In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the entire Taixi was permeated with war, because of the continuous war, the military weapons and baggage materials imported from the Tang Dynasty to the two places were endless, and the caravans came and went all year round. This is even more vigorous than when the canal was built before, so that the economy of the whole country of Datang has been busy all year round, and a large amount of wealth has been brought to Datang with this continuous flow of caravans in and out of the country, in exchange for thousands of guns, ammunition and new weapons such as artillery, and more of the materials that are continuously transported to the northwest and then transported to the two countries by separate routes. Because the sacrifices in the war were too great and the consumption was much greater than usual, the two countries began to gradually deplete their internal supplies after more than half a year of attrition. Whether it is Daqin, which occupies a large area of the Taixi Plain, or most of the land is a great food in the desert wasteland, the consumption and thirst for food and other heavy materials are even more urgent than weapons and ammunition. Thanks to the previous large-scale development of the Northeast Plain and Vladivostok and other places, as well as the introduction of Champong rice for crop improvement, the output of grain and other crops in Datang is increasing year by year, even if the improvement of the living standards of the domestic people has brought about an increase in food consumption, it has also accumulated huge stocks, and even once threatened the stability of domestic grain prices, forcing Zhang Jianzhong to continue to let the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly establish a large number of warehouses in the past two years, and even cooperate with the military to purchase surplus grain in the market on a large scale for hoarding. lest the fall in prices hurt the interests of farmers. However, in this great war, these old grains became the most sought-after foreign trade commodities in the second half of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, and a large amount of warehouse inventory was directly packed and sent on the train all the way to the west, where they were directly bought by the officials in charge of procurement in the two countries. This scene made Zhang Jianzhong, who had been worried before, so happy that he couldn't sleep for more than half a month, and he kept clamoring to go to the northwest to see the hot scene of the live transaction in person.

"Your Majesty, the trade fire on our side can be regarded as reducing the burden on Xiao Si. After the arrival of a large amount of gold and silver, our reserves have improved a lot. In particular, the grain transaction was basically purchased by the cabinet in previous years, so all this part of the revenue goes into the national treasury, which can make up for part of this year's fiscal deficit. In Chang'an's Changqing Palace, Li Xuanqing looked at Xu Tianxiang, who was settling accounts for the cabinet with his fingers in front of him, and was a little speechless, because now Datang is basically watching Daqin and Dashi fight, so these senior generals of the Tiance Army are a little bored, Wang Houchun even couldn't help but go to the northwest directly instead of Zhang Jianzhong to check the development of northwest trade on the spot. When the head of the War Department of the General Staff went to inspect industry and commerce, he was able to think of it in his head.

However, Xu Tianxiang is not wrong about one thing, as Da Shi and Da Qin's dependence on Datang becomes more obvious with the war, both countries are about to empty their own treasury, just in order to exchange more materials and more weapons from Datang, so as to completely defeat each other on the battlefield. Such a large-scale trade has gradually improved the deflationary situation of the Tang Dynasty, and as he said, large-scale grain exports are actually led by the cabinet, and a large number of Tang coins that have been over-issued by the cabinet to subsidize economic development have been recovered a lot, which has made the cabinet accustomed to more than every year a lot more emboldened.

"Why don't you go to the cabinet and be the finance minister." Li Xuan gave this guy a clean look, if it weren't for the fact that the General Staff needed him, the chief of staff, to be in charge from time to time, I was afraid that he would also follow Wang Houchun to the Northwest Front.

"Your Majesty, you should spare me, I heard that Minister Qi is arresting people around to help with the year-end accounting, but I can't let him know, otherwise one of my chief of staff will be arrested and sent to the Ministry of Finance, and the face of Tiance Army will be lost by me." Xu Tianxiang hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Your Majesty, I'm not here to eat today, I just received an urgent report from my senior brother, and the history of the Phoenician naval battle and the war in Central Asia have been sorted out and sent back." ”

"How do you feel about it?" Li Xuanqing didn't look at it, and asked directly.

