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"I hope that the Lord will remember that Zhang was guarding the border for two hundred years and quickly send reinforcements. If this disaster can be resolved, the Zhang family in Hexi will definitely surrender to the lord. Zhong Yao should make a fortune to repay his great kindness."

Zhang Zhongyao rushed back to Lanzhou almost at the same time as Xin Gu's military newspaper. He was exhausted all the way, and he didn't care about resting and went to Chen De's mansion to seek help. The Feige at home passed a letter, the Cao family in Shazhou had already set up troops in Yumen Pass, and the Ganzhou Uighurs to the west were about to move. The prominent Hexi Zhang family's foundation for two hundred years was in danger, and they were afraid they would be wiped out.

Chen De frowned and looked at Zhang Zhongyao who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Zhongyao invites you and I are brothers, why should we do this? The three camps of Jinfan, Cavalry, and Shoyan will rescue Yumen Pass first." After receiving Xin Gu's military report, Chen De was also shocked, and at the same time deeply admired Xin Gu and other generals to make a quick decision. If they lose the support of the Zhang family in Hexi, they cannot advance to the Western Regions. The Liu family in Hexi, the Li family in the area of ​​Lanzhou, the Fengzhe family in Linfu, the Khitan family and the Song Dynasty will sooner or later be defeated.

Seeing Chen De pondering, Xiao Jiu asked, "Dare you ask what the soldiers and armor in Yumen Pass? What is the situation in Hexi? Our army hastily gone, can we gain a foothold?"

When Zhang Zhongyao heard that Xin Gu had already led his army to aid, he felt a little calm and stood up and said seriously: "My Zhang family has three thousand armored soldiers at Yumen Pass, one thousand elite cavalry. The four great masters of Hexi have long been separated from their deeds, and the Cao family can only borrow troops from the Uighurs. Since Cao's rule, he has gradually turned to the Uighurs and suppressed the clothes and clothes of the Han family. The soldiers and people in Hexi have long hated it. The reason why Cao family stood firm is that it is entirely supported by the Uighurs in Shaganzhou. The lord raised troops to Hexi to fight against rebellion. The only concerns are the Uighurs tribes in Shaganzhou. Once the Uighurs defeated the Uighurs, the people in Hexi Han should win the food and follow the scenery." It is related to the life and death of Zhang, Zhang Zhongyao should speak out and say everything, and said: "If Zhang is destroyed by the Uighurs, the Hexi Han family will be frightened and they will fall apart and find a backer. This homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties will probably not belong to the state dynasty."

"Although Yumen Pass City is small, the Zhang family has also been in operation for a hundred years. There are five wells in the city, and the grain storage is enough to support the 5,000-armor troops for more than one year. In addition to the Zhang family and their relatives, there are only a few idle merchants in the city. At present, the Xin commander led his troops to help, and the people in the city are excited. It is indeed difficult for the Uighur tribes to forcibly capture Yumen Pass City." Because the Cao family of Guiyi, Hexi married the Uighur Khan for several generations, in the eyes of Zhang family, who insisted on the orthodox Chinese family, the Cao family has become in harmony with the Uighurs. At present, the Cao family actually asked the Ganzhou Uighurs to attack Yumen Pass together, and Zhang Zhongyao directly classified the current governor of Guiyi Army as the first-class Uighur barbarians.

Chen De nodded. Yumen Pass was the key to the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty, claiming that "the road must be followed, that is, the throat of the western border." There were also strong soldiers who could support them to come to the Lanzhou headquarters to help. However, the army's expedition to the west was far away, and the back and forth was not short. The Lanzhou headquarters was empty for a long time, and it was afraid that others would take advantage of the situation.

Seeing Yu Fu Rengui thinking beside him, Chen De asked, "Captain Yu Fu has any questions?"

