After destroying Hadlin and his group of horse thieves, Xue Rengui and his party's mission was completely completed. The 20,000 Tang army embarked on the way home with a large number of horse thieves, while the 15,000 horse thieves took the food and other supplies stolen from the horse thieves and found a hidden oasis and silenced, waiting for the next mission.

The long-distance raids and soldiers who had just arrived in the Western Regions were trained to a certain extent.

How to distinguish directions without relying on a compass in the desert, how to find water in the desert, and how to survive in the desert. These were forcibly instilled into the minds of the Western Regions garrisons in three months, so that when they encounter special circumstances in the future, they can rely on their own strength to support for a period of time, waiting for rescue or self-rescue.

Xue Rengui once again restored his identity as a general of the Tang Dynasty. He was wearing exquisite bright light armor, covered with white robe, and held a square sky painting halberd in his hand. From a distance, he looked majestic.

"Rengui, how about it? Have you been in the Western Regions for the past two years?" Li Daozong stood in front of the camp to welcome the returned army. When Xue Rengui arrived in front of him, he asked with a smile.

"My memory Xue Rengui has met the general manager of the military road in the Western Regions." Xue Rengui first saluted respectfully, then stood up and smiled and said, "I haven't seen each other for two years, can the prince be in good health?" He avoided answering the question of whether Li Daozong had enough in the Western Regions.

In this broken place, people from the Central Plains came to stay for a month but rarely waited for enough. The winter was bitter and cold, the summer was hot, and there was a lot of sand all day long. If you didn’t stay enough, it was just a fool.

"It's still true, this old bone can be fooled for a few more years." Li Daozong laughed and stepped forward intimately to hug Xue Rengui's shoulder: "But if you don't come back, it will be difficult for you to see me again in the future."

"The prince has said it."

"I am now looking forward to you coming back early every day so that you can hand over the errands to you, and then go back to the Central Plains immediately. I don't want to stay in this broken place now." After finally meeting an object who can complain, Li Daozong was talking endlessly, and he talked about the Western Regions just like the ghost realm on earth, and the most important thing is that there is no war.

The countries in the Western Regions are not stupid. Faced with the powerful Tang army, they will choose to endure even when they are provoked. Although they are forced to take out food and military pay, they still choose to compromise and have no intention of resisting.

This disappointed Li Daozong and gradually began to feel bored. Finally, he figured out why Li Er said that he would be transferred back for a while before leaving.

It turns out that these guys in the Western Regions seem to be powerful, but in fact they are all so cowardly. In order to maintain their dominance, they have no more basic blood.

After figuring this out, Li Daozong's little dissatisfaction immediately disappeared. He was extremely expecting that Xue Rengui would come back soon, hand over all the tasks of the Western Regions to him, and then return to the Tang Dynasty to enjoy his happiness.

Xue Rengui didn't expect that Li Daozong would say such a sentence. He was a little stunned when he heard it, and for a moment he was a little confused. Looking at Li Daozong, the Prince of Jiangxia, he opened his mouth several times and didn't know what to say.

"Don't be so surprised. I came here this time just to bring you soldiers. How to manage the Western Regions is still your business, and it has nothing to do with me." The people and the people didn't want to stay in the Western Regions, so Li Daozong didn't mind saying it was more beautiful.

"Prince, are you always... going back to the Tang Dynasty?" Xue Rengui finally realized and figured out what Li Daozong was talking about.

"Of course, this broken place has winds twice a year, and once it's half a year. And if you have to eat or drink, you have to drink or drink. There is no benefit except for being a beautiful girl... So, let me leave it to you young people here. I will go back to Chang'an to raise my old age, and maybe I can live a few more years."

Li Daozong is also a man in his forties. Even if there are beauties in the Western Regions, he can't enjoy many for health reasons, so this only benefit does not seem to be of much use to him.

"But... But Prince, if you leave, you really have no backbone here. Otherwise, you will stay for a few more years and give it to the town?" Xue Rengui was still young after all. He was only four or five years older than Li Chengqian. He was less than twenty now. How could he feel unhappy when he handed over the Tang army close to 50,000 to his hands at once?

Moreover, the concept of pursuing the Western Regions is too broad. What should we do and what level is appropriate to be considered. He has no idea in his mind, and there is no old guy in the court to take charge. He only lets him do this alone. Xue Rengui feels that no matter how he thinks about this, he is so unreliable.

"Young people need exercise to grow, and these guys from the Western Regions are very cowardly. You won't know that you have been here for so long, right?" Li Daozong patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder and instructed: "So even if you let go, don't forget that the Tang Dynasty is behind you to support you. Whoever doesn't accept it will beat him until he accepts it."

After explaining this, Li Daozong said again: "Don't worry, I have to stay here for about half a year before leaving. You will be able to control the army well in the past six months, and don't think too much about what you have."

"Here!" As for this, Xue Rengui also knew that he was powerless to change something, so he could only bite the bullet and push it up.

At this time, neither Li Daozong nor Xue Rengui knew that Li Chengqian brought them a huge trouble. This trouble is not ordinary. If one is not done well, the Western Regions may be full of war and frequent wars.

However, these things are all later stories. The most important thing at this time is to lead the return of the army.

There is a saying: People exceed ten thousand, and they are boundless; people exceed ten thousand, and they are overwhelming.

The Tang army said it was 30,000 people, but that refers to 30,000 war soldiers. If these 30,000 people were removed, there were also nearly the same number of servants. These servants were responsible for a series of logistics work such as serving war horses and transporting food and grass.

Therefore, the actual number of the Tang army combined is as much as 60,000.

How many are there with 60,000 people plus the same number of war horses? It is not an exaggeration to describe it as overwhelming?

So Ju Wentai was almost scared to death. Standing on the palace city, looking at the black crowd outside with yellow sand, sweating down: "Prime Minister, this is the Tang army? Why are there so many people?"
Chapter completed!