Tibet

Chapter 241 Governor Abu
Prince Arolie took Li Ye to the big warehouse on the left first. This is where weapons and armor are stored. The large rooms where the spears are piled up are already empty. The [-] spears have not been returned yet. There are still armor, Shields, knives, crossbows and a large number of arrows, Li Ye also saw a dozen large trebuchets.

"There is still a trebuchet?"

Li Ye stepped forward, patted the huge wooden frame and asked with a smile, "Where did these trebuchets come from?"

"This is the catapult that the Tang army attacked Suiye City ten years ago. If it can't be carried away, it will be given to us. There are eighteen in total!"

"This is a good thing, we should make good use of it."

Li Ye looked around the armory, and then said to Prince Arolie: "How many young and strong men can be mobilized in the city, not including soldiers, but ordinary people."

Arrowle thought for a while and said, "About 2 people, I plan to mobilize all of them to build the city wall."

Li Ye said with a smile: "Choose 2 young and strong men out of [-] people, and give them armor. I will let my men train and train them into soldiers who can go to battle in two months."

Arolie was overjoyed. In this way, they had [-] troops.

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Prince Alorie brought Li Ye to the big warehouse in the west. There are also important strategic materials here, including pig iron, copper, medicinal materials, wood, piles of cloth, and other items packed in big boxes. What?
"Is there a blacksmith in the city?"

"There are quite a few. Kesai City is a famous iron smelting center, hundreds of craftsmen are no problem!"

Li Ye pointed to the pig iron and said: "Qisai City has a big defensive weakness, that is, the city gate is too dilapidated and easily broken by battering rams. It is necessary to concentrate blacksmiths and carpenters to build new city gates and drawbridges with pig iron and thick wood. This is very important to implement as soon as possible.”

A Luolie also knew that what Li Ye said was right, the city gate had been around for at least 30 years, so he nodded immediately, "I will immediately arrange officials to take charge of the implementation."

At this time, Li Ye walked to a few large barrels in the corner, patted the wooden barrels, it seemed to be liquid, and asked with a smile, "Is this wine?"

A Luolie shook his head, "This is a kind of oil. Ordinary people use it to light lamps at night. It is also a kind of medicine. We use it to treat skin diseases. It is more effective. It is a specialty of our place."

Li Ye used candles for the past two nights. He didn't know what ordinary people in Bahan used to light the lamps at night. He thought it was a bonfire, but he didn't expect to use oil to light the lamps.

"What kind of oil is this made from?"

"It's not refined oil, it's oil that emerges from the ground. We call it Kanda, which means underground oil."

Li Ye's eyes widened, he was surprised and delighted at the same time, oil came out of the ground, isn't that just oil?How can there be oil here?

He suddenly thought, this is not the Tang Dynasty, but the Kyrgyzstan of later generations, a place rich in oil, no wonder there is underground oil emerging.

Li Ye asked urgently: "Are there any oil wells producing Canda in the city?"

"We don't have it in our city, but Anji City in the north has it, and Kanda is produced there."

"This is a good thing on the battlefield. It is the siege weapon used to attack and burn down the stone country. It depends on it."

Alorie patted his forehead and said: "Don't tell me, the general, I really never thought that since Kanda can light a lamp, it can be used to light a fire!"

"How many warehouses are there?" Li Ye asked hastily.

"There are estimated to be more than a dozen barrels in the warehouse. Residents in the city should also have them in their homes. There are also shops selling Kanda, but it doesn't matter. Anji City is just to the north, and it's only about eighty miles away from us. In the warehouse over there There are quite a few."

After discovering oil, Li Ye not only thought of the battle to defend the city of Bahan, but also thought of the battle of Talas next year. With it, the odds of winning could be increased.

King Rahana personally went to the streets to mobilize the whole city.

He stood on the street and shouted loudly to tens of thousands of people: "The king of Shiguo sold his soul to the devil, they will attack us in the spring, and there is also a big food army, we can't sit still, we must act to defend our homeland , to defend what we believe in, I ask everyone to act, to defend your parents, to defend your wives, and to defend your children"

The whole city of Kesai was boiling. I heard that stones were needed to build the city wall. Every household demolished the houses they didn’t want at home and donated the stones they were going to build new houses. Almost all the young and strong men went out, and the strong young women They also participated in labor together. Abandoned houses, warehouses, temples, and public buildings were demolished, and a large number of stones were cleared. Tens of thousands of people participated in the construction of the city.

