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Today's situation is very similar to the early Ming Dynasty, the Mongol power in the Central Plains basically collapsed, the remnants retreated to Mobei, Ming Chengzu once led 500,000 troops north to find the main Mongolian decisive battle five times, but unfortunately every time, most of the Mongolian tribes were defeated by the Ming army, they would migrate to Mobei, and the result was that the Ming army was like anti-aircraft guns fighting mosquitoes several times, and they couldn't fight.

Today's Belus is similar, he led the Khan's court all the way back to the Hezhong region, and took most of the tribes with him on the way, and attacked with five main forces, but he cleaned up some small tribes that did not move away, some surrendered to the Fujian army, and some were taken back as prisoners of war, and the overall results were not great.

It is conceivable that once the Fujian army retreats to the Hindu Kush Pass, the nomadic armies of Central Asia will swarm like hornets and invade the passes of Fujian again, waiting for an opportunity to invade the passes.

Mongolia did just that.

The result of the stalemate was that after more than 100 years of fighting against each other, the Ming army gave up all fortress affairs outside the pass, retreated to the Great Wall, and rose up the Tumut Khanate on the fertile land Tumo River abandoned by the Ming army.

Now judging from the map, the distance between Fujian and Belus is half Afghanistan, half Turkmenistan, and half Uzbekistan in later generations.

Historically, the most combat-effective army in the era of cold weapons was only the Mongol army, only! The fighting power of the Mongols was not reflected in how strong their attack power was, but in their logistical mobility and cruelty, without bringing support, one man and three horses, and an army of 200,000 swept through Europa, conquering tens of thousands of miles of territory, which was unimaginable in any dynasty.

The Tang Dynasty has also made such an attempt in history, Anxi Dadu Hu Gao Xianzhi led the Anxi Iron Army to expedition far away in the Hezhong region of Shiguo, as a result in Henger Ross and the Arab army encountered, Gao Xianzhi was defeated, the Tang Army was almost completely annihilated, and the current Fujian Army is almost the same as the combat effectiveness of the Anxi Iron Army more than a hundred years later, such a long distance, there is no supply, and it has also become the limit of the attack distance of the Fujian army.

In fact, if Li Jie was ruthless, he might not be able to defeat Belus, just like attacking the Arabs, he mobilized hundreds of thousands of logistics, built roads on land to protect logistics supplies, and repaired them all the way to the river, where the Sogdians established a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic country, but with cities, Belus could not run.

But the problem is that the war with the Arab Empire is because the aggressiveness of the Arab Empire does make the monarchs and ministers of the Fujian State feel a great threat, and in the Middle East in later generations, the land of Iran is indeed rich and coveted, and the whole country is so enthusiastic to support Li Jie's expedition, but now, the barren and cold steppe always reminds people of Mobei in the Central Plains, and the ministers of the country do not have much enthusiasm to conquer such a barren land.

It is said that the emperor represents the voice of a country, but after all, Li Jie did not support the Fujian State alone, and he had to consider the opposition of the group.

The newly built palace is still very rough, the wooden beams have not yet been painted, and the cold wind outside is blowing in directly, and only near the big copper tripod has a little warmth.

This time there is no exception, a banquet with a strict hierarchy, Li Jie is the first, and one person and one table on the steps below sit on the left and right, simple wine and food, but everyone's attention is not on the meal.

“…… There were more than 20 traces of abandoned tribes along the way, and according to the scale, Belus led more than 100,000 people to flee north, and the pastures were all abandoned, and the rivers were also filled with animal carcasses, poisoning our army with plague, but fortunately, the weather was cold and frozen, but there was no virus. ”

was still full of dust, and Su Dingfang told him in detail what he had seen and heard in detail.

"The minister caught up with several tribes in the tail wing of the Belus army near the Amu Darya River, and fought a battle, but he heard some news, and heard that under the mediation of the Anxi Protectorate, the Turks in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains had led 80,000 cavalry to move towards Zhaowu Jiu, and the situation was already unfavorable to our Damin."

