On the first day of joining the army, Zheng Peng thought about how to encounter the enemy, but the whole journey was very smooth, not to mention fighting, even finding someone was difficult.

However, the time to come will always come, and on the third night of the army's departure from the Kangju Governor's Mansion, Zheng Peng, who was asleep, was awakened by the sound of horses and shouts of killing, and when he opened his eyes, there was a fire outside the tent.

"What's going on?" Zheng Peng stood up and hurriedly asked.

"Young Master" Ah Jun immediately responded: "The enemy is attacking at night, and the two sides are fighting. ”

While talking, Ah Jun brought Zheng Peng's armor, a set of soft armor and a set of hard armor, the soft armor is leather armor made of rhinoceros skin, and the hard armor is a fine scale armor made of fine iron, which is packaged from head to toe, which can be regarded as a double insurance.

It is no exaggeration to say that wearing these two sets of armor, even if you shoot a few arrows and chop a few knives, you will be fine.

There are advantages and disadvantages, even if it is specially formulated, the two pieces of armor add up to more than fifty catties, if it weren't for Zheng Peng's two years of martial arts training and fitness with Ah Jun, it is estimated that he would not be able to afford to wear it, and now he can afford to wear it, and it is inconvenient to walk, fortunately, he does not have to go to the battlefield in person.

Safety is very important, wearing such heavy armor, Zheng Peng sees it as a kind of exercise.

"How many people came?" Zheng Peng asked as he wore it.

"I can't really see it in the dark, but listening to the sound of horses' hooves, there are not many people, so it should be an attack."

In addition to the real sword and gun contest on the battlefield, the war also includes all kinds of offensive hearts, harassment, cutting off the back road, burning grain and grass, rebellion, ambush and other means.

Zheng Peng nodded, walked out of the camp tent, and as soon as he got out of the camp tent, he saw torches all over the sky, and many soldiers were waiting for orders with torches.

The camp of more than 20,000 people, the Chinese army tent of Ashina Xian is placed on a high ground, with the Chinese army tent as the center, spread out in a circle, densely packed with a large area, the enemy wants to get close to Ashina Xian, at least three lines of defense must be broken in a row to have a chance, one to protect the safety of the commander, so as not to be attacked by the enemy, and the other is to look far away, and it is also convenient for Ashina Xian to command and dispatch.

Just looked around, Zheng Peng came up with four words in his heart: well-trained.

Needless to say, their duty is to protect the safety of the camp, so that no one can take advantage of the darkness to enter the barracks, and secondly, they can also observe the military situation, and when there is a sudden incident or a military order is issued, they can also wake up their comrades in the same gang as soon as possible.

There are three layers of defense, and the second layer is just lighting torches on standby, and the others are sleeping peacefully, as if they are not affected.

Looking at the periphery, the sound of horses' hooves, shouts, and arrows breaking through the air in the dark night is endless, and then the soldiers with torches gather and disperse for a while, which looks interesting.

Ash Naxian's big tent of the Chinese army in charge did not panic, as the general manager of the Dingyuan Road march and the commander of the North Road, Ash Naxian did not panic after the enemy situation, moved the wine table to a high place, and drank alone while looking at the situation below.

If they didn't know that he was the coach of the North Road, they would all regard him as a literati with romantic feelings.

Zheng Peng glanced at Ashinaxian, and then pouted with some disdain: This guy, obviously saw himself coming out, but he pretended not to see it, or sat alone, pouring himself a drink.

It's stingy.

Guo Ziyi saw Zheng Peng's expression, her heart was happy, and she persuaded with a smile: "Third brother, go back to sleep, a typical attack is to prevent you from sleeping well, the intelligence says that the army of Tubo and Dashi has not yet been dispatched, and it can't make trouble tonight." ”

"Forget it, it's going to be dawn in a while anyway, and I won't sleep." Zheng Peng yawned and said lazily.

"Don't go to sleep, third brother, what do you want to do?" Kuro asked curiously. ”

Zheng Peng glanced at Ashina Xian from the corner of his eye, turned his head and ordered: "Ah Jun, prepare the charcoal fire and ingredients, I will barbecue in a while, by the way, which two gang leaders are on duty today?" ”

"Zhou Quan and Lu Jin."

"Okay, call them over, barbecue together, and wake up in the middle of the night, really hungry." Zheng Peng commanded.

I slept beautifully, and I didn't feel sleepy, I woke up in the middle of the night and was hungry, Ashina Xian ate so deliciously, Zheng Peng was so hungry, and decided to have a barbecue directly in his own way and in his own body.

Hearing that there was something to eat, Zhou Quan and Lu Jin didn't say a word, and immediately walked over.

Ashina Xian watched the enemy and me come and go from a high place, constantly harassing and chasing, while looking at Zheng Peng from time to time, when Zheng Peng set up a charcoal barbecue in front of the barracks, Ashina Xian was really surprised.

It's nice that a musician can be so calm when the enemy is attacking at night.

Zheng Peng didn't care about other people's opinions, barbecued meat and vegetables, made teppanyaki, and after a while, the aroma of barbecue and teppanyaki began to spread in the camp, even Ashina Xian was also attracted by the fragrance, and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

"It's so delicious, what are they getting to eat?" One of the lieutenants said curiously.

