Chapter 61: Tomb-loose Wule

The Tang army bypassed the southwest corner of Yibohai and traveled more than 80 miles a day to reach the northern foot of the Suiyexue Mountain. It is located deep inland and the north again. From the second month of autumn to the second month of spring, it is covered with heavy snow, so it is difficult to have a road. Only from the late spring to the Mid-Autumn Festival, can there be a gap in the valley that can be walked. Guo Shiyong pointed to a small mountain road and said, "If it is a few months later, this road will not be able to be completed."

At the foot of the mountain, Zhang Mai ordered a temporary stay, reorganized the troops, and selected forty-eight veterans from the Baotao Camp to be fire chiefs and deputy fire chiefs. As for the new twenty-four fire soldiers, they were selected from the eight hundred prisoners, with a total of sixty fire and twelve teams, totaling six hundred. The soldiers in the Baotao Camp were short of soldiers, and they were also selected from the eight hundred prisoners.

Yang Dingbang reserved his opinion on this large-scale camp system and said: "There are too many teams of the first battalion and twelfth teams."

You should know that a person can only directly command three or five people in daily management work. Therefore, the organization of the army is either a three-three system or a five-five system. Six people are close to the limit, and more than seven people will appear bloated and must be divided into layers, otherwise it will affect efficiency. The Tang army used ten people as one fire as a grassroots unit, but each fire had to set up another deputy fire chief. This is why.

Guo Luo also felt that there were too many 12th battalions, so Zhang Mai promoted Tang Renxiao to deputy captain and assisted in the military affairs of Langya Camp. Before this war, Tang Renxiao was humiliated by being whipped naked in public, which was a shame at that time. During the night battle, he was desperate and killed many enemies. The entire army was obvious to all. In addition, he was usually peaceful and generous and talented, so Zhang Maisheng had nothing to say when the soldiers of his third battalion were in charge.

Yang Dingbang was quite dissatisfied when he saw Zhang Mai's arbitrarily changing the military system, and was willing to resist. However, he saw that Guo Shiyong, who had always been conservative, did not object. He was surprised and stopped talking. He asked him privately: "Shiyong, the special envoy doubled the Wolf Tooth Battalion, and temporarily added a deputy captain. Although he is an imperial envoy and has a high prestige, the military system cannot be moved lightly after all. Why didn't you speak just now?"

Guo Shiyong said: "When the number of troops is huge, you should pay attention to organization, otherwise the army will be in chaos. If the number of troops is small, you can be relatively flexible. It is a common situation for military strategists to organize tightly to defend and attack flexibly. Langya Battalion is now the guard camp of Special Envoy Zhang. There is no lieutenant. In fact, the person responsible for the specific command is Aluo. The 1st Battalion Twelve Teams is too many for others, but with Aluo's talent, it should be able to deal with it. Besides, since he was promoted to Assistant Manager of Tang Renxiao, it should be fine."

Yang Dingbang felt that his reason was plausible and was not satisfied. He was also a little surprised at his attitude on this matter and thought to himself: "After the night attack of Zhaoshan, this little old man became protective of Zhang Mai everywhere, which is really strange."

Yang Sanggan happened to be on the side. When he heard the conversation between the two, he pulled him aside and said, "Uncle, this matter is just a temporary solution. In fact, it has not really touched on the change of the military system. Why can't you tell it?"

"A temporary solution?" Yang Dingbang had not yet realized it. Yang Sanggan whispered: "There are now six hundred people in the Langya Camp. Special Envoy Zhang himself does not directly command the twelve team commanders, but has two deputy captains, that is, one deputy captain manages the sixth team. Isn't this the same as other battalions? It is called Langya Battalion, but in fact the two battalions are combined and will not affect command. Among the two deputy captains, Aluo's authority is obviously greater than that of Tang Renxiao. Tang Renxiao is actually the second deputy captain, and he has to be controlled by him. Therefore, Aluo is named Vice Captain, but in fact the power is more important than that of other battalions. Although Tang Renxiao also commands the six teams, he has no name as a captain, and his authority is weaker than that of other captains. Such an arrangement that is not worthy of the name is related to the current personnel situation. I guess when a suitable opportunity, Special Envoy Zhang will return the military system to the right track and integrate the name and reality."

