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Chapter 644 Qin Army

Yuchi Congde's hatred for the Pars is beyond words and does not hide it at all.

This is actually no wonder. Since the Pars arrived in the western part of the Pamirs, the war with the Western Regions has not stopped for a day.

The Pars often crossed the Pamirs and came to the Western Regions to capture slaves.

They destroyed the Buddhist temple, robbed all property and captured all young men and women; they cut off the Silk Road, which was very important to the Western Regions, forced every caravan to pay heavy taxes and rob caravans frequently.

It has been a full hundred years now. For Yuchi Congde himself, his grandparents, his fathers, his own brothers, and his sons and nephews, many of the four generations died on the battlefield where they fought against the Pars.

One of Yuchi Congde's sisters married to Khotan and was stolen by the Pars twenty years ago. A girl his son was originally going to marry was also robbed by the Pars two years ago. Since then, his whereabouts have been unknown.

This deep hatred made Yuchi Congde have an unusual interest in any move that could cause trouble for the Pars.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that he could not have defeated, Yuchi Congde would have sent troops to attack the territory of Pars west of the Pamirs.

In the Western Regions, people who have similar ideas to Yuchi Congde are not one or two, nor one country or two, but every household is like this!

This is also the reason why they were willing to endure the exploitation of the Dangxiang people and pay tribute to the pseudo-Xia - the pseudo-Xia sent troops every year to help them resist the Pars people.

This is also why, they are now gathering in Shule and forming corresponding Qin kings - the Qin king not only needs to resist the Pars people, but also needs to counterattack to the west of the Parsling Mountains!

"You don't need to be so decisive."

Although Qin King Xu Daixuan expressed his appreciation to the Western Regions people led by Yi Yuchi Congde, he still shook his head and politely declined the request for the Western Regions to mobilize:

"You are all foreigners from China. Even when fighting, the national economy and people's livelihood need to be considered."

The starting point of the expedition to Pars is in Shule City in the Western Regions, which will be the main assembly point for the expeditionary army's materials and soldiers.

However, Shule is still thousands of miles away from the core area of ​​the local area, and the road is difficult to walk on. If all countries in the Western Regions mobilize fully and all the materials needed for the expedition are transported from the local area, the loss on the road will be amazing.

At that time, Koko Soso's cabinet may suspect that Xu Daixuan's expansion is a loss-making business.

Therefore, before obtaining a lot of real benefits, Xu Daixuan must rely on the poor Western Regions to supplement at least part of the logistics.

Therefore, Xu Daixuan must keep the eight countries in the Western Regions able to maintain sustainable development. Yuchi Congde's practice of eating by himself and counting on the whole family to make a wave of trouble is absolutely not feasible.

"I am not embarrassed by yourselves. During this expedition, every ten households of your country sent one army, bringing their own horses, armor, and soldiers to fight with them - one household was sent out, and the other nine households gathered equipment and food."

"A second auxiliary troops will be sent out every three households, responsible for building the warehouses needed from Gansu Province to Shule, and maintaining the logistics of the army."

"After going back this year, when it is not appropriate to send troops in winter, count the food and livestock in their own homes, and send them to Shule before sending troops in spring to supply military supplies."

"Don't worry, whether it's manpower or material resources, you won't use it in vain."

Neither the cabinet nor the Qin King meant fishing in the dry pond. The empire planned to exchange some of the materials needed in the Western Regions for the eight foreign foreign countries to provide some military rations.

For example, felt, cotton coats, wine, salt and some luxury goods that have provided "deposits".

Besides that, there is the right to trade.

The empire had insufficient core population in the northwest Ganning and other provinces and the Western Regions, and did not dare to let too many outsiders enter the pass. Therefore, it was stipulated that if the eight foreigners in the northwest wanted to enter Yumen Pass and trade with the empire, they must obtain special permission.

This special license is called "Absolute Book". Each Absolute Book allows one person and one camel to enter Yumen Pass to buy and sell freely - even iron and armor can be purchased, but firearms are not allowed.

This kind of amnesty is nothing to the cabinet. After all, the cabinet has always preferred free trade and has only made this decision for the sake of Gan Ning security.

But for the Western Region countries, each of these amnesty books means a lot of wealth! Some people have even calculated that if you go to the pass, the minimum income can be supplied to the thirty-denominated population in the Western Regions for a year!

Therefore, the empire's amnesty letters were hard currency with a value far exceeding gold among foreign countries in the Western Regions.

The eight countries in the Western Regions now each have one hundred amnesty books. According to the special rights and interests Xu Daixuan has won from the cabinet, if they can supply the Qin army's needs in time and in full accordance with the standards, the cabinet will give more amnesty books - based on the amount of supply, and use them as subsidies.

With both economic compensation and avenge for a century, countries in the Western Regions are naturally willing to provide full support for the expedition.

By the end of 1793, King Xu Daixuan of Qin had already pieced together his expeditionary forces in the Western Regions: including five thousand Han soldiers, one thousand foreign Soren, at least five thousand Mongolians who voluntarily followed, three thousand foreign Goryeo, three thousand forced foreign Fusang, and three thousand local soldiers in the Western Regions.

The total number of troops sent in the early stage was 20,000, most of which were foreign soldiers. In order to equip these people, the empire specially distributed the iron armor in stock to foreign soldiers on the front line in the situation of loans.

The empire used this to digest the last batch of trophy iron armor stocks, and the only armor in stock was left with breastplate, and it could also rely on the trophy of Qin soldiers to recover some costs, which was a killing of two birds with one stone.

The Qin soldiers did not think that it was wrong to borrow armor and soldiers from the empire with plunder. They happily put the armor on their bodies and began to look forward to a bright future for Pals to make a fortune in the future.

Therefore, the Qin army had 20,000 soldiers, of which 15,000 foreign soldiers were first fully armored!

As for weapons, according to the characteristics of various countries, such as Fusang soldiers and Goryeo soldiers, they mainly use bird guns, bows and arrows, Japanese swords/ring swords and spears.

The foreign Jurchens mainly use powerful cold weapons such as heavy swords and axes and strong bows.

The foreign Mengwu had bows and arrows and sabers, and looked more like light cavalry wearing iron armor.

Among the five thousand Han soldiers, the only armed guards in the army had two horses, a standard four-type firing gun, a double revolver, and a horizontal knife at the same time.

The horizontal sword is a melee weapon imitating the previous dynasty's standard melee weapon, which is actually not particularly useful. However, the original intention of the Empire's manufacturing is to promote national characteristics, and it is not expected that it can play a great role. Therefore, the arsenal uses hydraulic forging hammers to build tens of thousands of handles, oversupplying the front line to act as a sabre and replace the role of waist swords and Japanese swords.
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