"Commander Qiyu, Hammud has taken Jiamu, and his cavalry has turned around and attacked the stubborn Anxi Uighur cavalry. General Chai Jia had already ordered the 11th Corps to begin a counteroffensive. Chai Jia's heralds quickly reported the sudden changes in the front line to Wan Yi, and at the same time, the 11th Corps also began to engage in a counteroffensive on the entire front, and began to converge with Hammud's troops to surround Jiamu's men.

"Go and inform General Tuoba and help Chai Jia to end the battle as soon as possible." Wan Yi nodded, and asked the herald to mount and deliver the latest order. At this time, after the Chaijia counteroffensive, the artillery units had all ceased fire. The artillery crews began to check the amount of ammunition remaining, and the gunners also began to cool down the guns. Due to the current Tiance Army's artillery barrel can only be cast due to technical limitations, the strength of the barrel is limited, and the rifling line depicted inside may be gradually smoothed out after a long period of continuous shelling, so after cooling down, the artillery began to check the wear and tear inside the artillery barrel one by one, and then recorded, and the barrel needs to be replaced for the seriously worn artillery, so as to facilitate the re-fight at any time.

Wan Yi ignored this, since Hammoud had already started, the war in the rear army was basically over. Therefore, after Wan Yi returned to the former army of Jiaohe City, he also began to order the Modao battalion to recruit troops, and accompanied the Uighur guards in the city for almost a day, but under Shi Jian's intentional control, the Modao battalion did not directly attack the city, but passed the news that Jiamu led his troops to attack his rear position to the Uighur royal court in the city, so that the Uighurs even fought a wave of counterattacks under the encouragement of reinforcements. After receiving Wan Yi's order to withdraw his troops, the Modao battalion retreated into the camp like a tide, and the Uighurs in the city immediately let out thunderous cheers when they saw the retreat of the Tiance army.

"Marshal, when will the reinforcements of the Huds arrive this time, I will not be able to continue, and if I fight again tomorrow, I am afraid that I will not be able to control myself and rush directly into the city." Shi Jian, who returned to the camp, immediately complained a lot after seeing Wan Yi, "And the artillery will not be able to participate in the battle tomorrow, and the walls of this northern city will be directly collapsed if they are bombarded again." ”

"Can't help it?" Wan Yi glanced at Shi Jian, who was full of unwillingness, nodded and said with a smile: "If you can't help it, you will have a truce tomorrow, the Modao Battalion needs to take a good rest after fighting for so long, if you don't rest for a long time, if you encounter a vicious battle again, even if you are the Modao Battalion, you can't withstand the high-intensity battle, and you will lose your combat power in vain." ”

"High-intensity warfare? So the marshal said that the Uighur reinforcements were about to arrive? Shi Jian originally wanted to continue to complain, but Wan Yi's words obviously revealed something else, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Big marshal, is the other party's reinforcements coming?" Is it the Anxi Uighurs of Yanqi or the Gaochang Uighurs of Tingzhou? ”

"I'm afraid that General Shi may not be as you wish." Before Wan Yi could speak, Liu Xuan walked in with a secret guard of Xuanying Wei and bowed his hand to Wan Yi: "Great marshal, Xuanying Wei urgently report, the 100,000 Uighur army of Anxi in the direction of Yanqi has begun to prepare, and it is expected that they will set off for Jiaohe City early tomorrow morning, according to their marching speed, they should arrive in Jiaohe City before April 23, that is, three days later, and the news from the northern Tingzhou that Zhao Si commanded the side that the last main cavalry of the Uighurs in Gaochang has set off for the south, I'm afraid that the two will arrive at the same time at the same time. ”

The news brought by Liu Xuan made Shi Jian stunned for a moment, the sum of these two reinforcements was almost equal to the entire military strength of his own side, originally Shi Jian also felt that as long as the two reinforcements did not come together, then they could fight a time difference, concentrate the main force and eat one, and then turn around and deal with the other. Because there was no news from Yanqi's side before, everyone thought that Gao Siji's division of the Seventh Corps would defeat the Tingzhou cavalry and then go south and attack the main army in front and back, gathering and annihilating the Anxi Uighur Corps that had traveled all the way to help on the way. Now it's okay, the reinforcements from the Yanqi direction are not too late or sooner or later, and the news comes at this time, and they arrive almost at the same time as the Tingzhou Division, which means that the Seventh Corps can only deal with opponents in one direction, and even relying on the strength of the Seventh Corps alone to deal with the soldiers and horses in one direction is a little difficult, and the command headquarters needs to deploy artillery to help. This means that in addition to Tuoba Siji's cavalry corps to participate in the battle, the Modao Battalion and the 11th Corps under the command must divide their forces to fight, and while continuing to maintain pressure on Jiaohe City, the main force will be dispatched to meet reinforcements from one of the directions, and according to the geographical location, this time eighty percent will be to deal with the reinforcements of the Anxi Uighurs in Yanqi.