"It is in vain that these two countries have prepared these hundreds of thousands of troops to hold such a large-scale battle, and there are so many weapons we have provided, it is really a tyrannical thing." Xu Tianxiang shook his head a little speechlessly and said, "In the end, they still haven't been able to adapt to the tactical innovation brought about by the new weapons. If we are still using the previous tactics to fight a big war in the new era, it is natural that we will not be able to give full play to the power of new weapons. Not to mention that the main formation of the Great Food Empire is guarded by artillery and muskets, and there are cavalry on both wings, and it can be scattered by a group of barbarians with axes, I don't know what to say. Xu Tianxiang's disdain Li Xuanqing naturally understood that Datang had already formed a system and scale in the study of tactical tactics, and there were military academies that constantly studied the innovation of new weapons, and the new weapons were not counted as tests after they were put into the army, which was enough for the Tiance Army to always maintain a double lead in technology and tactics. Accustomed to commanding such an army, he naturally couldn't get used to watching the battles between Daqin and Dashi, who still followed old-fashioned tactics and tactics.

"Although the tactics are not good, the two countries still have some strategic opinions." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "Whether it is an east-west advance or a breakthrough in the middle, it is a good strategic idea, so don't expect them to be able to compare with us." ”

"Actually, according to the information sent by Xuan Yingwei, I'm more interested in this intermediate breakthrough of Daqin." Xu Tianxiang said with a smile: "In fact, although the expeditionary army of the Great Eclipse is making rapid progress in the Gaul region, the places he occupies are basically not the core areas of the Great Qin Empire, and every time they take a step forward, the resistance they encounter will become stronger. Even the religion of the Great Food Empire has made the people's resistance against them to the extreme, as long as the Great Qin Empire can incite it a little, then this division of the Great Food Empire will definitely be unable to move an inch in Gaul, I estimate that it is unknown whether they can break through to Amiens and other places. It's just that the current momentum is huge, which makes some Great Qin people tremble. After Xu Tianxiang finished talking about Da Shi's strategy, he continued: "On the other hand, Da Qin's countermeasures are not bad on the whole, at least they did a good job in dealing with Da Shi's expeditionary corps, and the continuous resistance won the opportunity for the movement of the rear army, and once the battle situation fell into a protracted situation, Da Shi would inevitably need to send their mobile troops in the Egypt area to support, then that was also the moment when the Great Qin Navy attacked." As long as they can land successfully, they will inevitably hit the weakest place of the Great Food Empire with one move. Xu Tianxiang slashed with both hands, "The east-west transportation of the entire Great Food Empire will inevitably fall into a desperate situation, and the most important thing is that the expeditionary corps that has lost its support will inevitably fall into isolation and quickly lose its military morale." Once there is a major defeat along the way, the strategy of the entire Great Food Empire will inevitably come to the brink of complete collapse. ”

Li Xuanqing didn't say much about Xu Tianxiang's analysis, the strategic advantages and disadvantages of Daqin and Dashi are actually not flawed from the perspective of layout alone, whether it is the parallel advancement of things or the breakthrough in the middle, they all start from their own advantages, so as to achieve the purpose of promoting their strengths and avoiding weaknesses. However, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and accidents may occur at any time, and it is impossible for Chang'an, where he and Xu Tianxiang are thousands of miles away, to grasp the latest situation, so naturally they cannot truly grasp the latest changes in the battle situation.

Li Xuanqing couldn't grasp the changes in the situation of the Taixi war, but at this time, the two warring parties, Great Qin and Great Eclipse, invariably focused on the newly formed religious army. The Crusaders, with the support of the Byzantines, quickly crossed the sea to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, only to clash with the Celestial Cult as soon as they landed, and the battle of the Heavenly Sect began outside Jerusalem. However, after all, this is a civil war, so the way it fights is completely different from the war in Central Asia that has just ended. Although the crusaders came from afar, but this time they came prepared, and Daqin even specially dispatched a lot of new weapons and army soldiers to mix in for this purpose, while the Great Food side was basically all Heavenly Sect disciples and sect members of other tribes, and the difference in quality between the two sides almost made the battle situation one-sided at the beginning. The musketeers mixed in the crowd suddenly struck at the most critical moment, and the strong combat power quickly opened a gap in the huge frontal formation of the Celestial Cultists, and then many Crusader warriors swarmed in, completely crushing the already loose and bloated Celestial Cultist array, this initial result greatly boosted the morale of the Crusaders, and continued to crush the battle force gathered by the Celestial Cult after the next two major battles, and completely included the city of Jerusalem in their own pockets.

