Shan Xiongxin, the tiger-wing cavalry army, sent his subordinate Wang Junkuo out for reconnaissance and brought back news that the army had emerged from the sand sea from the ridge entrance. "From their tents, there should be 20,000 cavalry." He said, "The black flag is a white wolf on it."

"Turkish people?" Shan Xiongxin asked.

"It is more likely to be Tiel from Mobei." Gao Jia, the leader of the Huaihuang infantry army, said, "No matter who comes, we will know soon." He scanned the group of Wusha Castles he guarded. Three forts guarded the Wusha City in the middle, with 20,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry of the Huyi Cavalry, plus 3,000 Wusha Castle Town Guards. In addition, the young and strong reserve teams in the city totaled more than 40,000. Yi Shuai trusted them so much that he handed over such a heavy Huaihuang army to them and let them guard the northwest gate of Huaihuang. No matter who comes, he could not let them break through the city.

"We just put tens of thousands of people in Nili, and we can't let these wolf cubs pass again this time," said Shan Xiongxin.

Liu Ying clenched his fists and hit the battlements, "Why is this Tuli so bear? Didn't he say he has 100,000 soldiers and command Mobei? Why did he say he was beaten by thousands of Turkic soldiers and ran around with his head? And his Tieler people were chasing him in reverse, which was really a fool."

"The Tieler people went south, and it was impossible that there were only 20,000 people." Shan Xiongxin was a little worried. Tieler's forward had nearly 10,000 before, and it was impossible that he would only 20,000 people in the future.

"They may have divided their troops to go south, maybe the large army went south from the east, or maybe these 20,000 people were just vanguards, and Tiele, Mobei, but there are many tribes and extremely fierce. All the people are soldiers. If they really want to go south, they are afraid that it will not be a problem to gather 200,000 cavalry."

"No matter how many people come, don't even think about breaking through the Wusha Castle." Gao Yi pressed the long sword at his waist. "We let tens of thousands of people go over Nili, and Huaihuang can still deal with it. But if we let more people go over, Huaihuang will definitely not be able to withstand it." Huaihuang City has four steps, two cavalry and six field troops, and Wusha Castle in the northwest has one step at a time. In addition, there is another cavalry and one infantry in the south, and there is also an infantry in the northeast. Huaihuang City has only one infantry in the garrison. Although there are five garrison troops in the town, these garrison troops are not strong in combat, which is to assist in defending the towns and forts.

The generals of Wusha Castle had previously put Nili in the east. They thought they could close the door and beat the dogs, but unexpectedly, Tiel people went south again.

Northeast of Huaihuang, Xijing Songshan City.

This place where Yi Feng and Sanfan formed an alliance last year, now gathered many soldiers and horses of Sanfan again, and there were a large number of people. Tiele attacked the east again. There were more soldiers and horses, and the overwhelming soldiers came east. After the first to receive the news, the Jun tribe quickly measured the strength comparison between the two sides, and then immediately retreated and moved south with his family. Last year, only tens of thousands of people beat them up in a mess. Now nearly 10,000 Tiele's army is coming in full force, so how dare they fight? The Jun tribe heads south and enters the Khitan territory. When the Khitan heard the news, he did not dare to stay for a long time and summoned the tribe. He led the population to retreat south, and finally retreated to the Xi territory.

After Sanfan formed an alliance with Yi Feng last year, although the Huaihuang army sent officers to train officers for them and sold them to the weapons, Sanfan still did not have the confidence to fight Tiele's army. They went south all the way and arrived at Songshan. Only after they could barely stop. There was a tall city built by Huaihuang to help the Xi people build. After the alliance, Huaihuang had a closer relationship with the Xi tribe. Huaihuang was in the Xi realm. Especially in the western part of the Xi tribe at the border with Huaihuang, roads were built, river valleys were built, station shops were built, and many cities were even established. Songshan City was the largest part of the Xi tribe. Su Zhi, the leader of the Ahui clan, lived in this city with his family since the city was built, living in the luxurious palace built by Yi Feng for him. The circumference of Songshan City was ten

In terms of scale, compared with the city in the Central Plains, it can only be considered average, slightly larger than the county town and comparable to the city of the state, but in Xijing, this is the most solid and tall city. There are residential areas, commercial areas, warehouse areas, etc., a large number of shops, and special markets. Huaihuang merchants opened shops here, established markets, purchased various livestock, fur, herbs, ores, etc., and sold them to various goods from Huaihuang, with excellent business. As the city lord, Su Zhi had the right to collect taxes on the ground and made money every day. The feeling of being able to collect taxes by opening the door is really not too good. With these taxes, he bought a large number of various Central Plains goods from Yifeng, and also purchased weapons from Huaihuang, recruited soldiers and horses, and enhanced the strength of the Xi army.

