Chapter Eighty-Six: Nip the Threat in the Bud

Ashina Gushe licked his lips and said excitedly: "If the general only needs camels and horses, it will be easy to do, there may not be many war horses under the account of Father Khan, but there are those who can't go to the battlefield, and there are as many as you want!" ”

Chen Ying smiled: "It's good to have a horse......"

Ashina Gushe said with some embarrassment: "General, I'll let people go back to report the news, and ask my father Khan to send a batch of horses over, but I don't know if a horse can be exchanged for our food?" ”

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "How about exchanging a horse for a stone of rice?" ”

Ashina Gushe frowned and said, "That's too little, at least three stones!" ”

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "Three stones are too many!" Horses are not worth anything at all, and you can kill them for meat, but it is not worth it without food. ”

Things are selected by nature, the strong are respected, and the fittest survive. This is the only law of nature, and even more so in nomadic peoples. Now the Turks are short of resources, and they have concentrated all their limited forage on war horses and young warriors, and as for the horses that cannot get on the war horses, they have long been hungry to the bones. Even if they grit their teeth and kill the horses and eat the meat, there is not much meat on a horse.

Goshunur smiled and said, "It was worthless before, but now that someone needs it, it's worth it!" ”

Ge Shunur looked at Chen Ying and said in a low voice: "How about exchanging a horse for two stones of rice?" ”

Although the horse is not as expensive as the war horse, in Guanzhong, the price of an adult horse starts at least 3,000 yuan, just like a fat and strong horse, and it can even be sold for five times.

However, the grain in Guanzhong is almost 20 yuan a bucket, which is always 5 stones.

Chen Ying wanted to agree, but Ma Zhou shook his head directly and said, "No...... No, two stones for a horse is too much, at most two buckets with one stone! ”

Ashina Valley was greatly depressed.

In the eyes of the Turks, pulling a horse is an inferior horse, and it cannot be ridden to fight, it is useless, and the Western Turks really do not lack this thing. But the Turks were short of food, very short of it. Although horse meat can ward off hunger, it is coarse, has a stronger fishy smell, has no spices, and has a very poor taste and texture. The most important thing is that horse meat is not easy to digest, and it is usually fine, and the Turks are in good condition and can overcome these difficulties.

But for now...... Horse meat is not to be eaten. The more people eat death, the more people will die, even if he is unwilling, Chen Ying can also find other Turkic tribes to trade, and there will always be many Turkic tribes who are willing to accept such a deal.

Alas, forget it, although it is a bit of a loss that a horse can only be exchanged for one stone and two buckets of grain, but this is a buyer's market, and how much money can be sold depends on the mood of others, and he can only accept it, and it is good to be able to exchange it.

When he was depressed, he suddenly saw Liu Renliang walking in quickly, holding a saber in both hands and presenting it to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying took the saber from Liu Renliang's hand, and then pulled out the saber casually, and a cold light came out of the box, and the cold air was cold.

Ashina Gushe's spirits were greatly lifted, and he said with envy: "Good knife, good knife!" ”

Chen Ying handed the saber to Ashina Gushe's hand and said with a smile: "Try it." ”

Ashina Gushe took the saber and swung it a few times, although he was used to using a scimitar, and it was a bit uncomfortable to use this kind of saber that was closer to the Miao knife, but it was just the right amount, and there were simple threads engraved with it, and he would not get rid of his hand even if he was stained with blood.

all let him like it from the bottom of his heart.

He flicked the blade with his fingers, and the sound was crisp and buzzing, apparently made of fine high-carbon steel, which made him love it all the more much. Good steel is hard to find, and such a good knife may not be able to be bought even with the same weight of gold, so how can he not like it?

Chen Ying smiled faintly: "How about this knife?" ”

"Good...... Very good, better than our scimitars made of bad iron! Ashina Gu set looked at Chen Ying expectantly and said, "This knife is ...... Is this knife sold? ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "A horse for a saber!" ”

In fact, Chen Ying was also very helpless.

Now the officers and men of the Anxi Army have completed the replacement of high-manganese steel armor and blades. And the blades and armor made of high-carbon steel were useless, even if in order to arm the people of Anxi, Chen Ying issued a part, but the Tang army's equipment was too much. As long as it is steel, the most difficult thing to deal with is the oxidation of steel, but fortunately, Anxi lacks rain and the climate is relatively dry, so the oxidation will be slower.

In the treasury of the Anxi Military Mansion, there are still tens of thousands of sets of armor and blades, and there is no way to deal with them, even if they are stored, it not only requires manpower, but also needs to consume preservation costs.

