In the 26th year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, Shule Town, Anxi, was under the jurisdiction of Paoling City.

The Pamir City is located about 500 miles from the Pamir (Pamir Plateau) southwest of Shule Town (Kash City). It is March, but the Pamir City is still cold and frozen. It is still white.

The place where the Pamirs and Chae City is located belongs to the gathering place of countless rivers formed by the melting of snow on the plateau, which eventually converges into the Tuduo River, which is the Yarkand River in later generations. Due to the numerous rivers, a valley plain, which is about twenty miles long in the east and west, north and south, is formed.

The Pamir City guards the Pamir City is on the top of the only hill on the river valley plain. Since this city was formerly the capital of King Yupantuo, it is also four miles in a radius. The light brown stone city shines brightly on the valley plain under the sunset, making the Pamir River Valley, which is more than three thousand meters above sea level, slightly angry.

It is the beginning of Youth hour (about 6 pm), and it is still half an hour (one hour) before the city gate is closed. A huge dark red sunset is hanging on the top of the towering snow-capped mountain in the west, and it is almost about to set.

Usually at this time, farmers outside the city would drive cattle and sheep and come back with farm tools. The city's guards would take his most loyal 18 horses to go out to feed horses and take a ride when it was still bright. The best war horses should not be locked in the city all day, and they would only be active for at least half an hour a day.

In the past, when this time came, it was when the residents in the city, especially those facing the street, were watching the scenery.

There is nothing else. Although the Pamir Guardian is just a small general in a foreign land, the current person is a powerful general.

"hiss……"

There was a sound of horses neighing in the west of the city.

"Bang..."

The residents on both sides of the only street in Shouzha City that was walking east-west, all pushed the windows open - they knew that the "glorious scenery" of the day was about to appear.

"Dadada..."

Not long after, a cavalry team composed of all the best black Yanqi horses appeared!

The black iron armor and the red cloak look at the appearance. Each knight is over 1.8 meters tall, and one of them is even more shocking!

I saw that the man was about twenty years old, without beard, with a fair face and prominent edges. However, his height of nearly two meters was extremely eye-catching even among the tall cavalry. Most of the cavalry who followed him were holding a horse spear, but this man was holding a strange weapon!

A weapon about one meter long and grinds all over the body!

After hearing the windows on both sides of the street open, the fierceness that flashed in the eyes of this person immediately disappeared, and he changed into a gentle look, and greeted both sides from time to time.

Yu Wenjing, a native of Liangzhou, was a martial arts master in the Kaiyuan period. He was only eighteen years old that year. He took the initiative to join the army in Anxi. He successively became the deputy lord of the fort, the lord of the garrison, the chief cavalry of the guard city, and the deputy envoy of the guard city. Seven years later, he was only twenty-five years old this year and was already the chief envoy of the guard city.

Because the Cape Mountains guards are located on the plateau, there are few people around, and there are only two towns below, both on the banks of the Tuduo River, controlling important points.

In addition, the total number of soldiers guarding the city of the beacon, the fortresses and the entire Pamirling Mountains was only 1,000, but even this thousand people consumed a large number of people every year. A few years ago, Anxi Protectorate and Shule Town were preparing to reduce the number of troops here to 800 or even 500, but even such plans required reporting to Chang'an for approval, which was delayed whenever they went there.

Until one person appeared, the grain yield per mu was successfully planted in this cold plateau, which was no less than that of Shule Town, so that the military rations guarding the city could be fully self-sufficient. This proposal was completely put aside.

But this is what happened in the past three years.

The extremely tall guard commander named Yu Wenjing, a native of Liangzhou, was holding the Mo Dao that had just been equipped in the Tang army for a while. Yu Wenjing was the only one in the entire Anxi area who could use Mo Dao in cavalry.

In the past, Yu Wenjing was mostly smiling, holding a 15-pound Mo knife with one hand and a cloak embroidered with red cotton cloth and golden silk thread, riding from the Ximen, which is about one mile long, to the east gate. Because according to the Tang Dynasty, even a small town like the Paoling Shouzhe City needs to close on time at Xu (7 o'clock), and only one door is open during the day. Even the highest commander of the city, the guard and capture envoy could only set off from the west gate where the military camp was located to the only east gate that was opened in the day to go out for a walk, and then rush back to the city before Xu hour.

Residents in the city opened the windows and watched Yu Wenjing and others not for "chasing stars", but for "selecting son-in-law".

Yu Wenjing was naturally unable to reach the top among them, but the eighteen horses under him were all young men from good families from all over Anxi and passed the annual "jump camp".

