Sun Xiurong is a person who can't rest.

After learning that Yuanfeng was surrounded north of the Aral Sea, he thought about it and decided to take action himself.

"According to the news conveyed by Yuanfeng, the enemy led by the Xhosa cavalry surrounded the Snow Ye Army and did not launch an attack. It seemed that it would siege the city and attack the aid. However, as the Snow Ye Army who is best at this in the world, isn't it a show of its own?"

After returning to Suyechuan and the Yili River Basin, Sun Xiurong spent the most effort besides building Alishi City (Almaty) and teaching at Tianshan University. Due to the general drought in the Western Regions, most places are low and flat, so his post road construction did not take much effort.

Mix the broken stones with soil, dig drains on both sides, take a detour when encountering mountains, and build bridges when encountering water. By the beginning of winter this year (Tianbao tenth year, 751), the main roads in the country were basically completed.

Roads must be a must-have skill for travelers, otherwise your baggage vehicles, artillery, etc. will not be able to play any role.

At least for the moment, all forces including the Tang Dynasty have not seen clearly.

Starting from Alishi, heading straight west, about 400 miles to reach Suyechuan. It is now in the middle of winter, and Suyechuan is frozen firmly. At this time, the wheels of the four-wheeled carriage are replaced, and the ice sleds are raised at both ends, and the horse's hooves with iron nails will be easier than walking on the post road.

This time, Sun Xiurong took Sun Xiaoke's Bogda Camp and a military camp under Yili Prefecture.

After returning to Alishi City, Sun Xiurong increased the scale of Bogda Camp to 5,000 people, which was actually a reinforced camp.

The service arrangements of the expanded Bogda Battalion are:

There are two thousand cavalrymen and four battalions, each with one hundred heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry holds tiger guns, iron whips and other heavy weapons, and is equipped with short crossbows, cavalry rifles, cavalry knives, bows and arrows;

There is one strong crossbow camp with five hundred people, equipped with three stone power, two stone power strong crossbow, and one-handed horizontal knife;

There was one heavy army camp, five hundred people, all equipped with longer tiger spears, two-handed horizontal swords, bows and arrows. One hundred of the special martial warriors were equipped with large double-handed horizontal swords, large shields, short halberds, iron whips, iron maces, etc.;

There was one person in Modao Camp, with five hundred people, all equipped with Modao and bows;

There is one light army battalion and a baggage battalion with five hundred people, usually walking with the powerful crossbow battalion, equipped with 800 four-wheeled heavy-loaded carriages, equipped with bows and arrows, spears, and one-handed horizontal swords.

There is one artillery battalion, including four hundred artillery battalions and one hundred crossbows. The artillery battalion is currently equipped with a short-barrel cannon weighing 300 kilograms. Ten people are serving one cannon, a total of fifty, ten of them are spare; twenty crossbows are serving one, and five people are serving one.

The artillery battalion has its own vehicles, specializing in carrying out launch artillery, crossbows, shells, gunpowder, tinder, leads, oil cloth, etc.

The remaining five hundred people were naturally the personal soldiers commanded by Sun Xiurong himself. All his personal soldiers were equipped with tiger spears, two-handed horizontal swords, short crossbows, and two-stone powerful crossbows, and their combat power ranks among the top in the entire army.

The personal soldiers are clearly configured in this way for cavalry and infantry battles.

The personal military camp is not equipped with a side van. Under normal circumstances, Sun Xiurong cannot take the personal military camp alone to fight. If he unfortunately encounters an enemy, he will not be able to use the side van to block it with five hundred people. It is best to walk. When he encounters a mountain, he will rush into the mountains and defence based on the terrain.

After the demise of Shi Kingdom, only the prince, the envoy of Miaofeng, survived. Sun Xiurong had no intention of resuming the country at all. He just placed him in Bogda Battalion as deputy lieutenant. At present, Sun Xiaoke, who was from the Gongyue Division, actually mainly led the cavalry, and the remaining troops were led by Steeleon.

Walking down along the Saiye River, about a thousand miles later, the river turned south. At this time, the Saiye River did not completely disappear in the desert like later generations. During the Former Han Dynasty, although the Saiye River did not completely cut off when it flowed here, it was also intermittent. Ban Chao recruited Wusun people to dredge the river channel completely, so that the river flowed directly to the Yaoshui River (Sir River).

From the Three Kingdoms era to the Tang Dynasty, this river channel began to be intermittent again. After the two major tribes of Axijie and Boskagan joined the Suiye Army, Sun Xiurong simply dredged it again when building the post road, so Suiyechuan flowed to the medicine to kill water.

After arriving at the Yaoshui River, the boundary was divided into two. To the east, the entire downstream of the Shuye River and the middle of the Yaoshui River were the pastures of the Ashijie tribe, while the downstream of the Western Medicine Shui River was the pastures of the Corsai Cadre tribe.

However, when we arrived here, there were about 700 miles away from the battlefield north of the Aral Sea, and the enemy could come to fight at any time, so Sun Xiurong issued a new order.

"Fifty miles of strong cover, normal cavalry marching speed, continue to advance!"

The so-called fifty-mile strong cover is rich in meaning.

If the scout cavalry of the Shattered Ye Army finds the enemy's traces fifty miles away and is invincible, they must form a defensive formation.

Fifty miles, in order to notify the army in the rear as soon as possible, the reconnaissance cavalry naturally galloped with all their strength, and arrived at most half an hour, while the enemy's brigade could not do this. Although the war horses can reach a speed of fifty or sixty miles per hour, if they keep running at such a speed, it would be quite suspicious that there is still much left to fight after arriving on the battlefield.

