After Zhao Xingde led his troops to set off, Zhang Shanfu left Basra and went to Baghdad to meet Xu Wenhu.

When he arrived in Baghdad, Xu Wenhu was patrolling the military camp. The old general did not receive any special treatment and brought his staff and a group of Modao's hands to cook things around a big pot.

So, Zhang Shanfu also naturally joined in. The dried fish sent by Zhao Xingde was chopped and added to the big pot. The fishy smell of the sea that the sailors wanted to vomit when they smelled it was a rare delicacy for the Western Expedition Army that was not well fed. This scene made him feel like he was back to the time when he was taking cavalry and horse thieves around the Gobi Desert decades ago. Fighting in the Gobi Desert, many times, it was not about how high your martial arts or how brave you were, but about your patience with the harsh environment. The war between the Xia Kingdom and the Roma Turks reached this stage. The Roma Turks would rather abandon big cities like Baghdad and Basra than fight with the Western Expedition Army, dragging the Xia people into a dilemma.

Similarly, the Turks' lives were not easy. Now, the Turks and Xia people just depended on who could last their last breath. Some Turks had become accustomed to the settlement life and suddenly had to migrate from a place of abundant water and plants to a desolate place, which led to the death of a large number of livestock in the headquarters during the migration, and the people also complained. At the same time, the strategy of avoiding war seriously damaged the prestige of the Rom Sultan. The new "king of kings" Li Sihai kept sending people to contact each other, bringing more and more of the original Baiyi Dynasty ruled.

The tribes were attracted to their own side. According to the information obtained by the Military Information Department, some of the Roma Turkic cavalry had begun to loot neutral tribes, while others left the Sultan and fled back to their own tribes. If the rebellion in the River was a major concern of the Western Expedition Army, Li Sihai was a terrible sore on the back of the Roman Turkic people. However, the Western Expedition Army's baggage staff also complained a lot. The tribes claimed to be under Li Sihai's subordinates were unstable to surrender, and there were many people who colluded with the Turkic people in private. Almost all tribes refused, or at least did not cooperate with the Western Expedition Army to collect food.

"Two younger generations, Zhao Xingde is not as slick as Li Sihai," Xu Wenhu muttered after hearing his introduction.

"Old guy," Zhang Shanfu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "If they really have no intention, we old guys don't have to chew on the sand."

"This is how good people are bullied." Xu Wenhu stretched out his waist and sighed, "If you don't say one day that you will win two tigers with one blow, the sun will definitely come out from the west that day. You use troops and take risks. If the river is broken, even if the rebellion is successfully suppressed, more than 100,000 people here will not stop." He shook his head and lowered his voice and sighed, "I don't understand, Chen Ang, so are you, so are you, why should you worry about those illusory things? It turns out that the morale of the army is available, and it's no problem to wipe out the Turks. Why do you let those guys confuse the morale of the army be made? Is it your instructing you? Or Liu Yi's idea?"

"Military morale is available?" Zhang Shanfu sneered. He looked around. Several staff officers had finished their meal first. They stood aside and looked at the two generals with the most experienced qualifications in the Xia army in awe. Seeing Zhang Shanfu look over, the staff officer consciously took two steps back. "Is the motion of the legion that the army cannot leave their hometown to fight easily? Isn't it the morale of the army? Are the lieutenants all young boys, and can I let Liu Yi and I instruct me? "Zhang Shanfu picked up a stick and poked it under the big iron pot. The originally dim flames gushed into the ground.

As he burned down, the flames licked greedily, the soup in the big iron pot became "cuckoo" again, "I forgot that it was you, Xu Chuhu himself, and these lieutenants, probably only fifty steps and one hundred steps, right?" Hearing his rude words, Xu Wenhu's face turned angry and coughed. Zhang Shanfu held his arm and said, "It's not a big mistake for people to be at ease. It's just that the times have changed, and the system of soldiers ruling to conquer the founding dynasty was no longer suitable for the current expansion of territory."

"Who said?" Xu Wenhu narrowed his eyes and suddenly opened his mouth wide, and he paused his job heavily on the ground. "Since the founding of the country and the westward expedition, hasn't such a large territory been conquered?"

Zhang Shanfu shook his head, holding a bowl of porridge and drinking without saying a word. The two generals, who were the highest, knew each other's views, but had never argued so much.

"Don't be afraid of war, do you mean to invite Chu?" Xu Wenhu pulled down Zhang Shanfu's arm and almost knocked over the bowl.

"I'm afraid to fight?" Zhang Shanfu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said in a deep voice, "I, Zhang Shanfu, have never been afraid of fighting!"

He spitted, calmed down his anger, and said, "When the founding country was in chaos, the founding emperor captured the elite soldiers and generals of Tang and Shu, expeditioned the barbarians in the west, and captured this territory. It was a situation where he could die. The land and the Yinhu had to be snatched from the enemy, and the soldiers had to fight to the death. Now? Hezhong, Guanzhong, and Shu were all rich places in the world. Not to mention the soldiers, even Yinhu lived a very happy life! However, if a person was in danger, he would give him a cooked cake and he could sacrifice his life to rob it! But now, everyone's life is getting more and more peaceful. If you give him a golden cake, he may not be willing to leave his hometown and live a life and death! In my country, there are still many people with high martial arts skills, but there are fewer and fewer "desperate". For the court, peace in the world is

Good thing! But it may not be a good thing for expanding territory! The two countries of Kanto are in a state of rebellion and defense, and our country may not have the power to annex, but the Guguo Mansion, with the ancestral teaching of "one strike, win two tigers" as a guise, has refused to agree to recruit large troops to destroy them. The current Turkic battle is still the same, but Reshahai was defeated, Zhou Li was killed in battle, and tens of thousands of soldiers died on the same day, killing and hurting the enemy. As a result, some people were like losing their parents and in chaos. Some said that the soldiers sacrificed too much, some wanted to pull Zhou Li out to whip the corpse, and some said that I, Zhang Shanfu, deliberately sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the death ground. You may not have heard of these strange and strange talks, Lao Xu, are you?" After the Battle of Reshahai, not only did the Marine Department bear great pressure, but Xu Wenhu was the same. He even had to wear golden armor again after retirement and take office as the general of the Anxi Army again.

