The Northern Front campaign, especially the blows suffered by the two prefectures in the northwest, was undoubtedly a slap in the face to Li Wufeng. When he vowed to promise the people in the northwest that he would do his best to protect their lives and property, such a serious incident occurred. The Northern Front War The glorious achievements of the war were immediately wiped out by this blow. Although he also agreed with He Lianbo, Wen Na and others that the Maci Khans would be the biggest enemies of Western Xinjiang in the future, but in this case, the people reached the peak The anger forced the military and political leaders of Western Xinjiang to put the punishment of the Kaman people as their top priority.
Wu Feng was a little upset. He was paying a heavy price for his pride and carelessness in Western Xinjiang. When the war in the north came to an end, Bo Jinchen had proposed the need to deploy some troops to strengthen the defense in the direction of Jiayuguan, especially the need to To prevent the Kaman people from taking desperate measures to retaliate against Western Xinjiang, the Kaman people used Jiayuguan as a breakthrough point to rush thousands of miles to seize food from the tiger's mouth, which fully proved their extraordinary gambling. However, Wu Feng himself believed that as many as 20 people had been mobilized from Xijiang. Thousands of troops launched an attack on the three prefectures of Beiyuan and the Kaman mainland, especially the more than 100,000 rangers who had turned the entire southern Kaman into chaos. In this case, Wu Feng insisted that the Kaman people had no extra strength to deal with it. He launched an attack on his own territory. Although he also asked Jin Zecheng, who was stationed on the Taixuan front line, to strengthen his guard, Wufeng did not adopt Bo Jinchen's suggestion of deploying a ranger regiment and an ordinary army division to strengthen surveillance and defense outside Jiayuguan. Unexpectedly, Bo Jinchen was right, but the Third Division, which lacked cavalry, was obviously unable to cope with the sudden invasion of the Kaman cavalry. In addition to hastily paying some price to buy some time for the people to escape, Jin Zecheng also There is only a futile cry.
On the day I learned the news, a special issue was published, covering all the misdeeds and atrocities committed by the Kaman people in Yinchuan and Taixuan Prefectures, and detailing the criminal acts of the Kaman people in invading the Tanghe Empire over the years. He also responded to the news immediately. The public opinion in the entire Western Xinjiang region showed a one-sided trend. The news media and public opinion all demanded that the Western Xinjiang Metropolitan Protectorate punish the Kaman people for violating humanitarianism. The military generals who were originally divided into three opinions also unified their opinions under this situation. They advocated giving the Kaman people a comprehensive strike mainly with military operations as retaliation, and also contacted the Sisi Luo people. They sent troops at the same time as the Bein people to strive to isolate and attack the Kaman people to the maximum extent. People's representatives also held a signature appeal, asking the Western Xinjiang Governor's Office to include the recapture of Jiayuguan on the agenda, and strive to bring back the once empire in the shortest possible time. The most important pass in the north is back in the hands of the people of Western Xinjiang.
The Western Xinjiang Foreign Affairs Office also took urgent action, and the special envoys to the West Luo Empire and the Bein people rushed to their respective destinations in the shortest possible time. A battle to punish the Kaman people was inevitable.
On January 18, 699, Wang Liao, special envoy of the Western Xinjiang Protectorate, and Promelos, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Heathrow Empire, issued a joint statement in Nuremberg, an important town in the southern part of the Heathrow Empire, announcing a joint embargo against the Kaman Empire. Starting from that date, the Sisiluo Empire and the Tanghe Empire's Western Xinjiang Protectorate will prohibit all strategic materials from being imported into the Kaman Empire. The embargoed strategic materials include food, cloth, oil, iron ores, weapons and medicines, and merchants from the two places are also prohibited from going to Kaman. The empire made all investments. However, the Sisluo Empire did not declare a state of war against the Kaman Empire like the Western Xinjiang Protectorate. This made Wang Liao a little disappointed, but on second thought, the Sisluo Empire could do this. It is already commendable. After all, the Sisluo Empire and the Kaman Empire are of the same clan. If it were not for the hasty behavior of the Kaman military in the early stage that angered the Sisluo people and the Western Xinjiang Protectorate's huge profits, I am afraid that they would not be able to reach where they are now. This state is also unthinkable.
On January 20, Dolemi, the chief of the Doer tribe of the Bayin tribe, told the visiting envoy from Western Xinjiang that he would cooperate with Western Xinjiang’s military operations in the south and launch a winter offensive in the north to contain the Kaman troops. Xijiang made some requests for financial assistance and material needs, and the two sides basically reached an agreement on this.
But Li Wufeng is not the only one taking action. Gomez is also not idle. The duel between the two sides is no longer a simple military duel. The outcome of the war is often affected by factors other than the frontal battlefield.
