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Chapter 1708 The troops march into Shule

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    After the war was over and the troops were repaired, both sides withdrew their troops.  But this is not the end of the war, but the beginning of a new round of confrontation.  A hot war may not happen in a short time, but a cold war will continue.

    Huang Mingliao knows very well that the Western Turks are the weakest now. If he can stab him hard, he will be able to severely damage the opponent.  It's a pity that he was really powerless. After several years of continuous fighting, the Han soldiers were greatly depleted. Huang Mingliao did not dare to recruit Hu soldiers and change the proportion of the army. The troops in his hands were really stretched after dividing the troops.

    In the past two years, the steps are too big, seemingly powerful, but the foundation is unstable. Once there is a stretch, it will lead to a chain reaction. It is when it is stable.

    But the Western Region is too big. The entire Western Region is as big as two Central Plains.  It is blocked by the Tianshan Mountains in the middle, making transportation inconvenient, sparsely populated, and management really poor.  Huang Mingliao thought for a long time and finally decided to divide the Sui army's territory in the Western Regions into two and manage them separately.

    Based on the four counties of Yiwu, Beiting, Shuanghe, and Jiaohe, we will explore the north of the Tianshan Mountains; and based on the three military towns of Yanqi, Qiuci, and Gumo, we will explore the south of the Tianshan Mountains.

    So Huang Mingliao established the three-town pacification and recruitment department in the Western Regions under the general manager's office, and the headquarters was changed to another city.  Huang Mingcheng was appointed as the appeasement envoy, Qin Qiong as the deputy envoy, and Du Xingman as the long history.

    Among them, there are 8,000 troops directly under the Department of Appeasement and Recruitment.

    The Gumo Army has 8,000 troops under its jurisdiction, and Huang Mingcheng still serves as the garrison commander;

    The Yanqi Army has three thousand troops under its jurisdiction, and Bai Yuande serves as the garrison envoy;

    The Qiuci Army has an army of five thousand.

    Among the three towns, Gumojun Town had the largest garrison, mainly because it faced the Rehai directly and bore the brunt of the attack. It was the bridgehead of the Sui Dynasty against the Western Turks.  At the same time, Gumo and other places originally belonged to Qiuci, and Qiuci had a great influence south of the Tianshan Mountains. The move of the Sui Dynasty also suppressed Qiuci's status.

    After Huang Mingliao withdrew and replaced the city, he ordered the construction of a city in Bodaling and upgraded the original fort to a town, which served as the core city for the defense of the Western Turks in the northwest of the Sui Dynasty.

    The total number of troops directly under the three towns and the Appeasement and Recruitment Department is 24,000, and the proportion of Han troops is required to be no less than 50%.  Of course, Huang Mingcheng currently has less than 10,000 troops, and the shortage of troops in the three towns will be slowly replenished in the future.

    The top priority of the three towns in the Western Regions to appease and recruit the Division is to capture Shule, Yutian, Hepantuo, and Zhujubo, all south of the Tianshan Mountains, station troops in Congling, and complete the defense line south and west of the Tianshan Mountains.

    Shule Kingdom, a large country in the Western Regions, its capital Shule City was later known as Kashgar.  Shule is one of the few survivors among the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions. In history, Banchao once stayed here to defeat thieves and became famous in the Western Regions.  At this time, the king of Shule was named Amijue, and he was a tyrant.  His hands and feet all had six fingers, and those who gave birth to children without six fingers were killed by him, so the people in the country were afraid when they heard about it.

    There are twelve large cities and dozens of small cities in Shule. The victorious soldiers are thousands of people. It is a vassal state of the Western Turks and is often sent to the Turks every year.  However, during the Daye period, envoys were also sent to pay tribute.

    Shule is also a big country in the Western Region. It will definitely not work if it is attacked without any reason. It must be famous.  So Huang Mingliao sent people to the Shule Kingdom and ordered King Amijue of Shule to kill the Western Turkic Tutun and pro-Western Turkic officials in the country, stop paying tribute to the Western Turks, and switch to paying tribute to the Sui Dynasty in accordance with the previous standards.

    Of course Amijue cannot do this.

    The Western Turks have penetrated into the countries of the Western Regions for so many years, and the political affairs of the countries in the Western Regions are almost all controlled by officials of the pro-Turkic faction.  At this time, ordering the Shule Kingdom to kill those pro-Turkic officials was not equivalent to asking them to kill themselves. Even if Amijue was willing, the ministers below were not willing.

