Within a few days, Cheng Qianli took his whole family to the capital, and many officials and generals in the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate didn't know that he had to leave Beiting because of a crime, and they thought that he was promoted and went to the capital to enjoy happiness. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Cheng Qianli's departure did not affect the reorganization and training of the Beiting army, the reorganization work was completed quickly, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the army, some old oilmen, and black sheep were all removed, and those who remained were young and strong, and those who could be cultivated, although the number of troops of the entire Beiting army had decreased a lot, and it seemed that the combat power had also weakened, but in fact, the combat power of the Beiting army had not only not weakened, but was strengthened, because those who were dragging their feet were driven away.

In addition to the soldiers, many low-ranking officers, captains, and generals were also dismissed and transferred, and the personnel changes in the entire Beiting army were very great, basically breaking the original pattern, and some inactive officials and generals who were waiting for death were transferred to idle departments, and those who were found guilty were dismissed from their posts and questioned.

The training syllabus compiled by Zhao Ziliang was quickly distributed to all military units, such as military towns, garrisons, cities, towns, Wubao, Yi, and Feng, and sent people to supervise the implementation.

Generals from all localities who are lazy and slippery, who refuse to conduct drills in accordance with the training outline issued by the military and horse envoys, or who go out at will without asking for leave during the training hours, will be severely punished as soon as they are caught.

During the period of rectification and training, both the Metropolitan Protectorate and the Soldiers' and Horses Embassy sent officials to supervise and inspect the rectification and training work in various military towns, not only to supervise the situation and progress of the rectification and training, but also to supervise and inspect the rectification of military discipline in various armies; if it is found that a soldier or officer in the garrison has violated military discipline, and the general in charge of military discipline in the garrison has not punished him in accordance with the regulations, he must all be held accountable for the responsibility of the generals in military discipline, and the generals who will be beaten with sticks, demoted or dismissed from their posts, and killed at the worst.

Zhao Ziliang not only used authority to carry out the training, but also did it fairly and strictly, rewarded, promoted and reused the generals and officers of the garrison who actively carried out the rectification training and achieved remarkable results, and also increased the grain, grass and military expenses for the garrisons in various places, changed two meals a day to three meals a day, and increased meat food at the same time, so that the soldiers could eat and drink enough, eat well, and be nutritious enough after hard training! As a result, the soldiers originally complained about such a large amount of training, but they also had no resentment because Zhao Ziliang increased their food, and commended and promoted those soldiers who trained hard and made great progress, and rewarded them with money and living goods.

The effect of this is that the soldiers who originally complained not only did not complain, but also took a more active part in training, and there were competitions between people, and soldiers in various places did not give in to each other and competed with each other, thus forming a virtuous circle, and the soldiers' combat and technical and tactical levels were also markedly improved.

Just after the New Year of the eighth year of Tianbao, Zhao Ziliang received a news that the king of Shiguo, Mo Heji, who was canonized as the king of Shunyi by Xuanzong, died of illness, and his son Naju Chebi Shi succeeded him as the king of Shiguo, and after the Chebi Shi sat on the throne of the king, he immediately canonized his son Enyuan as the prince of Shiguo, and sent Enyuan to Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to meet the emperor instead of himself, and it happened that Gao Xianzhi also wanted to go to Beijing to see the emperor at this time, so Enyuan arrived in Qiuzi Town, Anxi with the mission, and waited for a few days, and went to Chang'an, the capital with Gao Xianzhi.

Among the Zhaowu countries, the wealth of the Shi country is one of the best, the people of the stone country are good at farming, and they are proficient in the affairs of business, Gao Xianzhi has long been greedy for the wealth of the stone country, and summoned the envoy of the stone country several times, hinting that he wanted Mo Heji Tutun to give him gifts and money, but the envoy of the stone country did not understand the officialdom of the Tang Dynasty, and he did not understand Gao Xianzhi's hint at all, and Gao Xianzhi was quite annoyed by this.

It is said that Gao Xianzhi was very unhappy because Enyuan, the prince of Shiguo, did not send him money, and he never pretended to Enyuan, which made Enyuan, who was traveling all the way, quite embarrassed.

After Gao Xianzhi went to Chang'an to meet the emperor, the affairs of Anxi were temporarily handled by Feng Changqing, Feng Changqing was an honest man, so the Anxi Duhufu did not go to Shiguo for trouble during this time, and the car nose Shi could be regarded as sitting on the throne of the king for a period of time.

After King Shi's crown prince Enyuan followed Gao Xianzhi into the pilgrimage to meet the emperor, Emperor Xuanzong canonized the new king of Shiguo, the Che Nose Shi, as the King of Huaihua, and also gave the Iron Coupon Danshu on behalf of preferential treatment and exemption, which was regarded as a recognition of the legitimacy of the throne of the Che Nose Shi, Xuanzong also met with Gao Xianzhi and expressed his condolences to Gao Xianzhi for his contributions to guarding the border over the years.

In the blink of an eye, it was the second half of the first month, and the day was not far away from leading the troops to Jiling City to receive Princess Hera's send-off team. On the twentieth day of the first month, Du Chaoyang, a member of the Ministry of Rites sent by the imperial court to greet him, arrived in Tingzhou with a cadre of officials, preparing to go to Jiling City with Zhao Ziliang.

If according to the rules, the Tang Dynasty's welcoming team can only meet on the border, but between the Great Food Country and the Tang Dynasty, there are Zhaowu Kingdoms and Tocharo, and the north of the Great Food Country has been occupied by rebels, which is a great threat to the Zhaowu Kingdoms, Princess Hera's family sending team is very dangerous when passing through the Zhaowu Kingdoms, and the Zhaowu States and Tocharo are the subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, so for the sake of Princess Hera's safety, the Tang Dynasty Court still decided to let Zhao Ziliang lead the troops to Jiling City to respond.

