From Propulsion City To Multiverse

Dou Jiande's surrender made the Youzhou Army, which had no land border with the RUF, directly face the RUU.

Luo Yi in You Beiping yelled at him directly, but after calming down, Luo Yi had to think about the way out.

Right now, the Zhuxia Alliance has fallen apart, leaving only Li Tang from Qin and Wang Shichong from Luoyang City left in the Central Plains.

After thinking about it, he didn't have the confidence to keep it.

three days later.

Luo Yi took eight thousand soldiers who were willing to leave with him, as well as a large number of landlords and wealthy families, and took away all the horses, cattle and sheep, gold, silver, jewelry, food and cloth.

He quickly withdrew from Dai Commandery and Yunzhong County to Li Tang's territory, but Li Yuan never refused to come, and made Luo Yi Marquis of Yan, just like Li Mi's Marquis of Wei.

Of course, soldiers and horses cannot be kept.

Moreover, Li Mi and Luo Yi were very afraid of the Human Revolutionary Union. When they heard that Li Tang was exploring the Western Regions, they asked to take the tribe to the Western Regions.

Obviously, there are some smart people under the two of them, who know that if Li Tang's Guanzhong danger cannot stop the Revolutionary Union.

If you don't run now, it will be harder to get out in the future.

In particular, Li Mi and Luo Yi plundered the people with their troops. This matter is an act that cannot be punished under the law of the People's Revolutionary League. Naturally, the two of them were worried that they would be settled by Qiu Hou.

Li Jing, who returned to Guanzhong from Bashu, was ordered to bring Li Mi, Luo Yi and others, a total of 120,000 people, into the Western Regions.

At present, Li Tang is constantly attacking cities and plundering land in the Western Regions, especially after discovering several saltpeter veins, the Tang army can already supply gunpowder on the spot.

At this time, Li Shimin was taking eight thousand cavalry to escort a batch of firearms to Qihe Prefecture (that is, the Dayili River Valley area) in the Western Regions Protectorate.

Along the way, there is a bastion built by the Tang army imitating the Human Revolutionary League.

As for the bastions, Tang Jun didn't understand its power at first, but on the border of the NRU, there were all such low star forts, which naturally attracted the attention of many princes of the Central Plains.

It wasn't until several waves of rogues tried their best, that the strong defense of the bastion attracted the attention of all parties.

Especially Li Tang who has developed bronze artillery, they found artillery, muskets, trebuchet bombs,

Coupled with the unique structure of the bastion, it is enough to withstand the siege of dozens of times the troops.

Therefore, along the Silk Road, the Protectorate of the Western Regions built many bastions along the way. Although there is no cement, the compound soil is also possible.

There were only 300 infantry stationed in these small bastions, but the surrounding Tiele and Turen tribes tried to attack several times, but they only lost troops and failed to capture a bastion.

In the Western Regions, there is a situation that is very conducive to bastions, and that is the small oasis.

As long as the Tang army builds a few small bastions around the oasis and adds artillery, the oasis can be blocked.

Without the supplies from the oasis, the cavalry of the grassland tribes had no way to drive straight in.

What's more, the Tang army is now rich and powerful. After raiding the royal court in the Western Tudor, they captured a large number of war horses, and even the infantry were equipped with horses.

The Tang army has a total of 56,000 troops in the Western Regions Protectorate, plus 2.3 servants, but the army horses are as high as 124,000.

With Li Tang's continuous delivery of people and supplies, the Tang army in the Western Regions has begun to stabilize the situation.

This time, Li Shimin escorted supplies to Qihe Prefecture to build a large bastion in Qihe Prefecture as a forward base for capturing the Outer Western Regions (Central Asia).

In addition to escorting supplies, he also brought hundreds of craftsmen and their families, all of whom were engaged in copper smelting, casting cannons, blacksmithing and papermaking.

The road was full of dust and dust, but fortunately the whole team was composed of carriages and cavalry.

Suddenly two scouts rushed over.

His Royal Highness King Qin! There is a Turen cavalry in the northwest, with a strength of about 20,000, 17 miles away from us.

Li Shimin waved his horsewhip: The convoy is forming a turtle formation, Yuchi Gong, you lead the cavalry to maneuver to the southwest plain, don't get entangled with the enemy, and wait for the opportunity.

The general obeys! Yu Chigong, who had a dark face, rode out immediately.

And the convoy quickly became a formation similar to a bastion.

There are 10 trebuchets in the center of the convoy, and the outer layer is a wagon carriage covered with iron sheets. The windows of the carriages are opened to reveal the golden muzzle.

This is a small cannon developed by Datang itself, with a caliber of only more than 30 millimeters. It can fire grape bullets and iron sand bullets. The effective killing distance is within 50 to 80 meters, and it is also called big spray.

In addition, there is also a copper-iron composite heavy-duty flintlock gun with a caliber of 18mm. There are four rifling lines in the barrel, and the second half of the barrel is thickened to obtain additional gunpowder.

The lead bullet fired can accurately shoot a target about 300 meters away, and the effective killing distance reaches about 850 meters.

