After reaching a consensus at the top, the Tang Army started quickly, dispatched troops, transported materials, and had a clear division of labor and high efficiency, which was the benefit of a big country, and it was not an exaggeration to say that the country had the power to overthrow the sea. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On the morning of April 1 (lunar calendar, not April Fool's Day), the Eastern Imperial City.

The weather is excellent, and the sky is full of brilliant orange-red dazzling light, which makes the Imperial City Tower even more majestic and magnificent.

It is auspicious, which is conducive to military travel, and the next auspicious day will be until the 16th, so he was named the northern envoy (the new official name, determined by Wu Zetian himself), and Wei Xi, who was the general of the army and controlled the military affairs of the army, said that the soldiers were expensive and fast, and immediately sent troops!

In these days, there were no trains, planes, and automobiles, and even the great generals had to run there honestly on horseback.

However, the country has long wanted to fight this war, and has been sending military funds to the states in the border areas, accumulating them, and using them at that time. And the ordinary soldiers of the government army have already set off, and now the forbidden army guarding the general needs to be dispatched.

The Emperor's city was noisy and noisy.

The flags are like a forest, and the soldiers are dressed in bright yellow bright light armor or gray armor, densely arranged, looking at the past like a sea of molten iron and steel.

The base of the forbidden army subordinate to the commander is the Zuo Xiao cavalry guard, but each guard has selected elite soldiers and strong generals to participate in the battle.

As long as these people don't die, they will definitely be promoted after they come back, because they have experience in battle formations, plus the recent increase in salaries from the imperial court, starting from the forbidden army, they have benefited from all levels and up, so their morale is good.

The ceremony of the day was very grand, the emperor Li Dan personally gave the army a grand march (his function is to decorate, seal and show), arrange the big things, and give the imperial city an axe, so as to pass on the expedition.

The army travels, starting from the imperial city, crossing the Tianjin Bridge, turning left at Xiuwenfang, passing through Nanshi, and going straight out of Jianchun Gate.

The team is quite neat and mighty, after all, it is a selected forbidden army, and the tall and well-armored people show their majesty.

The people on both sides crowded the road, and the pot pulp was full of love and support for the army.

The forbidden army is a standing army, stationed inside and outside the capital, and family members are also here. The soldiers are going out to fight, of course, the old and young in the family will be worried and worried, and they will have to congest on the side of the road and leave with tears in their eyes.

Among the crowd, among the crowd that everyone can see, there is a touch of beauty that is particularly eye-catching, it is Princess Taiping, who brought her two sons and a daughter to see off her husband.

She was dressed in a plain white silk robe, the patterns and workmanship on the material were very fine, there were not many ornaments on her body, her hair was coiled and plugged into a hairpin, and her face and pink neck were white and smooth as if they were shining, so that the men who could see them were peeking.

If you dress up too well, isn't that to pull hatred? But it's not good to be too inconspicuous, there is a golden umbrella cover to shield Princess Taiping from the sun, so that everyone knows, "Hey, who is this?" "Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping, she also saw her off!"

As Princess Taiping, there is no pressure to stand by the emperor's side to see Wei Xi off, but Wei Xi intends to let her come out to put on a show, so that everyone will know that the Heavenly Family also sends soldiers to serve the country.

Not only him, but all the children of the noble ministers' families who went to fight were all seen off on the street and appeared to the people, so as to create a scene where all the people were soldiers and hated the enemy.

After passing through the South City, the wealthy businessmen there have long been prepared, set up a shed in advance, written with the words of a certain and certain firm, and a certain and such wish our army a great victory, and prepared a red "victory bag", which contains tea, beef jerky (all produced by Wei's firm, Wei Xi made a big profit), all kinds of medicines, flints, pencils and other suitable foods and small objects, pasted a red "victory" word, very festive.

The sergeants who came over stuffed one each, beaming with joy, making the queue messy, and the officers didn't care.

Because of the last time the Turks were killed in the capital, the wealthy merchants, especially the Hu merchants, spared no effort to sponsor the army, trying their best to curry favor with them, but they cheapened the ordinary soldiers.

Leave Luoyang and head to Zhengzhou, where the newly built Yellow River Bridge is built.

The length of the bridge has reached a terrifying fifteen miles, the cement and steel structure, the bottom foundation is strong, and it is really impossible to complete it without the strength of the country.

It's long, it's wide, it's spectacular!

The Yellow River below is surging, and a bridge flies north and south.

The newly built Yellow River Bridge has become the face of the Tang Dynasty, and any crooked nuts who have a little influence will arrange for them to pass by this bridge, so that they can experience the greatness of the Tang Empire.

Many Hu people, when they see the bridge, will have a kind of worship, they can't dream that there will be such a magnificent bridge!

The troops are endless, like a long dragon, not in front of the tail but not in the back.

The military order received was to disrupt the steps, cross the bridge in a disorderly manner, and the general order was inexplicable, but I heard that it was the order of the general that the brigade army would have to do this when crossing any bridge in the future.

After crossing the bridge all the way to the north, the road is very easy to walk, along the way the government arranges rich food and accommodation, a lot of meat, and there is hot water supply.

It's just that the expedition does consume physical strength, and everyone is sleeping in the open and mostly walking.

The horses used to fight were expensive, and ordinary cavalrymen were reluctant to ride, and their luggage was supported by donkeys and mules.

The itinerary is also tasteless enough, there are many mountains and hills at that time, anyway, there is a piece of green everywhere you look, and you will get tired of seeing too much.

At the border of Texas, the cavalry troops were vast, and a large number of horses were assembled and began to be distributed to the cavalry, each cavalry had four horses at most and two horses at the least.

Fat and strong, strong and durable,

It's the turn of spring and summer, and the horses that came in the winter are generally thin, but the grass is just growing in the spring, and the horses are often thin and fatless.

But the horses transported are very strong, this is the benefit of organized breeding, are transferred from Longyou, Hexi area horse breeding, they have beans to eat, naturally will not lose fat.

They were all dressed with horseshoes and taught, and the horsemen rejoiced in receiving new horses, as if they were celebrating a festival.

The horses have a new owner, although they are a little recognized, but the cavalrymen generally know how to train the horses, and soon make the horses obedient, of course, there are also some stupid people, who can't level the newly collared horses, and the horses and people confront each other like fighting cocks, and they laugh at their colleagues.

Today is different from the past, in the past, even the forbidden army only had one horse, at most with casualties with the horse, and in some places the cavalry could only be used as infantry if there was no horse, unless it was a very capable army.

Now, the average cavalry has two horses.

Of course, the consequence of such extravagance is that the cavalry only has 120,000, and the rest are infantry, while the Hu people raise their own horses, and the logistical pressure is small, and they are all cavalry.

Out of Shuozhou, the rangers were released a hundred miles away, wary of the Turks.

Correspondence with the imperial court was sent every day, and the deliveries were the same: our army entered a certain place, and there was no fighting.

The 300,000-strong army marched forward to the destination, and reported that the city of surrender had begun, and the report said that there was no battle, not even more than ten men, it was like an outing.

The Turks shamefully avoided the battle and fled from the wind!