Zheng Xianli sneezed, the proceedings of the uprising were very grand during the day, but after night, the thirsty city was as quiet as usual. Since the elite tribes of Bakhana settled, the city has become an important stronghold, and almost all the tribes of the whole country have settled around the city, because the water and grass here are also the most fertile, and they even began to cultivate it after the Sogdians.

The wheat harvest season has just passed, and every family's pockets are full of grain. The fear of hunger in everyone's heart is minimized. At this time, Asiranda Khan launched a rebellion against the Great Food, and it was precisely the opportunity to see the richest food.

The first step in the rebellion against the Great Cannibal was to attack the city of Takuzu, where the land was even more fertile than the city of Thirsty Fortress, which was on the east bank of the medicine and water. From there, the army moved westward to Mulu Prefecture, which was the most traditional grain producing area for the Sogdians.

If Bakanna's army could conquer these lands with lightning speed, the amount of food they plundered would be enough to sustain them until the next summer.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, Zheng Xianli and Xue Yu, the son of Asiranda Khan, divided their troops to attack the Lianghe River Valley, which was the richest area in the middle of the river.

This is also a place where the Great Cannibals attach great importance to taxes, and it will definitely have a very serious impact on the Eastern Crusade Coalition of the Great Eclipse.

Zheng Xianli took a deep breath, he lost the four towns of Anxi and failed to complete Qin Jin's entrustment. Originally, he planned to apologize for his sins with death, but although it was easy to die, it was meaningless, he could only endure the humiliation and do his best to stir up the stability of the rear of the great cannibals in the land in the river, so that the eastern expeditionary forces of the great cannibals could not take care of each other, so that once the western expeditionary army of Qin and Jin arrived, it was not only possible to recover the lost territory in the Western Regions, but also very likely to include the land in the river.

As long as the plan goes well, before the reinforcements of the governor of Khorasan arrive, all the grain producing areas in the two river basins can be looted.

The Sogdians in the river are all people with two ends of the rat, and whoever is strong will be attached to whom, as long as there is no hatred of slaughtering and exterminating the people, they will fall to either side without any psychological barrier.

This was the case with the Great Cannibals, who had great influence in the region before the hands of the Great Cannibals reached out to the river, and the Sogdians secretly communicated with the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Western Turks in this area, making the last power of the Turks only a flash in the pan.

The cavalry began to maneuver on a large scale, and the reason why they moved at night was to achieve the tactical suddenness of the attack, and secondly, to seize time, the Abbasid dynasty of the Great Food was now in its heyday, and the army was unprecedentedly strong, and no one could guarantee that they would not unexpectedly reach the Transoxiana region at the same speed as before.

The key to success was to scavenge as much food as possible for this fertile land before the Great Cannibals reached the river.

Zheng Xianli had even made a plan, once they didn't have time to loot all the summer harvest grain, they would rather set a fire and burn it to the ground.

Of course, this was the idea behind Asiranda Khan's back, but just before leaving, Asiranda Khan's son, Xue Yu, was the first to put forward the same opinion.

Xue Yu was the name used by Asiranda Khan's son when he was a hostage in the Tang Dynasty, but even so, it became his most special honor that distinguished him from other princes, and he has continued to use the name that was the envy of the nobles known as Bakhan even after returning to Bathhan six years ago.

Of course, Asiranda Khan also has a Tang name called Wang Zhongjie. The father and son have different surnames, but as grassland barbarians, they don't understand the tradition of father and son, so they naturally have no concept of surnames.

The use of Tang names by the father and son of Bahanna Khan was entirely out of preference, and the prime minister at the time, Yang Guozhong, did not reveal it, allowing the father and son to use different surnames and using the seal of the Son of Heaven in their books.

However, in addition to the official canonization of Tang names, the nobles of Bahanna also privately chose a Tang name for themselves, but without the blessing of the Tang Dynasty, there was not much political aura.

Because of his unique political aura, Xue Yu has become the default heir to the throne within Bahanna, even if Asiranda Khan has always been secretive about the heir to the throne, everyone knows that Xue Yu is a well-deserved heir.

This time, Asiranda Khan used Xue Yu to lead his troops to conquer the Sogdians in the river, which in fact confirmed all the speculations of the Bahans.

Zheng Xianli was surprised by Xue Yu's decisiveness, he dared to act against the wishes of Asiranda Khan, and he was not afraid to anger the deputy Khan, who had absolute authority in Pakhan, and this alone was enough to make him win among the many contenders for the Khan throne.

"General Zheng, you and I will divide our troops here, I hope General Zheng can consider the opinions of the following, even if the food can't reach our hands, it must not be cheap!"

When it comes to the big cannibal, Xue Yu's performance seems to be more resentful than Zheng Xianli's, but his suggestion does coincide with it.

In the end, the two went north and south in an unnamed high place, Zheng Xianli attacked Juzhanti, and then crossed the medicine and killing water to the west into the hometown of Cao. And Xue Yu's goal is to expand the old capital of Shiguo.

The plan to conquer the Sogdians went well, and five days later, the two men successfully met at the old capital of Kangguo, Samad.

Xue Yu continued westward to attack the homeland of Anguo in the Wuhu River valley along the Nami River, while Zheng Xianli went south to attack the Mi and Shi kingdoms near Tocharo.

It is extremely risky to do so, and the former capital of Anguo, Aranyu, is only more than 200 miles away from Mulu City, the seat of the governor of Khorasan.

If Xue Yu had met the Great Cannibal's army in Amanyu City, the plan would likely have been aborted.

The first element of their plan is to avoid encounters with the Great Cannibal as much as possible and engage in a decisive battle.

However, Zheng Xianli still miscalculated, it was not Xue Yu who encountered the Great Cannibal Army, he encountered the cavalry of the Great Cannibal Ipraxin at the Tiemen Pass, fifty miles south of Nasebo.

At the beginning of the encounter, Zheng Xianli put on the momentum of holding on to the confrontation at Tiemen Pass, but after only one night's effort, he withdrew to Xie Su in the east of Tiemen Pass. The reason why he retreated to the east was to firmly attract Iplasin's attention, and to buy more time for Xue Yu to completely loot Anguo's hometown.

The key to this battle is not to conquer the city, but only to plunder the supplies, the Sogdians who have lost the materials will become chicken ribs for the Great Eater, and the Great Cannibal will not get the summer grain in the river, and the so-called Khorasan Governor has been insisting on the Eastern Crusade will be even weaker, and the rear will gradually fall into chaos and erosion......