Li Yu smiled:

"Then as far as you can see, where will the battle report come first?"

Pei Du Dao:

"It's hard to guess. There is not much difference between the distance and the distance of Jingyuan Fengxiang, and the preparations for war have already been prepared. It's hard to guess where the battle report came first. However, according to the minister's thoughts, Li Liang's family has always been to plan and then move, and if he does not move, he will inevitably be overwhelmed by the mountains and seas, and he will not be successful. And Hao Shuai has been on the border for a long time, good at field warfare, and likes to open and close. With such an analysis, it should be Hao Yu's side that launched it first, and Li Lianggong would take advantage of the change in the situation to launch it suddenly. The minister thought, it should be the battle report of the Jingyuan Jiedu envoy who arrived first. ”

Li Yu smiled:

"Okay, you Pei Du Pei is neutral, you guess the score is not bad, Hao Jue, this guy, really didn't have the patience, he has already sent troops, and he has taken Pingliang in a surprise attack."

Pei Du was pleasantly surprised:

"Really? Here, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty on recovering Hehuang as soon as possible. ”

The Hehuang area is the vast land between today's Lanzhou and Xining. It is named because the water runs through it. This is the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, which is flat and well-watered. The land is also very fertile, although it cannot be compared with the richness of the Guanzhong region, but compared to the Tibetan people who have been living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is like a paradise of wealth.

For more than 100 years, Tang and Tubo fought continuously for the Hehuang region, and it was not until the famous general Ge Shuhan pulled out the stone castle during the Tianbao period that Tang achieved a strategic advantage over Tubo and pushed the battle line straight to the territory of Tubo. It's a pity that soon after the Anshi Rebellion broke out, the main force of Longyou * had to return to the division to quell the rebellion, Tubo took advantage of the situation to fight back, and captured a large area of land in the right side of Tang Long, and even the Shence Army was named after the Shence Army, so Li Yu specially sent the first, second, third, and fourth armies named after the Shence Army this time, and stimulated them:

"If you can't reclaim your name, don't come back to see me."

After the Tibetan occupied Hehuang, the strategic depth was greatly expanded. After that, he not only occupied the hometown of Tang Anxi, but also used Hehuang as a base to capture Hexi, spy on Guanzhong, and even entered Chang'an for a time, forcing Emperor Daizong to flee, and later relied on Guo Ziyi to expel the Tubo people. During the reign of Dezong, the Tubo people took advantage of the rebellion of the four towns to make a big profit. After the civil strife was pacified, the border defense was also at a disadvantage, but fortunately, with the support of generals such as Li Sheng, Hun Xuan, Ma Sui, and Wei Gao, the northwest and southwest echoed each other from afar, and the Tubo people were contained.

The recovery of Hehuang is a matter that people of insight have been planning since the Yuan Dynasty, and the prime minister Yuan Zai had planned during the reign of Daizong, but unfortunately Yuan Zai was killed by slander soon after. Later, Du Muzhi also wrote a poem "River Huang" to talk about this matter.

Yuan Zai Xianggong once borrowed the chopstick, and Emperor Xianzong also paid attention.

Seeing that the clothes were in the east market, the bow and sword were not patrolling west.

Although the shepherd drives the horse, the white-haired Dan is full of Hanchen.

Only Liangzhou song and dance music, spread all over the world.

Yongzhen, Xingzhi years, Li Chen's main energy on accumulating national strength to pacify the town, the West mainly took a defensive position, fortunately after the Anshi Rebellion, the expansion of Tubo also reached the limit, there was internal strife in the country, Zampu was assassinated two in succession, there was no energy to the east for the time being, although Li Yu used troops in the east, Guannei Longyou also stationed heavy troops, so that the Tubo people's several offensives succeeded, last year Hao Yu was in Xingyuan City to win more with less, broke the Tubo army, and even the Tubo reckless fever was captured and imprisoned in Chang'an, waiting for Tubo to take money to ransom.

With Liu Ji's entry into the court, Hebei was completely pacified, and Li Yu's focus shifted to the restoration of Hehuang. After more than eight years of operation, the fullness of the treasury is not only not lost to the Tianbao period, but also far more than in terms of wealth. In the past, people described the country as rich, saying that the grain piled up in the warehouse was rotten and not eaten, and the rope that wore the money was rotten, and no one asked. During the Xingzhi period, not only Chang'an's treasury was this kind of scene, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Puzhou, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Hongzhou, Xuanzhou, Jiangling, Hongzhou, Hangzhou, Runzhou, Guangzhou, Xingyuan, Xiangzhou, Bianzhou and other slightly larger cities were all like this. Qilu Hebei and other places are still recovering after the war, while the wealth and grain from the south and the sea are still being sent in a steady stream. The country's financial resources are fully capable of supporting a huge war to raise millions of troops, restore the homeland and open up the Silk Road.

