Chapter Eighty-Four: Military Intelligence
Later generations Li Zhe once heard that men are not bad, but women are not loved.
In fact, this sentence is the same in reverse, for men, the kind of woman who can bring freshness and excitement to men is also particularly addicted to men.
Hestia was like that for Li Zhe.
In the past few days of Kundu repairing, the two have been in and out together, and between the ears and temples, the kind of forbidden pleasure has also made Li Zhe nostalgic, this woman is really a stunner in the world, and it is really difficult to give up.
Li Zhe is just an ordinary person in the later life, where has he seen such a charming and amazing disaster, although he knows that the relationship between the two is to use each other, but he also has difficulty in self-control.
For Li Zhe, the most intoxicating thing about this woman is not her appearance, but she naturally seems to understand a man's heart, and every smile seems to understand your mind.
I thought, no wonder there is a saying in this world, this kind of woman is born to be a man's nemesis. This Zoroastrian saint has so many means in private, I am afraid that it is clearly used to deceive sentient beings, and the target must be the emperors and generals of various countries, the overlord of one side, Li Zhe asked himself, I am afraid it is just a small target of others.
In this way, after resting in Kundu for a few days, the army started again, this time the goal of the army was Dushanbe, which was the real goal of the army this time, at the mouth of the western section of the Green Ridge River Valley, if the people of this era could look down from the high-altitude satellite, they could see that in the middle of the two huge snow-capped mountains in the north and south of the Green Mountains, there was a thin river valley horizontally, and the east end was Shule, that is, Kashgar in Xinjiang in later China, and the western section was this small Dushanbe.
This road is the road of the green ridge that has left its name for thousands of years, the only way of the ancient Silk Road, this thin plateau canyon is called the Wakhan Corridor, the whole corridor is about six or seven hundred miles long from east to west, the narrowest part of the north and south is only thirty miles, and the widest part is about more than one hundred miles. There are eight or nine months of mountain closure in a year, only in this hot summer time through, from ancient times to the present I don't know how many people have passed through this, Zhang Qian, Ban Chao, Xuanzang, Marco Polo, Gao Xianzhi's army has also walked from here.
Of course, the main purpose of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Anwang Domain is not for the Silk Road, but for the Western Regions!
Crossing the Wakhan Corridor from the Green Ridge to the east, attacking the Western Regions, and then attacking the Tianshan Grassland, copying the back road of the Mengyuan Dynasty, and attacking the Central Imperial Army of the Central Plains to destroy the Mengyuan Empire, this is the real strategic goal of the Song army.
The Western Regions, now still under the rule of the Chagatai Khanate, is the heart of the Chagatai Khanate, the Song army is now asking for his own life, the Chagatai Han King Don't lose Bari, it is absolutely impossible to give up this important place, the two armies will inevitably have a big battle in Dushanbe.
This Chagatai Khanate, in fact, if it were not for the huge pressure of the Song army, would have been split in the original history, and the two countries after the split also fell under various reasons, and in this life, because of the huge pressure of the Song army, although the four khanates of the steppe were full of contradictions, they still always maintained cooperation with each other and fought against the Great Song Dynasty together.
This has allowed the four khanates, which should have fallen long ago, to survive to this day, which is really impermanent.
Li Zhe walked in the army with the second battalion, and Hestia also followed him, but the military discipline of the Great Song Dynasty said that there should be no idle people in the camp of the main army, especially women.
Hestia and several maids all wore Song army uniforms, disguised as Li Zhe's personal soldiers, and the same was true of the four scimitar warriors.
In this Northern Expeditionary Army, the actual military discipline is just like that, Li Zhe is now a middle-level officer, with certain privileges, and no one asks who these people around Li Zhe are.
It was Ma Zhong who found Tia and the others when he was traveling, but he didn't say much, he had seen Hestia and the others in those days, and knew the origin of these people.
Along the way, Tia and the others were in Li Zhe's second battalion, and they were secretly surprised to see the well-trained soldiers of Li Zhe's own army.
She pointed to the soldiers who were equipped with Lee's firearms and said,
"The soldiers in your battalion are equipped with different guns from other battalions, is there anything special about you?"
Li Zhe glanced at her,
"I'm not letting you follow me to find out the secrets of the army, Shen Yan! Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't listen to what you shouldn't hear,"
When Tia heard this, her mind turned, and she said:
"But what if I could tell you a little bit about the military affairs of the Great Khan of Chagatai earlier?"
Li Zhe was startled, squinted at Tia,
"I said, you have the obligation to provide me with information about the cooperation we said earlier, but you haven't provided me with this information in the past few days?"
Although Li Zhe is obsessed with this woman, he still has some bottom lines clearly, and in this war, Zoroastrianism must first correct its own position before it can talk about cooperation between the two.
Hestia knew the information ahead, but she never told him, what kind of cooperation is this cooperation?
Li Zhe's anger, although he didn't say it loudly, his tone and eyes changed suddenly, and a cold aura suddenly filled the two of them.
Hestia was shocked in her heart, and said, men are really cold-blooded and ruthless by nature, and yesterday the two of them were still talking sweetly, and at this moment, they turned their faces ruthlessly.
She didn't expect that she herself would be too much.
Tia hurriedly remedied,
"Then didn't you ask the slave family, they weren't here to tell you."
Li Zhe snorted and turned his head to look at him.
Tia hurriedly leaned into his ear and said,
"Actually, people don't know much, only know that this time the Great Khan of Chagatai came in person and brought his own big tent pro-army. There are also four hundred thousand households under the account, as well as various tribes and tribes who help in the war, a full 200,000 iron horsemen, just in front. ”
Li Zhe snorted again, still not satisfied, these big and generalized information, the scouts in the army will definitely be able to find out, so why bother with her.
Then Tia said helplessly:
"I heard that the subordinates of the Great Khan of Chagatai and the Shenhuo Army who came to help from the east were personally sent by His Majesty the Emperor of Yuan Dadu, this should still have some value!"
Well, this, Li Zhe felt a little interesting after listening to it.
The Divine Fire Army of the Eastern Mengyuan Empire, needless to say, must be a new army that Mengyuan fought with the army of the Central Imperial Court and learned to train in his own home.
Meng Yuan is not the kind of barbarian who clings to some bullshit riding and shooting tradition, in fact, the Mongols have always been very good at absorbing the strengths of foreign races in history, such as the Huihui cannon of Western Xia, such as the fire oil of the West. That's why we can finally be eclectic and eventually build a huge empire.
In the era of muskets, to follow the Great Song Dynasty to establish a steel industry base, it took huge manpower and material resources, and the other countries in the four khanates obviously could not play, only the Mengyuan Empire occupied the Central Plains, and only the inheritance of the Liao, Jin and Song dynasties could support such expenses.
Now, Emperor Mengyuan has sent this Divine Fire Army to the west, which is probably really a trend worth paying attention to.