The camp in the west of the capital stretches for more than ten miles, with felt tents spread out in an orderly manner, flags and drums and horns endlessly.

In this camp, in addition to the 30,000 Jingbian Jianshe just selected by the imperial court, there are also many Hu servants stationed, with a number of nearly 30,000.

Although these Hu troops who responded to the imperial enlistment and participated in the war, they were temporarily stationed in the Beijing West Camp, they were not completely mixed with the Jingbian soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Instead, they were separated into small camps and placed with a clear boundary between them.

This boundary is not entirely caused by man, and there are also very different military appearances between them.

The military appearance of the Tang army was naturally majestic and strict. The soldiers were proud and excited by the identity of the sect leader alone. Not to mention that these Jingbian soldiers were originally selected by the imperial guards of the Beijing camp and the people. Even if they were not armed with fine machinery, their spirit was extremely powerful. With the supervision and restraint of military orders, there was a bloody and murderous atmosphere of orders that were prohibited.

On the other hand, the Hu army is much inferior. Since the camps stationed at the moment were originally planned and set up by the Tang Dynasty, when the soldiers were constrained in the camps, it was quite impressive, but once there was any order to enter and disconnect, the chaotic scene of the soldiers was simply terrible and no difference was the mob.

This is not to belittle the power of the Hu. The power of the Hu under the control of the Tang Dynasty is already very diverse, and the situation of their respective tribes is very different. Moreover, they do not have as stable material assets as farming, so naturally there is no strong force organization.

Because nomadic peoples have been suffering from border troubles for a long time, many people subconsciously think that these Hu warriors are brave and good at fighting and powerful, but the fact is not the case at all.

The living and production environments of these nomadic peoples on the grassland are not as superior as those of the Central Plains dynasty, and their meager material assets are not enough to support them in developing a powerful organization of force.

The reason why the strong Hu people rise and repeatedly invade China is that before these Hu people are strong, they first experienced a series of fierce competition like fighting, annexation and fusion, such as tragic competitions, which are almost like fostering Gu. They strengthen themselves by digesting the coexisting forces around them, and develop various combat techniques and experiences in this series of processes, thus having the foundation for continuing to expand outward.

Before this, the Turks had such conditions. However, with the destruction of the Turks, the order of the Tang Dynasty was overturned, and there were very few forces similar to that of the Hu tribe that could pose a military threat and challenge to the Tang Dynasty.

Including the Khitan Dahe tribe, which had been strong in the northeast for many years, although the Khitan rebellion caused great harm to the Tang Dynasty in its original history and left a deep hidden danger, in this time and space, the court was able to dispatch chaos through normal means, and the Khitan was also vulnerable, especially the Dahe family had reached the dangerous situation of extinction of the clan and the race.

In fact, the strength of the Khitan is inseparable from the intentional support of the Tang court. For example, in the battle against Goguryeo by Emperor Taizong and Emperor Gaozong, the Khitans provided certain help to the Tang army. Next, whether it was to suppress the rebellion of the Marxist people or to restrain the resurrection of the post-Turkish rebels, the Khitans also acted as a qualified thug for a long time.

Before truly taking charge of the world, Li Tong had a lot of complaints about the Tang Dynasty's policy of restraint. He felt that he was too generous and tolerant. He had the strength and conditions to completely eliminate the other party, but he left some remaining disasters, giving these barbarians the opportunity to continue to develop and accumulate strength to counterattack the Tang Dynasty.

However, after becoming the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he had a deeper understanding of this entire set of restraint order. The so-called restraint is not tolerate and tolerate evildoers, but to integrate as much as possible into the Hu forces, so as to gain absolute voice in the distribution of resources in their area, so that there will be no overlord existence in the area that monopolizes all resources.

The Tang Dynasty's policy of restraint was not unilateral plunder and oppression by bullying the weak, but rather a support and reconciliation full of humanistic sentiments. The standards for implementing this set of policies were not to look at the strength and weakness of the Hu forces, but to look at who can follow these Hu forces more respectfully and who can better fit my values.

The Hu regimes who existed under the order of the Tang Dynasty did not have to worry about the destruction of day and night, and the strong should not bully the weak and plunder and merge unscrupulously. Whether strong or weak, as long as you are willing to follow the morality of the Tang Dynasty, you can gain a space for reproduction and reproduction.

That is why Emperor Taizong of Tang was regarded as the Heavenly Khan by the chiefs of Hu. It was not only because the Tang army was invincible in the east and west, but also because of the Tang Dynasty's sentiment of the strong and the weak. As long as you are willing to follow the instructions and order of the Tang Dynasty, even if you are only a weak Hu chief with less than 100 tents and a territory of less than 100 miles, you can still live in a pasture.

