Although Li Xuanqing and Qiaoxi's joke was a joke, the Tang Empire did embark on the road of foreign colonization since the tenth year of the Apocalypse, and it was from this year that the Tang Dynasty gradually entered the era of capitalist imperialism from the feudal empire. And all this has to start from the founding of the country, so that this was originally only a thing that happened in the northwest but gradually entered the field of vision of the people of the Tang Empire, and as the caravan continued to transfer a large number of materials to the northwest, many well-informed merchants also found business opportunities from it, after learning about the recent situation in the Tungas, these merchants gradually transported a large number of daily necessities to the Tunis for sale. With the assistance of the personnel sent by the cabinet, ten years after the Apocalypse, the Kingdom of Huangjia also embarked on the era of industrial development, but their industrial system became a vassal of the Tang economy under the design of the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of natural resources began to be excavated and mined, and then transported to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for money, and then flowed back through the purchase of Tang Dynasty goods. In the beginning, this method did enrich the treasury of the country, and the living standards of the people gradually improved thanks to the development of industries such as mineral mining. However, in addition to boosting the industrialization level of the northwest of Datang, this deformed industrial model is consuming the foreign side of Huangjia, but this trick is rarely seen by Li Xuanqing.

But at this time, at the beginning of March of the tenth year of the Apocalypse, all this was still only on paper. The Gregorians were faced with a dangerous situation of being attacked on all sides. At this time, the standing army of the king was 100,000 elite of the royal court under the direct command of the king, and there were less than 100,000 ordinary troops that could be drawn from various tribes. Because the Plagues themselves are nomads, they can even be all cavalry and even all the people when necessary, but now there are only one million people in the country, and it is already the limit to dispatch 200,000 people to fight, and this is still a one-shot deal, once it fails, the Tigers will inevitably face the danger of extinction. Therefore, after learning that the Russian principality of Kyiv had networked nearly 200,000 Slavic tribal coalition troops, plus the more than 100,000 elites he owned, the ratio of forces between the two sides was extremely unbalanced. Moreover, the Slavic tribes were surrounded almost by all sides, and the situation was very bad. In order to concentrate on this crisis of statehood, the king of Tunjas issued a supreme mobilization order, concentrating all the tribes originally scattered in the Dnieper River valley around the city of Sizhao, and at the same time concentrating all his army to prepare for a death battle against the Slavs. And at the same time, Usuke, the former commander who was captured by the Tiance Army in the past, was also pushed to the position of the commander of the whole army, commanding the national army and preparing for the war of resistance.

"Minister, I wonder when His Majesty the Emperor will arrive to aid our troops?" After the king of the Tunas handed over all the command of the army to Usuke, he asked Wang Shoutian almost every day. Wang Shoutian, who was originally preparing to return to China, also received an order to stay in Sizhao City temporarily at this time to ensure the determination to appease the Tunjas to persist in resistance, and at the same time to show the Slavs and the Great Qin people the attitude of the Tang Empire towards the Tunis.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, I have sent the news of this place to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army and the deputy marshal General Gaussji. I think the senior deputy marshal should have taken action at this point. "Wang Shoutian doesn't know how the Western Expeditionary Army is arranged, but according to the established strategy of the base camp, the Western Expeditionary Army should have been paying attention to the situation on the side of the Zodiac for a long time, not to mention that Gao Siji, who was sitting in Chel City, and Qin Kong, who had rushed over to join him, were afraid that all the situations on the side of Sizhao City were more familiar than him. Therefore, Wang Shoutian was very sure of the three questions of the king of Huangjiasi.

"But Your Majesty, even if my Tiance army leads the army into battle, it will attack the Slavs from the outside, and the guards inside Sizhao City still need to be carried by you independently. If Sizhao City can't stand it, then even if our Tiance army defeats the Slavs in the end, and Sizhao City is lost, then the Kingdom of Sizhao will definitely cease to exist. You must know that now all the tribes of the Legacs are concentrated here, and success or failure is here. Wang Shoutian's words In fact, all the Zodiac people understand that the key to this victory is not when the Tang Tiance army will fight, but whether Sizhaocheng can block the Slavic three-plate axe, especially the offensive of the Russians in Kiev, who obtained the same advanced artillery and muskets as themselves from the Great Qin Empire. Therefore, after hearing Wang Shoutian's words, the king of Huangjiasi also took a deep breath and said: "The minister can rest assured, Xiao Wang will personally go to the city to boost morale at that time, Sizhao City will not escape for a day, and Xiao Wang will not go down the city wall for a day." ”

"Your Majesty has this heart, and I believe that we will win this battle. I will stay in Sizhao City until the end of the war, and then I will personally escort His Majesty the King to Chang'an to meet my Tang Emperor, what do you think? Wang Shoutian's words made the king laugh, and the two immediately began to prepare after they made up their minds.

