Liu Xianzhi does not choose to ride a horse every time he goes on an expedition, but chooses to sit on a chariot. Of course, this is not to pay attention to the pomp www.biquge.info and circumstance of a prince, but because his own physical condition is not suitable for long-term horseback riding.

As a military commander, Liu Xianzhi's most lacking part is actually his physical fitness. Not to mention that he doesn't have the ability to fight back and forth in the enemy formation single-handedly, even an ordinary soldier Liu Xianzhi may not be able to win. It's not because he lacks the ability to comprehend martial arts, but because his body is too weak by nature, in fact, he can live to be twenty-five years old, which is already considered to be God's special favor for him, and some doctors asserted that he would not live to be twenty years old when he was a child. Obviously, this doctor was wrong, after asking famous doctors from all over the world to treat and recuperate, Liu Xianzhi's body once returned to the level of a normal person, and he could even travel on horseback. But unfortunately, Liu Xianzhi fell into the ice river in the winter of the previous year, causing the recurrence of the old disease, and it took a long time to recuperate before he could be considered to have recovered his health, but his physical condition has returned to several years ago. Therefore, he still sat on his back on this expedition to avoid unnecessary physical exertion.

However, Liu Xianzhi's weakness did not affect his prestige in the army. In the many years of war with the Tuk, the Silk Country was almost always on the defensive, and in the face of the brave and fierce Tuqi cavalry, the army of the Silk Country never took any advantage. Only Xue Boren and Liu Xianzhi, the two Taiyuan Economic Envoys, had taken a counterattack against the Turquoise and succeeded, while Liu Xianzhi could not find a chance to attack the Turdean during the period when he was the Taiyuan Economic Envoy, except for the sneak attack last year.

Liu Xianzhi himself admitted that last year's operation was a failure, as a commander, Liu Xianzhi could not tolerate the arrogance of the Tuqi army, which was one of the reasons why he proposed a retaliatory attack this time, and the other reason was the news of Wang Hanxin's capture of the Western Regions.

Liu Xianzhi became the supreme commander of the 300,000 troops of the Silk Country this time, but he did not bring all the 300,000 troops to the strategic target as Pi Longxian described. He didn't intend to do that from the beginning.

Liu Xianzhi really wanted to force Tuqi to fight a decisive battle with him, but he was not stupid enough to let Tuqi know his strategic intentions from the beginning. He wanted to confuse the Tuqi people and make them unable to understand the true purpose of the Silk Country, so he ordered to let the Gaoding border in Youzhou lead 70,000 troops to set off from Youzhou and attack northwest along the Sanggan River, creating a false impression of a large-scale northern expedition, and then turn west as a cover for the right flank of the army, and if the Tuqi army attacked, hold on to the spot to buy time for the main army. Ordering Zhou Siyi, who was stationed in Fengzhou, Chen Shihua's troops attacked northwest with a small force to test the reaction of the Tuqi army. He led the main army of 200,000 men to the north first, and turned northwest before entering the desert.

Liu Xianzhi's marching route has a certain degree of confusion, he actually let the 70,000 people in Gaodingbian replace his 200,000 main force, Tuqi will not be able to figure out the true movement of the army of the country of silk for a while, and when they realize that the 70,000 people in Gaodingbian are not the main force but the army that set off from Youzhou City, they can get Liu Xianzhi a few precious days.

It was not as easy as it might have been to dominate such a huge army, especially since the difficulty of finding water during the march was far more difficult than the problem of food. The army can last at least ten days without food, but if there is no water, it will be chaotic for a day. With Liu Xianzhi's careful arrangement and the effective implementation of the generals under his command, the army marched in the field for a full forty days in a step-by-step manner, without encountering the main force of the Turkic army, and there were only ten days left before the intended goal.

However, the paper could not contain the fire, and on the forty-first day's march the right guard encountered a troop of Turkic cavalry, numbering about two hundred. The Turks did not like to fight, and quickly retreated.

The next day, the striker was attacked by a thousand-strong force, in which one hundred and forty people were killed, and the other side also paid the price of more than eighty people. However, Liu Xianzhi understood that the other party had already discovered the general location and route of his main force from this attack. The first thing Liu Xianzhi did was not to speed up his pace, but to order the troops transporting grain and grass in the rear to take strict precautions.

As expected, two days later, the news of the attack on the grain and grass troops in the rear came, fortunately, there were precautions, and the losses were very slight, but the whereabouts of his own troops had been exposed, and Liu Xianzhi judged that the other party should not have judged what his true purpose was, and was looking for an opportunity to annihilate himself. For this reason, he ordered the troops to march in formation, so that the distance traveled by the troops every day was reduced to twenty miles, and the original six-day journey was extended to nine days, but Liu Xianzhi did not want to take the risk.

Things changed three days later, not because the army of Tuqi arrived, but because Liu Xianzhi discovered a problem, that is, a dark river on the site he had scheduled to build the city had been rerouted, and it happened to be rerouted to the foot of the troops he was stationed at - the area of a small lake that was originally intended to be garrisoned was four times larger than before, so that the soldiers discovered the existence of the dark river after digging. Therefore, Liu Xianzhi decided to change the location of the city and build the city here!

If you want to build a city, it is impossible to hold on to it if there is no water source, and the reason why Liu Xianzhi chose the original city construction site is because there is a dark river passing there, and the water source can be obtained by manually digging wells. Now that there is a dark river and a sizable lake, it is obviously more appropriate to build a city along the lake than the original location, and at least it will not be attacked on all sides.

An army of 200,000 surrounded the lake and set up barracks around it.

A day later, the army of Tukchi appeared. Obviously, they were originally following the army of the Silk Country and preparing to wait for the opportunity to move, and they did not understand that the army of the Silk Country suddenly stopped and set up camp. Judging from the report of the sentry, this Tuqi army is about 30,000 people, and Liu Xianzhi knows that this is not all the strength of Abichilir, and the rest of the troops have not arrived in other places. These 30,000 cavalry alone are not enough to eat Liu Xianzhi's troops, and Liu Xianzhi's invention of the turtle array is enough to make the wolf teeth of the Tuqi cavalry crack, so it also shows that the army of the country of silk is in a relatively safe environment in the next few days, which is exactly what Liu Xianzhi wanted, and he just used these few days to build the city.

Thus, for many soldiers of the Silk Country, a problem that had puzzled them along the way was finally solved: along the way, they carried a large number of baggage vehicles, but they did not know what they were carrying. Now, when the commander gave the order to lift the cloth covering it, they learned that they had been transported thousands of miles to death, and it turned out to be countless bags of all kinds of hemp and grass! (To be continued.) )

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