Of course, the disadvantage of this heavy gun is also very obvious, that is, it cannot be used by a single soldier, because the gun weighs 33 kilograms, and the recoil is still very amazing.

But the horror of this heavy musket lies in its long-distance precision shooting.

At this time, the sudden cavalry, who were cheering, had already rode their horses to the front of the chariot formation.

Just when the distance between the two sides was close to about 300 meters, 150 heavy muskets aimed at the general among the cavalry.

bang bang bang...

The Turen noble general Shalit, who was riding his horse, suddenly felt intense pain in his chest, and then fell off the horse with his eyes blacked out.

The 18mm lead bullet, propelled by strong chemical energy, exploded Shalit's chest. The lead bullet even had enough power to penetrate the two cavalrymen behind him.

In the armies of the classical era, officers often wore different clothes from soldiers, which could be distinguished from armor and decorations. Especially in the grassland army, the difference between officers and ordinary soldiers was even more obvious.

Tang Jun, who had been baptized by the tactics of the Human Revolutionary League, directly beat the enemy officers with heavy muskets.

Heavy muskets mounted on iron supports for quick reloading.

bang bang bang...

A series of sudden death of officers of the Turks.

Ahh...

Master Hama is dead!

Tang people have fire-breathing weapons.

Rush over to me! These weapons are ours...

However, as they rushed into a distance of two hundred meters.

The trebuchet quickly threw stone balls into the cavalry team one by one.

Boom boom boom...

The stone ball either exploded on the ground or in mid-air, and a large number of stone fragments splashed out, like flowers blooming in the crowd, but the color was scarlet.

However, the heavy musket after continuous shooting could only be changed to blind fire due to the obstruction of smoke.

But the ferocious power still made these prairie cavalry extremely terrified. When they were hit by the bullets of the heavy muskets, they either broke their hands or feet, or died tragically.

Boom...

Another round of catapult stone attacks.

Ahh...

I don't want to die!!

Collapsed, this 20,000-strong Turen cavalry, after losing thousands of people, finally couldn't bear this terrifying blow.

Yu Chigong, who was maneuvering in the southwest direction, put down the binoculars in his hand, and shouted excitedly: Ready to charge! Gu Jiong

The 5,000 Tang Army cavalry quickly approached the defeated Turen cavalry.

The army was defeated like a mountain. Once the cavalry of the grassland tribes in the classical era suffered a large-scale rout, it was almost difficult to control.

Yu Chigong slashed wildly, and in the chariot formation where the gunpowder smoke dispersed, Li Shimin also quickly led 3000 Tang cavalry to chase and kill these sudden cavalry.

After a chase, more than 5,000 enemies were killed, and more than 7,000 people were captured. In addition to the killing of more than 1,000 people before, only more than 6,000 Turen cavalry escaped.

If it weren't for the fear of being ambushed, the results of the battle could continue to expand.

It's just that Li Shimin didn't rush forward greedily. As long as he fought steadily, no tribe in the Western Regions or the Outer Western Regions could stop the Tang army, so there was no need to take risks.

After seeing the power of firearms and bastions, he already had plans to take over the entire Western Region.

After encountering this attack, in the next three days, the surrounding grassland tribes never dared to attack again.

On the afternoon of the third day, he appeared outside Qihe Fort with 8,000 Tang soldiers, 6,700 peasants and craftsmen.

Qin Shubao, who was stationed here, came out to meet him personally with his troops.

After entering Qihe Fort, Li Shimin stood on the watchtower, looked at the lush Qihe Valley (Ili Valley), and sighed:

I didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful place in the Western Regions.

Fang Xuanling, who came with the army, looked at the sketch of the Western Regions drawn by Qin Shubao based on the information provided by the captives, stroked his beard and said:

Your Highness, the land of the seven rivers has the potential of dragon prosperity. The Baishan Mountains block the southeast and east. As long as a few valleys are guarded, the safety of the east can be guaranteed. To the west is an endless prairie and seven big rivers. The climate here should be It’s similar to the Hetao, after the water conservancy is built, a piece of farmland can also be reclaimed.”

Li Shimin then looked to the west of the map:

Two big rivers among the seven rivers can go directly to the Great Western Sea (Caspian Sea). I heard that the coast of the Great Western Sea is a place with lush water and grass. This is the foundation of the revival of the Tang Dynasty bestowed by God. Xuanling, You have to help me run Qihe State well.

I will live up to Your Highness. Fang Xuanling replied firmly.

They no longer have extravagant hopes in the Central Plains, and now they can only bet everything on the Western Regions.

As for the situation in the Outer Western Regions, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others swept away their previous depression. The area of ​​​​the Seven Rivers Valley alone is no less than the Guanzhong Plain.

There is also the coastal plain of the Great Western Sea, the Shuanghe Plain in the middle of the Outer Western Region, and the North Wind Prairie in the north.

This is a treasure land no less than Guanzhong and North China. Li Shimin has made up his mind to conquer this land and rebuild China here.

He stayed here for more than a month, and worked out a perfect strategy with Fang Xuanling, Qin Shubao and others.

To completely control the Western Regions and the Outer Western Regions, he planned to adopt the strategy of advancing the military fortress. The specific plan was to build bastions to control each node, and then like a big net, tightly control the entire Western Regions.

