Gel Khan sat in his magnificent tent, drinking fine wine brought from the Tang Dynasty.
The name of Shazhou Shao has spread throughout Longyou. This strong-flavored wine is deeply loved by Han Hu in Longyou and is a best-seller in the grassland.
Jianning Wangbafu even subsidized the export of this spirit to the grasslands. At the tea and horse market in Baowen Mountain, as soon as Shazhoushao appeared, it would be snapped up by Uighur merchants.
These sandbanks in King Gel Khan's tent were all transported from Yazhang City in the rear. Gel Khan was very satisfied with his son Yidijian who brought a few bottles of good wine with him to transport food and grass.
My two sons, Yi Jie, are strong and steady and good at managing government affairs, while Ye Hu is aggressive and brave but simple-minded.
Although Ye Hu is already the heir of Khan, Gele Khan does not mind observing his two sons more. After all, only the strongest wolf on the grassland can become the wolf king.
A weak wolf king will only bring disaster to himself and the wolves.
From the wine bowl, he saw his head full of white hair, and Gel Khan suddenly felt his interest waning.
I am getting old.
I don’t know when Gelu Khan stopped going to his beloved hunting ground, because his father Khan fell off his horse and died when he was hunting in old age.
For his father Khan, who continued to eat meat, drink wine, hunt, and play with women until he was old, Gel Khan once warned himself not to end up like this.
But when he got older, he realized that maybe this was his father's way of resisting aging.
Gel Khan stayed away from the pasture and the young and beautiful concubines in his royal tent, just to delay the onset of aging.
However, the laws of nature are unstoppable. This time Gel Khan went on an expedition, he obviously felt that his body was not as good as before.
When he was young, he could ride a horse for a day, but now he needs to take a break after riding for two hours.
In the past, I could stay up late looking at maps and thinking about strategies for marching and fighting. Now, as long as I look at the map for a while, I feel like my head becomes like a paste and I can't move, and my eyes are sore and swollen and I can't see clearly.
But Gel Khan still held on to his strength and led the army to the edge of the Katon River. He wanted to complete the hegemony of unifying the Mobei Grassland on his own!
When Gel Khan was just the heir to the tribal chief, the people who ruled this grassland were the Turks.
The rise of the Uighurs, in addition to the defeat of the Turks, was also supported by the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty supported the Uighurs to defeat the Turks, but as the Uighurs gradually unified the grasslands, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Uighurs became tense.
The Tang Dynasty could not tolerate the next overlord of the grassland, so it supported the Geluolu and Xigasi people in the west of the grassland to cause chaos for the Uighurs.
If the Tang Dynasty was still strong, the Uighurs would never be able to unify the Mobei Grassland.
But the opportunity came like this. The emperor Li Longji, who once made the grassland fearful, finally became old.
During the Anlushan rebellion, the Tang Dynasty lost both capitals and even had to borrow troops from the Uighurs.
The Tang Dynasty had no time to take care of itself, so it sent elite troops from Longyou into the pass to quell the chaos. Now was the time when the Tang Dynasty was at its weakest.
This is the best time to unify the grasslands!
Since last winter, Gel Khan began to mobilize various Uighur tribes and organized this western expedition.
"Time." Geluo Khan looked at the wine glass and lamented the passage of time. He didn't know if he was really old. After going on the war for so long, the Geluolu people naturally fled, but so far, the Uighur army has not
Not a single tribe of Geluolu was annihilated.
This is not normal.
Gelu Khan had also conquered Ge Luolu in the west before. At that time, even with the support of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighur army could destroy some small tribes of Ge Luolu and plunder some supplies back.
During the expedition, the daily food and drink for the troops and horses was an astronomical amount.
For this expedition, Gel Khan required all Uighur tribes to bring half of their livestock, conscripted half of the young men in the tribe, and also asked all tribes to bring half of their horses and fodder.
If he fails to win another big victory, Gel Khan's prestige will suffer a major blow.
Gel Khan took another sip of Shazhou ware. The sweet wine slid down his throat, and Gel Khan felt drunk.
How did these Geluolu people become so cunning? Every time they found a gap in the encirclement network and left, Geluo Khan personally commanded the army to conduct several hunts, but still returned without success.
No matter how alert the rabbits on the grassland are, they can't hide from the eagle's claws.
Gel Khan decided to abandon the strategy of hunting the Gelulu people and instead occupied the Katon River to cut off the mother river that the Gelulu people relied on for survival.
This valley is the most suitable place for damming rivers. As long as the Caton River is blocked at the outlet below the valley, the river water will flood the valley and turn it into a lake.
The lower reaches of the Katon River will be cut off. At that time, the Uighur army will only need to guard the Katon River. The Geluolu people who have no water to drink will either travel thousands of miles south to find new water sources, or they will have to compete for water sources under the guard of the Uighur army.
At that time, the Geluolu people did not attack and were defeated.
This was the strategy that Gelu Khan came up with. He showed a proud smile. Although he was old, his wisdom became deeper with age.
Now Gel Khan led 20,000 elite Yazhang soldiers to be stationed on the edge of the river valley. In addition, there were more than 10,000 servant troops from various tribes who were digging rocks to prepare to dam the river.
