Sichuan-Tibet junction.

In the vast mountains, there is a very hidden path, today there are hundreds of people on this path, they are hidden in the dense mountains and forests on both sides of the path, and they can faintly hear a few people talking in Tibetan.

"Strange! Why hasn't this old Tan come yet? ”

"Will it change its mind?"

"No way, I've been doing business with him for so many years, and he's always been very trustworthy."

"But we're at war with them now!"

"It's been fighting for so long, if they cared about this, they would have broken off with us a long time ago, and it was impossible for them to keep selling weapons and jar vegetables to us."

"They're all a bunch of businessmen, and this businessman only has money in his eyes, but he doesn't care about that."

"Could it be an accident on the way?"

"It's a possibility."

During the conversation, a shrill birdsong was heard.

The people in the forest, when they heard the birdsong, immediately hid themselves.

After a while, I saw a long convoy slowly coming this way.

When the convoy reached the woods, it stopped, and the people who drove it looked around.

Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter in the forest, "Old Tan, you're late!" ”

As soon as the words fell, hundreds of people hidden in the forest came out one after another.

The leader of the convoy was an elderly man, with black and white hair, "Brother Cibu, you can't blame me for this, now there are troops everywhere in Shuzhong, if it is discovered, I and my brothers will have to die." ”

"Understood, understood."

The man called Cibu laughed, and said: "I'm just joking, brother, don't take it to heart, my brother still keeps his promise at this time, and we are very moved in our hearts." ”

The old Tan smiled: "It's okay, it's okay... If we don't talk about this kind of business, we can't do it! ”

Cibu said again: "Brother, you are also quite powerful in Shu, or we should cooperate with the outside and occupy this Shuzhong, and then I ask us to praise and hand over the entire Shuzhong to you." ”

Lao Tan shook his hand again and again, and said: "I'm just a trader, all I want is money, I don't have any interest in these things, if you win in the future, you can give my brother a way to live, my brother will be satisfied." ”

"Hey! Brother, what you said is really outstanding! Although we are doing business, but at this time, brother, you are still willing to continue trading with us, then brother is our benefactor, and we Tubo people will not forget our benefactor. ”

"With the words of my brother, my brother is relieved!"

Lao Tan said and pointed back with his hand and said, "If you want to get the goods, I have already brought them to you!" ”

As soon as the head of the cloth was raised, more than a dozen people around him immediately stepped forward and lifted the wooden cabinet and oil supplement, at first glance, it looked like clothes, canned food, and wine, but they took out all these things first, and picked up the straw underneath, all of which were bows and arrows, weapons, and leather armor.

I saw a man pick up a scimitar and slash at a small tree on the side, which broke into two knots.

The man sheathed the scimitar again and nodded in satisfaction at Jifu.

Cibu immediately waved his hand, and saw them pull out more than a dozen carriages.

The people on Lao Tan's side immediately stepped forward and opened those boxes, only to see that they were all gold, silver and jewelry, dazzling.

While Lao Tan and their people were counting, Cibu suddenly said: "Brother, can you help us get some more grain, I know that the landlord in your Shu has a lot of grain." ”

Lao Tan frowned and said: "Now the imperial court allows the people to produce weapons, so this weapon is easy to get, but food is more difficult to get now, and Wang Fangyi is now also eyeing those big landlords in Shu." ”

"The money is not a problem, we are willing to pay three times the price for food." ”

Lao Tan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Three? ”

Jibu nodded.

Lao Tan smiled: "Brother, don't blame my brother for speaking directly, you have already bought a lot of weapons, canned food, and leather armor, do you still have money?" ”

Cibu smiled and said: "Please rest assured, brother, how much food you have, we can afford it, and I am not afraid to tell my brother that we have robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in Tianzhu." ”

Lao Tan nodded and said, "That's okay, I'll think of a way, you wait for my news." ”

"Then you have to hurry."

"I know."

After the transaction between the two parties, it will be you who will take my carriage and I will take your carriage and go back separately.

Because there are many more carriages on Lao Tan's side than on the other side, it is not possible to exchange goods directly, in fact, this carriage is provided by Tubo, and there are not many horses in Shuzhong.

After traveling more than ten miles, Lao Tan looked back and suddenly said to a person beside him: "You hurry up and tell the proprietor that the plan has begun." ”

The man nodded, clamped his legs, and sped away.

