After the conclusion of the Northwest Economic Development Joint Conference in Shule, Tuoba Sijian immediately began to make preparations in all aspects, and in addition to the tasks assigned to each province and the need for the provincial government to plan and deploy on its own, Tuoba Sijian began to make overall plans for the transportation construction within the five provinces. After the straight road leading south to Khotan in Shule was repaired to Ya'er City, the more than 30,000 prisoners of war handed over by Qian Biao to the National Guard also began to move north from Khotan City, and together with the construction team from Ya'er City to the south, they moved north and south together, opening up this north-south straight road as soon as possible, so that a large number of materials from Shule could quickly go south. In Tuoba's thinking, the southern line is heavier than the northern line, so together with the construction team on the side of Khotan, there are four large-scale construction sites on the southern line, and after the first phase of the target system is sparsely located in Khotan, it will be connected to the south to protect the secret, and then continue to the south to the interior of Safar after opening up the Green Ridge Mountains. Thanks to the strong trade demand from the Persian Governorate, whether it was Qian Biao, Sima Daoxin, or even Song Lingxun, who was in charge of the transportation construction of the Green Ridge Mountains, they all devoted all their energy to ensuring that this transportation artery could be completed by the end of the year, which was crucial for the next stage of the trade of Dashi. In the case of sea transportation, a large number of ships need to transport supplies and baggage for each transportation, land transportation has become the main way to connect the Tang Dynasty and the Great Food trade, in addition to trekking thousands of miles from the north to the Aral Sea, to the south through the Safar into the Great Food has become the most concerned road. The huge mountain system between Safar and Khotan was blasted out by nearly 100,000 people day and night, and countless gunpowder continued to explode, and a road running through it was constantly converging from the north and south ends to the middle. The countless people and materials gathered under the city of Humi maintained the communication between the two places, and this road became the wish of everyone in the northwest at this moment.

Tuoba Siji's actions also made Wan Yi and Gauss Ji feel the demand for manpower from the civil affairs side, so after the meeting, Gauss Ji immediately sent an urgent order to Liu Xuan of Everross, asking Liu Xuan to give orders to Hammud and Usier on the front line that they need to capture as many defectors as possible in the war and then transport them to the rear as the cheapest labor force for the Northwest Economic Development Plan. However, at this time, unlike the Wusi'er side, which had already begun to fight one after another, the mixed corps of three battalions led by Hammud was still struggling on the road from Mulu Prefecture to Anxi. This area is basically a desert area, although the logistics department has made a lot of preparations, and even in order to ensure the water needs of the front-line army, hundreds of large trucks loaded with Datong's clear water have been specially mobilized to move with the army, and Xuan Yingwei has also reserved a large amount of clear water in advance in the oases in various deserts for the use of passing troops. In this way, the 30,000-strong army was connected with nearly 10,000 logistics personnel, and when they arrived in Anxizhou, the news had actually reached Dashi. There is no way, this road itself is one of the trade routes to the Great Food, although the Xuan Ying Wei blocked the news in advance, but the news of the march of the army in the desert is more difficult than the grassland. However, at this time, Hammoud did not convene at all, although he only had three battalions of troops, but because he had to be stationed for a long time, he carried a full fifty artillery pieces and a hundred mechanical crossbows, such a strong firepower was enough for Hammoud to suppress the attack of about 100,000 troops on the other side. And in Hammoud's expectation, the more the cannibal understands the power of gunpowder weapons, the more he will not dare to break out a large-scale conflict with the Tang Dynasty, after all, according to the current delivery progress of the breech gun, the musket team of the cannibal can get together with 50,000 people is enough. And the most terrible thing is that breech guns are currently exclusively operated by Datang in terms of guns and ammunition, that is, once they have a bad relationship with Datang, these breech guns will completely become burning sticks. As soon as he thought of this, Hammoud had an urge to laugh, this idea was really damaged, forcing Da Shi to always be controlled in the confrontation with Datang in the future, and the more breech guns were imported, the more obvious disadvantages they occupied in the confrontation.

