As soon as Li Bing crossed the Yellow River, a scout immediately came to report that 1,000 Tibetan soldiers were harvesting wheat in a wheat field 30 miles south of Jincheng County, and the county seat was an empty city, but the scouts found that nearly 10,000 stone of wheat harvested by the Tibetan soldiers was drying in the county seat.

Li Bing was overjoyed by this news, and while he sent someone to report to the commander, he led an army of 5,000 to the south to kill the wheat fields.

Halfway down the road, the scouts of the Hexi Army found a team of ox carts in front of them, about 1,000 ox carts, transporting full of wheat, and the drivers who drove the carts were all Han people, followed by a team of more than 100 Tubo cavalry.

The 5,000 Tang troops immediately hid in a forest on the west side of the official road, and when the convoy approached, Li Bing gave an order, and thousands of arrows were shot at the hundred Tubo cavalry.

This round of sneak attack caught the Tibetan cavalry off guard, they were shot by arrows and fell off their horses, most of them were shot in an instant, and more than a dozen cavalry turned around and fled, but they were killed by the Tang cavalry, cutting off the retreat, and a cavalry was also killed behind, surrounding the dozen Tubo soldiers, in a desperate breakthrough shout, the Tang cavalry rushed up, stabbed out with spears, and killed the last dozen cavalrymen.

More than 1,000 coachmen were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "We are forced, and if we don't give them wheat, we will be killed!" ”

The Tang soldiers reassured them with kind words, and a coachman leader was brought up.

"Where are you from?" Li Bing asked.

"General Qiyu, we are all farmers in Weizhou, and we were arrested by them and forced to cut wheat."

"How many of you are there?"

"There are about 10,000 people, and we are all harvesting wheat in the south, and the Tibetan soldiers are watching over us."

Li Bing arranged for dozens of his men to take them to the banks of the Yellow River to carry grain, and he led 5,000 soldiers to the south.

'Woo-'

The Tibetan soldiers also spotted the Tang army killing in the distance, they hurriedly blew the horn, and the 900 Tibetan cavalry who were supervising the work in the wheat field came from all directions and quickly assembled.

Without the overseers of the Tibetan soldiers, the people who were cutting wheat in the fields took the opportunity to scatter and flee, but the Tibetan soldiers could no longer take care of them, they shouted, urging their horses to kill the Tang army.

The Tibetan infantry generally used short swords and shields, but the Tibetan cavalry used spears, and the Tibetan cavalry and the Tang cavalry collided violently, and the two sides fought fiercely in the wheat field.

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An hour later, when Guo Song led 3,000 reinforcements to the place of fierce fighting, the battle was over, 900 Tubo cavalry had been completely annihilated, and the Tang army had also suffered more than 100 casualties.

"How many brothers have been killed?" Guo Song asked.

"Returning to the envoy, sixty-nine brothers have been killed and one hundred and seven wounded, nine of them are seriously wounded, and the military doctor is rescuing them!"

At this time, more than 10,000 peasants who had harvested wheat did not flee far, they found that the Tang army had won, and they returned one after another, and Weizhou had been occupied by the Tibetans, and they did not dare to go back.

A middle-aged man was brought up, and he bowed to Guo Song, "Humble Chen Yao, it is the county order of Tianshui County, see Guo Yuanjun." ”

Guo Song pointed to the people around him and asked, "Are they all from Tianshui County?" ”

"Some are, most of them are not, but they are all from Weizhou, and their families have been taken away by the Tubo army, and the same is true for lowly families, and young and strong men have been left to cut wheat."

"When was it taken captive?" Guo Song asked.

Chen Yao couldn't help choking up when he thought of his wife and daughter who had been taken captive, and it took a while to calm down, and said to Guo Song: "It was probably more than twenty days ago!" ”

Guo Song turned around and asked a military doctor, "Are there Weizhou people in the refugee camp in Ganzhou?" "Dotted Library

The military doctor nodded, "There are quite a few, all of them were rescued from Shanzhou City." ”

Guo Song said to the county commander Chen Yao: "We captured Shanzhou City half a month ago and rescued more than 300,000 captive Longyou people, among whom there are many Weizhou people, it is estimated that they are your family, and they are all in Ganzhou now. ”

Chen Yao screamed in ecstasy, jumped up, and ran back to announce the news to everyone regardless of the rudeness, more than 10,000 people immediately cheered, they were all desperate, but now they suddenly heard that their family members were rescued, how could they not be excited, many people were so excited that they cried bitterly.

