Chapter 263 Turkic Unification

On February 13, the rolling iron stream broke through the previous border of the Western Turkic. At this time, it had been eleven days since the Liushan Army gathered its troops. It was not that the Liushan Army's marching speed was slow, nor that the Western Turkic Frontier was too far away. But, in the past ten days, the Liushan Army was waiting for the arrival of the Turkic Army.

After learning that the Liushan Legion and the Turkic Legion joined forces to attack the Western Turkic Legion, the upper class of the Western Turkic Legion was not surprised. This was something that was about to happen. After the defeat of the Turkic Grassland, the Western Turkic Legion was waiting for the opponent's revenge. It can be said that the Turkic Legion and Liushan Legion came so late at this time, which was beyond the expectations of the Western Turkic upper class.

On the border, the Western Turks did not deploy much military force, and after receiving news of their opponent's attack, they did not mobilize large-scale legions to support the border. This is really impossible. The Western Turks were severely injured in the last battle. Although the local area was not affected, the hundreds of thousands of troops who died and captured were all elites of the Western Turks.

After the defeated army retreated, the Western Turkic Khan began to restore his military strength and wait for the enemy's revenge.

In just a short period of time, the Western Turks had gathered a new army of more than 300,000 people, but the equipment of the new army was extremely broken. In itself, the Western Turks were not a country that produced weapons, and war resources such as steel and coal were not everywhere on the Western Turkic grasslands. Being able to equip an army with an army may be the limit of the Western Turkic national strength.

In the last war, the loss of personnel was very heavy, but this could probably be remedied in China, but the loss of weapons could not be remedied in a short time. There is no way, it is hard for a good man to be a spring without a grain of water, let alone the large amount of steel needed by weapons.

Moreover, after the failure of the war, the Western Turks were under control of the Western Regions, and several originally extremely limited weapons supply channels were also broken due to the failure of the war. This made the situation of the shortage of weapons in the Western Turks even worse.

Although the Western Turkic army at this time was known as hundreds of thousands, only the hundreds of thousands of troops could truly equip the weapons.

This was seen by the Liushan Army after the Liushan Army arrived at the border of the Western Turks.

"Hey, I'm not mistaken. Why is there no spear tip in the enemy's hand?" A small team leader led his subordinates to explore the way in front of the army. They were discovered by the opponent's cavalry scout army, and the opponent had sent a cavalry team to intercept them. After the Western Turkic cavalry team entered their sight, everyone had already seen the small Western Turkic cavalry running towards the opposite side.

"You can see so far? Why can't I see anything?" A sergeant next to him was obviously skeptical. After all, the cavalry on the opposite side was too far away from here at this time, and he could only see blurred figures of cavalry. How could he see the spearheads in the hands of the cavalry on the opposite side?

"I can't see either, but I have this." The captain said, shaking a cylinder in his hand. This cylinder is very simple, about one foot long, made of iron sheet, and painted with black paint. The middle part is conceived as a retractable structure so that the cylinder can be hung on the waist casually without using it.

"What is this? Why haven't I seen it before?"

"I don't know either. This was distributed when King Han came back. I can tell you that this kind of thing is only available above the captain. It seems to be called "Wang, Wang, I forgot."

"Then, show it to me." The sergeant was also curious about this thing. At this time, the sergeant really wanted to know if using this to see the spear of the cavalry opposite.

"For this, be careful. This is the latest equipment sent by the King of Han. I'm not afraid to tell you that this kind of thing is now equipped with only a few scout teams of our Liangzhou Legion."

"The King of Han is still intimate with our Liangzhou army." The sergeant beside him smiled and took the cylinder, and said to his captain with great emotion.

"Then it goes without saying that I don't see who followed King Han first. I have been following His Highness from Xuanyang." The captain heard the words of his subordinate commander and patted his own ** and said proudly.

"Come on, you are still Xuanyang. I have been following King Han since Xin'an. At that time, I could see that His Highness Han will definitely do something in the future."

"Just blow, no one knows that you, Chen Er, are from Liangzhou. I think no matter how hard you can blow, you will be born in Mengjiagou."

"You also said, you know when our legion commander followed King Han."

"I really don't know this."

"I can tell you that our army commander is under General Chen, and it is earlier than those of Mengjiagou who follow King Han."

"Is General Chen the commander of the First Iron Cavalry Corps?"

