"Marshal, this is the latest information sent by Xuan Yingwei and the battle report from the deputy marshal." In the tent outside Dundo City, Wan Yi took the information and battle report handed over by Liu Xuan and said with a smile after a quick glance: "Order the Seventh Corps to immediately go to the northwest to join the Guards Battalion, and at the same time send the direct battalion and the Uighur Corps to sweep away all the large and small forces in Qarluq as soon as possible, we need to face an unprecedented empire this time." ”

Liu Xuan quickly wrote the order and nodded as he said: "What the big marshal said is true, but this time, the Great Food Empire left the Safar side close at hand and didn't go to support, why did it come all the way north to Saman to confront us?" Isn't this a reluctance to go far? But fortunately, now that the deputy marshal has defeated the main force of the Safarid army, I am afraid that the next southern march corps will complete the task of occupying Safar one step ahead of schedule and then advance to the old land of the Persian Governorate. In this way, it is equivalent to planting a nail in the south of the Great Food Empire. ”

"When the emperor arranged the task of the western expedition, we should take the first step to recover the old land of Anxi, and then wait for the results of the development of domestic national strength." Wan Yi signed the orders written by Liu Xuan one by one, and said at the same time: "In this way, our current task is to recover Saman. ”

Liu Xuan knew what Wan Yi meant, and also knew that the current domestic support for the Western Expeditionary Army had reached the limit, and the footwork of the Western Expeditionary Army would inevitably stop before the railway and the Anxi region were truly incorporated into the imperial economic system. However, Wan Yi and Liu Xuan have different ideas, and recovering the old land of Anxi is already a comfort for the older generation of Tang soldiers. As for expanding the territory-Wan Yi looked at Liu Xuan beside him and smiled slightly.

"You go and urge the deputy prime minister, hurry up and send civil officials and the National Guard to the south to receive them, and let the southern marching corps free up their hands as soon as possible, and the Great Food Empire may also send a second reinforcement, after all, now that the Safarid dynasty has been broken up by us, if they come, how much land they will rob is their own land and not a vassal force like before." Wan Yi admonished Liu Xuan when he went out.

In fact, not only Wan Yi thought about it like this, but Gao Siji, who was on the front line at this time, was also worried about this matter, so as soon as he conquered Xiliuzhou, he sent someone to find Sima Daoxin, who had already set off from Boluo Prefecture to the south, and asked him to quickly dispatch officials and the National Guard to the south to receive Xiliuzhou. After all, this is the location of the royal capital of the Saffarid Dynasty, which not only has the essence of a dynasty's hundred years of accumulation, but more importantly, after this battle, although Zhang Sheng finally did not catch up with the fugitive team where the caliphate was, but after the king was taken, it means that a dynasty has legally perished, and the captives of the brigade have also restrained the advance of the Southern Advance Corps.

"Deputy marshal, the latest batch of captives has been handed over to the logistics team to escort back, but there are still more than 50,000 captives near our Xiliuzhou, and the team of people and horses eating, drinking, and Lazar is a big event every day, and the consumption is too great. Originally, we planned to transport the city's treasury back to subsidize the military, but it seems that at present, the grain cannot be transported. "Qin Kong has been temporarily acting for civil affairs for the past few days, and he knows this part best.

"Sima Daoxin, how long will it take for them to get to Xiliuzhou?" Gauss Ji also knew that the brigade of prisoners staying here to do nothing was not only a huge consumption, but also easy to cause trouble, but because of the lack of manpower, the number of prisoners escorted by the logistics team each time was fixed, and the number of people escorted by the last escort reached 30,000 or because Gauss Ji asked these prisoners to transport the treasury in the treasury back to Khotan, and the huge burden made these prisoners basically have no room to escape, even if there are so many logistics teams of 12,000 people still face the enemy along the way.

"It's expected to be tomorrow afternoon." Qin Kong said: "In addition to the 130 officials transferred from Khotan and other places, there are also four capitals transferred from the interior of the National Guard. ”

"Go and inform Tie Liang and Zhang Sheng to come to the meeting, we can't waste time." After asking the staff officer to find the two of them, Gauss said, "The civil affairs officials will arrive in Xiliuzhou by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, so what we need to do now is to recover the entire territory of Safar. The heavy cavalry battalion left one battalion to go south to recover the Tiaozhi Governor's Mansion, and the remaining soldiers and horses were responsible for the sweeping mission in the area west of the Yueshi Governor's Mansion. The Anxi Corps mainly recovered the old places in the northwest such as Dawan and Kangju. Gauss glanced at the two of them and said: "Because of the long distance, the Anxi Corps immediately sent troops north to recover Kangju and other places, and then temporarily sent troops to garrison the border of Anxi Prefecture to prevent the Great Food Empire from invading Kangju and other places in the north." ”

