When he learned that Li Er had sent Cheng Yaojin's troops south to attack Dabolu, Li Yunze simply complained about this, "He turned into a staff officer of the Showa era and thought that the Tang army could fight by eating grass."
Li Er has never been to the Western Regions and does not know the environment here. There are no precise maps in this era.
Seeing that Cheng Yaojin's troops were aggressive and invincible, they swept through the four towns of Anxi almost like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.
It is natural to think that Cheng Yaojin will definitely be able to continue fighting.
Cheng Yaojin wanted to complain. The reason why he fought so fast was not only because his opponent was weak, but also because he knew that logistical supplies were difficult. If there was no doubt that he would take his time, it would be better to fight quickly when supplies were available.
When he attacked the four towns of Anxi, he always attacked after getting a supply convoy, and the supplies were only enough to last until the next supply convoy arrived.
When he reached Shule, the time he had to obtain supplies was extended to three months, so he still had the ability to continue fighting.
What's more, there are high mountains and lofty mountains in the Big and Little Bolu areas.
This is probably the side effect of Li Yunze providing the telegram.
In the past, when the distance was too far, the generals would not accept the orders of the foreign emperor, and the decision on how to fight would be made by the generals on the front line.
But after getting the telegram, Li Er actually learned to play micro-management.
However, now that the emperor had given the order, Cheng Yaojin, who was a little arrogant because of the smooth march of the army, still obeyed without hesitation.
As supplies took several months and traveled thousands of miles to Shule, Cheng Yaojin left Cheng Chumo to lead tens of thousands of Tang troops to garrison Shule, while he led fifteen thousand Tang troops southward and crossed over.
Congling went to attack Dabolu.
As for the rest of the Tang army, they were stationed along the road.
When the news reached Li Yunze, he also rolled his eyes.
It was necessary to supply nearly 200,000 Tang troops to the north and south at the same time, and the supply line was thousands of miles long. It was really a life-threatening task for the logistics officer.
There was no other way, so Li Yunze could only try his best to raise funds while mobilizing more prisoners to build two railway lines on both sides of Tianshan Mountain.
Just build as much as you can. Even building an extra mile forward means that the supply line is shortened by one mile.
It's just that the Tang Army on the front line advanced too fast. The southern front had already passed Congling, and the northern front was conquering Altai, Tacheng and other places, passing through the Ili River Valley and reaching the foot of Jinshan Mountain, and was fighting back and forth with the Western Turks.
In order to provide supplies to the Tang army on the front line as much as possible, Li Yunze also tried his best.
But at the same time, he still reminded Li Er repeatedly that Tubo in the south and Xue Yantuo in the north probably would not watch helplessly as the Tang Dynasty regained the Western Regions and wiped out the Western Turks.
Both Tubo and Xue Yantuo may launch a surprise attack, and I hope Li Er can take precautions in advance.
Li Er's response was to send thousands of reinforcements to Longyou Road, and then sent envoys to Xue Yantuo and Tubo, reaffirming the friendly relations between the Tang Dynasty and them and giving them gifts.
It's not that he doesn't want to deploy more troops, but that his supply capacity has exceeded the upper limit.
Moreover, many elites of the Tang army were secretly transferred north to prepare for the war against Goguryeo. At the same time, many Tang troops were scattered across the vast land starting from Japan in the north to Luzon and Nanyang in the south to fight with the local indigenous people.
The chieftains of Jiannan Road were encouraged and were ready to take action, and they needed a troop of troops to watch them.
In addition, the soldiers and horses in the prairie were used to carry out the reduction, the soldiers and horses to guard against Tubo and Xueyantuo, the soldiers and horses guarding various places, and the indispensable sixteen guards to guard Chang'an City.
The military strength of the Tang Dynasty has now been used to its limit.
Li Yunze didn't believe that Tubo and Xue Yantuo didn't understand what it means to have a dying mouth and a cold tooth. The threat that the Tang Dynasty brought to surrounding countries in this era was far more powerful than the beautiful countries in later generations.
This is not just speculation. After the caravans sent to Tubo and Xueyantuo came back, they reported that these two places were transporting combat supplies to the border, and at the same time they had begun to gradually mobilize.
Li Yunze saw that this was not possible. It was obvious that a world war was about to begin, and Datang had to prepare as much as possible.
After exchanging telegrams with Li Er, Li Er was finally persuaded and sent Zhang Shigui and others to recruit troops in Hebei and other places.
