"I'm so tired."

"Don't squat, stand, all stand, all take a break."

"Get up, get up quickly."

In the team, the veterans scolded, and then the recruits who almost collapsed stood up straight under the pull of their companions, gasping for breath.

"It's great to curse, I'm very energetic. Come on, let's lie down and stand up for Yeye."

Lu Xiong, who was shining on his head, looked at the new recruits who were cursing, with a grim smile on his face. The recruits around him couldn't help but beat him up. Everyone knew that the Captain Lu of the three old military academies under the Lord's command had the most straightforward and irritable temper.

"Luyeye, we..."

Several new recruits had a bitter face, but Lu Xiong just glared at them and said, "Thirty."

Now, the recruits no longer dared to delay, so they quickly lay on the ground and stood up. The companions who were gloating around them were counting for them with great energy.

"Fifteen, sixteen..."

Hearing the soldiers' clamor, Chen Guang, not far away, laughed. It had been ten days since they left Shule Town. The entire army had already reached the plateau with an altitude of three to four thousand meters and looked through the snow-capped mountains. This distance was equivalent to arriving from Kashgar in later generations to Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, which was nearly 300 kilometers.

The army travels fifteen kilometers a day, but it is basically a difficult mountain road. There is no need to think about riding a horse. Most of the time, you have to lead your horse and walk, and you have to repair it on the spot after walking about five kilometers.

Such a marching speed is no longer slow, especially the army carried a large number of supplies. At least Fokas, who is now a clerk in the Thunder Ye Army, feels that this expedition of the Tang army has surpassed Hannibal's reading of the Alps. His greatest pleasure every day is to write a diary. In his opinion, when he obtains official titles in the Tang Dynasty, he returns to Constantinople, the things he records will become the inheritance treasures of the family.

“Twenty-nine, thirty!”

After thirty years of lying on the ground, the recruits were already breathing, but when they saw the sunken light, they still stood up and saluted.

“Very good, very energetic.”

Chen Guang spoke, and the same sentence instantly made these recruits frightened? The general occasionally said something he couldn't understand. But this did not prevent everyone from understanding. Since leaving Shule Town, "very good? Very energetic!" almost became the catchphrase of the officers, but then all kinds of extra practice came.

"Okay? Don't be bitter, and then rest on the spot after you breathe well? Wait until the team behind you come up? Help with the work."

Chen Guang was not scaring the recruits who had just been punished by Lu Xiong. He just said that since he fought on the plateau, his Ye Jun has been very successful? Didn't make any mistakes during the march? There was no non-combat reduction, and the recruits were also quickly adapting to the plateau climate, and the veterans also knew how to preserve their physical strength.

Now his Snow Ye Army has become the vanguard of the army and is clearing the way forward. Now the army has already acknowledged that he can become the commander of the side divisions, and he is not satisfied with his ambitions? In addition to being in the daily inspection of the army, he is also allowed to make a brief revision and take over the job of setting up a camp.

"Here!"

The soldiers are used to helping the army build camps every day? No one thinks there is anything wrong with this. Everyone knows that the Sailing Ye Army is the new army? The most experienced in the Anxi Army? They have no glory and military achievements to show off? Therefore, it is natural to do these tasks.

The sound of horse hooves came from afar. Chen Guang looked up and saw that Zhang Aocao was leading the old and mixed scout team back, with several herders riding horses following behind him.

The Paoling City is the capital of the Hepantuo Kingdom. The plateau area where they are now located is the former land of the Hepantuo Kingdom. Since they crossed the snow-capped mountain pass, they have been able to meet the Hepantuo people grazing in these plateau areas from time to time.

The Hepantuo people were the ancestors of the Tajikistan people in later generations. They once established countries in the Pamirs and were also the protectors of the Silk Road in this area. However, at the beginning of Kaiyuan, their former king, Pei Xing, thought the Tang Dynasty was too far away, so he defected to Tubo, and then there was no Hepantuo Kingdom again.

Speaking of which, the Hepantuo people had the hatred of destroying the country with the Tang Dynasty, and they had only been destroyed for twenty years. Chen Guang thought that the Hepantuo people would inevitably be hostile to the Tang army, but who knew that it was not the case at all.

During these ten days, the Hepantuo herders they met were very hospitalized. At this time, Chen Guang understood why Feng Changqing had to bring a lot of cloth and salt in his logistics supplies. At the same time, he told him that even if he met local natives before arriving at Lianyun Castle, he did not have to worry that anyone would communicate with the Tubo people.

It was really a plundering and unpopular. He thought that the Tang Dynasty had a grudge against the people of Hepantuo to destroy the country, but for these Hepantuo herders, the Tang Dynasty helped them drive away the foreign tyrants above their heads.

Soon, the few Hepantuo herders followed Zhang Aocao to Chen Guang, "I have seen General Chen."

The leader of the Hepantuo herder was an old man with a frosty face. He spoke fluently in Chinese, but he had a Heluo accent in the pass. It was not surprising that Shen Guang was because the Tang Dynasty sent troops to drive away Pei Xing in Kaiyuan. After the establishment of the Pao Ling Guard in the Hepantuo Kingdom, the heroes in the Pao Ling Guard in the Pao Ling Guard in the Pao Ling Guard.

This old man probably was once a guard guard of the Pamirs. Thinking of the Tajikistan border guards who were patrolling the border for the Republic in later generations, Chen Guang's face became more and more friendly. "My father-in-law used to be a soldier of the Pamirs."

"The general has good eyesight. He was the leader of the fire that was captured by the Pamirs before."

Speaking of his experience in serving in the Tang army outside, the old man was full of pride. The young herders behind him were also full of envy. Being able to go to the Captain Ling to serve in the army was a good thing in the eyes of the people of Hepantuo. First, this symbolized courage, and second, they could receive military salary and exchange various cloth, salt and other goods in the stone city.

"Brother-in-law, this time my Tang army went to fight against Xiaobolu because Xiaobolu colluded with Tubo traitors and oppressed my Tang vassal state. You don't have to worry and panic. Wherever my Tang heavenly soldiers pass, they will definitely not be able to harm their own people."

Chen Guang will definitely say the scenes that should be spoken. The army has already come here. As long as the local people are not stupid, they know that they are going to fight Xiao Bolu. Instead of hiding, it is better to publicize them openly.

"The traitors are all robbers who should be killed. Xiao Bolu doesn't accept Wang Hua, so he should be killed..."

Hearing the old man Hupantuo cursed, Chen Guang was amused, and he immediately said, "Brother-in-law, my army has arrived here. I wonder if I can trade some live animals, beans and other items with your department..."

"Thank you, General, I asked my tribe members to bring cattle, sheep, beans and other things."

Hearing Chen Guang's voluntary mention of the transaction, the old man He Pantuo was very happy and quickly called the young people around him and asked him to go back and notify his tribe members to come here to trade with the animals.

"My father-in-law, let's go with me. When the army arrives, I will send cloth, salt, groceries and other items to your department to choose."

Chen Guang enthusiastically invited the old man He Pantuo. After Xiao Bolu, when Zhang Xun took over the fire, he would prepare to recover the Shuye City. These people of He Pantuo were all the best sources of soldiers, and there were not many guards available to the Captain Ling, so he should be recruited.
Chapter completed!