I opened a tavern in Datang/Datang: My peerless talent was exposed

But in the end, these things belonged to Li Shimin, and it also saved them from buying food from Zhang Nuo, a profiteer.

The reason why Zhang Nuo is a profiteer is not to say that Zhang Nuo intentionally raised the price or something, but because the cheapest flour and rice from Zhang Nuo are basically high-quality refined noodles in this era. It's no wonder they don't feel distressed when they use it as military rations or disaster relief rations.

But now with this batch of grain, it is different. Although this batch of grain is old grain, it has been preserved with great care. There is no mildew at all, and it can be used directly as military grain.

Although the taste is not as good as those in Zhang Nuo's hands, it is superior in a large quantity and full control, and to be honest, a whole 20 troops have been mobilized this time, and I don't know how long it will last. It still needs Zhang Nuo's support.

However, there is also a problem now, that is, how to find the Turkic army for a decisive battle at that time. After all, if the Turkic army is really broken into pieces, then the entire border may be full of flames of war.

Li Shimin is also having a headache at this time. If this problem is not resolved, the Turkic war may not be easy to deal with. Do you want to discuss it with your brother and get out of the car by the way?

Chapter 665

I don't know if Li Shimin really wants to discuss things with Zhang Nuo, or because he really can't stand Long Lu's stern speed and the wobbly, bumpy riding experience.

Anyway, when Zhang Nuo saw Li Shimin standing in the middle of the road confidently and blocking his car, and then slid into the car very skillfully, Zhang Nuo was stunned.

Fuck, what the hell is going on? Why did a middle-aged sullen man suddenly come out of the car, and this damn is sleeping soundly, so it feels very uncomfortable to be woken up like this.

Flipping through a pair of dead fish eyes and looking at Li Shimin who breathed a sigh of relief after blowing on the air conditioner, Zhang Nuo was speechless.

"You obviously have a car, so why don't you turn on the air conditioner in your car, I didn't sleep well last night, I just wanted to find a chance to catch up on sleep!"

Li Shimin had just turned on the air conditioner and felt a little more comfortable, but when Zhang Nuo scolded him like this, his face suddenly became ugly, and he said with a bit of resentment,

"It's as if I slept well last night. At least you can still doze off in the car with the air conditioner blowing on it. I'm so hot that I'm so hot in the car. Forget hiding here, I will go back when the night cools down!"

Zhang Nuo pursed his lips, pretending that Lao Li didn't exist anymore, he was in a daze at the moment, last night Hongyu probably thought that he would not see Zhang Nuo for a long time, so regardless of his physical condition, he rushed to catch up , wanting to challenge Zhang Nuo's family status.

In addition, it was relatively early to go out today, so Zhang Nuo basically didn't sleep last night, and he was sleepy right now, so he didn't have the time to talk to Lao Li.

However, looking at Lao Li's upbeat expression, he didn't think he was in the mood to talk about anything else at the moment, so he might as well go to sleep.

Zhang Nuo simply didn't bother to talk to Lao Li, and continued to sleep with the blindfold off.

When he woke up again, he found that he was almost at the camping point. Zhang Nuo looked at it in a daze. Lao Li was still sleeping, and he didn't plan to wake up yet, but it was so close. Get up now.

Not long after, when they arrived at the camp, they slapped Lao Li awake. Zhang Nuo got out of the car, stretched himself, nodded to the sergeant who greeted him, and turned around to look at the camp.

After a whole day of marching, the army at this time had already left Chang'an for nearly three hundred miles. This was still the result of the vanguard troops in front and the Chinese army were all cavalry.

You know, the real large army, the infantry in the rear, probably hasn't traveled fifty miles at this time.

There is no way around this kind of thing. There are not only infantry in the rear, but also a large number of auxiliary troops such as food and grass. After all, it is impossible for Zhang Nuo to carry all the food and grass for 20 people.

It's not a question of whether to let it go, but just like the current situation, everyone didn't gather together, and they stretched back and forth for hundreds of miles. Could it be that when Zhang Nuo arrived at the camp, he would still It is impossible to run back and forth to deliver food.

Therefore, whether it is the front army, the middle army or the rear army, in fact, they are all carrying food at present, but there are not as many auxiliary supplies as usual, and it is enough for Zhang Nuo to replenish it once every once in a while.

It is equivalent to saying that the cost of eating horse chews for daily people has long been stored in the army. You only need to pay attention to the stock of food, grass and luggage on weekdays. When you are about to run out, tell Zhang Nuo in advance, and then Zhang Nuo will run away Go over there and take out the food that has been prepared a long time ago from his scary warehouse.

Today is the first day of the march, so there is no need for Zhang Nuo to do the transportation work, after all, this is his official title for this expedition.

