Chapter 971: The Famous Generals of the Tang Dynasty (First Update)
"Drive, drive, six horses, urgent." The boundary of Liangzhou is less than twenty miles away from Guzang, the Liangzhou Governance Office, and there are six horsemen galloping.
At the penultimate station, a herd of horses was placed outside.
The post man was basking in the sun in a military coat, and the weather was still a little cold, but the grass on the ground was growing.
"Change it yourself." The postman didn't bother and said hello.
The six men didn't say much, and when they came closer, one of them threw out a sign.
The postman raised his hand to catch it, and when he saw that the six men had dismounted, they had run to the horse that was wandering, without reins or stirrups.
They put their hands on the horse's neck, their feet off the ground, their waists strained, and they landed on the horse's back, and their legs were clamped: "Drive~!" ”
The postman hurriedly threw the sign back, and when the leader caught the sign, the horse whizzed out.
By the time he was about to pull the reins again, the horse's speed had already been lifted.
"Good skills." The postman praised loudly.
"Brothers, the last post has just arrived in Shenshi." The person holding the sign doesn't care about the tiredness of continuous travel.
They are just excited now, and they are too comfortable.
When I was on the way, I grabbed a handful of meat floss right away, and drank saliva to eat.
In less than five minutes, another post station arrived, and the horses here were good.
Horses sometimes bully people, and if they are not good, they need others to hold the reins to fix the horse, and it is difficult to lift their legs and step on the stirrup.
As long as such a person wants to get on the horse, the horse will slowly hide, and the person will step on the air.
Li Yishi's video is there, every time he lifts his leg, the horse just moves a little to the side, which is bad.
When encountering one that does not need to touch the reins and stirrups, the horse cooperates.
Running is even more desperate, like the wind.
In less than five minutes, we arrived at the city, and there was a moat outside the city gate, and there was an arrow tower above the gate hole in the city.
The arrow tower of Guzang City, but it is written with the word Liangzhou.
There are people coming in and out of the door, and there are fifty or sixty thousand people living in Guzang City in Liangzhou.
In the event of a war, the people of several other counties will run to Liangzhou City, and there are more than 100,000 people.
This place should not have been knocked down in theory, but in 764 years in history, Tibet was taken away.
In 763, the Anshi Rebellion had just been cleaned up, and the Tang Dynasty was short of troops.
At this moment, Liangzhou is a prosperous scene, and the people saw a fast horse running over, and hurriedly let it go to the side.
Six people rushed in and went straight to the official office of the Jiedu envoy, that is, the Jieyuan.
Not long after, they saw Guo Zhiyun, handed over the documents of the imperial court, and were placed to rest.
Guo Zhiyun checked the fire paint seal, confirmed that it had not been opened, and took it out to watch after picking it open.
"Come on, prepare to send troops." After reading it, Guo Zhiyun did not dare to delay.
The whole Liangzhou began to move, and Guo Zhiyun had more than 70,000 soldiers under his command.
The instructions given by the imperial court were to let him play Jiuqu, and Li Yi belonged to Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture at that time.
Jiuqu is actually the closest to the Longyou Jiedu Envoy, and the Longyou Jiedu Envoy also has more than 70,000 soldiers.
However, it was Liangzhou and Hexi Jiedu who sent troops.
That's how it was fought in history, and Li Yi knew what it meant.
The soldiers of Longyou did not move, and the soldiers of Tubo thought that there was nothing wrong.
As a result, the army that really went to fight came from the back of the envoy of Longyou, even if he didn't fight, he ran back, and Longyou could be on top, and Tubo couldn't chase it.
If Long's right section envoy went to fight, he didn't fight, and ran back, and Tubo chased his ass and occupied Shanzhou, directly threatening the back.
Shanzhou is next to the Huangshui, there are boats up and down to transport supplies, once occupied by the Tibetans, the Tibetans can even flow down to fight.
This is the ability of the generals of the Tang Border Pass at this time, and everything has been thought of.
