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Chapter 973 The Emperor with the Four Seas - March to India

The Xiao Shule Oasis is located on a tributary of the Chakmak River. In the early years, it was a stronghold for the military farming and reclamation of Han and Tang garrison soldiers, and was only a few dozen miles away from the Shule Oasis. After the Shule fell into the hands of the Karakhans, it was granted to several Ikta Knights and became their fief. However, the men did not live in the Xiao Shule Oasis, but lived in the lively Kashgar city for a long time. Therefore, the Xiao Shule Oasis has always been a quiet countryside. Except for the Buddhist temple in the center of the oasis, it became Tianfang Temple, which symbolized that this land had changed its owner, and everything was no different from hundreds of years ago.

However, now, this small oasis has once again become a place where Han soldiers gather. Sandbags have been built on the edge of the oasis and trenches have been dug. Large chariots carrying grain and patrolling cavalry have entered and exited through several doors of the walls made of sandbags. From time to time, knights with flag-recognizing their backs rushed over and shouted "military newspapers" in a stack of voices. The chariots and horses on the road have taken their eager eyes while avoiding them.

Everyone has been bored in this Luoshizi oasis for almost two months! They have been in Shache Oasis for six or seven months before, and they can fade out of birds except for training and farming. Seeing the weather getting colder, can they have to spend the winter near Kashgar again? Should they sow some wheat in Xiaoshule?

I originally thought the Battle of the Western Expedition was a bitter battle, but I didn’t expect that the days were spent in boring marches, farming, building and day after day rigorous training. Only the brothers who took Qinghai Road to the stone city that day had gained a lot of credit. Others only had a jealousy!

"When will it take to take Kashgar City?" The first general of the Education Regiment Corps, Yu Tongdao, strode into Tianfang Temple in the center of the oasis. This is now the location of the central army and the general army's computer room. "The Turks and the Karakhans are really calm, and they are all in autumn and there is no movement yet!"

"Then let's continue to waste it slowly!" Liu Long raised his head from a pile of official documents. He is now the deputy military aircraft of the General Army (the army led by Zhang Yuan and Zhao Zhongshun are called the Anxi Army), assisting Ma Zheng in handling daily chores.

He watched his old classmate Yu Tongdao take the tea bowl from an auxiliary soldier and drink a few sips, then take a wet wipe to wipe the sweat and dust on his face, and smiled and said, "It's better to train troops, right? Why don't we change it, you should be the auxiliary military aircraft, and I will lead the troops."

"Don't even think about it!" Yu Tongdao wiped his face and said with a smile, "Don't act like I haven't worked as a deputy military aircraft. The deputy military aircraft is just a stone butt. If you sit down, you can't get up. All kinds of copywriting are so annoying.

Liu Long smiled bitterly: "That's not it. Now the General Military Office of the Xuanfu Department is still causing trouble. I have issued a document and asked us to try our best to take Kashgar this fall and break into India... and we must also win the power of the country in India and become a vassal state."

"How many vassal states do you want to do? What does Gao Xuanshuai want to do?" Yu Tongdao was quite puzzled.

"Who knows?" Liu Long shook his head. "There is a dark place in the Tianzhu. Where can I find a vassal state? And it is not us who are waiting to enter Tianzhu. That is the territory of the Hexi army. When they enter Tianzhu, the Hexi army will be the Tianzhu army. At that time, we should go back to Hexi!"

"Return to Hexi?" Yu Tongdao shook his head and said, "Maybe it's going back to Jiehe."

The Anxi Army is actually working together on three sides, one side is the civil servants of the New Party led by Zhang Yuan. Due to the training of the new army and the organization of the Anxi Educational Corps, the boundaries between civil and military affairs of the Northern Song Dynasty have become a bit blurred.

The rules of this article that the official did not control the troops but only controlled the generals had loosened. The current Hedong New Army was organized by Tao Jiefu. Among the eighteen generals who were currently being trained, four of them were directly under the Hedong Xuanfu Division.

In the Great Educational Corps, Zhang Yuan, the great teaching decree, went directly to the front line and started the work of the headmaster. Among the two new generals and 2,000 knights that the Great Educational Corps had, a considerable number of them had been directly controlled by Zhang Yuan!

After having the army, the territory was the next thing Zhang Yuan wanted to get. For this reason, from the occupation of Shache Oasis last year to the present, Zhang Yuan has been negotiating with Zhao Zhongshun and Ma Zheng (representing Wu Haogu) to the distribution of the fruits of victory.

According to the agreement reached in negotiations, after the Anxi Army successfully invaded Tianzhu, Zhao Ganshun would resign from the Hexi Jiedushi and recommend Zhang Yuan as the Jiedushi, that is, to hand over the prefectures and counties under the Hexi Army to Zhang Yuan for jurisdiction.

Regardless of whether Zhang Yuanhui established an independent kingdom in Hexi, the merits that he took from the "Western thief" alone would be enough to make him a very important official in the Song Dynasty in the future!

