"Marshal, the battle on the northern front has all ended, all the soldiers of the Tingzhou Army have now been brought to the north camp of the city, and the troops led by Hamoud are stationed, and the two battalions of the Seventh Corps have now entered the city." When Liu Xuan rushed back to report, Wan Yi also received an urgent report from Zhao Si's side, reporting that all the Shatuo tribes had left their original station, Luntai, and were preparing to go to the grassland between Xizhou and Jiaohe City after bypassing Daze in the north. And this news was also quickly passed on to Li Cunqing, who had already joined up with the Uighur reinforcements of Anxi.

Wan Yi casually handed Zhao Si's information to Liu Xuan, and said as he walked: "Go and order Tuoba Siji not to hide it, and immediately attack and cooperate with the Modao Battalion and the 11th Corps to annihilate all the enemies who came this time, no matter how many people come from the Anxi Uighurs this time, I must take all of them and I am not allowed to put them back." "After the end of the Northern Front Campaign, although the Seventh Corps fought for a day and night, after successfully solving all the Tingzhou Army, it was equivalent to freeing up its hands to serve as a reserve for the entire Western Expeditionary Army, so Wan Yi directly gave an order to Tuoba Siji at this time, ordering the cavalry corps to immediately launch an attack, thus driving the Western Front campaign into a decisive stage.

Regarding Wan Yi's move of directly crossing the Western Front at this time, Shi Jian, the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, and directly giving an order, Liu Xuan did not have the slightest exception, turned around and summoned his personal guards, and directly went out to pass the order immediately with the order he had written, and continued: "As soon as the northern front ends, the Gaochang Uighurs will be officially wiped out by us, and Gaochang can also be included in the territory of my Datang. ”

Liu Xuan's meaning Wan Yi knew that the surrender of the last resistance force of the Gaochang Uighurs to the battlefield at the last moment actually meant that Wan Yi's plan for the Gaochang Offensive had been completed, and no matter what the outcome of the Western Front battle was, the fact that the Gaochang Uighurs were exterminated by himself had been determined, so in addition to reporting to Chang'an, the more important thing was to urgently arrange the transfer of government affairs in Gaochang and other places. So Wan Yi nodded and said: "Jaguar sent to the base camp will write it after the end of the Western Front, and send someone to ask the deputy prime minister quickly, the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army will stay in Gaochang and other places for a period of time in the next stage, but the forward will come out of the army, on the one hand, to test how much strength is left in the Anxi Uighurs, and on the other hand, to prepare for the next stage of our army's move to Anxi." "Several major battles in Gaochang also made the various units of the Tiance Army's Western Expeditionary Group Army exhausted, and there were large battle losses, and the next task must be to take advantage of the opportunity to defeat the other side, send elite soldiers into Yanqi, contain the opponent's energy, and the main force will be transferred to repair, and even some of the troops need to be rotated to keep the military strength of the Western Expeditionary Army always at its peak.

Tuoba Sijian had just arrived in Jiaohe City less than two hours, and because Jiamu and Hammoud led the army to evacuate from Xizhou, Xizhou became an empty city, so it was successfully taken after Tuoba Sijian and Yang Yi led the National Guard, which also set a precedent for the National Guard to take the opponent's city for the first time. However, just when the two of them had just begun to deploy the government affairs on the Xizhou side and were about to be included in the sandbar system, an urgent report came from Wan Yi's side, so Tuoba Sizhi hurriedly left Yang Yi and rushed to Jiaohe City.

"The deputy prime minister is here." When Liu Xuan received Tuoba Si's advice and came to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army in Jiaohe City, Wan Yi also hurriedly put down the map in front of him, saluted Tuoba Siji, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, Deputy Prime Minister, this is running around with our Western Expeditionary Army, and there is no day of peace." ”

"Come less, but I heard Liu Xuan on the way that you have captured Jiaohe City this time, but it is very rich? Hurry up and take me to see, during this period of time, the cabinet allocated 100 million Tang dollars to prepare for the construction of this overseas province, but our prime minister sent me a clear order, the war in the northwest should be based on capture, and the enemy should be based on food. Although Tuoba Sizhi looked tired, he was still in good spirits, and he directly pushed up Wan Yi's rare jokes. However, this is a different meaning in Liu Xuan's ears, the overseas provinces have allocated so many Tang coins in one go, which must represent the next step of the Tang Empire's economic construction policy to begin to shift from the interior to the coast, so he said with a smile: "Your Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister, you can rest assured in this matter, almost all the treasury of the Gaochang Uighurs in Jiaohe City for nearly a hundred years has been obtained by us, and the list is all here, you can take a look at it first, just wait for you to seal and count it and then transport it back to Chang'an." After Liu Xuan finished speaking, he took out an account book from Wan Yi's desk and handed it to Tuoba Si and said with a smile: "According to the preliminary calculation of our army, there are more than two million taels of gold alone, and there are more than six million taels of silver, and there are about millions of other gold and silver coins. ”

