"Inform Zhang Sheng and Tie Liang to come to the tent immediately." Gauss hurriedly asked the guards to inform the two of them to come to the tent and then went straight to the point: "Qin Kong has already set off to return to Xiliuzhou just now, but the negotiations between us and Zarhan have just begun, we must base ourselves on fighting and exchange the guns in our hands for victory." Whether the Khan of Zarhan returns or not, the hooves of our warriors will be trodden all over the land. ”

"What the deputy marshal means is that we are promoting peace by fighting, based on fighting, right?" Tie Liang touched his head and said: "This Tsal Khan represents the interests of the alliance of mountain tribes in the northern part of the Safar Dynasty, that is, roughly near the bowl and prefecture that we occupy now, plus a little to the south, the Governor of Bird's Flying Prefecture and the Governor of Yueban Prefecture, as for the Zhibazhou Governor's Mansion and other places on our back, it is also their chassis, but it is too close to Khotan and other places, so they don't have much control at all." Now these places are basically under the control of our army. What does the deputy marshal mean that we are going to fight Liuzhou? ”

"It's not realistic to fight Liuzhou now, but other places can do it." Gauss shook his head and spread out the map before continuing: "We can't fight like this, but we must deal a heavy blow to the forces in the southwest of the Savar Dynasty, that is, their mainstream forces, and give them maximum pressure, and at the same time, it is also an attitude of our Tang Dynasty to Zarhan. Gauss pointed to the map and said, "You immediately set off along Yuantang Prefecture, and then follow the Kulu River upstream to attack the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion." Gauss pointed to the location of the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion and said: "After taking the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion, the Anxi Corps will go north to take the location of the Gaofu Prefecture as quickly as possible, and completely defeat the Safar Northern Legion hoarded there, cut off their southward and cut off your back route." As for Tieliang, you need to go south non-stop to attack the Yue Clan's Governor's Mansion. It was basically where the military forces of the southwestern forces of the Safar were concentrated. Once this place is attacked, it can also play a role in affecting the whole body. Therefore, Tie Liang, you must stabilize the situation before Zhang Sheng returns to help, in case they will fight you back. ”

"Deputy marshal, don't worry, the place of the Yueshi Governor's Mansion is indeed fatal, it is almost the center of the entire Safarid Dynasty's territory, if this place is taken by us, their east, west, north and south will not be able to be connected, and when the time comes, their caliph will be blocked by us even if he wants to command the northern troops to go south." Tie Liang naturally saw the cleverness of Gauss's arrangement at a glance, so he nodded and said that he would pay attention.

"In fact, as long as your heavy cavalry battalion takes a turn outside the Yueshi Governor's Mansion, it is estimated that the Safarid people will immediately enter a state of national alert." Gauss Ji smiled slightly and said, "At the same time, we can mobilize the soldiers and horses of the whole country in the north to follow our baton. In the face of the gradual split of the domestic political forces of Safar, when he chose to attack the Yue Clan's Governor's Mansion, he was actually accelerating this process. When it comes to their own life and death interests, everyone thinks of sacrificing the interests of their opponents in exchange for their own interests from loss. After all, once the Yueshi Governor's Mansion is taken by the Tiance Army, then when the reinforcements of the Great Food Empire are delayed, the entire Safar Dynasty will be completely disadvantaged, and the initiative of the war will fall directly into the hands of the Tiance Army. This is what Gauss Ji really planned, and it is also the real purpose of what he said to promote peace. Only by defeating the Yue's Governor's Mansion can Zar Khan really make up his mind, and after holding the Yue's Governor's Mansion, the Tiance Army actually doesn't care about the indigenous forces of Zarhan's Northern Mountain Tribal Alliance.

