Chapter 137: Advance can be attacked and retreated, and you can defend an invincible position (2nd update)

On the road from the Lobulula Valley to Yecheng, more than 200,000 people formed a long dragon. These Han slaves who were captured by the Tubo people were struggling to move in the direction of Yecheng.

Although the cold wind was like a knife, it blew on the face, and it hurt like a knife. The cold wind howled in their ears like a ghost crying wolf, but these homeless people gritted their teeth and struggled forward.

Suddenly, there was a small commotion in the procession. A gray-haired woman sat on the ground with her buttocks, beating her legs with her hands, and howled: "Ah I Di Niang La, I am so tired that I can't walk." Just let my wife die here! ”

The people around shook their heads and didn't look at the woman. It is said that a woman of this age has no use value in Tibet, and has long been thrown to Ao dogs for feeding. But this woman is alive and well, she was robbed from Wudu County to Tubo by the Tubo people in the ninth year of the Great Cause.

But this old woman has a unique skill, she can deliver babies. Although she has not had a good time in Tubo over the years, she has also eaten well and dressed warmly. But none of them sympathized with her, and let her sit on the ground and wail.

A soldier of the Migration Army, who was hanging his arm, walked up to the woman and shouted, "Can you still go, can't go, get out of the way, don't get in the way!" ”

Listening to the words of this black-faced lieutenant, the old woman stopped crying, she hurriedly got up and caught up with the team in front.

The people around them, who were originally tired, also gritted their teeth and insisted on moving forward.

Looking at this scene, the black-faced back-faced sergeant breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Ying knows that human nature is inherently evil, and it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Do anything, you can't be overflowing with compassion, once you are too arrogant, you can't accomplish anything!

Jiang Xingba was originally the personal soldier of Jiang Baoyi, the left commander of the Tang Dynasty and the general of the right military guard. In the rebellion of Liu Wuzhou in the second year of Wude, he was captured by Huang Ziying, a general under Liu Wuzhou, after his defeat, and was killed by Liu Wuzhou because he refused to surrender. After Jiang Baoyi's defeat, Jiang Xingba was ready to wait for an opportunity to assassinate Liu Wuzhou, but he never thought that Liu Wuzhou was defeated and killed by Chen Ying, so Jiang Xingba surrendered to Chen Ying.

Later, when the Beiwei Army was formed, Jiang Xingba became a member of the Beiwei Army because of his high skills. In previous battles, Jiang Xingba was extremely brave and was gradually promoted to captain of the Ninth Regiment. However, in the battle a month ago, Jiang Xingba was hit in the arm with a mace by a Tibetan general, becoming the most wounded general in the Beiwei army.

There was no way, Jiang Xingba became the general person in charge of this migration. Governing 200,000 people is not an easy task. This made Jiang Xingba, who was originally a company-level officer, a headache.

Jiang Xingba just started and didn't understand why Chen Ying was embarrassed by these poor people. Only now did he realize that only by being ruthless, these people would grit their teeth and move forward.

If you meet someone who can't walk, give a horse. Then whether they can walk or not, they want a horse to be able to walk, and even if they can, they will pretend that they can't.

Not to mention that Liu Tong didn't have so many horses, even if he had so many war horses, because there was no forage to feed, more than 200,000 war horses were wasted. Once a large number of war horses are lost, the Beiwei army will be defeated, and only God knows how many of these more than 200,000 people can survive!

The Chessboard Valley is a valley that crosses the north and south of the Kunlun Mountains, and it is a veritable labyrinth, and those who have not come here will definitely be dizzy. But after the chessboard valley here, the road below is much easier.

By this time, however, the homeless people were at their wit's end, their speed was much slower than expected, and most of them were left without food due to their personal holdings of jerky and milk bricks.

Looking at the endless desert, these people despaired.

"Don't go, don't go, kill me, I won't leave!"

The people who arrived one after another, looking at the endless rolling yellow sand to the north, had neither water nor dry food, and walking into the desert was like committing suicide. Originally, these people had a goat, but the skinny goat was either killed and eaten, or it had already become food in the stomach.

