"Xue Yang, I object. You're not taking a risk, you're joking. Xu Ying only understood what Xue Yang wanted to do after listening to one sentence, and hurriedly said, "It's not just me, it's impossible for your plan to be approved." Let's not talk about whether it has disrupted the overall deployment of the Fifth Army, and if we can't figure out that our Third Corps has to be planted in Khotan, are you joking about military affairs? ”

"Brother, listen to me, it makes sense for us to ignore the situation in Khotan, at present, the biggest threat to Khotan is the Safarid Dynasty, as long as we can defeat the soldiers and horses arranged on the border by the other side, then the other party will be powerless to interfere in Khotan in the short term, so it will give us enough time to clean up the interior of Khotan, and when they make a comeback, the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army must have already crossed the town of Boxian, so not only can our third corps be successfully rebuilt, Why is it bad that Khotan can also be completely included in the scope of the empire's rule? As long as the so-called adventure can be taken by surprise on the battlefield, then it will definitely be able to achieve the effect of attacking it unprepared. Xue Yang saw that Xu Ying was in a hurry, and hurriedly pressed him to his seat and continued: "And I have thought about it carefully, before leaving, the emperor and the chief of staff gave us a request that was to assist the Western Expeditionary Army to solve the problem of Khotan, and then decide to attack Tibet from the northwest, so it means that our Third Corps has the right to fight independently, and at this moment, we are thousands of miles away from the base camp, and there is no way to ask the emperor and the general staff." Therefore, instead of looking ahead and backward like this, it is better to give it a go, we are fighting the Safarid Dynasty who do not know that we have intervened in Khotan, and they will inevitably suffer heavy losses under the sneak attack, and they will definitely not be able to look east in the short term. When Xue Yang said this, he didn't realize how much trouble he caused to the Western Expeditionary Army later, although this big trouble was coming sooner or later in Li Xuanqing's opinion, but he didn't expect that when he asked Xue Yang to lead the army to Khotan, the other party actually directly opened this layer of window paper, which also brought a five-year battle with the Tianfang Sect world to Anxi's side, and finally the navy bypassed the Western Ocean and arrived in Tianfang City to defeat the other party's pilgrimage place. Only then did it suppress the religious world in the parallel world that the whole world talked about after a thousand years.

"So what should Khotan do? Let's ignore me, I'm just afraid that Xuan Yingwei's side won't last long. Moreover, once the Xuanying Guard can't hold on, even if we repel the Safarid Dynasty's soldiers and horses on the border, we will face the danger of going deep into the enemy territory alone, and most importantly, completely destroy the overall plan of the Western Expeditionary Army. Xu Ying shook his head and said: "This is the end of the sacrifice, and Khotan is the foundation." ”

"Let Li Yang lead the army to disguise himself as the main force to cooperate with Xuan Yingwei, it is great to take a defensive position in the early stage. And I don't think that the 15th Battalion, armed with a formal rifle, will not be able to deal with tens of thousands of Khotanese soldiers. Xue Yang obviously disdained Li Qiming's Khotanese army and directly prepared to divide his troops into battle. But as soon as this sentence came out, Xu Ying almost jumped up again, he only had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, and this division of troops must be insufficient for both forces, in case any of them went wrong, the Third Corps as a whole would be destroyed in the northwest.

"Don't worry, the third battalion and the mountain battalion will bypass the green ridge day and night to enter the stronghold of the Safavid Dynasty, and then take advantage of the night to sneak attack, it will definitely get miraculous results, after the fight, a fire will burn all the passes, I don't believe that they have the ability to roll back in an instant." Xue Yang patted Xu Ying's shoulder and comforted.

"You've never let me worry. If I miss it this time, I'm afraid that the emperor and the chief of staff will directly sacrifice the flags to the heads of the two of us. Xu Ying shook his head and looked at Xue Yang's calm but faintly crazy face, shook his head and said, "I'll go and inform Li Yang and Biaozi right away, so that they can get ready." ”

Xu Ying went outside to find Biao Zi and Li Yang, and then the four of them squatted in the tent and began to discuss the specific deployment, originally Xu Ying wanted Biao Zi to follow him to the Green Ridge, but Xue Yang thought about it and gave up, Biao Zi and Li Yang together can speed up the solution of the turmoil in Khotan, and maintaining stability in Khotan is the root of all problems after all.

