After Lian Po led the Westward Advance Army to capture the Smosco Province of Gaochang State, he did not continue to attack other provinces of Gaochang State, but directly reorganized the army in Smosco Province, and according to Lian Po's plan, the Westward Advance Army will start a decisive battle with the army of Gaochang State in Smosco Province. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As for the province of Barikun in the northwest of Smosco Province, and the province of Mazatag in the southwest, if Lian Po sent the main force of the westward expansion army, it was likely to add two more provinces to the Hawkish army, but Lian Po was not prepared to do so, with the eleven cities of Smosco Province, it was enough to complete Lian Po's battle plan to consume the Gaochang army.

As long as the second crusade army formed by Gaochang State can be defeated again, not to mention Balikun Province and Mazatag Province at that time, maybe the entire territory of Gaochang Kingdom's Eastern Governorate will be captured by the Westward Expansion Army, then Liu Ji will be famous!

You must know that only the largest province of the Eastern Governor's Mansion is 600,000 square kilometers, almost the size of two Qianzhou, and the fifteen provinces under the jurisdiction of the entire Eastern Governor's Mansion add up to an area of more than 2 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of six or seven prefectures of the Great Jin Dynasty.

In the process of capturing the province of Smosko, thanks to Lian Po's strategy, the losses were not large, but they captured the army of Gaochang and the army of the client state, more than 120,000 people, and also obtained more than a million people in the province of Smosco.

Don't look at Gaochang as the second largest power in the Western Regions, but the people in its country still have a weak sense of national awareness, and even no national consciousness, which is very common in various countries in the entire Western Regions, so Lian Po directly followed Liu Ji's set and slaughtered all the officers above the centurion in the more than 120,000 prisoners, and then forcibly incorporated these 120,000 prisoners of war into the Westward Expansion Army.

This is not the end, Lian Po recruited nearly 300,000 young men in Smosco Province with a settlement fee of 20 taels of silver, and incorporated these 300,000 young and strong men into the Westward Expansion Army.

Lian Po was not worried about these Gaochang people joining the enemy, after all, according to his plan, the decisive battle with the Gaochang army in Smosco Province was mainly based on defending the city.

Originally, the westward marching army had fifteen cavalry battalions, twenty-six infantry battalions, and 400,000 auxiliaries, and this time it received so many troops from Smosco Province that Lianpo still maintained the strength of various cavalry battalions and infantry battalions after supplementing the losses of each battalion in battle, but the number of auxiliaries increased to 800,000.

With 400 Wei soldiers who served as auxiliary soldiers, the troops under each of them increased from about 1,000 to more than 2,000.

Although Liu Ji gave Lian Po the right to expand the army, but the speed of Lian Po's expansion was too fast, and it only took a long time to increase the number of auxiliary soldiers, but Liu Ji knew that in the face of Gaochang State, which had millions of troops, Lian Po could only expand the strength of the westward expansion army as much as possible.

Fortunately, the Westward Advance Corps captured a large amount of food, and even if 750,000 auxiliary soldiers were added, the Westward Advance Corps would not be short of food in a short time.

Just when the westward marching army was in full swing to meet the second crusading army of Gaochang in Smosco Province, from the grasslands north of Xishankou and Weishankou, a news came from the grasslands that made Liu Ji frown.

Nineteen steppe nomads, including the Wuheng and Loufu tribes, once again formed a coalition army and prepared to attack Liu Ji's territory.

This news was sent by Hua Rong, a cavalry captain under Su Lie's command, Liu Ji frowned and asked Hua Rong: "This time, among the nineteen grassland nomads, in addition to the Wuheng and Lou Fu tribes, what other ethnic groups are there?" ”

"Tell the lord, according to the news we have gotten, the coalition of the nineteen nomadic tribes in the grassland this time is actually connected by Yeluqi, the right king of the Khitan tribe, but now I don't know how many Khitan cavalry Yeluqi will lead to join the coalition army, in addition to the Khitan tribe, the sixteen grassland peoples who fought with our Yu'an army last time have all participated this time, and there are also more white tanning tribes and Limo tribes!"

As soon as Liu Ji heard that this coalition of nineteen steppe nomads was originally made by Yeluqi, the Khitan Right Rite King, he couldn't help frowning even tighter, you must know that the main forces of the Jue'an Army under Liu Ji here are all deployed in the Western Regions, and they are preparing to fight to the death with Gaochang Kingdom!

As a result, such a thing came out on the grassland again, and the Khitan Right Rite King Yeluqi was definitely a stone.

Last time, sixteen grassland peoples attacked Chengyin County, including Wuheng, Loufu, Rouran, Donghu and Dangxiang, five nomadic peoples who belonged to the second echelon on the grassland, as well as Shatuo and Dingling, two nomadic peoples who belonged to the third echelon on the grassland, and finally Wusun, Qiuzi, Ruoqiang, Beilu, Ronglu, Qule, Shule, Huhu and Kokand, nine nomadic peoples who belonged to the fourth echelon on the grassland.

And this time, not only did the above-mentioned sixteen nomads participate, but also added the Khitan tribe, a nomadic people who belonged to the first echelon on the grassland, and the white tanning tribe and the Limo tribe, which belonged to the third echelon, and the pressure in Liu Ji's heart suddenly soared.

Liu Ji asked Hua Rong in a deep voice: "So do you know how many troops will be sent by the nineteen steppe nomads?" ”

Hua Rong shook his head and said: "Lord, how many troops are sent by the various steppe nomads, we haven't found out yet, Captain Su Lie has begun to withdraw the herdsmen and troops north of the Anxing Mountains, including the tribes of the Uighurs, from Xishankou and Weishankou to the south, what Captain Su Liedu means is to prepare to rely on Xishankou Fortress and Weishankou Fortress to resist this grassland alliance!" ”

Before Liu Ji came to the Western Regions, he had already asked Weishankou to rebuild the fortress, and now although the Weishankou fortress is not as complete as the Xishankou fortress repaired, at least the city wall facing the grassland direction has been repaired, and the Jing'an army can rely on the Weishankou fortress to meet the cavalry of the grassland nomads.

At this time, the Ju'an army that remained in Jue'an County and half of Yongjing County only had eight cavalry battalions and ten infantry battalions, as well as more than 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, and then some Uighur cavalry, these forces added up, compared with the coalition army of the nineteen steppe nomads, there must be a big gap, so Liu Ji immediately decided to transfer the army in the Western Regions back to the Ji'an County to resist the coalition of the nineteen steppe nomads.

Ju'an County can be said to be Liu Ji's lair, and it cannot be lost.