Liu Xuan's words made Tuoba Si smile, and even his tone became a lot more cheerful, and he said with a smile: "Not bad, yes, I think I should ask for credit for the troops who captured Jiaohe City this time, by the way, the cabinet seems to have a medal for the military, and the imperial medal seems to be selected by the cabinet and the Ministry of Defense, right?" Do you want me to apply for you? I am the deputy prime minister, and the emperor and Mr. Cen still attach great importance to the northwest. ”

"Pull it down. I think our deputy head attaches great importance to these gold and silver treasures. Tuoba Siji's words made Liu Xuan cover his mouth and hold back a smile, but Wan Yi on the side didn't have so many scruples, and directly laughed and scolded back, after a few people chatted for a while, Wan Yi saw that Tuoba Siji also finished reading the account books sorted out by Liu Xuan, and began to change the topic: "Jiaohe City was taken by us, the Tingzhou army was wiped out by Gao Siji in the south, and the remaining thirty or forty thousand people were all surrendered to the battlefield, so the war in Gaochang has basically ended so far, Are you going to suggest to the emperor and the cabinet how to divide the area on the Gaochang side? Do you want to merge with the sandbank? ”

Tuoba Siyan's face was also condensed when he heard this, and he put the account book in his hand into his arms and said solemnly: "It is indeed a good way for Gaochang to be incorporated into the sandbank, the sandbank is still occupied by the Han people, if the two places are divided into a region, on the one hand, it can expand the living space of the Han people in the sandbank, so that the status of the sandbar can be effectively improved, and the most important thing is to quickly dilute the rate of Uighurs in the Gaochang area, and when we take Anxi, it will become the largest transit station and bridgehead in and out of Anxi, After all, the number of Han people in Anxi is too small, and even after so many years of assimilation and suppression, there is basically no shadow of the Han people, which is seriously detrimental to the rule of the northwest of the empire. Because the party and the Han people are now indistinguishable from each other, and Li Xuanqing treats this minority tribe who is the first to take the initiative to integrate into the Han nation very favorably, so there is no embarrassment at all in Tuoba Siji's analysis of the national issue, and from the perspective of the Han people, he is even more straightforward than Wan Yi These authentic Han people, so I only heard him say: "And I have already communicated with Mr. Cen, and now the population of our interior has begun to have a shortage, and now the empire has only been established for more than four years. Although the birth rate of the population in Guanzhong has gradually increased according to the statistics of the Ministry of Health in the past two years, it is impossible to immigrate to the northwest on a large scale in a short period of time, and the emperor's northern industrial belt is making efforts, even if there are immigrants, it needs to give priority to Youzhou and the three northeastern provinces, and Mr. Cen in the northwest has only approved a quota of 200,000 people, and it needs to be carried out in three years. Therefore, those of us in charge of the military administration in the northwest need to consider this problem, and find a way to use the original population of the northwest to dilute and divide the Uighurs, so as to prevent the unforeseen chaos of this dominant tribe in Anxi after the war. ”

"So I have a plan," Tuoba Si Zhi saw Wan Yi nodding, understanding that the other party was also thinking about the same problem, so he said: "I plan to let the prisoner of war brigade and labor personnel originally transferred from the Central Plains in the two prefectures from Hexi to Gansu stay behind, and send all your captured Uighurs to the Central Plains for blood exchange, which will also dilute the Uighurs on the one hand, and increase the number of our Han Chinese on the other, but this needs the support of your military." ”

Wan Yi nodded and said, "This matter is no problem, but it is better for you not to transfer the captives of the Gaochang Uighurs to the Central Plains, or put them on the sandbank, which is also conducive to stabilizing Gaochang and making Hammud feel at ease." I have already sent an explanation to the General Staff that Hammoud is going to carry out the merger of the two Uighur armies, so in the next step Hammoud will inevitably lead all the Uighur troops who are currently surrendering to the United States to be transferred to the command of our Western Expeditionary Army, and become the vanguard of our army's war against the northwest. ”

"Then do you want me to apply to the cabinet to exempt the former Uighur prisoners of war from servitude?" Tuoba Sijian nodded at Wan Yi's actions, which was very powerful, and he naturally understood that Hammud's execution of the merger of the two Uighurs was only afraid that the Anxi Uighurs would suffer a large amount of attrition because of this, so how to deal with the previously captured Gaochang Uighur prisoners of war was very considerate.

