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After shaving Tulihan into a bare pig, Yang Yi rested for another night, and on the fifth watch of the next day, with Yang Zhi and Anu as the pioneers, he went straight to the north court.

This time, without the authorization of the imperial court, he took 20,000 elites from Liaodong to the Western Regions without authorization, and was suspected of trespassing, although there was an excuse to pursue the remnants of the Jurchens, but could others not know that this was just an excuse for Yang Yi himself?

If the ruler is replaced, this kind of behavior is difficult to be tolerated by the monarch, that is, now Zhao Jie is his son, maybe he will not have to worry about his life, but it is inevitable to attract the impeachment of the ministers of the court.

The imperial court has rules for the operation of the imperial court, and many emperors in history obviously like a certain minister very much, but once the minister is impeached, the emperor has to be punished, because the emperor must also maintain an impartial image;

The imperial court does not rely on the support of a certain person to operate, and if you chill the hearts of other ministers in order to protect someone, there will be problems in the operation of this imperial court.

Therefore, even if Empress Dowager Liu wants to favor Yang Yi in this matter, it is impossible to be too obvious.

It is precisely because of this that Yang Yi did not directly return to Hexi to participate in the war, but avoided the Song Realm and adopted the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and at the same time, he must pacify the Western Regions with fast fighting and speed, creating a fait accompli.

Then, before the imperial court sent an envoy, he took the initiative to petition for his guilt and asked to be relieved of his military position, so as to erase his trespass to the greatest extent.

And how to quickly pacify the Western Regions, this is the primary problem that Yang Yi needs to face, spread out the battle map of the Western Regions. Yang Yi began to lie down on it, marking small characters on the map from time to time with a beautiful little pen made of pheasant feathers.

Counting from the Yumen Pass. The area of the entire Western Regions is almost equivalent to the original land area of the Great Song Dynasty, if it is in the Central Plains. It is absolutely impossible to quickly wipe out such a large territory with an army of 20,000 in a month or two. But it is possible to achieve this goal in the Western Regions.

In fact, there are not many cities with strategic value in the whole Western Regions, all of which are distributed on the two Silk Roads in the north and south, starting from Yumen Pass, there are Yizhou, Xizhou, Yanqi, Qiuci, and Bathorn Shagun cities on the Northern Silk Road.

On the Southern Silk Road, there are several cities of Yochang, Keriya, Khotan, and Shule.

These cities are distributed in two oasis belts at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains, strung together like the arms of two giants, surrounded by a huge Taklamakan Desert.

Militarily, it is only necessary to control a few strategic nodes on the bond formed by these two oases. It is equivalent to controlling the entire Western Regions. It can be said that this is a linear battle, and there is no need to spread out the troops in a face-to-face manner.

Yang Yi finally set four war readiness nodes, Xizhou, Qiuzi, Shule, and Khotan, after the first decision, Yang Yi suddenly realized that these four cities seemed to be the original location of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, what does this mean? Is this just a coincidence?

Princess Adella watched him crouch over the map, drawing things from time to time, and his pen made of the long hair on the pheasant's tail was very beautiful. People like it at a glance, and they can write a lot of small characters smoothly with ink, which is very novel and chic.

What surprised Princess Adella even more was Yang Yi's marching map, and Adella had also seen some maps. The maps were always empty, showing only a few big cities and a few mountains to talk about.

But Yang Yi's map was simply dazzling to her, crisscrossed by mountains and rivers. Even the location of a small spring is clearly marked, the approximate height of the peak. The width, depth, and so on of the river are also marked;

Even the length of each city, the height and thickness of the city walls are marked. Princess Adella was like seeing a book from heaven, it was unbelievable.

She suddenly said, "Your Song Kingdom has long wanted to annex the Western Regions, right?" ”

Yang Yi raised his head in amazement, although this girl was so beautiful that she was bubbling, he didn't like to see her in the past two days, and this girl didn't dare to talk nonsense, but she didn't expect her to suddenly ask such a question.

Yang Yi asked with interest, "How can you see it?" ”

"If you Song Kingdom hadn't had the intention to annex the Western Regions, how could you have such a detailed map of the Western Regions?"

In the past two days, Adella has been both a captive and Yang Yi's maid, and seeing that Yang Yi has never violated her, she has become a little bolder.

Adele wore a narrow-sleeved beard and trousers, which vividly outlined her slender figure with a convex and backward curve;

Her appearance has the characteristics of a combination of Chinese and Western, her figure is taller than that of Central Plains women, her skin is particularly fair, and her nose bridge is slightly higher; But on the whole, it does not lose the delicacy and delicacy of oriental women.

The eye sockets are deeper than those of the Han people, the hair is slightly curly, and the eyelashes are very long and slightly upturned.

Especially the wisp of body fragrance that naturally emanates from her body, there is a kind of rose fragrance, which makes people intoxicated.

Yang Yi looked her up and down a few times, and said with a smile: "If there is a detailed map of the Western Regions, does it mean that my Great Song Dynasty wants to annex the Western Regions?" According to Her Royal Highness the Princess, you also have a lot of books on our Great Song Dynasty, can I also think that Xizhou also intended to annex the Great Song Dynasty early on? ”

"It's not the same ......"

"No matter how different it is, now it's your Xizhou Falcon back to invade my Great Song Dynasty first, this is an ironclad fact, okay, I don't have time to talk to you about this, you should step back first!"

Now is not the time to chat and fart with beauties, in the face of such a beautiful woman who captivates the country and the city, Yang Yi is not polite at all, and drives people directly.

Yang Yi's attitude made Adella feel a sense of frustration, could it be that in Yang Yi's eyes, her beauty was disdainful?