"However, I heard that the relationship between the Serb tribe under Belus and the semi-settled Zhaowu Jiu is not so harmonious, and many nomadic tribes loot on the spot in the riverine area, which makes several small neutral countries very dissatisfied, but they dare not speak out under the siege of the northern and southern armies of the Turgish."

Listening to Su Dingfang's slow narration, Li Jie couldn't help but sigh depressedly, he knew that he shouldn't pretend to be forced like Zhuge Liang Qi's capture of Meng Shu, but now, he really let Lei criticize.

"Your Majesty, outside the Hindu Kush Mountains is already like a chicken rib in my Fujian country, the food is tasteless, it is a pity to abandon it, according to what the minister sees, it is better to continue to support the Qarlu people as a barrier outside the pass for me, and the army will retreat to the pass." Coming to Ji, Di Renjie couldn't help but say in unison again, and Li Jie, who was listening, nodded irritably.

"Wait for Xue Li and General Wanyan to come back, and then make an agreement!"

"Hmph, the Tang people are really grinding and chirping, if you have the courage of Julius Caesar in our country, won't this Central Asia have already been pacified?"

Just when Li Jie and his entourage were drinking tasteless celebration wine, a woman wrapped in a thick down jacket was squatting behind the hall very obscenely and eavesdropping.

But at this time, a hand full of black hair slowly put on her shoulder from behind.

"Ahhhhh!!hh

With a sharp scream, Anna retracted back more than half a meter, and behind her, the young general in front of the palace was also so frightened that he sat on the ground, his furry animal skin gloves were sadly propped up on the ground, and a silver cross on his chest was also shaking, and finally a certain ring was loosened and simply fell to the ground.

"Lady Anna, shhhh!!h

After all, he is the eldest son of the king, and Li Rang cannot be left in the border army forever, and has made several small contributions in the war with the Cypriots, Li Rang deserves to be promoted to the captain of the forbidden army, a place where other soldiers can't survive for several lifetimes, but unfortunately, Li Rang would rather return to the border army to be a small soldier, because here, he always has to clean up trouble for an unlucky aunt.

"If my father catches us, we will both be unlucky!"

"He dares!" can be regarded as seeing clearly that it is her nominal son, but in fact the eldest nephew Li Rang, Anna can't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and she is angry and angry, but after saying this, she blushed again, Li Jie really dared to clean her up, wasn't this burden on her stomach left by being cleaned up fiercely?

In a weak heart, Anna did not continue to brag, and quickly slipped backwards with her eldest nephew, and after a while, more than a dozen forbidden soldiers hurried to this place, but in the snow of the apse, they only found a silver cross.

A few minutes later, holding this silver cross, Li Jie, who was already very irritable, simply laughed angrily, waved his hand speechlessly and ordered several forbidden soldiers: "This king knows, you go down."

After sending away the forbidden army, Li Jie turned his head and said to Li Ji, the secretary of the military department who had just been interrupted.

"Li Lao continued, how to defend the entire Hindu Kush Mountains after retiring from the army, and what is the plan of the military department? Soldier geometry? Grain geometry? ”

On the other side, Qin Dian, Anna's dormitory, as soon as Anna, who was out of breath, came back, she rummaged in the palace in a mess, and things were thrown all over the place, not like a place where women lived, but like a boy's dormitory in later generations.

Looking at this messy place, Li Rang is weak and helpless, since the last time he was pulled by this enthusiastic aunt to eat a hot pot, Anna has to report the name of his eldest nephew for any bad things in the palace, so every time Li Rang has to deal with the trouble caused by Anna, making Li Rang, who is usually a wooden and civil Confucian, miserable.

This time it is estimated that it is about the same, looking at the waist card hanging on Anna's waist, Li Rang couldn't help but bow without tears.

"Aunt Anna, the child still has to be on duty, you can return the waist card to me!"

Cheering and turning out a map, Anna had no intention of returning it at all, but put her hands on Li Rang's shoulders in a hurry, and in his trembling laughter, she showed two small tiger teeth.

"Be strong! You're a Christian, too! Aunt Anna is also a Christian, and Christians should help each other, right? ”

Feeling a strong sense of conspiracy coming to his face, Li Rang's head immediately shook like a rattle......