If it is inferred according to common sense, there is nothing wrong with Liu Yan's plan, but the fact is much worse than what he calculated, because the scale of the southern invasion of Tuqi this year was greatly reduced compared with previous years. The reason is also very simple, in last year's combat operations, Tuqi lost a considerable number of elite troops, and even if troops were mobilized from the Western Regions to fill in later, its combat capability was not on the same level. It takes time to train these troops to become elite divisions that are easy to command, especially those that can adapt to the methods of fighting against the army of the Silk Country. Prior to this, if the Turks took a large-scale military operation, it would inevitably attract the army of the Silk Country, and these new troops were obviously not up to the task of dealing with the large corps, so Abicilir ordered these troops to participate in the southward raids, and deployed a number of experienced veterans to guide them.

As a result of this arrangement, the battle plan of the Silk Country was almost frustrated, but it was also unexpected by Abicheril. Abicheril meant to let the large army recuperate and give the newly formed troops time to grow, and the crux of the matter was that the Silk Country no longer wanted to give him this time. The strategy of the Silk Country towards Tuqi changed from strategic defense to strategic offensive from 808, which Tuqi did not realize at that time.

Abicilir himself did not sit in Dragon City, but led a large army to hunt in the area north of the desert, on the one hand, to train the army, on the other hand, to take the opportunity to meet with the leaders of the various tribes, and more importantly, to be able to meet the troops going south, once the troops going south encountered big trouble, he could cross the desert to reinforce them in the shortest possible time.

The cavalry of Tuqi are all excellent warriors, eating and sleeping in the open, riding horses and archery, these are the skills they have cultivated since childhood, and the long-term life of herding and hunting has also exercised the cooperation and tacit understanding between them, and the quality of tactical formation has also become one of their necessary qualities. For a Great Khan, as long as the strategic command is completed and there are a group of excellent generals who know how to command to convey his combat intentions, then the only thing that this cavalry army has to solve is to hone in the coordination between the various units, and such a large-scale hunting activity is a good way to coordinate this ability.

But there was not a hint of satisfaction on Abicheril's grim face. In fact, the Tukchi army he has at his disposal is already the most combat-savvy in the history of Tukyo, but unfortunately this is far from his goal. The current Tukchi army can be said to have trained the combat skills of cavalry to the extreme, and it can even be said that it has surpassed their old opponent for many years, the Paz Empire, which is also famous for its cavalry, but its ability in other aspects cannot satisfy Abicilir, and his army is still in the initial stage of complex mountain warfare, water warfare, and especially siege warfare. This was especially evident in last year's Battle of Liaodong, where a considerable number of cities were captured in the initial stage through surprise attacks, and then almost no strategic towns were captured, and such siege capabilities could not meet the operational needs of invading the interior of the Silk Kingdom. In fact, over the years, Abichilir has been strengthening the siege ability of Tuchi, and has also invented a considerable number of weapon systems that are suitable for cavalry to carry and have a certain combat effectiveness, even if it is far from the technical level of the Silk Country, but as long as the suddenness of the attack is achieved with the help of cavalry mobility, even these simple siege weapons can quickly conquer the city. The real problem of the Turks is no longer in technology, but in psychology.

The fundamental problem of the Turkic army was its reluctance to leave the steppe. This is like a child who has grown up but is reluctant to leave his mother's warm embrace to live in the vast sky, the Tuqi people are infatuated with the unfettered life on the grassland, they like to run under the blue sky and white clouds, like wildfire in the surrounding countries to rob the materials they need, they are obsessed with all kinds of treasures in the land of silk, but they have never thought of turning the land where these treasures are produced into their own home.

Abicheril saw early on the greatest weakness of the Turky Countries, which was that the country had no industry to support. Animal husbandry is not a stable way of life, let alone a safe mode of production, and the losses caused by a sudden natural disaster are enough to put Tuchi under the threat of famine. Therefore, Abicialir decided that acquiring and ruling the land of the Silk Country was the way to make the country more stable, and that only the warmer land in the south and the steady income from agriculture could lay the foundation for the long-term peace and stability of the Tuk. It's a pity that this is just his wishful thinking, and this long-term solution is not something that ordinary Turks can think of, and even the nobles of Turked can hardly agree with it. After so many years, only a few insightful Turki nobles could accept his views, and in the face of the occupied cities during the battle of Liaodong, the Turkic army had no intention of occupying it for a long time except for large-scale plunder, let alone learning how to rule this land.

As time went on, Abicilir was a middle-aged man of forty-four, and although he was still as energetic as he had been a teenager, he could not do anything to change this old ingrained thinking in the minds of the Turks, and he could not imagine how much time it would take to reverse it, and if by that time he was already dying, his ambitions would be in vain. Abicilir knew that he had to gather strength to defeat the main force of the Silk Nation in one fell swoop, and then seize some of the cities to rule, and that his people had to see that it was more profitable to rule a place than to plunder, so that the Turks could truly wake up. But the problem is that the mighty Silk Country has not allowed him to get his wish so far, and the people of Tuqi have not yet tasted this cup of victory, so what can be done to succeed? This is the problem that is plaguing Abiciel at the moment, and it is also the source of his frowning.

The chiefs of the tribes were not fools, and they had long since seen from the side that the Great Khan was not in high spirits today, so they were careful not to run into the muzzle of the Great Khan's gun and become the object of his anger. On the contrary, the hunting army that spread all over the mountains and fields had a considerable catch, and the warriors shouted, sang, and laughed and drove the mounts under their crotches to expand their victory.

At this moment, the Right Virtuous King Badr rode his horse in a rage, and everyone was startled when they saw the expression of this warrior second only to the Great Khan, and even the dullest people could see that something bad had happened.

"Great Khan, I just received shocking news."

"Oh?" Abicheril quietly pouted: "The Silk Country has moved?" ”

"Yes! But the direction of their actions may have surprised the Great Khan, and this time it was Su Chengdong's Liaodong Army that was dispatched! ”

Abichelil's face changed suddenly, he knew very well what Badr meant by his words, it was a direction he had not expected. (To be continued.) )