Sun Xiangfu naturally knew that his strength was no match for Yi Nan now, especially after Shuozhou was taken out of his hands, the war material reserves and available soldiers and horses on his hand were even more insufficient, and the newly surrendered Hui Department would definitely not be so reliable, and for a period of time, they could not be expected to work hard for Datang.

However, he had an advantage, that is, high-end generals and equipment, which were incomparable to the Xue Yantuo Division, which had just escaped from the semi-savage state.

Xue Yantuo, who lives in Mobei, talks about these things, which is worse than Jieli, because there were Turks in the middle before, and his dealings with the Han people are limited to some merchants under the family, and the equipment such as iron tools, bows and arrows is insufficient, even if his territory is not small and the population is large, he can only choose to surrender to deal with the Han people more, and the craftsmanship is stronger than their Turks in all aspects.

Now, the Turks have been wiped out, although he has become the tribe with the largest population on the grassland, but this shortcoming cannot be made up for a while, Sun Xiangfu naturally wants to show off his strength, so that Yi Nan can stay calm and recognize the facts.

Shanyang City is only more than 200 miles away from Dingxiang City, although they are braving the wind and snow to hurry, Sun Xiangfu and others, who are one person and three horses, also ran directly to the city in one breath before resting, Su Dingfang and Changsun Chong rushed over to report their work as soon as possible.

"The Metropolitan Governor, the last general selected from the captives of the half Hu Qing is more than resistant to my Tang Dynasty, and all of them are good at riding, with a little training, they can be used to fight, the number of more than 22,000, plus the 3,000 horses I brought to the west, this time a total of 25,000 people, more than 50,000 war horses, and more than 200,000 cattle and sheep returned."

"General Li Jing is really interesting, what about the equipment we wear for him?" Sun Xiangfu nodded with satisfaction and asked Su Dingfang.

"Well, I returned ten pairs of binoculars." Su Dingfang replied with some embarrassment.

Li Jing is his old boss, and he doesn't dare to let go of his farts because of his things.

"No wonder it's so generous! It turned out that I lost ten pairs of binoculars and 5,000 repeaters. However, it can be regarded as an equivalent exchange, more than 20,000 young men and 50,000 war horses, for my Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, may be more useful, this battle General Su has worked hard, and will go to Chang'an with this governor to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony later, Your Majesty will definitely have a reward. ”

Seeing that Sun Xiangfu did not blame him in this matter, Su Ding was a lot more relieved, and Sun Xiangfu did not plan to come back with ten pairs of telescopes, so he handed it over to Su Dingfang to assign to the generals under him, such as Guo Po and Abu Tusi, who were the left and right guards, must be equipped, and then the generals at the level of the general of Fuzhong Lang should also be equipped, after all, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate has been upgraded to the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and the allocation of all civil and military officials has been upgraded by one level, and in the future, there must be at least a group army of tens of thousands of horses to defend, which is not a small system.

"Zhengming, there are more than 5,000 young men in Dingxiang City, and now, they are all willing to obey my orders, and if there is a war, they can also ride horses and bows into battle." Waiting for the conversation between Sun Xiangfu and Su Dingfang to end, the eldest grandson Chongcai said.

"Hehe, I didn't come to Dingxiangcheng to fight with Yi Nan, don't be so nervous, by the way, I want to congratulate you, you came to me, you didn't do anything, and you were promoted."

The Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate was promoted, and the officials were also promoted, and the eldest grandson Chong, as a long history, was also promoted by a large level, and directly entered the ranks of the fourth-grade high-ranking officials, although this guy will be a national prince after he doesn't have to do anything, but the national prince with a position and the national prince without a position are not the same thing, but when Sun Xiangfu mentioned this stubble, the eldest grandson Chong seemed to be very unconvinced.

"Don't look at me not long after I came to Dingxiangcheng, I still did a lot of things. Have you seen the greenhouse in my city? It was full of cattle and sheep, and after the heavy snow fell, I decided that Xiangcheng did not freeze to death. ”

"So, those young men are willing to obey your orders, right? Then, the direction I gave you at the beginning was right, you are good to them, they can feel it, and they will naturally obey you, if you are willing to do more things for them, they can even sell you their lives. Sun Xiangfu looked at the eldest grandson with a smile and said.

"Well, it seems to make some sense, but I don't have much to give them here, you can bring some more coal, and the craftsmen who can build houses will also send me more, I think there is no problem in squeezing 10,000 herdsmen in this city."

"Look at your pattern, 10,000 households are satisfied? Do you know what it was like when I first arrived in Shanyang? That broken city, even a thousand herdsmen live is enough to choke, I directly built a big city that can live next to 300,000 households of 100 herdsmen, you Dingxiang City old city is also the previous Jieli to live, you should take Shanyang City as the goal, the scale is not to say more than Shanyang City, at least not too bad, the comfort of the people living in the city, can not be reduced, our eyes can not only look at the present, to look at ten years, twenty years, or even thirty or fifty years later, perhaps, one or two generations later, Shanyang City is simply not enough to live, You Dingxiang City too. ”

The eldest grandson Chong was stunned by Sun Xiangfu, Shanyang City has not been completely built yet! Thinking about rebuilding a Dingxiang city again, what a lot of heart this must be!

