The Khan did not know what a telegraph was, nor did he understand how terrifying the capacity of a train was.

He thought according to the standard pattern of the cold weapon era, and Yin Zhou had become his delicious prey here.

The Tang army on the front line did not get news and did not have time to return to help, and the Tang army in the rear was thousands of miles away.

The right time, place and people are on their side, and this advantage is mine!

In terms of thinking and marching ability and communication ability in the age of cold weapons, it is indeed the Western Turks who have the advantage.

But the problem is that Li Yunze got in touch with Li Er, who was far away in Chang'an City, on the same day through telegrams.

Li Er made a decision in the shortest possible time, arranged for Commander Cheng Yanjin to set off immediately as soon as he supported the army, and appointed Li Yunze to have the right to command all the reinforcements.

At the same time, the defenders stationed in Guazhou, Lanzhou and other places were also urgently mobilized, and immediately looked for trains to reinforce Yinzhou.

All the reinforcements don't need to bring any more logistical materials, just bring weapons, armor, stomach, war horses, etc., anyway, there are all logistical materials here in Yinzhou.

All the freight trains on the entire railway line were suspended, and the supplies inside were thrown away and only loaded with men and horses and headed straight for Yinzhou.

At noon the next day, 2,000 reinforcements from Guazhou arrived in Yinzhou.

After eating, the 2,000 reinforcements stationed at Jiayuguan arrived by train.

On the third day, thousands of reinforcements from Ganzhou and Liangzhou arrived.

At this time, the regular army of the Tang Army had exceeded 15,000 people, and the follow-up soldiers and horses were still on the way to rapid reinforcements.

The soldiers and horses that could be mobilized in the entire Longyou Province arrived in Yinzhou in four or five days, and the total strength of the regular army quickly swelled to more than 30,000 people.

At this time, the soldiers and horses sent by the Yibi Lu Khan to attack Yinzhou had just crossed the Zheluo Manshan Mountain, and there were still dozens of miles away from Yinzhou.

On the morning of the sixth day, the whole army had a full meal, and then set off under the leadership of Li Yunze, and went straight to Zheluo Manshan.

When the Western Turks met this Tang army, the nobles who led the team were really frightened.

The information he got was that there were definitely less than 10,000 regular Tang troops here in Yinzhou, but the Tang army in front of him was at least tens of thousands!

With so many Tang troops, could it be that they flew from the sky?

In terms of the level of science and technology of Datang in this era, it is no different from the one that flew over.

Thousands of miles, it can be reached in a few days, and it is almost flying.

The generals asked Li Yunze how to fight, and Li Yunze's reply was very simple: "Didn't you see that the other side was going to run, the cavalry went to pursue, and the foot soldiers stepped forward to clean up the battlefield." ”

The people of the Western Turks are not stupid, facing thousands of Tang Iron Cavalry and facing tens of thousands of Tang Iron Cavalry, can that be the same thing.

Seeing the iron cavalry of the Tang Army, almost all wearing cuirasses, slowly approaching like a great wall of steel under the reflection of the sun, they chose to retreat very heartily.

It's just that it's not easy when you come, and it's even more difficult when you leave.

The Tang army was not the infantry-based Song army and the Ming army, and the Song and Ming armies could only be defeated if they won the war, and they could not expand the results through pursuit battles, approaching the lack of cavalry strength.

The name of the Datang Iron Cavalry is really powerful.

Tens of thousands of Tang troops, with battalions and regiments as units, began to chase and kill.

In particular, after Li Yunze announced that all the captures in this battle belonged to his own person, the morale of the Tang army was full of morale.

The opponent was too weak, and Li Yunze was not interested in fighting, so he took a horse and put it on the ground and watched quietly.

He didn't know that he had experienced this kind of scene hundreds of times, and he was already used to it.

The pursuit battle was fought from the morning to the edge of the sky, and the white clouds were dyed with red glow, and they pursued all the way to the Tang army in the mountains, and then they returned one after another.

