In December of the first year of Yuan Shuo, the Tubo Subiru army rushed out of the north gate of Kuozhou City, and the Han Navy under the command of Duan Xiushi was blocked at the north gate.

Unexpectedly, Su Biru just shook a shot and directly broke through the edge of the Tang army's formation, and the ten thousand horses galloped and retreated quickly, leaving the Tang army in a position ready to fight.

Unbeknownst to them, there were also Yangtong, Tuyuhun and other subordinates, who watched as the commander led the Subi tribe to the northwest. They reacted in chagrin and quickly retreated in the direction of Ruben's escape.

When Li Siye heard such news, he just nodded lightly, as if this matter had been expected by him. He immediately sent Duan Xiushi to lead the front army to pursue, and personally led the rear army to directly cut off the northward escape route of the rest of the Dongdai tribes who had no time to escape.

Most of the people who were deceived and left behind were the slave tamers of Su Biru, Dongdai and Tuyuhun tribes, who only faced two fates after being abandoned by the boss, surrendering to the formation or being captured after being defeated, this problem almost does not need to be considered by the brain, and almost all will choose the former.

Duan Xiushi's pursuit was also quite effective, and all the troops of Su Biru were scrambling to retreat, and they did not arrange for anyone to stay behind to break the rear, and no one seemed to be willing to break the rear.

The army that was slow to escape was chased and beaten by the Han Navy behind the buttocks, and it was really impossible to escape, so they directly gave up fleeing and surrendered on the spot.

The core army of the Subi tribe passed through the stone castle in only six days, followed by the Yangtong cavalry and the Tuyuhun tribe. On the seventh day, the last troops of the Tuyuhun tribe were closely pursued by the Tang army, and they broke into the valley in front of the stone castle and shouted at the city gate. However, the generals defending the city received a death order from Ben, and resolutely refused to open the city gates, no matter how much they shouted from below.

Of course, they have safety considerations, the Tang army is closely following behind this Dongdai's ass at the moment, once the city gate is opened for them to enter, it is very likely to blend in with the Tang army. Although the stone castle is a dangerous Jedi city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is also easy to conquer from within.

The Tuyuhun soldiers who fled to the city gate were completely desperate, they just wanted to return to their hometown, although Tuyuhun had long been reduced to a part of Tubo Subiru, but they still loved their land sincerely, which ruler occupied Qinghai, they could only work for them, but after all, they could not escape the fate of being abandoned.

The generals of the city were like ashes, and led the soldiers to surrender to the Tang army, they knew that they were isolated from the stone castle, and they would not know what year and month they would be able to break through this wall in the future, and they would be exiled from today onwards.

Li Siye led the Hexi Army to the end of the campaign in the Huangyuan area, and they captured a total of about 130,000 Tubo troops, including 100,000 slave tamers in Dongdai, more than 30,000 in Haonu Dongdai, 20,000 Tuyuhun and Yangtong and Qiang people, and only 10,000 in the authentic Subi army. Li Siye placed the slave tamer Dongdai in Shanzhou and Lanzhou counties west of Huangyuan, and organized 10,000 people into a banner of production tribes, which were controlled and managed by each county.

The military units of Haonu Dongdai were taken to Liangzhou for reorganization and division, some of which were cultivated and planted on the Gobi Desert to transform the desert, and the other part of the military units that performed well were incorporated into the army to enrich the armed forces of the Hexi Army.

Li Siye led the army to withdraw from Shanzhou to Liangzhou, and then it was time to prepare to enter Wuwei City, but the attitude of Yang Zhilie was unclear from Hexi Jiedu, and the other party had a strong wall and Qingye blocked himself in the city, Li Siye had only sent a few officials to the city gate to shout with a banner, but there was no movement on the city wall, neither showing resistance, but also not showing submission.

Li Siye's henchmen Tian Zhen and Bai Xiaode were ready to move, advocating to take down Wuwei City by force, but Li Siye was noncommittal, just speculated and waited and seeed.

Xu Bin took the initiative to speak to him: "Yang Zhilie's unclear attitude shows that he is still wait-and-see, and our internal affairs in Hexi do not need to be solved by force." The lord has ever remembered that the big names of Hexi are Zhang, Suo, and Longyou Li's Gu Zangfang, they don't want to see the military disasters on the land of Hexi, as long as their original interests are guaranteed, I think they are willing to act as this lobbyist for the lord. ”

Li Siye stroked his beard and nodded: "This is indeed a solution, but I don't know who can lobby these big families." I used to sit in Hexi, and they were all my guests, but if I went in person, ......"