The five major tribes of the Xi tribe each had a battalion, forming the Xi army, and the entire army was organized into 15,000 troops. The Ahui tribe of Suzhi had one battalion of three thousand cavalry, and he himself had another 500 guards. However, in the past six months, with this extra tax, Suzhi not only turned his three thousand cavalry from herdsmen to a standing army, but also upgraded his guards from five hundred to three thousand. In addition, he recruited two battalions of six thousand troops in addition to these two battalions, giving equipment, without food and wages, and was a herdsman in daily life and could be recruited immediately as a cavalry during wartime. One person had four battalions of 12,000 cavalry, and Suzhi was quite proud recently. Seeing this, the other four tribes of the Xi tribe were very envious. They kept negotiating with Huaihuang and signed many various agreements, and cooperated with Huaihuang to build roads within the tribe.

Those who cultivated fields, built forts, and garrisoned troops, some recruited tribal herders to serve as soldiers in Huaihuang, some recruited tribal herders to work for merchant workshops in Huaihuang, and many trade agreements and various cooperation agreements, which resulted in Huaihuang building roads, forts, cities and markets in various tribes. Those tribes also received a large sum of money, and they had their own cities and could also sit and collect money. Suddenly, the leaders of the Xi people who received a large sum of money were like Su Zhi. They did not use surgery to buy various Han Chinese goods from Huaihuang, and then began to recruit soldiers and horses to strengthen their troops. Basically, each of the five major divisions had expanded their own troops. The five major divisions had a battalion, but now there were at least three battalions. The Xi tribe's troops expanded in a short period of time, and now they had a scale of 100 regiments and 50,000 people.

After the Jun tribe and the Khitan retreated to Songshan, they were also shocked by the huge changes in the Xi tribe. Although they had heard of it, they were never shocked as they saw it with their own eyes.

The Xi warriors who were as simple as them last year have changed a lot now, almost reaching the point where everyone is wearing armor, and their armor is the same. The standards are the same, and the neatness alone can make people intimidate.

Su Zhi proudly told Dahemo, the leader of the Khitan Hebian tribe, his relative, that "all are unified standard weapons purchased by Huaihuang, neat and beautiful. The Huaihuang military workshop specially customized for us. Not only is the armor unified, but we also purchased standard cavalry swords, spears, and bows."

The eyes of Ogamo Mohe was full of envy, "Where did you get the money?"

"We cooperate with Huaihuang. We asked Huaihuang to build roads and forts in our territory. We allowed them to cultivate land and reclaim land in the river valley. Whether they are building forts or reclaim land, they have to pay for money. If they have to buy a piece of land, they have to pay a portion of gold and silver. In addition, after the road is built, there will be some checkpoints along the road. The city gate will also collect taxes, and the checkpoint tax will be Huaihuang, and the city gate tax will be ours. In addition, the markets of each city are also levied, which is quite a small amount. In addition, we are closely cooperating with Huaihuang, and transactions are greatly facilitated. It turns out that selling livestock or fur in Huaihuang is always too far away. But now it is different. Huaihuang people have opened the market to their doorsteps and can be sold at any time. And

Not only to sell cattle and horses, we can also sell sheep, wool, various herbs, etc. to merchants in Huaihuang. In the winter, we had to slaughter a large number of male livestock and thin animals, which was too wasteful. Now we can sell them all to Huaihuang people, whether they are sold in bulk or in small quantities. In short, they all want them. Although the price is slightly lower than before, it is convenient. Anything can be exchanged for money. Moreover, buying various ironware, porcelain, cloth, silk from Huaihuang merchants is also quite convenient and cheap. Everyone has money. We now collect some taxes on our tribes like the Han people, and everyone pays them very happily."

Mohui did not expect that the Xi people had already blended with the Han people in Huaihuang so well. Han people could be seen everywhere here, and Han people's market shops were everywhere. Various merchants were sold here, and various Xi items were purchased here. As Su Zhi said, the Xi people could easily and conveniently sell their livestock here. Even a sheep or a ball of wool could be cashed out from the merchants in Huaihuang, or directly traded to the equivalent goods he wanted. Moreover, he heard something even more surprising from Su Zhi's words.

"Huaihuang Han people also have banks in various cities and forts. You don't know the bank yet. They can issue loans." Su Zhi smiled, "Look at the five major tribes of the Xi tribe, last year, there were only 50,000 cavalrymen in the fifth battalion this year. Not only did the number of people triple, but the equipment was also updated. The people were strong and the horses were strong. My Ahui team had four battalions, and the equipment was all very expensive. This is very expensive. To be honest, I can't get so much money in my hand for a while. But Huaihuang Bank is good, they borrowed me a million stagnant of money to pay for the order of the armed order."