If we want to make another analogy, the order of the Tang Dynasty's restraining order was similar to the order of the entrusted grace implemented in the Western Han Dynasty, but the order was transferred from the domestic to the four barbarians for implementation. A Eastern Turkish was overthrown, but many Hu forces were developed on the remains of the Eastern Turkic in the north and south of the desert.

Although subjectively, the Tang Dynasty wanted to control and allocate resources in the surrounding areas to ensure that there would not be a single regime around it to challenge the authority of the Tang Dynasty, objectively, it did ensure that many state forces that rely on their own strength were not enough to maintain survival.

It should be said that the Tang Dynasty's surviving order was indeed the most advanced and lenient ruling policy in the current Middle Ages. It is not to simply kill competitors through barbaric conquest and elimination, but to allow more forces to participate through resource allocation, thereby suppressing the development space of competitors.

Such means are not only in the present, but also in later generations where productivity has achieved rapid development, but also have great reference significance.

Of course, the prerequisite for all these policy measures to maintain operation is that the Tang Dynasty itself needs to have strong strength.

Don’t talk about the interests disputes between countries, even the conflicts between ordinary people, two big and round men fighting each other, and a three-inch Ding stepped forward and insisted on saying fair words to persuade them to make peace. Not to say such words are unfair, but what will happen next will definitely not be just for him.

When the Holy Charge came outside the camp in the west of the capital, the Tang army and the border soldiers in the camp had not received any military orders to go out of the camp, but the Hu servants and servants went out of the camp one after another under the shouting orders of their respective leaders, and distributed in a mess outside the camp, facing the location where the Holy Charge's flag was located and started to bow and cheer.

As for the Hu chiefs, they were even more excited. Although the guards guarded and stopped them from being allowed to get close to the nuisance, they were each singing and dancing on both sides of the road. Although it was not so exciting for them to go out with the battle, they could never fall behind the crowd when they showed up in front of the saints.

In this joyful atmosphere, the chariot Li Tong was riding slowly into the camp. The civil and military officials who were about to follow the expedition had already lined up inside and outside the gate to welcome him, and they all walked from the lord to enter the central army camp.

At this moment, Li Tong had already changed out of his crown and dressed in a light battle robe to sit in the tent, and raised his hand to signal the marching commander Liu Youqiu to come in front of him to report on the gathering of the troops from all over the country.

"Reported to the saint, the 30,000 Jingbian soldiers have been gathered, and the armored soldiers are compiled into six armies, each with generals in charge of the flag, the left and right guards are four battalions, and the flags are divided into the flags and flags..."

With Liu Youqiu's report, the generals of the army also stood up to pay homage to the saints to take the orders. These generals were mainly young and strong, including Yang Fang, Zhao Changxing and other heroes, Guo Da, Li Yang and other confidants, Hei Chijun and other generals, as well as border officials and officers such as Wang Shi excavated by the court in the past.

This Western Expedition was also a process of the Tang Dynasty's military's replacement. Although veterans such as Tang Xiujing and Wang Xiaojie would still go out with the army, their main task was no longer to lead the army to fight, but to prepare for questions as staff and to be responsible for some other matters.

The strategies and experiences of veterans are naturally a valuable asset, but today's Tang Dynasty is already a new personnel and a new style. If you want to continue to achieve great development in border planning and military affairs in the future, you naturally need a continuous stream of generals to emerge.

In addition to the general talents of the Tang Dynasty itself, there are also many Hu Chiefs in the tent at present. For example, the nominal beneficiaries of this conquest, the King of Qinghai, Murong Wan, and the Chiefs of Xi Chiefs who are diligent in the king's affairs, etc.

The King of Qinghai Murong Wan led 10,000 troops to participate in this Western Expedition, which is already all the Ding Zhuang power that the Qinghai Kingdom in Anlezhou can be recruited. For the Tang Dynasty's plan to recover Qinghai this time, these Tuyuhun residents can be said to have bet on everything.

Although Xi chief Li Daqiu was very active, he was not the Hu chief who sent the most troops. After all, the Xi territory was located in the far northeast and had little interest in Qinghai. The Tang Dynasty could not wait for its return troops to dispatch troops before sending troops. Therefore, this time, the only one thousand soldiers who entered Beijing to participate in the guards were only in the battle.

The Huhus in Hequ also had their own performances. Even the Uighur leader Du Jiezhi, whose son was killed last year, sent thousands of tribes to the war. As for the Uighur Adu family, which the court intended to support, the leader Adu Yanfeng personally led 3,000 troops to help the battle.

Some of these Hu tribe servants had already assembled and entered the camp in the west of Beijing, while others were still conducting recruitment. For example, after accepting the order of the Hu tribes in the Western Regions, they returned to their respective troops to reorganize their troops and would advance to Qinghai with the royal army west of Longguan.

After listening to the report from all parties, Li Tong said, "The campaign is about to come, and all the discussions are simple. The army will go west today. After the success, it will gather together for a long time and make great contributions!"
Chapter completed!