Gauss's words made Zhang Sheng nod excitedly, and he didn't even have time to go out of the account directly to prepare with a greeting to Tie Liang, no way, Dawan Kangju These places are too significant for him, a native of Anxi, these places are lost even more than other places in Anxi, and the Dawan Liangju of the year, sweat and blood BMW only have distant memories in the hearts of today's Chinese people. But when Zhang Sheng received this order, he already understood that Gao Siji wanted to tell everyone in the northwest through him that the Tang Dynasty had reached Kangju, and that the country that Emperor Wu had fought thousands of miles to attack was now able to make up for the shortcomings of future generations.

"Tieliang, you need to hand over the government affairs of Xiliu Prefecture before you can set off." Gao Siji glanced at Tie Liang, who was looking at Zhang Shengyuan's back with envy, and said with a smile: "Except for all the cities in the northwest, they are within the combat range of your heavy cavalry battalion. Moreover, in view of your heavy losses in this battle, the follow-up reinforcements from Khotan will also be given to you as soon as possible. ”

Gauss's arrangement is clearly very reasonable for the current situation in Safar. When a battalion of the heavy cavalry battalion went south to recover the Tiaozhi Governor's Mansion in the starry night, the Anxi Corps, under the leadership of Zhang Sheng, set off from Xiliuzhou and quickly went north, passing through the city in the territory of the Gaofu Governor's Mansion, and then quickly turned northwest to capture Nanmizhou, so that it hit Kangju City in just ten days, and almost arrived at the same time as Kangju City got the battle situation information of the Battle of Xiliuzhou. Although the 40,000-strong Anxi Corps was not fully equipped, for Kangju, who was empty at this time and the city was small and outnumbered, 40,000 people were almost as much as the total population in the city. Therefore, the local generals stationed in Kangju basically did not hesitate much, and directly led the army out of the city to surrender. With this, Zhang Sheng quickly took over more than a dozen military towns near Kangju and controlled the entire territory of Kangju. The local named Xu Gong was appointed by Zhang Sheng as the head of the Kangju area, and the Anxi Corps marched west from Kangju again on the 20th day of the seventh month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and at the end of July, after recovering Mulu Prefecture and Anxizhou and other places, they divided their troops into two routes, one to the south into the important town of Tiemenguan, and the other road of soldiers and horses to the north to open up the Dawan Governor's Mansion day and night, so that the entire northern part of Safar was basically taken by the Anxi Corps.

The heavy cavalry battalion waited for Sima Daoxin to arrive in Xiliu Prefecture and immediately sent troops to Boluo Prefecture, and then went west from Boluo Prefecture, passing through Chisan Prefecture into the Great Khan's Governor's Palace, Tie Liang launched a fierce battle with the remnants of the Safar army outside the Great Khan's Governor's Mansion, and successfully annihilated the last hope of the Safarid people in one fell swoop, this battle directly slaughtered more than 30,000 people of the opponent's army, and the heavy cavalry battalion in the fierce battle and their own main general Tie Liang violently blew up the walls of the Great Khan's Governor's Palace, killing all the defenders in the city, Bloody reconquest of a state that had been assimilated by Safar and could not see anything of its former form.

After taking the Great Khan's Governor's Mansion, the heavy cavalry battalion also began to divide its troops, marching north towards Gumo Prefecture to open up the connection channel with the combat area of the Anxi Corps, while Tie Liang personally led the army south, and raided the Governor's Mansion of Qisha Prefecture, the Governor of Kunxu Prefecture and the Governor of Lumastiff Prefecture on the edge of the desert in half a month, and pocketed the most important cities in the entire western region in one fell swoop.

At this time, the civil affairs officials who had been stationed in various places and the National Guard mobilized from the rear also began to take over the daily defense of the army, and Gauss immediately ordered a battalion of troops from the heavy cavalry battalion of the southern Tiaochi Governorate to begin to march southward towards the Persian Governorate. At this time, the latest news also came from Qin Kong's side, and the Safar Caliphate finally had his whereabouts.

"Looks like you're doing a good job." Gauss Ji smiled when he saw the latest information handed over by Qin Kong. The caliph was finally solved by the secret guards laid down, and he also succeeded in taking all the troops who fled with the caliph to surrender to the Tang Dynasty. It's just that to Gauss's surprise, the place where the caliph hid was actually the Persian governor's palace.

