The candidate for the political minister who was left behind by Saiye was finally announced on a small scale. Unexpectedly, the political minister behind was not Shi Huaicheng, but Ge Danmo. After Shi Huaicheng received this news, he was shocked, and Ge Danmo was overjoyed. He has been worried since he surrendered to Zhang Mai. He and Ge Qihui did not receive much promise when he surrendered to Guo Luo, so he has always been trying his best to please Zhang Mai, hoping to win his favor.

Unfortunately, Ge Danmo's actions have never seemed to be favored by Zhang Mai. This time, Ge Danmo was not sure of winning the remaining political minister. Unexpectedly, Zhang Mai would choose him in the end.

When Shi Huaicheng was stunned, Ge Danmo and his son had already knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, shouting long live, and promised Zhang Mai that he would treat the broken leaves well to supply military supplies.

Zhang Mai smiled slightly. Ge Danmo and his son had never been able to enter the decision-making center of the Tiance Tang Army - even if it was just the decision-making center of the Western Army, sometimes Shi Huaicheng could enter, and Ge Danmo and his son were also excluded from the periphery. Now even the Ge family and his son had this understanding, so there was almost no need to hide the matter of the Western Expedition.

"It is naturally necessary to supply military supplies, but more importantly, to maintain the stability of the shaved leaves." Zhang Mai smiled and said, "Ge Jun, I heard a lot of bad things about you before. This time, after repeated consideration, I have to resist the opposition and let you stay in the shaved leaves. I hope you don't let someone say that I, Zhang Mai, saw the wrong person."

"Don't worry, Marshal!" Ge Danmo swore: "Minister must do his best to live up to the Marshal's trust."

Zhang Mai nodded with satisfaction and announced the next few personnel appointments. Since Ge Danmo was decided to stay, Shi Huaicheng would not be able to stay in Saiye, but Zhang Mai asked him to go to Ningyuan to assist Guo Luo and obey Guo Luo's arrangements - Ningyuan was the first big city occupied by the Tang army in Tiance besides Shule, and the city operation mechanism had already been established, so he did not need to be as timid as Saiye's side.

However, Zhang Mai left Shi Huaicheng's son Shi Kezhuang as Shi Ba's deputy. The two fought against each other as early as when Yi Hei's offensive and defensive battles. Both sides admired each other quite much. Moreover, Shi Kezhuang was also a local tyrant. Having him to help Shi Ba was very helpful to stabilizing the military of Sai Ye.

As for Ge Danmo's son Ge Qihui, Zhang Mai incorporated him into the Longxiang Army.

Shi Huaicheng and Ge Danmo knew the meaning of this arrangement. Shi Huaicheng thought that although he could not stay in the deep-rooted Saiye, if he entered Ningyuan, or had the opportunity to enter the deeper core of the Tiance Tang Dynasty and gain further trust. Ge Danmo had no resentment. Since Zhang Mai handed Saiye to him, it was common for him to keep his son to be a proton by his side - not to mention that Ge Qihui had the hidden intention of being a proton by Zhang Mai, but at the same time it was also a chance for Ge Qihui to contact Zhang Mai and gain trust. One of the father and son guarded outside and the other served the monarch inside - it was not happy for those who wanted to rebel, but it was very in line with Ge Danmo and his son.

After the autumn harvest in the Mesopotamia, the grain reserves increased significantly - this was a military camp carried out by more than 100,000 military and civilians. This year, under the supervision of the military, agriculture and animal husbandry were used as the business, and industry and commerce were suppressed in the Mesopotamia area. The food consumption was less and the output was more, so there was a huge amount of surplus grain.

After winter began, Zhang Mai, who was far away from the broken leaves, made adjustments in both military and political aspects.

First of all, there is an adjustment in the military system. The Tang army of Tiance used the old system of the Anxi Tang army. There were three types of government soldiers, namely 800, 1,000, and 1,200 people. It was considered small, medium and large, and Zhang Mai himself was used to the decimal system. He felt that there might be some problems in military dispatching by division into large and small governments. He had negotiated several times with Guo Luo and Yang Yi, and since then he decided to gradually adjust the military system and set the number of units in the government to 1,000.

At the same time, the generals above Zhonglang who had made contributions since the Beiting War were promoted.

In the early days of Beiting's victory, except for Yang Xin and Xu Congshi quickly climbed up from the bottom, Guo Wei was also promoted to general in one fell swoop, but except him, no one was promoted to General of the Central Army. This time, he calculated the Beiting victory and the Lianghe victory, and promoted Guo Luo and Yang Yi to generals, and promoted Guo Wei, Shiba, Murong Chunhua and Ma Jirong to generals. The other successful generals also rose with the water. Xue Fu stayed in the rear, but although he had no military achievements, he could stabilize the situation. This should be commended. However, the tradition of the Tang army in Tiance is to focus on military achievements. Xue Fu defended the east without any trouble. Just as Guo Luo defended Ningyuan, the *** family could give the evaluation of "the contribution was not inferior to the generals on the front line". However, without military achievements, he could not carry out such a qualitative promotion, so he only gave generous rewards.

