Chapter 7: Longxiang Camp

Guo Shidao estimated that Liu An would come back within half a month, but his prediction did not come true. Half a month later, and there was no news about Liu An. Yang Dingguo suggested sending someone to inquire, but Zhang Mai said: "We must trust Liu Sima. With Liu Sima's ability, even if there is any accident, at least we will be able to send someone back to send a message."

They did not waste the time they waited for Liu An. Zhang Mai and Guo Shidao further reorganized the Tang army.

Guo Shidao thought the name of "Wolf-Ooth Camp" was inconsistent, so he changed it to "Longxiang". He shouted to Yang Yi that he wanted to expand the camp, and Guo Shidao also accused him. At Zhang Mai's suggestion, he selected 600 people from "Fanggui" and incorporated 300 of them into Yingyang Camp. According to Zhang Mai's method, he selected 240 of them, and used veterans from Feixiong Camp as backbone to form a new camp Guangwu Camp, and the remaining 60 people made up for the lack of Feixiong Camp. According to the same method,

, 600 people were selected from the Xinxue Yecheng Civilians, Tangmin, and Hei Tou Wuhu, and 540 people were selected from the 600 people, and the teams were mixed with 60 veterans, each from the Xiaoqi Camp and the Baotao Camp, forming two new camps Zhenwu Camp and Xingwu Camp. The remaining 60 people were supplemented with the Xiaoqi Camp and the Xingwu Camp. The remaining 60 people were supplemented with the Xiaoqi Camp. The three camps of Guangwu, Zhenwu and Xingwu did not have a lieutenant for the time being, but Yang Sanggan, An Shouye, and Zhong Min were the deputy camps to command the troops.

Since then, the Tang army in Anxi has had the eight camps of Longxiang, Yingyang, Feixiong, Baotao, Xiaoqi, Guangwu, Zhenwu and Xingwu. Among them, Longxiang and Yingyang battalions each have 600 people, and the other six battalions are 300 people, totaling 300 people. Compared with the time in Xinxuye City, the troops have increased significantly. Among the camps, Longxiang, Yingyang and Sanwu battalions have more new recruits. Although the quality of the new recruits is good, they need training urgently. The training of Longxiang battalion is led by Zhang Mai and Guo Luo, the training of Yingyang battalion is led by Yang Yi and Murong Chunhua, and the other three battalions are led by Guo Shiyong to conduct military training.

Guo Fen ignored Zhang Mai since slapping him and did not speak when he met. Yang Qing and others said, "It's nothing, it's okay when Fen'er gets angry." But no matter how Zhang Mai teased her, she didn't speak, just pretending that Zhang Mai was not in front of her.

Zhang Mai has lived in the Tang army in Anxi for so long. From the women's words and reactions, he already knew that these daughters of the Tang Dynasty did not take the tricks of giving flowers and gifts to joke about romantic young faces. It is said that "a good man holds a halberd in the bright light, and he vows to live and die together." It is good to have a gentle husband, but the premise is that this husband must be able to win glory on the battlefield! Otherwise, the light will be romantic and slick, which will only increase the disgust of the good girls. It can be said that the super combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty men is also closely related to the expectation of the Tang women from them!

Zhang Mai originally wanted to win a big victory in a row, thinking that he would win Guo Fen's favor this time. Unexpectedly, Xiao Shitou's few words that shouldn't have said made all his efforts go to waste. Although Yang Qing and others said that Guo Fen was just angry for a moment, somehow, Guo Fen's tone was delayed. Every time he thought about this, it was so sad. Then the most beautiful woman in Wu Hu naturally had no time to think about it. The red flag at home had not been done yet, so how could she have time to think about the colorful flag outside!

In the midst of distress, Zhang Mai turned grief and anger into strength, and took Longxiang Camp out of exercise every day, using physical abuse to expel excess hormones in his body. The real military training instructor of Longxiang Camp is actually Guo Luo, and Zhang Mai is the spiritual leader of this camp and is also the number one trainee in Tianzi.

