Songzhou.

Luo Xin is arranging this invasion of Tibet.

On the third day after sending a war report to Qingzhou, he received an order from the emperor, and this time he was authorized to dispose of Tibetan affairs with full power, with the ultimate strategic goal of completely subduing Tibet.

"You will mobilize all the hot air balloons in the military region to go to Tubo now, cooperate with the chasers to reconnoiter the movements of Tubo, and pass the news to us at any time so that we can stop the Tubo cavalry at important nodes."

Somewhat similar to the barbarians, the Tibetan are also a model of cavalry and slave soldiers, and it is precisely with the high-quality horses on the plateau that the Tibetan can easily attack the empire in recent years, coupled with the lack of oxygen and the environment of the plateau, they rarely suffer from counterattacks from the former Great Chongqing State, because the soldiers cannot adapt to such a high altitude.

However, the difference is that the Great Chongqing State can block the barbarians on the grassland through the Great Wall, but Tubo has a long border with the Great Chongqing State, and no one knows where the Tubo will attack from, so this time Luo Xin had to use a hot air balloon, hoping to grasp the movement of the Tubo army in advance through the reconnaissance of the hot air balloon.

"Yes, Commander Luo!" The commander of the reconnaissance company in charge of reconnaissance responded.

Seeing the commander of the reconnaissance company leave, Luo Xin continued to give several orders, this time in order to deal with the operation of Tubo, he arrived in Songzhou ahead of schedule, but in fact, the movement of the army had just begun.

Now he is mobilizing the troops stationed in Bashu, Guangxi, and Yunnan to gather here.

According to his plan, 20,000 horses and horses of the Southwest Army will participate in this operation, and these soldiers are now equipped with Han-style rifles, and the artillery is also using a new type of Guards field guns, and the number of Changping machine guns has reached 300.

The news of Qi Guangyi's beheading of Dolgo had already spread throughout the army, and he, the commander of the Southwest Army, finally had a chance to make meritorious contributions, and he didn't want to disappoint the emperor.

Ten days later, the two elite divisions of the Southwest Army were assembled in Songzhou, and Luo Xin did not rush to attack, but asked the soldiers to conduct half a month of adaptation training on the plateau, and at the same time practice the cooperation between the arms.

Although he was confident that he could defeat the Tibetan army, he did not dare to underestimate altitude sickness, which he had learned from the Army Academy.

At the same time as the large-scale exercises of the Northwest Army, Tubo Zanpu Tashi Dunzhu was also paying close attention to the intelligence in Songzhou.

Inheriting the ambitions of previous generations of Zampu, Tashi Dhondrup dreamed of building a huge empire like the Golden Horde, and for this reason, he began to peep at the Great Yu Kingdom as soon as he became Zampu.

And in the decline of the Golden Horde, the troops disappeared from the steppe connecting the Tibetans, and he finally couldn't resist the ambition in his heart to lead the Tibetan cavalry to control the empty area of power left by the Golden Horde.

"Zampu, the Great Yu Kingdom has gathered about 20,000 people in Songzhou, and they have been training near Songzhou these days, and they have no intention of attacking us." Captain Demba came to him and reported what he had discovered.

"Just 20,000 people? Hmph, it seems that they are just putting on a show, and they are only worried about us attacking Songzhou, so they will ignore him and directly capture Lingzhou. Tashi Tondrup laughed loudly, looking very rampant.

Dengba nodded, the news on the plateau was closed, he and Tashi Dunzhu thought that the difference between the Great Yu Kingdom and the previous one was not very big, so they didn't pay attention to these 20,000 people at all, after all, the 80,000 cavalry and 100,000 slave soldiers under his command were even afraid of the Golden Horde.

Figuring out the number of Songzhou's army, Tashi Dunzhu was finally relieved, looking at the continuous cavalry ranks, his heart was full of enthusiasm, and he pointed in the direction of Lingzhou.

If they could occupy this city west of Chang'an, they would be able to control all the grasslands west of Lingzhou with Lingzhou as the boundary.

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"Commander, the reconnaissance team has sent the information, the Tubo army is advancing towards Lingzhou, and they have now reached the low-altitude area, which is about three days away from us."

On the third day of the adaptation training, Luo Xin received detailed information, and this was the news from the hot air balloon reconnaissance company, they saw a wider range of things in the sky, and they would not be noticed by the Tubo, because of this, the number of people dispatched by the Tubo this time was clearly felt by the reconnaissance company.

"Lingzhou? Sure enough, it's still Lingzhou, how many people did they dispatch this time? Luo Xin asked, in the history of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, it is not the first time that Tubo has paid attention to Lingzhou.

This city is far away from Chang'an, and it is deep in the grassland, which can be described as a heavy place for hoarding grain and grass.

After being occupied by the Golden Horde, the Tibetans did not dare to provoke the barbarians, so it stopped for a long time, and now the barbarians have withdrawn from Lingzhou, which is regained by the empire, and the Tibetans are making a comeback again.

"Report to the commander, there are about 100,000 people in total, including 40,000 cavalry and 60,000 slave soldiers." The commander of the reconnaissance company said in a loud voice.

"Eighty thousand? In this case, we set up an ambush on their way back and annihilate them in one fell swoop. ”

For Luo Xin, he didn't care how many people there were in Tubo this time, mainly because of the current line of action in Tubo, after all, the elite of the Southwest Army equipped with Han-style rifles could easily destroy several times the enemy.

As for whether Lingzhou is breached, he is not worried, because now Lingzhou is Qi Guangyi's jurisdiction, and the barbarians are under his hands and cannot get benefits, not to mention the cold weapon army of Tubo, which lives in a closed environment and sits in a well and watches the sky.

"Yes, Commander," the generals shouted.

At present, among the six military regions, the Southeast Military Region has gone to Australia, the Northwest Military Region is fighting the barbarians, the Kwantung Military Region is fighting with Tsarist Russia for Siberia, and Zhu Sansi is preparing to go to North America, but only their Southwest Army and Central Army have done nothing.

The Central Army has a task to defend Kyoto, and it makes them very uncomfortable for the Southwest Army to hold back like this.

So this time it was not easy to get this war, and the generals were in good spirits one by one, according to Luo Xin, the generals who did not fight might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes.

Next, Luo Xin spread out the nearby map and assigned tasks to each general, preparing to complete this combat mission with the cooperation of the Northwest Army.

Lingzhou.

Feng Dongjin has already assembled 20,000 lancers nearby, and Tubo is not under their jurisdiction, but Tubo has something to do with them when he goes north to attack Lingzhou.

Therefore, these days they also sent telegrams asking for instructions, and after receiving the order, they began to prepare, and on this day they finally waited for the mighty Tibetan army.

At the same time that he discovered the Tibetan army, Tashi Dunzhu also discovered the lancers of Feng Dongjin.

Looking at this cavalryman standing quietly on the grassland, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and this feeling made him suddenly uneasy.