After finalizing the composition of his Eastern Route Army, Yang Feng immediately left the two women behind and handed them over to Li Fei Shouyu to escort back to the broken leaves, while he rode a stagecoach and began to gallop.

Five days later he arrived in Chang'an.

At this time, Guo Ziyi led hundreds of thousands of troops from nine jiedu envoys to attack Xiangzhou, Yang Feng was not interested in the results, and then continued westward to reach Lanzhou, and at this time Bai Xiaode had reconquered Shibao City.

Just like Yang Feng designed, after relying on heavy infantry and mounted cavalry to defeat the Tubo army attacking Shanzhou, the three towns of the Western Regions and the Longyou army under the command of Bai Xiaode equipped cavalry to protect the flanks, advanced to Shibao City with heavy infantry, and advanced to dozens of zhang away in formation, and at the same time mobilized the people to build a simple city wall under Shibao City, and then mounted a whole hundred emergency ballistae on the city wall, adjusted the angle of attack, and used heavy infantry to protect these ballistae to bombard Shibao City day and night.

The highest record is that he fired a full 5,000 stone bullets weighing 50 pounds into the city in one day.

If the ballista is destroyed, replace it with a new one.

Stone bombs hired tens of thousands of people and stonemasons on the nearby mountains to make them on the spot, so he bombarded Stone Fort City for ten days without stopping, the defenders of Shibao City not to mention defense, even if they had to eat and drink saliva, they had to keep an eye on the top of their heads, and be careful of being shot in the head by those fifty pounds of stone bullets, which were not something that could be blocked by a shield. Not to mention the wooden shield, even the roof of their house can't block this kind of thing, and the house at this time is not reinforced concrete pouring, it is nothing more than wood paving grass and soil and tiles, and the fifty-pound stone bullet that falls from a height of dozens of meters can easily penetrate the roof of any such structure, unless the Tubo people dig a cellar in the ground to escape, but they are on the mountain, how can there be such a thick layer of soil to dig?

Besides, the Tubo people still have to defend the city!

How can they defend themselves hiding in cellars?

And the counterattacking Tubo army could not break through the heavy infantry defense line, and the Tubo army reinforced on the periphery could not break the resistance of the mounted cavalry, how could the stone fort city, which was only a few hundred meters long and wide, withstand this attack?

On the tenth day, the remnants of the 100 Tibetan army desperately broke through in despair, and finally were all nailed to the ground by the divine arm bow.

The city of Stonecastle was recaptured.

At the beginning, Ge Shuhan lost tens of thousands of dollars in order to break through the stone fortress city, this time Bai Xiaode suffered less than five hundred casualties, and he did not even launch a real attack, and the casualties were all in the process of blocking the Tubo army's attack on the ballista position, and they marched into this famous fortress in formation, and then dragged out more than 500 bloody corpses from the stone bullets that had almost nowhere to fall, and many of the corpses were even smashed.

This result shocked my jaw.

The gate of Tubo out of Longyou was closed again.

The rest has nothing to do with the three towns of the Western Regions, Ma Lan and others led the army to continue to return to the west, Bai Xiaode led the Longyou army to continue to defend the town, Yang Feng didn't care about these, or continued to run westward, Ma Lan They not only helped Longyou, but also had to help the remaining armies in Hexi to clean up the Tubo army attacking Shazhou and other places, in fact, they would not participate in the expedition to India, they will sit in Anxi and Beiting respectively to guard the Tubo and the Hui people in the north. After not getting the invitation to go south, during this time, Hui also added invasion and disturbance, but they had not officially broken with the Tang Dynasty, mainly because they were shocked by Yang Feng's Western Regions army, after all, they knew the strength of An Lushan's subordinates, and they thought that they could not clean up those Khitan and Xi people like the Western Regions Army, but as the Tang army was transferred to Hebei in large numbers, the borders of Shuofang Hexi and other places were harassed by them from time to time.

Yang Feng didn't dare to guarantee that they would take the opportunity to attack the Western Regions.

After all, the Qarluqs had a grudge against him.

Therefore, the real elites of the three towns were all left behind, and the ones who participated in the expedition were the armies left behind at this time, and only part of the left-behind troops, and the main force of Yang Feng's expedition was still his servant army, which was his principle.

The latter had long been eager to sack India.

Yang Feng arrived in Tingzhou, and after completing the transfer of power with Zhao Chongyue, the former Beiting Jiedu envoy, he immediately got the news from the mainland, Guo Ziyi led the Jiujiedu army to defeat Xiangzhou, and the 300,000 army collapsed across the line, as for the reason......

This was not said in the report he got, but in fact, Yang Feng could also guess that the generals involved in this battle, whether Li Zhongchen or Wu Lingxun and other generals, were actually very clear that if they wanted to continue to enjoy the good life of the dominant party, the best way was to keep the rebels in Hebei, because once the rebels were resolved, Li Heng would definitely take back their military power, and their good days would be gone, as long as the rebels continued to exist, then they could continue to be the emperor of the soil in their jurisdiction, not only them, Even those other festival envoys probably have this in mind.

