To be honest, since leaving Lujiang, Xue Rengui always felt uneasy. Lujiang is a place of right and wrong, at least before the money was in place, it was still very unstable. Marquis Su was given the title of imperial envoy, but in fact he could not control the local military and political affairs of Lujiang, let alone Lujiang was not an important strategic location. Now it is not a war period, and Lujiang cannot come to war, so Lujiang has no army at all.

Although the governor of Luzhou is a guy who likes to flatter, there is no mistake in government affairs. Moreover, Mr. Su seems to be optimistic about the governor of Luzhou. The governor of Lujiang County Wujiang looks unreliable. There are only one or two hundred people like the yamen runners in Lujiang. It is not as large as the 300 guards brought by Mr. Su himself. Xue Rengui has also seen more than two hundred people. Bullying the common people is a good player. If he is really useful, he will definitely be defeated. Xue Rengui feels that he is enough to defeat these more than two hundred people by himself.

However, he was a general in command of the court. It was an iron rule for soldiers not to interfere in politics, and it was also an iron rule for not doing local military affairs. He could not impose any effective sanctions on these people. At most, when they bully the people, they sent their subordinates to beat those who were wrong to serve as a warning to others. Even Marquis Su did not interfere in this kind of thing. Xue Rengui knew that it was already the limit that he could do these things.

Once something happens, there is no need to think about the local troops in Lujiang County. The only reliable ones are the Meiling garrison and the Changsha camp. The troops there are always first-level combat readiness units, well-equipped and well-trained. The 20,000 garrisons in Meiling and the 30,000 Changsha's garrisons are enough to pacify any chaos in Jiangnan. Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, they must be able to catch up.

It is not possible to arrive in a short time, whether from Meiling to Lujiang or from Changsha to Lujiang. Xue Rengui did calculations. Even if he was engaged in the process, he sent a message from Lujiang to ask for help. It would be seven days later that the Meiling garrison and Changsha army wanted to arrive in Lujiang for rescue. Marquis Su only had 300 soldiers with him, so if any accident happened, it would be impossible to see at all.

But at this time, the imperial court was preparing to fight the prairie in the north, and the battle was determined. The interiors of the Western Turks and Xueyantuo were already in chaos. The upper class was extravagant and corrupt, and the lower class was poor and destitute. The luxurious life the nobles lived was hard to match even the Duke and Marquis House in Chang'an City, and the lower class ordinary herders lived a life worse than that of the beggars in the Tang Dynasty.

I heard that the rich and wealthy nobles of the Western Turks and Xueyantuo regarded the rock sugar that even the Emperor of Chang'an City took three days to eat for one meal a day. The only thing that can be compared with those rich people on the grassland is the only emperor Li Yuan, who lives in the inner palace. The trend of grassland comparison is growing day by day, which is comparable to the battle of wealth in Shi Chong and Wang Kai in the Jin Dynasty. His Majesty Li Er also opened the treasury to promote the trend of competition and wealth in the grassland. Under the influence of silence, his foundation was destroyed and there was no way to turn the world back.

The huge wealth of the lower herdsmen - cattle, sheep and horses were plundered by the Central Plains merchant group. The Central Plains merchant group exchanged expensive but no practical handmade products for herders' cattle, sheep and horses. The busiest thing for major merchants in Chang'an every day is to transport countless silk and porcelain handmade products to the Western Turks and Xueyantuo. Currently, it is a top luxury item, Shu brocade, white sugar and rock sugar that ordinary people cannot see, and Biluochun tea, which is newly produced by the Su family, was given a tribute by His Majesty the Emperor. Trucks of each carriage are transported to the north. How many cattle, sheep and horses can be exchanged?

