XJKS is located between the Tianshan Mountains and Karakoram Mountains.

At the intersection of the Tianshan Mountains and Karakoram Mountains, there is a canyon passage that directly leads to the Pamir Plateau. The east side of the canyon passage is XJKS, and the west side of the canyon passage is Tajikistan.

In ancient times, this canyon passage was once an important route in the ancient Silk Road.

In the game, the entire south of Mount Alay belongs to Tajikistan.

In order to prevent Chinese players from invading this ancient Silk Road, Tajikistan players directly built five passes in this canyon passage that lasted more than 600 kilometers.

All of these five passes are built on the natural terrain in the canyon passage.

The first pass is located at the easternmost end of the Alay Valley, which is a marginal area of ​​the Pamir Plateau, from which the Koksu River flows along the canyon on the plateau.

Tajikistan players took a fancy to the dangerous terrain there and built the Koksu Fortress directly on the north bank of the Koksu River.

The second pass is located in Saretash County, sixty kilometers away.

In the Alay Valley, Saretash County is very critical.

Saretash County is located at a valley entrance at the foot of the Alay Mountains. This valley entrance is the only passage in Kyrgyzstan on the northern foot of the Alay Mountains.

The south of Saretash County is an important passage into the Kara Lake area of ​​the Pamir Plateau.

After occupying Saretash County, you can enter Kyrgyzstan to the north, enter the Kara Lake area of ​​the Pamir Plateau to the south, go deep into the hinterland of Tajikistan to the west, and go east, go over the Pamir Plateau to the east and enter the XJ area of ​​China.

After fully realizing the important strategic location of Saretash County, Tajikistan players built the Saretash Fortress with a north-south city wall of 30 kilometers long here.

The third pass is located in Karamek County, at the westernmost end of the Ala Valley.

The entire canyon passage narrowed sharply after reaching Karamek County, and the long road to the west was a relatively narrow mountain valley.

If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of one. In order to prevent the fall of the Alay Valley, Tajikistan players built the Karamek Fortress here, directly blocking the canyon passage from the Alay Valley to the hinterland of Tajikistan.

The fourth pass is located in Obigarm County, two hundred kilometers west of Karamek.

More than fifty kilometers west of Obigalm County is the Gisar Basin, where the capital of Tajikistan is located.

Once the enemy enters the Gizar Basin, the capital Dushanbe will be immediately surrounded. At that time, as long as the enemy arranges an army west of Dushanbe, it will be difficult for even gods to rescue Dushanbe.

Therefore, in order to protect the safety of Dushanbe, Tajikistan players built the Obigalm Fortress in Obigalm County.

If the greatest significance of building the Obigalm Fortress is to be used for early warning, then the Fortress Faizabad, located at the exit of the entire valley, is the last portal for Tajikistan players to protect the Kisar Basin.

After passing Faizabad, the Gisar Basin, sandwiched between the mountains, is in front of it.

The narrow and long Gizar Basin is the most important agricultural and animal husbandry production area in the entire Tajikistan, and it is the life granary for all Tajikistan players.

Once the Gizar Basin is invaded, all Tajikistans will face the danger of hunger. Therefore, in order to better protect the Gizar Basin, they built the fifth pass in Faizabad County - Faizabad Fortress.

At the Koksu Fortress, Tajikistan players arranged 20,000 elite troops to garrison.

In Saretash Fortress, Tajikistan players have arranged 200,000 elite soldiers.

In addition to defending Saretash Fortress, these 200,000 elite soldiers are also responsible for reinforcement of the Koksu Fortress 60 kilometers away at any time.

At Karamek Fortress, Tajikistan players arranged 30,000 elite troops to garrison.

At the Obigalm Fortress, Tajikistan players arranged 5,000 elite troops to garrison.

Since the importance of this fortress is to warn the Faizabad Fortress behind, Tajikistan players did not arrange too many troops here. After all, the more troops there are, the higher the requirements for logistics.

Tajikistan players have already built three passes in front. If the three passes in front cannot be defended, then the Obigalm Fortress will likely be lost. After all, they cannot arrange too many troops on such narrow terrain.

