Chapter 470 Western Region Plan

Hearing Su Dingfang's comment on Hou Junji, Qin Mubai was stunned, "How can I see it?"

"If he is cautious enough, how can he be implicated in the prince's case?" Su Dingfang said, "The former prince Li Chengqian and the king of Han Li Yuanchang rebelled. Hou Junji did not directly participate at that time, but he was still found out by Changsun Fan Wuji. Although there is a suspicion that the eldest grandson Wuji uses the topic to eradicate the difference, it's not all empty, is it? Otherwise, there is the emperor on it. Does Changsun Wuji really dare to harm the meritorious officials so arbitrarily? - Enshi Wei Gong once said that Hou Junji is fiery and wild, and he is fierce to rise up to fight, but he is good at attacking but not good at defending. It's not that he can't defend, but that he disdains to defend. In his opinion, only a fierce attack on the battlefield is all.

"Are you afraid that he can't calm down and not abide by my military order?" Qin Mubai said.

"I don't know." Su Dingfang shook his head and said, "Let me be honest, Mu Bai, don't be surprised. I think that in terms of defense alone, Lanzhou at that time was not without any general except Hou Junji - Xue Wanjun was more suitable than Hou Junji. Before that, he had also been guarding Dafeichuan and had nothing to do with it. He is familiar with that place. And for defense, Xue Wanjun, who is also a fierce general, is better than Hou Junji.

"It makes sense." Qin Mubai nodded and said, "Actually, why don't I know that Xue Wanjun is more suitable than Hou Junji? But if you really want to fight, Xue Wanjun Wanwan is not the opponent of the Chalqin Mausoleum. Although I asked Hou Junji to defend and attack, Garqinling would not listen to me. He insisted on fighting. What can he do? Moreover, he will definitely fight. If I send Xue Wanjun, Da Feichuan may fall again. Then all the previous results were buried again.

"That's also..." Su Dingfang frowned, "I hope I'm worried about the weather. Hou Junji, our big brother, is still very capable. I just hope he doesn't make mistakes at this time.

"At that time, if you and Rengui were by my side, I would not have sent Hou Junji." Qin Mubai smiled, slapped the silent Xue Rengui next to him, and said, "especially Rengui!" I really want to let Gar Qinling and his proud Kunlun Iron Horse to taste the power of my Tang Dynasty general!"

Xue Rengui smiled bitterly, "Mu Bai, even you made fun of me like this?"

"Haha!" Su Dingfang laughed and said, "This name is not made up by us. It is recognized by the people of the grassland! In the early years, when I followed my teacher Wei to the north to attack the Turks, I heard an arrogant rumor in the Turkic tribe that 'Qin Qiong is sick and old, and there is no fierce general in the south'. It is true that the Turks at that time were ignorant and ignorant of the fierce generals of the Tang Dynasty, but it also shows that in the eyes of the nomads in the grassland, they were quite disdainful of military strategy, magic and fraud, and only respected warriors with strong martial arts. Now, they respect you as the 'Great General of the Tang Dynasty', which is a great honor! Your image in their mind is about to be deified.

"Then it must be Rengui, and it must be 'deified' again in the minds of the Tubo people." Qin Mubai smiled and said, "When the heavy snow stops and the road is smooth, I will lead my troops back to Danzhou. Ding Fang, I am divided into 20,000 elite iron riders with you, and the friendly army of General Ba Ximi in the southern court of the Turks, and still stationed at Yumen Pass. Their men and horses may leave at any time. If you leave, you don't have to stay. Just give away enough food and grass. But if there is an emergency in the Western Regions, you can act cheaply and consider leading the army to the Western Regions. But please remember that there must be a suitable reason for sending troops, and you can't let the people of the Western Regions think that we are going to avenge my father! The nameless retaliated against the teacher will leave a solid word among the local people, which is not conducive to the future.

"Okay!" Su Dingfang was refreshed and answered solemnly.

Qin Mubai nodded and said, "We have no time to visit the west here in Helong, and it is difficult to ensure that there will be no changes in the Western Regions. Among other things, the North Court, which has always been ambitious, may imitate the behavior of the Xueyantuo tribe at this time, take advantage of the chaos to attack the South Court and other small countries in the Western Regions, resulting in the established fact of unifying the Western Regions, forcing our Tang Dynasty to accept recognition. If so, it will cause great trouble for us to conquer the Western Regions in the future. And I guess this possibility is not small.

