"Chai Shuai, why don't we divide the troops? You take the main force to the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, how about I lead people to attack Dali City? "Li Yang and Chai Jia led the army to the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, and Li Yang and Chai Jia discussed the division of troops.

"What do you mean, we will give Zheng Maisi a black tiger slap in the heart while attacking the Governor's Mansion? Completely disrupt his defense system in the Erhai region? Chai Jia nodded, he knew Li Yang's thoughts, Xue Yang hurriedly defeated the Tubo people, he should have planned to integrate all the forces of the Tiance Army in the Erhai region before the arrival of the other party's follow-up army, and prepare for the decisive battle.

"What Chai Shuai said is that Chen Shuai has already won Profit City over there, and the next step should be to sweep the entire southern part of Nanzhao Kingdom, so the only ones who can free up their hands to fight a decisive battle with the Tubo people are our 70,000 troops and the 30,000 horses in Xu Shuai's hands, if you add the 50,000 people on the Dashuai's side, a total of 150,000 people." Li Yang nodded and said: "If there is no way to maintain law and order and pursue Longxun, then our troops with the Tubo people may be less than 100,000 people, and this should be a good man, so let's end the war in the Erhai region as soon as possible." ”

Chai Jia nodded and said: "In that case, let's divide the troops immediately, the road on the left in front is the road leading to Dali City, and the road on the right is the road to the Governor's Mansion of the Sea, let's separate." ”

Chai Jia led an army of 50,000 to quickly move towards the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, along the way with great fanfare to attract Zheng Maisi's attention to cover Li Yang's whereabouts, at this moment the Erhai area concentrated most of Zheng Maisi's descendant troops, especially in the area where the Tonghai Governor's Mansion is located, if it is not for the new weapon Chai Jia is afraid to face a tough battle, but Xue Yang's results in the Langdong City side, this new musket can adapt to various battlefields.

Chai Jia's side quickly rushed to the city of Tonghai Governor's Mansion through a rapid march, Chen Bing was preparing to attack outside the city, while Li Yang's side was walking day and night and even part of the time in disguise, but even so, it was quickly discovered in the most prosperous area of the Nanzhao Kingdom, if it wasn't for Chai Jia's side to launch an attack in time, which attracted Zheng Maihei's attention, I was afraid that Li Yang's side would have started a war in advance. Rao is so, Li Yang is still in Yunnan to the east of Dali City, and Pintang was blocked, and the 20,000 standing troops of the Southern Zhao State recruited by Zheng Maisi hit the Tiance army in these two places.

Li Yang, who was blocked, understood that the plan to directly attack Dali City could not be realized, so he simply changed the plan to directly attack Yunnan County, so that the sound of artillery in Yunnan County almost scared Zheng Maisi half to death, Yunnan County and Dali City were only separated by dozens of miles and were originally the gateway to the south and east of Dali City, and the sound of artillery in this place made Zheng Maisi begin to hurry up and prepare his own back road, almost while fighting the family members and assets of the senior officials of Dali City to the west, The first step is to prepare to transfer to Longkou and other important towns in the west, and the second step is to prepare for Lishui and Yongchangfu in the westernmost part of the province, where Zheng Maisi has his own influence, and the early arrangement can be said to be more solid than the foundation of the old capital of Nanzhao Kingdom, Yang Tho Bacheng.

The changes in the situation in Nanzhao were reported to the Chang'an base camp one after another in the summary of intelligence and battle conditions, so the General Staff had a relatively timely understanding of the changes on the front line. Xu Tianxiang would stay in the Tiance Mansion building almost every day these days, and all the operational staff officers within the General Staff Department would be mobilized to conduct various war games.

"I said Tianxiang, are you taking precautions?" In the past few days, Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun have also been busy with the downsizing and changing of troops, and when they came to the Tiance Mansion building early in the morning, they couldn't help but smile when they saw Xu Tianxiang like this.

"The emperor said that the General Staff Department must improve the staff system before the western expedition, and also requires the chiefs of staff and their important staff officers of all units to study at the military academy for more than half a year." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "Didn't you see Liu Yi and his several chiefs of staff all going to the Military Academy to do lectures?" This is intended to pass on all the lessons learned before the Great War to those juniors. I also plan to train them in advance within the General Staff Headquarters. ”

After Xu Tianxiang finished saying this, he suddenly found that these two people were standing next to the sand table, watching these young staff officers keep moving the poles and arrows, and immediately shook his head and smiled: "You two still have this leisure, let's go, let's go to Changqing Hall to talk about something?" ”

When a few people came to Changqing Palace, they found that Chen Fan was already there, and suddenly said strangely: "Chen Fan, aren't you in the grassland?" How did it come quietly? And he came directly to the emperor, not to see a few of us, which is not interesting enough. ”

"Okay, the three of you are here too, it just so happens that Chen Fan has something to say, let's listen to it together?" Li Xuanqing clapped his hands and smiled when he saw the three of them coming.