At this point, Guo and Yang were at the second staircase of the military at the same time. Xue Fu, Guo Wei, Shi Ba, Murong Chunhua, Ma Jirong, Cao Yuanzhong and others were the third staircase, which solved the historical problems. At the same time, the status of the military's senior management also changed subtly. Although Xue Fu was not promoted to general, Xue Shanya had just given birth to a son for Zhang Mai, and his status in the rear became more stable. He was still the third person below Guo and Yang. In addition, Guo Wei's alien army was promoted to the point where he could reach the second staircase in just one year, which was unimaginable in peacetime.

The military has made adjustments and the civil service level has also been fine-tuned, mainly to change the name of the government head. Zhang Yi and others have made suggestions before, and Zhang Mai's decision to implement it since then is related to Wei Renpu's promotion.

The current head of the internal affairs of the Tiance Army is Zheng Wei, and his position is the chief of the Tiance Prefecture. Wei Renpu believes that this is a "semi-private" position. That is, the chief of the Tiance Prefecture is obviously serving General Tiance and has the nature of a "internal minister". As a leader of the administrative side, it is not suitable for this. In addition, Lu Jialing and others are also named "international affairs" - this is a tradition left by the Anxi Tang army. Whenever a new situation occurs, a new position is often established. Therefore, there are about twenty military affairs in the Tiance Tang army at this time. Moreover, the central departments are also called "secrets", which is obviously a departmental structure of a military affairs, which is equivalent to acquiescence by a warlord rather than a central government.

Under the suggestion of Wei Renpu, Zhang Mai referred to Zhang Yi's original proposal and changed the chief of the Tiance Prefecture to the Secretary of the Secretariat, and Zhang Yi was appointed as the Minister of the Secretariat. Zheng Wei officially became the head of the Tiance Tang Dynasty. All the corps were changed into ministry, and each Cao was promoted to the Secretary, and all the seal names were adjusted. Since then, although Zhang Mai has not been emperor, everyone in the world knows that he will never regard himself as Li Congke.

In addition to the adjustment of the government and court, a military account meeting was set up in addition to the correction of Taiwan, with Yang Dingguo as the manager, mainly composed of military officials to discuss military affairs.

When Zhang Mai was carrying out these military and political adjustments, Yang Xin and Xu Congshi did not pay much attention. When Zhang Mai was in charge of the military and political adjustments, Guo Wei was appointed to march into the Talas region with a small number of troops. There were only 7,000 troops, with Guo Wei as the main general, Xi Weinan as the marching Sima, Yang Xin, and Xu Congshi were Guo Wei's right-hand vanguards.

The two made another military achievements on the way to the Western Expedition to the Mesopotamia, and now they have been promoted to another level, and they have both become generals. He smiled and said to Xu Congshi: "We are fighting for our lives under Luntai City. This time we swept across Yili and the Mesopotamian River, but it is like playing. This way we can be promoted!"

Xu Congshi said leisurely: "This time, another time. Although we followed the trend this time, we also built a territory of thousands of miles! It is no problem to go up to us at a level. Besides, we fought hard that time and promoted more than one level."

Yang Xin suddenly pulled Xu Congshi's sleeve and said, "You are now famous all over the world. I'm afraid even Zhongyuan knows you, the 'arrow king'! The character Xu has nothing to do with you. I think it's time to talk to the marshal and restore his original surname. Now Wei Renpu is already compiling the accompanying record and there are still many general books. If you don't change it, I'm afraid your descendants will follow you forever with your surname Xu."

The two of them are now qualified to see Zhang Mai at any time - not only because of their class, but also because Zhang Mai's confidants are different from those of them. Now everyone in the army knows that Yang and Xu are the new favorites, and their favor is almost no less than Shiba Shijian.

Xu Congshi was a little embarrassed and said, "I'm the first surname...but I really don't know how to tell the marshal."

"The longer it takes, the more trouble it will be." Yang Xin said: "Although our origin is a bit difficult to describe, I think with the marshal's shrewdness, I have probably known it in my heart for a long time. I will not reveal it now, but I will just wait for us to talk about it ourselves."

Xu Congshi slapped the arrow pouch, pointed the horn of the bow in the direction of Talas, and said, "A real man goes to battle, he doesn't have much to say anything - let's talk about it later when he goes to Talas!"

The two of them each led a thousand elite cavalry, and did not take the mountain road to attack Melki, but crossed the Thunder Leaf Desert and headed straight for Julan City.

