Screening for spies? If Xun Qi could be screened, then Vesutiva I would have to consider whether Zhu Helai was a traitor. This would be a bigger problem, right?
Therefore, Xun Qi was just doing ordinary work during this period, keeping an eye on this area and telling Guishang and others not to mess around. As for counter-espionage and the like, Xun Qi was not worried at all. He was now at a higher level, so what were he waiting for?
When the time comes, he seizes the opportunity and makes Oswin his subordinate.
Xun Qi has basically stopped doing other things. In fact, as long as he stays in Peshawar and does nothing, maintaining the current two-city operating model, the bureaucrats who are left behind in Peshawar will also follow suit.
The development of time will automatically bite Qunv City over there.
For Xun Qi, his situation is naturally very good, so his main task recently is to curb the emotions of the bureaucrats in Peshawar, to save these bureaucrats' anger points, and when he seizes the opportunity, he will make a big move and give it to Qunv City.
A ruthless one.
Although Masinde is quite important, he did not come to Peshawar. Xunqi paid attention to him for a while and determined that the other party was basically cold, so he left it alone. How could he have thought that Masinde actually went to the mountain town of Bactria?
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"Now that the soldiers have been trained and the supplies are ready, the question is what we will eat when we go up. This batch of transportation can be said to have hollowed out the Bactra area. We can no longer have such a large-scale transportation system.
Measure it." Fulward looked at Masinde and sighed.
Boward gave up riding camels. To be precise, he didn't give up riding camels, but gave up camels. After all, if you want to go to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, camels are really a burden, and cavalry are basically burdens. They can survive there.
Horses are basically no more than 1.4 meters tall at the withers.
The bigger the horse, the greater the demand for oxygen. In fact, the same is true for humans. The stronger they are, the more oxygen they consume. Of course, these can take time to adapt to.
After being reminded by Masinde, Fulward also realized the advantages that initiative can bring. In fact, he also knew very well that even if he brought 40,000 people to Qinghai-Tibet, he would not be able to defeat the Han Dynasty, but Qinghai-Tibet bordering
The area is all native to the Han Dynasty. In this way, one or two legions that can take the initiative can contain dozens of times the strength of the Han army.
This was actually the way Tubo fought against the Tang Dynasty. Tubo's native population was only three to four million, and the so-called ruling population totaled tens of millions. In fact, it was more of the population that Tubo only had after the Tang Dynasty collapsed and entered the mid-Tang Dynasty after the Anshi Rebellion.
Yes, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty was in the middle period. It is not the normal impression that the Tang Dynasty was over when the Anshi Rebellion ended. In fact, there was still a hundred and fifty years from the Anshi Rebellion to the fall of the Tang Dynasty, but this period of time was for most people
It makes almost no impression on people.
Many people even feel that there should be hundreds of years between the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the Song Dynasty. In fact, there were only fifty-three years between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the reincarnation of Taizu Huangpao in the Song Dynasty. The Anshi Rebellion was only a mid-term shock to the Tang Dynasty, and it was far from its demise.
Still far, far away.
As for why I feel that the Tang Dynasty disappeared after Tianbao, it is actually an outrageous impression. From the beginning of Tang Taizong to Tang Xuanzong, it was generally on the rise, whether it was external, economic, or cultural.
It's rising, and it's rising explosively.
When the people of the world faced Tubo, they defeated them, but were unable to make progress. The two sides formed a close relationship with each other. When Li Zhi came to power, Tubo began to frantically attack the Tang Dynasty, relying on the terrain of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and attacked the Tang Dynasty.
The Battle of Qinghai, it can be said that this was one of the few very miserable battles in the early Tang Dynasty that suffered a heavy defeat, and it was the kind of battle that resulted in consecutive defeats and loss of territory.
Later, Li Zhi may have also discovered that the Tang army really couldn't advance, so he changed his mind, adjusted his tactics, and began to fight against Tubo in the Western Regions. He fought a series of battles for Anxi, but the overall situation was still in a defensive posture.
Although the total military strength of Tubo was far less than that of the Tang Dynasty, it had the initiative and took the initiative to find loopholes along the long border of the Tang Dynasty. Li Zhi was pushed into strategic defense.
Later came the period of Wu Zetian. Let’s not talk about it in the early stage. Tubo had a great advantage, and the Tang Dynasty was beaten to the point of abandoning the four towns of Anxi. This is also the reason why history books say that Wu Zhao lost power and humiliated the country.
The problem lies later. In the second year after Wu Zhao ascended the throne, the army arrived in Anxi, defeated Tubo, took back the four towns of Anxi, and established the Anxi Protectorate. Wu Zhao began to counterattack and attacked Qinghai, and then continued to see-saw until Tang Xiujing fought against Tubo.
After six victories, the Tang Dynasty gained a firm foothold in Qinghai.
After that, we actually came to Xuanzong. What do you say about Xuanzong? This person needs to be divided into two stages, one is to use his brain as his brain, and the other is to use his brain for other purposes.
In the first half, Xuanzong gradually gained the upper hand starting from the Battle of Wujie. Later, when the Helong area completely suppressed Tubo, Xuanzong directly moved people to Qinghai to farm and beat Tubo to death.
