"Good news, Marshal, the Uighurs have defeated the Samanid army of 70,000 at Andijan." Wan Yi was discussing with Gao Siji on the front line of Ultou Prefecture about the attack strategy of Ultou Prefecture, and originally let the Modao battalion go up in the early stage, but considering that this siege plan has always been implemented by the Seventh Corps, and Gao Siji also put down the specific work of the Seventh Corps at this time and began to be responsible for the command of the entire Western Expeditionary Army with Wan Yi, so Gao Siji also began to learn to delegate power and let Wu Si'er learn how to command an entire corps by himself. However, Liu Xuan interrupted the conversation between the two of them at this time, and handed the battle report he had just received to Wan Yi and said with a smile: "Deputy Marshal, this Hammad is really very good, the Uighur army has been fighting for more than two months, crisscrossing the entire northwestern part of Andijan, and the Uighur army's 40,000 personnel are less than 15,000 after the Andijan War, and there are still a large number of wounded and sick. But he fought out the 70,000 Samanid army, and also captured the opponent's commander, Prince Adullah. Commander, I think our command should immediately ask for credit for them, and at the same time send the main force to the northwest to meet them immediately, according to the battle report, they may have captured nearly 30,000 people, if there is no strong corps to respond, I am afraid that the long distance will cause big problems. ”

"In that case, let Chai Jia lead his troops north, and don't come back after receiving the Uighur army, and the whole army will set out to join Tuoba Siji. Since the Samanids sent troops to the aid of Shule at this time, it is difficult to guarantee that Qarlu and the Turgish in the north will not send troops, and what happened to Hammud may be a precursor to Tuobas's succession. Gao Siji touched his nose and said a little worried: "I'm afraid that the situation over there will be more serious." ”

"Chief of Staff, go and arrange it immediately, let Chai Jia go north immediately without delay. After receiving Hammoud, he asked him not to come back, and led the army to Shule to meet the headquarters and recuperate. Wan Yi nodded and asked Liu Xuan to immediately pass the order, and at the same time wrote several copies of the battle report in his hand, in addition to the internal report, and urgently sent it back to the Chang'an base camp.

"Dashuai, it seems that we can't delay, we need to take Weitou Prefecture immediately and then send troops out of Shule, otherwise Zhang Sheng's side is still in danger. Although Hammud desperately defeated the Samanid reinforcements, but there are still Uighur royal court guards in Shule City, I am only afraid that Zhao Si and Xiaohu's bluff will not last long, that Uighur Ye Hu is not incompetent, if he was not blinded by the Flying Eagle Brigade before, I am afraid that he will definitely not let go of such an opportunity. Gao Siji put down the map in his hand and said: "That's it, Dashuai, exercise the newcomer to stay next time, I'll come by myself, and I'll guarantee to take it down within one day in just one Weitou Prefecture." ”

Wan Yi nodded, at this time, the situation was urgent, and there was really no way to give Wu Si'er any chance to train and command a corps to fight independently, so Gao Siji immediately set off with the Seventh Corps after a little discussion with Wan Yi, in order to pursue the speed of attack, even the artillery units directly under the command headquarters were all brought by him except for one that followed Chai Jia to the expedition, and the two hundred artillery pieces showed their hideous muzzles in Weitou Prefecture, quietly waiting for Gao Siji's order.

Ultou Prefecture was originally much easier to fight than Kubiluo City, and the city was still an earthen city built by the Han army in the era of Emperor Wu, and the area was not large. But Weitou Prefecture is a city that really stands in the depths of the desert, although the surrounding areas are grassland flatlands, but it is very strange that Weitou Prefecture and these plains are separated by a layer of sand dunes for dozens of miles, this layer of desert circle once almost collapsed the Tiance army, if you want to go out to attack the city, you have to camp in the desert, and the water is transported from the oasis dozens of miles away. It is a spectacle that hundreds of thousands of troops sent out long troops with horse-drawn wagons and dragged waterwheels all the way.