Yu Furengui bowed and said, "The Uighur tribes have always been light and fierce, and they have lost their calmness. This time, they will attack Yumen Pass, and it will be difficult to get in a hurry. They will inevitably increase their troops, which will lead to the emptiness of the two states of Gansu. Our army might as well use the strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao, and attack the Ganzhou Uighur camp with light troops. The enemy will stop returning. If they still insist on their own actions, they will escort all the Uighurs in the camp to confuse their morale. Then they agreed with Zhang to attack the Ganzhou Uighur army on both sides, and they can set the overall situation in one fell swoop."

Chen De also agreed with this proposal and asked again: "What do Zhong Yao think?"

Zhang Zhongyao pondered for a moment. Although he was worried about his hometown, Yu Fu Rengui's plan to surround Wei and rescue Zhao was the best strategy, so he nodded and said, "Yu Fu's commander said this very much. Ganzhou is near and Shazhou is far away. The Uighur tribes thought they could cross the west of Hexi. The only thing they fear was Tubo. Our army rushed thousands of miles to attack him and could attack him unpredictable."

"Okay. If you defeat the Uighurs in Ganzhou, you will be the best at building a strategy." Chen De said in a deep voice, "Soldiers are more important. This time, you should be mainly cavalry. Yajun, Shooting, Hengcheng, and Modao Camp will also fight together. Xiao Tongyu led the baggage camp to stay in Lanzhou. The cavalry was conscripted, and the warriors of the second battalion of Baiyu were in the army to assist in the battle. Each soldier could bring two cavalry. The caravans in the city were conscripted to transport the baggage with the army. After the army went out, the archers in the city were conscripted to go to the city to help defend."

The captains replied yes, since the winter, the slack season has taken advantage of the slack farming time, and the soldiers have strengthened their military training for the cute households and mainly practiced shooting skills. The northwest has a martial spirit. Under the many means of inspiring martial arts, the households have gradually become familiar with the battle. Although they cannot fight against the enemy in the field, they are more than enough to shoot arrows on the top of the city to help fight. Under the control of the soldiers, tens of thousands of households have organizations, not a mob.

Military orders were like mountains. In this decisive battle, Lanzhou dispatched a total of 6,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, mobilized caravans and civilian households. They had already tried their best to fight. According to Chen De's plan, if this battle was won, Lanzhou occupied Hexi and slowly moved the craftsman camp and some civilian households to the west.

The movement of history is often a collection of inevitability and contingency. Even if the Cao family did not have the whim to contact the Uighurs to attack Yumen Pass, under the threat of strong enemies from all sides, the Lanzhou forces could only develop westward to avoid the collision between the two powerful Song and Liao forces at this time. Zhao Guangyi would never tolerate that after he recovered the Yanyun army, there was also a powerful alien force like the Lanzhou army. With the strength of the main force of the imperial guards in the early Song Dynasty, the weak Lanzhou army had to go westward. Although Chen De had a foreshadowing in Xiazhou in advance, the foundation of the Dingnan Army could not be easily shaken. In the end, the Lanzhou army's way out was still Hexi, laying a foundation on the edge of the Uighurs, Tubo, Dangxiang and the Song Dynasty.

All arrangements of the Lanzhou Army were for the strategy of advancing the Western Regions and Xutu Central Plains. For a long-distance expedition, the infantry and cavalry armies had achieved mules and horse transformation, and the soldiers mainly achieved meat-eating. Long-distance march only required to carry enough livestock to accompany the army. If necessary, they could also slaughter and prepare horses to satisfy hunger, without carrying a large amount of food and grass like the Central Plains Army. In order to obtain supplies and military information along the way, dozens of tribal teams attached to the Cavalry Camp took root on the main road outside the frontier leading to Dunhuang in Lanzhou, from the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain to Juyanhai.

In the mainland, the Baiyu Camp tribe team of Dijinze also vigorously expanded its power to Yinshan and Helan Mountain. It can be said that the Yinshan passage is basically controlled by Lanzhou. In order to facilitate the supply of the caravans, Lanzhou even stored a large amount of food and grass in these tribes controlling the east and west channels. One is to ensure the hearts of the people of the tribe, and the other is to facilitate the movement of the army from east to west, without carrying a large amount of food and grass. Even the infantry and cavalry battalions in Lanzhou have traveled many times between Dunhuang and the Central Plains in the name of escorting the caravans, familiar with the expedition roads.

