Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 200
Gele Khan sat in his magnificent tent, drinking fine wine brought from Tang Dynasty.

The name of Shazhou Burn has spread all over Longyou. This kind of strong-flavored wine is deeply loved by Hanhu in Longyou, and it is also a best-selling grassland.

Jianning Wang Bafu even subsidized the export of this spirit to the grasslands. In the tea horse market in Baowen Mountain, as soon as Shazhou Shao appeared, it would be snapped up by Uighur merchants.

The Shazhou burnings in Gele Khan's king's tent were all transported from the Yatent city behind. Gele Khan was very satisfied with his son Yidijian who brought a few bottles of good wine with him in the transshipment grain.

My two sons, Yidi, are stable and good at presiding over government affairs, while Ye Hu is aggressive but simple-minded.

Although Ye Hu was already Khan's heir, Gele Khan didn't mind observing his two sons more. After all, only the strongest wolf on the grassland could become the wolf king.

A weak wolf king will only bring disaster to himself and the wolves.

Looking at his white hair from the wine bowl, Gele Khan suddenly felt his spirits fade.

I am old.

I don't know when Gele Khan stopped going to his beloved hunting ground, because his father Khan fell off his horse and died when he was hunting in his old age.

For the father Khan who still eats meat, drinks, hunts, and plays with women wantonly until he is old, Gele Khan once warned himself not to fall into such a fate.

But when he got older, he realized that maybe this was his father's way of resisting aging.

Gele Khan stayed away from the pastures and the young and beautiful concubines in his king's tent, just to make aging come later.

However, the laws of nature cannot be stopped. Gele Khan obviously felt that his body was not as good as before when he set off this time.

When he was young, he could ride a horse for a day, but now he has to take a rest after riding for two hours.

I used to be able to stay up late looking at maps and thinking about strategies for marching and fighting, but now I just look at the map for a while, and I feel that my head becomes like a paste and I can’t move, and my eyes are sore and I can’t see clearly.

However, Gele Khan still held on and led the army to the bank of the Caton River. He wanted to complete the hegemony of unifying the Mobei Grassland in his own hands!
When Gele Khan was just the heir of a tribal patriarch, it was the Turks who ruled the grassland.

The rise of the Uighurs, in addition to the defeat of the Turks, also had the support of the Tang Dynasty.

Datang supported the Uighurs and defeated the Turks, but as the Uighurs gradually unified the grasslands, the relationship between Datang and the Uyghurs became tense.

Datang couldn't tolerate the next grassland overlord, so he supported the Geluolu and Miaogas people in the west of the grassland to add chaos to the Uighurs.

If the Tang Dynasty is still strong, the Uighurs will never be able to unify the Mobei grassland.

But just like this, the opportunity came. The emperor Li Longji, who once made the grassland fearful, was finally old.

An Lushan rebelled, and the Tang Dynasty even lost two capitals, and even borrowed troops from the Uighurs.

Datang was too busy to take care of himself, so he mobilized elite soldiers from Longyou into the pass to quell the chaos. Now is the time when Datang is weakest.

This is the best time to unify the grasslands!

Since last winter, Gele Khan has mobilized various Uighur ministries to organize this Western Expedition.

"Time." Gele Khan looked at the wine glass, feeling the passage of time, and he didn't know if he was really old. After going out for so long, the Ge Luolu people naturally fled, but so far, the Uighur army is still there. None of Ge Luolu's tribes were wiped out.

This is not normal.

Gele Khan had also conquered Ge Luolu in the west before. Even with the support of Tang Dynasty, the Uighur army could wipe out some of Ge Luolu's small tribes and plunder some supplies to go back.

For the expedition of labor teachers, the daily food and drink of people and horses is an astronomical sum.

For this expedition, Gele Khan required all the Uyghur tribes to bring half of the livestock, conscripted half of the young and middle-aged men in the tribe, and asked all the tribes to bring half of the horses and fodder.

If he couldn't win another big victory, Gele Khan's prestige would suffer a major blow.

Gele Khan took another sip of Shazhou Burn, the sweet wine slipped down his throat, and Gele Khan felt drunk.

How did these Geluolu people become so cunning?Every time, he could find a gap in the encirclement net and leave. Gele Khan personally commanded the army to carry out several hunts, but they still returned without success.

No matter how alert the rabbit on the grassland is, it can't escape the eagle's claws.

Gele Khan decided to abandon the tactics of besieging the Geluolu people, and instead occupied the Kadun River, cutting off the mother river on which the Geluolu people depended for survival.

This river valley is the most suitable place to block the river and build a dam. As long as the Caton River is blocked at the outlet below the river valley, the river will flood the river valley and turn this place into a lake.

The lower reaches of the Katun River will be cut off, and the Uyghur army will only need to guard the Katun River. The Geluolu people who have no water to drink will either travel thousands of miles south to find new water sources, or compete for water sources from the Uighur army's guard.

At that time, the people of Geluolu would not attack and defeat themselves.

This is the strategy Gele Khan came up with, and he showed a proud smile. Although he is old, his wisdom has become more profound with age.

Now Gele Khan leads 1 elite Yazhang soldiers to garrison on the edge of the valley, and there are more than [-] servants from various tribes digging rocks to dam the river.

