Chapter 86: Eliminate the threat in the bud

Asunaya licked his lips and said excitedly: "If the general only has camels and horses, it would be easy to deal with. Father Khan might not have many horses under his tent, but there are some horses that cannot go to the battlefield, and there are as many as you want!"

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

Asunagus said embarrassedly: "General, I will send you back to report the news and ask my father Khan to send a batch of horses to come over. I just don't know that a horse can exchange for our food?"

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

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

Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "Three stones are too many! It's not worth it to take a horse. You can kill and eat meat, but there is no food."

Things are chosen in nature, the strong are respected, and the fittest survive. This is the only law in nature, and even more so in nomadic peoples. Now the Turks are in short supply, so they feed all the limited forage to war horses and young warriors. As for the horses who cannot get on the horses, they are already hungry. Even if they grit their teeth and make up their minds to kill the horses and eat meat, there is not much meat on a horse.

Geshunur smiled and said, "It used to be worthless, but now someone needs it, it's worth it!"

Geshunur looked at Chen Ying and said angrily: "How about a horse and exchange for two stones of rice?"

Although horse-harvesting is not as expensive as war horses, in Guanzhong, the price of an adult horse-harvesting starts at least 3,000 yuan. Just like a fat and strong horse-harvesting, it can even be sold for five stakes.

However, the grain in Guanzhong is about twenty coins per dou, and five stones per cent.

Chen Ying originally wanted to agree, but Ma Zhou shook his head and said, "No... No, it's too much to exchange for two stones for one horse, at most one stone and two dows!"

Asina Valley was greatly depressed.

In the eyes of the Turks, holding a horse is a bad horse, and you can't ride to fight, and it's useless. The Western Turks really don't lack this thing. However, the Turks lack food and are very scarce. Although horse meat can stop hunger, the horse meat is rough and has a stronger fishy smell. It has no spices, and the taste and taste are extremely poor. The most important thing is that horse meat is not easy to digest, and it's okay. The Turks can overcome these difficulties under healthy conditions.

But now... horse meat cannot be eaten. The more people eat it, the more people die. Even if he doesn't want it, Chen Ying can still trade it with other Turkic tribes. There will always be many Turkic tribes who are willing to accept such a transaction.

Alas, forget it, although it is a bit of a loss to exchange for a horse for one stone and two dou of food, this is the buyer's market. How much it can be sold depends on the other person's mood. He can only accept it. It would be good if he could exchange it.

Just when he was depressed, he suddenly saw Liu Rengui walking in quickly, holding a saber in his hands and presenting it to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying took the saber from Liu Rengui's hand, then pulled out the saber, and a pool of cold light came out of the box, making the cold air suck the skin.

Asina Valley was energetic and said enviously: "Good knife, good knife!"

Chen Ying handed the saber to Asunagusai and smiled and said, "Try it."

Asanagusa took the saber and waved it hard a few times. Although he was used to using a scimitar, it was a bit unpleasant to use this saber that was closer to the scimitar, but the right amount and simple threads were engraved. He would not lose his hands even if he was stained with blood.

All made him like it from the bottom of his heart.

He bounced the blade with his finger, and his voice was crisp and buzzing. It was obviously made of good high-carbon steel, which made him more and more popular. Good steel is hard to find. Such a good knife may not be able to be bought with equal weight of gold. How could he not like it?

Chen Ying smiled faintly and said, "How is this knife?"

"Okay... very good, it's better than our scimitars made of inferior iron!" Asanagushi looked at Chen Ying with anticipation and said, "Is this knife sold for... this knife?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Take a horse and replace it with another saber!"

In fact, Chen Ying was also very helpless.

Now the soldiers of the Anxi Army have completed the replacement of high manganese steel armor and weapons. The weapons and weapons made of high carbon steel are useless. Even if Chen Ying issued a part of them to arm the people of Anxi, the Tang army has too much equipment. As long as it is steel, the most difficult thing to deal with is the oxidation problem of steel. Fortunately, Anxi lacks rain and the climate is relatively dry, so the oxidation will be slower.

There are still tens of thousands of sets of armor and weapons in the Anxi Army treasury, which cannot be handled. Even if it is stored, it will not only cost manpower, but also cost preservation costs.

Asunagu said without hesitation: "Trade, deal!"