Chen Yao was brought up again, he wiped away his tears and said apologetically: "The humble post is overjoyed and rude." ”

Guo Song nodded, "We have 80,000 regiment training recruits on the north bank who are grabbing the wheat, and they are all the same as you, you go to the north bank to participate in the wheat cutting, and finally everyone returns to Hexi to reunite with your family." ”

When the news broke, everyone shouted, "We're here to help!" ”

Guo Song did not want to cut wheat on the north and south banks separately, that would disperse the troops, once the Tubo army came, it would face a very unfavorable situation, first concentrate manpower to cut the wheat on the north bank, and then cut the wheat on the south bank.

He ordered Li Bing to burn and bury the bodies of Tibetan soldiers, and led more than 10,000 people across the river to the north.

Wheat harvest for five consecutive days, the wheat on the north bank of the north bank of the Yellow River has been harvested, all the wheat harvesters have turned to the south bank of the Yellow River to grab the wheat, the team transporting wheat is endlessly on the official road, the cart team, the mule and donkey team and the camel team are marching on the official road, looking at it from a high altitude, stretching for nearly 100 miles, the momentum is extremely magnificent.

Guo Song's worried that the Tubo army came to Lanzhou did not appear, and the scouts came with the news that the 10,000 Tubo army in Shanzhou was also harvesting wheat in Shanzhou, and the population and materials looted by the Tubo army before were cut off by the Hexi army, so grabbing grain has become the biggest task of the Tubo army at present.

In late September, when the wheat entered the full maturity period, and the wheat on the south bank of the Yellow River was also harvested, the Tang army and the wheat harvesting army waved westward to the Hehuang Valley in the west, which is the most famous grain producing area in Longyou, and it is also the focus of this wheat grabbing.

The Hehuang Valley is located between Huangshui and the Yellow River, part of it is in Lanzhou, but most of it is in Shanzhou, stretching for hundreds of miles, the land here is fertile, the irrigation is favorable, the sunshine is abundant, it is a place where the population is concentrated since ancient times, more than half of the people rescued by the Tang army in Shanzhou and Lanzhou are from the Hehuang Valley.

In the grain production belt that is more than 200 miles long, the Tubo army harvests wheat in the northwest direction, while the Hexi wheat grabbing army cuts wheat in the southeast direction.

At this time, the Tang army in Hexi had changed the mode of transportation, from land transportation to water transportation, using large rafts to transport grain along the Yellow River, first arriving at the mouth of the Wuzhishui River about 50 miles west of Jincheng County, and then going north along the Wuzhishui River to the west of the river, arriving at Wucheng, the southernmost part of Liangzhou, where it was guarded, and then transported to Guzang County, a hundred miles away, by carts, livestock and camel teams.

The waterway not only transports a large amount of goods each time, but also greatly reduces the long journey of land transportation, which is transported by dozens of huge rafts and pulled by healthy cattle on the shore, which can transport 20,000 stone of wheat at a time.

As the harvest ramped up, risks were rapidly accumulating, and on the last day of September, a skirmish erupted.

To the north of Longzhi County, Shanzhou, a Tang Army scout team of more than 50 people was speeding west along the official road, when a startled bird suddenly flew out of the woods in the lower left corner of their front, and Captain Han Qing immediately grabbed the reins.

He waved his hand to stop his subordinates, and one of his subordinates whispered, "I'm afraid there are ambushes!" ”

Han Qing pulled out a Ming Di and shot an arrow towards the startled bird, 'Huh-' The Ming Di made a piercing sound.

At this time, dozens of Tibetan cavalry rushed out from the woods, shouting and shouting sharply, and rushed towards them.

It was the Tubo patrol post, and Han Qing also shouted: "Fight in formation!" ”

Fifty Tang troops immediately formed five combat teams, each team of ten people, led by a brigade commander, which is also the special feature of the scout army, he has many opportunities for meritorious service, most of the soldiers are relatively high-level, there is no fire commander and team leader, and the officers at the bottom are directly brigade commanders and captains.

The Tang army paid great attention to the formation in battle, and the same was true for the cavalry, and the tacit formation could double the combat effectiveness.

The Tibetan cavalry did not have any formation, and they always relied on the ferocity of not afraid of death to defeat the opponent.

This is a close battle, both sides are fifty people, are their own elite army, but the Tang army's equipment is obviously stronger than the other side, the Tang army soldiers are Mingguang armor, eagle prismatic helmets, spears, war knives, round shields, and angular bows with a range of up to 300 paces, while the Tubo army is leather armor and leather helmets, wearing short swords at the waist, spears are slightly rough, and the range of bows and arrows is far inferior to that of the Tang army.

The cavalry of the Tang Army drew their bows and arrows in the gallop, and Han Qing calmly ordered: "Shoot the leader of the other party, the black-fur hat on the far left!" ”