"Nee!" Hearing one million guan, the Mohe couldn't help but take a long breath. One million guan, which was a lot of money. In the past, they sold horses to the Han people, and a horse was only twenty-five silk, which was only about forty guan. Although they heard that these horses could be sold higher in the Central Plains, the profits were all from middle merchants, and they had nothing to do with them. One million guan would cost more than 20,000 horses. Even for large tribes, horses were very valuable. Most of the herdsmen raised sheep and cattle, but rarely raised horses. Because horses were not easy to raise, raising a horse was ten times more than sheep, and they had to take care of them carefully. For herders who were not convenient to trade, raising sheep and cattle was actually more cost-effective. A herdsman raised two or three hundred sheep and twenty or thirty cows, and his life was good, so he might not be able to raise horses.

"One million guan is not much, we can pay it back." Su Zhi smiled. It was of course a big deal to borrow more than 20,000 horses at a time. When the Han people borrowed money for them, he was hesitant to repay it, but the bank thought very thoughtfully for him. The bank borrowed them one million guan, and the money was also restricted. It was specifically used to pay the weapons. They were also very convenient to repay it. They used their cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock products to repay it. At the same time, before paying off the loan, the bank took over their taxes, and the bank directly sent someone to collect taxes on their behalf until the loan was paid off. Su Zhi felt that it was nothing compared to being able to get one million guan in advance and let him buy a large number of armored weapons and equip his own Fourth Battalion cavalry. He thought it was a very cost-effective transaction.

Mo Hui had to sigh that the changes in the Xi tribe were really too big.

"Since Brother Mohui has arrived at our Songshan, there is no need to worry. Look at our Songshan City so tall and strong, so what about the Tielle people? Our Xi tribe now has 50,000 well-equipped cavalry. In addition, not far from the west of Songshan is Lianghe Town in Huaihuang, where there are 30,000 Huaihuang Town soldiers. Further, in our Xi territory, there are more than a dozen Huaihuang army towns, hundreds of garrisons and many troughs, with a total of more than 20,000 Han troops behind us. Now, the Wu tribes and the Khitan tribes are heading south, and your troops are more than 30,000. The combined number of our three tribes is already 100,000. What's more, as long as the Han army is supported by the Han army, we can still summon tens of thousands of troops to fight against Tielle at any time."

Su Zhi's confidence is now rising. He wants people, soldiers, and Huaihuang Army is behind him. Who is he afraid of? Even if 80,000 people come from the east, so what? There is a strong and huge Songshan City as a support, and there is Lianghe Town behind him. Su Zhi is not afraid of Tiele's army at all. We are like the Han people now, but we can fight based on the city, so we are not afraid of Tiele's fierce people.

"I heard that the Turkic army was heading south and attacking Yi Shuai's Huaihuang?" Mo Hui asked.

"Well, the Turks have played a lot this time. You probably don't know yet. Du Lan defeated Yu Datou last year, and then he had surrendered to Datou directly and gave up the position of the Great Khan to Datou. Now he is the Khan in the east of the Turks. Now Datou is proud. He heard that he has defeated Persia, which has always been against him in the Western Regions. Now he has come east and defeated Du Lan and obtained the position of the Great Khan. He can no longer hold back his efforts to conquer the Sui Kingdom in the south. Datou summoned the Khans and joined forces to move south.

He personally attacked the west side of the Sui Dynasty, while Du Lan and Ni Li attacked Dai Bei Pass. But I am not worried about Yi Shuai. He has an army of more than 100,000, and you probably don’t know that Yi Shuai is now the crown prince of the Great Sui Dynasty and the chief general of Youzhou Prefecture. Du Lan was originally a cowardly and useless person. Even if he commanded 200,000 troops, he was definitely not an opponent of Yi Shuai.” Su Zhi’s eldest daughter Man Yue married Yi Feng. As Yi Feng’s father-in-law, he was very confident in his son-in-law.

"Then let's fight against the Tiel army here and stop retreating to Huaihuang?" Mo Hui asked Su Zhi.

"With Songshan City in hand, why should we retreat? The soldiers come to block the enemy, and the water comes to flood the earth, why should we retreat? Let's fight with them happily!" Su Zhi said proudly. At the end, he added another sentence to Mohui, "Don't worry, we are Lianghe Town behind us, more than 20,000 Huaihuang Army is behind us, and we can support us at any time." (To be continued)

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