The people were hungry and weak one by one, and they relied on the whips of the Wei army on their backs to suppress them, so that they did not run around. The lieutenant who led the team was also very aware of this, although he had not walked ten miles for most of the day, he did not dare to urge too much, and if he urged these people to rebel again.

Jiang Xingba roared: "Isn't there a river in front of you called the Yarkand River? Walk to the Yeqiang River, we will have a way to live! ”

"The devil knows how far the Yeqiang River is!"

"Brothers and sisters, work hard, let's go forward again, and when we go to Yecheng, we will have something to eat!" Jiang Xingba said again.

These people responded to Jiang Xingba weakly, and did not cheer, they heard too many empty checks, and they didn't take it seriously. Jiang Xingba was also helpless about this. He also wanted to feed and drink enough of his subordinates, and he Liu Tong had already told Chen Ying to give him a promotion, and in the future he would be promoted to the rank of Commander of Zhichong, and he would have jurisdiction over more than 1,500 people. Now if there is a mistake in this migration, he will be promoted this time because of merit, I am afraid it will be a bit hanging.

But the dry food had long since been eaten, and there was not much water left. Jiang Xingba muttered a curse: "Damn the Tubo! ”

At that moment, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves.

These people looked feebly at the dust and smoke rising in the distance. The Han people instinctively gathered, some of them held wooden spears, some held a scimitar, a little too laborious, threw away the cowhide shield, and now they all regret it.

Jiang Xingba wanted to cry very much at the moment, now that they were sleepy and lacking horses, even a small Turkic cavalry could kill the chessboard valley with a river of blood.

Jiang Xingba pulled out his knife and shouted hard: "Brothers and sisters, if you still want to be slaves, just sit still obediently, as long as you don't surrender, the enemy may not kill you!" ”

Hearing this, these Han slaves who had originally been lifeless slowly reacted.

They are all slaves of the Tibetan people, and they have long had enough of those dark days.

"Fight with them, fight with them!"

The people screamed, struggling to clutch their weapons. Inadvertently, a strong murderous aura permeated the entire space.

Soon the speed of the cavalry was getting faster and faster, and they were getting closer and closer.

It gradually became clear that these cavalrymen were wearing a strange kind of clothing that looked like cloaks, but wrapped their whole bodies in them.

However, what excited Jiang Xingba the most was that the riding flag of this black-clothed cavalry had a big "Tang" character written on it.

These black-clothed knights galloped past the side of the road, shouting in a thick Guanzhong or Henan dialect while galloping their horses: "Everyone, please stand on the side of the road and give way, our troops will be there soon, please stand on the side of the road and give way, let us go first!" ”

When these people were plundered, Datang had not yet appeared. The Beiwei Army used its own military flag to operate in Tibet, and did not say that it was the Tang Army. These people who were holding their stomachs scolded one after another: "You are an immortal board, mourn and retire your hammer!" ”

"You are a demon, let Lao Tzu make way for you? How old are you! ”

"Your mother's follicles, don't think that you can't ride a horse, Lao Tzu won't let you, what can you do?"

"That's it, if you don't let it, you won't let it!"

……

The black-clothed knight didn't move, and rode straight to Jiang Xingba, and didn't get off his horse and salute, just clasped his fist at him and asked, "This general must be the supreme general of this army, right?" ”

Jiang Xingba looked at the military salute performed by this black-clothed knight, and immediately understood that this was Chen Ying's part.

Jiang Xingba said loudly: "The general doesn't dare to be, Jiang Xingba, the captain of the Ninth Regiment of the Wei Army!" ”

"Get your people out of the way and camp on the spot. There are more than 300 miles of desert ahead, and you can't get through without adequate preparation! The black-clothed cavalry said, "It's better to be prepared to go together!" ”

Jiang Xingba breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Most of them are here?" ”

The black-clothed cavalry nodded, "Most of them are here, about fifty miles away from here, you hurry up, let people get some ice from the mountains, we only brought food, not enough water!" ”

…… Chen Ying thought that this time the great migration of 200,000 people would be all the way with white bones and corpses all over the field.

