In Yuanzhou, the Yanmen Army under the command of Kang Tai was stationed here.

The main task of the garrison was to Tuntian, but Shaofu Jian quickly sent more than a dozen exploration teams over, and discovered more than a dozen coal mines in Pingxiang County and Liling County, and later discovered several iron mines in Xinyu County.

The Pingxiang Coal Mine is one of the few high-quality coking coal producing areas in the south, and Li Qi began to think about the Pingxiang Coal Mine after the imperial court set a plan to open an iron factory in Dayejian.

Yuan Zhou was originally in the hands of Wu State, but this time he used the war on Fujian as an excuse, but the Tang army entered Jiangxi in a big way, and then it was easy to ask the gods to send the gods, and they stayed and didn't leave. This Jiangxi land, with many mountains and few lands, is one of the provinces with the richest mineral resources in China, Li Qi is naturally looking for an excuse to control here, where is the reason to spit out the meat in his mouth.

Pingxiang this place, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there are records of coal mining, but most of them are mines, manual mining is relatively high, and the other is that the underground drainage is not effective, not very cost-effective.

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads." This slogan of later generations is still very scientific.

When the army entered Fujian from Jiangxi, there were actually only two roads to take: one was from Fuzhou to Luang, and the other was from Ruijin to Changting in Qianzhou. These two are mountain roads, and the march is difficult, so Li Qi did not want his army to enter Fujian from these two lines.

If you don't take a good waterway, but go over the mountains and mountains, it is really easy to seek difficulties.

This time, under the banner of cutting Fujian, the purpose is to control Jiangxi.

If you want to have better control over the place, you naturally have to fix the road first.

With the influx of a large number of Tuntian troops recruited from the Central Plains into Hunan and Jiangxi, more and more people now speak Henan dialect in Hunan and Jiangxi, and the biggest disadvantage is that the Hunan and Jiangxi dialects, which are one of the seven major dialect areas in China in a few decades, can be "applied for intangible cultural heritage".

As for the descendants of the Wang family in Fujian, what does it have to do with the imperial court?!

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Western Regions, Kingdom of Khotan, Shule City.

In May, the Shule River is sparkling, and both sides of the valley are green.

There are few fields, and the living habits of the Khotanese people are still mainly grazing.

Under the summer sun, a cavalry army composed of tens of thousands of horses and horses was like a pack of wolves, crossing the Daban Pass of the Tianshan Mountains and killing in the direction of Shule City.

This was the result of the Qarakhanid Dynasty, an emerging power in Central Asia.

Their aim was to conquer the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains and annex the two kingdoms of Khotan and Gaochang.

In the tenth year of Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty (751), Gao Xianzhi, the capital of Anxi of the Tang Dynasty, led nearly 30,000 Tang troops and nearly 200,000 Great Food Troops to fight a decisive battle in Talas City. During the campaign, nearly 30,000 Anxi troops were almost completely wiped out, and after that, the Tang Dynasty completely lost control of the Hanzhong region (Central Asia).

However, the Great Food Dynasty also arose suddenly, and it was only a hundred years later that the Turks who moved westward took control of the government, and the empire began to decline. The fledgling Qarakhanid dynasty, though nominally subordinate to the Great Food Empire, was in fact a powerful power independent of northwestern Central Asia.

After unifying the interior, the Qarakhanid kingdom began its expansion.

The Qarakhanid Kingdom was mainly composed of the Grolu, Turgish, Uighur, Turkic and Xiangmo tribes under the former Tang Dynasty, and gradually formed a powerful kingdom under the influence of the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food Culture.

The commander of the 50,000-strong Qarakhanid army in Khotan was Yousuf, a seven-foot-tall nephew of the current Satuq Khan, and the other two commanders were Aslan and Orhuk, who were also members of the royal family.

This time, the Qarakhanid Dynasty sent 50,000 troops into the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and it had the momentum of annihilating the Khotanese Kingdom in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, their surprise attack was unsuccessful, and when the army crossed the Turu Atidaban, the movements of the Qarakhanid army were detected by the scouts of the Khotanese army.

At the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the vast grassland has a clear view, and the Upper Artush River is like a green jade belt through the vast mountain grassland, and in the distance, you can already see the swarthy city walls of Shule City in the distance. The army circled out of the valley and looked at the empty steppe, where there were no shepherds, cattle and sheep at all, and Yusuf hesitated, the natural sensitivity of the steppe people made him realize that the Khotanese were most likely ready.

But the current situation also leaves him with no choice.

Yu Sufu raised the big scimitar in his hand, pointed in the direction of Shule City and shouted, "Kill!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder, shocking the wilderness......

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In a large poplar forest in the upper reaches of the Shule River, more than 10,000 Khotanese elite cavalry have been prepared and ambushed here.

The Khotanese royal family originated in Central Asia, but the Uighurs were the most numerous, but there were also some Turkic, Grolu, and Tibetan tribes. The Khotanese people are mainly nomadic and have always been brave and good at fighting, and their cavalry was also one of the components of the Anxi army during the Tang Dynasty. Now that they are being invaded by foreign countries, in order to defend their pastures and property, the Khotanese tribes are also united.

Li Shengtian, dressed in military uniform, personally marched to the front line, his eyes were sharp, staring at the Qarakhanid army flocking to Shule City in the distance, his eyes were full of anger.

"When they fail in the siege, attack immediately!"

He looked at the enemy and whispered.

Behind him, more than 10,000 Khotanese elite long knives were unsheathed, their eyes full of desire to kill, eagerly waiting to deliver a heavy blow to the invading enemy.

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Tens of thousands of Qarakhanid troops swept towards the city of Shule on the steppe like a rolling torrent.

The sound of horses' hooves, the various shouts of the cavalry, with a murderous aura, swooped down on the city like wolves in the blazing summer sun.

At the head of Shule City, the defenders were already in full array, and the defender Yang Zaitong looked at the charging cavalry army with a cold gaze.

In an instant, the Qarakhanid cavalry was roaring, rushing close to the city, and firing arrows like flying locusts at the city.

At this time, there was also a drum on the head of the city, and there was a black pressure behind the battlements of the city guards, they held bows and arrows, and suddenly the arrows rained down, and the Qarakhanid cavalry that was rushing to the city was caught off guard, and suddenly screamed loudly, and hundreds of people fell from their horses with arrows.

The sudden counterattack caused a great confusion among the Qarakhanid army, and they had to turn their horses and gallop out of the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

Yu Sufu looked at the head of the city coldly, he didn't expect that there were only a few thousand defenders, and the city of Shule, which was low in the city wall, would dare to resist stubbornly, and suddenly roared angrily: "Arit, your troops dismount and line up, use shields to defend bows and arrows, and prepare to forcibly enter the city!" After that, he turned his head again and looked at his brother: "Olhuk, your troops are also dismounted and ready to launch a second wave of attacks!" ”

With his order, more than 20,000 Qarakhanid troops dismounted their horses and lined up outside the city of Shule, with their horns echoing, preparing to forcibly attack the city.

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