At this time, Gaussji, who was far away in Chelse, also began to move his headquarters to the east bank of the Volga River, and the Sixth and Seventh Corps were also fully concentrated at this time, waiting for Gaussji's order to cross the Volga River. However, when Gauss led two corps to appear on the east bank of the Volga River, only the Uighur Corps remained in the mobile corps of the entire Northwest Military Region, and Hammoud himself had to take care of the defense of the rest of the state, although according to the deduction of the Western Expeditionary Army Command and the intelligence of the Xuanyingwei, the Great Food Empire did not have the intention of taking this opportunity to send troops again, but took advantage of the opportunity of the war with the Slavs on the side of the Northwest Military Region to seize its own deployment, and the forward troops had even converged with the navy in the southwest of the Mediterranean. Always ready to cross the strait. However, this situation made Wan Yi's Western Expeditionary Army Headquarters feel risky, so Liu Xuan directly transferred the Modao Battalion stationed in Gaochang to Shule after thinking twice, and at the same time summoned all departments of the Anxi Army to raise the alert level. The northwestern provinces have a large number of projects in the tenth year of the Apocalypse, and the southern railway and the western line of transportation arranged by the military administration government will be implemented.

The adjustment of the deployment of the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army did not affect the mind of Gao Siji, who was in charge of the front line, and the two corps themselves concentrated in the Volga River valley to participate in the battle between the Slavs and the Slavs was to nip the hidden danger of Slavism in the bud one step ahead, and it was also to show the Great Qin people that it was the national policy of the Tang Dynasty to support the Slavs, and the Tiance Army would not allow any interference with the implementation of the national policy of the Tang Dynasty. What really made it difficult for Gauss to make a choice was a secret report sent by Wan Yi before departure, the General Staff asked Gauss Ji, who was in charge of the command, to assist the Slavs in thwarting the attack of the Slavs on the Slavs, but asked Gauss not to completely defeat the Slavs unless the circumstances were exceptional. The meaning behind this report is clear to Gauss, but this degree of mastery on the battlefield is the most difficult to grasp. So after thinking about it again, Gauss Ji still couldn't make up his mind.

"Vice Marshal, I actually have an idea." Qin Kong originally caught up with Gauss Ji when he was halfway there, and the report that the General Staff had forwarded from the headquarters was sent by him, so he naturally knew what Gauss Ji was thinking about in the past two days, so he came over and said with a smile: "This is the distribution map of the Slavic tribes around the Slavic tribes made by our Xuanyingwei. On the west bank of the Dnieper River is the Russian principality of Kiev, the most powerful force among the Slavs, and the main force in this attack on the Slavs. ”

Qin Kong's words were not finished, but Gao Siji understood what the other party meant in an instant, took this distribution map and looked at it for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "I suddenly found that you are simply Qu Cai when you stay in Xuanyingwei, or you will be transferred to the general staff." Speaking of which, your approach is better than what I had thought about before. There is the Dnieper River blocking and the distance from our Tiance Army is too far, and once our Tiance Army appears, the easiest to withdraw from the unfavorable battlefield is the Russian troops in Kyiv. Speaking of which, Gao Siji immediately asked the guards outside the tent to inform Wu Huan and Wu Si'er to enter the account immediately.

"The two of you will divide your forces from tomorrow, and the Sixth Corps will cross the river from the south of the Volga River, focusing on sweeping away all the Slavic forces in the south, remember to move quickly, do not linger on the gains and losses of one city or one place, and break them up as quickly as possible. The 7th Corps crossed the Volga River about 300 miles north, and then outflanked the northern Slavic tribes from behind, forcing them to withdraw their troops on the way back, and routed them halfway. Gauss Ji directly picked up Qin Kong's distribution map and explained to the two: "I don't have to ask how the specific battle will be fought, the two of you will plan it on your own, and it will take half a month, but there is one thing you two need to keep in mind, except for the Russians in Kiev, the other Slavs can fight whatever you want." This battle should not be close to the position of the Russians in Kyiv, and even create a false impression for the Cypriots, that is, our Tiance army is already insufficient after fighting the Slavs in other directions, so there is nothing to be done about the Russians in Kyiv and can only force them back. Gao Siji glanced at Qin Kong beside him and said: "According to the division of the battlefield, Wu Huan, your Sixth Corps has a better chance of being away from the Russians in Kiev, so Qin Kong, you will follow the Sixth Corps to fight this time, and help Wu Huan cover up if necessary." ”

