After leaving the Beiting Protectorate and the Beiting Camp Jiedu Envoy's Zhishu Tingzhou, Zhao Ziliang and his family and army continued to lead the troops westward, along the way through the sand bowl to guard and capture, and 80 miles to Yele City to guard and capture, and Feng Luocheng to guard and capture, and 80 miles to Juliu to capture, and 100 miles to Luntai County, and another 150 miles to Zhangbao Guard, Wuzai Guard, Chunzhen Juncheng, Yehe Guard, Heishui Guard, Donglin Guard, arrived at Xilin Guard, the whole journey took a total of 48 days, this kind of marching speed is simply appalling in this era. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

By the time they arrived at Xilin to defend and capture, this new army had been completely reborn, all of them were full of energy, and everyone was particularly strong, but during the whole march, despite the adequate logistical and medical support, more than 20 people died of disease and fatigue.

The actual number of garrison soldiers in Xilin was about 300 people, but the garrison generals have always had the bad habit of eating empty salaries, after all, the generals have very little additional income except for eating empty salaries, deducting soldiers' salaries and rations, and it is difficult to feed the whole family with only a little money. Therefore, the North Court soldier roster recorded 1,200 people, but in fact there were only 300.

When arriving at Xilin Shouchuang, although Xilin Shouyu has been reoccupied by the Beiting Protectorate, it is already full of devastation and ruins, and the 500 Tang troops temporarily stationed here have undergone some simple cleaning and repair, but there are some houses that can be inhabited, but most of the houses and the outer walls of the city have been unusable, fortunately, the army itself has brought marching tents.

The 500 Tang troops temporarily stationed in the country soon completed the garrison with Zhao Ziliang, and the garrison quickly returned to Tingzhou with 500 men and horses, and then this place was completely under the jurisdiction of Zhao Ziliang.

Although the Xilin Guarding Mansion was robbed by the Xigelulu people, the Guarding Mansion was still intact, and it was ready to move in after cleaning up, and the housekeeper Wang Ru took the family and maids who came with him to clean up immediately, and Zhao Ziliang's family members quickly moved into the backyard, and in front of it was the official room and the office hall.

Everything has to start from scratch, Zhao Ziliang immediately convened officials and generals to discuss, assign tasks, Zheng San reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Before I came, I had sent a letter to Zhang Shouyu, and sent a caravan to gradually transport cattle, sheep and horses, there were 30,000 horses, I asked him to leave 10,000 horses for his own use, and 10,000 cattle and sheep each, and let the caravan all come over, and now the first caravan should have set off from Mobei to this side, and the second and third groups will follow one after another. It's just that there are some risks along the way to the west of Mobei, and I have asked them to go south to Tingzhou under the banner of generals along the way, passing through the territory of the Shatuo people, and it shouldn't be a big problem if they don't pass through the territory of the Western Qarluqs."

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Okay, this matter is not in a hurry, but these tens of thousands of war horses are very important to us, and General Ben wants to use these war horses to train a powerful cavalry that is good at long-distance running, and it will not work without this batch of war horses with amazing endurance." You spend a little more energy staring! ”

Zheng San agreed: "Xiaguan understands! ”

Next, Zhao Ziliang arranged things for his subordinates and generals, and Sima Chen Qing was responsible for leading the followers to continue training recruits; Cen Shen is responsible for leading people to count all the land, mountains, forests, lakes, grasslands, acres of fields, and battalions under the jurisdiction of Xilin Shou, re-examining and reviewing the roster of soldiers, checking the number of houses, and assigning housing to officials and generals.

Gong Ren, the commander of the inspection department, was then in charge of inspecting the military discipline in the army, and he would immediately send 100 soldiers from among the recruits to form 10 inspection teams to inspect the battalions throughout the day.

Zheng San is responsible for the logistics, warehouse, reclamation, camp and other affairs of the entire garrison, the soldiers in addition to training, but also by him to be transferred to reclaim the fields for farming, before the Xilin guard only 300 people scale, so the number of tuntian is not much, now the entire garrison has more than 8,000 people to eat, according to Zhao Ziliang's requirements, the number of newly reclaimed fields not only needs to meet the rations of more than 8,000 people for two years, but also to be able to allow the army to continue to fight for more than half a year.

Soldiers who have blacksmith skills in the army not only have to train in peacetime, but also repair weapons and armor for soldiers in their spare time, soldiers who can make bows and arrows also make and repair bows and arrows in their spare time, as well as tailors, in addition to completing training tasks, they also have to make military uniforms, military shoes, repair armor, and soldiers who can work as carpenters can do more, they can build tables, chairs and benches, make siege equipment and farmland and water conservancy facilities in their spare time, etc., these soldiers with military skills can get double salaries, Moreover, they are the objects of key protection, and they do not need to be reclaimed like other soldiers in addition to participating in training.

Wang Can was responsible for leading the scout battalion to spy on the surrounding forces around, especially the movements of the Tuqi Shi Five Bases Land Division, Xi Ge Lulu and Chebi People, and the Xilin Guards went west for dozens of miles Huang Caobo (now Aibi Lake) around the Five Bases Land Department Hu Luju? Que's turf; To the north is a small desert, and further north is the Five Continents of the Setti? Sipping the turf. To the south of Huangcaobo is the Moon Bow City, that is, the tooth tent of Mohe Dagan back then, which is the Tuqi Shi? The territory of Herrosch. Huangcaobo to the west across the Alatau Mountain and the Baluk Mountain is the Yumei Prefecture, scattered with the Xigelu tribe, under the jurisdiction of the Yinshan Governorate, but now the Xigarlu people are not very obedient, otherwise they would not raid Xilin to capture, Yinshan Governor's Mansion, Pharyngeal Prefecture Governor's Mansion and Xuanchi Governor's Mansion also live up to their existence.

