When Fang Chongyong came to Shazhou, it was winter, although it was dry and cold, it was not as uncomfortable as summer, at least it didn't make his lungs feel burning.

But now, the blazing wind swept the yellow sand, suffocating for a while, as if a rope was tied around the neck.

At this moment, on the left hand side of the procession are hills of yellow sand and rocks, stacked on top of each other, and there is no end in sight. On the right-hand side is a large desert, with yellow sand as far as the eye can see.

This is the "sea of sand" between Guazhou and Shazhou, and Shazhou is named after it.

"Fang Yuanjun, Changle County, formerly known as Ying'an County, was named because of its proximity to the Shenshui (Shule River).

Now there is more and more grass under our feet, which means that we have gradually approached the dark water, and the Nangxia of the Tubo people should not be far away. ”

Cui Qianyou said with a horsewhip pointing to the dots of green in the yellow sand in front of him.

These drought-tolerant plants endemic to the desert, such as the sand jujube, the herbaceous plant (a herbaceous plant), and the sand willow, have well-developed root systems, usually more than three meters.

These drought-tolerant herbaceous plants tend to be found at a distance from desert oases. They survive tenaciously, scattered here and there, and do not form a scale.

Sometimes it can be used as a "road sign" in the desert. With the sporadic appearance of these plants, then it proves that the oasis is not far off.

At this moment, a cavalryman on a camel galloped in the distance, who was the Tang Army scout sent out before.

All the generals around Fang Chongyong smiled, now it is easy for them to distinguish between friend and foe, as long as they are not riding camels, they are basically enemies.

"Envoy! The Nangxia of the Tubo people is five miles ahead, placed on the shore of the underwater, and a wooden fort is being built. A lot of horses, cattle and sheep are drinking water by the river!

The Tibetans do not seem to be aware of our coming. ”

Probably the Tubo people thought that Shazhou's troops were not enough to fear, or they didn't care too much about Guazhou now, or maybe they confronted the Tang army on the front line and were under great military pressure, so they couldn't send troops and horses to defend their nest for the time being.

So the garrison is very lax.

Institutions such as Nangxia are similar to the organizational model of the military. It is a bit similar to Fang Chongyong's logistics department in his previous life, except that the soldiers in it are all old and weak, and they are borne by a single Tubo Dongdai, which is a bit similar to the "contract responsibility system".

Once the task of "Nangxia" is undertaken, then Dongdai Qianhu, who serves as the "Nangxia Chief", must accept the logistics and supply instructions issued by Zampu, and many matters, including the construction of the barracks, are indispensable.

However, he also bears the responsibility of keeping the spoils of war. Obviously, there is a lot of oil and water in it, so all the departments in Tubo are vying to assume the position of Nangxia.

That Tibetan military law regulation seems to prove this. If Zampu is dissatisfied with a certain Dongdai, he will deprive them of their qualifications to serve as Nangxia in the future.

This is the characteristic logistics system of Tibet, and Datang has no corresponding agency to match it.

Of course, Nangxia, like the heavy troops of the Tang Dynasty, could not meet with the enemy's regular army. As soon as they meet, it's going to be bad.

Fang Chongyong looked around and found that Cui Qianyou and the others all had excited expressions on their faces, and their hands were pressed on the hilt of the horizontal knife, as if they could immediately draw the knife and kill people in the next moment.

He couldn't help but feel his heart pounding.

"Just take it easy and follow the big army, and be careful not to fall under the camel. Camels are easier to control than horses, and they are not fast, so they should be fine. ”

Cui Qianyou explained, and then led the vanguard army of 1,000 horsemen to speed up and gallop towards the front. The Tibetan people did not have any fixed buildings, they were all tents, and the foundation of a small half wooden fort.

The Tubo people near Nangxia drove their sheep to the nearby meadows to graze in the morning, and they were completely free-range. The sheep slowly spread out in formation, some eating the grass on the edge of the river beach, some licking the salt and alkali on the sand, and some trolling contentedly.

At this moment, it is almost noon, and the sheep grazing by the Tibetan people are almost half full. The Tibetans who were in charge of Nangxia drove them to the river, and the sheep scrambled to the river to drink.

Sheep are all military food, but also property, not eaten, will be distributed as trophies after the war, and managing these livestock is also the main responsibility of Nangxia.

It is very interesting that the sheep are kneeling on the bank of the river, and then stretching their necks and sneering and drinking water, and their beards are soaked in the water, and they do not care at all. There are also some ewes standing in the gap in the riverbank, drinking and bleating at the same time their lamb, and trying to let it go over to drink.

When the Tibetan people on the side saw this scene, they laughed and had a simple smile on their faces, no different from the hospitable herdsmen on the grassland, who did not realize that danger had come.

Suddenly, the sound of the ground shaking alerted the Tibetans. But before they could get their bows and arrows, the whistling white-clothed god of death pierced their chests with a spear, and blood splattered onto the white robes, leaving a beautiful blood sparkle.

