Chapter 203 Knowing the sky is easy, defying the sky is difficult
In the Beiting Protectorate, the strategists and players stared at the sand table, watching the Uighur chess pieces in the upper reaches of the Katon River being eaten one by one.
This means that the Geluolu coalition is gradually clearing out the Uighur army in the upper reaches.
However, the atmosphere in the military meeting hall was still extremely tense, because everyone was staring at the Uighur army in the middle reaches of the river valley.
This time, Uighur Gel Khan's Western Expedition claimed to have dispatched 200,000 cavalry.
Everyone who knows military knowledge scorns this number.
If 200,000 elites were really mobilized, the logistics alone would be enough to overwhelm the Uighurs.
According to player estimates, the Uighur troops deployed this time were approximately 60,000.
This is a quite terrifying number. During the heyday of the Turks, there were only so many troops that could be mobilized.
You must know that the Uighur Prince Yehu led the troops to support the Tang Dynasty's cavalry, which was only 4,000 people.
Of course, what the Uighur prince brought with him was the elite of the royal tent, which was the most powerful cavalry of the Uighurs.
This time Gel Khan brought the most powerful 10,000 king's tent iron cavalry.
This is the most powerful military force of the Uighur Khan tribe and the decisive force for the Uighurs to suppress the grasslands.
Slightly less effective than the Royal Cavalry are the three major Stele Forest cavalry.
The Uighurs inherited the Turkic system. In addition to the royal tent city, they also built three stele forest cities. The ancestral gods worshiped by the Uighurs, the laws established by the Uighur Khans, and the historical records of the Uighurs were all engraved on the steles.
These three forests of steles are the religious, cultural, judicial and technological centers of the Uighurs. Guarding the three forests of steles are the ironware of the forest of steles.
There are a total of 20,000 people in the three major Stele Forest Cavalry. Most of them are stationed in the river valley with Gel Khan. Another 8,000 Stele Forest Army are assigned to guard the upper and lower reaches of the Katon River.
Jaromelu was the general of the Stele Forest Army. If it were normal times, the loss of a thousand Stele Forest Army would be a major event that shocked the grassland.
However, in the face of this battle that decided the fate of the grassland, the Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to this result at all. The victory of the Thousand Stele Forest Army was a victory, because everyone knew that it was the people in the middle reaches of the Kedun River valley who decided the outcome of the battle.
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This group of 10,000 elite members of the royal tent led by Gel Khan himself, plus the 10,000 Stele Forest Army, made these 20,000 people the absolute main force of the Uighurs.
If these 20,000 elite cavalry are dispatched, the thirty-two Gallolu coalition forces upstream can be defeated in an instant.
All players who understand the entire strategy know that whether they can hold off the 20,000 cavalrymen is the key to the battle situation.
And this task fell on Cao Lingzhong, the retainer of the Beiting Protectorate.
After Pang Yawei told Cao Lingzhong the entire strategy, the old general remained silent at first.
He sat in front of the map for a long time, then raised his head and said, "How many days will it take?"
Pang Yawei said: "On the sixth day, the Geluolu people need two days to sweep away the Uighur army in the upper reaches, three days to build the dam, and one day to store water and blow up the dam."
Cao Lingzhong smiled bitterly: "I still have six thousand cavalry, you want me to hold off the elite Uighurs for six days?"
Pang Yawei bit the bullet and said in the words taught by Shang Bo: "As long as six days, the Uighurs will not be able to march westward for ten years!"
Cao Lingzhong laughed loudly. He pointed to the sun outside and said, "It hasn't rained since June this year. The water level of the Katon River has dropped by half. Even if we block the river and build a dam, it won't be able to destroy the Uighur military camp in the valley, right?"
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Cao Lingzhong was right. This year's midsummer in the grasslands has come too early. There hasn't been a drop of rain in June, and the water level of the Caton River has dropped by half.
