Martial Sage

"Five hundred miles is the limit, and it must be confirmed that there is a lot of food and grass there. The army can make up for all the deficiencies in one attack, otherwise such a food-raising drive is meaningless."

Niu Jinda looked at Li Jing suspiciously, but the Turkic people did just that. They sent their own people two thousand miles away to raise food, crossing two saline soils and a desert.

Departing from Danrose to Beiting to collect food, Li Jing measured the distance from Danrose to Tingzhou, and then confirmed that the straight-line distance was 1,800 miles.

"If something goes wrong, it is a demon. I couldn't figure it out, so I asked a few Aiqings to discuss it together. Now Guo Xiaoke has entered Jiashi City, and Tang Hao's left wing is empty. In order to maintain the business way, Tang Hao had to shrink. Forces, set up a base camp in Loulan, and hand it over to Xu Jingzong. It is said that it is a good place for both offense and defense."

"Mr. Yuan also laid out eight formations there, which is pretty solid. With such a fulcrum, the Western Regions can't be chaotic." Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji also arrived when they were speaking.

Changsun Wuji frowned and said, "But these people have stayed there for more than two years, and still can't see the posture of going west. Weichen thought they were watching, or there was an internal dispute, did they send an envoy? Take a look in the past to double the strength?"

Seeing that the worry on everyone’s faces became more and more serious, Fang Xuanling hurriedly said: “The old minister thought it was inappropriate to increase troops. This year’s budget has been allocated and only a part of next year’s budget has been used. Up to now, it can be said that there is no copper coin in the Ministry of Households. On the contrary, I owed a large sum of money, and the treasury was unable to support the army's expedition. Please let me know."

"The new roads in the middle of Shu and the canals in Hebei are the top priorities. You must never stop. If you miss this opportunity, you won't know when the next construction will start. Your Majesty, in the opinion of an old official, Tang Hao Although it has suffered a lot in terms of numbers, it is not completely incapable of fighting back."

In Fang Xuanling's view, Tang Hao's worries were that the Western Regions were too large to take care of his soldiers and horses. In addition, Guo Xiaoke's left wing was empty after Guo Xiaoke moved west. Got in the way.

"Fifty thousand troops are stationed on the front line of Anxi in Beiting. Even if they can't threaten the Hu people to advance westward, they can at least guarantee that I will go to the border without war. It will last for three to five years, and I will find these Hu people to settle accounts after I come to the court. Not too late."

Li Jing's words made Fang Xuanling and the others nodded. This is the safest way. Although the Western Regions are important, they are not so important as to surpass domestic construction.

As long as Tang Hao can drag the people of the Western Regions for three to five years, when the reinforcements move westward, all evildoers can naturally be eliminated.

Cheng Yaojin put Tang Hao's memorial on the table and said angrily: "This way, Tang Hao's burden will be heavier. Fifty thousand people, garrisoned for five thousand miles, only ten people per mile of defense, Gobi There are roads everywhere on the beach, how can he garrison?"

"What we are talking about here is easy. Tang Hao will break his leg on the Gobi Desert. His strength is far from enough. At least he must be given enough rotation strength."

"Camel City." Li Jing suddenly shouted, "Tang Hao mentioned Camel City to us when he left Chang'an. I don't know what he has become now."

With such a fortress of activity, Tang Hao can stay active in the Gobi for a long time without worrying about morale exhaustion.

Qin Qiong shook his head: "Putting the army's life on a camel city that we have never seen and never used is what's the difference with tying the life of a soldier to God's crotch? I suggest abandoning Beiting. The whole division defended Gaochang and gave up all the places north of Tianshan. After the past few years, we will discuss it from the beginning."

Li Zhi shook his head and said, "At this moment and then, as long as our troops and horses of Datang retreat, those Western Regions will return quickly. In that case, our previous years of hard work will be wasted."

He only ordered Tang Hao to stick to Beiting and Anxi no matter what, when he saw Guo Xiaoke withdraw to Qiuci.

"The frontier army is under Tang Hao's command, and the camera forces the Hu Ren to go west without error."

A group of people came out of the Manmin Palace. Cheng Yaojin said to Niu Jinda: "Let’s get Tang Hao to get a camel. Even if it’s robbed, we have to buy him 50,000 heads."

Yu Chigong said: "Even if I get all the camels in Luoyang, there are only more than 2,800 heads. If you remove the old camels and the little camels, it would be nice to have 2,000."

"I found out that the Tibetans had more than 1,000 camels yesterday. I will look for them again today. Lu Dong praised him for giving him to the old man. If he doesn't give it to the old man, he intends to rob him." Li Shixue who came together wanted to speak, Niu Jindabai Waved his hand and said, "Forget it, none of your sons are fuel-efficient lamps."

Li Shixu was made a big red face and argued: "I am the last one at home. I'm not dead yet. It's not their turn to interrupt."

Li Jing smiled and said: "There is a place where there are so many camels. I don't know how many people dare to start. At least 10,000 are all good camels."

"Where? Even if it's the daddy of the heavenly king, the old man has to grab it." Cheng Yaojin immediately leaned in front of Li Jing.

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