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Fighting a war is logistics, and this is definitely an eternal law in war.

However, today's stalemate is far beyond Qinling's expectations, he predicts that the strong anti-Tang alliance will directly lead to the collapse of the Central Plains, and logically speaking, it should indeed collapse, but the Tang Dynasty at this time is not the previous Datang, under the commercial civilization, the Tang Dynasty can withstand the storm. Therefore, instead of collapsing, the Central Plains burst out with powerful productive forces, and it was this continuous logistics that kept the Tang army from collapsing, although it was always defeated.

Although Qinling has stored enough grain over the years, but Tubo has gradually felt a little difficult, in fact, he originally divided the troops to take care of logistics, if the army is all stationed in Tuyuhun, the logistics pressure will be great, he sent soldiers to the north and east to harass, in fact, to grab things, to save grain and grass for themselves.

Qinling now knows that it is impossible to take the Central Plains in one breath, as long as the Central Plains does not collapse internally, it will be difficult to occupy the entire Central Plains at once, he now hopes to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty, so that the Tang Dynasty can withdraw from the four towns of Anxi and Tuyuhun, and divide it with Tingzhou as the axis, in fact, they have basically occupied these places, although we can't capture you, but you can't take it back, but the Tang Dynasty didn't even give a chance to negotiate, and Qinling sent two or three people to all of them were shot dead.

That can only keep fighting.

Qinling is now planning to do so, first attack Yumen Pass, force the Tang army to completely abandon Tuyuhun, and then block there, no longer march to the Central Plains, and then map the Central Plains after recovery, if he wants to do it in one step, he knows that it is impossible.

As the war drags on, logistics on both sides are feeling the pressure.

However, the pressure on both sides came from different places, and the Tang Dynasty felt that the 50 million guan did not seem to be enough, and it was too expensive to fight, but since everyone knew that the queen began to sell her business and support the front line, the Yuan family, the beauty of freedom, and the Zhang family, these wealthy businessmen have also changed to donate money to help the imperial court, so that the imperial court can use the money to buy food as much as possible. The imperial court also mortgaged some minerals to the gold bank and the yuan bank to lend more money.

Since the Tang Dynasty chose to issue treasury bonds, it can only stick to this path, if you want to break the rules, the 50 million treasury bonds will have no meaning, if the people know that the imperial court will repay the debt, then the Central Plains will really collapse.

The Tibetans, on the other hand, chose another way, that is, the traditional way, to reduce the pressure on logistics and ensure that they were sufficient to cope with a more protracted war.

The first was to collect food from the people, and the second was to reduce the amount of food for the slaves.

In fact, a great consumption of logistics lies in the labor of escorting food.

After the restructuring of the Tang Dynasty now, the entire logistics operation is based on commercial rules, because it is a warehouse system, everyone is transported back and forth between the two warehouses, not to say that from Chang'an to Tuguhun, every worker who holds grain is near his home, their remuneration is currency, not grain, rations are purchased in the market, the imperial court has forcibly suppressed the price of grain not to rise, the imperial court spends so much money to buy your grain, you want to increase the price again, then it is unreasonable, the grain on this car is for the soldiers to eat, In fact, this also saves a lot of waste, and in the past, the logistics were definitely fished out by the officials, but now it is a sale, and the amount of grain sold is counted, and the officials have no chance to start.

However, the Tibetans used slaves to escort grain on a large scale, directly reducing the amount of food to 30%, and some grain escort teams did not even give them food, that is, they enslaved the slaves to death.

Starting from Lu Dongzan, several large-scale wars, have obtained a large number of slaves for Tubo, including Qinling in recent years from Tianzhu captured a large number of slaves, slaves are definitely the best war materials, but there are more than 100,000 slaves in the back to help the army supply, and the two sides are now fighting in one breath, both sides also know that the war cannot last for a long, long time, so it doesn't matter if some slaves die, as long as they win this war, no matter how many slaves there are.

On the one hand, the grain was transported to the front line, and by the way, the number of people who ate food was reduced, killing two birds with one stone, if the slaves were all dead and the war was not over, then Qinling would also lose convincingly, of course, the Tang Dynasty could not support it for so long.

In the evening, near the upper reaches of the Yak River, a team of grain was moving forward slowly.

