Chapter 534: Sweeping the Aral Sea

"Chief of Staff, this is a list of 20,000 prisoners of war and captured materials sent by General Us'er, as well as a military newspaper that has been forwarded." In the newly built new city of Genros, a large number of supplies were concentrated here, and then divided into two directions, north and south, in the direction of Hamoud and Us'er. Moreover, Genross and Baishui City are important strongholds of the northern trade route between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food, and there is still a large backlog of trade materials and caravans here because of the war, but because of the big battle in front of the Tiance Army, these goods are basically facing the risk of returning at any time. But these things are not things that Liu Xuan needs to consider, the goods and commodities ordered by Da Shi in China are basically required to pay a deposit of about 30 percent, so even if these goods cannot be transported to Da Shi, those merchants in China actually do not lose much, and it is a big deal to digest them in the northwest mainland.

"Military newspapers?" Liu Xuan asked the staff officers to take people to count the captured materials and prisoners of war, and then hand them over to the National Guard in the rear after signing and confirming them, and they will distribute these prisoners of war to various places according to the requirements of the headquarters, and the captured materials will also be handed over to the military administration district yamen for processing. So Liu Xuan took the battle report and looked at it with a smile and said, "It seems that General Hammoud's insight is indeed good." Wu Xun immediately forwarded this military report to the headquarters, and notified the logistics department to immediately speed up the delivery of supplies to Chel City on the side of Yaozhishui, and told the National Guard to let them send people to follow and take over Chel City when necessary, so as to reduce the burden on General Wusi'er. Liu Xuan's side understood Hamoud's intentions almost instantly, so he immediately arranged for the logistics materials of the brigade to set off, preparing to take over the garrison of Chel City after Us'er led the army forward, and began to plan with the civil affairs officials to receive more than 30 tribal strongholds along the coast of Yaozhishui, and arranged for some follow-up troops and National Guards to be stationed, preparing to move these tribes to the vicinity of Chel City or to the interior before the arrival of winter.

However, Wu Si'er obviously didn't have that much patience to wait for Liu Xuan's men to go to take over Chel City, and directly appointed a anyway family in the city to temporarily maintain order in the city, and then left some people to assist Xuan Yingwei in the city and wait for Liu Xuan's follow-up men to come, and he led the main force to start bypassing the tortuous northern coastline of the Aral Sea, and then immediately began a crazy assault like a lightning speed. Although Us'er does not have the keen battlefield insight and decisive ability of Hammad, he is extremely effective in the resoluteness of executing orders, and he can have enough time to sweep these large and small tribes on the west coast of the Aral Sea, which are all won by Hammud's side dragging the main force of the Great Food Empire, in other words, the dispatch of the army of those Tianfang Sect disciples is equivalent to draining out the young adults of most of the tribes on the Aral Sea coast, which is equivalent to giving the Tiance army the opportunity to recover these tribes at the smallest cost.

These tribes along the Aral Sea are not only vassals of the Great Food Empire, but the nomadic tribes in the northern steppes are basically dependent on the regime of the Dangas, but the Hunger Tribes were successively defeated by the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, and their strength declined sharply, and their control over these tribes in the west also declined sharply, so these tribes began to gradually have more contact with the Tang Dynasty. The western region is the Slavic tribe, but these Slavs and the Kiev Russians who established a principality near Kiev at this time do not belong to each other, in their opinion, these people are just barbarian and uncivilized compatriots, so in addition to fighting with the Great Qin people in Taixi, Kyiv Russia is also gradually attacking these barbarians, which also gives the Tang Dynasty more opportunities to conquer this region. As for those tribes in the south, they are actually subordinate tribes of the Great Food Empire, and many times they are even directly the territory of the Great Food, and the focus of Wusi'er's attack this time is this area. It's just that the Heavenly Sect has a very deep penetration into this generation, so whether it is the south, the north, or even the west, the Celestial Sect is very widespread, with a large number of followers. And the most important thing is that this time, the Pope of the Heavenly Fang Sect sent the sects in this region to participate in the war, which is to show Datang that the main resistance faced by Datang is actually the local tribe and not the Great Food Army. Although these sects are not much different from the Great Food Army, on the bright side, the Great Food Empire is not ready to turn against Datang again, and it does not intend to give Datang a hard pretext.