As if knowing Wu Huan and Wu Si'er's doubts, Gao Siji explained: "The future of Huang Jiasi cannot be without enemies, otherwise sooner or later one day they will have different intentions towards Datang, so we have to leave him an enemy, so that their energy will always be on their enemies, only in this way is it in the best interests of our Datang." So this last point is not a military order, but an imperial order, an order issued by the empire to the two of you, understand? ”

"Please rest assured, the deputy marshal, we will understand and guarantee the completion of the task." The seriousness of what Gauss said also made Wu Huan and Wu Si'er feel the planning at this level for the first time, neither of them was the kind of person who was good at planning and strategizing, so the two of them answered the order in unison without thinking.

After Gauss gave the final military order here, in fact, the war had already started on the side of Sizhao City, and after having artillery and muskets from the east, Kiev, the Russian army was the first to cross the Dnieper River and appear outside Sizhao City. In order to deter the other Slavic tribes, the Kyiv Russians lined up twenty artillery pieces and aimed them at the ice wall that had not yet melted, and began to order shelling.

"General Wujie, order all front-line troops to immediately withdraw from the city wall, go to the fish grain road and other urn city towers to hide and wait, and the sentinels are lurking at any time to report local developments." The instructor from the Tiance Army, after discovering that the Kyiv Russians had lined up all the artillery, immediately asked Usuke to order the withdrawal of the first line of walls. As a result, after the artillery roared outside the city, except for the occasional cannonball that flew over the city wall, everything else exploded on the ice wall, although the ice chips were scattered and the ice wall was blown up everywhere, but in the city of Sizhao in March, these holes only needed enough water to pour over and soon be filled. And Usuke's early order also frustrated the ideas of the Russians in Kyiv. However, the shock of this cannonball explosion still greatly shocked the other Slavs who came to watch the battle, at least the scene of the fireball directly destroying and deteriorating together was not something they could imagine. Just like the shock brought to the feudal towns in the Central Plains when the Tiance Army used gunpowder weapons before, these earth-shattering noises and constantly rising fireballs made all the war horses of the soldiers of the two armies unable to withstand this impact and let out a constant neigh. The shells sold by the Tiance Army were filled with mixed explosives, and the black smoke and fireballs that rose into the air after the explosion of the black powder seemed to be more shocking than the explosives used by the Tiance Army now.

"I'll go, what did the people in this equipment department do? How can such shells be sold? "The officers of the Tiance Army who came to know about the Celestial Army were also frightened by this formation at the beginning, and they all secretly asked the people in the equipment department to see if their brains were broken, but after seeing the craters left behind by the explosion, they all held back their cheeks. Could it be that fireworks are set off with cannons? But everyone didn't dare to say this kind of thing, because the people of the Gang were also using this kind of artillery, and there was a difference in the performance of the weapons for export and self-use, which even the people of the Gang were aware of, including the Great Qin people, but no one except the Tiance Army knew that the people in the equipment department were so ruthless, and the gap between the export and the self-use was too big.

After learning about the power of the export version of the artillery, all the officers of the Tiance Army suddenly hid in various bunkers, holding the breech guns in their hands, thinking about how this thing was used? In China, even the guys of the official rifle are too slow to shoot, is it possible for this breech gun to kill people in a hurry? But when he saw the excitement of the people around him who were holding breech guns for the first time in actual combat, these people suddenly extinguished all their thoughts.

"The artillery stopped, and the departments immediately took their positions, and the third son, with the reserve troops, immediately went to repair the ice wall, and the others immediately went to the city wall to prepare to return fire." The Russians in Kyiv were only using artillery to deter other tribal forces, so after seeing the crumbling of the ice wall in front of them, the sound of artillery began to gradually stop. There is no way, this artillery shell is about to be sold crazy by Datang, even the people of Daqin do not buy much, not because they have no money but because they have no goods.

And after the cannon stopped, the young general named Bai Jingyi didn't even bother to say hello to Wujie, so he stood up and shouted loudly, beckoning the people of the Gang to enter the battle position immediately. And it is precisely because of this that the young general has gradually risen to fame and reached the pinnacle of his life.