Compared with the fighting methods of Li Zhi and Wu Zhao, Xuanzong's attitude is very clear. He has more money, more people, more soldiers and more generals. To put it simply, comprehensive encirclement tactics, from Kashmir to the Western Regions, from the Western Regions to Longyou, from
From Longyou to Hequ, Central Asia from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a total war.
In a series of battles such as the Battle of Wujie, the Battle of Shibao City, and the Tang Dynasty's attack on Xiaobolu, Xuanzong crossed thousands of miles from Central Asia to stab Tubo all over the body, cutting off Tibet and Central Asia at the same time, and won a comprehensive victory.
The dynasty also reached its peak.
By this time, Xuanzong's soldiers were all stationed in the Qinghai-Tibet Yanbian area, and then there was no one behind him. This was the state of Xuanzong. When he was super god, he was super god, and when he was super ghost, he was super ghost. It was as simple as that.
At this step, even if it were handed over to Li Zhi, who was relatively weak among the previous ones, Li Zhi would be able to hammer Tubo to pieces.
It's a pity that there is no more, so there is no need to describe it, but from here we can also see how much trouble Tubo will have after having the ability to actively attack.
What Masinde actually wants is not victory, he wants time. Wise men such as Zhu Helai, Masinde, and Banerjee have actually seen through the problems of the current route taken by Vesudeva I. Of course, they do not think that this is the case.
There is a wrong path.
With the unification of political power and religious power, the country's strength will rise rapidly in a short period of time. As for short-term chaos, this is actually an inevitable process of reform, so the purpose of Zhu He coming to these people is very clear, which is to delay this period.
Face the ancient empire of the Han Dynasty with the power of the new empire.
Under this premise, Masinde suggested that Fulward send troops to Qinghai-Tibet in order to contain the strength of the Han Dynasty and buy time for Kushan.
This time does not need to be too long. In Masinde's view, as long as Fulward successfully reaches Qinghai-Tibet and can solve the logistical problems for two or three years, then Fulward can hold off hundreds of thousands of Han troops for the same period of time. That's right.
Masinde’s understanding is very clear that Qinghai-Tibet is not a combat capability issue, but a logistics issue.
However, this logistical problem cannot be solved, at least not by Masinde.
On the Bactra side, Fulward dispatched 40,000 available elites and mobilized all the grain and grass logistics. As a result, after calculating the transportation losses, Fulward discovered that the grain and grass he had prepared might not last more than three days after he arrived in Yanbian, Qinghai-Tibet.
months.
You must know that this is Bactla, the capital of the ancient Bactria Kingdom and an important town in the north of Kushan. In official history, it once supplied the Kushan army with food and grass for a year-long campaign of 110,000 troops.
But now there is more food and grass being hoarded, the scale of the troop dispatch is only 40,000, and the marching speed is faster. As a result, after walking all the way to Qinghai-Tibet on the plateau, the food and grass are only enough for three months?
"This food and grass can't be solved at all, okay?" Fulward was a little confused. He didn't know where the food and grass had been consumed inexplicably. What should we do?
"My suggestion is this. You use horses to transport them. Although horses eat more, they also transport more. As for the problem of Arabian horses not being able to reach the plateau, you can kill them and make horse meat jerky after they arrive." Masinde
He said with a cold expression.
"..." Fulward looked at Masinde, and Masinde also looked at Fulward.
"This will give us one more month of food and grass. We will have no food and grass for four months after we go up there." Fulward pondered for a moment, and still agreed with Masinde's suggestion, but it was not enough. I couldn't last two days even if I went up there.
In 2001, when he could only hold out for four months, the Han Dynasty only needed to mobilize troops to guard him. If it took a while, he would die.
But with only four months, it was impossible for the Han Dynasty to change its focus. Even as soon as he came up with this idea, Fulward died, and he died of lack of food in an extremely frustrated way.
"There is also a Shang Shung dynasty over there, with about 400,000 people. The lamas I have arranged have already entered. After all, Nepal is the birthplace of Buddhism, and they also have small-scale contacts there." Masin
De said calmly.
"Can four hundred thousand people support an army of forty thousand?" Fulward looked at Masinde and said with a sneer. Are you kidding me? Raising an army ten to one is just a dream. You have to consider the reality when you go to war.
"It won't work for a long time, but in three to five years, it's still possible to struggle with the decline of people's livelihood. Besides, there may be more than 400,000 people there. Such a large territory is half the size of Kushan. Maybe the population can be even more
Some." Masinde shook his head and said, he was doing it to gain time, not for any subsequent development, so it can be supported.
"Do you have the distribution of the Shang Shung Dynasty?" Fulward looked at Masinde and asked.
"Not all, but I can find their tribal chiefs if I wait. I have arranged for the manpower in Shule and Khotan to have contacted some Qinghai-Tibet tribes. They are quite wealthy." Masinde was quite confident, and Fu
Ward nodded after hearing this. If so, he could give it a try.
Regardless of how badly Fulward was beaten by Li Jue, in fact Fulward's camel riding is ranked among the best in the whole world. Therefore, his attitude is the same as that of the Han Dynasty. As long as I can find the Xiangxiong Dynasty,
, it will definitely kill you.
It’s Chinese New Year, good luck to you all in the Year of the Ox. The author has decided to update the page tomorrow to celebrate the New Year~