Ashina Gushe said without thinking: "Deal, deal!" ”

As he spoke, he rolled his eyes and said, "If the camel doesn't change rice, can it change weapons?" ”

Chen Ying smiled and said: "Yes, we have riding bows, foot bows, cuirasses, sabers, spears, and shields, just change what you like." ”

Ashina Gu said, "Can you take me to your arsenal?" ”

Chen Ying said: "Of course you can." Liu Renliang, you take him there. ”

Liu Renliang answered, and took Ashina Gushe to the arsenal.

The arsenal of Beiting is the general arsenal of the Anxi Army.

It was expanded on the basis of the old Seoul in the former Bukjeong, and it didn't take much effort.

However, the entire arsenal has been divided into two, one is dedicated to storing cold weapons such as knives, guns and spears, and the other is dedicated to storing fire oil, even Chen Ying is not able to go as soon as he says.

Liu Renliang took Ashina Gushe into the cold armory.

In fact, it is the Beiting City built during the Han Dynasty, before coming to this warehouse, first through the ditch, and then through the inner urn city, until more than a dozen checkpoints, Ashina Valley finally entered the warehouse.

The huge gate is more than three feet high, and the gate is not the ordinary gate that can be pushed open, but there are dozens of steel wheels at the bottom, and there is a creaking sound.

Ashina Valley looked at the huge warehouse that was five or six zhang high, and was directly frightened.

The weapons and equipment here are piled up, and the wooden shelves are full of horizontal knives, densely packed, one after the other. There are also spears and spears, and Ashina Valley can swear that the spears here are even denser than the reeds by the river.

There are relatively few bows, only a few thousand, but there are frighteningly many crossbows. And there are many styles, such as arm crossbows, horn bow crossbows, wooden single crossbows, large wooden single crossbows, bamboo pole crossbows, large bamboo pole crossbows, Fuyuan crossbows, etc., as well as winch crossbows.

The Tang Army's crossbow tactics were extremely mature, and they formed a longitudinal strike range with the Ba Niu crossbow as the distance, the Fuyuan crossbow in the center, and the single crossbow as the closer. The range of the Yifu Yuan crossbow is about 300 paces (450 m), the range of the open crossbow is about 230 paces (345 m), the range of the horn bow is about 200 steps (300 m), and the range of the single bow is about 160 steps (240 m).

Among them, the range of the Volvo crossbow is equivalent to the effective range of the M4 rifle.

In fact, once the Tang Dynasty army formed a crossbow array, the lightly armed cavalry had no chance to rush up and fight in close combat.

Walking into another huge warehouse, all the arrows were stored, twenty-five in a bundle, and at a rough glance, there were millions of bundles.

And each one is well-made, although there is a thin layer of rust, but it can not hide their hideousness, it is said that the arrows of ancient times generally have to be put into a thin layer of rust before taking it, this kind of arrow even if it is only a light scratch opponent may cause tetanus, very lacking in morality.

So don't see the arrows in the armory rusting and think that the quartermaster is derelict in his duties, and that someone else is simply deliberate.

Looking at so many weapons, Ashina Gushe's saliva was about to flow, and his voice trembled and said, "Liu ...... General Liu, you have so many weapons stored here? ”

Liu Renliang smiled disapprecitately: "What is this? The armory in our Guanzhong is called terrifying, each warehouse is enough for tens of thousands of people for several years, and there are more than 100 warehouses in total. ”

Although Liu Renliang was obviously bragging, Ashina Gushe did not doubt it.

Liu Renliang casually picked up a dual-purpose horizontal knife, stroked the smooth blade and sighed: "What a knife, it can cut seven copper coins with one knife and cut five rolls of straw mats. It's a pity that it's not used now. ”

Ashina Gushe was pondering a riding bow, which was made of well-made, with bow arms made of more than a dozen materials, no more than three feet long, but could shoot three hundred meters away, and with heavy arrows or armor-piercing cones, no armor could stop it.

Hearing Liu Renliang say this, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and asked in a lost voice: "You don't need such a good weapon?" So what do you use? ”

Liu Renliang smiled indifferently and said, "Of course, use a better weapon." ”

Liu Renliang pointed to the mountain of weapons and said, "Little Khan, these weapons can be exchanged, just bring as many livestock as you want!" ”

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Just when Ashina Gushe went to the arsenal to check the weapons, Su Dingfang didn't understand Chen Ying's actions very much.

It is said that as for the defeat of these remnants of the Western Turks, there is no need to use any stratagems, and it is enough to directly push them over one line.

In front of Ashina Gushe, Su Dingfang didn't raise his own questions, but when Ashina Gushe left, he finally couldn't help but ask: "General, the last general can't figure it out!" ”

Historically, in its heyday, the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty had jurisdiction over present-day Xinjiang, eastern and southeastern Kazakhstan, all of Kyrgyzstan, eastern Tajikistan, most of Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, eastern half of Turkmenistan, and most of Uzbekistan.

