"Marshal, there is news from Xuanyingwei's side, the Uighurs already know about our method of reducing the stove, and according to the feedback from Shi Congxin's side, the Gaochang Uighurs may be impatient to make a move, but they have not yet found out what the Uighur commander of Anxi Jia Mu thinks." On the third day of the third month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, that is, the day after Wan Yi decided to use the reduction method, the news from Shi Congxin was brought to Wan Yi by Liu Xuan, but Shi Congxin did not have a close relationship with the generals of the Anxi Uighurs, so he did not inquire about Jiamu's plans for a while. In fact, except for a few generals who attended the meeting that day, others didn't know what was going on, and the reason for this was that Jia Mu had always had an intuition that there must be some conspiracy behind the Tiance Army's reduction method, although he also sent a service master to the side of the Tiance Army's camp to investigate, and the news he brought back was roughly similar to the scout of the Shatuo people, and the scout reported that the Tiance Army had already carried out an intelligence jam within twenty miles of the camp. Prevent any scouts from approaching to reconnoitre, and after the initial dispatch of troops, all of these tasks were left to the Shadowguard. Today's Tiance Army's Xuanyingwei is not much more famous than that of the regular troops, and this large and tight intelligence organization has changed the color of all hostile forces in the Western Regions, and the reason for this is that in several encounters, not only the Uighurs but also the Guiyi Army are not opponents of Xuanyingwei in terms of intelligence collection and interception. However, it was precisely because of this that Jia Mu suddenly felt that the Tiance Army might really be using the Stove Reduction Method to cover people's eyes, and the real purpose was to draw troops south. The appearance of Xuan Ying Wei also means that the other party should have sensed that his arrangement may have aroused the other party's awareness, and changed to this kind of covert organization to deal with the scouts on the battlefield. However, Jiamu still couldn't dispel the feeling he had before, so before he couldn't convince himself, Jiamu didn't tell the other generals the news, but just ordered his lieutenants to guard the camp for a few days.

However, at this time, Wan Yi no longer needed to wait for news from the Anxi Uighurs, in fact, once the Reduction Method was discovered by the other party, then as long as one of the two Uighurs moved, then the plan and all the arrangements on the side of the Tiance Army needed to be implemented. Therefore, for Wan Yi, even if the two Uighurs were moved, there would be no other situation, and the home battle was also a trap set by himself in advance, and if the Uighurs could still please him, the army would not have been able to get to this day. So after hearing this, Wan Yi raised his head and asked, "Have you completed the layout in the camp?" How's General Gao's feint went? "Gao Siji had already led his Seventh Corps out of the main camp when the Xuanying Guard was carrying out the blocking mission, because after Gao Siji later discussed with Wan Yi, he felt that if one of the Uighurs really came to attack and failed, it was difficult to guarantee that the other Uighur commander would not really come to support for the sake of the overall situation, so wouldn't it be a decisive battle in advance? If the decisive battle was carried out in advance, it would be even more difficult for the main force of the Tiance Army to go south to support Shazhou, so Wan Yi finally decided to simply implement the tactics of the reduction method to the end, and Gao Siji led all the men and horses of the Seventh Corps to leave the camp and feign as the troops who left the reduction method, so that the tactics of the reduction method really became worthy of the name. However, Gao Siji did not go south, and after making a circle in the southeast of Yizhou, he quietly lurked to the east of the Uighur camp, in order to wait for the Uighurs to attack the camp and cut off the enemy's rear route if all the Uighurs left the camp.

"Don't worry, General Shi Jian, General Tuoba Siji and General Chai Jia are all ready, this time the whole army has made all the preparations and is always waiting for their arrival." Liu Xuan's words made Wan Yi nod, he had spent so much effort if he couldn't hit the Uighurs hard, then it would be a waste of time, not to mention that for the sake of truth, one of the rear army's baggage camps had not been vacated, and if it was fought, as long as one shell was fought, I was afraid that the food of the Tiance army would be reduced by one-third in an instant. However, Wan Yi soon didn't worry about whether the baggage would be burned by the war, and instead asked, "What is the current situation of the various ministries?" How many people are currently armed with the Medium Formal Rifle? ”

"At present, the Western Expeditionary Army has been equipped with nearly 100,000 Chinese rifles and corresponding ammunition, but the 30,000 rifles that have been originally transported to the sandbank have not had time to be transported because of the war on the sandbank. Therefore, at present, General Tuoba Siji's subordinates and General Chai Jia's headquarters are still the previous Apocalypse Type 1 rifles, and the Modao Battalion and the Seventh Corps of the Deputy Marshal have been reequipped. Moreover, according to the establishment of the field corps provided by the General Staff Department, the mortar detachments have been equipped to each battalion, and basically each battalion is equipped with a brigade, that is, about 54 guns. But we also currently have only seven battalions equipped. Liu Xuan smiled a little bitterly: "At present, there are a large number of materials in the logistics department that cannot be passed over in Hexi, and I am afraid that the road to Guazhou will be completely unblocked after March." ”

