readx; Damascus, Khalid looked solemn, hurriedly walked into the palace, and under the leadership of the head of the inner palace, quickly walked towards the map hall." What is the state of the caliphate now? ”

Khalid asked with some concern, he heard that Mansur had been irritable in the past two days and had killed more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids, and he was worried that Mansur would lose his mind. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The head of the inner palace was not too worried, he smiled and said: "Your Highness Vizier, please rest assured, the caliph is in good condition now, although he is a little short-tempered, he is no longer as addicted to wine as before, he is diligent in government affairs every day, and more time is spent in the map palace to think about dynasty affairs." ”

The two of them walked quickly to the front of the Map Palace, the head of the Inner Palace stopped, he didn't dare to enter at will, and Khalid walked directly into the door.

The Map Palace is named after the fact that the palace is full of maps, and it is the office of Mansur, which is equivalent to the imperial study, and Khalid walked into the palace and saw Mansur standing in front of a huge map with his hands in his hands.

Ten days earlier, the Roman Empire had mobilized a thousand warships and dispatched nearly 100,000 troops to launch a major attack on the island of Cyprus from three directions, and the 30,000 Arab defenders on the island had sent a series of distress messages.

Their crossbows no longer had any advantage, and the Roman army's cavalry archers and infantry crossbowmen used sharper bows and arrows, causing the Arab armies to retreat and see the island on the verge of extinction.

In order to prevent the Roman army from attacking from the ground, Mansur ordered 150,000 troops from all over the country to assemble in the city of Edessa, but at this time, they received news from the east that the Tang army was attacking Tocharian in a big way.

"Khalid, I sense that our empire is crumbling."

Mansour sighed, the situation was obvious, Li Qing'an had colluded with the Romans.

"Khalid, what do you think I should do now?"

"Your Majesty, I don't think the worst is yet to happen."

"Worst?" Mansour looked back and asked, "Then what do you say, what's the worst?" ”

"Spain is also involved, and that is the worst moment."

Mansour was a little stunned, he suddenly understood what Khalid meant, if the situation deteriorates and drags on like this, it is very likely that the Spanish side will also participate in the war, and his dynasty will be attacked on three sides, then the situation is really dangerous, Khalid means to end the current crisis as soon as possible.

"And what do you think we should do?"

"The subordinates believe that the island of Cyprus is very likely to be undefended, so the surname Nasuo will temporarily withdraw his troops from the island, and the Romans will naturally cease fighting."

"But what if they refuse to cease fighting?"

"Nope! They will definitely stop fighting, and your majesty must not forget that the enemy of the Romans is not only us, but also Bulgaria, and if the Romans really want to go to war, then we will make an alliance with Bulgaria and let it suffer from the enemy. ”

Mansur pondered for a long time, and he had to sigh, "What about the East?" ”

"The East will be handed over to Qi Yad to deal with, if he can't handle it well, then Your Majesty will go to Khorasan in person, didn't Your Majesty want to replace Qi Yad a long time ago?"

Mansour slowly walked to the map, and he looked anxiously to the east, not only Tocharian but also Sindh and Punjab, which worried him.

．．．．．．．．．． The main force of the Tang Army on the Central Line led by Li Qing'an has been stationed in Saijiashen City for ten days, and he has been patiently waiting for Li Guangbi's news, in fact, from the straight-line distance, Li Qing'an is not far from Achuan City, only more than 400 li, but the mountains are tall and steep, and the layers of barriers make the transmission of news extremely difficult, and it was not until ten days later that Li Qing'an finally got the news of the Tang Army on the Western Front, Li Guangbi has broken through the first largest city of Tocharian Achuan City and the second largest city of Bushi City, and burned all the military rations of the Tocharian army.

But until now, Li Guangbi still refused to confront the Tocharian army, but dragged them around, leaving the Tocharian army exhausted.

Hearing this news, Li Qingan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, worthy of being a famous general in the Tang Dynasty, Li Guangbi's strategy of avoiding reality and fiction was used very cleverly, and he firmly grasped the initiative of the war, of course, Li Qingan also knew that Li Guangbi had indulged soldiers in looting the city, but he didn't want to punish Li Guangbi for this.

Li Qing'an was also experienced in a hundred battles, and he knew that this was an important means of motivating morale, and in the sports war, the Tang army was also tired, and in order to maintain morale, he could only use the method of indulging the soldiers to boost morale.

This is not in the art of war, but it is indeed the most effective method, and what he is concerned about now is when Li Guangbi is going to do it?

Li Qing'an stood in front of the map, pondering for a long time, he was actually very worried about the movement of the Great Food Army, although he signed a military alliance agreement with Byzantium, he also believed that Byzantium would abide by the contract and send troops to the Great Food, but after all, the territory is vast, there is a time lag in this, if the Great Food Army of Khorasan has not received an order from Damascus, they are very likely to send troops to Tocharian to support the Yueshi people, and if Byzantium attacks unfavorably, it will also reduce the pressure on the Great Food, so that they will focus their military efforts on the East, so far, The Great Food Army of Sindh did not have any movement to go north to support Tocharo, so could it be that the Great Food Army of Khorasan came to support Tochar, and if Li Guangbi delayed the time for too long, the situation would be unfavorable to him.

