Chastity Layman

Songzhou in May is very cool.

Qin Lang stood in Songzhou City in the middle of the mountain, looking at the white snow peaks in the distance, as well as the green mountains and green water below the snow line. It has been several years since the last time he came here.

In the past few years, there have been many changes here. Although Songzhou is far from developing as fast as Qinlang's fief Wu'an Prefecture, Qin Qiong has been operating here for many years, and this western Sichuan gateway has changed a lot in the past ten years.

Controlling Minling, controlling the source of the river, adjacent to Helong on the left, and Dakangzang on the right.

Behind it is the Chengdu Plain. A Minjiang River connects Chengdu, flows directly into the Yangtze River, and flows into the sea in the east. The continuous Gansong Mountains to the west have become the gateway to western Sichuan, and the winding valley tunnels have become a busy commercial route in recent years.

Because of Tubo's sudden attack, a large number of merchants and goods were stranded in Songzhou City. Every day, merchants entered the city. After that, they dared not go any further. They could only stay in Songzhou with the goods and wait for news.

There is also a steady stream of Qiang tribes from the west withdrawing here, and groups of Qiang tribes retreat here every day, and they also bring all kinds of rumors and news, which are true and false, and it is difficult to distinguish.

The trade route was cut off and the customs were strictly guarded.

Songzhou City is more lively and crowded than usual.

After Qin Lang arrived in Songzhou, the restless city settled down, and attracted more nearby Qiang and Di tribes and merchants. With Wei Gong here, Songzhou has no worries.

Walking in this mountain city built with stones, it feels like a paradise outside the foreign land, with unique scenery, Han and barbarians coexist harmoniously here, and business and trade are prosperous.

Qin Lang and his brothers spent a few days inspecting Songzhou's city defenses, and even went to Gansongling and other important pass fortresses to condolences to the soldiers and listen to the enemy's situation. The family business I bought in Songzhou over the years.

Songzhou is mountainous, but there are many mountains and few lands. However, Songzhou has many important rivers such as the Minjiang River, and therefore has many valleys. Many villages even attracted many merchants.

Songzhou has reclaimed countless cultivated lands over the years, and the amount is astonishing. Among them, the number of military settlements of the Ningyuan Army is even completely sufficient for self-sufficiency, and there are surplus reserves. The commercial villages recruited by Songzhou adopt the method of large farms where slaves are intensively cultivated, and they can also produce a lot of grain every year. cost and time spent.

It can be said that Songzhou has become more and more prosperous in recent years, and the food self-sufficiency in military and commercial settlements and immigrant settlements is a key. In addition to reclamation and planting, Qin Qiong also promotes the development of animal husbandry, tea and herbal medicine, and mineral development.

Coupled with the development of commercial routes, Songzhou has now become the most important trading port in western Sichuan. There are constant business trips and goods, which have led to the development of Songzhou's handicraft industry.

Turning around, Qin Lang sighed more and more that it was not easy for Qin Qiong to be here.

Not only has an elite Ningyuan frontier army been trained, but even the Qiang and Di Xirong tribes have been subdued. There is a large number of elite and capable Songzhou regiments who have trained quite well.

He can be sure that if Qin Qiong hadn't died suddenly of illness, even if Tubo attacked with 200,000 soldiers, Qin Qiong would be able to keep Tubo out of the country with just the soldiers in his hands, and would not give them any chance to take advantage of it.

The city defense here is strong, the soldiers are well-equipped with food and well-trained. Although the Ningyuan Army has a total of only 5,000 people, and they must also lead the party's various departments. The actual defense area is huge, but their strength is indeed placed there. In other places, it is the toughest border army.

In addition to guarding the border, training, and patrolling, they can even seize the season, cultivate the fields, graze and breed, and be self-sufficient. They can also have surplus as strategic reserves and turned over to the national treasury.

Under Qin Qiong's guarding and governance, the Han and Qiang families here in Songzhou never attacked or plundered each other. Even on remote mountainous roads, caravans don't have to worry about being robbed, and they are safe in Songzhou.

Once a businessman was robbed in the Hequ of Dangxiangqiang after leaving Songzhou. Qin Qiong immediately ordered Tuoba Chi to resign and let him find out the assailant. After finding out, Qin Qiong refused to let Tuoba Chici do anything, and personally led the Ningyuan army to rush for 800 miles, surrounded the daring party Xiang Qiang, and then captured those who participated in the attack and robbery one by one, and brought them back to Songzhou , Open trial, clear and typical.

Once again, in the territory of Bailanqiang in the south of Zishan Mountain, a caravan was plundered by Tubo people who crossed the border. Qin Lang immediately ordered the Ningyuan Army to track it down. The tribe with more than a thousand tents finally forcibly beheaded all those who participated in the looting, and then returned successfully with the heads, the looted goods, and the looted caravan.

After doing this again and again, from now on, not only is the territory of Songzhou very safe, but there are basically no large groups of robbery caravans, and those bandits and horse thieves have also disappeared. The mountain people of the Di nationality are also more honest and responsible.

Some real bandits and horse thieves either accepted the recruitment and became part of the frontier army, or abandoned their thieves to become good, or they traveled far away and never dared to stay in Songzhou.