The grassland area has a characteristic, that is, the place close to the water source can support the tribe. The larger the tribe, the more inseparable from the water source.

The Tang army can advance along the rivers and lakes, from the Seven Rivers Valley to the downstream area to the west, one bastion after another.

If the prairie tribes sent troops to prevent the Tang army from building the bastion, then Li Shimin would have wished for it, because the prairie cavalry would be attracted and it would be convenient for the Tang army to annihilate them.

If the grassland tribes did not send troops, the Tang army would eat away their pastures and water sources. Without pastures and water sources, the tribes would naturally decline rapidly.

This is also a common problem of many prairie forces, which flourish very quickly and decline very quickly.

Because they couldn't stand failure, as long as the enemy robbed livestock and pastures, they could only flee to other places.

Once the bastion network is formed, the prairie cavalry has no way to remove these bastions, and the consequence is that the living space will be occupied by the Tang army.

In the end, he either fled to other places or was digested by Tang Jun.

And Li Shimin attaches great importance to cultural and educational work. They understand that if they leave the Central Plains, if they cannot keep the Central Plains culture, they will inevitably become barbarians after a few generations.

Therefore, he had to take a tough attitude, borrowed the Pinyin and Simplified characters of the People's Revolutionary League, and required all the people under his rule to learn Chinese and Chinese. taxation.

At the same time, the three schools of Taoism, Shamen, and Confucianism were also brought in, and everyone was required to believe that they belonged to one of these three schools.

Of course, for the sake of imperial power, Li Shimin naturally advocated Confucianism.

Anyway, there are a lot of scholars who have taken refuge in Datang, so he naturally wants to make good use of this power and let it shine for Datang.

Most of the herdsmen in the grassland tribes have a sloppy personality, and they will listen to whoever has a big fist.

The massacre of the Tang army in the Western Regions not only did not arouse fierce resistance, but instead made the ordinary herdsmen of these tribes surrender quickly.

This made Li Shimin understand another truth, that is, the barbarians are indeed fearful of power but not virtuous, and it is easier to make them obedient with steel knives and muskets.

And when Li Shimin returned to Dunhuang County.

Li Jing also arrived in Dunhuang County with 30,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

For Li Mi, Luo Yi and others, Li Shimin has no idea of ​​making them bigger, and Li Mi and Luo Yi, who are under the fence, are also very interesting.

If they were in the Central Plains, they might have some ambitions, but in a foreign land like the Western Regions, with their thousands of cronies, even if they managed to escape from Li Tang, they would not be able to defeat the barbarians around them.

Now is not the time for internal strife, but for their own lives, and for future generations to continue to be masters, they must unite under Li Tang's banner.

After discussion, Li Jing took Li Mi and others to colonize Qihe Prefecture.

After all, Qin Shubao's combat effectiveness is not bad, but his commanding ability is not as good as Li Jing's.

Luo Yi was assigned to work under Xu Shiji.

At present, the entire Western Regions is set as the Protectorate of the Western Regions by the Tang Dynasty, but Li Shimin subdivides each region.

The three prefectures pioneered by the Sui Dynasty, together with Dunhuang County, were established as Shazhou.

The southern cities of Baishan (Tianshan) such as Gaochang, and the cities along the Beihe (Tarim River) are divided into Shannan Prefecture.

The Junggar Basin is divided into Shanbei Prefecture.

Including the Seven Rivers State, there are four states in total.

But Li Shimin didn't stop. Although Li Mi and Luo Yi created millions of disaster victims, they could hold the Human Revolutionary Union for about a year, but when the Human Revolutionary Union digested the current territory, Guanzhong and Bashu would become the opponent's target.

The move must be accelerated now, especially those craftsmen, who must all move to the Seven Rivers State.

As for ordinary people, unless they are willing to follow the past, Li Shimin doesn't want to force them. After all, forcibly relocating people is forcing the People's Revolutionary League to attack Datang.

Especially in the past few years, the ideas of the Human Revolutionary League have spread rapidly throughout the Central Plains. Many people have long been looking forward to the Human Revolutionary League to come and rescue them, so how could they be willing to follow Datang to the Western Regions to eat sand.

But those powerful landlords, aristocratic families, and Samana gangs are still willing to follow.

After all, if they don't leave, once the Human Revolutionary League captures Guanzhong and Bashu, they will lose a layer of skin if they don't die.

These vested interests, plus their cronies and relatives, are estimated to number in the millions.

This is not an exaggeration. After all, there are millions of family members of the hundreds of thousands of Tang soldiers, and Li Shimin imitated the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty in order to win over these soldiers and their families.

And Li Tang gathered the powerful landlords who had fled from all over the Central Plains, and these people were all dragging their families.

Now how many people can Li Tang take away from the Central Plains? Li Shimin and others are already doing related work. Through this emigration, they can also find out the population and wealth of these powerful people.

If you are still unwilling to contribute to the country at this time, then wait to die in the Central Plains!

Anyway, people with brains have already contributed money and efforts to support Li Tang, just hoping to leave early and go to the Western Regions to make a comeback.

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