After leaving the tent, Xiao Yan went to the fourth brother's tent, and the tea room boiled Yundian Yinsheng tea, and he always knew the hobby of the seventeenth "Langjun", and added milk and brown sugar to her tea, and it was sweet and lubricated in one sip, and there was the mellow of thirty-year-old Yinsheng tea.

Xiao Cong smiled at her, "Drink some sweet tea to relieve fatigue and moisturize qi." ”

Xiao Yan is lacking, but because of the complexity of feelings, his mood is indeed a little impetuous, his calm face and quiet eyes can't be seen, only the slight expressions at the corners of his eyebrows, eyes and mouth are reflected, Xiao Cong is worthy of being her brother who has been with her since she was a child, and she can be aware of it in every detail.

Xiao Yan raised her lamp and smiled, she was in a good mood after drinking a cup of tea, and her impetuous mood was also moistened by this sweet and smooth tea, she breathed a sigh of relief, and she cared about the battle situation in the northwest of Yanzhou, and asked the fourth brother: "Brother, what is the situation on the battlefield now?" Why do I see that the Western Route Army is still in Melbourshire and the speed of this march is a bit slow? ”

It's a little slow, it's too slow.

Xiao Yan looked at the map of the northwest of Yanzhou, and remembered the location and distance in his mind, and knew that Moore County belonged to the southern Tailu Prefecture that the Western Route Army mainly attacked, and it was four hundred miles away from the central county of this large state, that is, the first county of Tailu Prefecture, if compared with the previous attack speed, it was really equivalent to turtle speed. She asked, "Did Du Shuai Si change his tactics, or did the strength of the Yan-Ou coalition army increase greatly?" "It is impossible for the combat strength of the Western Route Army to decline, so it can only be these two reasons.

Xiao Cong smiled slightly, "You're right, it's a change in tactics." ”

He casually handed the blue and white porcelain bowl to Xiao Chengli, picked up a hot towel and wiped his hands, took out a shaft of flexible sheepskin from the gold-painted lacquered wooden tire vase on the side of the bookcase, moved the official book to the side, and said while unfolding it: "After our coalition forces broke through the defense line from the Kuru River to the Huge Mountain, our tactics changed from blitzkrieg to encroachment tactics. ”

"Cannibalization tactics?" Xiao Yan was surprised, got up and went over, knelt on the side of the bookcase, and stretched out his head to look at the map.

"Yes, it's like a silkworm gnawing on mulberry leaves, eating it in small bites. With each bite, you should nibble on the mesophyll and leaf juice before taking the next bite. The core of this tactic is to fight steadily, step by step, swallow all the people of the occupied land, and then take a bite. Look—"

Xiao Yan became interested, staring at the map with clear dark eyes, moving with his brother's fingers.

Xiao Cong, as the deputy capital counselor of the Western Route Army, was responsible for the duties of counselor military aircraft and formulating tactics, and in the past six months after the armistice, he had done detailed homework on the geography, topography, climate, population, agriculture and animal husbandry of the three northwestern states of Yanzhou.

"The three northwestern states of Tuha, Kusu, and Tailu are located in the alpine zone, at an altitude equivalent to two-thirds of the Anzang Plateau, and the air is relatively thin, which will have a certain impact on high-intensity marching; Moreover, the territory is vast, occupying most of the western part of Yanzhou, which is equivalent to the size of our two Hexi Dao - well, the Qingtang grassland is not counted - occupies nearly one-third of the territory of Yanzhou, even if we fight quickly, it is difficult to occupy all of them in a short time. This is different from when we fought Tibet, as long as the army captured Luo, the Tibetan royal power would automatically collapse, because the concept of the state of the Tibetan people had been blurred under the religious rule of the bowl religion and the monk religion, and there was no prestige king. But on the Yan Zhou side, as long as Yu Wenjian and his forces are still there, even if we capture Chaogt County, his 'line', the remnants of Yan Zhou's power will still exist: either fight guerrillas in the forests and mountains on the plateau, or retreat to the territory of Euroton, unite the Yan Zhou people who are dedicated to their homeland here, and continue to cause trouble for us. Therefore, rapid tactics are not feasible when attacking the northwest, and changes must be made according to local conditions. This is one.

