Chapter 998: The Change of the Tusi Army
Xiao Yu glanced at Su Dingfang angrily, this is also in Chengdu, if it is in Chang'an City, just rely on your words, then you will also have to go to the emperor to sue you, what is the key point, what is the importance of Nanzhao's kind of broken place, if Li Xiang scratches a little skin, it doesn't matter if he kills millions of people in Nanzhao.
"You go down and prepare immediately, the number of people is not too many, more than 10,000 people are enough, except for some of the king's guards, the rest of the army of the four major Tusi is mobilized, and some of the local Han troops have also joined, and they are all scattered and reorganized."
Li Xiang thought for a while and said, the local people in Sichuan have also formed an army, if they are only allowed to perform public security tasks, then there is still no way to go to the battlefield in the future, and the battlefield in the south will be very big in the future.
"There may really be a war to be fought on the side of Nanzhao, so you have to be ready on your side, no matter what you want in front, no matter how difficult it is on your side, in short, everything is on the front line first."
Li Xiang also has to give Xiao Yu two instructions, it is best not to fight, but if it is time to fight, we can't be afraid, we have to show our sword when it's time to show it, don't let people think that our Datang will only play lip service.
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, several large warehouses around are already full, and the required escorts are also ready, waiting for His Highness's orders at any time, and our Chengdu Mansion will never delay things."
Xiao Yu said very proudly, after coming down from the position of prime minister, this guy has no real power in his hands, and he is always engaged in some vain things, Li Xiang wants him to go to Sichuan, and all the provinces and places are under his management, and he also wants to prove to the people of Chang'an City that no matter where we go, we are capable.
After a short period of preparation, an army of 12,000 people set out from Chengdu, including 800 of Li Xiang's system soldiers, who were mainly responsible for Li Xiang's safety, and the other 2,200 were the local Han army in Chengdu, and the rest were all reorganized armies of the four major Tusi.
If you look at it from the outside, these people are all wearing the same clothes, and the weapons in their hands are basically the same, but only they understand that the level of weapons is different, and the salary is not the same.
As long as they participate in a few wars, they can be the same as the Tang soldiers, after a period of ideological education, these people's thinking has also changed well, and they are left to fight on the battlefield.
Li Xiang is also wearing the clothes of ordinary soldiers, if you are not familiar with it, you don't know that Li Xiang is still the emperor's grandson, the more than 100 people around him are all system soldiers, and Li Xiang will not communicate with other soldiers to prevent the news of walking from causing a big disaster.
"The whole army is on the move."
After stepping on the war horse, Su Dingfang immediately issued his own order, and the rest of the 12,000 people were all cavalry except for more than 4,000 infantry.
However, the infantry of the Tang Dynasty would not walk on their own legs, all of them were custom-made four-wheeled carriages, and when they attacked Goguryeo, the soldiers had already begun to use this kind of four-wheeled carriages, so many soldiers were not worried about walking now.
In the past, if there was a war, just the road on the road also tired everyone to death, relying on their two legs, it was thousands of miles at every turn, let alone fighting when they arrived at the place, and they didn't know how many days to rest just because of this fatigue.
Now that there is a four-wheeled carriage, the people on the carriage take turns to drive the carriage, and the rest of the people can rest in the carriage, although it is not very comfortable, but if it is compared to walking on their own feet, then they do not know how many times more comfortable, and they can maintain their combat effectiveness.
The army of the toast lord has never seen such a luxurious equipment, according to their previous understanding, when the toast lord's family goes down the mountain, then there can be such a carriage, as for the rest of the people are all relying on their legs, now we also enjoy this.
The most terrible thing is to change from two meals to three meals, what they used to fear the most was starvation, but after joining the Tang Army, as long as you don't waste food, then you can eat as much as you want, when they first came, many people were eager to eat the pot, and now it is slightly better.
The road from Nanzhao to the middle of Sichuan has begun to be measured, and the personnel of the imperial court have also begun to start, but it has not yet begun to be built, and when Li Xiang and them come back, this will also belong to the land of the Tang Dynasty, and it is time to do it.
It's just that now they still need to overcome for a while, because the road is not wide enough, so they can only have two cavalry side by side, as for the four-wheeled carriage behind, it can only be a carriage in the past, and when they encounter some more dangerous places, the people on the carriage can only get down, and then dismantle the carriage and carry it over.
This greatly affected the speed of the infantry's advance, but the infantry also needed to carry things like artillery shells, and it would not work without them, but the soldiers in Nanzhao obviously did not dare to resist, when Su Dingfang crossed the border with people, there were people who came to ask last time, and this time they didn't even ask.
They directly opened the entire level, and the soldiers in the level didn't know where they had gone.
"Leave 500 people to guard here, and notify the Sichuan side to send another 2,000 people, and the checkpoints in the border area will be in our hands."
When we passed here last time, we still had to talk about some etiquette, so we couldn't go too far, but this time it was different, Su Dingfang knew that we used to clean up the whole country, and if we didn't take down the entire Nanzhao, it would be impossible for us people to return to the court, and we would have to send supplies to the south on the way in the future, if the checkpoint was not in our hands, how could we sleep?
Li Xiang was forty meters to the left of Su Dingfang at the moment, he also heard Su Dingfang's arrangement, the two of them had said before, as long as Li Xiang was silent, then the rental house could be fully decided, except for the general route after Nanzhao, there was nothing Li Xiang needed to call the shots on this road, and some of the soldiers guarding the house did not know that Li Xiang followed, of course, subject to Su Dingfang's order.