On the vast snowfield, 150 new soldiers were running in formation. The 50 soldiers were divided into [-] battalions, each with [-] soldiers, and each battalion was subdivided into three teams with [-] soldiers each. .

Li Ye's [-] subordinates all served as school lieutenants, and each of them commanded a recruit battalion. The first thing was physical training. Although the Khan country was dominated by cavalry, the defense of the city also required physical strength.

At first, King Murdo wanted to fight a decisive battle with the army of the Shi country on the grassland, and take advantage of the traditional advantages of the cavalry that pulled Khan, but Li Ye dispelled his idea with one sentence. To resist the Dashi Tocharian Army?

Only then did King Murdo realize that Shi Guo's attack on Bahana was just a superficial appearance. Behind it was the attempt of the Great Food Army to capture Bahana and cut off the connection between the nine kingdoms of Sogdia and the Tang Dynasty from the east.

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Murdo began to fully delegate power, and stopped interfering with Li Ye's training of [-] recruits.

Li Ye rode beside the team and shouted in Sogdian: "At the end of the siege battle, whoever still has a little physical strength will survive. Everyone remember, the more sweat you shed in training, the less blood you shed on the battlefield! "

The soldiers had already run for twenty miles, and everyone was so tired that they were out of breath, but it was useless. Their goal was to return to the city, so the soldiers had to grit their teeth and continue running to Kesai City, which was ten miles away.

At the same time when the soldiers and civilians of Bahana were fully preparing for the battle, hundreds of cavalry escorted a large carriage and drove into Tuozhi City, the city of King Stone.

Sitting in the carriage was a 40-year-old man who looked like a Persian, with sunken eyes, well-defined outline, high and straight nose, deep and energetic eyes, and thin lips showing his arrogance and coldness.

This person is the second official of the Abbasid Empire, the governor of Khorasan, Abu Muslim. He made a special trip from Khorasan to Shiguo to arrange the spring war against Rakhana.

If the kingdom of Khanna is captured and the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the nine kingdoms of Sogdia is severed, then in the summer, the Great Food Army will destroy the nine kingdoms of Sogdia by closing doors and beating dogs. Muslims are determined to win,
The carriage slowly drove into Tuozhi City under the escort of hundreds of cavalrymen.

The country of Shi is much larger than the country of Bahana in terms of area and population. It is the second largest country in the nine kingdoms of Sogdia after Kang. The streets in the city are also very spacious. , people come and go, Abu Muslim squinted his eyes and looked at the shops on both sides, basically selling goods from the Tang Dynasty, Persia and Dashi did not have many goods, which fully shows that the countries in the river still belong to the Tang Dynasty sphere of influence.

Along the central axis street, until the end is the Palace of the King of Stone. At this time, King Shi Kun of the Kingdom of Stone was standing in front of the palace and waiting.

Shi Kun is the Chinese name given to him by his father. To be precise, his Sogdian name is Kundushi, and nobles from all Sogdian countries would give themselves a Chinese name.

Kundushi is about 37 or [-] years old. His appearance is very strange, with snow-white skin, elegant temperament, silvery white hair, tall and straight figure, outstanding independence, and a fairy-like temperament. It can be seen that he must have been outstanding when he was young. handsome man.

A handsome man will also have a great advantage in the workplace. No wonder Feilong likes him so much, and even regarded him as his heir at one time. It's a pity that there is a wolfish ambition hidden under his beautiful appearance, and he exposed it prematurely. Completely spurned by Feilong.

The carriage stopped, Abu Muslim stepped out of the carriage, and Kun Dushi quickly stepped forward to salute.

They exchanged a few pleasantries, and Kun Dushi led the way again, and invited Abu Muslim to the palace.

In a magnificent hall of the royal palace, Abu Muslim saw one of the goals of his trip, a sand table map of two feet in length and width. The countries in the Pearl River Basin are intuitively presented on the map. , mountains, deserts, lakes and more.

This is also the sand table map recorded in the treasure book, and Kundu Stone took five years to make it.

Abu Muslim stood in front of the sand table and watched carefully. He stared at Kesai City for a while and asked, "Why did the Tocharian Army fail to attack Kesai City?"

(End of this chapter)