Mengzhou, already in autumn, sitting in the yamen of the Governor's Mansion, the original summer heat has gone a lot, Hong Chengchou took a sip of the teacup on his table, and then put it down, picked up a stack of official documents on his desk, opened one of the folds and looked at it, and asked:

"Huh? This is from Persia? ”

"Yes!"

The little school who was waiting in the hall replied.

"It's all a quick letter from the first-level authority that the Communications Bureau just received, and it was sent back here immediately without a moment's delay."

The so-called first-level authority is the level set by the Communications Bureau for the news exchanged between various places according to the priority, and the first-level authority of Persia is definitely a level that only the current Persian governor, Shi Xiu, the envoy of the Dangkou army, has.

Hong Chengchou didn't ask the little school, he looked at the fold in his hand and frowned unconsciously.

Shi Xiu, this frontier official just went north a few days ago to sweep away the western part of the central prairie, and destroyed the 10,000 households in the western part of Chagatai, and even the general who sent Chagatai to the 10,000 households was also beheaded, captured Mashgad, and initially controlled a large area of grassland tribes in the western part of Chagatai.

If such a war record was placed a few years ago, it would almost be a great merit enough to seal the territory and knight.

But now, in the past year or so, Tianzhu has really won too much in foreign wars, and it is too easy to make meritorious contributions, so that even Shi Xiu himself just returned to the Governor's Mansion without pain, and then ordered the withdrawal of the army to meet Tabriz, without any hype at all.

It just so happened that the Governor's Mansion was also busy during this period of time, and he didn't have the heart to sing praises for Shi Xiu, so after two touches, this matter was over, and it felt that Shi Xiu had just been brought under his command to millions of square kilometers of grassland in the west as if it was being ignored. Sadly, this is almost the entire area of Kazakhstan in later generations.

However, now, on this grassland, there are only hundreds of thousands of herdsmen living in total, and after Shi Xiu led the Dangkou army to kill on this land this time, the remaining population is probably only two or three hundred thousand, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and it is unknown whether they can survive this winter.

The blow of Shi Xiu's Dangkou army to the steppe this time to the Chagatai Khanate can be seen from this.

This is also the reason why the Governor's Mansion has a lot of complaints about Shi Xiu and his Dangkou Army, but fortunately, everyone knows that there is a reason for this incident, and the reason is related to the Dangkou Army itself.

It's too murderous, it's brutal!

Unbearable!

"Even if a group of barbarians are incorporated into the army, they are useless!"

The people of the Governor's Mansion all have this view of the Dangkou Army.

In short, in the future, it may be difficult for the Dangkou army to enter the mainland.

However, it can be used to defend new colonies such as Persia.

Anyway, this army didn't want to get the support of the Governor's Office.

This time, Shi Xiu's excerpt was to recommend himself to lead an army and join the western battlefield, that is, the battle situation where Ma Zhong led the army to fight with the Byzantines.

This made the staff of the Governor's Mansion headed by Hong Chengchou hesitate.

The situation on the Syrian front has also been transmitted back to the Governor's Mansion through a message from the flying pigeon, and according to the current situation on the front line, although the incident started in a hurry, it can be regarded as a preliminary stabilization of the war situation. Next, as long as we maintain a good battle line, wait for the rear ammunition support to gradually arrive, and wait for the Japanese army on the front line to become familiar with the specific enemy situation, I believe that they will gradually find an opportunity to counterattack and attack.

This is a law, and it has also been proved by the experience of the Tianzhu Army on the battlefield of the southern and northern wars in the past few years.

In the Tianzhu Army, the biggest feature of the infantry model of this war line is that the offensive in the formation is like a rapid fire and thunder and lightning, coupled with artillery support, it can be said that in today's era, no battle formation can resist.

This is a mature method of warfare that has been rampant in the world for more than two centuries in later generations, and it is absolutely no problem to crush any enemy in this era.

But this tactic, of course, also has its own weaknesses.

For example, fear of continuous rainy weather, such as relying too heavily on logistics, etc.

In addition, this method of warfare used to emphasize military discipline, queues, and lack of flexibility on the battlefield, once one's own side fell into surprise warfare, ambush warfare, and other extreme situations, the lack of protection of the firecrackers in the face of this era of cold weapons to rush into the formation to melee, then the end must be extremely miserable.

After all, it is only the early era of firearms, and the Tianzhu Army is still in the stage of exploration in terms of equipment and tactical theory.

Although Li Zhe personally created this method of warfare in this era, he himself was only an amateur in later generations, so that even the Tianzhu Army, which he had been teaching by hand, inevitably suffered from too rigid and rigid tactics.

Therefore, when the Tianzhu army fights with the enemy, it often takes a while to get into the state and adapt to the different enemies of this era.

In short, the current situation on the Western Front, in the eyes of the Governor's Office, there is no doubt that the victory belongs to its side, but it may take a little more time.

Now, Shi Xiu also wants to get involved.

This guy, hasn't the grassland war just ended made him enjoyable?

Want to continue?

In fact, in the front-line war, the Governor's Office has always given great flexibility and authorization to the front, whether it is Ma Zhong or Shi Xiu, a feudal official, the Governor's Office will not be too involved in the specific command of the front.

But now, if Shi Xiu wants to enter the war on the Western Front, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate.

Don't say anything else, just say that when the time comes, he will lead his troops to the Western Front, and the question of who will be the main and who will be the auxiliary between him and Ma Zhong will be a headache.

Moreover, on the Western Front, adding a governor-level general like Shi Xiu, this is inevitably a little too crowded. Ma Zhong's support of the Japanese army, plus the Qin family of Tianfang, and now with Shi Xiu, the troops invested on the entire Western Front have almost exceeded the scale of the last time Li Zhe personally conquered Manchuria.

The scale of the war has greatly expanded, which inevitably violates the positioning of the Tianzhu high-level in the early stage of the war.

Just as Qin Ming guessed, it was impossible for Tianzhu to shift his national strategy to the West, and even if he defeated Byzantium this time, it was impossible for Tianzhu to choose to march into Europe.

It sounds good to march into Europe and exalt its prestige outside the territory, but where are the actual benefits?

Li Zhe, who came from later generations, certainly knew that Europe in this era was definitely a quagmire, and no one would want to take the initiative to fall into it.

After Tianzhu got it, the people and things there were able to quickly integrate into Tianzhu, bringing Tianzhu various resources such as land, manpower and material resources urgently needed for the industrial revolution, but the West?

What's there?

The geography, ethnicity and beliefs there all determined that it was difficult for Tianzhu to truly conquer there.

What is the use of such land?

Obviously, at least for now, he will not consider this until he enters the Central Plains and really digests the huge land in the east, as well as the huge population resources on the land.