What was supposed to be a very difficult battle ended in such a mess.

Even from the beginning to the end, all those involved in this battle did not think that it would be this result.

Excitement, wild dancing, arrogance, unwillingness, all kinds of emotions shrouded the heads of the Tang army and the Tibetan army.

Pursue?

Or not chasing?

After Li Jing hesitated about the tea, he directly chose the latter.

"General, we should take advantage of the fact that the other party's foothold is not stable, and directly go up to leave them behind, although these people are the miscellaneous army of Tubo, but they are also the army, and destroying them will also play a certain role in suppressing the morale of Tubo." Gao Yang couldn't help but persuade.

The retreat of the Tibetan army was very timely, very crisp, and very thorough, and even left thousands of people to support the pace of the Tang army's pursuit.

Although those thousands of people simply chose to surrender after learning the news that they had been abandoned, they still held the Tang army for at least an hour.

Because the retreat was so simple, that the two armies on the left and right did not even drink the soup, and when they arrived at the predetermined attack position according to the predetermined route, they could only be stunned to find that the battlefield was now being cleaned up, and there were not many corpses on the ground.

This made the two armies in charge of the bag suddenly feel that they were abandoned, and they always felt that they were deliberately pulling themselves apart, and then they secretly ate meat and drank soup.

"Can't chase it!" Li Jing shook his head, a little helpless, but this was his own mistake.

Although he had expected the difficulty of this battle, he still did not expect that the reality would be so difficult.

The victory in the first battle did not make Li Jing excited and forgetful, the soldiers saw the vulnerability of the Tubo army, but Li Jing saw the wisdom of the Tubo people, or the wisdom of the old acquaintance.

In any case, in this matter, I didn't think it through, or from the beginning, I had already lost people for a while.

"This is the old man's fault, he didn't accurately predict the current situation, and he was a little careless in his heart, and the old man would ask the court for his guilt." Li Jing said steadily, as strong as an old monk sitting down, always adhering to the core strategy of not chasing, but the reason must be known.

"Space for time, now we have penetrated nearly thousands of miles into the enemy's territory, and we have indeed underestimated the determination of the enemy's strong wall and the impact on us, we have not advanced for a day, and the baggage troops will need two days, or even three days to catch up, but they can supply the army for up to twenty days at a time, so before solving the logistics problem, this is already the limit position of our attack, and if we go further, we can only choose one from the lack of food, or reduction."

Li Jing's statement did not surprise people too much, because the baggage officer had already told them this fact.

The troops are advancing one-way, so twenty days of food is enough for them to advance a distance of thousands of miles, but the logistics troops can't be counted like this, plus the mistakes in the early preparations, so that the number of self-planted troops is insufficient, so after arriving here, it is almost impossible to continue to advance.

The strategy of fighting to feed the war was also forced to abort with the clearing of the wall.

"Did you just let them go? That's a close feat......" Qin Huaizhi said reluctantly with a painful face.

"Let them go, it's just to bring more military exploits, not to mention, don't forget the strategic ...... of the imperial court" Li Jing squinted his eyes slightly.

At this point, several people stopped arguing on this topic.

They are feints, and then the south is launching an offensive, if the Tibetans are fooled, then they will be the main force, the south will be the auxiliary, if the Tubo people are not fooled, then they will be auxiliary.

Strategic goals are not as complex as imagined, and even many times, strategic goals are actually only one sentence, and what is really complicated and difficult to do is those specific plans.

For example, if I want to travel all over the world, these six words are strategic goals, but how to get there, where to go first, how to plan the route, where the money comes from, how long to stay in each place, and so on, this is a specific plan.

Plans can be changed, but strategic goals cannot be moved.

……

As a result of the immobility of the strategic goal, the position that originally belonged to the Tubo people was directly used by Li Jing as his own position.

It's just that the choice made by the Han people, who have a lot of experience in defensive operations, at this time is not just comparable to the Tubo army, which has only one Han military division to give advice.

For the field garrison, the water source is the most important.

It's not that you can choose a higher place and forget it once and for all, and don't always think that the field garrison is really just a tent or something, and it's not a big deal.

But......

Miss by a mile!

There was a case where a large army was stationed on a high place, and the location was so advantageous that it could see the surrounding distance without any objects blocking the view, and it was also a catastrophic difficulty for the attacking side.

But the result was a big surprise, the attacking side just surrounded it, did not launch an attack, just a few days later, the army on the hill could only be forced down the mountain to surrender, there was no water source, people could not last three days, at most five days, this is the limit, only a drop away from death.

