The war in the Western Regions is progressing smoothly, and the rebels of the Zhenwu Army and the Dingyan Army have successfully captured three cities and besieged Xiazhou.

On the other hand, the Northern Expeditionary Army was still in a state of guerrilla warfare.

Zhi Congyuan led the Northern Expeditionary Army to besiege Dongshengzhou without fighting, but plundered the surrounding areas of Dongshengzhou. In just six days, they plundered 500 miles along both sides of the Yellow River, plundered countless grain, grass, cattle and sheep, killed more than 3,000 innocent herdsmen, plundered nearly 20,000 people, and almost looted the population in the southern corner of Dongshengzhou.

This is the first time in nearly a hundred years that the Tang Army has entered the territory of the Khitan State, adopted the destructive three-light policy, and swept the prairie unscrupulously, without considering any military use, where it is easy to rob it! Specifically to destroy the local production and living environment as the only goal, grab it, grab it, kill it if you can't grab it, and run away after grabbing it, patting your ass and running away, without the slightest nostalgia for the land and natural environment!

How so? The southwestern side of the Khitan Kingdom was stunned!

In the past, only the northern herdsmen swept the Central Plains with the purpose of pure plunder, where would the southern army sweep the northern steppes with the goal of destruction so aimlessly!

The Han people always have a strong sense of territory, and after entering the grassland, their political goals are also very clear, they are here to attack cities and plunder land, and expand their territory.

There is no way, the sour literati harm people, open up the territory, that is the highest praise for the emperor of a dynasty in the history books!

The grassland people are mainly nomadic, and there will be people on the vast grassland to build any fortified cities! Therefore, whenever the Central Plains army is in a strong position, the grassland army always scatters in a hurry, and the Central Plains army rushes out of the new land of thousands or even tens of thousands of miles, and then leaves people to guard each place.

In ancient times, the road conditions were poor, and who could stand such a long supply line!

Set up a thousand people to guard the grain and grass relay station, for the wandering steppe peoples, it is pure meat!

It was only when the Tang Dynasty attacked the Turks on a large scale in the north and west that they finally realized that the battle line was too long and the steppe was too wide, and it was impossible to fight a good war! Simply learn from the army of the northern nomads, drive straight into the scruples, the crow army passes through a blank field, eats wherever it goes, kills it all and then goes to the next place. Completely eat the enemy, and don't even leave a way back for supplies!

Fighting on the vast desert steppe is how it should be!

If it weren't for the sour literati in the Central Plains who harmed people, and the Central Plains Dynasty, which had been strong for thousands of years, would have been up and down one after another, how could it not have been able to deal with the northern grasslands? Strange! Stupid ideas are really deadly!

Of course, the Don Army still has a territorial concept. The so-called concept of "wherever the Tang Army's horse's hooves go, it is all the land" is exactly what it means. Even if I don't garrison troops and don't emigrate, this is also my land, and whoever dares to beg for food here without approval and pay taxes to me will dare to beg for food here, ask for it, and kill it!

This is the concept of empty land demarcation that we talked about earlier.

Now, the Northern Expeditionary Army is doing the "empty land" thing, and the "demarcation" thing has not yet begun!

But

Don't forget! This is Khitan land!

The Khitan cavalry has been rampant in the steppe for decades, do you think they are all muddy?

The 3,000 Khitan troops in Dongshengzhou City didn't dare to move, but there were still 5,000 Khitan troops in Yunnei Prefecture a hundred miles away! A hundred miles further north, there is Fengzhou, which is the base camp of the Southwest Recruitment Division, and there are 20,000 Khitan iron horsemen in it!

It's just that in the past six days for Mao, the 3,000 Khitan troops in Dongshengzhou City did not dare to move, and the Khitan troops in Yunnei Prefecture and Fengzhou did not come to save them?

Of course, there is a reason for this, otherwise how would the five thousand Zhenwu army from a far away area dare to be so rampant!

