When Zhao Ziliang led the main force of the Western Qin army to climb the wall of Jinding Pass in a happy mood, the servant army, mercenaries and Tianzhu soldiers were cleaning the battlefield and cleaning up the corpses of the top and bottom of the city, and the houses in the pass were burning everywhere, and billowing smoke was rising. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some of the seriously wounded and not dead Tubo soldiers lay on the city wall and groaned, and the servants, mercenaries, and Tianzhu soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield had to stab them again and give them a ride.

Zhao Ziliang inspected the side of the wall, standing on the highest point overlooking the surrounding mountains and rivers, the Yalu River is like a jade belt meandering from west to east, and the slowly flowing river water gives birth to millions of people on this plateau.

Zhao Bei came over covered in blood and hugged his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said: "King, the mansion of the guards in the Guannai has been cleaned up, please go in and rest for the king and all the lords and generals!" ”

When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he said to the generals and officials: "We have seen the steepness of this Jinding Pass, and it is worthy of a dangerous pass, which will block our army here for a month and a half." Let's go, go to the Guannai Guard's Mansion and sit down, and discuss the next offensive strategy! With that, he lifted his cloak and turned around and walked under the wall.

"Yes!" The generals and officials clasped their fists and agreed, and followed Zhao Ziliang down the wall.

The group came to the guard's mansion in the pass, although it has been cleaned up, but there is still a bloody atmosphere that is difficult to eliminate, and the furnishings in the house are also extremely poorly arranged, except for some furs spread behind the low table and a dirty brocade in the middle, there seems to be nothing else valuable, presumably the valuable things have been looted by the mercenaries, servant troops and Tianzhu soldiers who rushed in first.

Zhao Ziliang didn't care about this, and knelt on the main seat without feeling awkward, and the other generals and officials knelt on both sides.

Zhao Ziliang was just about to speak, Zhang Ben walked in quickly and hugged his fists and bowed to report: "King Qiqi, when our army broke through the Jinding Pass, there was a Tubo army of more than 5,000 people who came here to reinforce, and it had arrived here for ten miles, but after finding that the Jinding Pass had been breached, he turned around and returned, and the last general had already sent someone to investigate, this 5,000-strong Tubo soldiers were infantry, even if they withdrew, they couldn't go fast, the last general wanted to personally lead people to chase, but the soldiers under his command spent too much strength in sneaking into the pass, and there were no war horses, It was impossible to carry out the pursuit. If you send light cavalry to chase at this time, it will only take an hour to catch up! ”

"Bring me the map!" Zhao Ziliang shouted.

Several soldiers quickly carried a map full of lines and hung it on the wall, and Zhao Ziliang immediately walked over and moved his fingers eastward along the Yalu River along the location of Jinding Pass.

"To the east of Jinding Pass are Zhongba and Nianmai! Zamu, tell me about Zhongba and Nianmai! After Zhao Ziliang finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the servant army general Zamu.

Zhamu stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, back then, the Tubo Imperial Court divided the densely populated central region under its jurisdiction into two regions, 'Wusi' and 'Tibet', also called Qianzang (Wusi) and Houzang (Tibet). Wusi refers to the area around the north and south of the city of Lhasa, which is divided into two districts, namely Wuru and Yoru, Wuru in Jiangbei and Yoru in Jiangnan. Tibet refers to the east and west sides of the Nianmai, and Tibet is divided into 'Yeru' and 'Rula', Yeru is the area around the Nianqu River, and how refers to the upper reaches of the Yalu River. Dzomba belongs to the Ula region, but it is only a scattered area of herders and farmers, and there were no thousands of households stationed in the past, so I don't know about it now. To the east is the confluence of the Yalu River and the Nianqu River - Nianmai, Nianmai is the center of Houzang, it is a large bazaar, usually 50,000 people live, every time there are more people to trade in exchange for what they need, this is the place where the largest population gathers in the whole Tibet except for some cities, the upper division such as the Marshal's Mansion is located in Nianmai, and the lower division is located in Sasgar! ”

Zhao Ziliang pondered for a moment, then turned around and shouted, "Xuan Si! ”

Xuan Si stood up and hugged his fists and said, "The minister is here!" ”

"Quickly send 3,000 light cavalry to pursue these 5,000 Tubo infantry, and after the combat mission is completed, they will be stationed on the spot, and send people to investigate the situation of Zhongba, and report as soon as there is news!"

Xuan Si clenched his fists and agreed: "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang said to Chen Qing again: "Immediately send a scout horse to Sasgar, Tak and Lumbuz in the southwest to investigate!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Zhao Bei and Zhamu: "Zhao Bei, Zhamu, your soldiers are all Tubo, all departments have it, this king decided to set up a sentry battalion composed of Tubo people, and select elite soldiers from the soldiers under the command of the two of you, these people will have higher treatment, and they will be responsible for probing the movements and news of our enemy, and you will each select two hundred people from your command, a total of four hundred, and call it the Rula Sentry Camp!" ”

Zhao Bei and Zamu hurriedly agreed: "Yes, king!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said to Zhang Ben again: "Zhang Ben, send some soldiers from your Huya Army to train the soldiers of this newly formed Rula Detective Battalion, and teach them some skills to detect the enemy!" ”

"No, Weichen takes the order!"

