It's still too urgent, otherwise, in fact, he doesn't want to treat the ten Taibao like that today, after all, they are all his brothers-in-law. Today, although the wrist is flexible, it still can't help but leave a bit of an ugly impression. If there is enough time, Ling Yun believes that if he slows down, he can actually handle things better, but unfortunately time waits for no one. Pei Zeng, Tuoba Hengdao and the others in the alliance don't look at the apparent belief in the future attack of the Turks that Ling Yun said, but he knows very well that they are actually half-convinced, or even more suspicious of what the Turks are about to commit. After all, the Tiger League has occupied Huaihuang for many years, except for the covetousness of the Baye Gu people this time, the Turks and the Tiger League have always been in a good situation, and the well water has always been not against the river water, and the two do not offend each other.

But Lingyun is very clear that the history books clearly record that in the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, a war broke out between the Great Sui and Goguryeo, and the king of Goguryeo first led the elite cavalry to cross the Liao River and invade Yingzhou in western Liao, and retreated to Liaodong after a battle with the governor of Sui Yingzhou. The Sui Dynasty then began its first expedition to Liao, with 300,000 soldiers and horses marching eastward, but unfortunately it was soon almost wiped out due to epidemics and supplies and other reasons, and had to retreat. Originally, the Sui Dynasty suffered this great loss to prepare for the second expedition to Liao, but the second war of the Liao expedition was not completed until Yang Jian's death, and it was not until the seventh year of Yang Guang's reign thirteen years later that the Great Sui made the second eastward expedition to Goguryeo. The fundamental reason was not that Yang Jian was afraid of losing, but because the Great Sui fought with the Turks first in the second year. Between the Turks and Goryeo, the Great Sui was obviously even more intolerant of the arrogance of the Turks.

In the nineteenth year of the emperor's reign, the Eastern Turk Khan Dulan formed an alliance with the Western Turkic Datou Khan, and joined forces to attack the Eastern Turkic Northern Khan Tuli Khan Ashina Rangan, who had fallen to the Sui Dynasty and married the princess of the Sui Dynasty. The traitor led the way, and the party Tuli was defeated. was deceived by Changsun Sheng to the Sui Dynasty. Faced with the alliance of Dulan and Datou, the Sui Dynasty attached great importance to it and immediately put down the plan to conquer Goguryeo again. Begin to deal with the possible confluence of the Eastern and Western Turks with all their might. For this reason, Yang Jian sent the two prime ministers of the dynasty, Gao Gong and Yang Su, to fight the Turks, which was also the hardest battle between the Sui Dynasty and the Turks since the founding of the country, and even surpassed the great war of the situation for more than ten years after the establishment of the emperor. It was in this year that Yang Su once again proved his reputation as an undefeated military god, and Yang Su gave up traditional tactics such as car formation battles in this battle. Instead, he directly used cavalry against cavalry, and 200,000 cavalry on both sides launched a decisive battle, and finally Yang Su defeated the first 100,000 cavalry. This is the first battle in the history of the roster. The cavalry of 200,000 people faced off, and the Han cavalry defeated the steppe cavalry head-on. After this battle, Da Tou was seriously wounded and fled, and the hundreds of thousands of elite horsemen were almost wiped out. Another battlefield. Gao Gong also lives up to the name of being able to write and martial arts. The Eastern Turkic soldiers and horses were defeated, and Du Lan was killed by his subordinates after he was defeated and fled.

This battle was fought until the 20th year of the emperor's reign, Yang Guang took command and picked the last peach, and the powerful Eastern Turks were almost destroyed again, and they surrendered again, and then waited until 18 years later, and the son of Shibi Khan led the powerful Eastern Turks to besiege Yang Guangyu Yanmen again. almost killed Yang Guang.