There is also a case where the army is stationed in a good place, and there is also a river, so there is no need to worry about the water source.

But their fate was even more tragic than the previous one, because the opponent was upstream of them, putting a large amount of poison in the water, and the result naturally went without saying.

Therefore, how to choose a camping site is a compulsory course for every officer.

Temporary camping, the requirements are not high, as long as there is water, after all, it is only two meals, and the water is enough in a short time, even if the other party poisons it, it has no effect.

It is much more difficult to build a base camp like this, but according to different needs, different locations, and different ways of choice, so although the matter of the army digging a well in the camp, although it sounds appalling, it is actually a common occurrence.

But this is Tibet, a plateau, so it is impossible to dig a well.

Fortunately, the Tibetans chose a good place for them, which had a superior terrain and natural defensive advantages, and more importantly, through the interrogation of the captives, they learned that there was a mountain spring not far away.

The amount of water in the mountain spring is not large, but with a little more care, it is enough to feed 40,000 people.

In addition, the mountain spring is a flowing water, and it is the source here, so poisoning has no effect at all.

So, there is the next scene.

The tents were placed in the center, thousands of tents were arranged in an orderly manner, and only a small number of soldiers in the camp were constantly patrolling back and forth.

"It's really lucky, I was injured at the last moment...... Li Si sighed with disappointment in his eyes, as if he was a little self-blaming, and he was still holding his improved version of the horizontal knife in his right hand, sitting on the ground boredly, sharpening the knife without hurry, and looking up at the prisoners who were working in front of him from time to time.

"Come on, you, if you get cheap, you sell well, your little injury will be almost a few days away, I really call it a back ......" A wounded soldier next to him replied in despair, as if he was venting his dissatisfaction.

Li Si was shot in the left arm by a bow and arrow and pierced it directly, but fortunately, the head was not accurate, and fortunately, the arrow did not rub against the bone, so the arrow was removed, bandaged to reduce inflammation, and after the wound healed, he could recover 100% combat effectiveness.

Even now, he can guarantee at least 60 percent combat effectiveness.

And he is tragic, the location of the injury is also the left hand, but he is the forearm.

Because he is a pikeman, the flexibility of close combat is naturally not good, and there are too many enemy troops in front of him, and it is normal to not take care of multiple directions, although in the end his comrades still saved themselves, but they are still a step late.

Of course, his luck was not the worst, although his left forearm was slashed, and even the white bones could be seen to be cracked.

It's no joke to break your muscles and bones for 100 days.

"The captain has informed me that when the baggage team comes, an examination will be arranged, and if my injury recovery speed is not enough, I will follow the baggage team back to recuperate."

Although tossing back and forth is not conducive to recovery, no one knows how long they can stay here, maybe a month, maybe half a year? Maybe not even ten days.

If the injury is mild, you can still stay to recover, but if it involves bones, if it is not particularly serious, you can also stay, as for the serious one, you can only go back to Yazhou to recuperate, and after the injury is healed, you can act as a baggage team to transport a batch of food back to the team.

"Go back, go back, it's better than those who lost their lives." Li Si didn't know how to comfort his new friend, so he could only say this.

"Yes, it's a lot better than those guys who lost their lives, at least there is hope......," he said, his eyes already fixed not far ahead.

The soldiers of the Tang Army led the Tibetan prisoners, and while working together, they also supervised them, as for themselves and Li Si, these wounded soldiers, one was to act as a supervisor of the army, and the other was to bask in the sun.

Looking at the fortifications that have gradually taken shape, there are even more reluctance in my heart.

With such a good fortification and no shortage of water, as long as the food can keep up, they can consume the entire Tibet here, and they don't even have to worry that the Tibetans will break through this defense.

The crushed stones and earth, about six steps wide and four steps high, were all made of local materials, so they were built quickly.

Is this fortification redundant?

Superfluous!

Is it really redundant?

Not superfluous at all!

Although the three types of equipment such as bomb carts, rocket launchers, and bows and arrows could prevent the Tibetans from rushing up, with this obstacle made of stones and dirt, even if they did, they could only dismount and become infantrymen, because the horses could not cross this barrier.

Li Jing is taking advantage of the terrain characteristics here, and every handful of soil and stone here is made into something beneficial to the Tang army, and he wants to build this place into a meat grinder in the hearts of the Tubo people, instead of the Tubo people, who sit in such a good position, but destroy the Great Wall......