"Hehe, the battle of hundreds of thousands of people, actually asking you to go out, it is really a knife to kill chickens." Feng Daiwen thought about it carefully and understood, this is to let Li Ji help the young man to sit in charge, and secondly, the most important thing is to watch the guns, but he is still complimenting Li Ji.

"Hehe, you have to be prepared for the defense of the country, this time it is not a little bit of troops, there should be a large army coming later, the saint said, if you want to fight, you must play with momentum, so that these small countries will be timid when they mention the Tang Dynasty, so that they can govern the Western Regions in the future." Li Ji smiled mysteriously and explained.

"You mean there are more warriors coming in the future?" Feng Daiwen was really surprised at this time, he didn't expect Li Shimin to be so bold and send so many people to expedition to the Western Regions.

"The specific number of old men doesn't know, I want to come a lot, last year, the whole country had a bumper harvest, and the granaries in Guanzhong couldn't be loaded, the saint let the country rest assured to fight, there is absolutely no problem with logistics, after fighting together, these people can be regarded as real Tang people, this is the original words of the saint." Li Ji explained.

Things turned out to be as Li Ji said, on the eighth day of the fourth month, Li Dejian, Li Dexian, and the two brothers led 15,000 Hui soldiers to arrive, and brought Liu Renliang, Li Chongyi had gone to sea to explore the news of the ocean.

On April 12, when the snow had completely melted, and everyone was organized for spring ploughing, as well as desert management, Feng Daiwen followed the principle of not wasting manpower, and all the soldiers did not let go, and all went out to work.

It was also on this day that Yu Chi Baoqing, Li Tian, and Fang Yiai led 10,000 Tengjia troops, 10,000 room Wei, and 5,000 Xi soldiers to arrive.

On April 20, Du He, Chai Lingwen, and Chai Lingwu arrived with 8,000 Nanzhao soldiers.

On April 25, Gao Cheng, Gao Zhixing, (Gao Shilian's son) Hou Lei, An Yuanshou, came with 10,000 elite soldiers.

On April 26, Wang Xuance arrived with 10,000 miscellaneous coalition troops from the South China Sea, and it turned out that Li Shimin had arranged for Liu Shili to sit in Xianglin County, and Li Daliang went to the Nanyang Islands to preside over affairs.

This is also to let experienced veterans sit in charge, let the younger generation exercise, civilian officials follow the veterans in the locality, and the military generals will come to the battlefield to see blood.

On April 28, two brothers, Cheng Chumo and Cheng Chubi, arrived with 3,000 cavalry and 20,000 Japanese slaves to escort a large amount of grain.

It also shows that this is the last batch of troops, and the grain and grass now need to be escorted back by sending people back.

Grain and grass escort, Feng Daiwen did not hesitate to throw it to Li Tian, Fang Yiai, Cheng Chubi, Wei Chi Baoqing, this is also because several people are the youngest, first start with the more important logistics, and this section of the road, the logistics line is now all in the mainland of Datang, safe and worry-free, just suitable for a few people to practice.

At the beginning of May, the spring ploughing has ended, and the troops have been integrated, and this time the Tang Dynasty sent nearly 200,000 troops, of course, there is no need to attack the same country together.

Khotan was beaten to the capital last year, and Feng Daiwen sent a message in April asking him to surrender, but there is still no news, so he decided to open his knife.

Shule City, which attacked at the same time, these two cities are close to the border pass of the Tang Dynasty, and after control, plus Gaochang and Qiuzi, which are the four towns of Anxi, can completely block the road to the Central Plains in the Western Regions.

In the first battle, Feng Daiwen brought nearly 150,000 ethnic minority soldiers to Khotan, and Shule only asked Su Dingfang to bring 20,000 Han soldiers to besiege him.

Also in Khotan were Yanqi and Qiuzi's 20,000 troops, and Feng Daiwen wanted to use the power of artillery to deter the army.

Ten of the latest long-barreled solid cannons, ten thick flowering cannons, and many shells were piled up a kilometer outside Khotan under the escort of 3,000 men, 300 gunners were adjusting the cannons, and 900 musketeers were on guard all around.

All of them looked very strangely at the thousands of people in front of them with strange weapons, busy there.

The guards on the city of Khotan are also very strange, for them, the enemy outside is boundless, and they are already timid in their hearts, but they have not fought with so many enemies, and they still want to fight hard, but they wonder why the Tang army does not attack, but just watches from afar.

"Please pay attention to the war horse, don't be surprised." Feng Daiwen told Li Ji again.

"It's okay, the old man is not so bad that he can't control the war horse." Li Ji waved his hand disappreciatively, looked at the artilleryman who had already done it and was quietly waiting for the order and said.

Feng Daiwen saw that he didn't care, nor was he persuading, so he turned around and ordered loudly, "Spread the word to the whole army, pay attention to the control of the war horse, if there is any abnormality, it is a normal thing, don't panic." ”

With Feng Daiwen's order, dozens of guards immediately rushed out of his side and gave orders everywhere.

After waiting for a while, Feng Daiwen saw that everything was ready, and ordered: "The cannons are fired together, the target is Khotan, and the shelling will stop for three rounds." ”

The guards immediately stepped forward and waved the flag.

Duan Zhixuan personally stood on the side of the position, and when he saw the prompt of the guards, he immediately whistled and repeated the order loudly.

The commander raised the flag and swung it down, and the gunner immediately lit the fuse, and at the same time stepped back and covered his ears, and the other musketeers and others made similar evasive actions.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! "With a sharp whistle, dozens of deafening shelling sounded in a row.

"Shhh Hiss! Hiss! "There are constantly horses that are neighing in fright.

Although everyone was warned, they were still in a hurry, including Li Ji, who was busy pacifying the war horse.

Finally calmed down, another loud noise came, the same formula, the same question, and another burst of people turned on their backs.

At the same time, there was no one standing at the head of the city, and they only heard a loud noise, and they felt the city wall tremble, and some people felt a pain all over their bodies, and they lost consciousness.

This is not bad, the worst thing is that those who are near the explosion point and have not been shot are blown away by the air waves, bleeding from the seven orifices, and there are many people who have broken their eardrums.

Many people were so frightened that they hid in Tibet, shouting and screaming, and running in a hurry, and some of them were so frightened that they were insane, and those who thought that the gods were angry, and those who knelt down to worship.

The Xuanjia artillery army didn't pay attention to it so much, the order was three rounds, that is, three rounds, slightly adjusted the muzzle, and another shot was fired.

When the smoke cleared, all they saw was a potholed city wall, empty of people.

"Raise the muzzle, special ammunition attack." Feng Daiwen took the telescope and found that it could only be said to be unsatisfactory.

The city wall was beaten into potholes, but there was still a long way to go before it broke through and broke the city wall.

Although the power is not too good, the effect is very good, and you can see from the empty front wall.

(End of chapter)