That's right, Zhang Nuo has the highest military strength in the Tang Dynasty, and he led a team to destroy the country by himself before. This time, his official title is the Governor of Grain and Grass. An extremely simple official title, it sounds like an old migrant worker.

But Zhang Nuo wasn't unhappy at all, he was very self-aware. This time, Cheng Yaojin led his people to go directly to Shu, and it was expected to build a defense line on Jinchuan and Jinchuan to prevent Tubo from jumping over the wall in a hurry.

And Yu Chigong won the trust of Li Shimin, so he naturally led the army to guard Chang'an to protect the prince Li Chengqian who supervised the country.

Of course, another meaning is to help Li Shimin take care of his home, don't go out for a trip and come back to the city to change the king's flag and his home was stolen, that would be funny.

However, besides these two great generals, there is also Qin Qiong, who is also a veteran who has fought for many years. He just came back from Koryo and immediately followed Li Shimin to the battlefield happily.

God knows, how long Cheng Yaojin quarreled with Li Shimin because of this matter, and how many times he fought with Qin Qiong in private, there is no way, I am really envious!

This kind of war at the level of the national war, as long as it is mixed with the army, anyone with a little bit of self-motivation wants to get involved, because everyone knows that even casual gangsters have a guaranteed merit, as long as they perform better, they must Can earn a big one.

Not to mention, this kind of thing will be recorded in the history books, how glorious it is.

But it's so hard to die, Qin Qiong is already in the second national war. In the first one, he fought from the beginning to the end, and he really turned the entire Koryo Peninsula into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Many military generals would never get such a credit in their lifetime, but Qin Qiong not only had the first chance, but now he has a second chance.

I heard that many people in the circle of generals in Chang'an have already let go. This time Qin Qiong was anxious to come back, and he had to go out again soon.

When Qin Qiong came back from Turkic, the group of them planned to drag their family to Lao Qin's house to eat for a whole year, to see if they could get some good luck and calm down.

Regarding this matter, Qin Qiong agreed while laughing and scolding her mother. After all, he put himself in the shoes of others. If he switched positions with other people, I am afraid he would not be happy. Of course it couldn't be better.

After all, everyone is a brother who stirs the horse spoon in the pot, and they have to rely on each other on the battlefield. If this breaks the friendship, then the old Qin family will not be able to hang out in the future.

However, although this opportunity is rare, Qin Qiong is not happy everywhere, and the most unpleasant thing is that he was not able to mix under the hands of His Highness King Qin.

It's not that Li Shimin, the emperor, has no face, but that there are too many weird things on Zhang Nuo's side, and if he takes out something inadvertently, it may change the situation of the battle.

The biggest advantage of following Zhang Nuo is gaining knowledge, and the other point is that the casualties are much, much smaller, which is liked by generals leading troops.

Only this time, His Highness is only the Chief Superintendent of Food and Grass, so I'm afraid he won't be able to fight in person!

Chapter 666 Zhang Nuo's Mysterious Troop

For Zhang Nuo, marching and fighting is not a necessary skill, but it is indeed no stranger to him. After all, he has seen all the things that should be seen in the battles all the way in Korea last year.

Especially this time without being the coach, I would be even happier. You must know that last year, even with the support of Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, all of them were arrogant soldiers.

But God knows how much pressure he has in his heart, and God knows how many things he has to deal with every day!

Although Lao Cheng and Lao Qin are experienced people, as a coach, how can it be possible to leave everything to others?

That's not just being irresponsible to others, but also being irresponsible to yourself.

Facts have proved that people are forced out. Zhang Nuo, who has only managed a small team of a dozen or so people in a hotel, has really been tempered slowly.

But it would be a stretch to say how good it felt.

Perhaps other people would enjoy this feeling of power, but in Zhang Nuo's view, he is still willing to be a salted fish.

So for this expedition, he fooled Li Shimin into his own expedition, and it was not too easy to be a food and grass governor who basically didn't have to worry about it.

The so-called superintendent of food and grass is actually responsible for the preparation, management, and distribution of food and grass for the entire army. If it was placed in the past, it would be a very critical and important position.

But it would be a bit ridiculous to put it on Zhang Nuo. First of all, he didn't have to worry about raising food at all, because the food enough for the army to spend for half a year had already been prepared before leaving Chang'an.

In this way, he saved at least half of his work.

And then, as a qualified boss, he has a lot of food and grass officers accompanying the army. They are all literati who have been in the army for a long time, and their personality has long been exactly the same as that of the old army.

Although these people scolded their mothers and kept fighting, they had to say that the work they were doing was really beautiful, and Zhang Nuo didn't need to worry about it at all, and they sent over clear statistics from various places every day.

