The General Staff formulated a strategy and began preparations for war against the Southern Tang State in a step-by-step manner. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Information and maps were distributed to the troops, and they also convened meetings with their subordinates to decide on the strategy of the battle.

At present, the command has been issued to the commanders-in-chief, and they can draw up their own battle plans and report them to the general staff of the Fuyuan General's Mansion.

After the beginning of spring, the snow melted away, the ground gradually solidified, and the turf grew, Wang Xiaojie of the Western Cavalry Group dispatched as soon as possible, and they crossed the battle line of the Great Food Army!

In fact, the Great Food Army camped in many passes, waiting for the Tang Army to attack them, but unexpectedly, the Tang Army took a road that even they were not familiar with, and did not start a war, so they crossed the defense of the Great Food Army.

It was not reconnaissance, but someone from the intelligence unit who had walked through it, and it was found that there was grass and water on this route, which was conducive to the movement of the army.

At present, horses in various places are generally thin in spring, but the horses of the Tang army are all fat and strong, and the horses have plenty of hay to eat in winter, and there is a lot of fodder, and there is no loss of horses.

They had four horses for one person, and they didn't bring Hexi horses, which is also a lesson learned from experience.

Hexi horses are tall and fast, but they also have high requirements for food, while steppe horses (Mongolian horses) are hard-working and indeed easy to raise.

The cavalrymen fed the horses with soybeans with salt, and they brought four sacks of fodder to feed the horses.

For their local tyrant behavior, the local people who met on the road stared at the soybeans they licked with their open palms for the horses!

Soybeans are a good thing, nutritious, and can be equivalent to meat food, and the locals have soybeans to eat, and they have to thank their gods.

Tang Jun's soybeans are fried, and they are even more valuable if they have oil!

Not to mention salt, in the era of material scarcity, even in the large eastern countries with relatively developed productive forces, salt was expensive, and even one of the reasons for the Huangchao uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty was because of salt. (The salt tax has always been strong)

Wei Xi arrived, the productivity developed greatly, hehe, Qinghai Salt Lake is in his hands!

Railways and highways were built, and salt was transported out in large bags at a very low cost.

The natives stared at Tang Jun's palms tightly, and they cheered when a soldier kindly threw them a few small packets of salt beans.

"We don't need any money, we can buy them with salt beans!" Wang Xiaojie and Gong Ren preached.

They rode through the village and saw the actions of the Tang army, which had been subordinated to the Tang army on the enemy-controlled line before, so it did not suffer from "demolition", otherwise, the Tang army liked to do the thing of capturing and plundering people... Exactly Princess Taiping likes, she needs a lot of slaves to work for her!

Listening to Wang Xiaojie's words, he said with emotion: "Our Tubo is higher than them, and the prince used money to defeat us!" ”

"He had the money, and he actually paved the road to Lhasa, and you know the difficulties and dangers of that road. He had money, and he bought everyone on the road, and now all of them are big farmers and herders. He is rich and better equipped than we are, and our weapons can't fight him. So, we lost, but it's okay, almost everyone in the pastoral area is rich now! ”

"Life in Tibet is good?" Wang Xiaojie asked.

"Of course! As long as you become a Tang person, everyone is diligent, and you will have a good life if you are diligent. Gong Ren spread out his palms and made a gesture.

In order to defend against the invasion of the Great Food Army from Afghanistan ---- Tibet, Gong Ren was sent back to Tibet to strengthen defense, and when he returned to Lhasa, he found that things were not people, and he was no longer the Tubo he knew in the past.

The traces of Tubo have been almost cleaned up, and all the way are in Chinese, Han costume and Chinese language, and the assimilation has been completely completed!

The local people have become accustomed to obeying the laws and regulations of the government, and have received guidance from the government on their work and life.

Because the tax is fixed, the law is complete, and the government has official authority, but some functions have begun to transform into "service".

Tibet is Wei Xi's sphere of influence... Because no one wants to go there to be an official: it is too desolate, the road is long, even the road has to be walked for a long time, the climate is harsh, and it is easy to get sick.

The officials there were basically appointed by the Taiping Mansion, and the officials ignored them.

According to Wei Xi's meaning, it was sinicized.,It's quite successful.。。。 Sure of success.,Dare to oppose the sinicization of all before the army!

Then their families will be notified: they have died heroically for the cause of Datang!

There are carrots on one side and sticks on the other, and people are not stupid, so why don't they eat carrots!

He knew that it would be difficult to turn back, and he later settled in Shendu and never returned to Tibet.

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The cavalry marched all the way, sweeping through the towns, villages, and strongholds of the great cannibals, vacuuming out everything they could: population, wealth, livestock, grain, and grass...... Well, there's the continued destruction.

They are greeted with another kind of jealous blush ... The officers and soldiers of the Great Food Eater stationed in the strong defense looked at the fat horses of the Tang Army with their eyes, and then looked back at their own thin horses, and sighed wordlessly.

Tang rode at their doorstep to do evil, but they were powerless to expel them, which made their hearts burst with anger.

It's a pity that the anger can't burn the Tang army, they can only watch the Tang army walk away.

80,000 cavalry, plus 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 engineers, were a lot, and the soldiers were divided into different routes, like turbid dragons, pounced on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers with their teeth and claws, and everywhere they went, they were in great trouble!

They did a few bad things to make the big cannibals hate them to the bone!

Destruction of farmland!

When spring comes, the peasants and uncles from all over the country work hard to grow wheat, and they have wheat, rye, barley, and two rivers of water, and it is a land of fish and rice.

However, with the arrival of the Tang cavalry, the horses gnawed all the wheat seedlings that had grown out.

With them, the peasants did not dare to go out to replant, and when the day passed, when it was autumn, what would the big cannibals eat?

Eat dates!

Dates, also known as Persian dates, jujubes, Iraqi dates, are the fruit of the jujube palm, the appearance of the tree resembles a coconut tree, the meat is soft, the taste is extremely sweet, the sugar content is high, the nutrition is rich, and it is easy to be full after eating.

The two river basins are very suitable for the growth of dates and are important production areas for dates.

Dates, which occupy an important position in the Arab region, are known as desert bread and are an important ration for poor families.

Everywhere the Tang army went, the date palm trees were cut down!

One by one, the date palm trees fell, and the big cannibals were like knives!

In fact, in the past, when the Tang army arrived, they had already begun to cut down trees, but this year it has intensified, and they have brought in full-time engineers and have more suitable tools... It's easy to cut people with sabers and knives, but it's not easy to cut down trees, but the engineers brought mountain knives, wood-splitting knives, axes, and saws!

The tools are complete, and when you see a tree, you cut it, and you see a big tree.

Pieces of hundred-year-old trees were brought down, all fruit trees were cut down, and they fell down heavily, and the great cannibals were even more angry than seeing people killed!

In the desert, how important is green *** Tree protection has been soaked in the blood of Arabs and great cannibals.

Cutting down trees is the same crime as destroying water sources, especially date palms that can save lives, which makes the big cannibals look at the Tang Army's devouring gaze, and even some veterans are palpitating!

Someone asked: "Is it appropriate to offend the people in this way?" ”