Chapter 86 Homecoming
Boni is the later Nepal, a small country as big as a palm, and he can borrow 7,000 soldiers, so he will do his best.
"Master, if you take me as your general to attack Tianzhu, you don't need to have ten thousand, and give me five thousand cavalry, it's enough."
"Wang Langjun, do you want to fight with me?"
Su Qingjie said anxiously: "Ami, I only need five thousand cavalry, and I will definitely be able to capture Tubo Zanpu!"
The two of them said one by one, and they were about to start arguing.
"stop!"
Su Dawei stroked his forehead and said, "Five thousand cavalry is definitely not enough. In the past, the Indians were a group of A San, and A San was a famous croaker. Now, the Indians have been run by Tubo for many years and cannot be regarded as A San."
"Uh, manager, what is A San?"
This is hard to explain to you.
Su Dawei waved his hand: "Let's talk about how to use troops."
His finger pointed on the map: "If you send troops from Tubo, you can rush straight down from the gap in this mountain, occupy the advantage of the territory, and be suitable for cavalry attacks."
It’s strange that Tubo is either snow-capped or continuous mountains, with a dangerous terrain.
But in the location of Tubo and Tianzhu, there is a mountain pass from high to low and not that low at an altitude.
If in later generations, from this mountain pass, the torrent of steel in the Central Plains could roll straight down to India.
It's definitely enough for the third brother to drink a pot.
At this time, if the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Army rushed out from this gap, it would be absolutely difficult to resist the direction of Tianzhu.
Moreover, the land of India is not like the Central Plains or Tubo, and India has a large plain.
As long as the cavalry rushed over, bypassed their rivers, and avoided some unfavorable terrain, such as deserts, would enter the Great Plains.
That is also the essence of the entire Indian.
The plains have plump fields and can feed countless people.
Tubo became stronger because of occupying India.
If the Tang Dynasty had obtained this time, it can be said that within fifty years, there would be no problem of intra-collecting.
If it operates well, it might be able to last for a hundred years for the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
"You can fight."
Su Dawei poked his finger heavily on the map.
"As for how many soldiers are used..."
He looked up at the generals: "Our army cannot stay in the ruins of Luoshe City for too long, so we cannot support so many people here."
All the generals nodded and understood this.
Every time a hundred thousand troops stay here for an extra day, the consumption is amazing.
There are only a small amount of fields near the pastures near Luoshecheng, which have been swept countless times by the Tang army's baggage team.
Cleaner than the face.
If you stay there, the Tang army will be at risk of food shortage.
Although there are food and supplies in Lusie City, most of them have been burned by fire when they attacked the city.
This is also impossible.
Therefore, according to the Tang army's war practice, if you conquer a certain area, you will only leave a small number of soldiers to maintain deterrence. The army should turn back to the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible to reduce losses.
If one dispatches 100,000 troops, one will reduce the labor force of the country to farm.
If we calculate that in order to provide the logistics of the army, the people mobilized in China, ten people will be mobilized at a million levels.
The Tang army conquered Tubo for two years, which was also a huge burden on the national strength of the Tang Dynasty.
So that Su Ding immediately withdrew his army back to the Tang Dynasty after conquering Baekje.
“Now we have three tasks.”
Su Dawei glanced at the generals and said, "First, we must keep a small number of elite troops. According to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, we will set up the governor's office here. I have already written to His Majesty. I believe there will be a reply soon.
Before His Majesty's order arrives, the left-behind people must first settle down.
The second is that the end of this battle, our army's main force was about to return to the Tang Dynasty, and the soldiers below missed home and loved ones, and it was time to go home."
这话出来,众将均是点头.
Xue Rengui sighed and said, "Don't talk about the soldiers below, just say that those of us generals don't miss home, don't miss the wife at home, and the children."
这话,引起诸将一阵唏嘘.
The youngest generals here have already had a group of wives, concubines, and children.
出来两年,可想煞人了.
