Valley Emperor

When General Lu Yuzhi arrived at Jiayuguan, Wulihan was not idle in Hami City, hundreds of kilometers away. He was instructing his generals to deploy the defense of Hami City, and at the same time dispatched cavalry troops to closely monitor the surrounding areas. Especially the movement of the Tang army near Jiayuguan area.

Ulihan, who is also a veteran of the Tatars, and he has never participated in any Western expeditions, he has always stayed on the Eastern Front.

For many years, he has led the Tatar troops to garrison in the Hami area. The more than 30,000 troops under his command are the first line of defense to stop the Tang army from advancing westward.

Wulihan and Tang Jun have played against each other for many years, and he is very familiar with Tang Jun, and he has also made some tactical arrangements. measures against the enemy.

In the area close to Jiayuguan, that is, the area close to Datang's control area, only a small number of reconnaissance and cavalry troops are maintained on weekdays, and even tribal grazing is no longer in the past. Reached an uninhabited area of ​​one or two hundred kilometers.

But after hundreds of kilometers, he built a city in the Hami area, and this is the first city defense building similar to a bastion built by the Tatars. The Tatars and the Tang army have been at war for many years. I have learned it a long time ago, and Bastion is no exception.

This also led to the fact that for so many years, although the Tang army would come out to fight every year, at most, some small and medium-scale wars broke out, and large-scale battles never broke out. At the same time, the Tang army was limited by the long supply line and could not mobilize large-scale wars. The troops ran to Hami to attack the city.

The small and medium-sized cavalry troops sent also did not dare to take the risk of attacking Hami, who was stationed with tens of thousands of people, and might even be eaten by the Tartars.

After such small and medium-scale battles lasted for a few months every year, the Tang army often took the initiative to return to Jiayuguan due to logistical problems. In this way, the huge territory was returned to the hands of the Tartars.

After more than ten years of repetition, the Tang Empire was extremely powerful, and there was a strong armed force, but the Tartars always controlled the Western Regions.

Therefore, Ulihan also rose step by step, and now he is the commander of the Fourth Army of the Tatars, with the rank of lieutenant general.

As for why you said why Ulihan's title is the fourth army commander and lieutenant general, it is naturally because the Tartars learned the consequences of the Tang Dynasty.

Just as during the unification war, the Ming army learned from the Tang army to build a new army, from tactics to weapons, to plagiarism in other details, the Tartars also continued to pay attention and learn from the Tang Dynasty.

After all, humans are very smart creatures and will learn from the strong. Although the Tatars are aliens, they are also human.

Furthermore, the Tatars have had a powerful leader for decades, that is, Altan Khan.

Altan Khan was able to unify the grasslands, and even went to Eastern Europe, and robbed Kyiv as the capital. Naturally, he was not a pedantic person. He had already started to learn the various systems of the Tang Dynasty.

After the capital of Kyiv was established, this kind of study reached a high level. In the Jin Kingdom established by Alta Khan in Eastern Europe, many political systems were basically learned from the political system of the Tang Empire. Official system.

However, the Tatars still have some special policies of their own. For example, on the issue of foreign races, Altan Khan's policy is obviously not as tough as that of the Tang Dynasty. There are enough people in the Tang Dynasty, and they want land and not people. That set, even in the Tang Dynasty, there are actually many people who maintain objection, and the Tartars are obviously much milder, they often take the initiative to accept the people of the conquered areas, in order to use the population resources of the conquered areas, when Soldiers, farming, herding, working, etc.

Otherwise, how did you think the Tatar army with a total of nearly 300,000 people came from? The total population of their Tatars is only a few million, and the whole people can't make such a huge army.

Of these 300,000 people, half of them were actually recruited from the young and strong from the ethnic groups they conquered, especially the infantry and artillery troops. The ordinary soldiers were all aliens.

Only the cavalry, the vast majority were the Tatars.

Altan Khan took the lead in learning, and most Tatars also knew to learn from the strong. This mentality broke out after the defeat of the Hetao Battle and forced to move westward.

In order to learn how to make guns and cannons, the Tatars dared to sneak into the northwest region and forcibly kidnap artisans.

Among many systems, the military system is the focus of their study, among which the large number of guns and artillery units established is the most obvious example.

At the same time, they also imitated the Datang Army and established a system similar to the army, division, brigade, regiment, battalion, and team.

No way, since they want to learn to build guns and artillery units, they can't do it without learning the organization of the Tang Dynasty.

Because the use of new weapons needs to be used together with the preparation, so that the relevant tactics can be executed.

At first, they still used the traditional names of the army, the thousands of households, the thousands of households, etc., but they simply copied it. After learning from the Tang Dynasty, they started to use the numerical designation, plus the divisions and brigade groups, etc., and later added Military rank system.

It can be said that, in fact, the Tatars are the second army in the world to establish a complete modern army and military rank system, which is more thorough than the former Ming army.