In history, Guo Zhiyun did not get instructions from the imperial court to send troops, and he saw that the troops drawn from Tibet were empty, so he combined with Zhang Zhongliang, the envoy of Longyoujiedu.
Longyoujiedu did not move, and Hexi Jiedu made the troops in front of the back, so he beat the nine songs of Tubo.
Chang'an can't control it at all, and the general will not be subject to the orders of the monarch outside.
According to Li Yi's estimate, even if the imperial court does not order it immediately.
As soon as Sulu's side moved, Tubo and Da Shi moved, Guo Zhiyun found out about the situation and would still send troops by himself.
In fact, he was indeed preparing, and the intelligence from the further northwest passed through Liangzhou, using the dense post station from Liangzhou to Chang'an.
It's over there, and I'll have to talk to him.
As soon as the court order comes out, there is no need to think about it, so let's do it.
The army was massing, and they were wearing leather jackets, military coats, and bags on their backs.
The bag contains compressed biscuits, meat floss mixed with carrot cubes, chopped green onions, salt, and peppercorn noodles.
There is also a small bottle of alcohol, absorbent cotton, gauze.
The things were all sent from Chang'an before, and they were usually reluctant to eat them.
Half an hour, the team was assembled, riding horses, driving cars, lighting torches, from the south, all the way to the Longyou Jiedu envoy.
The car was equipped with hot air balloons and diesel blowtorches, which were originally alcohol, but later changed to gasoline for training, gasoline was a little more dangerous, so it became diesel again.
The car also carried small cyclone cannons that could be assembled, explosive packets, and homemade grenades.
"If the battle goes smoothly like this, you should take the land of nine songs in one fell swoop." Wang Junkui sat in the carriage and said to Guo Zhiyun.
In front of the two of them was a map drawn by Li Yi, which was more than twice as good as the original map of Datang.
"I heard that the steamship has been used, and if you take the koji, the ship can sail back and forth." Guo Zhiyun agreed with the deputy envoy's words.
His hand pointed further west, where were the two freshwater lakes at the source of the Yellow River, Zhaling Lake and Ngoling Lake.
The two lakes are connected by a river, and if this place is occupied, you can make another knot.
No, it's not a knot, there will be at least three, and more troops will be stationed.
Taking down the entire Yellow River from the source of the Yellow River, the baggage transportation in the rear can be stabilized by relying on steamships.
Now the main target is Jiuqu, which was originally Datang's.
Princess Jincheng married Tubo, and Yang Ju, the accompanying general of the Left Guard, took a bribe from Tubo, saying that the land of Jiuqu would be given to Princess Jincheng as a bathing place, that is, a dowry.
The court of the Tang Dynasty allowed it, and as a result, it became the base of Tubo, herding sheep and horses, increasing its strength and frequently sending troops to attack the Tang Dynasty.
Two years ago, didn't Tubo lead 100,000 troops to fight, and was beaten by the Tang Dynasty.
Then Yang Ju committed suicide, that is, he accepted a bribe and gave the good land to Tubo.
Now Datang will continue to fight, and Tubo will definitely not be stable.
"See how you fight when you see it, and give full play to the advantages of good weapons, especially hot air balloons." Guo Zhiyun is full of confidence in this battle.
The things given by Chang'an are too good, and there are telescopes, and Tubo can arrange the formation as much as he wants.
The army should be sent out a lot to fight the Four Towns and Big Rock City, hoping that they can withstand it.
As long as he wins the battle here, Tubo will inevitably return to the rescue.
"If our army's losses are not large, we can join forces with Zhang Zhongliang's right forces and not give Tubo a chance to recapture."
Wang Junkui was thinking about it, he considered whether it would be okay for the army to be stationed here, and he would not return to Liangzhou for the time being after the battle, and wait for the imperial court to arrange it.
"I'm afraid that the logistical pressure is too great, and it will be difficult for Longyou to continue." Guo Zhiyun was a little worried.
What he didn't know was that just when he sent out his troops, the Shudi Salt Gang once again organized manpower.