A somewhat bloated body lay quietly on the soft cashmere felt chair. The flash of light from time to time in a pair of seemingly cloudy eyes also proved that the old man in front of him, who had controlled the power of the Luo Bei clan for decades, had not grown older. He became lethargic, and his enlarged nose became a little red due to long-term drinking, but the alcohol did not seem to affect his judgment of the current situation.
"Your Majesty, the Kaman people's envoy has been here for several days. I wonder if we should send him back first?" The man standing in the big tent was wearing a traditional Luobi robe. There was a huge charcoal stove in the tent. The dung heap of the past has been replaced, and warm heat is surging in the big tent. The cold wind is whistling outside the tent, which is completely different from the warm spring-like interior of the tent. Even the man standing respectfully inside the tent feels that there is something wrong with him. He felt hot and couldn't help but unbutton a trip button on his chest. He didn't know what was causing the uneasiness in his heart. He was not used to the too warm temperature in the tent. Donnie always felt that he had a bad premonition.
"Doni, I heard that Li Wufeng seems to be getting more and more aggressive in our campaign to conquer the east. It has gone far beyond the original agreement we signed. Isn't he going too far?" He didn't reply to his supervisor. A confidant of the internal affairs, the old man in the chair suddenly brought the topic to Zhengdong Dong, who had not been mentioned for a long time.
His heart trembled, and Donnie's worries were finally confirmed. It seemed that the chief had a new idea. Donnie sighed secretly deep in his heart, and the clan was divided on whether to maintain the Western Xinjiang Protectorate established by Li Wufeng. The current status quo has been controversial, and the focus of the dispute is the conquest of the eastern part of the land close to the Mote people and the throne of the herdsmen. Li Wufeng's actions in the east are getting bigger and bigger, and have greatly exceeded the original agreement. A large number of Tanghe merchants poured into the demilitarized zone, and due to the loss of the deterrence of military power in that area, the tribesmen became increasingly disobedient to the management of their original herders, but the influence of the Tanghe people was there. It has taken root and sprouted, and is likely to replace it. As the official in charge of internal affairs within the tribe, Duny is naturally aware of the changes in the situation there. He has also made some reports on these issues to the chief, but in the past, the chief used An evasive attitude avoids making decisions on this aspect of the matter, and there has never been such a specific mention like today, which makes Dhoni a little worried.
There have always been two completely different views on the attitude towards Li Wufeng within the clan. The faction headed by Tu Da has been firmly opposed to maintaining the current situation with Li Wufeng, believing that according to the current situation, Li Wufeng's power and influence in the East Tengger Grassland will be lost. Their status will continue to increase. The current situation of the Mote, Tubu and Gur people is the Luobi people of tomorrow. They advocate negotiating with the Chidi people. On the one hand, they loot south to increase the strength of the clan, and on the other hand, they actively prepare for war. Contact foreign aid and prepare for a long-term war with Li Wufeng to regain the dominance of the Luobe people in the East Tengger Grassland. This faction is mainly composed of conservative nobles, and they are still obsessed with the past when the Luobe people dominated the East Tengger Grassland. In their glorious historical memories, they are unwilling to accept the reality, and among them there are many people who have considerable influence on the chief and are quite powerful. The other group is naturally led by Watt and himself, advocating friendship with Western Xinjiang and vigorously developing the economies of both parties. business exchanges, properly resolve the issues left over from the eastern conquest, actively absorb Tanghe’s advanced political, economic and cultural concepts, promote the development of various social undertakings of the nation, so that the Luobi people can adapt to the mainland in an era of change and avoid falling behind the times and declining. Go down.
The two factions are equally powerful, with the conservatives having the upper hand in the army. However, as the commercial exchanges in Western Xinjiang increasingly penetrate into the depths of the grasslands, especially the rise of the wool textile industry, wool and cashmere have become well-known as soft gold, and people flock to it. Tanghe merchants gradually penetrated into the interior of the grassland from the outside to the inside, causing the prices of wool and cashmere to skyrocket. In the past, the auxiliary products for meat production suddenly replaced meat and became a profitable commodity, causing the herders to He set his sights on the vast Tanghe market. The saying that the market determines everything suddenly became popular on the grasslands. The profit-making herdsmen formed an emerging force and became a powerful force in the open faction headed by Watt and Dorney. The backing made the conservative forces feel even more pressure, so much so that they constantly asked Li Wufeng, the chief of the army, to make a strong performance, to take back the sovereignty of the land and population in the east, to re-establish a powerful army to conquer the east, and to regain control of eastern Tengger. Dominance of the grasslands.
This request is extremely inflammatory on the surface, especially to ordinary people who do not understand the price behind this. However, in Dorni’s personal opinion, although Tu Da has military capabilities, No one can match him, but he lacks a clear understanding of the direction of the situation on the mainland, especially the trend of historical development. The era of thinking that one can conquer the world with swords and guns on horseback has passed. If he cannot even realize this, I am afraid that he will Not even a qualified military commander can do it.