Since ancient times, the degree to which the border army of the Central Plains Dynasty dared to fight was closely related to the domestic political situation. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

When the country is stable, there will be food and materials to supply the border army.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for a good woman to drink without rice.

The monarch or the ruler of the dynasty has a firm policy, and there is a good general who is handsome, and he will not be hindered.

At present, the Tang general Wang Xiaojie is in the surrendered city on the north bank of the Yellow Side, and the Tang general Qibi Ming is surrendered in the Khitan hometown, one east and one west echo each other.

Other state generals are also quite enthusiastic.

Wei Xi presided over military affairs, and the spring of the border generals arrived.

There is no shortage of food supplies.

Without the constraints of the supervising army, the generals have the right to act cheaply, and they can take necessary measures according to the situation on the battlefield, all for the sake of winning the war, and will do whatever it takes.

If you think about it with your ass, you will know the strategy of the Tang generals: to kill the old and weak of the Turks, and then to slaughter the livestock of the Turks, and finally to fight a decisive battle with the cavalry of the Turks.

The Hu people are the best teachers, everyone learns from the Hu people, and the Hu people are different from the Hu people, the Tang people have a strong city to rely on, they can rest when they are tired, and they can hide in if they can't fight... It's like opening a magic shield to PK, the Hu people can't beat the Tang people, the Tang people want to fight the Hu people, but the Hu people are embarrassed, and the role of the surrendered city lies in this.

Wei Xi is not afraid of the rebellion of the border generals, saying that whoever rebels, first of all, whether he can rebel or not is a different matter, and secondly, if he rebels, he can quell the rebellion and rebel in an instant.

He openly proclaimed that everyone in the court believed in him, so Wu Zetian let him do it.

In addition, last year, the army had just raised its salaries, and it was the central army and the border army that were tilted, and the morale of the border army was very strong.

Feeling that the Tang army was full of ill intentions, and fed back the news from the Tang Dynasty, Wei Xi, the military department Shangshu Wei Xi who was dedicated to the main battle in the Tang court, resolutely stood up to Wu Chenghei, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who decided to negotiate peace, and waited for the Turks to make mistakes, and the Turks could only swallow their anger and only graze livestock on the periphery of the Tang army's line of control.

Fortunately, the Tang Army did not interfere with such acts.

Although you can live, how can you be on the edge of the Yellow River!

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Turkic camp of Lake Balafon in the Altai Mountains.

It is a large lake surrounded by rivers and marshes, and such a place has always been a good place for the steppe tribes to graze.

The water and grass are good, the weather is not good, compared with the south, it is cold here early and thaws late, there is no comparison.

That's why the Turks will have so much resentment on the side of the Yellow River, but if they don't start a war with the Tang Dynasty now, they will be over.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells!" In the distance, the horse bell rang, and the children in the camp shouted for joy: "The caravan is coming, the caravan is coming!" ”

In my memory, whenever the caravan arrived, there was something delicious, and the children were very happy.

The adult looked at the caravan under the guidance of the silver wolf banner, and his face was first happy, then sad.

The caravan, the caravan from the south, was composed of Turks, Tang people or other peoples, but there were no Lites, such a business was too dangerous, and the clever Lites never touched it.

There was no shortage of such people in caravans that traded with nomads. What is needed is to cooperate with the inside and outside, and open up the joints, if it is not for the big family (at least the head snake in the border states and counties), if it is not for the border army, otherwise this business will not be able to do it.

They have an important impact on the survival of nomadic peoples, such as the border merchants (and border troops) in the Ming and Qing dynasties, even when the Ming Dynasty and the old wild boar skin were in a good fight, they still sold ironware, salt, tea and other strategic materials to the old wild boar skin, so that the old wild boar skin has a steady stream of power.

Now, the caravan from the Turkic camp entered the shores of Lake Balafon, and the two shopkeepers of the caravan, one old and one young, speaking skillfully in Turkic, visited the chiefs of the camp and presented gifts.

Soon they were out of the tent with smiles on their faces, and the chief sent a few of his own soldiers to stand guard for them.

