Zhao Ziliang saw that everyone had no objections, and continued: "This time the army was dispatched, and the king decided to divide the troops into two routes, all the way by land; All the way by water! The king led the 2nd, 4th, and 5th corps of his headquarters, as well as the Kimak Army and the Pecheneg Army, to attack from the front by land; Zhao Hu, the commander of the First Army Corps, led the 1st, 6th, 7th, and 8th Army Corps, as well as the Oghuz Army, the Flower Thorn Army, and the Kipchak Army to find a place on the east coast of the Caspian Sea to build a dock and build a warship, and after building enough warships, they immediately boarded the ship and marched to the Khazar Khanate in the Caspian Sea and the Western Sea! ”

Zhao Hu stood up and reported: "King Qiyu, building docks and building warships requires experienced shipbuilders, my Western Qin is located inland, there is no such talent, if you want to find such talents, you must send people to Yangzhou or send people to the Great Food Country or to the Eastern Roman Empire to recruit!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said: "Yangzhou is too far away from here, and it will take a year to make a round trip, and this king can't afford to wait!" Let's discuss this matter separately! ”

"Yes!" After Zhao Hu finished speaking, he stepped aside. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Ziliang said to the leader of the Thorn Mold, Baba Khan: "Baba Khan, the east coast of the Caspian Sea is the territory of your Thorn Zm, if our army wants to build a dock and build a warship, we need your more efforts!" ”

Baba Khan hurriedly saluted and said: "As a landlord, Xiao Khan naturally has to do his best, please rest assured!" ”

This Flower Thorn Zimo is not the former Fire Seeking Country, it is a branch that broke away from the Fire Search Country, and the Flower Thorn Zimo people who stayed in the original territory have been subordinated to Western Qin, and Western Qin now has a garrison on the ground of the original Fire Seeking Country.

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Okay!" The 2nd, 4th, and 5th Army Corps, as well as the Kimak Army and the Pecheneg Army, set out with the king three days later! ”

The people stood up and agreed: "Yes, my lord!" ”

After everyone dispersed, Zhao Ziliang looked at Ma Lan and asked, "Ma Lu, how is the situation of the guards?" ”

Ma Lan stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Back to the king, everything is normal in the escort army, the morale of the generals in the army is strong, and the soldiers are eager to fight!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "The original guard army has been reorganized into the Guards, although this guard army is newly formed, but the officers and soldiers in the army are all tigers and wolves, you have just taken office, everything must be based on establishing prestige, otherwise you will not be able to dominate them!" ”

Ma Lan said: "Thank you for the king's teachings, and the last general will remember!" ”

Zhao Ziliang turned his head to look at his son Zhao Lei and said, "Lei'er! ”

Zhao Lei stood up and clasped his fists and saluted: "The child is here!" ”

"My father brought you here this time mainly to familiarize you with the things of the battle formation, your martial arts are good, but in terms of the things of the battle formation, you are much worse than your brother Ting'er, my father plans to let you be a captain in the guard army first, if you have merit and then be promoted, what do you think?"

Zhao Lei was about to agree, but Ma Lan said: "King, I am afraid that it is inappropriate to only let the eldest prince be a captain, the last general heard that the eldest prince has made great achievements as an official over the years, and now he is already in the household division as a lieutenant, if he is only allowed to be a captain, wouldn't this send a signal to the outside world that the eldest prince has fallen out of favor?" The last general thinks that this is extremely detrimental to the future of the eldest prince, and asks the king to think twice! ”

The civil official who was accompanying the army next to him stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the lower officials think that General Ma Lu's words are quite reasonable, although the Great King has not yet considered and decided on the issue of establishing a prince, but this matter is too sensitive after all, and it is also detrimental to the stability and unity of our Western Qin, please be cautious!" ”

After pondering for a while, Zhao Ziliang said: "The army is different from officialdom, the army is to rely on strength to speak, although Zhao Lei's martial arts are not good, but after all, he has no experience in commanding troops, so he climbed too high all of a sudden, if there is really any mistake, it will not only harm him, but also harm the army under his command, including this king, who in the army and the mountains is not climbed up step by step with military merits and command ability?" The king you said has also considered it, but this king can't protect him all his life, he has to grow up by himself after all, and he has to rely on himself! And he is already the father of two children, and can no longer take refuge under the protection of this king, so the matter is settled, and no one needs to say it again! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Ziliang said another thing, "Just now Zhao Hu talked about the problem of not having skilled shipbuilders, this king has also considered this matter, it is unlikely to send people to Yangzhou to find it, and the Eastern Roman Empire is an ally of the Khazars, the emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine V is still the son-in-law of the Khazar Khanate King Habir, and it is very likely that he will be hindered if he wants to send people to the Eastern Roman Empire to recruit shipwrightsAs the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, and now that we are at war with the Khazars, we are indirectly fighting against the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Great Food Nation will certainly be happy about it, and if we seek their help, this king thinks they will be happy! ”

