Due to the peace treaty signed between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, large and medium-sized battles between the two sides were not suitable for conduct, and squad battles were not interesting, so Feng Xiaobao accepted a task and led the army to the front line of Shazhou to escort supplies. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At present, Tubo is strong, which leads to rumors, the road is not quiet, and it is a bit far, but Feng Xiaobao led an army of 600 to go, but he is not afraid, and he also thinks that he should contribute.

Tonghuang County has 600 cavalry guarded by Yang Chengxian, and Zhichong Mansion is Shangfu, with 1,200 regular soldiers. The reserve is 3,000 herdsmen who are half herdsmen and half soldiers... So the nomads are really terrifying, like Feng Xiaobao has so many herdsmen, he can mobilize three thousand cavalry to participate in the battle at once!

"It's necessary to train long distances every year!" Fan Wuxian pointed to the front road, and behind their horses, a dust dragon rolled west.

Their current official road has been rammed with loess, but unfortunately it is not easy to get wet in the spring rain, and it is not easy to walk in the east and west, so they brought 500 engineering troops, and finally dispatched engineering troops, plus 500 infantry supported by Shanzhou, to escort the materials sent to Shazhou by Tonghuang County.

Engineers open roads, fill in potholes on roads, open roads, build improvised bridges, find roads, and set up camps.

The situation is changeable, the situation is complex, and things are unexpected and need to be constantly solved.

They didn't bring cement with them, it was too heavy to be transported by horses, and the materials were taken locally to train the engineering skills.

Feng Xiaobao's cavalry also trained from time to time, squad battles, brigade charges, simulated attacks on infantry, and multi-party drills and training subjects.

Mountain warfare, plain warfare, desert warfare, etc., each time there are new experiences and experiences added to the training syllabus, which are experiences that cannot be obtained in a single terrain.

For example, in mountain warfare, the advantage of horses is often equalized with inferior horses, and everyone has to dismount and fight, and replace them with infantry.

The mountains are not easy to walk, and the series of mountains let Feng Xiaobao know that he has highlighted an important aspect: the mountain infantry division!

Tubo is located on the plateau, with complex and diverse topography, forming a unique plateau climate, thin air.

In addition to the ordinary swords, guns, arrows and crossbows, the training of the mountain infantry must also master mountaineering skills, and not only survive on the plateau (many guys have altitude sickness, and minor illnesses can be fatal!). And also to be able to fight, to win battles.

This trip is still at public expense, and it is very fun to train Feng Xiaobao's private soldiers.

After passing Liangzhou, the first line of Ganzhou----- Suzhou---- Shazhou is sparsely populated, but there are still a lot of caravans, and the Silk Road from the Tang Dynasty to the west through the Western Regions is highly profitable, and the merchants are profit-seeking, even if the road ahead is dangerous and the road is not quiet, they are also willing to eat.

No, two caravans followed, and when they saw the officers and soldiers of the brigade in front, they followed all the way behind.

Sure enough, the journey was safe, the caravan got free bodyguards, and the officers and soldiers sent them all the way to Shazhou!

There was no short-sighted guy on the road to rob, which made Feng Xiaobao very regretful.

Feng Xiaobao also saw that the Silk Road caravans in the true sense of the word were not as poetic and glamorous as the books were written, they were dressed simply and durably, their bodies were tightly wrapped, their eyes were vigilant, and most of them were Hu people.

The Han people eat well and live in their own country, so there is no need to take risks, they have enough food and clothing, and the Hu people only have to work hard to have a good meal, how can they win if they don't fight.

The exchange between the East and the West was completed in this melodious Luo bell, they brought medicinal herbs, leather, spices, jewelry, gems and even slaves, and transported away the silk, porcelain, tea and Feng Xiaobao's Hercules Pills, which were no joke, the Immortal Pills had been exported to Arab countries, and the sales were very large, and Feng Xiaobao's store expanded.

Datang's export commodities, especially silk, are the most popular, because of their light weight and rich connotations, which are extremely popular with crooked nuts

As they walked along the road, they saw the heavy mountains on the left side of the road, and the continuous mountains were very oppressive.

The Tibetans came from that side to fight us, and on the right side of our line is the desert, just such a not wide area, there is no strategic depth, and some narrow areas suitable for human life and passage are only twenty or thirty kilometers wide!

The Tibetan cavalry charged condescendingly, and could easily cut off this fragile line of communication.

It is very difficult to solve, for thousands of years, the central dynasty and the Western Regions intermittently connected, inconvenient transportation is one thing, by the Hu people continue to attack, years of war after the Han population was exhausted, this place reincarnated as the Hu people's paradise.

There was no need to fight, Feng Xiaobao sat on horseback and had a lot of time to think about Pianpian: the Central Plains Dynasty was a vast sea to the east, and it was small Japan that could be attacked, and the advantage was that they had a lot of silver mines, and further east, it was difficult to cross the Pacific Ocean of Haohan.

To the north is terrible Siberia, a land that is frozen and unforgiving, and the environment is in a period of savagery; To the south, there is a tropical rainforest full of miasma and malaria, and the development of the other side is not optimistic.

As a matter of fact, the offensive in the east-west direction belongs to pioneering, and there are no decent countries and civilizations on either side, as long as we follow the steps and develop all the way, we can have a harvest.

To the west ... Manage the Western Regions well, use this as a springboard, invade Central Asia, enter Iran through Afghanistan, get the rich two river basins, and then divide the troops into two routes, attack the turkey country (Turkey) and Egypt, and destroy the Arab countries, take a defensive position in Egypt, and then use the turkey country as a springboard to attack Eastern Europe and break Western Europe.

Well, Feng Xiaobao woke up suddenly: In the Age of Discovery, maybe it's not necessary!

What was it used for in the Age of Discovery? Running to the Americas? Please, the civilization there is more backward than ours, at most cut some sweet potatoes and earn some gold and silver to come back.

If there is really gold and silver, I am afraid that the Tang people who go there will build their own country and will not come back!

Sailing back and forth to the Pacific Ocean is no easy feat!

Going south, one is to Australia, where the development is not bad, there are many minerals, but there is no need to invest the population there, even in the later developed period, the population there is still very small.

The second is to cross the Strait of Malacca, which is full of curry flavor along the way, which belongs to the scope of the influence of the Kaihang people, thinking of their huge necks and extremely thick waists, Feng Xiaobao does not want to slaughter them, but wants to squeeze them to oil... I don't understand why they are so fat?

Walking a hundred miles and a hundred miles of wisdom, Feng Xiaobao received an extremely important enlightenment: to conquer by land, according to the number of people to march, the war is fought by the population, the population of his own family is large, attack the country with a large population, get supplies and harvests, and treat them as slaves when it fails!

He had a thought, and in the Age of Discovery, he had no chance with Datang from then on! (To be continued.) )