"Your Majesty, this is a resettlement plan for the Long family jointly drawn up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, do you want to take a look?" At the end of August, Chang'an also ushered in the late autumn slaughter, Li Xuanqing was looking at the plan sent by several provinces in the Central Plains on the winter recruitment and road construction, Cen Tianshi ran from the cabinet building to Hanzhang Palace, and said: "The Long family has arrived in Lingzhou, and it will arrive in Chang'an in a few days, do you want to see this group of people?" ”

"Let that Long Xuan and Long Yi come over, and the rest of your cabinet will deal with it, and scatter them all over the Central Plains. In addition, the Long Family's army, some troops or something, let the General Staff deal with it. Li Xuanqing thought for a while beckoning Cen Tianshi to sit down: "These people are actually not of much use to us now, but they can't stay in Suzhou for the time being, and it's not a good thing that the army is fighting and leaving such a wealthy family with military and political integration on the front line, and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe." ”

Li Xuanqing's words made Cen Tianshi nod, the Tang Empire has entered the Apocalypse for three years, and all undertakings have had a good start, not only the new economic model has been widely promoted within the empire, but the official allocation that has been in short supply before has also been gradually improved by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in the past two years by making every effort to select new students from the School of Administration to supplement the administrative system, and a large number of old-style officials who have remained before have been eliminated in actual combat again and again, giving way to these young generations who have just left school but are full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm. Moreover, with the development of internal transportation and economy within the empire, those large families began to gradually divide and no longer gather together to interfere with local administration. Although Li Xuanqing's method of abandoning clans and insisting on relying on the two-level system of townships to govern the localities was met with great difficulties and obstacles at first, with the strength of the central government and the continuous penetration of the power of the yamen in various provinces, the state of imperial power that had been plagued for thousands of years and not going to the countryside began to be gradually uprooted in the Central Plains and gradually extended to the south, covering all major provinces and regions. The northern provinces, which were the first to be recovered, were obviously much more radical in this respect than the south, and the more perfect the industrial and commercial development of the region, the more perfect the township system was. Although this system, which is similar to that of college students and village officials in later generations, still has many drawbacks, it is undeniable that it has broken down the kind of obstacle that has gradually formed that township officials rely on the local area and do not allow outsiders to interfere in local affairs. All of this was swept into the garbage heap in the face of powerful reformers.

As a matter of fact, Cen Tianshi initially wanted to rely on these local clans to stabilize the localities, but after seeing that the role of the clans in various places was getting smaller and smaller, and even delayed the local government affairs in many cases, he began to decisively clean up the ills of these clans controlling the townships, turning all the northern provinces into pilot areas for the new policy, sending a large number of students from the administrative academy to the local areas for training, and clearly stipulating that all students who joined the grassroots training were given priority promotion. Moreover, on this basis, the original township officials were exchanged with other places, and although the method of constantly adding people and then constantly moving back and forth caused the people to be embarrassed by not knowing who their parents and officials were, it effectively solved the problem. Moreover, after the gradual popularization of education, the literacy rate of the people has increased, and at the same time, their ideological consciousness and understanding of politics have also been raised a lot, and many policies have allowed them to study on their own, and sometimes unexpected gains.

This is also the reason why Li Xuanqing said that a big family like the Long family actually has little effect on today's Datang. Today's Datang has formed an increasingly perfect whole while the internal flow of people, materials and commodities has been greatly improved. Li Xuanqing's methods of dismembering big families and even clans from later generations also have the conditions to be realized, relying on the state apparatus and unprecedented development of transportation to indirectly decompose this kind of family with blood and region as the inheritance in the tide of national development, so that its internal cohesion can not be aggregated, and finally become a basic individual in the concept of the state.

After hearing Li Xuanqing's words, Cen Tianshi nodded and made a record, originally planning to ask when he would meet Long Xuan and Long Yi, but Xu Tianxiang walked over from outside, and when he saw that both of them were there, he also walked to the side and sat down and said: "Your Majesty, Zhang Chaofeng's side is determined to fight, Xuan Yingwei reported that the Tianfang Sect inside the sandbar has been seriously infiltrated, and almost all the forces around the Guiyi Army have been involved. ”

"It's all vain trying to stand on its own, Zhang Chaofeng is so rebellious." Zhang Chaofeng's behavior naturally stimulated Cen Tianshi, a person whose idea of great unification was seriously rampant, so when he heard Xu Tianxiang say that the Guiyi Army was determined to fight, he suddenly became angry.

