The battle of Tubo officially began the next day. As the institution mainly responsible for this war, Zonghengsi became the main way for His Majesty Li Er to understand the war from outside. The blood droplets of Zonghengsi continued to spread the latest battle situations of the Tang army and the civil strife in Tubo through special channels to Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Empire, at the fastest speed, and then quickly summarized them into the hands of His Majesty Emperor Li Shimin, for this emperor to understand the latest battle situation...

For example, the famous historical ruins of Stone Fort City built by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, was appointed by Li Shiji to seven outstanding students from the military academy, led by Li Boyao, the grandson of Li Jing, and led 500 soldiers to attack Stone Fort City. It is said that Li Boyao used Suning's method to deal with the Liao people and raided Shibao City at night with burning cans. As a result, there were only 100 Tubo defenders in Shibao City and were burned to death by the fire. The Tang army successfully climbed to the top of Stone Fort City after accidentally losing three people.

The last information I got was that during the Tubo chaos, Lu Dongzan's family once went to Shibao City to request reinforcements. The thousand defenders of Shibao City mobilized 900 people to support the territorial defense war of the twelve lords in the north, and then the entire army was wiped out. The remaining 100 people have been guarding until today. It is said that they believed that Shibao City is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and no one will come to attack in a short time, so they made such a decision.

It happened to be the best opportunity for Li Boyao to capture the Shibao City guarded by one hundred people with the loss of three people. It was not technically difficult. I wonder if this news was learned by Ge Shuhan from another time and space, would this guy vomit blood and die? Li Boyao exchanged three people for one hundred Tubo people. General Ge Shu exchanged 30,000 people for four hundred Tubo people...

Naturally, Shibao City at this period had lost its important strategic significance and only historical significance was left. The capture of Shibao City was just a small and sting. Li Boyao completed the task outstandingly and pulled out the last stronghold of the Tubo government army in the north. The Tubo army had no idea that the Tang army would attack them, and they had no idea what was happening now. The survivors in Shibao City did not know that Tubo was now on the verge of destruction.

In addition, the 100,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty were divided into ten routes and led the way with ten generals, heading south in different directions. And the final gathering place was Luosicheng, the capital of Tubo. Then, once some uncoordinated danger occurred during the march, the red wolf smoke could be released. At that time, friendly troops who were closer could quickly rush to support and rely on the wolf smoke to contact each other.

After the 100,000 troops headed south, they were as powerful as they were sweeping away the insignificant resistance forces of the Tubo Mob Legion. After capturing several Tubo people who were about to starve to death and gave them a full meal, they were very grateful to ask for the lead. They became the Glorious Leader Party. With these Tubo refugees who were familiar with the latest situation, they easily wiped out dozens of settlements under the jurisdiction of the Tubo Mob Legion, and easily destroyed the remaining forces of the Northern Mob Legion, with almost no effort.

What made the generals most troubled during this period was that they lacked troops and could not leave too many troops to occupy and control the territory that had been captured. The Tubo land was quite large and unexpectedly vast. The 100,000 troops seemed to be less. On the one hand, Li Shiji asked the Tang Dynasty to send occupation troops to occupy the land that had been broken, and on the other hand, he requested that the corresponding administrative officials be sent to lead the administrative team to establish the rule as soon as possible.

As for this, His Majesty Li Er was prepared. On the day the army attacked, the first team of administrative personnel arrived at the prefectures of Guzhou and Hunzhou. Then, a large number of newly recruited 50,000 standing troops were dispatched to enter Tubo, preparing to occupy various administrative divisions of Tubo. The army only took the attack and did not stop. All the rest was left to the standing troops and the government.

The emergency measures proposed by Suning to deal with the large number of expanded territories were well implemented at this time. After the elimination of Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun's territory was not large, so it was still affordable. However, Suning believed that the Tubo land area was too large, and it would be difficult to truly occupy without sufficient army and corresponding government management teams. There must be many problems, so it is urgent to escape the standing army outside the local government troops. After that, the standing army system began to be implemented, and now it has come in handy.

Since the Tang Dynasty had conducted two imperial examinations before, it obtained a large number of excellent reserve officials with local management capabilities. Since the current demand for officials in the Tang Dynasty is not very large, the implementation of the Shandong Revival Plan and the Jiangnan Rise Plan have not yet fully mobilized the needs of officials. Although these officials have passed the imperial examination, there are no official positions to be made. For a time, nearly a thousand outstanding talents who have passed the imperial examinations for competition were useless.

His Majesty Li Er was worried about where these outstanding talents were placed. Tubo's strategy gave him an excellent opportunity to send all these officials to Tubo to become officials and manage the former land of Tubo. In the future, administrative officials of the Tang Dynasty would do this. Officials who passed the imperial examination must hold official positions in newly occupied areas outside the Tang Dynasty for at least three years before they could be transferred back to the local area to serve as official positions. This is a kind of experience.

Then, with the order of His Majesty Li Er, a thousand preparatory officials went to Tubo to serve as administrative officials of the twenty prefectures divided into the former Tubo land. The state governor naturally chose from the original outstanding officials. As for those officials below the state governor, they could arrange for these talents who had reached the requirements through the imperial examination but had no official positions to serve. It was just enough to experience it. After three years, they could come back to serve as officials in Jiangnan and Shandong. When they had practiced for a while, they could be transferred to the central government.

