Two days later, Gao Buer came to Gaochang with a large group of people, and he once again organized manpower to strengthen the Gaochang city wall, so he delayed for more than a month, and then led the army to Tingzhou.

On the way to the army, Gao Buer also received a military report from Hou Junji, saying that Anxi had not found a large number of rogues, but the Tibetan army was assembled on the border, and Gao Buer asked him to take strict precautions.

In order to reach Tingzhou as soon as possible and control the situation in the Western Regions, he ordered the whole army to speed up its advance, and finally arrived in Tingzhou three days later. ”

"It seems that this sudden Shi wants to play with the imperial court, on the one hand, he calculated that the imperial court would not give him so much food at one time, and used this as an excuse to delay the western expedition, and on the other hand, he sent a large army to attack Beiting and Anxi, testing how hard the imperial court's attitude towards their western expedition is, and colluding with Tibet behind their backs, which is the posture of the western expedition, it is clear that we want to go to the east, it seems that we have to write to the imperial court as soon as possible to prepare for war, once the war starts, I am afraid that the border will be full of wolf smoke."

"That's probably the way it is now."

"We also have to do a good job of raising food on the spot, once there is a big war, it is estimated that the grain route will be shortened, from now on enter a wartime state, let all the officials and their families in the Western Regions immediately evacuate home, and the local people who are willing to leave also bring it, and then all the personnel are armed and ready to meet the big war."

"Yes, I'll arrange it."

After Li Jing left, Gao Buer immediately wrote an urgent war report, which was sent to Chang'an for 800 miles.

Li Shimin received Gao Buer's battle report and immediately organized hundreds of officials to discuss, and finally formed a resolution, first, not to give the grain that was supposed to be given to Tushi, unless Tushi personally came to Chang'an to explain the intention of his subordinates to appear in various parts of the Western Regions, and second, ordered Feng Ang in the south, Su Dingfang in the west, and Cheng Yanjin in the east (Li Erwei was the defense room of Goguryeo in the back, and sent Cheng Yanjin to Youzhou when Gao Buer went to the Western Regions) to strengthen preparations and prepare to meet the enemy on three sides.

Because Gao Buer's Tingzhou is too far away from Chang'an, once a war breaks out, it is difficult to guarantee the current logistics support of men and horses, so it is more difficult to send reinforcements to the Western Regions, so he asked Gao Buer to send 25 steam version tanks secretly developed according to the sketch given by Gao Buer, and asked him to store food on the spot and wait for changes.

If Tushi really dares to kill the carbine, he must be eliminated on the spot.

Gao Buer looked at the tank sent by Li Er for a long time, and had to be amazed at the wisdom of the ancients, which brother made this iron guy who was five or six times larger than the tank in later generations, and I have to say that this is a talent.

In order to reduce the weight of this iron guy, the iron sheet that can be comparable to later generations was actually made out by him, which was not only equipped with three cannons, but also installed three layers of Gatling at 360 degrees.

It is estimated that he has to stand in front of Tu Shi, and he can be scared stupid.

However, the shortcomings are also obvious, because the track has not yet been developed, it uses eight pairs of two-meter-high rubber wheels, because of its own weight, it acts like a cow, fortunately, now the sealing problem of the steam engine is becoming more and more mature, and the steam engine has also changed for several generations, providing enough horsepower.

There is also a disadvantage, that is, there is less coal on the car, and a lot of firewood is prepared, seeing this high two messy in the wind, no wonder I feel that the machine is very strong, the car just can't run, and there is a problem with the fuel burned.

So Gao Buer immediately asked Li Jing to lead the army to look for the coal mine under the leadership of the local guide, he remembered that the largest open-pit mine in the vicinity was located, and the coal pile was not burned, isn't it a trouble.

Soon Li Jing sent back the news that he had found the outcropping coal seam and was organizing manpower to excavate, Gao Buer asked him to dig according to the amount of two years, and if he couldn't use it up, he would use it for heating in winter.

Because Tu Shi will not go to the west at all, but because of insufficient preparation, I am afraid that he will not come in the east to fight with Gao Fuji this year; Similarly, because of the lack of preparations, Gao Buji did not plan to cross the Tianshan Mountains to Yilie this year, in order to ensure the safety of the people, he also took the initiative to withdraw a large number of people, merchants and soldiers from Yile and Boluo City to Beiting.

In order to strengthen Hou Junji's strength, he allocated ten taels of tanks and 10,000 horses from Hami to him, no matter what, he must drag the Tubo army until the army defeats the Tushi coalition army, of course, it is best to join forces with Su Dingfang and Feng Ang to successfully repel the Tubo.

In Broken Leaf City, Tu Shi was furious after receiving the reprimand document from the imperial court, saying that the good food would not be given, which made his plan likely to be stillborn, you must know that if there is no food from Li Er, this winter will be difficult again, and the time for war preparations will be pushed back again, he believes that Li Er in Chang'an and Gao Buer, who is close at hand, will not give him this time, and at the latest next year, in the spring of next year, Gao Buer's army will appear in Yile.