"What did this Weitou state think when it was first established? It's better to find a place nearby, but I wonder if the legendary springs in the city are still there. Wu Si'er was glared at by Gao Siji as soon as he finished muttering, this deputy general who followed him from the beginning He knows the roots and has strong combat ability, but his tactical planning and overall situation are relatively poor, so he has only honestly followed Gao Siji as a deputy general for so many years to assist Gao Siji. Now that Gao Siji has decided to leave the front-line command work, according to the usual practice, he, the deputy general, can directly ascend to the post, but Gao Siji is still a little worried about his ability, after all, controlling a corps is not something that can be done by being brave in combat. So after hearing his whining words, he glared at him and then said: "Since you think this place is not good, it means that the ancestors chose the right address for the construction of the city, what nonsense, after a quarter of an hour of notification, immediately open artillery to attack the city, you go to organize the siege troops, once the city is broken, I will go to fight with all my strength, there must be no delay, we have no time to delay." After the city was broken, the Modao battalion immediately left Shule as an advance corps, and you were responsible for cleaning up all the cities and Uighur defenders along the route from Weitou Prefecture to Shule to ensure that our army could advance smoothly into Shule City. ”

"Don't worry, I know." Wu Si'er also knew that Gao Siji was reminding himself, so after saluting, he immediately went to the front line to be in charge of commanding the battle. And Gao Siji gave the siege order after the right time. In an instant, thousands of cannons were fired, and countless cannonballs began to pour out their anger towards the distant earthen city, and huge fireballs immediately rose into the air above the city walls and towers, and the Uighur defenders who had been on guard in the city towers were completely overturned by this dense artillery fire in an instant, and countless earth and rocks were blown to smash in all directions. In terms of long-range weapons, the Tiance Army no longer had any opponents, and the range and power of the artillery were enough to suppress any long-range weapon of this era, so after a quarter of an hour of artillery preparation, the Demomen on the front line had already begun to step beyond the front-line positions and start to head towards the city walls. At this time, the few Uighur defenders on the tower also discovered the actions of the demomen on the side of the Tiance army, and the Uighurs who had already played the experience actually had their own countermeasures, and when the Tiance army was attacked by artillery, there were not many defenders on the tower, and most of the soldiers were hiding in other corners of the urn city and the city wall under the leadership of their respective officers, and only a small number of troops were responsible for guarding the tower, so in fact, these artillery fires were not much for their lethality. However, as the Demomen approached, the Uighurs began to rush to the towers, and despite the baptism of artillery fire, they began to fight back desperately, preparing to kill the Demomen of the Celestial Army one by one. This is also the reason why the Demoman unit, which had suffered few casualties in the past, has suffered many casualties in the last few battles. With the speed of weapon replacement on the side of the Tiance Army getting faster and faster, other opponents are actually slowly summing up a set of methods to deal with it without counterweapons, although there are not many methods, but they are actually effective.

Gao Siji did not have any intention to observe the reaction of the Uighurs, this whole set of siege process of the Tiance army has gradually matured, and the cooperation between the various arms is very experienced in both exercises and actual combat, and even the commanders of the artillery units can cooperate very tacitly with the front-line troops in the absence of a signal to send back, and they choose when to concentrate fire and disband, and let each artillery position choose its own target. Therefore, Gao Siji directly took the Thousand Miles Realm and looked at the diorama prepared by the artillery unit, while thinking about how to quickly march into Shule next. After the glass was "invented" by Li Xuanqing, after several years of development, all kinds of glass products emerged in an endless stream, and the lens of Qianlijing has been very mature after development, and even the latest Qianlijing has changed the previous monocular into the kind of binocular in later generations. But it's a pity that there is no way to bring a scale and a distance scale for the time being, but Gao Siji feels that the Qianli Realm in his hand is already very advanced, at least holding it can clearly observe the impact point on the city tower. However, Gao Siji was soon stunned, and the Uighurs should have avoided it under the fierce artillery fire, but at this time, many people, and even some of them, manipulated various weapons and began to shoot down.

"Relatively demolition, it seems that the Uighurs are not stupid." Gao Siji smiled coldly, but since he had found out, it was impossible to watch the Demoman suffer losses as a result, so he immediately ordered the troops in front to shoot forward to cover the Demoman's advance. In fact, the Demoman also has a set of ways to move forward when attacking, and when attacked, he still uses non-stop movements to dodge the opponent's arrows, bending down and walking in a zigzag as fast as possible. To put it bluntly, this is a race against death, and you must walk as far as possible before the opponent's attack arrives, so as to complete this final jump.

