The gaze turned back to Bianliang.

In the cold winter, armies are gathering outside the city in the wind and snow. This is part of the soldiers and horses that Zhao Gou prepared for the coming year's expedition to the west.

Now that there is money and food in the treasury, Ibrahim Khan of Dongkara has also sent people to ask for help, everything is ready, and Zhao Gou has no reason not to send troops.

Although it is unlikely that Zhao Song's current national strength will support hundreds of thousands of troops rushing out, sweeping the Eastern and Western Kara and attacking the Seljuks, it is still possible to take the Eastern Karakhanate and take the opportunity to annex Gaochang to an established fact.

At the same time that a group of soldiers and horses gathered in Bianliang, the palace and the various departments of the court were also preparing to relocate, and Zhao Gou planned to go to Chang'an.

Of course, this trip to the west was not to move the capital, but just to support the army of the Western Expedition.

In October, he moved the northern capital to Yanjing Mansion, Nanjing Yingtian Mansion to Jiankang Mansion, and Xijing Heluo to Chang'an. Now I want to go to Chang'an again, and cooperate with the subsequent war in the west, the implication is very obvious.

The imperial court is very determined to run the western region.

Even if Chang'an is only one of the four capitals, it is not the capital in the absolute sense. But whether the emperor was in Chang'an or Bianjing at this time could really give the two Western Expeditionary Army a completely different feeling.

The number of soldiers and horses gathered in the Beijing division by Zhao Gou was small, and the total number was about 30,000. And that's just part of it! The bulk of the head is still drawn from various roads in Kansai, and the total number is seventy or eighty thousand.

With such a number, sweeping Dongkala and taking Gaochang into the pocket should be no problem.

After all, in the battle of the Western Regions, the difficulty is the topography here, not the enemy soldiers.

Not to mention that the Song army now has firearms to help, but there are no firearms, with the solid iron armor on the body and the swords and guns in the hands, with the sharp spirit raised by Zhao Gohou's soldiers, and with the fighting spirit of the soldiers aroused by the cultivation and warfare system, it can easily beat all the natives.

Whether it was the Kara Uighurs, the Gaochang Uighurs, or the Seljuks, they were no match for the Song army on the frontal battlefield.

At least Zhao Gou has never been worried!

His only concern was that the territory of the Western Regions was too large and too vast, and if those people could not resist head-on and fight guerrillas, there would be trouble.

But no amount of worry could make him foresee the future.

After the New Year's Festival, the entire Bianjing City was in an uproar.

At the end of the first month, Zhao Gou and his entourage, together with the officials of the various ministries accompanying them, as well as the 20,000 elite Beijing divisions who guarded along the way, started one after another. Before that, 30,000 soldiers from all walks of life who were gathered in the Beijing division also drove to the northwest one after another.

Zhao Gou prepared about 80,000 soldiers and horses for the Western Expedition, of which 50,000 were cavalry, and the place where they gathered was not Chang'an, where Xijing was located, but Lanzhou, which was further northwest.

50,000 cavalry, 30,000 infantry armor, together with the logistics and transportation of the people, a full of 200,000 people, countless carriages and horses, and tens of thousands of livestock.

It took three months to complete the transfer.

The march was measured, orderly and orderly, and it was not a swarm of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people.

What's more, the severe cold in the northwest is better than that of the Central Plains.

So many people, so many materials, and the mobilization of livestock, isn't it all grinded out by time?

By the time everything is ready, the Central Plains will already be in summer.

The army marched westward, and Zhao Gou also took the opportunity to go to Yanbei and worship the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum. Along the way, he had already instructed that there was no need to "cover the yellow sand with clear water and clear water", but there were still grand welcome ceremonies in various states and counties along the way.

The palace in Yanbei is very simple, but Zhao Gou doesn't care about this, but is happy to see that the monument and auspicious clouds in the 'sleep' are more dazzling, solemn and magnificent.

Full of red gas, golden clouds, purple like a tide......

And the Western Regions at this time.

Yao Youzhong, who had already pacified the foreign tribes, did not return to Gaochang City like Yiduhu, but continued to use troops to the west, and all of them entered the territory of the Qarluqs.

The Eastern Kara was divided into three, with the Qarluqs entrenched in the north, Ibrahim controlling the central and eastern part of the country centered on the Eight Thorns, while the southwest was controlled by his uncle Karim Hassan.

Yao Youzhong has now taken aim at the Qarluqs.

The reason for this is simple.

The Qarluqs had a deeper relationship with the Seljuks than Karim Hassan.

If he didn't hold the Qarluqs with a hammer, would he still aim his sword and spear at Ibrahim?

The latter has the closest relationship with Bianliang.

The leaders of Qarlu and Kangri were disgusted.

Yao Youzhong's manpower, he didn't pay attention to it, even if Yao Youzhong's department had already made a lot of name in a short period of time. However, Yidu escorted back to the city of Gaochang, and most of the Uighur troops and horses of Gaochang were gone, and Yao Youzhong recruited some more people, so that his troops were only 5,000 people.

The strength of the Qarluqs was far inferior to that of the Seljuks, and the Kara Uighurs, who were united in one place, were little brothers, but they did not take the mere 5,000 men too seriously.

However, every time He Kangli wanted to gather the main force to eat Yao Youzhong, he had to stop this move because of Ibrahim Khan's actions, so that he had to watch Yao Youzhong's men show off their might in his own territory, and he had to listen to the news of defeat that came back again and again.

Of course, Karim Hassan also knew that Yao Youzhong was the 'reinforcement' that his nephew 'invited', but he wouldn't join forces with Kangli to deal with Ibrahim.

Ibrahim hated the Qarluqs very much, and he Hassan hated the Qarluqs a hundred times.

The rivalry between the king of the Khan and the deputy king was originally a family fight, but now there is an extra pair of outsiders' hands. Karim Hassan felt that he was also a descendant of Harun Bugra Khan. (The Qala people were divided into two, with the Western Khan being a descendant of Ali, commonly known as the Ali lineage, and the Eastern Khan being a descendant of Harun Bugra Khan.) Even if he dared to turn his face with the Eight Thorns, it was because of the Seljuks' backing factor, but Hassan knew that the Seljuks were no longer capable of devouring the East Kara in one bite.

The current Seljuk are no longer the Seljuks of Malikshasudan's reign.

The Great Seljuk Empire controlled by Sanjar Sudan seems to be still tall and mighty, strong and healthy, but in fact it is strong on the outside and capable in the middle.

Not to mention that there is a powerful Central Plains dynasty in the east that is coming westward, even without the existence of the Song Empire, the Seljuks will not be able to eat the Eastern Kara Dynasty.

It can be said that there is a big premise for Hassan to collude with the Seljuks.

He felt that his victory would ensure that the Eastern Kara would not be swallowed up by the Seljuks, and that the price he paid was only submission and tribute.

But if the Eastern Kara were to be taken away by the Qarluqs, everything would be lost.

Therefore, he was happy to watch and Kangli scolding his mother.

It's best that his good nephew can unite with the Song people to repair Ge Lulu miserably, and at that time, it depends on whether He Kangli wants to defect to him!