According to the Tang Dynasty, all the soldiers of the prefectures in Anxi, Hexi, Longyou, Hedong, Fanyang, Jiannan and other border areas can participate in the annual "jump camp" after the age of 18. After practicing bows, arrows, guns, and swords, the generals above the guards and commanders can be selected as fang soldiers, that is, personal soldiers.

The fang soldiers are different from the government soldiers. They are equipped with the field army. They do not need to bring their own food and military equipment like the government soldiers. Instead, they are all borne by the state. They also have enough salary to support the family every month. In addition, they are personal soldiers of intermediate and above generals like the Guard and Captain, so they have very optimistic prospects.

The eighteen cavalry around Yu Wenjing were the young men of good families selected from the soldiers and Hu soldiers of the Pamir Palace within a few years after he came to the Pamir Palace to defend the city. They had a great future and were naturally favored by the residents of the city.

But today Yu Wenjing was obviously a little absent-minded. When he heard the sound of residents opening the windows one after another, he subconsciously raised the sword in his hand upwards, not as fluttering as before.

There is only one reason.

From tomorrow, he will not be the Captain of the Pamirs. Not long ago, he received a transfer order. He was transferred back to Chang'an and became a member of the "Wanqi Camp" of the Emperor's personal army.

If this matter was exposed to other generals, it would be naturally overjoyed. If it were three years ago, Yu Wenjing would be the same. But at this moment, he, with a strong martial arts, seemed to have indescribable melancholy, just like a young man in love suddenly leaving his beloved girl.

The eighteen cavalry around him naturally knew that the general was leaving and their mood was very complicated. However, according to the Tang Dynasty, they were all affiliated with the field army organization of the Protectorate. When the new guards took office, it would be good if they were attracted by him to continue to serve as the Tooth Soldier. If they were sent to the fortress, it would be good to serve as a low-level officer in the town, but if they were kicked away by him and became an ordinary soldier, it would be bad, because the Tooth Soldier was just a temporary position in the border area and was acquiesced by the Ministry of War and the Protectorate. They did not file a record in the Protectorate or the Ministry of War.

To put it bluntly, they seem to be majestic, but if they are not careful, they will become ordinary soldiers holding cold spears and drinking the northwest wind.

So, each had their own thoughts, the sound of horse hooves that were neatly tidy were gone, replaced by a messy sound, and the scene of the high-spirited Mercedes-Benz disappeared, and they could barely get together and run towards the east gate.

At the same time, at the East Gate, many farmers also entered the city from there with cattle, sheep and horses.

Speaking of the Pamirs and Capitol City, there were originally a thousand border troops, and they were all organized by field troops. However, there were actually about one thousand farmers and herdsmen under him. In such a distant border and desert, there were very few soldiers who came here to join the army and the same army. Almost all of them were sent to the family members of the prisoners who were sent to "do the matter".

At this time, the 500 farmers were captured by the Pamirs, all of whom were descendants of the family members who rebelled with the rebellion of the leader of the Khitan in Youzhou during the Wu Zetian era.

The so-called Youzhou Khitans were Khitans who moved to Youzhou since the Sui Dynasty. Although they still lived a semi-herd and half-agricultural life, they had long been highly sinicized under the influence of the Han people. However, they did not abandon their fierceness in riding and shooting, so they became an important source of border soldiers and generals.

When Sun Wanrong raised his army, there were both Khitans and Han people. When he was defeated and died, all his confidants were killed, but his family members were let go by Wu Zetian and were all sent to Anxi, thousands of miles apart, from the northernmost Shuanghe Governor's Office to the southernmost Pailing Guard.

Although these people were in the deep high and remote foreign lands, after they arrived at the Pamir Mountains to capture them, they were first incorporated into military farms, horse herders, craftsmen and other slaves, and did not enjoy the treatment of the soldiers of the palace, but three years ago, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty pardoned them with an imperial edict and allowed them to be incorporated into the Zhechong Mansion nearby.

Therefore, the guards and capture of the Pamirs also took on the important task of Pamirs Zhechong Prefecture. Of course, the conditions for Pamirs can only be one Xiafu with a population of 500.

But this is enough. One thousand five hundred people are already the greatest force in this barren land with a radius of thousands of miles, and are enough to protect the southwestern border of Shule Town, Datang.

Yu Wenjing was so sad that it was not for his sweetheart. As a martial artist in the Tang Dynasty, his wife naturally came from a family of equal status in the mainland. After coming to the Paoling Mountains to capture him, he then took a woman in the Zhechong Mansion and the Hu tribes as concubines. He usually liked riding and shooting skills and was not particularly fond of women.

What made him sad was a man.

Specifically, he was a young man who was slightly younger than him.