Zhao Ziliang looked at everyone, and saw that there was nothing else to do, so he waved his hand and said: "Okay, these days everyone is worried about the siege, and the soldiers are also physically and mentally exhausted. Let's all go down and rest! ”

"Yes, King!"

The generals and ministers quickly dispersed, and Zhao Ziliang looked at the map and became engrossed. Next, the battle is not so easy to fight, in the southeast there is also Sasjia, this is the location of the lower division of Tibetan Rurula, although after the collapse of the Tubo State, the military system of the country's eight divisions has also collapsed, after so many years of mutual conquest, the troops have also consumed a lot, but the remaining troops should also be a lot, and after so many years of fighting, its combat effectiveness is only higher than before.

To the north of the Yalu River, there are still large areas, although the population is not as dense as Jiangnan, but there is still a military force, and the lords of all places have their own arms, if they feel the great threat of the Western Qin army, and think that they are powerless to resist, will they unite to form a coalition to jointly resist the attack of the Western Qin army? These are all things that Zhao Ziliang needs to consider.

In addition, the stagnation of the Northern Tangxi Coalition Army also made Zhao Ziliang quite annoyed, no matter what reason Guo Ziyi made the army stop, Zhao Ziliang thought that this would give the remaining barbarian rebels a chance to breathe, in the matter of attacking Tibet, he had twice given up halfway because of political reasons, and fell short, this time he didn't want to give up halfway anyway, even if the imperial army withdrew, he would definitely sweep Tubo with the power of the Western Qin country.

Outside the door, there were soldiers holding bundles of concertos and placing them on the table under Du Fu's beckoning, rows of weapon racks full of swords, guns, swords and halberds were also carried in from the outside, and the walls on both sides were soon covered with maps.

A white-eyed eunuch led a few little eunuchs to walk in with food boxes and put them on the square table next to them, and a little eunuch carried a small charcoal stove on the table, and a round-bottomed iron pot filled with base material was placed on the charcoal stove, and soon the fragrance of food overflowed the whole room.

The white-eyed eunuch said: "King, the food, wine and meat are ready!" ”

"Hmm!"

Zhao Ziliang devoured it, swept away the entire table of dishes in only a quarter of an hour, and ate a bucket of rice. After the meal, Zhao Ziliang began to review the recitals, which were sent from Xinjing in an expedited manner of eight hundred li, and each recital needed to be reviewed by him personally, and the ordinary inconsequential recitals had already been dealt with by the ministers themselves.

The review of the recitals lasted for two hours, and Zhao Ziliang finished processing all the recitals. After that, he spent another hour visiting more than 2,000 wounded, all of whom were Tibetan mercenaries, servants, and Tianzhu soldiers, although these people were not Han Chinese, but for him, he did not have any racist concepts, as long as he was willing to submit to the Western Qin, they were all treated as Han Chinese.

After returning from visiting the wounded, Zheng San came over to report: "King, all the wine and meat for the reward soldiers have been prepared, and the officers and generals of the army have arrived, do you start distributing wine, meat and food to the soldiers?" ”

Zhao Ziliang walked to the door and saw that the officials and generals were already sitting in their respective positions, and he instructed Zheng San: "Delay here for a quarter of an hour, and distribute wine, meat and food to the other soldiers first!" ”

"Yes, King!"

The officials and generals in the room all stood up and saluted together: "King! ”

Zhao Ziliang walked to the main seat, a eunuch came over and took off his cloak, he pressed his hand to the officials and generals, and then sat down and said: "Let's not be busy eating here first, this king wants to hear about the battle damage during this time!" ”

Xuan Jiu first stood up and reported: "King, the Tianzhu soldiers have killed 8,200 people and injured 3,600 people from the beginning of the attack to the breakthrough of the pass!" ”

Zhao Bei stood up and reported: "Your Majesty, our mercenaries have recruited a total of 53,000 people before and after, 22,000 people were killed in battle, 3,200 people were wounded, and there are 37,000 people left to use!" ”

These mercenaries were recruited in Zhao Bei's mouth, but in fact, there were less than 15,000 people who were actually recruited and voluntarily, and the others were forcibly pulled by Zhuang Ding, and after a few days of training, they were issued with rudimentary weapons for them to fight hard, and all the officials and generals here knew this.

Zhao Ziliang doesn't care about this, he just needs to have enough cannon fodder, no matter where these cannon fodder come from.

Zamu stood up and saluted: "King, our servant army has killed 12,000 people and wounded 1,200 people since the beginning of the storm! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to the report of the three and said: "So, in order to break through this Golden Dome Pass, we actually killed and injured more than 50,000 people? This casualty is also too great, pass the order, bury these soldiers who died in battle, and place the wounded soldiers well, so that they can recover from their wounds! ”

"Yes, King!" Zheng San agreed.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "Come on, pass the wine and meat!" ”