"Go and tell the general system of the corps that the command of the mortar detachment is transferred to the battalions and that they exist as battalion-level support firepower. In addition, after the war, we should find a way to assign an artillery capital to each corps, so that the allocation of various arms in the corps will be more reasonable. "In the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Li Xuanqing issued an order to the General Staff led by Xu Tianxiang, that is, to ask the General Staff to consider the necessity of forming a field corps and the required troop allocation. And Xu Tianxiang drew up the plan and prepared it and sent it to Wan Yi as soon as possible, after all, his side is the only group army with war for the time being, and he can test and summarize his experience in advance. But at this time, Wan Yi only mentioned it, and then waved his hand and said: "But this matter is not in a hurry, you go and tell them, if my estimate is good, they may act tonight, tell everyone that tonight is a critical night, give me a good watch." ”

Wan Yi expected it well, when the Tiance army was secretly making all the preparations, in fact, the commander of the Gaochang Uighurs, Prince Halle, was also holding his own mobilization meeting, because he had already been confirmed by the scouts, so Prince Halle directly began to deploy troops to prepare for the attack on the main camp of the Tiance army tonight, and strongly advocated taking advantage of the reduction of the Tiance army's strength to take the other side by surprise.

However, what he didn't expect was that several of his capable generals were a little hesitant about this, the reason for this was not only the truth or falsity of the information, but also the problem of troops, you must know that even if the Tiance Army sent the elite south to relieve the siege of Shazhou, the strength of the Tiance Army in the camp would not be less than 100,000. In fact, everyone understands how to calculate this, because the strength of Cao Rengui and the Shatuo people in the south will not exceed 150,000, and the 100,000 people of the Tiance army going south are enough to compete with Cao Rengui, and even according to the estimates of some of the generals present, the 100,000 Tiance army can even easily defeat Cao Rengui's troops and completely stabilize the southern front.

"Actually, the prince doesn't have to worry about the problem of troops, we just need to bring the Khotanese people with us when we set off." Li Cunmiao, who had been sitting still, looked at the Uighur generals worried about the problem of troops, and suddenly spoke.

Seeing Prince Halle's inquiring gaze, Li Cunmiao couldn't help but smile and said: "The prince knows that if we take away the Khotanese people, we will have a full 150,000 army, accounting for almost half of the strength of the entire main battalion of Yizhou, then the entire coalition army will be left with a few troops of the Anxi Uighurs and the Great Khan of Bas." You say that if we are not in the front of us, the commander of Kogi will not come to the rescue? If he doesn't save him when he sees death, then once the Tiance Army defeats us, it will be even more difficult for him to resist the attack of the Tiance Army. Therefore, if our army can defeat the Tiance army, then naturally the first merit of this coalition army is the prince's, if the battle situation is stalemate or falls into a disadvantage, the marshal of Jiamu will definitely lead the troops to help, in that case, the great thing is that the decisive battle is advanced, and the prince will not be in any danger no matter what. Li Cunmiao sat on the couch and talked eloquently, analyzing in an orderly manner, and it can be said that he directly put all the contradictions and their respective involvements within the coalition camp in front of everyone at this moment. This also made Prince Haller nod his head, although this Shatuo man was young, his strategic vision was already comparable to that of an adult, and even better than most of the generals present, which was commendable.

"You've heard what you're saying, right? Still have any questions? Prince Haller's eyes were full of admiration when he looked at Li Cunmiao, and even decided to go back in an instant to prepare to marry his little daughter to this kid, maybe how far this kid can go in the future? The Uighurs were not as conservative as the Uighurs of Anxi, and the royal family of the Uighurs was not of pure Uighur blood, so they were naturally more tolerant of other tribes in the territory, but of course only relatively.

"Since this is the case, go and prepare immediately, tonight we will attack the camp of the Tiance Army, and you will be responsible for informing the Khotanese generals so that they can act with us at night." Prince Halle's words made everyone nod when he saw Li Cunmiao, nodded and began to give the final order, and at the same time asked Li Cunmiao to inform the Khotanese people.

