When Li Yexu saw Changsun Chong, he hurriedly drove his horse over and said, "Brother Changsun, I've frightened you." Fortunately, he received a call for help from Changsun Chong, and immediately brought someone over, not daring to stay for a moment. In case these grains and grasses cannot be delivered in time, it will directly affect the battle situation on the front line. It was because of the lack of food and grass that my grandfather was still hesitant to pursue the victory.

"Fortunately, the grain and grass were saved, and the loss was not very big!" Changsun Chong could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the heart he was carrying was put in place. If the grain and grass are lost, although it will not be to apologize for the crime with death, the eldest grandson Chong will not be able to go on his conscience and lose the fighter plane, which is likely to cause more soldiers to die.

"Brother Changsun, you have a good rest for a while, and I'll go over there and take a look." Li Yexu saw that the eldest grandson Chong was fine, but fortunately he greeted him non-stop, otherwise he didn't dare to imagine the consequences.

After resting for half an hour, the dead soldier was placed on a camel; The wounded soldier, after a simple bandage and medicine, made it to the camel and continued on his way. As long as you are out of the desert, you will be safe.

Finally out of the desert on the afternoon of the second day, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Changsun Chong finally sent grain and grass by the way and completed the task.

Li Jing heard that the eldest grandson was coming, so he came out to greet him in person, and said, "Chong boy, I've worked hard for you, so I'm waiting for your grain and grass." ”

The eldest grandson Chong was surprised and asked, "The grain and grass prepared locally should be able to last for a while!" ”

Li Jing waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it, Li Daozong's troops defeated the Tuyuhun army in Kushan, Fu Yun burned all the weeds, and the light troops entered the moraine. There is no food or grass in the area, and if you don't do it, we will go hungry. The horses are grassless, tired, and cannot go deep, and we are hesitating whether to pursue while we are victorious? ”

When the eldest grandson heard this, he said, "Then now the grain and grass are here." You can chase with confidence. ”

"Well, I have this intention, and I have already called the generals to come over to discuss the war, and you can also listen to it on the side and give some advice." Li Jing said with a smile, in a good mood.

Changsun Chong shook his head and said, "General Li, the last general is not talented, he doesn't understand the war, and he still doesn't participate. This time it was attacked in the desert and captured more than 1,000 lightly wounded Tuyuhun people. I'd better give them a political education lesson. ”

Li Jing played back where Changsun Chong left, and said: "Those things are done by others, you just listen here." ”

In a few moments, the generals arrived. When they saw the eldest grandson Chong, they greeted each other.

The eldest grandson Chong didn't dare to hold it up. Hurry up and return the salute.

"Now we have food and grass. Ben Shuai decided to take advantage of his initial defeat and the dispersion of people's hearts to forge ahead. Now divide the troops into two ways to pursue and annihilate, personally lead Li Daliang and other troops from the north to cut off their retreat to Qilian Mountain, and detour to its capital Fu Qi City; Hou Junji, Li Daozong and other troops pursued and intercepted the Tuyuhun army fleeing south from Nandao"

"The last general commands!" The crowd was elated, there were no worries, they could attack with all their might.

The people went out. Li Jing asked, "Virtuous nephew, is the arrangement of this general's land reasonable?" ”

The eldest grandson Chong smiled and said: "You are our undefeated military god, marching and arranging, naturally much more clever than the little nephew." I'm just like my father. If you don't have the ability to lead the army, you will do some trivial errands in the back. ”

There was nothing to do in the war, and Changsun Chong had more important things to do, that is, to build a city in Tuyuhun as a garrison.

"You can't be presumptuous, you didn't have many tricks before!" Li Jing teased, "But the ruler is short and the inch is long, and everyone is good at different things." ”

"That's it, that's it! I wish the general a victory, and I have already selected the surrounding sites to determine the location of the city. Changsun Chong replied.

"Then we'll have a date later!" Li Jing said.

According to Li Er's explanation, Changsun Chong began to wander around with Liu Muxiang and Huo Qiang, and according to the reality of the map, the Qaidam Basin was nearby.

Qaidam Basin, located in the northwest of Qinghai Province, the basin is slightly triangular, one of the four major basins in China, located in the north of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Qaidam is not only the world of salt, but also rich in oil, coal, and a variety of metal deposits, such as Lenghu oil, Yuka coal, Xitieshan lead-zinc ore and so on are very famous. Therefore, the Qaidam Basin has the reputation of "cornucopia".

Oil can't be exploited for the time being, but salt and coal are good things. With this, there is no need to travel thousands of miles from the east to the northwest every year to transport salt. The salt produced can be directly bought by nomads and merchants, which can make a lot of money.

However, the Qaidam Basin is not yet completely under the control of Datang, so it will take a while. When the situation is stabilized, the next step can be carried out.

Now it's time to build tools for digging coal and evaporating salt, and once the battle is over, it can be quickly put into construction.

In the following two months, the Tang army of the Northern Province successively defeated the Tuyuhun army in Mantoushan, Niuxindui and other places, and captured and beheaded dozens of its famous kings.

After more than 2,000 miles of no man's land, the Tang army of Nandao broke the Fuyun Department in Wuhai, captured its famous king, and the rest fled westward. Li Jing supervised the armies and pursued them to the end through the source of the Jishi Mountains and Rivers.

