Chapter 920: Letting the tiger return to the mountains will cause endless troubles?
In the first year of Dalong's Taiping reign, it was September 27th, the eighth year of Taichang in the Turks.
Huyan Yunyao, the Taichang Khan of the Huyan Royal Court, led six cavalry units and returned to the Turkic Royal Court in Yinshan.
Accompanying him were the six guards of Dalong's new army, Bai Zhan, three guards of Rui Shi, and six guards of Northern Xinjiang, Longwu, Xiaoguo, and Huben, with a total of 300,000 cavalry.
There are also more than 96,000 Western Turks, prisoners of Tsarist Russia.
Knowing that Liu Mingzhi, the senior brother who had become the new emperor of Dalong, was waiting for him in the territory of the Moruo tribe, Huyan Yunyao explained to his second brother Huyanyu that he only commanded 10,000 Turkic troops and accompanied Cheng Kai and others to escort Tsarist Russia.
The captives from the two Western Turkic countries went directly to the camp of the Jin Kingdom's remnants of the Moro Tribe to join them.
I don’t know if it was Huyan Yunyao’s intention, but 60% of the 10,000 Turkic cavalry accompanying him turned out to be tribesmen who were proficient in Chinese.
"Brother Dalong, how many troops did you bring this time? Are you the only one with 300,000 cavalry?"
During the march of the Six Guards of the New Army and the Six Guards of the Northern Xinjiang, the Turkic cavalry who were divided into the marching troops of the trapped army intentionally or unintentionally approached the cavalry of the large dragon's trapped army, and used the way of chatting to express the words of the large dragon cavalry.
The soldiers of the trapped army looked at the dozen or so Turkic cavalry who had come up to drive abreast. They looked at each other with strange expressions and then gathered together without leaving any trace.
"Wu Lieutenant, that's interesting. Before we could talk to each other, they took the initiative to join us. What should we do?"
"Just answer whatever you want! Before the troops were sent out, Your Majesty... The commander-in-chief had already asked the generals to give us orders. We don't have to worry about leaking any military secrets. We can say whatever we want."
, just talk freely and deceive.
Just watch and deal with it!"
"Okay, I understand!"
"Wu Han, the captain of the Bow and Crossbow Department of the Xuanwu Camp of the Sinking Formation Army, what do you call your brother? He speaks Chinese very well!"
"It turns out to be General Wu. He is Shatuo Buhua from the Shatuo tribe. He is a ten-man commander under the Turkic Khan King. He once stationed at the border market outside Yingzhou City in your northern territory of Dalong, and he was deeply influenced by it.
Now, I can speak Chinese very fluently."
"No wonder you speak Chinese so fluently. It turned out that you were stationed at the border exchange. So your life in the army was not short. You can be regarded as my senior foreigner. I'm disrespectful."
"Don't dare, don't you dare, General Wu, do you want to eat beef jerky?"
Wu Han looked at the beef jerky that Shatuo Buhua handed to him, swallowed a few times, took it without hesitation, stuffed it into his mouth and started chewing.
"It's delicious. When it comes to beef jerky, your Turkic jerky is the most authentic.
We, the sons of the Han family, believe in courtesy and reciprocity. Senior, please treat me to some dried meat, and I will treat you, senior, to a drink."
Shatuo took the wine bag from Wu Han and took a sip without any courtesy.
"It's fun, it's your Dalong's wine that's more enjoyable to drink. Our Turkic mare's kumiss always tastes fishy no matter how you drink it. It's not as refreshing and mellow as your Dalong's wine!"
To be honest, after the border trade was closed due to repeated wars in the past few years, our Turks have had a hard time.
I can no longer drink fragrant tea or fragrant wine, and even the food and clothing are not as good as before.
The silk and spices are all gone. After my mother-in-law put on the silk she bought, I would sleep with her arms in my arms every day without getting tired of it.
Not like now, with the smell of fur all over my body, I have no interest in sleeping, let alone doing anything else.
A few years ago, all kinds of fine wines and delicacies could be freely exchanged at Dalong’s mutual market.
After the mutual trade was closed, we can only eat homemade dried meat jerky, which makes us almost vomit.
You, the generals of Dalong, are living a comfortable and carefree life. You can eat and wear the same clothes every day.
It’s not like us, either beef or mutton, life is really hard for people to live!”
Looking at Shatuo Buhua sighing, Wu Han suddenly felt that the beef jerky in his hand, which was still strong and delicious just now, was no longer fragrant.
"Haha...Senior is joking, we, Dalong, can just live like that!"
"Brother Wu, you are so humble. Compared with us who eat meat until we feel nauseated, your Dalong food, pastries, fruits, dishes, and soup noodles come in all shapes and sizes and are just like that? Then we can only eat dried meat, isn't it pigs?
Worse than a dog!"
Wu Han looked at Sha Tuo Buhua with a troubled expression. He lowered his head and glanced at the remaining half piece of dry food in the saddle bag on the horse's back. He felt increasingly uncomfortable.
"Co-author...Co-author Senior, you Turkic people are so poor now that you can only eat pickled beef and mutton or dried meat."
"Yeah! Who wouldn't be bothered by eating it every day?"
Wu Han looked around and noticed the strange and aggrieved expressions on his brothers' faces. He hesitantly took out a piece of bread from the bag and handed it to Shatuo Buhua.
"How about a change of taste?"
