Only then did Ge Shuhan understand that Pei Min had other plans.

Pei Min said with a smile: "On the surface, I asked the Longyou Army to assemble in the territory and cross the Wusheling Mountain Road to Liangzhou to support, but in fact, I constantly arranged for the soldiers to leave the team along the way, and gathered at the foot of Helan Mountain, crossed the Tengger Desert, and hid the soldiers and horses in the barren desert, waiting for the Turks to withdraw." Coincidentally, three years ago, in order to pursue Kang Zhibin and He Heinu, I once crossed the Tengger Desert, went south from Baiting Sea, and arrived at the ruins of Xiutu. For the terrain there, the memory is still fresh. ”

"The Baiting sea is rich in sea grass, the north is the Baiting Desert, the west is the Badain Jaran Desert, and the east is the Tengger Desert. This sharpening knife is not a mistake for a woodcutter, and it is the same for running away. Eating and drinking well and being well prepared is the right thing to do. ”

"It can be concluded that if the Turkic army withdraws, it will definitely rest in Baitinghai, replenish the water source, and feed the mounts."

"From the very beginning, I kept an eye on Bai Tinghai, just waiting for them to withdraw their troops...... My more than 20,000 strange soldiers are enough for the Turks to eat a pot. ”

"Twenty thousand!"

Ge Shuhan exclaimed in surprise, he thought it was just a surprise attack by a small force, but he didn't want to have 20,000 of them.

Ge Shuhan is also a person who knows the soldiers, and when he heard Pei Min say this, all kinds of operations were practiced directly in his mind.

After a while, he shook his head and said, "I am stupid and stupid, I can't figure it out." That's not enough time...... If there are a few thousand people, it can barely be, but 20,000, I really don't know how to hide from the Turks. ”

Pei Min said with a smile on his face: "That's because of the obstacle." This is also the most clever place for me to lay out this time, the more people who know the soldiers, the easier it is to fall into it...... Let me ask you, how many soldiers and horses and how many cavalry does my Longyou Army have? ”

Ge Shuhan said without hesitation: "The highest establishment of Longyou is seventy-five thousand, and the establishment under Pei Shuai should be full." As for the cavalry, I don't know the exact amount, but compared to other border towns. The cavalry of the Longyou Army was the largest, with about 20,000 horses, and according to my estimates, about 15,000 cavalry. ”

Pei Min bowed his head and said: "Your analysis is very correct, I wish I had as many soldiers and horses in my hands as possible, and I would not do anything to get empty salaries, and the establishment would be full." There are 16,000 pure cavalry, but up and down the Longyou Army, everyone can ride a horse, even if it is a foot soldier. No, I'll also have them trained in riding. Those who are unwilling to learn and who can't learn will be expelled from the army no matter how old their qualifications are. My requirements are very simple, every soldier of the Longyou Army must climb the mountain, go down the river, walk the desert, and ride a horse! ”

Ge Shuhan seemed to have a few more black lines on his forehead, and muttered, "It's really simple enough." ”

After a pause, he said: "But this is not enough to go around Liuhu Prefecture from Longyou, through the foot of Helan Mountain, across the Tengger Desert, no matter how late the time is!" ”

"This soldier can bluff, but how can a war horse bluff?"

"20,000 strange soldiers, the total number of troops in the Longyou Army is only 20,000 military horses. If it was all given to the strange soldiers, the Turkic scouts, how could they not find out. The Turkic eyeliner is particularly sensitive to military horses, they may not be able to see how many soldiers there are, but how many military horses and cavalry, professional listening to the sound of horses' hooves can guess the approximate ......"

Ge Shuhan has been guessing, and he has not been able to understand the key, and as he spoke, he suddenly struck a stir and said: "Unless there are more than 20,000 troops and horses in the Longyou army!" ”

He looked at Pei Min in disbelief.

Seeing that Ge Shuhan had guessed the key point, Pei Min snapped his fingers with a smile and said, "Guess again, how many military horses did I call in this battle?" ”

Geshuhan didn't dare to guess.

