Zhao Ziliang quickly crossed the river by boat to the north of the Yangtze River and entered Qusangda.
Zhao Bei and Zhamu came to greet them with some leaders of the Tubo servant army and mercenaries.
Qusangda is built on the mountainside.
Most of the materials used to build the houses are local materials and piled with stones of different sizes.
The buildings in the entire residential area appear a bit messy, with uneven heights and different colors.
This is generally the case for the places where the Tubo people choose to live.
This is because there are many mountains and little flat land.
The flat land and grassland need to be reserved for growing crops and grazing livestock.
If the flat land is used to build houses, there will be no place to grow crops and graze livestock.
This is It has also become a characteristic of Tubo.
Zhao Ziliang rode on horseback and looked up at Qusangda built on the mountainside, and asked: "This place is not close to the river and the terrain is high.
How do the Tubo people here get water?"
Zhamu replied: "Your Majesty, there are springs flowing down the mountain all year round, which can not only meet the local people's daily needs, but also irrigate crops.
Therefore, there is no shortage of water here, and the spring water is sweet and very nourishing.
The people here are Everyone's face is red, and there is a good harvest every year.
The cattle, sheep, and horses are all fat and thick, and the meat is delicious."
"Oh," Zhao Ziliang said with a smile, "Then let's kill a sheep tonight and eat it.
Let's see how the mutton here is different from other places."
Zhao Bei quickly agreed: "Yes" Zhao Ziliang and the escort army, accompanied by Zhao Bei, Zhamu and others, were talking and riding horses towards Qusangda halfway up the mountain.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the terrain and asked: "With this kind of terrain, how can we attack from below?
It shouldn't be so easy for you to capture Qu Sanda.
Why did it only take less than half a day this time?
Could it be a sneak attack?"
Zhao Bei replied: "No, after Master Shankara eliminated the strangers on the other side, the Tibetan army here already knew that we were coming.
They knew that they could not defend Qusangda, so the whole army rushed down from the mountainside to think We wanted to overwhelm our army, but they were all infantry and we were cavalry.
Sun'er ordered the entire army to retreat quickly for two miles.
After the Tibetan army rushed down the mountain and their momentum was sharply reduced, he then sent his troops to attack and overwhelmed them in one fell swoop."
"I see.
It seems that this Tubo general doesn't know much about the art of war."
Zhao Ziliang said, turning to ask Shankara: "Master, where are the strangers here?"
Shankara said: "Back to your Majesty, there is only one person who has been taken care of by a poor monk.
The body was taken care of by General Zhao.
The poor monk doesn't know."
Zhao Bei said to Zhao Ziliang: "My grandson has taken strict care of the stranger's body and no one is allowed to approach it."
"Take this king to see" "Yes, Your Majesty" Zhao Bei led Zhao Ziliang and others to a large stone house, but the house seemed a bit dark, not ventilated, and exuded a trace of blood.
There was a skinny corpse lying on the ground in the middle of the house.
He was wearing a black robe and looked to be over fifty years old.
He looked haggard and had little flesh on his body.
This may be a phenomenon common to all practitioners in the spiritual realm.
The body They are all extremely weak.
"That's him," Zhao Bei said, pointing to the corpse on the ground, then waved, took a tray from a soldier who came over, and said to Zhao Ziliang: "These are the objects found on this person, a total of thirteen items. " Bells, small copper skulls, knives, small wooden boxes containing pills, small silver staffs and other items were neatly placed on the tray.
Among them, a roll of sheepskin tied with fine hemp rope was noticed by Zhao Ziliang , he took it over and took off the hemp rope, opened it and read it.
It was in Tibetan writing.
He didn't recognize it.
He turned to hand it to Shankara and asked, "What is written on it?"
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Shankara looked at it, shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, this seems to be Tibetan writing.
The poor monk has not studied Tibetan writing, so he does not recognize it."
At this time, an accompanying official next to him raised his hand and said: "Your Majesty, in the early years when Emperor Xuanzong was still alive, he sent a mission to Tubo.
Weichen was a scribe accompanying the mission at the time.
He stayed in Tubo for two years and learned some Tibetan writing."
"Oh," Zhao Ziliang handed him the sheepskin and said, "Look what's written on it."
The official took it and looked at it, then returned it with both hands and said: "Your Majesty, what is written here seems to be a secret method for practicing strange magic.
The practice process is extremely cruel and obscure, and I can only understand 10% of it. meaning" Zhao Ziliang took the sheepskin back, thought for a while, and said to Du Fu: "Put it away and seal it in the Secret Collection Pavilion of the library after the master returns to the court.
If he obtains various secret cultivation techniques in the future, they will be stored in the Secret Collection Pavilion of the library.
It is sealed and no one is allowed to read it without my personal order."
Du Fu put away the parchment and agreed: "I obey the order."
After returning to the camp on the bank of the Yangtze River, Zhao Ziliang held a military meeting.
Not only the generals attended, but also the military and civilian officials.
Zhao Ziliang said to the officials and generals: "I originally planned to use a fast offensive strategy to quickly conquer all parts of Tubo.
However, judging from the current situation, this strategy is no longer feasible.