Li Yunze, who had been sitting for almost a day, got up and moved his hands and feet, arranged for people to count the results of the battle, and led the soldiers and horses back to the station.

He himself led a team of Tang troops and escorted a group of Western Turkic prisoners to simply leave.

Like the rest of the city, the train station in Yinzhou was built outside the city.

When it was dark, Li Yunze passed by the railway station and happened to meet a troop carrier arriving.

Cheng Biting Jin, who was fully dressed and holding a horse lance, beckoned the general to take his war horse down from the car, and was about to get on the horse when he saw Li Yunze.

"Where are the Turks?!" Cheng Yanjin's words were full of solemnity.

Li Yunze turned his head sideways and motioned to the Turks who were being escorted away not far away, "Isn't this it." ”

Cheng Yanjin looked at it carefully, then simply took off the helmet, walked over and looked at it carefully.

When he returned to Li Yunze's side, Cheng Yanjin's face was already very ugly, "The old man has traveled thousands of miles, for fear that when he doesn't have time to come, he will see that he will be full of devastation, and then you have already calmed things down?" ”

"Hmm." Li Yunze gave a thumbs up, "He is worthy of being a veteran, and he can see it at a glance." ”

"The old man understands what a fart!"

The furious Cheng Yanjin directly smashed his helmet on the ground, "The old man's original intention was to lead the troops to gallop thousands of miles in a few days, relieve the siege in danger, and achieve a great cause that will go down in history!" ”

After a few heavy breaths, Cheng Biting Jin clutched the horse lance with both hands, and his eyes were red, "You told the old man that the fight is over, the fight is over?!" ”

Originally, Cheng Biting Jin was annoyed because he was compared to Su Dingfang by the junior and lost his position as the chief general of the Western Regions.

Now I finally got an opportunity, and I wanted to take advantage of this glorious journey of thousands of miles in a few days to go down in history.

But when I came, I was full of confidence, but I ran in vain.

His mood at this time is naturally conceivable.

Looking at Cheng Biting Jin, who was full of annoyance, Li Yunze said surgingly, "You can catch up if you come a day early, who told you to come late?" ”

Hearing this, Cheng Biting Jin stood on the spot, but his son Cheng Chumo was angry, "It's all your fault for the train of your trading company, you stop and park at every turn on the road, if you can go straight all the way, you will definitely be able to catch up." ”

For this kind of sand withering, Li Yunze simply rolled his eyes, "Your younger brother Cheng Chuliang is a brain, why are you stupid like this?" Are you really brothers? Since you don't like it, then don't take it, don't take the train when you go back to Chang'an City, and walk back by yourself. ”

Cheng Biting Jin is much more shrewd than his stupid son, first kicked Cheng Chumo, who was still arguing, away, and then stepped forward to rub his hands and wipe his face into a smile and asked, "Help." ”

Li Yunze, who looked surprised, raised his eyebrows: "You want to lie about military exploits?" Say you won this time? ”

Lying about military exploits is not a trivial matter, it is a common thing in all dynasties.

The problem is that Li Er, who is now the emperor, is a general, and he is a clear man in the army.

Fooling Li Er is such a thing, Cheng Yanjin doesn't dare to do.

Because I know that it can't be done.

"It's coming." Cheng Yanjin simply spread his hands, "The old man doesn't want to go back like this, help." ”

Li Yunze rubbed his chin and looked at Cheng Yanjin for a moment, "You send a telegram to Your Majesty, just say that you want to be a second-division general..."

"It's not right, it's not right."

Cheng Yanjin shook his head again and again when he heard this, "The fate of Li Guangli, the general of the second division, is not good, don't say that." ”

"Then go and impeach Su Dingfang, saying that he has problems commanding operations and not leaving enough garrison force for the logistics line. Then he said that he was willing to be a deputy general for Su Dingfang and take the southern route to pacify the Western Regions. ”

The so-called southern route is the southern line of the Silk Road, and the entire Western Regions is basically bounded by the Tianshan Mountains, and the north of the Tianshan Mountains is the northern route of the Silk Road.