Xu Bin bowed and crossed his hands and said: "The lord's noble body, how can I personally work for the lord, when I ran the Western Regions Chamber of Commerce for the lord in the past, I had a lot of negotiations with these wealthy families, and I was willing to lobby on behalf of the lord." ”

"Okay, whether it's successful or not, go and come back quickly."

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In the mansion of the envoy of Liangzhou City, Yang Zhilie had just sent away Suotong, the head of the Shazhou Suo family, when a guard ran in outside the door and reported: "Zhongcheng, Dunhuang Zhang Kuo asks to see." ”

Yang Zhilie looked back at the geographical map of Hexi on the screen, sighed deeply and said, "Please come in, Mr. Zhang." ”

Zhang Kuo entered the hall wearing a black fox coat, bowed to Yang Zhilie and said, "Grass people Zhang Kuo greets Yang Zhongcheng." ”

"Why should Zhang Jushi be humble, he will stay in Hexi for a few years, and thank you for your support."

"What Zhongcheng said, we are the people under your rule, so we naturally have to actively solve problems for Zhongcheng."

After the two of them were polite, Yang Zhilie invited Zhang Kuo to sit down, and he sat in front of the screen and took the initiative to ask: "Zhang Jushi is here, but he is a lobbyist for the army in Liangzhou?" ”

"No, I just want to tell Zhongcheng a big piece of good news. Yongwang Li Siye personally led the army of our court, has defeated the more than 200,000 troops of Tubo Su Biru, not only recovered Baiting, Jiaohe guarded and captured, but also invaded the two states of Shankuo, restored the garrison area of the original Longyou Jiedu envoy, and also lifted the threat of the Tubo army to the Hexi Corridor. ”

Yang Zhilie snorted lightly and laughed: "Mr. Zhang is a little late, the head of the Gu Zang house who cultivated at home yesterday has already come to inform me, and Mr. Suotong from Shazhou also came to tell me the good news early this morning. ”

Zhang Kuo was a little embarrassed for a while, rubbed his hands and smiled: "In the past, when Tubo invaded, Zhongcheng could only retreat in Liangzhou City because of insufficient troops.

Yang Zhilie smiled reluctantly, nodded and said, "Yu Zhi can't say it, but it's public." In the early years of the Qianyuan Dynasty, I was appointed as the envoy of the Hexi Festival by His Majesty the Emperor, and I never dared to forget the emperor's kindness. Now that Chang'an has been breached, and His Majesty is forced to tour the south, I have only one court and only one emperor to whom I am allegiant. Li Siye supported the puppet to claim to be orthodox in the imperial court, if I submitted to him, wouldn't it be disloyal and unjust? ”

"Loyalty is needed, but Zhongcheng can't rely on loyalty alone. Zhongcheng also has to think more about the fathers and elders of Hexi, and also for the people in the world. If there is chaos today, the Tang court is in decline, and even the emperor has fled south to Jiangdong to occupy half of the rivers and mountains. The first thing Li Siye did after supporting the new emperor to succeed to the throne was to stabilize Hexi and expel Tibet, which had already won the approval of the Hexi fathers. Zhongcheng is not obedient at this time, is there any other way? ”

Yang Zhilie was silent, he really had no way to resist, Li Siye has been operating in Hexi for nearly ten years, this is his foundation, and even among the generals under his command, I don't know how many people support him. And he Yang Zhilie became the envoy of Hexi Jiedu for only two years, and at the beginning of his tenure, he was infiltrated by Tubo and broke through two garrison cities, so that the Hexi army could only shrink and defend in four county towns. Now that the former ruler of Hexi has returned with a large army, he has no chance of winning if he resists.

If Li Siye is proclaimed emperor, he can still stand on a moral standpoint to denounce it, but the other party is now supporting the new emperor under the guise of the imperial court, and he can't do anything.

"I'll think about it again."

Hearing Yang Zhilie say this, Zhang Kuo knew that the matter had been successful, and all that was left was to wait for him to convince himself.