At the last pass, the Fortress of Faizabad, Tajikistan players have arranged a total of 100,000 elite troops, and a large military camp twenty kilometers west of the fortress, with 100,000 standing troops in the barracks.

In other words, in order to prevent Chinese players from coming from the east, Tajikistan players not only built five passes that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also arranged no 100,000 elite troops to garrison.

You should know that the entire Tajikistan has a total population of less than 10 million. In the game, the indigenous people and players of their country will be more than 12 million.

This elite army of 500,000 is already half of the national army for them.

And they arranged half of the country's army to the east just to guard against possible invasions by Chinese players.

Not to mention the entire Tajikistan has become a country with no air, just how difficult it will be to cross the Pamir Plateau.

In the ancient Silk Road era, a caravan with a slightly larger number of people had to be fully prepared in advance if they wanted to cross the Pamir Plateau. Even if they were well prepared, many unexpected situations would still occur, among which high altitude was definitely the one that caused the most losses.

It is so difficult for a caravan that regards wealth as life to cross the Pamir Plateau. It is even more difficult for a large army to cross the Pamir Plateau, because they not only have to cross the past themselves, but also need to carry a large amount of food and supplies.

If the enemy builds a solid pass on the road to the plateau, they have to carry a large amount of siege equipment, otherwise they may be blocked by the pass, and eventually they will either be forced to withdraw their troops or starve to death.

It was precisely because of the dangerous terrain of the Pamir Plateau and the unclogged pass built by Tajikistan players that Ibn Haidal and others did not send troops to the east of Tajikistan because they knew very well that it would be impossible for the Condor Empire to cross the Pamir Plateau to conduct an expedition without being able to dispatch the flying legion.

Even if Ning Yuan really took the wrong medicine and chose this ancient Silk Road, facing the five passes built by Tajikistan players, it would be difficult for them to break through. The biggest possibility is that they could not even break through the Koksu Fortress built under the Pamir Plateau.

Ibn Haidal and others have visited the five passes built by Tajikistan players. They agreed that the army alone cannot break through any of them, because crossing the Pamir Plateau means that it is impossible to carry any precise siege equipment.

Without siege equipment, even if the army of the Condor Empire could fight, they could only stand under the high city wall and sigh.

Therefore, almost everyone does not think that the Condor Empire will use Tajikistan as a breakthrough, because compared with the steep terrain, Kyrgyzstan, which borders a large area of ​​the western border of the Condor Empire, is obviously much easier to break through.

Therefore, when the Central Asian and Middle East coalition forces entered the Kazakh Khanate this time, their main defense was the Isek Lake area in Kyrgyzstan. They believed that if the Condor Empire wanted to cut off their retreat, the east and north of Isek Lake were the best breakthroughs.

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Savage July 21, 39

The wild onions on the Pamir Plateau are already lush. Herders who like to eat wild onions often take advantage of the time they are grazing to collect some wild onions and prepare to take them home for food at night.

The 20,000 garrisons living in the Koksu Fortress like to eat hand-pickles this season of the year, because the wild onions on the Pamir Mountains are simply too delicious with mutton pickles.

In order to prepare enough mutton pilaf for the soldiers in the fortress, every time they prepare to make mutton pilaf, the cooking team in the fortress will send people to nearby river valleys and hillsides to collect a large amount of wild onions early in the morning.

Today's lunch and dinner were all mutton pilaf, and more wild mountain onions were needed. So early in the morning, the person in charge of the cooking team sent hundreds of people to collect wild mountain onions.

When a team of people responsible for collecting wild mountain onions were collected along the Koksu River and heading northeast, a team of bear walkers wearing brocade robes and crescent shovels suddenly appeared in front of them.

The Issism that Tajikis believe in, and the bear walkers appearing in front are obviously Buddhist believers, so the Tajikistans who are collecting wild mountain onions suddenly noticed a strange thing.

Although it is not certain that the bear walkers appearing ahead must be the enemy, the Tajiks who are collecting wild mountain onions are still not careful. They didn't even bother to take the wild mountain onions tied on the ground, and immediately turned around and ran towards the Koksu Fortress.

Among the 20,000 troops stationed in the Koksu Fortress are 18,000 indigenous soldiers, and Tajikistan players only account for more than 2,000.