I went to climb the dunes in the morning and practice equestrian in the afternoon. There were also horizontal knife training, bow and arrow training and queue training in the middle. Some people were arranged to practice spears, and those strongmen were selected to practice Modao. Modao is not an easy thing to build. If there is not enough quantity, I will use a battle axe instead. If there is not enough battle axe, I will use a copper hammer. Every day, I practiced until late at night. Before the sun rose on the second day, Zhang Mai got up. He himself had nowhere to vent his energy and took the initiative to abuse himself. The recruits were fucked to cry and call him mother. However, Special Envoy Zhang was running in front, so the recruits were not good enough to run away. Only physically perverts like Xiao Shitou were willing to enjoy this kind of training.

The march from Yibohai to Dengxiagu has actually given the Longxiang Camp soldiers a considerable degree of forging and grinding. After more than half a month of self-abuse military training, Zhang Mai's swordsmanship and riding skills have made great progress. Of course, the progress of the Longxiang Camp soldiers who were abused by him is not worse than that of him.

"See? Longxiang Camp has gone out. Can we fall behind?" Yang Yi shouted! He made an inhumane rule: he must get up earlier than Longxiang Camp every day, wait for Longxiang Camp to finish training before he can come back, and wait for Longxiang Camp to sleep before he can sleep. If it wasn't for the entrance of the valley under the lamp, it would be a dangerous desert after leaving the valley. I don't know how many people would escape in the past half month! But after more than half a month, when the body's reaction followed, I gradually got used to it.

Exercising so hard, the physical energy consumption is naturally great, and the food is too much. Thousands of people consumed and did not produce in the valley of Dengxia. Although they grabbed a lot of money and grain in Yibohai this time, half of the wheat was eaten in half a month, and nearly one-third of the sheep they stolen. Although they had a lot of gold, silver and treasures and coins in their hands, they could not eat these things. There was no place to buy things in the valley of Dengxia. They were about to make money again, and Guo Taihang, the military manager in charge of logistics, came to complain to Guo Shidao, saying that they had to find a way to save money and limit food, or they had to open up the source quickly. Although the Tang army would not have been out of food soon, Guo Taihang, who was in charge of logistics, naturally knew that they could not wait until that day to start thinking about a solution.

Guo Shidao thought about it and said to Yang Dingguo: "It's time for the children to go out to exercise their muscles and bones."

Yang Ding Guodao: "The information is not clear, and it seems that it is not appropriate to act rashly."

Just then, people reported: "Liu Sima is back!"

Mr. Guo was overjoyed: "Please hurry up!"

Zhang Mai, who was training outside, rushed back when he heard the news. He saw that Liu An had not taken off his Zhaowu clan's outfit, and had only drank a few sips of water, and then reported to Guo Shidao and others about the gains of his trip.

The news was not as good as expected. Liu An's first sentence was: "I can't find out about the Zheng family!"

All the generals shouted, all disappointed. Zhang Mai asked, "Did you see Tang Min?"

Liu An shook his head helplessly: "No, I first got into Talas, followed it to Jabbaersi, and then went to Julan City. Jabbaersi and Julan City were obviously Han people. I hardly saw them. There were many yellow-skinned and dark-eyed merchants in Talas, but they were not Tang Yan. Whether they spoke Turkic or Tianfang, they were fluent and did not contain any Central Plains accent. I asked several merchants indirectly, but they didn't hear anyone with the surname Zheng. When I saw that the other party started to be suspicious, I didn't dare to ask any further."

Guo Shidao sighed: "It seems that something happened to the Zheng family.

Seeing that the people were a little down, Zhang Mai encouraged him: "It's better than Tang Min, so we will treat them completely as enemies. Instead of doing things, we don't have to tie our hands and feet."

All the generals said: "Not bad!"