Li Jing's general Qibi He Liwen fled to Tulun Moraine and ran to Khotan, that is, he led more than 1,000 elite cavalry to Tulun Moraine, attacked Fuyunya, annihilated thousands of people, and captured many people. Fu Yun died shortly after fleeing, and his son, Murong Shun, the king of Daning, beheaded the king of Tianzhu and led his troops to Tang.

As for the 50,000 soldiers borrowed by Li Ji and Cheng Yanjin from Tubo, they came in handy, capturing the people and stragglers of Tuyuhun who fled in all directions, and actually amounted to more than 200,000 people, and intercepted a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.

Although they were very greedy, the Tibetan army did not dare to act rashly and take it for themselves.

After Li Jing and Cheng Biting Jin, Li Ji converged, they were shocked, they didn't expect that there were so many captives, how much to eat in one day!

Li Er was very happy about Tubo's generosity, and said in his reply to Cheng Yanjin that as long as the Tang Dynasty was captured, all the livestock would be given to Tubo. But now there are so many, Cheng Biting Jin is reluctant.

"I said the chief of the march, you have so many cattle and sheep now, all of them are given to Tubo, Your Majesty is reluctant, and we are reluctant." Cheng Yanjin said directly.

When Li Jing heard this, he said in a deep voice: "In this way, we will give Tubo twice the reward for the grain and grass consumed this time, and the rest is ours, but the prisoners and horses cannot be distributed to them, only cattle and sheep." ”

Cheng Yanjin saw that Li Jing had made a decision, so he went to tell the Tubo general and said: "You have worked hard this time, thanks to the great help of Songtsen Gampo. On behalf of His Majesty, General Ben invited the Tibetan envoy to Chang'an again, and His Majesty will thank Tubo again. ”

Although the general of Tubo was very dissatisfied, Songtsen Gampo said when he came that everything was subject to the arrangements of the Tang army. Although these things were only a quarter of all the booty varieties, they were quite a lot, twice as much as the grain and grass they had brought out.

As a confidant of Songtsen Gampo, he knew that Songtsen Gampo wanted to make peace with the Tang Dynasty very much and resist the pressure from the princess's mother's Nepal to Tibet. He must not fall out with Datang because of these loots.

"Thank you General Cheng, the last general will definitely tell Your Majesty." The Tibetan general said with gratitude.

"You are good, you are a fierce general, the blessing of Tibet." Cheng Yanjin praised and said, this kid knows current affairs and is obedient, no wonder Songtsen Gampo will send him over.

"General Cheng praised it falsely, and the last general didn't dare to be it. You are the most powerful general in the Tang Dynasty, and you are like a god with soldiers! The last general learned a lot from following the general. The Tubo general complimented, following Cheng Yanjin's side for a few months, knowing that this Cheng general likes to listen to people say good things.

Cheng bit Jinle, he knew that he was quite a fierce general, and in a group of people, he could only be regarded as a medium talent, and he couldn't compare with Li Jing, the most powerful general in the Tang Dynasty.

However, everyone loves to hear good words, and he is still very happy to be said to be the most powerful.

"If you have the opportunity to go to Chang'an, I will definitely invite you and the best wine in Datang." Cheng Yanjin patted the person on the shoulder. "Then thank you, General."

There were too many prisoners this time, and Li Jing was ready to continue to secondment the soldiers of Tubo and escort these prisoners to Chongzhou.

If these captives are placed in Tuyuhun, it will be a return of the tiger to the mountain, and the battle will be fought in vain.

Transported back first, sent to various places in batches, let them go to open up the wasteland, and exchange those former Turkic captives here, because after several years of teaching and ideological education, those people have accepted the way of life and habits of the Han people, and feel that they have become people of the Tang Dynasty and live a more dignified life.

According to the geographical conditions, Changsun Chong prepared to build a city in a place rich in salt and coal.

There is no shortage of sand and stones in the desert, so as long as you find a rock suitable for cement, it is very convenient to build a city or build a road.

Fifty thousand captives have come one after another, and they are in production, and this is also a familiar environment for them. But after staying in the customs for a long time, I didn't feel comfortable when I came back at first.

But after all, they grew up in such a climate and were soon able to settle into life.

The Tang Emperor was once again gracious, as long as he could do things well here and do it for three years, he could get a free body, become a citizen of the Tang Dynasty, and be protected by the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

You only need to do it for three years, which is equivalent to five years in Guannai, of course you are willing, and they also see that life in Datang is very stable, as long as you don't do anything wrong, no one will deliberately bully you. I think of those people of the same clan who were free in advance because they did well, and now they are living very well, they have their own houses, start a family, and through making money, they have a salary, buy a house and land, and live and work in peace and contentment.

They also lived such a life very quickly, and after thinking about this, they worked very hard.

Changsun Chong made arrangements according to the actual situation, and soon had a prototype. For the overall construction of the city, Changsun Chong is very skilled, and needs to find a strong terrain and abundant water source, which is different from Bagua City, where many places are the Gobi Desert, and we must think about the problem of water sources.

In addition, in the future, it is to occupy a favorable terrain and reduce the amount of construction work, which is also where Changsun Chong spends the most time. (To be continued......)