Chapter 422: Silence

Successively, in the course of four months, Tan Weiran, Chi Lei, and others brought into full play the potential of the troops, and apart from the necessary renovations between operations and operations, almost every unit was rotating in succession, but the potential of each unit, the detailed differences in the extreme endurance, combat effectiveness, management, and command of each unit, and the level of their level. After all, the Sand Pirates are unlike any opponent they've ever faced before. Whether it is Northern Liao, Xiling or any army, they all have their own organization and discipline, but the sand pirates are different. They are a completely chaotic organization, and even after surrendering, there is no guarantee that they will not rebel, nor can they be able to obey Dongping's governance. And Tan Weiran, Chi Lei and others knew very well that they would never have too much time and troops to throw themselves on the Gobi Desert. Although Yunzhou gave them comprehensive support, it was also at the cost of a large overdraft of Yunzhou's financial resources in a short period of time and the loss of the Ye family's wealth. Tan Weiran has no intention of allowing this kind of support to continue.

Tan Weiran has been negotiating with the sand thieves several times, and he has almost killed him without saying a word. Later, the sand thieves all knew about Tan Weiran's style. If you want not to fight, you should simply and unconditionally surrender, obey the reorganization, disperse and move to a series of newly established towns on the border of the northern grasslands, Benwolf Plain, Yunzhou and Northern Liao, and carry out control and training for half a year to a year, and then become civilians. In the future, if the sand thieves become civilians, they will be punished with a higher degree of punishment, and the leaders and big leaders among the sand thieves will be punished in accordance with military law if they commit crimes in the future, and no trial will be conducted......

Although these terms are there, they are very good to say. Becoming a resident of Yunzhou is not a simple matter, many herdsmen on the northern grasslands, and even many members of the tribe on the Benwolf Plains, are very puzzled by such favorable conditions. But for the sand pirates, such favorable conditions are not visible after all, and what they see is a very simple choice: fight, surrender. The former is holding a part of the autonomy in their hands, while the latter has completely lost any room for their own control, especially the dispersal of resettlement, which these people cannot tolerate. However, as the powerful army of Yunzhou gradually penetrated into the depths of the Gobi, as more and more Yunzhou and grassland troops became familiar with the environment of the Gobi, they began to develop various targeted tactics, and as the supply lines of Yunzhou became more and more smooth and thoughtful, the living space of the sand pirates became less and less. The trade routes have been cut off for a long time, and the sand thieves have hoarded fewer and fewer necessities for survival, and the consumption of food and other things has become unsustainable due to the war. But in this case, Tan Weiran still did not relax his offensive. As the sand pirates began to shrink their forces to concentrate on defense, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei developed a large-scale search and a strategy of destroying them point by point. Airships and scouts were blatantly active, while heavy armament battalions were also heavily loaded on the march, deployment and assault. Under the attack of the heavy weapons battalion and the close cooperation of the airships, the sand pirates never survived the two-day record, no matter how long they operated and how strong the camp was. Later, those nearby sand thieves also heard that because the battle of the heavy equipment battalion was actually fought for two days, the follow-up march battle plan was greatly delayed, and Tan Weiran and Chi Lei also issued a special document to ask what was going on.

The deterrent effect formed by the accumulation of corpses and bones is, after all, a deterrent to the sand thieves. After four months of high-intensity operations, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei's troops had already controlled at least one-third of the entire eastern Gobi area, and could send detachments to fight in the Gobi in a relatively arrogant manner. Although they still attacked repeatedly, and the sand thieves fell in despair, except for a series of migrations, Tan Weiran was not interested in pushing the line of control forward again. Also in the past four months, because they have been fighting with the army of the Yunzhou side, the grassland tribe also realized how lucky they were that they did not choose to become the opponent of the Yunzhou side. Not to mention the main battle camp in Yunzhou, even the baggage battalion, the invalids battalion, and the tribal cavalry on the Benwolf Plain who have learned the standard equipment and training of Jingyun Cavalry have already made these grassland tribes look up. Basically, what the Gaza and Kyrgyz tribes were doing was patrolling, blocking, sideways, and attacking when they were in a tailwind fight...... Torre and Tanan ruthlessly put the army under control, and promised high rewards to the warriors of the tribe, so that the auxiliary army of western Zhejiang in the northern steppe did not hold back the army. When the overall situation was decided, Tan Weiran specially summoned several tribal leaders and important military leaders to a banquet, highly praised their performance and progress in just four months, and asked them to join the ranks of the tribes in the northern grasslands who had subordinated to Yunzhou before them, and participated in the division of the spoils of war.

