Chapter 1032: Accumulate

Songzhou.
Luo Xin is planning this invasion against Tubo.
On the third day after issuing the war report to Qingzhou, he received an order from the emperor. This time he was authorized to deal with Tubo affairs with full authority. The ultimate strategic goal was to make Tubo completely submit.
"You will now mobilize all the hot air balloons in the military area to go to Tubo, and cooperate with the hunting cavalry to investigate the trend of Tubo, and pass the news to us at any time so that we can stop the Tubo cavalry at important nodes."
Similar to the barbarians, Tubo is also a model of cavalry and slave soldiers. In recent years, it is because of the high-quality horses on the plateau that Tubo has been able to attack the empire with ease. In addition, the plateau lacks oxygen and is prone to hypoxia. Chongqing counterattacked because the soldiers could not adapt to such a high altitude.
But the difference is that Dayu can block the barbarians on the grassland through the Great Wall, but Tubo has a long border with Dayu. No one knows where Tubo will attack from, so Luo Xin had to use heat this time. Balloons, hoping to grasp the movement of the Tubo army in advance through hot-air balloon investigations.
"Yes, Commander Luo!" the reconnaissance company commander in charge of reconnaissance responded.
As the investigating company commander left, Luo Xin issued several orders. This time, he arrived in Songzhou ahead of schedule in response to the Tubo action, but in fact the army's mobilization has just begun.
Now he is mobilizing troops stationed in Bashu, Guangxi, and Yunnan to gather here.
According to his plan, there will be 20,000 horses from the Southwest Army participating in the operation. These soldiers are now equipped with Han-style rifles, and the artillery uses a new type of guard field guns. The long flat machine guns are even more capable. Three hundred.
The news of Qi Guangyi's beheading of Dolgo had spread throughout the army. He, the commander of the Southwest Army, finally had a chance to do meritorious service. He didn't want to disappoint the emperor.
In tense preparations, ten days later, the two elite divisions of the Southwest Army were assembled in Songzhou. Luo Xin did not rush to attack. Instead, he let the soldiers conduct adaptive training for half a month on the plateau while practicing between arms. Of cooperation.
Although he was confident that he could defeat the Tubo army, he did not dare to underestimate what he learned from the Army Academy of altitude sickness.
At the same time as the Northwest Army's large-scale exercises, Tubo Zanpu Tashi Dundup is also closely watching Songzhou's intelligence.
Inheriting the ambitions of Zanpu in the past, Tashi Dunzhu dreamed of building a huge empire similar to the Golden Horde. For this reason, he had just become Zanpu and began to look at the Great Yu Kingdom.
In the decline of the Golden Horde, his troops disappeared from the grasslands connecting Tubo. He finally couldn't help but lead the Tubo cavalry to control the blank area left by the Golden Horde.
"Zamp, Da Yuguo has assembled about 20,000 people in Songzhou. They have been training near Songzhou these days and have no intention of attacking us." The long-term chief Dengba Zongma came to him and reported his reconnaissance. To the situation. "Twenty thousand people? Huh, it seems that they are just acting, and they are only worried about us attacking Songzhou. If this is the case, we ignore him and directly capture Lingzhou." Tashi Dunzhu laughed loudly, looking very rampant. .
Demba nodded. The news on the plateau was blocked. Both he and Tashi Dunzhu thought that the country of Da Yu was not very different from the previous ones, so they did not pay attention to the 20,000 people at all. After all, his 80,000 cavalry was added. Thousands of slaves, even the Golden Horde, must be afraid of three points.
After figuring out the number of Songzhou's troops, Tashi Dunzhu finally felt relieved. Looking at the stretch of cavalry, his enthusiasm was high and he headed towards Lingzhou.
If they can occupy this city west of Chang'an, they can control all the grasslands west of Lingzhou with Lingzhou as the boundary.
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"Commander, the reconnaissance team has sent the information. The Tubo army is marching towards Lingzhou. At present, they have reached a low altitude area, which is about three days away from us."
On the third day of the adaptability training, Luo Xin received detailed information. This was the news from the hot-air balloon reconnaissance company. What they saw in the sky was even broader, and they would not be noticed by Tubo, because of this. The number of people in Tubo dispatched this time was made clear by the reconnaissance team.
"Lingzhou? It's still Lingzhou. How many people did they dispatch this time?" Luo Xin asked. It is not the first time that Tubo has paid attention to Lingzhou in the history of Dayu.
This city is far from Chang'an, and deep into the grassland, it can be said to be a great place for hoarding food and grass.
After being occupied by the Golden Horde, Tubo did not dare to provoke the barbarians, so it disappeared for a long time. Now the barbarians withdrew from Lingzhou, and the empire regained control here, and Tubo made a comeback again.
"Report to the commander, there are about 100,000 people, including 40,000 cavalry and 60,000 slaves." The investigation company commander said loudly.
"Eighty thousand people? In that case, we set up an ambush on their way back to wipe them out in one fell swoop."
For Luo Xin, he doesn't care how many people there are in Tubo this time, mainly because of the current Tubo route of action. After all, the elite Southwest Army equipped with a Han-style rifle can easily eliminate several times the enemy.
As for whether Lingzhou will be breached, he doesn't worry, because Lingzhou is now under Qi Guangyi's jurisdiction, and the barbarians can't get any benefits under his hands. What's more, the Tubo army is a cold weapon that lives in a closed environment and sits in a well.
"Yes, Commander," the generals shouted.
Now the six military regions in the Southeast and Central Military Regions have gone to Australia, the Northwest Military Region is fighting against the barbarians, the Kwantung Military Region is competing with Tsarist Russia for Siberia, and Zhu Sansi is preparing to go to North America. Only their Southwest Army and the Central Army have nothing to do~EbookFREE.me~ The Central Army had a mission to defend Kyoto, and their Southwest Army held it back in such a way that made them very uncomfortable.
So this time the battle was finally found, and the generals were full of energy. According to Luo Xin, the generals who did not fight might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes.
Next, Luo Xin spread out the nearby map, assigned tasks to each general, and prepared to complete this combat task with the cooperation of the Northwest Army.
Lingzhou.
Feng Dongjin had already assembled 20,000 Lancers nearby. Tubo was not under their jurisdiction, but Tubo's attack on Lingzhou had something to do with them.
Therefore, these days they are also requesting instructions by telegram, and after receiving the order, they began to prepare, but on this day they finally waited for the mighty Tubo army.
When he discovered the Tubo army, Tashi Dunzhu also discovered Feng Dongjin's Lancers.
Looking at the cavalry standing quietly on the grassland, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart. This feeling made him suddenly uneasy.