The remaining Uighur troops were arranged at the mouths of the upper and lower reaches of the Katon River, and scouts were posted back and forth to investigate. Once the Geluolu tribe came to fetch water, the army at the mouth of the nearby river would hunt down these tribes.
This plan can be said to be a conspiracy. The weather is getting hotter, and the horses, cattle, sheep and people on the grassland need water. After the Katon River is cut off, the Uighurs only need to wait for work, which will cause heavy losses to the Geluolu people.
Even if they go south to find new water sources, many people will die during the migration.
After learning about this plan, the [Military Advisor] players in the Beiting Protectorate also studied for a long time and thought about countermeasures.
I have to say that this "game" is really interesting, and the IQ of this "AI" is too high!
The player's guerrilla tactics of breaking up into parts were destroyed by the opponent's strategy of blocking the river and building dams.
How to break the situation?
[Strategic Advisor] Players sit in front of the sand table every day and think about countermeasures.
Shang Bo walked into the military meeting hall, looked at the players who had been working hard all day, and ordered the attendants of the Protectorate to bring food and water.
Just when Shang Bo was about to leave, a [Strategy] player stood up and said, "I thought of a way to break the situation!"
Shang Bo immediately stopped and walked to the edge of the sand table. This [Military Advisor] player's name was Yu Junjie, and he was one of the players who came to Beiting with him.
Yu Junjie originally followed Qin Chuan to build roads at Dangjin Mountain Pass, but after building for a while and accumulating enough contribution points, this student majoring in directional blasting in civil engineering was finally able to play games according to his own hobbies.
Yu Junjie is a lover of strategy games and a loyal player of the Three Kingdoms game. Being able to command a real war on the sandbox made Yu Junjie extremely excited, and he decisively chose [Strategic Advisor] as his main profession.
In the Beiting Protector's Mansion, Yu Junjie ate and drank next to the sand table every day, and thought about how to deal with the Uighurs every day.
After thinking hard for a day, Yu Junjie finally found a way to defeat the enemy.
Yu Junjie pointed at the sand table with a wooden pole and said: "My method is, water attack against water attack!"
What!?
Shang Bo looked at everyone in confusion, but the remaining [Military Advisor] players stood up and said, "Okay! This is a good idea!"
Shang Bo once again doubted his IQ. Why couldn't he understand what these players were saying?
"Since the Uighurs dammed the river in the valley, we can also dam the river at the mouth of the Jinshan River in the upper reaches of the Katon River! After raising the river water, we then blew up the dam and flooded the Uighurs in the valley!"
The other players all said:
"It's feasible! The mouth of the Jinshan River is the upper reaches of the Katon River. We can dam the river here and blow up the dam when the water level is high. Then we can flood the Uighur army in the valley!"
"This plan looks good, but the Uighurs also have garrison in the upper reaches of the Katon River. These garrison must be eliminated first!"
"There is a garrison, but according to our intelligence, the garrison in the upper reaches of the Katon River is less than 5,000 people, and they are distributed in several river bends. If the strength of the thirty-two Geluolu tribes is mobilized, these cavalry can be swallowed up.
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"I don't think so. These Geluolu people have a good fighting spirit, but their equipment is too poor."
"The Uighur army upstream is not the main force, and the equipment is not good either."
"The Uighur troops in the upper reaches are not a worry, but the Uighur cavalry in the middle reaches of the river valley are no joke, and the middle reaches are only more than a hundred miles away from the upper reaches. The cavalry only needs to run for half a day to support them, which is not a dumpling for the Uighurs.
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At this time, Yu Junjie said: "So we need someone to contain the elite Uighurs in the middle reaches of the Katon River!"
"Who can contain it?"
After Shang Bo asked, all the strategists and players looked at the sand table.
Shang Bo followed his eyes and looked over. On the sand table in the Mobei grassland, there was a red chess piece that stood out.
This chess piece represents the Tianshan Army led by Cao Lingzhong!
Shang Bo pointed at the red chess piece and asked: "Are you talking about the Tianshan Army?"
Yu Junjie nodded and said: "The Tianshan Army is a light cavalry, coming and going like the wind. It is not far from the valley in the middle reaches of the Katon River. As long as the Tianshan Army is used, the Uighur army can be contained!"
Everyone started discussing again, but this time they quickly reached a unified suggestion. As long as the Tianshan Army can contain the main Uighur force for three days, then it can assemble the power of the thirty-two Geluolu tribes to eliminate the Uighur garrison upstream.
Dam the mountain pass!
Many strategists and players looked at Shang Bo, waiting for him to issue orders.
Shangbo asked: "What is the success rate of this plan, and what are the losses if it fails?"
Yu Junjie said: "The worst result is that the Uighurs destroy the Tianshan Army, then defeat the coalition forces of the 32 Geluolu tribes, and completely control the Mobei grassland."
Shang Bo's heart trembled and he asked again: "What is the success rate?"
Yu Junjie thought about it and said: "Let's go 50-50."
Shangbo nodded and said: "If it's 50-50, then you can do it. Send a message to all the military advisors on the grassland and ask them to gather the strength of the thirty-two troops to attack the Uighur army in the upper reaches of the Katon River!"
"In addition, send a message to Pang Yawei, asking him to persuade Cao Lingzhong to attack the Uighur army in the middle reaches of the Katon River, and not to let the army discover the abnormality in the upper reaches!"