So the army behind had at least half an hour of preparation time.

Half an hour was enough for Ye Jun to use the side van to form a rigorous formation near the river.

Also, if you want to march secretly, when the scout cavalry goes forward fifty miles, you will probably capture the caravans and herdsmen you encounter along the way, and wait until the war is over before you release them.

This is strong cover.

In the middle of winter, the river was connected to the post road, the world's most elite troops, 50 miles of skilled strong cover. In this drought (fireware can be popular), Sun Xiurong didn't know what troops could threaten him, not to mention that the territory from Alishi to the Aral Sea was all belonged to the Shattered Ye Army. If an accident occurred on his own territory, he might as well kill him.

Behind the Bogda camp is a load-carriage carried by Alishi's soldiers carrying materials for assembling ships to Kizil Port on the east coast of the Caspian Sea. At this time, it is the best transportation season. If it is spring and summer, the Saiye River is unavailable and muddy everywhere, and it will be extremely difficult to walk on the post road.

Although there is no sign of the battle with the Khanate of Khonsa, Sun Xiurong still asked the convoy transporting ship materials to Alishi to follow and asked the Alishi barracks to escort the Alishi mansion.

There is no way, it’s just that I have this confidence.

In the past, after occupying the Yaoshou Water, the Ashijie tribe built a castle in the famous city of Turkestan in later generations. The Cases of the Besays also built a castle in later generations Kizil Orda. They are all simple castles mixed with wood and stone. As their respective tents, the castle of the Ashijie tribe is naturally called Ashijie Castle, and the Casays of the Besays is the Besays, which laid the foundation for the big cities in later generations.

The convoy carrying the ship materials arrived at the Corsaigan Fort and could not continue to move forward, so the palace barracks guarded the Corsaigan Fort and rested at the Corsaigan Fort.

Sun Xiurong continued to take Bogda Camp along the medicine and kill water to the west, and finally drove directly into the Aral Sea!

At this time, the Aral Sea was a huge water area with almost 40% of the Caspian Sea. Otherwise, it would not have attracted so many nomadic people to come here to graz. In addition, its extremely high salt content has become the most famous salt-producing area in the Western Regions.

But it is precisely because of the high salt content and the land around the Aral Sea is too barren, which means it can barely be grazed. Of course, all nomadic tribes value not the salt field in the Aral Sea, but the springboard that can enter the Hualazimo!

Hualazimo is one of the best oasis in the entire river, and it can feed millions of water and plants!

Almost all nomadic tribes in history did this, but it was not so easy for them to enter the Hualazimo Oasis. At this time, in the place closest to the Aral Sea to the north of the oasis, due to the erosion of the Wuhu water (Amu River), a vast swamp land with a width far greater than that of the lower Ili River Delta. It is completely impossible to attack Hualazimo directly through the Aral Sea.

So I had to cross the desert to attack. Unfortunately, no matter from that direction, I had to travel through the desert about five hundred miles or the desert where the water source was extremely difficult to find.

In history, the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia repeatedly formed large troops to invade the Shiva Khanate, which occupied the Oasis of Huarazmo, and returned in disgrace, which shows the beauty of this place.

So, the Hualazimo Oasis became a chosen place.

After luckily occupying Hualazimo, you can continue to go south to attack the valley oasis where Ashgabat is located, which is also a must for the northern nomadic tribes to invade Persia.

In history, Persia built the Great Wall at the eastern end of the Elbools Mountain south of Ashgabat in order to resist the nomadic tribes coming from the north like a lantern. The Great Wall is naturally not as big as China, but it is more than 2,000 miles. If the nomadic tribes want to invade Iran, they must cross this line of defense known as the Jeerbint Great Wall.

Therefore, for Persia and the Great Food Empire that later inherited Persia, Mount Elbos was their Yinshan Mountains and Yanshan Mountains!

A post road leading directly to the Aral Sea can also enter the sea and then drive north!

In the eyes of the army surrounded by the three camps of Yuanfeng, which were surrounded by the Ixa people, this was really a little dumbfounded.

For the Xhosa people, after occupying the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, they also seized a lot of ships that originally belonged to the Persians and Romans through combat. In their capital, on the west coast of the Caspian Sea, they called themselves Samandal, and the Great Cannibals called it White City, which is the port city of Makhachkara in later Russia. They also had a large fleet.

Although the fleet was mainly composed of a small number of sailors provided by the Jews and a large number of captured slaves from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the Xhosa were not unfamiliar with ships.

But this is the first time they have seen the "army" marching on the Aral Sea in winter.

The battlefield was near the later city of Alarsk, a city on the northern coast of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. When the leader of the Xhosa army surrounded the Yuanfeng Scattered Ye Army, he couldn't help but look solemn when he received this news.

This person is the military leader of the Khanate of the Xhosa Khanate. He is from the Black Turks and the Right Yehu Tengjis of the Dubo Ministry!

If Sun Xiurong knew that Tengjis personally led his troops here, he would definitely understand why in the past few years, Brans, the leader of the Ghasa tribe, suddenly replaced Tengjis, undermined the Asina clan, and allowed all the Khanate to convert to Judaism.

Tengis was forced to leave.

In history, he moved east under the oppression of Brans and Ashinazen, and stood in the territory of the original Ugus tribe alliance on the east coast of the Caspian Sea, as well as part of the territory of the Kimak tribe north of the Caspian Sea. However, why did Tengis suddenly disappear after that? It was not recorded in Rome, Dashi, or the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!