Chapter 644: Qin Jun

Wei Chi Congde's hatred for the Pars people was overflowing and did not hide it in the slightest.

In fact, it is no wonder that since the Pars people arrived in the western part of the Green Ridge, the war with the countries of the Western Regions has not stopped for a day.

The Pars often crossed the Green Ridge to the Western Regions to capture slaves.

They destroyed the temple, took all the property and took all the young men and women; They cut off the Silk Road, which was important to the Western Regions, forcing every caravan they passed through to pay heavy taxes and robbing them on a regular basis.

It has been a full hundred years now, and in the case of Wei Chi Congde himself, many of his grandfathers, fathers, his own brothers, and several of his sons and nephews have died on the battlefield of the battle against the Pars people in four generations.

One of his sisters had married to Khotan, and had been snatched by the Pars twenty years earlier, and one of his sons, who was supposed to marry, had also been robbed by the Pars two years earlier, and her whereabouts have been unknown ever since.

This bitter hatred made Wei Chi Congde unusually interested in anything that would cause trouble for the Parsians.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that it couldn't be defeated, Wei Chi Congde would have already sent troops to attack the territory of Pars west of the Green Ridge.

In the Western Regions, people who have similar ideas to Wei Chi Congde are not one or two, nor one country or two countries, but every family!

This is also the reason why they were willing to endure the exploitation of the party and pay tribute to the Pseudo-Xia, who sent troops to help them defend against the Pars every year.

This is also the reason why they are now gathering in Shule and rallying against the king of Qin, who not only has to defend against the Pars, but also counterattacks to the west of the Green Ridge!

"You don't need to be so decisive."

Although Xu Daixuan, the king of Qin, expressed his appreciation for the people of the Western Regions led by the first lieutenant Chi Congde, he still shook his head and politely refused the request for the general mobilization of the people of the Western Regions:

"You are all foreign Tibetans in China, even if there is a war, the national economy and people's livelihood still have to be considered."

The starting point of the expedition to Pars was in the city of Shule in the Western Regions, which would be the main gathering point for the expeditionary force's supplies and soldiers.

However, Shule is still thousands of miles away from the core area of the mainland, and the road is very difficult to walk, if the countries of the Western Regions are fully mobilized, and all the materials needed for the expedition are transported from the mainland, the loss on the road will be very amazing.

At that time, the cabinet that withheld the rope may suspect that Xu Daixuan's expansion is a loss-making business.

Therefore, before obtaining a large number of practical benefits, Xu Daixuan must rely on the impoverished Western Regions to supplement, at least to supplement part of the logistics.

Therefore, Xu Daixuan must maintain the ability of sustainable development of the 8 countries in the Western Regions, and it is absolutely not feasible for Wei Chi Congde to eat himself and expect the whole family to flow in waves.

"I don't feel sorry for you, for this expedition, every ten households in your countries will send one soldier, and bring their own horses, armor, and soldiers to accompany the expedition - one household will send people, and the other nine households will gather equipment and food."

"Then send an auxiliary soldier out of every three households, responsible for building the warehouses needed on the road from Gan Province to Shule, and maintain the logistics operation of the army."

"After going back this year, when it is not suitable to send troops in winter, we will count the grain and livestock in each family, and send them to Shule for military supplies before the spring is dispatched."

"Rest assured, whether it is manpower or material resources, it will not be used in vain."

Neither the cabinet nor the King of Qin had any intention of drying up and fishing, and the empire planned to exchange some of the materials needed in the Western Regions for Bawaifan to provide some military rations.

For example, "deposits" have been provided for felt, cotton clothes, as well as wine, salt and some luxury goods.

Other than that is the right to trade.

The core population of the empire in the northwest provinces such as Ganning and the Western Regions was insufficient, and it did not dare to let too many outsiders enter the customs, so it was stipulated that if the eight foreign Tibetans in the northwest wanted to enter the Yumen Pass to trade with the empire, they must obtain special permission.

This special permit, known as the "pardon letter", allowed one person and one hunk to enter the Yumen Pass to buy and sell freely – even iron and armor, but firearms were not allowed.

This kind of pardon is nothing to the Cabinet, which has always preferred free trade, and only made this decision for the sake of Ganning's safety.

But for the countries of the Western Regions, each of these pardons means a lot of wealth! Some people have even calculated that if a pardon letter goes to the Guannai, the minimum income can be enough to supply the needs of the thirty accounts of the population of the Western Regions for a year!

Therefore, the imperial pardon is a hard currency worth far more than gold in the Western Regions.

The eight countries of the Western Regions now have 100 amnesty letters each, and according to the special rights and interests that Xu Daixuan won from the cabinet, if they can supply the Qin army's needs on time and in accordance with the standards, then the cabinet will give more amnesty letters - according to the amount of supply, and the right to be a subsidy.

With both economic compensation and revenge for a hundred years, the countries of the Western Regions are naturally willing to provide full support for the expedition.

By the end of 1793, the Qin king Xu Daixuan had pieced together the main body of his expeditionary force in the Western Regions: 5,000 Han soldiers, 1,000 Waibo Sauron, at least 5,000 Mughal people who voluntarily followed, 3,000 Waibo Goryeo, 3,000 forcibly transferred Waibo Fusang (from Fusang Waibo territories such as the Three Rivers Empire), and 3,000 local soldiers in the Western Regions.

In order to equip these people, the empire deliberately issued the iron armor in stock (mainly chain mail, scale armor, etc., all of which were trophies piled up in the warehouse for a long time) to the frontline Waifan in the form of loans.

In this way, the empire digested the last batch of loot iron armor inventory, and after that, only the cuirass was left, and it could rely on the booty of the Qin soldiers to recover some costs, which was a double win.

The soldiers of the Qin army did not feel that there was anything wrong with using the spoils of war as collateral to borrow armor from the empire on credit, they happily put the armor on their bodies, and began to look forward to a bright future in the future when they would make a fortune in Pars.

Therefore, the Qin army of 20,000 soldiers, of which 15,000 Waifan soldiers first achieved full ironclad!

As for the weapons, they are equipped according to the characteristics of each country, such as the Fuso soldiers and the Korean soldiers, mainly bird guns, bows and arrows, Japanese swords/ring knives, and spears.

The Waifan Jurchens mainly used powerful cold weapons such as heavy swords and axes, as well as strong bows.

The Outer Tibetan Mengwu were bows and sabers, and looked more like light cavalry in iron armor.

Among the 5,000 Han soldiers, the only armed guards were equipped with two horses, standard four-type firing guns, double revolvers, and a horizontal knife.

The horizontal knife is a melee weapon imitating the standard of the previous dynasty, in fact, it is not particularly easy to use, but the empire made this thing with the original intention of promoting national characteristics (and the straight-edged knife is simple and cheap to make), and it is not expected that it can play a great role, so the arsenal uses hydraulic forging hammers to make tens of thousands of handles, and oversupply the front line as a saber, replacing the role of waist knives and Japanese knives.

The Guards had no armor, but some of the other Han soldiers who followed them were equipped with such things.