The destruction of a race within a month is too terrible for other tribes on the grassland, Zhao Ziliang set out from October 5 to eliminate the Qibi by October 26, this news quickly spread like wings on the grassland, and soon passed to Chang'an, the political center of the Tang Dynasty.

However, all this did not have the slightest impact on Zhao Ziliang, and now Zhao Ziliang led his troops to be stationed on the bank of the Dule River, which is more than 2,000 miles away from the territory of Datang, and the cattle and sheep, gold and silver, and furs captured in this war are being transported to Hedong in a steady stream.

For the captured horses, Zhao Ziliang has a special arrangement, he gathered a few small tribes that surrendered, let these people give him grazing, on this steppe, send a thousand cavalry to take care of it, these tens of thousands of Mongolian horses, he kept it of great use, ready to form a light and heavy cavalry corps suitable for long-distance running.

On the eighth day of November, Zheng San received an order from Zhao Ziliang and rushed from Yunzhou to the Dule River (also called Duluoshui, now the Tula River in Mongolia).

The river is babbling water, the yellow leaves of the birch forest not far away fall to the ground under the autumn wind, and the endless cattle, sheep and horses by the river gnaw on the withered yellow weeds, eating fat and strong.

Zhao Ziliang sat on the main seat in the big tent, and gave orders to the generals and officials on the left and right: "Zheng San, leave some of the cattle and sheep for the army to reserve meat, and all the others rush to Hedong, and must enter the customs before it snows heavily, otherwise the cattle and sheep are easy to freeze to death and starve to death in the wild, most of these cattle and sheep are sold, I am short of cattle and arable land for the farmers, these cattle can be sold at a good price when they are transported to the Central Plains, and a small part is left to be stocked north of the Great Wall. Mobilize people to harvest weeds to prepare livestock for the winter! ”

Zheng San hurriedly agreed: "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Zheng San: "I have sent 800 miles of expedited horses to send good news to Lord Tian and the imperial court, you prepare 2,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep, and when the affairs of Hedong are properly arranged, I will take people to Chang'an, and the 60th birthday of the saint in September this year, I have not returned to Beijing to congratulate the saint on his birthday, and these two thousand cows and 5,000 sheep should be regarded as a belated congratulatory gift from the minister!" It is estimated that when you arrive in Chang'an, it will be almost the New Year, and I wish Shengshanglong good health and a happy New Year! I wish Datang Guotai and the people peace! ”

Zheng San hurriedly agreed: "Xia Guan understands!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said to Guo Ziyi again: "Ziyi, these tens of thousands of war horses and the remaining cattle and sheep are all handed over to you to take care of, feed and graze, now that winter is approaching, to build stables, cattle sheds and sheepfolds for these tens of thousands of horses and cattle and sheep, and to prepare a large amount of forage, this is not an easy thing, we have the manpower here at your disposal, in short, before the snow in winter, you must make all preparations, this winter, no livestock is allowed to freeze to death!" ”

This task is not not arduous, in a place like Mobei, the winter is very cold, if you want not to freeze a livestock to death, it is very difficult, but it is not impossible, if you are fully prepared, you can complete this task, Guo Ziyi can only agree to it, and arch her hand: "The student obeys!" ”

Next, Zhao Ziliang is going to build a town here, he is not going to build a city wall that is too tall, only an earthen wall more than a zhang high, which is enough to resist the wind and snow.

In this battle, the Tang Army's 6,000 cavalry went out of the Great Wall, and now there are 4,300 cavalry left, 1,700 cavalry killed, and nearly 2,000 wounded, Zhao Ziliang asked the wounded to go back to Hedong to recuperate, after all, the climate in the south is warmer, suitable for recuperation, and it is not easy to stay in this desert north The injury is not good, and there are still 2,700 cavalry left in the end, counting his own personal guards, there are a total of 3,000 cavalry to deploy.

Before the construction of the city on the bank of the Dule River began, Zhao Ziliang had already named the town - Zhenbei City.

On November 15, Zhao Ziliang was organizing the soldiers to build the city wall, Guo Ziyi came over with a bitter face and saluted: "Graceful!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was sweating like rain, when he heard this voice, he stopped and turned to look, and said with a smile: "It's Ziyi, is there something wrong?" ”

Guo Ziyi sighed: "Enshuai, there are too few people available to the students, to build stables for tens of thousands of horses, to build cowsheds and sheepfolds for cattle and sheep, and to harvest forage, it is really too busy, please Enshuai no matter how to mobilize more manpower for students, otherwise students are afraid that they will not be able to complete the task before the heavy snow falls!" ”

Gao Xiuyan, who was carrying wood shirtless next to him, heard it, stopped and sighed: "General, it would be good if we collected some prisoners a few days ago, let the prisoners do these jobs, and we don't have to work so hard!" ”

Zhao Ziliang glared at Gao Xiuyan: "This matter is over, what are you doing with it?" Let you make an idea, you can't get a fart for a long time, and now you still blame me for ordering the killing of all the Khitans! ”

"Don't don't, general, you can misunderstand the meaning of the general, the general doesn't dare to complain about the general, you are busy, the general will work first!" Gao Xiuya said and hurriedly carried the wood and ran away.