Yingzhou Yin Hui really had different ambitions, and when he saw that the Khitan civil strife was about to break out, and no one cared about the border situation, he started the idea of expanding the territory in the north. Sent Guo Wei and Guo Wei's righteous son Chai Rong, the two father and son led 3,000 troops, quickly took Yunzhou, and then expanded the army to 5,000 people on the spot, and continued to go north to occupy Tiancheng and Xuande counties on both sides of Daihai, and the troops pointed to Jining along Jinhe Mountain!

The Khitan town of Fengshengzhou Swallow City is in an emergency!

It's just that I didn't expect that the Khitan court hadn't reacted yet, but Zhao Dejun was in a hurry!

Nima originally wanted to leave more land for his junior brother, but there were too many hungry dogs in the Central Plains, and if he didn't grab such a big meat bun, then others would eat it!

So, Zhao Dejun also sent 5,000 troops to the north quickly, and in a few days, he defeated the Fengsheng army, conquered Yanzi City, invaded the Khitan Kingdom for nearly a thousand miles, and the entire Fengsheng Prefecture was included in the territory of the Great Yan Empire!

Seeing that the major warlords of the Central Plains have not finished fighting themselves, but they have gone north to carve up the Khitan territory, these Khitan troops guarding the border can't help but put themselves in danger, and they don't know when the civil strife in the Khitan court will subside, and they can really go all out to prevent the northern expedition of the Central Plains warlords.

This is also the reason why the Fengzhou army, which is separated from Jining by a mountain, does not dare to move.

So, what about Yunneizhou? Isn't there still 5,000 troops?

Yunnei Prefecture is a different story!

The Khitan army in Dongsheng Prefecture and Yunnei Prefecture belong to the Zhubu tribe and the Rouran tribe respectively, and they are all second-class ethnic groups that are vassals of the Khitan, and their combat effectiveness is much worse than the authentic Khitan army that came from the Great Xing'an Mountains.

For example, the U.S. military is very powerful, and Japan and South Korea are both second-class nations that are vassals of the U.S. military, but the blood feud between these two second-class nations is too great to mention. If you really want to fight, can you expect the Koreans to block the guns of the Japanese?

This time, the Khitans drove out the Dangxiang people, and the Zubu and Rouran people who followed the Khitan army south also came to carve up this fertile land, the Zubu people were mainly in Dongshengzhou, and the Rouran people were mainly in Yunneizhou.

The people of the Central Plains looked at the grassland people with a confused face, and they couldn't figure out who was who, but they knew it in their hearts! Before coming out to rob this time, I had already made it very clear that I was not allowed to cross the line to rob the Rouran people! It is only allowed to rob the boundary of Dongshengzhou on both sides of the Yellow River!

That's why the divination people in Dongsheng Prefecture suffered, but the Rouran people hid in Yunnei Prefecture to watch jokes!

The southwest of Fengzhou has repeatedly ordered the Yunnei Prefecture army to attack, but the Rouran people have pushed and delayed, where will they do their best!

Later, the southwest was really angry with the southwest to recruit Si Yelu Lubugu, and directly sent the general Yelu Kuma to sit in Yunnei Prefecture, which made Yunnei Prefecture send 2,000 horsemen from the Khitan army to reluctantly go out of the city to search for the Zhenwu army.

No, not long after the two thousand Khitan troops rushed out of the city, they happened to encounter a Zhenwu army of 1,000 people.

This Zhenwu army is the 1,000 light cavalry led by Liao Xian, the star captain of the Zhenwu Army who defeated Ningwu Pass last time.

Liao Xian's light cavalry had just completed a loot and sent the spoils back to the ruins of Yongbyon State, and this was the second time they had come out. Originally, according to the information provided by the local leading party, they were going to go to the northeast to rob, but they ran into 2,000 Khitan troops from Yunnei Prefecture head-on. (To be continued.) )