Shatuo Buhua looked at the noodle cake in Wu Han's hand with bright eyes: "Are there any pickles?"
"You know this too?"
"Good stuff!"
"Xiaofu, do you still have any pickles? Give some to senior!"
"yes!"
Wu Han took the pickles handed over by Xiaofu and gave them to Shatuo Buhua. Watching him eating the food happily, he silently tore off a piece of meat jerky and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Is it...is it so delicious?"
"Yes! Hiccup, we Turks are not like you Han people. There are too few places where we can grow food. Rice is a luxury for the young generals like us below.
Especially since we in Turkic territory have to go through a long winter, we are reluctant to eat the food we have, and most of it is used to make wine.
The snow is coming, and when the weather gets cold, wine can keep you warm, and food is very precious to us!"
"Dried meat is very precious to us, especially beef. Officials and dignitaries generally don't dare to slaughter bullocks easily!" After muttering a few words in a low voice, Wu Han took out another piece of bread and handed it to him with a smile.
Shatuo is not flowery.
"It's delicious, senior, please eat more. I, the dragon, will make the world rich and full of noodles!"
"Good brother, you are so kind. Come, I have a lot of dried meat here. I can give it to you if you like!"
"Thank you very much, senior!"
"Xiaofu, take it and share the points!"
"Yes! General... General, are these Turks stupid, or is the jerky a scam? No one can do this by exchanging dried meat for pancakes!"
Wu Han looked at Xiaofu's hesitant eyes as he held the dried meat, lowered his head in silence for a while and shook his head gently.
"I'm not necessarily stupid, I guess I'm really tired of eating dried meat.
Just like we are tired of eating noodles, they are tired of eating meat."
"Is that safe to eat?"
"Eat, eat happily!"
"Brother Wu Han, how many soldiers and horses did you bring this time? Seeing that you only brought a small amount of emergency rations with you, there must be a follow-up army and a large army of supplies, right?"
"Senior's guess is correct. This time we will send 8...900,000 troops. I heard the general said it was around 930,000 or 950,000.
Brother, I am in a humble position and have little power, so I am not particularly clear about it."
"Nine...more than nine hundred thousand! Your dragon has had three Northern Expeditions and three civil strife. The more than nine hundred thousand soldiers and horses should only be half of the elite troops!"
"Haha...Senior is joking, the state soldiers and reserve auxiliary soldiers are not qualified to go out to fight at all. This time there is an army of nearly one million, all of which are elites who have fought in hundreds of battles.
The Sixth Guards of our New Army alone have prepared another 300,000 elite troops.
The soldiers and horses of the other battalions are all elites left over from several bloody battles."
"Then...then you dragons are really strong and powerful!"
"Of course, I, Emperor Dalong, have great ambitions. This time I raised one million troops to go on a personal expedition, bringing with me enough food and fodder for the three-year campaign.
I heard from the general that Your Majesty led the army out of the country this time with the determination that he would not unite the world and never return to the country.
Senior, you and I are destined to be together. Let me tell you the truth, brother. This time you Turks might as well surrender to you honestly. It would be dangerous to fight hard!
Like the Jin Kingdom, it is easy to subjugate a country. It might lead to the annihilation of the entire nation!
This is by no means an alarmist statement from me, brother."
Wu Han glanced at the solemn expression on Shatuo Buhua's face, picked up the wine bag on his horse and tasted it silently.
At the end of September, when the weather was approaching October, and there was no war imminent, Liu Mingzhi did not prohibit the soldiers from drinking a small amount of alcohol.
The infantry is okay, but if the cavalry doesn't drink some wine to keep warm, the soldiers' bodies won't be able to bear it when the horses gallop forward!
Wu Han and Sha Tuo are not the only ones who are not alone.
Dalong's troops and horses were all talking brazenly to the Turkic cavalry who were approaching.
"Brother Mo Sang, you don't know. I heard that His Majesty ordered the Ministry of War to make every effort to cast thousands of artillery pieces and transport them to the border."
"How is it possible that our dragon only has so few troops, not counting our 300,000 cavalry and the other two armies? Brother, I overheard the general saying that your majesty has mobilized 300,000 elite coalition troops from the Western Regions from the countries in the Western Regions.
Heading to Ganzhou, the western border of Dalong!"
"Brother Hua Wanwu, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart. The Kingdom of Jin has secretly joined forces with our Dalong!
Who is Queen Jin? She is the wife of our new Emperor Dalong. Can she not listen to our Majesty's words?
The soldiers and horses of the two countries are united. What are you going to fight for? You would rather die in vain than continue to fight. Just pretend that my brother has not said anything. In the future, when I go to give you money during the holidays, it will not be in vain for you and me to know each other as brothers.
One game.”
"Are you kidding? How can we only have such a small number of troops? Before our Majesty went on the expedition, he had already asked the Ministry of War to announce to the world that he would recruit 300,000 new soldiers as early as possible......"
Huyan Yunyao listened to the messy voices behind her and glanced at Zhang Kuang and Cheng Kai, who were drinking drinks happily, and suddenly had the idea that they had made a mistake.
Although she couldn't hear what the soldiers on both sides were saying in the rear, her intuition told her that something was not good!
Withdrawing her gaze, Huyan Yunyao looked at the two of them calmly.
"The two generals have been traveling for many days, but why did Ben Khan never find Spiesmult and the Russian Slav?"
"Great Khan, if we don't let the tiger return to the mountain, how can I, the dragon, have endless troubles?"