Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 196 Entering Huizhou

"Greetings to King Lingwu County of the Tang Dynasty." The envoy saluted as soon as he entered.

"Great Tang? Are you from Tang Dynasty or from Tubo?" Shao Shude asked.

The envoy was a little embarrassed when he heard the words, but he still replied: "He returned to the country with Shang Yanxin in Dazhong, so he is naturally from Tang Dynasty."

"How many people in the clan can speak Mandarin?"

The envoy was taken aback, thought hard for a while, and said, "There are still some."

Shao Shude snorted coldly and said, "How is this different from Tubo people?"

The messenger hesitated to speak, with a look of panic on his face.

"Forget it, I can't blame you for what happened in the past. Troubled events happened in the Central Plains, troops were transferred to the east, and the [-] prefectures of Helong fell into the hands of Tubo. This imperial court has lost to you." Shao Shude waved his hand and said: "Now Returning to the Central Plains, I will be trained by Huafeng from now on. Wearing Tang clothes and speaking official language, there are four seasons and eight festivals in a year. Whether you are farming or grazing, you have to live, understand?"

The envoy was sweating profusely, and could only say: "You must follow the orders of the King of Lingwu County."

He came to discuss the terms of taking refuge, but why did the King of Lingwu directly reprimand him, as if he had already regarded the Bai family as a subordinate tribe, how would he explain to the patriarch when he went back?
"How many mouths does the Bai family have?"

"No less than six thousand."

"If you obey, I will guarantee that your family's mouth will not be less than six thousand." Shao Shude didn't believe that the Bai family had six thousand mouths at all, and half of them died.

"Lingwu County Wang Mingjian, the patriarch sent me here, and he already intended to submit." The envoy unconsciously lowered his figure and said respectfully.

"Where did Ye Lihua go?"

"Together with Mrs. Qu, fled to the south."

"Fleeing south?" Shao Shude was a little surprised, stretched out his hand, and Feng Yin presented the map.

To the south is Minzhou, which is still the territory of the Tubo people.

"Crack!" Shao Shude patted the table heavily, feeling a little annoyed.

This grandson, don't fight a decisive battle with my army!How dare you not fight a decisive battle with my army!
"Marshal..." Zhao Guangfeng stepped forward and reminded him.

Shao Shude waved his hand, indicating that he was fine.

It's a pity that the story of conquering the Hetao grassland cannot be reproduced.

As long as the Qu family dares to fight him decisively, then he is very sure to destroy his main force.If you're lucky, you can even decapitate it with one blow and subdue it.But now things are obviously going in another direction. Another Hexi Dangxiang Poochou family and Mi Qin family are about to be born?
There is no inner ghost to lead the way and help gather the tribes. It is really painful to beat these nomadic tribes.

After taking a deep breath, Shao Shude sat down.

Of course he knew that Tubo in Huizhou was not the same as the barbarians on the grassland.Because the latter is actually surrounded by the Tang Dynasty, with the Tiande Army and Zhenwu Army to the north, Linzhou Zhejia to the east, the Yellow River to the west, and Shuofang Army's territory to the west of the Yellow River. In fact, it is not easy for Hetao miscellaneous captives to run.

But Tubo in Huizhou is different.There are a lot of places to the south and west to run, fuck it!
Shao has a bad premonition that after his army has withdrawn, the Qu family may come back to fight guerrillas with you and invade the border everywhere.Here in Huizhou, a permanent army is indispensable!

Is there something wrong with my strategy of going west?If you get involved with this brown candy, you will spend too much energy in the future.

But where can we go without going west...

Going north to the grassland, facing the Uyghur, Tatar, Tuyuhun, and Dangxiang, it is estimated that it will be more difficult than Tubo in Huizhou.Xiangdong, are you going to beat Li Keyong?Going south, hijacking the emperor, telling Cao Cao's story, and then being beaten as a yellow nest?
"Bai family—" Shao Shude got up suddenly, and subconsciously paced in the big tent.

When the Manchus fought against Mongolian Lin Danhan, and Lin Danhan fled the battle, how did the Manchus do it?

The envoy looked forward to it nervously, looking at King Lingwu nervously.A thought or a word of a great person can often determine the rise and fall of a tribe.The Bai family, as the first tribe to come to seek refuge, seems to have ushered in an opportunity to develop.

"Don't go back to Yuanzhou, stay in Huizhou." Shao Shude said: "Those tribes who ran over with you before, let their leaders come to meet me in Huizhou. Those who dare not come will be wiped out on the spot. Now Zhan seized a lot of equipment, and you can leave some for your Bai family, but you need to flatten those disobedient tribes. Once the Qu family comes back, you can figure it out. If you fear the war and escape from your pasture, you don’t have to come back again gone."

