Shan Xiongxin, a member of the Tiger Wing Cavalry, sent his subordinate Wang Junkuo out to reconnoitre, and brought back news that the army had left the sea of sand from the moraine. "From their tents, there must be twenty thousand horsemen." He said, "Black flag, white wolf on it." ”

"Turks?" Shan Xiongxin asked.

"It's more likely that Mobei Tiele is from." Gao Jia, the commander of the Huaihuang Infantry Army, said, "No matter who comes, we will soon know." He glanced at the Wusha Castle group he was guarding, the three forts guarded the Wusha City in the middle, there were 20,000 infantry troops of the Huaihuang Army and 15,000 cavalry troops of the Tiger Wing Cavalry, plus 3,000 Wusha Castle garrison troops, and the young and strong reserves in the city, adding up to more than 40,000 people. Yi Shuai trusted them so much, put such a heavy army in Huaihuang into their hands, and let them guard the northwest gate of Huaihuang, no matter who came, he couldn't let them break through this city.

"We just let the tens of thousands of horses in Nili go over, and we can't let these Mobei wolf cubs go over again this time." Shan Xiongxin said.

Liu Ying clenched his fists and slammed on the battlements, "Why is this Tuli so bearish, doesn't it mean that he has 100,000 soldiers and horses and orders Mobei?" Why did he say that he was beaten by thousands of Turkic soldiers? And the Tiele people under his command are chasing him in turn, which is really a straw bag. ”

"The Tiele people are going south, and it is impossible for them to have only 20,000 people." Shan Xiongxin was a little worried, there were nearly 10,000 strikers in Tiele before, and it was impossible to come to 20,000 in the future.

"They may divide their troops to the south, or they may have a large army from the east to the south, or, or, these 20,000 people are just the forwards, Mobei Tiele, but there are many tribes, and the fierce are abnormal, and all the people are soldiers, and they really want to go south. I'm afraid that getting together 200,000 rides is not a problem. ”

"Don't even think about breaking through Usha Castle if you come any way." Gao Yi pressed the long sword on his waist with his hand, "Let's put tens of thousands of people in the mud." Huaihuang can still deal with it, and more people can be let go. Huaihuang's side will definitely not be able to withstand it. "Huaihuang City has four steps, two cavalry and six field armies, Wusha Fort in the northwest has one step and one cavalry, in addition to the wild fox city in the south, there is another cavalry and one infantry army in the northeast. Huaihuang City, there is only one infantry garrison, although there are still five town garrisons, but these garrisons are not strong, that is, to assist in the defense of the town forts.

The generals of Wushabao had previously let the mud go east, and they also thought that they could be shut down and beaten by the dogs at that time. But he did not expect another Tiele to go south.

Huaihuang northeast, Xijing Songshan City.

This place, where Yi Feng formed an alliance with Sanfan last year, has once again gathered many soldiers and horses in Sanfan, as well as a large population. Tiele attacked the east again, and there were more soldiers and horses, and the overwhelming soldiers and horses came to the east, and after the first to get the news, the Xi tribe was shocked, and quickly measured the strength of the two sides, and then immediately retreated and moved south with his family. Last year, just 10,000 people beat them to the wolves. Now that the army of nearly 100,000 Tiele is coming violently, how dare they fight it. The Xia tribe went south and entered the territory of the Khitan, and the Khitan heard the news. He didn't dare to stay longer, so he gathered the tribe and led the population to retreat south with the people. In the end, he retreated all the way to Xi Realm.

After the alliance between Sanfan and Yi Feng last year, although the Huaihuang Army also sent officers to train officers for them. Sold them ordnance, but Sanfan still didn't have the confidence to fight the Tiele army. They made their way south. After arriving at Matsuyama, I barely stopped. There is a tall city built by the Xi people of Huaihuang, after the alliance, the relationship between Huaihuang and the Xi people at the junction is closer, Huaihuang is in the Xi realm, especially in the west of the Xi people at the junction with Huaihuang, building roads, reclaiming river valleys, building post shops, and even establishing many cities. Songshan City is the city of the largest part of the Xi clan, the Ahui clan, and the patriarch of the Ahui clan, Su Zhi, has lived in this city with his family since the city was built, and lived in the luxurious mansion built for him by Yi Feng. The circumference of Songshan City is ten miles, and the scale can only be regarded as average compared with the city in the Central Plains, slightly larger than the county seat, and comparable to the state city, but in Xi Realm, this is the strongest and tallest city. There are residential areas, trade areas, warehouse areas, etc., a large number of shops, as well as special markets, where the merchants of Huaihuang set up shops, set up markets, and purchased all kinds of livestock, fur, herbs, ores, etc., and sold to them all kinds of goods from Huaihuang, and the business was excellent. As the lord of the city, Su Zhi has the right to sit on the ground to collect taxes, and he makes money every day, and this feeling of being able to collect taxes by opening the door is really not too good. With these taxes, he not only bought a large number of various Central Plains goods from Yi Feng, but also purchased a large number of ordnance from Huaihuang, recruited troops, and strengthened the strength of the Xi army.

