From Soldier To Emperor

An army of 10,000 people is nothing in the Western Regions under Alien Datang, but 10,000 elite soldiers are not a small force in the Western Regions.

Those small Jiedu envoys who control the land of a mansion have only one thousand to two thousand Datang regular troops in their hands. Even the guardian envoys of the four towns of Anxi, the size of the Datang field army in their respective hands in peacetime is also large. No more than five thousand.

The Datang regular army controlled by the entire Anxi Duhu Mansion definitely does not exceed 40,000!

Of course, the Western Regions need to suppress and deter a large number of Semu natives. The local garrison is very large, covering almost all ordinary Han people. With less than 40,000 troops alone, it is impossible to control the huge Western Regions...

However, during the invasion of the Turpan Kingdom, the four towns of Anxi were split, and the entire Western Regions were divided into two camps to fight each other. A large number of the original Tang Army's regular field troops were consumed and dispersed, and they were annexed to each other.

Nowadays, the soldiers in Shule Army Town who really belonged to the original Datang field troops can’t even get together two thousand people, but because Luyang has incorporated some defeated generals from other areas, and also drawn from local garrisons during the war. The veterans who have filled up have an army with Luyang at the core in Shule Army Town.

Because this army has gone through the baptism of war, its combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Datang field troops, but its morale is a bit low...

It's okay if it's used to defend the city. Going out in the field is purely a gift!

On the other hand, the two guards of Khotan and Yanqi, although they also lost a lot of money in the war, they increased the strength of the miscellaneous troops through the acquisition of troops and the annexation of other juntas.

Yuchi Yingzhe’s regular army was able to reach tens of thousands of guards by the guards of Yutian Army Town. Among them, the middle and high-ranking military attaches were all the confidants of the Yuchi family and Yuchi Yingzhe, completely transformed into the private army of Yuchi Yingzhe!

The team in Yanqi Army Town is similar, and the team size can reach tens of thousands. It is controlled by Long Letian, who is guarded by Yanqi, and it has been transformed into the Long Family Army in a substantial way.

Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian became a self-sufficient warlord with tens of thousands of soldiers.

Their army is an actual field force that does not count the local garrisons and Semu people, and its combat effectiveness is only slightly worse than the original Datang Field Army.

The support of Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian is inseparable from the support of the Tufan Kingdom.

Because there are too many large and small warlords in the Western Regions, in order to make better use of their power, the Tufan Kingdom chose the strongest guards of Khotan Army Town and Yanqi Army Town as representatives, and integrated the warlords who surrendered to the Tufan Kingdom. power.

It was this integration that made the local forces of the Western Regions of the Turpan Kingdom twisted into a single rope. Even without the name of the orthodox of the Tang Dynasty, the morale of the subordinates was generally low, and they still beat the Tang Zheng unified party, which is essentially a warlord alliance. His nose and face were swollen, and in the end it was the main force of the Tang army who wiped out the army town of Qiuci in World War I!

Of course, this approach of the Turpan Kingdom was advantageous during the war, but the drawbacks appeared when the war ended.

Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian were not mediocre people either. They took advantage of the convenience of the war to swallow the power of other subordinates, not to mention, they also took over the territories of the surrounding prefectures and counties to expand their financial resources.

When the Turpan Kingdom army entered the Western Regions, the two families were already big, and Songtsen Gambo, in order to win over the two warlords, not only did not have any restrictions, but also bestowed the titles of the dukes on the two!

Now in the Tufan Kingdom, Yuchi Yingzhe has become the Duke of Khotan, and Long Letian has become the Duke of Yanqi, as if he were the royal family of the two towns!

After the Battle of Qiuci, Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian did not know when they reached an intent to cooperate, and they were unwilling to mobilize troops to attack Luyang, who was lingering in the army town of Shule. Instead, they sent troops everywhere to annex the territory.

Soon, all the prefectures east of Congling in the Western Regions were divided up by the Turpan Kingdom, Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian.

Only Shule Army Town remains the only place that adheres to the orthodox banner of the Tang Dynasty...

However, after the Tufan Kingdom learned of Lu Yang's intent to resolutely resist, it continued to urge Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian to attack Shule Army Town, but was unwilling to use the Turpan Kingdom’s elite headquarters to attack Shule Army Town, which was like a fortress.

Now the two warlords who are sitting big are naturally unwilling to spend their own capital. The intimidation of the Tufan Kingdom has brought the two warlords closer together, and even sent each other's daughters to form relatives under the eyes of the Tufan Kingdom!

Regarding the order of Songtsen Gampo, King of Tufan, his immediate superior, it was based on the fact that a Ming King Richard appeared to the west to attack the city and plunder the land. He only moved his troops to the west on the territory west of Congling, but he was unwilling to gnaw away. Lejun Town...

After the Battle of Qiuci, there was a military vacuum in the Western Regions. A large number of small warlords were killed in battle, and the Tang army was destroyed. This made the number of local garrisons in all counties and counties insufficient, let alone field troops.

This was a good time to grab territory. The entry of the Turpan Kingdom broke the balance of the four towns in Anxi, allowing Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian to sit up big, forming a phenomenon that the tail can't be lost.

Although the Tufan Kingdom has the strongest military strength, but his family knows their own affairs, if they really start a war with the two major warlords that have emerged, even if they win, it will be a situation where both sides will suffer!

What's more, there is still an orthodox Shule army town in Luyang who sits on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and Li Cha, the Han Ming King, who is openly aligned with Luyang in the west, cannot be ignored.

If the loss of strength is too great, Songtsen Gambo will not only find it difficult to confess to the major Tufan tribes in the country, but also because of the loss of his direct army too much, it will affect the foundation of his throne in the country!

The Tubo people do not have the clear inheritance system of Datang~www.wuxiahere.com~ The autonomy of each tribe is very large. Songtsen Gambo can be the king and is inseparable from the strongest tribe he belongs to. With the decline of the tribe, there is no guarantee that there will be new challengers in the country.

Anyway, with the frequent civil wars in the Tang Dynasty, the green skin harassment is getting more and more serious, the Tang court is overwhelmed, and those Tufan tribes have become more and more courageous...

Because of this, the tripartite forces headed by the Tufan Kingdom have formed a delicate balance. Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian, one north and one south, expand their territory to the west of Congling in the Western Region. The Tufan Kingdom does not want to gnaw at Shule Army Town. More than 10,000 people were sent to besiege Shule Army Town to prevent Luyang from leading troops out of the city...

Obviously, Lord Khotan Wei Chi Yingzhe and Lord Yanqi Long Letian learned how to raise the bandits, and Lu Yang was the bandit they raised.

Don't look at their slogans shouting loudly, but when it comes to sending troops to attack, one by one, there are ten thousand reasons to shirk...

In the eyes of Yuchi Yingzhe and Long Letian, Richard in the west is a soft persimmon, and he has swallowed so many prefectures in his stomach. Of course, the so-called King Daming can't take advantage of the cheapness!

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