"It's just a small tribe, I'll go and see it, and I'll let the people from the Metropolitan Protectorate greet me." Yang Zhenggu was busy for a few days, and came back with disappointment, in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the people who came to the Beiting Protectorate to meet were the kings, princes, and Ye Hu of the powerful countries in the Western Regions, and they could easily gather tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to follow the Tang Dynasty.

And now, there are only a few small tribes that can only make up a few hundred people, but there are thousands of people, and Yang Zhengu will of course feel lost compared to the two, but he is not discouraged, "Compared to previous years, it is a lot better, if these people are used well, those kings, princes, and Ye Hu will have to come in the future." ”

"Yuan Zheng, you can stay in Tingzhou these days, help arrange the affairs of Tingzhou Tuntian, and the rebuilding of the Han Navy!" Yang Zhenggu said, according to the previous practice, if Shen Long wanted to build the Han Navy, he had to be awarded the position of Zhonglang General and Han Navy Commander, but Shen Long had just been promoted to the guard of the Six Cities of Juliu, and now he was promoted again, and he skipped so many levels at one time, which was really a bit unruly.

So Yang Zhenggu thought for a while before saying, "Originally, this matter should have been played by the Ming Imperial Court, but now that the Western Regions and the Imperial Court have cut off contact, they can only take office first and then report to the Imperial Court, and the old man will appoint you as the envoy of the Han Navy as the Grand Protector of the Northern Court Metropolitan Protector!" Then write the chapter and send it to Chang'an with the caravan! ”

The Han Navy is an army directly under the jurisdiction of the Beiting Protectorate, and if Yang Zhenggu wants to play a chapter, the court will not refute his face, if it was before, there may still be people who want to fight for this position, but now that the Western Regions are thousands of miles away, there are still people in Chang'an City who are willing to come over? This letter is just a process, and it is expected that the imperial court will not refuse.

"The last general commands!" Shen Long was not polite, now that he had proven his ability, Yang Zhengu would not hinder himself too much, and the chances of staying in Tingzhou were much greater than that of Juliu City.

"How is Yuan Zheng going to rebuild the Han Navy?" After finalizing the matter, Yang Zhengu began to ask for specific details, he always felt that although Shen Long had outstanding ability, he had always been just a small soldier before, although he did a good job in a small city like Juliu City, but it was probably a little difficult to raise an army of tens of thousands of people.

He knew there, let alone tens of thousands of people, even an army of 100,000 people Shen Long had formed it, and the answer was Dao, which made Yang Zhengu nod his head when he heard it.

“…… The last general plans to follow the strategy mentioned earlier, with the Zahu who has participated in three bloody battles before as the backbone, and recruit the Zahu in the desert Gobi, as well as the Shatuo people and the small tribes who have come to us these days to form the Han Navy, and my Tang soldiers will serve as the captain, fire commander, team leader, brigade commander, and captain. "The Tang Dynasty soldiers will serve as the grassroots officers, and the aliens will act as soldiers, ensuring that this army will be firmly in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, and will not be betrayed like An Lushan.

"I don't have many people from Chang'an, and I don't have much time to join the army, so I have to ask most of the capital to protect and support." Shen Long said that this is not only the truth, but also to reassure Yang Zhenggu, according to the proportion of numbers, there must be more officers sent from Yang Zhenggu, so as not to let this army become his own private army.

"It's the way it should be." Yang Xinggu nodded and agreed, and he was very pleased with this.

"It just so happens that there are quite a lot of tribal leaders in Tingzhou now, so tell them the news, let them fight for my Datang first, see their loyalty, and then continue to select soldiers from these people." Kang Guangde: They fought several battles to win the qualification for the Han Navy, and these people will definitely have to go through the same process.

"Where is Yuan Zheng going to do it?" Yang Zhengu was a little worried, now that the battle has just ended, if it is an expedition, the soldiers will inevitably have opinions, and Jieyugas has already left, now only the Tang army, and these servant army, if they provoke the Tubo army, I am afraid they may not be able to win.

"Yanqi!" Shen Long unfolded the map, pointed to the place between Qiuci and Xizhou, and said, Yanqi used to be one of the four towns in Anxi, but now it has fallen into the hands of Tubo, "Yanqi Town is located in the middle of Qiuci and Xizhou, just enough to interfere with the connection between Xizhou and Qiuci, and let the Tubo people stay here, it is really like a fish in the throat, and it must be pulled out as soon as possible!" ”

"To the north of Yanqi is Xizhou, to the west is Qiuzi, and to the south and east are the sea of sand, which is equivalent to a lone army, if the Tibetans want to help Yanqi, they must cross the sea of sand to arrive." Originally, the north could also be used, but now the Xizhou in the north is in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, and the Yizhou further east has been recaptured by the Tang Dynasty.

"So what they have to deal with this time is just a little defender in Yanqi City." Saying that, Shen Long smiled, "If Tubo is really reluctant to be reluctant to come to the aid of the sand sea, it will be a great good thing for my Tang Dynasty." ”

To the south of Yanqi is the Taklamakan Desert, the Tubo people sent 10,000 people across the sand sea, it would be good to reach 3,000, and it would consume a lot of materials, if the Tubo people did such a stupid thing, Shen Long would have to laugh crazy, and when the time came, he only needed to wait for his work and surround the points to send reinforcements, so as to ensure that they would die as many as they came.

"Haha, I'm afraid King Guo Jun will have to take action himself this time!" Yang Xinggu smiled, Yanqi is the territory of the Anxi Protectorate, and if Yanqi is recovered, Guo Xin will definitely go out.

"It is estimated that King Guo Jun can watch from the wall, these people are enough to help us take down Yanqi!" Shen Long pointed to the alien race outside and said, these days, Lu Chaoran and those miscellaneous beards brought by Kang Guangde are spreading the benefits of following the Tang Dynasty everywhere in the city, and the eyes of those aliens are green with jealousy.

They were looking forward to the opportunity to serve Datang like Kang Guangde and others, and now that Shen Long had the opportunity in front of them, they didn't have to worry about them being unwilling to give their lives.

"Yanqi has the benefit of fish and salt, after taking Yanqi, I don't have to worry about eating salt anymore, and I can let Kang Guangde sell it to other tribes!" Yanqi has salt mines, the Tang Dynasty is one of the important salt production bases in the Western Regions, and there is also Bosten Lake, the largest freshwater swallow lake in Chinese mainland, which can harvest a large number of fish for the soldiers to eat.

In addition, the land of Yanqi is fertile, which is very suitable for tuntian, and it is also a good place to produce horses, but the Han Navy has more than 4,000 cavalry, and it is not possible to produce horses without suitable land.

The most important thing is that after taking Yanqi, there will be no enemies between the Tang Beiting Protectorate and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and they can finally be completely connected! This is the reason why Shen Long wants to take down Yanqi now.