No wonder many people feel that the price of meat in the entire Tang Dynasty has dropped a lot in recent times, especially around Chang'an City. Almost every household can afford meat. His Majesty Li Er uses these strong cattle and sheep on the grassland to promote the livestock industry in the Central Plains, and opens grasslands in places suitable for animal husbandry. Those who are willing to claim cattle and sheep can also go to the government to adopt cattle and sheep. Horses are naturally sent to the horse farm for breeding optimization. The huge grassland occupied by Xueyantuo and the Western Turks has become a continuous supply base for meat food in the Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning, these herdsmen could support their strong number of cattle, sheep and horses, and they were fanatically pursuing advanced civilization products of the Tang Dynasty. Those that looked very fun and beautiful were actually not as useful as wooden handicrafts at all. The Tang Dynasty merchant group fryed these things to a price of dozens and hundreds of times. A Trojan horse could be exchanged for a sheep. What is the exchange rate? Wealth was plundered in this way. It is easier than fighting a war.

Gradually, the herdsmen were a little difficult to support. They found that the number of cattle, sheep and horses and subsequent growth could no longer support them to continue to purchase expensive handicrafts produced by the Tang Dynasty, luxury sugar and tea, but the upper aristocrats of the grassland that had tasted the sweetness and gradually began to corrupt were unable to leave the huge taxes and countless "filial piety" brought by the royal market. They were already unable to do without these things.

After the Tang Dynasty merchants "cryed" that it was difficult to make a comeback and decided not to return to the Tang Dynasty, Ashina Nishu was anxious and summoned the ambassador of the Tang Dynasty Embassy in Western Turks as soon as possible, and asked him to persuade the merchants to stay, and then went to the major tribes to persuade those who were in person.

The tribe leader asked their people to strongly support the products of the Tang Dynasty and not let the money bag leave. Once they left, everything we have now will be gone! So the Ten Arrow Tribes began to move and assigned the tasks to each small tribe. Each small tribe was distributed to the herdsmen, just like paying taxes. The merchants of the Tang Dynasty colluded with the Western Turkic nobles and formed an alliance of interests.

Of course, there was not without opposition. At the beginning, the opposition was not very small. As a result, Zonghengshe planned a "delisting" operation to express dissatisfaction. A month later, the leaders of the ten Arrow Tribes gathered in Wang Ting and cried to Ashina Nishu, asking the Tang Dynasty to come back to do business, otherwise they would really not be able to survive. They could no longer accept the fishy horses, and the roasted lamb with a smell of smell. They wanted the tea of ​​the Tang Dynasty and the delicious food of the Tang Dynasty!

Zonghengsi won, and the opposition forces within the Western Turks were defeated. From then on, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty became uncrowned kings in the Western Turks. Wherever they went, the tribal leaders of all places would be offered as if they were offering sacrifices to the old man. Of course, there was no robbery. After such a situation, the ambassador of the Tang Dynasty angrily broke into the royal court to ask for an explanation. Ashina Nishu was overwhelmed and quickly assigned troops to deal with these robbery bandits. However, the Western Turkic cavalry that had not fought for a long time could not fight against the powerful horse thieves for a while.

The speed of combat power decline can also be seen.

At this time, the Tang Dynasty ambassador once again made a request that the protection of the Tang Dynasty merchants would be handed over to the Tang Dynasty's army stationed in the Western Turkic army stationed in the Tang Dynasty. The 3,000-man army stationed in the Western Turkic cavalry finally came in handy at this time, unlike the corrupt Western Turkic cavalry. The Tang Dynasty's garrison was getting stronger and stronger day by day in an almost whole meat-eating environment. The garrison, which was originally stipulated to be rotated in one year and one year, became dissatisfied by most of the troops. Under the pressure of the military, the court announced a rotation in one year and a half.

The three thousand iron cavalry of the Tang Dynasty dispatched a thousand people and spent half a month tracking the group of horse thieves and found them on a riverside. After a fight, more than a thousand beheaded, and only a hundred were killed or injured. There is also an episode where the leader of this group of horse thieves was a person who was excluded from a tribe who was previously 10 arrows and was clearly aware of the threat of the Tang Dynasty. The ambassador found Ashina Nishu. Ashina Nishu found the leader. The leader was trembling and ordered that all the original tribes beheaded, and the old and young were not kept.

The Western Turkic garrison of the Tang Dynasty became the most powerful of the Tang Dynasty cavalry.