Yang Dingbang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he thought that there were only five battalions of the Tang army at present, and Guo Shidao was known as the "Anxi Protectorate", but the highest military organization was the battalion, and each battalion was directly responsible to the Protectorate. Zhang Mai wanted to add Guo Luo's power to be promoted, and there was no way to promote it. Besides, although Guo Luo's talent was outstanding and he had made many military achievements recently, he was placed on the heads of elders such as Guo Shiyong, Yang Dingbang, An Shoujing, etc. Even if Guo, Yang, An and others had nothing to say, Guo Luo himself would not dare to accept it.

After thinking through this section, Yang Dingbang suddenly became clear about the arrangement of Zhang Mai and said with a smile: "Shi Yong is still a bit selfish after all. He takes care of the Liang Zhu of his old Guo family very carefully. When he rushed to Edan that day, several young people competed for the vanguard, so he stepped forward to raise Guo Luo. Although Guo Luo is indeed a good choice, the reasons he said are just right, but if you want to go deeper, it is really a chess trick of "public and private".

The next day, he went to see Zhang Mai and asked Murong Chunhua, who also made outstanding contributions in this battle, to be the vice-captain. Although Murong Chunhua was young, his talents, achievements, and qualifications were only higher than those of Tang Renxiao. Tang Renxiao was promoted to the vice-captain. If he was not promoted, it would be unreasonable. Zhang Mai immediately agreed. Among the camps, only Yingyang Camp was vacant. Yang Yi, the lieutenant, was only appointed a few days ago. Yang Sanggan had been transferred to the logistics camp, but the vice-captain was not yet. Therefore, since Murong Chunhua was promoted to the vice-captain, he was naturally transferred to Yingyang Camp to be Yang Yi's deputy.

Because the Tang army itself was fully organized, the reorganization of the army only added some new recruits and adjusted some fire brigades. They only stopped for a day before they set off.

Guo Luo didn't talk much, but his meticulous thoughts were almost above Guo Shiyong. Zhang Mai did not change his title and added his power. He felt like a mirror in his heart. How could he not know? He was constantly communicating with the teams along the way, and strengthening the organizational training of the Langya Camp during the march, and he performed very positively.

Although there have never been any Uighurs chasing behind them, the enemy ahead is not easy to deal with. Under the leadership of Guo Shiyong, the army traveled between valleys. The frozen world on the high hillside and the occasional dark abyss were not something that the Tang army dared to mess with.

Although it is the "easy" road that Guo Shiyong mentioned, it is sometimes smooth and sometimes rugged, and it is even difficult for horses to pass when they walk. Zhang Mai first sat on the horse, but when he encountered some obstacles, he had to get off the horse and walk by himself, and sometimes he had to help the horse. If he walked higher, there were some places full of biting water. From a distance, it looked like a pile of floating snow. It looked very pleasing to the eye. It was a rare and magnificent scenery, but it made people not brave enough to step on it with their feet. They had to ride a horse to successfully step through it.

It goes without saying that the hard work during this period is hard, but no one, including the Uighur prisoners, escaped from the team. This is certainly because the organization and management of the Tang army is strict enough, and because the possibility of escaping alone in such a terrible environment is much lower than walking with the army.

The old and weak black-headed Wuhu and the injured and sick people in the Tang people in the Tibetan Valley were better, but they could not stand the journey. The Tang army buried them along the way, sang a sing of the elegy and left with tears.