As the two of them said, the commander had already picked up the cylinder. He vaguely remembered that his captain had just put this thing in front of his eyes and looked away. He also put this thing in front of his eyes and looked at the running Turkic cavalry.

"Hey, I said, Liu Datou, how can I use this thing to see those cavalrymen smaller than ants."

"You are stupid, you can drop it, use this to see."

The sergeant poured the cylinders one by one and placed them in front of his eyes. The next moment, he heard a scream. The sergeant immediately stood there, as if he was struck by lightning, and he was numb in his hand. The cylinder in his hand also fell from his hand because of the sergeant's dash at this time.

"Hey, be careful. If you break it, King Han blames you and I can't afford to take care of you." The captain was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and immediately caught the cylinder that fell in the air, shouting at the sergeant beside him.

However, his shouting seemed to be not heard by the sergeant. The sergeant was still staring blankly at the front, as if the effect of the numbness would last forever.

"Hey, Chen Er, what's wrong with you? Don't scare me, hey." The team leader next to him saw that his squad leader had no reaction, and looked ahead blankly, and had to shake his squad leader with his hand.

"Big Head, I'm not mistaken." Under the fierce shaking of the other party, the sergeant finally woke up, as if he was still incredible about what he saw.

"What did you see?"

"I saw the horse's hooves right in front of me."

The scout team then evacuated here and quickly avoided the Western Turkic cavalry who came to intercept.

On that day, several speeches were presented in front of Liu Shan. Looking at the speeches of several scout teams in front of him, there were no large-scale legions in the border areas of the Western Turks. Liu Shan saw a passage from a speech different from other speeches.

The spear in the opponent's hand does not have an iron spear head, and few cavalry have swords around their waists. The scimitar in the hands of the leader of the opponent is inferior to that of most of the scimitars of the grassland cavalry. The opponent's body does not have armor, and no one wears even the simplest leather armor, which is cloth.

Liu Shan paid attention to this reconnaissance speech. Next, Liu Shan ordered several teams to confront the Turkic small troops to test the authenticity of the opponent.

The news that came next surprised almost all the senior executives of Liu Shan's army.

At this time, the Western Turkic army could no longer be compared with those Western Turkic army seen on the Turkic grasslands. It was not only weapons, but also the quality of the soldiers.

Even if they face enemies twice as many as they are, the scout teams sent can defeat the opponent. These Western Turkic cavalry do not have much fighting will and can easily disintegrate.

Their weapons are just like the previous team's speech. Their weapons and equipment are so backward that a wooden stick will become a spear when it sharpens. The bows and arrows cannot fit iron arrows, and they have begun to use animal teeth to make arrows. This is the familiar wolf-tooth arrow.

Some news was also obtained from several prisoners captured on the battlefield. Since the Western Turks returned from defeat, they began to conquer troops, relaxed the age limit, and required new soldiers to bring their own weapons. Of course, ordinary herders might have weapons before, which were limited to small knives that peel animals, but even those small knives were confiscated from them by local nobles. For iron, the scarcity on the grassland was not something that people who lived on the land of the Han people could imagine.

In order to prove this discovery, the soldiers brought back several enemy weapons, including a wolf-tooth stick. Liu Shan held it in his hand and saw a wooden stick nearly one-man-long length inserted with several iron nails and more than a dozen wolf teeth on it. Liu Shan was a little amused and crying. This was really a wolf-tooth stick.

At this time, the situation of the Western Turks had gradually appeared in front of Liu Shan and the senior leaders of Liu Shan’s army.

After the defeat, the Western Turks had not recovered, especially the weapons. The last war allowed them to obtain almost all the weapons they had reserved before. At this time, the Turkic Kingdom had reached the point of forging iron, but they had poor blacksmiths. The production of weapons became the biggest obstacle to their strength recovery.

Of course, this may also be a trap set up by the enemy on purpose.

On February 15, the fifth year of Wude, a Hebei Heavy Infantry Brigade and three Light Infantry Brigades were responsible for attacking a large settlement near the border of the Western Turks.

When Liu Shan attacked this residence, he sighed that it was a little good in the Turkic grassland, without having to face the tall city walls and complex defensive equipment.

This may be a true portrayal of the grassland countries. The grassland countries claim to be extremely powerful and often control the strings and armored people. In the past, the Turkic Empire said so, and after the split, the two split Turkic countries also said so. They all firmly believe that the highest form of defense is offense, putting the front line in the opponent's country, so what else does their country need to defend?
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