Lingyun, who clearly remembers these future processes, how can he be relaxed. Although in the end, Du Lan provoked the Sui Dynasty and failed. but was destroyed. But now it is more than a year before Dulan is defeated, and more than two years before the Eastern Turks surrender to the Great Sui. During this time, Dulan and the Eastern Turks were the most dangerous, especially for the Tigers in Huaihuang Town today. Du Lan, who controls two or three hundred thousand strings, can twist them to death with a finger at will, and the hair is thicker than their waist.

Ling Yun didn't think that in case the Turks came to attack, he would retreat to Neiguan first. After all, now that they have been recruited by Yang Guang, they can retreat into the Great Wall with this identity at a critical time. But Lingyun was unwilling, Huaihuang Town on the Bashang Grassland was an extremely rare force that could be mastered. Once he retreats into the Guannai, the Great Sui will never let him control this force again.

Pressing things in my heart, even with my feelings, I became a little irritable. Every day, Ling Yun was almost busy holding various meetings, discussing with the leaders in the alliance to integrate more than a hundred cottages and more than a dozen branch hall rudders into thirteen rudders, discussing how to strengthen the city defense in the selected thirteen halls, how to place those family members, and how to organize and train garrison soldiers and horses. Countless things piled up, and he didn't even have time to sleep every day when he was tired, and his daily meals were sent over by Qinglian and Mulan. Nearly 100,000 people moved out of the original cottage and moved to 13 branch churches. The thirteen rudders had to build more houses, and they had to strengthen the walls and fortifications. It was also necessary to reorganize the garrison of thirteen rudder fort cities, thirteen rudders, each of which was originally planned to reorganize the garrison of 5,000 people. But in the end, everyone quarreled and quarreled, and Ling Yun had to increase the number of garrisons, to five hundred per rudder, and all of a sudden the number of garrisons with subrudder reached six thousand five hundred, exceeding one thousand five hundred. This made Ling Yun have to temporarily cancel the garrison training of Huaihuang Sanlian City, and temporarily put the pro-army in the tent in charge of the Huaihuang garrison. In addition, in order to prevent the Turks from attacking, more than 100 cottages that had been abandoned were converted into beacon fire warning stations, and each village was stationed in a group, and 1,500 beacon soldiers were trained.

After the establishment amount was settled, the garrison of each rudder was selected, the new hall master of each rudder, and various personnel discussions were all made by Ling Yun in the end.

After these troubles, the biggest trouble is the problem of money and food. To expand and strengthen the thirteen-minute rudder, you have to ask for money and food. When the villages are relocated into the rudder, they need money and food, and they need money and food to train the garrison and the garrison. In addition, according to Lingyun's plan, each rudder began to build market shops and warehouses, which also required a lot of money and grain. And these are not the things that Ling Yun is most worried about, what Ling Yun is most worried about now is the reorganization and training of soldiers and horses in Huaihuang Town, there is no elite in hand, and everything else is in vain. Although Huaihuang gathered tens of thousands of horses, there were not many of these soldiers who were sophisticated, and most of them could only be called minions and rabble.

Ling Yun faced that group of new troops every day, and the most headache was the experienced officers. Experienced officers, especially low-level officers, who have really fought in wars, are in huge demand in the army, and there are 1,000 gang commanders and 400 captains and deputy captains out of 10,000 people. But he didn't have so many officers at all, and it wasn't enough to promote all the three hundred guards given to him by Yang Guang to captain. So far, Ling Yun had to promote a large number of veterans from the Gao family's private soldiers and Erlong Hall, and let them train every day. It is also necessary to take a few junior officers with him and temporarily train a group of grassroots officers.

Within a few days of such a busy day, Ling Yun had even more trouble. There is no money.

Although the LTTE has occupied a huge piece of land on the dam over the years, they only know how to rob, not produce, and the place on the dam is not suitable for growing food. But now, Lingyun reorganized the Tiger Alliance. To establish Huaihuang Military Town, everyone was busy relocating, building cities, and training troops, and there were strict orders on the other hand. It is forbidden for everyone to rob again. A lot of money and food are consumed every day, but there is no income, and it doesn't take long to see that the family is about to run out.

