The road from Broken Leaf City to Datang is now at the forefront of Hexi, and it is not so easy, so Shen Long and the others first stayed in Broken Leaf City for a period of time, helping to repair the city defenses, cleaning up the Qarluq people around Broken Leaf City, and working for more than a month before they were ready to collect troops and return to Tingzhou.

In the words of this prince, once Hexi and Longyou are defeated, then the connection between Datang and the Western Regions can be restored, and he can also go to Chang'an City, which his grandparents will never forget, how can he miss such an opportunity?

And Gu Lulu and the others haven't made a lot of money this time, and they still want to follow Shen Long to Hexi and Longyou to grab another wave of Tubo people, and they also put forward a request to go together, Shen Long and Guo Xin naturally didn't think that there were few soldiers under them, so they agreed to their request without hesitation, so that they could also follow Datang to the east together.

As for the servant army of those small tribes, needless to say, it is their honor for Datang to bring them, if anyone is abandoned by Datang, it will be a great shame, and the surrounding tribes will also think that Datang is dissatisfied with them, and instead take this opportunity to attack them, so they also ran to Guo Xin and Shen Long one by one, kneeling and begging to follow Datang to fight together.

Shen Long and they took the city of broken leaves, and the savings of the Qarluq people for many years fell into their pockets, grinding wheat into flour to make naan, killing half of the cattle and sheep to make jerky, and the remaining half rushed to follow the army to go on the expedition, but they didn't have to worry about the supply of grain and grass, they could feed so many troops.

The army returned to Tingzhou with the news of the victory, and with them returned countless Tang people who had been rescued from the Qarluqs, who would become an effective population supplement to the Duhufu, and Shen Long assigned them wives and jobs to stay in the Western Regions to recuperate.

Tingzhou also knew that they would attack Hexi after returning from a great victory, so they had already prepared the grain and grass needed for the army to fight, and after occupying a large area of fertile land at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and starting to settle fields, the Duhufu no longer had to worry about food, which was enough to supply the army for the expedition.

In addition, they also created a large number of ordnance armor, and Shen Long chose some loyal and reliable tribes to distribute them, so that the combat effectiveness of the Tang Alliance Army increased again; The well-equipped servant army was overjoyed, even if there were no captures in this war, and with this armor and sword alone, they would have made a lot of money.

Shen Long is not worried that the expansion of sophisticated weapons will pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty's notice in the Western Regions, in his workshop, those Datang craftsmen have begun to try to build muskets according to his instructions, and after the birth of muskets, the threat of these equipment will inevitably be greatly reduced, no matter how good the armor is, can it still block bullets?

Kang Guangde and his Sogdian caravan completed another journey, bringing back the latest news of the Hexi and Longyou generations, due to the previous fiasco and the loss of Guazhou, Shazhou and other places, the Tibetan nobles in Hexi were cleaned up by Chisong Dezan, and strengthened their troops, making it more difficult for Shen Long to march into the army.

But Shen Long didn't care, the most advantageous weapon for these Tubo people was altitude sickness, if they stayed on the plateau and didn't come down, didn't confront the Tang army head-on, and just looked for an opportunity to attack the army in the Hexi Corridor, Shen Long was really a little difficult to deal with, but now that they came to Suzhou and Liangzhou City, then this advantage would be gone.

In the Hexi Corridor and the Tang Dynasty Coalition Army to fight a defensive battle, Shen Long was not afraid at all, the more Tubo people were annihilated here, the greater the consumption of Tubo's strength, and it would be much easier to march into the plateau in the future.

"It's been a hard time, and your credit has been written down." Shen Long nodded and signaled that Kang Guangde could retreat, but Kang Guangde refused to leave, but begged Shen Long to come.

"After a while, I didn't bring a villain with me in the previous attack on the Qarluqs, so you must bring me with you in this campaign! The villain must fight to the death for Datang! I don't know if I saw that Lu Chaoran was promoted in this battle, and Kang Guangde remembered the years when he fought to the death with Shen Long under the city of Yizhou.

"Okay, since you are so loyal to my Datang, it is not easy to refute your face." Shen Long readily agreed, Kang Guangde led the caravan through the Hexi Corridor many times, and he was very familiar with the terrain and roads in this area, and it would be of great benefit to Datang to bring him.

The army was repaired in Tingzhou for a period of time, and Shen Long and Guo Xin rearranged the establishment and generals of each army to make the army's command system smoother, and then led the army to kill Hexi.

After passing through Yizhou and Shazhou, they arrived at Guazhou, where they met Yang Zhenggu again, and then continued eastward with their army, pointing directly at the city of Suzhou on the edge of the Qilian Mountains.

Guo Xin's uncle Guo Ziyi was an envoy to the Hexi Festival back then, and now that Guo Xin is back here, he can't help but think of his uncle's great achievements in the past.

However, the reason why Guo Xin led the army back this time is not only to catch up with Guo Ziyi, the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions have been separated for a long time, except for him and Yang Zhengu, the imperial court is not very familiar with its generals, in order to avoid misunderstandings in the future, it is most suitable for him to lead the army, after all, the name of the Guo family is still very useful in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, this does not mean that he will interfere with Shen Long's command, after hearing about the battle in the Ili River Valley, he admires Shen Long's military talent very much, and has decided that once the road is opened, when he returns to Chang'an, he will give advice to His Majesty, so that the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate will be combined into one, and Shen Long will take the official position of the Great Metropolitan Protector, he is sure that Shen Long will definitely be able to do better than himself.

In Suzhou City, all kinds of news have spread these days, especially those Tang people who have been captured by Tubo for a long time, their faces that have been desperate for a long time and even have become numb finally began to smile, and in private they quietly exchanged news from different channels, and eagerly hoped that the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty could come as soon as possible, take Suzhou City, and rescue them from the oppression of the Tubo people.

On this day, the Tubo army in the city suddenly became nervous, they went up to the city to prepare to defend the city, a great news quickly spread among these Tang people, my Tang soldiers and horses finally came back, our hard days are over!

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