"Dashuai-" Before Shi Jian finished speaking, he was planned by Wan Yi, only to see Wan Yi staring at the thin secret guard and said, "Do you commanders know this news?" ”

"Qi Qi Marshal, after receiving the news from the front, his subordinates not only came to the Marshal Camp to report the news, but also sent someone to send a copy to Commander Zhao, according to the speed of transmission, the commander has also received the summons below." The secret guards understood what Wan Yi meant, because they were secret guards, that is, front-line intelligence officers, so after obtaining intelligence information, they would basically report it according to the pre-agreed reporting channel, but this kind of emergency information would be reported on the principle of proximity, like the nearest military agency or Xuanyingwei branch.

"Okay, go back and send a message to your commander and the Seventh Corps, and say that the command headquarters has ordered Xuanyingwei to continue to track the two Uighur reinforcements, and report any news as soon as possible. At the same time, the Seventh Corps was ordered to immediately prepare for an ambush on the Tingzhou Cavalry Corps, and later the artillery units of the headquarters attached to the reinforcement of the Seventh Corps would set out to prepare for the reception. Wan Yi waved his hand, and Liu Xuan, who was beside him, immediately wrote an order, and then took out a token from Wan Yi's desk and handed it to the secret guard.

"Tell your subordinates to move in immediately and wait for orders." After the secret guard took the order and left, Wan Yi instructed Shi Jian: "Your Modao Battalion will rest for a day tomorrow and then move to the west side of Jiaohe City at night, where I will arrange logistics personnel and troops responsible for cruising patrols to arrange trench positions over there in advance, and then you will be responsible for the frontal battlefield, the Eleventh Corps will be responsible for cooperating, and the Cavalry Corps will temporarily serve as a reserve, ready to rush to the aid of you and the Seventh Corps." ”

After Shi Jian left, Liu Xuan said: "The situation on the Karez side is normal, according to the construction progress, we can directly connect the camp with the Karez in the south after tonight, and our worries have been completely solved." ”

"You go and see Chai Jia and Tuoba Siji, and immediately after you get rid of Jiamu, you and Hammoud come to see me, and all the prisoners will be taken to the camp and then taken to the camp, and then they will be escorted to Yizhou or Shazhou and handed over to the National Guard." Wan Yi instructed, if the problem of prisoners is not handled well in the imminent war, it is to plant a time bomb in one's own camp, especially according to the situation of the rear army at that time, I am afraid that there will be at least tens of thousands of prisoners, which is unimaginable if it is not properly handled at the moment when the main force of the whole army is about to start fighting.

"Don't worry, I'll arrange it." Liu Xuan turned around and went out of the big tent to the rear army to meet Chai Jia to deal with post-war affairs, while Wan Yi began to plan the tactical deployment of the two reinforcements after the arrival of the two reinforcements in the tent, and began to allocate specific troops after refining the original plan. At this time, Gao Siji and Zhao Si, who were in the northwest of Daze, had also received the latest information sent by the secret guard. However, unlike Wan Yi's side in deployment, Gao Siji's Seventh Corps made him only consider the Tingzhou Uighur Cavalry Regiment in the northwest, so almost at the same time as Wan Yi's side was transmitted, Gao Siji and Zhao Si had already taken all the information about the northwest that he had sent before to analyze, and at the same time, Zhao Si also sent a map along the northwest drawn by Xuan Yingwei.

"The deputy marshal's plan is to go out to ambush the opponent near the northwest mountain pass?" Zhao Si saw Gao Siji's fingers sliding back and forth on the map for a few laps, and then stopped near the mountain pass in the northwest, and immediately asked. In his opinion, an ambush at the mountain pass was a good idea.

However, Gao Siji shook his head and said: "The ambush location in the mountain pass is not bad, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. But it does not serve our tactical purposes. What we need to do is to destroy the main forces of the countervailing forces, so as to completely annihilate the living forces of the Qocho Uighurs and win a quick pacification of the entire Qocho Uighur territory, without giving the other forces in the territory a chance to breathe and other ideas. Then, if the attack of the Tingzhou cavalry corps is frustrated, then it will inevitably make them choose to make a detour to the northeast and enter the territory of Gaochang, which is tantamount to adding trouble to ourselves. ”

"Therefore, I plan to wait for the enemy on the northwest bank of Daze, that is, at the necessary place to come to Jiaohe City after coming out of the Bogda Pass, and fight a dignified field battle with them, and destroy all the confidence of the Uighurs in Gaochang in one battle." Gao Siji's face was cold, and his eyes became murderous. During this time, he and Zhao Si came into contact with the Shatuo tribe, these Shatuo tribes basically thought that Gao Siji and An Xiuxiu were sinners who betrayed Li Keyong, and now they came to persuade themselves to surrender to the Tang Dynasty to take the entire race as a stepping stone for their own progress, so they drove Gao Siji out mercilessly. Therefore, Gao Siji planned to completely exterminate the living forces of the Uighurs in Gaochang in this battle, and to eliminate the minds of all the tribes in Gaochang who were hostile to the Tang Dynasty, so as to quickly stabilize the post-war situation.

