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After dividing Gansu, Ningxia, and Liaodong into several new provinces, and agreeing on the chief officials of the three divisions of each province, Qin Mu urgently transferred 10,000 cavalry from Su Jin to the north to support Hetao, and ordered the agricultural code to raise grain and grass.

The palace lamps had been lit in the Wuying Palace, Qin Mu and the ministers hastily ate some meals, and then put out the map, listening to Qin Yiming, the general of Xijing Town, report the battle situation in Longyou, Hexi, and Hetao.

Qin Yiming pointed to the map and said, "Your Majesty, the shape is quite compelling at the moment, especially the sudden entry of the 15,000-strong army of Qitate into the Hetao, completely disrupting our previous deployment. At present, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses in Hetao, Dongshengwei has fallen, and 1,000 soldiers and horses have collapsed.

The remaining nine thousand, except for Wen Cunxiao's two thousand to guard Yinchuan City, the rest are scattered in Lingwu, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, and Yulin.

Lingwu, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, Yulin are all important places along the Great Wall, now the army is not much, if Wen Cunxiao is transferred in large quantities, Qi Tate from the east set to the south, as long as a city is broken, then the defense line of the Wuding River is all collapsed, and the gateway to northern Shaanxi is wide open.

Now, the Mongols in Dongtao, the Hui people, have joined Chitate, and their strength has exceeded 20,000, and it is not surprising that it may have increased to 30,000. ”

After Qin Yiming finished speaking, Nong Dianzhang carefully said: "Your Majesty, do you want to postpone the implementation of sinicization of the Hetao?" ”

In addition to the Mongols, there are also Hui people in the Hetao area. Since the recovery of the Hetao, Qin Mu has ordered the implementation of sinicization, although it is not as strong as Horqin's efforts to divide the grassland into households.

However, the promotion of sinicization must have been one of the reasons why the Mongols and Uighurs in the Hetao had turned to Chitate one after another.

Qin Mu looked at Sima An, Li Yuan and the others and asked, "What do the ministers think about this?" ”

Yu Shangyou replied: "Your Majesty,The most taboo in governance is to change the order of the day.,The current suspension of the implementation of sinicization,Of course, it will help to deal with the chitate,But in the long run,It's extremely unfavorable.,Not only did the work done before be abandoned.,And in the future, we will implement sinicization.。 It's going to be harder. ”

Li Yuan and Sima An generally agreed with Yu Shangyou's opinion. Qin Mu said: "In this case, sinicization cannot be abolished, but the progress can be slowed down." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Nong Dianzhang hurriedly replied.

Qin Mu turned his head to Qin Yiming and said, "The matter of sending additional troops to reinforce the Hetao. I'll talk about that later. First of all, let's talk about the situation in Longyou and the Hexi Corridor. ”

"陛xià. On the right side of Long, at present, the 30,000 troops of Gushi Khan are attacking Lanzhou, and the general of Lanzhou Town, Ma Wannian, has an army of 10,000. Coupled with the 8,000 reinforcements transferred from the Hetao, there is no danger of losing for the time being.

Rangu Shi Khan sent his eldest son Dayan Ozir Khan to lead an army of 10,000 to the north to attack Datong River Fort, and initially guessed that its strategic intention was to cross the Datong River, attack Zhuang Langwei, Zhenqiang Fort, Gulangsuo, and enter Liangzhou. There is a great intention to completely block the eastern end of the Hexi Corridor.

In addition, Gushi Khan also sent the troops to lead 7,000 men and horses to the south, breaking the Taohe Pass and Hezhou, and at present, the Song is attacking Lintao Mansion, our army has 2,000 garrisons in Lintao Mansion, and the town will be Wu Qingfeng;

Now the troops of Gongchang Mansion, Taozhou, Minzhou, Ningyuan, and even Qinzhou have been basically emptied, and they are very empty.

Your Majesty, the minister should emphasize that Gushi Khan's men and horses also used a large number of earth-shaking thunders, and they had a larger charge and greater power than the sky-shaking thunders equipped by our army;

They also made a kind of bed crossbow, which was used to eject a fire tribulus filled with gunpowder, which ranged from five catties to ten catties, and exploded after being projected into the city with a bed crossbow, and its power was not inferior to how much our army's rockets slipped away, causing huge damage to our army's soldiers defending the city. ”

Hearing this news, Qin Mu's eyebrows frowned slightly, the grenade is a double-edged sword, its process is too simple, as long as there is gunpowder, almost anyone can imitate it.

The Qin army used it first, and the effect was very good, but now the enemy has also imitated it, and even has the meaning of improvement, it seems that it is better to increase investment in flintlock pistols and produce more flintlock pistols to equip the army.