When Chen Ying learned from Jiang Xingba's mouth that the total number of people who froze, starved and died of disease along the way would not exceed 1,000, Chen Ying was finally relieved.

"You're doing a great job!" Chen Ying looked at Jiang Xing, who was hanging his arms, and said domineeringly: "You are!" ”

"The end ...... Inferior to Jiang Xingba, his goal is to be the captain of the Ninth Regiment of the Beiwei Army! Jiang Xingba saw Chen Ying for the first time and looked a little excited.

Compared with the middle and lower-level officers of the Tang Army, Chen Ying was their idol. Although Li Jing has a good record, he has also become the king of the Tang Lingnan today. However, Li Jing's family background is good, and his starting point is also high. However, Chen Ying's identity as being born in the Hou Mo Chen clan is only circulated in the circle of Tang Xungui, and ordinary soldiers take Chen Ying as an example.

After all, Chen Ying was promoted from a small soldier to the protector of the Western Regions from the second rank in just five years.

Chen Ying looked at Jiang Xing and said domineeringly: "You are now starting to break away from the Beiwei Army, and immediately take up the post of Yezhou Thorn History and Yezhou Soldiers and Horses!" ”

Yezhou was discovered by Chen Ying after he arrived in Yecheng County.

The area of Ye County is too large, and the entire county has not gone out for three days. In terms of area alone, this Yecheng County is almost the area of Jingzhao Prefecture, and it is too big as a county, so Chen Ying took the leaves of Yaerqiang County on the spot and built a new state.

The lieutenant of the sixth grade was promoted to the governor of the fourth grade and one state, which was also promoted to the third level in a row.

Jiang Xingba was very happy.

However, after being happy, he suddenly reacted: "Dadu Hu, when did Datang have a Yezhou?" ”

"Not before, now there is!" Chen Ying said disapprerovingly.

Only then did Jiang Xingba understand that it was just Chen Ying who made a move and built a new state.

Chen Ying pointed to the huge sand table in the carriage and said: "Yezhou is bounded by Xiye City in the north and reaches Luobu Rula in the south, and six counties of Xiye, Kexian, Shache, Yexian, Qipan and Luobu are established. You build the county seat yourself, and you choose the county order, but there is one point, from the county order to the county lieutenant, even if any lieutenant commander must be our own people! ”

Jiang Xing said domineeringly: "The last general will definitely live up to Chen Dadu's trust!" ”

Chen Ying suddenly discovered that Yecheng County had most of the grassland, which was very suitable for reclamation. Here, until later generations, it was a forbidden area for the Han people, and here, the Han people were an absolute minority, but from the Western Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were no less than 20 recorded migrations of the Han people, but the Han people were less than 5,000 here.

Where did these people go, in fact, it is easy to answer. Killed!

Yecheng County has fertile land, dense grassland, and the Yarkand River can be irrigated, which is very suitable for human survival. There is no reason why the Han people would move out of their homes in such a place.

Now that Chen Ying is here, there is no reason to leave again.

Of course, Chen Ying eventually found that as long as he crossed the Qipan Valley of Kunlun Mountain, he could directly reach the snow plateau of Tubo.

In history, the only mistake of the Tang Dynasty was the counterattack on Tibet, and there was only one way to Dafeichuan. Moreover, on this road, Tubo has built more than a dozen passes that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially the stone castle, the Tang Dynasty has not been beaten down for more than ten years, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have been lost here.

But now it's different, as long as you arrive at Luobula along the chessboard valley, the army of the Tang Dynasty can go down the Kunlun Mountain, like the Milky Way pouring out.

So, Chen Ying decided to start running Yezhou.

As long as Yezhou is well managed, Datang will be invincible in the Western Regions!

Chen Ying sent cavalry along the chessboard valley, all the way to the west, after fifty or sixty miles, along the Yarkand River valley down the river.

On the embankment, horse-drawn carts slowly arrived, and when they stopped, they immediately cooked quickly.

The aroma of the meat buns spread with the steam, and these tired people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I can survive.

PS: Two million words, it's time to slaughter!