The Tubo people who had slipped through the net ran towards the tent, but they didn't know that Guo Ziyi had already led a thousand Tang army cavalry to go there first. These Tubo people who have slipped through the net are just jumping from one big pit to another.

Fang Chongyong sat on the camel, and at this moment he had stopped moving. There was a cacophony of voices in my ears, and there was a lot of commotion.

The wailing cries, the roars of excitement, and the sound of weapons entering flesh mingled into an elegy from hell.

At this moment, Fang Chongyong no longer had the nausea and discomfort after the first battle.

Even if he saw a Tang sergeant beheading a Tibetan man with a horizontal knife, his heart still did not fluctuate.

Of course, Fang Chongyong couldn't feel the excitement of these soldiers.

To kill is to kill, a means, not an end in itself. The Qiu Ba people who went to the battlefield either killed or were killed, this was their fate. These things are not worthy of sympathy, and there is nothing to be proud of.

"If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more."

Fang Chongyong sighed lightly and said, but he didn't do anything.

When he was strategizing, he conceived a grand plan and rose to the height of the winner and loser of the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. However, when he went to the battlefield, he couldn't kill him, and he couldn't even kill the most ordinary Tubo soldiers.

The one-sided killing, the white-clothed Grim Reaper went on a rampage, and soon the wooden fort that had just finished laying the foundation and only half of it had been built, was on fire. As for the tents for the Tubo Nangxia people to live in, the Tang army did not take a penny, and stayed in place and did not move.

In order to prevent extraneous branches, Chongyong before setting off has a strict order: whoever takes the goods will first cut off his hands and then be convicted!

Therefore, as the fighting continued, even if the Tubo people snatched a large number of cloths and piled them together, the Tang soldiers turned a blind eye and did not take a single piece of cloth. If you don't want it, you will be strong, and if you take it, the morale of the army will be out of control.

This is extremely dangerous for an army that goes deep behind enemy lines!

Fang Chongyong has already ordered people to return to Shazhou as soon as possible, so that they can send a baggage team to transport these materials back to Shazhou as quickly as possible, and these materials will not be reported to the above, and all of them will be intercepted!

Don't ask where these things will end up, if you ask, they will be burned by the Tang Army.

An hour later, the unilateral massacre ended, and the ground was full of corpses of Tubo people, and Fang Chongyong frowned!

The situation in Guazhou is very wrong!

The main force of the Tubo army is indeed not in Guazhou, at least not in Changle County. The so-called personnel of Nangxia are simply Tubo serfs and Yong, and there are not even a few people with weapons!

Not to mention any combat effectiveness.

Fang Chongyong suddenly felt that perhaps the pressure on his father-in-law Wang Zhonghei in the future was particularly great! The main force of the Tibetan army should have almost all marched eastward to resist the attack of the Tang army.

The use of troops is a dynamic process, that is, the so-called "separate advances and combined attacks, not sticking to one pattern". The Tibetan army was the first to attack Shazhou and Guazhou, but this did not mean that they were stupid to stick to the two places, waiting for the Tang army to exterminate them.

In fact, the Tubo people looked for an opportunity to break through the Hexi Corridor and stick to Liangzhou and then try elsewhere, which was a mature strategy for using troops.

Thinking of this, Fang Chongyong ordered Xin Yunjing to lead the troops to be on guard, place all the camels on the horse, and then change into the war horses in the Tubo camp, and then called all the generals and the middle and middle officials to a meeting to discuss major matters.

"The defense of the Tibetan army is weak, beyond imagination, what do you think?"

Squatting under a poplar tree, the generals gathered in a circle, listening to Fang Chongyong's words, all of them frowned.

In fact, as Fang Chongyong said, the situation this time was indeed a bit unexpected for them. Because the Tubo people didn't even leave the guard troops, this is really incredible. Unless, something unexpected is happening!

"Could it be that the Tubo people know that the army on the other side of Shazhou has not succeeded, so they are desperate and are now storming Ganzhou?"

Guo Ziyi suddenly made a frightening point.

"Guo Junenvoy is saying that the Tubo people know that they can't do anything, and they want to take advantage of the Tang army in Shazhou before they can react, and concentrate their forces to directly attack Ganzhou! Forced the main force of the Tang army to retreat to Liangzhou.

Ganzhou has a lot of grain, abundant water and grass, and vast pastures. Not to mention the Shandan Racecourse, and not far from the Great Dou Tu Valley, it is enough to gain a foothold here in order to plan for the future. ”

Cui Qianyou said thoughtfully, the more he thought about it, the more scared he felt.

Since it's a desperate bet, you don't have to wait for any reinforcements, military rations and other things, just go straight to the Tang Army. Then, when the morale of the army is stable and morale is high, the offense is used instead of the defense, and the situation is opened in Ganzhou, so the whole game of chess will come alive.

If you stick to Suzhou and wait for the Tang army to fight, it is only a matter of time before you are caught on both sides. Any commander with brains will not sit still.