"What I mean is that at the same time as the westward expedition, you can consider taking the second way, marching from the grassland." As soon as Chen Fan opened his mouth, Yang Tiancheng was more surprised, and interrupted him: "Chen Fan, why did you change your temper after going to the grassland and start advocating attack?" ”

"The path of the grassland is actually a little easier to follow than the Silk Road, but the disadvantage is that the road is too far away, and the enemies to face along the way are too strong." Chen Fan said: "But there is a little advantage, that is, we can completely eliminate the great enemy in the north during the westward expedition - the Huangjia people. ”

Chen Fan's words made a few people present suddenly silent, in the past two years, the Huangjiasi people have not gone south, but they have been slowly recovering their strength in the north, the Huangjiasi control the grassland from the north of the desert to the northwest of Anbei, it can be said that its territory is almost larger than the current territory of the Tang Empire, although there has not been much improvement in the competition between the west and the Uighurs in recent years, but after being defeated by the Tiance army in the east, it actually objectively allowed them to shrink their forces to concentrate on the situation in the west, and the result was gradually reversed.

"Your Majesty, I think Chen Fan's plan is feasible if the Changjin Line cannot be completed as scheduled, but the premise is that we must have a detailed understanding of the people of the Quegas." Xu Tianxiang nodded, he was more in favor of Chen Fan's plan.

"I've asked Xiao Si to arrange for the Prairie Xuanying Guard Branch to collect news about the Pygsians, and this matter will wait for their results, but the corresponding preparations still need to be made. The General Staff immediately summoned the two battalions directly under the command and the pro-guard battalion to assemble in the grassland area north of Toyosu and wait for orders. Li Xuanqing is actually not optimistic about Chen Fan's plan, but one thing he agrees with is that if the Tang Empire wants to get rid of the previous situation of focusing on defending the northern nomads, then the northern grassland will not allow the existence of a strong and unified regime.

This matter is waiting for the news of Xuan Yingwei, a few people in Chang'an don't have much to do, Wang Houchun couldn't stay idle and went to Hexi to find Wan Yi after a few days, Yang Tiancheng has been sneakily wandering around Chang'an these days, and the only ones who can really calm down and stay in Chang'an are Chen Fan and Xu Tianxiang.

"I said Tianxiang, Nanzhao's fight is in full swing, so you really don't worry?" Several other departments in the Tiance Mansion building were busy, but the General Staff was idle here, Chen Fan saw that Xu Tianxiang actually had the intention to drink tea in the office, and immediately shook his head and said.

Xu Tianxiang pulled him to sit down and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, try the Biluochun that I specially got from Hunan, it tastes great." After that, he made a cup for Chen Fan and said with a smile: "What can be the problem with Xue Yang on the Nanzhao side, and besides, isn't the boss still on the southern front?" Don't say that the boss's progress in this year is not small, and he will start to think about fighting, unlike before, he only knew how to fight and rush. After finishing speaking, he handed the intelligence and battle report from Nanzhao's side to Chen Fan and said with a smile: "Just take a look for yourself, there are three copies that I received this morning, and I haven't had time to report to the emperor yet." ”

Chen Fan looked at it one by one, his face became so strange, and after reading the last few pieces of information, he shook his head and said, "I think you deliberately look down on the Tubo people, thinking that they can't beat Xue Yang's troops?" ”

"I see, you are used to commanding cavalry troops, so you underestimate the combat effectiveness of the infantry, in the southwest region the infantry is much stronger than the cavalry, there is no room for cavalry to play in that place, there are no roads at all in many places, people can't pass, let alone horses." Xu Tianxiang was not surprised by this guy's cautious attitude, and explained: "Moreover, after the popularization of rifles, the combat effectiveness of the infantry and the impact of the cavalry have been greatly improved, and it can be said that the cavalry may be eliminated in the future." Xu Tianxiang was the one who spent the most time with Li Xuanqing among all the generals, and naturally he also learned a lot of later ideas from him, and he had a natural preferential treatment for the infantry.

