At the junction of Sichuan and Tibet.

There is a very hidden path among the vast mountains. Today, hundreds of people came to the trail. They were hiding in the dense forests on both sides of the trail. You could also hear a few people talking in Tubo language.

"Strange! Why haven't this old Tan come yet?"

"Will you change your mind?"

"Impossible. I have been doing business with him for so many years, and he has always been very trustworthy."

"But we are fighting them now!"

"It's been fighting for so long. If they cared about this, they would have been broken with us long ago. It's impossible for them to keep selling weapons and give us some food."

"They are all a group of businessmen. These businessmen only have money in their eyes, but they don't care about these."

"Will there be an accident on the road?"

"It's possible."

While talking, I suddenly heard a harsh sound of birds singing.

When the people in the forest heard the sound of the birds singing, they immediately hid themselves.

After a while, a long convoy slowly came towards this side.

The convoy arrived in the forest and stopped, and the people who drove the car looked around.

Suddenly, I heard a burst of laughter from the forest, "Old Tan, you are late!"

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of people hidden in the forest walked out one after another.

The person leading the convoy was an elderly man with black and white hair mixed with black hair and white. "Brother Tsub, you can't blame me for this. Now there are troops everywhere in Shu. If you are discovered, my brothers and I will die."

"I understand, understand."

The man called Cibu laughed and said, "I'm just kidding. Don't take it to heart. We are very moved when we keep our promises."

The old Tan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay if we don't pay attention to our business, we can't do it!"

Cibu said again: "Brother, you are quite powerful in Shu. Otherwise, we will take over the inside and outside and occupy this Shu. At that time, I ask us to Zanpu and leave the entire Shu to you."

Old Tan shook his hand repeatedly and said, "I am just a businessman, all I want is money. I have no interest in these things. If you win in the future and can give my brother a way out, my brother will be satisfied."

"Hey! Brother, what you said is really too flirtatious! Although we are doing business, at this time, brother, you are still willing to continue trading with us. Then brother is our benefactor. We Tubo people will not forget our benefactor."

"With this sentence from my brother, I will feel relieved!"

Lao Tan said, pointing backwards, saying, "I have brought you all the goods if you want to get them!"

The cloth head was raised forward, and more than ten people around him immediately stepped forward and lifted the wooden cabinet and oil repair. At first glance, they looked all clothes, canned food, and wine, but they took out all these things first and took out the straws placed under them, all of them were bows, arrows, weapons, and leather armor.

I saw a man pick up a scimitar and slashing at a small tree next to him. The small tree immediately broke into two sections.

The man put the scimitar into the sheath again and nodded at Cibu with satisfaction.

Cibu immediately waved his hand and saw them pulling out more than a dozen carriages.

The people on Lao Tan's side immediately stepped forward and opened the boxes, and saw that it was full of gold, silver and jewelry, dazzling.

While Lao Tan and his friends were counting, Cibu suddenly said, "Brother, can you help us get some food? I know that your landlords in Shu have a lot of food."

Old Tan frowned and said, "Now the court allows the people to produce weapons, so this weapon is easy to get. On the contrary, the food is difficult to get. Wang Fangyi is now targeting the big landlords in Shu."

The second sermon said: "This money is not a problem. We are willing to pay three times the price to buy food."

Old Tan's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "Three times?"

Shibu nodded.

Old Tan smiled and said, "Brother, don't blame your brother for speaking directly. You have bought a lot of weapons, canned food, leather armor. Do you still have money?"

Tsubu smiled and said, "My brother, please rest assured that we can afford to buy any food you have. I am not afraid to tell me that we have robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in Tianzhu."

Lao Tan nodded and said, "Okay, I'll think of a solution, wait for my news."

"Then you have to hurry up."

"I know."

After the two parties trade, you will take my carriage directly, and I will take your carriage back together.

Because Lao Tan’s carriages are much more than the other party, it is not possible to directly exchange goods. In fact, these carriages are provided by Tubo, and there are not many horses in Shu.

After walking for more than ten miles, Old Tan looked back and suddenly said to someone beside him: "Hurry up and tell the boss that the plan has begun."

The man nodded, clamped his legs and ran away

War is about logistics, which is definitely the eternal law in war.

However, the current stalemate is far beyond Qin Ling's expectations. He expected that the powerful anti-Tang alliance would directly lead to the collapse of the Central Plains. Logically, it should have collapsed. However, the Tang Dynasty at this time was not the Tang Dynasty in the past. Under the commercial civilization, the Tang Dynasty could withstand the storm. Therefore, the Central Plains not only did not collapse, but instead burst out with strong productivity. It was this continuous logistics that prevented the Tang army from collapsing, although it was retreating.

Although Qinling had reserved enough food over the years, Tubo gradually felt a little difficult. In fact, he divided his troops to take care of the logistics. If the army was stationed in Tuyuhun, the logistics pressure would be great. He sent soldiers to the north and east to harass him, in fact, it was to rob things and save himself food and grass.

Qinling now knows that it is impossible to not be able to take over the Central Plains in one breath. As long as the Central Plains does not collapse, it will be difficult to occupy the entire Central Plains at once. He now hopes to negotiate with the Tang Dynasty to withdraw from the four towns of Anxi and Tuyuhun, and divide them with Tingzhou as the axis. In fact, they have basically occupied these places. Although we cannot conquer you, you cannot take them back. However, the Tang Dynasty did not even give him a chance to negotiate. Qinling sent two or three times and was shot to death.

