Luo Tong and Yao Chi rode horses in front, Jin Fengwei followed, followed by Luo Yuan, the commander of the personal soldiers, who led the personal soldiers behind him, and Cheng Chuliang, who was colored, was responsible for driving the sheep and horses in the middle. Qin Huaiyu led the soldiers and horses to restrain the troops at the end of the team. This arrangement is both offensive and defensible. No matter where the enemy comes from front to back, they can take it in stride.

All the way to the Shuofang border safely, and the tens of thousands of border troops sent by Li Jing realized the general division. After calculating that the Liang division did not have the courage to go out of the city to fight, the army ignored the heavily guarded Shuofang army, and drove more than 200,000 cattle swaggering through Shuofang City by taking a short route!

Since Li Jing trained his troops on the border, Liang Shidu had not slept a peaceful night, and ordered the whole army to strictly defend it, for fear that the Tang army would suddenly come to the city one day and conquer Shuofang with lightning speed.

Li Jing has become famous and famous in this land this year, and he is now in trouble at home and abroad, and he has no courage to fight Li Jing in the south of the Central Plains. can only ask the Turks for help, and then retreat in the city to defend it, constantly inquiring about the movements of the Tang army.

It was found that the Tang Army was really training troops at the border, and had no intention of attacking. Liang Shidu breathed a sigh of relief, but he didn't dare to be careless, for fear that the other party would come and suddenly attack, so he sent scouts to pay attention to the movements of the Tang army, and let his henchman Feng Duan, the hussar general, personally guard the city defense.

In order not to make Liang Shi look down on him, Feng Duan has to go around the city several times every day, and recently he has been pondering Li Jing's intentions, and it is impossible for him to have no intentions for an inexplicable training exercise. It's just that there was so much commotion but no response, and I really can't figure out what their purpose is.

"There is only passiveness and stubbornness, so as to respond to all changes." Feng Duan thought about it for a long time, but he could only come to such a conclusion.

"Hey, what's that?" At this moment, the soldier in charge of the city defense suddenly exclaimed.

Feng Duan's expression changed greatly, and while shouting warning, he sent people to Pegasus into the palace and told Liang Shidu about the situation.

When Liang Shidu hurried to the city tower, he found that Liang Luoren had also arrived, Liang Luoren did not have much loyalty to Liang Shidu, but the Liang family has been passed down for thousands of years, and he didn't want the Liang family to cut off his hand like this.

"How?" Liang Shidu asked nervously.

Feng Duan pointed to the distance and said, "Your Majesty, look." ”

Liang Shidu stared into the distance, and was shocked, only to see that after the tens of thousands of Tang troops who opened the way, what came into his ears was the sound of "rumbling" hooves, which was the sound of countless cattle, sheep and horses.

At first glance, the mountains are full of running cattle, sheep and horses, and the black pressure is so large that you can't see the end at all, as if a black cloud is fluttering.

And the Tang army behind can no longer be called an army, it should be called a herdsman. They waved whips, drove cattle, sheep and horses, and shouted one after another, one after another, making people feel like they were in the depths of the desert.

Liang Shi was dumbfounded, pointed to the cattle, sheep and horses all over the mountains and asked, "This, this...... What's going on? ”

Feng Duan was already stunned, how could he answer?

Liang Luoren said in a trembling voice: "The training is just a cover, the training is just a cover for their light cavalry actions, and Li Jing's real purpose is to rob the Turks." ”

Liang Shidu was half shocked, and said in a trembling voice: "Li Jing went to the Turks to loot? ”

"You can't be wrong!" Liang Luoren didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment, he had only heard of the grassland people going south to rob their Central Plains people, and he had never heard of the Central Plains robbing the grassland people, this world seemed to be reversed.

Liang Shidu thought about it and felt that there was no better explanation, so he agreed with Liang Luoren's statement, and said incrediblely: "This Li Jing is really bold." ”

Liang Luoren said: "Li Jing is both civil and military, bold and careful, half of the southern part of Li Tang was fought down by him and Li Xiaogong!" Otherwise, if he was a general with a foreign surname, how could he step into the military core of Li Tang in a short period of time? ”

"They deliberately put their troops on the border and told us to gather our troops to defend them. But they rode away, without knowing it. They must have looted too much material now, and they can't speed it up. couldn't hide it from us, and calculated that we didn't have the courage to fight, so we simply took a shortcut and passed under Shuofang City. ”

"I've asked people to find out what they're doing, do you want to block their way and take them down in one fell swoop? Then these animals are ours. At this time, a trace of fierceness and greed flashed in Feng Duan's eyes.

"Even if we grab it, it won't be ours." Liang Luoren looked at Feng Duan with an idiotic expression, an expression that your brain was caught in the crack of the door.

Feng Duan made him look uncomfortable, thinking that Liang Luoren was looking at a stupid pig.

Liang Shi was startled, and said with a big brain: "No, the Tang Army has tens of thousands of troops, and they can fight against us regardless of these cattle, and when we are defeated, the cattle are not theirs?" Even if you grab it, you have to return it to the Turks. Why should we risk this great danger to do thankless work? As long as we keep it convenient, there is no need to risk attacking. He wants to pass by and let them pass by, and we take the safety of Shuofang as our first priority. Almost without any hesitation, Master Liang vetoed Feng Duan's proposal.

