Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 109 Anxi Three Treasures

"Did the Buddhist act really happen in Balasagun? Master Titsigu finally did it? But he should have sent someone to inform me?"

Li Shengtian's face was full of shock. It sounded like he also had an insider in Balasagun, but Master Titsigu didn't send him any information, so Li Shengtian didn't believe Zhang Zhao's words at this time.

"Uncle, Son of Heaven, all the roads from Bala Sagon to our Dajin Kingdom have been cut off by the tribes who believe in the Tianfang Sect. Maybe something unexpected happened and it was too late to report it?"

Zhang Zhao is a little anxious. The traffic at this time is very bad. Even if the modern equipment cannot be used in future generations, it will be very difficult to intercept the message sent by manpower, because you don't know where the sender will go?

But it is different in this era. Especially in Anxi, the routes are almost fixed, and the rest of the places are either Gobi or snow-capped mountains, which are simply impassable.

Therefore, if Saktu Buglahan wanted to cut off the direct connection between Khotan and Balasagon, he would be able to do so as long as he spent more manpower to check.

A few drops of sweat broke out on Li Shengtian's forehead, he turned around and stared at the map, his eyes kept scanning back and forth between Bala Shagun and Shule.

"But we're not ready yet! The rushing carts, nest carts, and ladder carts haven't been built yet, and the people from the Qiangtang and Tubo tribes of Ritu and Kuruer haven't come down the mountain yet, and there's not enough arrows and armor."

Ritu is the area around Rituo Temple in Pangong Lake in later generations, and Khuur is in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir area in later generations. These two places are currently occupied by various ethnic groups in Qiangtang and Tubo.

The relationship between Khotan and the Tibetans in Qiangtang was actually not as tense as people imagined later.

Because the Tubo people who occupied Khotan back then would not distribute the benefits to the Tubo people on the mountain, but they were afraid that they would go down the mountain and snatch their jobs.

On the contrary, after the restoration of Khotan, the Tibetans in Qiangtang will benefit more than when the Tibetans occupied Khotan.

The merchants in Khotan continued to sell linen, Gebu, millet, coarse salt, ironware and other necessities for survival up the mountain.

At the same time, the Tibetans in Qiangtang bought furs, beef and mutton and other materials that could not be sold originally, and the two sides realized economic complementarity to a certain extent.

Moreover, the royal family of Khotan will give rewards to the Tibetan nobles of Qiangtang every year in the name of worshiping Buddha, and in exchange, the Tibetans of Qiangtang need to respond to the call of the royal family of Khotan and fight for them.

In history, Khotan defeated the Kara Khanate several times. The main force was the heavy infantry formed by the descendants of Anxi Tanger and Qiangtang Tibetans.

After the two core infantry forces were exhausted, Khotan's own feudal lord heavy cavalry was unable to continue to resist.

And it is very likely that after Khotan destroyed the country, except for a small number of royal families who fled to the territory of the Guiyi Army, many Khotanese who were unwilling to convert to the Tianfang religion all went to the Kunlun Mountains and went to the territory of Qiangtang and Tubo .

Zhang Zhao knew that Li Shengtian had a reason to wait. At this time, the combat effectiveness of the Tubo people had not been completely fooled. Once the seven or eight hundred Tubo people who had been fighting against the natural death god of Daxue Mountain all year round, once they put on the armor of Khotan, they would be quite a force. Strong combat power.

They and Li Shengtian personally controlled the Shenwei Zuo Army, which was mainly composed of descendants of the Anxi Tang army in the early [-]s and supplemented by thousands of Khotan soldiers. It was the core of Khotan's combat power.

Without waiting for the Tubo people to go down the mountain, the left army of Shenwei almost cut off his arm!
But today is different from the past. In the past, the siege of Shule usually started in units of three months, but now it is no longer necessary!He, Zhang Zhao, has gunpowder, and they are going to blow up the city wall of Shule!

"Uncle! Is it important for us to wait for the hundreds of Tibetans from Qiangtang to come down the mountain? Or is it important for Saktu to capture Bala Sagon as soon as possible?

If Saktu captures Balasagon, what's the use of waiting for those hundreds of Tubo people? "

When is this, and you still want to fight when you have all the equipment?Isn't this the same as when his later generations were playing games, his teammates said, "If I get this piece of equipment out, I will come to the group!"

Damn, when you get all your equipment out, the enemies will be so awesome!
Li Shengtian looked at Zhang Zhao's anxious expression, and it took him a while to finally make up his mind, and he punched heavily.

"Okay! After the spring wheat and millet are planted, we will send troops!"

What?Fuck!Growing spring wheat?Zhang Zhao almost thought he was hallucinating!

The planting of spring wheat is in March and April, that is to say, after the spring plowing is completed, it will be at least one month later in mid-April.

The military situation is on fire, and if we wait another month, Bala Sagon may be captured!Binggui is fast! Hey!
"Uncle! I can't wait any longer! Time is on the side of the Karakhans. If Balasagon is captured, our loss is far beyond what this spring plowing can make up for!"

Li Shengtian swallowed with difficulty, he was silent for a while but still shook his head.

"Erlang, uncle can't make such an all-or-nothing decision, do you know what the consequences will be if you don't plant in the spring?

At least 100,000% of the people in the Kingdom of Jin will go hungry. That's [-] people!

If they don't have enough to eat and Shule can't attack, these people will eat our Li family! "

Sure enough, the ass decides the head. Zhang Zhao came here to take advantage of the melee and save Anxi Tanger. He only saw the outcome of the war, and he only saw the benefits brought by the capture of Shule.

As for Li Shengtian, he started from the position below his buttocks more, and then attacked Shule after the spring plowing was completed. It would be better if he won. It was captured and suffered losses, but the Kingdom of Khotan and the Li family could survive.

But if, as Zhang Zhao said, spring plowing doesn't matter, and a one-shot deal is made, it's okay to take down Shule City. If it can't be taken down, the Khotan Kingdom doesn't know, and his Li family will definitely be ruined.

So Li Shengtian would rather take the risk of failure than to be stable!

Can't do it!Zhang Zhao walked up to Li Shengtian, and tapped heavily on the map with his hands.

"Uncle, do you still remember what your nephew told you, our Dajin Kingdom is actually a giant tortoise? Look here."

Zhang Zhao clicked on the west side of the map, "This is Bahana, and this is Maryinang (Fergana) of Bahana.

Uncle looked at the terrain here, surrounded by mountains, there are only two roads to enter and exit, the southwest and the northeast. "

The place Zhang Zhao is referring to is the Fergana Basin of later generations, which was just recovered by the Kara Khanate from the Persian Samanid Dynasty.

In the entire river area, there are three most important places. One is the land of seven rivers, which is the Ili River Valley.

Based on the current situation in Khotan, this is already the pinnacle of the desert oasis city-state, but it is still not as good as the Kara Khanate in the north.

Because of the three treasure lands in the river, the Kara Khanate nominally owns two of them. The land of the Seven Rivers and the Fergana Basin are all in the hands of Kara Khan.

If Khotan wants to survive, there must be at least one of these three areas, let alone the Land of Seven Rivers, the only realistic one is the Fergana Basin.

(End of this chapter)