Even if it was a hundred miles away from Songzhou, they didn't dare to stay, because they were afraid of the patrolling cavalry of Ning Yuan's army.

The Ningyuan Army patrols and rides, with the nickname of not accepting at night, elusive, come and go like the wind, often alone and three horses, invincible. They have crossed the Yak River alone and penetrated hundreds of miles into the territory of Tubo to wipe out the enemy. They also swept through the mountains and valleys of Songzhou to visit Every stockade.

These people are well-trained and good at riding and shooting. When killing an enemy, they must cut off their heads, and then seal up the headless corpses left behind to form a Beijing temple. In recent years, within hundreds of miles of Songzhou and its vicinity, Songzhou Ningyuan Army night It is said that there are no fewer than a hundred of the large and small Beijing temples left by patrol riders.

The small Beijing Temple may have only a dozen people, and the large one is said to have thousands of people.

Anyway, it is a magic weapon that can stop babies.

In addition to the elite Ningyuan army, the immigrants in Songzhou were also quite brave. They hoeed with knives and herded with arrows. A village is like a fortress. Young and strong in the village, they are busy farming, farming and grazing, and organize archery and spear spears in their spare time. Every village has a village brave team. Every spring and winter, the Songzhou Governor's Mansion will start to gather some soldiers to perform martial arts.

Almost all the people in Songzhou are soldiers, and everyone can fight.

It is located in the border area, after all, it is still relatively remote, and the conditions are not so favorable. The lives of the immigrants are actually very difficult. They reclaim wasteland and build new homes from scratch. Houses and livestock, so they cherish them especially, and take extra care of their property and family.

Just like now, the Tubo army is coming, and there are various rumors, some say 300,000 people, some say 200,000 people, but in Songzhou, there are many villages and villages below Songzhou Prefecture and several counties. The people in each village basically did not abandon their homes and retreat to Fucheng County. They had mobilized armed and vowed to stay at home.

"The sky in Songzhou is so blue, much bluer than that in Luoyang."

The young Duke of Qi and governor of Songzhou Qin Xun sighed, he had never seen such a blue sky.

The fourth child was riding a fine horse, and lamented the sunshine here, "The sun is so bright, but I don't feel the sun, it always feels cool."

Qin Lang smiled, "The people here are still very tough. You see, the people here are all riding horses with swords and bows. Almost everyone is a warrior. Even women and young people are very brave."

"Brother, since our Songzhou Ningyuan army is strong, why don't we take the initiative to attack, how can we let him come to the city for mere ugly people?" the old five said.

The fourth child is also eager to try, "It's not easy for us in Songzhou to have what it is today. It was all built by my grandfather with hard work. There are so many people in the villages, mines and even pastures outside the city. We don't know how much we will destroy at that time, so we should keep the enemy out of the country and attack on our own initiative!"

"Both Gansong Fort and Ningyuan City guard the pass, which is very dangerous. Why don't we fight the Tubo thieves there?"

Several young men from the Qin family were not afraid of tigers when they were newborns. After seeing the stalwart soldiers and civilians in Songzhou, they didn't pay attention to the 200,000 Tubo army.

Qin Lang was very satisfied with this courage, but after all, he was still too young, arrogant and underestimated the enemy.

No matter how you put it, there are 200,000 people in Tubo. Even if you bring your family and children, there must be 40,000 to 50,000 young and strong soldiers among them. It is still very strong, and if you underestimate the enemy, you will definitely suffer a big loss.

After a round of inspection, return to Songzhou City.

Qin Lang came to meet the generals dressed in filial piety.

At this moment in Songzhou, there is also a large army gathering.

Of the 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Ningyuan Army, except for the 1,000 cavalry stationed in Dangxiang, Bailan, and Duomi other than Gansongling, they have temporarily lost contact, and the rest are all on standby.

The Songzhou United Army has also been mobilized.

Even the Xiangyongs in various counties and townships, as well as the young and strong of the Qiang and Di tribes in the territory, have already begun to mobilize.

The Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has also begun to send reinforcements here, food, grass, military equipment, and soldiers. Victoria and Xining Prefectures in the south are also strengthening their security, and reinforcements can be sent here at any time.

The battle is imminent.

"Dangxiang, Bailan, and Duomi Qiang, have you been in touch?"

"There is no news yet."

Qin Lang didn't care too much about this, "Send some more people out to look for them, and bring a certain order, so that all the Qiangs will assemble first, and don't have to rush to Songzhou to meet up."

The generals of Han Wei were very puzzled when they heard this, the big battle is imminent, shouldn't they call the Qiangs to help them to fight against the Tubo army, why not use it?

Qin Lang took out the map, pointed at the location of Songzhou, and then rowed westward.

Finally, it reached the Yellow River in the west.

"here!"

The generals looked over, but they saw that Qin Lang pointed to the position of the first bend of the Yellow River's nine bends, where the Yellow River and the White River meet.

At least six hundred miles away.

"Let Dang Xiang, Bai Lan, and Duomi Sanqiang gather here after they are assembled, and stand by!"