Later experiments have proved that in the process of oral transmission of an event, it is inevitable that information will be omitted and distorted, especially the lower the education level, the more distorted the information will be during oral speaking.

And the fermentation of information in the crowd often does not necessarily develop in the direction of the person who spreads the information, and it is likely to go in a strange direction.

Fang Chongyong's original intention was to let the personnel selected by the various armies see with their own eyes that the Lanzhou treasury was full, so that after they returned to Shanzhou, they would inform the armies of the truth, so as to calm the morale of the army.

However, Fang Yanei ignored that this was the Tang Dynasty, and the education level of Qiu Ba was very low.

Unless it is a specially trained herald who can pass on the words of the main general in place, these Qiu Ba will tell others what they see and think.

Thought it was a talking point.

At the beginning, these Qiu Ba, who went to Lanzhou to visit the treasury, returned to the army, and they were all hyping: There were countless silk silks in the treasury of Lanzhou, and they were piled up. The granary is full of grain, and even the rats in the silo are full of brains.

In general, these people are saying that the imperial court is very rich, and there is absolutely no problem with military salaries or anything.

Since the information conveyed by these people is similar, they can verify each other, plus the 100,000 silk that was transported back, it was indeed distributed in place, and each person received two silks.

Everyone is quite satisfied.

Two silk horses are a little less, but sincerity has arrived.

Therefore, the sergeants, soldiers, generals and colonels of Longyou are convinced that the imperial court will make up the military salary in the future.

This is also the original intention of Fang Chongyong's empty city plan.

But as the news spread, it turned sour.

Originally, the Longyou army, especially the low-level soldiers, was already very dissatisfied with the arrears of military salaries from time to time in the imperial court.

The military envoys are also saying in their daily lives, such as "Longyou transportation is difficult", "the court needs money in many places", "the sage has done his best", etc., in short, it is emphasized that the court is very difficult, and money is needed everywhere, and the sage is so poor that he can't afford to sit in a carriage or take a hot spring!

Therefore, we, the soldiers of the border army, must be considerate of the court and the saints. Originally, there was no war to fight, and it was not uncommon for military salaries to be in arrears.

The country still supports you without a war, isn't the saint kind? You have been fishing all day long, ask yourself, how many Tubo people have you killed in the past few years without war?

Facts aside, isn't there anything wrong with you?

This kind of statement always makes the stupid low-level Qiu Ba have nothing to say.

So although the bottom of the Longyou army was dissatisfied, they could only suppress their anger. Who let the current situation not be warned, and the value of soldiers cannot be reflected without war, which is also an objective law.

But this time, what did you see? Lanzhou's treasury is full of wealth! It's not that the court doesn't have money at all, but it doesn't want to give it at all!

Damn, obviously rich, but you don't send it! It's so deceitful! There are tens of thousands of troops on the right side of Long, so they gave 100,000 silk and sent them to call Huazi!

If you don't have money, you can't pay military salaries, and if you have money, you can't pay military salaries, and if you have money, you can't pay military salaries, that's subjective malice!

His heart can be punished!

Under Fang Chongyong's commotion, the dissatisfaction in the army on the right side of Long became even more serious! If it weren't for the cancellation of the number of the Anren Army, the deterrent effect would be too great, and I was afraid that the second mutiny of the Longyou Army would come like a tsunami!

Rao is like this, and the complaints of the grassroots soldiers have also continued to reach the ears of the military envoys.

In desperation, the military envoys of various armies, including Wang Yuan, Ge Shuhan, Gai Jiayun and others, gathered again in the Yamen of Longyou Jiedu Mansion.

Fang Chongyong specially brought Gao Xiuyan over, explained the situation to everyone, and emphasized that this was part of the "Art of War Strategy".

Money is to be distributed, and morale is also to be motivated!

After all, no one would "feed" the soldiers before the war, right?

The soldiers who have received rich rewards will only try to protect themselves on the battlefield, worrying that they will have their lives to make money and not to spend their lives. This truth is indeed common sense, and Wang Rare and others have nothing to say.

