Chapter 207: It's up to me to perform
In the tent set up by Li Jing, the two sides sat down, and Li Ke naturally sat on the main seat, as for Li Su? While he stayed and went, he didn't let him in at all.
"How's the battle going?" Li Ke came up and asked directly.
"A few days ago, Hou Junji and Li Daozong's troops crossed the Han Wai Mountain (later Qinghai Ola Mountain) to exterminate the Tuyuhun troops located in Wuhai (Later Kuhai) and the source part of the Yellow River, and brought back all the tribal captives and livestock.
"I later ordered He Li and Xue Wanjun to chase after them, and just got the news yesterday that Murong Fuyun had been ambushed and more than 200,000 heads of livestock were seized. The troops are in the middle of the class, and I have written a recital to send back. Li Jing opened his mouth to briefly introduce the battle situation.
In other words, the battle situation has ended, Li Ke pondered for a while, today is 25 May, the large army, especially carrying more than 200,000 head of livestock, is very slow, and it is estimated that it will take a certain amount of time to return.
Because the distance between the end of the city and the Red Sea is nearly twice as far as that of the Red Sea and Chang'an!
Murong Fuyun's ambush means that the Tang Dynasty's battle against Tuyuhun has come to an end, so the next thing is to see Li Ke's actions.
"How many days will it take to find the big force now?" Li Ke thought for a while and asked.
"If each person carries three horses, it will take about 5 days." Li Jing gave a general answer, if the three war horses are ridden in turn, the burden on the war horses will be small, and the daily travel distance will naturally be far.
"Now send someone to find the army of Xue Wanche and others, and at the same time send an envoy to the city of Jimo, and tell the king of the end of the country that the Tang Dynasty needs him to give an explanation, why he took Murong Fuyun in, and asked him to send an envoy to Chihai to explain to His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty." Li Ke said directly.
"This ......," Li Jing was dumbfounded when he heard this, "and the end of the king doesn't seem to have a choice." Their entire population is forty or fifty thousand people. ”
"Is it so little?" Li Ke was a little speechless, Murong Fuyun fled, just the livestock carried more than 200,000 heads, then the number of cavalry or other people will definitely not be too small, at least thousands, a country with a total population of thirty or forty thousand...... It would be nice to have a few hundred soldiers, of course there is no choice.
"Well, since the northern route of the Silk Road was developed, and the southern route of the original Silk Road has gradually begun to be lonely, and many residents have gradually begun to flee, which is somewhat similar to Loulan. But it has something to do with the fact that their local water sources are drying up. Li Jing roughly explained.
"No matter, just do what I say, if you don't explain, the army of Datang is nearby." Li Ke added.
"It doesn't matter, but can I know what the significance of His Highness is this?" Li Jing was a little curious.
"If Datang wants to control the entire Western Regions in the future, it needs a springboard, and just one route will not do." Li Ke didn't hide it, but said directly.
Li Jing was dumbfounded when he heard this, this ...... Does that even count in the future? Have you just taken Tuyuhun now? Why even the Western Regions have been calculated.
"Bring me the map." Li Ke said.
"Yes!" Pei Xingjian, who was following behind Li Ke, opened his army bag and took out a map made of specially made extra-large rice paper, which was a topographic map of the northwest region of the country that Li Ke found from the book warehouse in the space, and then after removing some of the place names above, he found a topographic map drawn by someone who is good at gongbi in this area.
When the map was opened and put on the table, Li Jingren was stunned...... Such a fine map, where did His Highness come from.
"What's going on with this Qiang country?" Li Ke pointed to the word Ruoqiang that he marked on the map, which was Ruoqiang County in later generations, and the county was removed by Li Ke, in fact, most of the place names in Xinjiang in later generations are the names of the 36 countries in the ancient Western Regions have been used, and only a few have changed their names, such as the vicinity of Bosten Lake in later generations, which is now called Yanyan Qiguo.
Ruoqiang is the place where the Xihe Expressway and the Taklamakan Desert Expressway converge in the later generations, and is located in Xinjiang closest to Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
Because although many roads in later generations were re-surveyed, there are also many ancient roads that have been used and continued! The establishment of a high-speed road through the mountains must also select the mountainous route with the flattest terrain and the least number of tunnels, so it has a high reference value.
"Ruoqiang people are very few, the population is less than 10,000, they are nomadic with water and grass, although it is called the Qiang country, but in fact it is similar to a Turkic tribe, the number of troops is more than that of the Mo, but there are only a thousand, because they are like the Turkic people are all soldiers, but they do not migrate too far, and they rely very much on the grain and grain support of the Moji and Yanqi countries!" Li Jing knows this area well, and Li Ke gave him the answer as soon as he asked.
After giving the answer, Li Jingdu still lowered his head and looked at the map in front of him carefully...... It's too fine, it's terrifyingly fine, and the lines drawn on it, Li Jing compares them with many roads in his memory, and it's simply the best marching route...... How the hell did this Highness do it?!
You must know that the map of the Western Regions used by Li Jing is already very fine, but compared with the map of His Royal Highness...... It's like a child's graffiti.
"Send someone to tell Ruoqiang and ask them to come to Chihai to explain to me why Murong Fuyun fled into the Tuyu River, but they didn't find out and didn't report to us? Is it angry with Tugu Hun hang! If you don't want to explain, the army of the Tang Dynasty is there. Li Ke spoke again.
Li Jing: "...... "Are you unreasonable?" Murong Fuyun didn't run into the Tuyu River from that place in the Wuqiang Kingdom, they definitely didn't know.
"This ...... Isn't that unreasonable? Li Jing hesitated and asked.
"With a knife in hand, why should I be reasonable?" Li Ke glanced at Li Jing with some surprise, and then pointed at himself and said, "I, Li Ke, His Royal Highness the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, a gentleman, is just unreasonable, you can not come, but I am angry, I am going to send troops to destroy them, I was sent by my father to this poor and remote place, I am very unhappy!" Outside, if the military order is not accepted, they can go to my father to reason, but they just don't know if it is the soldiers I sent or their envoys who are fast. ”
Li Jing: "......Your Highness, "Your Highness, why do I think that you have come to the Western Regions, and without the restraint of Your Majesty, you have completely let yourself go?"