Su Dawei coughed, pulled everyone's attention back, and continued: "Third, it is the matter of sending troops to Tianzhu. Originally, we only used the main force to withdraw to the Tang Dynasty, but now Tubo Zanpu fled to Tianzhu. If we send a large army and work hard to expedition, we will be afraid of being harmed.
What Su Qingjie and Wang Xuance said just now makes sense, but 10,000 people are too small and there are too many troops sent, and I am afraid that the logistics supply will not be available, so I can discuss how many troops I use."
Wang Xuance laughed and crossed his hands and said, "Maintain, Tianzhu is a fertile land. The plains there are suitable for planting, and they can live whatever they raise. The weather is extremely warm, and sometimes you can even harvest food twice a year."
说到这里,王玄策眼中闪闪发光.
"There are so rich and rich, and there are so many good fertile lands that can support. When our army goes by, we will eat from the enemy and never have to worry about food shortage."
"otherwise!"
Wang Fangyi suddenly spoke, "Wang Langjun only said one thing, not the other."
Su Dawei and the rest of the generals turned their attention to Wang Fangyi, and only heard him say, "What people eat can be solved on the spot, but can the whole amount of the forage eaten by horses be solved?"
In that place in India, there seems to be no famous war horse.
When A San brother was in a war at this time, he would be very awesome to be able to dispatch elephants.
But the problem is that the elephant is actually very smart, watching a group of people rushing up on horseback with murderous aura.
It was shooting arrows and slashing.
大象第一时间就撒开大脚丫子逃了.
This was the case when Wang Xuance met Tianzhu last time.
Brother San couldn't make up decent cavalry at all.
When the two legs face four legs, they will naturally become urinating.
Whether it is Tubo's heavy cavalry or light cavalry.
The Tang army's elite heavy cavalry and Yue cavalry are all tanks of this era.
It can be called a torrent of iron armor.
Take it away in one wave.
But if the war horses don’t have enough food without forage, they will not be able to fight.
If Tang Jun could only fight with the third brother of Tianzhu, it would be impossible.
After all, the heavy armored infantry of the Tang army was also the strongest in the world.
Thousands of long spears set up square formations, and the real god blocks the gods and the Buddha blocks the Buddhas.
But it's slow.
It will take many days to plow the entire territory of Tianzhu by infantry.
The time has been delayed for too long, and if it is not done properly, then Mang Song and Mangzan escaped.
Su Dawei remembers that in the Basin of India, he is facing Tubo because the Himalayas are blocking it, so Sange cannot come up.
The only valley gap, Aksechin, who was later in life, was previously occupied by the Tubo people, but is now occupied by the Tang army.
It is impossible to pass from here.
But in the other direction of Tianzhu, remember there is a mountain pass that can be entered and exited.
The third brother was beaten several times by people from the West, and kept beating out the fourth class of castes, all of whom were worshipped by this mountain pass.
So if you escape in that direction, you should be able to escape to the Western Regions.
Of course, this is a situation that Su Dawei and Tang Jun absolutely do not allow.
"There are also ways to solve the problem of horse's forage."
Wang Xuance's words cheered everyone up.
"I used Tubo soldiers to fight Boni soldiers in India, so why was there no fodder there? It was just that the locals didn't know."
Wang Xuance said confidently: "It is hard to say if there are more than 100,000 war horses, but if it is only tens of thousands of horses, it will not be difficult to solve."
"good!"
Su Dawei clapped his high-high and said, "It's so good. People and horses have food and fodder. There is no need to worry about logistics food and fodder. You only need to bring a small amount of dry food with you, as well as a few days of fodder, and replenish arrows, and bring more evil-breaking arrows."
He pondered for a moment and looked at An Wensheng: "Wensheng, our remaining weapons also have evil crossbows. If we provide for the needs of one month, how many people can we support?"
An Wensheng glanced at Li Bo, and Li Bo handed over the file.
An Wensheng thought: "It can afford... about 20,000 yuan."
"The troops to conquer India will be tentatively set to be around 20,000."