There is still some money. But the bread is really gone. More than 100,000 horses. Every day people eat horses and chew, and the amount of food consumed is a huge number.

"How much more food is there?"

"On the helm's side, after the Shihe War, we found a batch of grain hidden by Zhang Sheng, with 50,000 stone grains. But now the total helmsman is more than 30,000, and the soldiers train very hard every day and consume a lot, so the total helmsman consumes at least 20,000 stone per month. The stock of the general rudder is only enough for two months, and the most troublesome thing is the sub-rudder below. According to the figures just reported, the rudders basically only have three months of grain stockpiles. Uncle Zhang said worriedly. The Book of Rites? The royal system said: "The country has no savings for nine years, and it is said to be insufficient; Without six years of savings, it is said to be urgent; Without three years of savings, it is said that the country is not its country. Huai Famine does not produce grain, but now we only have grain for March, which is a problem. Especially now that the imperial court has ordered the conquest of Liao, the price of grain in the north has risen sharply, and grain can be obtained, but I am afraid that there is no market. ”

Ling Yun knew in his heart that the battle of the Liao Expedition would lead to an increase in grain prices in Hebei, and I was afraid that the grain prices in Hebei would remain high in the next few years.

"We must find a way to buy grain, and we must at least prepare at least a year's worth of grain." Ling Yun sighed, his heart had surplus food, and he didn't panic in his heart. Without food, how can there be a war? Not to mention offense, even defense. Without food and grass, the spirit of the army will be scattered.

"It seems that I can only find Xu Gai and them to find a way, and they may be able to help with Lu Ziguang. But there is still a lot to do, San Lang, see if you can write a letter to Yang Guang and ask him to help solve it a little. ”

"Well, I will." Although Ling Yun was not very sure that he could get it by asking Yang Guang for food, this was not a solution.

"By the way, we don't have enough forage." Uncle Zhang said another trouble, last time Huaihuang Town captured more than 3,000 war horses at once, plus the original ones in several teams of the Tiger Alliance, adding up, Ling Yun now has 5,000 war horses in his hands. With these war horses, although Ling Yun was happy to build a cavalry, he even planned to upgrade all of his 3,000 tent troops to cavalry. But the cavalry was even more fed. A soldier was given six buckets of grain a month, and a war horse had to eat three stones of corn a month, and sixty pieces of grass, in addition to black beans and salt. In addition to the fact that there is no need for money, the cost of raising one war horse is the cost of raising five soldiers. Even if you add the salary and raise one cavalry, you can raise five infantrymen.

Five thousand war horses are equivalent to an increase of twenty-five thousand mouths for eating. What's more, this horse not only has to eat, but also has to eat grass.

Ling Yun rubbed his forehead with a headache, everyone knows that cavalry is powerful, and having an elite cavalry on the battlefield can often change the outcome of a battle. But who can ignore the huge consumption of raising a cavalry.

He thought for a moment and sighed: "The hussars of the inner army have just expanded by 200 people, and now there are 1,000 light horses. In addition, there were 400 cavalry in the foreign army and 600 cavalry in the new army. We now have two thousand cavalry, each with two horses. As a result, there are still a thousand war horses empty, right? ”

Uncle Zhang nodded and said: "The original plan was to wait for the army to expand some cavalry after a period of time, or to equip the rudder garrison. ”

"Well, let's do it, now we can't afford to raise so many horses, and we are short of food, I think we will give these horses to the King of Jin, and then pick out some jewelry and the like in our treasury, and give them all to the King of Jin." Lingyun Road.