At this time, the front-line generals of the Tiance Army who were in the center of the battlefield naturally did not know what they were discussing at the highest level, but even if they knew, they would not hesitate to support Xu Tianxiang, Li Yang felt the power of the rifle for the first time in the process of attacking Yunnan County in the past two days, and with the support of artillery, Li Yang's troops quickly entered the city to start a street battle. On May 20 of the second year of the Apocalypse, Li Yang officially took Yunnan County and drove all the troops of Nan Shuyun, the first fierce general in the hands of Zheng Maihei, out of Yunnan County.

After Li Yang took Yunnan County, he led his army to Dali City regardless of it, completely disrupting Zheng Maihei's deployment and forcing him to shrink all his forces to hold Dali City. At this time, Chai Jia's battle in the Tonghai Governor's Mansion also officially began, 50,000 troops were under fire, and the Nanzhao defenders of the Tonghai Governor's Mansion could not stop this tide-like offensive at all, on the second day when Li Yang took Yunnan County, the Tonghai Governor's Mansion was the most important town in the Erhai region was flooded by the artillery fire of the Tiance Army, and finally broke after a fierce battle for a day and a night, and the 50,000 army began to officially enter the city after annihilating the 30,000 defenders.

After Chai Jia took the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, he began to divide his troops to the west and began to support Li Yang, intercepting the troops mobilized by Zheng Maisi from other places, so that Li Yang could calmly attack Dali City. However, at this time, although Zheng Maisi had completely fallen into disadvantage in the Erhai area, his retreat had already been arranged, and he even got the news that Long Xun had been abandoned by Hu Jingzhang, so when Li Yang officially attacked Dali City, he had already retreated from Dali City with his cronies and troops into the Longkou area. However, although this guy retreated, he left Nan Shuyun in Dali City, and let him be responsible for dragging the main force of the Tiance Army.

However, at this time, Xue Yang, who was on the front line of Jianchuan, had already led his troops to Yangtho City, and Xu Ying was already in the city at this time and captured Long Xun. When Xue Yang was fighting fiercely with the Tubo people in Nongdong City, Xu Ying had quietly led the army to the outside of Yang Tho City, originally he planned to have a fierce battle in Yang Tho City, but what he didn't expect was that Hu Jingzhang left so thoroughly and timely, and even the troops that originally belonged to Long Xun were taken away. As soon as Xu Ying arrived, Longxun surrendered directly.

"Brother means that Hu Jingzhang has already led his troops towards Lishui?" After Xue Yang led his troops into the city, Xu Ying handed the information about Hu Jingzhang that he had found out to Xue Yang and said: "And the news that Qin Kong got said that he was afraid that Zheng Maihei's side was also starting to run Lishui City as his own retreat." ”

"That's not right, we have already taken Yang Tho City, Zheng Maisi can't bypass Yang Tho City no matter how he goes, he plans to fly over it? There's no road anywhere else. Xue Yang and Xu Ying glanced at each other, and both found the question in each other's eyes.

"Could it be that Zheng Maisi didn't find out that we had already taken Yang Tho City?" Xue Yang's eyes suddenly lit up and he smiled: "Without further ado, brother, I will immediately lead the army out of the city overnight and ambush in the north of Yangtho City, and if Zheng Maisi leads the army to the city, we will take them directly." If they don't come, our army can also block their road to Jianchang Province, thus completely blocking their road to the west. ”

After the two finished discussing, Xue Yang hurriedly led the army out of the city to ambush at night, and Xuan Yingwei was responsible for clearing all Zheng Maisi's spies inside Yangtho City to prevent the news from leaking to Zheng Maisi.

When Xue Yang set up a pocket for Zheng Maisi outside the city of Yangtho, Li Yang also led the army to break the city defense of Dali City, and losing Zheng Maisi's Dali City was equivalent to losing his soul, Nan Shuyun was wounded in the leg and captured in the fierce battle, and most of the more than 10,000 defenders of Dali City were directly captured. And when Li Yang broke Dali City, Chai Jia also recovered several other major gateways in the Erhai region.

On May 27, the second year of the Apocalypse, Chai Jia and Li Yang both flew to the Chang'an base camp, the Erhai region was restored, and the Nanzhao Kingdom disappeared from history as an independent regime. At this time in Chang'an, Li Xuanqing also began to take Qiaoxi to Fengzhou, preparing to check the secondary layout of the industrial group on the spot.