Even if a dam is built to store water, the Uighur camp in the middle reaches cannot be washed away.
Pang Yawei had already prepared for this question, and he said firmly: "In five days, there will be heavy rain in Jinshan!"
Cao Lingzhong looked at the clear sky and asked again: "You said there will be a heavy rain in five days?"
"There will be a heavy rain. If it doesn't rain, cut off my head and sacrifice it to the sky!"
Pang Yawei's determined tone made Cao Lingzhong stunned for a moment. This guy spreads pancakes in the military camp every day. How can he still pray for rain?
Pang Yawei naturally does not pray for rain. He is so sure that it will rain because he graduated with a degree in meteorology.
Pang Yawei, who has studied meteorology for four years and has never been able to get close to the Meteorological Bureau, never expected that the knowledge of meteorology that he thought he would never need in this life was actually used in the game.
Cao Lingzhong said: "I don't want your head. How can there be rain in this clear sky?"
Pang Yawei said: "There was no rain in June this year because of the high-pressure ridge phenomenon formed by the combined action of the Western Liya high-pressure belt and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau high-pressure belt. The Jinshan area is right on the high-pressure ridge, which continuously inputs hot air from the west.
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"But now the high pressure on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has weakened, northerly winds have begun to blow over the grasslands, and the cold air is about to move south. When the time comes, it will collide with the hot air on the high-pressure ridge, which will inevitably cause rainfall."
Pang Yawei also felt guilty. He had heard about the unusual weather in June in meteorological history, and it was all recorded on wooden slips from the Tang Dynasty unearthed in Dunhuang.
In order to verify his judgment, Pang Yawei also went to the real world to check the meteorological history data. There was indeed an abnormally high temperature in June of the second year of Zhide, which extended from the grassland to Liangzhou, all within the scope of the high pressure ridge.
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However, in the meteorological historical data, there is no mention of which day it will rain.
Pang Yawei calculated the rainy days based on the meteorological model. At this time, he didn't know what to expect, so he could only say it bravely.
Seeing Pang Yawei's appearance, Cao Lingzhong said: "Six days is six days. I can only delay it for six days. After six days, the Tang army will withdraw."
Pang Yawei said overjoyed: "Six days is enough!"
Cao Lingzhong said with a dark look: "I don't know how many good men will die in these six days. Mr. Pang, let me ask you, is it all worth it?"
Pang Yawei was stunned for a moment. How could he, a meteorologist and part-time pancake seller, answer such a profound question?
Pang Yawei thought for a while and said: "It is easy to know the truth, but it is difficult to defy the destiny. It is naturally very difficult for a general to do something against the destiny, but if he succeeds, it will be a long-lasting achievement."
Cao Lingzhong thought about Pang Yawei's words and laughed loudly and said: "It's a good saying, 'It's easy to know the sky, but it's hard to defy the sky.' I will go against the sky once, so that these Hui Hui'ers know what it means to flood the seven armies!"
Cao Lingzhong put on his armor and came out of the tent. Six thousand Tianshan troops had already assembled.
Only then did Pang Yawei know that Cao Lingzhong had been preparing to go to war. He mounted his horse and said, "His Royal Highness King Jianning is surrounded by people like you. If I can go back alive, I must pay homage to His Highness!"
After saying this, this group of Tang cavalry disguised as Geluolu people marched toward the river valley in a mighty manner.
Naturally, such a big movement could not be concealed from the Uighur scouts. Gel Khan received a report from his subordinates that 6,000 unidentified cavalry troops appeared on the grassland.
Gelu Khan laughed loudly and said to the left and right: "The main force of Ge Luolu has been driven to the north of Jinshan Mountain by Ben Khan. These must be Tang cavalry. If this cavalry is destroyed, Longyou can also join our Uighur territory.
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All the soldiers were overjoyed. Gel Khan immediately ordered his troops and said: "Give me military orders to tie my pockets more securely. Don't let any Tang cavalry go back in this battle!"