Chapter 1377 There is no precedent for this

The news quickly reached Cheng Chuliang, and they also held an urgent meeting to study the matter. Our military expenditures cannot be funded by ourselves, especially when fighting in the Western Region.

If we fight in other places, our military expenditure may not be so serious. It has already spent half a year of Tang Dynasty's fiscal revenue. If there is no way to earn back this money, for the time being, the court will No problem, but this hole must not be made.

They all remember Li Xiang's words clearly in their minds, and they all know what happened to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. If a war does not pay back the money, then the entire country can still persist, but the generals behind will take advantage of this war. To give an example, what if there are two or three wars in the future and the money is not recovered?

Li Xiang also told them that only by gaining wealth from foreign wars can our nation and country know the benefits of foreign wars. If after every war, it puts a heavy burden on our people and makes them in the war If there is no benefit from it, then what is the use of fighting a war? Is it just to satisfy the ruler's fantasy of military merit?

This is something that is absolutely unforgivable, so after discussion with the generals of the Western Regions, they must arrange the money immediately.

Before this battle, we could have arranged for the tribes in the Western Region, but now we can't do that. After all, they are leading people to fight with us on the battlefield, and their group of people is not strong enough. Weak, if this money is arranged to them, these guys may very well organize to resist. Not only will they not be able to receive the money, but our rule in the Western Region may also be put into crisis. This can be said This is the next best thing.

When we can't get wealth in the Arab Empire, we can adopt such a strategy, but we haven't tried it yet, so we can't do similar things.

In order to ensure the economic security of the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, we can rob the countries in the Western Regions, but if we do not do that, we cannot use such a barbaric method. The countries in the Western Regions are the barriers to the western part of the Tang Dynasty, and they are not used as a last resort. Under the circumstances, we must not send troops to rob.

But within the jurisdiction of the Arab Anton Governor's Mansion, there is no such concern. You have already sent troops to follow His Highness the Prince to attack us, so what else do we have to save your face?

After about seven days, everyone thought that the disaster might have passed, especially the tribes around Samarkand. They also thought that their guilt had passed. After all, General Feng had guaranteed them those None of the things had much to do with them. They were all matters between Prince Salaman and Governor Faisal.

So these people put their hearts in their hearts. In addition, they had heard some legends about the Tang Dynasty, so they believed that the Tang army would not target them, and their lives would become normal.

But at noon seven days later, they discovered a large number of brightly armored troops in the east. All of them were troops of the Tang Dynasty. Wasn't the war here over? Why are so many people coming from the east?

Feng Chucai was too lazy to explain to these people, and led his men directly into the Tang military camp. Qu Tushou and his troops ran for seven days in a row before arriving at the city of Samarkand.

"It's really hard for you. We've only been here in 7 days. There are quite a few people here. Is there 20,000?"

General Feng has not been idle these days. Because he has too few people, he cannot rob the surrounding areas. But now that our support troops have come, he can no longer be idle. During this period, he has already made people The people under him have inquired about the surrounding tribes, which tribe has money and which tribe has no money. All of this is stored in his mind, so that our people will not know where to start when they arrive.

"More than 25,000 people came in total, all of them cavalry, but not many artillery and musketeers came. Is there no tough battle?"

Qu Tushou patted the dust off his head while drinking gulps of water. The past few days of hard work had exhausted them. In order to run over as quickly as possible, many of them slept on horses along the way. of.

"I made it very clear to you in my letter. All you need to do is bring people here. I have almost investigated the situation of each tribe. Generally, in a tribe of 1,000 people, there are at most 20 or 30 people who can fight. , the rest are basically the old, weak, sick and young. The Arab prince helped us a lot. He directly took away all the young and middle-aged people from each tribe. It is estimated that those people are now our prisoners of war. There are enough people in the camp, so if we want to take action against the tribes, the existing people are enough."

Feng Chucai said with great confidence that if there were still some young adults in each tribe, then their mission would probably not be so easy to complete.

The biggest difference between nomadic people and farming people is that they have more troops. Even though their total number is small, all young and middle-aged people can fight. If they don’t have any fighting skills, in such a wasteland There is no way to survive above.

The farming people are different. Their total number of people is relatively large, but the armies that fight are specially trained. In normal times, these ordinary people participate in various economic production at home and have not conducted any military operations at all. Action, especially in the wealthy areas of Jiangnan.

Therefore, if the young adults of each tribe still stay in the original tribe, no matter how serious their losses are on the battlefield, it will be difficult for us to take away their tribe's production materials.

"I heard that most of the goodies have been taken away. I'm afraid there won't be anything else besides the cattle and sheep after we get here, right?"

Qu Tushou despised those things from the bottom of his heart. Although these things were also very valuable, transporting them so far to the economic hinterland of the Tang Dynasty was a big fortune just for the freight. But now there is nothing else. method, if you don’t want this, then you have to face the losses here.

"The general's words are wrong. There are a lot of war horses, and their people are there!"

Feng Chucai had a malicious expression on his face, and Qu Tushou and the deputy general next to him also laughed... (End of this chapter)