The two prefectures of Shankuo were Xiping County in the Han Dynasty and the hometown of the Qiang and Tuyuhun. Three years ago, it was the core area ruled by the Longyou Jiedushi. Due to the Anshi Rebellion, the Longyou Army's internal adjustments to suppress the rebellion made the Hehuang area the first to be conquered by the Tubo The people occupied it, which then threatened the security of Liangzhou and Lanzhou. The loss of Baiting Shouchuo in Jiaocheng left Wuwei City directly exposed to the Tubo troops.
The Tuyuhun people and Qiang soldiers account for a large proportion in the composition of the Longyou Second Army in Hexi. Just like the Flying Tiger Cavalry carefully built by Li Siye, 20% of the Hexi descendants are also Qiang. These Qiang soldiers are very important to the Longyou army in Hexi. The Qiang generals represented by Fumeng Lingcha were always active on the battlefields in Hexi and even Anxi, and made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty.
The Qiang soldiers were known for their bravery and proficiency in fighting. After Li Siye supported the new emperor to ascend the throne, he promoted several Qiang generals in the Flying Tiger Cavalry. This time when he was reorganizing Hexi, he also used the Qiang soldiers as the vanguard and called on them to take back their homeland.
Li Siye marched into Tianzhu County with Tian Zhen as the vanguard. The Tibetan troops stationed here had already fled completely, but one of the tame slaves, Dong Dai, was unable to retreat and was stranded on the road to escape north, and was led by Tian Zhen. The forward troops were directly captured.
In Dongdai, this tame slave that provided supplies for the army, there were children crying for food, elderly people in their prime, and tens of thousands of livestock. Capturing these Tibetan people was a burden to the Flying Tiger Cavalry.
Tian Zhen sent a messenger to Li Siye, suggesting that these Tubo people should be killed.
Li Siye wrote back to him and said: "How can a general kill the people indiscriminately? Nowadays, there are fewer people in Longyou and Hexi. Instead of killing them, it is better to move to Hexi. If there is a need to march urgently, you might as well take their private weapons first." Confiscate it and continue to Kuozhou, I will send someone to receive it."
Tian Zhen had no choice but to delay for half a day, killing only Dongben and the officials who had tamed Dongdai, confiscating all the daggers and hunting bows carried by all the herdsmen and common people, and then left them behind and headed towards Kuozhou.
These herdsmen were leaderless and in a state of confusion. They seemed to have nowhere to go. If they had run towards Tubo, where the Tang army was fighting with Su Piru, and were captured again, they might not be as lucky as they are now.
Li Siye sent a general with three thousand soldiers. To their surprise, this high-ranking official of the Tang army turned out to be a Tubo man, and he could also speak fluent Tubo dialect with the Luoxecheng accent. The herdsmen began to react to this. People were very resistant and looked at him coldly as if he was a traitor.
The general holding the butcher's knife did not become angry. Instead, he stood on the mound and shouted to everyone: "It's not that the Hexi Army has no generals who are easy to kill. Why did King Yong not send anyone else but me? This shows that he We are willing to accept you and provide you with a way of life in Hexi so that you can settle down and become citizens of the Tang Dynasty."
A few thorns among the Tibetan herdsmen shouted in the crowd: "What is the general's name? Do you dare to tell him his name?"
"Why don't you dare? My name is Lun Weiliang. My great-great-grandfather was Ludongzan, the Great Lun of Sunzan Gambo. My great-grandfather was also the Great Lungar Qinling of Tubo. My grandfather was Lun Gongren, the king of Batchuan County in the Tang Dynasty. My father is the king of Wuwei County in the Tang Dynasty."
The herdsmen were immediately dumbfounded. Everyone in Tubo knew about the legendary Gar family. Starting from Lu Dongzan's mission to the Tang Dynasty to propose to marry Princess Wencheng, the father and son of the Gar family controlled the military and political power of Tubo. But through the ages, the None of the powerful officials ended up well. As an adult, Chide Songtsan was unwilling to let go of power and began to purge the Gar family. When Gongren's father, Gar Qinling, was accused of rebellion and executed, he and his uncle turned around. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the Lun family became a family of generals.
Elders from several tribes raised their hands and asked: "We want to submit and go to Hexi. Can we be given land? Can we be allowed to drive yaks to graze?"