"If you look at the terrain in the northwest, there are mostly meadow plains, but there are also a lot of reckless coniferous forests and mountains and hills, and three or four percent of the county, fort and county towns in these three states are built on mountains or mountains, and rapid tactics will be hindered when they encounter this kind of terrain, and the artillery battalions in the mountains, forests and hills cannot keep up, and it is easy to be cut into several pieces by the Yan Zhou army who is familiar with the terrain and broken in sections. Therefore, the march of the coalition army remained steady, and the Yan and Zhou people had no gaps to take advantage of, and cut our team. This is two.

"We are advancing like this, step by step, just like fighting in a fortress, the Yan'ou army has nowhere to speak, and the guerrilla war cannot be fought, but it cannot stare dryly, and can only fight with us - on the plains, or around the periphery of the city to fight us, which will save us a lot of strength. When the Yan-Ou coalition retreated, we did not pursue, but just moved forward according to our existing rhythm, encroaching on the city, and the Yan-Ou coalition army was only led by our nose in order to stop our advance, so that the rhythm of the entire battlefield was in our hands. It's three. ”

Xiao Yan nodded, she was proficient in martial arts battles and had personally commanded military battles, and she knew very well how important it was to master the rhythm in battle, which meant that she controlled the direction of the battlefield.

Xiao Cong continued: "You see, the three northwestern states all belong to the alpine zone, and even if the snow melts in summer, they can only grow alpine wheat and barley, and the yield is not high. ”

He couldn't help but sigh when he said this, "If you want to talk about the cultivation and research of cold-tolerant crops, Yan Zhou is really inferior to Oghuz, and his vision is not enough, thinking that with the southern grain-producing areas and the vast pastures in the east and west, there is no need to exert effort on cold-tolerant crops, and the determination and courage to insist on investment are not enough, after Yan Zhou Xizong, the research on cold-tolerant crops in the northwest has basically stopped." On the other hand, Oghuz was able to persevere for a hundred years, and it is said that every year he will take out 10% of his fiscal and tax revenues and invest in the bottomless pit of research on cold-tolerant potatoes and wheat millet. I think that at the beginning, potatoes were the first to be discovered and introduced from Nanda Dongzhou in Datang, but fifty years later, the cold-tolerant potato varieties planted in our Anbei and Anxi Duhufu will be introduced from Oghusi. He shook his head and laughed.

Xiao Yan said: "This is also forced by the geographical environment. After all, Yanzhou still has the middle temperature region in the south, the whole territory of Oghuz is in the cold zone, and the spring and summer in the south are very short, in order to survive, this is not possible to study without dead effort - of course, this is still related to the courage and resilience of the country. She smiled and shrugged her shoulders, "So, our Datang is now cooperating with Oghuz, not Yan Zhou." ”

Xiao Cong also laughed.

The previous explanation continued: "In addition to the three prefectures in the northwest of Yanzhou, the population is small and the fields are cultivated, and the wheat barley planted every year can only barely be self-sufficient, and there is not much reserve grain, while the army's military rations and the beans for war horses are all transferred from Zhili Prefecture and Southern Prefecture every season; At present, the grain depots, forage depots, and bean depots in the counties and counties in the northwest must have been evacuated by Yu Wenjian and concentrated in important places to guard, even if we build the city, it is impossible to get supplies on the spot, and the grain logistics line will definitely be very long. Therefore, we must not move forward quickly, but must lay down one land, digest one place, and consolidate one place in order to ensure the stability and security of the logistics line. It's four.

"Fifth, the war is prolonged, and the grain and grass stored in the three northwestern states are exhausted, so the Yan-Europe coalition forces must transport grain and grass from Euroton, and they will also face the problem of too long logistics lines, and this is our opportunity.