Arman Mamaiti was the supreme commander of the Koksu Fortress. When he heard the information brought back by the indigenous soldiers who were out to collect wild mountain onions, he did not dare to neglect them. He immediately closed the gate of the fortress and mobilized two thousand soldiers to the east wall.

About half an hour later, a team of bear pedestrians with about 200 people appeared on the east side of the Koksu Fortress.

After seeing the fortress's walls full of defenders, two hundred bear walkers stopped two hundred meters away from the fortress.

After about half an hour, a huge team appeared again on the east side of the fortress.

Through the telescope, Alman recognized this as a team of centaurs, each centaurs carrying a large number of luggage.

Seeing the appearance of the Centaur Camel, Alman immediately realized that this was a Condor Empire army that crossed the Pamir Plateau.

"Is the Condor Empire going to take action against them Tajikistan?

No, shouldn't the Condor Empire be in full swing with the coalition forces in Rezkazgan? Why do they still have the energy to cross the Pamir Plateau and attack Tajikistan?"

After looking at the twenty-meter-high city wall under his feet, Alman was immediately confused.

Because it seems that the two Condor Empire troops that appear here are not the ones who are good at siegeing cities.

Hundreds of Buddhist bear walkers were wearing cassocks and holding two-handed weapons crescent shovels.

They have a certain combat power in the encounters that took place in the wild, but if they were really allowed to attack the city, they would basically be given in vain.

As for the larger number of strong centaurs, let alone the centaur tribe is not suitable for siege, just say that they don’t even have a decent weapon in their hands. What do they use to fight? Do they really treat themselves as war horses and use their bodies to hit the enemy?

Besides, a twenty-meter-high city wall is not a decoration. There is no siege tower. You must prepare some ladders for siege!

Now let alone a ladder that is more than 20 meters long, there is not even a decent wooden stick in the hands of those outside. Even if they allow them to attack the city, they can't climb up!

So when he saw such a combination appearing at the Fortress of Corksus, Alman suddenly felt very puzzled. He really couldn't understand what these people could do when they came.

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"Mr. Alman, should we send letters to the Saretash Fortress behind us, so that they can send troops to reinforce us at any time?"

Just as Arman was puzzled by the purpose of the enemy's actions, his deputy, Abramu Mulati, walked to him.

After looking at Abram, Alman curled his lips and said, "What are you notifying? Just say that hundreds of bear walkers wearing cassocks and thousands of centaur strong men carrying large bags and small bags and not even weapons came here?

Is it good to get rid of your brain? Just the few people in front of you. Even if we stand and don’t move, they can’t climb up. Do you still need to ask for support?

I'm afraid it's not your head that's funny!"

"That's true, why don't we observe again?"

After Arman said this, Abram couldn't help but nod.

"Abram, the Condor Empire cannot be unaware of our military configuration here.

If they really want to cross the Pamir Plateau and invade our country, think about these five passes, how many troops they have to send?

If we don’t talk about anything else, let’s just talk about how difficult it is for a large army to cross the Pamir Plateau.

Logistical supplies alone are enough to drink a pot of the Condor Empire.

Even if they have a large number of centaur camels, it is useless, because the total weight each centaur warrior can load is fixed.

They came all the way over mountains and rivers, and half of the food they carried on their backs had to be consumed on the road.

Add to the food they eat from those bear pedestrians, guess how many days can the food they have worked so hard to carry?"

Looking at the enemy who was building a tent in the distance, Alman analyzed it carefully.

"Mr. Alman, are you saying that this enemy who suddenly appeared here over the Pamir Plateau is actually a trick used by the Condor Empire. Its purpose is to disrupt our sight and distract President Maildan, who was expeditioning to the Kazakh Khanate?"

After listening to Alman's analysis, Abram suddenly looked completely enlightened.

"I dare not make a quick judgment on what is going on, but as long as the enemy cannot threaten the fortress under our feet, no matter what they come here to do, we don't care about our affairs. We just need to wait and see what changes are going on."

Alman dared not give a conclusion easily, but he did not intend to make himself a frightened bird.
Chapter completed!