Uncle Zhang was a little surprised and reluctant at first, and then his eyes lit up: "San Lang is planning to exchange these for grain with King Jin?" ”

Ling Yun nodded, Yang Guang would not give him food for nothing, especially since Yang Guang was in Jiangnan and he was in Saibei. The so-called 100 miles do not sell wood, thousands of miles do not sell wood, in ancient times such transportation conditions, grain, this material, more than 1,000 miles away there is no profit from sales. I think that in history, when Yang Guang conquered Liao, the people traveled thousands of miles to transport grain to Liaodong, and they had to eat seven stones at most on the way to transport one stone of grain. If you want Yang Guang to help solve the problem of grain, you can only borrow Yang Guang's relationship to purchase and transport grain from Hedong, Hebei and other places. And if there is no benefit, why should Yang Guang help him. A thousand war horses are worth a lot of money, and they just can't afford to raise them, so it's impossible to kill them and eat meat. It was a good deal to give it to Yang Guang in exchange for food support. As for the gold, silver and jewelry in the inventory, it is more cost-effective to give them to Yang Guangyuan than to sell them yourself. If the thief sells it, the merchant will make a lot of money, and he can't get much money in exchange, but if he gives it to Yang Guang, it can be calculated at the full price.

Besides, war horses are indeed precious in the Central Plains, especially in the Jianghuai region, but for Ling Yun and others in Saibei, they are not rare precious materials.

In fact, Lingyun can also purchase grain in Hedong, Hebei and other places by himself, as long as he is willing to pay, he can always buy grain. However, it is not the most difficult thing to buy grain, but how to transport the purchased grain out of customs. In particular, it is very difficult to transport a large amount of grain out of the customs, especially at a time when the Great Sui is at war with Goguryeo in the northeast and relations with the Eastern Turks are deteriorating sharply. In this regard, even a person with a wide range of roads like Xu Gai is difficult to open all joints and transport a large amount of grain to the outside of the customs. In this regard, it would be completely different if Yang Guang came forward to dredge.

These thousand horses are sent out, even if Yang Guang will not pull out a grain of grain to Ling Yun, but as long as Yang Guang can help him open the channel for grain to leave the customs, it will already be completely worth its value.

After Uncle Zhang left, Cheng Yanjin, who was acting as a Lingyun orderly, whispered: "Master, why don't we go directly to rob the Xi people when we are short of food?" "In the last battle, Huaihuang Town gained a lot, but in fact, it was mainly because the results of the Bayegu people plundering the Xi people were accepted by them. In Cheng Yanjin's opinion, a thousand Xi people can rob more than a dozen Xi tribes, and the robberies are full, and we are short of food, so we will go directly to rob his mother.

Ling Yun shook his head, "It's not okay, it's really not okay." "Although the Xi people are weak among the tribes in the northeast, most of the Xi tribes attacked by the Bayegu people last time were those small tribes who moved from the Xi grassland to the Bashang grassland. The grassland on the dam is the territory of the Tiger League, but the Tiger League occupies this rich pasture and does not graze, so some small tribes who were suppressed by the big tribes in Xidi ventured into the dam to graze. These tribes are very weak, which is why they are so captured by the Bayegu people. The big tribes of the Xi tribe came because these tribes had an accident on the territory of the Tiger Alliance, and secondly, they attacked one of the big tribes of Mobei, the Tiele tribe, and before the Xi people could react, Ling Yun had already sent troops to destroy them. But if Lingyun and they are going to kidnap the Xi people now, there are no Xi people who have crossed the border on the dam, and they will go to the Xi grassland to rob them.

At present, the Eastern Turks in the west are already threatening them, at this time, how can Ling Yun still have the courage to attack the Xi people, isn't this an enemy everywhere and take the initiative to find and destroy? Ling Yun was also thinking about whether to send someone to contact the Xi clan to see if he could win them over to fight against Dulan Khan, or at least establish trade relations with them, otherwise, he would be surrounded by enemies on all sides, and his plan for the Huaihuang Bazaar would not be in vain.

Looking at Cheng Biting Jin, who was still at a loss, Ling Yun said: "Think about why it is, I'll listen to your answer tomorrow!" (To be continued......)