To put it mildly, after Fang Chongyong promised that when the war was over, the imperial court would have a large reward, these people reluctantly returned to the armies and explained the situation to the generals and colonels at all levels.

Finally got the deal over it.

However, the internal affairs of the Longyou Army are easy to handle, after all, there are many means to operate. But on the Tubo side, Fang Chongyong had no way to influence it at all.

The pace of the war continued and steadily moved forward, and it did not stop a single step.

The information from the scouts in front is constantly converging, and the Tubo people are hoarding heavy troops in the northwest and southwest directions, and these people naturally will not come to the Hehuang Valley to see the scenery!

According to Fang Chongyong's estimate, this time the Tubo people probably wanted to fight a "pincer offensive", flanking the Tang army in the Hehuang Valley from the northwest and southwest, concentrating superior forces to fight a war of annihilation, and cutting off the connection between the Hehuang Valley and Lanzhou!

Time passed day by day, and the selection of the Tianwei Army was also in full swing.

Due to Fang Chongyong's previous strategy of "wishing for plum blossoms to quench thirst" began to ferment, countless people in various armies enthusiastically signed up, and the selection was extremely fierce, even to the point of choosing one of the three.

Because the registration was too enthusiastic, Fang Chongyong visited in private, and only then did he learn the inside story.

It turned out that the sergeants and soldiers of the various armies had no hope of receiving additional rewards, and did not even believe that the imperial court would make up all the arrears of military salaries.

They agreed that the imperial court would continue to implement the existing strategy of "elite first", and ensure that a group of elite troops was fully loaded and paid in the case of limited supplies. The rest of the "Teletubbies", as much as they can give, just starve to death.

And the Tianwei Army is obviously the elite field army that concentrates the essence of the Longyou army, the new edge of the new.

It's no surprise that there has been a lot of registration.

In these years, there is no low-level Qiu Ba who wants to get ahead and become a Long March athlete, everyone is here to eat, and it is nothing more than eating food as a soldier, there is no such complicated truth. The country and the world are far away from them.

After learning the true thoughts of these Qiu Ba, Fang Chongyong had to sigh at the simple survival wisdom of the people at the bottom. In fact, they guessed correctly, the future development route of the Tang army is indeed the case.

With productivity stagnating or even regressing, and military spending being reduced, only a small number of elite soldiers can live a better life. Therefore, the elite soldiers of the five generations at the end of the Tang Dynasty emerged in an endless stream, and one as ten abounded.

Now, on the contrary, those high-ranking generals in the Tang Army are still dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period, thinking that the Tang Dynasty can continue to expand its territory in the future, and they can also obtain promotion channels by constantly opening up the borders and constantly climb up.

……

More than ten days later, the five brothers of the Lun family returned to Shanzhou with a team of people, accompanied by Cen Shen and others.

In order to celebrate their achievements and make great achievements, Fang Chongyong took out all the catties of pepper rewarded by Brother Ji, added them to the ingredients of the mutton, and after the mutton was coated with butter, it was separated from the tempeh layer by layer, added to a huge Hu cake, and put it in the oven to bake.

The baked Hu cake has an extremely strong flavor and is unusually delicious.

This famous dish of Chang'an, called "Gulouzi", is not unusual, it can be made anywhere, but it requires more tools.

The only necessary ingredient was pepper, which was still extremely rare and valuable at this time. If there is no pepper, the dish will lose its soul, and it is okay not to eat it.

The five brothers of the Lun family are in Wuwei, Liangzhou, which is a transit station on the Silk Road, and naturally there is no shortage of pepper brought by Hu merchants in the past, so it is not unusual. At this moment, I can eat Gulouzi, which is even more intimate.

However, Cen Shen has lived for such a long time, and the number of times he has eaten pepper is only a handful, and he has long forgotten this spicy taste. The ancient building, which is expensive and not easy to make, is not something he can afford to eat every day, even without pepper.

