The twelfth year of Zhenguan, the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This was supposed to be a day for family reunion.
However, due to a war in the Western Turks, many soldiers who wanted to return home could only temporarily tolerate their homesickness and return to the team.
Many people don't understand why this war is being fought.
There are also many people who don't understand why they need to aid the Western Turks.
After all, they were obviously once life-and-death rivals.
But the military orders were overwhelming, so they had no choice but to obey them and take the big ship to the west.
Of course, the reason why they obeyed the order was not only because of the military order, but also because of a person.
Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty.
This time, he was the commander in chief.
Even the prince of a country can abandon his family and career, what else can they say?
Three days later, the army marched to Liangzhou.
The 30,000 soldiers of the Liangzhou Army were already ready to go.
As soon as the team arrived, they boarded the ship with weapons and supplies and joined the expedition.
Standing on the deck and looking out.
Li Chengqian suddenly felt like he was in another world.
Once upon a time, the Liangzhou army was indeed well-trained.
But when boarding or lining up, it will still be more or less messy.
But this time it was completely different from before.
The whole army, in battalion units, boarded the ship row after row, and the military formation was as neat as sliced tofu.
That scene was almost the same as that of later generations.
What makes Li Chengqian even more gratified is that all the 30,000 Liangzhou Army troops are equipped with the latest muskets.
And among them, there are also completely epoch-making teams like the artillery battalion.
After the entire army boarded the ship, Liu Qi and Feng Guangyao also came to Li Chengqian's ship.
"Liu Qi, the last general, pays homage to His Highness the Crown Prince..."
"The last general, Feng Guangyao, pays homage to His Highness the Crown Prince..."
Both of them bowed and saluted. After Li Chengqian spoke, they raised their heads and looked at Li Chengqian, their eyes full of heat.
It's time to go on another expedition, and finally I have to fight alongside His Highness again.
To be honest, after graduating from the first batch of students at the Wuhan Academy, he thought that there was no possibility of him being on the battlefield again.
Who knows, an Ansa Empire will suddenly emerge.
At this moment, seeing the brothers who fought side by side in the past, it was impossible for Li Chengqian not to feel emotional.
He looked directly at the two of them and said: "Look at you two, you are obviously a fourth-grade general conferred by the imperial court, but you are still the same as that little captain."
"Everyone is as tanned as a black coal briquette. Don't you have anyone under your command?"
Hearing this, both of them laughed.
Liu Qi said seriously: "Before the reform, our Liangzhou Army was the most powerful in the world."
"After the reform, we naturally cannot embarrass our seniors."
"We don't feel comfortable letting others take care of the training, so we can only do it ourselves."
As he spoke, he pointed behind him and said, "Does Your Highness feel satisfied with our Liangzhou Legion now?"
"It looks pretty decent."
Li Chengqian said deliberately: "I just don't know how it will be in actual combat."
"Don't worry."
Liu Qi said with a proud face: "We Liangzhou men are like wolves and tigers, and we can still make the enemy fearful."
"Okay, then when the time comes to go to the battlefield, whoever is cowardly will be my grandson."
After Li Chengqian finished speaking, his eyes fell on Feng Guangyao's head.
At this moment, Feng Guangyao's expression was as embarrassing as eating shit.
Seeing Li Chengqian looking towards him, Feng Guangyao lowered his head subconsciously.
Li Chengqian's original plan was to ask Feng Guangyao to stay and take charge of logistics supplies with Changsun Chong, who would arrive later.
But how could Feng Guangyao be willing to give up the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy and stay behind to do logistics?
At that moment, he also said with a look of reluctance: "Your Highness, I don't want to stay behind. I want to go to the front line with you."
"You guy."
"Do you think the logistics are so unsatisfactory?"
"Let me tell you, there are 60,000 mouths in front of us waiting to eat, 60,000 guns waiting to be fired, and 2,000 cannons waiting to blow up so that the enemy can't find the north."
Li Chengqian stared at Feng Guangyao and said, "Why do you think I put you in this position?"
The importance of the logistics line needs no emphasis.
And the fact that he can put Feng Guangyao in such a key position shows how much he values Feng Guangyao.
At that moment, he also said directly to Feng Guangyao: "You kid, don't talk nonsense to me. Get off the boat right now."
"If by then my soldiers are missing a mouthful of food to eat and a missing artillery shell to shoot, I want your head."
After hearing this, Feng Guangyao was still unconvinced.
But just when he wanted to argue a few words, Liu Qi suddenly spoke.
"Old Feng, do whatever His Highness asks you to do."
"Besides, staying behind doesn't mean there's no chance of killing the enemy."
Liu Qi said with a smile: "When the time comes, I will definitely capture more prisoners for you and let you chop them up for fun."
"You're so damn..."
It was okay if he didn't say this, but Feng Guangyao became even more angry when he said this. He pointed at Liu Qi's nose and wanted to scold him.
But as soon as these four words came out of his mouth, Li Chengqian's eyes drifted over, scaring him so much that he swallowed back the rest of his words.
Then, he had no choice but to reluctantly raise his hand and say, "I will ensure that His Highness's explanation is complete."
"That's good."
"Don't let me down."
After Li Chengqian told him, he ordered: "The whole army sets off and heads west."
This time, Li Chengqian planned a route from Datong River, a tributary of the Yellow River, all the way to the west.
Then continue westward by land, enter Gaochang for a temporary rest, build a logistics base, and finally enter the territory of the Western Turks in one go.
And this time it took more than half a month.
At the same time, when Li Chengqian led his troops forward, the Western Turks also took the lead in fighting with the Angsa people.
Thanks to the many years of fighting with the Tang Dynasty, the current combat power of the Western Turks is indeed extraordinary.
They didn't even lose when facing each other's powerful firearms.
And this is not because of anything else, it is entirely due to the experience gained by Li Chengqian.
When arranging his troops, Zhao Youlin followed the method that Li Chengqian used to fight him, to strengthen the walls and clear the field.
Withdraw the local tribes, leaving the opponent with nothing to plunder or plunder, and then send light cavalry to harass the enemy's logistics and slow down the enemy's march.
And when the enemy was fed up with their troubles, they began to encircle and suppress them.
The Western Turkic team will take advantage of the terrain and hide directly in the mountains, rivers and ravines.
Facing mountains, rivers and ravines, even if the Angsa people had firearms, they would not be able to take full advantage.
The Western Turks' rogue style of play also had a miraculous effect, allowing the Unsa team, which had once destroyed a country as big as Sasanian Persia in one month, to advance less than a hundred miles in ten days.
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Jia Yanzhang also reported the news to Zhao Youlin with a smile.
After Zhao Youlin heard this, not only did he not feel happy at all, but his expression became even more serious.
He looked directly at the map in front of him and said: "Judging from the current situation, the enemy is probably going to be angered by us."
"So what?"
Jia Yanzhang was a little confused and said: "We are enemies, how can we not make people angry?"
Hearing this mindless speech, Zhao Youlin was also speechless.
"I told you to read more military books but you didn't listen."
Zhao Youlin said angrily: "If you say something like this now, do you know how stupid you look?"