It's not that the tribe doesn't want to rob the caravan, but the caravan is often a joint venture with the Turkic noble chieftain, and the silver wolf flag is given by them, and the tribe that robbed the caravan of the Tang people, the caravan may not come again, and it is more likely to become a slave of the noble chief (give them a reason to send troops to attack).

After setting up camp, there are stalls, there are fine as snow-white refined salt, large tea bricks, all kinds of iron utensils such as iron knives, iron pots, shovels, etc., these are the most urgent needs of the grassland people.

There is also salt on the grassland, but those salts are bitter, and the impurities in them are strange, rubbed in the meat and soup, resulting in the indescribable taste of the ingredients, while the salt made by the Tang people is not, it is salty and salty, so that the food is normal.

The role of tea bricks goes without saying, the grassland people eat meat is not easy to digest, and there are no vegetables, so they have to drink tea, and if there is no tea, they can't even pull out the feces.

Ironware: The nomads also have some smelting industry, but the productivity is backward, and it is not enough to cast swords, it is simply impossible to use them to cast daily necessities, and their craftsmanship is also poor, and the Tang people make everything well.

In addition to this, there are beautiful silk clothes, practical pockets, buckets, stoneware utensils, and much more.

"Come!" The Tang people opened a bottle of soju, which was the head and tail wine of the distillery's pot (bad wine, good wine takes the middle section), but it made their eyes light up for tribal men who had never seen the world!

The old shopkeeper of the Tang Dynasty poured wine into the pot, and the smell of the wine made the men sniff greedily.

The old shopkeeper generously gave each of them a shallow bottom mud bowl of wine, which was dry and clean, and smashed it!

And the young shopkeeper gave the children in front of him a maltose, so sweet!

There is no need to talk nonsense, the business is done, and the Tang caravan only needs horses and cattle, saying that this year's wind is tight, and there is no need for sheep.

"You want to exchange so many things for us, your three horses are too thin!" The old shopkeeper sighed and said, "Your horses are still a little thinner!" ”

"I didn't go to the Yellow River to graze, the horses didn't eat much grass, and they didn't grow much meat!" The man whispered.

"Add one more horse, two more horses are enough!" The old shopkeeper said.

It's summer now, hurry up to finish the business, the caravan will be withdrawn, otherwise in the autumn, in case the Turks and the Tang people exchange troops, and the Tang people are caught, it will be a spies, and the Turks will intercept it, and the Turkic tribes are many, and they don't recognize each other, and the caravan may become an appetizer.

If the livestock graze well in the spring, at least they are not so thin, but they have to go south.

The livestock in this camp are thin, and there is nothing to be done.

When everyone was happily doing business, while everyone was not paying attention, the shopkeeper threw a dirty towel into the herd!

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The caravan stayed here for three days, trading with the tribes of the various camps that had arrived, and bought 1,200 horses and 800 cattle, and drove them back south with a few shopkeepers, while the caravan continued north.

They were in a hurry, in a hurry, and they were constantly getting to know and contact each other before, looking for big tribes.

A few days later, the Turks in the camp of Lake Balafon were drinking their horses when they noticed bad signs, and many of the horses were depressed and had a hard time!

I can't move, I can't call away, I refuse to eat grass or drink water.

"Not good!" The old man of the tribe was very experienced, and immediately took action to separate the suspicious horses.

However, after separating these horses, more horses also developed symptoms, and the horses that first showed symptoms fell to the ground, their limbs spasmed, and the horses spat out a lot of filth!

A terrible thought crossed their minds: horse plague!

Horse plague is in full swing!

Large herds of horses became ill and there were few survivors.

The Turks were horrified, and the children cried!

Their wizards made a move, and the old man searched for herbs, but the technical power of that period, once the horse plague broke out, it was almost impossible to save!

In just a few days, half of the horses in the camp died!

What's even more terrifying is the emergence of rinderpest

The Turks are so anxious that they can't take care of this end.

Horse plague and rinderpest are common livestock diseases, which can be swept away.

If they had an epidemic control center, after collecting the information, they would find that the location of the horse plague and rinderpest coincided with the caravan route of the Tang people.