However, these things were not taken to heart by Hammud, who was on the front line of the confrontation with Da Shi, or Wu Si'er, who led the army to attack the Aral Sea coast, and even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent an official letter to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army, requesting that the army not need to be bound by the letter of state concluded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself does not take it seriously, so these generals at all levels in the northwest do not have the slightest concept of this aspect.

When Wu Si'er set out from the north bank, the suppression of the grassland tribes was very obvious, because after the decline of the power of the Huangs, the nomadic tribes here actually heard of several large-scale wars in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the northwest, especially the Samani and Anxi Uighurs around them fell in front of the Tang army one by one, so as soon as Wu Si'er's army arrived, almost all the tribes did not dare to move, and the leaders of the various tribes came to express their sincerity to the Tang Dynasty, and gave countless gifts. Even some clan leaders said that if the Tang Dynasty needed it, they could send the warriors of the clan to assist the Tang Dynasty in the battle. This made Wu Si'er a little surprised, he was originally going to fight a big battle, he said after a little thought, he welcomed the return of all departments to the Tang Dynasty, but there was no need to send troops to fight, only need to send some military guides, and Wu Si'er said that if you want to return to the Tang Dynasty, you must go to Shule and accept the management of the government of the Northwest Military District of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise it will be tantamount to disobeying Wang Hua When there is a misunderstanding, you will inevitably meet each other. In fact, what Wu Si'er didn't expect was that he was just a casual remark, but these tribal leaders took it seriously, and really went to Shule in droves with tributary gifts, which made Tuoba Sizhi later change his opinion of this former Shatuo fierce general a lot.

Immediately after a short stop on the northern shore of the Aral Sea, User began to attack on the western shore, where the flames of war first burned. Speaking of which, this is the first time that the Tang Dynasty has faced the race of Tessie's blood on a frontal battlefield, and the combat methods and characteristics of the Slavs have also made the soldiers of the Seventh Corps who have come into contact with them for the first time very strange, and they do not use large-scale cavalry assault tactics, but have unimaginable importance to hoplites, and even in order to set off the power of hoplites, large-scale cavalry is only used as a diversion on both wings. At this time, it was simply unable to compete with the full firepower weapons of the Tiance Army, and the slow movement of the hoplites almost became the target of the soldiers of the Tiance Army in the battle, and the two wings were disrupted by the artillery of the cavalry artillery organized by Wusi'er. This regular battle that was finally organized was forced into a pot of porridge, and the murderous Us'er immediately ordered a cavalry assault, and countless cavalry galloped on this grassland to launch a terrifying pursuit of all the tribes, and the armies of the tribes that were scattered were all captured by the Tiance Army after being pursued for three days, and Us'er almost used this battle to completely destroy the resistance of hundreds of tribes on the west bank, and tens of thousands of captives were captured one after another in the following days, For this reason, User had to go with the captives. More than 20,000 Tiance troops with tens of thousands of prisoners of war began to come from the west bank to the south. Us'er's plan was to hand over the captives to the logistics forces through the passage on Hammud's side as soon as he joined forces with Hammud to fight the Great Eclipse.

The news that Us'er led an army to attack the shores of the Aral Sea and then defeated a coalition of tribes several times his own quickly spread throughout the Aral Sea region after this great pursuit, causing an uproar, and those tribes and tribes that were not attacked were all in danger for a while, and each of them was secretly contacting and discussing how to deal with this powerful power from the east, and even the news spread rapidly to the west, and then reached the more distant Slavic tribes and principalities, so that the more distant Great Qin began to gradually face up to the rolling torrent from the east. The first to bear the brunt were the tribes in the south that survived under the vassal Diet Empire. For them, this move of the Tiance Army is equivalent to encircling them from the east and west. Compared with the behemoth of the Great Food Empire, for these large and small tribes swaying in the wind in the middle, how to survive sometimes depends on how to choose which strong one to rely on, and from the current point of view, the Tang Dynasty is undoubtedly stronger than the Great Food. Therefore, when Wusi'er passed through the territory of these tribes with tens of thousands of prisoners of war like a demonstration, these tribes did not dare to make any changes, and even in order to show their sincerity to Wusi'er, they each sent envoys to work along the way, on the one hand, to express goodwill to Wusi'er, and on the other hand, they also wanted to explore the truth, but after seeing the large group of prisoners of war who came with their hands and feet tied passing by, everyone extinguished their hearts to fight against the Tang Dynasty. However, these tribes at this time made Us'er save a lot of trouble, at this time, his army did not have much surplus troops to fight after watching these prisoners, and if these tribes and the Slavic tribes in the West Bank joined forces to fight, I am afraid that Us'er would have to give up these prisoners.