The five major tribes of the Xi nationality, each with a battalion, formed the Xi army, with a total of 15,000 men and horses. The Ahui clan of Suzhi had a battalion of 3,000 horsemen, and he himself had another 500 guards. However, in the past six months, with this additional tax, Su Zhi has not only changed his 3,000 cavalry from herdsmen to a standing army, but also upgraded his guards from 500 to 3,000. In addition, in addition to these two battalions, he recruited two battalions of 6,000 men and horses, provided them with equipment, and had no food and wages, which belonged to the nature of herdsmen in peacetime and could be immediately conscripted as cavalry in wartime. With four battalions of 12,000 cavalry, Su Zhi has been quite proud recently. Seeing this, the other four major tribes of the Xi nationality are also very envious, and they have been negotiating with Huaihuang and signing many various agreements, including cooperating with Huaihuang to build roads, cultivating fields, building forts, and garrisoning in the territory of the tribe, recruiting tribal herdsmen for Huaihuang soldiers, recruiting tribal herdsmen to work in Huaihuang merchant workshops, and many trade agreements and various cooperation agreements, in exchange for Huaihuang building roads, forts, and cities in various tribes, and opening commercial markets, and those tribes have also received a lot of money. Now that they have their own city, they can sit and collect money. Suddenly, the leaders of the Xi people, who received a large amount of money, were also like Su Zhi, who did not buy all kinds of Han commodities with famine, and then began to recruit troops and horses to strengthen the soldiers and horses of the department. Basically, all the departments have expanded their own soldiers and horses, and the original five departments originally had one battalion each, but now there are at least three battalions at least. The Xi tribe has swelled in a short period of time, and now has a scale of 100 regiments and 50,000 people.

After the Xia and Khitan retreated to Songshan, they were also shocked by the great changes in the Xi people. Although they had heard about it, they were not shocked by what they had seen with their own eyes.

The Xi warriors, who were still poorly equipped like them last year, have now changed greatly, almost to the point where everyone wears armor. And their armor is unified, and the system is the same. That neatness alone can be daunting.

Su Zhi proudly said to his in-laws, the leader of the Khitan tribe, Dahe Mo, "All of them are unified ordnance purchased by Huaihuang. It's neat and beautiful, Huaihuang Military Workshop specially customized for us, not only the armor is unified, but we also buy standard cavalry knives, spears, and riding bows. ”

Ogami's eyes were full of envy, "Where did you get the money?" ”

"Cooperate with Huaihuang, we let Huaihuang build roads and forts in our territory, and allow them to reclaim land in the river valley. Whether they built forts or reclaimed fields, they had to pay money, and they had to pay for a piece of land. In addition, after the road is repaired and the city is built, there will be some checkpoints along the road, and taxes will be collected at the city gates. In addition, the market in each city also levies a city tax, which is not a small amount. Furthermore. We now cooperate closely with Huaihuang, and the transaction is also very convenient. It turned out that it was always too far away to go to Huaihuang to sell livestock or furs. But now it's different, the Huaihuang people have opened the market to their doorstep. It can be sold at any time. And not only to sell cattle and horses, we can also sell sheep, wool, all kinds of herbs, etc. to the Huaihuang merchants, and even in the winter, we have to slaughter a large number of male livestock, thin livestock. It's such a waste, now we can sell it all to the Huaihuang people. Whether it's sold in bulk or in retail, they want it anyway. Although the price is slightly lower than the original, it is convenient. All kinds of things can be exchanged for money, and it is also quite convenient and cheap to buy all kinds of ironware, porcelain, cloth and silk from Huaihuang merchants. Everyone has money, and we are now collecting some taxes on our own tribes like the Han people, and everyone is very happy. ”

Mohui didn't expect that the Xi people had blended so well with the Han people in Huaihuang, and there were Han people everywhere, and there were also Han market shops everywhere, all kinds of commercial goods were sold here, and all kinds of Xi goods were purchased here. As Su Zhi said, the Xi people can easily and conveniently sell their livestock here, even if it is a sheep or a ball of wool, they can get it from the Huaihuang merchants for cash, or directly trade it to the equivalent goods they want. And from Su Zhi's words, he even heard something that surprised him even more.