However, Gao Siji's order to cover the front line troops to shoot gave the defenders above the tower more trouble, and a large number of defenders who had escaped the artillery fire were beaten into a sieve and fell on the city wall in pieces under the shuttle of countless dense bullets. As a result, the counterattack of the Uighur defenders also weakened a lot, and the demolition men who got the opportunity sacrificed a few at this time, and there were less than ten people left, jumping up from the ground at this time, almost desperately rushing towards the city wall, the blasting canister in his hand was not arranged at all, and it was directly erected on the city gate, and nearly ten blasting canisters were added together and exploded, and the entire city wall was directly overturned in an instant. Because it was an earthen city for nearly a thousand years, it didn't have much protection at all, and under the powerful explosion, it almost buried the few demomen who retreated far enough. But after they were knocked to the ground, they didn't care about getting up and running back. Because at the moment when the city was broken, their task was completed, and at the same time, the siege troops also launched an attack at the first time under the personal command of Wu Si'er. In order to cover the troops, the assault artillery units also began to fire at the area before the infantry reached the city walls, so their area became a real death zone at this moment, and countless Uighur defenders who tried to take advantage of this opportunity to regain this gap were directly overturned by the shells.

The smooth breakthrough of the 30,000 army organized by Wu Si'er into the city wall also made Gao Siji, who was supervising the battle in the rear, breathe a sigh of relief, and the removal of the nail in Weitou Prefecture meant that the Modao battalion could set off in advance. Therefore, Gao Siji directly threw down the troops and returned to the tent to cooperate with Wan Yi to send the other main force in his hand directly, and the Modao battalion under the leadership of Shi Jian attacked again after two months and began to carry out the task of seizing Shule. And Shi Jian, the descendant of Shi Ba, the general of Anxi, was in high spirits at this time, and when the main force of the Seventh Corps was still fighting in the city, he bid farewell to Wan Yi and Gao Siji, and began to detour through the city of Weitouzhou to the west and enter Shule.

According to Gao Si's deployment before the war, after Shi Jian encountered the city, he all made a detour and rushed to Shule as quickly as possible, and the Seventh Corps also began to attack separately after sweeping the Ultou Prefecture under the leadership of Wu Si'er, and subdued all the large and small tribes around the Ultou Prefecture.

At the end of August of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Seventh Corps attacked westward along the Kashgar River, capturing Jiashi and other places along the way to catch up with the pace of the Modao Battalion, and the two armies converged at Da Manchuria in the east of Shule City. At this time, the Uighur corps, which was escorted by the 11th Corps and then went south, also appeared in everyone's sight. Wan Yi and Gao Siji, who got the news, were overjoyed, and directly threw the matter of receiving the Flying Eagle Brigade to Liu Xuan, the chief of staff, to be responsible.

"Qiyu marshal and deputy marshal, Hammud and all the soldiers of the Uighur Corps set out from Wulei Prefecture, and after more than two months of victorious return from the battles of Yingpo, Shuanghe, and Bodaling of the Heishui River, Hamoud hereby pays the order to the marshal" Hammud was also excited to see Wan Yi and Gao Siji coming forward to greet him, and took all the soldiers of the Uighur Corps to salute the two in unison, with a generous tone and bowing down.

Wan Yi returned the salute, and Gao Siji stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "The general and all the soldiers of the Uighur army have created a great miracle by shedding blood on Andijan, and the commander and I are happy for you." I have sent all your achievements back to the Chang'an base camp, I think the emperor will definitely celebrate everyone's achievements, and I can't say that there will be a big medal to you, congratulations again. ”

"On behalf of the command of the Western Expeditionary Army, I accept the return of the general." After Wan Yi finished speaking, he also smiled and said: "This great victory general eliminated a great enemy for Shule, and he was the first hero to destroy Shule. Let's go back to the camp immediately, and the commander will hold a banquet to celebrate everyone's achievements, and the whole army will celebrate. ”

That night, the soldiers of the Uighur Corps, who had fought for more than a month and survived a hundred battles, received special courtesy from all over the army, and even Wan Yi took the high-level officials to salute everyone one by one, which also made the eyes of these iron-blooded men moisten. Since ancient times, in the army, low-level soldiers are soldiers when they say well, and if they don't say well, they are a string of numbers in the eyes of those senior generals. The Uighur soldiers, in particular, shouted long live in unison, and for a moment everyone was immersed in joy.

"The commander shouted that the last general would come back, and in addition to letting our troops rest and recuperate, is it time for the two Uighurs to become one?" After the celebration banquet was over, Hammoud saw that Wan Yi and Gao Siji had not left the tent, and immediately asked. The two Uighurs had been divided for a hundred years, even back to the steppe era, and if they could be merged in his hands, it would be a major event that would be engraved in history, so although Hammud knew the plan in advance, he was still a little excited at this time.

Wan Yi and Gao Siji nodded and smiled: "That's true, although the Uighur army has won a series of great victories, it has also suffered heavy casualties, and we are also preparing to use this time to repair and replenish them, and then we will carry out the plan of integrating the two Uighurs." ”()

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