Cheng Chumo and Changsun Chong are also convinced, they have long heard that Lord Zeng is very powerful, and now they can be regarded as seeing his strength, in the eyes of these second-generation military generals, civil officials are useless, if you want to open up territory, then you have to rely on us generals with troops, you civil officials will calculate indiscriminately in the court, and in the end it will reduce the comprehensive national strength of the Tang Dynasty for no reason.

But after seeing Lord Zeng's performance today, these two people glanced at each other, and our views should be changed in the future, of course, we are needed to open up the territory, but the plans of these civil officials are also very important, at least we didn't expect that we could hold General Huyan back and make him suffer a dumb loss.

A meal can be said to be unhappily parted, General Huyan promised to go back and withdraw the troops, the leg of mutton did not finish eating and left, when he left, he looked at the artillery not far away, he wanted to draw his knife to kill these people, but in the end reason overpowered his hatred, if these people were killed, maybe in exchange for more ballistas, the pressure in the border area may be greater.

"According to your estimates, how many of us will they be able to kill with these forty ballistas?"

On the way back, General Huyan asked his staff.

"Back to the general's words, if we are facing the enemy on the battlefield, we will have at least two or three thousand casualties before we can rush over, if we use a chain crossbow to assist, then I am afraid that the casualties will double or triple, if they carry out a sneak attack on us, especially at night, then we may be in chaos at night, and there may not be many people killed by the explosion, but there will be more people who trample on each other and die."

Just now, when Lord Zeng wanted the Tubo army to retreat, this staff member nodded to General Huyan, and he also analyzed these advanced weapons on the scene, it is good for us to stay away, and it is useless to guard near the border, not to mention that the army of the Tang Dynasty will not come to the border.

"Before, our people in the Tuyuhun grassland reported that Tuyuhun's army suffered under such ballistas, but the number is not very large, do you say that Datang only has such a little?"

General Huyan has a fluke mentality in his heart, if Datang only has such a little, then it will not have much impact on them, let's throw out 10,000 troops and let them blow them up, after you blow up these people, your trump card will be gone.

"It's hard to say about this matter, I have been fortunate enough to go to the territory of Datang, the people in the territory are very smart, and all kinds of materials are not decent, much better than our country, since they can already build this kind of thing, then why only build dozens of planes?"

The words of the staff completely made the general lose his temper, and it's right to think about it, there are so many materials in the country, why don't people make more?

"General, what are you looking at?"

When everyone was about to move forward, who knew that General Huyan stopped riding his horse instead, looked back at the border river, and no one knew what the general was thinking.

After a long time, the general turned around and urged the horse forward, the general just thought of something, originally thought that this was the beginning of the Tubo country into the Central Plains, but now the situation has changed, the general even has a premonition in his heart, maybe this is the farthest line that Tubo has walked, and if we want to cross this line in the future, I am afraid it is a little impossible.

Of course, the general's words can only be said in the heart, and must not be said, if it is said, the people up and down may be even more afraid, when the cannon is fired in the morning, the ground is blown up, and many soldiers in the barracks can see it clearly, maybe they don't want to fight with such an army!

Watching General Huyan leave, Midu returned to his tent, and he felt his brain about to crack.

Since separating from Li Xiang that day, he thinks that what he has done is right, and he also has some ideas of his own, that is, after getting rid of the rule of the Tang Dynasty, he will let Tuyuhun stand on the grassland, but it is a pity that no matter how good his mind is, Li Xiang will go ahead of him after all, and he will not give you a chance to break away from the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty.

Take this Zeng Lord as an example, just now solved the cost of the garrison, and after eating, you have to set up a post station on the grassland, just such a big place, you actually want to set up fifty-two post stations, and you also want us to Tugu to pay half of the money, and after the money is paid, all the personnel and operations are your people, although we can use it, but we don't have any autonomy, this way of bullying people makes Midu Khan tremble.

But now there is no regret medicine for sale, Midu Khan's reputation on the grassland is not good, he was scolded as a traitor who plotted to usurp the throne, of course, people are not wrong, you yourself did this, if you didn't kill the previous Khan, how could you get to this position?

Everything is completely different from what he thought at the beginning, he feels that he has walked into a dead end, and in the next some time, he can only continue to sit on Li Xiang's chariot, as for what direction this chariot is going, and what is the fate of Tuyuhun in the middle, Midu Khan does not have the slightest decision-making power, he is just an executor.

Two days later.

Except for the one hundred and fifty guards around Lord Zeng, the rest of the people are going to return to Chang'an, these people are also loaned by Li Xiang, it is impossible for them to continue to stay here, the guards in the border area still have to be sent by the imperial court, and it is impossible for Li Xiang to let his people stay here.

Lord Zeng watched with some greed as Changsun Chong took these thousand people away, if he could leave these thousand people for himself, the army of the imperial court would hardly need to come over, especially the most advanced ballista.

I don't know how many times more advanced this weapon is than in this era, so it is impossible for Li Xiang to let them flow out wantonly, except for the use of people in the system, Li Xiang will not leave it to any army, although some are also placed on the walls of the imperial city, but the control of gunpowder is extremely strict, even if Li Shimin wants to find someone to imitate it, gunpowder is impossible for him to make.

Li Xiang has long understood all the technical barriers, and on the surface it looks very generous, but in fact, everything has been taken care of, and no one should think about taking advantage of it, and we will take advantage of all the advantages, such as the upcoming salt war......