In the imperial study room of the palace of Xingqing Mansion, Li Liangzuo summoned Li Yanzong, who rushed back from Youzhou, this time Li Liangzuo sent troops to rescue the Uighurs in Xizhou to appoint Li Yanzong as the commander, the whole Western Xia seems to be full of talents, but there are very few who can really serve as the commander of an army, the old is too old, the young are too young, and only Li Yanzong can meet all the requirements of Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo made it to the dragon chair and said to Li Yanzong: "Aiqing, please take a seat." ” "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Li Yanzong said.
Li Liangzuo continued to say to Li Yanzong: "This time the Black Khan Dynasty went east in the name of holy war, which had a huge impact on our Great Xia Kingdom, because the Black Khan and the Uighurs were at war, the Silk Road had been blocked, and the daily losses were huge, so Aiqing led the troops to the west this time and had to fight quickly. ” "Yes, I will do my best."
Li Yanzong said; "I don't know what else Your Majesty wants" Li Liangzuo smiled and said: "I don't have many requirements, only two: this is the first to find out the strength of the Black Khan Dynasty, I heard that the elite of the Black Khan Dynasty is the Ghulam heavy armored cavalry, Aiqing wants to find out its tactics; Second, Aiqing does not need to withdraw his troops and return to China after repelling the Black Khan army, but must be stationed in Gaochang City in the name of protecting the Uighurs of Xizhou, do you understand my intentions?"
"Your Majesty wants to come up with a false plan to destroy the enemy."
Li Yanzong boldly guessed.
Li Liangzuo smiled with a conspiracy on his face: "What Aiqing said is right, but it is not entirely right, it is too early to destroy the Uighurs in Xizhou, Aiqing only needs to garrison a large army in Gaochang, and let the Uighur king become the Uighur king of my Great Xia Kingdom, not the Uighur king of the Xizhou Uighur domain; I will give you 10,000 heavily armored knights, 20,000 elite light cavalry, and 20,000 light cavalry from the border army, for a total of 50,000 troops. ” "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Weichen will not fail in his mission."
Li Yanzong knelt down on one knee and said.
Xiao Fuzi walked in and said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, General Chahan and General Qin Hu have arrived. ” "Let them in."
Li Liangzuo said.
After Li Chahan and Qin Hu came in, they saluted Li Liangzuo and said, "The last general will see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live." ” "Get up," Li Liangzuo said with a wave of his hand; "Aiqing, how do you look at the two offspring?"
Li Yanzong looked at the two of them and said, "Yes, in time, I will become the tiger general of my Great Xia Kingdom." ” "I intend to let the two of them follow the general to the west, I don't know what the general wants," Li Liangzuo asked Li Yanzong with a smile.
Li Yanzong happily received the order and said: "The last general will receive the order." ” "Okay."
Li Liangzuo smiled and said: "Li Yanzong, Li Chahan, and Qin Hu listened to the seal. ” "The Last Will Be" Li Liangzuo sat on the dragon chair and gave an order to the three of them: "Order Li Yanzong to be the general of Fuyuan, Li Chahan and Qin Hu to be the deputy generals, and lead 50,000 troops to the Black Khan Dynasty." ” "The last general commanded, long live my emperor, long live, long live."
The three of them took the military order.
Li Liangzuo said to the three of them: "Three Aiqing, please get up, I am waiting for the news of your victory in the palace; The general is in charge of everything in this expedition, and you two must learn from the general well, and don't poke me in any way. ” "Yes, please rest assured, Your Majesty."
Chahan and Qin Hu bowed and said.
"The army rests for the day today and will go out tomorrow."
Li Liangzuo said to the three of them; "Tomorrow, I will lead hundreds of civil and military officials to see you off."
"Your Majesty" "General, I have already sent people to the two major tribes of Huangtou Hui and Caotou Tatar, so that they can send troops to help, and the general can send people to contact them at that time."
Li Liangzuo finally said to Li Yanzong.
The next day, Li Liangzuo led the civil and military officials to send the army out, this is the first westward expedition in the Great Xia Kingdom for decades, since the capture of the Hexi Corridor during the Li Yuanhao period, the army of the Great Xia State has been at war with the Song and Liao, and knows little about the situation of the Western Regions.
In recent years, although Li Liangzuo has collected a lot of information about the countries of the Western Regions, he does not know anything about the combat methods of the armies of the Western Regions countries and the combat effectiveness of the armies.
After the Uighur Dynasty was destroyed, some Uighurs moved to the area of Gaochang and established the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom in the eastern part of the Western Regions, west of the Hexi Corridor, centered on Gaochang and Beiting.
The land area of the Xizhou Uighurs is about the same as that of the Western Xia, but most of them are deserts and Gobi, and only the grasslands and some oases at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains are suitable for human habitation, so the population is not very large, only about 400,000 people, and the population in this era represents the national strength, and the population of about 400,000 people, even if the Xizhou Uighur Kingdom is a soldier, the maximum number of troops is not more than 200,000.
Fighting against the Uighur kingdom of Western China was the Black Khan, a powerful dynasty in the Western Regions that had just fallen to Khotan in the first thirty years and occupied Hanoi, Khotan, and most of Turkestan, which was much larger than that of Western Xia; The Black Khan dynasty was mainly Islamized Turkic people, with a population of about 1.3 million.
Originally, in this period of history, it has been divided into east and west, but in this era, due to Suleiman's iron-fisted methods, the civil strife of the Black Khan Dynasty was quelled, and once again integrated, after the civil strife, the army of the Black Khan Dynasty is no longer what it used to be, and the original declining Black Khan Dynasty seems to have the posture of re-rising.
This time, Suleiman launched the so-called holy war and dispatched 200,000 troops, in fact, there were 30,000 elite Ghulam heavy cavalry, and in the face of the extremely weak Xizhou Uighur Black Khan army, it was like entering a no-man's land, and the attack on the city made rapid progress.
"Report, report, report to the Great Khan, the spies reported that Western Xia had sent troops to rescue the Uighur kingdom."
An adjutant ran to Suleiman's tent and said.
Suleiman's Great Tent is completely different from the Great Tent of the Central Plains, this is a dome into the tent, in the Great Tent Suleiman sits on the throne of Khan, and the generals below sit on both sides, with a large cauldron in the middle, in which mutton is boiled, and on the table in front of each general is placed whole pieces of mutton and Hu cakes, as well as pots of mare's milk wine.
Suleiman, who had been biting on the mutton, threw down the large piece of mutton, took a glass of mare's milk wine and drank it in a big gulp, and the mare's milk wine, which had overflowed too quickly, remained down Suleiman's beard.
After drinking, Suleiman slapped the golden cup on the case in front of him, and said to the generals: "I didn't expect that the little emperor really dared to send troops to come, since they came to find death, the warriors, you tell Ben Khan what to do."
"Kill them, kill them" "Well, Ben Khan asked how many men your little emperor had sent," Suleiman asked the lieutenant.
The adjutant general hurriedly replied to Suleiman: "Great Khan, they claim that an army of 100,000 is coming. ” Suleiman frowned and said, "One hundred thousand Xia troops is not a small number, I don't know what the generals have to do."
"Great Khan, the last general thinks that the Xia army is not to worry, and our army only needs to take Gaochang before the Xia army arrives."
One of the generals stood up and said; "The last general asked for the order to lead the army to attack Jiaohe City, as long as Jiaohe City is taken, Gaochang is close at hand, and our army will be victorious before the arrival of the Xia army."
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