"Your Majesty, Lintao Mansion, Hezhou, Taozhou, Minzhou and other places are very complicated, there are a large number of nomadic Qiang people, Tubo people, these people are usually fierce and good at fighting, and unruly, now Gushi Khan has the upper hand for the time being, these Tubo Qiang people have a lot of enemies, and it is not excluded that there are people in Lintao and Minzhou who make trouble, or make internal responses to the enemy."

Listening to this situation, it can be said that the eyebrows are burning, and there is almost no other way for these Qiang people than to deter them by force.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, these Qiang rebellions were taken for granted, and it was impossible for the Great Qin to change their nature, put down the butcher's knife, and become a Buddha on the ground.

Qin Mu continued to ask, "How is the situation in Shazhou?" ”

"Back to His Majesty, Shazhou, four thousand miles away, we received the news from a month ago, after the Dzungar Great Khan Batur annexed the Yarkand Khanate, his strength has increased greatly, and the number of troops is no less than 100,000.

At present, Batur Khan sent his second son Chechen Taiji to sit in Yarkand City (Shache), and his third son Zhuot Babatur to sit in Hashihar (Kashgar), Batur himself led an army of 50,000 to the east to converge with the five sons of Shazhou, and the Dzungar army in Shazhou has reached 60,000.

After Li Dudu retreated to Guazhou, the Mongols in Guazhou City rebelled, although Li Dudu was wiped out in time, but Guazhou's grain storage was burned, Li Dudu was worried that Batur's troops would besiege Guazhou, and the army would run out of food, so he had to retreat to Chijin City again, and take Zhangma City as a horn"

"What, you said Guazhou was also lost?" When Qin Mu heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt Qin Yiming, his eyes were a little cold.

Suzhou (Jiuquan City) to Shazhou (Dunhuang City) is about 800 miles, that is to say, in the past few months, Li Dingguo lost 800 miles of land.

But under the gathering of a large army, the grain stored in Guazhou was burned, which is inevitably a bit incompetent.

Is Li Dingguo really so incompetent? Qin Mu was stunned in his heart, could it be that he really believed in the wrong person.

After listening to these situations, it can be summed up in four words: a mess.

Calculating the enemy's strength, Quitat conservatively estimated 20,000, 50,000 Gushi Khan who attacked Longyou, and 60,000 Batur Khan in Dzungaria, which is 130,000 troops, and Daqin's current strength in Hexi Hetao adds up to less than 80,000.

And it must be clear that these 130,000 enemies are all cavalry with high mobility, and most of the 80,000 troops of the Qin army are infantry, and the total number of cavalry is only 30,000.

Throughout Hetao, Longyou, and Hexi, these places are vast and sparsely populated, and there is only one city in hundreds of miles, and the infantry can only be used to defend the city in this kind of place; After leaving the city, even if it is equipped with advanced weapons, it is extremely dangerous;

Others will not stand stupidly and let you fight, at the speed of infantry, hundreds of miles often take ten days and half a month, if 10,000 troops walk for half a month, how much logistics grain and grass do you have to bring?

Other people's cavalry doesn't need to fight, and it is easy to drag you to death in the vast wilderness with your food and grass supplies.

Qin Mu rubbed his aching eyebrows and asked, "Ministers, how to clean up this mess, and what do you think?" ”

Sima An said: "Your Majesty, after Su Jin's 10,000 cavalry goes to the Hetao, even if he can't completely annihilate the Qitate, he should be able to control the situation in the Hetao." Looking at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, the more soldiers and horses sent to Suzhou now, the more dangerous it is;

The Qinghai-Tibet Heshuo Special Department is like a sharp blade hanging on Bozi, and Lanzhou, Lintao, Minzhou and other places cannot afford to lose, otherwise the soldiers and horses in the Hexi Corridor will be cut off and return to the road, and the morale of the army will be in chaos, and then Guanzhong and Sichuan will also be exposed to the enemy's troops.

Therefore, the minister thinks that the most important thing at present is to solve the problem of Gushi Khan. In the Qinghai-Tibet alpine land, if our army attacks on the back, it will be difficult to adapt to the plateau climate for a while, and it can be described as difficult.

Now most of the soldiers and horses of Gushi Khan have gone down to the Lanzhou area, for my Great Qin, this is a crisis, but also a good opportunity, if we can take advantage of this opportunity to defeat Gushi Khan and annihilate his main force, then the entire Qinghai-Tibet can be determined. ”

Sima An's words lifted Qin Mu's spirits, yes, if Gushi Khan can't come down, the Qin army will capture the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it will be extremely difficult, and even if it can be attacked, it will definitely have to pay a huge price.

The question is, how can we completely annihilate the 50,000 army of the First Khan? Others are not stupid, and once the war is unfavorable, they will definitely withdraw immediately.

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