"Indeed." Su Dingfang said affirmatively, "Before that, Beiting had just turned against me, the Tang Dynasty, after the raid on Gaochang, and immediately made peace. Their purpose and ambition are obvious, which is to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. Now it's time for my Tang Dynasty and Tubo to fight the most tragically and nervously, and they should also take action. Otherwise, as soon as we both play a final result, the winner will have the time to attack the Western Regions. For Beiting, the opportunity is not to be missed, and it will never come again.

"In this way, Beiting is very likely to take the opportunity to make trouble." Xue Rengui said, "Mu Bai, why don't you leave me at the Yumen Pass?" I have a way to deal with Beiting! As long as Mu Bai gives me a letter, I can add tens of thousands of soldiers!"

"No, you have to go back to Danzhou with me. Previously, I had suffered all the pain of not having a strong arm. Now I finally caught you. How can I let go? Qin Mubai smiled and said, "The 'one letter' you mentioned is to be taken to the Tianshan Hulu Department, which was originally attached to the Beiting, right?"

"Exact" Xue Rengui said, "I came back through the Hulu Department of Tianshan Mountain. He secretly promised to join the Tang Dynasty. Although they are suspected of stepping on two boats, if they can be induced to control carefully, this power is not impossible for me to use. As long as Mu Bai issues a letter agreeing to accept Hu Lu's vote, this possibility will be greatly increased.

Qin Mubai smiled and said, "Rengui, you are absolutely right. Fighting is not all about charging and fighting against the enemy. Hu Lu's tens of thousands of soldiers, if they are on the side of the North Court, will be my strong enemy; if they are sincere to us, it will be a great help. The contrast between the enemy and us will change a lot. However, we can't expect much from him. To put it bluntly, such 'power' is too capricious and not very trustworthy. He can betray Beiting today, and tomorrow he may betray me, Datang. Rengui, although you are both wise and brave, you are too straightforward, chivalrous and righteous, which is very similar to my father. So I'm not sure if you say you're going to cook in the Western Regions. You are invincible on the battlefield, but it is definitely better than you to deal with this kind of cunning and sinister enemy. Therefore, I can confidently and boldly entrust the affairs of the Western Regions to the given party. Rengui, you'd better go back to Lanzhou with me at ease;!"

"Oh, why do I listen to this? It's a little strange?" Su Dingfang turned his eyes and said, "Mu Bai, what do you mean?"

"Isn't I praising you?" Qin Mubai smiled and said, "I have always felt that you are indeed a talent in this field!"

After saying that, he laughed with Xue Rengui.

"Oc's it, you can make fun of it!" Su Dingfang patted his hand, and he couldn't help laughing and said, "I miss Su Lie, who has been in the army for more than 20 years, and I don't have the opportunity to show my strength until today - Mu Bai, just write a letter to me!" As long as he dares to make trouble in Beiting, Su will go out of the Jade Gate and go to the Western Regions to compete with him!"

"No problem." Qin Mubai nodded with a smile, "In those years, the teacher sent you to lead the soldiers and horses to attack the Turkic king's tent, and as a result, Jieli Khan was captured. It can be seen that you are trustworthy and worthy of great responsibility. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't have invited you to guard Yumen before. Now, I have the full authority to entrust you with the Western Regions. Please stand alone. To be from the bottom of my heart, the Western Regions is the place where my father broke the halberd and sank the sand. I don't know how much I want to go there in person. But now, I can't go. So, I'll ask you to go for me."

"I see." Su Dingfang frowned slightly and nodded with a straight nod, "I know what the Western Regions today mean to me, the Tang Dynasty and Mu Bai. It is not only a kind of tragedy and hatred, but also a responsibility and glory. Su Lie, it's a great honor to take over this post!"

"Good!" Qin Mubai took a comfortable breath and said with a smile, "In the future, the strategic deployment of our Kansai Army will be roughly like this. The main energy is still to target the Tubo people on the opposite side of Dafeichuan; in the Western Regions, I first entrust the given party. As long as the ice and snow melt smoothly, Rengui and I will lead the army to go first.

"Then how to arrange the soldiers and horses?" Xue Rengui asked.

"Take it away." Qin Mubai said seriously, "They are so eager to come all the way to help the war. What a good friendly army they must take away together!"

Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui laughed and said nothing.

The next day, Qin Mubai and the other three people went to the military camp to "guide the training" at the invitation of Xuelian. Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui smiled together. Since Qin Mubai and Xuelian's "face-to-face hot dance" on New Year's Eve, the two people have been completely sticky and unclear. The discerning people know that Xuelian has regarded Qin Mubai as a lover, but her lover also carries a lady with her, who is still the mother of the child.

