Indeed, this time the Turks went south, simply to find Li Wenyuan to avenge the defeat under the city of Yanmen County. In other words, it was an act of Shibi Khan to redeem his crumbling status as a khan in the hearts of the Turks, and his attack on Li Wenyuan with the Liang division this time also confirmed this, indicating that he could not afford another defeat in the face of the Han Chinese. Because if he loses again against the Han Chinese, he will not only lose his position as a khan, but may even lose his most precious life in the Turkic infighting.

I have to say that Shibi Khan's opportunity to find is very ingenious, Li Wenyuan's adventurous military action can be said to be half of the failure after Shibi Khan suppressed internal strife and external troubles, you must know that Li Wenyuan only considered that after he equipped the army with advanced firearms, he should present a crushing situation when facing the Turkic cavalry.

However, what was unexpected was that the Western Turks had requisitioned so many troops from their vassal states during this period of time, which made the troops participating in the Western Expedition fall into a quagmire. For a while, the victory and defeat could not be distinguished, and the army could only confront the Western Turks and look for opportunities in the steppe to defeat the main army of the Western Turks before drawing out a part of the army to come back to help.

Therefore, at this time, the only army that could be used to defend the entire Western Regions against the invasion of foreign enemies was the Seventh Army and the militia groups scattered all over the place, and between the Western Regions and the Eastern Turks, there was the Great Wall that Yang Guang ordered to repair shortly after his accession to the throne. Moreover, because of the special nature of the garrison of the Great Wall, Li Wenyuan did not draw troops from the garrison of the Great Wall in this expedition, so at this time, in the face of the military intention of the Turks who wanted to cross the Great Wall and go directly south, after being equipped with advanced firearms and fire dragons and other sharp weapons to defend the city, the garrison of the Great Wall should also be able to resist the attack of the Turks who wanted to seize the Great Wall and go directly south.

Under the deduction of Li Wenyuan's staff group, it is very likely that the Turks will suffer heavy losses when attacking the Great Wall defense line, so they will shift the focus of their attack from capturing the Great Wall defense line to bypassing the Great Wall defense line and directly harassing the interior. On the route of bypassing the defense line of the Great Wall, the Turks were faced with two choices: one was to go west through the territory of the Western Turks, who were too busy to take care of themselves at this time, and then turn to the southeast along the Qilian Mountains to attack the Western Regions from the direction of Zhangye County through Dunhuang County, but this road faced the risk of being intercepted by the Western Regions Army troops who were urgently transferred back from the battlefield when passing through Dunhuang County, so the Eastern Turks would definitely choose to be relatively conservative under the advice of the eldest son of Shi Shu Huxi, a man who was good at scheming. But the safer plan to march from the east road.

The so-called plan for the east route is to bypass the defense line of the Great Wall to the east, and join forces with the Liang division army attacking from the east to jointly attack Wuwei County. Therefore, the final suggestion made by the staff committee was to transfer the Seventh Army Corps remaining in the counties of the Western Regions to Wuwei County, and garrison it on the side of Liang Shidu, and at the same time, for the sake of insurance, organize all the militias in the counties of the Western Regions to deal with possible attacks.

After receiving the advice of the staff committee, Li Wenyuan thought so, and when he issued an order, the Seventh Army Corps, which was scattered and stationed in various counties in the Western Regions, immediately assembled and marched into Wuwei County to deploy defenses in the direction of Liang Shidu. Later, he sent an official letter to the counties of the Western Regions to recruit the militia in their respective counties to enter a state of battle at any time, and finally sent a separate official letter to Li Wen, informing him that the Seventh Army had been assembled under the leadership of General Wang Ping at this time, and would arrive in Wuwei County in a few days. He was required to coordinate the relationship between the army and the people, and at the same time to do a good job of logistical support for the army. At the same time, in order to ensure the insurance period, Li Wenyuan specially sent Zhuang Fudi and the chief of general staff beside him back to Wuwei County to assist Wang Ping in defense.

After receiving Li Wenyuan's order, Wang Ping was very happy and immediately gathered all his subordinates scattered in various places and went to Wuwei County non-stop. You must know that at this time, there were a total of eight legions in the Western Regions Army, and the seven legions that had been successively withdrawn from it in the face of the war in the Western Turks were put into it, but only the seventh legion of itself was left and had never participated in any battles since the day it was formed.

Even in the face of the battle of the bandits and rogue forces in the territory did not have a turn, which made Wang Ping, who was determined to join the army since he was a child, very eager to kill the enemy in front of the two armies, but disappointed to disappointment, Wang Ping still did not forget his own duty, in addition to dealing with official business every day, he was conscientious and diligent in training, and never slacked off for a day.

Not only was the Seventh Army Corps led by Wang Ping, who received Li Wenyuan's order, busy, but at this time, after receiving Li Wenyuan's documents, the counties in the Western Regions were all busy in an orderly manner: a large number of armor and equipment, military rations and materials were loaded into carriages and sent to Wuwei County on the official road, and a certain number of reserve officers were also withdrawn from the Yingyang Mansion in each county according to the order, and a certain number of reserve officers were taken with the reserve troops from various places as supplementary soldiers to Wuwei County along with the carriage transporting supplies to support the next possible battle.

At this time, Liang Shidu, who was named Dadu Viga Khan, had just completed the assembly of his army, and at this time met with the Eastern Turks who had come to contact him in the county capital of Lingwu County.

"Father Khan has been in good health lately?" Master Liang brought the Turkic man in charge of contact into the house, arranged for him to sit down, and then said eagerly.

"The Khan had recently quelled the unrest of some of the smaller tribes within, while at the same time pushing eastward to defeat the prying eyes of the Muroweibu and the megalomaniacal Goguryeo. At this time, he was naturally in a great mood, but what has been haunting the Khan these days is the battle in Yanmen County, so that the Khan often wakes up from nightmares. If His Royal Highness really has the heart, he hopes that in the near future, he will make more efforts in the war against Li Wenyuan, and defeat Li Wenyuan's army as soon as possible, so as to solve a stubborn disease that is entangled in the heart of the Great Khan. The Eastern Turkic envoy said mercilessly.

"Yes, yes, I still bother you to go back and tell my father Khan, I will definitely annihilate Li Wenyuan's army under the city of Wuwei County in one fell swoop, and assist my father Khan to completely eliminate Li Wenyuan's forces in the Western Regions." Liang Shidu suppressed a trace of dissatisfaction in his heart, and tried his best to put on a smile that he thought was the most flattering and said.

(End of chapter)