Liang Luoren laughed and laughed, obviously he was afraid, and there were so many reasons, but this was also the best way to deal with it, maybe Tang Jun deliberately used these animals as bait, preparing to take Shuofang in one fell swoop.

Because of Liang Shidu's decision, the Tang army did not encounter any resistance, passed through Shuofang openly, and returned to Lingzhou with all the spoils.

Stepping into his own territory, Qin Huaiyu said with a smile: "This Liang Shidu is less daring than a mouse, and he was actually frightened like this. ”

Luo Tong said with a smile: "Master Liang is so cowardly, let the back hand of the Metropolitan Governor be in vain." ”

Cheng Chuliang said: "I knew that he was so cowardly, I shouldn't have been a teacher, and I waited for him to come to the door to die." I made a mistake. ”

"No matter, enter the customs and count the loot! Divide the spoils. Luo Tong waved his hand, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses were driven into the pass by the shepherd soldiers.

Good count!

In this battle, Luo Tong led 3,000 Modao troops out of the customs, plus the personal soldiers of each general, a total of more than 3,900 people, and when he came back, plus the rescued Han people, the number of people did not decrease but increased, approaching 6,000 people, carefully calculated, Luo Tong's personal guards lost 18 people, and the Modao army and the personal guards of each general lost a total of 349 people, that is, in this operation, the Tang army lost 367 people. However, the damage they inflicted on the Turks was hundreds of times that of this number, but they mainly plundered materials, and did not count the population, so there was no detailed data, and it should be conservatively estimated that there should be about 150,000 or 60,000.

The key is their astonishing harvest, which plundered a total of 61,345 Turkic horses and 88,000 sheep on this trip; After all, the Turks are nomadic and do not mainly farm, but there are 8,575 heads.

Looking at the astonishing statistics that were counted, Luo Tong was distracted, and the others also exclaimed in surprise after learning about this huge harvest.

"Oh my God! Is it any wonder that the Turks have to come to the Central Plains every year for a walk, and it's only been a few days? With this huge harvest, this is really a good deal to make a profit. Cheng Chuliang had a youthful heart, and almost jumped up with joy, his eyes blooming with a strange brilliance.

Even the steady Qin Huaiyu couldn't help but say: "In the future, we will go to the Turks from time to time to wander around, and we are still worried about eating and drinking?" There is no going to the Turks to rob it. We want to let the Turks know that we are only benevolent, that we are not willing to do plunder, and that we are really better than them. ”

Luo Tong frowned when he heard this, and said angrily: "What robbery? Robbery, it's ugly. We are benevolent and righteous teachers who help the suffering, and we are literate and civilized people, so we have to talk about hunting and hunting...... Look at you guys, how do you use the words? One by one, learn more. ”

Cheng Chuliang hurriedly changed his words, nodded like a chicken eating rice: "Yes, yes, yes, it's hunting, it's hunting, and the Turks are our prey." ”

In the laughter of everyone, Li Jing's eyes who rushed to help were also full of shock, he knew that this harvest was not small, but he didn't expect it to be this huge amount.

Suddenly, he had the feeling that he had lived to a dog for so many years, knowing that he had been guarding the border for more than a year, and he had not even caught a single wool. Luo Tong's results are so amazing that people can't be convinced.

"Don't rejoice too soon!" Li Jing stayed for a moment, smiled and reminded the young people who were excited and cheering: "This harvest can be met but not sought, and the next time you can have one or two percent of today without suffering a loss, you will be satisfied." ”

Luo Tong also said: "What the Metropolitan Governor said is right, the Turks are paralyzed and careless, and we took advantage of it by surprise, and if they are prepared in the future, there will be no effect this time." ”

The generals suddenly realized and nodded yes one after another.

"But there has always been only a thousand days to catch thieves, how can there be a reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days? I'll just figure it out later. There is wine today and drunkenness today, and I will talk about it later. You should be glad to get so much loot...... According to the rumors, all the participating soldiers will receive six sheep, a cow, and a horse as a reward, and the money and military pay will be calculated separately, and the number of fallen soldiers will be tripled. Luo Tong had a smile in his eyes, as if he saw what was going to come.

As soon as the order to seal the reward was passed down, the soldiers who went out this time broke out into uncontrollable shouts.

Six sheep, a horse, and a cow were great rewards, especially for cows. The Tang Dynasty adopted the government military system, which was used to train farmers who cultivated the land in peacetime, and fought in the army during wartime. This system is very similar to the integration of soldiers and peasants in the military service system of the Zhou Dynasty, but it is more perfect. This also means that each of these soldiers has a field in their home.

As an expert in arable land, the value of cattle in agriculture is far from being replaced by sheep and horses. In ancient times, only peasants with a certain amount of money bought cattle to plough the land, ordinary peasants mostly used horses to plough the fields, followed by donkeys, and the poorest nature was manpower.

The labor force of a ploughing ox is comparable to more than ten prime of life, and it has a pivotal position in the farming-based nation. Because of this, there are special regulations to protect cattle in the ancient law, prohibiting the slaughter of cattle, injuring other people's cattle, and being questioned and imprisoned, which shows the importance of cattle.

Losing a ploughing cow can bring down a family. And with one more ploughing cow, the efficiency of ploughing will be increased by at least several times in the coming year, and the harvest will naturally be greatly improved. All the soldiers were red with excitement, and some even cried with joy.