After the rest of the state, the brigade began to step into the real desert area and then went west for more than 100 miles into the Chaerzhu area on the bank of the Wuhu River, where you can use the water supply of the Wuhu River and then go all the way to the northwest, except for a small number of tribes, there is not much population on the way, and the entire Wuhu River basically enters a large-scale desert area from here, and this desert continues to the source of the Aral Sea. But along the way, Hammoud found that the desert here is very different from other places, because there is a river running through it, so the land on both sides of the Wuhu River is not the kind of sandy sand, but the kind of relatively fine soil, and this kind of land can suddenly be irrigated by the nearby river water after improvement. In a place like the northwest where land resources are scarce, grain and arable land are always the most important natural resources.

"No wonder the emperor proposed to the envoy of the Great Food to cede the Aral Sea, which looks like a desert, and it turned out to be far-sighted." The army of Hammud marched towards the Huoxun region, and on the way, he saw hundreds of miles of Wuhu River meandering to the west, and if all the land on the west bank was used, he was afraid that a brilliant civilization would be built in the desert out of thin air.

"Order the army to camp outside the city, and then send someone into the city to announce, saying that my Tang Tiance army was ordered to come to receive Huoxun City, and the big food defenders in the city should obey the letter signed by the two countries, quickly hand over the city and then retreat south, otherwise the Tiance army will attack the city will definitely be ruined, and there will be no survivors under the broken city." Hammoud asked the Germans and the British to send people to immediately notify the city to withdraw from the city at the same time as arranging the camp, and at the same time the artillery units began to set up positions on the spot, and the muzzles of the black hole were directly aimed at the crowded city tower at this time.

Huoxun is a small city in the desert, and there are not many materials that can build a city in the northwest itself, so it is just a simple earth city that can not be simpler, and it doesn't look like the Central Plains style of city building, the overall semicircular city wall, and the city towers that appear on the city wall from time to time are full of exotic customs, but at this time, the Tiance army, who is preparing for camping outside the city in an orderly manner, is not worth their vigilance at all. And the messenger of Hammud hurried out of the city a moment after entering the city. The defenders in the city naturally did not receive the news from the country at this time, so they did not dare to offend the murderous Tang army outside the city, and thought of a compromise solution, hoping that Hammoud could give them a little time to report to the country, and then they would take corresponding actions according to the domestic decision.

However, Hammoud didn't want to waste time at all, after seeing such a fertile land along the way, this place had been marked by him as the Tang Dynasty, and the big cannibal on the opposite side became an enemy invading his homeland in his eyes, so after the army rested for a night, he directly ordered Deying to lead the army to attack the city, and the cannon opened fire for a test firing, and the few two thousand defenders in the city hurriedly drove out of the city and disarmed the Tiance army. This is completely different from the usual habits of the Great Food Army, but Hammud was relieved after a little understanding, this small city in the desert was originally used as a place for the Great Cannibals to exile domestic sinners or minorities, so there are even a few places in the city where the Heavenly Fang Sect in the Great Food is unwilling to come here to preach. However, after the recent trade between Datang and Da Shi gradually became popular, the Huoxun area has actually attracted the attention of the top management of Da Shi, but before they have started to take action, Da Tang's side has already driven over.

Hammud unceremoniously and directly handed over all the two thousand food defenders as prisoners to the logistics team, and sent them to the upstream Anxizhou to hand over to the local defenders. After pondering for a long time in Huoxun City, he made a surprising decision, that is, to abandon Huoxun City and lead his army to camp in the source of the river hundreds of miles away, and wait for the reaction of the Great Food Empire there. And in order to build a city in the source of the river, Hammoud took thousands of people in the city with him and built a new city in the same place in the source of the river. However, due to the lack of cement and other materials, the initial Hamoud side was still planned to be a soil city structure, but the talent of the Central Plains people in building the city was not the same as that of the local people in the northwest, the same earth city in the hands of the logistics team was able to play flowers, a large number of mud bricks were manufactured and dried in the desert, and then tens of thousands of houses and various other facilities were built in the estuary delta, and then the city walls were built outside around these facilities.