The remaining Uyghur troops were arranged at the upper and lower mouths of the Katun River, and scouts were deployed to investigate back and forth. Once the Ge Luolu tribe came to fetch water, the army at the nearby river mouth would hunt down these tribes.

This plan can be said to be a conspiracy. The weather is getting hotter, and the horses, cattle, sheep, and people on the grassland need water. After the Katun River is cut off, the Uighurs only need to wait for work, and the Geluolu people will suffer heavy losses.

Even if they go south to find new water sources, many people will die during the migration.

After learning about this plan, the [Military Adviser] players in Beiting Dufu Mansion also studied for a long time to think about countermeasures.

I have to say that this "game" is really interesting, and the IQ of this "AI" is too high!

The player's guerrilla tactics were broken up by the opponent's strategy of blocking the river and building dams.

How to break the game?

[Military Division] Players just sit in front of the sand table every day and think about countermeasures.

Shang Bo walked into the military meeting hall, looked at the players who had been up all day, and ordered the servants of the Protectorate to bring food and water.

Just as Shangbo was about to leave, a [Military Advisor] player stood up and said, "I thought of a way to break the game!"

Shang Bo stopped in his tracks immediately, and he walked to the edge of the sand table. This [Military Advisor] player was named Yu Junjie, and he was one of the players who came to Beiting with him.

Yu Junjie originally followed Qin Chuan to build roads at Dangjinshan Pass, but after building for a while and accumulating enough contribution points, this civil engineering directional blasting student can finally play games according to his hobbies.

Yu Junjie is a fan of strategy games and a loyal player of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Being able to command a real war on the sand table made Yu Junjie extremely excited. He decisively chose [military division] as his main profession.

In Beiting Dufu Mansion, Yu Junjie ate and drank by the sand table every day, thinking about how to deal with the Uighurs every day.

After thinking hard for a day, Yu Junjie finally found a way to defeat the enemy.

Yu Junjie pointed at the sand table with a wooden pole and said, "My method is, water attack against water attack!"

what! ?

Shang Bo looked at everyone suspiciously, but the remaining [Military Advisor] players stood up one after another and said, "Okay! This is a good way!"

Shang Bo once again doubted his IQ, why couldn't he understand what these players were saying?

Seeing Shangbo's puzzled look, Yu Junjie explained:

"Since the Uighurs dammed the river in the valley, we can also dam the Jinshan River in the upper reaches of the Katun River! After raising the river, we blow up the dam, flooding the Uyghurs in the valley!"

The rest of the players said in a hurry:
"It's feasible! The mouth of the Jinshan River is the upper reaches of the Caton River. Build a dam here to block the river. When the water level rises, blow up the dam, and the Uyghur army in the river valley will be flooded!"

"This plan looks good, but the Uyghurs also have garrisons in the upper reaches of the Katun River, and these garrisons must be eliminated first!"

"There is a garrison, but according to our information, the garrison in the upper reaches of the Caton River is less than 5000 people, and it is distributed in several river bends. If the forces of 32 Ge Luolu tribes are mobilized, these cavalry can be swallowed."

"I don't think so. These Ge Luolu people have a good fighting will, but their equipment is too poor."

"The upstream Uyghur army is not the main force, nor is the equipment."

"The Uighur army in the upper reaches is nothing to worry about, but the Uighur cavalry in the middle valley is no joke, and the middle reaches are only more than 100 miles away from the upper reaches. The cavalry only needs to run for half a day to support them. That is not making dumplings for the Uighurs."

At this time, Yu Junjie said: "So we need someone to restrain the Uighur elite in the middle reaches of the Katun River!"

"Who can hold back?"

After Shang Bo finished asking, all the strategists and players looked at the sand table.

Shang Bo followed his eyes, and on the sand table in the Mobei grassland, there was a red chess piece that was particularly eye-catching.

This chess piece represents the Tianshan Army led by Cao Lingzhong!

Shang Bo pointed to the red chess piece and asked, "You mean the Tianshan Army?"

Yu Junjie nodded and said: "The Tianshan Army is light cavalry, they come and go like the wind, not far from the valley in the middle reaches of the Katun River, as long as the Tianshan Army is used, it can contain the Uighur army!"

Everyone started discussing again, but this time a unified suggestion was quickly reached. As long as the Tianshan Army can contain the main force of the Uyghurs for three days, they can gather the forces of 32 Geluolu tribes to wipe out the Uyghur garrison upstream and block the Uyghurs at Jinshan Pass. Dam the river!

Many strategists and players looked at Shangbo, waiting for his order.

Shang Bo asked: "What is the success rate of this plan, and what will be lost if it fails?"

Yu Junjie said: "The worst outcome is that the Uighurs wiped out the Tianshan Army, then defeated Ge Luolu's 32 allied forces, and completely controlled the Mobei Grassland."

Shang Bo's heart trembled and he asked again: "What is the success rate?"

Yu Junjie made some calculations and said, "Let's open it at fifty-five."

Shang Bo nodded and said: "If there is a 32-[-] split, then we can do it. Send a message to all the military advisers on the grassland and ask them to gather [-] forces to attack the Uighur army in the upper reaches of the Katun River!"

"In addition, send a message to Pang Yawei, telling him to persuade Cao Lingzhong to attack the Uighur army in the valley of the middle reaches of the Katon River, and not let the army find out about the abnormality in the upper reaches!"

(End of this chapter)