Zhao Ziliang soon crossed the river by boat and came to Jiangbei and entered Qusangda. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoZhao Bei and Zamu came to greet them with some of the leaders of the Tubo servant army and mercenaries.

Qusanda is built on the mountainside, and most of the materials used to build the houses are local materials, using stones of different sizes, and the buildings of the whole settlement appear to be a little disorganized, uneven in height and color. Most of the places chosen by the Tibetan people to live are like this, just because there are many mountains and little flat land, and the flat land and grassland need to be reserved for planting crops and grazing livestock, if the flat land is used to build houses, there is no place to grow crops and grazing livestock, which has also become the characteristic of Tubo here.

Zhao Ziliang rode on horseback and looked up at Qusangda built on the mountainside, and asked: "This place is not close to the river, and the terrain is high, how can the Tubo people here get water?" ”

Zamu replied: "My lord, there is a spring flowing down the mountain all the year round, which can not only meet the domestic water of the locals, but also irrigate the crops, so there is no shortage of water here, and the spring water is sweet and very nourishing, and the people here are all full of red faces, and the grain is harvested every year, and the cattle, sheep and horses are fat and thick, and the meat is delicious!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Then come and slaughter a sheep to eat tonight, and see how the mutton here is different from other places!" ”

Zhao Bei hurriedly agreed: "Yes!" ”

Zhao Ziliang and the escort army, accompanied by Zhao Bei and Zamu and others, rode to Qusangda halfway up the mountainside while talking, Zhao Ziliang looked at the terrain and asked: "With this kind of terrain, it is the following attack, it should not be so easy for you to capture Qusangda, why did it take less than half a day this time?" Could it be a sneak attack? ”

Zhao Bei replied: "No, after Master Shang Qianluo solved the other party's strangers, the Tubo army here already knew that we were coming, and they knew that they couldn't hold Qusangda, so the whole army rushed down from the mountainside to crush our army, but they were all infantry, we were cavalry, Sun Er ordered the whole army to retreat two miles quickly, and after the Tubo army rushed down the mountain and the momentum was sharply reduced, they would wave their troops to attack, and they would be defeated in one fell swoop!" ”

"I see, it seems that this Tubo general doesn't know much about the art of war" Zhao Ziliang said, turned his head and asked Shang Qianluo: "Master, how many strangers are there here?" Where is it now? ”

Shang Luo said: "Back to the king, there is only one person, who has been disposed of by the poor monk, and the body was disposed of by General Zhao, and the poor monk does not know!" ”

Zhao Bei said to Zhao Ziliang: "Sun Er has taken strict care of the corpse of that strange person, and no one is allowed to approach!" ”

"Take this king to see it!"

"Yes, King!"

Zhao Bei led Zhao Ziliang and the others to a large stone house, but the house was a little gloomy, unventilated, and exuded a trace of blood.

In the middle of the house, there was a thin corpse lying on the ground, wearing a black robe, looking to be over fifty years old, described as withered, and there was not a few taels of flesh on the body, this may be all the phenomena of all spiritual realm cultivators, and the body is weak.

"That's him!" Zhao Bei pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, then beckoned, took a tray from a soldier who came over, and said to Zhao Ziliang: "This is the object found from this person, a total of thirteen things"

On the tray were neatly placed bells, small copper skulls, knives, small wooden boxes containing pills, small silver staffs and other objects, among which a roll of sheepskin tied with fine hemp rope was noticed by Zhao Ziliang, he took it and took off the hemp rope, opened it and looked at it, this is the Tubo script, he didn't recognize it, turned his head and handed it to Shang Qianluo and asked, "What is written on this?" ”

Shang Liluo looked at it, shook his head and said: "King, this seems to be the Tibetan script, and the poor monk has not learned the Tibetan script, so he doesn't recognize it."

At this time, an accompanying official next to him arched his hand and said: "King Qiyu, in the early years, Emperor Xuanzong sent a delegation to Tubo when he was alive, and Weichen was the accompanying scribe of the mission at that time, and he stayed in Tubo for two years and learned some Tibetan characters!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang handed him the sheepskin and said, "Look at what is written on this?" ”

The official took it and looked at it, then returned his hands and said: "King, what is written on it seems to be a secret method for practicing strange arts, and its cultivation process is extremely cruel and obscure, and Weichen can only understand the meaning of Yicheng!" ”

Zhao Ziliang took back the sheepskin, thought about it, and said to Du Fu: "Put it away, and seal it in the library secret pavilion after the class master returns to the court, if you get all kinds of cultivation secret methods in the future, you will store them in the library secret cabinet and seal them, without the king's handwritten warrant, no one is allowed to read it at will!" ”

Du Fu put away the parchment roll and promised: "Obey!" ”

After returning to the camp on the south bank of the Yangtze River, Zhao Ziliang held a military meeting, which was attended not only by the generals, but also by the civilian officials of the army.