Hammud didn't do these things, he handed these over to the logistics team and took the people to complete, and then he reorganized the army, built a position on the spot, and sent a large number of scouts under the leadership of Xuan Yingwei to start exploring the movements of the big cannibals. In fact, after Hamoud led the army and found those fires to be stationed here, the entire western trade line between Datang and Dashi was cut off because of the war. At this point, the cannibal side naturally reacted immediately, and a large number of troops began to rush towards the source of the Wuhu River after gathering on the northern border, and at the same time, a large number of believers also began to gather according to the orders of the popes in various places, apparently preparing to assist the army in the war. However, at this time, after receiving the heavy supplies from the rest of the state, Hammoud also received an order from Liu Xuan, asking to capture as many people as possible to go back.

"Is there a shortage of people in the Northwest lately?" Hammoud was a little puzzled, this big cannibal is basically a Heavenly Sect, can it be of any other use than wasting food when he catches it? With such doubts, Hammoud also waited for the arrival of the Great Cannibal. However, the first time the big cannibal obviously went straight to Huoxun, but after facing an empty city, the other party originally planned to occupy Huoxun to cut off Hammod's retreat, but then was led by Deying to break through the city, and a large number of Tiance soldiers blew up the walls of the earth city at night, and then rushed into the city to fight all night before withdrawing at dawn. And during the day, they hid without a trace, and when the next night this large-scale attack was carried out again, the sharp night combat methods of the Tiance army and the characteristics of almost no one with night blindness made the Great Food Army unable to stop this level of blow, and was forced to leave Huoxun during the day and come towards the source of the river.

In this way, relying on this method of warfare, Hammud attracted the other party to the battlefield that he had prepared, and the two sides immediately started a big battle here, and the angry Great Food Army could not face the attack of Hammad's powerful artillery fire at all, and was broken up by Hammud in the battle, almost more than 30,000 troops were almost completely defeated by Hammud before they even had time to wait for their main force to arrive, and a large number of soldiers of the Great Food Army who completely defeated the fighting spirit almost all became prisoners, Hammoud also changed the initiative of the enemy and us in this battle as a result of this war, and before he could penetrate deep into the territory of the other side, he had already suppressed the enemy.

Hammud, who won the first battle, did not pay attention to the big cannibal at all, but felt that the command on the command of the prisoners was very reasonable, if enough prisoners worked along the Wuhu River, then in less than a year, tens of thousands of hectares of desert fertile land would appear here, producing food that could feed countless people. Therefore, Hammoud was very interested in what Heavenly Sect army was about to come, and specially issued an order to the three generals that they must capture as many prisoners as possible in the subsequent battle. When Deying saw Hammoud looking at the desert outside, his eyes lit up, and he didn't know what his main general was thinking, so in the later battle, the former captain of the army led the troops to almost complete the capture of nearly sixty percent of the prisoners in the entire campaign, and was therefore directly awarded by Wan Yi and others.

On the eighth day of the ninth month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, when the Aral Sea region began to turn cold one after another, Hammud's side once again ushered in a second wave of enemies, this time no longer the previous regular army. As the second time he fought with the cult troops, Hamoud's mentality this time was completely different from the last time. Although the army of the Heavenly Fang Sect is not afraid of death because of religious factors, it is not impossible to crack it. It's just that what surprised him was that according to the information sent by Xuan Yingwei, many of these sect members were actually from other tribes around the Aral Sea.

"It looks like we're going to have to take the entire Aral Sea region after this battle." Hammoud looked thoughtfully to the northwest. To his north, after a non-stop battle, Us'er had almost reached the source of the medicine and water. However, unlike a wasteland on Hammud's side, there is at least a good city and a lot of tribes and people, although these people have no connection with the Tang Dynasty and are basically hostile to the arrival of Wu Si'er, but it doesn't matter, Wu Si'er's side of the end of the fight against the Tang Dynasty is to take all of them as prisoners and then escort them to the rear, so there are not many battles on Wu Si'er's side, but the battles caused by the capture of prisoners continue. A large number of prisoners of war were also sent to the rear of Whitewater City, and then rushed to other construction sites in the northwest.

"General, this is an urgent war briefing from General Ha." The day after the cessation of the army, Hammoud's order was also delivered.

"Sure enough, it is a famous Uighur general, and it is a good opportunity to clean up the other directions of the Aral Sea at this time." Us'er began to act after a long silence, and at the same time as the battle began on Hammud's side, Us'er's side also began to carry out a lightning-fast sweeping operation along the shore of the Aral Coast.