When he saw the wolf smoke, Wang Xuance was making dumplings with the soldiers in Gandhara Fort. It happened to be New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, the garrison generals of Gandhara Fort and the merchants here were preparing to celebrate the New Year.

The Han merchants in the city took out many goods to express their condolences to the soldiers, including flour, rice, cattle and sheep.

Wang Xuance was wearing an apron and rolling dumpling skins. He studied art around King Zhao for many years. Wang Xuance not only learned a good military strategy, but also learned many cooking skills. It was no difficulty for him to roll dumpling skins.

I was so happy that I was rolling, but the smoke rose.

"Five wolf smoke!"

The lieutenant on duty arrived strode with a serious expression.

Wang Xuance clapped his hands and patted the flour on his hands.

After learning military tactics with Li Chao for ten years, he also fought many tough battles. Even though he heard that it was five wolf smoke, he was not panicked. He had fought many tough battles with King Zhao. Whether it was to fight against the Turks or Goguryeo, no matter which battle was better than the current one.

"Protector, five wolf smoke, this means that the country of Jiji is attacking with all its might."

Wang Xuance nodded, and he naturally knew about this. The Xindu leader who only arrived in the second half of this year was recommended by his teacher Li Chao as the magistrate of Xindu. He was the highest commander of the 8,000 garrison of Xindu. Originally, Li Chao proposed that the court establish the Xindu governor's office, and set up the Governor, admiral and other official positions in Xindu to fully control the military and political affairs of Xindu.

However, the court has not yet agreed. Now it is still in a relatively primitive state. Only his Protectorate Palace is below, with three major castles and several guard castles below.

The Tang Dynasty was in Xindu Township, and there were three major castles, one was Peshawar City at the entrance of Daxue Mountain. This city guarded the entrance of the mountain and was also a trading city.

Then there are two major castles in the north and south of the Xindu River. One is the Gandhara Fortress, which is not far from Peshawar City in the north, and the other is the Xindu Port City in the south.

"These damn guys actually chose such an invasion, which will make us not have a good New Year," a captain cursed.

"Those guys are not our New Year." Wang Xuance snorted coldly.

"Okay, let's keep some people making dumplings, and others will make preparations. After eating this New Year's Eve dumplings tonight, we will set off tomorrow."

Gandhara Fort is located approximately in the capital of later Pakistan.

It is inland, backed by Gaojun Himalayas, facing the wide Xindu River Plain, on the east side is the beautiful Lake Laval and on the west side is an open river valley.

The mountains are undulating, the lake is clear, the mountains are beautiful, and the transportation is developed. It is also an important path to the Ganges River Basin from Khyber Pass.

The Tang army occupied this place, not only guarding the important roads, but also occupying the upstream power of the Xindu River Basin.

Gandhara, one of the sixteen ancient countries in the ancient Indian continent, existed a thousand years ago. It was once highly prosperous and was also a place of prosperity for Buddhism. When it was strong, it controlled later Afghanistan and Pakistan and large areas in northern India.

However, by this time, Gandhara had already disappeared, and the Yanda people, Turks, and Persians occupied this place one after another. Now the Tang Dynasty is the new master here.

Gandhara City is not small. Like Peshawar, it is an important mall on the trade line and was once an important spice trade path in ancient times.

However, in recent years, the Tang Dynasty controlled the spice trade and changed from maritime trade, which caused the land trade line to shrink a lot. The wars and chaos made Gandhara Fort, which was originally more than 20 miles long, become much deserted for a time.

Until the arrival of the Tang Dynasty and control of this place, the trade here prospered again.

However, the Tang Dynasty controlled the place for a short time. The Tang Dynasty had only 8,000 soldiers in Xindu, and only 2,000 soldiers and horses in Gandhara.

"Go inform the lords, it's time to show your true power."

The Tang Dynasty's official army was indeed only 8,000, but there were still a large number of nobles who divided the feudal areas in this Xindu River basin. Because the land here is fertile, there are many nobles who divided the feudal areas, and most of them are famous and powerful families.

For example, the Li family, the second most gentry in the Tang Dynasty, had three earl leaders on this land.

"Save some for me when the dumplings are wrapped, I'll go to the south first."

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On the south of Gandhara City, there are three earl leaders close together, each with a hundred miles away. This is the fiefdom of the three youngest sons of the Li family, the Li family, because the children were too young, and the Li family is currently under the stewardship.

Amid the clanging alarm bell.

Zheng Guozhu, the guardian knight of New White Deer Fort, has sent someone to wear armor for him.

The navy blue plate armor shines with a faint light, and the white tiger, black bird, Li Shuzhi family emblem of the Li family on the Bashang Li family is tattooed on its chest.

When Zheng Guozhu was put on his arms and came to the hall with his hands pressed his long sword at his waist, the twenty territorial knights stationed in the fort had arrived, all wearing plate armor.

"Have you met the Knight!" The knights stood up to salute.

Zheng Guozhu stretched out his hand and pressed it down, letting everyone sit down.