You know, there are indeed not many troops in Shazhou, but there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Western Regions of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate? Although these armies are far away and take a long time to mobilize, they can still be put in place after all.

At that time, the Tubo army will become a little mouse in the bamboo tube, unable to get out on the left or on the right, so it can only be compressed step by step in the narrow Hexi corridor, and finally trapped to death!

"Fang Envoy, what should we do? Now it has made quite a gain, breaking the grain route of the Tibetan people. If we continue eastward, I'm afraid the outcome will be unpredictable......"

Wang Sili asked, he asked a topic that everyone wanted to know, but was embarrassed to speak.

Now the Tang Army of Shazhou not only relied on its own strength to relieve the siege, but also counterattacked Guazhou, destroying the logistics base of the Tubo Army, which had a great positive impact on the war situation!

That's a big deal, isn't it?

Wouldn't it be good to stop now, and then go back to Shazhou to recuperate, straighten out the trilogy, and take away all these cattle, sheep and horses of the Tubo people by the way?

Continuing east, the risks can be said to be infinite! Not only did he not know the distribution of the Tubo army's strength and the strength of the troops, but he also had to risk that all his previous exploits would be wiped out, and he would even have to fight for a "possibility" at the risk of becoming a sinner.

Forward or backward? It's a really hard question!

Fang Chongyong suddenly had the feeling of playing the "Slumdog Millionaire" quiz game. If you choose to answer the question, you will get ten times the bonus if you win, and you will lose penniless. If you don't answer the question, you can get rich and get safe, and leave with the "Coward Award".

To be a warrior or ...... What about being a "coward"?

"In this battle, is there any risk of defeat on the Liangzhou side?"

Fang Chongyong asked with a frown.

Hearing this, Guo Ziyi laughed and said:

"Defeat will definitely not be, it just depends on how big the losses are and how tortuous the process is. It is estimated that 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses in Hexi are in Liangzhou, and I heard that even the Jiankang army has withdrawn to Liangzhou to stand by. Even if the troops are not enough, Longyou can also send 40,000 or 50,000 people to Hexi to participate in the decisive battle. ”

All the generals nodded in agreement, and what Guo Ziyi said was exactly what they expected.

"In that case...... Then let's withdraw to Shazhou. ”

Fang Chongyong said indifferently.

Huh?

Guo Ziyi, Cui Qianyou and the others were stupid, they just waited for Fang Chongyong to boost their morale, and then everyone rushed to Jinchang County, the capital city of Guazhou! Why do you want to turn around and go back to Shazhou at this juncture!

"If you go back to Shazhou, then these burdens ...... What to do? ”

Wang Sili asked suspiciously.

"The wealth and grain are all burned in a fire, and we take the horses away, and the sheep are not easy to take on the road, so let's kill them all."

Don't leave anything for the Tibetans. ”

Fang Chongyong ordered with a cold face.

Isn't that a bit sloppy? Didn't you just say that you would send someone to fetch these baggage?

"Fang Envoy-kun, why don't we try to attack Guazhou!"

All the generals pleaded together.

"I think the army in Liangzhou can solve the Tubo people, and we don't need to worry about it.

You are all raised by your father's mother, and your head is not a leek, and you have cut it. Take advantage of this big victory, and take it when you see it.

If any of you are dissatisfied, just stay for yourself, and the others will have to follow. ”

Fang Chongyong said with a tough attitude.

This battle intuitively made him feel that something was not right, even if the Tubo people were lax in their defense, they would not say that a defensive army could not be deployed.

There must be a deception!

Even if there is no fraud, there must be fraud.

Fang Chongyong felt that Datang was not his private property. Since the future father-in-law Wang Zhonghei has a lot of money in his hands, it is okay to trust him, and he can't hang his head on the belt of his trousers. He won't admit that he is afraid of fighting with the Tubo army!

The history of Shazhou thorns changes every four years, and the longest one only lasted seven years. I'm a low-ranking official, isn't it good to keep my life chic? Even if you fight for military merit, won't you be "arranged at will" by the Chang'an gang in the end?

Why bother?

Fang Chongyong is very open, and when it is time to coward, he must be cowardly!

"Burn supplies, withdraw! After the war, you have to go to the Hexi Jiedu Mansion to report this matter, and you are free, and I will not stop you from writing to the imperial court, but now you must do as I say. ”

Fang Chongyong pointed to the military tent of the Tubo people not far away, and said sonorously: "It's all burned, don't leave any of them." ”

"Order!"

The generals were unwilling to take the order and left.

After a while, the outskirts of Changle County turned into a sea of fire, and the piled up military rations ignited a raging fire, and the silk silk was turned into ashes. Flocks of goats and sheep were slaughtered, horses were taken away by Tang soldiers, and there were almost nothing of value and usefulness left.

The Tang army in Shazhou was like a white whirlwind, blowing for a while in the suburbs of Changle County, and then swept away.

The style is very elegant.

The day after tomorrow, the double monthly pass will be opened, and it will explode.

(End of chapter)