When Siye left Dafeichuan, snowflakes fell in the sky.

All the way back to the north, after 800 miles of valley road, we arrived at Qinghai Lake, but here is already a cool autumn with yellow grass and blue sky. When I left the plateau where the pressure was overwhelming, it was like the refreshing feeling of suddenly unloading it after I had two bags of sand tied to my legs and carried armor on my back during training.

Close to Qinghai Lake, every twenty or thirty miles along the way, there will be beacon piers, military stations, and post stations.

The soldiers of the Qin army in the dungeon station, when they saw the heir and their return, they all ran to cheer, singing loudly and the general returned to the heir industry.

It's just that the heir doesn't have much joy.

Along the way, he also learned more about the current situation, knowing that the emperor almost didn't wake up from a sudden stroke some time ago, and the price paid by the Qin army in order to rescue him and win this war was even greater.

There are newly erected inscriptions everywhere along the way, many of which are the cemeteries of Qin soldiers who were unable to transport them back to the Central Plains after being killed in battle, and were buried directly on the spot.

There are even many people buried here, many of whom have heavy transportation tasks and are not very prepared for the plateau, and they have encountered wind and snow, plateau climate, and died of freezing and starvation or disease.

Fu Qi City, the original royal city of Tuyuhun, has been renamed Weiding City at this time, as the capital city of Qinghai Road, and it is also the county seat of Xihai County.

Murong Shun was a little embarrassed now, although he was on the side of victory, and now he came back safely from Dafeichuan, and also brought back his more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, but he found that Fu Qi City had completely changed.

In the six months of his absence, 100,000 Qin troops were stationed in Fu Qi City, and hundreds of thousands of people came and went.

Not to mention that the city is bigger, the Qin army directly added another outer city outside the original old city, and the original city became the inner city, and the city wall of the inner city was also strengthened and heightened, and a circle of moats was built outside the city wall of the outer city, not to mention that the city opened six gates, and there were urn cities outside the six gates.

The original Fu Qi City, which was renamed Weiding City, is now a new and strong fortress, and several forts have been built near Weiding City.

The imperial court even directly transferred a naval division to deploy in Qinghai Lake to build ships and warships for them to patrol and protect the surroundings of Qinghai Lake.

"Your Majesty has already ordered me to lead the army here to Tuntian, and more Central Plains immigrants will be transferred in the future." Feng Xiaoci welcomed Qin Qiong and them into the inner yacheng.

The news of the withdrawal of the Tibetan people had already reached Chang'an, and it was delivered in a few days, and the imperial court had no intention of continuing the pursuit, to be precise, it was not able to go deep into the plateau to fight against the Tibetans.

Except for the two armies that bit Jin on the northern route, and cooperated with Tiele and other armies to continue to conquer the Western Turks, the soldiers and horses of all other roads are now withdrawing one after another, and the county soldiers and people are also returning to their hometowns one after another.

The autumn breeze is cool, and if you withdraw your troops at this time, you can still rush home for the autumn harvest.

"This time, we mobilized more than 400,000 Sanya troops, more than 200,000 Zhudao county soldiers, more than 100,000 villagers, and more than 1 million people, which is unprecedentedly huge in scale and extremely expensive. Now the entire Guanlong River Shuo and even the Central Plains are empty. ”

Feng Xiaoci told Luo Siye that although Tubo had fled, the imperial court was temporarily unable to use troops against Tubo. If you want to fight, you really can't fight, this time it costs too much, and the vitality hurts too much.

Not to mention anything else, more than 100,000 war horses alone died, and a large number of soldiers' mounts, pack mules, and horses were killed and wounded, which already made the Qin army hurt their muscles and bones.

In this war, which lasted more than half a year, the Qin army dispatched more than 400,000 troops, and more than 20,000 people died in battle or froze to death, and more than 10,000 people needed to be discharged due to disability.

There were also many casualties among the county soldiers, militia and people, more than 10,000 people.

"To be honest, we have never fought such a battle, and we have raised the strength of the whole country, but we have not taken advantage of it at all, which is a loss battle."

Heiye couldn't help but sigh and nodded, "Yes, it's too much of a loss, it's my fault that I failed to follow His Majesty's strategy and fought this battle beyond expectations when the court was not prepared." ”

Feng Xiaoci comforted him, "You can't say that, if you don't fight, they will still call." ”

"But if we defend and fight, we won't suffer such a big loss, and we won't lose so much."

This is the truth, if it is a defensive battle to defend the city, it is impossible to take advantage of the Qin army in the hands of the Western Turks or Tubo, but Feng Xiaoci still said, "But we also saved Tuyuhun this time, and dealt a blow to the arrogance of Tubo and the Western Turks, at least after this battle, they dare not provoke me again." ”

Leaving the mainland, leaving the city, and going to fight in ghost places thousands of miles away like Tuyuhun and the Western Regions, this is indeed a new situation that has never been seen before for the Qin army, and it is also a completely different situation.

"Your Majesty has an edict, ordering all armies to disband on the spot except for the soldiers who stayed behind, and return to the local military government.

Hei Ye took out his own soldier seal letter, "I finally came back with all the brothers, otherwise this seal will not be handed over facelessly." ”

"Go to Chang'an, Your Majesty is waiting for you, and I want to celebrate your achievements."

"What about Murong Shun?" Si Ye asked.

Feng Xiaoci smiled, "Murong Ke and King Tianzhu were both defeated and killed, Tuyuhun's army was also defeated, only Murong Anyuan ran away, and now Tuyuhun no longer needs Murong Shun." ”

The emperor has issued an edict to summon Murong Shun to Chang'an to meet the Son of Heaven.

This actually means that he will be given an idle position in Chang'an, and from then on he will stay in Chang'an to be a guest of heaven and never return, and Tuyuhun will also be completely set up as the four counties of Qinghai Road.

In the future, the Great Qin will build more cities in Qinghai, build post roads, garrison government soldiers, set up pastures, open tuntian, and immigrate to Shibian.

This should also be a barely acceptable harvest after Daqin's action to hurt his vitality this time.

"Will Murong Shun accept it?"

"If you don't accept it, you will kill it." Feng Xiaoci sneered and said, at present, the left and right political envoys of Qinghai Province have not arrived, and he, the commander of the Left Capital, is the highest official of Qinghai Province, and he has soldiers in his hands, and killing Murong Shun is like killing a chicken.

"If he toasts and doesn't eat, he has to eat the penalty wine, then no one is to blame."

Si Ye thought about it, in the past few months, Murong Shun has not been easy, especially when he was guarding Da Fei Ling, he also made a lot of efforts. Immediately, he said, "Let me tell him, I believe he will listen to my advice and be willing to go back to Chang'an with me." ”

"That's the best, if he doesn't know each other, the king can leave him to me to dispose of, don't dirty your hands."