"Marshal, the battle report sent by the Modao Battalion, the defenders on the Yanqi side couldn't retreat, and sent a large number of small troops to harass our army's logistics, and repeated the old tricks, wantonly destroying the water source near Yanqi, inciting the hatred of other surrounding tribes towards my Datang, and trying to launch crowd tactics." In the past two days, because Liu Xuan needed to cooperate with Tuoba Sijian to deal with the government affairs of several towns in Gaochang and pacify the people, the daily work of the headquarters, including the daily repair and replenishment of the troops, and the supply of food and ammunition fell on his head. After receiving the battle report from Shi Jian, he found Wan Yi as soon as possible.

"The Anxi Uighurs are digging their own graves, doesn't he know the relationship between the Modao Battalion and the Anxi Army back then? Isn't this forcing Shi Jian to open the killing ring? Wan Yi shook his head, scoffing at the actions of the Yanqi defenders, as a descendant of Anxi back then, he was already upset when he arrived in Yanqi, an important town in Anxi of the Tang Dynasty in the old days, and at this time, he instigated those large and small tribes to launch crowd tactics, just afraid that the Tiance army would be bloodied as soon as it entered the territory of the Anxi Uighurs. But obviously Wan Yi didn't pay too much attention to this, after all, it was already the beginning of May, and the water source problem in Yanqi after a large amount of snow melted in the Tianshan Mountains was not at all the same as the situation when the Western Expeditionary Army arrived in Jiaohe City before, even if the other party destroyed the water source, the Modao Battalion and the Cavalry Corps would not have any drinking water problems, and Tuoba Siji would definitely not sit idly by and watch it, once the troops were sent to clear it, these would not be any problems, not to mention that the Flying Eagle Brigade had also entered the Yanqi area, so put the intelligence aside and said: "Where is the reorganization of the troops on Hammoud's side now?"

"Four battalions of cavalry were reorganized, and the remaining 10,000 or so were dismissed on the spot, and now they have been handed over to the deputy prime minister, these people, as the most basic supporters of the implementation of the imperial policy in the Gaosing area, Hamoud handed over all the reorganization matters to Zhong Ying, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the former vestibule state, in the past two days, and he specially talked with the dismissed group of Uighur children, explaining to them the imperial policy and minimizing the difficulties on the civil side, and the effect is not bad from the current point of view. At least our Datang's national policy has a very great attraction for those low-level people. It's just that the resistance of those nobles who have not been purged before is very great, if it were not for the fact that the main force of our army is still in Gaochang, and the 11th Corps has sent heavy troops to the seven affiliated military towns near Xizhou and Jiaohe City to assist the civil affairs officials to station, I am afraid that there will be a violent conflict again. Gao Siji was obviously a little worried about the situation in Gaochang that was now surging under his own strong suppression, so after speaking, he continued: "In this case, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the National Guard to deal with it alone, and the possibility of the main force of our army being pulled out in a short period of time is very small, after all, if Gaochang is unstable, it will inevitably greatly threaten the back road of our army, and if the turbulent current of Anxi and Gaochang cooperates, then there will soon be another twist and turn." ”

"You take the time to explain to Yang Yi with the chief of staff, and ask him to send as many people as possible from the mainland, and suppress all those who try to set off a rebellion, at least in a short period of time, the military management on Gaochang's side will not end." Wan Yi nodded and continued to ask, "What's the news from the Anxi Corps?" Go and tell Zhang Sheng that if they can't march from Khotan to Shule alone, they will send part of the army to Yanqi and join the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army to fight. "After Zhang Sheng's Anxi Corps withdrew from the mountain camp, on the one hand, it needed to maintain internal stability in Khotan, on the other hand, it also had to garrison the secret to prevent the counterattack of the Safarid Dynasty, and then it was too difficult to send troops to attack Shule, the base camp of the Anxi Uighurs, so when Zhang Sheng reported the plan to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army, it was rejected by Wan Yi.

"Zhang Sheng can't come, the Safarid Dynasty is already preparing for the deployment of a counterattack." Before Gao Siji could speak, Zhao Si outside the tent lifted the curtain and walked in. Because most of the buildings in Gaochang City were other than residential houses, and the high-ranking officials of the Gaochang Uighurs still liked their old tents, Wan Yi also set up his headquarters tent after the arrival of the army, and gave the confiscated houses to Tuoba Siji and civil affairs officials to live and work. However, Zhao Si's news obviously made Wan Yi and Gao Siji stunned, and the latter even picked up the command rod and acted as a staff officer, according to the intelligence report in Zhao Si's hand: "The governor of the northern part of Safar has gathered troops in Bamiyan and other places to prepare to come to the northwest, although from Bamiyan is still far away from their current border town of Suhado, and the middle is basically mountainous, but they have mobilized a lot of camel teams from the southern region, and it is estimated that the army will go to Suhado in July at the latest. At that time, the southwestern border of Khotan will inevitably be a resumption of war. ”

Zhao Si saw Gao Siji and continued: "Many of the troops mobilized by the Saffar Dynasty this time are border guards who have been fighting in the west and other countries of the Heavenly Sect all the year round, so the combat power is definitely not much better than our current opponent, and because the teachings of the Heavenly Sect basically call on all the participants to attack frantically regardless of life and death before the war, Zhang Sheng's side is facing a lot of pressure. Zhao Si didn't know that the word "brainwashing" in later generations and the news from the dark guard only said that they prayed to all the soldiers before the war or something, so as to paralyze the soldiers' fear of the battlefield, but the basic meaning was still expressed in place.