Zhang Nuo didn't need to do anything else. He looked at the records every day, and then checked them from time to time to confirm that the actual situation was consistent with the reported situation, and then it was over.

As for the most important food transportation, it is even simpler.

In the past, when a 20-strong army went to war, at least 30 people had to be mobilized to transport supplies. After all, food is different from other things. The person who transported the food alone had to eat a small half of a cart of food.

But now, there are also 20 people, and there are only 5 auxiliary soldiers transporting luggage, and these 5 people are not the corvees recruited as before, but the former old government soldiers hired directly with money.

That is to say, in this expedition team, even if it is the auxiliary soldiers transporting the luggage, they are veterans who have been on the battlefield and have killed people. If it's a matter, it is estimated that it will hurt to death if you hit it on the head.

Having said that, there are fewer auxiliary soldiers and enough food, but there are no shortage of officials in the army to deal with these matters, so the final result is that the management of food and grass this time is extraordinarily easy, so easy that it makes no sense.

Even some of the food and grass officials who are familiar with Zhang Nuo and know Zhang Nuo's character directly joked with Zhang Nuo,

"Your Highness, you have really found a leisurely job this time, and not only you are free, but we are all so free!"

Zhang Nuo didn't feel disgusted at this slightly intimate joke. Instead, he nodded and admitted with a smile. After all, it hasn't been a day or two since Zhang Nuo's reputation for liking salted fish has spread, and it hasn't been a day or two for these people to follow him. No, it's weird not knowing his personality.

However, despite the fact that his official title is the Chief Superintendent of Grain and Grass, to be precise, his official title should be Chief Logistics Officer.

One of the most important things, a thing that no one but him can interfere with, is a troop transferred from Korea that has been kept secret and on high alert.

This army was very strange, the people inside were obviously not soldiers, they were all wearing regular uniforms instead of armor, and there was even a long carriage in the middle of the team that was tightly covered by black cloth.

Li Shimin and Zhang Nuo even warned everyone at the same time that anyone who dares to trespass without permission will be imprisoned or killed on the spot, and those who have been surrounded by the convoy and surrounded the entire convoy including the people and the carriage, are exactly the same. It was the middle team of the cavalry brigade brought back by Zhang Nuo.

Even some careful people have discovered that even when these people are stationed, the entire team stays with His Highness King Qin and His Majesty, which is obviously a big secret.

The more you do this, the more everyone understands that there is obviously something in it that you don't want others to know, or that you can't let others know for the time being.

In fact, in private, many people were also muttering, could it be that His Royal Highness King Qin has created some magical weapon again?

Although the cannon is still a rare item nowadays, many people have actually seen it. Everyone knows that it was made by His Royal Highness Qin Wang. Not to mention the amazing power, the cost is also amazing.

But looking at the things on the carriage now, they don't look like the legendary artillery. Could it be something new, specially prepared for this Turkic war?

I have to say that there are still smart people. It can even be said that basically everyone guessed right. This "troop" and the escorted supplies are really Zhang Nuo's trump card for this war.

The reason why the Turks are so powerful, they have repeatedly attacked the Central Plains to burn, kill and loot, the biggest reliance is nothing more than their cavalry team that rushed like a torrent.

If Datang wants to defeat the Turks, it must quickly find the main force of the Turks and force the opponent to a decisive battle. Only in this way can the Tang Dynasty and the Turks truly decide the outcome.

If the Turks blindly avoid the battle or use wolf pack tactics, it may drag Datang into the quagmire of war. Not only will the time be dragged on for a long time, but even the entire army will be attacked today by a surprise attack tomorrow. The wolf pack tactics were dragged down.

Because of this, it is impossible for Zhang Nuo to be unprepared. He used this time to urgently transfer a group of people from Korea, and at the same time continue to train.

This group of people was the first group of people who conducted a hot air balloon test flight in the Pyongyang City Research Institute.

It's just that they operated hot air balloons made by themselves at the beginning, but now all the modern products on their carriages are made by Zhang Nuo, and the quality has more than doubled by more than ten times?

Chapter 667 Cao Xing's Great Fear

For this batch of hot air balloons, Zhang Nuo really put a lot of thought into it!

Not to mention the fuel, it must be a high-quality product supplied by his own system, and in order to ensure the use effect of the hot air balloon, Zhang Nuo cruelly produced several Great Wall pickups.

That's right, it's the Great Wall pickup that claims to be able to single-handedly challenge Land Rover's overbearing foot, but it's cheap to die, but it can traverse the wild.

Zhang Nuo also had no choice. Hot air balloons are fine in calm weather, but in windy weather, they can float wherever they want, and they can't control it at all.

