His eyes turned back to Bianliang.

In the cold winter, troops were rushing outside the city in the wind and snow. This was part of the troops that Zhao Gou prepared for the Western Expedition to come next year.

Now that the national treasury has money and food, Ibrahim Khan of Dongkara has also sent people to ask for help. Everything is ready, and Zhao Gou has no reason not to send troops.

Although Zhao Song's current national strength is unlikely to support hundreds of thousands of troops rushing out, sweeping east and west Kara and attacking Seljuk, it is still possible to take down the East Kara Khanate and take the opportunity to make Gaochang's inner strength a certain fact.

While troops gathered in Bianliang, the palace and the government departments were also preparing for the relocation, and Zhao Gou planned to take a trip to Chang'an.

Of course, this time we went west was not to move the capital, but to support the Western Expedition Army.

In October, he moved the Daming Prefecture of the Northern Capital to Yanjing Prefecture, the Yingtian Prefecture of Nanjing to Jiankang Prefecture, and the Heluo of Xijing to Chang'an. Now he wants to go to Chang'an to cooperate with the subsequent Western Expedition, and the meaning is very obvious.

The court was very determined to manage the western frontier.

Even if Chang'an is just one of the four capitals, not the capital in the absolute sense. But whether the emperor was in Chang'an or Bianjing at this time could really give the two completely different feelings to the Western Expedition Army.

Zhao Gou gathered in the capital with a small number of troops, with a total of about 30,000 people. This is only part of it! Datou was still drawn from various routes in Guanxi, and the total number was only 70,000 to 80,000.

Such a number should be no problem to sweep Dongkala and to take Gaochang into his pocket.

After all, in the battle of the Western Regions, the difficulty was the landform here, not the enemy soldiers.

Not to mention that the Song army now has firearms to help, they just don’t have firearms. With the strong iron armor on their bodies and the swords and guns in their hands, the aura raised by Zhao Gouhou’s military training, and the fighting spirit aroused by the farming and war system, they can easily beat all natives.

Whether it was the Kara Uighurs, the Gaochang Uighurs, or the Tianfang led by the Seljuks, they were not enemies of the Song army on the front battlefield.

At least Zhao Gou has never been worried!

The only thing he was worried about was that the territory of the Western Regions was too large and too broad. Those people could not resist head-on and fight guerrillas, which would be in trouble.

But no matter how much worry he is, he cannot foresee a future scene.

After the New Year, the entire city of Bianjing started to stir up.

At the end of the first month, Zhao Gou and his party, together with the officials of various departments they followed, and the 20,000 elite troops guarded along the way, drove one after another. Before that, 30,000 troops gathered in the capital also drove to the northwest one after another.

Zhao Gou prepared about 80,000 troops for the Western Expedition, and 50,000 were cavalry inside. The place where they gathered was not Chang'an, where the Xijing was located, but Lanzhou, which was even more northwest.

Fifty thousand cavalrymen, 30,000 marches, and the civil and rural brave men who were transported by logistics, there were 200,000 people, countless chariots and horses, and tens of thousands of livestock.

It took only three months to complete the adjustment.

The march was moderate and the front was orderly, and it was not a crowd of more than 100,000 people rushed forward.

What's more, the severe cold in the northwest is better than the Central Plains.

So many people, so many supplies and livestock are all mobilized by time?

When everything is ready, the Central Plains has already entered summer.

The army drove westward, and Zhao Gou also took the opportunity to go to Yanbei to worship the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum. He had already given instructions along the way that there was no need to "cover the ground, clear water and clean the road", but there was still a grand welcoming ceremony in various prefectures and counties along the way.

The palace in Yanbei is very simple, but Zhao Gou didn't care about this. Instead, he was happy to see that the auspicious clouds in the "Sleep" were even more dazzling, solemn and magnificent.

Full of red air, golden clouds, purple air is like a tide...

And the Western Regions at this time.

Yao Youzhong, who had long pacified the foreign tribe, did not return to Gaochang City like Yidu, but continued to go west to use troops and all entered the territory of the Geluo people.

The East Kara was divided into three, and the Gloro people were entrenched in the north. Ibrahim controlled the central and eastern parts centered on the Bassargun, while the southwest was controlled by his uncle Karim Hassan.

Yao Youzhong has now pointed his finger at the Geluo people.

The reason for this is very simple.

The relationship between the Gloro and the Seljuks is even more profound than that of Karim Hassan.

He didn't hold the Gloru man and was very hammering. Did he point his sword and gun at Ibrahim?

The latter has the closest relationship with Bianliang.

The leader of Geluo and Kang Li were disgusted.

He didn't take Yao Youzhong's manpower seriously, even though Yao Youzhong's troops had already made a big name in a short time. However, Yiduan returned to Gaochang City, and more than half of the Gaochang Uighurs' troops left, even if Yao Youzhong recruited some people, his troops were only 5,000.

The strength of the Gloru people is far from comparable to that of the Seljuks. Compared with the united Kara Uighurs, they are all younger brothers, but they will not value the mere five thousand people too seriously.

However, every time He Kangli wanted to gather the main force to eat Yao Youzhong, he had to stop this because of Ibrahim Khan's actions, so he had to watch Yao Youzhong's troops show off his power in his territory, and had to listen to the defeat news that was sent back again and again.

Of course, Karim Hassan also knew that Yao Youzhong was the "reinforcement" of his nephew, but he would not join forces with Kangli to deal with Ibrahim.

Ibrahim hates the Gloru people very much, and Hassan also has one hundred Gloru people.

The battle between the Khan and the Deputy King was originally a family fight, but now there was a pair of extraterrestrial hands. Karim Hassan felt that he was also a descendant of Harun Bugra Khan. (The Kara people were divided into two, and the West Khan was descendant of Ali, commonly known as the Ali clan, and the Dong Khan was descendant of Harun Bugra Khan.) Even if the reason why he dared to turn against Bashisha was that the Seljuks supported him, but Hassan knew that the Seljuks were no longer able to swallow Dong Kara in one bite.

The Seljuk is no longer the Seljuk when Malikshasudan was reigned.

The Great Seljuk Empire controlled by Sanjar Sudan still seems to be tall and mighty, strong and strong, but in fact it is strong on the outside but also on the inside.

Not to mention that there is a powerful Central Plains dynasty in the east that is coming west, even without the existence of the Song Empire, the Seljuks cannot eat the Eastern Kara Dynasty.

It can be said that Hassan colluded with the Seljuks with the big premise.

He consciously could ensure that after his victory, Dong Kala would not be swallowed by the Seljuks, and the price he paid was only surrender and tribute.

But if Dongkala was taken away by the Gloru people, everything would be beaten up.

So, he was happy to watch and curse.
Chapter completed!