The fourth is sent, brothers, let's give some rewards With the Pingyi Army leading the way, coupled with the intelligence collected by the Taozhou spies, the march went smoothly.
Those people who leveled the army and made profits didn't dare to play anything bad, their parents, wives and children were all in the hands of the Tang army, and the number of the Tang army was three times that of them.
"Bai Yeli's camp is two hundred miles away from the stone city we came out of."
But it is only three hundred miles away from Lintan, and they used to go west to Stone Town, but if they go directly from Lintan to Bai Yeli's camp, it is southwest.
Lintan, Stone Town, and Baiyeli Department are a triangle.
Marching on the grassland also has the advantage of not having so many mountains and rivers blocking the road, and it is basically a straight line.
As long as you look for the direction, it is convenient to march on horseback.
Zhang Chao led 10,000 people, and did not bring logistics troops, everyone was a soldier with two horses.
Each soldier brought some fried rice, beef and mutton floss, as well as milk powder, tea leaves, ghee, salt, and some coarse salt for the bean cakes to feed the horses.
The burden was not much, two pots of arrows per person, a bow and a knife, and two bowstrings.
With armor, knives, guns, blankets, capes, etc., the total weight is not high.
Each group also specially prepared a few horses to carry tents, pots and other supplies.
Such a march, without dragging, can be fast if you want to be fast, and slow if you want to, it is very comfortable.
Wei Yunqi can also be regarded as a Confucian general who has gone through the Sui and Tang dynasties and fought many battles, but the easy march along the way still amazed him.
Traveling hundreds of miles every day, tying horse shackles to the horse's feet at night, putting the horse on the grassland to graze, and feeding some salt and bean cake in the morning, the horse spirit is incomparable.
And the soldiers had tents, blankets, and slept well at night.
Wei Yunqi's favorite is the porridge with milk powder for meat floss, this kind of compressed meat floss with milk powder, it is okay to eat it cold, and it is even more delicious to eat when cooked.
Throw in a little meat floss, pour some milk powder, add water, add a little salt, pick some wild vegetables and mushrooms from the grassland, and cook them together, it is really delicious.
He also likes to put some fried rice in it and add some salt and pepper, which is really enjoyable.
After eating, I boiled a pot of butter tea, and it was very beautiful.
Wei Yunqi felt that he had come out these days, every day on horseback, and the endless blue sky, white clouds and green grass, he had actually gained a little weight.
You don't have to eat steamed rice that is hard to swallow, you don't have to eat corn rice with a shell, you don't have to chew on beef jerky, and you don't even have to go hungry at all.
He sometimes thinks that the Taozhou soldiers eat too well, and the equipment they wear is good, such as war horses, tents, blankets, sheepskin vests, silk cloaks, and a small government soldier, which is better than the head of an ordinary government soldier.
But thinking about other people's records, other people's seizures, everything is normal again.
The government soldiers prepared some of their own equipment, and the Taozhou military government prepared some.
The Taozhou Governor's Mansion is rich, and the soldiers are also very rich, and they are well equipped, isn't it normal.
Wei Yunqi is now very interested in this kind of compressed meat floss that can compress more than 20 catties of beef into one catty, in case the Tuyuhun people or the Turkic people have learned this military food making technique, it is not very dangerous In the past, when the Turks or Tuyuhun attacked, they marched directly with cattle and sheep, killing cattle and sheep and eating meat while marching.
Cattle and sheep do not need to be transported by people and horses, just drive away, and there is no additional burden to graze on the road.
Although driving cattle and sheep to fight, it is much more convenient than transporting military rations by Han people.
But there are also certain flaws, but Zhang Chao's compressed meat floss made Wei Yunqi see a hidden worry.
Because of the lack of cattle and sheep in the Central Plains, even pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. can be made into meat floss, but after all, the Central Plains is an agricultural dynasty.
But the Turks, Khitans, and Tuyuhun people on the steppe are different, they don't grow grain, but they have a lot of cattle and sheep.
If they learn this skill, then they will be like a tiger with wings, and it will be more convenient in the future.
Before going on the expedition, those bulls and rams were killed and processed into meat floss, and a cow could be compressed into twenty catties of meat floss.
A soldier carrying a bladder of beef floss on his back and a bag of milk powder is equivalent to carrying a cow on the march, and even a cow must be added.
After two or three months, it is estimated that there will be no shortage of grain and grass.
There is no need to march with cattle and sheep, and this mobility is of course greatly improved.
With meat floss and milk powder, they come and go even more.
"Don't worry, ordinary meat floss can't do what we do, they will only make five or six catties of meat sun-dried into one pound of beef jerky."
Zhang Chao said with a smile, meat floss and milk powder, this is not easy.
And these grassland herders are not necessarily willing to think about how to do it.
They have ready-made cattle and sheep, how can they think about such a difficult problem.
And compressed meat floss, that's very technical.
The army marches forward.
Zequ, now named Chishui by Zhang Chao.
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The scouts reported that a group of Tuyuhun people were found in front, claiming to be envoys from the Ministry of Metallurgy.
The envoy had only thirteen horsemen, not a hundred-hundred-man oxen, and was brought to the army, and some of them were pale.
