Chapter 719

There is a dignified moraine in the west to protect the mansion, guarding the throat of the Tang Dynasty, and there are no soldiers available. This sounds unimaginable, but it is indeed the real situation of the Protectorate of the Western Empire.

No one knows this better than Wang Chong.

The Western Protectorate guards the choke point, and is in the gap between the Us-Tibet Empire and the Western Turkic Empire. The forces of the Western Protectorate were consumed in the repeated attacks of Uszang and the Western Turkic Khanate.

Although there have always been troops sent to the west of the inland area, this kind of sending troops is not unlimited.

Before the Battle of Talas, the iron cavalry of the Us-Tibetan Empire and the cavalry of the Western Turkic Khanate attacked extremely fiercely, which was the reason for the vacuum in the forces of the Western Protectorate. And it was really because of the vacuum of troops that finally led to the defeat of the Battle of Tanthro.

Therefore, if you want to change the fiasco of the Battle of Talas, the first thing to do is to change the fate and situation of the Protectorate of the Western Empire. This is also one of the important reasons why Wang Chong put the fiefdom in Wuju. It's just that Wang Chong has never said anything about this.

And if you want to change the fate of Moxi, you must completely drive out the power of Uszang and the Western Turkic Khanate here!

Building a city of steel in Uzai and having a foothold is only the first step. The second step is to begin to reject the Uzzang in the west and the Turks in the west! This step will never be completed by Fumeng Lingcha.

In Wang Chong's generalissimo evaluation system, Fumeng Lingcha is just a defended general, not an enterprising general. On the one hand, he didn't have this mind, and on the other hand, he didn't have this talent at all.

All this can only be approached.

But before he could do that, before he could start this project, which was destined to shake the entire empire and the west, Wang Chong had to accomplish another thing.

Without that thing, no matter how powerful Wang Chong is, he can only be "a good woman who can't cook without rice", and finally sighs!

"Hoof!"

Without alarming anyone, Wang Chong quietly left the Steel City in the early morning.

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After about seven or eight hundred miles, we reached the scope of the Western Regions. The wind and sand here are sharpened, the scenery is rough, and the Hu people live together, and the poisonous people, the big cannibals, the Tiaozhi people, the Turkic people, the Wusi Tibetans, and the Han people are mixed together, and the number of the Hu people far exceeds the Han people.

This kind of scene is difficult to see anywhere in Datang.

"Childe, this is it. ”

In a bustling, colorful, carved and painted flower building, a middle-aged Han man in his thirties and forties wrapped a headscarf and respectfully said to a teenage boy next to him.

"Hmm. ”

The young man looked at the flower building in front of him and nodded seriously:

"Tell Yang Hongchang that I am very satisfied with this matter. When this thing is successful, I will not treat him badly. ”

"Thank you, Master Hou!"

The middle-aged man was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed.

"Hmm, have you forgotten what I told you? Don't call me Master Hou here. ”

The boy frowned.

"Yes, it's the villain who is abrupt, Hou ...... Childe forgives sins. ”

The middle-aged man flashed a look of panic and hurriedly lowered his head.

can make a middle-aged man so afraid, and at the same time called Hou Ye, now there is a young Hou Wang Chong in the entire Western Regions. Leaving from the City of Steel, Wang Chong disguised himself and bypassed the Western Protectorate of the Moraine and arrived directly in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.

This place is already within the scope of the Anxi Dadu Protector Xianzhi.

If these imperial generals knew that he was here, I am afraid that everyone would flock to him in the next moment. However, even so, Wang Chong had a reason to come.

"Let's go. ”

Wang Chong didn't say much, and took the lead in crossing the threshold and walking into the flower building.

This is the first time Wang Chong stepped into the flower building in the Western Regions, countless Hu people in the flower building rubbed shoulders one after another, Huqin, Hu Konghou, pipa, sudden thunder, fire and thought, all kinds of silk and bamboo sounds came into the ears.

The sound of these Hu people instruments is completely different from that of the Central Plains, and it has a unique flavor in the ears.

Wang Chong glanced up, and saw that in the sound of silk and bamboo, a bewitching Huren dancer was dancing with the music in the flower building, and the people who were seduced were full of blood.

"There's even a big food dancer!"

In the place where the Hu people were most dense and laughed the most, Wang Chong clearly saw a glamorous dancer wearing a red dress, a snow-white belly, wearing bracelets and bells on her hands and feet, blue eyes and red lips, and silky eyes, biting a red ribbon hanging from a beam with her teeth, dancing and turning in circles.

The sound of jingling bells and musical instruments resounded in unison, attracting bursts of applause from visitors.

In Beijing, wherever there are big food dancers, they can attract a large number of literati and scholars, powerful princes, and become a place for literati and scholars to gather.

It's just that scarcity is expensive, and there are still not many big food dancers who appear in Jingshi. The Western Regions are close to the water and the building is the first to get the moon, and there are many more enchanting food dancers here than in Beijing.

Wang Chong's gaze only lingered on the body of the big food dancer for a moment, and soon went down the wooden escalator and entered the second basement floor of the flower building.