There are several main factors that hinder the speed of our army's attack: First, the Tubo people are relatively hostile to us; second, our army does not have many troops.
If we divide our troops If we garrison the captured places, we will not have more troops to attack; thirdly, the climate and altitude have a great impact on our soldiers.
They are weakening our combat effectiveness, causing the soldiers to be exhausted every time they conquer a place.
We need several days of rest to adapt to the local climate and altitude; fourth, the complex terrain hinders our marching speed.
Fifth, most of the weapons, armor, crossbows and arrows we captured cannot be used, which makes it difficult for us to use them.
We cannot rely on war to support war in terms of ordnance and equipment.
These things that are lost after the battle require our own logistics.
To supplement, but here, the logistics supply is a bit difficult, especially the consumption of crossbows and arrows.
These factors have seriously hindered our attack speed.
Some factors can be overcome, but some factors It will take time to overcome, so I decided to slow down and proceed steadily in the future."
Zheng San stood up and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, in response to the problem of insufficient logistics capacity, Weichen has taken measures to hand over the transportation of some military supplies to merchants.
Although it will cost some freight, it can greatly improve the transportation capacity. , this matter is currently in progress, and in another month, supplies will be shipped in large quantities."
Zhao Ziliang frowned and said: "Is it reliable to entrust the transportation of army logistics materials to the caravans of merchants?
These merchants are all money-seeing people, and the merchants are shady people.
If they replace the new grain with old grain, or Whether it is adding sand to the military rations or replacing other logistics supplies on the way, the shipment of defective products here will cause us big trouble."
Zheng San cupped his fists and replied: "Your Majesty, I don't rule out the possibility of this happening.
After all, people are greedy, especially businessmen.
As long as they have double the profit, they can take risks.
But the logistics yamen are looking for new ones this time."
There are relatively honest caravans in Beijing.
They have all paid deposits in advance, and their families all live in Western Qin.
There should not be a big problem.
If they dare to mess with the army's supplies, then they will be impatient. " Zhao Ziliang nodded: "Okay, let's do it like this, right, Chen Qing, is there any news from Xuan Yi?"
Chen Qing stood up and said: "Back to your Majesty, Xuanyi just sent someone to report that the West Route Army has captured Sida Zang and occupied the entire Gongtang Dynasty."
"Okay, order him to rest on the spot for a period of time, strengthen his local rule, and try to recruit young and strong warriors from the local Tubo people to form a mercenary army.
There are two other things: First, I heard that Nibolu's soldiers are all If you are more honest and obedient, and more abiding by military discipline, you will immediately send people to the Nibolu Kingdom to recruit warriors and form a Nibolu mercenary army.
Recruit as many as you can.
Second, send someone to see Zhao Lei at the Tianzhu Protectorate and ask him to mobilize 50,000 Tianzhu soldiers from all over Tianzhu and transfer them into Tubo territory in batches.
Within two months, they must all enter most of the future garrisons in Tubo.
All the tasks are handed over to the Tianzhu soldiers, and the Tubo servant army, Tubo mercenaries and Niboluo mercenaries will accompany our main army of Western Qin to fight together."
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Chen Qing clasped his fists and agreed: "Yes, Your Majesty, I will go and make arrangements now.
I have something to report to Your Majesty.
Xuan Yi sent someone to report that when the troops of the Yu Gongtang Dynasty were fighting, they set up a strange military formation.
When our army went to attack, they found that after rushing into the formation, everything changed.
The soldiers were at a loss. , their consciousness was somewhat affected, and some soldiers actually started to kill each other.
If General Xuan Yi hadn't yelled in time, the consequences would have been disastrous.
After hearing General Xuan Yi's roar, the soldiers were awakened and regained their consciousness.
Only then did they turn the corner.
He also defeated the army of King Gongtang and captured Sida Zang."
Zhao Ziliang frowned after hearing this, looked at Shankara and asked: "Master, what's going on?
Why did the officers and soldiers of our army rush into the enemy's formation and then became overwhelmed, lost their consciousness, and then killed each other?"
Shankara thought for a while and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, although the poor monk has not gone to see it on the spot, the poor monk thinks that this must be someone from the other side who arranged the army into a formation according to strange methods.
Your Majesty, After the soldiers rushed into the formation, they were affected by the formation and had hallucinations.
Everything they saw was an illusion and not real, so they gradually lost their consciousness and killed each other."
Zhao Ziliang was furious, slapped his palm on the desk and said in a hateful voice: "Tubo is full of people who practice foreign arts.
They actually use foreign arts to deal with my army.
It is really unreasonable.
It seems that the world is not as simple as we imagined.
I We must have such strangers in our army in order to fight against the strangers among the enemy.
To spread the king's will, let Taoist Qingluo of Qintian Prison, Zen Master Qianye of Huachan Temple, Padmasambhava of Nalanda Temple Master, Master Wushou is coming quickly."
"yes" Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Shankara: "Master, I'm afraid we still need Master to rush over to Gongtang.
Although King Gongtang's army was defeated by our army and the whole territory was occupied by us, using special weapons can't help us."
He used his skills to deal with the strangers in my army but was not caught."
Shankara put his hands together and said: "The poor monk obeys the order":