After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Wu Si'er immediately ordered to start speeding up, bypassing the southwestern end of the Aral Sea, and starting to cling to the coastline and entering the source of the Wuhu River. Under the advance notice of Xuan Yingwei, Hammoud also sent someone to meet in advance, and the two sides met at the end of September of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, in the new city of Wuhu River, which was named Aral Sea City. As a result, the war on this side of the Aral Sea also began to enter a new stage, and Hamoud, whose strength had almost doubled in an instant, was no longer willing to wait any longer, and began to arrange a large army to plan a counterattack.

At this time, the busiest in the rear is undoubtedly Liu Xuan and the logistics department, Wu Si'er's great battle to chase the north swept away almost all the tribes near the Aral Sea in just half a month, in addition to a large number of prisoners, those subdued tribes also need to send people to manage, and the most important thing is that in a short period of time, not only he, the chief of staff, but also the civil affairs side can not send more people to go. In desperation, Liu Xuan could only make a big move, directly pressed the newly entered Wu Huan's troops, and asked him to directly take the troops of a corps to the western part of the Aral Sea, on the one hand, to deter the local tribes to assist the civil officials who arrived later to stabilize the situation, and on the other hand, to prevent the enemy from Taixi from the west. Wu Huan originally thought that he was the first to arrive in the northwest and be able to catch a big battle, but he didn't expect that Liu Xuan arranged for him to be the task of protecting the territory and the people, and Wu Huan, who was angry, took a bloody suppression in the west against those tribes who dared to resist and believed in Tianfang, and looted the population and wealth of these tribes back to the Tang Dynasty in a very short period of time, and even if it wasn't for the fact that the race looked completely different from the Central Plains, I am afraid that Wu Huan would send all these people back to the northwest to work as coolies. Fortunately, however, he hesitated, so that in the following year, when Tuoba Siji and Wan Yi planned to build a front-line fortress on the western shore of the Aral Sea to deal with the Taixi, these completely subdued tribes became the best human resources.

Although Wan Yi received this battle report, the front line had already started fighting again, but Wan Yi and Gao Siji were still happy that this fierce general had brought back so many prisoners by mistake, and the total number of prisoners captured by Wu Si'er had exceeded 100,000, making it possible for Tuoba Si's northwest economic development plan to be further implemented.

"Marshal, we can make an exchange to the deputy prime minister, right?" Gauss calculated for a moment and said with a smile: "This alone has more than 100,000 prisoners of war, not counting the seized materials and gold and silver treasures that have been escorted back, I think the deputy prime minister should be treated, and the emperor will be happy to see such a large capture." ”

"You asked the deputy prime minister to have a treat? Eighty percent will directly give you a meal of kebabs, and you will think too much about the rest. Wan Yi was also joking when he was in a good mood, but before he could speak, he heard Tuoba's voice outside the door, "I said my Wan Dashuai, am I, the deputy prime minister, so slamming the door in your eyes?" I'm out this time, and I'm going to take out my month's worth to treat the two of you to a good meal, I've booked it, and it's in Shule's Cheng Ji Restaurant, how about it? There's a master from the Central Plains over there, so it's always okay for me to be the East, right? ”

"It's okay, it just so happens that Hammud is estimated to have started a war at this time, and we should also arrange the specific reception on the Aral Sea." Speaking of business, Gauss's face became serious, "I'm afraid that that it will become the front line of our contact with the Tessie people for a while, right?" ”

"I don't know about this, but Zhao Si has already received an order from the Xuan Ying Wei headquarters to arrange for important people to go to the Aral Sea, and Qin Kong also plans to check it out in person before the winter begins. It seems that the emperor and the general staff on the Chang'an side are also thinking like this. Wan Yi nodded and said, "Let's discuss this matter while eating, don't be sloppy." ”()

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