Chapter 518: Shangdang's Conquest!

Chapter 518

"Come on, from now on, no one is allowed to approach without my order!"

Li Siye said suddenly.

"grown ups……"

"Those who disobey the order will be beheaded!"

Li Siye slashed with his right hand, and the wuz steel giant sword in his right hand emitted a sword aura, and smashed on the ground with a bang, earth and rocks flew up, dust and smoke billowed, leaving a deep sword mark on the ground. In an instant, everyone fell silent, subconsciously retreating one by one.

"Yes, my lord."

I don't know who said in a low voice.

Li Siye never tried to put on airs deliberately, but if he was serious, it meant that this matter must be very serious. At this time, no one dared to provoke him.

"Young master, is this the key to the war you told me?"

Li Siye secretly said in his heart.

By this time, he already understood why Wang Chong left him this box. Sheep plague rarely occurs on the grasslands, but when it occurs, it is a disaster. Unlike the people in the Central Plains, the people on the grassland don't know so many medical skills and prescriptions. When the sheep died of plague, they didn't know how to bury the sheep's corpse like the people in the Central Plains.

Coupled with the people grazing in groups on the grassland, the number of cattle and sheep is tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, or even more. Therefore, once sheep plague occurs, it will be a large-scale and large-scale disaster.

For people on the prairie, this is definitely a matter of turning pale.

It's just that the grassland has always been hostile to the Central Plains, and cattle and sheep eat by water. After eating one place, they move to another place. The mobility is very large, so things like sheep plague have rarely happened on the grassland. Many herdsmen don't even know what sheep plague is. This also makes the grassland nomads easy to take advantage of.

The meaning of what Wang Chong prepared is self-evident.

If it was before, Li Siye would have strongly opposed it. But now, the 180,000 elites of the Southwest Anhufu were defeated, Li Zhengji's 60,000 reinforcements were ambushed and suppressed, the Southwest Gate of the Tang Dynasty has been opened, and nearly a million Li people have no shelter, completely exposing the truth of Mengshe Zhao and Uszang. Under the coalition forces, at this time, it would be pedantic to repay the benevolence of women and cherish feathers.

Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself.

"……only,

Does this really work? "

Li Siye secretly sighed in his heart.

Even if he understood the purpose of these things, Li Siye still didn't understand the purpose of Wang Chong's arrangement. Whether these sheep plagues can cause damage and how much damage it can cause is a matter of the future, but the crisis of the Southwest Army is just around the corner. Moreover, even if he completes the mission, Uzang's army will not suffer any loss.

Does this really work?

"Here, bring me a bag of food!"

Li Siye took a deep breath and said suddenly.

"Yes, my lord."

Soon a soldier came over with a bag of soybeans and food that accompanied the army. Li Siye didn't involve anyone, and mixed the bag of soybeans, peas and rations with his own hands.

"Buzz!"

After finishing all this, Li Siye suddenly flicked his wrist, let out a burst of strong energy, closed the box with a snap, raised his head, and looked into the distance.

Looking from here, one can see herds of cattle and sheep wandering on the dense grass from a distance, like clouds, vast and everywhere. If you look carefully, you can still see the shepherds among the flocks. They are tall with barley horses on their crotches. Standing among the flocks, they are extremely eye-catching even from a long distance.

The only ones who can ride this kind of horse to graze are the shepherds in Uzbekistan.

"The two armies are at war, and if you dare to support the army, then you are our enemy, and you can't blame me for everything!"

Li Siye looked at the shepherd in the distance, his eyes flashed coldly.

"The whole army obeys the order, all Tibetans in Uzbekistan, don't let a single one go!"

Li Siye's aura was restrained, and the aura in his whole body suddenly became extremely cold.

"Yes, my lord!"

Following an order, the army responded with a bang, and in the next moment, more than a thousand fine horsemen started to move slowly and quickly, rolling up clouds of smoke and dust, and rushed straight to the distance.

"ah!"

"It's the Tang people!"

"Go!"

...

Screams came from a distance, and the shepherds in Chilechuan were in a panic. Many of the flocks were trying to escape to the distance. Well, it was too late. At this moment, the two countries are at war, how could Li Siye give them a chance to escape?

"Boom!"

The sound of horseshoes is even more urgent!

With the sound of hooves kicking hurriedly, no one knew that another "war" had already started behind the Uzbek army.

"Soldiers and horses are not moved, food and grass go first", this is the eternal principle of marching and fighting, even it is recorded in military books and war strategies. However, this is just a military strategy in the Central Plains, and it has never been a problem for the Tibetans of Uzbekistan, including other ethnic groups on the grassland.

Wang Chong once researched that the logistics methods of the Tibetans in Uzbekistan are completely different from those of the Central Plains.

It takes two to three years to prepare for a large-scale war in the Central Plains, and such a long-term reserve can only last for a few months. Once more than three or four months, there is no way to fight the war. At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Taizong was in power, the Tang Dynasty was very prosperous, but in the war against the Goguryeo Empire, because the Goguryeo people were strong and clear, the logistics of the Tang Dynasty could not keep up. After four months of war, because There was a shortage of food, and he had to go back to the court, and he died without a problem, which ended this war that cost a lot of national power.

However, these four months have already been the longest battle in the history of the Central Plains dynasty's war. For this reason, Datang even reserved grain for more than three years in advance!

For the Central Plains Dynasty, such a war could not be easily launched.

But the Uzbek Tibetans are different from the Turkic people. They want to fight a war, and they can move thousands of miles at any time without worrying about the logistics. If, like the Tang Dynasty, they were subject to such great constraints and prepared so many years in advance, then the people on the grassland would have no fighting power, and it would be even less likely to become a border threat to the Tang Dynasty.

