Chapter 971: The Famous General of the Tang Dynasty

"Hurry, hurry, six horses, urgent report." In the territory of Liangzhou, less than 20 miles away from Guzang, the seat of Liangzhou, six riders were galloping.

At the penultimate post station, a group of horses were left outside.

The postman was wearing a military coat and basking in the sun. It was still a little cold, but the grass on the ground had grown.

"Change it yourself." The postman ignored him and called out.

The six people didn't say much. When the horses came close, each threw out a sign.

The postman raised his hand to catch it. He took a look and saw that the six people had dismounted and ran to the strolling horses, without reins or stirrups.

They put their hands on the horses' necks, lifted their feet off the ground, exerted their waists, and landed on the horses' backs in the air, and clamped their legs together: "Hurry~!"

The postman hurriedly threw the sign back. When the leader caught the sign, the horse jumped out.

When he waited to pull the reins again, the horse's speed had already increased.

"Good skills." The postman praised loudly.

"Brothers, the last post station, it's just the afternoon." The people holding the sign didn't care about the tiredness of the continuous journey.

They were just excited now, and it was so comfortable to have a post station every ten miles.

On the way, grabbing a handful of meat floss on the horse and drinking a sip of water was considered a meal.

In less than five minutes, another post station arrived. The horses here are good.

Horses sometimes bully people. Those who are not good at riding need others to hold the reins to fix the horse, and it is difficult to lift their legs and step on the stirrups.

Whenever such people want to get on the horse, the horse will slowly hide, and the person will step on the air.

There is a video of Li Yishi. Every time he lifts his leg, the horse just moves to the side a little bit, which is bad.

When encountering a place where he doesn't need to touch the reins and stirrups, the horse will cooperate.

He ran even harder, like the wind.

In less than five minutes, he arrived at the city. There is a moat outside the city gate, and there is an arrow tower above the city gate.

The arrow tower of Guzang City, but it is written with the words Liangzhou.

There were people coming in and out of the gate. There were 50,000 to 60,000 people living in Guzang City, Liangzhou.

If there was a real war, people from other counties would run to Liangzhou City, more than 100,000 people.

In theory, this place should not be taken down, but in history, Tubo took it in 764.

In 763, the Tang Dynasty had just finished dealing with the Anshi Rebellion, and the army was insufficient.

At this moment, Liangzhou was a prosperous scene. When the people saw the fast horses running over, they hurried to the side.

Six people rushed in and went straight to the Jiedushi's office, that is, Jieyuan.

Not long after, they saw Guo Zhiyun, handed over the documents from the court, and were placed to rest.

Guo Zhiyun checked the wax seal and confirmed that it had not been opened. After picking it up, he took it out to look at it.

"Come here, prepare to send troops." After reading it, Guo Zhiyun did not dare to delay.

The whole Liangzhou began to move, and Guo Zhiyun had more than 70,000 soldiers under his command.

The instructions given by the court were to let him fight Jiuqu. At that time, Li Yi belonged to Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Jiuqu is actually the closest to the Jiedushi of Longyou, who also has more than 70,000 troops.

However, it was the Jiedushi of Liangzhou and Hexi who sent out the troops.

This is how the war was fought in history, and Li Yi knows what it means.

The troops of Longyou did not move, so the soldiers of Tubo thought that nothing was wrong.

As a result, the troops that really went to fight came from behind the Jiedushi of Longyou. Even if they failed to fight and ran back, Longyou could still hold on, and Tubo could not chase them.

If the Jiedushi of Longyou went to fight, failed to fight, and ran back, Tubo would chase them and occupy Shanzhou, directly threatening the back.

Next to Shanzhou is the Huangshui River, where there are boats going up and down to transport supplies. Once it is occupied by Tubo, Tubo can even go down to fight.

This is the ability of the border generals of the Tang Dynasty at this time, and everything is thought of.

In history, Guo Zhiyun did not get instructions from the court to send troops. He saw that Tubo was empty after withdrawing troops, and he discussed it with Zhang Zhongliang, the Jiedushi of Longyou.