It is also because of this that the selection system of officials in the Tang Dynasty later had an iron rule, which announced the names and specific requirements of each official position, but did not state where the official position should be held. Applicants chose these positions for examination and compete with each other. After the exam, they were admitted and could get the opportunity to hold corresponding positions in a certain place outside the Tang Dynasty. Only those with outstanding political achievements could be transferred back to the Tang Dynasty to serve as official positions, and then transferred to the capital to serve as officials.

This is a bold innovation.

The benefits are obvious. The Tang Dynasty's attack on Tubo received strong support from these officials. Although these reserve officials felt that they had to endure hardships, they were at least hopeful and full of energy. They hoped that they could be transferred back to their local governments to serve as official positions in three years. This is a kind of hope.

The land of Tubo is bitter and cold, and twenty states can also give them face. With a vast land and sparse population, it is also possible to divide a thousand miles into one state. Only places with a large number of people need to be divided into detail. Therefore, now the administrative divisions of Tubo are only divided into the state level. For the county level under its jurisdiction, it is necessary to wait until the prefecture rule is established and then consider it after field research.

The Tang Dynasty was advancing rapidly, but the Tubo was in a bleak state. Songtsen Gampo led the last force to defend Luoshecheng. He made great improvements to the defense of Luoshecheng. He also absorbed the opinions of many Tang soldiers and added a lot of weapons, so the suppression force of the God Cult Guard Corps and the Mob Corps was very strong. He almost easily repelled the three joint attacks of the God Cult and the Mob Corps, and severely damaged the combat power of the God Cult and the Mob Corps.

After three major victories, Songtsen Gampo even led his army out of the city to carry out a counterattack, successfully defeating dozens of opponent's camps and burning down a large number of grain, grass and weapons, and was stopped. Scar led his personal guards to engage in a face-to-face battle with Songtsen Gampo, and the draw was tied. Songtsen Gampo finally led his army to retreat back to the city, leaving Scar to look at the mess.

At present, the battle between Luoshecheng has entered a stalemate. Neither side can destroy the other party's army in a short time, so they simply retreated to their territory without any other movement and confronted each other. Generally speaking, they launched a siege every three days, as well as accompanied by night attacks and sneak attacks. Songtsen Gampo has a strong city defense, which makes the city troops outside the city helpless.

Hei Ye knew that according to ancient military tactics, the battle of siege generally requires at least six times the enemy's troops as a backing, so that the siege war can be launched. Otherwise, the loss ratio between the siege and the defending party is too different, and the pressure on the siege is too great. The total strength of the Mob Legion and the Shenming Guard Legion is only 150,000. Facing Songtsen Gampo's more than 100,000 troops defending the city, it is really a bit stretched.

However, Hei Ye is willing to believe that as long as the city is surrounded, they will sooner or later starve to death. As long as the siege is long enough, the greater the time, and the mutual losses are large enough, the easier it will be for the Tang army to destroy the last power of Tubo when it arrives. The 250,000 troops here are not only the largest forces of the three parties, but also the last army of the stormy Tubo, which is only full of force. It will be very difficult to gather together in the Tang Dynasty, but now...

The Marquis is really a brilliant idea!

The war continues...

The battle here is in full swing, but Suning lives his own comfortable life at the two points and one line between Chang'an City and Sanyuan County. He feels that it is the same as before. When he has a job, he runs back to Chang'an City to work. When he has no job, he runs home to accompany his wife and children. Seeing his son and daughter grow up day by day, Suning is so happy. It is not Suning's turn to take action in these wars. Suning is also very happy, and it is acceptable to do some civil servant tasks.

However, Suning wanted to live a peaceful life, and it seemed that some people were not willing to do it. For example, Li Yuanchang, who made him feel very uncomfortable, liked to visit Suning when he had nothing to do. Another time, he came with Li Chengqian, and constantly communicated with Suning under the name of academic exchanges and calligraphy and painting exchanges, and never mentioned anything other than academics in calligraphy and painting. This made Suning very puzzled, so he had to deal with it carefully. Suning didn't know whether Li Yuanchang noticed his vigilance against him. Anyway, Li Yuanchang often appeared in the Su Mansion as a friend of Suning.

Until one day, after getting another calligraphy and painting from Suning, Li Yuanchang was satisfied, and before leaving, he invited Suning: "I always come to Brother Su's mansion to have fun, but I never invited Brother Su to my mansion to have fun. Haha, I have no other hobbies, I just like to have fun, I like to read, practice calligraphy and painting, and I have many excellent collections at home.

During this period, Brother Su has been using a lot of wine, meat and vegetables. I am very embarrassed. So, tomorrow, if Brother Su is free, I will call Chengqian together. How about the three of us playing in the lower mansion? There are many novel things in the lower mansion. I believe Brother Su will be very interested."

Suning was embarrassed to refuse, and there was nothing going on tomorrow. In addition, he also planned to call Li Chengqian over and was on guard. It would be better not to let him get along with Li Chengqian alone. So Suning nodded and agreed. Although he didn't know what medicine was sold in this guy's gourd, he was always on guard. With this guy's bad record in history, Suning decided to be more careful. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!