"These Beijing officials have average ability to do things, but they are proficient in eating, drinking, and having fun." Ashina Xian said with some disdain.

The deputy general saw that Ashina Xian was a little moved, and his saliva was about to flow out, so he instigated: "Chief Manager, why don't you go and sit down, win over the relationship, have a good chat with this Liu Jianjun, and cooperate in the future." ”

The prison army is equivalent to the emperor's eyes, in addition to being able to send the recital to the imperial case, many prison soldiers will also have various privileges, such as Zhang Jiaosong, a prison army imperial history, but he has arbitrary power in the Western Regions and becomes the uncrowned king of the Western Regions.

Who knows if at an important moment, the deputy supervisor sent by the emperor will take out a secret decree or something from his body.

"No!" Ashina said categorically: "I will never associate with anyone who is close to the Turgish. ”

After speaking, Ashina snorted coldly and entered his own Chinese army tent without hesitation.

Several of his subordinates looked at each other, and finally shook their heads lightly and followed Ashina Xian into the tent together.

Everyone knows the importance of having a good relationship with the prison army, but Ashina Xian is an exception, everything is easy to discuss, but once he gets involved with Sulu Khan, he immediately becomes unkind.

"Third brother, they're going back." Kuro whispered.

Zheng Peng waved his hand and said, "Forget it, out of sight is pure, let him go." ”

I wanted to send some to Ashina after it was baked, and the two could take the opportunity to break the ice, Zheng Peng also took out the absolute power of the teppanyaki, but Ashina gave it a chance at all.

I don't know if Ashina Xian can't get used to Zheng Peng's barbecue in the barracks, but he has no management rights over Zheng Peng, so he can't see it.

Guo Ziyi said with some sighs: "This Ashina Xian is extremely principled, and it seems to be a little unkind, but in fact, this is where he is smart, no wonder he can guard the North Court." ”

The Tang Dynasty's unification of the Western Regions does not mean that the Tang Dynasty has given up the Western Regions, on the contrary, the imperial court has maintained the status quo of the Western Regions through various means such as provoking, supporting, and suppressing, and it is impossible to let one family dominate, An Lu Khan and Ashina Xian are the spokesmen carefully supported by the Tang Dynasty, and the two contain each other, and from the perspective of the Tang Dynasty, they never want the two forces to get too close.

Ashina Xian deliberately distanced himself from An Lu Khan and got "close", which was to show loyalty to the Tang Dynasty in disguise.

Zheng Peng also thought of this, so he didn't dwell on it, and suddenly asked, "Isn't alcohol forbidden in the army?" Ashinaxian, as the main general of the North Road, how can he drink openly? ”

Marching to fight, a negligence can lead to immeasurable losses, in order to prevent the soldiers from being greedy for cups and mistaking things, the military camp has a very perfect prohibition of alcohol, Ashina Xian openly provoked?

Guo Ziyi explained: "There is a ban on alcohol in the army, but here in the Western Regions, many soldiers like to take a sip before charging, which will make them more courageous. ”

This is considered the privilege of ethnic minorities, like more than 1,000 years later, ethnic minorities still have many privileges.

Thinking deeper, the policy is also in line with Datang's policy: when managing the locality, unify but not govern; When managing the army, the two sides turned against each other that day, and a relatively loosely disciplined army would certainly be better to deal with than a well-disciplined army.

Zheng Peng thought as he handed over a large handful of grilled lamb skewers: "Okay, don't patronize talking, eat, the lamb skewers are the best when they are just grilled, come, eat." ”

The outermost part of the camp was very lively, the enemy was constantly attacking and harassing in many batches, and the soldiers on the periphery defended and counterattacked in an orderly manner, without any chaos, and the outside was lively, and Zheng Peng and his party also had a good time.

I have to say that in the midst of thousands of horses, you can openly barbecue and eat, which is a very good experience.

As soon as the statistical results of the next day came out, Zheng Peng was a little dumbfounded: after a long night, three people died on the Datang side, one of them fell from a horse and was trampled to death by his own horse, five were seriously injured, thirty-one people were lightly injured, and the one who came was the Huluju tribe, seventeen people died, and the number of injuries could not be counted.

Tossed all night, the sound of horses' hooves did not stop all night, the sound of swords colliding, shouting and killing, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air were endless, especially when pursuing, the mountains were full of torches, but the casualties were really not high.

The harassment of the Huluju tribe was just the beginning, and soon, all kinds of disturbances and attacks have not stopped, all the way around the rhythm of defense and counterattack, in the face of the enemy's harassment, Ashina Xian began to exert his military talents, how to rotate, how to defend, how to counterattack, how to place the wounded, etc., under his flexible scheduling, it is difficult for the enemy to come to harass what to bargain.

Zheng Peng is a supervising army, there is no need to go to the battlefield, Ashina Xian is not allowed to Zheng Peng to approach the battlefield, they are all watching the two sides fight from afar, but the scale of these attacks and fights is very small, the enemy is often a touch away, the Tang army is also very careful when pursuing, afraid that if you are not careful, you will be ambushed by the opponent, and you will return to the team after chasing for a while.

The enemy seemed to know this scruple of the Tang army, and soon after each time he was driven away, he quickly caught up with him, just like those flies flying around, which made people feel disgusting.