"The Huaihuang Han people also have banks in various cities and forts, you don't know the banks, they can issue loans." Su Zhi smiled, "Look at the five major tribes of our Xi tribe, last year there were only five battalions of men and horses, but this year there are already a full hundred regiments of 50,000 cavalry, not only the number has tripled, but also the equipment has been updated, the people are strong and the horses are strong." There are four battalions of men and horses in my Ahui Department, and the equipment is all the same. It's a lot of money, and to be honest, I don't have that much money in my hands for a while. But Huaihuang Bank is good, they directly borrowed a million yuan from me to pay for the ordnance order. ”

"Shhh Hearing a million guan, Mo Hui couldn't help but take a long breath, one million guan, this is a lot of money. In the past, they sold horses to the Han people, and a horse was only twenty-five pieces of silk, which was only about forty yuan, although I heard that these horses could be sold higher in the Central Plains, but those profits were all middlemen's, and it was none of their business. One million is worth more than 20,000 horses. Even for their large tribes, horses are a valuable thing. Most herders raise sheep and cattle, but rarely horses. Because horses are not easy to raise, raising a horse eats ten times as much as a sheep, and it has to be taken care of very carefully, for herdsmen who are not convenient to trade, raising sheep and cattle is actually more cost-effective. A herdsman who raises two or three hundred sheep and twenty or thirty cows can live a good life, but he may not be able to raise horses.

"A million runs, in fact, is not much, we are still up." Su Zhi said with a smile, borrowing more than 20,000 horses at a time is of course a big deal. When the Han people lent them money, he was also hesitant to pay it back, but the bank thought very well for him. The bank lent them a million yuan, and this money was also somewhat limited, and it was used exclusively to pay for the ordnance, and it was very convenient for them to repay the loan, with their cattle, sheep, horses, and other livestock products, and before the loan was paid, the bank took over their taxes, and the bank directly sent someone to collect the taxes on their behalf until the loan was repaid. For the preferential acquisition of this livestock mouth, as well as the collection of tax rights, Su Zhi felt that it was nothing, compared to being able to get one million yuan in advance, so that he could buy a large number of armor weapons and equip his four battalions of cavalry, he felt that it was a very cost-effective deal.

The Mo Club has to sigh that the changes in the Xi clan are really too great.

"Since Brother Mohui has arrived in our Songshan, there is no need to worry, you see that our Songshan City is so tall and strong, what about the Tiele people? Our Xi people now have a full 50,000 well-equipped cavalry, in addition, not far from the west of Songshan is the Lianghe town of Huaihuang, where there are 3,000 Huaihuang town soldiers, farther away, in our Xi territory, there are more than a dozen Huaihuang military towns and hundreds of forts and many tunbao, the total number of more than 20,000 Han troops behind us. Now, the Xi and Khitan tribes are heading south, and you have more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the Han army in Xi and Xi combined, there are already 100,000. What's more, as long as we have the support of the Han army, we can still gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at any time to fight against Tiele, which is not a problem. ”

Su Zhi is now a surge in self-confidence, he wants people, soldiers, and the Huaihuang army is behind him, who is he afraid of. Tiele, even if 80,000 come from the east, so what? There is a strong and huge Songshan City to rely on, and Lianghe Town is behind it, and Su Zhi is not afraid of the Tiele army at all. We are now the same as the Han people, but we can fight according to the city, and we are not afraid of your Tiele people.

"I heard that the Turkic army is heading south and is attacking Yi Shuai's Huaihuang?" Mo asked.

"Well, the Turks are playing a lot this time. I'm afraid you don't know yet, Du Lan was defeated by Datou last year, and then he has directly surrendered to Datou, giving up the position of the Great Khan to Datou, and now he is the eastern Khan of the Turks. Now when Datou is proud, I heard that he has defeated Persia, which has always been against him in the Western Regions, and now he has come to the east, defeated Dulan, and obtained the position of Great Khan, and he has long been unable to resist the southern expedition to Sui. Datou summoned all the khans and joined forces with 400,000 horsemen to go south. He personally attacked the west of the Sui Dynasty, while Dulan and Nili attacked the northern Saishang. But I'm not worried about Yi Shuai, he has more than 100,000 troops in his hands, and I'm afraid you don't know that Yi Shuai is now the imperial grandson of the Great Sui, and he is also the general manager of Youzhou Mansion. Du Lan was originally a cowardly and useless person, even if he commanded 200,000 troops, he was by no means Yi Shuai's opponent. "Su Zhi's eldest daughter Manyue is married to Yi Feng, and as Yi Feng's father-in-law, he is very confident in his son-in-law.

"Then let's face the Tiele army here, and don't retreat to Huaihuang again?" Mo will ask Suzhi.

"With Songshan Jiancheng in hand, why should we retreat, the soldiers will block, the water will flood, why retreat, just fight with them!" Su Zhi said arrogantly, and at the end, he added another sentence to the Mohui, "Don't worry, we are behind Lianghe Town, and more than 20,000 Huaihuang troops are behind us, ready to support us at any time." (To be continued......) R1292