"An expedition to Persia?" Wang Xuance and Meng Yu exclaimed in unison, and then looked at each other, both of them seeing the incomprehension in each other's eyes.

"What do you mean by an expedition?" Wang Xuance wondered.

"What is the state of Persia? Persia? Never heard of it. Meng Yufa asked.

Chai Shao put down the will of Li Er's majesty and explained to the two rising stars: "Persia is a very ancient country, it is said that the founding of the country more than 400 years ago, it should be our Central Plains in the Later Han Dynasty, the Persian state has been established, and we have had many friendly exchanges, the imperial court at that time also recorded the affairs of the Persian state, and this time, it is said that when the Anxi Protectorate put down the rebellion in the Western Regions, the countries of the Western Regions sent a request for help, which made the Persian state notice us."

The Persian State is currently under attack by a country called the Arab State...... Arab? Who translated it? It's really hard to talk ...... Anyway, this Arab country seems to be very powerful, and Persia is not an opponent of the Arab country at all, and it seems that even the country is in danger, so they sent envoys to ask for help from the Tang Dynasty, hoping to let the Tang Dynasty send troops to help them defeat the ...... Pull...... Uncle, damn it, it's a mouthful! You can't come up with such a mouthful of names! The country name is actually three words! I really don't know how they think about it! ”

Wang Xuance and Meng Yu glanced at each other, and Meng Yu asked: "So Your Majesty will let the general be the commander, and I will wait for the two of you to be the deputy general to go to the expedition...... Persia? War with that Arab country? Isn't that inappropriate? We don't know anything about other countries' intelligence, so we rush to send troops? ”

Wang Xuance nodded in support: "This battle has just ended." The Western Regions has just put down the rebellion, and there is still a plague on Goguryeo's side, so at this time, there will be a war on both sides? This seems to be very unfavorable to us, the army also needs to rest, most of the year has not been home, the soldiers are very homesick, and this is almost winter, and it is not convenient to fight! Grain and grass are too far to be transported. ”

Chai Shao Zhengse said: "Sending troops to fight is a big thing, how can a military event be a child's play?" Since the decision has been made. Then I'll take care of the execution. Your Majesty must have thought about it, we are soldiers, and soldiers don't interfere in politics, this is the rule of Majesty. Keep it to yourselves. No matter how much the court argues. It has nothing to do with our soldiers, we just need to fight our battles well and do our job well. Do you understand? ”

Wang Xuance and Meng Yu paused: "The last general will know his mistake!" ”

Chai Shao nodded slightly: "Hmm!" His Majesty means that this war is because it is a request for help from the Persian state, so whether it is food and grass or the use or anything, we don't need to worry, except for the weapons and clothes provided by themselves, the others are supported by the Persian state with their materials, and the cost of weapons and clothing is also fully paid by the Persian state, and the military expenses are also paid by them, and there are special rewards for each soldier for winning the battle, and the soldiers who died in the war can also get more pensions.

It is equivalent to saying that we only need to contribute to this battle, and we don't need to worry about the rest at all, the meaning of His Majesty is to let us specifically play the national prestige, play fame, gain a firm foothold, and lay the foundation for the next westward strategy, since we have no understanding of the region in the west of the Western Regions, this requires us to understand them, to check the climate, the people, the culture and discourse, as well as their army and tactical tactics.

We are not only to promote the national prestige, but also to understand the actual situation, because the Persian state is more friendly and weak than the Arab state, so we cannot let the strong and warlike Arab state become the master of that land, let him be more powerful and then regard the Western Regions as our battlefield, we must try to keep the war away from the country, let our army leave the country to fight, and do not harm the development of the country, especially the Western Regions that have just been pacified.

Ben Shuai was appointed as the general manager of the Datang Expeditionary Force, both of you are generals under Ben Shuai, Du He, the cavalry chief of the Anxi Duhu Mansion, is the deputy head of the Datang Expeditionary Force, Du He, this kid, has played a great reputation, no, not a prestige, it is a crazy name, this kid fights like a madman, completely ignores other things, often takes thousands of cavalry to kill several back and forth in tens of thousands of enemy military formations, and simply chisels through other people's military formations, it is simply the reincarnation of Xiang Yu, and Lu Bu is reborn.

You said that your military school is really a magical place, haha, before, Du He was a famous gentleman in Chang'an City, and he competed for an oiran with another gentleman, but he was injured, and then he went to gamble, and when he lost all his money, he took the things at home to pawn and then gamble, so angry that Du Ruhui almost swallowed, if it weren't for Suning's wonderful hand to rejuvenate, it is estimated that there would not be the current Du Shangshu, just the son of my family, who is not angry, has changed a person in the military school, tsk......

You military academy boys, amazing, one by one just like little tigers, no wonder His Majesty Xià is so partial to you, a battle to go abroad to play national prestige, three of the four jacks of your military academy are named to fight, and the remaining one is still fighting with Suning in Goguryeo, it is said that they have also made great contributions, Changsun Chong and Li Boyao are said to have followed Qin Qiong to destroy the Khitan, and seventy or eighty thousand people were captured in Beiping City as slaves, and now it seems that he is going to fight the Tatar people with Su Lie, amazing, really powerful.

It is estimated that in another ten years, you will be the mainstay in the Tang Army, first of all, the four of you, then Li Boyao and their group, and the following group of little tigers, now they are all brigade commanders led by Captain Wu, and they will all be generals at that time! That's right, the military academy spent so much money, Lao Tzu went to give lectures, Pharmacist Li made your sacrificial wine, and also knocked down the entire plateau for you to train, if you don't fight again, it is estimated that Your Majesty will abolish this military university.

