"Why do you say that Tubo has to annex Tuyuhun? Aren't they afraid of our Datang's iron horsemen? ”

The general of the Tang Army, who was carrying a lantern, turned his head to look back.

The candlelight from the lantern illuminated his face.

It was the Su Festival.

His facial features were originally very three-dimensional, but at this time, they were reflected by the light, half bright and half dark, and the bridge of his nose was straight, his face was like a knife, and his lips were painted with Zhu.

A pair of majestic eyes, faintly reflecting the firelight, unusually bright.

Su Dawei stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "If the enemy wants to attack us, do you care why they do?" But if you really want to talk about it, it's a greedy word. ”

"Greedy?"

"Over the years, the weather has become warmer and warmer, and the plum blossoms that used to bloom only in the north can actually bloom in the winter moon of Chang'an, and there are white cranes, have you noticed, there are a lot of white cranes by the river outside the city."

Su Qingjie frowned and said, "What does this have to do with greed?" ”

"Of course it does."

Su Dawei grabbed his shoulders, and the two walked forward side by side, followed by a group of guards wearing leather armor and horizontal swords at their waists.

"Because of the warm weather, the Tubo people have more food, and they can also increase the population, and have the spare strength to encroach on the land, the former ancient kingdom of Zhangxiong, as well as many small states south of the Snow Mountain, were all encroached upon by the Tubo people.

People's desires will continue to increase with their status, and when they own ten acres of land, they immediately want to own a hundred acres. ”

"...... you mean?"

Su Qingjie glanced at him, thought about it and said with a smile: "That's the truth, I am now in the army, I didn't dare to think about it before, but now I also want to fight." ”

"What do you think?"

"Like my Aya, Feng Gong is looking for a marquis."

"Haha, why don't you take Wu Gou and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures. Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, if you are a scholar and a marquis? ”

Su Qingjie stopped, his eyes dilated under the light, and he looked at Su Dawei with a little surprise: "You wrote this poem?" I've never heard of it before, but it's appropriate. ”

"Well, when I was a child, there was a Taoist who passed in front of my house and asked me for water to drink, I saw that he was pitiful, so I gave him a spoonful of cold water and gave him a broth cake, and the Taoist saw that I was smart, so he touched my head and said: Xiao Langjun, I see that your bones are wonderful, I have a few books here, do you want to learn?"

Su Qingjie listened attentively: "Could it be that he passed on your skills?" ”

"Ahem, almost, I learned a few crooked books with him, and I didn't know what it was when I was a child." Su Dawei snorted and wanted to mix up.

With a scoop in his mouth, he accidentally plagiarized the poems of Li He, a poet in the Middle Tang Dynasty.

It's not good.

Young people, you still have to talk about martial arts.

"The poem just now ......"

"What poem? There is no poetry, cough, it was also taught to me by the crooked mouth, don't mention this. ”

Su Dawei waved his hand: "Let's go and check the armor." ”

When a large army marches, logistics often require ten times as many manpower to keep up.

In addition to the weight of food and grass, clothing and armor are also a large part.

Fortunately, now that Datang's animal husbandry is developed, mules, horses and ox carts can solve a large part.

Even so, a one-day march would not go far.

Someone in later generations calculated that the march in the Song Dynasty was almost thirty miles a day, and if the speed was limited, it could be faster, but it was not too fast.

A large part of the reason is that it is dragged down by logistics.

The Tang people are slightly better, and they are only more than forty miles a day.

If the military situation is urgent, it is also possible to leave behind the baggage and do both.

But that is a dangerous situation.

In the second year of Longshuo, Zheng Rentai and Xue Rengui, the general managers of the Tiele Road March, crusaded against the nine surnamed Tiele in the Tianshan Mountains.

As a result, he crossed the desert and searched along the Xiancao River, but he did not see Tiele soldiers.

And when he returned, he ran out of food, and he had 14,000 horsemen, but there were only 800 men.

It's tragic.

Although Li Zhi did not condemn Zheng Rentai for this, he even ordered Zheng Rentai to be the chief of the Qinghai Road march.

He led the general Dugu Qingyun and others to garrison Shanzhou to guard against Tibet.

But at the end of the third year of Zheng Rentai's reign in Longshuo, he died in the official residence of Liangzhou.

I can't help but say that there is a causal relationship with that big defeat.

Su Dawei and Su Qingjie first inspected the encampment of each battalion, and the military tents were arranged on the vast ground.

There should be a fixed spacing between each tent and each battalion.

Between the camps, there should also be camps.

In the outermost part of the army, ditches should be dug on all sides, and antlers, fences, watchtowers, arrow towers, light and dark sentinels should be set up.

Tens of thousands of troops, stretching for more than a dozen miles.

It's taken a lot of time to go through it.

But Su Dawei and Su Qingjie did it meticulously.

Today is different from the past, in the past, when they conquered the Western Turks and Liaodong, they all had commanders and governors.

But this time, the troops were sent from Chang'an to Tubo, and the distance was more than 10 million miles.

Along the way, they are all based on Su Da and Su Qingjie as the secondary.

They are responsible for this army of horses.

More than 10,000 people, the number is not too many, but with the logistics and livestock, it is still a huge number.

Su Dawei couldn't help but sigh: "It's still easy when I was chasing Sha Boluo in the south of the Tianshan Mountains. ”

"At that time, the light cavalry pursued and looted the cattle, horses and sheep of the Hu people along the road, so naturally there was no need to worry."

Su Qingjie raised the lantern: "When I was in Liaodong, I had my back to Silla and the chief manager to arrange logistics, and we didn't need to be careful." ”

"10,000 horses are in charge of everything, there are so many things, you said that Han Xin in the early Han Dynasty ordered more soldiers, how did you do it?"