And with the growth of the country's wealth, the combat power of * has gradually returned to its heyday. During the Tianbao period, the power of the whole country was only to raise more than 10,000 Modao troops, and during the Xingzhi period, the Modao army with only 5,000 people when it was rebuilt has now exceeded 25,000 people. As for the long lance, which was quite laborious to make, it was also repopularized in the army in the past seven or eight years, and weapons such as the Yongzhen knife and the Xingzhi strong crossbow were even more equipped in the whole army. Secret weapons such as fire canisters are also well stocked in several border towns, ready to be detonated at any time.

In army building, the strategy of training troops through combat has been adopted, and the border army has maintained a state of small-scale warfare with Tibet all year round, and the quality and tactical quality of individual soldiers have been greatly improved. In addition, the reorganized local armies have improved their salaries, so that the morale of the troops has been stabilized, and their combat effectiveness has also been tested in the wars to pacify the feudal towns in various places, and a large number of officers trained in martial arts have also been tempered, which can be of great use. Therefore, Li Yu has the confidence to invest 300,000 elites at a time, and strive to restore Hehuang in the first battle and regain control of the Hexi Corridor.

In this Hehuang Campaign, the strategy of Emperor Wen of Sui to destroy Chen was adopted, and more than 100,000 troops in the four towns of Longyou, Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Xiasui were arranged on the first line, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in Guanzhong were arranged on the second line. Xingyuan and other prefectures mobilized a group of troops and horses every once in a while to make a large-scale offensive posture, so that the Tubo border army often rose up in the middle of the night to be on emergency alert, raised a fire to call the police, and when the Tubo army arrived from Lanzhou and Shanzhou, they always found a false alarm. This play has been repeated more than a dozen times, and now I don't see the mobilization of the Tibetan border army, and the initiative to send troops is completely in the hands of *.

Pei Du and other ministers planned this matter, at this time, when they heard that the war had begun, and the first battle was won, of course, they had to ask for a lottery.

Li Yu accepted Pei Du's congratulations with a smile, and said:

As soon as Hao Yu moved, Liu Yong and Li Yu should move, and when the attention of the Tubo army was completely attracted, Li Guangyan should take Hexi directly. This battle will take at least several years to fight. ”

Pei Du Dao:

"Yes, hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, although Tibet is in civil strife, but it is not easy to defeat them for a while, only by relying on a long war to drag them down."

It's easy to say, if you want to drag down the enemy, you have to lose enough of yourself. Isn't the reason for the decline in the Tianbao period because of the long war with Tibet? However, Li Yu is confident that his current confidence is more than that of Xuanzong. At least the opening of commerce has made a lot of accumulation, and the manpower is far more sufficient than in the Tianbao years. Moreover, there are many troops now recruited, and there are many people who want to make meritorious contributions, as long as they are recruited, there are always many people who are willing to enlist, and go to Longyou to Bo a piece of land as a Yongye field.

I don't always use government soldiers to fight. And these displaced people or criminals who have won land will become new government soldiers.

Li Yu nodded and said silently:

"If you want to completely defeat, you can't rely on force alone, how is the envoy from Tibet entertained?"

Pei Du Dao:

"Emperor Qi has already arranged for him to meet with Lun Mangre. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also received them, hinting at our tendency to support the idea of the Bowl Sect. ”

Li Chanted:

"Tell the prince not to hint too obviously, and stop there. The prince himself is still inclined to Buddhism, and it is too obvious to be too fake. ”

Pei Du Dao:

"The minister thinks that the prince has his own measure."

Li Yu nodded and asked:

"Where is Yan Qin now?"

Pei Du replied:

"Back to Your Majesty, General Yan has already led the Shannan West Road to Songzhou with 6,000 volts. Xu Xu has already arrived in Nanzhao. ”

Xu Xu was an envoy sent by the Tang Dynasty to Nanzhao. Seeing that Pei Du knew so well, Li Chanted:

"I didn't even ask you. This Yan Qin still has a very good set of fighting. Now it's up to Hao Yu to see if he can get the momentum on his side. ”

After the autumn in Longyou, the field is already a charming and spectacular scene, with golden yellow as the main color, a large carpet has spread to the sky, and the royal blue sky reflects each other, showing a breathtaking beauty. On the side of the old road that has fallen into disrepair, there is a hustle and bustle opposite this quiet wilderness. A large group of soldiers in military uniforms are coming from the sky like long dragons all over the mountains. Countless military flags have a big "Hao" written on them, indicating that this is the soldiers and horses under the command of Hao Xuan, the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu.

And Hao Wei himself was far behind at the moment, staring at an army and disappearing in his field of vision. The commander of this army was Qian Xiong.

Before leaving, Hao Jue said to Qian Xiong:

"Ben Shuai will give you 3,000 men, follow this path, and you must capture the stone castle within fifteen days, can you do it?"

The person is gone, but Qian Xiong's firm answer is still in his ears. Hao Yu turned his horse's head and chased straight after the army. Three hundred soldiers followed, and a big "Hao" character on the black banner was unfurled.