If it really can only float with the wind, then what a fart to investigate, maybe the hot air balloon will become someone else's house when it lands.

Therefore, Zhang Nuo thought of a simple way. When the hot air balloon is not in use, put it in the back of the pickup truck, so that it can barely be put in the compartment. These days, there is no one who catches the overrun and overloaded. It can be pulled away at any time, and it can be released anywhere.

And when it came to the scheduled investigation area, the hot air balloon took off as usual, but it would put a traction rope down, and the 3000-meter-long traction rope would be firmly buckled on the pickup truck.

In this way, no matter how the hot air balloon flies, it is okay to go up, but if you want to fly around, the two-ton big guy with the rope attached to the bottom will tell you what is wishful thinking.

Not to mention that two tons is only the net weight of the whole vehicle. In fact, if you want to pull this guy, you have to fight against the engine power.

Zhang Nuo's arrangement is actually very simple. Only by standing high can you see far, so there is no better place for scouting than the altitude of hundreds of kilometers in a hot air balloon.

After gaining height, Zhang Nuo needed the mobility needed by relying on the pickup truck underneath. Once the hot air balloon took off, with the traction rope, the pickup truck could drag the hot air balloon along the way.

After all, the entire hot air balloon is floating in the air, and it takes no effort to drag it up. This is not too easy for a pickup truck that can carry goods and tow it.

Even when the hot air balloon is landing, the pickup truck can use the electric winch in front to speed up the landing of the hot air balloon. To put it bluntly, it is to pull people directly from the sky.

The most expensive part of this plan is the hot air balloon, followed by the pickup truck, but fortunately they can be reused, but things like traction ropes are very cheap.

After all, what Zhang Nuo wants is not the kind of trailer belt that can drag a ton or two tons of vehicles. What he wants is just a trailer belt that can pull a hot air balloon. In this way, weaving nylon rope can be done. Not to mention the cheap price, the overall weight Also very light.

If this is another type of traction rope, I am afraid that according to Zhang Nuo's arrangement, one spare two bundles of 3000-meter ropes are used to put it on, and no one needs to be put on it. This hot air balloon is basically overloaded. After all, a professional car trailer belt weighs so much is really heavy.

But now, this kind of nylon rope that Zhang Nuo specially found can be used as a parachute rope, and the weight is not particularly uncomfortable when bundled to 3000 meters. After putting two bundles on the hot air balloon, three people can still go up to operate the hot air balloon .

And Zhang Nuo prepared more than just such a few things. In order to kill the Turks this time, Zhang Nuo prepared a lot of things so that there would be no problems.

In addition to the compact pickup truck and hot air balloon, Zhang Nuo also paid great attention to small details.

First of all, the staff on the hot air balloon has a walkie-talkie, and on the pickup truck below, not only the driver and the recorder in charge of observation have a walkie-talkie, but also a car radio with an antenna on the center console.

With the on-board radio station as a relay station, coupled with the original five-kilometer communication range of the high-performance walkie-talkie, the entire fleet can basically be barely connected.

Not to mention, Zhang Nuo directly converted a pickup truck into a communication vehicle at the rear, and put a large triangular antenna in the rear compartment.

In this way, the signals of the scouting teams in the four directions can finally be collected here.

And at the rear, fifty kilometers away from the communication vehicle, was Zhang Nuo who was procrastinating and moving forward.

No way, this is Li Shimin's death request.

If Zhang Nuo took the vanguard to investigate.Then, Li Shimin believes that even if he encounters a Turkic army, with Zhang Nuo's force, he will definitely be able to kill seven in and seven out. Rush out.

But if Zhang Nuo only took a few people with him, and ran into Turkic troops while driving to investigate, then Turkic would never let go of the chance to kill such a powerful prince, even if Zhang Nuo's force value is high, he can kill 100 people. People can kill 1000 people.

At least in Li Shimin's opinion, if he were Jieli Khan, he would definitely not hesitate to exchange the lives of 1000 people for Zhang Nuo's life.

Because of this consideration, it was no problem for Zhang Nuo to take the troops out to investigate. After all, no one but him could command the teams of all kinds of strange people who couldn't understand the equipment at hand.

However, just because Zhang Nuo was only leading a reconnaissance force instead of the usual vanguard cavalry, Li Shimin and the others gave him a death order, that is, he must be separated from the reconnaissance force in front of him by a hundred miles.

Not only that, in order to prevent Zhang Nuo from temporarily refusing to listen to the advice and not withdrawing, Li Shimin also gave a gold medal to Cao Xing, who was in charge of driving, saying that if there is an emergency, the safety of His Royal Highness King Qin must be the first. The most important thing is to withdraw immediately.