"Li Yang, your fifteenth battalion is fighting independently, and it must be better than Khotan before the main force of my third corps returns, if the Uighurs attack, rely on Ya'er City in the north to hold on, and then retreat to Khotan's capital." Xu Ying looked at the map and said, "At the very least, it is in our hands to maintain the capital of Khotan, understand?" Although a brigade of the Flying Eagle Brigade was located on the border between Khotan and the Uighurs, at least in the short term, accurate internal information about Khotan could not be transmitted, but Xu Ying had to give Li Yang a good account of the worst-case scenario.

"Two brothers, rest assured, Li Yang knows how to act, and he will definitely stabilize the situation and wait for the return of the main force of my Third Corps, and then take the whole of Khotan in one fell swoop." Li Yang obviously understood Xue Yang's plan more thoroughly, so Xu Yingying was angry that he explained his follow-up plan, so it was better to say that Xu Ying was worried about Khotan.

"Okay, my brother told the third battalion and the mountain battalion to prepare immediately, receive the ammunition carried by the logistics department, let's advance lightly tomorrow morning, and all the troops attached to the logistics department, including our captured Tubo, will be handed over to Li Yang to take to Khotan." Xue Yang saw Li Yang nodding and immediately began to assign tasks, the third battalion and the mountain battalion divided their troops from here and the fifteenth battalion, handed over all the personnel of the logistics department to Li Yang, and led them to Khotanese City, while the third battalion and the mountain battalion carried some supplies and ammunition and advanced lightly to the west.

Early the next morning, that is, at the end of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Li Yang's independent troops of the Third Corps began to appear in the Xuanyingwei dark satellite TV line arranged by Qin Kong.

"What do you mean, your current combat force is only 10,000 people, and there are thousands of Tibetan prisoners behind you?" Qin Kong was also stunned by Li Yang's words, but he didn't pay too much attention to this part, for the current Khotan, with the Tiance Army's own 10,000 field troops, it was enough to change the situation for the time being, so he didn't pay too much attention to the third battalion and the mountain battalion that had disappeared from everyone's sight for the time being, and immediately dispatched people to the southwest of Khotan, that is, the front line of the Green Ridge, and began to arrange the corresponding response and guidance tasks, and find a way to raise some grain and grass in the southwest region.

"You can rest assured, I have urgently informed the secret guard to pick up the third battalion and the mountain battalion in the important town of Khotan, and then guide them into Dharmayera, according to the information we received from the caravan, the heavy troops of the Safavid Dynasty in the southwest have gathered in the important town of the Green Ridge to protect the secret area, as long as the opposing troops entrenched in the important town of the Green Ridge can reverse the unfavorable situation in the entire southwest region in one fell swoop." Qin Kong obviously had a deep understanding of the complex international relations around Khotan, so he pointed out at a glance the position of the enemy that Xue Yang needed to face this time, so he and Li Yang and the others said while walking: "Defeating the cavalry of the Safarid Dynasty that protects the secret is equivalent to removing the radiation threat to Khotan in the plateau area of the Green Mountains, and by the way, it can also deter the Samanid Empire in the northwest region so that it will not dare to act rashly, and buy time for us to stabilize Khotan." ”

"According to what you said, it means that the third battalion actually needs to be stationed in the secret protection or the stone tower area in the short term to be able to deter those dynastic empires in the west, right?" Biao Zi was a little worried about Qin Kong's statement: "So here in Khotan, we only have 10,000 people who can complete so many tasks in time?" I remember that your Western Expeditionary Army didn't just arrange the subversion of Khotan, right? How to support the Eastern Front to flank Cao Rengui? ”

"We don't need to participate in this, there is good news from Zhang Sheng's side, they have successfully negotiated with most of the clan leaders of the descendants of the Zhaowu nine surnames, including the eight major tribes of the Murong clan, including the Kang clan, the Murong clan, will form a joint army of 30,000 people, and Commander Zhang Sheng will secretly intersperse them near the eastern Boxian Town to take over our task of responding to the eastern front." After Qin Kong told the latest news, everyone suddenly felt relaxed, and even Li Yang nodded and said, "If you don't need to deal with the eastern front, simply deal with the interior of Khotan, and my fifteenth battalion will be enough." ”

Qin Kong was a little surprised, he had actually met with Li Yang a few times before when he recovered Jiangnan, and he had an understanding of Li Yang's character, although Li Yang's personality was a bit similar to Xue Yang, it was more jumpy, but basically speaking, it was still relatively calm, so he was very surprised to hear him say that he could get rid of Khotan with his 10,000 people alone, and shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate the enemy, Khotan is located in a harsh environment, so the combat effectiveness of its troops is still very strong, Basically, the army directly under the royal court in Khotan basically fights all year round, so it's better not to underestimate the enemy. ”

Qin Kong's words made Li Yang and Biao Zi smile slightly, but they didn't say much, except for some of the official rifles that were sent to the Western Front and sent to Wan Yi, they belonged to the Third Corps and were formed into equipment, so it was normal for Qin Kong not to understand its power, but Qin Kong also knew that since Li Yang had expressed his position, he couldn't say anything more, after all, Xuan Yingwei didn't really intervene in the command of the army for no special reason.