Now that he can eat an authentic ancient building in the yamen of Longyou Jiedu Mansion, Cen Shen was so excited that he shed tears of happiness, and he didn't know if it was because Fang Chongyong desperately added pepper to the mutton, and others thought that he was so spicy that he couldn't stand it.

"Fang Jieshuai, when can we do it?"

After three rounds of drinking, everyone was almost full, and the eldest of the five brothers, Yan Weizhen, asked Chongyong.

"Almost, it's about time."

Fang Chongyong put down the wine glass in his hand and said after a moment of silence.

His routine of "appeasing the soldiers" backfired, and the resentment in the army was greater than before, and this battle was a timely rain, even if he was not fully prepared, he had to go hard.

"Fang Jieshuai, will the Tubo people not be fooled?"

Cen Shen asked suspiciously.

If nothing else, the main reason is that Fang Chongyong's strategy is too outrageous, and this is not a bad idea that a normal person can come up with at all.

"Don't worry, Judge Cen, the Tubo people will definitely be fooled!"

Before Fang Chongyong could speak, one of the five brothers of the Lun clan, Yan Huaiyi, interjected and said.

He was afraid that Cen Shen and Fang Chongyong would not believe it, so he continued to add:

"There are many mountains in Tibet, and among the various eastern dais, they can also independently distribute the looted goods, and the rights and responsibilities are clear.

This time, the commander was to lure a partial division of the Tubo army to attack. This part of the Tibetan army, if the operation can be successful, they can only swallow the plundered goods.

This is absolutely beneficial to the strength of Dongdai. They will definitely be tempted to get their hands dirty. ”

On Huaiyi explained to everyone.

This statement is convincing.

Inside Tibet, "Ru" is similar to a military region, and one Ru has ten Dongdai under its jurisdiction, and Dongdai is similar to the military government of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the nature of Dongdai and Ru is somewhat different.

Dongdai, to which Ru belongs, abounds with each other for hundreds of years, and only Dongdai can unite as one, and the military, government and civil affairs can be grasped.

This will cause a big problem, that is, every time there is a big war, how to distribute the spoils of war, how to send troops, all parties can not coordinate, can only be organized by the "big theory" around Tubo, and settle the various hills, and the position is similar to that of the "marching chief" of the Tang Dynasty.

And the Great Theory itself, in Tubo, is also the status of the prime minister, in charge of military and warfare, etc., and has great power.

This will cause a great discourse and pose a mortal threat to the Tibetan Zampu! From time to time, there would be conflicts with the Tibetan Zampu, resulting in the disunity of military orders.

Because the superstructure of Tibet is relatively rotten, and the grassroots organizations are very robust, from time to time there will be Dongdai who bypass military law and operational arrangements and take private actions to seek the interests of Dongdai.

Fang Chongyong's plan this time was not to let the Tubo Da Tan change the combat policy, but to attract a certain Tubo who was on a different path to act without taking the initiative and having a "dark war" without destroying the peace agreement between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo.

The Tubo people will not say that they have been beaten, and they will not say that the Tang army has taken advantage of them. If you really want to make it clear, then everything is the pot of the party members!

"In this way, tomorrow they will lead their troops to the Xingsu River and act according to the plan. When the time comes, someone will set fire to the signal, and a certain person will personally lead the 5,000 cavalry of the Lintao army to support you. ”

Fang Chongyong drank all the wine in the cup and said.

After sending everyone away, he returned to the bedroom, Fang Chongyong couldn't help but extinguish the candle and threw Pei Xiu on the bed. The two of them spent most of the night in the dark in bed, and then hugged each other and fell asleep.

……

On the grasslands in the northern part of the Hoshijugawa River, flocks of sheep graze, and from a distance, they look like white waves.

In the memory of unwitting outsiders, Zhang Shouyu, who has been executed and is now in a "state of death", led dozens of his subordinates, pretending to be leisurely herdsmen, grazing cattle here.