From the fourth year of Zhenguan to the present, the ten years of Zhenguan. After six years, the army had changed four groups, and the super strong cavalry of 12,000 people were trained in such an environment. In a one-and-a-half-year-old, three thousand thin men returned with big waists and round waists, and had to fight as much as they could. Later, when dealing with Tuyuhun and Tubo, these cavalry participated in the battle. Except for the relatives who transported some fruits and vegetarian food, the entire cost of the 3,000 garrison was convenient for the Western Turks, and even the military pay was provided.

The cavalry of the Western Turks went from being strong and good at fighting at the beginning to being corrupt and degenerate later. So much so that the Tang embassy sent a report to the court on the murder of a merchant from the Tang Dynasty in the sixth year of Zhenguan. The people he sent saw with his own eyes that the Western Turkic government's army of suppressing thieves "staying and watching, not wanting to revive the journey, but actually being selfish. They wanted to be at peace, either incomplete war armor or inadequate war horses, or inadequate war horses, and taking advantage of the situation to lead the Japanese and take the opportunity to crash."

In terms of daily life, the report from the Ninth Year of Zhenguan showed that the Western Turks were soldiers, and they were soldiers in wartime, and they were herdsmen or farming farmers. In the past, "when they went out, they were soldiers, and when they entered, they were people, and when they were farming and fighting, they were not negligent." However, since the fourth year of Zhenguan, in five years, "there were many people who sold their tents for food, and those who sold their tents and property would want to eat Han food every meal, and they would only eat more food several times, and they would be exhausted. They would also sell the livestock raised by the family every season at a low price, and use them at no cost, which led to the lack of family members, and they would still be self-examination. There were countless people who sold war horses at a low price to get money, grain and meat."

As for the daily training of the army, there were intermittent training in the first few years, practicing riding and shooting diligently, but the top officers were the first to corrupt, which led to the corruption of the soldiers below. The Tang army camp deliberately separated the Western Turkic standing army for a long time to avoid getting too close to them, getting infected with some habits, losing the stimulation of the Tang generals, and the Western Turkic army quickly became corrupt. "The elite iron cavalry is becoming increasingly rare, and most cavalrymen have not practiced riding and shooting for a long time. The ability of riding horses and archery is almost gone, and their combat power is greatly reduced."

To sum up, the time was for the monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty to deal with Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks at the minimum cost. In addition, the military was eager to fight, His Majesty Li Er finally ordered the General Staff Headquarters to authorize Li Shiji to plan a decisive battle in the grasslands, and to determine the northern grasslands in one battle, completely eliminate future troubles, and build the northern grasslands into an animal husbandry base according to the current Eastern Turkic old land model.

The war was about to begin soon. Xue Rengui knew that he would probably have to go on stage in the end, depending on the time, but it was indeed unlikely to invite troops from the court to go south. Su Hou was determined to quickly resolve the Jiangnan incident. He probably wanted to go to the battlefield. This was a great opportunity to make military achievements. Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks had been tortured one day and were not as good as one day. The life of the grassland cavalry was more comfortable than that of the Han family. His combat power was greatly declining. When would he not be destroyed at this time?

This also led to no one around Su Hou who could protect and use it. He led the entire army to Chang'an day and night. The slave transport team in Chang'an would also speed up the south to meet Xue Rengui's army and then head south to Lujiang together. Xue Rengui knew that he was the last army that Su Hou could trust, so he had to rush back as quickly as possible to protect Su Hou, and completely relieve the uneasiness of Jiangnan under the planning of Su Hou, and then go north to ask for battle. At that time, it was estimated that the imperial army had already completed the battle and headed towards the north of the Mobei.

In the decisive battle in Mobei, the arrogant Huns moved west for thousands of miles and did not dare to return to the grassland. Huo Qubing sealed the wolf's servants, which became a perfect sound for thousands of years. Since the Han Dynasty, no general can reach that level, but now, this kind of glory seems to be reappearing in a certain general or an army... That is definitely a lifetime of glory...
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