Of course, Li Qing'an also took into account the influence of the Khorasan Great Food Army sending troops to Tocharo, and he had ordered the Hezhong army to be ready for battle, once the Khorasan army marched towards Tocharian on a large scale, the Hezhong army would not hesitate to kill Khorasan.

Despite this, Li Qingan still needs to be as thoughtful as possible.

"General Zhao, do you remember the details of the Great Food Army's support for Tocharian four years ago? I mean the speed of their march. ”

Zhao Chongjie pondered for a moment and said: "Back to the general, the battle four years ago is still fresh in the memory, in the memory of the humble position, the marching speed of the Great Food Army is actually not fast, when they cross the Amu Darya, we have scouts found out, but the problem is that the Great Cannibal sent troops to attack Broken Leaf at that time, so that Gao Shuai had to divide his troops to save Broken Leaf, and Gao Shuai was not willing to withdraw from Tocharo in such a mess, what happened later was beyond his expectations, and the Great Food Army was much stronger than he imagined, in the final analysis, he was still because he despised the Great Cannibal too much, Thinking that they were nothing more than Hu people like the countries of the river, it led to a final defeat. ”

"What about the Tocharian army's combat power?" Li Qingan asked again.

"The combat power of the Tocharian army is average, it is about the same as the ordinary river army, and the equipment is backward, their leather armor can't resist the crossbow arrows of the Tang army at all, if the Tang army has 50,000 people, they can defeat the 100,000 Tocharian coalition army in one battle."

"But what if the Tang army only has 30,000 people?"

"I think that if that's the case, the Tang Army needs to pay attention to the art of war and strategy, and fight hard, which is because I think that the chances of victory are not great."

Li Qingan nodded, Zhao Chongjie said well, the key is to see how Li Guangbi uses the troops, at this time, his eyes fell on the Chifei River, in fact, there are many articles that can be done on this river, it depends on whether Li Guangbi will be good at using it.

．．．．．．．．． In August, eight days have passed since the Tang army attacked Tocharo, and the battle did not decide the winner, but the 100,000 Tocharian army fell into unprecedented passivity, when the news of the main force of the Tang army to conquer the city of Achu came, the Tocharian army was almost crazy, they rushed back to the city of Achu desperately, but halfway got the news, the second largest city of Tocharian was conquered by the Tang army, and the huge losses made the kings of the Tocharian countries in the army have serious dissatisfaction with Said's tactics, especially the Yueshi country, the palace of the royal city was burned by the Tang army, His wife and concubine were killed, and the children did not know what to do, which made Qu Zhaomu angry, and he strongly demanded that the army immediately kill back to Achuan City, but at this time, the capital of Wang Tingguo, Bushi City, was also broken by the Tang army, and the king of Wang Tingguo, Ah Lan, strongly asked the coalition army to turn to Bushi City, and there was a dispute between the two kings, and at the same time, the other Gaofu, Gumo, and Great Khan were also worried that their capitals would be attacked, and they also made similar requests, asking the army to protect their country, and there were conflicts of interest, Li Guangbi's tactics were like a huge crowbar, priing open the weak bond between the coalition forces, and the Tocharian coalition began to split step by step.

The Penchi River is also the upper reaches of the Amu Darya, the Tang Dynasty called the Wuhu River, it is also the mother river of the Tocharian region, flowing through the most densely populated and fertile areas of Tocharo, several large countries of Tocharian are distributed along the Wuhu River, at this time Li Guangbi's main force of the Tang army is located on the south bank of the Penchi River, about 30 miles away from the capital of Gumo Prefecture.

When the Penchi River arrived here, the water potential had become gentle, and there were no steep slopes and cliffs on both banks, but a desert area interlaced with deserts and Gobi, more than 20,000 Tang troops and more than 10,000 camels were resting on a vast sandy land, waiting for craftsmen to build a pontoon bridge, Li Guangbi sat on a flat boulder, he raised the kettle and drank a sip of water, but his eyes were still staring at the other side of the river, the faintly visible outline of the sunken city.

In the past eight days, his tactics have undoubtedly been successful, destroying two large cities successively, but Li Guangbi also knows that his success is more or less a bit of luck, and he did not expect that the Scout ability of the Tocharian army is so low, two days ago, his army passed behind the enemy's 100,000 army, he thought that the Tocharian army would chase after him, but the other party did not find them, so he had to use the initiative to warn the other party.

