After the emperor saw that Du Ruhui and Wang Ziming turned over Daqin's current family pocket, he didn't expect that the situation was more serious than expected. The front line is hard, and he is happy to win, but Daqin's little family foundation has been wiped out.

This operation was different from any previous one, whether it was fighting in the Western Regions or Tuyuhun, it was far away from the Central Plains, relying on the rear of the Central Plains for supplies, and the transshipment was more than a thousand miles away.

Another is that the Qin military was unprepared, rushed to the battle, and was very passive.

The places that are also fighting are places that cannot be replenished.

At the beginning, whether Luo Cheng fought with the Goguryeo people outside the Guan, or fought with the Turks in Daibei, there was no such a bad situation. There are many mountain cities in Goguryeo, and at least they can supply on the spot to feed the war. And to fight with the Turks, there is also the support of money and food from important border towns such as Taiyuan and Mayi.

"There is no news from Su Dingfang's side? Then recall a soldier and leave him an army of 24,000 men, and now that the situation has eased a lot, I believe that he will be able to make contributions with only one army. ”

Jiannan is also a remote place on the frontier, and the logistics supply of grain and grass is also a big problem. An additional 24,000 soldiers and horses means that an additional 100,000 people will have to be added, and an additional million stones of grain and grass will be consumed.

"Transfer this army back to the Central Plains and return to the military government to prepare for the three feudatories in the south of the Yangtze River."

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Fu Qi City.

The emperor's envoy arrived from Chang'an as quickly as possible, a distance of more than 2,000 miles, and the envoy took only five days. When he arrived at Fu Qi City, the envoy couldn't even walk on his legs.

"Your Majesty's edict that the city will be handed over to the general Feng Xiaoci to take over."

Qin Qiong's generals listened carefully to the holy decree.

"General Feng is in Jincheng County, and he is talking with the privy envoy Zhang Shuai about the withdrawal of some soldiers and horses and people, and he will be here later."

Tuyuhun's 150,000 Qin army, the battles in the past few months, as well as the previous three battles and three victories, have also killed and injured thousands of soldiers and horses.

Now the emperor has a decree to order Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Gong and the three generals to lead the three armies south to relieve the siege of Dafeichuan, and order Feng Xiaoci to take over the defense of the city, and the unified army of 20,000 or four will stay behind, and the rest of the soldiers and horses will be disbanded and returned to the palace.

This means that 50,000 soldiers and horses will be disbanded on the spot, and in Longyou, 50,000 defense soldiers and horses will be disbanded, and at the same time, 300,000 people and tens of thousands of county soldiers and township soldiers will be disbanded.

Wei Chigong complained a little.

"Why did we win a big battle and still cut down our troops?"

"Duke Eguo, even the imperial court can't support it."

"I can't support it, I've been supporting it for so long before, so it's just a while? Tubo has not been defeated, Dafeichuan has not yet been relieved, and instead of increasing our troops, we will reduce our troops, 150,000 will become 72,000, which prime minister does this mean? ”

The envoy replied truthfully, "This is what Your Majesty meant, Your Majesty said that although there are still 800 miles of road south of Fu Qi City to Dafeichuan, there is no enemy army to intercept it, so you can go down safely." Moreover, the Tubo people actually can't hold on, and you may not be able to fight with them when you go south this time. ”

"Moreover, the more soldiers, the more difficult the logistics supply, and it is really difficult to transfer grain and grass here in Qinghai, so His Majesty's will is not to use the Guanlong people to transport grain and grass, but to directly use the cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock captured in the Tuyuhun battle as food for the army."

This time in the army, they will not carry grain and grass, and they will not be worthy of accompanying the soldiers and civilians.

The auxiliary soldiers in the army drove the cattle and sheep and carried some ordnance supplies with the army to the south.

"On the Jiannan side, there is also an army of General Su Dingfang, who will support you from the flank and rear." Although there is no news of Su Dingfang yet, there is at least one army.

