After the signing of the Suzhou agreement, Li Liangzuo immediately fulfilled his promise, and Li Liangzuo immediately ordered the 350,000 Xia army iron cavalry hidden in Heluochuan to immediately go south to Suzhou to assemble, at this time the main force of the Xia army has been waiting in Heluochuan for nearly a month, and the armies have not been idle in this month's time, and the armies have been trained to cooperate with the operation according to Li Liangzuo's orders.
In the hall of Suzhou City's Assassin Mansion, the generals of the main force of the Xia Army's Western Expedition are gathered here, including Li Bingchang, Li Yue, Liang Gewei, Feng Frame, Qin Hu, Zhu Xu, Li Yanze, An Qingxu, Hua Ma and Mu Zheng and others, the generals of each department are lined up on both sides, arranged in two columns according to their ranks, these generals present are all generals carefully cultivated by Li Liangzuo for many years, and they are all people who are deeply valued by Li Liangzuo, and they have a teacher-student relationship with Li Liangzuo, except for Hua Ma and Mu Zheng.
Li Liangzuo sat on the handsome chair and said to everyone: "I have reached an agreement with the Black Khan Dynasty to send troops to rescue Suleiman; Of course, sending troops to rescue is just a pretense, and my ultimate intention will not change, and the Western Regions must be included in the rule of my Great Xia Kingdom, which no one can let me change; According to the content of the agreement, the Black Khan Dynasty has promised to cede Khotan and its affiliated territories to me the Great Xia Kingdom, Li Bingchang, Liang Gewei, and Qin Hu obeyed your orders to lead 100,000 light cavalry to the west overnight to Khotan to receive the territory, remember to keep an eye on not letting them take everything away from Lao Tzu. ” "The last general will understand" "After taking Khotan, don't rush north to join me, and wait for my next order" "Yes."
"Ordered Anxi to protect Li Yanzong to lead the Anxi Army, as the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army, to enter the area west of the Uchi in advance, open roads in the mountains, and build bridges in the water to open the way for the follow-up army, and after the army marched to Barasagon, wait for my follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive."
"Father, the fighter plane is fleeting, and now the Seljuk army is basically unimpeded, at this time, our army should arrive at the front line as quickly as possible, please ask my father to order that his son be allowed to lead an army to Tiemen Pass to block the Seljuk army from going north."
Li Bingchang said to Li Liangzuo.
"What's the use of you keeping the Seljuk army out of the Iron Gate now, you need to use your brains to fight; I am not afraid of the Seljuk army going north, this has nothing to do with me, our first task now is to grab territory, I want to use this time to almost completely occupy the eastern territory of the Black Khan, and create an established fact; It is not too late to fight the Seljuk army after our rear is stable, otherwise we can only make wedding dresses for others in vain. ” "Erchen understood."
"Order Li Wu to lead the Northern Route Army to the south on the same day, and go to Barasagon to join me, and the tribes in various places along the way must obey the rule of our Great Xia Kingdom, otherwise they will be killed."
"Yes, the minion will send someone to give the order."
"The army will be repaired for one day, and tomorrow morning it will be pulled out" Li Liangzuo led the main force of the Xia army to march at a speed not very fast, and was soon left far behind by the 100,000 light cavalry led by Li Bingchang, it stands to reason that the matter of grabbing territory should be very active, the reason why Li Liangzuo is not in a hurry is because he wants to consume more of Suleiman's vital force, so that he can draw more troops from the rear to fight at Tiemen Pass, so that he and the Seljuk army can fight and lose, and the Xia army can benefit from it.
But this time Li Liangzuo miscalculated, when Li Liangzuo led the main army just arrived in Shule, he got a very bad news, Suleiman garrisoned the Iron Gate Pass, the Iron Gate Pass is located in the south of the Black Khan Dynasty, is the strategic point of the Black Khan Dynasty's north-south transportation, the branch of the Silk Road to the south passes through here, the loss of the Iron Gate Pass means that the entire Black Khan Dynasty has opened the door, the Seljuk army can cross the Iron Gate Pass to kill anywhere in the Black Khan Dynasty, and there is almost no danger to defend on the vast grassland Gobi.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Liangzuo angrily said that the information was still on the table: "Is Suleiman a pig Tens of thousands of people occupy a favorable terrain city high and deep, and they can't even hold an iron gate, what a bunch of waste." ” "Your Majesty, now is not the time to be angry, we have to think about what to do next" Hua Ma and Mu Zheng asked Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, the loss of the Iron Gate Pass had completely broken Li Liangzuo's original strategic deployment, and now the Seljuk army is like a wolf entering a flock, and the place where it passes must be surrendered to the wind, maybe Suleiman will take the lead in surrendering Malikshah, once such a situation happens, it will be very bad, and the originally reasonable Li Liangzuo will instantly become unreasonable, which is morally untenable for Li Liangzuo.
After some careful consideration, Li Liangzuo finally made up his mind and said: "Now all the strategic deployments we originally designated are no longer available, and the plan will never catch up with the changes; It was ordered that the whole army should not be procrastinating in its future actions, and that it should act quickly and decisively without any hesitation; Order: Li Wu led the Northern Army to occupy the Yiqi Wugu City without going south, and immediately turned westward, successively occupying Tuqishi, Talas, Sadara, Baishui City and other places, and then arrived at the middle route army on the east bank of the Honghe River; Order: All units of the middle route army immediately open all the way to the west to reach the east bank of the Honghe River as quickly as possible, and do not let go of all the strategic points of the city along the way, this is the lifeline of our contact with the rear. ” "Obey Your Majesty's Military Orders" "Yue'er, lead my personal guard battalion to follow me to Barasagon tomorrow."
"Father, only led 10,000 elite cavalry, is there a little less soldiers and horses?"
"Now that Barasagon has become a toothless lion, if my most elite 10,000 elite horsemen can't occupy this city, then our Xia army will be completely declined, and there will be no need to go west, just go home honestly."
"Erchen, understand."
"All the generals should divide up and prepare, and when the preparations are finished, we will set off immediately."
Now Li Liangzuo does not know much about the situation on the front line, so he does not dare to attack rashly, and can only snatch the fruits of victory as quickly as possible, and take the core area of the Black Khan Dynasty east of the Honghe River first; Now the war has far exceeded Li Liangzuo's early predictions; Li Langzuo deployed his defensive line according to the course of the Hong River, which roughly first ran from east to west, and then suddenly turned to the northwest near Kuzhati and flowed into the Khorezm Sea and the Aral Sea.
This Honghe basically divided the Black Khan Dynasty into two parts, the northeast region is the key core area of the Black Khan Dynasty, and the southeast region is the beginning of the southern road of the Silk Road, the most important city is the Samad Horse, which is an important political, economic, and cultural center in the west of the Black Khan Dynasty, and now Suleiman has led the remnants to retreat here, and the Seljuk army is not so fast as the pursuit.
Malikshah's strategy was to steadily occupy other areas to form a strategic encirclement of Samad Shah, and finally settle the battle, but now the strategic situation is very different, with the intervention of the Xia army, the Seljuk Empire and the Great Xia Empire will eventually complete a contest in this region, and the winner will control the Black Khan Dynasty.
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