Their cattle and sheep are impossible to eat as food, just like such a tribe, with a total population of more than 400 people, an adult sheep is calculated according to 40 catties, even if a person eats half a catty of meat every day, more than 400 people have to eat 200 catties every day! That's about five or six sheep.

Even if there are old people, children, and women, in fact, if you eat all meat, half a catty of meat will not be able to meet the needs of the human body for a day.

But in this way, it is 156 sheep a month, and it is impossible for a flock of more than 5,000 sheep to reach the state of slaughter every month.

And the sheep can't expand too much, because their pasture is only so large, and how many sheep and people they can support is determined by the pasture, not the number of tribes.

If the pastures are not able to support more flocks, even if the tribal population increases, these Turks will let some of them go elsewhere to survive without increasing the tribal population too much.

In fact, ordinary Turks exchange cattle and sheep for food with the Tang people, and then they only eat two meals a day, which are basically porridge, and at most, they will put a little meat at night to make meat porridge.

In addition, salt is a luxury item among the Turks, not to mention tea, which is why the Turks invade the Central Plains whenever they have the opportunity to plunder.

"Dismantle half of the tents, pack all the materials that can be used, we will rest here for a day, wait for Zhao Er and Huo Zheng to come back, and transport these materials back to Yumen Pass tomorrow morning." Huo Gang thought about it and gave a new order.

"Yes!"

This place must not be abandoned, because this grassland is also their most important logistics base in the future.

The best way is to connect the water source between Yumen Pass and Yangguan, so that the area of land that can be planted will be greatly increased because of the spiritual spring, and it will not be a problem for so much land to feed hundreds of thousands of people at that time.

Because Huo Gangke has not forgotten that this spiritual spring also has the characteristics of improving plants, the straight-line distance between Yangguan and Yumen Pass is about 50 kilometers, if it can be connected by water sources, there is no problem with at least 300 square kilometers of plantable land.

That is, close to 200,000 acres of land, but these are not short-term work, this is long-term development.

The whole army was busy, Huo Gang and they didn't wait too long, and when it was dark, the two cavalrymen were brought in front of Huo Gang.

"General Qiyu, all the people of the two Turkic tribes have been wiped out, the corpses have been buried, and the two tribes have a total of about 2,300 sheep, 80 cattle, more than 180 horses, and a number of grain and other materials, all of which have been collected." The cavalry who came to report gave Huo Gang an accurate number.

"Go back and tell them to move all the cattle, sheep and horses here, dismantle all the tents and other supplies, and abandon the two camps first." Huo Gang pondered for a moment and gave the order directly.

He doesn't have many people in his hands, and the most important thing is that both Gongsun Lin and Huo Zheng's troops are elite soldiers. For the time being, they did not yet gain a foothold, and they slaughtered three Turkic tribes, one of which was considered medium-sized.

The Turks will inevitably have a wave of counterattacks, and only after this wave of counterattacks can Huo Gang and them truly gain a foothold in the Western Regions.

As for this wave of counterattacks, they didn't know that Huo Gang suddenly had an extra thousand elite archers in his hands, so the number of troops in this wave would definitely not be too much.

In fact, although the Western Turks occupy a vast area of land, they do not have many troops in total, and the most that can be used here is only thousands, and this requires the leaders of some large tribes in the vicinity to gather in advance.

The entire professional elite cavalry subordinate to the Turkic royal court could not have been possible here.

It can only be said that this point in time in the first year of Zhenguan is too wonderful, His Majesty Li Er of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty has just become the emperor, and he needs at least two or three years to stabilize the major wealthy families in the country and stabilize the domestic situation, and then he will have the energy to the outside world.

And just this year, as the most powerful Western Turkic Khan of Tongyehu has reached his late stage, in the late period of Tongyehu Khan, he became very conceited, and strict governance, which led to the rebellion of his subordinates, and just this year, Tongyehu Khan was killed by his uncle He Modu!

In other words, the Western Turks in this period have also entered a period of ups and downs, and the nobles of the Western Turks are busy competing for the position of Khan, and they have no time to take care of a small force like Huo Gang, especially this place may provoke another powerful empire, the Tang Dynasty!

The most that can manage Huo Gang is that this piece of land will send troops over to Lifa (Turkic official name).

He was the official name of the Western Turks, the leader of the various tribes canonized by the Khan of Tongyehu.

In fact, many people don't know that these nomadic peoples, such as Turkic, Mongolian, Rouran, etc., seem to be divided by ethnicity, but in fact this is not the case.

The ancient nomads, from the earliest Huns, to the later Turkic, Mongolian, Rouran, including the Jurchens, etc., these nomads were not named after the nation, but after the tribe, when the tribe gradually began to become stronger, the various nomads on the steppe would take the initiative to approach this big tribe and take the initiative to change their tribal names.

In the end, it became a subsidiary of the big tribe, until this big tribe finally established its own power, and became the Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongolian and even the nation that we are familiar with in history.

In fact, these nomads basically have the same ancestor.

Just like the Huns who were driven away by Huo Gang's ancestor Huo Quai, in fact, not the entire nomadic people of the grassland were driven away, it was simply impossible.

It's just that the Xiongnu tribe was driven away at that time, but there are still many small tribes left, and these small tribes have various names, such as Turkic, such as Xianbei, such as Qianghu and so on.

"Yes!"

The two cavalrymen left directly after reporting, and Huo Gang and the others were going to rest here for a night.

As for Huo Zheng, they can easily rush back tomorrow, although the Western Regions are not like grasslands that often change pastures, but these herdsmen will also change their grazing positions in winter, so they have special carriages to transfer their felt tents and other items.

After a night of silence, the next morning, Huo Gang was awakened by a noise, when Huo Gang picked up his long sword, put on a coat and came out of the felt tent, he saw at a glance that an extremely handsome horse was running with a group of horses, and a group of soldiers were trying to fence the group of horses.