The Cao family suddenly attacked Yumen Pass, which only made Lanzhou advance the plan to advance Hexi.

The decision of the military office was made, with the captains of each battalion and the cavalry commanded the cavalry to reach all locations under the control of Lanzhou.

Among the camps in the city, the lieutenants summoned centuries to arrange the expedition. The centuries then ordered the ten men to inform the soldiers to gather at the military camp. The city defense and garrison were handed over to the baggage battalion, and at the same time, they led the food, fodder, bows and arrows needed for the expedition from the baggage battalion.

The Lanzhou Army's operations are different from the traditional imperial army. The soldiers and even the people have gained a lot from every victory. A small battle was made for rescue of the Han people from the Khitans in Shuozhou, and each soldier began to have cute households. The grassland tribes in the Mobei Province, and the craftsman battalion obtained thousands of work slaves. In fact, most of the work slaves' production was subsidized by the military pay and military supplies of the Lanzhou soldiers. Even ordinary cute households felt that Lanzhou became more prosperous. After the decisive battle of the Dangxiang people, the trade routes were smooth and the profits were even more expensive. What is even more jealous is that the Cavalry Camp and the Baiyu Camp won huge opportunities for expansion after the battle against the alien races, and it is very likely to form an army alone. The future of the two battalions of soldiers also rose. This made the Jinfan, Modao, Heiyun and other old battalions in Lanzhou were particularly jealous and were looking forward to winning more opportunities for war dividends.

Through the military discussion, the Brotherhood has discussed the plan to develop westward countless times among the core members of the army. Some centurions sometimes subconsciously used the Uighur cavalry as the imaginary enemy to carry out actual combat training. Now that the order to attack the Uighurs in Ganzhou was issued, all battalions were excited. According to military reports, the population of the Uighurs under the rule of Ganzhou was 300,000, while the Uighur Khan's army was only more than 10,000, and most of them were trapped in Yumen Pass. If Ganzhou can be defeated in one battle, each soldier will receive at least ten civilian households. The enthusiasm of the whole country is very high for the battle of replacing the cannons.

"Brother Guan, I heard that the Uighurs in Ganzhou occupied the important trade routes of the west for more than a hundred years, and even the bowls that noble people shit were made of gold, right?" Fu Ziqiu, a soldier in Jincheng Camp, wiped the crossbow in a bad mood, and asked Guan Yaozong, the tenth husband, that because the Jincheng Camp was a new army, it was impossible to get the opportunity to expedition, which meant that there was no cute household. Now, there were only Jincheng Camp soldiers in Lanzhou City, most of them did not have cute households.

"Yes. The price of good tea and silk from our Shu area is doubled when transported to Ganzhou, and the price of transport to Ganzhou to Dunhuang and sold to the people of the Western Regions is doubled." Sergeant Huang Rui used his strength to pull the bow, and the Jincheng Camp and the baggage camp, plus the craftsman camp, the soldiers who stayed in Lanzhou were less than 1,500, and the Lanzhou headquarters was unprecedentedly empty. To defend against foreign enemies, they also had to overwhelm tens of thousands of cute households and thousands of work slaves in the city, and they could not tolerate any negligence, so Xiao Jiu sent someone to ask Jincheng Camp to collect the supplies needed to guard the city as soon as he returned to the camp.

Xiao Jiu was ordered to stay in Lanzhou many times, considering all kinds of problems, and even prepared for the whole city to be attacked by the enemy. The left-behind soldiers carried out street battles in a unit of a hundred-man team. During the expedition, the motto households under the battalions also had Jincheng Camp and the sergeant station took over. The soldiers in Jincheng Camp felt the pleasure of someone under their charge for the first time, and there were hundreds of households. Those who could pull bows and shoot arrows were all led by the sergeants, patrolling and guarding the whole city day and night.

Xiao Jiu’s logic is that you must not let the cute households have free time, and they will have a different intention when they are idle, and they wish they could pull all the households in the city to dig trenches or raise the city walls.

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