Chapter Thirty-Six: Feeding War with War
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After Guo Shidao got out of trouble, he re-took over the military power in the hands of Yang Dingguo, and at this time the morning sun had risen, shining all over the corpses of thousands of Hui people at the feet of the Tang army.
Guo Shidao wanted to send troops to pursue the deserters, to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and to see if there were any strongholds nearby to return to Hui, but-
Except for the two lieutenants, Guo Shiyong and Yang Dingbang, he found that he could not find other commanders for a whileβespecially those who were supposed to be on call at any time.
At that moment, cheers erupted from the scorched earth outside the tent.
"Hooray, hooray!"
"Win! Win! β
"Win again!"
"Hui? Sort of a fart! Bogra Khan? Sort of a fart! β
"When you meet our Datang, all the Hulu are farts!"
More than a thousand people tore their throats and shouted in joy, as if otherwise it would not be enough to vent their excitement.
In this night's fighting, the Tang army only suffered less than fifty casualties, and what about Hui Hui? Another force of more than two thousand men was completely destroyed!
It was a little unexpected for everyone including Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo to achieve such a big result.
And to achieve such a result, it is naturally worth rejoicing, and this kind of joy after the huge depression also needs to be vented!
Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo glanced at each other, and at the same time smiled: "These children ......"
The soldiers of the Tang Army in Anxi are not only their subordinates, but almost all of them are their children, and these young people are all grown up under the watchful of Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo.
They walked outside the tent and saw that the scorched earth of Kudan was full of dancing Tang youths!
The officers and men of the Tang Army seemed to have completely forgotten that they were still there last night, as if they had forgotten the panic and even despair they had just heard a few days ago that Hui was asking for something to attack, "Win, win, win again, we are the winning army!" "That's all I have on my mind!
The corpse of the Hui was trampled under his feet, and at some point, the young men lifted Zhang Mai up again.
"Long live the envoy!"
"Long live the envoy!"
Banzai? This is a cry of disrespect, a few veterans feel that it is inappropriate, but where do the young people care about him?
This time, they threw Zhang Mai harder and higher.
"Put me down, put me down!" Zhang Mai shouted. Although it wasn't the first time he had experienced it, he still felt like he was being thrown into the air.
"Long live the envoy, long live the envoy!"
"Ahem, ahem, hey! Listen to me! β
Zhang Mai shouted casually, everyone heard this sentence, and then Zhang Mai found that the audience suddenly fell silent, it turned out that more than 1,000 people took his words as a strict order! This sudden silence made Zhang Mai feel a little uncomfortable, but he still jumped down, ready to speak, although he was each one meter eighty-five, but the Tang border army was higher than him a lot, standing in the crowd, most people couldn't see him.
"Envoy, you stand here and talk!"
Liu Heihu, a master of the Mo knife, came over with a stone of three hundred catties, he is a person who can swing the Mo knife very smartly, and he picked up this stone to lift the weight, more than a dozen strong men saw it, and they shot one after another, and in a moment they piled up a stone platform and hugged Zhang Mai, Guo Luo stood at the bottom of his left, Yang Yi stood at the bottom of his right, and more than a thousand people were waiting for him to speak.
Wow, what a scene this is!
It's not the same doubt as last time, it's not just that kind of trust, but a kind of fiery eyes and anticipation.
"Don't do that, everyone." Zhang Mai lowered his posture and said, "You guys are like this, I am under a lot of pressure......"
"Hahaha-" More than a thousand people under the stone platform laughed, and the laughter seemed to say, "You are so funny, envoy." β
"Really, really, I'm stressed." When everyone's laughter subsided, Zhang Mai said: "Actually, I was not sure about this battle, I, like everyone, was forced out......
"Uh-huh!" Everyone was nodding, but no one took it seriously, and a few who got close to it shouted: "Envoy, you are too modest!" β
"I'm not modest, in fact, I was very scared last night."
More than 1,000 people laughed again, and no one believed Zhang Mai's words.
"I was really scared, my heart was still pounding at that time, I was afraid of affecting morale, so I didn't show XiΓ n to come out......" Zhang Mai touched his heart, remembering how he felt before he decided to rush into the Huifu joint venture yesterday, and said very sincerely.