The former Ming army took Zhang Yue's superintendent as an example. Although they also learned the organization and tactics of the Tang army, they still have certain limitations, and there is no military rank, only the traditional grade. There is no way. They are civilian leaders. These generals have the same rank, and the generals themselves do not agree.

They are good at holding a civilian. You give them a military rank and treat them as military generals. Believe it or not, people will rebel in minutes.

When Zhang Yue was the superintendent of the year, the officers were all with civilian rank.

However, many years later, the Tartars copied more thoroughly. They completely copied the military system of the Tang Dynasty. Whether it was organization or military rank, they copied everything without changing their names.

Even the education they are doing internally is not Mongolian education, but Chinese education...

This kind of thing might sound like nonsense, but it's actually quite normal!

Because it is normal to learn from the strong.

In the 20th century, people in Huaxia did not say that Chinese characters should be abolished and then turned into Roman alphabet characters. In the final analysis, this was still a kind of learning caused by lack of self-confidence.

What a strong person is, what will he become.

Therefore, in the Tatar army now, those generals are also commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders, regimental commanders and so on.

Wulihan, the lieutenant general of the Jin Kingdom of the Tang Dynasty and the commander of the Fourth Army, has been stationed in the Western Regions for many years. He did not dare to know everything about the Tang army in Jiayuguan, but he was very familiar with it. When he learned that there were a large number of Tang troops in Jiayuguan.

At first, he just thought that this was a routine military operation of Tang Jun every year.

Those Tang troops go out once a year, and every movement seems to be quite noisy, but most of the time it is actually an armed parade, and it is still an armed parade in no-man's land. In Wulihan's opinion, it is really **** idle. It hurts.

But within a few days, he smelled a dangerous breath from the information he had gathered.

This time, Tang Jun in Jiayuguan is abnormal!

There are too many troops hoarded inside. According to the report of the spies, there are more than 100,000 troops at Jiayuguan, and there are also a large number of infantry artillery and other troops.

If it was just an armed parade, the Tang army generally dispatched cavalry as the main force, and the infantry artillery and other troops just followed behind to maintain the supply line, but now, the number of infantry artillery troops is too much.

Ulihan, who smelled the danger, quickly dispatched many troops to investigate the Jiayuguan area, and also tried to send secret agents to sneak into Jiayuguan to inquire about the news.

Although too detailed information is not yet available, Ulihan is not ready to wait. He quickly ordered the troops to shrink, especially the infantry and artillery troops composed of alien soldiers, to withdraw to Hami City, and to send more reconnaissance. The cavalry collects information.

And sent a messenger to report the situation to Turpan in the rear, saying that the Tang army in the direction of Jiayuguan had changed, and hoped that Turpan would make preparations early.

But he did not ask Turpan to send reinforcements, because it was not necessary.

It is useless if you come less, and if you come to Hami, you can't support it. The supply difficulties in the Western Regions are not only for the Tang Dynasty, but also for the Tartars.

If they were just nomadic as before, shepherding sheep and fighting wars, nothing to worry about, but the key is that they are now sticking to a certain place.

If they don't send reinforcements, their ammunition and food can keep them going for half a year or even longer, but with a lot of reinforcements, they may only be able to stay for a month or two, and Hami City is actually not that big, and if there are more troops, they will be deployed. Nope~www.wuxiaspot.com~ So Ulihan didn't apply for reinforcements, it was useless anyway.

What's more, he also knew that it was impossible for the rear to give reinforcements to him, and it was even possible to order him to withdraw from Hami.

Because a major strategy of the Tartars to deal with the Tang Dynasty is: take the initiative to retreat strategically, expand the supply line of the Tang people, and send cavalry troops to harass the supply line of the Tang people. I can't stand going back.

The area of ​​several hundred kilometers from Hami to Jiayuguan can be given up. When it is necessary, Hami can also be given up. The Tatars dare to push it to Turpan in one go.

If the Tang people are still in hot pursuit, they can continue to retreat and retreat to Central Asia.

The Tatars don't believe it, the Tang people can keep chasing after them!

If they really dared to chase, then the Tatars were not afraid. When the time came to use the advantage of the cavalry to attack their supply lines, the Tatars had the confidence to starve the chasing Tang army to death in the Western Regions.

Therefore, although he found that the Tang people in Jiayuguan area were unusual, Wulihan still faced it calmly!

The big deal is to take the military and civilians all the way to the west.

But after a while, when the Tang people retreated, he would be able to regain a large amount of the Western Regions without a single soldier.

But Wulihan didn't know yet that this time the Datang Army marched into Hami and other Western Regions, they just didn't plan to withdraw!

In order to solve the supply problem, Datang even planned to build a simple military railway!

In front of the railway, the supply problem that has plagued Datang for more than ten years will not be a problem!

But it doesn't matter if you know or don't know, anyway, Wulihan's response is the same, that is, if you can't fight, you won't fight, if you can run, you can run!

As for whether the people of the Tang Dynasty pursued it, that was their business.