Even with the first-class guide Guo Shiyong, it took the Tang army ten days to cross the Thunder Ye Xue Mountain. The journey was more tiring than fighting with the Uighurs, but finally saw the Thunder Ye River again. After only walking for such a distance, even though the march was careful and careful, there were still many sheep and horses that fell to death on the way. However, the growth of the soldiers of the Wolf-Tooth Camp achieved an effect that could not be achieved by military training at the same time.

Even Zhang Mai found that he was different than when he was still in Zhaoshan.

This is the tempering of nature on mankind! Faced with the test of natural dangers, once the mind and strength cannot keep up, they will fall into hell!

After conquering the mountains, nature seemed to have left the power and will of the mountains in the bodies of all those who challenged her! That is not something that any exercise can replace!

After seeing the Sailye River, I walked northwest for several days before I met the Knight Camp.

After receiving them, An Shoujing said, "Why have you been there for so long this time? I thought you would be back in ten days, but I didn't want to go there for more than a month. After you left, Satuk, who was approaching here, turned around and has not appeared again."

Zhang Mai said: "He is probably about to reach Yibohai now." Thinking of these Uighur generals being led by his nose, he couldn't help laughing.

An Shoujing was surprised to see that Zhang Mai brought back so many people this time. Guo Luo concisely told him the cause and effect of this trip east. An Shoujing heard that the Tang army had won another big victory in Yibohai and said happily: "It's great!"

Langya, Yingyang, Baotao, Xiaoqi, Logistics Fifth Battalion and Hei-Tou Wuhu merged into one place and continued to march northwest along the Suoye River. They were always worried that the Uighurs would chase after him, but at this time they deliberately did not cover up their whereabouts. Until the former site of Xin Suoye City, An Shoujing had already arranged many mystery leading to the northwest, north and northeast, so that the Uighurs would not know where the Tang army would go after him.

After the cavalry of Yingyang Camp determined that there were no Uighurs chasing him behind him, Zhang Mai ordered to cross the river.

"Crossing the river? Isn't it a desert on the other side of the river?" Hesheli asked in surprise.

"It's a desert." Zhang Mai smiled and said, "But we have a nest inside. Let's hide there first. When the Uighurs searched hard on the north bank of the Saiye River, they couldn't find us. If we had no choice, we would kill us again. Haha, haha, at that time, Arslan and the Bogra Khan would definitely shout: 'Didn't they be able to find them even if they dig three feet into the land in the Saiye River? Why did they suddenly appear? Did they hide in the ground before, but now they crawl out of the ground?' Haha, haha, I really want to see the faces of these Uighur Khans, the deputy khans."

If Zhang Mai had said these ideas two months ago, I was afraid that few would follow him like this, but after so many things, not only did the Tang army be full of confidence in him, but even the entire tribe of Kitanuma Ugu was convinced.

"But, we are running around on both sides of the Thunder Ye River like this?" Hesheli asked.

"Don't worry, the old patriarch," Zhang Mai said quietly: "I have another plan, just follow me with peace of mind."

Hesheli remembered the unpredictable actions of Tang Jun and the ghost-like and ghost-like actions that seemed like ghosts during this period, so he stopped asking and nodded and said, "Okay, I won't ask more. Anyway, it's okay to follow the special envoy."

Just after the army crossed the Saiye River, An Shoujingzheng led people to destroy the traces. Suddenly, someone sang in Hu language. The song was filled with sadness and helplessness. It was a famous song of the Huns: "Destroy my Qilian Mountains, so that my animals will not be able to survive; I am destined to die in Yanzhi Mountains, so that my women will be desolate..."

Zhang Mai has been studying all kinds of Wu languages ​​during these days. Although he was not fluent in speaking Turkic language, he once heard a surrendered person sing this song. Therefore, he knew the meaning of the song. It was the sad song of the Huns after their family was destroyed by Emperor Wu of Han and their country was destroyed. The singer listened to the songs and asked him, "Who is singing?"

An Shoujing's younger brother An Shouye hurried over and said, "It's a plan to fall into Wule."
Chapter completed!