When Wan Yi's report reached Chang'an, the General Staff agreed with Wan Yi's decision almost immediately, and after reporting to Li Xuanqing, he decisively adjusted the basic strategy in the northwest. At this time, Li Xuanqing also began to study the vast Eastern European Plain after Yekaterinburg and the Ural Mountains. However, at this time, the power of the Slavs such as the Russian principality of Kiev entrenched here is intertwined, and if the Tiance Army openly conquests on a large scale, on the one hand, it will be time-consuming and laborious, and on the other hand, it will also stimulate the Great Qin people, who were already in a weak position in the confrontation with the Great Food. In this era, no one understands better than Li Xuanqing and his wife that although the distant Western Empire is at the most glorious era of its entire empire at this time, Byzantium under the rule of the Macedonian emperor is at the peak of its power at this time, although the great cannibals want to attack Byzantium several times, but they have suffered in front of its powerful navy and heavy infantry phalanx. However, this prosperity began to gradually fall from the altar after losing its main enemy, the Great Cannibal, especially after the Great Eclipse split, and Byzantium, which was not at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, although continued its glory, but no matter how you look at it, it has entered the twilight. At this time, his unexpected appearance gave the Great Cannibal a thousand years of firepower weapons in advance, so that his old opponent had the most powerful weapons that could rival the navy and heavy infantry, and as Baghdad gradually regained the territory of the Green Eater, once Egypt and its surrounding areas were taken, the Great Cannibal, who owned two-thirds of the land and wealth of the peak era, was bound to re-target this former opponent. At this time, if the Tiance Army were to conquer the Slavic tribal forces in the Eastern European Plain, it would be equivalent to adding a shackle to the already weak balance again. If the Great Cannibals take Egypt and other places in a very short period of time, they will inevitably cross the strait again and enter the territory of the White Eaters, and take all the fertile land west of the Pyrenees under their command, then they may even force the Great Qin people to fight a decisive battle in advance. Li Xuanqing didn't dare to imagine how long the heavy armor of the old-style navy could resist in front of the Great Food Army, which was equipped with artillery and breech guns.

"It seems that the strategy of the northwest must be adjusted immediately, otherwise the two Western empires may be divided before the Tang Dynasty is ready. It's not in our interest. Li Xuanqing, who had not been seen for a long time, personally came to the General Staff Building and began to convene several leaders of Chang'an to study the latest changes in the war situation in the northwest.

"What does the emperor mean that we should intervene in advance? It's still early, right? Although Xu Tianxiang immediately informed Wan Yi to prepare in the northwest, he still had objections to immediately intervening in the battle between Da Shi and Da Qin. To be honest, it is indeed a bit early to intervene at this time, at least the Datang side is not ready, whether it is by sea or land, it is too far from the Central Plains to the northwest frontier, even if there is water transportation and railway transportation, the cost consumed during the period is too great, and the country is still in large-scale construction. The Indochina Peninsula that has just been captured needs to consume more than half of its seized wealth just by investing, and very few can be invested in the northwest. However, the Navy's Western Fleet is still circling the Poison Peninsula, and the overseas bases along the way still need to be increased, and at the same time, overseas trade is in full swing, and it is feared that rashly investing a large number of troops and logistics to transport troops to fight a war will seriously occupy the transportation capacity of the people, which is not conducive to the development of this large-scale trade.

"I think the emperor's decision is very good." Wang Houchun and Chen Fan are all on the side of the General Staff, and compared with Chen Fan and Xu Tianxiang, Wang Houchun has a deeper understanding of this forward-looking decision, so he disagrees with Xu Tianxiang's concerns, and retorts: "Although the war in the northwest consumes a lot, the benefits it brings are not trivial, not counting the long-term consideration of expanding the territory, even the floating wealth captured by the army can basically meet the daily consumption, if you don't consider the long-term occupation, it can even achieve a slight surplus, Besides, the strategy of the army has always been to consider the interests of the entire empire from the perspective of the overall situation, even if there is attrition now, it is much better than waiting for the two sides to divide the victory and defeat in the future, and then turn around and fight with us wholeheartedly, so instead of waiting for the time to fight at their own doorstep, it is better to burn the war to the other party's doorstep, so that it will not suffer a loss. ”

Li Xuanqing waved his hand and said, "I didn't let the two of you argue about whether the northwest side should start a war immediately, but to discuss what kind of strategic policy we should adopt in the northwest." It is not in our interest to start fighting now. What I'm going to say is how to sustain the situation where we can profit from the war, and what we need in addition to the arms business is to find a vast market for the huge domestic industrial and commodity industry. ”