On June 15 of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Southern Advance Corps attacked again, and the Anxi Corps divided its troops with the Heavy Cavalry Battalion after working together with the Heavy Cavalry Battalion to take the bridgehead of the Kulu River in Yuantangzhou. Zhang Sheng led his troops directly north to the Gaofu Governor's Mansion to attack the northern corps of the Safar Dynasty. The heavy cavalry battalion went up the Kulu River and fought fiercely at the Governor's Mansion of Wangting Prefecture and the 50,000-strong army of the Safar who had fled from Sejashen Prefecture. The heavy cavalry battalion relied on 50,000 men and horses to block the attack of almost 100,000 people of the opponent, and under the cover of a complete artillery battalion, it even directly beat the opponent from outside the city to the city on the first day of the battle. Over the next five days, Zhang Sheng traveled long distances to the Governor's Mansion and the camel cavalry stationed there. The camel cavalry is a characteristic of the northwest and even the Safarid Dynasty. Camel cavalry is actually more advantageous and resilient than traditional cavalry in desert areas, able to adapt to the harsh environment of desert areas, and relying on the tall size of camels, it is actually more powerful in short-distance attacks. It's just that these advantages don't play a role in front of Zhang Sheng's Anxi Corps. Because of the long-distance attack, the Anxi Corps did not carry a large number of heavy weapons like the heavy cavalry battalion, but under the cover of the mortars accompanying the cavalry artillery, the tall size undoubtedly made it more convenient for the soldiers of the Tiance Army to aim at the time, and the hit rate was higher than that of the ordinary cavalry. Moreover, the speed of the camel cavalry is much inferior to that of the traditional cavalry, so relying on a rifle in its hands, the Anxi Corps repelled more than a dozen attacks from the opponent within three hours, annihilated most of the opponents, and forced the remaining men and horses to hide in the city of the Gaofu Governor's Mansion and did not dare to come out in the field again. It's just that in this way, maybe what they don't know is that after losing their mounts in the city, it will be a massacre for the Tiance army. After the city wall was blown up, 50,000 people swarmed in and started street battles overnight, in the dark night, in order to quickly solve the opponent, the Tiance army even directly used grenades to open the way and blow up the obstacles along the way, this unscrupulous strong advance, and after they roughly finished solving the defenders in the city, in fact, the entire interior of the Gaofu Governor's Mansion was almost blown up. The Safar soldiers in the panic, as long as they hid behind the wall, the Tiance Army basically didn't care whether it was a private house or an official house, and directly blew it up. Therefore, when the Anxi Corps moved south from the Gaofu Governor's Mansion, the family courtyards of the sturdy nobles in the city were bombed to pieces, and these people wanted to cry without tears after the war. But after seeing the blood stains that had not yet dried up and the corpses that could be seen everywhere on the streets, these people no longer dared to complain about the Tiance army, and each began to contribute money and efforts to rebuild after the war under the call of the provisional military administration that had the secret guards set up before Zhang Sheng left.

However, these Zhang Sheng didn't know, he just took a short rest after fighting this battle, and arranged for the secret guards to take over the Gaofu Governor's Mansion, and then asked them to inform Sima Daoxin and Gauss Ji to send people to receive them, and led the army south on the afternoon of June 23, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, galloping more than 500 miles at a rapid pace, day and night, day and night, and then he joined him victoriously before the Tieliang Heavy Cavalry Battalion entered the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion.

"Why are you so fast?" Tie Liang saw that although the Anxi Corps was extremely tired, the whole army rushed to the city of the Governor's Mansion of Wangting Prefecture in a murderous manner, and immediately hugged Zhang Sheng and laughed.

"There's no way, there's a camel cavalry on the side of the High Attached Governor's Mansion, which is not the same as our cavalry at all, this kind of thing is too big and can hit with your eyes closed, so I picked up a bargain." Zhang Sheng laughed and said: "I brought you a lot of hump meat, that thing is a big supplement, when we took the Gaofu Governor's Mansion, all our soldiers directly ate more than 1,000 camels, this time I specially brought you 3,000 heads, let's eat them together." ”

"Hurry up and rest, anyway, I have beaten them out of the city from the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion, so you go to rest first, and tell us that those camels will be handed over, and when the time comes, we will have a barbecue outside the city at noon." Tie Liang directly asked the Anxi Corps to enter the barracks to rest, and he sent someone to take the camel meat, and then directly set up a bonfire to hold a barbecue meeting for the whole army in front of the defenders in the city.

In fact, there is no need for him to show off his strength like this, the 50,000 cavalry of the Anxi Corps rushed to the Safar defenders on the tower under the city to see it clearly, originally 50,000 people themselves were beaten and did not dare to go out of the city, but now there are 50,000 more, which directly reduced the morale of the defenders in the city to the lowest point, plus this barbecue meeting to show off their might, so that after the heavy cavalry battalion and the Anxi Corps were full of food and drink, the more than 50,000 people in the city were almost scattered after the city tower was blown up, and there was not much room for resistance, Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng were almost bloodless and took the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion. And as many as more than 30,000 prisoners, the two had to send a battalion to be stationed in the Wangting Prefecture Governor's Mansion, waiting for Sima Daoxin to send someone to receive them.