The almost fanfare action on the side of the Uighurs in Gaochang was quickly discovered by Jiamu's side, and at this time, Jiamu suddenly found that he had been kidnapped by this damn Haller in disguise, because he had already found out that if half of the coalition forces were not taken away, then as long as something happened to Halle's side, then he would have to devote all his troops to save him, even if Jiamu wanted the Tiance army to teach Halle a good lesson. However, for the sake of the overall situation of the anti-Tang alliance, Jiamu still has no way to sit idly by. Therefore, Jiamu, who thought of this, also began to inform his subordinates that the armies began to be on guard, and asked the soldiers to prepare meals in advance. He wasn't going to take credit for anything with Haller, but if there was a disadvantage on Haller's side, he had to strike in time. This battle was no longer a contradictory duel between the Uighurs, but a matter of concern for the future of the ethnic groups in the northwest.

That night, after Halle's preparations were made, scouts were sent to reconnoiter in advance, but only one of the dozen scouts went out for half an hour and returned with serious injuries, but it still brought a useful information, everything was normal in the Tiance army camp, except for the increase in the number of soldiers patrolling, nothing else changed. However, the fact that the scouts were killed still made Haller feel that he had to act immediately, otherwise, once the Tiance Army reacted and adjusted, his attack would be more difficult. So without further ado, Haller immediately ordered all his troops to go out of the camp and attack and advance. Since the distance between the large camps of the two armies was only a few dozen miles, and the cavalry charge only took half an hour to arrive, the Gaochang Uighur army began to accelerate directly as soon as it left the camp, and the cavalry charge was about to achieve speed, and only when the speed reached the extreme cavalry terrifying strength could it be brought into play.

It's just that what Halle didn't know was that as soon as they left the camp, they were quickly reported to the rear camp by the Xuanying Guard, and at this time, the Seventh Corps was also quietly lurking less than five miles away from the Uighur camp under the leadership of Gao Siji. And after Gao Siji silently counted the number of people in this sortie, the Seventh Corps had already made the final preparations, and once the other people in the battalion came out of the camp again, it was time for them to attack.

At this time, in the main camp of the Tiance Army, Wan Yi appeared in military uniform, and the three generals Tuoba Siji, Chai Jia and Shi Jian also began to command the troops of each department to make final preparations, Chai Jia was responsible for the front, maintaining the defense in the battalion, resisting the first wave of attacks by the Uighur cavalry, while the Modao battalion assumed the role of attacking the fortification, cutting into the battlefield at a critical moment to attack the opponent, and driving the entire battle situation in the direction of their favor. At this time, the cavalry corps of Tuoba Siji had moved forward to the left side of the camp, ready to intercept the opponent's rear army and outflank it. Originally, he needed to take on the heavy task of blocking the opponent's reinforcements, but after the Seventh Corps attacked, Wan Yi canceled this combat mission. In this way, the battle strategy of the Tiance army was to first put the Huns back into the camp, and then Chai Jia was in charge of the front, blocking the momentum of the opponent's charge, and the Modao battalion carried out the attack mission to defeat the opponent, while Tuoba Siji began to perform the finishing tasks to prevent the other party from withdrawing.

"Let the artillery battalion take it easy, aim and then fight, don't hurt your own people." Wan Yi didn't care about the specific command of the front, and after assigning the task to Liu Xuan, he took the personal guard to guard the tent, and the front was the main force of Chai Jia's department, and it was also the key area that the Uighurs were about to attack, but Wan Yi was most worried about the artillery battalion when fighting at night, if one of them did not pay attention to his own people. You must know that since the guns and cannons were equipped, there have been soldiers on the side of the Tiance Army who have been accidentally injured by their own people, and the location of this battle is in their own camp, and it would be a tragedy if this cannon exploded to their own people.

"Don't worry, the marshal has already discussed with the artillery battalion, and the other side will give up the use of artillery tonight, and all of them will switch to mechanical crossbows for precision strikes, and the mortar detachments have all been assigned to each corps to have their own disposal, and the mechanical crossbow will only help them open up the situation at a critical moment, and the role of the artillery of the group army will really be as the marshal said." Liu Xuan knew what Wan Yi was worried about, Chai Jia's department was still a breech gun, and the density of firepower was difficult to compare with other corps, and it was necessary to have strong artillery support to be able to resist the first wave of the opponent's attack, so he got up and said with a smile: "The artillery battalion has been guaranteed, they are sure." ”

"Commander Qiyu, the Uighurs have been dispatched, about 100,000 horses, and they are about to arrive at the reconnaissance range of the Xuanying Guard." Wan Yi nodded, and a guard rushed in outside the tent to bring the latest news.

"Let's go and get ready, too." Wan Yi nodded, looked up at the sky over there, and nodded.