An hour later.

The statistics of the loot and the treasury were completed, and it was reported to Qin Huaidao, Qin Huaidao looked at the list and became even more angry, and found a lot of slaughtered cattle and sheep in the treasury, as well as silver, cloth and other materials, most of which were snatched from the people's homes, these Turks were really vicious.

Fortunately, 20,000 war horses were captured, most of them were either injured or killed, and they could be used as military rations.

A lot of grain and silver were copied from the homes of traitorous officials, and the grain was kept as military rations, and the silver was distributed to the soldiers to improve morale.

Everything was arranged, Qin Huaidao sent someone to return to the capital of Anbei to report the news, and asked Li Suli to send someone to take over the city, Qin Huaidao was not good at interfering in local government affairs, so as not to be impeached, and he didn't want to participate, he was too tired, and his mind was all on the matter of going south, looking for someone to inquire about useful news.

Five days later, Li Suli personally brought the officials over, and Qin Huaidao became the shopkeeper, studying the map every day, analyzing the combat strength of various units along the way south in combination with the clues he heard, and looking for the best attack route.

After another three days, Shi Yeshan came over with 5,000 soldiers and horses, Qin Huaidao checked the scimitar created, the quality was not bad, and the size and shape were completely in line with the drawings left at the beginning.

After that, Qin Huaidao closed the generals above the middle level of Shi Yeshan's department for training, and taught light cavalry tactics, which is simply the tactical idea of attacking and harassing and raiding, and first shooting the enemy at a long distance by the light cavalry during the battle, and then putting the heavy cavalry into the battlefield to harvest the heads.

The heavy cavalry could not be carried out in a short time, but with a repeating crossbow, the enemy army could be crushed and collected in a mess.

The so-called attack and harassment means that several or more than a dozen people are a combat unit, and countless combat units cooperate with each other, surround them like wolves, and do not attack, but go up to attack and harass, attract the enemy to chase and kill, and then shoot while retreating, wandering around, and when the enemy retreats, they will catch up and continue to bite at the weak side.

This tactic is a bit like sparrow warfare, and like a pack of wolves besieging each other, to disrupt and constantly bleed each other in the chaos.

The raid is more simple and rude, two scimitars are horizontal, people only need to lie on the horse's neck, stabilize the knife and rush forward, use the horse to fight with the momentum of the horse, there is no need to crack at all, the horse's momentum is large enough, plus it is a scimitar, the resistance is very small when cutting, the speed is fast, and it is difficult to prevent.

Shi Yeshan has seen scimitar raids, knows how powerful, and learns very seriously.

A day later, Shi Yeshan pulled the troops out of the city and went to the grassland to train formal tactics.

Qin Huaidao recruited blacksmiths from all over the city, melted down the captured weapons, and made heavy cavalry armor, which could not be a large-scale heavy cavalry, and a hundred was not bad, and it could be killed at a critical moment, which could play a role in laying the foundation for victory.

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Taiyuan Province.

In an attic, singing and dancing, the dancing girl twisted Miaoman's waist, a smile, seductive, the musician played a pleasant tune with all his heart, a group of people knelt on both sides, watching the head silent, waiting for the opening of the table.

At the top, Li Chengqian enjoyed this moment very much, looking at everyone, his face was a little flushed, his eyes fell on the person who was in his hands, raised his wine glass and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, General Xue has come from afar, salute Lord Xue." ”

"Respect Lord Xue." Everyone raised their glasses and looked at one of the generals.

The general is Xue Wanche, who was ambushed and had to retreat to Qizhou, but now his injuries are improving, and he received a holy decree to take over Hou Junji's command to quell the chaos, after the holy decree was read, Li Chengqian took advantage of the wind as an excuse to set up a banquet to entertain, Xue Wanche couldn't refuse to come, picked up the wine glass and said: "Prince Xie." ”

After a glass of wine, Li Chengqian immediately continued again: "General Xue, this prince respects you alone, this prince has already heard of General Xue's talent and admired it for a long time, and I ask the general to teach me more in the future." ”

These words have an obvious intention of wooing, not to mention that it is taboo for the prince to befriend ministers, and he openly said it, what is this for? Xue Wanche instinctively felt that something was wrong with the situation, so he didn't raise his glass, and quickly glanced at the audience, seeing that everyone was looking at him with a strange look.

Something went wrong, Xue Wanche said with a haha: "Prince Xie praises, it is the duty of a minister to serve the saint, and some talents should not be praised by the prince." ”

"General Xue is too straightforward and humble, this prince cherishes talents, is thirsty for talent, with General Xue's talents, he will never enter the court and China, and his current status is a little unfair, but it's a pity, it's a pity." Li Chengqian had a regretful expression.