This is a little difficult.

In fact, grassland people are quite open-minded about men and women, and they are more romantic than the open Tang Dynasty. If the Turkic children are in love with each other, they don't have to worry too much. It's not surprising that the sky and the earth should be used as a bed to salute the Duke of Zhou on the Yinyin grassland. After that, if you are pregnant with a child, you can raise it together; if both parties are at peace, you can also become husband and wife. But if you don't have any relationship after breaking up, you definitely don't have to bear any moral accusations.

Therefore, there are many people on the grassland who only know their mother and do not know their father. Whenever Xuelian finds all kinds of excuses to invite Qin Mubai to her barracks, it will make people think about it.

It's just that Xuelian's mother is the princess of the Tang Dynasty, and she has been more or less indoctrinated with the moral cultivation of the Tang royal family since she was a child. For so many years, the recognized beauty of the grassland has been refusing to guard her body thousands of miles away, which has attracted countless grassland men to miss each other day and night.

When the three of them arrived at the Huihu barracks, Xuelian was really training the cavalry. And he hung up in person and led his guard to practice riding and cutting.

The so-called riding and chopping is to drive the horse with a one-handed knife and cut it down with a knife when passing through a wooden stake wrapped in thick sheepskin. But it can't be a seemingly simple kung fu. You need to have a reasonable curvature and speed to cut it with a horse's sprint. If you can't do it, it's not uncommon to cut it with a knife, and it is also possible to break your arm by the force of rebound.

"This is the riding sword that grassland people have practiced for thousands of years." After looking at it for a while, Qin Mubai sighed, "It seems simple, but in fact it is very clever. The knife of the grassland nation is bent, not just to look good, but to make it easier for the cavalry to cut. It is not only easy, but also lethal and not easy to break. Look at our horizontal knife, straight! Although the casting technology of the Tang Dynasty is exquisite and unique in the world, in fact, our horizontal knives are more suitable for step-by-step combat. If the cavalry rushes, the horizontal knife is far less powerful than the barbarian machete, and it is not easy to break.

"Mu Bai said that the knife is an important reason why Hu Qi is so powerful. In order to restrain Hu Qi, I let none of the Western soldiers under my command use knives, but all of them are horses. Even if I was used to using a knife, I changed it. Xue Rengui said with deep emotion, "The Hu people take horses as their home and have learned to ride horses since they learned to walk. When fighting, their horses are like growing on their buttocks, and knives are like extensions of their arms. It's not that I have the ambition to destroy my own prestige. No matter how we practice, our Central Plains cavalry always loses to the Hu people's cavalry. Therefore, instead of training cavalry hard, it is better to take local materials and control it well and implement 'make Hu'. Previously, Mu Bai recruited many fine knights from Gaochang and Tubo, and I was really secretly happy.

"What about this one?" Qin Mubai sweated like rain on the school yard and drank loudly. He muttered and smiled ambiguously.

"I have to ask you!" Su Dingfang smiled and said, "Isn't this clear? Whenever you walk into the girl's boudoir obediently, these 40,000 elite riders will belong to you!"

"Oh, I didn't expect my chastity, Qin, which is so valuable!" Qin Mubai grinned.

Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui almost laughed on the spot.

The three of them were happy. A Tang soldier came to report that the envoy came from Sanzhou and sent an emergency military information report.

Qin Mubai raised his eyebrows and said, "Where's the military newspaper?"

"Young commander Hui, the messenger is General Yuwen! He just got into Guancheng and just got off the horse and was on fire. He was freezing and coma, and he couldn't move!"

"Yuwen Hongtai?" The three of them were shocked at the same time, and there was a bad feeling in their hearts - Yuwen Hongtai, didn't he guard Dafeichuan with Hou Junji? Why did you come here?

A shadow appeared in Qin Mubai's heart: This dead black man is really a bereaved star! Last time he suddenly appeared in Lanzhou, holding my father's spiritual position in his arms; this time...

"Go, go back to Guancheng!"

Today, it is rare for someone to watch from the sidelines. Xuelian is practicing hard on the school field. Looking back, Qin Mubai and others actually went away. She suddenly became worried and angry in her heart. She ran to the horse and cut it off with a knife, and even cut off a large part of the thick sheepskin pile. The Huihui warriors next to her were a little stunned.

"What a romantic figure, I don't understand the amorous feelings at all, hum!"