"Weichen Liangzhou Thorn Shi Zhang Huaiding has seen His Royal Highness King Shou."

In Shouwangfu, a middle-aged man with a mixed style of Tubo and Tang Dynasty stood in front of Li Ye, bowing deeply and saluting.

"Zhang Tingshi, please get up, please sit next to you."

Seeing the man in front of him, Li Ye's attitude was more polite, of course, more to give his father face.

Zhang Huaiding is Zhang Yichao's son, 20 years ago, Zhang Yichao entered Beijing, in fact, as a hostage, handing over the military and political power of the Guiyi Army to his brother's son Zhang Huaishen.

However, what Li Ye didn't know was that now Zhang Huaishen's power began to decline after the fall of Yizhou and Hami ten years ago, and the Guiyi Army at this time was still unified on the surface, but in fact there was an undercurrent.

The reason is very simple, the situation of the Guiyi Army is different from what Li Ye imagined.

The original twelve states of the Guiyi Army were all distributed to his sons, nephews and sons-in-law by Zhang Yichao, the first Jiedu envoy. As a result, after he entered Beijing as an official, he handed over the power to his nephew Zhang Huaishen, which left trouble.

Zhang Huaishen's base camp was in Yizhou, and in the early years of serving as the envoy of the Guiyi Army, he was able to stabilize the situation. With the fall of Lanzhou and Yizhou, Zhang Huaishen's power began to weaken, but because he had been a festival envoy for many years, and he was appointed by Zhang Yichao, he was barely able to sit firmly on this festival envoy.

However, after so many years, the original states are no different from the separatist forces, and there are not no people who want to replace them.

The Zhang Huaiding in front of him is one of them, this time he came to Chang'an, not Zhang Huaishen's order, but Zhang Huaiding's personal behavior, but Li Ye didn't know about it.

However, Zhang Huaiding did not appreciate Li Ye's politeness, but kept bending over.

"On behalf of the Guiyi Army, the minister asked His Royal Highness King Shou for guilt, and when Tian Lingzi was in turmoil before, the Guiyi Army also sent troops to help Tian Lingzi, causing His Majesty to avoid Baoji."

"Zhang Tingshi doesn't have to be like this, when Tian Lingzi controlled the court situation and ordered in the name of the imperial court, it was not a mistake for the Guiyi Army to obey the dispatch of troops, but a loyal move, it can be seen that the Guiyi Army is still loyal to the imperial court, what a crime." Li Ye said with a smile, and then stepped forward to personally help the other party up and comfort.

In the previous battle of Shayuan, the Guiyi army did send troops, but before they arrived at Shayuan, the battle was over, and then they retreated. In fact, there are not many people, only 2,000 people, which means a little bit.

The reason why the Guiyi army would send troops thousands of miles away was mainly to get the support of the imperial court. The Guiyi Army nominally belonged to the Tang Dynasty, but in fact it has always been in a state of secession, which is different from the secession state of Li Keyong, Zhu Wen and others.

In addition to nominally belonging to the Tang Dynasty, the actual management and appointment of the Guiyi Army were all at their own discretion.

The Guiyi army occupied Hexi, and Hexi was the land of four wars. In addition to facing the strong enemy Uighurs, they also had to fight against the Tubo, Wenmo and other tribes, and the pressure was also very great, and the situation in recent years has become even more unbearable, so they wanted to get the support of the imperial court, which could also make the Guiyi army less stressed.

Who would have thought that Zhang Huaishen was on the wrong team, and he originally planned to help Tian Lingzi, but who would have thought that Tian Lingzi would be defeated. This also scared Zhang Huaishen enough, and he was always worried that the court would ask for the guilt, and then he would be used by the unsubordinate people below as an excuse to overthrow him.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for not holding the Righteous Army accountable." Since he came in the name of the Guiyi Army, Zhang Huaiding naturally had to do a full set of tricks.

"I wonder what the situation is in Hexi now? It is inconvenient for the imperial court to contact the Guiyi Army, and I don't know what the current situation of the Guiyi Army is, but it just so happens that Zhang Tingshi is here in person, and the king also wants to hear about the situation in Hexi, and then report to His Majesty. After Li Ye asked Zhang Huaiding to serve tea, he asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Highness, Hexi is the land of four wars, and the surrounding foreign forces are strong, and Lanzhou and Yizhou are also lost. This time, the ministers came to the capital, in fact, they wanted to get the support of the imperial court, and the Guiyi army was willing to assist the imperial army to take Lanzhou and other places. Zhang Huaiding said sincerely.

Li Ye's face was a little embarrassed, "This king also wants to recover Lanzhou, but now the imperial court has just finished the chaos, and he can't use troops externally." Moreover, if the imperial court dispatches a large army, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the Tibetan tribes. ”

Disappointment flashed on Zhang Huaiding's face, but he quickly returned to his original state, and he did not deliberately avoid Li Ye.

Next, Li Ye didn't talk to Zhang Huaiding too much, they were all polite words, and he felt that the other party's trip still had a purpose.

Anyway, since Zhang Huaiding is here, he will definitely not leave soon. After meeting Li Yi tomorrow, I will see if this visitor from Hexi will reveal the purpose of his trip.

"Your Highness, this Zhang Huaiding must not be telling the truth." Lee Young-wook affirmed.

"This king also saw it, but for Hexi, the court also knows very little, if the other party deliberately conceals it, we have nothing to do. But there is one thing, as long as the other party asks us, it will be easy to do. ”

Zhang Huaiding traveled thousands of miles around the Gobi Desert to Chang'an, and he definitely didn't just come to ask the court for guilt. Even if the other party helped Tian Lingzi before, the court at this time did not take the other party, and the other party also knew this, so why risk coming to Chang'an?