The Yeli envoy was very nervous, this Tang Dynasty governor has been rumored to be a guy who likes to eat people on the grassland, especially likes to dig people's hearts and livers and fry them with wine, and some people directly call Zhang Chao Yama.
The leaders of Heiyeli and Qingyeli, as well as the envoy Norio No, were all eaten by him.
The messenger didn't want to come, but the leader told him to come, and he couldn't help it.
"The leader of my family asked me to tell the governor of Taozhou in the Tang Dynasty that you have crossed the border of the Tang Dynasty and entered my territory of Tuyuhun.
The head of my family asked the governor to return to the Tang realm immediately, and as for the matter of the return of the Han people you requested, the two can discuss it. ” "Counsel, counsel, fart" Niu Jianhu stood next to him and shouted, and the frightened messenger almost sat on the ground.
The Yeli Department has already fallen into the hands of this Tang general, so I am not afraid that it will not work.
"See the tiger, don't be so loud, people are messengers."
Zhang Chao said with a smile.
Zhang Chao spoke, and Niu Jianhu retreated.
The messenger thanked him for his kindness, and spoke more fluently.
I said all the words that Yeli really wanted to bring in one breath.
Yeli Zhen, as the leader of the seven departments of Yeli, asked people to bring a message to Zhang Chao, and he was very sorry for this conflict.
He believes that the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun are still in peace talks, and the specific border has not yet been divided, and before that, the two sides should exercise restraint and use the old border as the boundary and not cross the border with each other.
The implication is that Heiyeli's attack on Jiangxin City was wrong and crossed the line.
But Zhang Chao occupied Heiyeli's territory, which was also out of bounds.
Now Zhang Chao has attacked and captured the herdsmen of various tribes on the territory of the former Heiyeli, which is not right.
Of course, Yelizhen's original intention to resolve the conflict requires both sides to exercise restraint.
He demanded that the Tang army withdraw to Taozhou, and he also promised that the Ministry of Yeli would not set foot in the territory of the former Black Yeli, and that the area would first be used as a buffer zone for the two families, and each was not allowed to set foot on it.
The matter was reported to the two imperial courts, and the Tang envoy personally discussed with the Tuyuhun Khan in Qinghai and came up with a result.
As for Zhang Chao's request to return the Han people who were captured in the last war, Ye Lizhen was also willing.
But at the same time, he demanded that Taozhou also return the tens of thousands of captured Yeli Ministry.
The two sides exchanged prisoners at Happy Horse Beach, and then ceased fighting.
Yeli is really sincere, but it's a pity that Zhang Chao doesn't reason.
He brought so many soldiers, but it was not on a whim that he went to the grassland to camp and watch the scenery.
He had been preparing for two months and planning for a long time, in order to make the territory population and cattle and sheep of the Ministry of Yeli.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Chao has taken a fancy to them.
As for what Black Yeli people attacked first, the Yeli Seventh Department robbed the Han people last time, and those were all just superficial reasons for sending troops.
"Very good, I admire the sincerity of the old chief Yelizhen.
There is finally a reasonable person in the Ministry of Yeli, you go back and tell the old chief of Yelizhen, just say that he is old, and I can't bear to let him go to Stone Town in person.
Anyway, I'm already halfway there, so I'm going to visit the old man and the other leaders in person. ” "If there is anything, let's talk face-to-face in person, and when the time comes, I will take my fellow Hermes-Epitek back."
Zhang Chao said with a smile on his face, but no matter how the messenger looked at it, he felt that Zhang Chao's words were full of threatening consciousness.
"Don't bother Zhang Dudu to work hard, we will meet in Stone Town then" "Hey, we Han people pay the most attention to respecting the old and loving the young, the old man Yeli is a lot older, how can I be embarrassed to work him, I will visit him personally" "Not really" "Well, you are so pushing, is there no sincerity in peace talks at all?"
Zhang San's eyes widened, his face darkened, and the messenger nodded hurriedly like pounding garlic.
The envoy left with a sad face, and when he left, he frequently turned back and looked at the Tang army a few more times, especially at the Tang army with the banner of leveling.
As soon as the envoy left, Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Cen Wenwen, Sun Fujia, Li Shousu, and a large group of officials immediately came to Zhang Chao for a small meeting.
They all feel that Yeli is really in good condition and can be considered.
"What is good about this condition, the territory of the Black Yeli Department is down by ourselves, and the prisoners such as Hei Yeli and Qingyeli are also captured by us, why should we promise Ye Lizhen and return to Taozhou, why do we want to put back the slaves that we have worked so hard to capture?"
"But the Sixth Department of Yeli has already prepared, we go deep into the grassland, fight them on the grassland, there is no advantage in troops, nor in terms of location, time, etc., the outcome is unpredictable."
Xu Jingzong thought that Zhang Chao was a little risky, and after a few victories, he couldn't see the situation clearly.
"There are no six, it's five and a half."
Su Dingfang was supportive, and he helped to speak.
"But there is a Yeli Department next to it, they still have 5,000 horses" Ma Zhou also joined in the speech, the Yeli Department and Taozhou have always had a bit of a festival, and it is also a tribe of tens of thousands of people.
Zhang Chao smiled.
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