Zhao Ziliang was not angry, he looked at the Dule River not far away and pondered for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately instructed the servants beside him: "Go and call Zhang Shouyu to the big tent to see me!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang washed his hands and greeted Guo Ziyi: "Let's go, let's go to the big tent and wait for Zhang Shouyu, whether we can find enough people to help, it's up to him!" ”

The two came to the big tent and talked for a while, and it didn't take long for Zhang Shouyu to arrive, and after the ceremony, Zhao Ziliang beckoned: "Shouyu, come on, come on, discuss something with you!" ”

Zhang Shouyu hurriedly said: "Don't dare, don't dare, the general can only give orders if he has something!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it in his heart, and said to Zhang Shouyu: "Ziyi was ordered to take care of the livestock, so it looks like it is about to snow, the stables, cowsheds and sheepfolds and drills are not ready, mainly because there are not enough manpower, and the soldiers are building the city, the matter of building the city is the first, if the city is not built to block the wind and snow, we will all be frozen to death first, so the matter of building the city cannot be delayed, so Ziyi does not have enough manpower here, and he will be thinking about borrowing some people from Tongluo in the north, these barbarians will not build houses." , but they will harvest forage, so General Ben wants you to take someone across the river to the Turtle Forest to meet the leader of Tongluo, and ask him to send some men to help us harvest the forage! ”

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Tongluo sent envoys to worship the Tang Dynasty as ministers, and the Tang Dynasty established the Guilin Governor's Mansion in Guilin, where Tongluo was stationed, and the leader of Tongluo served as the governor of the Guilin Governor's Mansion, and the Tang Dynasty sent officials to assist.

Zhang Shouyu frowned and said, "General, will this Tongluo people promise to send someone over to help us harvest the forage?" What if they ignore us? ”

Zhao Ziliang's eyes widened when he heard this: "Does he dare to agree?" If it weren't for the fact that the Tongluo people were still honest over the years, General Ben led people across the river to kill him and Tongluo a few days ago, and he would still dare to refuse General Ben? You take someone to go over under the banner of this general, be polite to him first, ask him for help, if he pushes back, just say that it is the general's order, if he excuses himself again, you will take people back, we just find an excuse to destroy Tongluo together! ”

Zhang Shouyu's spirit was shocked, he got up and bowed and said: "Obey the order, the last general will go to prepare, and cross the river today!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Well, you go!" ”

After Zhang Shouyu left, Zhao Ziliang said to Guo Ziyi again: "The matter of forage can always be solved by finding a way, you don't have to worry about it for the time being, first put up the stables, cowsheds and sheepfolds first, if it suddenly snows, cattle, sheep and horses have nowhere to hide from the wind and snow, it will be troublesome!" ”

Guo Ziyi hurriedly said: "The students understand, and the students will urge them to speed up the construction!" ”

"Well, you go, if you lack wood, come and find the general!"

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang's fierce reputation in Mobei shocked the world, and the leader of Tongluo didn't even dare to let go of a fart after seeing Zhang Shouyu and listening to his explanation, and immediately assigned people to follow Zhang Shouyu back to the Dule River, and also sent someone to send a large amount of forage in a carriage to Zhao Ziliang in case of emergency.

Just when Zhao Ziliang and his soldiers were building Zhenbei City on the bank of the Dule River, and they were in full swing, the tribal leaders of Mobei, such as Hui, Gelulu and Ba Ximi, were all frightened after receiving the news that the Qibi people and Xi people had been killed, and the West Room Wei Department in the east moved hundreds of miles eastward, not daring to get too close to Zhao Ziliang's occupation of this prairie.

On the 19th day of November, a messenger rushed to Zhenbeicheng from Yunzhou, and the messenger brought a letter written by Zheng San, there were several messages in the letter, the first news turned out to be that Xuanzong canonized Wei Zhaoxun's daughter as Princess Shou, and then canonized Yang Yuhuan as Yang Guifei, this news made Zhao Ziliang speechless, thinking that Yang Yuhuan finally moved his heart into his arms under Li Longji's fierce pursuit? I'm afraid that there is only this possibility, you must know that Yang Yuhuan is a woman with a full personality, if she is unwilling, even if Li Longji uses the emperor's power to suppress her, I am afraid that it will not be possible.

Yang Yuhuan, this good cabbage, is finally arched by the pig! Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but shake his head and sigh while holding the letter.

The second news is a thunderbolt on a sunny day, the Tubo people actually made a comeback, crossed the Yak River all the way to attack the city and plundered the land with lightning speed, and secretly sent a cavalry to seize the stone fort city again, the first two years Zhao Ziliang led the generals in Hexi to fight a lot of victories, but also let the Tang army in Hexi have an arrogant heart, carelessly was seized by the Tubo people to carry out a sneak attack, this time the tactics used are exactly the same as when Zhao Ziliang led the troops to attack the Tubo people, which made the Tang Dynasty and the opposition eyes fall to the ground!

Because of the loss of nearly a thousand miles of land and the strategic place of Shibao City, Xihai County Taishou Liu Gong was given death by the angry Xuanzong, Hexi Jiedu made Wang Qi was dismissed and investigated, the post of Xihai Taishou was taken over by Ge Shuhan, and the post of Hexi Jiedu was concurrently held by Wang Zhonghe, and the emperor had issued an order to let Ge Shuhan focus on the defense of Tubo in Hexi, to prevent the Tubo people from continuing to expand the results of the war, and ordered Longyou Jiedu to make Huangfu Weiming cooperate sincerely with Wang Zhongsi to deal with Tubo. (To be continued.) )