"Sixth, and most importantly, our strategic focus is not on eliminating the remnants of Yu Wenjian's regime, but on the Euroton army. Our two countries. The army is a away battle in Yanzhou, and similarly, Euroton is also a away battle. But we have been playing for more than half a year, and we have laid down most of Yan Zhou, which is relatively more familiar with the local atmosphere than Euroton. This encroachment tactic is to drag the Euroton army, drag them on the Yanzhou battlefield and annihilate them little by little, the blitzkrieg can only defeat them but not destroy their main force, drive them back to Euroton, and they will have the advantage of the home field. ”

Xiao Yan listened and nodded, all tactics are in the service of strategy, and strategy is an extension of politics, the focus of the battle of Yan and Zhou is no longer the war between the Tang-Wu coalition army and the Yan Zhou Yuwenjian regime, but the war between the Tang Dynasty, Oghuz and the Euroton Empire, and its strategy and tactics must of course change accordingly - dragging Euroton in the quagmire of Yan Zhou is the most beneficial to the war.

"The Yan-Ou coalition should have sensed that something was wrong, right?" Xiao Yan asked. Yu Wenjian, Paviv, and Felder are enemy commanders who can't be stupid, the Tang-Ukrainian coalition has changed its tactics, and it stands to reason that the Yan-Ou coalition army should also have a response.

"That's right, they've changed their tactics. On the surface, guerrilla warfare is still being practiced, but in fact the number of guerrilla troops is secretly reduced, and the banner is not reduced, but the troops are drawn out and assembled in the same combat site, and the superior forces are gathered and annihilated. ”

Xiao Cong's white and slender fingers tapped lightly at a certain point in the east of Kusu, "This is it." Seven days earlier, Yu Wenjian and Paviv had gathered 200,000 superior forces to snipe at the British Duke's Chinese army at Purodian. The British Duke divided the 100,000 Central Army into three armies, which encroached on Suzhou in three ways, and the Chinese army under the command of the British Duke was only 40,000. However, the British command was steady, and the three armies advanced each other with horns, and they were all within fifty miles of the Chinese army. After the Chinese army released the enemy's flag arrows, the northern army and the southern army immediately moved closer to the Chinese army. The British Gong bombarded the banner again, and our Western Route Army and the Hebei Gongbei Route Army immediately transferred six battalions each to Puluodian to help, but they were unexpectedly blocked on the way, but the vanguard still arrived at Puluodian an hour later. Our army has gathered 130,000 and fought with 200,000 Yan Ou's army. The British Duke's Chinese army lost one-third, the northern army and the southern army also lost nearly 10,000 each, and our Western Route Army and Ji Guogong's Northern Route Army suffered four or five thousand casualties each; The casualties of the Yan-Ou coalition should have exceeded 60,000, and we suffered a loss in this battle. ”

Xiao Yan's thin eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his eyes focused on the "Puluodian" that his brother was referring to, scanning the surrounding terrain.

This is the place where the British Duke attacked Lemin County from Luogui County, before the deep snow cover is more than ten miles of meadows, compared with other closer roads, this road meets the requirements of the Tang Army's march "flat and wide", the British Duke attacked Lemin County, will definitely choose to pass through the road of Prodian.

So, the Yan-Ou coalition army set up an ambush here.

Xiao Cong explained: "In order to cover up their actions in Puluodian, the guerrilla warfare against our coalition forces was particularly frequent during that period, and troops were being transferred everywhere to carry out surprise attacks on various armies of our coalition army. Moreover, because the opposing mage used a small area of concealment to mobilize the army, it was hidden from the divine sense of our general in charge of the outpost. ”

Therefore, the British knew that the Yan-Ou coalition army might "guerrilla" in Puluodian, and also made preparations to meet the battle, but they did not expect that the Yan-Ou coalition army was not a guerrilla, but a general battle with superior forces.

