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The Pingyi Army led the way, and the intelligence collected by the Taozhou spies, the march went smoothly. The Pingyi Army's smuggling people did not dare to do anything bad. Their parents, wives and children were all in the hands of the Tang army, and the number of Tang army was three times that of theirs.

"Bai Yeli's camp is two hundred miles away from the Stone City we came out of."

But it is only three hundred miles away from Lintan. They had arrived in Shitou City, which they had to go west before, but if they went directly from Lintan to Baiyeli Camp, it was southwest. Lintan, Shitou City, and Baiyeli tribe were a triangle.

There is also an advantage of marching on the grassland, that is, there are not so many mountains, rivers and rivers blocking the road, and they are basically straight lines. As long as you identify the direction, it is very convenient to march on a horse.

Zhang Chao led 10,000 people, but did not lead the logistics force. Everyone was a warrior with a double horse. Each soldier brought some fried rice, beef and mutton floss, milk powder, tea, ghee, salt, and some bean cakes and coarse salt for feeding horses. The burden was not much, each person had two pots of arrows, one bow and one knife, and the other two bowstrings.

With armor, swords, guns, blankets, cloaks, etc., all the loads are not high.

Each group also specially prepared several horses to carry tents, pots and other supplies.

Such a marching is not burdened. It is very comfortable to be fast if you want to be fast, and it is slower if you want to be slow. Wei Yunqi is also a Confucian general who has fought many wars through the Sui and Tang dynasties, but the relaxed marching along the way still amazed him.

I travel a hundred miles every day, tie the horses and trip them at night, put the horses on the grassland to eat grass, and feed some salt and bean cakes in the morning. The horses are extremely energetic.

The soldiers had tents and blankets, and they could sleep at night.

Wei Yunqi’s favorite is the meat floss milk powder porridge. This compressed meat floss and milk powder can be eaten cold, but it’s even better to cook. Throw a little meat floss, pour some milk powder, add water, and add some salt. Pick some wild vegetables and mushrooms on the grassland and cook them together. It’s really delicious.

He also likes to put some fried rice in it and add some pepper and salt, which is really enjoyable.

After eating, I cooked a pot of butter tea, which was very beautiful.

Wei Yunqi felt that he had come out these days, on the horse's back every day, and the endless blue sky, white clouds and green grass, and he actually gained a little weight.

You don’t have to eat steamed rice that is difficult to swallow, you don’t have to eat millet rice with shells, you don’t have to chew jerky, or you don’t have to go hungry at all. You’re happy.

Sometimes he thought that the Taozhou soldiers had a good meal, and their equipment were also good, including war horses, tents, blankets, sheepskin vests, silk cloaks, a small soldier, and their food was better than ordinary soldiers and team leaders.

But thinking about their achievements and their seizures, everything is normal again.

The soldiers of the government prepared some equipment and the Taozhou military administration prepared some.

The Taozhou Governor's Office is rich, and the soldiers of the government are also very rich. Isn't it normal for them to be well equipped?

Wei Yunqi is now very interested in this compressed meat floss that can compress more than 20 kilograms of beef into one kilogram. If the Tuyuhun people or the Turks have learned this kind of military ration production technology, wouldn’t that be very dangerous?

In the past, when the Turks or Tuyuhun people attacked, they would march directly with cattle and sheep, kill cattle and sheep while marching. Cattle and sheep do not need to be transported by people, just drive them away, and there is no need to be extra burden to eat grass on the road.

Although it is much more convenient to drive cattle and sheep to transport military rations than the Han chariots that were picked by people, it also has certain flaws. However, Zhang Chao's compressed meat floss gave Wei Yunqi a hidden worry.

Because the Central Plains lack cattle and sheep, even pigs, chickens, ducks, etc. can be made into meat floss, but after all, the Central Plains is an agricultural dynasty. However, the Turks, Khitans, Tuyuhun people on the grassland are different. They do not grow grain, but they have a lot of cattle and sheep.

If they learn this technique, they will be like a tiger with wings, which will be more convenient in the future. Before going to war, they will kill all the bulls and rams and process them into meat floss. A cow can be compressed into twenty kilograms of meat floss.

A soldier with a bladder on his back and a bag of milk powder is equivalent to marching with a cow on his back, and even a cow has to be added. After two or three months of fighting, he will probably not be short of food and grass. Without marching with cattle and sheep, the maneuverability is of course greatly improved.

With meat floss and milk powder, they come and go even more like the wind.

"Don't worry, ordinary meat floss can't do this for us. They can only make five or six kilograms of meat and dry them into one kilogram of jerky." Zhang Chao said with a smile. Meat floss and milk powder are not easy. Moreover, these grassland herders may not be willing to think about how to do it. They have ready-made cattle and sheep, so how could they think about such a difficult problem?

And compressed meat floss is very technical.

The army moves forward.

Zequ is now named Chishui by Zhang Chao.

The scouts returned and found a team of Tuyuhun people ahead, claiming to be the envoy of the Yeli Ministry.

The messenger had only thirteen horsemen, not one hundred people who were led to the army, and his face turned pale.

The messenger of Yeli was very nervous. The Tang Dynasty governor was already said to be a guy who likes to eat people on the grassland. He especially likes to poach people's hearts and eat them with wine. Some people even called Zhang Chao the Yan Luo directly.