"I guess it's already a fight now. The news was sent by Xuan Yingwei in an urgent manner, but it was already ten days ago, and today is the twenty-ninth, which means that the Western Expeditionary Army has finished fighting with them. Xu Tianxiang smiled bitterly: "It's too slow for us to wait for news in the rear, although there are flying pigeons all the way, but there is still no way to control the overall situation." ”

"Didn't the Prairie Falcon Trainer Logistics Department that Tahi sent them send already start training falcons? You didn't find the right one? "Xu Tianxiang said that Li Xuanqing has no good way, even if he makes a radio now, do you think you will use it? So after thinking about it, he rubbed his brows and said, "I heard that there is a kind of eagle called Haidongqing that is abundant in Bohai Bay, you let the people in the logistics department try it." If it doesn't work, let Tashi organize their people, and then contact the magistrate in Tatar Province to catch the kind of falconry in the steppe. That way, at least a little faster. ”

"I've already said hello to Xuan Yingwei and the logistics department, and the method of falconry on the grassland is now being systematically sorted out, and I plan to use it in the northwest in the first batch. Anyway, this eagle is indeed different from a pigeon. Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "If there is an eagle, then we can shorten the time to contact the front line by at least half." It's good now, I don't know how the Western Expeditionary Army is fighting. ”

"Wan Yi's side is afraid that it can't be solved by a battle. Otherwise, Tiancheng, Houchun, and Xiaosi would not have gotten over there. Li Xuanqing put down the plan in his hand and thought thoughtfully. These three people all have keen intuition, but they are afraid that they have also discovered the complexity of the Guiyi Army's side.

"I'm just afraid that I'm more worried about the distorted mentality that the Han people in the northwest have been oppressed by various ethnic groups in the past hundred years, right?" Cen Tianshi didn't pay attention to the military, the senior generals of the Tiance Army went so much at once, this battle was almost impossible to lose in his opinion, but he was also worried about the civil affairs as Li Xuanqing, and Li Xuanqing had the same thoughts as Li Xuanqing when he stripped the entire Long family from Suzhou. It's just that this method is only an expedient measure, and it can't all be transferred from the northwest of the millions of Han people under the jurisdiction of the Guiyi Army, right? Although the Zhang family has been unpopular in Guazhou for many years, compared to the Central Plains Dynasty, I am afraid that these Han people will trust the Zhang family more.

"Anyway, let's fight it down first. At least until winter comes, we will take the two places of Gua Sha, and there will still be a way to use water milling. Cen Tianshi looked at Li Xuanqing's deep face and said.

Li Xuanqing nodded and smiled: "That's what I said, let's fight it first." It's a big deal to reintegrate as an alien. ”

Time rewinds to ten days ago, that is, around August 20 in the third year of the Apocalypse, when Hu Xiaosi sent an urgent message from Guazhou, the pocket array arranged by Wan Yi on the Qingshui River finally waited for the trace of the Gaochang Uighurs. But at this time, the fighters were not particularly good, Cao Rengui's soldiers and horses did not move much after entering Guazhou, but vigorously renovated the city defense, prepared to rely on the advantages of the city wall and the Tiance army to fight for a long time, and in order to deal with the attack of the Tiance army, hundreds of bed crossbows were arranged in the city tower. These Wan Yi are not worried, as long as Cao Rengui does not go out of the city, it will not have much impact on him, but Zhang Chaofeng's follow-up army makes him faintly feel bad. Although Wan Yi has not seen this person, it is described in Xuan Yingwei's intelligence, he has basically been planning to move after the start of the army, and he also had a secret meeting with the Gaochang Uighurs who were heading south on the way to the army, and the two sides should have reached some agreement.

It was this meeting that made Wan Yi think more, originally he moved the front forward to the source of the Qingshui River, which was to create a local advantage and artificially divide the strength of the opposing coalition into three forces, if the other party met, then his own strategy was directly put on the table, once the two merged, then he was afraid that the pressure on the frontal battlefield would be greater. Considering the timing and speed of the Uighur advance, this concern was amplified.

"Order Li Tianyi to lead the army to withdraw from the forward position, go to the left flank to hide and wait, and mobilize a mechanical crossbow to accompany him, let him ignore the battle situation on the frontal battlefield, keep an eye on the left flank for me, and once other armies intervene, I must intercept the other party." Wan Yi is also helpless about this kind of deterrence outside the battlefield, but after thinking about it, he still plans to draw mobile forces to deal with it, and the reason why Li Tianyi is in this position is because Li Tianyi's corps is the only corps in the Western Expeditionary Army that maintains a complete cavalry operation, and when necessary, he can directly use the method of cavalry charge to fight against the opponent, and drag the battle until the main battlefield is decided.

