Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1401
Outside Broken Leaf City.

Riverside Knights camp.

The number of knights gathered in Suiye has exceeded [-], plus their attendants and garrisons, there are now more than [-] troops in Suiye City and outside the city.

Zhang Chao was biting a piece of beef jerky, which was too chewy.

"Those guys in Suiye City are having a better time now, they eat hot food and drink spicy food."

The servant knight next to him lowered his head and bit the beef jerky without saying a word.

"What's the matter, don't you have any idea?"

The attendant was a young man of sixteen or seventeen, tall and tall, with a dark face, and disdain flashed in his big eyes under his thick eyebrows.

"What's the matter, don't you still disdain? This is a big thing, it's really beyond my expectation, not to mention, this has greatly changed my opinion of your second brother, your brother is a big deal people."

Finally, the young attendant couldn't help but stop the beef jerky in his hand.

"It's just the prestige of the title, what are you doing? If I have that status, I can do the same."

Zhang Chao laughed.

"I said brother, do you think this can be done?"

The attendant continued to chew the beef jerky, "Of course it can be done. Why can't it be done? There are more than 6000 knights here, including nearly [-] knights and attendants, plus garrisons and patrol camps, that's [-]. Just the [-] knights , is enough to sweep the Western Regions, this is the core force of the imperial court in the Western Regions, all veterans and non-commissioned officers."

Zhang Chao said with a smile, "But Tuqishi is not weak, they have 30 people, plus their two alliances have 20 people, 50 people, which means they can pull up [-] horsemen at any time." Come, even more."

"What's the use of having more? I have fought a hundred battles in the Great Qin Dynasty, and I have fought fewer battles with the grassland nomadic tribes? I have defeated them time and time again, and every battle is remarkable. Almost all of them win more with less. This shows that What? It means that one Han is equal to five Hu, or even ten Hu. In the past, the grassland cavalry was good at riding and shooting, and crushed us in the Central Plains. But now? Our equipment is better than them, our training is better than theirs, and our battle formation They have more experience than them, what do you think they will use to fight us?"

The big red flag can scare the herdsmen and make them sing and dance.

"What you said makes some sense, but the key point is that every time we fought against nomadic tribes, whether it was against the Eastern Turks or the Western Turks, or against the Tiele people or the Mohe people, it was all planned and prepared. But now this time, things started a bit more hastily, and we all just learned about such a big event after we got here."

"It's also good for this. It happens suddenly and it's concealed. It's impossible for a sudden rider to guard against it." The knight attendant still said.

"Forget it, you kid is always optimistic."

Zhang Chao lay down on the grass, raised his head and looked at the blue sky with white clouds.

He came to the grassland three years ago. Since the emperor handed over the eldest son Song Wang Luo Changqing to their parents, they returned to Chang'an, Xijing, and returned to their hometown in the suburbs of Bashang.

The two of you were leisurely landlords in Bashang, and although King Song was not worried at first, Zhang Chao kept the emperor's words in mind and never treated this boy politely.

Carrying water and sweeping the floor, herding cattle and harvesting wheat, in short, he was not regarded as some kind of prince and dragon, but as a long-term coolie at home.Needless to say, after a few years of such ruthless labor reform, Luo Changqing has indeed gradually changed his temperament. He is no longer as arrogant and selfish as before, and he is gradually becoming like a normal person.

Even gradually, the three of them became like a family.

Three years ago, Luo Changqing said that he wanted to come to the Western Regions. He had no reason, but felt that he had grown up and wanted to visit the Western Regions.

Lao Tieqiang agreed, but he was too old to accompany him, so Zhang Chao was asked to accompany Luo Changqing.

They traveled westward all the way, traveled the mountains and rivers of Longyou Hexi, left Yangguan in the west, crossed the desert and sea of ​​sand, and finally came to the Western Regions.

Once, it coincided with Anxi patrolling the camp to recruit troops.

Luo Changqing insisted on signing up.

But he didn't use his real name, he used his mother's surname.

Zhang Chao had no choice but to give up his life to accompany the gentleman.

Who knew that this stay would last for three years. After the two joined the battalion, they went through arduous training and were then assigned to the Silk Road Castle for a few years.

A lot of meritorious service.

Zhang Chao also became an honored knight, a sergeant rider of a patrolling battalion.

In fact, Luo Changqing's credit was no lower than his, but he was relatively low-key and didn't want to reveal his identity, so he passed his credit to Zhang Chao several times, so he now became Zhang Chao's knight squire.

The prince summoned the knights from the north and south of Tianshan Mountain in Suiye City, and Luo Jiawen asked Zhang Chao to bring him over.

Zhang Chao didn't expect that upon hearing the news of such an explosion, the prince would take the opportunity of this western tour to take the initiative to attack and wipe out the increasingly powerful and ambitious Tuqi.

"Changqing, have you ever thought of going into Suiye City and meeting your brother?"

"What can you see?" Zhang Qing asked back.

"You are brothers. Although you are not siblings from the same mother, you are also born from the same father."

"There are no brothers in the Tian family. There are only monarchs and ministers, especially between the concubine and the concubines. There is a huge difference." Although Changqing has changed a lot, he is no longer the Song king who was sent out of Beijing back then, but for the emperor and the prince , he is still not friendly.

"I think it's better to meet each other, let's not talk about anything else, let's go into Suiye City and report our identity, this is His Royal Highness Song Wang and his army, then we don't have to sleep in this wild riverside and be bitten by mosquitoes , and sleep in the open air, we can also eat delicious and spicy food in the city, think about lamb dumplings, roasted horse meat buns, beef pot stickers, big plate chicken, hand pilaf, and red willow kebabs, how many Cool?"

Unmoved, Jiawen continued to bite his jerky.

"If you think about it from another angle, if we go to the city to reveal our identities, then we can also become a member of the commanding camp in this battle of destroying the sudden cavalry. It is much safer and easier to make contributions than this charge. .”

Jiawen just smiled. He knew that Zhang Chao was not a person who was afraid of death. This guy was usually cowardly, but he was crazy and ruthless than anyone else when he started a war. Anxi patrolled the camp for three years, and this guy hacked to death. know how much.

"Aren't you afraid to see the prince?"

Zhang Chao stared at Changqing meanly, "I haven't seen you for many years, you should have some expectations, but you don't want to see each other now. The only reason is that many years have passed, and your brother is still the prince. Moreover, the position of the crown prince is as stable as a rock, and no one can shake it anymore. On the contrary, since you, the eldest son of the emperor Song Wang, have been sent out of the palace, it seems that the emperor has completely forgotten you for so many years. You became a knight attendant in the Anxi patrol camp, the difference in status is too great, you have low self-esteem, and dare not see the crown prince."

Luo Changqing rolled his eyes.

"You are the one who has low self-esteem, and your whole family has low self-esteem."

"Isn't my whole family including you, so you are admitting that you have low self-esteem?"

"roll!"

The two of them talked without saying a word, but they were all jokes. The relationship between the two, from the beginning when they were tit for tat everywhere, until now, brothers are no longer better than brothers.For Changqing, Zhang Tieqiang is more like his father than Luo Cheng, and Zhang Chao is more like his brother than Prince Jiawen.

(End of this chapter)