However, Li Yang's 15th Battalion, together with more than 10,000 logistics baggage troops attached to the Logistics Department and thousands of prisoners, still shocked everyone when their huge formation arrived in Khotan. At this time, he had already gained the upper hand in the struggle with Wuxin, because he held the ruling power in Khotan, so he could easily mobilize the entire national strength of Khotan to deal with Wuxin's Buddhist alliance. Therefore, Wuxin occupied a disadvantage from the beginning, and after Li Qiming dealt with Wuxin's initial offensive, it began to fall one-sided, and countless Wuxin supporters were severely suppressed by Li Qiming.

However, although Wuxin occupies a disadvantaged position, it is not without room for counterattack, at least at the beginning, he controlled part of the army, and after all, he is also an orthodox clan of the Wei Chi clan, so the domestic people have a lot of support for him, plus the support of Buddhism, so after Wuxin understood that Li Qiming could not step down through political channels, he began to organize troops to resist on the spot, and for this reason, he also asked Qin Kong to help, and selected a few soldiers from the Flying Eagle Brigade to assist him in forming troops, so that the entire Khotan began to enter a real era of turmoil, The two sides fought more than a dozen times in the capital of Khotan, and although the scale was not large, you came and went with great success.

Therefore, the shock brought to both sides by Li Yang's department when it arrived was more understandable, but compared with Li Qiming's panic, Wuxin understood that this should be a friendly army after knowing that it was Qin Kong who went to greet him. It's just that he was pleasantly surprised, but he had a kind of jealousy from his soul about the empire in the East. But at this time, he has no extra choice, as Qin Kong said, the moment Li Qiming decided to join the anti-Tang alliance, Khotan's fate has been doomed, Wuxin now only hopes that the Tang Dynasty can treat his people well for the sake of helping him wholeheartedly, and he has no hope for the others when he sees the Tiance army coming from the south.

However, although Wuxin thought so in his heart, he still took his team to meet him as soon as possible, and took Li Yang to his Zanmo Temple outside Khotan, and asked Qin Kong to rule the Buddhist temples in the western stone pagoda and other places and other areas that Wuxin could control, and promised to the supply of food and grass for the Tiance army, and sent people to inform Xuanyingwei's people together.

"Li Yang, Wuxin's side is planning to hold a coalition combat meeting, you can listen to it, but I don't think you should follow their deployment. The dark guards we sent to contact the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army will return in the next two days, and when the time comes, they will bring the latest instructions from the marshal's side, and we will just act according to the plan. Qin Kong walked over after Li Yang had finished arranging military affairs.

"With a mere 50,000 Khotanese troops, they have been fighting for so long, and the two sides have not yet decided the winner, so I know that this group of people is only suitable for being monks." Li Yang also took a look at Wuxin's troops just now, and to be honest, he felt that it was really incredible that there were many monks among them, what kind of combat effectiveness should such an army have?

"Deputy commander, don't worry, although our fifteenth battalion only has 10,000 people, it has the best equipment, and the formal rifle can definitely ensure that the soldiers of the fifteenth battalion are ten with one." Li Yang knew that Qin Kong couldn't understand the power of the formal rifle, so he pulled him out of the big tent and waved a rifle and asked Qin Kong to test the gun by himself.

"This is the Medium Formal Rifle? Oh my god, I knew what else I was worried about? I don't think we have to worry so much, you make your own plan and let's just go straight to the royal city." Qin Kong looked at the rifle in his hand and said with a little horror: "This time it can shoot five bullets, and there is no need to reload the bullets halfway, who came up with this genius work?" ”

"Let me first listen to what this group of great monks thinks, right? We still don't want to expose our combat strength first, but I will consider what you said, and let me know as soon as there is news from the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army. Li Yang shook his head and smiled.

"It's okay, it's okay for these land snakes to surprise them then." Qin Kong laughed, and then walked into Zanmo Temple with Li Yang.