Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 964 Nip the threat in the bud
Chapter 86 nips the threat in the bud

Ashina Gushe licked his lips, and said excitedly: "If the general only needs camels and draft horses, it will be easy to handle. Father Khan may not have many war horses under his tent, but there are plenty of draft horses that cannot go to the battlefield." , as much as you want!"

Chen Ying laughed and said, "It's good to have a horse..."

Ashina Gushe said with some embarrassment: "General, I will send someone back to report and ask Father Khan to send a batch of draft horses, but I don't know that a draft horse can exchange for our food?"

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

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

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "Three stones are too much! A horse is worthless at all. You can kill it and eat meat, but it's not worth it without food."

Things are selected by nature, the strong are respected, and the fittest survive.This is the only law in nature, especially in nomads.Now that the Turkic people are in short supply of resources, they feed all the limited fodder to the war horses and young and strong warriors. As for the draft horses that cannot be put on the war horses, they are already starving to the bone.Even if they gritted their teeth and cruelly killed the draft horse to eat meat, there was not much meat on a draft horse.

Ge Shunuer smiled and said, "It used to be worthless, but now it's worth a lot if someone needs it!"

Ge Shunuer looked at Chen Ying, and said in a low voice, "How about a horse for two stones of rice?"

Although draft horses are not as expensive as war horses, in Guanzhong, the price of an adult draft horse starts at least [-] yuan, like a fat and strong draft horse, it can even be sold for five rounds.

However, the grain in Guanzhong is about [-] yuan a bucket, which is always five shi.

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

Ashina Gushe was very frustrated.

In the eyes of the Turkic people, the draft horse is a bad horse. It cannot be ridden to fight, and it is useless at all. The Western Turkic people really do not lack such things.But the Turks are short of food, very short of it.Although horse meat can stave off hunger, it is rough and has a stronger fishy smell. It has no spices, and its taste and texture are extremely poor.The most important thing is that horse meat is not easy to digest, and it is usually fine. Turkic people are healthy and can overcome these difficulties.

But right now... horsemeat is unacceptable.Even if he didn't want to, Chen Ying could still find other Turkic tribes to trade, and there would always be many Turkic tribes willing to accept such a deal.

Alas, forget it, although a horse can only be exchanged for one stone and two buckets of grain, which is a bit of a loss, but this is a buyer's market, and how much it can sell depends on the mood of others. He can only accept it. If he can exchange it, it will be considered good .

When he was feeling depressed, he suddenly saw Liu Rengui walking in quickly, holding a saber in both hands and presenting it in front of Chen Ying.

Chen Ying took the saber from Liu Rengui, and then pulled out the saber casually, a cold light came out of the box, and the cold air pierced the skin.

Ashina Gushe was refreshed, and said enviously, "Good knife, good knife!"

Chen Ying handed the saber to Ashina Gushe, and said with a smile, "Try it."

Ashina Gushe took the saber and slashed it vigorously a few times. Although he was used to the scimitar, it was a bit difficult to use this kind of saber, which is closer to the miao knife, but the weight was just right, and there were simple threads engraved on it. Fighting with a knife will not let go even if it is 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 clear and buzzing. It was obviously made of high-quality high-carbon steel, which made him love it even more.Good steel is hard to come by, such a good knife may not be able to buy even with the same weight of gold, how can he not like it?
Chen Ying smiled faintly: "How about this knife?"

"Good...very good, much better than our scimitars made of inferior iron!" Ashina Gushe looked at Chen Ying expectantly and said, "Is this knife for sale...is this knife for sale?"

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

In fact, Chen Ying was also very helpless.

Now the generals of the Anxi Army have completed the replacement of high manganese steel armor and weapons.However, the original high-carbon steel blades and armors were useless. Even if Chen Ying distributed some of them to arm the people of Anxi, the Tang army had too much equipment.As long as it is steel, the most difficult thing to deal with is the oxidation of steel. Fortunately, Anxi lacks rain and the climate is relatively dry, so the oxidation will be slower.

There are tens of thousands of sets of armor and weapons in the treasury of the Anxi Army, and there is no way to deal with them. Even if they are stored, it will not only require manpower, but also cost storage.

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

As he said that, he rolled his eyes and said again: "Camels are not exchanged for rice, can we exchange weapons?"