This yak river is actually the prototype of the Tongtian River in Journey to the West.

Bang Bang Bang!

I heard the sound of whips, and saw a general with a whip and a slave rolling on the ground, and gradually the slave lay motionless on the ground.

The commander put his foot on the slave's head and shouted at the rest of the slaves, "If any of you dare to be lazy, he will be your doom." With that, he drew his saber and stabbed the slave in the chest. Then he shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, if you delay the military rations, I will make it impossible for you to die well." ”

The slaves were so frightened that their faces were full of fear, and they pushed the cart forward with all their might.

Even after nightfall, the general kept urging the slaves to hurry.

"Ahh

A groan was heard, and another slave fell.

The soldier who escorted the car immediately rushed forward, and with a whip, there was a snap, "Get up for me, don't want to be lazy." ”

The slave screamed in pain and tried to stand up, but his legs went limp, and he fell to his knees again.

The soldier immediately raised his whip again, and suddenly, a large hand gripped his wrist tightly, and he looked back in shock, and saw a tall slave, and could not help but be furious: "What do you want to do?" ”

Several soldiers from the surrounding area also immediately surrounded him.

The slave begged, "We haven't eaten for a day, it's already night, and you won't let us rest, you obviously want to exhaust us to death." ”

"Dog thing!"

The soldier kicked the slave to the ground with a single kick, drew his saber and slashed it, and at that moment, a figure pounced, threw the soldier to the ground, and shouted: "I will fight with you." He quickly drew the dagger from the soldier's waist and stabbed it directly into the soldier's chest.

Now it's a big deal!

The surrounding soldiers were shocked, and immediately rushed forward with their swords, and suddenly saw a sparkling jar flying over.

To their surprise, the jar exploded above their heads with a loud bang.

Immediately a scream was heard, and the soldiers covered their faces and screamed in pain, only to see that their faces were all covered with dense black eyes.

Then a slave jerked one of the boxes out of the carriage, and with a bang, the box fell to the ground, and it was full of weapons.

The slave who was the first to strike picked up a knife and raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, it is better to fight with them anyway." ”

The slaves suddenly had red eyes and rushed to pick up their knives.

At the same time, the general who was at the forefront also reacted and immediately led his troops to rush over.

I also saw that more than 20 slaves took a few carriages around them very purposefully, took out cans from them, and opened the lids, which were sealed with mud, and there was a fuse, because it was a night march, and there were torches on the side, so they lit them and threw them over.

Boom Boom!

After a dozen loud bangs, gunsmoke filled the air, and the smoke was full of painful screams.

The power of this jar is actually not great, but it is full of iron pieces, and when it hits the face, it is simply worse than death, and the war horse seems to be frightened, spinning in place there, and even running back directly.

The Tubo soldiers who rushed up were stunned, isn't this canned, how can it still explode!

What's going on?

They were unprepared, and even the soldiers who weren't hit were choked half to death by the smoke.

Before they could come to their senses, the slaves had already rushed in front of them, and one of the soldiers had been chopped into meat sauce on the spot, and the slaves were like madmen.

"Kill!"

When the slaves saw this situation, they immediately rushed to the Tibetan soldiers, some of whom did not grab weapons and did not know how to kill, but with a resentment, they bit each other to death, and they happened to be hungry.

There were only a hundred soldiers who carried the rations, but there were more than a thousand slaves, and it was impossible to use a thousand soldiers to escort a hundred slaves.

This slave not only rioted, but also had such advanced weapons that the Tibetan soldiers were caught off guard and almost had no power to fight back.

"Ah.....h

Suddenly, I heard a terrifying scream, and I saw that the murderous general was thrown to the ground by five or six slaves, and the body was completely bitten, and those slaves were really hungry and fainted, and the meat that was bitten off was swallowed alive.

The scene was very bloody.

Soon, the more than 100 Tibetan soldiers were all bitten to death and chopped to death, not to mention alive, there was not a single complete corpse.

I saw the slave who was the first to stir up trouble, jumped into a carriage, raised his scimitar, and roared with all his might: "We will never be slaves." "Foaming at the mouth, the green tendons are exposed.

"Roar!"

The slave, who had been suppressed for too long, let out a very cautious roar, especially in this dark night.

"Never be a slave!"

"Never be a slave!"

Needless to say, this sentence must have been taught by Han Yi.