As soon as Zhao Ziliang finished signing the military order, a lieutenant of the town guard mansion hurriedly walked into the lobby, and muttered a few words in Fu Meng Lingcha's ear.

Seeing that Fu Meng's expression was different, the generals all felt bad, and Bian Lingcheng asked directly: "General Fu Meng, what caused the general to be like this?" ”

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Fu Mengling pondered for a moment and then took a deep breath and said: "Generals, I just got the news from the Dadu Protectorate, the situation has changed, the news that the Bahana Kingdom, Shi Kingdom and Shi Kingdom surnamed Zhaowu Jiu are sending troops to rush to the Tuqi Shi has been known by the Tuqi Shi people, and under the pressure of the three kingdoms, the Tuqi Shi surnamed Khan Erweitler in Hengros City suddenly changed his original intention, no longer hostile to the Fire Immortal, but decided to unite with the Fire Immortal to fight against our army!" ”

"Ahh All the generals were quite surprised, and some even exclaimed.

Before Erweitler's defection, it can be said that Charizard was besieged from all sides, strategically speaking, it was at an absolute disadvantage, but now the situation is very different, Erweitler's defection makes Charizard not a threat in the west, but has support, and Firefire can completely fight with the Tang army in Broken Leaf City, even if it is defeated, it can retreat westward to Erweitler's territory.

Zhao Ziliang had known for a long time that this would happen, not because it was history, but because the situation was caused by the situation, and several countries and forces of the Tang Army, Mohe Dagan, Shi State, Shi State and Bakhana State exerted tremendous military pressure on the Turgish from all directions, forcing the Turgish to abandon their prejudices and unite with the outside world.

Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment, and asked, "General, didn't Mohe Dagan support Erweitler before?" Now that Erweitler has defected, what about Mohedagan? ”

Fumeng Lingcha said: "Moheda didn't defect, he can't defect, he is against the fire spitting fairy, will the fire spitting fairy let him go?" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "That's right!" Mohedagan did not defect. Good news for us, strategically, we still have the advantage of besieging Charizard! Charizard can still only fight with us under Shattered Leaf City, but he now has one more backhand to retreat westward, what we have to do is to immediately cut off the connection between Charizard and Erweitler once we arrive in Shattered Leaf City, prevent Erweitler from supporting Charizard, and prevent Charizard from retreating westward! ”

Fu Mengling looked at the other generals: "What do the generals think?" ”

Everyone nodded and affirmed Zhao Ziliang's suggestion.

After the military discussion, Zhao Ziliang hurried back to the city. He immediately ordered a thousand soldiers and horses, brought enough grain and grass and baggage, and then set out to Shule Town, including 600 infantry, 400 cavalry, and the remaining 200 men stayed to defend the city. The regular army had only 1,000 men, but in fact there were more than that, plus his own retinues and the retinues of other generals, the strength was 1,300 men, and the generals and retinues were all cavalry, and the 600 infantry were all used as means of transportation. These war horses were all bought from Zhao Ziliang's ranch manor, in order to strengthen the marching speed of the infantry, so all the 1,300 people brought by Zhao Ziliang this time were cavalry, and there were 700 real cavalry.

On July 28, the 5,000 men and horses who marched from Shule Town and the 6,000 Khotanese troops led by Shadezu all assembled in the school field in Shule City. The formation of the Western Expedition to the Southern Route Army, the nominal strength of the Southern Route Army was only 11,000 people, but with the generals and colonels themselves, the total strength was close to 15,000.

In the afternoon of the same day. Zhao Ziliang then led 3,000 cavalry to Tuoyun Fort, including 400 cavalry he had brought from the city, and the other 2,600 cavalry had been transferred to him by Fumeng Lingcha from among the other cavalry of the Southern Route Army. Together with the six hundred horsemen he brought with him, and the retinues of the generals, there were three thousand nine hundred men in all.

Wang Can, as the reconnaissance captain of the vanguard army, led his fifty men to set off before the vanguard army, Zhao Ziliang himself led a team of 3,000 cavalry to follow, and the infantry rode horses to follow at the end, but there was no baggage troops, the grain, grass and other baggage required by the vanguard army were carried by each cavalry themselves, and the food was made into dry food and carried with the voice, and the food and other baggage carried were only enough for ten days. Therefore, the lack of food and grass could only be obtained in war, mainly in order to allow the vanguard army to march as fast as possible.

In the evening of the same day, the vanguard army camped under a hill on the south bank of Qingshui Lake, the sentinel team had searched within a radius of fifty miles, found two caravans, and found no settlements and rangers of the Turgish, in order to prevent the news of the army coming here from leaking, Zhao Ziliang ordered the two caravans to be escorted to Tuoyun Fort for detention, and no one in the caravan was allowed to leave within half a month.