"Is this for us to learn the fighting methods of the Tuyuhun people?"

"Your Majesty said, the Tuyuhun people and the Tubo people are like this, the enemy can go, and our Qin army can also go, they don't have the people to transport grain and grass, so our army can do the same."

Qin Qiong smiled, "What Your Majesty said is very reasonable, our army has won three battles and three victories, and it is true that a lot of cattle, sheep, camels, horses and other livestock have been newly captured, as well as a lot of dried meat. ”

As a front-line commander, Qin Qiong was able to understand the pressure of the imperial court in the rear.

It was a very critical time before, and of course I didn't care about all kinds of calculations, so I could only do my best.

But when things get better, we have to start thinking about other things.

Keeping hundreds of thousands of people on the front line is not a long-term thing.

Besides, 72,000 people, three armies with a full formation, Qin Qiong thought it was enough.

"General Wei Chi, General Lai, please immediately convene a military meeting of lieutenant generals and colonels, prepare to replenish the three armies, and then immediately go south."

Qin Qiong acts, Lei Li is popular, he is not like Wei Chigong who still complains.

He is the commander of the road, the marshal of the emperor, the emperor gives orders, he is responsible for executing, finding a way to fight a good war, win a war, it's as simple as that, he doesn't think about anything else.

Outside the city, by Qinghai Lake.

The three generals of Qin Qiong, each selected and reorganized an army, replaced the disabled, replaced the elite, replaced the broken armor, knives and guns, carried blankets, dried meat, and water bottles, and then drove groups of cattle and sheep to the south.

The three armies that went south this time were all fully replenished armies, and excluding the county soldiers and auxiliaries in the previous army, they were all Nanya soldiers.

Each soldier carried enough meat jerky, meat floss, and fried rice for half a month, and each army was divided into a box of 4,000 men, who were responsible for driving the cattle and sheep behind, while the rest of the men went south first.

There were 12,000 people in the three armies who were responsible for driving cattle and sheep as military rations in the back, and Qin Qiong was not worried that there would be defeated Tuyuhun people or Turkic people to rob them, nor was he afraid that there would be Tubo people coming.

Among the three armies that went south first, there were still 20,000 people in each army, half of which were cavalry, each army was equipped with 1,000 heavy cavalry, and the other was equipped with 9,000 light cavalry, which was the elite gathered from the 150,000 Tuyuhun Qin army corps.

There were 30,000 cavalry, 3,000 heavy cavalry, 27,000 light cavalry, and among the 27,000 light cavalry, 9,000 archers and 18,000 spear Mingguang cuirassiers.

The cavalry is all two-horseed, and the infantry is also horse-mounted infantry, the same two-horse.

In Qin Qiong's words, even if the cattle and sheep behind are robbed, we will still have horses to slaughter and eat meat. Riding a horse and killing a horse can support them to fight this battle.

Although it is too extravagant to kill horses and eat meat, but in order to win, it can also be done at critical times.

The enemy can go, and so can I.

"General Feng, Qinghai will be handed over to you."

Before leaving, Feng Xiaoci finally rushed from Jincheng County (Lanzhou) to Qinghai Lake.

"Please rest assured that Qi Guogong, with me, I will not let this Tuyuhun people make trouble again, and I will definitely be able to ensure that you have no worries about the future. If the Duke of Qi goes south and needs it, he can send someone to summon him at any time, and Feng Mou will definitely lead troops to help. ”

Qin Qiong looked at the sky, the sky was overcast, it seemed to be snowing, it was just the end of July.

"Don't worry, this time it will be a success, the flag will be victorious, or it won't be long before it will be triumphant, and please General Feng be ready to respond."

"Hahaha, it must be, Feng is here waiting for Qi Guogong to triumph as soon as possible."

The trumpet sounded.

The army began to march all the way south.

The red flag is fluttering, and the morale is high!

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