Although she told herself that the more Yang Yi looked down on herself, the safer she was, this frustration still inexplicably occupied her heart.

Yang Zhi and Anu grabbed the messenger of the vanguard general, and flew to the north court with 5,000 men and horses, they wanted to take the north court before the Chinese army arrived, so as not to let Miao Zhi and Liu Wu come to grab food, and the speed of the attack was naturally extremely fast.

Brother Zheli, who was guarding the North Court, heard that the Song army was coming from the north, and he flew to Xizhou while leading the army to meet it.

The recent growth of the enemy martyrs is very astonishing. After the annexation of the Western Uighurs, the total number of troops had increased to more than 40,000. That's more than four times the original number.

There were 12,000 men guarding the north courtyard, and the whole army of Zhelige went into battle.

As a result, twenty miles out of the city. After receiving a report from Tanma, it was said that the Song army had 20,000 horses, a large number of flintlock guns, and had just slaughtered more than 10,000 horses of the Naiban tribe in a bloody manner at the foot of Wube Mountain.

After getting the news, Brother Zheli didn't say a word and immediately ordered the withdrawal of the troops.

No one was more impressed by the flintlock pistols of the Song army than the enemy martyrs.

At the foot of Baishan Mountain, more than 20,000 warriors of the enemy martyrs fell under the guns of the Song army, and they were powerless to fight back. That tragic scene still makes people's hearts tremble when they think about it.

What was the purpose of the entire enemy martyrdom moving westward, wasn't it just to avoid the Song army?

Now the nightmare has struck again, although the barbarian tribe suffered first, but this is undoubtedly pouring a basin of ice water on Brother Zheli's head, making him feel cold.

At the same time, it also made him soberly aware that if he did not withdraw his troops and avoid the edge of the Song army, the tragic scene under Bai Dengshan would be repeated.

Brother Zheli not only withdrew, but also withdrew extremely neatly and completely, and he didn't even go back to Tingzhou. For fear of being trapped in the city by the Song army, he directly crossed the Tianshan Mountains and retreated to Xizhou.

Yang Zhi and Anu seized the North Court without much effort. This was beyond everyone's expectations, who would have thought that Brother Zheli didn't even have a pretentious resistance, and actually ran away from the wind?

Yang Zhi and Anu were very unhappy in their hearts. Beiting was in his hands, but he couldn't destroy a single enemy. According to Yang Yi's consistent "people have lost land, people and land have survived; Saving land and losing people, people and land are lost". Their credit for this work is discounted.

They were holding back their strength and were ready to have a happy fight with Brother Zheli, but now their clenched fists are like hitting cotton, which makes people very unhappy!

So they didn't enter Tingzhou City, but just sent someone to report to Yang Yi and asked him to hurry up and take over Tingzhou, and he led the army to continue to pursue Brother Zheli.

Zhili Ge knew that he could not fight hard with the flintlock pistols of the Song army, so he left a small number of troops to block Yang Zhi and Anu according to the terrain of the Tianshan Mountains, and quickly rushed back to Xizhou to discuss countermeasures with Chi Tie'er.

Now the enemy Gulie has arrived at Qiuzi with 20,000 horses, ready to take advantage of the emptiness behind the Black Khan to attack the Black Khan King City Eight Thorns Shagon, and only Chi Tie'er led 10,000 troops to sit in Gaochang City.

Brother Zheli hurried back to Gaochang City, told Chi Tie'er about the situation, and finally explained: "Uncle Chi Tie'er, it's not that I'm afraid of death, you should also know that if you fight hard with the Song army on the open grassland, we will definitely be defeated, and now although our men and horses have increased to more than 40,000 people, if we fail like the Nai Barbarian Division, these people who have newly attached to us may be scattered." ”

"Brother Zheli, you don't have to say it, you did the right thing, now for our fierce enemy department, preserving strength is the most important thing, as long as the strength is still there, Xizhou can't stay, we can go to other places."

Brother Zheli couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: "What? Is Uncle Chi Tier saying that we are going to give up Xizhou? How does this work? We finally found a place to settle down, how can we say give up and give up? We can use the Tianshan Mountains to stop the Song army! ”

Chi Tie'er shook his head and said: "The Tianshan Mountains can be crossed everywhere, it is not enough to rely on, and now that Xizhou is being attacked by us, the offensive of the various departments to attack Hexi will definitely collapse, and the Song army will soon counterattack, if I think correctly, this time the Song State will definitely be like the Tang Dynasty, and the entire Western Regions will be in the bag, we want to survive in Xizhou, unless we can win the entire Song Kingdom, but is this possible?" ”

Thinking of the benefits and disadvantages of the Song army's flintlock pistol again, Brother Zheli shook his head unconsciously, the flintlock pistol is the nightmare of all cavalry, and the tragic scene under Bai Mountain's mountain will make it difficult for him to die for the rest of his life.

Chi Tie'er then sighed: "I can see clearly, whoever is the enemy of the Song State now is to bring about his own destruction." I see, even if we can defend the various passes of the Tianshan Mountains, it is useless, after Yang Yi wins the North Court, he will definitely divide his troops to the west to attack the Eight Thorns Shagon, if we don't hurry up, we will be trapped by Yang Yi in Xizhou, and we can't leave if we want to. ”

"And where are we going?"

"To the west, the kingdom of the Abbasids now exists in name only, and the sons of the Seljuk kingdom are vying for the throne, and the country is scattered and at war;

And over there, the Song State couldn't take care of it for a while, the Song State had just conquered Liaodong and Mobei, and now it was going to attack the Western Regions, and it would always have to be governed after the defeat, and it was impossible to take care of the middle of the river;

As long as we continue to grow ourselves, we may not be able to find a suitable place for us to live there. ”。 (To be continued.) )