If this continues, the Mongol Empire will eventually fail.

Therefore, whether Temujin or the Xiongnu Yizhixiao Chanyu, their purpose was to use the maneuver power of the cavalry as much as possible to lengthen the supply line of the Han Empire.

The longer the supply line, the fewer troops the Han Empire could send and the greater the pressure it took.

Fighting at your doorstep, the Han Empire could send one or two million troops.

If you fight across thousands of miles, it would be more difficult to dispatch hundreds of thousands of people.

There is a very typical example. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui ruled Goguryeo and recruited millions of troops. He traveled a long distance and encountered a cold winter. He was unable to pacify Goguryeo. Instead, he lost a large number of troops, food, grass, and weapons, and the people were overwhelmed.

Later, Li Shimin sent only more than 100,000 elite troops to capture more than ten cities in Goguryeo, and plundered hundreds of thousands of people and returned.

The princes of the Han Empire knew about this truth, so Chu Tian would rather fight in relatively close places such as the Hetao Plain and the Monan Grassland at the doorsteps of Bingzhou and Youzhou, and there were cattle and sheep provided by the Monan lords as food.

However, Temujin and others also knew this truth. The place where he chose to fight was either the Western Regions or the Mobei region. The two places were very far away from the Han Empire.

The place where Yizhixie Shanyu chose to fight the Han Empire was Mobei. Chu Tian, ​​Xu Fengnian and others, who participated in the Battle of Mobei, all know how difficult it is to march in Mobei, and Temujin...

"Temujin plans to use the Western Regions Protectorate as bait to attract us to carry out an expedition and then annihilate us in the Western Regions. Once all the elites of our Han Empire are lost, then Hetao and Monan will be their sphere of influence."

Xia Tianliang followed Chutian around and looked at the counterweight trencher standing west of Yumen Pass.

Xu Fengnian, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were startled at first, but then nodded again.

Chu Tian and Xia Tianliang's inference coincided with their vague guesses, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why Temujin tried his best to avoid a decisive battle in Hetao and Monan.

After the Mongol Empire lost tens of thousands of troops in Hetao and the south of the desert, it retreated immediately, obviously preserving its strength.

"Under the control of Huo'an, Huo'an was really unlucky. If it weren't for the Mongol Empire and the four major khanates, he might have dominated Central Asia..."

Xu Fengnian finally found a person who was more unlucky than himself - Huo'an, the Western Regions Protector.

Huoan had already conquered the Wusun Kingdom and Dayuan Kingdom, prepared millions of food and grass, prepared to defeat the Seljuk Empire and Khwarezm, and became the overlord of Central Asia, but the Fourth National War disrupted his deployment and the Western Regions Protectorate was in danger.

If the Western Regions Protectorate is bait, then Huoan happens to be the Western Regions Protectorate and he can't be unlucky anymore.

"If someone else was in Huoan, it would be difficult to destroy the Ogedei Khanate in this situation, and his main force seemed to have not been completely damaged... No matter who is in this position, we must save it."
Chapter completed!