Just when Yu Wenjing was full of melancholy, at the East Gate, most of the descendants of the former officials, and now the soldiers and family members of the Zhechong Mansion had all returned to the city, but only one of them was still climbing up the hillside in front of the East Gate.

As mentioned earlier, there were only one thousand field soldiers in the entire Paoling City, and there were only one thousand five hundred people in Zhechong Mansion. Most of the field soldiers had no family members, but there were some Zhechong Mansion. In this case, the entire city had only about five thousand people. Apart from the field soldiers, the only ones were the craftsmen affiliated with the Zhechong Mansion. The rest were naturally the Sogdian merchants who were popular at this time. In such remote places, no Han merchants were willing to come to do business.

But the Sogdian merchants do not have this problem.

This city used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Droppantuo, and the residents of the Kingdom of Droppantuo are like most of the Hu residents in the four towns of Anxi. Most of them speak East Iranian, that is, Sogdian (later Tajiks). Sogdian merchants went to Huoxunzhou (Hualazimo) and to Yizhou (Hami). Could it be that Khotan, almost all the residents speak Sogdian, can naturally pass without any obstacles?

After the rise of the Turkic Khanate, Turkic gradually began to become popular in this area, but Sogdian still dominated. Turkic language surpassed Sogdian in its entirety, and it would take more than a hundred years to wait until the rise of the Karakhanate.

The residents of the Hepantuo Kingdom used to live outside the city, but the "Tang people" who were included in the Pamir Ling Zhechong Prefecture (in fact, most of them were Chinese Khitans, and there were a few real Han people in it) all lived in the city.

Not long after, the young man showed up at the city gate with a chestnut horse, a cow, a calf, and a dozen sheep.

I saw that the young man was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a figure as the eighteen horses and was quite tall. According to later generations, he was close to 1.8 meters tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, wearing a strange robe and a felt hat. On the same tall chestnut Yanqi horse, the standard equipment for the light infantry of the Tang Dynasty's mansion was like a lot of horizontal swords, bows and arrows, and spears. In addition, there were naturally farm tools.

It is this farm tool and the "new" farming method of this young man that has enabled Pamir to achieve self-sufficiency in food.

This farm tool is a new curved plow that has not yet appeared in the Tang Dynasty!

Looking at the horizontal sword, it was a long sword, about five feet long, which was longer than the long sword used by the military soldiers at this time. Such a long horizontal sword is probably not common in the Tang Dynasty.

The horizontal knife was hung on the horse's back, and its swallowing mouth was made of copper and carved with flying cloud patterns. Such a horizontal knife was commonly known as the Fire Cloud Knife in the Tang Dynasty, but the cloud patterns of this knife were more like flames. The flame seedlings were scattered and lifelike, just like flame seedlings growing tall at any time.

The five-foot-long horizontal knife has only three feet in body, but the handle is two feet long. It is obvious that it is a horizontal knife suitable for holding hands to facilitate foot combat.

But this man hung it on the horse's back. Could this knife be used for cavalry?

In addition, the bow and arrow are not simple bow and arrows.

A heavy big bow is made of good wood, ox horns, iron wire, etc. This big bow is called the horn bow in the Tang Dynasty. It is the most powerful bow in the Tang Dynasty army. In fact, it is a composite bow. Because the bow body is moderate, it is most suitable for use by cavalry with strong strength. Look at the posture, it is at least a strong bow with three stone power.

The bow body is painted black and is also carved with cloud patterns, which is a standard Tang Dynasty style.

Black Cloud Bow.

On one side of the Black Cloud Bow was an arrow bag called "Hu Lu" from the Tang army. According to regulations, Hu Lu, a military soldier in the palace, could carry thirty light arrows, but the same dark-painted Hu Luli had obviously more than thirty arrow branches in front of him.

Yes, there are forty arrows inside. Apart from thirty light arrows, there are still five sound arrows. The five arrows have huge thick iron cones or shovel-shaped heavy arrows!

In addition, the horse also carries a "spike".

No, no, no, it cannot be called a spear. It is a horse spear, a dagger-shaped rifle, and a barb at the end. If readers who are familiar with the Ice Empire will naturally blurt out - "Tiger Spear"!

Yes, this is an enhanced version of the horse spear, which was called a tiger spear during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Such configuration is allowed among the Tang Dynasty's prefecture soldiers, otherwise it would not have appeared when Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty went to the east to fight against Goryeo. Xue Rengui was unconventional and wore a white robe that was very different from that of ordinary prefecture soldiers and a long halberd appeared on the battlefield.

When you go out, you will be a soldier, and when you go in, you will be a farmer.

I am a soldier from the Tang Dynasty, my name is Sun Xiurong.

These things were created by him personally.
Chapter completed!