"I'm going back to Danyang tomorrow. I'll leave it to all of you here. The main battle battalion in Yunzhou will be evacuated one after another, and then, it will be up to you to guard this front. Tan Weiran said solemnly to several tribal leaders.

"Your Highness, then, what are we going to do?" Torre asked as a representative of the northern steppe tribes.

"You also have some understanding of the various military regulations in Yunzhou, and I will ask the command to send some officers to assist you in reorganizing the army. Yunzhou is now in the process of expanding its army, and I want to select soldiers to form four to six main battle battalions in the northern grasslands, and in the future, we will carry out the agreed transfer and deployment. As for how many of your own troops are to be made by the standards of the garrison camps, or how many of your tribes are going to get their own troops, this ...... I think it's better to leave it to the tribal assembly to coordinate. Although the conditions of the Gobi Desert are harsh, it is a good place to sharpen your will. In the continuous battles of these days, the Jingyun Cavalry under my command, as well as the Frost Wolf Silver Wing in Chi Lei's hands, have also made great progress. Since there are not many troops placed on the front line, I wonder if the Gobi part should be used as the main venue for military training and activities. With the Golden Gate Banner as the center, two military camps were established. Form a triangular defensive formation. These fortresses and fortresses on the front line are stationed in small quantities, and a large number of troops are trained to maintain the ...... of the front-line movement," Tan Weiran gave his own suggestions. And Chi Lei nodded again and again. Tan Weiran's suggestion is very heartwarming. Chi Leiyan did not know how much the combat effectiveness of the whole army had improved in the four months of operation, although he had suffered certain losses. The Yunzhou side provided a large number of weapons, armor and ordnance to the two tribes and the tribes that came to help in the subsequent war, and also provided a lot of very practical and systematic knowledge and experience in battlefield logistics, battlefield communications, supply management, and battlefield first aid. It also broadened the horizons of the military leaders of these tribes a lot. Chi Lei knew that Tan Weiran's arrangement could use a rather limited number of troops to ensure that the front line was always in an organic movement, and that the troops on the front line would remain tense and alert, always training and patrolling, and that some rotation could be carried out every once in a while, so that the army could have some relaxation and relaxation, and also have time for everyone to digest the experience and knowledge gained. Although the details still need to be worked out, it should already be one of the best solutions.

"Yes, we will obey His Highness's orders." Torre stroked his chest and bowed. After that, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei finally went south. As the leaders who entered the northern steppe for the first time in many years, and then entered the Gobi Desert to fight, they attracted the attention of not only the entire Dongping, but also the entire Middle-earth continent. Although Chi Lei has jumped from a simple scout cavalry leader and a battlefield reconnaissance master to a general who can stand alone and command a mixed army of multiple arms, Tan Weiran has become a handsome talent that Dongping can definitely rely on by virtue of his excellent means in terms of sergeants, politics, people, favors, etc. In the rumors, Tan Weiran has even been rated as the new generation of military gods of the Dongping military after Zhuo Mang. Once the war broke out, a country like Dongping already had at least four commanders with actual combat experience: Zhuo Mang, Ye Tao, Chi Yun, and Tan Weiran...... What an extravagant lineup. Tan Xiaopei's own actual combat experience and ability are also quite extraordinary, but he may not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and do it himself.

However, at the same time as Tan Weiran became famous, rumors began to emerge. Talking about the expansion of Weiran's prestige in the army, his high prestige and huge influence among foreign tribes, and the entire Yunzhou, Benwolf Plain, Zhenzhou, and Northern Grassland, which are less and less like the territory of Dongping, and now a small part of the Gobi, the area has exceeded half of Dongping, and in terms of military strength, although Ye Tao is not too active in expanding the army, he already has one of the best heavy army groups in the world...... This situation is a little reminiscent of normal.

But Ye Tao didn't care. He was staying in the Ye Mansion in Danyang with his family, inspecting the increasingly large and professional Ye Clan's workshop technology system, and these rumors had never been reached by anyone. The people around Ye Tao, as well as those in the Tan family, all understand that these rumors are malicious attacks and nonsense...... However, behind the silence of the Ye family and the talker, the investigation is quietly unfolding. Rumors don't pop up for no reason, and they don't spread through the streets at such a strange speed. No one deliberately nourishes conspiracy and hostility.