"Marshal, do you want to transfer the two battalions stationed in Ganzhou to the west into Khotan?" Because Gao Siji didn't know the specific combat strength of the Anxi Corps, he frowned at the internal situation in Khotan. However, this suggestion was immediately vetoed by Wan Yi, and it is not difficult to mobilize two battalions to move west to increase the strength of the Anxi Corps, but the logistics are difficult to sustain, although the current food and salary supply of the Anxi Corps basically relies on direct allocation within Khotan, but at present, the Anxi Corps has also begun to change its equipment, and transporting a large amount of ammunition from the Central Plains to the northwest thousands of miles away is a disaster for the logistics of any army. At present, relying on the railway to transport materials to Ganzhou and then transport, has consumed a lot of manpower and material resources in logistics, if the front-line troops are increased, then I am afraid that Zuo Tiancheng will jump his feet.

Moreover, when a few people were looking at the map to check the route of the Safarid Dynasty's march, Liu Xuan, who entered the big tent, suddenly interjected at this time: "And at present, the empire is afraid that there are not too many troops to be transferred to the northwest, and these two battalions, if they are estimated well, should be the last reserve for my western expeditionary army." ”

Liu Xuan's words made Wan Yi's eyes suddenly narrow, nodded and said, "The General Staff has sent a war briefing over there?" Could it be that the plans for the northeast and Tibetan areas have already been approved by the royal family? ”

"This is a notice sent by the General Staff, in the northeast, Marshal Chen Fan has set off from Chang'an with the emperor's authorization to form the Eastern Expeditionary Group Army, responsible for attacking the three Koreas, and Marshal Chen Yu in the southwest region has also set up the Southern Line Corps in Nanzhao to enter Tibet from the Tea Horse Road, and the Third Corps on the Northern Front is the main force to form the Northern Line Corps. The operation in the Tibetan area was officially launched after Chen Fan's strategy was launched. Liu Xuan handed Wan Yi the war briefing sent by him and the cabinet documents to Wan Yi and said: "And the cabinet has decided to formally merge the two places of Shagua and Gaochang to form Gaochang Province, so the General Staff suggested that we transfer two battalions from Ganzhou to the vicinity of Jiaohe City as stability maintenance troops and serve as a reserve for the Western Expeditionary Army." ”

Although the general staff's war report did not say whether troops could be transferred at this time, but when the war in the northwest was advancing, the two plans of the Eastern Expedition and the Tibet were launched, then the Tang Empire would need to strategically face the situation of three battlefields fighting at the same time, according to the current number of 700,000 standing troops of the Imperial Army, the 40,000 people in the northwest side not counting the Anxi Corps and Hammoud were about 200,000, and if the Eastern Expeditionary Group Army had about 200,000, then the army entering Tibet would have to be less than 200,000. Otherwise, it would not be useful to divide it into two parts, the north and the south. In this way, together with the other troops stationed in various parts of the empire, it is really to exert the strength to the limit. If there were more troops to the northwest, soldiers would have to be re-recruited. However, this is contrary to the current elite plan implemented by the Ministry of National Defense, so Wan Yi immediately ordered after hearing this: "According to the recommendation of the General Staff, immediately transfer two battalions from Ganzhou to the west into Jiaohe City and Xizhou, take over the 11th Corps, and hand over the command to Yang Yi." At the same time, he gave Zhang Sheng an order to immediately stop the plan to attack Shule and make every effort to guard against the attack of the Safavid people in the southwest, and then ordered Shi Jian to tell him not to ask him to capture Yanqi City before the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army entered Yanqi, but he must do one thing, not to allow other tribes in the Yanqi region to resist any moves, and if these people are bewitched by the Uighurs and attack our army, give me all the strength to suppress it. In addition, let Hammoud lead the army to Yanqi immediately to wait for Shi Jian's dispatch to strengthen the strength of the advance corps, and if the Anxi Uighurs want to fight, then fight a field battle outside Yanqi City to completely destroy the other side. ”

Wan Yi's hurried order and murderous tone shocked everyone, and the sudden actions of the supreme commander of the Western Expeditionary Army also made them understand that they were afraid that their commander was determined to exterminate the Anxi Uighurs in a short period of time, so as to strategically respond to the war in the other two battlefields of the empire, so as to reduce the pressure on military logistics. Therefore, Liu Xuan picked up a pen and paper almost instantly, began to record orders one by one, and then handed them to Gao Siji for review, and finally handed them over to Wan Yi for signing.