Chen Ying said with a smile: "Yes, we have riding bows, walking bows, breastplates, sabers, spears, shields, whatever you like, just change."

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

Chen Yingdao: "Of course. Liu Rengui, you can take him there."

Liu Rengui responded, and took Ashina Gushe to the arsenal.

Beiting's arsenal is the general arsenal of the Anxi Army.

It was expanded on the basis of the former Beiting Old Seoul, 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 a forbidden area dedicated to storing kerosene. Even Chen Ying can't just go there at will.

Liu Rengui took Ashina Gushe into the cold arsenal.

In fact, it is the Beiting City built during the Han Dynasty. Before coming to this warehouse, we first passed the trench, then passed the inner urn city, and after dozens of checkpoints, Ashina Gushe finally entered the warehouse.

The huge gate with a height of more than three feet is not an ordinary gate that can be pushed open, but has dozens of steel wheels on the bottom, and there is a creaking sound.

Ashina Valley looked at the huge warehouse as high as five or six feet, and was directly intimidated.

The weapons and equipment here are piled up like a mountain, and the wooden shelves are full of horizontal knives, densely packed, one next to the other.There are also spears, Ashina Gushe can swear that the spears here are even denser than the reeds flowing down the river.

There are relatively few bows, only a few thousand, but the number of crossbows is frighteningly large.And there are so many styles, such as arm stretching crossbow, horn bow crossbow, wooden single crossbow, large wooden single crossbow, bamboo pole crossbow, large bamboo pole crossbow, Fuyuan crossbow and winch crossbow.

The Tang army's crossbow tactics are extremely mature, forming a vertical strike range with eight cattle crossbows as the distance, Fuyuan crossbows in the middle, and single crossbows near.The range of the Fuyuan crossbow is about 450 steps (230 meters), the range of the broken crossbow is about 345 steps (300 meters), the range of the horn bow is about 160 steps (240 meters), and the range of the single bow is about [-] steps ([-] meters). rice).

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

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

Walking to another huge warehouse, all the arrows are stored in a bundle of 25. At a glance, there are at least a million bundles.

And each of them is well-made, although there is a thin layer of rust, but it can't hide their ferocity at all. It is said that the arrows in ancient times were usually used after a thin layer of rust. Even a light scratch from an arrow can cause tetanus, which is very immoral.

So don't think that the quartermaster is negligent when he sees the rusty arrows in the armory. He did it on purpose.

Seeing so many weapons, Ashina Gushe almost drooled, and said in a trembling voice: "Liu... General Liu, you actually have so many weapons stored here?"

Liu Rengui smiled disapprovingly: "What is this? Our armory in Guanzhong is really scary. Each warehouse can be used by tens of thousands of people for several years. There are more than 100 warehouses in total."

Although Liu Rengui was obviously bragging, Ashina Gushe didn't doubt it.

Liu Rengui casually picked up a dual-purpose horizontal knife for stepping and riding, stroked the smooth blade and sighed: "A good knife, it can cut seven copper coins and five rolls of straw mats with one knife. Didn't it mean you , it was that idiot Xieli who beheaded countless people! Unfortunately, there is no need for it now.”

Ashina Gushe is thinking about a riding bow. The riding bow is well-made. The bow arm is made of more than a dozen materials. It is no more than three feet long, but it can shoot 300 meters away. It is equipped with heavy arrows or armor-piercing cones. No armor can stop it.

Hearing Liu Rengui's words, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice: "You don't need such a good weapon anymore? Then what do you use?"

Liu Rengui smiled indifferently, and said, "Of course it's better weapons."

Liu Rengui pointed to the mountains of weapons and said, "Little Khan, these weapons can be exchanged, just bring them as many livestock as you have!"

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

Ordinarily, for the defeated generals of the Western Turks, there is no need to use any tricks, just push them across the line.

In front of Ashina Gushe, Su Dingfang didn't ask his own questions, but after Ashina Gushe left, he finally couldn't help asking: "General, I can't figure it out!"

Historically, the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, in its heyday, had jurisdiction over today’s Xinjiang, eastern and southeastern Kazakhstan, all of Kyrgyzstan, eastern Tajikistan, most of Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, the eastern half of Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan Most of them and so on.