Pei Min also knew that he couldn't guess, so he directly told him the answer: "Eighty thousand!" He stretched out his hand and gestured a figure of eight and said: "20,000 strange soldiers, I gave them 50,000 war horses, and divided them evenly between more than two horses, so that they have enough time to take a long detour, and cross the desert without knowing it." ”

Ge Shuhan gasped, even if he was mentally prepared, he would not have imagined that it would be this number.

The farming nation lacked the things that the war horse people knew, and the Tang Dynasty was also in the Zhenguan period, when the military horses were rich, and the more they went on, the tighter they became.

Especially after the Celestial Empire, the foreign war was confused, and the surrounding ethnic groups were not birds, and it was extremely difficult to buy military horses......

In recent years, the situation has been much better, and the number of military horses allocated to the various departments in the border towns has increased substantially.

Originally, the Longyou Army had a distribution of 5,000 military horses, but now it is as high as more than 20,000.

Of course, this is also related to Pei Min's close relationship with the central government, and the normal amount should be more than 10,000. Even if it is counted as 10,000, it has more than tripled.

The 20,000 military horses of the Longyou Army have long made the frontier officials in other places red-eyed, full of envy, jealousy and hatred.

Eighty thousand!

This is a number that Ge Shuhan could not even imagine.

How could the Longyou Army have so many military horses?

"A leaf blinds the eyes, and Mount Tai is not seen; Two beans plugged the ears, and no thunder was heard. Pei Min said quietly: "You think so, and the Turks are naturally no exception, so they are defenseless." But I don't know that this time is different from the past, many years ago, I captured the land of Jiuqu in Hexi, and the imperial court rebuilt the Jiuqu military horse farm in Jiuqu...... The water and grass in Jiuqudi are abundant and beautiful, and they are much more open than Weiyuan. The scale of the military horse farm has surpassed that of the Weiyuan military horse farm, and there are more than 70,000 stallions used for breeding...... As the general manager of the march of Longyou Dao, I have the right to call all the materials in Longyou. Those stallions, of course, are no exception. ”

Ge Shuhan suddenly realized, and then he understood Pei Min's reliance, he actually used the power of the marching chief to requisition all the stallions in the Jiuqu Military Horse Farm.

Stallions are not easy to obtain, especially in the imperial court where there is a shortage of horses, you can imagine how much strength Li Longji wasted in order to get these more than 70,000 stallions.

Regardless of how the Tubo, Turkish, Khitan, and Xi tribes depended on the Tang Dynasty, there were certain restrictions on the supply of military horses to the Tang Dynasty.

They did not want to reproduce the grand occasion of the 700,000 military horses of the Tang Army during the Zhenguan period.

More than 70,000 stallions were bought here and a little there, accumulating.

It is almost the foundation of Datang's future horse politics, who would have thought that Pei Min would actually requisition all the stallions......

Ge Shuhan sighed: "Pei Shuai's mind is unpredictable. ”

Pei Min said: "It's not that everything is being calculated, it's just that we have gone over." ”

There were two changes in his overall plan.

One is that Su Zhongji, the overseer of the Jiuqu Military Horse Farm, did not cooperate, even if Feng Changqing personally went out and brought Pei Min's order, he did not agree.

He regarded 70,000 stallions as treasures, and the future of the imperial court's horse politics was not accommodating to anything.

You must know that Feng Changqing is Pei Min's personal deputy, the second person in the Longyou Army, and he doesn't give any face.

Feng Changqing knew that the situation was urgent, so he directly took down Su Zhong, and in order to prevent leakage of news, he also controlled the Jiuqu Military Horse Farm and forcibly led the stallions away.

Another change was the appearance of the Turkic envoys, Pei Min deliberately let Jiao Chen reveal his flaws, that is, he deliberately informed the Turks, attracted their attention to the West, and forced the Turks to retreat to Baitinghai.

However, his original plan was that after the Uighurs sent troops, the Turks would get the news again, rather than getting the news from the beginning, and there was room for manoeuvre...... It almost put him in danger.