It's about playing Cole.

Looking at the collapse of the Jiujiedu army, but An Qingxu did not take advantage of the situation to chase and kill the Yellow River, it can be seen that there is a tacit understanding here.

In that case, let them play first!

Yang Feng temporarily handed over the management of Beiting to the veteran of the Beiting Army, and Yang He, the father of Yang Pre, the general who went with him, was temporarily responsible, Yang Pre was also a famous general of the Tang Dynasty in history, but he later changed his name, that is, after the Anshi Rebellion, the lone army guarded Hexi, and commanded Hexi, Beiting, and Anxi three towns to fight against Tubo and Hui Hui on both sides of the Hexi Jiedu envoy Yang Zhilie, and later he was ambushed and killed by the Shatuo people, according to Yang Feng's order, Ma Lu and other departments returned by Duan Xiushi as the deputy envoy of Beiting, Yang Pre was the soldier and horse envoy, and Ma Lan returned to Anxi, Ma Lan took over the deputy envoy of Anxi, Li Fei Yuanli was the envoy of soldiers and horses, and Yang Xianzhong was appointed as the deputy envoy of Hezhong, so that the three towns had a reassuring left-behind general.

As for Yang Feng, he didn't even go to Qiuzi, he returned directly to Broken Leaf from Tingzhou, and immediately after arriving at Broken Leaf, he issued an order to recruit the soldiers of all subordinate countries to go south.

Then the river boiled again.

The people of all ethnic groups in the territories and subjects cheered and put on their armor, took up arms, and gathered towards Broken Leaf and their national capitals, and those monarchs and chiefs who were unable to go to the Tang Dynasty to sack because of Yang Feng's stopping, all of them joined King Yang's banner again with great enthusiasm, just like in the past, ready to start their new round of revelry. However, they did not notice that the number of soldiers they could collect was decreasing again and again, the first time they were able to collect 10,000 horses, the second time they could only collect 8,000, and this time they could only collect 5,000, and their wealth increased greatly with each plunder, they had more gold and silver, more livestock, and a better and more luxurious life, but their youth and prime were constantly decreasing in the process.

They can't see that.

Not only those monarchs, but also their common people could not see this.

Everyone was dazzled by the golden light, and everyone knew that every expedition of King Yang would bring them great wealth, even those ordinary soldiers, in the process of sacking the Great Food last time, also carried bags of gold, silver coins, silk and spices, they cheered for this glorious victory, they were crazy about these riches, but they could not see that these riches were also stained with the blood of their own people.

Maybe the relatives of the dead soldiers will be sad for their husbands and sons, but ......

Who cares about them?

The dead don't say anything, but the living see gold glittering in the distance.

The Turgish, Sogdian, Tocharian, all the monarchs and chieftains who followed Yang Feng's expedition would not know that they had lost a third of their young population in one revelry victory after another, that their brains had been controlled by greed, that they had shed too much blood in the golden light, but that they were still cheering forward and going on until their blood was dry.

Yang Feng not only wanted to take them to loot India and Tibet, but even to take them to loot the Khazar Khanate, Byzantium, and North Africa, and take them to the light of gold, constantly looting one country after another, so that the gold in their treasure trove of wealth continued to accumulate, and then let their blood keep flowing, let their men keep falling, and let their land continue to be barren, and behind them, more and more inland immigrants kept coming, taking over their land, taking over their homes, and even taking over their women, Until the entire river was completely turned into a Han controlled area.

They're gone, so who else can they give their gold?

Could their bones still enjoy the good life brought by these golds?

It's a pity that when gold and white bones are juxtaposed, most people only see the golden light.

Inside Shattered Leaf City.

"Dashuai, there is a trivial matter, and my subordinates don't know whether to report to Dashuai."

The Broken Leaf County Commander said cautiously.

"Say, you're an old brother who has been following me, just say anything straight."

Yang Feng said.

"Dashuai, you also know that there are a lot of people sent recently, most of them are men, the number of women in our government is not enough, many people actually don't get it, these guys can't control the lower half of their bodies when they are full, there are a lot of herdsmen and women in the vicinity, you also know that those herdsmen have followed the south to fight many times, and the number of deaths over the years is also quite a lot, their women and children will inevitably have a difficult life without the support of men, and some shameless even take the initiative to pull our men over, There are also those who simply live together like husband and wife, and their subordinates don't know if it's suitable or not. ”

The prefectural order said.

"What's wrong with that!"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"Those herdsmen sacrificed their lives for the country, of course their descendants can't suffer, our government can't take care of so much, it's a good thing that our people are willing to take care of those orphans and widows, pass on my orders, this kind of thing should be encouraged in the future, those who marry women on the grassland, each person will give two gold coins, even if the marshal gives them a congratulatory gift, in addition, they must send people to inspect, if there are those orphans and widows who do not treat those orphans and widows well, they will be whipped! And not only among the herdsmen, but also those who married Sogdian widows, the same is true. ”

Then he said.

(The Tang Dynasty rolls ended in Tubo)