Hearing these words in Xue Wanche's ears, he couldn't help but be excited, and his back was sweating coldly, this is no longer throwing an olive branch, but directly pulling together, what is this for?

Xue Wanche's heart trembled, but he didn't expose it, and said with a smile: "The prince said that he was joking, the minister has self-knowledge, and he is slightly deficient in comparison with the Chinese prince. ”

Li Chengqian saw that Xue Wanche didn't give face, so he refused directly, his face sank, he put down the cup, sat upright, and his eyes became cold: "What does General Xue mean, this prince doesn't know anyone?" ”

"Don't dare! The minister traveled a long way and was unwell, so he begged to retire. Xue Wanche got up, his words were firm, worried that if he continued to talk about it, he would cause a bigger turmoil, and he didn't know how to die when he turned around.

The prince openly wooed a general, and Xue Wanche didn't dare to think about the intention behind this, and his scalp tingled when he thought about it.

Li Chengqian saw that Xue Wanche didn't give face at all, turned around and left, angry, smashed the cup on the ground, and countless knives and axes rushed up all around, surrounding Xue Wanche, his eyes were not good, Xue Wanche saw that it was really as he expected, stopped, looked back at Li Chengqian, and said coldly: "What does the prince want?" ”

"General Xue, you should understand what this prince means, why bother? This prince really appreciates your talents, and is willing to treat him as a prince. "Li Chengqian stayed for the last time.

The title of the Duke of the Kingdom is not low, which is enough to show sincerity, but Xue Wanche didn't dare, and said in a cold voice: "Prince, this official is the head of the Holy Commander's hand-appointed army to quell the rebellion, what are you going to do?" ”

"General Xue is a smart man, why bother to ask knowingly." Li Chengqian lost the last patience.

"Killing the official is tantamount to rebellion, the prince has to think about it." Xue Wanche was too lazy to make a mistake with the snake, so he broke it directly, while observing the surroundings, looking for flaws in the knife and axe hand, he had already used the knife soldiers, Xue Wanche didn't believe that Li Chengqian was just trying to scare people, this was to rebel.

No wonder the rebellion army was slow to move, Xue Wanche couldn't help but look at Hou Junji, and said coldly: "Lord Hou, aren't you afraid of exterminating the clan?" ”

Hou Jun didn't raise his head, poured himself a drink, and put the Buddha all this has nothing to do with himself.

Xue Wanche saw that Hou Junji was out of the way, there were two possibilities, one was that he had already taken refuge in the prince, and the other was the person who was already the prince, there was no third possibility, where is this kind of reception banquet, it is obviously a Hongmen banquet, his eyes glared, and he shouted at the knife and axeman: "This official is the head of the Holy Commander of the Rebellion Army, your main general, what do you want to do, follow the rebellion?" Aren't you afraid of destroying your nine clans? ”

The sword and axe hand remained indifferent, and the killing intent in his eyes was a little colder.

This look is clearly a dead soldier, the soldier has a family, a mouth and scruples, and will never follow the rebellion so decisively, Xue Wanche stared at Li Chengqian coldly and said: "The prince behaves like this, he is not afraid of being ridiculed by the world?" ”

"Becoming a king or losing a villain, what is there to be afraid of? If my father won the country, no one would dare to say anything? Li Chengqian said indifferently, and directly tore his face: "General Xue, this prince will give you another chance, how to choose?" ”

"Kill me if you kind." Xue Wanche roared without showing weakness, suddenly moved, kicked a person away, grabbed the weapon and the knife and axe hand and fought together.

But these knife and axe hands are not weak, plus there are many people, and soon a few knife wounds were added to Xue Wanche's body, and a large amount of blood flowed out.

Li Chengqian shouted: "Okay, find a place to lock up." ”

Xue Wanche was quickly dragged down, and Li Chengqian looked at Hou Junji: "General Hou, Xue Wanche will handle it well, the army will seize the time and control it, deal with some unstable factors as soon as possible, and never allow mistakes, and also, our troops are insufficient, how about recruiting troops tomorrow?" ”

The military system of the Tang Dynasty government was available in every place, similar to the militia of later generations, and it could be requisitioned when needed, but the soldiers of the major prefectures around Taiyuan Mansion had been cleaned up by Li Chengqian, and if they wanted to expand the army, they could only be re-recruited.

Hou Junji arched his hand and said: "It's all up to the prince." ”

Li Chengqian bowed his head with satisfaction, motioned for someone to bring the wine glass again, and said with a smile after filling it up: "With the help of Patriarch Zheng, Patriarch Cui and all the adults, this prince is happy, and he will not lose in the future, and he will win by drinking!" ”

"Drink to win!"

Everyone raised their glasses and laughed tacitly.