Especially in Afghanistan, under the Anxi Dufu in the Tang Dynasty, six Hufu (equivalent to the state) were established, Humi, Hushiqian (Tang set up Shazhou Dudufu), Yubin (Xiuxianzhou Dudufu), Fanyan (Wufeng Dudu's Mansion), Hedarazhi (Tiaozhi Dudu's Mansion), Gudu (Gaofu Dudu's Mansion).During the period of 662-674, Tang also granted the title of Belus, the son of the last Persian emperor who came to Tang in exile, as the Persian emperor, and placed the Persian governor's office in eastern Persia and Afghanistan. After the Battle of Talas in 751, all the countries in the Western Regions to the west of Congling belonged to the Arabs. After that, Central Asia gradually became greener.

Today's Tocharo, not only the later Afghanistan, also has a very famous name, the cemetery of the empire.The United States and the Soviet Union are two superpowers, and this place, which is about the same size as Sichuan, has returned home.

Although both here and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau belong to the plateau zone, the biggest difference is that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has abundant rainfall, while Tocharo is dry and less rainy.In addition, farming here is almost extinct, and Datang has no supplies at all.

Chen Ying used his troops here. Four-fifths of the plateau and mountainous areas are here, and he can find any mountainous area to sneak in, and he can play hide and seek with Chen Ying.

Regardless of the fact that Chen Ying has an army of [-], it sounds like a lot.However, even an ordinary valley cannot be filled.In this case, it is definitely the best place to ambush, attacking the Flesh Mill.

Chen Ying looked at the surrounding Tang soldiers and said, "We have too few people!"

Su Dingfang asked suspiciously: "There are few people?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "That's right, our Tang Dynasty has a population of only 500 million, especially our Anxi, where there is no human habitation for thousands of miles!"

In fact, thanks to the early Tang Dynasty, the Bashu area was settled peacefully. If it was really fought down like Hedong, Hebei or even Henan, I am afraid that 20 Tang soldiers would not be able to fill Bashu.

Chen Ying needs friends, and needs to use Turkic people to consume Turkic people.

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

This is the smartest way to do it, as the saying goes, to promote Mi En and fight Mi En.

Once Datang accepts Yipidulu Khan's surrender, he will be responsible for their supplies, and he can't watch them starve to death.The point is that most of these Turkic people are white-eyed wolves, who gobble up food and scold their mothers when they put down their chopsticks.Free aid will only fuel their arrogance.

Therefore, Chen Ying established an equal mechanism to communicate with Yipidulu Khan's troops.If you need food, there is no problem. Datang has plenty, and you can exchange it for horses and camels. If you want weapons, there is no problem, you can exchange them for materials equivalent to them.

This is a relationship in which there is no clear affiliation between the monarch and the ministers, and the two parties are very equal.

But, will this really be equal?
Chen Ying only needs to cut off the supply of supplies, and Yipidulu Khan will return to pre-liberation overnight.

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

Ma Zhou pulled Su Dingfang and said, "General Su, we can settle a bill!"

Su Dingfang smiled wryly, "What account?"

Ma Zhou smiled wryly and said: "Once our Anxi Army soldiers are killed in battle, it will not be counted as the government's compensation. Our General Chen will give ordinary soldiers [-] guan as pensions, and the Lancers and Modao generals will each receive [-] guan."

According to the current deal between Chen Ying and Ashina Gu, a horse draws two buckets of grain for one stone, and a horse draws a knife. One hundred coins can be exchanged for five hundred stones of grain, and more than 400 draw horses can also be raised. At least fifteen dead soldiers.

Su Dingfang stopped talking.

Chen Ying laughed and said, "Things that can be solved with money are nothing!"

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

If the Tang Dynasty is dragged into a full-scale military confrontation with the West prematurely, it will not be able to quickly increase productivity and strengthen its own strength.It would be better if Datang contributed money and guns, and Yipidulu Khan's department contributed people and efforts, and both sides showed their strengths, and fought with the West.

This kind of thing happened frequently in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Africa during the hegemony period between the United States and the Soviet Union in the [-]th century.

It's called a proxy war.

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

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

When Chen Ying decided to conquer the Western Turks, he also nip this threat in the bud.

(End of this chapter)