"Then what, after spring ploughing next year, we will build a new city in Dingxiang City?"

"Of course, besides, the scale can't be small, let's keep going north, build a city every two or three hundred miles, and one day we will build it to Russia."

"Russia?"

"Oh, it's wrong, it's to radiate the entire grassland area, you may not know, the area of these grasslands outside the gate is not smaller than the Central Plains, and if a city is built, the actual control area of our Datang will continue to expand to the depths of the grassland, and eventually, the entire grassland will be ruled."

Sun Xiangfu's idea suddenly opened the brain hole of Changsun Chong, it turned out that there were such benefits in building a city, if there was a strong city like Shanyang every hundreds of miles in the grassland, the nomads would really not be arrogant.

"Let's take care of the present first! Yi Nan's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but not far from the city! By the way, you just said that you didn't come to fight with Yi Nan, do you want to make peace with him? ”

"Summation?"

Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "Then there is a reason to seek peace without even fighting, that is, come and talk to him about something." His sister is still in my house, this battle should not be able to be fought, or why don't you go to his camp with me? ”

"Forget it! There's a lot of work to do in my city! ”

"Hey, I didn't see you and I were in the same class before."

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm afraid of death!"

"you, are you really okay?" The eldest grandson Chong looked at Sun Xiangfu with inquiring eyes.

"It's really fine, I can't fight."

"Well, there is a shortage of pasture in the city, so I have to find a way to get grass for those herdsmen, and I will return to my governor."

After that, the eldest grandson ran away as if he had slipped away.

Looking at his back, Sun Xiangfu hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, it seems that the eldest Sun Chong has already gone on the road, putting himself in the position of serving the people and helping the people solve difficulties, Dingxiangcheng let him take care of it, Sun Xiangfu is more assured.

"Eat and drink, rest for the night, and then go to meet in the Yi Nan camp tomorrow." When the eldest grandson rushed away, Sun Xiangfu said to several generals under him.

Hearing this, Su Ding conveniently asked Sun Xiangfu, "Governor, how many soldiers and horses should I bring out of the city tomorrow?" ”

"Plus the three thousand veterans you brought back and the people who came with me, almost five thousand, that's enough."

Su Dingfang bowed his hand and said, "Then the general will go down and make arrangements." ”

"Well, there is General Lao Su, after the arrangement, it is good to rest for a night, tomorrow may have to be matched with someone, the general must be ready."

"The last general commands."

If you want to say why Sun Xiangfu knows everything well, it has to be thanks to their intelligence organization without a shadow, after the auction, Sun Xiangfu lifted the surveillance of the five surnames and seven families, and focused on the Xue Yantuo department, and the intelligence organization is no longer limited to the original twenty people, and among Sun Xiangfu's tenants, there are a hundred half-hu and half-Han people, who are familiar with many language families on the grassland and some survival skills, and they follow them to do reconnaissance together, and get twice the result with half the effort.

Not only that, some trouble-loving leper dogs have also been cleared by the expanded lore group, there are too many people who don't want to see Wang's growth, they know that the key to Wang's growth is Sun Xiangfu, and now, in the court, Sun Xiangfu is basically not moved, so dispatching dead soldiers to play assassination is also an old routine of those families.

However, in the white snow, it was too difficult to escape the scanning and detection of the telescope, and more than 100 dead soldiers entered the ambush circle designed by the killer without accident, and were shot by dozens of crossbows, and they died.

Removed these flies, after a whole day of driving Sun Xiangfu to get a good night's sleep, the next morning, after a full meal, Sun Xiangfu sent someone to the Yi Nan camp to report, at noon, when the sun was high, Sun Xiangfu finished wearing armor again, and led the fully armed five thousand horsemen to the front of the Yi Nan camp.

"It's a guest from afar, since the leader of Yi Nan doesn't dare to enter the door of the master's house, then, I have to have me, the master's family, come out to see you."

Five thousand people, in the face of fifty thousand people, Sun Xiangfu dared to speak so unkindly, which surprised the Yi Nan on horseback opposite.

But looking at the other party's 5,000-strong military formation, thick armor, and snow-bright weapons, Yi Nan seemed to understand where the confidence of the young boy on the other side came from, and said with a smile, "My prairie boy is not greedy for life and afraid of death, it is because he is afraid of the guest and the big bully, so he has saved you face, this is not the place to speak, can you dare to go to my camp to talk?" ”

"Why don't you dare?"

Sun Xiangfu replied simply and neatly, but it made Yi Nan even more surprised, the people around Dongzhu have lived in Sun Xiangfu's house for more than a month, and they have heard some news about Sun Xiangfu, it is said that this person is very greedy for life and afraid of death, every time he goes to the battlefield, he hides behind the old man, and he can play with his brain, but the courage of blood and qi is not a little, how did he come here, so bold?

The next moment, Yi Nan was stunned, people didn't go to the camp with him alone, but came with five thousand horses, if he raised the whip to speed up, Yi Nan was afraid that he was a surprise attack on the camp! Now, it's his turn to be difficult to deal with, and it's not safe to let five thousand heavily armed Tang horses into the camp!