(0795) Xu Xingxia returned to the command post, and Song Bingshu, an intelligence staff officer, sent a large amount of intelligence information. All of these intelligence materials are related to the Ottoman Empire. With the continuous expansion of the white-clothed army, the combat tasks undertaken by the army continue to increase, the base camp needs to deal with more and more military affairs, and the number of staff officers around Xu Xingxia is also increasing. Many talented, courageous, decisive, and motivated young people have come to Xu Xingxia's side.

Song Bingshu is the most important one in Xu Xingxia. He turned out to be a scholar in the water town south of the Yangtze River, with a good family background and a very flexible mind, but he never died reading, and he was never interested in Baguwen. Because he was unwilling to study and was unwilling to do Bagu Wen, he didn't even get into Xiucai. In the eyes of his parents, he is a complete waste.

After the rise of the White Army, he traveled thousands of miles to join the White Army. In the assessment presided over by Xu Xingxia himself, his ability performed well, and he was directly recruited by Xu Xingxia to the General Staff. What the White Army needs is people with flexible minds and the ability to make decisions. No matter how well the eight-strand essay is written, it is useless. Song Bingshu trained at the grassroots level of the chasers for three months, and after being familiar with the basic situation of the troops, he came to Xu Xingxia's side.

Song Bingshu's intelligence analysis ability is very strong. His greatest characteristic is calmness. Calmly see the subtlety, calmly see the big with the small, and calmly peep at the leopard in the tube. In just half a month, Song Bingshu won Xu Xingxia's complete trust. Xu Xingxia clearly instructed that all the information sent by Xuan Yingwei, as long as it was related to the Ottoman Empire, would be handed over to Song Bingshu for analysis and processing after it was handed over to the base camp.

Xu Xingxia groaned and asked, "The Ottoman Empire, what are the big moves?" ”

Song Bingshu said cautiously: "For the time being, their big moves have not yet spread to the territory of the Yarkand Khanate. Judging from the information available so far, a large number of fanatics have gathered in the area of Hashhar, probably about 500,000 people. Behind them, there are many more fanatics coming. However, the regular army of the Ottoman Empire, which consisted of only 30,000 men, belonged to the sequence of expeditionary forces. In the middle, across the Safavid dynasty. ”

Xu Xingxia nodded thoughtfully. The number of 500,000 fanatics does sound quite frightening, and the total number of the White Clothes Army is not more than half of that of others. Moreover, the expeditionary force of the Ottoman Empire actually had as many as 30,000 people, which was indeed a bit unexpected by Xu Xingxia. How fast they came.

These guys really don't take heads seriously, and hundreds of thousands of people are dispatched at every turn. It seems that the number of people dispatched, even a little less, could not highlight the might of the Ottoman Empire. I don't know how their logistics were solved, how they were able to maintain the existence of so many people? Could it be that they can eat enough just by eating the wind and sand? It's also amazing.

Compared with the Ottoman Empire, the logistics of the white-clothed army are very pitiful. The four troops, including the Chasseurs, the Panthers, the Mastiffs, and the Lion Cavalry, are less than 30,000 people, only one-tenth of the opponent. However, in order to maintain the operations of these four troops in the Western Regions, the logistics department of the White Army can be said to have exhausted all their efforts.

It's not that Xu Xingxia doesn't want to increase the strength of the white-clothed army in the Western Regions, but he really can't support it logistically. It will take at least three months to get a bullet to the city of Yaergan before the railway line is fully built. This is still the ideal situation. If there is any accident, half a year is indispensable.

"What's the news from the Abbasids?"

After pondering for a moment, Xu Xingxia asked slowly.

The Abbasid he was referring to was the emperor of the Safavids.

This guy is also a generation of heroes, and his ability is quite good. The original Iranian region, under the attack of the Ottoman Empire, was almost completely lost, and even the capital was not kept. Fortunately, at the most dangerous time, the eighteen-year-old Abbasid decisively staged a palace coup, sent his weak and incompetent father into the cold palace, and personally took the supreme power in Iran. After a series of reforms, he established a relatively powerful Safavid dynasty.

Due to regional and religious disputes, the Safavid dynasty under the Abbasid rule was always in a state of hostility with the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the two sides fought wars almost every year on the border, and many people died every year, without interruption.

Overall, though, the Safavid dynasty was on the back foot. The Safavid Dynasty was greatly inferior in terms of population and land area. The number of troops of the Safavid dynasty was less than a third of that of the Ottoman Empire. The fact that the Ottoman expeditionary force was able to cross the Safavid Dynasty and appear in the Western Regions was the result of the severe containment of the Safavid Dynasty. If the Safavid dynasty was strong enough, the regular Ottoman army would not be able to pass at all.