However, Wan Yi shook his head at Tuoba's suggestion and vetoed it, "No, Hammad will be the leading general of my Western Expeditionary Army in the future, for him, what the empire needs to do is to use grace and power, let him cleanse the Uighur tribe, collect and merge the two Uighurs, although it will inevitably cause monstrous killings for him, so that he will be hated by his own people, but it is undeniable that after being purged of most of the high-level leaders, Hammud has become the only backbone of the Uighurs, We need to make him understand that the Empire is a meritorious person and will not pardon the prisoners of war because of him, but it will not punish the Uighurs for their past sins. Therefore, for those prisoners of war, they only had to be placed on a sandbank so that the families of those prisoners of war could understand that the empire had not harmed them, and at the same time used them as a means of counterbalancing the lower class of the Uighur people, helping the empire to survive the most difficult initial period in Gaochang and Anxi. ”

Wan Yi's analysis can be described as exhaustive, and Tuoba Sijian and Liu Xuan have no opinion on this, so the three of them discussed for a while, and after perfecting this opinion, Liu Xuan immediately began to record, and then Wan Yi and Tuoba Sijian signed and sent people to the Chang'an base camp quickly. It can be said that the three people present reported their opinions on the post-war treatment of the Uighurs almost before the battle report of the Battle of Jiaohe City was collected, which also shows how wary they were about this land where the Han Chinese no longer make up the majority.

After doing this, Tuoba Sijian took the civil affairs officials who came from the rear, and with the assistance of the soldiers of the Tiance Army of the two battalions of the Seventh Corps entering the city, on the one hand, issued an announcement, announcing that Jiaohe City and other old places in Gaochang were included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and issued a series of policies to complete the acceptance, on the other hand, he began to take Wan Yi's personal guards to start counting all the seized treasury and treasury and the repeated seizures of the Western Expeditionary Army in Gaochang, and then sealed them one by one, waiting for the full-time troops sent by the National Guard to escort them back to Shazhou and other places, and then transport them back to Chang'an.

At this time, in the west of Jiaohe City, the Modao battalion immediately launched a full-line attack after converging the complete 11th Corps, and began to advance forward against the impact of the cavalry formation of the Anxi Uighurs that suddenly increased after the reinforcements, and countless artillery began to launch large-scale artillery bombardment, giving full play to the tactics of the barrage that could not be opened before. In a one-on-one battle, the cavalry of the 30,000 Tiance Army rushed into the opponent's military formation, used the spears in their hands to shoot continuously, knocked down the opponent before the opponent's cavalry knife got close, and then rushed through, the rifle in his hand shot again after pulling the bolt and exiting the cartridge case, and there was no enemy at all.

If the impact of the cavalry cast the inability to withstand the frontal battle in the era of hot weapon warfare, then the timely follow-up of the Modao battalion means that this shortcoming has been quickly filled, and with the follow-up of the 11th Corps, this situation has been quickly opened, and the 100,000 people of the Anxi Uighur vanguard, who have suffered heavy casualties in the non-stop battle that lasted all night, finally collapsed, and countless routs scattered and fled, completely disrupting the entire Uighur military formation. This confusion also made the situation on the battlefield take a turn for the worse, and the chaotic Anxi Uighur cavalry was unable to face the ferocious offensive of the Tiance army, and was beaten back one after another. By the time the artillery moved forward and began to concentrate their artillery fire on the Uighur cavalry, a major rout was inevitable, and the bombed Uighur cavalry could no longer organize an effective resistance, and turned their horses and galloped towards the rear.

On April 27, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, after a day and a night of fierce fighting, more than 200,000 Uighur cavalry of Anxi were defeated by the Tiance army in Baiyuli, west of Jiaohe City, with losses of more than 100,000 people, and the remaining cavalry fled towards Yanqi at great speed, and after receiving Wan Yi's order, Tuoba Siji and Shi Jian commanded 70,000 cavalry and horses to follow this rout to set foot on Anxi's homeland, and were ordered to pursue, and the troops came out of Yanqi. For a time, the whole Anxi was turbulent, and the power of the Tiance army reached its extreme at this moment, and countless large and small tribes heard the wind and changed their complexes, and the political situation in Anxi began to divide rapidly under the cleansing of the iron cavalry, and the Uighurs suffered a great loss of military strength after this blow, which also caused their rule in Anxi to take a sharp turn.