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Western Expeditionary Army once again sounded a hurried clarion call after less than ten days of repair, and the new regiment of Hammud, a new joiner who had just completed the reorganization, led the army to Yanqi under the leadership of himself, preparing to participate in the Yanqi War. Before leaving, Zhao Si also suddenly appeared in Hammad's army, and the two of them commanded the troops to move forward while telling what Wan Yi had not explained, and the purpose of Zhao Si's trip was to explain the specific deployment of the two Uighur divisions of Hammud, and this plan was decided to be handed over to Zhao Si after Wan Yi thought about it again and again, so that he could deploy it with full authority. After all, Xuan Yingwei is very good at this kind of thing, and Zhao Si will not have any impact on the Tiance Army if he deals with it more often.

However, when Wan Yi on the Western Front changed the situation that should have been repaired and launched a new round of attacks because of the overall deployment of the General Staff, Chen Fan, who was far away in the northeast, also officially arrived in Kaizhou, Fengtian Province, and began to mobilize the three corps of Hou Yong, Liu Baoliang and Ge Cunzhou, who were stationed in the northeast, to prepare for the Eastern Expedition. Because Chen Fan had basically completed the preparations in the early stage, he immediately began to mobilize logistics manpower to transport materials and ammunition along the northern railway line of Bohai Bay after the arrival of the three corps one after another, and summoned Liu Yi, who was stationed in Zhongjing, Khitan Province, to lead five infantry battalions to Kaizhou to converge, so that the Eastern Expeditionary Group Army gathered two cavalry corps and two infantry corps in a short time, totaling 160,000 regular troops, plus three battalions of artillery troops originally stationed in Kaizhou. On the 8th day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the 180,000-strong army marched south from Kaeju to the south, directly attacking Pyongyang, an important northern town in Goryeo, the three Koreas. Pyongyang at this time was geographically different from the Pyongyang of later generations remembered by Li Xuanqing, but they were both important towns in the north of Samhan, and they were also the first line of the Samhan region against the Central Plains Dynasty.

After the army arrived at the Yalu River, the two Izumo-class warships of the Beiyang Fleet of the Navy, which had already been cruising here, also drilled into the surface of the Yalu River at this time, spewed black smoke upstream, and began to bombard the water village of the Goryeo army on the opposite bank, and then directly defeated the Goryeo army's sailors of about 3,000 people stationed here. Seeing this situation, the Eastern Crusade sent troops to board the eleven troop transports that had come along with the Izumo-class battleships to the opposite shore, and as the forward force, they had to hold the landing positions of the other side with the assistance of the navy, so as to facilitate the continuous landing of the follow-up troops. However, Chen Fan obviously did not put all the expectations of landing on the naval troop carriers, and immediately after the navy cleared the obstacles on the river and the opposing army, he immediately commanded the troops to put down all kinds of timber that had been prepared to build pontoon bridges, which were originally one of the main tools for the Central Plains Army to cross the river, so these were familiar to the Tiance army, and even many soldiers quickly made a large number of wooden boats while building pontoon bridges, and then boats and boats of soldiers followed the navy's troop carriers to the other side.

Three days later, on the afternoon of the seventh day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Eastern Expeditionary Army marched into Goryeo with 180,000 troops by land and water. Liu Yi also officially reported in the battle report sent to the General Staff that the entire army of the Tiance Army entered Goryeo, and the great cause of the Eastern Crusade was officially launched.

The report of the Eastern Expeditionary Army's entry into Goryeo went straight to Chang'an with the train, and the General Staff immediately let Xue Yang's headquarters, which had been prepared, enter Yuanzhou as soon as possible and began the journey to Tibet. However, the road to Tibet is as difficult as the northwest, which is completely different from the Eastern Expeditionary Army, which can directly send a large number of materials to the front line almost all the way by rail transportation, in order to cope with the plateau climate and characteristics, the troops and even the logistics personnel who followed Xue Yang this time are all local personnel specially signed by the logistics department in the tribes of Gesang, and almost all the troops participating in the first batch of troops in Tibet are stationed in Yuanzhou and specially trained to overcome altitude sickness. Those who were not suitable for plateau operations were all transferred to other units by the Ministry of National Defense, so that the Northern Front Corps led by Xue Yang made rapid progress, and the tribes and states that set out from Yuanzhou to Gesang had almost no resistance, and the Longyou Tubo of Hezhou all fell to the Tang Dynasty after Gesang married Hu Xiaosi, so when he arrived in Hezhou, Xue Yang's department was basically accepted.

After the Tang Empire was injected with a century of wealth from the Uighurs in Gaochang, it began to attack militarily in three directions, which meant that the military plans of the General Staff throughout the year were all spread out. At this time, the battle report of Wan Yi's transfer also arrived in Chang'an, Xu Tianxiang, Yang Tiancheng and others all smiled when they saw Wan Yi's deployment, and secretly said that this senior brother has an old eye, thoughtful thinking, and can always consider the military operations of the entire empire from the perspective of the overall situation.