"Of course you can, but it can only be wasteland. Those who want to graze Longyou have plenty of pasture."
The herdsmen finally accepted the status quo: "The fact that the imperial court sent General Lun to accept us shows that they really want to give us a way to survive. We are willing to follow the general to move to Hexi."
The idea of these herdsmen is very simple. In Tubo, they were just working as cattle and horses. How bad could they be if they moved to Hexi?
Li Siye led the rear army to arrive, and Weiliang went to see him in the big tent. He said that in the next battle, more tame slaves Dongdai would definitely be captured, and those who were willing to surrender would be allowed to stay in Tianzhu and Yongdeng for the time being.
The two counties waited until more prisoners were sent over, and then moved them to Liangzhou and Lanzhou together.
Li Siye asked doubtfully: "To guard so many prisoners, it will require a lot of troops. The troops in my hand cannot be wasted in such a place."
"Please rest assured, my lord, no matter how many prisoners my lord sends, Weiliang only needs a thousand people."
"A thousand people?" Xu Bin, who was standing next to him, asked: "This matter is not a trivial matter. So many prisoners gathered together, but only a thousand people were sent to guard us. If they break out and attack our army from behind, we will
A great victory may be lost.”
On Weiliang crossed his arms and responded: "Although the military advisor's concerns are not unreasonable, Weiliang's ancestors are Tubo people and know the situation in Tubo better than you. Most of the tame slaves in Dongdai are civilians and slaves, and they are very concerned about the so-called Tubo people."
He Zanpu has no loyalty. Moreover, the people of Tubo are different from the people of the Central Plains. The people of the Central Plains have been influenced by thousands of years of Confucian loyalty.
, I will definitely not have the thought of going back. And Weiliang asked the lord for these one thousand people not to guard the prisoners, but to help them and maintain order among them."
Li Siye nodded approvingly and said: "What Wei Liang said impressed me deeply. I will leave this matter to you with full authority. If all the prisoners can be settled smoothly and no big mistakes are made, you will definitely be the first to take the lead."
On Wei Liang, he knelt on the ground and crossed his hands to express thanks: "Wei Liang thanked my lord."
Li Siye stroked his beard and nodded. As expected, only a thousand men were left for Lun Weiliang. He led the army and followed Tian Zhen's former army to Kuozhou.
The state government of Kuozhou is in Hualong County, which was changed to Guangwei County to avoid Li Longji's name. Since it was once the garrison of Longyou Ningsai Army, its area and strength are much larger than those of ordinary county towns, but it still cannot bear the capacity of Su.
There are hundreds of thousands of tribesmen nearby.
Suviru was unable to make a choice, so he had to drive the four tame slaves Dongdai out of the city. These ordinary people had no place to shelter from the wind and rain, so Ruben ordered them to march northwest and move to Qinghai Lake behind the stone castle.
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However, Tian Zhen, the vanguard general of the Hexi Army, had already arrived with his troops. The four Dongbens from Dongdai gathered together to discuss whether, since I, the Lord, have abandoned us, we might as well surrender to the Tang Army to settle the matter.
More than 20,000 tame slaves, Dong Dai, surrendered to Tian Zhen. Naturally, Tian Zhen refused to accept anyone who came. He took them in and waited for Li Siye's rear army to come and take them over.
The flying tiger cavalry approached the city and kept yelling and challenging at the top of the city. The Tubo army lost its core combat power. If it had no confidence to go out of the city to fight, it had to order Dongdai, a tame slave living in the city, to repair and strengthen the city wall every day.
There are still too many people living in the city, especially Dongdai, a tame slave who raises a large number of livestock. People and animals live together, and the smell of excrement permeates the sky. The streets in the city are covered with felt tents, and there are
Many people did not have roofs to protect them from the wind and rain, so they had to sleep in the streets.
It is winter now, and the Tubo people have hoarded a large amount of fodder in the city in advance, making the living area even narrower. This fodder was originally raised for the cavalry of the Supi tribe. Now that the cavalry has been lost, the remaining fodder is enough to satisfy the needs of the people.
In addition to Dongdai's bodyguard Dongdaihe and the Tibetan generals, sheep and light cavalry, they were also able to tame Dongdai's yaks and sheep.