Chapter 19 Seeking Development in the Cracks

In the Western Regions, in fact, there are very few large-scale military operations, and there are not many ethnic groups or countries that can organize large-scale military operations.

The huge Khitan state had three million troops, but considering the huge territory of the Khitan, this army was really not much, and the main forces of the Khitans were concentrated in Xijing Road, Nanjing Road and Zhongjing Road on the border with the Great Song Dynasty.

The combined area of these three capitals is less than one-thirtieth of the size of Kamikyo Province, but the garrison here is thirty times the size of the entire Kamikyo Province.

Every year the emperor of the Khitan will go to Tokyo Road to worship the sky, therefore, there will be two large armies parade to Tokyo Road every year to carry out extremely barbaric activities to fight the Jurchens (that is, to hunt the wild Jurchens as beasts, which is a very important activity of the Khitan nobles to declare their strength).

Xijing Road and Tokyo Road are actually the sixteen states of Yanyun that the Song people never forget, and they are also the most fertile and important grain producing areas in the Khitan Kingdom, and they are also important throat points to prevent the Song army from going north.

Yanshan is not only the burial place of countless Great Song Dynasty troops, but also a national barrier that the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty will never forget.

The mountains of money in the Great Song Dynasty sealed the pile vault were set up to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun.

It's a pity that the ropes in the pile vault have rotted, and the sixteen states of Yanyun still belong to the Khitan State, and there is no hope of recovery so far.

If you open the map, you will find that the garrison there is densely packed, not only from the Khitan State, but also from the Song State.

This is perhaps the most densely garrisoned place on the planet, where 2.5 million troops have been facing each other for nearly sixty years.

Tie Xinyuan sometimes doesn't understand that the rivers in Shangjing Road are dense, the grasslands are endless, and the fertile farmland is innumerable, as long as someone develops it, it will immediately become a land of fish and rice.

Even if it is only to develop animal husbandry, it can achieve an unprecedented great cause, you must know that Temujin raised troops from the banks of the troubled river, and finally achieved his own supreme cause.

Even if it is impossible for the Khitans to know who Temujin is, can it be said that there is no wise man in the government and the opposition who sees the advantages here?

Ah Da's explanation is that the Khitan people are bent on learning from the Great Song Dynasty and becoming a highly centralized country like the Great Song Dynasty, and the Khitan people are barbaric and not easy to rule, so they got a piece of Han land with an extremely mature ruling foundation from the emperor Shi Jingjiao, and they were offered as treasures.

Tie Xinyuan felt that the old lady Wang Rouhua's explanation was more reliable, that is, the food was always more fragrant in other people's homes.

Tiexinyuan is also not very fond of the Altai Mountains north of Hami, where winters are said to freeze dogs to death.

He also didn't like the sandbanks in the Western Xia very much, which places could kill camels to death, and it was not a suitable place for human habitation.

However, the land to which the Zupu Mansion belonged had an extremely strong attraction to Tie Xinyuan.

Looking at such a large piece of fertile land on the map, Tie Xinyuan could only wipe the saliva that was about to flow out, sigh and close the map there.

Although the Khitans have very few garrisons there, they are not currently within their reach.

He can look down on the Zupu Palace, and he must not underestimate the superior of the Zupu Palace.

All of the troops in the Wugu Enemy Lie Command Army are composed of the most savage barbarians, and their equipment is not good, and their weapons are only maces, but it is because of the existence of this army.

After defeating the Khitan Emperor in Montenegro, he obediently withdrew from the territory of the Khitan State he occupied, because he was worried that this beast army would give up the important task of guarding the north and go south with the whole division.

No one wants to fight against that army of giants.

When he looked back at the Uighurs, his mood immediately became good, and Asalam had lost his army south of Gaochang, and even one of the best royal tents had been buried in the desert.

The Qadir, the khan of the Qarakhanid state, discovered the changes in the Uighurs and had already set up his troops at the Alashan Pass, waiting for the next year's ice and snow to melt before entering the Uighur stronghold of Zhangbali (Urumqi) to complete the unification of the Uighurs.

Enraged, the Uighur Khan had no choice but to shrink his forces and mobilize the entire army to deal with the threat from the Qarakhanids.

Tie Xinyuan felt that at this time, he could first test the Xizhou Uighurs to see if he could take down Datun City.

He is very fond of the karez water conservancy project near Datun City.

It's just that the Uighur king will live in Gaochang in winter, Gaochang is not far from Datun City, and if the cavalry marches in the starry night, Lingtian will be able to rush from Gaochang to Datun City, which makes Tie Xinyuan a little worried.

Gaochang was also one of their capitals, and it was only when spring came that the Uighur kings would go to Dragon City for the remaining three seasons.

Speaking of which, the winter in the Western Regions is the longest, from October to March of the following year, and the winter is considered to be over.

In a year, the Uighur kings lived in Gaochang for half of the year.