As he said that, his eyes rolled and he said, "Camels don't change rice, can they change weapons?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Yes, we have a bow, a staircase, a sabre, a saber, a spear, a shield, what do you like, just change it."

Asunagu said, "Can you take me to your arsenal?"

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

Liu Rengui responded and took Ashinagu to the arsenal.

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

It was expanded based on the former Beiting Old Seoul, without much effort.

However, the entire arsenal has been divided into two, one is dedicated to storing cold weapons such as swords, guns, spears, and a forbidden area for storing tincture oil. Even Chen Ying cannot go there just by saying that.

Liu Rengui took Asina Valley into the Cold Armory.

In fact, it is Beiting City built during the Han Dynasty. Before coming to this warehouse, I first crossed the trench and then the inner city. Until more than a dozen levels, the Asana Valley finally entered the warehouse.

The giant gate was more than three feet tall. The gate was not an ordinary door that could be opened, but dozens of steel wheels were on the bottom, and it sounded with a creaking sound.

Asina Valley was intimidated by looking at the huge warehouse as high as five or six feet.

The weapons and equipment here are piled up like mountains, and the wooden racks are filled with horizontal knives, densely packed, one next to another. There are also guns and spears. Asina Valley can swear that the guns and spears here are even denser than reeds flowing upside down by the river.

There are relatively fewer bows, only a few thousand pieces, but there are many crossbow machines. Moreover, there are many styles, such as arm-opening crossbow, horn-opening crossbow, wooden single crossbow, large wooden single crossbow, bamboo pole crossbow, large bamboo pole crossbow, Fuyuan crossbow, etc., and winch crossbow.

The Tang army's crossbow tactics were extremely mature, forming a vertical attack range with the eight-ox crossbow as far as the distance, the Fuyuan crossbow is in the middle, and the single crossbow is near. The Fuyuan crossbow has a range of about 300 steps (450 meters), the Bozhang crossbow has a range of about 230 steps (345 meters), the horn crossbow has a range of about 200 steps (300 meters), and the single crossbow has a range of about 160 steps (240 meters).

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

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

When I walked to another huge warehouse, I stored all the arrows, twenty-five bundles in one bundle. When I looked roughly, there were at least one million bundles.

Moreover, each of them is well-made. Although it has a thin layer of rust, it cannot hide its hideousness at all. In ancient times, arrows usually had to be put into use after a thin layer of rust. This kind of arrow may cause tetanus even if it only slightly scratches the opponent.

So don't think that the quarconian is dereliction of duty when the arrows in the armory are rusted. They simply do it on purpose.

Seeing so many weapons, Asunagus saliva was about to flow down, and his voice trembled: "Liu... General Liu, do you actually have so many weapons here?"

Liu Rengui smiled disapprovingly and said, "What's this? Our Guanzhong armory is scary. Each warehouse is enough for tens of thousands of people to use for several years. There are more than one hundred warehouses in total."

Although Liu Rengui was obviously bragging, Asunagushi did not doubt it.

Liu Rengui picked up a two-purpose horizontal sword for the stairs and riding, touched the smooth blade and sighed: "What a knife, it can cut seven copper coins with one knife, and cut five rolls of straw mats. When he was with the Turks, it was not that you were the idiot Jie Li, and I don't know how many heads he had cut off! Unfortunately, it's not necessary now."

Asina Valley was thinking about a riding bow. The riding bow was well-made and made of more than a dozen materials. It was only three feet long, but it could shoot three hundred meters away. It was paired with heavy arrows or armor-breaking cones, and no armor could be blocked.

Hearing Liu Rengui say this, he was obviously stunned for a moment and asked in a silence: "I don't need such a good weapon? Then what do you use?"

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

Liu Rengui pointed to the mountain of weapons and said, "Little Khan, these weapons can be replaced. Just take them with how many livestock you have!"

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Just when Ashinagu went to the arsenal to check the weapons, Su Dingfang was very unaware of Chen Ying's actions.

In theory, the defeated generals of the Western Turks did not need to use any strategy and just push them over from a single line.

In front of Asina Gushe, Su Dingfang did not raise his own questions, but after Asina Gushe left, he finally couldn't help asking: "General, the last general can't figure it out!"