Chen Qing stood up and said, "The king has everything, and the last general agrees!" ”

Dugu Jun said: "Great King, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Great Food Country have been in a hostile relationship for a long time, they must have sent fine work in the territory of the Great Food Country, if we send someone to the Great Food Country to ask the Great Food Country to help recruit shipwrights, the Eastern Roman Empire's fine work will inevitably be detected, if the Eastern Roman Empire knows, the Khazars will naturally know, if they pretend not to know, and set up an ambush at the place where our army landed, won't our army suffer?" ”

The generals immediately laughed when they heard this, Bai Xiaode said with a smile: "Lord Dugu, the two countries have always been at war with each other to investigate the military situation, the news is true and false, and there is also the speed of transmission, if the news is true, and get the news in time, the chances of winning are naturally greater, if the news is true, but the transmission is slow, and when the enemy gets the news, it is too late!" Marching and fighting, the two armies face each other, when the move is true or false, false and real, it depends on whose means are more clever! Is it because we don't do it because we think that the Eastern Roman Empire might get news again? This is definitely not a no-go! The Great Food Country and the Eastern Roman Empire are enemies, and they will definitely help us hide news from the Eastern Roman Empire or spread false news, so don't worry about this! ”

Dugu Jun is a good hand at handling government affairs, but he is not good at military affairs, so he does not know and understand these things.

Zhao Ziliang nodded, agreed with Bai Xiaode's statement, and asked, "Who will be sent to the Great Food Country to handle this matter?" ”

Dugu Jun said: "King, Wang Jihan once led a team to send envoys to the Great Food Country, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Frankish Kingdom, and the lower officials thought that this person could take on this important task!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while and agreed: "Okay, I will send Wang Jihan to lead a team to the Great Food Country to handle this matter, and I want to go back as soon as possible!" ”

"No!"

On March 15, Zhao Ziliang led the second, fourth, and fifth, as well as the Kimak and Pecheneg armies, a total of 70,000 horses, from Aralsk on the north shore of the Aral Sea to the west, while Zhao Hu led the sixth, seventh, and eighth armies, as well as the Oghuz army, the Huathornzimo army, and the Kipchak army, a total of 30,000 horses, also set out, the two armies were closely connected, and after ten days of marching, the two armies separated, and Zhao Hu led the second route army to turn southwest and advance towards the east shore of the Caspian Sea.

In less than ten days, Zhao Ziliang's army passed through the territory of the Oghuz people and entered the territory of the Pechenegs, the homeland of the Pechenegs is between the Volga River and the Urals, there are large pastures, abundant water and grass, sufficient forage for livestock, the most suitable for grazing, this place used to belong to the Khazars, but after the rise of the Pechenegs, they drove away the Khazars and occupied here, and later the Khazars got the support of the Byzantine Empire to gain a foothold on the northern shore of the Black Sea and established a khanate, and the relationship between the two countries gradually became closer, and eventually the marriage from generation to generation. The Oghuz, the Khoazm, and the Kipchaks of the north were all eyeing the territory of the Pechenegs, and they all wanted to drive the Pechenegs out of the land, but the Pechenegs were so brave that they could not succeed for a while. The Khazars also often tried to regain lost territory, and the two tribes often fought with each other, winning and losing each other.

The Pechenegs were not all nomads, they were semi-nomadic, herding and farming, they bought heavy armor from everywhere and formed a heavy cavalry, which became known as the Heavy Cavalry Army of the South Russian steppes, which was small in number but good in combat.

After Zhao Ziliang led the army into the territory of the Pechenegs, he saw herds of cattle and sheep and patches of tents, huts and wheat fields on the side of the Ural River. You can rely on farming to feed more people and livestock!

In the vicinity of Atyrau in later generations, Zhao Ziliang led his army to a place where the Pecheneg people lived, which had a large area of wheat fields and houses and tents.

"Great King, this is the place where the little Khan is located, and the little Khan, on behalf of the Pecheneg Zou headquarters, welcomes the king and his king here! The little Khan has sent someone to inform his subordinates to prepare wine and meat for the army, and I hope that the king and the warriors will enjoy it! Ba Dasi of Zou Headquarters said to Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang stood on the top of the hillside and looked at the herds of cattle and sheep on the grassland below the mountain, the houses and tents, and the Ural River flowing through the distance like a white jade belt, and there was a vibrant scene everywhere, thinking that it was no wonder that the surrounding nomadic tribes were fighting the idea here.

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Thank you for the hospitality of the Khan of Badas and the Pecheneg people of the Zou headquarters, I think we will get along very well, please!" ”

"The king first, please!"

The army continued to set off, advancing towards the sweat tent of the Zou headquarters at the foot of the mountain, and the army soon arrived, and countless herdsmen and farmers from the Zou headquarters came out of the tents, huts, and wooden houses in groups to watch the excitement.