At this time, the Uighur king was always accompanied by three royal tent armies, and the hundreds of thousands of cavalry were not something that Tie Xinyuan could touch now.

Fortunately, these huge existences are far away from Hami, and the nearest Gaochang is also eight hundred miles away.

The vast and sparsely populated land just gave Tie Xinyuan the opportunity to conquer countless small tribes, and when he truly unified Yiwu Prefecture, he could be regarded as one of the largest number of small countries in the Western Regions.

The small states of Qiuzi, Shanshan, Yining, Yochang, and Yanqi were all under the rule of the Uighurs in Western Prefecture, but for some reason they were still governed by the former royal families, and the Uighur kings did not exercise real rule over these small states with very strict annual taxes.

The Uighur armies were not stationed in their own territory all year round, but followed the Khan every year from Longcheng to Yanqi and finally to Gaochang, and like the Khitan emperors, they were always reluctant to stay in a fixed place.

Tie Xinyuan felt that this very stupid mobility of the Uighur king would eventually kill him alive.

Once his royal army was severely weakened, it would be strange if those small nations did not rebel.

Tie Xinyuan felt that he could give it a try, and then he would take the city of Datun next, and then wait quietly, and when the Uighur Khan ran to fight against Qadir in the early spring, he would go to take the empty city of Gaochang and establish his stronghold to advance westward.

After studying the map all morning, Tie Xinyuan felt dizzy, and when he walked out of the door, he found that it was snowing outside again.

It's still the kind of fine snow foam, which hurts on the face when the wind blows.

The green vegetables that my mother planted on the edge of the hot spring have begun to sprout, and the dots are cute.

There is a huge shed above the heads of these greens to protect them from the wind and snow, and only on sunny days will the mother have the shed removed so that the greens can be bathed in the sun.

Because of the geothermal heat, there are many people living near the hot springs, and you only need to build a shed and bring a little futon to live here, and it is a real place where spring is like spring all year round.

According to the rules of Qingxiang Valley, only women, children and wounded soldiers can live here in winter.

Adult men don't have the right to live here.

Although Tie Xinyuan's house is only less than fifty zhang away from here, the four seasons here are like spring, and Tie Xinyuan's house is as cold as an ice cellar.

Even the Iron Fox wouldn't want to stay here for a minute longer.

There are a lot of people in the mother's vegetable shed, Meng Yuanzhi's wife Hou, Li Qiao's wife Zhuoma, plus Zema, as well as Yu Chi Zhuozhuo, and Huo'er, Shui'er, and Ling'er's wives, forming the highest status of the noble ladies in Qingxiang Valley.

Tie Niuniu sat on a thick blanket to take care of her two sisters, twisting her head and staring at Zhuoma who was lying on the ground and raking the ground with a small rake.

This kid knows everything, and Dolma's attitude of ignoring her makes her very sad.

This is a woman's world, Tie Xinyuan is not easy to enter, just hook his finger at Tie Niuniu, this child happily left the two children, ran to Tie Xinyuan's side, and was very accustomed to climbing on Tie Xinyuan's back and letting him carry himself.

Wang Rouhua looked back at her son, threw Tie Niuniu's over and ignored it.

Putting on a thick coat for Tie Niuniu, Tie Xinyuan pouted and whistled again, and the iron fox poked his head out of a special basket to look at Tie Xinyuan, and then looked at his warm nest, and went into the nest and refused to go out.

There was the sound of the samurai shouting from behind the mountain, this was Ah Da training the army, the strength of those savages was not low, but it was difficult for them to learn the way of battle formation.

Snow was falling from the sky, and the people on the ground were all bare-backed, holding a scimitar, and slashing with a sharp knife.

Instead of cutting in the air, there is a thigh-thick wooden stake in front of each person, and he who does not cut the wooden stake into chopping wood within eight knives may not have food to eat at night.

The most important thing in Qingxiang Valley is the scimitar of the Western Regions, and I got a lot of it back when I fought against Asalan.

After the battle between Asalan and the Khitans, the Khitans did not have time to clean up the battlefield, and Tie Xinyuan sent people to pick up a lot from the desert.

According to Ah Da, if these people can't grind and damage a thick-backed scimitar during military training, they will not be able to finish military training.

As long as Ah Da, a two-headed man, stands on the school military field, he has infinite deterrent power, and under his hands, no one dares to be lazy.

For a short time, everyone called him a demon instead of his real name.

Ah Da saw Tie Xinyuan coming, so he looked at him with Ah Er, Ah Er didn't speak as usual, Ah Da frowned and asked, "Why did you send the army here to every general according to their distant relatives?"

It is very dangerous to go on like this, and this kind of thing grows on this soil. ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled: "It doesn't matter, the first real battle, the generals bring the army they are most familiar with, which is beneficial to the operation."

When they come back and the army is almost trained, it will be time to switch with each other, and our army will not remain under the same general for two years, in principle. (To be continued.) )