After doing this, Wan Yi didn't care about anything else, and waited quietly for the Uighurs to attack. There is no use for a surprise attack or something at this time, he occupies the Qingshui River, if the other party does not want to fight, he must retreat, this is the best water source north of the sandbank, and if the Uighur 100,000 cavalry wants to pass, they must break the Tiance army. This is also the reason why Wan Yi directly Chen Bing is here, after all, hundreds of thousands of people can't have anything to hide. The northwest battle is not comparable to the Central Plains, this is actually the best battlefield for cavalry, as far as the eye can see, and if the cavalry ten miles away attacks at full speed, it will not be able to reach the position of the Tiance army in less than a light of tea.

In fact, when Wan Yi discovered the traces of the Uighurs, the other side also discovered the military formation of the Tiance Army almost at the same time, and 200,000 people encompassed the entire source of the Qingshui River along countless jagged positions, which was to force themselves to attack the opponent's position. There is one person in the high-level of the Uighurs who will be very curious if the high-ranking generals of the Tiance army see it, and the leader of the Ganzhou Uighurs, Pang Teqin, is also among them, but at this time, his identity as Pang Teqin among the Uighurs in Gaochang is no longer conspicuous, and he has even reverted to his original name Zadler, after all, the Ganzhou Uighurs have been destroyed, and he came to Gaochang almost alone, and he can be ranked among the high-level leaders of the army this time because the Gaochang Uighurs feel that they can at least know themselves and know their opponents with him, otherwise they will be considered the same clan, In this northwest, where the strong are respected, the leader of the clan has lost it, and I am afraid that it will be a duckweed.

"Zadler, who is the Han on the other side commanding the army?" The commander of the Uighur army was Prince Qibi, which was a branch of the Turks in those years, but in recent years it merged with the Uighur royal family and became a branch of the royal family. Although they were hunted down by the Uighurs more severely, they also created a more obvious advantage, that is, they included all the remnants of the previous Turks, and after a hundred years of differentiation and integration, many of the descendants of the Turkic people have now become Uighur royal families and nobles, and they have completely forgotten their previous history and become part of the Uighurs. From this point of view, it seems that the Ansi Uighurs still relatively maintained the purest strength and ethnic group of the Uighurs.

"Tang General Wan Yi, who was previously a senior general of the Lingwu Army of the Northwest Frontier Army, later commanded the troops into the northwest after the Tang Dynasty was unified by Emperor Li Xuanqing. This man had many experiences in fighting with the tribes of our northwest, and the Tubo, Wenmo, and Uighur tribes of Ganzhou were all defeated at his hands. Zadler's face darkened when he heard this, but he still replied truthfully: "Please pay more attention to this person, Wan Yi is dense and tenacious with his troops, which is very different from other generals, and he has experienced the great war of the northwest tribes attacking Middle-earth in his early years, and he has an inexplicable hatred for us." ”

"Don't worry, this king won't despise it. It's just that their Tang army occupies the source of the river, and we have lost the water supply, where do you think I should start? Qibi nodded heli, after all, the Gaochang Uighurs had never dealt with the Han Chinese, and they still attached great importance to Zadler's opinion, but Wan Yi's position made him feel embarrassed, if there was no water source, even if he led his army into Guazhou, he would be followed and pursued by the other party. But if you choose to confront each other, I'm afraid you'll die of thirst here.

"Prince, why don't you wait until Zhang Chaofeng leads the army to converge, and the two armies work together to conquer the source of the river?" Zadler looked at the faces of the other generals around him, gritted his teeth, and still expressed his opinion. But before he could continue, other people's voices came from beside him, "Zadler, were you broken by the Han people?" It will not be possible for the main force of the Guiyi Army to keep up with us within three to five days, how can we have so much time to wait? In my opinion, the Han people on the other side are all infantry, so how can the infantry be the opponent of my Uighur cavalry? ”

"Prince, today's Tang Dynasty is not as good as before, they have firearms in their hands, and the infantry will not be worse than the cavalry." Just because Chebi Heli was able to listen to Zadler's opinion did not mean that the others were the same, as the Uighur generals, who had fought a battle with Qarlu in the northwest, were now strong and dismissive of Zadler's words. In the end, it was the loss of Zadler's people, the lack of weight to speak in the area, and the defection to the Qocho Uighurs after the new defeat, and the Uighurs, who believed in the importance of force, looked down on this kind of people at all.

"Okay, Jacques, you take the mercenaries of Mohan up to test the depth of the Han people, the others are ready, if the other party is really as Zadler said, we will discuss again, if not, rush up and defeat the Han people and seize the source of the river." Qibi glanced at Zadler, whose face was flushed, but he didn't stop the generals around him, ready to test the water first, after all, his words were unfounded. Besides, even if the Uighurs failed, it was not unacceptable for the Uighurs to take the Muhan mercenaries on the line. Anyway, this kind of white barbarian can be bought with money in the west, and no matter how big the loss is, he can ask for as much money as he wants when he turns back to the Guiyi Army.