Gao Siji's idea, Zhao Si agreed, so after Gao Siji determined the battlefield, he immediately began to mobilize manpower to cooperate with the manpower of the Seventh Corps to go out to reconnoiter the terrain on the spot and make various preparations before the battle. At this time, the secret guard who had previously reported to Wan Yi also sent Wan Yi's order.

"It seems that the marshal also has this in mind, the command sent artillery to help in the battle, but I am afraid that there is also the idea of dividing troops to fight, otherwise we will not specifically instruct Xuanyingwei to reconnoiter the Anxi Uighur reinforcements in the direction of Yanqi." Zhao Si looked at the order sent by Wan Yi and said with a smile: "In this way, the deputy marshal has a much greater grasp of artillery support here." ”

"The Uighur cavalry on the Tingzhou side is estimated to arrive in three days, but we are not like the headquarters side that can go over to build infantry fortifications with great fanfare, so we also need you to mobilize the Flying Eagle Brigade to cut off the scout reconnaissance that may appear from Jiaohe City and even the north in the past few days, and cover me and the main force of the regiment to urgently arrange trenches and positions." Gao Siji stood up and walked with Zhao Si, arranging for the captain of the personal guard behind him to inform his subordinates to pick up the artillery at night, and at the same time sent 20,000 people, together with logistics personnel, to immediately drive the army to the northwest coast of Daze marked by Gao Siji after dark. After the popularization of muskets, earthwork and all kinds of trench positions became one of the compulsory courses for generals at all levels of the Tiance Army, and all kinds of trenches brought by Li Xuanqing from later generations and the corresponding characteristics and functions quickly spread among the Tiance Army, and the military academy has regarded the earthwork as one of the contents of the advanced training of generals at all levels and the assessment of students of all grades.

On April 20, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, after the Seventh Corps in the north began to move, the Modao Battalion also began to cross Jiaohe City, and chose a position about 30 miles west of Jiaohe City to study pre-war preparations. And Hammoud took over the task of besieging Jiaohe City with his own troops after talking with Wan Yi, Hammoud himself had already decided to surrender, and Xuan Yingwei's efforts to pick up his family from the city also made him let go of his last thoughts, so immediately after the siege of the city, the attack was launched, I have to say that the Uighurs still have a very good set of tactics in execution, although they did not change their clothes, but they were still very sharp in the battle, relying on cold weapons in Jiaohe City to fight with their own Praetorian Guards. However, Hamoud was rashly incorporated into the Western Expeditionary Army, and Wan Yi still asked Liu Xuan to urgently summon the Chang'an base camp, go to the General Staff for the record, and report to the newly established Ministry of National Defense, so as to facilitate the Ministry of National Defense to manage the entire service of the Tiance Army in a unified manner.

However, these have not affected Wan Yi's determination to start a big battle near Jiaohe City, after the Modao battalion was opened, the cavalry corps also began to detour back to the narrow area between Jiaohe City and Daze, so that Tuoba Siji's cavalry army could simultaneously deal with the battle in Jiaohe City, the western Modao battalion and the northern Seventh Corps, so that the free Chaijia corps also began to move the main force to the south of Jiaohe City, ready to encircle and annihilate the reinforcements of the Anxi Uighurs at any time.

"What about Jiamu, are you still unwilling to surrender?" Wan Yi and Liu Xuan still garrisoned the camp with about 20,000 troops, and handed over the front line to the commanders of each corps. So Wan Yi remembered the armor wood that was taken by the captain of Hamoud's personal guard, and asked.

"This man is not like Hammoud, he is a very stubborn person who has a deep hatred for us. I have already persuaded three times, but I have no choice but to do so. Liu Xuan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It is not stable for people like him to stay on the front line, and we still have more than 30,000 of his subordinates in our hands, or I will send someone to send him to Shazhou to hand over to the deputy prime minister." ”

"No, send him to Shi Jian's side, tell Shi Jian and tell him to put him under house arrest in the Modao Battalion, take him with him when he fights, and let him see with his own eyes how his clan and the Tang Dynasty are wiped out by my Tiance Army." Wan Yi waved his hand and motioned for Liu Xuan not to send Jia Mu back to the rear.

"Marshal Qiqi, Chief of Staff, Xuanyingwei hastened to report, Yanqi direction Anxi Uighur 100,000 elite cavalry still arrived in the desert area in the west of our army, and may cross the desert at any time and enter Jiaohe City. The Northern Tingzhou Army has also entered the Bogda Pass. Before Liu Xuan could answer, there was urgent information from Xuan Yingwei outside the tent. This also made Wan Yi angry.