So in the past few months, Joseph has poured a lot of effort into this new army, especially his own slave cavalry team, and directly appointed the thousand-strong cavalry team as his personal guard. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info And after the painstaking training of Gould and Aloque over the past few months, these new armies have roughly reached the operational level of the local standing army.

Of course, this was only relative to the local provinces in the hinterland of the empire, but these private armies were still too immature for the Northwest Army. Therefore, after three months of training, at the suggestion of Joseph, this private army began actual combat exercises, which can be regarded as further improving the training level of the army. Joseph even planned to let these private soldiers go to the trade roads outside the city of Saddland to suppress bandits after half a year of training, and those small-scale horse thieves and robbers could not only be used for training, but also increase the actual combat experience of the army, and would not cause too much loss to the army, which was a good target for actual combat......

After this kind of life lasted for more than three months, I saw that the training mode and combat effectiveness of this private army had risen in a straight line, and the workshop was also building ordnance armor. Sadrand's commercial tax revenues were stable, although not enough to support these expenses, but with Chasé's personal patronage, agriculture in the county of Sadrand was slowly recovering, especially the tax exemption decree which attracted many displaced people. It's all going in a good direction, but one day, Joseph's rhythm is unexpectedly disrupted by a secret report.

It was a secret report from the steppe, delivered by a fellow dressed as a caravan merchant. So in the county guard's mansion, José saw the messenger of the steppe man, and after he found out José's identity, he took out a secret letter from his bosom and handed it to him.

After only a few glances, Jose recognized a special symbol at the place where the letter was signed - a Chinese character "urgent"! This was a special code for his communication with Temur, and José also believed that he was probably the only one in the world who knew this word.

However, when he finished reading the secret letter, his face was not very good-looking, because the letter was sent to him by Temur, and the general content had only one meaning: help!

All the reasons came from Joseph's last black-eating operation, which not only grabbed the ordnance and armor of the Northwest Army, but also snatched the war horses of the steppe people. But these things belong to Temur's tribe, and without these exchanged armor weapons, the tribe can only face the threat of other tribes. With the help of Temur, Jose successfully ate the ordnance of the Northwest Army and the war horses of the steppe people, and now that Temur is in trouble, he naturally cannot sit idly by.

In his heart, Joseph was reluctant to believe Temur, because he always felt that this steppe man was too ruthless, but José was very willing to support such a steppe man, because these guys were undoubtedly an unstable factor in the grassland. And now his strength is too weak, and a strong foreign aid like Temur is a good helper, so in any case, Jose must be in charge of this matter.

So on the evening of receiving the secret letter, Joseph ordered Gould, Aloke, and Sophia to come to the county guard's house to discuss matters. He quickly told a few of the men about Temur, and then told them that Temur's tribe was now at war with a neighboring tribe, a rival tribe that belonged to one of the Seven Tents. Due to the lack of weapons and armor, Temur's tribe could only barely scrape together a combat strength of 2,000 men, while the opponent's strength was about 3,000.

Hearing this, Sophia couldn't help frowning: "My lord, are you saying that there are 3,000 grassland cavalry in that hostile tribe? This is not a small number, the tribe that can pull out 3,000 cavalry on the Geerqin grassland is already a fairly strong medium tribe." And the tribe that can have thousands of cavalry, the total number of people must be in the tens of thousands, and here in the southern Xinjiang of Geerqin, such a tribe can be regarded as one of the best in terms of strength. If the opponent is such a guy, I'm afraid things are a little troublesome. ”

"Oh, you still know so much about the steppe people?" Jotheren couldn't help but glance at Sophia in surprise.

"It's not clear, it's just a little understanding. I have traveled in the northwest for three years, and the things that are in the pass are still very clear, and as for the territory of those steppe people, I have also passed by with some caravans, and I only have a rough understanding. Sophia smiled slightly, but then squinted her eyes and glanced at Jose: "I know that your lord is secretly training in Boulder Town, but if you want to fight with those recruits in your hands, I advise you to dispel this idea!"

"I think so too," Yaroku, who was silent on the side, also nodded, and then said: "The combat effectiveness of the steppe cavalry is very strong, not to mention those of us who have just trained for a few months, even if the elite cavalry of the Northwest Army fights them, I am afraid they may not be able to take advantage of much." If it is a small tribe of a few hundred people, we still have the ability to fight, but the cavalry team of thousands of people is not something that these private armies of yours can deal with. ”

"Oh, is that so?" said Joseph, hearing both of them say this, and couldn't help but pay a little more attention to it. Originally, he had only heard that the steppe people were brave and good at fighting, but he didn't have a clear understanding, after all, although Joseph was at war with the Macedonians, he had also heard about the power of these steppe cavalry from the mouths of Suya Gould and others.

"And what do you think you should do?" José felt that things were a little tricky.

"Boss, I don't think you can get involved in this matter, after all, that kid Temur is just a servant, and he is also a steppe man. Let's not talk about whether our troops can help his tribe, even if we successfully send troops to help them resist this crisis, but according to the temperament of the steppe people, can you be grateful to us?

Besides, when we were in the dark, it was this guy Temur who did it, he could betray his leader, how can he guarantee that this guy won't betray you?" Gould smiled coldly, showing great disdain for Temur's request for help.

When Joseph heard him say this, he knew that the fat man was reluctant to help Temur, a steppe man, maybe the Northwest people had never had a good impression of the steppe people, and many Northwest people were extremely hostile to the steppe people, after all, the two places were often at war, and the contradictions and hatred accumulated over the years were not something that Joseph could understand.

However, although the fat man's words have some subjective emotions in them, they are not unreasonable, and if Joseph sends troops, let alone whether he can win this battle, even if he wins, the leader of the other party may not necessarily be grateful to him.

Besides, if he went to help Temur's tribe for no reason, those steppe people would inevitably doubt their relationship with Temur, so it seemed that they really couldn't rush to send troops.