"These false comments," Xu Wenhu said with a gloomy face, "What should he do?"

"It's not just a yelling person. If a person doesn't bite a dog, he will bite a person after he barks." Zhang Shanfu snorted and said in a deep voice, "Someone is good, sympathetic to the morale of the army, so that the soldiers can defend their hometowns. Why should I be a villain? I have to fight in the future, so I will recruit the Imperial Guards and form an expeditionary army. Then choose the real Kancheng of the country from the millions of soldiers to serve as an officer in the regiment training. The Imperial Guards are the backbone, and the regiment training is the wings, and they can still expand their territory. I, millions of men in Daxia, are still martial, and there are always people in this country who are not afraid of death and want to sacrifice their lives to do something." Zhang Shanfu seemed to remember something, "Even Kanto, which is content with Yile, is not short of."

"You recruited the army and trained the army, but you thought of going with Chen Ang." Xu Wenhu said sarcastically.

"It's just the general trend." Zhang Shanfu picked out the coarse sand from the bowl and took a sip, "War is always a matter of military force when fighting, what if you don't do this?"

Xu Wenhu snorted, the river was rich, although the soldiers were strong, but they left their hometowns and fought for a long time, and they still complained. The current situation was very different from the founding of the country. However, he was just a pure sergeant. Whether it was Chen Ang or Zhang Shanfu, he tried to replace the sergeant with a lack of martial arts and unbearable combat training to replace the sergeant in the battle, just like using a slow horse that pulled a cart to replace the war horse. In the eyes of the old general, Zhang Shanfu refused to stop there. Xu Wenhu had great prestige among the sergeants in the Hezhong. It was precisely because of his position with the sergeants in the Hezhong that Chen Ang and others had to take risks. He also hoped to get Xu Wenhu's support for future plans, at least not strongly opposed.

"In the future, not only will the team training be recruited, but if it is not necessary, the team training will be recruited every five years, and after serving for five years, they will be discharged and returned to their hometown. If the war needs to recruit large troops, they will be cut immediately after the war is over. There will not be too many soldiers in peacetime. A few elite soldiers can be selected into the Imperial Guard." Zhang Shanfu looked at Xu Wenhu with a dark face and said slowly. "Damn, can such a man still fight?" Xu Wenhu couldn't help but curse. "As long as you go, just say."

Just think about it a little stronger than the enemy's troops," Zhang Shanfu said softly, "The firearms are in great shape. The Kanto regiment is practicing with guns and cannons. In Guandong, it can already fight head-on with the Liao cavalry. The chaos in the river can be considered as fighting, which is enough. After the war, the army was disbanded, and the regiment trained without much martial arts. Without the support of firearms and artillery ammunition, the court would comfort it and live and work in peace. Even if there are a few sluts, they would not be the enemy of millions of soldiers in the country."

"Sergeant who will not go out of the expedition," Xu Wenhu sighed, "Are he still a sergeant?"

"Soldiers who are unwilling to go on the expedition may not be a blessing to the country." Zhang Shanfu said, "The territory is getting bigger and bigger. If the war lasts for a long time, it is inevitable that the border generals will control the heavy force. In the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty in the Eastern Tu, the example of the border generals in Lu Mei's country raising troops and causing chaos is there. This dynasty was only a hundred years old, who dared to pat his chest and say that the story of the Tang Dynasty and Lu Mei will not repeat in this dynasty? Xu Zhuhu, you are loyal, but I think, the generals of the Tang Dynasty and Lu Mei's founding may not be unfaithful, just because the soldiers were garrisoned for a long time, and the lower court gradually became disinterested. As long as one or two treacherous heroes temporarily obtain military talismans and incite them slightly.

The sword immediately turned around to face his own people. The soldiers are the city of the country, so they should not be moved lightly. When the Guardian Mansion impeached the deposed emperor, but now Chen Ang is in chaos, so it is said that the soldiers staying outside for a long time may not be a blessing for the country. But on the other hand, letting the soldiers settle down in the defense of the country and the hearts of the people are available, this is the way to maintain long-term peace. Old Xu, you only saw that the founding dynasty captured this large territory, but for a hundred years, our territory has just been slowly moving westward and eroding, and there is no whale swallowing it up to thousands of miles. You know that even at the beginning of the founding of the country, the soldiers of ordinary corps were unwilling to leave the country for a long time to fight."

"You should think about the century-old thing slowly. Let's not talk about it. Before the troops move, food and grass will come first," Xu Wenhu stood up and said in a deep voice, "Now I want to see who can consume whom."

He stood up and called the staff officer of the Western Expedition Army who was waiting not far away. Zhang Shanfu drank all the meat and vegetables batter in his bowl in a few gulp, sat beside him, watching them discuss how to launch the next attack on the Turkic cavalry wandering west of Baghdad.
Chapter completed!