Chapter 989: Chatting on the Road and Hiding the Baggage

The troops of the Hexi Jiedushi were moving forward. Huangshui County was the headquarters of the Longyou Jiedushi, not the front line.

The road from Huangshui County to the front is very difficult, with continuous ravines.

Only after we have climbed a bunch of mountains, walked through a bunch of ditches, and crossed a river can we reach the front.

On both sides of the Yellow River ahead are the Yingbian Army garrison and the Jishi Army garrison. The former is to the north of the Yellow River, and the latter is naturally to the south.

At Li Yi's time, the G 213 National Highway, the G06 Yaoyao Expressway, and the S306 Provincial Highway were open to traffic here.

Further south there is Provincial Road S 202. The place chosen by Tang Longyou's army is the same as elsewhere.

There is a garrison in front of the dangerous place, with mountains and rivers behind it.

Some of the elite soldiers from Hexi must pass over. Once the fighting breaks out, the soldiers behind will begin to pass over one after another, from small-scale raids to large-scale breakthroughs, and finally to occupation.

The army in front also floated hot air balloons, responsible for reconnaissance of the Tibetan army.

The scout cavalry from both sides have contact almost every day, all the time.

The difference is that the Tibetan scouts initially dared to stand within a few miles of the Tang army, but now they have retreated thirty miles.

The Tang Dynasty border army had a hot air balloon, which was tied to a rope and flew very high. The scouts from both sides were circling in front, and the hot air balloon could see clearly.

Tang Bing scouts would bring a telescope and look back at the semaphores in the sky.

Then several scout troops circled to ambush the Tubo scouts. If Tubo had too many scouts, the Tang scouts would run back.

The Tibetan scouts were miserable and could not fight. They could see their side from a long distance in the sky, and they were surrounded without knowing what was going on.

Usually when a Tang Army scout is discovered, one's own team enters the circle.

Tang Bing scouts brought telescopes to detect the enemy in advance, moved outside the enemy's field of vision, arrived at the predetermined position, and closed up.

The Tubo scouts suffered successive losses and finally ran back, out of the hot air balloon's reconnaissance range.

The advantage is that there is no disadvantage, but the disadvantage is that the field of view of the hot air balloon blocks the battlefield from Tibet.

The Tang Dynasty mobilized its troops, but Tubo could not see it.

Guo Zhiyun was riding a horse on the mountain road, and from time to time, soldiers would translate the flags to him.

Where are the troops in front of my own team, where is the baggage train broken down, and a horse accidentally fell into the valley.

Listening to the voice of the messenger, Guo Zhiyun felt calm. Even if the soldier fell, he remained indifferent.

When marching and fighting, non-combat attrition is normal.

Wang Junkui looked at the dots in the sky and said, "The reserves of gasoline and diesel are sufficient for the time being. We don't have them in Shu. I'm afraid it won't be enough to transport them from Chang'an."

"There's enough time for us to use it. I believe Li Yi has arrangements. I heard that diesel is used for night lighting in Chang'an City."

Guo Zhiyun didn't think about the oil issue. He believed that Li Yi knew better than anyone else the role of the hot air balloon ahead.

Wang Junkui smiled and nodded: "He said that diesel production was high and kerosene was easy to use, and Li Yi used it to sell it for money."

"Everyone has heard that gasoline, diesel and kerosene are made by boiling petroleum fat into oil. Kerosene is the least and diesel is the most. Didn't we find some petroleum fat boiled in Tibet and Turks?"

Guo Zhiyun wanted to laugh when he talked about this. Datang collected stone resin from various places and sent it to Lijiazhuangzi.

Lijiazhuangzi came up with something, it was linoleum paper, and the news spread, and the Tubo and Turks looked for it and found it in a pot.

After finishing it, I said it is more useful for defending the city and making torches. It can also be used to cook rice when the pot is placed on it.

None of the expected oil was boiled out, but many people got sick.

Wang Junkui held the reins with one hand, reached into his pocket with the other hand, took out a handful of fried hazelnuts, and handed it over: "In addition to the bravery of the soldiers, fighting is all about paying for skills."

Guo Zhiyun reached out and took over a dozen hazelnuts: "Do you still have pine nuts? Everyone else eats them, but you are reluctant to eat them. You just want to keep them on your body."

"When you see a young sergeant, give him a handful. He is risking his life, unlike us who are just giving orders."

Wang Junkui said and handed the remaining hazelnuts down to the soldiers who were following him.

"Thank you, deputy envoy." The soldier happily accepted it.

They couldn't eat anything. They had canned food, meat floss, salted dried beans, compressed biscuits, but no dried fruits.

There were few dried fruits sent from Chang'an, so I gave some to the generals, but they were gone.

They are reluctant to eat canned food and so on. They use it for fighting, as long as they have food to eat.

"I heard that a large number of pine nuts were obtained by Lijiazhuangzi's team from the Bohai Sea. Li Yi did not sell them, but sent them to us."

As he spoke, Guo Zhiyun threw a hazelnut into his mouth, bit it lightly and opened it.

"It was a gift from His Majesty, and everything was given by His Majesty." Wang Junkui reminded, don't make a mistake.

This is true in name, given by His Majesty.

"Your Majesty!" Guo Zhiyun said again.

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Further northwest than the Longyou Army, an army was resting with a hot air balloon flying in the sky.

Zhang Xiaosong drank some water first, then took out a handful of meat floss and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it slowly to taste the taste.

Other soldiers also ate meat floss to replenish their physical strength.

They found the Tibetan army's baggage team and went to fight after resting.

From the hot air balloon, the Tibetan baggage team is a small moving dot, with a telescope.

The smaller group of people couldn't actually see anything when looking at the hot air balloon.

The hot air balloon has no sound and its color is sky blue.

Unless there are dark clouds, the sky-blue hot air balloon will become a small light-colored dot.

But the hot air balloon will not take off when there are dark clouds, otherwise it is guaranteed to be struck by lightning.

The baggage troops had cars and civilian husbands, slaves to be precise.

There were local slaves of Tubo and slaves of Tang people who were plundered. When exchanging prisoners in Songzhou, some people refused to give them.

In addition, there were 1,000 Tubo cavalrymen protecting them, and they kept scolding and whipping the slaves with horse whips.

The people of Tang worked hard, but even so, the Tubo cavalry didn't like them and still beat them.

After being beaten, the people of Tang didn't say anything and continued to work with their heads down.

They were mainly responsible for repairing vehicles and lifting vehicles when the wheels were stuck in soft soil and sand.

It was just that when they were working, they would occasionally look at the same people of Tang, and the two sides had a brief exchange of eyes.

Now that they had left Tubo's territory, they were ready to escape.

As long as they were fighting in front, they would find an opportunity to run. If they ran away, they would be lucky, and if they couldn't run away, they would accept their fate.

Half an hour later, the team continued to move forward.

The leader of the team found that something was wrong. It seemed that... two groups of scouts sent out had not returned.

After waiting for another half a quarter of an hour, he was sure that something was wrong, because there were four scout teams that had not returned, front, back, left, and right.

"Prepare for battle." The general chose the safest method, the team assembled, and protected the baggage.

"Quick, report to the front, and say we were ambushed." The general called a team leader and pointed to the front and shouted.

"Follow me." The team leader waved his hand, and 150 riders rushed out.

They knew that it would be useless to stay when the enemy attacked, and telling the front was not just to ask for rescue.

Maybe everything would be too late when the rescue came, they had to tell the main force in front that the baggage was gone.

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