Then I can only continue fighting.

Qinling had already planned this now. He first attacked Yumen Pass and forced the Tang army to give up Tuyuhun completely, and then stood there and stopped marching towards the Central Plains. After recovery, he would then go to the Central Plains. He knew it was impossible to get it in one step.

As the war continued, the logistics of both sides felt very stressed.

However, the pressure on both sides came from different places. The Tang Dynasty felt that the 50 million guan seemed to be not enough. The war was really expensive. However, since everyone knew that the queen began to sell her family business and support the front line, the Yuan family, the beauty of freedom, and the Zhang family, have also changed to donations to help the court and let the court spend as much money as possible to buy food. The court also mortgaged some minerals to the Jinshang and Yuanshang to lend more money.

Since the Tang Dynasty chose to issue national debts, it could only stick to this path. If the rules were to break the rules, then the 50 million national debts would have no meaning. If the people knew that the court would be responsible for the debt, then the Central Plains would really collapse.

Tubo chose another method, that is, the traditional method, to reduce the logistical pressure and ensure that it can handle more lasting wars.

First, it is to collect grain from the people, and secondly, it is to reduce the appetite for escorting slaves.

In fact, the huge amount of logistics consumption lies in the labor service of escorting food.

After the Tang Dynasty was reorganized, the entire logistics operation was based on commercial rules. Because it was a warehouse system, everyone transported back and forth between two warehouses. It would not be said that from Chang'an to Tuyuhun, every worker who lent grain was near his home. Their remuneration was money, not grain, and food was purchased in the market. The court had forced the suppression of the price of grain not rising. The court spent so much money to buy your food. If you want to raise the price again, it would be unreasonable. The food on this truck was for the soldiers to eat, which actually saved a lot of waste. In the past, officials would definitely make money from it, but now it is a matter of how much food is sold. There are no chance for officials to start.

Tubo used slaves to escort food on a large scale, directly reducing the appetite to 30%. Some escort teams even refused to give them food, and they enslaved the slaves until they died.

Starting from Lu Dongzan, several large-scale wars have obtained a large number of slaves for Tubo, including Qinling who has captured a large number of slaves from India in recent years. Slaves are definitely the best war preparation materials, but there are more than 100,000 slaves behind to help the army supply. The two sides are fighting in one breath now. Both sides also know that the war cannot last for a long time, so they don’t care if some slaves die. As long as they win this battle, no matter how many slaves there are, they will have.

In comparison, of course, the Tubo method is better. On the one hand, the food is transported to the front line, and by the way, the food eaters are reduced, killing two birds with one stone. If all the slaves are dead and the war is not over, Qinling will be convinced. Of course, the Tang Dynasty will not support it for so long.

In the evening, near the upper reaches of the Yak River, a team of grain escorts was slowly moving forward.

This Yak River is actually the prototype of Tongtian River in Journey to the West.

Slap sex!

Hearing a whip, a general holding a grain wielding whip constantly whipping a slave rolling on the ground. Gradually, the slave lay motionless on the ground.

The general stepped on the slave's head and shouted at the other slaves: "If anyone dares to be lazy, he will be your fate." After that, he pulled out his sword and stabbed the slave's chest with a knife. Then he shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, if the military rations are delayed, I will make you all die a bad death."

The slaves were so scared that their faces were filled with fear, and they pushed the cart forward desperately.

Even after nightfall, the general kept urging the slaves to rush the way.

"ah!"

He heard a moan and another slave fell down.

The soldier who was escorting the car rushed up immediately, and then whipped it down, "Get up quickly, don't be lazy."

The slave screamed in pain and wanted to stand up, but his legs became weak and he knelt down again.

The soldier immediately raised his whip again. Suddenly, a big hand held his wrist tightly. He looked back in shock and saw that it was a tall slave. He couldn't help but angrily, "What do you want to do?"

Several soldiers around him immediately surrounded him.

The slave begged: "We have not eaten anything in a day, it's already evening. If you don't let us rest, you are clearly trying to exhaust us to death."

"Dog thing!"

The soldier kicked the slave to the ground with one kick, pulled out his sword and slashed it. At this moment, a figure rushed over and threw the soldier to the ground, roaring: "I'll fight with you." He quickly pulled out the dagger from the soldier's waist and stabbed it directly into the soldier's chest.

This is amazing!

The soldiers around him were shocked and immediately rushed forward with their swords. Suddenly, a jar with sparks flew over.

What they expected even more was that the jar exploded on their heads and made a loud noise.

Immediately, there was a scream of screams. The soldiers covered their faces and screamed in pain. They saw that their faces were covered with dark eyes.

Another slave suddenly pushed one of the boxes off the carriage. With a clamor, the boxes fell to the ground, full of weapons.

The slave who took action first picked up a knife and raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, I'm dead anyway, so why not fight with them."

The slaves suddenly had red eyes and rushed up to pick up the knife.

At the same time, the general who was walking in front of the grain also reacted and immediately led his troops to rush over.

More than twenty slaves saw a very targeted snatch several carriages around them, took out cans from them, and opened the lid. It was actually sealed with soil and a lead wire. Because it was a marching at night, there was a torch next to them, they lit it and threw it over.

Boom boom boom boom!

After more than a dozen loud noises, gunpowder was filled with smoke, and the smoke was filled with screams of pain.

The pot is actually not very powerful, but it is full of iron pieces. When it hits the face, it is simply worse than death. The war horse seemed to be frightened, and it was spinning there, even running back directly.
To be continued...