The leaders of Hei Yeli and Qing Yeli, and the messenger Yeli, were all eaten by him.

The messenger didn't want to come, but the leader asked him to come, and he had no choice.

"My leader asked me to tell the governor of Taozhou in the Tang Dynasty that you have crossed the border of the Tang Dynasty and entered the territory of Tuyuhun. My leader asked the governor to return to the Tang territory immediately. As for the matter of releasing the Han people you request, you can discuss it with the two families."

"Discuss, just discuss it!" Niu Jianhu stood beside him and shouted loudly, scaring the messenger almost sat on the ground. The Yeli Ministry had already fallen into the hands of this general Tang, so he was not afraid of it.

"When you see a tiger, don't be so loud, they are messengers." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

Zhang Chao said something, and Niu Jianhu retreated.

The messenger thanked him so much that he spoke more fluently. He said everything Yelizhen wanted to bring in one breath.

As the leader of the seventh tribes of Yeli, Yelizhen brought a message to Zhang Chao, and he was very regretful about the conflict. He believed that the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun were still in peace talks, and the specific borders had not been divided yet. Before that, both sides should maintain restraint and use the old border as the boundary and not cross the boundary between each other.

The implication is that Hei Yeli's attack on Jiangxin City is wrong first and crosses the boundary. But Zhang Chao took over Hei Yeli's territory, which is also crossing the boundary.

Now Zhang Chao has attacked the herdsmen from various herders on the former Hei Yeli territory, which is wrong.

Of course, Yelizhen is the original intention of resolving conflicts and requires both sides to maintain restraint.

He asked the Tang army to withdraw to Taozhou, and he also guaranteed that the Yeli Ministry would no longer enter the territory of Heiyeli, and that place would first serve as a buffer zone for the two companies and would not be allowed to set foot on it.

This matter was reported to the two courts, and the Tang envoy personally discussed with the Khan of Tuyuhun in Qinghai and came up with a result.

As for Zhang Chao's request to return the Han people captured in the last war, Ye Lizhen was willing to do so. But he also asked Taozhou to return tens of thousands of captive Ye Li tribes.

The two sides exchanged prisoners at the Paoma Beach and then quit the war.

Yeli is really sincere, but unfortunately Zhang Chao doesn’t come to reason.

He brought so many soldiers, but it was not a whim that he ran up the grassland to camp and see the scenery. He had been preparing for two months and planning for a long time, for the purpose of the territory of the Yeli Ministry and the population of cattle and sheep.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Chao is interested in them.

As for the attacks of the black Yeli people first, the seventh tribes of Yeli robbed Han people last time, all of them were just superficial reasons for sending troops.

"Very good. I admire the sincerity of the old chief Yelizhen. The Yeli Ministry finally has a reasonable person. If you go back and tell the old chief Yelizhen, you will say that he is old and I can't bear to let him go to Stone City in person. Anyway, I'm already halfway, so I'll just go and visit Mr. Yelizhen and several other leaders in person."

"If you have any matter, let's talk face to face in person. After that, I will take my Han people back!"

Zhang Chao said with a smile on his face, but the messenger felt that Zhang Chao's words were full of threats.

"Don't bother Governor Zhang, thank you for your hard work. We'll just meet in Stone City then!"

"Hey, we Han people are most concerned about respecting the elderly and loving the young. Old Master Yelizhen is so old that he is so embarrassed to work hard. I'll visit him in person!"

"No need!"

"Well, you are so pushing and hindering, aren't you having no sincerity in your negotiation?"

Zhang San's eyes glared and his face turned black. The messenger nodded quickly as if he was pounding garlic.

The messenger left with a sad look on his face. He turned around frequently when he left and looked at the Tang army a few more glances, especially at the "Tang army" holding the flat flag.

As soon as the envoy left, Ma Zhou, Xu Jingzong, Cen Wenben, Sun Fujia, Li Shousu, and this large group of officials immediately came to Zhang Chao for a small meeting.

They all think that Yeli is really in good condition and can be considered.

"What are the good conditions? The territory of Hei Yeli's ministry was captured by us. Hei Yeli, Qing Yeli and other prisoners were also captured by us. Why should we promise Yelizhen to return to Taozhou? Why should we put the slaves we had worked hard to capture back?"

"But the six ministries of Yeli have already prepared. We went deep into the grassland and fought against them on the grassland. We had no advantage in military strength, no advantage in geographical location, time, etc., and the outcome was unpredictable."

Xu Jingzong thought Zhang Chao was a little risky. After winning several battles, he couldn't see the situation clearly.

"There are no more six ministries, but five and a half ministries." Su Dingfang supported the fight and helped him speak.

"But there is also a Yeli tribe next to it, and they still have five thousand cavalry!" Ma Zhou also joined in and spoke. Yeli tribe and Taozhou have been having a bit of celebration, and it is also a tribe of tens of thousands of people.

Zhang Chao smiled.

"Hahaha, it's not only Yeli people have helpers, I have helpers too!"

Are Ma Zhou and other civil officials confused?

Helpers, where do you get helpers? Does it refer to the Pingyi Army? There are only a few people, and if they really fight, these people may not be able to rely on them!
Chapter completed!