There was no wind on the prairie tonight, and torches were lit everywhere in the camp, and the whole camp was illuminated. It is best to set up the camp here, not only close to the lake is cooler, but also convenient to get water, convenient for the soldiers to bathe, because the back is against the hills, it is easy to defend, even if it is attacked by the enemy, it can be calmly dealt with, there is no defense to build here, just set up tents, if you want to pull out the camp and set off, you only need to remove the tent, and you can leave within a quarter of an hour, in fact, this is the patrol range of the Tang army in Tuoyunbao, basically there is no danger.

Zhao Ziliang was chewing dry beef, and Wang Can quickly ran over to report: "General, the news has come!" ”

"Oh? Sit down and talk about it! Zhao Ziliang said and put down the water bag and turned around.

"No!" Wang Can agreed, sat down and said: "There are only two hundred cavalry on the side of Dunduo City, the population of the tribe is two thousand, and the city walls are all earthen enclosures less than one zhang high, and they are still in tatters, and some places have collapsed, and it is easy to kill them; The strength of the frozen city is only 300 people, the city wall is one zhang high, and it is also an earthen enclosure, and the population is more than that of Dunduo City, and the population of the surrounding tribes is more than 3,000 people; He Hunting City has a population of 5,000 people, 600 soldiers, the city wall is made of rammed earth, one zhang and two high, and the defenders in the city have many bows and arrows; The situation of Yezhi City and General Pei Luo City is almost the same, the city wall is made of rammed earth, one zhang and five feet high, each with eight hundred troops, most of them are cavalry, and this is the case! ”

After listening, Zhao Ziliang turned his head and shouted to a servant: "Bring the map!" ”

"No!"

After returning from the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, Zhao Ziliang trained the troops, and at the same time sent people to the land of Turgish to explore the terrain of mountains and rivers and draw a map, which took more than two months to finally complete, this map was drawn by Zhao Ziliang after combining the map that Cen Shen gave him with the map drawn by his subordinates.

The map was quickly taken, and by the light of the torch, Zhao Ziliang carefully examined and studied the map, making complex calculations and considering various factors in his mind.

After a long time, he shouted: "Chu Ge, send someone to call all the battalion generals and colonels to discuss the military situation!" ”

"No!"

The captains of each battalion soon arrived, each finding a place to sit down, Zhao Ziliang hung the map on the wall of the tent, pointed to the map and said: "I just received news from our detailed work, the garrison strength of the five small cities of Dunduo City, Frozen City, He Hunting City, Yezhi City and General Pei Luo City is not much, they are two hundred, three hundred, six hundred, eight hundred and eight hundred, respectively. If we attack one by one, it will take time and effort, and it will be impossible to take these five cities before August 14, and General Ben has just thought for a long time and decided to divide his troops to attack at the same time, why should he divide his troops to attack? The reason is that we don't have enough time, it's too late to attack one after another, and the strength and defense of these towns are also beneficial to our division of forces! In a town with two or three hundred people and a city wall just over a foot high, even if you use cavalry to attack the city, what do you think? ”

Li Siye got up and arched his hand: "What the general said is extremely true, in order to save time, dividing troops to attack each city has become our only choice, as for how to divide the troops, how to distribute troops and troops has become the most important problem, and after the town is breached, the general still needs to give a clear instruction on how to deal with the turks in the city!" ”

Everyone nodded yes.

Zhao Ziliang looked at everyone, screened in his heart, and quickly ordered: "Chu Ge! ”

Chu Ge got up and hugged his fists and said, "The subordinates are here!" ”

"Give you 300 cavalry to capture Dundo City, Dundo City has 200 soldiers, and your 300 cavalry is not dominant, so it will definitely not work to storm it, understand?"

Chu Ge said: "My subordinates understand! ”

Zhao Ziliang said again: "Liang Qi! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Give you 500 men to attack the frozen city, do you have the confidence to take it?"

Liang Qi was shocked, and arched his hand: "If you can't take the frozen city within the specified time, please cut off my head!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and continued to nod: "Wei Meng, give you a thousand to attack He Hunting City, this city has six hundred people, many bows and arrows, and its defense is stronger than other towns!" ”

Wei Meng said loudly: "Obey!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Chu Ge, Wei Meng and Liang Qi, and said: "Give you six days, from here to Dunduo City, Frozen City and He Hunting City respectively With the current weather and the marching speed of our army, it will take up to three days in the case of walking day and night without being discovered by the enemy, and all of you only have three days to take down your respective goals. Two hundred and three hundred men are stationed in Dunduo City, Frozen City and He Hunting City, and then persuade or coerce all their combat strength to join our army, and take all of them away to join the main force of our vanguard, this general will take the remaining troops to attack Yezhi City at the same time, and finally we will assemble under General Peiluo City! Do you understand everything? ”

Everyone stood up: "Understood! (To be continued.) )