Chapter 508 Materials
"Master, the chief supervisor, please go and discuss matters."
On the school ground, Chen Guang, who had just finished practicing gun technique, saw An Chongzhang who was rushing to the sky. Then he nodded, "I understand."
Removed the armor that had been soaked in sweat, Chen Guang hurriedly wiped his body and changed into clean military uniforms, and then went to the Jiedushi Yamen in the city. The stunned Tubo people had already reacted. Lussian cities had begun to draw troops from Geru to reinforce the border, trying to regain the fortresses occupied by the Tang army.
The Jiedushi Yanei came not many other generals. At present, in Wuwei City, in addition to the 5,000 Central Army who had followed Wang Zhongsi for many years, there was the Snowy Ye Army that had been fully organized outside the city. Just half a month ago, Duan Xiushi, Nan Jiyun and others who had traveled for more than half a year, led their troops to Liangzhou, and Li Siye's troops who were transferred to the Snowy Ye Army were also here.
At present, Chen Guang became the strongest military governor under Wang Zhongsi, so the generals present were almost the generals of the Shattered Ye Army.
"Protector Chen Du, how are your troops practicing? Can the entire army come out?"
Wang Zhongsi, who had completely become the ruthless commander, had no expression on his face, and his name for Chen Guang also became an official position.
"Master General, I, the Ye Army, are ready to go to war at any time. I can go to war at any time. I also ask the Master General to give an order."
"Okay, I want you to pull out the clay stones, restore the five bridges, occupy the Chishui River, and force Tuyuhun to surrender, maybe it will do it!"
"If you cannot do it, you will come to see you."
Chen Guang looked at Wang Zhongsi's long pole pointing in his hand and also loudly accepted the order. All the generals under his command were full of excitement. They had seen the military news of Longyou, Shuofang and Hedong towns. They had been feeling itchy for a long time, and now they finally waited for the military order to go to war.
"I will give you three days to dispatch food, fodder, and the army will be departed in three days, so there will be no mistakes."
"Here!"
When Chen Guang received the order, he left with the generals of the Thunder Ye Army. Now he has a total of 25,000 troops under his command, nearly half of them are new recruits with no battlefield experience. However, after nearly two months of training, it is barely useful. Adversaries like Tuyuhun are just used to train with battle.
Back at the military camp outside the city, Chen Guang was promoted to the tent again. Now he has a lot of civil and military talents. In order to deal with this national war with Tubo, even Zhang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Du Fu, Gao Shi and others were recruited. Fortunately, the system in Huoshaocheng has been improved, and the officials under Zhang Xun and his men, who are mainly international students, have been tempered, which is enough to maintain it.
"Zhang Xun, you are the chief of the army and are in charge of military law. From today on, drinking is prohibited in the army. From a certain point of view, soldiers under the army will have quotas for drinking every day. If anyone dares to disobey, he will not forgive him."
"Here!"
Zhang Xun, who had a dark circle, looked at Li Siye with sharp eyes, Li Bai and others. These two were the most famous drunkards in the army. When Zhang Xun stared at him like this, Li Siye and Li Bai both had their faces twitched. They were not the only ones who were drunk in the army. Why did this black boy only stare at them? He is really not a son?
"Li Mi, Yan Zhenqing, you two are the soldiers' Sima, count the vacancy of armor, bows, crossbows, weapons and supplies, and there will be a result today."
"Here!"
"Li Bai and Du Fu, you two joined the army as the recorder and were in charge of the military's Chinese correspondence. Ximen, you serve as the clerk and compile the history of this war."
"Here!"
"Gao Shi and Cen Shen, you two are military judges, and you have the responsibility to check for omissions and fill in the gaps."
"Here!"
As Chen Guang assigned official positions, all the civil vacancy in his shogunate was filled in. As for the generals such as Guo Ziyi, they returned to the camp to rectify the soldiers. In the end, only a group of generals from Hexi such as An Chongzhang were still left behind.
"General An, my Ye Army now has not enough horses. I plan to buy war horses from you and others, so the price is calculated at 20% higher. You may have collected 20,000 war horses and 30,000 pack horses for the entire army in these three days."
Chen Guang is not a person who is short of money. Most of the weapons and supplies that his father-in-law had saved since last year were distributed to the other three towns and Liangzhou soldiers. His Ye Army was outside his plan, but Chen Guang has actually controlled the western city of Wuwei City. For example, he has his own way to solve the problem, but the war horses cannot be bought with money.
The Tang Dynasty had its own horse government in Hexi and other places, and also had official horse farms. In addition, after his father-in-law served as the governor of the four towns, he bought horses from all ethnic groups on the grassland at a price higher than the market price. However, this time, the army of 200,000 gathered in Liangzhou, and the reserved war horses had long been divided.
Chen Guang could only find a solution from the generals from Hexi, such as An Chongzhang. They all had tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses at home, but it was hard to say whether they could get so many war horses.
"The Protector gave the order, how dare we refuse? It's just 20,000 war horses, and we really can't make it up."
"How many war horses can get?"
An Chongzhang and Suo and Cao discussed with several generals from the family, saying, "I dare not deceive the Protector. The war horses we raise in our family can only be raised up to more than 7,000 horses. If there are more, I can't do anything."
The war horses raised by An Chongzhang and others were sold to the court most of the time, but after being purchased by their own escorts this time, their own horse farm would not be able to recover their vitality in a few years.
"Then it's seven thousand horses. If the rest should be used as a pack horse, might they make up for the number?"
"Protector, if we have 50,000 horses, we can get it together if we wait for a while. It's only three days, it's really..."
An Chongzhang said with a embarrassed expression that his lords are luxurious, and the soldiers eat far more than the army in the three towns. Even the weapons and armor were spent a lot of money to be carefully built by the blacksmiths in Wuwei City and surrounding cities. The crossbows allocated in the arsenal were also repeatedly selected, otherwise they would rather spend money to buy them.
Now that the army is on the expedition, the Protector will spend more than one million yuan to buy horses with them. They have never seen or heard of it in their life. If they were the soldiers below, they would have wished to die for this Protector.
"Please wait for as much as you can," said Mr.
Chen Guang said to An Chongzhang and the others that money was nothing to him. The 25,000 legion was his foundation. If it weren't for the important relationship between the post station, he would have wanted to pay for the horses from various post stations.
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The entire Wuwei City was moved to the forthcoming Ye Army. The Hu merchants who had the guilds in the west city now had their dog signs issued by JD shopping malls, becoming the "charity merchants" they called, and began to prepare various supplies for the army. The gold, silver and copper coins like flowing water were transferred from the silver warehouse of JD shopping malls into the pockets of those Hu merchants, and then a large amount of supplies began to be transported out of the city to load into the car.
The Sailye Army almost occupied the military supplies stored in the Hexi Jiedushi's yamen. In addition to the heavy military crossbows and siege equipment that could not be purchased, by the evening of the next day, all the food and fodder that the Sailye Army used for half a year were in place, and the horse-raising slaves from the powerful tribes such as An, Suo, and Cao near Wuwei City also drove their horses to arrive one after another.
On the third day, with the original horses and animals, Chen Guang gathered up 20,000 war horses, 40,000 pack horses and 3,000 camels for the army that went to war.
This also made Wang Zhongsi face up to the strength he already possessed once again. Hu Shang, who was fully dispatched by money and status, was indeed terrible. No wonder he, the son-in-law, tried his best to control these merchants.
Chapter completed!