"General Ha, aren't you slow, you came so quickly? I thought you'd have to wait until the end of the month to go. In addition to escorting a large number of prisoners to assist the construction team to build various camp forts, he also took advantage of the snow to pave roads to connect the location of the military camp with several major towns near Andijan. Since last year, the cement factory of Hejia in Ningzhou has studied the cold-resistant and frost-resistant cement in the north, and the northern winter can also be engaged in large-scale infrastructure work, so there is still no sign of shutdown on the construction site in Andijan in the winter, although the north is cold, but in recent years, the rapid economic development of the mainland, cotton is a cold-proof species brought to the market by Li Xuanqing, and various cold-proof clothing and materials are transported to the northwest in large quantities, and cotton clothing has gradually become the mainstream winter clothing material. Now the Xu family, the Yelu family and the Murong family, together with major merchants, have launched the "100,000 garment and textile industry plan" in the Central Plains, and under the abundant supply of raw materials, countless cotton clothes and pants have been manufactured and then sent to the northwest along the railway line. This also ensured that the POWs were able to work outdoors during the winter months. So, after Hammud led his army to Andijan, Us'er greeted him with a group of senior generals of the Seventh Corps, and when he received the Uighur Corps, he laughed. Us'er himself was born from the Shatuo people and was adapted from the Shatuo tribe before the Seventh Corps, although so many years have passed, there are still many Shatuo soldiers in it, so Us'er is more concerned about the Uighur identity of Hammud and others than others, and said with a smile after stepping forward to salute.

"General Wu, are you really going to build a big city here in Andijan?" Hammoud asked Ogyan to take the corps with a general behind Us'er to follow the soldiers, and he and Deying followed Us'er around and asked a little surprised. The super large construction site in front of him is too huge, according to Hammoud's understanding, this is simply planning to build a city on flat ground, in order to supply the construction materials here, the construction team even ignored the severe cold here directly built a brick kiln, although it is simple and the chimney height of the brick kiln is not enough, the bricks burned out are certainly not as strong as the mainland, but in the northwest where the original soil is taken to build the city, this is already the top material, not to mention that there is a steady stream of new materials such as steel, Hammoud has reason to believe that this is definitely a new city, and it is being built from the ground.

"How could I do this, these are all drawings drawn by the construction team themselves, and the specific ones need to wait for the deputy prime minister to send someone over. But now I pay attention to everything, and I can't understand anything anyway because I have to draw a drawing on paper to build a house. Wu Si'er was obviously a little surprised, so he sighed while explaining: "I really don't know how far the drawings of the building with several floors on the Central Plains have been drawn. ”

Us'er's words also made Hammud a little curious, through his daily conversations with these mainland generals, Hammoud was also very curious about the Central Plains, so he also smiled and said: "After this battle, I will also ask for leave with the marshal, go to the Central Plains to have a good trip, to see how big this vast empire created by the emperor is." ”

"Haha, when the general goes to the Central Plains, I invite you to come to our Bingzhou as a guest, now the development of Bingzhou is rapid, there are countless large factories and trains coming and going, and countless people come and go every day." When Wu Si'er heard that Hammud wanted to travel to the Central Plains, he immediately invited him: "By the way, we still have good wine, before I came, I also heard that the queen mother also sent someone to build a big winery on our side, and when you go back, I will take you to taste the apricot blossom village made by our queen mother." ”

"Haha, this is what you said, you know that my alcohol consumption is not small, when the time comes, Deying, you come with me, let's drink him." After laughing, the group began to turn back to the barracks, and after the Uighurs had rested for a day, Hammud immediately consulted with the Seventh Corps about marching into Shattered Leaf City. Since there had been an order from the headquarters before Hammud arrived, Usr was already ready, and except for one battalion left behind in Andijan, the other four battalions of the 7th Corps were all stationed in Atami with the Uighur Corps, preparing to take the initiative to attack.