The southern route is to go south of the Tianshan Mountains and take the Qiuzi Loulan, which is the later Anxi Duhufu.

The north and south lines are mainly distinguished by Yumen Pass and Yangguan.

Su Dingfang concentrated the main force on the northern front, with the aim of defeating the Western Turks first, so that the southern front belonged to the transmission of the decided.

Li Yunze followed and said, "Su Dingfang has already hit the broken leaves, and then he will go north to attack the Western Turkic nest in Jinshan, and no one will move in the south for the time being, this is your chance to make meritorious contributions." ”

Cheng Yanjin thought about it carefully, and immediately turned around and went straight to the carriage, where there was a transmitter specially equipped for him by Li Er.

As expected, when Li Er learned that the Turks who raided the grain route had been defeated, he immediately agreed to Cheng Yanjin's proposal, and said that the follow-up reinforcements would not turn back, but would be directly transported by his commander to attack the southern front.

The reinforcements from Longyou Province plus the reinforcements from Chang'an City are almost more than 40,000 people.

In the past, if you want to maintain an army of this size to fight in the distant Western Regions, you must at least mobilize hundreds of thousands of civilians to provide logistical support, because the distance is too far.

But now, the Tang Army's soldiers and horses in the Western Regions are almost 200,000, but the logistics are still at ease.

The power of technological upgrades can be seen from this.

Cheng Yanjin, who finally got the opportunity, didn't even make any contact with the nominal general Su Dingfang, and waited until the follow-up soldiers and horses arrived one after another, and hurriedly led the troops to battle.

The Southern Route Army first took Shanshan, and then attacked Yanqi (Korla) westward along the Tianshan Mountains.

Speaking of Yanqi, this is really an old friend of Middle-earth.

As early as the Han Dynasty, they were the vassal states of Mao Dun Shan Yu, and they fought back and forth with the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years.

After that, he fought with Qianliang, Qianqin, and Western Wei.

During the Sui Dynasty, he took refuge in the Western Turks and became a vassal state of the Western Turks.

The combat effectiveness of the Tang army was extremely strong, far from being able to resist the Yanqi State.

Cheng Yanjin not only attacked the Yanqi Kingdom himself, but also sent Cheng Chumo to lead his troops south, crossing the Hanhai (Tarim Desert) to attack the end of the country and the country of Jingju, and it is said that he also captured a queen.

This time, Cheng Biting Jin changed his cautious style in the past, and the aggression advanced by leaps and bounds.

After the destruction of the Yanqi Kingdom, it quickly moved westward along the oasis passage between the Tianshan Mountains and the Hanhai Sea, and destroyed the Kuqa Kingdom, which was Qiuzi, and the future location of the Anxi Protectorate.

After just a short stay, he traveled westward again and successively pacified small countries such as Gumo and Wensu, and finally conquered Hotan south of Hanhai, and gathered troops under the city of Shule in Khotan and other countries.

So far, the land of the four towns of Anxi, which has been lost for many years, has been recovered.

Li Er didn't mention any more heavenly khans, and directly ordered all the captives to be transported back. The fields here will be distributed to the people who have migrated from the interior.

Not only these small countries, but even the Zahu tribes everywhere were swept away by Cheng Biting Jin, who was eager for meritorious service.

Shule's position is very important, and the Broken Leaf City to the north are the two gateways to the Western Regions.

In later generations, Shule had a name called Kashgar.

Hit here, Cheng Yanjin is almost the end of the crossbow, because the logistics supply line from Li Yunze is already thousands of miles away.

Thousands of miles without railroads would be a disaster in this era.

Cheng Biting Jin was going to trim it, but Li Er was stimulated by his battle report, and directly came to the micro exercise, asking Cheng Biting Jin to go south to attack the big and small Bolu countries.

And the name of this great and small Buru country in later generations is Kashmir.