"Hahahaha......" the audience laughed.
"yes, yes, my heart was pounding when I killed those hundreds of people last night." Yang Yi learned Zhang Mai's tone, and also touched his chest and said, his brows furrowed, like Xi Shi's heart, his face was full of exaggerated worry, but the exaggerated worry was very funny on his face.
The soldiers laughed even more fiercely.
"But I didn't kill a single enemy yesterday......" Zhang Mai was a little ashamed, last night he mustered up the courage to rush into the joint camp, but in fact, he was under the escort of Tang Renxiao's regiment from beginning to end, and he had no chance to directly contact the soldiers of Hui.
"Haha, the envoy is wise and martial, where do you need to use your own knife? As soon as you stretch out your little finger, the Hulu will be wiped out, hahahaha......"
"Wherever you need to move your little finger, as long as the envoy blows, Satuq Bogra will fly to the East China Sea!"
"Where to blow air, as long as the envoy's heart beats, the army will be over."
"What if you jump twice?"
"Then even Tubo is finished!"
"Not bad, not bad! Haha, haha......"
I don't know if it's an exaggerated statement, or if anyone really believes it.
Zhang Mai stood on the stone platform and looked down, and found that everyone was extremely sincere to him, and when they looked at themselves, the look on their faces was absolute trust, as if more than a thousand people had become one with him, and it seemed that they had all become his own siblings.
Yes, I have won two big victories in a row, and I have led everyone to survive in a great disadvantage!
Is this an accident?
Once by chance, twice, I'm afraid it's not accidental!
Perhaps, I really have an extraordinary talent!
Otherwise, how could God have chosen himself to come to this era!
With pride and pride on his face, his head was raised unconsciously, and even his chin dropped a few pounds of confidence.
Guo Shiyong coughed lightly and whispered to Guo Shidao: "After all, he is a young man, and it is easy to be complacent......
However, this seems to be just his idea, or just the idea of the old guys, but Yang Yi and the others appreciate it very much, and even take it for granted!
Zhang Mai stood in the east, the soldiers of the Tang Army stood in the west, and the rising morning sun happened to hang above his head.
Radiant!
Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo suddenly felt a little dazzling, and covered their eyelids together.
But all the young people opened their eyes wide and looked up!
At this time, Guo Luo spoke: "Special envoy, although we have won one after another now, Hu Lu will definitely not give up, and will definitely make a comeback, what should we do next, please show the envoy!" β
Zhang Mai was stunned, what should I do next? He had already thought about this problem many times in the ruins of New Broken Leaf City, but he always felt that many ideas were still immature, and several of them had not yet been solved, and when he wanted to say it, he was a little worried about being criticized by Guo Shidao.
But at this moment, Zhang Mai suddenly had no such worries at all!
"What are we going to do next? Take the initiative, of course! Break through the blockade of Hulu, find a place more suitable for our survival and development, and find a force that can help us defeat Hulu! β
Yang Dingguo frowned and muttered to himself: "A more suitable place to live...... Although the Western Regions are big, the good places have long been occupied, where can we still get our turn? As for the power that can help us defeat Hulu...... Alas, where to find! β
But no one listened to him.
"What kind of place? What kind of power? Yang Yi hurriedly asked.
Zhang Mai said: "That place is behind me, and the power is also behind me!" β
"The envoy is ......"
"Central Plains! Or rather, close to the Central Plains! At least, the Chinese - no, where the power of the Tang people is stronger! Zhang Mai stood more straight: "I think, can we consider going back to Middle-earth and Chang'an!" Because only there will it be possible for us to have access to the most powerful source of power! β
The whole venue suddenly fell silent, Guo Shidao and Yang Dingguo looked at each other, and they were speechless for a long time.
Soil...... Changan......
When the power of China is strong, the children of China will rush to all parts of the world, spreading the fire of civilization under the sky, and when the power of China is weakened, her people will retreat to their homeland for the future.
That is the root of the Han nation, that is the source of the people of the Tang Dynasty!