"Qi Qi two generals, the command headquarters urgently reported that the entire army of the personal guard battalion has set off from Shule and is heading towards Broken Leaf City." Hammoud and Us'er led their army north along the source of the Pearl River to the confluence of the Naryn River, and when the herald messenger from Shule found the two of them and quickly reported the news of the departure of the guard battalion from the headquarters. Hammud and Us'er withdrew from the march of the army, spread out the map on the side, and said: "If the guard battalion starts from Shule and goes to Broken Leaves, the nearest distance should be to go directly north, take the Naryn River from the Tulu Garna Pass, reach Atami, and then detour to the shore of Lake Atami and enter the area of Broken Leaf City. At the rate of their troops, they should not have reached the Naryn River area yet, so we should be in front of them now. ”

"Does the general mean that we are waiting for them here?" Us'er asked after reading the route drawn by Hammoud's finger on the map.

"It's not feasible to wait. We marched hundreds of miles north from Andijan, fearing that our Turgish spies would have known our march route long ago. The two of you and I combined are nearly 100,000 people, which is basically about the same as the number of the main force of the Shattered Leaf City Turquoise reported by the Xuanying Guard. If the Turgish were not stupid, they would have found a way to defeat us, so that they could stop our army from continuing its northward march when the real cold came, and buy themselves enough time to connect with the Samanids. Therefore, I have a hunch that not only our army is advancing north, but also the Turgish people will not let go of such an opportunity to go south, and the two armies are only afraid of an encounter on the shore of Lake Atami. Hammoud shook his head and said, "I think this is also the reason why the commander is in a hurry to send the personal guard battalion to support our army." The commander is worried about our situation, the winter expedition of the army, the combat power that the soldiers can exert is greatly reduced, our army is now accustomed to positional field battles, while the other side relies on cavalry assault, and is only afraid of suffering large losses under the evenly matched. And—" Hamoud said with a wry smile: "Our army set off in a hurry, and did not wait for the artillery units to follow, so our two corps only have fifty artillery pieces distributed by your seventh corps, and it is really difficult to fight if there is no support, and I don't want the tragic battle in Andijan to happen again." ”

"In that case, why don't we wait for the guard battalion to come up?" Wu Si'er didn't understand a little, but he took the initiative to lower his posture and ask for advice.

"I think that the spies of the Turgish will definitely go back to the base camp to report after discovering that our two corps are heading north, so there will definitely be omissions in the reconnaissance of the pro-guard battalion. Deying, you immediately sent a message to the Xuan Ying Guards and asked them to find a way to cover up the traces of the pro-guard camp along the way, so as not to let the other party easily find out. At the same time, General Li of the personal guard battalion was asked to speed up to the south shore of Lake Atami. Hamoud asked Deying to quickly find the Xuanying Guard's entourage to give the order, and at the same time said to Wu Si'er: "Now our people are equal to the bright side, so the herald army gives up the expulsion of the unknown people around, and let them see if they want to see it, and we are waiting for the Tuqi Shi people to take the initiative to come to the door on the south side of Atami Lake." ”

"Haha, general, you're planning to change the position of the enemy and me to wait for work." Wu Si'er suddenly realized, nodded and smiled: "I always feel that this time the Tuqi Shi people will be killed by you." ”

"If you die, you will die, and if you die, there will be one less scourge in the northwest." Hammoud shook his head indifferently and smiled: "Let's speed up too, I expect that according to our speed, the Atami side of the Turgish people will also come out of Broken Leaf City, we still have two to three days to prepare, just to learn from you how this trench is dug." Hammoud rushed out quickly to keep up with the marching speed of the army, and behind him, Us'er also followed, and said with a smile: "You are asking the right person, the deputy marshal back then was because of his careful thinking, so our seventh corps was a good hand at digging trenches, because the emperor also praised him." ”

"Okay, then we'll all of the Uighurs be your students." With the voice of Hamoud, the 100,000-strong army quickly followed the Naryn River north towards Atami. The Naryn River itself is one of the supply rivers of Atami, although the river dries up in winter, the few flowing waters are all frozen, and it snows heavily in several places along the way, but both the Seventh Corps and the Uighur Corps do not care about the severe cold, and after the army, the snow that the iron hooves have stepped on is all crushed, and the small tribes around the way are not afraid to shiver when they see such a large military formation, and they dare not come out at all when they hide in the tribal station.

"Two generals, two hundred miles ahead is already the edge of Atami." The rapid report of the former army in charge of Deying made Hammoud breathe a sigh of relief, calculating that he and Us'er had been on the road for more than ten days from Andijan, and finally approaching the destination at this time was half of the task. Therefore, Hammoud ordered the whole army to repair on the spot for half a day, and set off again the next morning to relieve the fatigue of the army.