At this time, the Tang Dynasty used the government soldier system, which was a compulsory soldier. However, not everyone could be a compulsory soldier. Only those with assets in their family were qualified to be a government soldier.
When the government troops are not enough, the only way to recruit troops is to recruit troops.
Compared with surrounding countries, the most powerful thing about Datang was not its vast territory, numerous products, and advanced science and technology, but its large population.
No matter what you do, you need people, and talents are the most valuable asset.
The tens of millions of people in the Tang Dynasty were as crushing advantages to the surrounding countries as Mount Tai.
With this advantage, as long as the emperor is not too stupid, as long as the civil servants are not too greedy, and as long as the generals are not too bad, he can basically defeat everything around him.
For the Tang Dynasty at this time, it was not difficult to recruit tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops.
But for neighboring countries, this order of magnitude would require nationwide mobilization.
Li Yunze, who has rich experience, made a correct prediction.
Facing the Tang Dynasty, which was advancing like crazy, as if it wanted to embrace the whole world, when the Western Region was about to be pacified and the Western Turks were about to be defeated, a large number of big and small countries that felt deeply ashamed began to take action one after another.
Of course, it is not only because of this incident, but also because these countries used their national capital to speculate in stocks in Chang'an City in the past few years, but ended up pawning their pants. This hatred continues to this day.
The first to launch the campaign were the nine surnames of Zhaowu who were far away in Kangju and other places.
The so-called nine surnames of Zhaowu lived in Zhaowu City north of the Qilian Mountains during the Han Dynasty, that is, the Dayue clan.
As early as the New Age, the Dayue clan transported Hetian jade to China through the "Jade Road" to do business with Yao and Shun. This long international trade lasted from the Yao and Shun era to the Qin Dynasty.
The earliest Silk Road was also established by the Yueshi people.
After being defeated by Modun Shanyu, they moved west across the Congling Mountains to the Amu Darya River in Central Asia, defeated the descendants of Alexander's expeditionary army, and established the Dayuezhi Kingdom.
Over the next few hundred years, they gradually split into multiple countries, but they still cherished their homeland. The kings of each country still had the surname Zhaowu. The most famous among them was the Sogdian. The most common people in the east and west cities of the Tang Dynasty had the nine surnames of Zhaowu.
merchant.
Of course, in the stock market tragedy that year, the nine surnames of Zhaowu, who had a strong business atmosphere, also suffered the most heavy losses.
At that time, almost all the merchants with the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Chang'an City went bankrupt and lost all their wealth.
The envoys of the nine surnames of Zhaowu were also there, taking their king's national capital to trade stocks. In the end, only one envoy returned home, because the others either went to the rooftop or simply ran away incognito.
Now, after receiving the support of the big powers, the Nine Surnames of Zhaowu were the first to jump out.
More than a dozen countries directly swept the land into troops, and assembled two large armies to cross Congling and surrounded Suiye City and Shule respectively.
These two places are the most important logistics bases of Su Dingfang and Cheng Yaojin respectively. They are surrounded by tens of thousands of troops with the nine surnames of Zhaowu on both sides of the Tianshan Mountains.
If there were only nine surnames of Zhaowu, it would not be a big deal.
They can do business well, but they are not good at fighting.
But the nine surnames of Zhaowu who besieged Suiye City in the north of the Tianshan Mountains received support from many Zahu tribes led by Tu Qishi.
The nine surnames of Zhaowu who besieged Shule in the south received reinforcements from Tibet.
There are only 7,000 men left by Su Dingfang to guard Suiye City, and only 10,000 men left by Cheng Chumo in Shule.
In addition, many small countries and miscellaneous tribes in almost the entire Western Region were mobilized, forming a vast sea of people's war that was almost as violent as a storm.
Su Dingfang was still a little younger, so he took the main force as far north as possible, and interacted with the Western Turks near Jinshan. He was also attacked by northern tribes such as Uihe, Xue Yantuo, and Tiele.
These tribes were willing to join hands to fight against the Tang Dynasty. In addition to the crisis of losing their lips and teeth, the root cause was Li Er's cruel reduction of Ding on the prairie.
What a terrifying thing it is to be reduced to a small country. After seeing what happened to the tribes on the prairie, Xue Yantuo of Uighur Tiele could not accept that he too would be reduced to a small country no matter what.
Rather than being reduced by the Tang Dynasty, it is better to rise up and give it a try.