The Persian Governorate was located at the southwestern end of the Safar Empire, a region close to the sea and southwest of the border of the Great Food Empire. The most likely way for the caliph to flee there was to go to Barda. After all, for Barda, it was the Safarid power in the southwest that split from them, not the Safarid natives.

"It's no wonder, I guess I want to go to Baghdad for help." Gauss was relieved after thinking about it, and asked Qin Kong to send someone to inform the dark guard to wait for the third battalion of the heavy cavalry battalion to join in the Persian Governor's Palace, and then garrison it on the spot.

"You and I will write our own battle reports and submit them to the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army. The battle of Safar, our Southern Advance Corps, has basically ended its mission so far. Gauss Ji and Qin Kong each wrote a battle report on the same day, and then sent someone to the headquarters of Wan Yixi's Western Expeditionary Army, and sent it to the Chang'an base camp a month later. Although the southern front operation area is large, under the strategic planning of Gauss, it is one step ahead of the north to complete the task, which is tantamount to lightening the huge burden for the Western Expeditionary Army and even the Tang Empire. After the manpower arranged by Sima Daoxin entered the various cities one after another, the logistics team also began to speed up the transportation of the treasury back to the Central Plains, and a large number of prisoners began to concentrate in various parts of Khotan to participate in the construction of roads and the reclamation of Tuntian in Khotan, and a large number of manpower also further accelerated the development of Khotan. The newly appointed Khotanese political envoy Qian Biao, together with local Khotanese merchants, began to build new industries near Khotan, actively expanding trade with Safar and other places south of the Green Mountains, and striving to build Khotan into a transportation hub in the southwest of An.

After learning that all parts of the southern Safar had been recovered one after another, Tuoba Sijian immediately dispatched a large number of men from Khotan and Hexi to the south of the Green Ridge, and quickly reported to the cabinet that more than 100 students from the Chang'an School of Administration had urgently sent to the northwest to follow the new batch of National Guards.

In this way, the southern front was basically receiving throughout August, and the heavy cavalry battalion and the Anxi corps, which had completed their main tasks, began to pay attention to the remnants of the resistance in the territory and the local sand bandits, and the army was like a sieve from south to north, and all the land of the Safarid dynasty was sifted aside, so that in addition to the capture of countless gold and silver money, it also added as many as 50,000 prisoners. After consulting with Sima Daoxin, these Gauss were not escorted to other places, but handed over to the local National Guard, where they were used as labor to rebuild and build roads. Relying on these captives, Sima Daoxin forcibly built all the main roads in the following year. Although there is a lack of cement and other building materials, the entire road system is connected to Khotan, relying on the granite rubble that exists in large quantities in Safar. Moreover, with the smooth opening of the roads, a large number of goods transported from the interior from Khotan also began to flow south into the Safar along these roads, and the increasing exchange between the two places also made the Safar side gradually break away from the assimilation of the Tianfang Sect world and get closer and closer to the Tang Dynasty.

When the civil affairs side quickly took over the affairs of Safar, the matter that Gauss Ji was worried about when the Great Food Empire sent troops to the south did not happen, whether it was the secret guard that Qin Kong planted in Baghdad or other ways of the caravan, Baghdad did not have the idea of sending reinforcements into Safar, so in this case, Gauss Ji handed over the entire defense of Safar to the Anxi Corps, and he began to return to the northern line from Xiliuzhou with the heavy cavalry battalion. In fact, until the final fierce collision between the main forces of the Northern and Western Expeditionary Forces and the Great Food Empire, the other party did not think of crossing the border from the Safar side. Later, the Persian Governorate became an important stronghold for the Tiance Army to enter and leave the Great Food Empire.

"Deputy marshal, we can be regarded as completing a piece of history and making up for a period of regret, right?" The entire territory of Safar was recovered, and Qin Kong's mission was completed. He and Zhao Siyi have been running the Anxi Xuanyingwei Branch for so long, and they are very familiar with all the areas south of Anxi, and many places have even been set foot in person, but he is a little reluctant to leave at this time.

"Let's go, this place will be my Datang land in the future, or can you come if you want? What do you feel, the regrets of the ancestors can be made up for in the hands of you and me, this is a major event that has been passed down through the ages, even if you and I retire in the future, isn't it an honor to talk about this matter to future generations? Gao Siji smiled slightly and said: "If you are really reluctant, you will settle down here in the future." ”

"There's no need to settle down, I'm afraid that our generation will have to prepare for the world. Safar regained and Samani. Isn't the war in Tibet still in full swing in China? Qin Kong said with a smile: "When we rest for this time, maybe the emperor will organize an expedition." ”