The messenger thought silently in his heart.To be honest, the conditions offered by the King of Lingwu County are still very harsh.It is necessary to pacify the disobedient small tribes and deal with the Qu clan.The former is actually not a bad thing, because in the process of conquest, one might strengthen one's own strength, but fighting against the Qu family would be unpredictable. Maybe it can further strengthen one's own strength, or it might be severely weakened, and finally be defeated by Lingwu County. Wang swallowed it in one gulp.

"Let's do it this way. The head of the Bai family will also come to Huizhou to see me in ten days." Shao Shude was upset, and he didn't bother to give them room to bargain, so he directly issued an order to evict them.

The envoy retreated preoccupied.

"I can't do my best in this battle!" Shao Shude sat back in his chair helplessly and sighed.

"Commander, Huizhou and Xinquan Military City are supposed to garrison troops, but it's really nothing." Chen Cheng stepped forward and said.

"That's all I can think of." Shao Shude smiled wryly, and said, "Actually, it was unexpected that Tubo in Yuanzhou was willing to fight me. I heard from the captives that Ye Lihua wanted to establish some kind of party state, otherwise it would be slippery." Like a loach, I ran away early."

"The order was issued to send out all the cavalry to defeat Qu's cavalry as soon as possible. They took the initiative to attack. They thought it was to harass the food road. Now it seems that they are just covering the escape of the headquarters. Qu's, but that's all, not as good as Kang The Nu family has courage." Shao Shude said.

Steal my grain road?I didn't have food roads in the first place, so I just brought food and grass with the army for more than a month according to the principles of the art of war. After all, the food is not enough for a month, so it is not appropriate to go deep.As far as Huizhou City, the Yellow River is my grain road. If you have the ability, you can swim and dig a boat in the river.

This was originally a great strategic advantage, but now that the enemy has run away and landed a punch in the empty space, it makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the expedition cost very little, otherwise, if the enemy ran away after spending a lot of money, wouldn't it be a loss?

As for why the cost is low, it's very simple: military food and fodder are consumed in Guanzhong, equipment and supplies are "treats" for the army, and even the rewards are sent to this year's Spring Festival in advance.The six prefectures of Dingnan hardly spent any money, and there should be a lot of surplus, so the tax collection was less, and the people should have had a relatively prosperous first month.

Did the war improve the living conditions of the common people?It sounds unscientific, but in fact it is just someone else paying the bill.

On March [-]th of the second year of Guangqi, after a few days of fighting and advancing, the first part of the economic strategy army as a vanguard arrived at the city of Huizhou.

As far as the eye can see, it is a city wall that has collapsed and is extremely damaged.This is not surprising, the Tibetans like to tear down the walls.When the enemy army comes, I will run, and when they withdraw, I will fight back.Without a city wall, you can't prevent my cavalry from raiding.

The Mongols of later generations also liked to demolish the city walls of the Central Plains, which is actually the same way.

According to the order, the army was stationed outside the city, waiting for the arrival of the Chinese army, while the Zhongyongdu two thousand riders galloped to the northwest for more than a hundred miles to attack Huining Pass—no, it should be occupied by an armed march.

The two thousand cavalry of the Tielin army continued to go south, chasing Qu's family.The iron cavalry army was also transferred back from the northern line, and together with the cavalry pawns of the Binning army, they pursued southward and saw if they could bring back some cattle and sheep.

With so many cavalry in the Tang Dynasty, the Qu family did have a reason to escape.Grassland people don't pay attention to face, they run away if they can't beat them, they are not shabby at all.The main thing is to preserve your strength, and come back for revenge in the future!

On March [-]th, Shao Shude personally led the army to the city of Huizhou.At this time, he received the news that the Qu family in Tubo invaded Yuanzhou and plundered several counties. Cheng Zongchu hurriedly led his army back, which cast a shadow over his heart.

"Since the fall of Tibet in the first year of Guangde, I haven't seen Master Wang for more than a hundred years." Outside the city of Huizhou, more than [-] gentry who looked like Tang people fell to the ground, talking incoherently excitedly.

Shao Shude got off his horse and helped an old man who was not too young. He said softly, "In the past, there were many troubles in the Central Plains. It was not enough to worry about trapping the descendants of the Tibetans. Now that Wang Shi is going west, Huizhou will return to the Central Plains forever."

Those who can come to the scene to greet them are all trustworthy people, and they must have been carefully inspected by the soldiers, so they don't have to worry about assassination, so they can do some actions close to the people.

"Come on, I want to see what Huizhou City will look like after a hundred years." Shao Shude said, looking at the half-tilted city wall of Huizhou.

(End of this chapter)