At this time, several war horses galloped over, and immediately the scouts turned over and dismounted, and stepped forward to report with a salute: "Report to General Li, the Tocharian army has been divided into two routes, one is about 60,000 men chasing us, about 30 miles away from us, and the other 40,000 people are parallel to our south, about 70 miles away from us. ”

The sudden news made Li Guangbi stand up suddenly, and his calm eyes finally revealed a kind of excitement that could not be concealed, Tocharian finally divided his troops into two ways, which was exactly what he was looking forward to, and it was also the result of his efforts, Li Guangbi restrained the excitement in his heart, he took out the map and spread it out in front of him, carefully looking for the trajectory of the two armies, from the map, the intention of the Tocharian army was obvious, from here to the southwest is the Great Khanate, they obviously learned the lesson of the city of Us, worried that the Tang army would raid the Great Khanate again, so they divided the troops into two ways, can not only outflank the Tang army, but also prevent the Tang army from attacking the Great Khanate in the south, which is exactly what he Li Guangbi is looking forward to, but to grasp the opportunity, this requires him to have superb ability to transfer troops, thinking of this, Li Guangbi immediately ordered: "Pass my order, build a pontoon bridge within half an hour, delay a moment, and all will be killed!" ”

The place where the Tang army crossed the river is the most gentle place for the water potential of the Penchi River, the river is about one mile wide, and it is also the main ferry port for the Gumo country to cross the river to the south, there was originally a narrow bridge, but three days ago the city of Tanfu was afraid of the attack of the Tang army, and demolished the bridge, so that the Tang army could only rebuild the bridge when crossing the river, although the Tang army also collected dozens of small boats, but it is undoubtedly unrealistic to cross the river by these small boats, but they can be used to build pontoon bridges, which is like the chain used by Cao Jun in Chibi, with iron chains to lock dozens of small boats, covered with wooden planks, So that the Tang army could pass quickly, under the strict order of Li Guangbi, the craftsmen and soldiers of the Tang army quickly built a simple pontoon bridge, at this time, the 70,000 troops of the Tocharian army were still fifteen miles away from the Tang army, and the time was quite urgent, and the Tang army accelerated the speed of crossing the river.

"General Li, look!" A soldier shouted as he pointed into the distance.

Li Guangbi took the curtain and looked east, only to see the dust in the distance, the wind and sand covering the sky, as if a sandstorm was coming, the Tocharian army had finally arrived, Li Guangbi could even feel the angry and eager mood of the Tocharian army, they were eager to seek revenge on themselves.

"Hatred will blind your eyes!"

Li Guangbi muttered to himself lightly, and he waved his hand and ordered: "Cross the bridge!" ”

The last thousand guards Li Guangbi stepped onto the pontoon bridge and quickly ran to the opposite bank, and in a moment, a team of Tocharian camel cavalry arrived first, this is the army of Gumo Kingdom.

The Tocharian coalition army received the news of the main force of the Tang army in the early morning, and they chased after it desperately, especially in Gumo Kingdom, where the Tang army was obviously aimed at their capital, and they were so anxious that they almost went crazy.

However, in the process of catching up, there were serious divisions within the coalition army, Yueshi, Gaofu, Wang Ting and Gumo Kingdom suffered serious losses because of their own interests, and they advocated an immediate decisive battle with the Tang army, but Said proposed to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from Dashi Khorasan, so that the two armies would be more sure to jointly strangle the invading Tang army, and he was especially worried that the Tang army would drag down his main force by dividing the army, so that they would repeat the mistake of Wusi City, and he suggested keeping a certain distance from the Tang army to prevent the main force of the Tang army from moving south from the Great Khanate.

But Said's proposal was only supported by the Great Khanate, the other four countries were resolutely opposed, both sides refused to give in, Said had no choice but to divide the troops into two ways, he himself led 40,000 troops from the south to detour, to prevent the main force of the Tang army from escaping, and Qu Zhaomu and A Lan led a combined army of 60,000 to pursue the Tang army from the front, before leaving, Said repeatedly told that the two sides converged by the river to attack the Tang army, and must not act without authorization.

If it was in the past, Said's decision could not be objected to, but these days, Said's command had a major mistake, resulting in the city of Ashu and the city of Bushi being conquered by the main force of the Tang army, and the two cities were looted, especially the royal nobles were almost killed by the Tang army, which made Said lose his usual authority, Qu Zhaomu, the king of the Yue Kingdom, and Ah Lan, the king of the Wang Ting State, were seriously dissatisfied with him, but these two countries accounted for the largest number of troops in the coalition army.

More importantly, Lee's military campaign had loosened the already shaky foundation of unity within Tochar, leaving countries to think only of their own interests.

When the 60,000 army was killed by the river, the Gumo king Qisa was anxious, and did not consult with other countries, and led the 6,000 Gumo army to pursue and kill along the pontoon bridge left by the Tang army.

Driven by the Gumo army, the armies of the Yue clan and Wang Ting also followed the cross-bridge pursuit, at this time Said copied from the south, less than fifteen miles away from the pontoon bridge, as long as half an hour to arrive, it was this short half an hour, Li Guangbi waited for the opportunity appeared at this moment.

(To be continued)