"Then let the senior brother mobilize the Western Expeditionary Army to the border and station, on the one hand, raise the alert to deal with emergencies at any time, and on the other hand, distract the energy of the big cannibals and delay their continued advance. This is also tantamount to giving Great Qin an indirect support, giving him the ability and determination to continue the confrontation with the Great Cannibal until the two sides directly clash. At this time, Chen Fan, who had been silent, spoke: "All in all, there is only one sentence, distract the energy of the big cannibal but continue to trade with the other party, so as to show that we are not biased towards any side, but the border of the garrison can play a role in containing the big food, so that the Great Qin side sees that we are not willing to continue to grow bigger, so as to give them a signal to induce them to continue to increase the confrontation with the big cannibal at the same time, and we actively consider to strive for more benefits and space for industrial and commercial exports." The others were silent when he spoke, Chen Fan's opinion has always been the same as his character, always foolproof but will not be prominent and aggressive, all he thinks about is the strategy of counter-defense and counterattack. However, at this time, his opinion gradually made the trend of the situation in the entire northwest gradually clear. When this suggestion was sent to Shule Wanyi, the command of the Western Expeditionary Army ordered the Uighur Corps to move the original garrison from Broken Leaf City to Anxizhou and Dawan Kangju, despite the impending cold winter, and the Logistics Department immediately deployed a large amount of supplies into these places. At the same time, the Seventh Corps also began to be transferred from the rear to be stationed near the cities of Whitewater and Chel, and even the Anxi Corps, which served as a garrison in the province of Persia, began to gradually gather troops from all over the country and stationed at border ports such as the Persian Governorate. This kind of large-scale troop transfer naturally can't be hidden from past businessmen, coupled with Xuan Yingwei's intention to spread the news, and soon the Baghdad side knew about the large-scale military movement on the side of the Tiance Army. This kind of transfer of garrisons towards the border made Baghdad very jealous, and hurriedly sent people to the northwest to inquire about the matter of going to Chang'an to pay tribute in the coming year, and at the same time knocked on the side to explore the reality of the Tiance army, and even Ayebi secretly ordered to take advantage of the fact that the Tiance army did not take more drastic action to speed up the caravan's transportation of arms, so as to prevent the large number of arms ordered by the Tang Dynasty from being unable to be transported back once the strategy of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest changed.

However, what puzzled Ah Yebi was that no matter how he tried, Wan Yi did not have the slightest inclination to show his intentions, and he was the same as usual for the transit caravan, and even took the initiative to show up when the other party's envoy arrived in Shule and Tuoba Si to negotiate with him, saying that he looked forward to returning to Chang'an with Ah Yebi next year, and would welcome him in Chang'an with a wine when the time came. Moreover, as for the other party's overt and covert inquiries about military transfers, Wan Yi directly said that this was a normal military transfer, and that the Western Expeditionary Army itself was a border guard of the Datang Northwest Military Region, and it could be stationed anywhere in the northwest.

But the more this calm attitude is, the more suspicious the other party is, but fortunately, Datang did not prohibit business and trade between the two countries, and welcomed the matter of the big cannibals increasing their efforts to order arms, so Ah Yebi, who did not touch the cards, on the one hand, mobilized a large number of financial resources for larger-scale arms purchases, and on the other hand, reported to Baghdad that sufficient garrisons must be maintained on the northeast border, especially in Khorasan and other places bordering Datang. He even asked the Mamluk cavalry headquarters, which was originally going to leave for the west to participate in the war and garrison the Heavenly Holy Land, not to set off for the time being, so as to avoid a sudden attack from the Tang Dynasty.

When the Great Cannibal side began to divide troops because of the actions of the Tang Dynasty, when the northwest was guarding against the Tang Dynasty, as the caravan transmitted the news to Byzantium, the Great Qin side also understood the meaning of the Tang Dynasty for the first time, and the king of the Macedonian Dynasty who had taken a reassuring pill began to discuss with the Catholics in the territory while breathing a sigh of relief, seriously preparing for the Crusades, and planning to use the name of the religious army to send them to land near Jerusalem on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in advance, so as to delay the pace of the Great Cannibal's attack, At the same time, he also wants to use the religious army to touch the hole cards of the big cannibals. As a result, this crusade was larger and more powerful than before.

"Enlightened marshal, Xuanyingwei urgently, the Tunis intend to establish a state near the Dnieper River, modeled after a principality like Kyiv Russia." Just after Wan Yi had just attended the special arms and bulk material purchase agreement signed by the Great Qin Caravan and the Yelu family, the urgent news sent by Qin Kong made him think of another possibility.