The Longyou Jiedushi did not move, and the Hexi Jiedushi's troops moved forward from behind, and thus defeated the Jiuqu of Tubo.

Chang'an could not control it at all, and the generals were not subject to the orders of the emperor when they were away.

According to Li Yi's estimation, even if the court did not give an order immediately.

Once Sulu moved, Tubo and Dashi moved, Guo Zhiyun would still send troops on his own when he found out about the situation.

In fact, he was indeed preparing. The intelligence from the northwest passed through Liangzhou, using the dense post stations from Liangzhou to Chang'an.

If there was a fight over there, he had to be informed.

Once the court ordered, there was no need to think more, just do it.

The army was gathering, they were wearing leather clothes, military coats, and carrying bags.

The bags contained compressed biscuits, meat floss mixed with carrot pieces, dried chopped green onions, salt, and pepper powder.

There was also a small bottle of alcohol, cotton wool, and gauze.

The things were all sent from Chang'an before, and they were reluctant to eat them at ordinary times.

Half an hour later, the team assembled, riding horses, driving carts, and lighting torches, they circled from the south and rushed all the way to the Longyou Jiedushi.

The car was equipped with a hot air balloon and a diesel blowtorch. It was originally alcohol, but later it was replaced with gasoline for training. Gasoline was a little more dangerous, so it was replaced with diesel again.

The car also carried a small cyclone cannon, explosive packs, and homemade grenades that could be assembled.

"If the battle goes smoothly, we should take the Jiuqu area in one fell swoop." Wang Junkui said to Guo Zhiyun while sitting in the carriage.

In front of the two of them was a map drawn by Li Yi, which was more than twice as good as the original map of the Tang Dynasty.

"I heard that the steamship has been used. If we take the Jiuqu, the steamship can sail back and forth." Guo Zhiyun agreed with the deputy envoy's words.

His hand pointed further west, where there were two freshwater lakes at the source of the Yellow River, Zhaling Lake and Eling Lake.

The two lakes are connected by a river. If we occupy this place, we can get another Jiedushi.

No, not one Jiedushi, there will be at least three, with more troops stationed.

Take the entire Yellow River from its source, and the rear baggage transportation can be stabilized by ships.

Now the main target is Jiuqu, which originally belonged to the Tang Dynasty.

Princess Jincheng married Tubo, and Yang Ju, the general of the left guard who accompanied her, took bribes from Tubo and said that the land of Jiuqu would be given to Princess Jincheng as a bathing place, that is, dowry.

The court of the Tang Dynasty allowed it, and as a result, this place became the base of Tubo, where sheep and horses were raised to strengthen their strength and frequently sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty.

Didn’t Tubo lead 100,000 troops to fight two years ago, but was defeated by the Tang Dynasty.

Then Yang Ju committed suicide, because he accepted bribes and gave the good land to Tubo. UU Reading www.uuｋａｎｓｈu.net

Now that the Tang Dynasty has to continue fighting, Tubo will definitely not be at peace.

"Let's see how to fight then, and give full play to the advantages of good weapons, especially hot air balloons." Guo Zhiyun is full of confidence in this battle.

The things given by Chang'an are too good, and there are telescopes. Tubo can arrange the battle array however it wants.

A lot of troops should be withdrawn to fight the four towns and Dashicheng, hoping that they can hold on.

As long as we win a battle here, Tubo will definitely return to rescue.

"If our army does not suffer much loss, we can join forces with Zhang Zhongliang's Longyou troops to defend and not give Tubo a chance to recapture it."

Wang Junkui was thinking about whether it would be okay for the army to be stationed here, and not return to Liangzhou for the time being after the battle, and wait for the court to arrange it.

"I'm afraid that the logistics pressure is too great, and Longyou alone will be difficult to sustain." Guo Zhiyun was a little worried.

What he didn't know was that when he sent troops, the Shu Salt Gang once again organized manpower.