    Huang Mingliao also knew that the other party would never be able to fulfill this request, but all he wanted was an excuse to send troops.

    In March of the eleventh year of Daye, Huang Mingliao ordered Qin Qiong to lead five thousand troops to attack Shule State in the name of "abandoning the Sui Dynasty, collaborating with the Turks, harboring rebellious thieves, and not respecting the king".

    King Amijue of Shule was shocked. He had already written to Huang Mingliao to explain that his father still sent troops in the Sui Dynasty. It would be really fatal.

    The Sui army marched all the way and approached the capital of Shule.

    At this time, the pro-Turkic generals in the country immediately asked for help from the Western Turkic father.

    Shekui Khan who was far away in Qianquan (now the northern foothills of the Kyrgyz Mountains in northern Kyrgyzstan and the upper reaches of the Kuragat River) was also very concerned about this matter.  Khotan was too far away, and Hepan Tuo and Zhu Jubo were too small. Shule was their only chess piece that could check and balance the Sui Dynasty, and they could not afford to lose anything.

    After Shekui Khan withdrew his troops from Badaling, he set up his tent in Qianquan.  Qianquan is located to the west of Rehai, also known as Pingyu. It is named because there are thousands of springs. It was originally the summer resort of the Western Turkic Khan.  The land here is fertile, the rivers are moist, and the branches and leaves are lush. It is a prosperous place.

    Shekui Khan appointed General Ubusu as a general and led a force of ten thousand cavalry to support Shule.  Of course, because of the previous encounter with the Sui Dynasty,He agreed that he did not want to restart the war because of a small Shule, so he ordered Ubusu to withdraw the Turkic flag and call him only Shule National Soldier, which was thought to be a cover-up.

    However, the news that the Western Turks sent troops to rescue the Shule Kingdom could not be hidden from the Sui army at all, just like the news that the Sui army sent troops to Shule could not be hidden from the Western Turks.

    In order to support Qin Qiong, Huang Mingcheng immediately stationed troops in Bada City, pretending to threaten Rehai.

    Khan Shekui was indeed worried that the Sui army would mobilize the tigers from the mountains, so except for Ubusu's troops, he did not dare to mobilize other troops.

    Qin Qiong led his army deep into Shule territory. He knew very well that the key to conquering Shule was not to defeat the Shule soldiers, but to defeat the reinforcements of the Western Turks.  The Shule people relied on the Western Turkic reinforcements. As long as they defeated the Western Turkic reinforcements, the morale of the Shule Kingdom would be greatly reduced, and the battle would be more than half won.

    So when Qin Qiong arrived in the north of Shule City, he suddenly turned around and headed northwest to the North Shule Pass (today's Turgat Pass in Xinjiang), which was the only way to go from Rehai to Shule.  If the Western Turkic reinforcements want to get to Shule as quickly as possible, they must go here, otherwise they will have to take a detour to Congling, which is far away.

    As expected by Qin Qiong, not long after Qin Qiong set up an ambush at the North Shule Pass, Ubu Su led his troops and arrived.  Khan Shekui was worried that Shule Kingdom would not be able to defend it, so he kept sending people to urge Ubusu to speed up.  Ubusu had no choice but to travel day and night, and his troops were exhausted.

    So his troops entered the mountain pass. When they were about to walk out of the mountain pass, they suddenly heard a tremor, and then the Sui troops who were waiting for work on the mountains on both sides suddenly rushed out.  On the two mountains, rolling logs and rocks were smashed down desperately.

    The Turkic army in the valley was cut into several pieces by huge rocks everywhere, and the road at the entrance of the valley was filled with wood and rocks, completely blocking the way back.

    Wu Busu was shocked when he looked at the cliffs on both sides and the sudden attack of the Sui army.  In panic, the army was ordered to retreat, but there was nowhere to retreat.

    This is the sound of drums on the mountain, and they are shooting at the Turkic cavalry below with their bows and crossbows.  The Turkic cavalry on these horses became living targets of the Sui army.

    Ubusu and his 5,000 men and horses were all shot dead in the mountain pass. Only a few hundred horsemen of the rear army escaped in embarrassment.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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