What they are doing now is very dangerous, which is to lure the Tubo people south from the north of Xingsu River, go straight to the grasslands north of Datong City, and plunder grain in the south.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the Tibetans had the audacity to occupy Datong City and stayed here without leaving. Although this is less likely.

"Big brother, do you think the plan of the marshal can work?"

A former Anren sergeant came over on a horse and asked, also dressed as a herdsman.

"There's nothing that can't be done, let's do it."

Zhang Shouyu waved his hand and said.

How do he know, he has never seen someone more outrageous than Fang Chongyong! This kind of outrageous people's plan can only be said to be extremely scary to think about.

"Big brother, it's been three days, and the Tubo people haven't come yet, do you think they won't come?"

The talkative soldier asked again.

As soon as he finished speaking, the smoke and dust in the distance came straight to the sheep!

Needless to say, this situation is no longer necessary! Zhang Shouyu was very excited!

"The Tibetan people are coming, run! Come on! ”

Zhang Shouyu shouted!

After saying that, he rode his horse and galloped in the direction of Chase City.

His soldiers, who had been convicted of capital crimes, also ran with them, completely ignoring the sheep grazing, and wishing to run as fast as they could.

The crowds of Tubo cavalry did not stop at all when they passed by the sheep, and they didn't bother to care, and directly chased Zhang Shouyu and them.

There is always a place for the herders to live, and the sheep that graze cannot escape. Rush to the herdsmen's settlements, plunder their goods, and on the way back drive the sheep north as well, and the smuggling is done.

The leader of the Tibetan army was Shang Yexi, the general of Tubo, and was born in the top nobles of Tubo.

The "Shang" and "Lun" factions are two factions in Tubo, and the "Lun" line includes the former Nonqinling (Gar Chizheng Zanzhuo) family, while the "Shang" is the family of Tubo Zanpu's relatives.

Wei Qilixu, the Tubo Dalun who led the troops this time, is the current leader of the "Theory" department. And Zampu's paternal family is the Koji clan and the Luo clan, which have been jointly destroyed by the Rong clan and the Shang clan decades ago.

At present, Tibet is in a state of "political alliance", and whoever has the ability can speak.

Since it was Qili Xu who led the troops, of course the people of the Shang clan would not be so well-behaved and obedient. They didn't mind making a mess of Qilixu while they were full. This road of soldiers and horses is a partial division of the Tubo Army, which intends to attack Shanzhou from Xingsuchuan, and belongs to the Northern Route Army.

The main force of the Tubo Army is the Tuyuhun Old Road on the first line of Shibao City, which belongs to the Southern Route Army.

Although the reason for Fang Chongyong's original estimate was lacking, the effect was crooked.

Shang Yexi took 10,000 light horses and went straight to Chase City. After discovering that the city was abandoned, they were not willing to divide their troops to garrison, but went south along the Xingsu River and went straight to the Heyuan Army garrison. They planned to grab a handful and run, anyway, the cavalry came and went like the wind, and they were not afraid of the slow reaction of the Tang army.

The vigilant Shang Yexi suddenly felt that something was not quite right!

It went so smoothly that there was no resistance.

Could it be that the intelligence is true, and the Longyou Tang Army is really in chaos because of internal friction?

The arrow had to be sent on the string, Shang Yexi saw the wolf smoke lit in the south, and suddenly his hanging heart fell to the ground.

That's right, if you don't light the wolf smoke when you are attacked, it won't be right.

Shang Yexi rushed into the village north of Shancheng with his troops, but was surprised to find that there was no one in the village. But it looks like the belongings are still there, and the barn is full.

He immediately ordered a rush for food. The well-trained Tibetan cavalry immediately divided their men, loaded them with grain, hung the bags on their horses, and then fled north as fast as they could!

This dumb loss, Tang Jun is decided!

Shang Yexi didn't want to fight Tang Jun head-on at all, and if he grabbed it, he earned it.

(End of chapter)