Zhang Yuan would recommend Zhao Ganshun as the governor of the three towns of Paoling, Bolu, Anxi, and the ambassador of Tianzhu Xuanfu. Although he lost the headquarters of Hexi, Zhao Ganshun could still take away hundreds of thousands of "Han" people from Hexi. He could even collect all the essence of Hexi and take them all to Tianzhu to be the master.

In the future, I can even be the Emperor of Emperor in India again!

As for the great education groups, of course, there are also gains. What the great education groups can obtain are academies, Buddhist temples and Taoist temples with territory.

Whether it is the Hexi Road ruled by Zhang Yuan or the Anxi, Pamir, Bolu and Tianzhu territories ruled by Zhao Ganshun, they must have implemented layers of feudal feudal systems. The system of a bureaucratic empire like the Song Dynasty was simply impossible to implement in places where land was barren and transportation remained unchanged.

The feudal lords are not necessarily "natural persons", but also colleges, temples, or Taoist temples. Of course, there will also be Tianfang Temple, which supports the reunification of the motherland and loves Zhao's family, who will be granted the title.

In Anxi, Pamir, Bolu and Tianzhu, people who believe in various religions and belong to different ethnic groups are all equal...

This kind of academies, temples and Taoist temples with fiefs is also a restriction on the separatist tendency of the brothers of Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun.

These academies, temples and Taoist temples are not fiefs received from the brothers Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun, but are partners of Zhao Ganshun and Zhao Zhongshun!

They are loyal to their respective superior temples, Taoist temples and doctoral orders!

Chen Jian, Yu Tongdao, Liu Long and Xue Ding can choose to follow Zhang Yuan to become a general of the Hexi Army, or to return to Jiehe Shang City and become a senior executive of the Great Doctorate.

"Report..." A small school with a long tone and a cavalry renounced flags behind him ran in, and set up a military salute in front of Liu Long and Yu Tongdao. "Liu Deputy Military Machine, General Yu Zheng Rong. Shizhuo City urgently reported that there was a commotion in Kashgar City, and a large number of thieves were carrying the people out of the city!"

Liu Long and Yu Tongdao looked at each other and finally waited for the time to break up!

...

The sky is gray-yellow, and the north wind is like a huge wave, rushing towards the large group of people walking slowly in the wind and sand.

These are the people who fled from Kashgar City. Not only were warriors wearing armor and weapons, but also countless families who helped the elderly and the young, all of whom were the families of Aslan Khan’s subordinates!

Sanjar led his troops to Kashgar and did not seem to have any effect, except to speed up the consumption of small amount of grain stored in the city.

Time passed slowly in hesitation and confrontation. From summer to autumn winds, Sanjar was not determined to attack the Lion Prison City on the south bank of the Chakmak River.

Small-scale contact wars were carried out every day on the wasteland on the south bank of the Chakmak River. Sanjar sent precious Gulam cavalry to test the strength of his opponents. And they were greeted by the Xiliang cavalry and Iron Harriers of the Hexi Army!

In a single-soldier competition, the Gulam warriors often gain the upper hand with their outstanding martial arts. However, their opponents are used to using group charges to fight, which is a bit like the fighting style of the Crusaders. However, it is much more powerful than the Crusaders! The number of Crusaders is not large, and they are only good at charging and not good at riding and shooting. The Xiliang Cavalry and Iron Harrier themselves are extremely outstanding light cavalry. Not only can they charge, but their cavalry level is no less than that of the Gulam warriors.

Most importantly, they were in large numbers! They often fought with infantrymen holding spears and crossbows, which caused enough trouble for the Guram warriors of Sanjar.

After many battles of hundreds of people, the experienced Sanjar finally realized that his army could not break through the castle on the other side of the Chakmak River. If he led his army across the river to besiege the castle, his army would be in a huge disaster.

The opponent's cavalry is stronger than Guram, and the infantry can crush Persian mercenaries, and there are many (I don't know how much it is). You can't win a field battle with such an enemy, let alone siege?

So retreating from Kashgar is Sanjar's only choice.

However, Kashgar is just a cage. It is easy to get in, but it is difficult to leave. You can't just leave it casually, and you can't abandon Aslan Khan and run away by yourself.

Because Aslan Khan still has hundreds of thousands of tribes, although he is not able to fight, this does not prevent him from becoming an excellent leader. If Aslan Khan surrenders to the Song Dynasty, becomes "Zhao Lion", and then drives his father to enter India, then Sanjar will be in trouble.

Moreover, as long as the ruler in Persia, Afghanistan, and the northwest of India knows a truth: Anyone who is beaten to the point of being blue and swollen from other places will immediately become vibrant as soon as they enter India and win every battle. Although Aslan Khan is now beaten into a "little dog" by the Peach Blossom Stone Man, it really makes him cross the Pamir Mountains and Guan Bao becomes the Lion King again.

So Sanjar must pull Aslan Khan to go together... This force must be controlled in his own hands no matter what.

If you can't control it, then let him die with the pursuer of the Taohua Stone!

Seeing Aslan Khan walking alongside him frequently turned around, squinted his eyes and tried to see clearly Kashgar City covered by yellow sand.
Chapter completed!
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