After the two were properly settled, they immediately led the army south to besiege the Yueshi Governor's Mansion. In fact, when the Imperial Prefecture was besieged, the entire Safar Dynasty was shocked, and the royal court even held the highest level of military meetings to discuss how to resist the attack of the Tiance Army. However, the result of this meeting was a complete disappointment to Zarhan, and the generals and caliphs representing the interests of the southwestern forces at the conference advocated sending troops and horses to concentrate on the Yueshi Governor's Mansion and the area south of it for defense, and at the same time sent messengers to Baghdad to ask for help again, but they turned a blind eye to what Zarhan said about sending troops and horses from the north to bypass and attack the flank of the Tiance army and then cut off the opponent's baggage passage, and even after losing his own chassis, many people were already sneering at Zarhan. And the caliph, as the supreme ruler of the dynasty, did not take Zarhan's advice seriously. This made Zarhan disheartened and made up his mind. You must know that Zarhan's strategy may really hit the Tiance army at the root, but everyone, including the caliph, knows that the other meaning of Zarhan's move is to use this army to quickly regain his northern mountain base. But these people are clearly not willing to miss the opportunity to strike a complete blow at the alliance of northern mountain tribes.

After this meeting, although there were continuous emergency messengers on the side of Xiliuzhou, which sent to various places, gathered troops and horses, and began to assemble near the Yueshi Governor's Mansion, but at this time, Zarhan gathered the last strength in his hands and stayed in Xiliuzhou without moving. And no one else paid attention to the leader of the biggest local interest faction, and in this case, Qin Kong touched the other party's residence and began to negotiate secretly. Qin Kong went straight to the point and directly said the hole cards on his side, telling Zarhan that if the other party chooses to surrender, he can get the same treatment as the people of the Tang Dynasty after the war, and after the arrival of civil affairs officials, all the people of the tribal alliance in the northern mountainous areas can obtain the same household registration of the Tang Dynasty as the remnants of Anxi, become citizens of the Tang Dynasty, and enjoy the same rights and interests.

These answers made Zarhan a little dissatisfied, and as the leader of the political forces, he was more interested in his own political future and the political fate of his own line. And Qin Kong's answer was obviously more aimed at most ordinary people. Therefore, after realizing this, Qin Kong told the other party that the people of the Tang Dynasty have the right to participate in the politics of the empire, but because the current system and national policy implemented by the Tang Dynasty are completely different from the past, if Zarhan and his subordinates want to develop, they need to study accordingly, and only in this way can they enter the political arena. Zarhan didn't quite understand, but after Qin Kong told him that this principle was set for all the people of the Tang Dynasty, he didn't say anything more. Although this was still far from what he thought, under the situation that the Yue's Governor's Mansion was besieged by the Tiance Army, if he mentioned these conditions again, the strong Tiance Army might turn its face. So I agreed, but asked the other party to give me special care for these people. Qin Kong didn't say much about this, special care? Datang's special care is estimated to be only the same, then teach these people to learn Tang dialect and Chinese characters for free, which is originally something that the Ministry of Education is about to arrange in the northwest, so Qin Kong just said that although the official official language of Datang is Tang Yan, but considering the complexity of various places in the northwest, Datang will send special personnel to teach the people everywhere authentic Tang dialect and Chinese characters, and the first batch is an influential person in the northwest like Zarhan.

After Qin Kong left, Zarhan pondered alone for a long time, to be honest, the conditions offered by Datang are very ordinary, but they can't stand it, and they make it clear that anyone who joins the Datang household registration will be treated equally and will not be discriminated against, which is diametrically opposed to the current situation of Zarhan. And Zarhan still has a little thought, that is, compared to the Tiance Army and the Tang Dynasty, or the southwestern forces within Safar, they are actually outsiders, and only themselves, the people of the northern mountain tribal alliance, are the indigenous people, and they are the head snakes. Zarhan is confident that he will definitely be able to grasp the basic power of the local area after eating a trench, and in the future, if the Tang Dynasty wants to truly rule the land of the Safar Dynasty, it is absolutely inseparable from these natives.

Zarhan actually thought well, if the Tang Dynasty wants to gain a foothold in this place, it really needs them as locals, and it is simply unrealistic to rely on the number of Anxi remnants, and it is too late to migrate people from the mainland, and the other number of people cannot reach the point of suppressing the local forces. But for assimilating these locals to divide and disintegrate their forces, and stripping out these high-level and low-level people who have other ideas, Datang now has too much experience. This is also the reason why Qin Kong is not afraid that Zarhan has other thoughts, relying on the strong combat power of the Tiance Army to suppress, it only takes a time difference for Datang to be able to disintegrate these forces and gradually guide the people to the trajectory of Datang's development.

This scene of trading in Xiliuzhou had no impact on the warring parties at all for the time being, and even Zarhan did not expect one thing when he handed over the list of internal responses and shadows in the entire Safar Dynasty to Qin Kong, that is, after the main army of the Safar Dynasty had not yet been assembled, Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng had already taken the Yueshi Governor's Mansion and all the troops in the city. This battle completely shocked the entire Safarid forces, and even they did not know what the future of the Safarid people was after the fall of the Yueshi Governor's Mansion to the hands of the Tiance Army.