Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1397 The Return of the Knight
Broken Leaf City.

The princes from Yili River Valley and Suiye River rushed into the city with a large group of sealed knights.

Crown Prince Jiawen sat on the general platform. On the left was King Luo Siye of Yili, on the right was Beiting Dao Jinglue envoy and left governor, Yili prefect Niu Jinda, and right governor and Suiye prefect Guo Xiaoke.

"Shangzhu Kingdom, Knight Zhao Shouzhong, pay homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhao Shouzhong, the soldier king from Suiyechuan, took the lead in paying homage to the crown prince.

Jiawen raised his hand, "All the knights will sit down without courtesy."

Seeing these knights who have taken root in the Western Regions, the prince felt very kind.

Since the emperor created the title of knights, Daqin has awarded countless knights. Each of these knights is a veteran with hundreds of battles. They are basically non-commissioned officers or special sergeants.

In Daqin's current military system, the separation system of soldiers and generals has become more and more mature, and training and command have been separated.Among the three yamen of the army, the middle and senior generals are responsible for commanding, but they do not directly command and train soldiers when it is not in war. They stay in the three yamen and are only responsible for studying the tactics of the army formation , and in charge of teaching the art of war in Habayashi Palace and Jiangwu Hall.

The officers who directly command the various military guards of the Sanya are generally mid- and lower-level officers such as battalion commanders and envoys who take the battalion as the unit.

Sergeant majors at all levels are in charge of military training, and sergeants are all leading the troops at the grassroots level.

The sergeant majors at all levels are the chief of staff and staff officers of the battalion, the capital, and the team respectively, and are responsible for training full-time, while the team deputy, fire chief, and fire deputy below the team head are all served by non-commissioned officers at all levels. Responsible for leadership and training.

It is precisely because of this change that under the current Daqin Sanya army system, the sergeant majors and non-commissioned officers who are responsible for training and leading troops are especially valued. These people are the backbone of the army, and the officers are the brains of the officers.

Although many soldiers of ordinary origin fought bravely and made many meritorious deeds, it was difficult for them to be promoted to command officers due to their lack of education, so they turned to the route of sergeant major and became full-time troop leaders and trainers.

In order to make up for their inability to take up the position of officer command and be unable to be promoted, the emperor specially left them a special position of sergeant chief, and awarded these outstanding sergeants the title of knight.

Sergeant majors and non-commissioned officers who have won the rank of knights will receive knight Yongyetian and equipment such as horses, armor, shields, bows, knives and spears awarded by the court. They are equivalent to advanced government soldiers, and they are more sophisticated. Train better.

Farming during farming, and training soldiers in leisure time.

Once recruited for war, they are the low-level non-commissioned officers of the army.

Especially in frontier places such as the Western Regions, these knights are the most reliable and loyal force of the imperial court.

The imperial court has more than 3000 knights in the Yili River Valley in the North Court alone, which means that the imperial court can rely on these more than 3000 grassroots non-commissioned officers at any time to quickly form an army of ten times the number.

In Broken Leaf River, although the imperial court’s control is not as strong as that of Yili, many knights are still conferred here. Veterans also have privileges. They can choose young and outstanding young men from the family as their knight attendants. When fighting, they can be licensed to take them to the battlefield.

A knight can have a complete set of knight equipment, including horses and armor, plus two sets of spare equipment, which can be used as spares or used by attendants. Their equipment does not need to be the same as ordinary soldiers. It needs to be stored in the armored warehouse of the military camp.

Zhao Shouzhong is a soldier king with the honor of the top pillar. Because of his bravery in battle but illiterate, he finally became a knight. Now he is the chief of staff of the battalion, responsible for the daily training of the first battalion.

He is tall and burly, with a layer of rope armor on top of his bright armor, a horizontal knife on his waist, a warhammer on his back, bows left and right arrows, and a shield.

As he walked, his whole body made a clanging sound.

"Give me a seat for the Kingdom of Shangzhu!"

According to Niu Jinda, the prince valued this knight of the Shangzhu Kingdom who had hundreds of first-class military exploits under his name.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"

Zhao Shouzhong thanked you.

Luo Siye smiled and said to the prince, "Your Highness gave an order, and the feudal lords and knights of Anxi and Beiting in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain rushed here one after another. As of today, more than 5000 knights have gathered inside and outside Suiye City. More than 300 were named marquises."

Jiawen was also very excited.

These [-] knights alone are a powerful force, which is a great guarantee for what they are going to do.

"This is all thanks to the heavenly power of the saint!"

"Has He Luoshi not arrived yet?" Niu Jinda was a little dissatisfied, "This He Luoshi has received the prince's order, and it is a courtier's gift to procrastinate?"

Jiawen said with a smile, "Mengchi Hou He Luoshi is far away from Hengluoshi City, it is very far away from here, it is normal that he did not arrive for a while."

The Tuqi Shi tribe, which claims to have 30 people, is headed by He Luoshi. When he was in the Western Turkic Shekui Khan, he was one of the five continents, also known as He Luoshi.

After Shekui was defeated, he went far away to the Volga River, and Tuqi Shi returned to Daqin. He was conferred the title of Marquis of Mengchi by the emperor and served as the prefect of Mengchi County.

He Luoshi hadn't arrived, so the leaders of the two major divisions under Tuqishi, Suogemohe and Alishi, naturally didn't come, and the two leaders were also conferred the title of Marquis by the court and concurrently served as prefects.

"Following the edict of the Son of Heaven, I searched on behalf of the sky, went to Taixi to meet the two emperors of Persia and Rome, mediate between the two countries, and conclude the covenant of the three emperors. Passing through the Western Regions, I was very happy to see the prosperity of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. Today, the princes are called , knight, meaning to lead you and others to the Caucasus, and show our great Qin power before Persia and Rome!"

This is the reason for publicly summoning the princes and knights.

It is also the smoke that confuses Tuqishi people.

Then, Prince Jiawen bestowed armor, swords, etc. on behalf of the knights, Zhao Shouzhong, and others, and rewarded wine, meat, etc. on the other knights and their attendants who came to receive orders.

night.

The prince entertained a group of princes, all of them were his own people.

On behalf of the prince, Niu Jinda started blowing the air.

Inside and outside the words, it is all dissatisfaction with Tu Qishi.

All the feudal lords who participated in the meeting, none of them had meritorious service in hundreds of battles, and they knew the elegant meaning after hearing the string song, and they all got excited when they heard this meaning.

In fact, they were also quite dissatisfied with Tuqishi. After Shunishi and Qiuci were wiped out, now Anxi and Beiting in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, only Tuqishi, Shule, and Khotan are still relatively strong. powerful.

Especially this Tuqishi, they are Turks with different surnames, and they were also one of the ten Turkic tribes. Tuqishi even inherited the vacancy left by the Western Turks. leader.

He Luoshi secretly married and formed an alliance with the other two major tribes of the Western Turks, the Chumukun tribe and the Chebishi tribe, with the intention of secretly forming a group to fight against the imperial court.

Both Chu Mukun and Chebibu are large tribes with more than 50 members. Their solidarity and alliance is indeed not to be underestimated. At least, the imperial court now has less than 50 Han immigrants in the four provinces of the Western Regions. [-], and the three departments of Tuqishi combined, there are more than [-] people.

If you have strength, of course you don't accept the court's control.

As the important representatives of the imperial court in the Western Regions, the princes naturally have interests connected with the imperial court. They have long regarded these Turkic people as thorns in their eyes. If they can conquer and disperse them early, they can sit back and relax. The next day, they suddenly sent troops together to attack their castle manor and loot their property.

(End of this chapter)