In particular, in Afghanistan, under the Anxi Metropolitan Governorate of the Tang Dynasty, six Protectorate Prefectures (equivalent to prefectures) were established, Humi, Hushiqian (Tang Zhisha Prefecture Governor's Mansion), Zobin (Xiuxian Prefecture Governor's Mansion), Fanyan (Wufeng Governor's Mansion), Hadaro Branch (Tiaozhi Governor's Mansion), and Gulu (Gaofu Governor's Mansion). From 662 to 674, the Tang Dynasty also appointed Belus, the son of the last emperor of Persia who had been exiled to the Tang Dynasty, as Emperor of Persia, and placed the Persian governorate in eastern Persia and Afghanistan. After the Battle of Talas in 751, all the countries of the Western Regions west of the Green Mountains were surrendered to the Arabs, and after that, Central Asia gradually became green.

The present Tocharian, both the later Afghanistan and a very famous name, the graveyard of the empire. The United States and the Soviet Union are two super-level powers, and this area is not much different from Sichuan.

Although it belongs to the same plateau area as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the biggest difference is that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has abundant rainfall, while Tocharian is arid and rainless. In addition, agriculture here is almost extinct, and Datang has no material replenishment at all.

Chen Ying used troops here, as high as four-fifths of the plateau and mountainous areas here, just find a mountain area to drill into, you can hide the cat with Chen Ying.

Don't look at Chen Ying's 100,000 troops, it sounds like a lot. However, not even an ordinary valley could be filled. In this case, it is definitely the best place to ambush and attack the flesh mill of one side.

Chen Ying looked at the Tang army soldiers around him and said, "We have too few people!" ”

Su Dingfang said suspiciously: "There are few people? ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Yes, our Datang now has a population of only 25 million, especially our Anxi, there are no people for thousands of miles!" ”

In fact, thanks to the early Tang Dynasty, the Bashu region was resolved peacefully, and if it was really fought down like Hedong, Hebei or even Henan, I am afraid that the 200,000 Tang soldiers would not be able to fill the Bashu.

Chen Ying needs friends, and he needs to use the Turks to consume the Turks.

Now Ashina Gushe came with their sincerity, and Chen Ying did not directly accept Ashina Gushe's surrender.

This is the smartest way to do it, as the so-called promotion of Mien, fighting Mi hatred.

Once the Tang Dynasty accepted the surrender of the Ebilu Khan, he could be responsible for their provisions, and he could not watch them starve to death. The key is that most of these Turkic people are white-eyed wolves, who gobble up when they eat and scold their mothers when they put down their chopsticks. Gratuitous assistance will only fuel their arrogance.

Chen Yingso established an equal mechanism and communicated with the Khan of Ebilu. If you need food, there is no problem, what Datang has is that you can exchange it for a horse, a camel for it, and if you want a blade, there is no problem, you can exchange it for materials of equivalent value.

This is a relationship in which there is no clear subordination of the monarch and the minister, and the two sides are very reciprocal.

Just, will this be truly equivalent?

Chen Ying only needs to cut off the supply of supplies, and the Khan of Yipilu will return to the pre-liberation period overnight.

Su Dingfang really couldn't figure it out, but Ma Zhou had already understood.

Ma Zhou pulled Su Dingfang and said, "General Su, we can settle an account!" ”

Su Dingfang smiled bitterly: "What account?" ”

Ma Zhou smiled bitterly: "Once the soldiers of our Anxi Army are killed, it is not counted as the imperial court's pension, our General Chen gives a pension of forty yuan to ordinary soldiers, and one hundred yuan per person to the lancers and Modao army." ”

According to the current deal between Chen Ying and Ashina Valley, a horse can be pulled with one stone and two buckets of grain, one horse with a knife, one hundred yuan can be exchanged for five hundred stone of grain, and more than four hundred horses can also raise at least fifteen dead soldiers.

Su Dingfang stopped talking.

Chen Ying said with a smile: "What can be solved with money is not a thing!" ”

The advantage of the Tang Dynasty was not combat effectiveness, but productivity. The combat effectiveness of the Tang army in the Tang Dynasty basically came from the strong industrial production force of the Tang Dynasty.

If the Tang Dynasty is dragged into an all-out military confrontation with the West too early, it will not be able to quickly increase its productive forces and strengthen its own strength. It is better for the Tang Dynasty to contribute money and guns, and the troops of the Yibi Lu Khan to contribute people, and the two sides will show their strengths and fight with the West.

This kind of thing was not uncommon in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Africa during the period of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 20th century.

It's called a proxy war.

Chen Ying was ready to use the Ebilu Khan and the Turks under his command to fight a proxy war.

Historically, the Great Food Kingdom was established in 632 A.D., and now it is the third year of Kaiyuan (i.e., 628 A.D.), which means that the Great Food Kingdom will be established in four years.

Chen Ying decided to conquer the Western Turks while nipping up this threat in the bud.

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