Chapter One Thousand and Twenty-Three

"Lord Duhu, in the current situation, we can only transfer troops from the border. You have a lot of experience in the army, and you have dealings with other major protectors, so I don't know if you can get some soldiers and horses from other protectors. ”

Wang Chong said.

In the army of the Tang Dynasty, Hu and Han are mixed, Wang Chong's identity is too sensitive, and Gao Xianzhi is easier to speak than Wang Chong because of his background. Moreover, he has very deep qualifications in the army, and he has contacts with military generals and generals in various places, which is difficult to compare with even if Wang Chong is a genius in the military road.

"On the side of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, there are the most soldiers and horses in the town now, and I still have some contacts with the Beiting Metropolitan Protector An Sishun, this matter, I will negotiate with him, if there are a small number of soldiers and horses on the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, it should still be able to borrow. I estimate that we should be able to get 4,000 to 6,000 soldiers and horses."

Gao Xianzhi said after pondering for a moment.

"If you can only borrow 4,000 to 6,000 soldiers and horses, then transfer the most elite soldiers and horses, so that it won't have much impact on the side of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate. ”

Wang Chong said in a deep voice.

"Hmm!"

Gao Xianzhi nodded, the soldiers are expensive but not too expensive, which he and Wang Chong have the same opinion. Moreover, the Anxi Protector Army is carefully selected from the soldiers and horses from all over the Tang Dynasty, if there is no way to be strict about quantity, then try to pursue quality, which is also what Gao Xianzhi has always adhered to.

"In addition, there is Ge Shuhan, who is stationed in Longxi, and he can be said to be the closest to us except for the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate. Moreover, the combat effectiveness of the Beidou Army is amazing, and it should also be able to provide us with some help. ”

Gao Xianzhi was silent for a moment, with some hesitation in his eyes.

"It's just that there is very little contact between me and Ge Shuhan, so I'm afraid it's hard to convince him. ”

"Leave this matter to me. ”

Wang Chong smiled slightly, already knowing what was going on. Among all the Hu generals, Ge Shuhan can be said to be the most special, he admired the culture of Middle-earth when he was young, and spoke a pure Beijing accent, even better than his Hu language. He was promoted by the crown prince Shaobao Wang Zhonghei, although he joined the army late, but because of the support of this Tang God of War, the road to promotion was very fast. In addition, unlike other Hu people, everyone else has the largest number of Hu soldiers, only the Beidou Army under Ge Shuhan, and the Han people account for more than ninety percent.

This is very different from others.

Therefore, on the bright side, whether it is Gao Xianzhi, Fumeng Lingcha, or An Sishun, or other Hu generals, although they have dealings with Ge Shuhan, there is a trace of estrangement in their hearts. Ge Shuhan knows this very well, so he doesn't have much contact with them, and he will never contact them if there is no need.

“...... I still have some friendship with Ge Shuhan, and I should be able to get some soldiers and horses from him. ”

Wang Chong said.

Gao Xianzhi was stunned, but then he thought of something and looked relieved. In the previous battle between the Beidou Army and the White Lion General Sinuo Luo Gonglu, the losses were huge, and Wang Chong sent 10,000 excellent Turkic war horses to Ge Shuhan, which many people know. Ge Shuhan's Beidou army totaled more than 20,000 horses, and Wang Chong sent him 10,000 horses, which was definitely a charcoal in the snow and solved his urgent need.

From this point of view, Ge Shuhan definitely owes him a favor.

"But even so, there are still not enough people!"

Gao Xianzhi looked up to the sky and sighed. Even if you ask for 6,000 men and horses from the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and 3,000 from Ge Shuhan, it is only 9,000 men, which is a drop in the bucket for the current war.

"Hehe, Lord Duhu, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, Datang is still Datang, and it is far from the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted. Now it's just that the forces are pinned down by other parties, and it's not really that there are no troops available. As long as there is some scheduling, a lot of soldiers and horses can still be dispatched after all. -- The Tang Dynasty has no soldiers available, so don't I also bring 100,000 soldiers and horses? At the moment, let's discuss how to report to the imperial court. ”

Unexpectedly, Wang Chong laughed instead.

"That's right!"

Gao Xianzhi was stunned, and then laughed. Time passed slowly, and then, the two top coaches of the Tang Dynasty in Talas discussed the details of various aspects for a long time, from night to dawn, the two discussed for a full night before they went to sleep.

"Whoa!"

Soon, at dawn, the wings vibrate, and the falcons quickly flew out of the city of Talas, flying in all directions.

......

Whoa!

One by one, the falcons fell from the sky and flew into the Anxi Protectorate, as the closest place to Talas, Feng Changqing was the first to receive the information.

"Recruit soldiers and horses from the countries of the Western Regions!"

Feng Changqing opened the envelope and saw the letter written by Gao Xianzhi himself, and was stunned for a moment. The content of Gao Xianzhi's letter was very simple, hoping that Feng Changqing would recruit a force and horses from the Western Regions in the name of the Anxi Protector and the Tang Dynasty. In return, the Anxidu Protector will give heavy rewards to the nations after their victory.