Xiao Cong said: "The most important thing is that when we rush to the rescue, the gun wagons can't keep up, including artillery and large bed crossbows, so in the early battle, our long-range attack force is weaker than the long-range attack of the Yan-Ou coalition army; And among the troops that stopped us from rushing to help were Euroton's Court Mages and Templar Mages, delaying the arrival of our artillery camp bed crossbow battalion. ”

"Mage Regiment ......" Xiao Yan muttered, these personal mobile batteries are indeed a big one in a war. Trouble, "Didn't our military cavalry general snipe effectively?" ”

"No, the Mage Master Group has lost four Grandmasters, fifteen people have died in the Ascending Extreme Realm, and so many mages have died in one battle, which is enough for them to feel distressed, and it is expected that within this month, it will be impossible to launch a second battle. Besides, we can't be in the same place. "If the Yan-Ou coalition wants to launch another successful battle of gathering and annihilation, it is impossible.

Xiao Yan thought about it and nodded slowly, indeed, after this big battle, both sides have to slow down.

Xiao Chengli took the pile of lacquer and put two silver raw tea on the plate again, this time Xiao Yan's tea did not add milk and sugar, Xiao Yan sighed. I saw Xiao Chengyi come in with a red food box, put it on the table and opened it, there were a few steaming snacks. Xiao Cong smiled: "You rushed all the way back, you must not have eaten." Although the Grandmaster can clear the valley, this delicious mood still needs to be enjoyed. You try it, this is the Yanzhou Northwest dim sum made by the kitchen, there are some small improvements, but it is still a little greasy, but it is suitable for the midwinter weather here - drink some silver raw tea, just to relieve greasy. "Therefore, the black tea of the Tang Dynasty is a very heavy export product in Yanzhou and Wugosi, and the tea tree likes temperature, which cannot be grown in Wugoz and Yanzhou.

Xiao Yan smiled with tea and snacks, and remembered a geographical travelogue that his mother had read before, which had a sentence that said, "The best country is across latitude, not across longitude", and couldn't help laughing and told the fourth brother this sentence. Xiao Cong smiled meaningfully and said, "So no matter how long the east and west regions of Oghuz are, they must go south." ”

To the south, to the south of which place? If you don't start a war with the Tang Dynasty, you will inevitably go west to Euroton and then south.

The continent of Ibuli is still very vast.

"Where's the big eat?" Xiao Yan thought of another empire, "Did you send troops to Anxi?" Is there a war report? Oh, and the Turks, to make way for the Great Food Army? Or did you go with it? ”

Xiao Yan is very unwelcome when she talks about the Turks, she still remembers that when Xiao Yan secretly provoked the Turks and Gelulu troops of the Anxi Protectorate to pretend to be horse thieves to attack and kill the fourth brother, she didn't believe that there was no support from the Turkic Khanate-the "Western Turkistan anti-Tang elements" in Anxi Mansion were not supported by the Turkic Khanate? She had heard Murong Jue mention it before, and she had led the Armed Cavalry Department to suppress the Western Turks several times...... But like weeds, stubble after stubble.

"The military department has sent a military report," Xiao Cong briefly repeated, "On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the Great Eclipse army crossed the Great Uz Desert and camped in the eastern part of the desert, on the west bank of the frozen Zela River. You're right, the Turkic Khanate and the Great Eclipse are united again, and the Turks send 100,000 troops to join the coalition - the Turkic Khanate used to send a maximum of 50,000 horsemen, and this time it will probably fill the anger of Amaia IX, after all, the caliph's mind is not as broad as the Atlantic. Xiao Cong laughed and teased, and said, "But what made Amaya IX not have to accept it was the 'annexation of the state province' proposed by the Turkic Khan's court." ”

Xiao Yanqi said: "And the national province? ”

It seems to be ......

She looked even more stunned.

"Yes, the Turkic Khan's court proposed that they could eliminate the title of king and merge into the Great Food Empire, but they wanted to become an independent province, with their Turks as the governor of the province, in addition to converting to the Great Food Sect, they paid a certain amount of taxes to the Great Food Central Committee every year, and the rest, military, political, etc., were all autonomous for their Turkic people."

Xiao Yan couldn't help but take a breath.

The Turkic Khan's Court, this is really ......

I can't afford it!