Further west of Xuanchi Prefecture, it is the territory of the Chebi people (in later Russia), the Chebi people are actually the Tiele tribe, but they are too far away, and there are Tuqishi and Qarluq people in the middle, and the Tang Dynasty is too lazy to reach out there.

The raid on Xilin to capture the West Qarlu people is the stepping force department living in the jurisdiction of the Xuanchi Governor's Mansion north of the Yinshan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, although there is no kinship with the Mou tribe, but these two Qarluq people are of the same origin after all, they let go of the passage and let the cavalry of the Treadon Force Department kill the Xilin guard, which is the Hu Lu Bureau of the Mou tribe and the Wuji Land Department? Que Si must also want to use the strength department to test the reaction of the Beiting Protectorate and the Tang Dynasty.

Judge Gao Shi was responsible for negotiating with the 1,000 men and horses sent by the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and he took these people to repair the city wall, the city that Xilin guarded was not big, nor high, only two or three hundred meters from north to south, and it was made of mud, less than one zhang high, and the defense was pitifully weak.

According to Zhao Ziliang's request, Gao Shi wanted to take the 1,000 people reinforced by the Beiting Protectorate to reinforce the city wall to two zhang high and one zhang wide, although the amount of work was not very large compared to a thousand people, but it was not small.

In addition to Zheng San's own logistics affairs, he also has to organize a part of the repair of the houses in the city, re-plan the architectural pattern in the city, and make the houses and streets arranged in an orderly manner.

The jurisdiction of Broken Leaf City and the area west of Broken Leaf City is now all under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and when the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate was under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Turgy Shi Ten Surname Tribes themselves are within the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, because the Turkey Ten Surname Tribes are under the jurisdiction of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, and these two Metropolitan Protectorates are under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, but many years ago, the Broken Leaf City was robbed by the Turqi Shi people, and it was recaptured by the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, so the management rights are temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, However, two years ago, Xuanzong decreed that Beiting and Anxi were divided, and Beiting governed the area north of the Tianshan Mountains to the east of the Aral Sea, which was thousands of miles away from east to west, and the Anxi Protectorate governed the area south of the sky and the land of the nine surnames of Zhaowu.

The military training and production construction of Xilin Shou are in full swing, and there is a big discussion on how to counterattack Tubo in the court of Chang'an Palace.

At the beginning of March, he ordered to consult the method of capturing Shibao City, Wang Zhongsi wrote: "The terrain of Shibao City is too dangerous, the Tubo people have deployed heavy troops in Shibao City, and the grain and grass are sufficient, it is difficult to capture in a short time, if the Tubo reinforcements arrive to attack from behind, I am afraid that tens of thousands of casualties will be lost, which is more than worth the loss, it is better to wait for the situation to change and then seize it, this is the best policy."

Xuanzong was a little unhappy after reading Wang Zhonghe's book, and Li Linfu has always been jealous that Wang Zhongsi wears four kinds of general seals alone, which is rare in the world of military power, and even he, the prime minister, can't raise his head in front of Wang Zhonghe, so he is very jealous of Wang Zhonghe, and sends people to find out Wang Zhonghe's fault every day.

On this day, when Prime Minister Li Linfu offered a plan to recapture Shibao City, and recommended a general named Liu Guangyao to lead the troops to attack, Xuanzong thought it was feasible after reading it, but this plan to attack Shibao City needed another line of soldiers and horses to cooperate, so Xuanzong decided to order Liu Guangyao to lead the troops to attack Shibao City, and Wang Zhongsi led the troops to respond.

And the crown prince Li Heng also offered a strategy, which could open up a second battlefield, use the war in Hexi and Longyou to attract the attention of the Tubo people, and the Anxi Protectorate sent a general to lead the troops to attack the small Bolu occupied by the Tubo.

It happened that at the end of February, the capital of Anxi and the envoy of the Jiedu in the west of Anxi, Meng Lingcha, recommended that Gao Xianzhi, the general of Anxi, be appointed as the deputy protector of Anxi, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, and the deputy envoy of the four towns of Jiedu.

It just so happened that sending troops to attack Xiao Bolu could not bring too many soldiers and horses, and Fumeng Lingcha wanted to sit in Anxi to deter the big food country in the west, so Gao Xianzhi entered Xuanzong's sight, Xuanzong thought that since Fumeng Lingcha recommended Gao Xianzhi, it means that Gao Xianzhi should still have some ability, so on March 15, he issued an edict at the same time, led by Liu Guangyao and Wang Zhongsi to attack Shibao City, Liu Guangyao mainly attacked, and Wang Zhongsi responded; He also issued an edict to canonize Gao Xianzhi as the deputy protector of Anxi, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, and the deputy envoy of the four towns of Jiedu, and the envoy Bian Lingcheng as the supervising army, leading 10,000 troops to attack Xiaobolu, which was occupied by the Tubo people.

As a result, in the sixth year of Tianbao (747 AD), two battles that had a great impact on the Tang Dynasty - the Battle of Xiaobolu and the Battle of Shibao City gradually kicked off. (To be continued.) )