"Where is there still a lot of gold and silver in Anxi?"

Feng Changqing saw this letter and smiled bitterly in his heart. As Gao Xianzhi's main staff in terms of administration and logistics, no one understands Anxi's current situation better than Feng Changqing, although he conquered the rich Shi Kingdom, but a considerable part of the wealth was taken away by the nobles of the Shi Kingdom through the tunnels, and the harvest of the Anxi Capital Protector Army was far less than the outside legends suggested. After the war, at least half of the wealth was dedicated to the imperial court and the royal family by Gao Xianzhi, and nearly half of the remaining part was given to Bian Lingcheng by Gao Xianzhi.

Bian Lingcheng is an important help to Gao Xianzhi in his career, but he is quite greedy, and just a little wealth cannot satisfy him. As for the last remaining quarter, Gao Xianzhi except for a part left by himself, the rest was distributed to the soldiers of the Anxi Du Protector Army, as well as the Grolu Department and the Bana Khan Army who went with the army to fight.

Therefore, the Anxi Protectorate no longer had any gold and silver to recruit troops, and if it weren't for this, Feng Changqing would not be helpless in the rear.

"The countries of the Western Regions have always been greedy for money, and there is no one who does not like gold and silver, although I can deceive them now and recruit some soldiers and horses, but once the war is over, the Anxi Protectors will not be able to take out the recruited silver, and there will be endless troubles at that time. ”

Feng Changqing looked at the letter in his hand and was worried.

The recruitment mentioned by Gao Xianzhi belonged to the private recruitment of the Anxi Protectors, and it was not approved by the Ministry of War, it was unplanned, and the imperial court would not pay for it, and the Anxi Protectors could only find their own way.

There are not many soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, and they can't recruit much, if they leave a solid mouth because of this, the Anxi Protector will have no prestige in the Western Regions in the future, and even if they win, they will leave many problems, which is really undesirable in Feng Changqing's opinion.

The next moment, when Feng Changqing saw the last line of the letter, he was stunned.

“...... Chang Qing doesn't have to worry, about the gold and silver required for recruitment, the young Hou has his own arrangements, and all matters have been written in the letter. ”

It was such a simple line of words, which suddenly made Feng Changqing stunned.

When did Dadu Hu and Wang Chong become so close? Didn't they still have a gap before? And the gold and silver required for recruitment have been solved, what is going on? What is Wang Chong already written in the letter?

Feng Changqing was stunned, and quickly reacted, could it be that Talas sent not one letter at all, but two? Feng Changqing flipped through it, and sure enough, under the original envelope, another letterhead was turned out, and the handwriting on it was completely different from Gao Xianzhi's, although it was crooked, but it did not lose a kind of strong character.

It's a young man!

Feng Changqing quickly reacted, picked up the letterhead, and looked at it carefully. At the beginning, Feng Changqing was just browsing casually, but in the end, he became more and more serious, and his expression became more and more serious, and he even read the entire letterhead three or four times in a row.

"Haha, ask the Great Cannibal for war reparations, and use the war reparations to pay for the recruitment of the countries of the Western Regions. Young Hou, this method is up to you...... But there's no better way to do it!"

Feng Changqing slammed the letterhead in his hand on the table, and couldn't help laughing, he always thought that he was whimsical and did not play cards according to common sense in the governance of the Western Regions, but he didn't expect that Wang Chong was even more whimsical than him, and actually thought of asking the losing side for compensation after winning a war to make up for the losses in the war. This practice has never been done in the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Chong calls it a war to raise war.

Wang Chong made it clear in his letter that if the Tang Dynasty failed, the Western Regions were lost, and the countries would defect and submit to the Great Food, there would naturally be no need to consider the issue of recruitment. And if he wins, he can further ask for gold and silver from the Great Cannibal to pay the honorarium of the Western Regions. So the point that Feng Changqing was worried about didn't exist at all.

——Raising troops for a thousand days, using soldiers for a while, Datang has been operating in the Western Regions for more than 200 years, and now it is time for the countries of the Western Regions to fight for Datang and pay something!

"Young Marquis, everything will be done according to what you say. ”

Feng Changqing's eyes were bright, and he quickly took a wolf pen from the pen holder on the side, spread out the rice paper, and wrote hard.

......

With a bang, carrier pigeons crossed the sky and flew eastward along the Silk Road, and soon, when they reached the western boundary of the moraine, several eagles broke away from the team and shot down from mid-air.

"Is it finally going to begin?"

Su Hanshan's expression was grim, and after reading the letterhead in his hand, there was no surprise on his face. Bang, his wrist shook, and the letter was immediately shattered, and countless confetti spilled down from his fingertips. With the clattering of hooves, Su Hanshan shook his horse's head and quickly walked towards the martial arts training ground. The 8,000 bandits and horse bandits recruited by Wang Xiao from the Silk Road, all dressed in the armor of the regular army, gathered there. Their bodies are straight, and the aura exuding from their bodies is fierce and capable, and there is still a little bit of the appearance of bandits and horse bandits.