Here all kinds of Hu language are mixed together, shouting, laughing, scolding, ringing together, many Hu people gather together, roll dice, guess points, cockfights, dogs, crickets, a miasma of black smoke.

It's clear that this is a casino.

Wang Chong has never been good at gambling, but Wang Chong has a reason not to come.

"Are you sure he's here?"

Wang Chong turned his head and asked.

"Master Hou, there will be no mistake. He likes to come here to play the most, and the owner of the house doesn't know why. It's just that I heard that he has something to do with the hostess of this flower building. ”

Next to him, the middle-aged man sent by Yang Hongchang bowed down and said:

"Besides, we have inquired before we came, and he happens to be in this flower building, on the third basement floor. Only a small number of people can enter there, and the threshold for entry is very high, and everyone is either rich or expensive. The head of the family has spent a lot of money, and he has prepared the identity of the son, and he can enter at any time, and no one will stop him. ”

"Childe will see him when he goes in. ”

Wang Chong nodded when he heard this. The Yang family has been operating in the Western Regions for many years and knows this place well. If you want to find a Hu person among so many people, you can't go wrong with looking for Yang Hongchang.

Wang Chong didn't alarm anyone, and quickly went down the escalator to the third basement floor of the flower building.

Along the way, Yang Hongchang had already made arrangements, and once someone came forward to scold or check, the housekeeper of the Yang family would immediately step forward and negotiate one by one, avoiding a lot of trouble.

On the third floor of the basement, the ground is pasted with a red food blanket, carved railings on both sides, and inlaid with pearls, agate, jade, coral, the decoration is magnificent, but it is elegant.

"Master Hou, that's it inside. ”

The butler of the Yang family led the way in front, and when he reached the innermost and largest room, the butler of the Yang family stopped. Through the door, Wang Chong could hear a rough laugh with a Turkic accent, accompanied by bursts of women's laughter.

"Wait for me outside. ”

Wang Chong's eyes flashed with a gleam, pushed open the door, and strode in. For a moment, the laughter in the room came to an abrupt end.

Wang Chong's expression was free, his gaze swept around, and soon fell on the room, a Turkic man with open clothes, bare chest and exposed breasts, eight-character beard, eagle-eyed and deep nose.

"Finally found him!"

Seeing the two fist-sized skulls on the left and right shoulders of the Turkic man, Wang Chong nodded, a look of joy flashing in his eyes. It wasn't a real skeleton, it was a bronze skeleton plaything.

In Wang Chong's memory, on his shoulders, there were two bronze skeletons, and there was only one person who could play with them at any time, the Turkic merchant "Kulu Yege".

He has another identity, he is the most famous Turkic horse merchant in the entire Western Regions, and even in the grasslands!

If Wang Chong wants to realize his grand plan of rejecting Wusizang in the west and the Turks in the west, completely changing the situation in the west, and expelling all foreign forces, the first thing he must do is to have enough war horses.

Wang Chong's first batch of black wounded people is almost completed, but without war horses, there is no way to talk about the "black wounded iron horse" that dominates the world!

Therefore, even if he risked being discovered by Gao Xianzhi and Fu Meng Lingcha, Wang Chong had to run to the Western Regions, in order to be the first Turkic merchant "Hulu Yege" in front of him.

As we all know, the best war horses in the whole world are not the barley horses of the Wusi Tibetans, nor the war horses of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the terrain of Middle-earth is not suitable for raising war horses at all.

All the excellent war horses of Datang come from the Turkic steppe.

- The war horses of the Turks are precisely the best source of war horses in the world.

The only thing that can surpass the Turkic horse is the war horse of the Great Food, but the Great Food is thousands of miles away from Middle-earth, and the War Horse of the Great Food is extremely troublesome to raise, and it will be unsuitable for water and soil when it arrives in Middle-earth. In contrast, Turkic horses were easier to obtain and easier to form a size, suitable for armies to train into formed cavalry regiments.

In addition, the best Turkic war horses are actually not inferior to the big food war horses.

And if you want to buy the best Turkic war horses, you can't get around the "Khuluyege" in front of you. From the Turkic Khanate to the Western Turkic Khanate, and even the war horses of the Great Food Strip Branch, whether you have it or not, this "Khuluyege" long-sleeved and good dancer has a way to get it.

In the entire Western Regions, there is absolutely no better horse merchant than him.

Wang Chong's black wounded army is about to complete its training, but if it wants to become the "black wounded iron horseman" who gallops vertically and horizontally, is invincible and shocks the world in the future, it still needs a large number of war horses.

However, this is not the main reason why Wang Chong disguised himself and arrived here quietly.

What's more, Wang Chong deeply knows that in the future, Datang will be full of disasters and difficulties, and it has entered an eventful autumn, and one war after another will continue to occur.

In every war, a large number of horses die.

In the future, the biggest problem in Middle-earth will not be the problem of the source of soldiers, but the lack of enough war horses to form a cavalry corps. And without a cavalry corps, there would be no maneuver, only people would break through individually.

And Middle-earth can't breed war horses, and if one dies, there will be one less, and it can't replenish itself at all.

Wang Chong was ordered to become the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, and the biggest problem was the war horse, and it could not be solved at all.