Since the beginning of the Dizhou period, Zhang Ga and Feng Chen, these two people have been following Tang Yuan's side.

Tang Yuan sent Feng Chen to take a hundred people to Ma Ben's team to be a centurion, Tang Yuan said to Ma Ben: "You are a newcomer, there are many military rules to learn, Feng Chen has been with me for many years, he is a very disciplined person, I will send him to help you improve your discipline." ”

Tang Yuan didn't test Ma Ben's combat strength, so he took these two hundred people and let them stay in the barracks, training according to the standards of recruits, the requirements were very strict, and they had to get rid of the banditry on their bodies in the shortest possible time.

"If I can give you bandits a chance to be people again, you must know how to be grateful, if you can't do this, then I won't be polite to you. However, I, Tang Yuan, will treat you equally, as long as you perform well, I will look at it and appoint and promote you according to your personal ability. ”

Tang Yuan asked Nalan Xin to keep an eye on Ma Ben training, wandering around Jiuquan by himself, and at the same time he was also very concerned about the battle situation in the northwest of the desert, the pawn only brought 10,000 light cavalry to go, Tang Yuan was still a little worried, according to the military information table submitted by Cao Wushu and Qi He Li every year, Cao Wu had 20,000 men under his command, and Qi Mo He Li had 70,000 or 80,000 men under him, if the two of them couldn't defeat the Turks together, then how much effect could the pawn take 10,000 people to go?

The Turks fought with their tribes, and they did not have a fixed residence anyway, as long as it was a steppe, their cattle and sheep could graze, and as long as the cattle and sheep could live, they could live. In the face of this kind of wandering tribe, the Liang Dynasty people beat them really out of reach. After all, food is limited, and the cost of transporting food is too high. In a war, the main manpower, material and financial resources were consumed in the transportation of grain, and the warden was alone in the army, and there was only one way in front of him, he had to win, and if he won it, he could conquer the Turks and rob them of their cattle and sheep, but if he lost, he would not even have a chance to run back.

You've been worrying all day. Tang Hu said: "What's so good about this broken place, I found a few pavilion girls, and the color of the pavilion girls in Luoyang and Chang'an is too much worse, and I can't even raise my interest in grandpa." ”

"Sometimes I really envy you, Tang Hu, I'm talking to you from the heart." Tang Yuan asked Zhang Ga to buy some mutton back, and was burning the brazier: "You said you, since you joined the army, what have you been worried about?" You just have to fight the war and nothing else. But you are still worthy of praise, after all, you are fierce enough to fight, and the male Jia will fight in front of you, and you are not ambiguous. However, the time for fighting a war was too short compared to marching and strategizing. For three months in a row, most of the time was actually walking, from here to here, and from here, you boy rode on a horse, and when you went to a place and didn't think about anything, you just wanted to find a beautiful girl. And I was as tired as a dead dog, and I had to take the lead in every detail. ”

"You'd love to." Tang Hu sat up and began to cut meat: "You just like to worry about it, you can hand over the affairs of civil officials to Nalan Xin, and you can hand over the affairs of military generals to Chen Bao, why do you have to do it yourself?" ”

The water boiled, put the meat in it, sprinkled some pepper and salt, Tang Yuan smiled bitterly: "What you said is not right, in the army, if a chief official always shakes his hands and is in charge, there are advantages and disadvantages." The benefit is not only that you are more relaxed, but also that you will increase the sense of distance between yourself and your subordinates, and you will appear to be high and ruthless. However, the disadvantage of this is that there are many details that are easy to miss, and such a unit cannot reflect the character of the chief officer. Can you understand me? In a unit, when a worried chief officer has been in office for a long time, the entire unit can reflect the character of the first officer. ”

"I don't think about those things, I know that there will be a nest of bears. My Tang Hu's troops, all of them are good when they are pulled out, and every time I charge, they can't fall. If you were stupid for me, if I rushed and fought myself, then I would have died on the battlefield. Tang Hu pouted a piece of chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth: "Hey, Zhang Ga, get some wine." ”

Tang Yuan asked the secretary beside him, "Is there any news that there is not much of the department?" ”

Secretary Lang said respectfully: "Not yet." ”

"Don't even have an expedited paperwork?"

"I've already told the station, and if a scout comes back, I'll let me know."

"yes, okay." Tang Yuan said: "Always keep an eye on the movement ahead. It's definitely not going to be easy to fight this time, and if the warden can't complete the task, I think we're going to go. Otherwise, the Duke of Chang'an would not have sent us to Jiuquan. ”

"Jiuquan, Jiuquan, spring with wine. Drink, drink. Tang Hu chattered.

"In addition, I wrote to the warden, telling him to keep an eye on the movements of the Diandonghu people, this time he ran a thousand miles and got nothing, and it is estimated that he will have to run somewhere else to loot." Tang Yuan said: "I think he is very likely to repeat his old tricks and run to Longright to turn around." ”

"Hey, Tang Yuan, I didn't know before, it turned out that Datong Mansion was so far away, and after a long time, Datong Mansion was the former Yunzhou? According to that, isn't it one of the sixteen states of Yanyun? I don't know why Tang Hu suddenly said such a sentence.

Tang Yuan wondered, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Tang Hu said: "I usually listen to those civil officials shouting, saying that if the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures fall into the hands of the enemy, it is equivalent to being choked by someone's throat, and when people are angry, they will strangle us to death." ”

Tang Yuan said: "That's just a statement, in fact, at this time, there are two states in the sixteen states of Yanyun in our hands, such as Mozhou, which is the southernmost state of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and Yunzhou, which is Datong Mansion, is the westernmost state, and it is still under the control of the Liang Dynasty." I don't understand why the male Jia people didn't occupy Datong Mansion back then, but now Empress Dowager Xiao's intentions are probably obvious, she wants to leave one more business route for herself, after all, Jin merchants do business with Hu people, and their favorite is Datong Mansion. ”

"It's been a long time, but it still has something to do with money."

"Yes, in a sense, isn't fighting a war just about money? Including King Donghu who ran so far this time, wasn't it also to grab money? Tang Yuan saw that Tang Hu was getting fatter and fatter, and said, "I think you should pay attention, if you eat too fat, I'm afraid it will delay you." ”。

"Hey, what is this called, the fatter I am, the stronger I have, and the more I can fight. You should advise me to eat more, how can you persuade me not to eat. "Tang Hu didn't listen to Tang Yuan.

"Your boy is almost two and a half zhang ga's weight now, your horse is really unlucky, and it takes you around with you, and it consumes much more than ordinary horses."