This road was once taken when Satuk attacked the Talas region for the second time (the first time was to attack Saman, the first time was to attack the Melkina mountain road, and the second time was to attack the Anxi Tang army). The characteristic of this road is that there are not many dangers along the way, and the road is not as narrow as the Melkina mountain road, but the road is round and there is almost no food and water supply for a long distance in the middle. It is easy for the army to continue to have difficulty in supporting the support.

The two thousand elite soldiers led by Yang Xin and Xu Congshi were highly motivated. The two thousand cavalry carried 4,000 war horses, and there were 4,000 camels. These two thousand were the elite troops led by Yang and Xu. They walked from Luntai City to Shuye. They had become accustomed to various Western Regions terrain, including snow-capped mountains, grasslands, deserts and swamps. They were no longer a simple team that could only impact the plains.

During their journey westward for seven or eight thousand miles, each person did not spoil himself as a senior soldier when there was no enemy. When they set up a camp, they were engineers and grooms when they took care of horses. When they encountered food shortages, they would temporarily act as herders to milk and grazing, or temporarily act as hunters to supplement food. In the Western Regions, this ability to survive at any time is sometimes more rare and more important than the impact of war.

Yang Xin and Xu Congshi are no longer the children of military generals in northern Shanxi. They have become versatile in taking care of horses, milking and sheeping, hunting and barbecuing, and have also become versatile in their long-distance experience. They have also been honed into superhuman endurance.

In desert marching, the smaller the number of troops, the smaller the resources it consumes, because the more soldiers, the more supplies it must bring. In that way, the baggage troops are required. With the baggage troops, the marching speed entering the desert area will be reduced by more than three times than that of the light cavalry. And the extension of the marching time will require more supplies, which will inevitably increase the baggage and military personnel, which will further affect the speed of the marching.

However, this army does not have a logistics staff dedicated to serving sergeants. Everyone has to take care of their own logistics. Everyone has to take care of two horses, two camels, two horses are transfers, and two camels carry water, jerky and fast-food dry noodles produced in Ningyuan area, as well as some light war equipment.

The Talas region was an old place for the Tiance Tang army. The army was naturally equipped with veterans who were familiar with the terrain. They did not take any detours along the way. It took only two days to pass through the desert area north of the Melki Mountains and enter the narrow plains of the Julan City area.

"Look! The sentry!"

With the sentry guard, it is close to Julan City!

"Woo woo woo woo--"

The Tang army was also found at the sentry guard, and the horn was blown up urgently. Soon, wolf smoke ignited on a high slope two or three miles away - that was reporting the message to the rear!

Yang Xin said: "What should I do?"

Xu Congshi said: "I'll take the lead, you follow me."

"good!"

The tacit understanding between the two of them was beyond the generals of the fourth ladder of the Tang army!

Xu Congshi put his finger in his mouth and whistled, and three hundred riders approached, and another seven hundred riders followed behind.

All the three hundred people surrounding Xu Congshi had the ability to ride horses and shoot. Xu Congshi shouted: "Brothers, our number is not large, our food is not large, our feathered arrows are not large, and we are not large, and now it is winter. Although the weather is not so cold that we can't move, if we delay, we must withdraw without success. Therefore, we don't have much time! When we go to Julan City, we will not keep our troops and arrows are not empty! If we don't leave, we will not return!"

Hundreds of people responded together and said, "No! I will not return until I leave you!"

"Walk!"

Xu Congshi shouted loudly and rode his horse first!

His mount was injured and died in the Battle of Luntai. After that, Zhang Mai rewarded him with a purebred sweat-blooded horse. Its four hooves were made of rotten silver as hooves and were polished very brightly. The craftsman who beat the horse was quite ingenious and actually made layers of surging lines on it, just like clouds. When Zhang Mai attacked this horse, he gave it a name called "Taiyun Feidian".

At this time, Xu Congshi took the lead and rushed to the sentry tower. There were two defensive soldiers on the sentry tower. Seeing them coming to shoot down, they were so cold that they were very cold at the height of the cold wind. They were not moving at all. The arrow was weak and powerless. Xu Congshi saw the arrow coming and grabbed the arrow body. The Uighur soldiers on the sentry tower were shocked. The Tang soldiers behind him cheered in unison. Xu Congshi took the enemy arrow and shot in the air. A scream from the sentry tower was already over.

The other one was about to get off the tower and escape, and Xu Congshi bounced his arch with a clang. The Uighur soldier was stiff, the two were panicked, and the third was shocked by Xu Congshi's magical skills. He heard the arch sound and wanted to dodge without thinking. The other one fell from above without grasping it firmly and fell to death on the spot.

The deputy general said, "What a pity that I have no living!"

Xu Congshi said coldly: "We have a reliable guide in the army - what kind of survivors are you going to do!"

The deputy general pointed to the direction where the wolf smoke was ignited on the mountainside and said, "Do you want to go up and deal with them first?"
Chapter completed!