Therefore, Li Ye concluded that the other party must have other plans, perhaps something happened in Hexi, so that the Guiyi Army had to send people to the imperial court to seek support.

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"Isn't this the next general? What's wrong with this? ”

Looking at the down-and-out face of Jidan Wangjie in front of him, Zhang Xiong couldn't help but feel funny.

He had a lot of dealings with the other party, and the weapons, armor, tea and iron pots of the Wangjie tribe were all provided by him, so the two were very familiar.

In order to get more weapons from him, the other party also bribed him, and also gave several beautiful women from the tribe. Naturally, he would not refuse the gold and silver treasures, but the beauties of his tribe, he refused.

It's not that Zhang Xiong is self-conscious, this nephew of Zhang Wei, relying on Zhang Wei's power and King Shou's attention to him, has a group of wives and concubines at home. It's just that the women in Wangjie's tribe are a little dark the next day, and he can't accept it.

Like a lost dog, the next Dan Wangjie couldn't help but dodge his eyes when he saw Zhang Xiong, and his face was a little embarrassed.

Brother Zhang Xian laughed, now my brother is really a little embarrassed, I didn't expect the huge family business to be taken away. As long as Datang can help me recapture Songzhou, I am willing to join Datang. The next Dan Wangjie assured.

Zhang Xiong smiled, patted the other party's shoulder, smelled the smell, and couldn't help covering his nose, "I said General Jidan, you can't take a bath?" I don't know how those women of yours can stand you. ”

The next day, Wangjie raised his hand and sniffed it, a little embarrassed, "How can we take a bath as often as you Tang people." By the way, will you help me retake Songzhou? ”

Zhang Xiong shook his head, "Don't ask me about this, I don't know, I just do business, I don't count the war."

However, I heard that His Highness has decided to send 10,000 cavalry, probably for your sake. ”

"Ten thousand cavalry?" The next day, Wangjie swallowed his saliva, and suddenly thought of something, "You didn't just help me recapture Songzhou, right?" ”

Now the next Dan Wangjie suddenly regretted it, don't really lure the wolf into the house, right? The combined forces of all the surrounding tribes are only 8,000, and they have lost a lot, if it is really the Tang Army that touches 10,000 cavalry and recaptures Songzhou, will it be returned to him?

"What are you worried about?" Zhang Xiong looked at each other playfully.

"Nothing! It's nothing! The next day, Wangjie hurriedly shook his head, "You really came with 10,000 cavalry?" ”

"Naturally, as an old friend, how could I lie to you." Zhang Xiong said with a haha.

The army led by Shi Ling did have 10,000 cavalry, including 3,000 from the Right Shence Army, 3,000 from the Right Imperial Forest Army, and 4,000 from the Qiang tribes in Weimao Prefecture.

In the first battle of Mianzhou, the Qiang cavalry in Weimao and the second state suffered heavy losses, although it was caused by the Tiance army, but they did not dare to resist the Tiance army. The nomads have a characteristic, that is, they believe that whoever has the big fist is the boss, although the Tiance army killed many of them, but in the end they surrendered to Li Ye.

Although the Qiang tribes in these two states were the losers in the face of Tibet, due to their custom of all the people being soldiers, even though they lost thousands of young men, they still managed to make up 4,000 people after the imperial court's conscription order was issued.

However, there is still a gap with the previous one, at least some uneven, even 15 or 6 years old, which shows that the previous battle still has some impact on the Qiang tribes in the two states.

Although Weimao Erzhou once again put together 4,000 cavalry this time, there was still a big gap in the face of the cavalry of the Tiance Army and the Yulin Army.

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In terms of the nature of the army, the 4,000 cavalry of the two states of Weimao are strictly said to be only state soldiers and belong to local troops, plus the semi-independence of the two states of Weimao, even if the imperial court equips them with weapons and armor, it will not be very good.

The equipment of the two prefectures of Weimao is slightly better than that of the tribes in Tibet, at least everyone has leather armor. However, compared with the cavalry of the Right Tiance Army and the Right Yulin Army belonging to the Forbidden Army, it is much worse.

Seeing the iron armor and sophisticated weapons, Wangjie, who was still holding a fluke mentality, was completely cold in his heart.

The Tang army had more than 10,000 cavalry, but also more than thousands of infantry, which certainly did not just have ideas about Songzhou. If Chengzhou, Wuzhou and Minzhou can be recovered, it will be of great help to the Hexi strategy, and it can also ensure the safety of Songzhou after the recovery.

However, it depends on the specific situation, because in this battle, the army sent by the imperial court only had a box of the Right Yulin Army and the state soldiers of Xingzhou and Wenzhou.

Li Ye didn't want to fight a big fight, if he could recover it, he would recover it, and if he couldn't recover it, forget it, but Songzhou must be taken, so that the imperial court would not be controlled by others on the war horse.

Originally, Shi Ling was still a little worried about the first battle of Songzhou, after all, he also knew the situation of the cavalry under his command, not so much cavalry, but rather infantry on horseback, in front of the cavalry born with nomads, there must be something insufficient.

However, after listening to the understanding of the situation in Songzhou by Wangjie, Wenzhou Thorn Shi, Zhang Xiong and Weimao Erzhou, Shi Ling had a clear idea of this expedition.

For this upcoming battle, most of the people present were excited, but the next day Wangjie did not look good, and Zhang Xiong, who was good at observing words and feelings, naturally discovered this. 6