"Did the Buddhist uprising really happen in Balasagon? Master Titsigu finally took action? But he should have sent someone to inform me?"
Li Shengtian's face was full of shock. It sounded like he also had insider information in Balasagon, but Master Titusigu did not send him any information, so Li Shengtian did not believe Zhang Zhao's words at this time.
"Uncle, the Emperor, the road from Balasagun to our Kingdom of Jin has been cut off by the tribes who believe in the Tianfang Sect. Perhaps some emergency has occurred and there is no time to report it?"
Zhang Zhao was a little anxious. The traffic at this time was very bad. Even if modern equipment cannot be used in future generations, it will be very difficult to intercept messages sent by manpower, because you don't know where the person sending the message will go?
But it is different in this era, especially in Anxi, the routes are almost always fixed, and the rest of the places are either Gobi or snow-capped mountains, which are completely impassable.
Therefore, if Saktu Bugla Khan wanted to cut off the direct contact between Khotan and Balasagun, he would be able to do it as long as he spent more manpower on the investigation.
A few beads of sweat broke out on Li Shengtian's forehead. He turned around and stared at the map, his eyes constantly scanning back and forth between Balashagon and Shule.
"But we are not ready yet! The rushing chariots, nest chariots, and ladder chariots have not been completed yet, and the Tibetan tribesmen in the Qiangtang and Tibetan tribes of Ritu and Kuzuer have not yet come down from the mountains, and there are not enough arrows and armor."
Ritu is the area around the Pangong Lake Day Care Temple in later generations, and Kuru is in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir area in later generations. Both places are currently occupied by the Tibetan ethnic groups in Qiangtang.
The relationship between Khotan and the Tibetan people in Qiangtang was actually not as tense as later generations imagined.
Because the Tibetans who occupied Khotan at that time would not share the benefits with the Tibetans in the mountains. Instead, they were afraid that they would go down the mountains and steal their jobs.
On the contrary, after the restoration of Khotan, the Tubo people in Qiangtang will benefit more than when the Tubo people occupied Khotan.
Merchants in Khotan continued to sell linen, Gebu, millet, coarse salt, ironware and other necessary supplies for survival up the mountain.
At the same time, they bought furs, beef and mutton and other materials that the Tibetan people in Qiangtang could not sell, and the two sides achieved economic complementarity to a certain extent.
In addition, the Khotan royal family would give rewards to the Qiangtang Tibetan nobles every year in the name of paying homage to the Buddha. In exchange, the Qiangtang Tibetan people would have to respond to the Khotan royal family’s call and fight for them.
In history, Yutian defeated the Kara Khanate several times. The main force relied on the heavy infantry formation composed of the descendants of Tanger in Anxi and the Tubo people in Qiangtang.
After the force of these two core infantry armies was exhausted, Khotan's own feudal main heavy armored cavalry was unable to continue to resist.
And it is very likely that after Khotan was destroyed, except for a small number of the royal family who fled to the territory of the Guiyi Army, many Khotan people who were unwilling to convert to the Tianfang religion all went up to the Kunlun Mountains and went to the Tubo territory in Qiangtang.
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Zhang Zhao knew that Li Shengtian had a reason to wait. At this time, the fighting power of the Tubo people had not been completely deceived. The seven or eight hundred Tubo people who had been fighting against the natural god of death in Daxue Mountain all year round, once they put on Khotan's armor, they would be a considerable force.
Powerful combat power.
They and Li Shengtian personally controlled the Shenwei Left Army, which was mainly composed of more than a thousand descendants of the Anxi Tang Army and was supplemented by thousands of Khotan soldiers. It was the core of Khotan's combat effectiveness.
Before the Tibetans could come down from the mountain, the Shenwei Left Army almost had an arm cut off!
But today is different from the past. In the past, the siege of Shule was usually started in three-month units, but now there is no need! He Zhang Zhao has gunpowder, and they are going to blow up the wall of Shule!
"Uncle! Is it more important for us to wait for hundreds of Tibetan people from Qiangtang to come down the mountain? Or is it more important for Saktu to capture Balashagon as soon as possible?
If Saktu captures Balashagon, even if we wait for those hundreds of Tibetans, what's the use?"
How long has this happened, and you still want to play with all the equipment? This is not like when he played games in later generations, his teammates would say, "I will join the team as soon as I get this equipment!"
Damn it, when you finish all the equipment, the enemies will be awesome!
Li Shengtian looked at Zhang Zhao's anxious expression. After a while, he seemed to have finally made up his mind, and he punched hard.
"Okay! After the spring wheat and millet are planted, we will send out troops!"
What? Damn it! Planting spring wheat? Zhang Zhao almost thought he was hallucinating!
Spring wheat is planted in mid-March and April, which means that by the time spring plowing is completed, it will be at least more than a month later in mid-April.
The military situation is raging. If you wait another month, maybe even Balashagon will be captured! Soldiers are so fast!
"Uncle! I really can't wait any longer! Time is on the side of the Karakhanids. If Balashagon is captured, our losses will be far beyond what this spring plowing can make up for!"
Li Shengtian swallowed hard. After being silent for a long time, he still shook his head.
"Erlang, uncle can't make such a desperate decision. Do you know the consequences of not planting in the spring?
At least more than 60% of the people of the Kingdom of Jin will starve, which is hundreds of thousands of people!
If they don't have enough to eat and Shule can't be captured, these people will eat our Li family!"
Sure enough, it is the butt that determines the head. Zhang Zhao came here to gain benefits, use melee skills, and rescue Anxi Tang'er. He only saw the outcome of the war, and he only saw the benefits of capturing Shule.
As for Li Shengtian, he started from the position below his buttocks. After the spring plowing was completed, he went to attack Shule. It would be better to win. If he failed, it would be just like Yutian's several attacks on Shule City in history. The city was destroyed.
After being captured, they suffered losses, but Khotan and the Li family could still survive.
But if, as Zhang Zhao said, we ignore the spring plowing and make a one-shot deal, it would be okay to capture Shule City. But if we can't capture it, the Khotan Kingdom will not know about it, and the Li family will definitely be doomed.
So Li Shengtian would rather take the risk of failure and demand stability!
There was nothing we could do! Zhang Zhao walked to Li Shengtian's side and tapped heavily on the map with his hand.
"Uncle, do you still remember what your nephew told you that our Kingdom of Jin is actually a giant turtle? Look here."
Zhang Zhao clicked on the west side of the map and said, "This is Bakhna, and this is Mar Yinang (Fergana) in Bakhna.
My uncle looked at the terrain here. It is surrounded by mountains. There are only two roads to enter and exit, the southwest and northeast. The northeast is northwest of Shule City, and the southwest exit is by the Yaosha River (Sir Darya River)."
The place Zhang Zhao pointed to was the Fergana Basin in later generations, which had just been recovered by the Kara Khanate from the Samanid Dynasty of Persia.
In the entire Hezhong area, there are three most essential places. One is the land of seven rivers, which is the Ili Valley, the other is the hometown of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, headed by Bukhara and Samarkand, and the third is the Fergana Basin.
Based on the current situation in Khotan, this is already the pinnacle of desert oasis city-states, but it is still inferior to the Karakhanate in the north.
Because of the three treasure lands in the river, the Kara Khanate nominally owns two. The Land of the Seven Rivers and the Fergana Basin are both in the hands of the Kara Khan.
If Khotan wants to survive, it must have at least one of these three areas. Forget about the land of seven rivers, the only one that is more realistic is the Fergana Basin.