In the final analysis, it is not that the Uzbek Tibetans and Turks do not have food problems, but their eating habits are completely different from those of the Central Plains.

The ethnic groups on the grassland mainly eat meat, and they eat meat for every meal, so there is no problem at all. However, for the people of Central Earth Shenzhou, if they eat meat every day, without other staple food, they will definitely be very excited at the beginning, eating and drinking, but after three or four days, they will get bored immediately. After a month, the army will have no fighting power at all.

The staple foods of the Central Plains people are rice, chestnut, millet, sorghum, etc., and their habits are naturally different. The storage, transportation, planting, and cooking of these grains are quite troublesome, time-consuming and labor-intensive. Not to mention, the Central Plains people also pay attention to the combination of meat and vegetables, cooking, boiling, steaming, frying, and roasting in various ways.

There is only rice, no meat, no smell in the stomach, and it will be limp when fighting.

Therefore, people in the Central Plains must have the habit of having a big meal before the battle. There is a saying that only when you are full can you have strength!

In the land of the Central Plains, the common people are used to this. Whether it is a military god, a soldier saint, or the ancient master of military art, there is no way to deal with this situation. They can only follow the trend of the water, so it is said in the military book that "the soldiers and horses are not moved, and the food goes first." ", the nature is like this, how can it be changed?

But the grassland people are different, and their eating habits are far less complicated. They can be cooked, and it doesn’t even matter if they are raw.

When the army was dispatched, the shepherds followed. The army became the solid backing of the shepherds in the front, and the shepherds drove flocks of cattle and sheep behind to provide rations for the army. Cattle and sheep eat grass by grass. They don't need plowing, plow keys, a lot of water, and months to mature.

More importantly, cattle and sheep will never be moldy, and there is no need to worry about food storage.

Wherever the army maneuvered, the cattle and sheep rushed there. There will never be a problem of saying it is not fresh, or damp, or moldy. As long as there is grass, the army will never lack food and grass.

Moreover, the army of the steppe nation came from the shepherds.

They are logistics officers and shepherds now, and they will be the army in the future. Because there are too many cattle and sheep, the grassland people can even slaughter the cattle and sheep, make them into jerky, and put salt on them.

Whether it's a top expert or an ordinary herdsman, it's all like this!

In this world, what can really affect them is only the cold winter and frost in extreme weather!

Wang Chong once thought carefully. Among the various options for war, only logistics is the least thing that the grassland people need to worry about. This is true of the Turks, and so is the Uzbek Tibetans.

In terms of logistics, farming peoples and nomadic peoples are naturally unequal!

Therefore, the nomads did not have the same weapons and equipment as the Central Plains Dynasty, nor did they have such a large population, nor did they have such a splendid culture. In the history books of the Central Plains Dynasty, this content is always recorded:

In a certain year, the Turkic people, or invaded the border; or in a certain year, the Uzbek Tibetans plundered the border and left for profit; otherwise, in a certain year, Yingzhou, Youzhou, and a certain place were invaded by bandits side!

Such records are everywhere in the history books, and they will never be recorded.

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But this point of the grassland nomads is by no means unavailable.

If they can bypass the army in front, go around the herdsmen in the rear, and kill all their flocks, they will be hit hard. Under normal circumstances, this would never be possible. The Tibetans of Uzbekistan would never give Datang such an opportunity. But now, all Uzbek Tibetans are attracted to the Lion City.

Li Zhengji has been wiped out, and there are three Uzang troops guarding the pass.

For the Tibetans in Uzbekistan, the rear of the army is already impenetrable, and there is nothing that can threaten them at all. This also gave Wang Chong the best chance.

And these "plague-dead sheep" were the best gifts Wang Chong had prepared for the Tibetans in Uzbekistan.

The Tibetans in Uzbekistan really have too many sheep. Unlike the people in the Central Plains, no one has ever said how many sheep, or a dozen, or dozens of sheep. Nomads have always herded sheep with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of sheep, which is unimaginable for the farming peoples in the Central Plains.

Moreover, there is another characteristic of nomads, that is, they use tribes as their units. When herding sheep, the time is naturally based on the tribe.

Therefore, there has never been a saying that one person raised several sheep. It's all about how many sheep a tribe raises.

And this number has always been extremely large.

When the number is large enough, sneak attacks have become useless. The shepherds can even leave the flock alone and let them kill. Hundreds of thousands of sheep stood there motionless, even if they were killed from dawn to dusk, they would not be able to kill them all. And when Li Siye and the others left, the herdsmen could come back at any time.

At that time, it will be enough to make the slaughtered cattle and sheep into jerky.

Such a raid is completely meaningless!

It is useless to rely on ordinary methods to deal with the Uzbek Tibetans and attack the sheep grazing behind them. So we have to take the edge of the sword.

And these plague-stricken sheep were gifts prepared by Wang Chong for them.

When a sheep suffers from plague, it will quickly infect the whole flock. From one tribe to all the parts, more importantly, the grassland people don't know how to deal with sheep plague at all, and they don't have the habit of burying it. This means that an independent thing can easily turn into a huge disaster in the end!

When dealing with the enemy, you can't just be on the surface, you must make him feel pain to the bone, to the bone! Then they will learn their lesson.

War is not just a battle of forces, nor is it just a fight of fist to flesh, sword against sword, but also a war of strategy!

At this moment, apart from Wang Chong, even Li Siye himself didn't know that if his plan was successful, what awaited the Tibetans in Uzbekistan would be a huge disaster that would last for several years, or even ten years!

Without a huge flock, there will be a predictable catastrophe on the plateau. And this famine will consume the national strength accumulated by the Tibetans in Uzbekistan for decades, and make their ambitions come to naught!

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