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Chapter 1333 Immigrants
Before Chang Lue was worried that his armored cavalry army would be defeated when facing the Yarkands, Dong Yiyuan of the Long Live Army sent someone to send information.

The Tubo city has been captured, and the two defeated Tubo troops are being pursued by the imperial cavalry of the Long Live Army. Now they have driven south into the valley to leave the oasis, and the general Tong Deng and other generals are called to the Tubo city to discuss important matters.

Dong Yiyuan is a general of the new faction. He followed Ma Fang in his early years, and later served as a cavalry general of the Xuanfu when Chen Mu led the seal of General Zhenshuo. He also contributed his own strength at the beginning of the establishment of the Xuanfu Lecture Hall, and now commands the Long Live Army This royal force is independent of the generals on the nine sides, only under Qi Jiguang, and has a detached position among the generals who conquered the west.

It's just that at this moment, when the commander-in-chief Tong Deng, garrison Dayun, and guerrilla commander Lue saw Dong Yiyuan who killed the leader Hu Chi'er outside the city on the spot with artillery and subdued the whole city, they didn't see it. The high-spirited long live army general.

In the palaces of Tubo Khan in the Central Plains and even in Hami with different architectural styles, they only saw the general of the Longevity Army with a sad face facing the map.

Dong Yiyuan failed to meet them outside the city. The general, who had not slept all night, was busy bathing and changing clothes. He asked his elder brother Dong Yikui, who is famous for his bravery, to welcome the generals into the city outside the city, explaining that he had looked at the map the night before.

The palace is chaotic, just like a city wall with two gaps blasted by artillery. As the last place of resistance for Tubo Ma Heima's loyal subordinates after Hu Chi'er's death, this palace has also accepted the test of blood and fire and marched westward. The generals showed the powerful firepower of the Long Live Army as the emperor's personal training army.

The gold-plated pure copper gate was dented by the shells with large charges, the gate valve was broken and could not be closed, and the pillars of the palace were covered with solidified blood and holes made by gunshots.

The fragments of the glazed lamps on the ceiling are still on the ground without being cleaned. Arrowheads are inserted into the wooden vaults. The broken shafts of the arrows are blackened by the explosion of gunpowder, leaving dense marks of iron pellets around them.

It smelled like gunpowder smoke that could not dissipate in the whole hall.

All the generals are veterans of battles, but no one has ever seen such a tough battle. The battles they have seen in the past are often surrounded by arrows and burning smoke everywhere, but they have never seen this kind of dense firepower leaving an endless stream of enemies. Bullet marks.

They also use firearms, blunderbusses, three-eyed blunderbusses, and fast guns, but those are only a few of them.

What the generals saw after entering the city, the weapons carried by the Long Live Army, and the relics of wars in the city were completely different from them.

Dong Yiyuan had heavy eye bags and dark circles in his eyes. He saluted the generals one by one, and after introducing each other, he pointed to the map at his feet to get to the point: "Now Commander Qi is stationed in Luntai, you are stationed in Tubo, Commander Wei is stationed in Hami, Zhang Shuai Fuyang Pass."

"Tuban Ma Heima fled to the northwest. Dong has already asked the residents in the city. Four hundred miles away from Xincheng and entering the Eight Lost Mountain Road, there is a city in the name of failure, which is also an oasis."

Dong Yiyuan half-kneeled on the ground, and the map he was pointing at was a sketch of a trade route, which was extremely simple. It was a copy of the map of the Western Regions drawn by Qing Mali of Guanglu Temple in the 21st year of Jiajing, from Jiayuguan to Lumi City.

He pointed to the picture and said: "Yishuli is a small city, but it is protected by Hacisu. In Mongolian, Haci means black, and Sui is water. This is a river that will block the way of the army."

Dong Yiyuan's bags and dark circles under his eyes have been fighting against this map all night. The place names on it are all from the previous generation, and they were transliterated and recorded by the people of Ming Dynasty, making it difficult for viewers to understand the actual meaning.

There is no way, the person who drew the picture does not understand Mongolian, and a general like him who has been on the border all year round will not be able to draw such a beautiful picture.

That's right, Dong Yiyuan's evaluation of this picture is that it is beautiful, with green mountains and blue city, it is extremely exquisite, it can be regarded as a painting and can be kept in the mansion and handed down from generation to generation, and it can hardly be used as a business map.

The only disadvantage is that it cannot be used in the military, but now he only hopes that this map can provide him with military use.

Not to mention whether it is accurate or not, first of all, the name must be correct, the river is either called river or water, otherwise it will be a big trouble for a general who does not know Mongolian to know that there is a river blocking the way.

"To the west of Yishili, there is also the Iron Gate Pass in the mountains. Only by occupying it can we take control of the entire territory of Tubo and let the troops rest assured to supply."

In the Long Live Army, the military attaches who graduated from the Xuanfu Lecture Hall have led the Banner Army to explore various places along the way to the east, so as to make suitable military maps and deliver them to the country. This is a top priority in their view.

The court’s lack of preparation for this western expedition was like a bright mirror in Dong Yiyuan’s heart. The emperor himself only planned to go north, but he didn’t expect Qi Jiguang to overthrow the barbarians when he left the pass, and drove the sweaty successor all the way to West, forced to drag the domestic baggage from Guihua City to Gansu.

This kind of situation of marching all the way and fighting all the way is too terrifying. All the generals, including Qi Jiguang, know it well, but they can't stop.

At least they couldn’t stop until Qi Jiguang captured Luntai County, where the Oirat and Shuo tribes were entrenched and where Beiting used to be. The same dilemma during the Western Expedition.

Even if they have the fighting ability to fight invincible opponents all over the world, they may not be able to survive. The survival depends on the cattle and sheep captured from Wulianghai all the way west.

Wherever they marched, tens of 20 cattle, sheep and horses devoured all the grassland. The pressure of finding new grassland made them roll forward like a tsunami on the grassland, which was in response to the emperor's edict: Go forward along the grassland.

Why are the Mongolian tribes where they go are willing to join, because the pastures are gone, and they can only follow if they want to survive.

The reality is always extremely paradoxical. At first, Qi Jiguang's purpose was to pursue the Mongolian Khan and crusade, but he did not expect that the biggest problem in his hands now is how to arrange the Mongolian tribes who followed him.

Until Luntai, on the grassland at the northern foot of Tianshan Mountain, they finally had a rest, but Qi Jiguang felt that it was not safe.

It is not safe to put the Mongolian tribe here, and it is still a bit close to the Central Plains.

So now, the troops have to take two separate paths. Qi Jiguang will continue to lead the Zhejiang Army to Yili Bali, which is the Ili Valley. leave it to him.

And Dong Yiyuan led the Long Live Army to the south from Luntai, established a frontline fortified city in Tubo, cooperated with the Western Expeditionary Army to complete their mission, and sent Qi Jiguang's suggestion to the court.

"Qi Shuai meant to ask Your Majesty to immigrate. We have no people of our own in the Western Regions. No matter how many countries we surrender, there will still be chaos when we leave. Qi Shuai said that he has never seen any of his own people along the way, but this There is indeed land suitable for living."

"Therefore, Qi Shuai asked us to adapt to local conditions, and to invite His Majesty to immigrate according to the local conditions, so as to enrich the Western Regions."

Dong Yiyuan yawned as he spoke, he was too tired, he frowned for a while and then sighed: "In recent years, the Eastern Seas have to emigrate, the Nanyang Seas have to immigrate, and now the Western Regions also have to immigrate, how many people in the country are enough to emigrate... I will start the Dao manuscript again, Your Majesty, please encourage the people to give birth."

(End of this chapter)