The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 460 World War ([-]) "For the leader?"Yu Yu Jia Geng"

Li Yunze knew very well that what he wanted to do was something the Tubo people desperately wanted to prevent.

It is indeed convenient and fast to walk to the foot of Tianshan Mountain, but the Tubo people think so too.

He even had a rough inference about the arrangements of the Tibetans.

After the reinforcements arrive in Kucha, the Tubo people will continue to come to test the confrontation, block step by step along the Tianshan Mountains to the west, and try their best to attack the large-scale transport team.

This is a typical way to lure the enemy to go deep. When they are exhausted after traveling more than a thousand miles to the west, the real main force of the Tubo people will attack back and forth and surround Li Yunze's troops.

To the south is the vast sea, and to the north is the Tianshan Mountains.

The Tang army, exhausted and having lost most of its supplies, will face an onslaught from a huge army far beyond imagination.

Most of the Tang army, which was attacked by the enemy, were recruits. Even if they became white, there was nothing they could do.

Tang Jun's equipment is indeed very good, but the source of strength is the people who use the equipment.

He even deduced that the decisive battlefield preset by the Tubo people must be in Gumo country.

Now that he knew the enemy's strategy, he couldn't follow the enemy's arrangement, so Li Yunze had his own plan.

Speaking of which, Li Yunze's strategic plan is very simple, which is to use the terrain to form a huge encirclement within a wider range.

It's a coincidence that the Tibetans wanted to use the Tianshan Mountains and the vast seas, and Li Yunze wanted to use them too.

Sealed off the mountain passes of the Tianshan Mountains, and left heavy troops in Yanqi to lock the pocket exits.The reinforcements went south across the vast sea, cut off the logistics lines of the Tubo people, and finally arrived at Shule to rescue Cheng Chumo, and at the same time locked the entrance of the Pocket Array.

Still the same sentence, without enough supplies, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, it will be a dead end.

Even the more soldiers and horses, the faster they will die.

As long as Li Yunze could cut off the Tubo people's supply line to the south of the vast sea, the Tubo army trapped at the foot of the Tianshan Mountain would be doomed.

And along the way, you can use the Tubo defenders to train recruits, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

A simple anti-encirclement on a larger scale.

The lieutenants were dumbfounded, they never thought that Li Yunze could resolve the crisis so easily.

From the north to the south, the width of the vast sea ranges from hundreds of miles to more than a thousand miles. As long as a few specific routes are blocked, it is really impossible to get out.

At least from a strategic point of view, the school captains bowed down.

Next, it depends on how to successfully execute tactically.

After the explanation, Li Yunze's face darkened, "I will only say this once, and anyone who dares to question me from now on, then I will meet you first!"

In this world, he didn't have the outstanding martial arts skills of Li Jing, and he had never been in the military system, so he had no connection with the troops under his command.

It is precisely because of this that in order to maintain the morale of the army, he had to explain his combat plan to the school lieutenants.

In the Ming world, whoever dares to question him would have already engaged in military law.

After that, everyone from the captain to the sergeant saw Li Yunze's abilities.

A huge army, and even a larger transport team, marching in an environment like the vast sea, the difficulty of scheduling can be imagined.

However, here Li Yunze arranged everything in an orderly manner, and issued various orders in a smooth flow, maintaining the marching ranks.

What's more exaggerated is that with only a few experienced local guides, Li Yunze can always find the most suitable marching route, avoiding the dangerous and difficult desert environment, and walking on the solid Gobi suitable for marching.

Especially the oases along the way are hardly missed.

What is the most important thing in the desert?
Of course it's water!
People don't eat, and they can carry it for several days to move forward with difficulty.

But if you don't drink water, you will be unbearably thirsty for a day.

This is especially true in the environment where the sun is venomous during the day and the water in the body evaporates on a large scale.

Li Yunze was able to find the oasis, not because he opened the third eye on his forehead.Instead, he used drones to conduct super-wide-range reconnaissance from the sky.

After all, in the open environment of the desert, it is not very difficult to find traces of the oasis at high altitude.

Tens of thousands of horses and tens of thousands of carts avoided all dangers, including sandstorms.

Along the way, I can stay near the oasis almost every night, and then use quilts, blankets and cotton clothes to resist the cold night, and get up in the morning to eat and drink enough water to set off before setting off.

Because of the proper scheduling, under the leadership of Li Yunze, this huge Tang army went all the way south to the west bank of Lop Nur in just over ten days.

In later generations, Lop Nur is synonymous with dry land.

In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian once said to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, "Loulan, Shiyi has a city wall and is near Yanze."

This salt marsh is Lop Nur.

200 years ago, after the Northern Wei Dynasty destroyed Loulan, it was gradually abandoned and barren.

At this time, it still has a drainage area of ​​tens of thousands of square kilometers.

Of course, it's not called Lop Nur now, it's called Peacock Sea.

Li Yunze shook his head repeatedly as he looked at the vast mist and lush water and grass in front of him.

Because he knew very well that the scene in front of him was purely due to the short-term prosperity caused by the inflow of rivers such as the Tarim River and Kongque River.

With the drying up of these desert rivers, it will quickly wither and become a small saltwater lake. The entire time suitable for human habitation is only two or three months in a year, and it will directly become a seasonal lake.

Drinking water is available for only two or three months, so it is doomed that there is no way to live here for a long time.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Loulan people finally gave up here.

After all, there is only salt water lake left for most of the year, or even no salt water at all, so there is no way to live in it.