In fact, the biggest headache for the Abbasids was not the threat from the outside, but internal strife. He came to power through a coup d'état and overthrew his father by force, which naturally attracted the dissatisfaction of many people, especially the original Turkmen nobles. Before the coup, the Turkmen nobility held the main power of the Safavid dynasty, and the army was also controlled by them. The Abbasids wanted to change that, and it was understandably difficult.

The original main military force in the Iranian region was called the Red Hat Army, which was marked by the wearing of red hats, just like the British Army. They were under the command of various nobles, had low loyalty to the king, and did not accept the Abbasid rule at all. When the Abbasids came to power, they suppressed the Red Hats, weakened them, and formed a separate army loyal to them. As a result, many Red Riding Hoods rebelled, and the war continued.

The internal strife of the Safavid Dynasty naturally attracted the covetousness of the Ottoman Empire. The regular army of the Ottoman Empire, taking the opportunity to enter the Safavid dynasty, supported the various nobles of the Red Riding Hood Army. As a result, the entire northern part of the Safavid dynasty fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire. Nominally, the region was ruled by the Red Hats, but in reality, the Ottoman Empire was behind it.

Song Bingshu said: "The current Safi Dynasty is in a very chaotic situation. The strength of the Abbasids is undoubtedly the strongest, but the remnants of the Red Riding Hoods are not weak. The Ottoman Empire continued to send regular troops into Safavid territory, presumably to bring down the Abbasids. ”

"The Abbasids probably didn't know what we were capable of for the time being, and they never sent anyone to contact us. However, as long as we wipe out some of the regular Ottoman army, the Abbasids will definitely take the initiative to send someone to contact us. ”

Xu Xingxia nodded approvingly, and said calmly: "Very good!" ”

Song Bingshu also reported some other basic information. According to Xuan Yingwei's reconnaissance, the commander of the fanatic is no longer a woman, but an old general of the Ottoman Empire, who has a lot of combat experience. His name, Mahmud, once served as the governor of Baghdad in the Ottoman Empire. Song Bingshu judged that this person was a veteran of the battlefield and was not easy to deal with.

Mahmud brought not only a large number of fanatics, but also 30,000 Ottoman musketeers. Maybe the name is a bit popular and nothing special. If you talk about the Sultan's own soldiers, it is estimated that many people will be familiar with it. In the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan's own soldiers were definitely the elite of the army. The quality of their soldiers, weapons and equipment, military training, and remuneration are all the best. Of course, the combat effectiveness is also the strongest.

Xu Xingxia said in a deep voice: "Let's move the base camp to Ya'er Gancheng first!" Command nearby! ”

Ah Su's place, after all, is too far away from the front line, and he can't grasp the latest news in time. The situation reported by Song Bingshu was at least three days ago. Xu Xingxia needs to grasp the first-hand information in a timely manner. In particular, Song Bingshu judged that this Mahmud was a veteran of the battlefield and was not easy to deal with, so he must not take it lightly.

Xu Xingxia didn't think that the army of the Ottoman Empire was strong enough to take down the city of Yaergan. He set up his base camp in Yaergan, and there should be no danger. As soon as the order was delivered, the parties moved quickly.

At this time, Zhang Nai, the deputy commander of the Chasers, had quietly led a squadron of Chaser warriors to conduct secret training in a secret place, accurately infiltrate the Kingdom of Khorasan, and cooperate with Sawanna's secret operation. Therefore, the person in charge of commanding the chasers was the commander Liu Chuang. This guy, when he heard that the base camp was going to move to Yaergancheng, naturally he couldn't ask for it. The closer you are to the battlefield, the more the chasseurs will have a chance to fight!

"Quick! Fast! Fast! ”

"You bunnies, hurry up!"

"I'm telling you, if you're late, you won't even have a chance to drink soup!"

Liu Chuang felt that the battlefield was getting closer and closer to him, and he couldn't help but boil his blood. He really longed for war. He kept shouting at his men, urging them to speed up. The effect of this is obvious. Just five hours later, Da Ben Yi quickly moved in the direction of Yaergancheng.

…… Five days later, Xu Xingxia appeared in Yaergancheng. Garrisoned in the city of Yaergan was an army of mastiff cavalry led by Gao Jie. Knowing that Xu Xingxia was coming, Gao Jie hurried out of the city to greet him. As a result, Xu Xingxia only stayed in Yaergancheng for a while, washed his face, and then turned around and went to Kizi. Yaergancheng is not a battlefield, Kizi is a battlefield, and he wants to go to the battlefield to see.

When the group came to Kizi, they found that the two armies were already facing each other, and they were ready to fight. Garrisoned in Kizi were the lion cavalry of the first power leader. The way the Lion Cavalry fights is something special. If it is guerrilla warfare, ambush warfare, sparrow warfare, sabotage warfare and the like, the lion cavalry is definitely not as skilled as the mastiff cavalry and the leopard cavalry. However, when it comes to traditional queue combat, the Lion Cavalry is the strong point. The power of the line to be shot, the lion cavalry is definitely the strongest.

(To be continued)