Zhao Ziliang said to the officials and generals: "This king originally planned to quickly attack all parts of Tibet with a rapid offensive strategy, but judging from the current situation, this strategy is no longer feasible, mainly due to the following factors hindering the speed of our army's attack: first, the people of Tibet are more hostile to us; Second, our army does not have many troops, and if we divide our troops to garrison the captured places, we will not have more troops to attack; Thirdly, the climate and altitude have a great impact on our soldiers, and they are weakening our combat effectiveness, causing them to need several days of rest to adapt to the local climate and altitude after each attack; Fourth, the complex terrain hindered our march speed, many of which were blocked by mountains and rivers, and even many mountains that were covered with snow all year round blocked our direction. Fifth, most of the weapons, armor, bows and arrows we captured cannot be used, which makes it impossible for us to fight in the ordnance and equipment, and these things that are lost after the battle need to be replenished by our own logistics, and when we come here, the logistical supply is somewhat difficult, especially the consumption of bows and crossbows and arrows is too much, these factors have seriously hindered our offensive speed, some factors can be overcome, but some factors take time to overcome, so this king decided to slow down in the process of advancing in the future, Steady! ”

Zheng San stood up and hugged his fists and said: "King, in response to the problem of insufficient logistics capacity, Weichen has taken measures to hand over the transportation of some military materials to the businessmen, although it will cost some freight, but it can greatly improve the transportation capacity, this matter is currently ongoing, and in another month, the supplies will be transported in large quantities!" ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned and said, "Is it reliable to hand over the transportation of military logistics materials to the caravans of merchants?" These merchants are all people who see money, and the black-hearted people among the merchants, if they replace the new grain with old grain, or add sand to the military rations, or replace other logistical materials on the way, this defective product will bring us big trouble when it is transported here! ”

Zheng San hugged his fists and replied: "King, Weichen does not rule out the possibility of this kind of thing, after all, people are greedy, especially businessmen, as long as they have double the profit, they can take risks!" However, the logistics yamen are looking for more honest caravans in Xinjing this time, they have all paid the deposit in advance, and the families of these people are all living in Xiqin, it should not be a big problem, if they dare to make ghosts in the army's baggage materials, then they are impatient! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded: "That's okay, let's do it!" By the way, Chen Qing, is there any news from Xuanyi's side? ”

Chen Qing stood up and said, "Back to the king, Xuanyi just sent someone over to report that the Western Route Army has captured Sidazang and occupied the entire territory of the Gongtang Dynasty!" ”

"Okay, order him to rest on the spot for a while, strengthen his rule in the area, and try to recruit young warriors from among the local Tibetans to form a mercenary army. There are two other things: first, this king has heard that the soldiers of the mud bhara are more honest and obedient, and they are more obedient to military discipline, so you immediately send people to the land of mud bhara to recruit warriors and form a mud bhara mercenary army, and you can recruit as many as you can! Second, send someone to see Zhao Lei in the Tianzhu Metropolitan Protectorate, and ask him to transfer 50,000 Tianzhu soldiers from all over Tianzhu to the territory of Tubo in batches, and all of them must enter Tubo within two months! In the future, most of the garrison tasks were handed over to the Tianzhu soldiers, and the Tubo servant army, the Tubo mercenaries and the Nibora mercenaries fought with the main army of our Western Qin! ”

Chen Qing hugged his fists and agreed: "Yes, the king, the minister will arrange it!" There is also a matter to report to the king, Xuanyi sent someone to report that when the army of the Gongtang Dynasty was fighting, they set up a strange military formation, when our army went to attack, I found that after rushing into the formation, it was actually changed, the soldiers were at a loss, their consciousness was somewhat affected, and some soldiers began to kill each other, if it were not for General Xuanyi's timely luck and roar, the consequences were unimaginable, the soldiers were awakened after hearing the roar of General Xuanyi, and recovered their senses, which turned the corner and defeated the army of the King of Gongtang, captured Starzon! ”

Zhao Ziliang frowned after hearing this, looked at Shang Qianluo and asked, "Master, what's going on?" Why did the soldiers of our army rush into the enemy's line and begin to lose their minds and kill each other? ”

Shang Qianluo thought for a while and said to Zhao Ziliang: "King, although the poor monk has not been to see it on the spot, but the poor monk thinks that this must be one of the aliens on the other side who arranged the army into a formation according to the method of strange magic, and the king's soldiers rushed into the formation and were affected by the formation and hallucinated, everything they saw was an illusion, not real, so they gradually lost their consciousness and killed each other."

Zhao Ziliang was furious, slapped his palm on the desk and said hatefully: "This territory in Tubo is full of people who practice strange arts, and they actually use strange arts to deal with my army, it is really unreasonable!" It seems that this world is not as simple as we imagined, and we must have such Inhumans in our army to fight against the Inhumans among our enemies! Passing on the will of the king, let the Qingluo Taoist of the Qin Heavenly Prison, the Chiba Zen Master of Huachan Temple, the Padmasambhava Master of Nalanda Temple, and the Innocent Master rush to come! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Shang Jialuo: "Master, I'm afraid that the master still needs to rush over to Gongtang, although the army of King Gongtang was defeated by our army, and the whole territory was also occupied by us, but the aliens who used strange arts to deal with our army were not caught!" “

Shang Qiluo clasped his hands together and said, "The poor monk obeys the order!" “