Naturally, Li Yunze didn't want to stay here any longer. After two days of recuperation, he quickly headed westward and arrived at Dianhe City.

Not surprisingly, Dianhe City was already occupied by Tibetans.

Seeing the appearance of Tang Jun, the Tubo people were obviously shocked, and they closed the city gate in a panic and prepared to defend it to the death.

The city is made of adobe walls, and the walls are not high.

Li Yunze was in a hurry, so naturally he wouldn't make complex large-scale siege equipment, he just made some long ladders and started to attack the city.

There is no such thing as siege, three lacking one, but there are only a few hundred Tubo people who bully the defenders, and they are very simply besieged from all sides.

Tang Jun came too suddenly, and the defenders didn't make any preparations at all.

It can only be in vain standing on the top of the city to shoot arrows and dance knives.

The armored soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, who were dressed like half of an iron can, completely ignored the bows, arrows, knives and guns, and stepped on the ladder abruptly to rush upwards.

Just like what Li Yunze had thought before, he used the opportunity of marching to train those recruits into veterans.

The biggest difference between recruits and veterans is whether they have been on the battlefield.

Most of the soldiers who attacked the city this time were recruits.

Li Yunze, who was sitting on the saddle, quietly watched the Tang army on the east side attack the city.

He saw a soldier of the Tang Army, who drew his bow and set his arrows under the city, and shot more than ten arrows one after another, each of which hit a defender.

With such a wonderful archery technique, Li Yunze couldn't help but nod and applaud, "Good archery!"

There are many people who are good at archery during training on weekdays, but they can still shoot well on the battlefield, and they are all good archers.

Because this requires a high mentality, Li Yunze himself is a master of archery, so naturally he knows this very well.

He paid attention to the soldier of the Tang army, silently watched him put away his bow and arrow, and climbed up the city wall step by step with a horizontal knife in his mouth.

"Climb first! There are warriors who climb first~~~"

The cheers of Tang Jun sounded all around, and the merits of being the first to ascend will always be the first among all the achievements. This is the perfect display of courage and strength plus luck.

And the first achievement is also the fastest way for ordinary sergeants to cross the steps and get ahead from ordinary sergeants.

Of course, the degree of danger is also the highest.

Usually out of ten warriors who ascend first, nine of them will die on the top of the wall.

Fortunately, the opponent was too weak this time. The warrior who climbed first successfully protected the breakthrough and got the support of the follow-up brothers.

More and more Tang troops climbed to the top of the city, and began to advance everywhere, and the defenders gradually broke down and began to collapse.

Seeing this, Li Yunze simply got up and picked up the Maza, "It's over, ready to enter the city."

The Tubo people's ability to defend the city is not bad, but it's a pity that they were completely defenseless this time, and they were too weak to be directly beaten down.

After two days of recuperation in Dianhe City, when the follow-up convoys of soldiers and horses arrived one after another, Li Yunze picked out a 3000-man army to stay and garrison them, and left them enough supplies for several months.

"Repair the city wall, prepare supplies for the defense of the city, and cut down all the Populus euphratica forests outside the city."

Li Yunze's order to the defenders was very clear, "Cut off the supply line here and hold it!"

The Tang army soon set off westward again, and the forward arrived at Qiemo seven or eight days later.

In the Han Dynasty, it was the Qiemo Kingdom, which was discovered by Zhang Qian.

By the time of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty established Qiemo County here, and sent convicts here to garrison fields and guard the border.

In history, when Xuanzang returned to Chang'an City, he also passed by here.

When Cheng Yaojin was traveling west, he sent Cheng Chumo to capture here.

When Cheng Chumo left, there were less than a thousand people stationed behind him.

Not surprisingly, the Tubo army came and occupied this place again.

This time the Tubo defenders took some precautions, and the number of defenders reached two to three thousand.

Not surprisingly, it was still a siege battle.

This time Li Yunze was not in a hurry to start the fight, but set up camp outside the city, felled trees to make siege equipment, and waited for the follow-up troops to arrive before attacking the city.

But that night, there was an accident.

There were shouts of killing in the city, flames shot up into the sky, and even the gate of the city near the Tang army barracks was opened.

A school lieutenant asked Li Yunze what to do, Li Yunze simply said, "What else can I do, the city gates are already open, of course we must rush in immediately!"

The captain asked anxiously, "What if it's a trap?"

"Where are there so many traps? This is an old and dilapidated small city without even an urn. When the opportunity arises, don't miss it, rush in immediately!"

As the Tang army's iron cavalry roared into the city, the night battle also came to an early end.

At dawn, the truth of last night's chaos finally came to light.

The residents in Qiemo City are basically the adherents of the former Sui Dynasty. After the Tubo people came, the cruel oppression aroused their anger and resistance.

It was learned yesterday that the main force of the Tang army had arrived outside the city, and they launched an attack on the Tubo people that night. They even released the Tang army who had been defeated and captured before.

After knowing the cause and effect, Li Yunze received local prominent figures in the city.

Hearing the words to appease, he stated, "From now on, you are the citizens of the Tang Dynasty, and you will be protected by the Tang Dynasty. You will be rewarded for your contribution to the city."

When the top figures left happily, Li Yunze summoned the captain who was scheduled to stay at Qiemo and told him, "When the Tubo people come, keep an eye on these people. If you can betray the first time, you can betray the second time. Find a way." Divide them up, and those who are available should absorb them as soon as possible. Let’s not stop here, we must hold on!”

"only!"

(End of this chapter)