"Here we are."

Su Qingjie Lantern mentioned it and replied to him: "I want to know, I am the soldier immortal Han Xin." ”

Su Dawei saw that in front of him was the tent area where the clothes and armor were stored.

The soldiers with guns guarded the entrance, and fences, arrow towers, and sentries were set up around them, and the defense was quite careful.

"Who is responsible for the defense of the camp this time? It's not badly done. ”

"Li Wei and Cheng Wuting."

"No wonder."

The equipment of ordinary soldiers of the Tang Army alone includes iron armor, tonxiang, cuirass, shawl, skirt armor, arm guards, shin guards, iron boots, skulls, water bottles, water bladders, flints, military bags, scarves, fox tails, horizontal knives, inner armor, and so on.

In addition, there are war horses, and there are bags of dry food.

Bows, crossbows, feathered arrows, flags, drums, horns.

The two of them corrected the password for tonight to the soldiers of the camp, and then sealed the letter, and then went in to inspect it.

After an hour passed, I walked out satisfied.

"Do you still want to see the war horse?" Su Qingjie asked unsatisfactorily.

"Don't watch it tonight."

Su Dawei smiled bitterly: "Look again, I'm afraid that the sky is about to dawn, let's go back and rest for a while, and then gather the generals tomorrow to discuss the strategy of entering the army." ”

As he spoke, he lowered his voice and said, "I also want to send away those people and horses who are bluffing without knowing it." ”

When he left Chang'an, he allocated more than 35,000 men and horses, falsely claiming to be 50,000 soldiers.

More than 20,000 of them just supported the scene.

After leaving Chang'an, you must quietly withdraw.

Su Dawei's vanguard army, in fact, only had more than 10,000 people, and they were the first to reinforce Tuyuhun.

For more than 10,000 people, their logistics also need the cooperation of various state capitals.

The real army is only afraid that it will have to wait until after the spring ploughing next year.

Li Zhi and those military heroes in the court naturally did not expect to rely on Su Dawei's men and horses to destroy Tubo.

However, the pursuit of bluff made Tubo hesitate and delay Tubo in digesting Tuyuhun's land and strategic resources.

Prepare for next year's decisive battle.

The Tang Emperor was determined to finish his work in one battle.

The first battle wiped out the unruly little brother of Tubo.

In this way, Emperor Li Zhi was able to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen in a beautiful way, and praise the gods and ancestors.

"Cheng, then I'll go back to my tent, and you will call me again tomorrow."

Su Qingjie's voice did not fall, and his expression changed suddenly.

The ground trembled beneath his feet.

A large expanse of dirt bulged, and then a strange beast emerged from the ground.

"Not good!"

"Protect the General!"

The guards who followed Su Dawei and Su Qingjie drew their swords out of their sheaths one after another, and at the same time shouted warnings.

On the nearby arrow tower, the archers had already drawn their bows and arrows, aiming at the ground.

Su Qingjie hurriedly said loudly: "Don't be nervous, it's a white head, it's my family's white head." ”

As he spoke, he rushed up a few steps and opened his arms to protect him.

In the soil, I saw a badger beast with a body less than one meter long and about forty centimeters high, with a white head and gray back, came out.

Its body fur is flabby and rough, its body is thick, and its head is so broad that its ears are not visible.

There is only a large blunt nose, which is unusually striking.

Seeing Su Qingjie, the white head shook his head, and the small eyes hidden in the gray hair shone brightly, and he raised his head and let out a slightly cheerful chirp.

Su Dawei made a gesture, and the soldiers on the guard towers and arrow towers around him let down their guards.

The guard, who drew his sword, hurriedly bowed and took a few steps back.

"Lion, why did you bring the white head with you?"

"I let it stay at home, who knows when it will catch up."

Su Qingjie hugged the white head affectionately and touched its nose again.

The white head stretched out his little pink tender tongue and licked it in his palm.

"Keep up, just keep up, I heard that the Tubo people have also collected a lot of weirdness, and you and I will have to pay attention to it then."

Su Dawei said, stepped on the ground under his feet, turned his head to the guards beside him, and said: "Inform Cheng Wu to support them, and to increase secret posts and defenses on the ground and in the air." ”

Su Qingjie hugged his white head and said in surprise: "Is it necessary?" This is the land of the Tang Dynasty, who is not open-eyed, dares to storm the barracks? ”

"In peacetime, in wartime."

Su Dawei said slowly: "What if the Tubo people have the heart and really send a weird night to steal the camp?" ”

Thinking about the scene when the Tibetan envoy suddenly turned into a demon mastiff during the day, Su Qingjie felt a pang in his heart: "That's the truth, it's not a big mistake to be careful." ”

"Steward!"

A soldier ran up quickly from the passage of the camp tent, stood ten steps away, and said to Su Dawei: "Someone outside the camp asked to see him, and he said that he wanted to see the chief manager." ”

The soldiers wore red armarms and sleeves and pennants on their backs, and were used to deliver messages between the battalions.

"Who's coming?"

"He said his name was Ye Fashan."

"Ye Fashan?"

Su Dawei was stunned for a moment.

Su Qingjie couldn't help but say, "You made an appointment with this Ye Daoist?" ”

"I made an appointment, but I didn't ask him."

Su Dawei shook his head: "I'll go see you first, you go and rest, I'll inform you if there's something." ”

"Done."

Su Qingjie patted the white head's head and took it towards his tent.

About a meal, Su Dawei met with Ye Fashan from Chang'an in his Chinese army tent.

"Daoist Ye has always been good?"

After Su Dawei was simple, he went straight to the point.

"Daoist Ye chased all the way from Chang'an, I don't know what's important?"