Liu An also nodded and said, "But there is news that I don't know whether it's good or bad. We talked to the herdsmen and merchants, and found that they didn't seem to know that we were causing chaos in the north."

All the generals exclaimed, and Yang Yi shouted, "How could that be! We have involved several Khans of the Uighurs. What about Toulon Khan and Bogra Khan were defeated by our hands. The people here don't know!"

Liu An smiled and said, "Actually, this is not surprising. First, Balashaguen may feel embarrassed and fear that people will be unstable, so he deliberately concealed it. Second, although Talas and the Suiye River Basin are only separated by the Julan Mountains and the Suiye Desert, it seems that they are completely different worlds, so the residents of the two places may not communicate much. Ayi, you will know if you have the opportunity to go there in the future."

Yang Yi said: "It must be something you want after a walk!"

Guo Shidao took out an old map and asked, "Do you know the arrangement of the Uighurs?"

Liu An shook his head, opened the map, pointed his hand here and said, "These, these, these, these, are all outdated. Now there are three main cities on this line, one is Talas, one is Julan City, and the other is the chin of the small city sandwiched between them."

A sand table was laid in the tent of the Great Protector. Liu An held the map in one hand and drew a brief picture on the sand with the other: "This is the easternmost city of Julan, located below the Julan Mountains. Chin Baersi is about two or three days northwest of Julan City, Talas is about four or five days west of Julan City, and Talas is about three or four days away from Chin Baersi."

If you look at these three places on the map, it seems to be on the same line, but the roads in reality cannot always be straight. If you look at them according to the actual road, these three places just form a very flat triangle. Julan City is located at the southeast point, Talas is located at the southwest point, and Chin Baersi is located at the north apex. From Talas to Julan City, you can take the Chin Baersi first, but if you walk the straight road to the south, you can save one or two days of effort.

Liu An said: "I pretend to be a herdsman, wandering outside the city, and sometimes pretending to be a merchant, and mingle into the city. However, after all, I am in a state of face. The management of the Uighurs is quite strict, so the information I found cannot be further in-depth. I just learned about it. Talas is on the border between the Uighurs and the Saman Dynasty. He has deployed heavy troops all year round. There are many merchants in the city, and it is difficult to distinguish the strength. Chin Ersi is just a small town, with only a few thousand residents in the city, and there is no fuel or water. Moreover, these three cities are in each other. If there is something wrong with one place, the other two places can arrive within a few days. So if we want to make the three places, we have to use surprise troops to fight quickly! If there is a delay, within ten days, reinforcements from the other two places will come."

After he finished speaking of these situations, he turned his attention to Zhang Mai, and wanted to see what he meant. Zhang Mai asked: "Talas is the territory of Satuk Bogra? Have you ever heard of him?"

Liu An smiled and said, "This is good news. Bograhan is not in Talas now, and he seems to have been away for quite some time. This news can be confirmed with the information we received in the north, and it should not be wrong."

Zhang Mai pondered for a long time and said, "Our short-term strategic goal is to find a suitable place to plunder. The medium-term goal is to disrupt the audio-visual of the Uighurs. Bograhan was confused by our traces from south to north, coming and going, and even made him exhausted. As for the ultimate goal, it is to find a base that can not only connect with the Central Plains, but also rest and recuperate. The short-term goal is the most urgent, but it must try not to interfere with the final goal, and even lay a foundation for the final goal..."

He paused and said, "But now the information we have received is a glimpse of the sky, but it's no wonder that Liu Sima is able to do this. He is already close to the limit. From ordinary merchants and passers-by, it is naturally impossible to know too much about the high-level news of Talas. He still has to get further useful information from the elites who have communicated with us. If the Zheng family is our inner supporter, it would be much easier to do..."

Yang Yi said: "But the Zheng family doesn't know where they die now!"

Zhang Mai pondered: "There is no ready-made road in front of us, so let's raise our barefoot and step on a way. What do you think?"
Chapter completed!