"You immediately send this information to the Chang'an base camp as quickly as possible." After Wan Yi asked the secret guard to pass the news to the rear base camp, he immediately found Gauss Ji and Liu Xuan, and said straight to the point: "The chief of staff will report to the base camp immediately after the meeting, and the Western Expeditionary Army Command intends to redeploy in this area according to this unexpected situation, and ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urgently send a special person to the northwest." ”

"The marshal means that we can use the opportunity of the founding of the state of the Dioces to meddle in this region?" Liu Xuan asked as he recorded it.

"To the west of the Aral Sea, there is actually a place called the Caspian Sea, which is almost in a straight line, and there is a fertile land within a radius of hundreds of miles around these two great lakes, and there are rivers passing through it, and it is really impossible to give it to others. Now that the Dnieper are planning to establish a state near the Dnieper, the west of the lower reaches of the Dnieper is the hinterland of the Russian principality of Kiev, so the ideal place for the Dnieper is to strategically land on the vast plain from the east bank of the Dnieper to the west of the Volga River. Wan Yi paused at this point and continued, "And the east bank of the Volga River belongs to the north of the Caspian Sea, so we can consider entering here in advance, so that we can not only use the Slavs to block the harassment of the Slavs, but also swallow this land in silence." ”

"What the Great Marshal said is that those lands will not change the strength of Great Qin and Great Cannibals, and we can still get this land for nothing. I don't think the Rigs would mind if we occupied these places, even if they had the idea of attacking here, they would change direction as soon as our Tiance army arrived here. Gauss nodded, nodding at Wan Yi's thoughts, on the one hand, the people of the Ques must rely on the Tang Dynasty to be able to gain a foothold in this land, and on the other hand, they can continue to expand westward in the confrontation with Kyiv Russia, and even expand north in the Lianghe River Valley.

"The purpose of the marshal to ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to come is to negotiate this matter with the people of the Tunja in advance? It is also said that in the past, the Minister of Foreign Affairs sent an envoy to Huangjiasi to move millions of people to the west with just one mouth, and this time eighty percent will also say that they will be moved, and it is a big deal to provide them with some food and grass supplies. Liu Xuan recorded the words of the two and said with a smile: "It's just that we can't develop this land at the moment." Even if Wu Huan's corps were to continue its movement from the west of the Aral Sea to the northwest, I would not be able to ensure that it would be able to effectively occupy these places. ”

"It doesn't matter if you can't occupy it effectively, then keep it for the future. Anyway, as long as the place is negotiated with the Ques, no one can make up their minds. Hundreds of thousands of Tiance troops can't guarantee the safety of a mere piece of land? Gauss shook his head and smiled, unimpressed by Liu Xuan's worries. In his opinion, as long as the land that Datang wants, it must be Datang's, not to mention that Dashi and Daqin people have no time to take care of here, even if the two empires come to grab it, with the Western Expeditionary Army that has been repaired in the northwest for two years is enough to fight everyone to surrender.

"Chief of Staff, you go and compile our suggestions into a book, and then send one to the deputy prime minister, and the other to the base camp for the emperor to decide." Wan Yi waved his hand and motioned for Liu Xuan to go out and prepare, and then began to continue to study the plan with Gauss. The choice of the founding of the country at this time must have some special purpose or opportunity. This point will not be known until Qin Kong rushes back from the front line, but one thing must be admitted is that once the Yaks establish a state, they will inevitably break with the Russians in Kiev, I am afraid that there will be a big war this winter, and at this time, the Russians in Kiev, who are allies of the Great Qin people, are pinned down here, once the news is known by the Great Cannibals, I am afraid that they will speed up their pace and quickly calm down the counterattack of the remnants of the entire Green-clothed Great Eclipse, after all, there is no such thing as winter in the south. This is quite unfavorable for Great Qin, and it will also be easy for the Great Qin people to have strategic miscalculations, thinking that the Tang Dynasty and Great Qin have reached a tacit understanding, after all, after Kiev, Russia and further west will be directly the territory of the Great Qin people.

"Then only the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who have worked hard will go to Daqin directly after going to Huangjiasi, and directly explain our attitude with them. If you can, bring the Rigas together, and let the Dignes people express their stance, and you can consider joining the alliance of Great Qin. Anyway, as long as Datang doesn't express his position, it's nothing. It is estimated that even if they agree, it will only be a verbal promise, and they are still busy. Gao Siji's words made Wan Yi smile slightly, when will these front-line generals be able to decide the life and death of other countries with one word? Only when the huge empire behind him becomes stronger and stronger, will these leading generals on the front line have the vision and courage to surpass others to judge the life and death of other countries.