Zhuo Fangyuan, the new commander of the left wing of the Japanese army, walked up from behind and said to Wang Yu:

"General, the city has been cleared, and the army can be stationed."

Hearing this, Wang Yu's figure like a statue of a knife and an axe on the cliff finally moved, and replied,

"Oh, Captain Zhuo has worked hard, but the army is outside, so you need to be cautious, and you have to search the tunnels in the palace in the city to make sure that you don't leave any trouble."

"That's what the commander said! Xia is already commanding people to clean up, and indeed found a few tunnels, but Xia Guan has already ordered someone to directly blow up and block the tunnels. ”

When Wang Yu heard this, he looked at Zhuo Fangyuan approvingly, "Hey! You're a good idea, you're done! ”

Because of the special topography and geology of the Pamirs, the local natives have been very good at fighting these tunnels for hundreds of years. Usually, when you look at the plateau, you can't see people at all, but in the countless pits underground, there are people who are densely hidden, which is why it is difficult for both the Song people and the Mongols to completely eliminate these indigenous people.

After that, Wang Yu immediately set off, led his generals into the palace in the city, entered the inside, looked at the original beautifully decorated murals in the palace, and the well-preserved decorations, nodded, and said:

"Okay, this is it."

Now, this palace will be requisitioned as the seat of the commander-in-chief, and the king will be here to direct the troops all the way to the north.

Then the staff officers who followed behind quickly got busy, replacing the original various beautiful utensils, replacing them with tables and charts, etc., and in a short time they made the outline of a command headquarters in the main hall.

In the center of the main hall, there is a topographic map of a huge plateau, and now on it, the arrows are dense, and the situation of friend and foe is beginning to appear.

A staff officer held a slender wooden stick and pointed to the picture and explained to the crowd,

"Now the main intention of our army is obvious, that is, to go north along the foot of the mountain, and the next stop is Kundu, flanked by the Feixiong Army and the Panshi Army and other coercive subordinate troops. The enemy forces can't harass us in the direction of our march unless, ahem, unless the enemy can come down from the snowy mountains. ”

That, of course, is impossible.

This green mountain is a unique area, inaccessible all year round, and it is impossible to get through.

The main force of the Song army marched along the foot of the Green Ridge Snow Mountain, relying on the Snow Mountain as its natural flank, so basically the enemy could not play the common tactics of the grassland people at all, interfering with the offensive direction of the main force of the Song army, and could only open a position in front of the Song army to fight a decisive battle, and in a frontal battle, the siege was the unique job of the Song army, but defending the city was the next choice of the grassland cavalry.

In Kundu ahead, Wang Yu already knew that the Chagatai Khanate had moved south in advance and settled in the city, but so what, could those cavalry who were used to galloping on the steppe be able to fight a decisive battle on this kind of terrain for the Song army?

As for the flanks of the main force of the Song army, there are several coercive armies that help the war, such as the Feixiong Army, the Panshi Army and other armies, as well as a large number of conquered local tribes to help the war.

The Song army on the side is mainly facing the Ilkhanate, but as far as those soldiers of the Ilkhanate can break through the barrier of a strong army like the Feixiong Army and come to attack the main force of the Song army, it is naturally impossible.

So the current combat situation on the plateau is like this, the Song army is against the two khanates, and the dogs and teeth are intertwined with each other, and the battle lines are long.

In addition to the main force of the Japanese army, the Song army also had a large number of coerced and righteous soldiers. The same is true of the two khanates, whose many vassal tribes, Pashtuns, Turks, and Persians, are also elite.

From the perspective of combat strength, the main force of the Song army was about 60,000 soldiers, which was far less terrifying than the scale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers mobilized by the two khanates on the steppe.

However, with the logistics and the reserves of guns, ammunition and other materials, the grassland coalition army could not catch up with the Song army.

The allied army of the steppe people is all strong men of various tribes who have been requisitioned, and they have their own horses and weapons, which is no different from hundreds of years ago. Such so-called iron cavalry may have been a great problem for farming nations hundreds of years ago, but now, when farming nations began to open the age of firearms, such coalition armies are no different from beggars.

These steppe people rode horses, drove cattle and sheep, like their ancestors. But now the Great Song Dynasty is fully equipped with steel guns, armed to the teeth of professional soldiers, all year round to maintain high-intensity training, tall and strong, adequate nutrition, the current Song army, even if it is not armed with muskets, even if it is to fight with cold weapons, are far beyond the individual combat ability of the grassland people, not to mention that the current Song army has begun to modernize the logistics of the entire army, clothing, horses, grain and grass, military weapons, all come to the door, establish a whole system.

Although the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army was only more than 60,000 soldiers, there were more than 100,000 auxiliaries and volunteers who followed closely to serve the army.

Unconsciously, a qualitative gap has opened between the grassland people and the Song army, almost two eras apart.

Once an agrarian civilization like the Great Song Dynasty entered the age of firearms, the material wealth accumulated by the entire agrarian society of thousands of years of order was quickly transformed into a terrible weapon such as steel and gunpowder, which represented the power of order, and the offensive and defensive trend between the nomadic civilization reversed. Since then, technology has replaced manpower as the main theme of war, and the order race that has mastered technology in its hands has since begun to open its fangs of war, and the once barbaric has to be in front of the civilization that is armed with steel.

Just like the current Mengyuan and the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, this kind of war is really lackluster, purely armed and orderly, so the officers of the Great Song Dynasty have no clever plans, they just need to act step by step according to the plan, Wang Yu and his subordinates collectively reported the current battle situation at the command headquarters, and ended the meeting hastily.

After the meeting, the chief officers of each department went down to do their own business, and before Wang Yu got up from the main seat, a staff officer came from the side, leaned in front of Wang Yu's ear and asked:

"General! The man had already arrived at Kabu with his troops, and was less than thirty miles away. ”

"Oh, so fast?"

Wang Yu was still a little surprised in his heart, he always heard that the man's new tactics paid special attention to the march in the queue, so the speed of the armed march in the field can be said to be the highest among all armies, but even so, this speed is inevitably too fast, you must know that the man is still followed by tens of thousands of people!

The person Wang Yu is talking about here is naturally Li Zhe.

The heralds reported that Li Zhe and his subordinates finally arrived at Kabu while practicing all the way.

The staff officer who just reported said,

"Yes, it was so fast that it is said that the man reorganized all his subordinates and carried out his new marching method, and tens of thousands of people were divided into small teams of ten, with squadrons on the squadrons, and brigades and wings, and all the layers were managed by special personnel, and the entire tens of thousands of people were all subject to military law, all of which were like formal armies, and were ordered and forbidden, thus greatly improving the efficiency of the march. Gee! This person doesn't know where those ingenious ideas and talents came from! ”

Wang Yu's face did not move when he heard this.

Talent, of course, is talent, and the newly rising Li Zhe among the younger generations is not just an ordinary talent.

It's just that the more talented people are, the more troublesome they are, who let him only get close to that county lord.