This time he went to Jiling City to meet Princess Hera's dowry team, Zhao Ziliang decided to take Bai Xiaode, Fugu Huaien and a young general named Ma Sheng, originally Zhao Ziliang was going to take Zhao Hu there, but Zhao Hu's wife Shu Luoyan was already pregnant, so Zhao Ziliang still decided to leave Zhao Hu to take care of his wife, and temporarily decided to take Ma Sheng forward.

Ma Sheng is twenty-one years old this year, his father was originally a lieutenant general of the Hexi Army, he joined the Hexi Army in the fourth year of Tianbao (745), and became a small soldier under the command of Wang Zhonghe, who was the envoy of the Hexi Festival at that time. After Wang Zhongji was demoted, he was worried that Li Sheng's future would be delayed, so he wrote a letter of recommendation to him, and asked him to come to Beiting with the letter of recommendation to find Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang received the letter of recommendation sent by Li Sheng, accepted him on the spot, and let him be a lieutenant in the Han Navy, because of his hard training and excellent performance, he was soon promoted by Zhao Ziliang to the commander of the first battalion of archers.

On the twenty-second day of the first month of the eighth year of Tianbao, Zhao Ziliang led 3,000 cavalry from Tingzhou to march to Jiling City, accompanied by Du Chaoyang, a member of the Ministry of Rites who was responsible for announcing the decree to Princess Hera, and a cadre of officials of all sizes.

This time, among the 3,000 cavalry led by Zhao Ziliang, there are 2,000 light cavalry and 1,000 archer cavalry, Bai Xiaode commands 1,000 cavalry, and the servant Gu Huaien and Li Sheng each command 1,000 light cavalry, and Zhao Ziliang himself has a hundred servants, plus the officials of the Ministry of Rites have a total of 3,136 people, all equipped with double horses, and it is common for the Beiting Archer cavalry to be equipped with two horses each, and the light cavalry is also equipped with double horses this time, mainly considering the long distance, and the time is relatively tight, in order to be able to arrive in Jiling City as scheduled, Zhao Ziliang had to increase the number of war horses, Increase marching speed.

The army marched quickly along the way, marching for an average of more than 16 hours a day, and it took only five days to arrive at Tuozhi City, the capital of Shiguo, and the new king of Shiguo took the civil and military officials out of the city to greet him after receiving the news.

The march lasted more than 1,500 miles in five days, and the cavalry in the army came over quite strongly, but it made Du Chaoyang and other officials of the Ministry of Rites tired like dead dogs.

Knowing that the new king of Shiguo came out to greet him, Du Chaoyang immediately found Zhao Ziliang and said, "General Zhao, you see that we are all too tired, can we cultivate here for two days before we go on the road?" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "No, there are still more than 3,000 miles from here to Jiling City, if we don't hurry up, we won't be able to arrive at Jiling City within the specified time, and when the time comes, we will delay the matter of welcoming Princess Hera, you and I can't afford to take a night's rest, and we must leave early tomorrow morning!" ”

finally had time to rest, Du Chaoyang and the others burst into tears and thanked them a thousand times. On this day, Zhao Ziliang and the three thousand army had a good night's rest after eating and drinking enough in Tuozhi City.

In the early morning of the 28th day of the first lunar month, Zhao Ziliang ordered the army to quickly withdraw its camp and set off and continue to march south.

Anxi Protectorate stationed 3,000 soldiers and horses in Kangguo, the leading general is Lifei Yuanli, this army is at the request of the Zhaowu Princes, the Tang Dynasty issued an order to let the Anxi Protectorate be stationed here, and the military expenses are raised by the Zhaowu Princes.

Lifei Yuanli's temper is not very good, and he also likes to withhold military salaries, so he is not very popular with soldiers and officers in the army, but he is the main general, and the soldiers and officers have no choice but to swallow their anger, not to mention that they are now stationed in a foreign country, and they can endure it, but fortunately, Lifei Yuanli also knows that if he wants to gain a foothold here in a foreign country, he must rely on the soldiers and horses in his hands, and he does not dare to do too much to his subordinates.

If Lifei Yuanli was under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Protectorate, Zhao Ziliang would not be able to see this kind of person doing anything wrong in the army, but he was afraid that he would have found a way to kill him a long time ago, but Lifei Yuanli is now Gao Xianzhi's subordinate, and it is not under his control.

When passing through Kangguo, Lifei Yuanli still did his best as a landlord and greeted Zhao Ziliang and his party ten miles away from the capital of Kangguo with the king and ministers of Kangguo.

That night, Zhao Ziliang's army camped outside the city to rest, he got the news that Lifei Yuanli led the troops stationed in Kangguo, and on weekdays, he was flying and domineering, bullying men and women, and doing all kinds of evil, and also connived at the soldiers to buy and sell here, eat, and never give money to buy things, and take what they liked, and rob them if others didn't give them.

The actions of Li Fei Yuanli and his subordinates made people angry here, but Kang Guo was afraid of the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and dared not speak out, so he could only appease the people and swallow his anger, but the prestige of the Tang Empire in the hearts of Kang Guoli was wiped out by Li Fei Yuanli and these people.

Zhao Ziliang was angry about these things, but he couldn't manage them, first, he had no right to manage them, and second, he had more important things to do now.

Zhao Ziliang's army only rested in Kangguo for one day, and after adding some supplies, they immediately set off south, passing through the country of rice and Shi, and then went south into the territory of Tocharo. (To be continued.) )