Zhangye, the midsummer sun scorched the earth, as if everything with moisture had been roasted dry. Yusuftan had his chest and back bare, and there were two beautiful maids beside him holding a pampa fan and playing the wind, but even if there was a trace of wind, it was a hot air with temperature.

The heat was so unbearable that even the planned siege had to be stopped, and the Persians, who were the main force of the siege, obviously did not have a great cannibalism to withstand heat, and many people had already fallen because of the continuous high temperature.

In order to avoid a large-scale heat stroke, Yusuf had to temporarily stop the offensive against Zhangye, which in fact played into his hands and had a legitimate reason.

The secret agents have found out the exact news that the Tang Dynasty will raise troops to rescue in the near future, and the opportunity that has been waiting for nearly two months has finally come.

He arranged the Turgish people at the Qilian Mountain Pass to block the Tang soldiers who entered Hexi through the Dadou Tu Valley. At the same time, the Sogdians were sent to Liangzhou to monitor the movements of the Tang soldiers east of Liangzhou.

In his opinion, these arrangements are foolproof, no matter how Tang Bing acts, every move will be under his control.

The sweltering heat of the day made him fall asleep, and when he was half asleep and half awake, he suddenly heard someone calling out to him.

"General, general, something is wrong......"

Yusuf sat up smartly, and when he realized that it was just a dream, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Somehow, he was always restless these days, always feeling that something bad was going to happen.

Turning his head, Yusuf found that a servant was looking at him anxiously, so he asked:

"What?"

"General, something is wrong!"

The attendant repeated what Yusuf had heard in his dream, and Yusuf suddenly realized that it was not a dream.

"A raging fire has burned in the pastures of Jie Dan, and it has spread to Yanzhi Mountain......

Hearing this, Yusufu Huo Ran got up, grabbed the collar of the attendant, and asked sharply:

"Where are the war horses?"

When he arrived here, there were still nearly 20,000 military horses, including many excellent stallions, which were already in his pocket, so that he did not rush to get them out.

can be calculated, but after all, it was not calculated, and the deletion dan actually started a fire, and it actually spread to Yanzhi Mountain.

"I've sent someone to check, it's not a mountain fire, and there is not a single horse left......

Before he finished speaking, the attendant was slapped heavily, and he was forced to swallow back half of his words.

Yusuf, who had always been gentle to people, suddenly got out of control, and if the fire at the Sadan Racecourse was not a mountain fire, then it could only be man-made, and if so, it meant that there were some people he didn't know had already arrived in Hexi. even set fire to a large area of grassland under his nose.

"Why don't you send troops to search and suppress them? If you are touched by someone, you don't know it! Do the Turgish and Sogdians only know how to eat?"

Roaring and roaring, Yusuf quickly calmed down and made corresponding arrangements and disposals.

Regardless of man-made or spontaneous combustion, once the scale of the wildfire has formed, it is absolutely impossible to save it, and the isolation zone can only be drawn as much as possible to isolate the fire within a certain range.

Of course, Yusuf, who is a big cannibal, doesn't know these methods to fight the wildfires, he only feels sorry for the tens of thousands of military horses and the people who set fire to the Cutan Horse Farm.

A large number of cavalry were sent out to conduct a thorough search of the area where the barracks were stationed within a radius of fifty miles.

Previously, especially the guarantee of a twenty-mile radius of vigilance, the area has now more than doubled, which is enough to show that Yusuf has realized the crisis.

However, there is also something that annoys Yusuf, that is, at sunset, he still does not know where this Tang army came from and how many people there are......

In the middle of the night, the military report of Liangzhou finally arrived, and the city of Hugh was burned, and a large amount of forage was turned into ashes.

Yu Sufu was a little annoyed by his previous judgment, because he had always been inclined to the Tang soldiers to attack Hexi from Longyou, and crossing the Great Dou Tu Valley was the only most suitable route for them.

However, Tang Bing seemed to be about to go the opposite way, choosing a route that was far and difficult, but after choosing this route, he was successful, and he unknowingly touched under his nose.

In order to take into account the morale of the army, Yusuf kept the news tightly sealed, and only a few people knew about the fires in these two places, regardless of whether they were slaughtering the city or cutting Dan.

"Find, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find out that Tang soldier!"

The next day, some Tanma finally brought back the information that Yusuf wanted to know, and they were also one of the few Tanma who escaped by luck after fighting with the Tang soldiers.

"General Yu, this * is all cavalry, at least one person and two horses, and the ability to turn to battle is extremely strong, and it can crisscross more than 100 miles overnight......"

Yusuf had a premonition that he had encountered an opponent he had never seen before, and he couldn't help but remind himself to be in the spirit of fighting for twelve points, and not to plant his heels in the most unsuitable places because of the local carelessness.