Historically, the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, at its heyday, had jurisdiction over the current Xinjiang, eastern and southeastern Kazakhstan, all Kyrgyzstan, eastern Tajikistan, most of Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, eastern half of Turkmenistan, and most of Uzbekistan.

In particular, Afghanistan, under the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, six Protectorate Prefectures (equivalent to states), Protector Secret, Protector Shijian (the Tang established the Shazhou Governor's Office), Jubin (the Xianzhou Governor's Office), Fanyan (the Wufeng Governor's Office), Hadaro (the Tiaozhi Governor's Office), and Gudu (the Gaofu Governor's Office). The Tang Dynasty also signed the son of the last Persian emperor in exile in Tang to be the Persian emperor from 662 to 674, and established the Persian Governor's Office in eastern Persia and Afghanistan. After the Battle of Talas in 751, all the countries in the western region west of the Pamirs were all returned to the Arabs, and then the Central Asian region gradually became green.

Tochar is now a very famous name, Afghanistan in later generations, the cemetery of the empire. The two major countries in the United States and the Soviet Union returned home in a desperate situation, which is about the same area as Sichuan.

Although it is a plateau area as the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the biggest difference is that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is abundant, while Tochar is drought and rainy. In addition, farming here is almost extinct, and the Tang Dynasty could not receive material supplements at all.

Chen Ying went to use troops here. There are four-fifths of the plateau mountainous areas here. Just find a mountainous area to get in and you can hide your cat with Chen Ying.

Although Chen Ying has an army of 100,000, it sounds like a lot. However, even an ordinary valley cannot be filled. In this case, it is definitely the best place for ambushing, attacking the flesh and blood mill on one side.

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

Su Dingfang said in confusion: "There are few people?"

Chen Ying nodded and said, "Yes, our Tang Dynasty is only 25 million people now, especially our Anxi, which is uninhabited thousands of miles away!"

In fact, thanks to the early Tang Dynasty, the Bashu area was resolved peacefully. If it was really like Hedong, Hebei and even Henan, it would be possible that the 200,000 Tang soldiers would not be able to fill Bashu.

Chen Ying needed friends and needed to use Turks to consume Turks.

Now Asina Valley came with their sincerity, Chen Ying did not directly accept Asina Valley's surrender.

This is the smartest way to do it, as the saying goes, to promote Mien, fight Mien hatred.

Once the Tang Dynasty accepted the surrender of Yibidulu Khan, they could be responsible for their supplies and could not watch them starve to death. The key is that most of these Turks were ungrateful wolves, who were greedy when they were eaten, and cursed when they put down their chopsticks. Free assistance would only encourage their arrogance.

Chen Ying therefore established an equal mechanism to communicate with the troops of Khan Yipi Dulu. He needed food, but there was no problem. In some cases, the Tang Dynasty could exchange horses and camels. If you want weapons, there was no problem. If you want supplies equivalent to them, you could exchange them.

This is a relationship without clear subordinates of the monarch and ministers, and the two sides are very equal.

But, will this be truly equal?

Chen Ying only needed to cut off the supply of supplies, and Yibi Dulu Khan would return to before liberation overnight.

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

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

Su Dingfang smiled bitterly and said, "What's the account?"

Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "Once our Anxi Army soldiers are killed, it is not considered as the court's pension. General Chen will give ordinary soldiers a pension of 40 stakes, and the lancers and the shamans will be 100 stakes per capita."

According to the transaction set up by Chen Ying and Ashina Valley, one horse can be used to hold a stone and two buckets of grain, one horse can be used to hold a sword, one hundred stagnant of money can be exchanged for five hundred stags of grain, and more than four hundred horses can be used to collect at least fifteen dead soldiers.

Su Dingfang stopped talking.

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Things that can be solved with money are not a problem!"

The advantage of the Tang Dynasty was not combat power, but productivity. The combat power of the Tang army in the Tang Dynasty was basically derived from the powerful industrial production power of the Tang Dynasty.

If the Tang Dynasty was dragged into a comprehensive military confrontation with the West too early, it would not be possible to quickly improve productivity and strengthen its own strength. It would be better for the Tang Dynasty to pay money and guns, and the troops of Yibidulu Khan contributed their efforts, and both sides showed their strengths and fought with the West.

Such things were common in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Africa during the 20th century.

It is called Agent War.

Chen Ying was preparing to use Yibidulu Khan and his troops to fight a proxy war.

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