But ah, it looks like the most powerful thing here is Du He, obediently, let Su Lie take him as an apprentice, a Xue Li is already so powerful, this Du He is not a thing in the pool, Su Lie himself is a general, not to mention Suning, one person with 10,000 people tossed Goguryeo into the Three Kingdoms, the world is turned upside down! This family, Su's family, tsk tsk, tsk, it's amazing...... It seems that Li Zhen, Cheng Chumo and Wei Chi Baolin also have a good relationship with Suning, and they are all from the military academy......

Well. Let's do it, the two of you go and pull the three of them over, don't follow that group of old fools to Chang'an City for training, those old guys, one by one crying and shouting to go to the grassland, can't stop it, it's good now, you have to go back and be scolded, how old is Qin Qiong, and her health is not good. I forced them to fight again. This time, I'm going to have to clean them up. ”

Chai Shao asked Wang Xuance and Meng Yu to call Cheng Chumo and the three of them to fight together, which was regarded as selling Cheng Zhijin and the three of them a favor, and Cheng Chumo and the three of them were also ecstatic when they heard the news, as long as they didn't need Chang'an Cheng to accompany their father to train together. A qiē can be discussed. What's more, it's still such a novelty. It's amazing to go abroad for the first time and help the second and third countries to fight, and to be both blonde and blue-eyed white.

30,000 Iron Horsemen have been selected. Chai Shao immediately led the army south to prepare to merge with the Western Regions Corps and the artillery team, for that artillery, Chai Shao also heard a little, when he was not in the battle, he could always hear a loud noise in the palace, at first I didn't know what was going on, I thought it was thundering and the water was gone, but I looked at the clear sky, and the palace was also good, and I only knew when I asked, what kind of gunpowder Li Tai was making there......

After a battle, gunpowder turned into artillery, Chai Shao didn't know why Li Ermajesty attached so much importance to artillery, and strictly ordered himself to live and die with artillery, to put the artillery team around the tent, and protect it closely, whether it was Persians or Arabs, they were not allowed to see artillery in places other than the battlefield, when the artillery went there were thirty guns, one hundred and fifty-one people, and when they came back, it would be thirty guns, one hundred and fifty-one people.

How powerful is this artillery, so that Li Erma cares so much? New weapons? Artillery? Is it strong? Is it better than a trebuchet or a crossbow?

Speaking of which, this qiē is still unknown.

At this time, Issam, who was far away on the border of the Western Regions, knew the news that the Tang Emperor was willing to send troops to help, and there was an army of 70,000 people, although it was 30,000 less than the highest expectation of 100,000, but it was enough, these days he watched the daily training of the Tang army in the Western Regions, and really felt how this army used 60,000 people to defeat the 150,000 people of the Western Regions coalition army, compared to the Arab army, this army is likely to be stronger.

70,000 people is already a great help, Isam immediately passed the news back to the country, but what worries him is that at this time there is news from the country, the last barrier of the capital has been lost, the battle has been lost, 300,000 troops have been defeated, nearly 100,000 people have been killed in the battle, many have been captured, only 130,000 wolves have fled back to the capital, losing the will to fight, and the Arabs are reorganizing their troops and horses, preparing to take the capital of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty in one go.

This was called the Battle of Al-Qadisia in another time and space, and as in this plane, it ended in the defeat of the Persian Empire, and soon after, the capital of the Persian Empire was breached, and the last monarch of the Persian Empire, the wolf bèi, fled, and after that, the Persian Empire made a final resistance, the so-called hundred-legged insects, dead but not stiff, they overestimated the continuous combat effectiveness of the Arabs, and also underestimated their own desperate fight, and after more than twenty years, the Persian Empire officially declared its demise.

However, what is different from that time and space is that there is a small episode in this time and space, it is the prince of the Persian Empire, who has perished more than 20 years later, to come to the Tang Dynasty for help, and the Arab Empire has gained a firm foothold, of course, it is difficult to recover, and now, the Tang Empire is unprecedentedly strong, daring to challenge the unknown of a qiē, and more than 20 years earlier, the cronies and courtiers of the Persian emperor came to ask for help, and also brought more treasures and benefits.

The Tang Empire is not just pretending to establish a Persian protectorate like another time and space, but a real 70,000-strong army, with weapons and artillery that span the ages, to Central Asia to build a national prestige and make a name, officially announcing that the ancient peoples of the East want to enter this land, enter this beautiful and rich land to conquer and occupy themselves, and spread the brilliant Han civilization.

Issam's excitement and worry coexist, he had to go to the Anxi Protectorate almost every day to ask Guo Xiaoke about the progress of the Tang army, Guo Xiaoke was scared by him, and finally directly arranged a few people to answer his questions about the progress of the Tang army, his excitement and anxiety are understandable, but if he asks like this all the time, Guo Xiaoke himself will feel very bored and irritable.

This is the first war that belongs to the Tang Empire to start the national prestige, Issam keeps ensuring that the army of the Tang Empire only needs to win the battle, and there is no need to worry about the others, let the army of the Tang Dynasty hit the Arab army hard, let the Arabs know the power of the Tang Empire, and let the aristocratic moths in the country be honest, the country is about to be attacked, and those hateful parasites must be thinking about how to sell the motherland, so as to obtain privileges from the new regime, And not thinking about how to defend the capital of their homeland. (To be continued......)