With the worrisome military situation in mind, Yusuf immediately lost interest in the beautiful maids around him, and sent them all away, but recruited his henchman Issa, and asked him to come up with an idea to see if there was a better way.

Issa has always been known for his resourcefulness in Yusuf's first place, and of course he is also a qualified general, and when attacking Dunhuang, this person commanded him, and almost in a few days, he captured the gateway to Hexi.

When Issa learned of Yusuf's inference, he also suggested that Yusuf should immediately send a horse cavalry to find and eliminate the Tang troops who had penetrated deep into the west of the river, otherwise the enemy would be dark and the coalition army would be overwhelmed, and it would inevitably collapse undue to low morale in the end.

It was because he thought that he was far away from his homeland and deep into enemy territory, so Yusuf had a worry that he had never felt before, and he wanted to find the mysterious cavalry now and start a decisive battle with it.

The Great Cannibal Abbasid Dynasty was founded less than 20 years ago, and now is the time when the army is at its peak, sweeping thousands of miles from east to west in the field war, with almost no opponents, and those Tang Dynasty soldiers who are not self-sufficient will be self-defeating if they dare to fight in the field.

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Just when Yousufu was in a hurry to search for the mysterious Tang soldiers, Zhang Yuanzuo had already led 5,000 cavalry all the way to the west, and the scenery west of Zhangye and Yanzhi Mountain, Cutan and other places along the way was very different, there was no dense forest and no grassland along the way, except for flax fields and rare millet fields, most of them were wastelands with only sparse and low weeds.

Moreover, the further west you go, the more desolate it becomes, and you can even see some deserts that are not very large in scale from time to time.

Zhang Yuanzuo's goal was Jiuquan in Suzhou, which was a necessary place for the big cannibals to communicate with the mainland, and it must also be a place for the big cannibals to save, so he did not go to the main force of the coalition army besieging Zhangye, but went straight to Jiuquan.

The defenders left in Jiuquan consisted of only a thousand Persians, and when the Tang cavalry appeared, they didn't even consider it an enemy. Because the coalition forces are too strong, it is simply impossible to fail. But by the time they realized that this was the enemy, it was too late, and the Tang cavalry rushed into the unclosed gates of Jiuquan almost without defense, and the Persians surrendered with only a symbolic resistance.

The Persians did not have much ill towards the Tang Dynasty, and as vanquished ones, they had lost the pride of the Sassanid Empire, and had become unmotivated and vulnerable.

In just one hour, Jiuquan was completely occupied by the Tang soldiers, and the Persian commanders led their subordinates to express their allegiance to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

The Persian commander was called Shapur, and he was very proud of his name, because it was exactly the same as Shapur, who was once the king of Persia, known as the king of kings and the king of kings.

Zhang Yuanzuo had no intention of killing them all, and as far as he knew, there were princes of the Persians who asked the Tang Dynasty for help in order to restore their homeland. In other words, Persia and the Tang Dynasty should have a common enemy, that is, the Great Eclipse.

Therefore, when these Persians surrendered, Zhang Yuanzuo gladly incorporated them without much thought. However, he did not plan to stay in Jiuquan for long, the essence of the cavalry's strength lies in its ability to move thousands of miles, if it sticks to one city and one place, it is tantamount to abandoning one's martial arts.

Therefore, after only staying for two days, Zhang Yuanzuo led his troops to turn back to the east. He knew that the Great Food Coalition would definitely send reinforcements after learning that the back road had been attacked, so that they could eat and annihilate the reinforcements sent by the Great Cannibal little by little in this narrow area of hundreds of miles.

After crossing an unnamed hill, the scout horse suddenly reported that a large number of unidentified infantry troops appeared in the east.

In fact, the so-called unknown identity is just no flag. At this time, there can only be soldiers and horses of two countries, one of which is the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the Great Food.

Obviously, looking at the clothes and armor of those people, they must not be from Middle-earth, then they must be from the western part of the Western Regions.

"What a speed!"

Even Zhang Yuanzuo had to admire the speed with which the Great Cannibal sent troops back for reinforcements, and it was only three days after the capture of Jiuquan, and the reinforcements of the Great Cannibal had already arrived.

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty also belonged to light cavalry, and they would not be stupid enough to rush into formation, and after Zhang Yuanzuo gave an order, the soldiers divided into two roads and detoured to the two wings of the big food soldiers.

The Great Food Soldiers were not so incompetent as the Persian soldiers, and after discovering Zhang Yuanzuo's cavalry, the foot soldiers immediately lined up in formation and prepared to meet them. The cavalry quickly roamed to the left and right of the infantry formation, waiting for an opportunity to support.

This reaction was expected by Zhang Yuanzuo, if the big food soldiers were as incompetent as the Persians, how could they easily go deep into the hinterland of Hexi?

Looking at the scale, this big food army is only three or five thousand people, and in terms of calculation, Zhang Yuanzuo's cavalry still has the advantage of numbers......