If Zhang Mai had said these words before last night, I was afraid that not many people would have responded, but at this moment, the hearts of the young generals had already stirred up and boiled.
Chang'an, Chang'an-
That's hometown.
Now that they are trapped alone outside the fortress, the Anxi army and people will be so in a hurry, but if they are backed by the mother country, these more than 1,000 warriors will dare to challenge any power on horseback!
But the old people think about it more.
Is the road back to Chang'an so easy to walk? When the four towns were lost, the remaining soldiers and civilians also thought about returning to the east - that was almost their instinct! Now although the situation has changed, the road back to the east has become more confusing - not to mention anything else, just the Ba Ra Shagon in front of him - the old nest of the Hui people who blocked the east made it difficult for the Tang army to fly over!
But the young people who listened to Zhang Mai didn't seem to expect these difficulties and dangers.
"But envoy, we lack the intelligence and military resources to return to the east," Yang Dingguo couldn't help it and said loudly. Only then did the young soldiers think of their existence, and some of them glanced back, but they didn't like Yang Dingguo's enthusiasm for beating everyone very much.
But Yang Dingguo still continued: "Although we won a big victory in the battle of burning the city, we also suffered a lot of losses. "At that time, time was tight, and the pursuit of the first qiΔ operation was only victory, and it was impossible to rescue most of the supplies. Sheep in particular suffered the greatest losses. "Now our war horses are barely enough, but there are not many sheep, there is no farmland, the grain is also sitting on the empty mountains, there is no workshop, the bow and arrow is shot out of one less one, our current family foundation, at most two or three months, it is impossible to support Chang'an. Even, even supporting to Shule is a problem! β
"I know we don't have information, so we have to try to get it! I also know that we lack military resources, but it is precisely because we do not have military resources that we have to be extremely poor. Zhang Mai retorted without hesitation.
The current materials of Broken Leaf not only cannot support Chang'an, but also cannot even support the next season's harvest.
The inland climate here, even if it is cold-tolerant crops, is generally ripe once a year, and there are no fast-maturing and high-yielding cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops in the Americas, and the reproduction of sheep and horses cannot be so fast, of course, you can also rely on gathering, hunting, etc. to help make up for consumption, but spending too much energy here, that will only make the Tang army more and more shrinking.
In the case of avoiding the pursuit of Hui and Huoxun, it was difficult for the Tang army to carry out grazing and farming with peace of mind, and relying on hunting and gathering, it would not be until the Year of the Monkey that the materials to return to Chang'an would be saved.
"What's more, Hui Hui and Huo Xun are fighting between the east and the west, so it can be said that we have no way out!
"Hesitation and hesitation can only be a dead end, but desperately breaking through, there is still a glimmer of life!
"So, we can't hold back like this anymore, we have to forge ahead, forge ahead! As for the material - the accumulation of material by production is too slow - especially in this particular situation, the only way to get wealth quickly is ......"
"How's that?" Several young generals asked at the same time.
"Only by fighting to feed war!"
"Feeding war with war?"
"Yes!" Zhang Mai suddenly remembered a well-known song, so he changed two words and sang: "There are no cows, no sheep, and we have enemies to raise!" No sword, no sword, the enemy made us! β
Several veterans looked at each other when they heard this: "Special envoy, what do you mean by this?" β
"What do you mean? If we don't have supplies, we'll grab them! Now that we are all surrounded by Hulu, why be polite to them? Although we have few people, there are also four battalions of elites, all of whom have mounted their horses and become a ranger, and while looking for a way to return to the east, they send out rangers, and when they meet friendly towns, tribes, and merchants, we ask them to 'borrow' some food. When we encounter oppressed people, we will rescue them, and these people will become our followers, and will be the source of our troops! When we encounter enemy captives, we will fight guerrilla warfare and sports warfare! Let's grab if we're unprepared, and we'll withdraw if we're well-prepared. If the enemy advances, I retreat, and when the enemy retreats, I advance, and if we win, we will fight, and if we can't win, we will leave. The Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and I don't believe that the Hui people and the big cannibals can be guarded against leaks. There are 1,200 rangers to rob things, and they are afraid that they will not be able to feed a few thousand? β
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