Wipe out Hadlin's gang of horse thieves, Xue Rengui and his party's task is completely completed, 20,000 Tang troops with a large number of horse thieves ears on the way home, and 15,000 horse thieves are with the food and other materials stolen from the horse thieves to find a hidden oasis to settle down, waiting for the next mission.

The three-month long-distance raid and operation allowed the Tang soldiers who had just arrived in the Western Regions to be trained to a certain extent.

How to find direction in the desert without relying on a compass, how to find water in the desert, and how to survive in the desert. These were forcibly instilled into the minds of the garrisons in the Western Regions for three months, so that when they encountered special circumstances in the future, they could rely on their own strength to support them for a longer period of time and wait for rescue or self-rescue.

Xue Rengui once again resumed his identity as a general of the Tang Dynasty, wearing a delicate Mingguang armor, covered with a white robe, and holding a halberd painted by Fang Tian, looking majestic from a distance.

"Rengui, how about it, have you spent enough in the Western Regions in the past two years?" Li Daozong stood in front of the gate of the camp to greet the returning troops, and when Xue Rengui arrived in front of him, he asked with a smile.

"Chen Xue Rengui has seen the head of the Western Regions Marching Road." Xue Rengui first gave a military salute respectfully, then straightened up and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for two years, is the county king in good health?" As for Li Daozong's question about whether he had stayed enough in the Western Regions, he avoided answering.

This broken place, the Central Plains people come to stay for a month and rarely don't stay enough, the winter is bitter cold, the summer is very hot, and there is a few sand all day long, if you don't stay enough, it is purely a lie.

"It's okay, this old bone can still fool for a few more years." Li Daozong laughed, and affectionately stepped forward to hug Xue Rengui's shoulder: "But if you don't come back, it is estimated that it will be difficult to see the old man again in the future." ”

"The king of the county has said it."

"The old man is looking forward to your coming back early every day, so that he can hand over the errand to you, and then go back to the Central Plains immediately, the old man in this place doesn't want to stay for a day now." finally met an object who could vent bitterness, Li Daozong talked endlessly, and said that the Western Regions was like a ghost domain in the world, and the most important thing was that there was no battle.

These countries in the Western Regions are not stupid, in the face of the powerful Tang army, even if they are provoked, they will choose to be patient, although they are forced to take out food and military salaries to make them very unhappy, but they still choose to compromise and have no intention of resisting.

This made Li Daozong very disappointed, and slowly began to feel bored, and finally figured out why Li Er said that he would transfer him back after a while before leaving.

It turns out that these guys in the Western Regions seem to be powerful, but in fact, they are all so cowardly, in order to maintain their dominance, they don't even have the most basic blood.

After thinking of this, Li Daozong's previous small dissatisfaction immediately disappeared, and he extremely hoped that Xue Rengui would come back soon, hand over all the tasks of the Western Regions to him, and then return to the Tang Dynasty to enjoy happiness.

Xue Rengui didn't expect Li Daozong to say such a paragraph, he was a little stunned when he heard it, and he didn't know what to say for a while, looking at Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia County, he opened his mouth several times and didn't know what to say.

"Don't be so surprised, the old man came here this time, just to bring you soldiers, how to pass through the Western Regions, it's still your business, it has nothing to do with the old man." Left and right didn't want to stay in the Western Regions, Li Daozong didn't mind saying it beautifully.

"County King, you are old...... Want to go back to Datang? Xue Rengui finally reacted and figured out what Li Daozong said.

"Of course, this place is windy twice a year, and it blows for half a year at a time, and you have to eat or not, you have to drink or not, and there is no benefit at all except for the beautiful women...... Therefore, it is better to leave it to you young people, the old man will go back to Chang'an to recuperate, maybe he can live a few more years. ”

Li Daozong is also in his forties, even if there are beautiful women in the Western Regions, for the sake of his body, he can't enjoy a few, so this only benefit doesn't seem to be of much use to him.

"But...... But the king of the county, if you leave, there is really no backbone here, why don't you stay for a few more years and give the town a field, right? "Xue Rengui is still young in the end, he is only four or five years older than Li Chengqian, and he is not even twenty now. Putting the nearly 50,000 Datang army into his hands at once, how could he not feel furious.

And the concept of navigating the Western Regions is too broad, how to do it, to what extent is it appropriate, he has no road in his heart at all, there is no old guy in the court, only let him do it alone, Xue Rengui feels that no matter how he thinks about this matter, it is so unreliable.

"Young people need exercise to grow, and these guys in the Western Regions are very cowardly, you won't know about it for so long, right?" Li Daozong patted Xue Rengui on the shoulder and instructed: "So even if you let it go, don't forget that there is Datang behind you to support you, and whoever is not honest will beat him until he is convinced." ”

After explaining this, Li Daozong said again: "Don't worry, why will the old man continue to stay here for about half a year before leaving, you will control the army well in this half a year, don't think too much about what you don't have." ”

"Whoa!" Speaking of which, Xue Rengui also knew that he was powerless to change anything, so he could only go up hard.

At this time, neither Li Daozong nor Xue Rengui knew that Li Chengqian had sent them a big trouble, which was not an ordinary big trouble, and if one was not done well, the Western Regions would probably be full of smoke and frequent wars.

However, these things are all later, and the most important thing at this time is to lead the returning army to rebuild.

There is a saying: more than 10,000 people, boundless; There are more than 100,000 people, overwhelming.

The Tang army said that it was 30,000 people, but that meant 30,000 soldiers, excluding these 30,000 people, and there were close to the same number of servant troops. These servant armies were responsible for a series of logistical tasks such as tending to war horses and transporting grain and grass.

Therefore, the actual number of the Tang army has added up to 60,000.

60,000 plus the same number of war horses, how many are there? It's not an exaggeration to describe it overwhelmingly, right?

So Ju Wentai was almost frightened crazy, standing on top of the palace city, looking at the black crowd outside that covered all the yellow sand, and cold sweat trickled down: "Prime Minister, this, this is the Tang Army?" Why, why are there so many people? ”

Because when the Tang army arrived, they immediately 'fought' with the horse thieves led by Xue Rengui, so the servant army did not follow. Later, when the Tang army divided its troops, and a part of the servant army left with the 20,000 Tang army, Ju Wentai had never seen what the entire lineup of the Tang army was like, and now he suddenly saw all the Tang army, and he was immediately frightened.

(End of chapter)