Su Dawei said slowly: "But there is no need to use the Tang army all the way. We use five thousand elite soldiers and cavalry above and below, plus three thousand servants, and 15 thousand baggage auxiliary soldiers. The auxiliary soldiers also try to use Hu servants so that all the Tang soldiers can go home."
The military generals on both sides of the tent saluted Su Dawei with their hands crossed and said, "Here!"
Wang Xuance and Su Qingjie looked at each other and said almost at the same time: "Master, haven't you said who you are the general?"
Su Dawei glanced at the two of them: "Doctor Chaosan had experienced conquering India. In this battle, he was the main general."
As soon as these words were spoken, Wang Xuance showed ecstasy.
Su Qingjie looked disappointed.
"Lion, you..."
Su Dawei hesitated and said, "You should join me to send the chief manager home."
The atmosphere in the tent suddenly stopped.
Silence came from the high spirits of fighting just now.
Su Qingjie's cheeks twitched slightly, stood out, clasped his fists to Su Dawei and said, "Grandpa is the chief general of the Tao, but Tubo Zanpu failed to capture it. I always feel that there is a shortcoming. I am willing to send troops with General Wang and others to catch Mangsong and Mangzan with my own hands."
Su Dawei looked at him and nodded slowly: "In this way, that general will order you as his deputy and send troops to Tianzhu with Wang Xuance."
"Here!"
...
After a few days of rest, the war was seized, and the Tang army was divided into three parts, to be precise, four parts.
One is the main force, led by Su Dawei, who followed the path he came, passed Tuyuhun and retreated to the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tubo area, Xue Rengui and five thousand cavalry were left, and more than ten thousand Hu servants were also left.
They were responsible for maintaining the Tubo order and continuing to maintain the existence and deterrence of the Tang Dynasty.
Avoid the resurgence of Tubo.
Xue Rengui temporarily took over as the position of governor of the Logan.
Of course, the formal appointment still requires Li Zhi's imperial edict, but these are routines on the battlefield, and it should be just a matter of time.
The last journey was Wang Xuance and Su Qingjie, and Wang Xiaojie, Li Bian and other generals, leading 20,000 Tang army and vassal army to the westwardly enter Tianzhu.
Continue to pursue Mangsong and Mangzan and the remnants of Tubo.
In order to prevent the strange people and strange things around the Tubo people, Su Dawei asked Li Yan to allocate several star kings from the Secret Pavilion to accompany him.
He also invited Maoshan Sect and sent ten Taoists to accompany the army.
Ye Fashan, the heavenly master of Maoshan Sect, was also in the army. When he heard about the incident in Tianzhu, he had a sudden idea and wanted to spread Taoism to Tianzhu.
Therefore, he was very concerned about this matter and sent his confidant disciple to accompany Wang Xuance.
Ye Fashan also said: "If the enemy can go, I can go. Only the monks are allowed to go to the Tang Dynasty to preach the Dharma, but I will not allow me to go to the Great Dao of the Tang Dynasty to preach the Dharma? One day, I will ask the people of the Tianzhu to recite the Taoist scriptures so that everyone in the world will know that Buddha is the Tao."
...
"Ami, what are you looking at?"
An Wensheng looked at the west along Su Dawei's gaze.
I only saw the army behind me, stretching for countless miles, and I could not see it at first sight.
"I'm watching...the lions and the others."
Su Dawei shook his head: "Tianzhu, I actually want to go too, but..."
In the direction of Tianzhu, the strongest and weirdest day, Teng Xun flew toward that side.
Tenggen's pupils and Teng Xun, the invisible bond, made him feel a strong impulse to follow him and take a look.
However, there is a stronger power in my heart, and I have to temporarily suppress this desire.
"I miss Nie Su."
Su Dawei said to An Wen.
"What?"
"I said I miss Xiao Su."
Su Dawei patted Long Zi lightly: "Let's go back to the Tang Dynasty."
A strong premonition suddenly arose in his heart, and he will definitely see Teng Xun again.
Chapter completed!