"Brothers, the smoke has risen. As expected by the monks and the royal guardians, the Kingdom of Jie Ri has indeed sent troops to come. As the lords and knights of the Li family in Bashang, we have the responsibility to protect the territory. When the enemy is in front of us, we should unite and unite. Now, we will summon the knights of each manor and all the militias in each manor and prepare for battle according to what we have trained before!"

"Here!"

Twenty knights stood up, and their armor made a clanging sound.

At the same time, in Xinlantian Fort and Xinning Min Fort, the Li family guardian knights Li Guoshuan and Ke Badao also made mobilization orders.

Everything was well organized. After two years of coming here, they took a lot of time every year to train militias, formulated mobilization plans, and conducted drills.

Now the smoke is everywhere, but they are not panic.

Zheng Guozhu, the younger brother of King Zhao Li Chao, who was the concubine of Zheng Hongxian, was always Li Chao's personal guard in his early years.

Qian Guoshuan, the son of the eldest steward of the Zhao royal family, was originally Li Chao's eldest son and coachman.

Ke Badao, the villager of Zhangjiagou in Bashang and Ke Wu's brother, has passed more than ten years. The young man Ke Xiaoba of that year has now become the guardian knight of the Li family who has led a territory castle in Xindu, and is in charge of this territory.

The 120 territorial knights were all elite veterans, each of whom had their own war horses and a set of plate armor. Each of them had two attendant knights, and these people formed the most elite force in the Li family’s trust.

A cavalry unit of 360 people.

In addition to these 360 ​​people, each knight also has a manor, and each of them has a team of fifty militias under them.

This is a militia unit of 6,000 people. Although there may be less than half of the young and strong people who can really pull out, the three earl leaders can pull out at least two thousand militias.

This is confidence.

When Wang Xuance arrived with a team of cavalry.

Zheng Guozhu, Qian Guoshuan and Ke Badao are sitting together and bragging.

One hundred and twenty knights and two hundred and forty knight attendants were all here. In the square, there were two thousand gathered young militiamen. Although they had no armor or war horses, they were equipped with muskets, bows and arrows, and spears.

Even these people have been replaced with a uniform blue burqa.

Very powerful as a regular army.

Thousands of people flocked into the castle, and they would definitely not be in chaos.

"You guys move very quickly!"

Wang Xuance praised the word.

Zheng Guozhu and the other two came forward, "They have practiced many times."

The three are not unfamiliar with Wang Xuance, and they have worked under King Zhao for many years.

Wang Xuance was not polite to them, "The army of the Japanese Kingdom is attacking, and there are five wolf smokes, which means at least 50,000 troops. I need you to support me!"

Zheng Guozhu patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty, you're welcome. We are all a family. Besides, the Jie Ri Kingdom dares to come, and we can't spoil them. Don't worry, we have gathered our teams, 360 cavalry and 2,000 militia and infantry, we can all take them to obey the orders of the King Majesty."

Wang Xuance looked at this army and liked it the more he looked at it. He was no weaker than the two thousand Tang troops under his command.

"Okay, I'll feel relieved if you say this. Today is New Year's Eve. Let's go back to Gandhara Castle with me and have a meal of dumplings first. After New Year's Eve, we will send troops tomorrow."

Ke Badao smiled and said, "Have you prepared so many dumplings? If not, just stay here to eat roasted whole lamb with us. We will kill the cows in a while and eat roasted whole lamb at night."

"Huh, your food is better?"

"Our Li family on Bashang has always been generous. During the Chinese New Year, it is also necessary to kill pigs and sheep." Zheng Guozhu smiled.

Wang Xuance discovered that many natives in the militia were found.

"Are these people reliable?"

"Don't worry, although they are natives, after we come, we have lived a lot of life with us. These people now know Chinese language and are very loyal to us."

"That's good." Wang Xuance nodded. There were still not many immigrants from the Tang Dynasty, and the lords also recruited a large number of local natives, distributed land and gave them land, and greatly won over. For example, the Li family even set up a Confucius Institute here to provide free education to the indigenous children, and even provide accommodation for them.

He is also quite generous to the indigenous people. As long as he is willing to follow the Tang Dynasty and the Li family, his life will be pretty good. These strategies make the Li family more supported by the indigenous people here.

"As a militia, there is a subsidy for money and food every year, and there are additional rewards for each training. If you are called to fight this time, there will be rewards. If you can make a contribution, there will be more rewards. Those indigenous militias are rushing to come. If you don't have to keep people in the care of your family, we can pull out four or five thousand militias out this time."

Even though the equipment is relatively simple, the Li family's militia is still good. At least the equipment rate of bows and arrows has reached 100%. In addition, the equipment rate of spears, horizontal swords and shields is quite high, but there is no armor. But even so, this equipment can be said to be better than most of the equipment of the King's Imperial Army who quarreled the Japanese army.

"Since you have eaten better, I won't take you to Gandhara Castle for dumplings. It's still early, so I'll go back first. We'll meet up tomorrow morning."

After receiving more than two thousand soldiers, Wang Xuance's strength instantly doubled.

He had sent people to notify the lords from other places that at that time, the fewest would send 1,200 troops and the more would send 7,81,200 troops. Wang Xuance felt that there were not many soldiers available in his hands.
Chapter completed!