The strength of these northern tribes gathered together is also very terrifying, but Su Dingfang has an army of almost 100,000, so as long as he makes no mistakes, there will basically not be any great danger.
The real danger is here with Cheng Yaojin.
Tibet had been motionless before, but once it moved, it was as powerful as thunder.
In the south, they cooperated with the local chieftains to raid the entire Jiannan Road. From here in Shu, Weizhou, Songzhou and other places raided Shu.
Longyou Road launched an all-out attack here, rushing out from both sides of the West Sea to attack Longyou Road in an attempt to cut off the Tang army's logistics line.
Then there is the Western Region, where Tubo went down the mountain in an all-round way, rushing from Hoh Xil and other places to Qiemo, Jingjue and other places.
He rushed down the mountain from Pangong Tso and other places and went straight to Khotan and Shule and other places. At the same time, he sent a large army to the big and small Bolu to cut off Cheng Yaojin's retreat.
Tubo sent hundreds of thousands of troops in one breath, trying to devour all the Tang troops in the Western Regions.
When the Tang Dynasty prepared for this world war for many years, other countries were not idle, and they were also making preparations.
In such a matter of life and death, no one is a fool.
The Tang Dynasty wanted to defeat them one by one, so naturally they had to choose, 'To deal with these evil heretics, we don't need to talk about moral principles, let's go together together!'
When the news reached Chang'an City, Li Er had already asked Queen Changsun to prepare armor. He was going to conquer the Western Regions himself.
Then, the Japanese began to attack the mining areas leased by Datang.
Goguryeo mobilized troops and horses to be active on the border, with the intention of spying on Youzhou.
Baekje's navy even appeared off the coast of Shandong.
Suddenly, the entire border of Datang was almost in flames.
Now Li Er couldn't do the expedition himself, he had to sit in Chang'an City to stabilize people's hearts.
A group of civil servants petitioned to stop fighting and negotiate peace with other countries.
They believed that the Tang Dynasty's excessive military force provoked all the countries to attack, which was an ominous sign, and the emperor immediately issued an edict saying so.
There will never be a shortage of these people in any era, after all, those who are cultivators and descendants are always there.
As long as they are here, this kind of thing will never be avoided.
Regarding these people, it was Wei Zheng who came out and scolded them, saying that they had simply disgraced the Tang Dynasty, and Wei Zheng even took the initiative to take his nephews to guard the border.
Li Er was in a rare good mood and greatly appreciated Wei Zheng, saying that it was in times of crisis that he showed his true colors as a hero.
Of course, it was not Wei Zheng's turn to go to the battlefield yet, and the warriors of the Tang Dynasty were not yet dead.
Li Jing no longer stayed at home writing military documents, and went to the palace overnight to discuss countermeasures with Li Er and other nobles.
After repeated discussions via telegrams with Li Yunze, Su Dingfang, Cheng Yaojin and others on the front line, Datang finally responded.
First, let Zhang Shigui, Chang He and others speed up the recruitment and training of troops.
Then let Li Ji deal with Goguryeo and Baekje, and let Hou Junji deal with Japan.
Then Li Xiaogong and others were asked to go to Jiannan Road to deal with the Tubo and local chieftains.
Li Jing and others went north to the grassland to deter Xue Yantuo and others from retreating.
Arranged for Li Daozong and others to go to Shu to deal with the Tibetan invasion.
Duan Zhixuan went to Longyou Road to maintain the logistics of the Western Region Army.
After that, comes the most critical Western Region.
The Western Region is in urgent need of reinforcements, but it is difficult to decide who will lead the third wave.
All those who could be sent were sent out, and the remaining ones, such as Yuchi Jingde, Xue Wanche and others, were all strong generals, but they were not suitable to be the master generals.
However, Qin Qiong, Chai Shao and others were so ill that they had difficulty getting out of bed and were unable to travel thousands of miles.
Zhang Liang and others had already been given up.
After much searching, I couldn't find a suitable general.
Changsun Wuji and others suggested that Li Jing go, but Li Er refused after careful consideration.
He finally ordered that Yuchi Jingde, Xue Wanche and others would lead the reinforcements to the Western Regions respectively, and at the same time appointed Du Ruhui as the marching commander to replace Li Yunze in charge of logistics matters.
Li Er chose Li Yunze as the general of the third division, responsible for commanding the reinforcements to relieve the crisis in the Western Region.
He firmly believed that this strange man had this ability!