Early the next morning, on the 27th day of the 10th month of the 4th year of the Apocalypse, the Uighur Corps and the Seventh Corps, after a short period of repair, set out again, heading straight for Atami with great fanfare, regardless of whether the other side would find out their whereabouts. After arriving at their destination in the evening, many of the soldiers fell directly into the snow and never wanted to move again, and even after hastily setting up their tents, many soldiers fell asleep without even wanting to eat. In the winter, they traveled more than 200 miles, and even if they were on horseback, these soldiers were frozen and their faces were stiff, and many of them were burned with frostbite as a result. Because of the difficulty in transporting supplies in the northwest, chilblain cream and sheep fat could not be fully equipped, so many soldiers had to return to Shule for treatment after taking Broken Leaf City.

However, Hammud and Us'er and other senior generals did not take a break, and went out of the camp overnight to reconnoiter the terrain nearby, although Xuan Yingwei had surveyed the terrain of this generation in detail, but Hammud still came back to discuss with Us'er after personally inspecting where to dig trenches, where to lay artillery positions, and what formation the entire army should be arranged. Because he commanded an army of nearly 100,000 for the first time, Hammoud also resolutely abandoned the previous tightrope-like adventure, and the surplus army allowed him to throw off his arms and arrange everything calmly. Therefore, after a few people did not close their eyes all night, the next morning, Us'er immediately asked the Seventh Corps and the Uighurs to start digging trenches on the shore of the lake. The Seventh Corps does have its own research on the trenches, the three independent positions in the shape of Hammud were quickly excavated by them, and the trenches are crisscrossed by each section, and the measures to prevent cavalry between the trenches are also quickly excavated on the spot, and the soldiers of the Seventh Corps also took advantage of the low temperature to use water and soil to create countless anti-cavalry mounds, which were placed in front of the position, and the positions they arranged were very tricky, which could not only effectively block the cavalry's charge but also not affect their own vision. Even Hammoud admired this and urged Ying and others to learn more.

At this time, there was also an urgent report from the Xuanying Guard in the rear, and the Guards Battalion had arrived in the Naren River area. After Hammud learned the news, he made a decision that quickly changed the tide of the battle later, he asked Xuanyingwei to immediately summon the guard battalion, and asked Li Feixue to lead the army not to come to him, but to go directly to Shattered Leaf City around the north shore of Atami. planned to take advantage of the weakness when the whole army of Thiri Shi came to fight with him, and smashed the opponent's lair.

"General, I feel that you are becoming more and more like a strategist now. By the way, it's now called Chief of Staff. Os'er was stunned by Hammoud's decision, and then exclaimed.

"Strategizing? Falsely praised. Hamoud waved his hand and looked at his position little by little, and smiled: "Now that we have everything ready, we are waiting for the Turks to take the bait." I think we've made such a big fuss along the way, and if the Turgish don't come, you and I will be scolded to death by the soldiers. ”

"No, as long as the Turgish are not stupid, this is the best chance for them, it is much better than us reaching their lair in Shattered Leaf City, right? Moreover, they have been operating in the Atami area for decades, and they are much more familiar with the terrain than we are, so they will surely know that our current large battalion is particularly suitable for their cavalry charge. If this doesn't come, I can only say that these Turks are a bunch of fools, and it's not worth the big fight for us to come all the way here to get cold. "Us'er doesn't think anything.

"Alright, Deying, go pick some of our Uighur henchmen and scout them to see where the Turgish are now." Because the news from Xuanyingwei's side had not been transmitted for a long time, Hammoud thought about it and decided to send someone to investigate. It was also his action that allowed him to know the movements of the Turgish in advance and avoid an encounter. It can be said that this time, the Tuqi Shi people were also prepared, and even in order to hide the dark guards of the Xuanying Guard, they were secretly preparing after almost the defeat on the Shuanghe side, and transferred all the main forces near Shattered Leaf City out, hiding from the eyes of the Xuanying Guard. It's just that they were preparing to sneak attack the Tuoba Siji Legion that chased to the Atami region at the time, but they retreated before they could set off, but what they didn't expect was that this move at that time played a role at this time, directly hiding the eyes of the Xuanying Guard, if it weren't for Hammud's unintentional move, I'm afraid that it would really suffer. ()

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