The results of the battle near Jerusalem stunned the Great Eclipse, but before Baghdad could react, the nearby Celestial Cultists gathered again, and sacrificed their own tricks, with endless crowd tactics in the following half a month, forced the Crusaders to retreat from the city, and the Celestial Cultists launched an attack regardless of casualties, forcing the Crusaders to retreat to the sea with huge casualties. I'm afraid that tens of thousands of crusaders will really be forced to retreat by the Heavenly Sect.

The Celestial Sect's crowd tactics played a huge role, but its almost proportional casualties also made the Great Food Empire face an even more severe manpower shortage. In order to supplement the shortage of front-line soldiers, the Great Food Empire even had to relax the restrictions on recruiting soldiers from other minority groups, and forcibly stipulated that the lower limit of internal conscription within the clan was changed to fifteen years old, which would inevitably cause the Great Food Headquarters to decline for a long time after the war, but in order to win the war, neither the Abbasids nor the Ayebi could not care about it.

However, these are not big problems for the time being, at least the Great Eclipse Army can still suppress Daqin on the front line, even if the other party's ally Kyiv Russian Slavic warriors do give the Great Cannibal a headache, but in terms of courage, the Great Cannibal will not be much inferior to the Slavs. Therefore, when Great Qin was completely defeated on both the east and west, and the crusaders with high hopes were suppressed and unable to move near Jerusalem, Great Qin began to urge Elidoan. Because this key blade is the key to Great Qin's reversal of defeat and victory, and at this time, Great Qin's national strength is almost to the limit.

Eridogan could have refused orders from the royal capital, and even in the past few months, he had used the connections of several wealthy city-states in the Apennine Peninsula to collect a number of warships from them, and his navy was greatly restored, and it was basically not necessary to wait for his navy to be able to go on expeditions again at the end of the year. However, the current decline of Great Qin in the eastern and western battlefields also made him understand that if he did not attack in advance, then this huge empire would really face collapse due to continuous defeats. What Daqin needs now is a big victory, a big victory that can restore morale and people's hearts. So after much hesitation, Eridogan agreed to send troops in advance.

On the ninth day of the twelfth month of the Apocalypse, Elidogan took the newly formed Great Qin Navy to assemble in Cyprus again, this time Eridogan obviously wanted to finish the battle, not only let all the fleets wait until after him to advance together, but also let the logistics fleet carry more than 40,000 forward people to set off with the fleet, and the follow-up more than 70,000 people were also in Cyprus waiting for the results of the frontline, and once the victory was immediately on board for the second wave of support.

In order to cooperate with Elidoan's actions, not only did the Great Qin Army on the Western Front break out with tenacious resilience to block the continuous attack of the Great Food Empire Expeditionary Corps, but also the main army on the Eastern Front from the royal capital of Byzantium also took the initiative to attack again after a few months. Of course, the Byzantine propaganda slogan was to rescue the Crusaders and bring this religious army back to Byzantium, and the war began again in Central Asia, and the peninsula plateau was once again greeted with endless artillery fire. In order to cover Eridoan, the Byzantines were determined to attract all the attention of the Great Eclipse Empire to their side, not only taking the initiative to attack, but also ordering the Crusaders to organize troops to attack Jerusalem again, trying to cut off the support channel for the Great Eclipse army to go north.

These series of tactical arrangements made the big cannibal puzzled for a while, but Qin Kong, who was on the front line and controlled the entire Xuanying Wei Taixi Branch, was as clear as a mirror, and even when his news came to Shule, Wan Yi and the others, who originally thought that there should be no big war a year ago, stood up, and Gao Siji applauded the case, Daqin's series of tactical feints really worked, at least the big cannibal couldn't see the purpose of the Great Qin people in a short period of time. And most importantly, with the cutting off of Jerusalem, the mobile forces in Egypt must be sent to help the Celestials regain this important point, otherwise they will have to cut off the main forces of the front and the rear.

"The tactics of a breakthrough in the middle have finally been implemented." Wan Yi nodded and said suddenly: "The chief of staff immediately summoned the Anxi Corps, dispatched a battalion of troops, immediately boarded the ship in the Persian Governor's Palace, and then went to Wolong Port and Suez City and other places. Warned Qu Chengxing to be on full alert, and in the event of an accident in Egypt, he would do his best to ensure the safety of the canal excavation personnel, and if necessary, he could withdraw to Wolong Port first. Wan Yi's order seemed to reveal a different meaning.