After listening to Li Wenyuan's words, Qiu Niang frowned and thought for a while, and then said in an uncertain tone: "Liang Shidu, Liang Shidu, I remember that I didn't arrange for anyone to take any action against him. My manpower here is precious, and some unqualified goals will not be infiltrated. At present, the information about Liang Shidu on our side is obtained from the Turks. So if we want to attack the Liang Kingdom in the capital of Liang this time, I'm afraid our night owl won't be able to provide much help. However, from Liang Shidu's report to the Turks, it can be understood that there has been a shortage of military rations under his command recently. And it seems that the border has recently been closed in order to prevent the people under his rule from fleeing to our side. After all, the population of his place is already sparse, and if he allows the people under his rule to flee to the Western Regions, I am afraid that there will end up with no family left. ”

After listening to Qiu Niang's words, Li Wenyuan also nodded thoughtfully to indicate that he understood. No matter what time of Chinese history, whenever the princes fought at the end of the dynasty, it was the darkest moment in the entire period of succession and succession. The people of the country have always been troubled by the idea of being the head of a chicken rather than a phoenix, and they often pull up a few hundred people to divide one side and claim to be the general and the leader. But such regimes often do not survive long, or in a month or a year and a half, they will be wiped out by another force. The entire transitional period was filled with the fall and rise of countless such small separatist forces, until they were finally annexed by a separatist force that had won the mandate of heaven, and finally created a new dynasty. Therefore, under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible to infiltrate the already limited intelligence personnel under his command into these small separatist forces, which are in danger of the future. Therefore, when preparing to send troops to attack the Liang Shidu army to seize Lingwu County, Li Wenyuan was embarrassed to find that his understanding of Liang Shidu was almost zero under the reminder of Qiu Liang.

But now around Li Wenyuan is the westernmost Western Turkic regime, which is still breathing for the time being, and now the Western Turks are considered to be one of the protectorates under the Sassanid Empire. Therefore, if the Western Turks were to attack again at this time, it would likely lead to a war between Li Wenyuan and the Sassanid Empire. Therefore, compared with the possible gains of war, on the whole, it is not worth the losses to start such a war, and it is also extremely unwise. Since Li Wenyuan would not rashly start a war with the Sassanid Empire for the land of the Western Turks, he naturally would not take the initiative to provoke the people of the Sassanid Empire. It borders the Tianzhu Kingdom to the south, but if you want to launch an army to attack the Tianzhu Kingdom, then the supply needs to bypass the Tibetan Plateau. A surprise attack is okay, but once it gets caught in a stalemate between the two sides, a single logistics can drag down Li Wenyuan's fashionable and fragile financial system. The plan of the night stalkers in the eastern Turks in the north has not yet been completed, and attacking at this time will only waste all the money invested by the night stalkers in the early stage, and will not get any benefits. And whether it is in the north or in the south, the climate is still too bad for the current Chinese people. So even if it is attacked, there will not be many people who go to the emigrate. With fewer people living on the border, the corresponding government will have to pay more for maintaining the border garrison. Therefore, the south, north and west are not suitable for sending troops at this time, and the only one that can open the breakthrough is the Liang division army that borders Wuwei County and occupies Lingwu County.

However, since the Western Regions Army was formed under Li Wenyuan, the reason for its superiority in every war, in addition to advanced firearms, is that it is an efficient and accurate intelligence system that ordinary people cannot match. Thanks to the silent efforts of these intelligence officers, the staff officers under Li Wenyuan were able to anticipate the enemy and preemptively smash all possible methods of the enemy's attack. This can ensure that since the formation of the Western Regions Army, although it may have lost in some local scale collisions, it is because of this reason that the Western Regions Army still maintains a very high victory rate in the overall war and each formulated campaign, but this time it is different, this time the night owl has not infiltrated the forces of Liang Shidu. Therefore, after leaving the intelligence support of the night owls, can they continue to maintain an undefeated record by relying only on the self-judgment of the military owls and front-line staff officers? This is Li Wenyuan is very curious, but curiosity is curiosity, and he is worried that the failure of this battle will attract the prying eyes of those enemies who are still around, so after a little entanglement in his heart, time passes day by day.

During this period of Li Wenyuan's entanglement, there was neither an official announcement to the outside world of the launch of an attack on the army of Liang Shidu, nor an order to stop the assembly of the troops that were assembling in Wuwei County. As a result, almost all the spies of all parties hiding in the Western Regions discovered that the Western Regions Army, which had three legions, was assembling in the direction of Wuwei County. Among the several forces to the east of Li Wenyuan, the Eastern Turks were located in the northeast and north; To the southeast was Xue Ju's army; The place between Xue Ju and the Eastern Turkic forces is the Liang State of Liang Shidu. Xue Ju was an ally with Li Wenyuan at this time, so he naturally didn't worry that the three legions were coming for themselves. At this time, the Eastern Turks were recuperating after a defeat, so their forces were relatively weak. However, due to the folk customs of the Eastern Turks themselves, if Li Wenyuan really sent troops to invade the grasslands, then those tribes on the frontier could calmly pack up their camp areas and drive their cattle and sheep to the north, east and west to escape the dangers of war. Therefore, the Eastern Turks did not pay too much attention to this matter, not to mention that Tuoba Shishu was cleaning the henchmen of Shibi Khan in the Turkic royal court, constantly installing his own henchmen, and he did not have any extra energy to care about the Han people in the south.

These two forces did not worry about these three legions, but they suffered Liang Shidu, who was sandwiched between the two of them. Although the army under Liang Shidu was numerous, it may not be as strong as the combat effectiveness of a peasant rebel army that had been oppressed. Except for a small part of the original garrison of the Great Wall, which later left the army from the Great Wall after the death of the Sui Dynasty and came to the territory of the Liang Division. The others are the original garrisons of Lingwu County and other counties, but the quality of these garrisons is now uneven, from old men in their fifties and sixties to teenagers in their twelves and thirteens. If it weren't for the support of the elite cavalry provided by the Eastern Turks over the years, the Liang division would have been wiped out by other forces under the city of Lingwu County, where would they still have the strength to build their own country and become king?

(End of chapter)