000 stones, 20,000 stones have been used, and there are 180,000 stones, 30,000 stones are brought back from Shanzhou, and the wheat harvest will start in late September, and there will be 300,000 new stones, about 500,000 stones." ”

Guo Song nodded and said: "Before distributing grain in Jincheng County and Shanzhou City, it is estimated that there are still more than 100,000 stones in the hands of the people, but we can't just think about the beginning of spring next year, and the ten months from sowing to autumn harvest next year, even if we replenish a season of beans in the middle, the food is still not enough, so we must get a lot of support from the outside world." ”

After a pause, Guo Song said again: "I have sent someone to Shuofang Jiedu Mansion to send a letter to Cui Yuanjun, and the war horse is exchanged for grain in Fengzhou, Fengzhou had 400,000 Shijuntun wheat last year, and it is currently stored in Lingwu County, if you can exchange these 400,000 stone wheat, you can solve the problem of food shortage to a large extent." ”

"How many horses do you need?" Liang Wu worried.

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Don't forget, the Hexi Herdsmen Division still has 150,000 war horses in our hands, I don't plan to hand them over to Chang'an, the previous herd envoys have gone to Chengdu, and the current herd envoy An Xiaozhong was appointed by me, including 8,000 herdsmen will also be incorporated into the Hexi Army."

Previously, the Jiedu Mansion only counted our own 80,000 war horses, and did not consider the 150,000 war horses of the imperial court, so the war horse exchange plan for food is completely feasible, and now we need to negotiate with the Shuofang Jiedu Mansion. ”

"Envoy, I would like to add one more thing to my humble position." Cangcao joined the army, Zhang Chen raised his hand.

"Zhang joins the army, please speak!"

Zhang Chen got up and said: "I have done a survey in the past few days, and I learned that there is still a lot of grain in the wheat fields of Longyou, there are as many as 30,000 hectares of wheat fields in Lanzhou and Hehuang Valley, as well as the Lintao area and other states, if we can defeat the Tubo army, maybe we can harvest some wheat from Longyou." ”

"This plan is good!"

Guo Song praised: "I also considered this problem before, but there is no detailed information, once the information is obtained, we can formulate a plan, which involves our next topic, Zuo joined the army!" ”

Soldier Cao joined the army Zuo Chang Wen got up and saluted and said: "Before, the envoy mentioned the issue of recruiting soldiers from refugees, and the plan has basically come out, according to our current armor inventory and the armor transported from Jincheng County, we can add at least 30,000 regular troops, and then there are nearly 200,000 spears and knives, so we can also organize regimental training among refugees, at least 50,000 regimental training militia, and the specific recruitment plan will be brought out today." ”

"May I ask what is the difference between the equipment of regular soldiers and regimental training soldiers?" Liang Wu asked.

"Returning to General Liang, if you only talk about equipment, regular soldiers have armor, including Mingguang armor, fine scale armor, infantry armor and horse armor, while militia soldiers do not have armor, at most they can only use crude leather armor or cloth back armor, but the more important difference is that in addition to training, regimental training soldiers also have to farm the land, they are essentially ordinary people, not the army, and before our 4,000 Tuntian army can be converted into regular soldiers."

Guo Song waved his hand, "Let's sit down first!" ”