Thirty miles northwest of Chengdu www.biquge.info the east branch of the southern section of the Qiongxia Mountain Range is Zhaogong Mountain, and at this moment ushered in a group of powerful guests, each of whom was stubborn and persistent, and rushed to the deep mountains in front of him!

The west side of the Qiongxia Mountain Range is the Hengduan Mountains, and the east side is the Sichuan Basin, which is the dividing line between the Sichuan Basin and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and is a natural barrier for Jiannan Road to face Tibet!

It is precisely because of the existence of the Qiongxia Mountain Range that Jiannan Dao is no longer so difficult to face the hundreds of thousands of elite divisions in Tubo with tens of thousands of troops!

And what makes Zhao Gongshan more famous is not because this mountain is the retreat of Zhao Gongming, the god of wealth, but more because the tea produced in Zhao Gongshan District during the Tang Gaozong period became tribute tea, which greatly improved the popularity of Zhao Gongshan, so that there is no shortage of people who drink Zhao Gongshan tea among those scholars and celebrities in Chang'an City today!

Thirty miles away, although not far, but from Chengdu all the way over, the sky at this moment has already been night, and a round of tomorrow is rising in the far east!

The air after the rain was particularly fresh, and everyone who had been drenched in the rain all night was blown by the cold wind in the late autumn morning, and they all shivered, but fortunately, every sergeant present had already exercised their firm will in their perennial military career, which was nothing to them!

Looking at the lush and endless mountains in front of them, like a giant beast "devouring" the sergeants who were stubborn and stubborn, everyone did not have the slightest fear, even if they knew that the deep mountains were full of insects and snakes, jackals were rampant, and they would encounter accidents at any time after entering, but they still remembered General Liu's words just now!

Reward silver and white taels, what is this concept, although the Tang Dynasty is now at its peak and the military budget is sufficient, but the monthly salary of each soldier is only two taels of silver, this is still a professional soldier with military status, such an army is elite, although Jiannan Road now has 54,000 soldiers, but in fact, the average person with military status is definitely not more than 40,000!

The remaining 14,000 people were made up of part-time soldiers, who served in the army, and in peacetime their characters were farming to support their families and provide taxes! It is conceivable that such a sergeant is not a sergeant in the real sense now, and now that there has been no war in the southwest border of the Tang Dynasty for decades, their combat effectiveness can naturally be imagined!

Therefore, although Jiannan Province claims to have 54,000 soldiers, but in fact there are only 4,000 soldiers who can fight, and most of the troops are used to guard the frontier.

Moreover, the frontier town, as the first front line of the Tang Dynasty during the war, the army stationed here is naturally not an elite man, plus this is the heyday of the Tubo Empire, Tubo and Turkic are known as the two major henchmen of the Tang Empire at this moment!

Its potential threat should not be underestimated, and in this way, the border between Jiannan Road and Tubo needs elite sergeants even more, so that the sergeants who just guard the border of the land will occupy at least 20,000 sergeants!

And although Jiannan Road is known as the country of abundance, the terrain is extremely complex, and there are many ethnic types, and the barbarians in the southwest cannot be ignored, the barbarian people, although the number of people is not much, the ethnic group is very complex, and they live in the mountains all the year round and deal with jackals, tigers and leopards They have strong combat effectiveness!

If you don't know how to be flexible, I'm afraid that if you are an official, you will be entangled in solving the ethnic contradictions between the Han nationality and the barbarians in the southwest, which is enough for people to work for a few years, or even in their whole life, and they will not be able to complete it!

Under normal circumstances, a barbarian in the prime of life is enough to face two or even three Tang troops who have been baptized by war, coupled with the vast territory of Jiannan Dao, every county, every county needs troops to be stationed and patrolled, so calculated, there are only 10,000 combatants that Jiannan Dao can really mobilize!

With only 10,000 soldiers, coupled with the danger of Shu Road, Chengdu is more than a thousand miles away from Chang'an, and it is not a threat to Chang'an at all, which is the real reason why Emperor Xuanzong dared to appoint Li Qing as the envoy of Jiannan Daojiedu!

After all, there are 20,000 people in Chang'an City alone, and these 20,000 people are known as the elite of the Tang Dynasty's elite army, plus the Nanya Forbidden Army, which is stationed in Beijing all the year round, also has no less than 20,000 people, with such a force in hand, even if Li Qingzhen gave up everything at this moment, regardless of the safety of Jiannan Road, transferred back all the troops, 40,000 soldiers crossed Shu Road, traveled thousands of miles for a long distance, and finally arrived at Chang'an City, even if everything went smoothly!

At that time, with the 40,000 soldiers in his hands, coupled with the solidity of Chang'an City, Emperor Xuanzong was also confident that the 40,000 soldiers of Jiannan Road would sink into the sand, and the whole army would be annihilated under Chang'an City!

Since Tianbao three years, An Lushan concurrently served as the envoy of Fanyang Festival, creating a recruitment system in the jurisdiction, after a short period of more than a year to continue more than 100 years of government military system collapsed in an instant, in name only! The recruits of the government military system are all professional soldiers, who focus on fighting all their lives, and no longer have to be busy with farming and soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is completely qualitatively improved!

After some reforms, An Lushan has 130,000 troops under his command at the moment, all of whom are elite divisions with military status, and since then, An Lushan has won more and lost less in the battle with the Khitan and Tongluo ethnic minorities in the northeast, and the other towns have seen that the recruitment system is so effective, and they have all followed suit.

Like Shuofang, Hexi, Longyou these major towns have been restructured a long time ago, although they are the same as the top ten border towns, but the focus of the imperial court has always been in the northwest and northeast, so that Jiannan Road and Lingnan Road have naturally become the existence of daddy who does not hurt and grandma does not love!

Although An Lushan is good at playing with intrigues and tricks, the combat effectiveness of his sergeants is understandable.

After all, in the fourteenth year of Tianbao, An Lushan Fan Yang raised troops, and in just one month, he fought from Fan Yang in the northeast to Guanzhong, captured Luoyang, and captured Lintong Pass.

In fact, the reward of silver and white is nothing, the important thing is that the official is promoted to the third level, if you are now a commander who controls ten people, then as long as you make the first merit this time, after this incident, you will be a brigade commander who commands a hundred people, if you say that you are now a captain, then after this incident, you are a regimental captain who rules two hundred people!

As for going up, everyone didn't think much about it, after all, the one who could be sent into the mountain was a brigade commander, and on the top, I'm afraid that even if this General Liu is known as the first iron under Xian Yu Zhongtong, he doesn't have that power, after all, this General Liu is just a partial general with a false name!

Don't say that it is him, even Li Qing, who is the envoy of Jiannan Dao, needs to report to the imperial court for the appointment of official positions above the fourth grade, and after getting the approval of the imperial court, it can be regarded as a formal appointment!

However, even so, the temptation promised by this General Liu is big enough, enough for them to fight and fight for it desperately!