The horses unsaddled and the soldiers unarmoured, this way of resting is really risky and bold. Zhang Yuanzuo is surprisingly bold in using troops, this does not mean that he is really reckless and underestimates the enemy, within a radius of thirty miles in this river valley, there are scattered with the scouts of the Shenwei army, once there is a police, they can have enough time to prepare.

The rush day and night made all the soldiers tired, but in this exhaustion, there was an irrepressible excitement, and this excitement was almost proportional to the transformation of combat power. Because the main soldiers of the Shenwei Army are the 3,000 Tubo soldiers of Lingwu, and the Tubo people have always been warlike, and they have been unable to be free in the Chang'an military camp, and they have been suppressed for a long time, and now there is a feeling that the wolves have returned to the wilderness.

After the Qin and Jin Dynasty incorporated 3,000 Tibetan soldiers, they mixed in some Han and Turkic people, as well as a small part of the Khitans, to form an elite cavalry with a scale of 5,000 people.

The reason why this cavalry was not included in the sequence of the Shenwu Army and was shown by other names was mainly due to the consideration of the impact, after all, the Shenwu Army was already dominant in the imperial court, and there was no need to settle the truth on these superficial articles, even if it was named the Shenwu Army, fundamentally, the transfer of this cavalry still had to be promoted by the Shenwu Army Commander Shifu.

The difference between inside and outside is far from being comparable with other border armies.

Zhang Yuanzuo looked at the soldiers who were closing their eyes and recuperating in the black, and there was also irrepressible excitement in his heart. He used to be just a small sentry commander, and he didn't even have the qualifications to fight in the field, and now he can lead such an elite cavalry because of that accident.

It was also that opportunity that these Tibetan soldiers had an instinctive dependence and obedience to him.

"General, our whereabouts have been exposed, and sooner or later the Great Cannibal will send someone to intercept us, what should we do next?"

Zhao Zhenwu, a close confidant of Zhang Yuanzuo who spoke, this person was the one who had been with him when he was the sentry commander, and when he encountered major events in the past, they all discussed together, and now it is no exception.

"What should I do?"

Zhang Yuanzuo glanced at him and said slowly:

"What else can I do, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth!"

In fact, he has long been looking forward to fighting a happy field battle with the big cannibals, as long as he defeats the big food soldiers in a battle, he can become famous in one battle, and he will be able to shock Hexi, so he will not live up to his high expectations.

However, a dignified field battle was not the best choice, and a surprise attack was the original plan.

With lightning speed, the Great Cannibal Army was hit hard, and then the light troops moved in, cutting off the connection between the Great Cannibal and Khorasan, and on the long path from Zhangye to the west to the Green Ridge, the Great Cannibal could not live in peace, and in the long run, even if the Great Cannibal was vigorous, it would inevitably collapse in the end.

After speaking, Zhang Yuanzuo stopped talking and closed his eyes. Zhao Zhenwu wanted to say something, but seeing that Zhang Yuanzuo didn't seem to want to discuss more, he had to close his mouth and close his eyes to recuperate.

Two hours is as long as two days, enough for these screaming Tubo soldiers to recuperate, and when they opened their eyes again, Zhang Yuanzuo's eyes were already shining.

"The whole army, put on the armor and mount the horse!"

This sentence is an authentic Tibetan dialect, those Tubo soldiers who are as quiet as iron towers have been resurrected on the spot, and in just a quarter of an hour, they are ready to stop.

"Target: Hugh slaughtering the city!"

This city has been built as early as the Han Dynasty, although the scale is far less than Liangzhou, which is close at hand, but it is the key pass of Liangzhou to Ganzhou, the so-called Ganzhou, is the Zhangye besieged by the heavy army of Dashi.

Strictly speaking, the city is only a military barrier city, and there are no inhabitants, except for the barrier dock, which has a slightly higher wall, the rest are surrounded by walls, and it is not much higher than the courtyard walls of large households.

Soon, one after another, the horses rushed back, and after getting the reward, Zhang Yuanzuo's eyes shone with the brilliance of victory.

According to the information just obtained, after the Great Food Soldiers ransacked Liangzhou City, they somehow did not take away the forage hoarded in Hutu City, perhaps because they carried a large amount of gold, silver, goods and people, and had lost interest in these forages.

However, Zhang Yuanzuo was full of interest in this, but his purpose was not to take it down for his own use, but to destroy it on the spot.

The cavalry of the Great Cannibals was exhausted, and the supply route was long, so it was inevitable to seize military supplies on the spot. And the fodder hoarded in the city was enough for tens of thousands of cavalry for several months, which was definitely not a small amount.

Zhang Yuanzuo was still too cautious, he led the cavalry of the five thousand Shenwei Army to be cautious all the way, but he did not encounter half of the big food soldiers, and even saw the head of Liangzhou City from a distance, but there was still no big food soldiers to stop him.

However, he still had no intention of taking the opportunity to attack Liangzhou City, because Liangzhou City was no different from an empty city after being sacked by the Tuqi Shi Department, and it was also a chicken-like existence if it was captured, so it was better to keep a part of the troops to contain the big cannibals.

The situation of Hugh Tu City is also similar to that of Liangzhou City, there are even less than a thousand large food soldiers, and the cavalry of the Shenwei Army beat these people to pieces with a single charge, and there are very few escapees, most of them are killed by crossbow shooting.

The Tang Dynasty troops in the barrier of the city of Hugh slaughtered the city, but they did not resist at all, opened the gate of the barrier city, and welcomed the Shenwei army into the city.

Zhang Yuanzuo was surprised by the inferior combat effectiveness of the Great Food Soldiers, but after a brief understanding of the situation, he found that the soldiers and horses stationed here did not have Great Cannibals at all, but Sogdians from the Western Regions.

The Sogdians were good at business, but they were not good at fighting, and these forcibly recruited Sogdian soldiers left their homeland, crossed mountains and mountains, and came to Hexi, thousands of miles away.

As a result, Zhang Yuanzuo also had deep doubts about the combat effectiveness of the so-called 300,000 coalition troops of the Great Cannibals.

After counting, the Tang Dynasty troops in the city of Hutu were less than a thousand, and when they learned that this elite cavalry from Chang'an was going to burn the city of Hugh Tu and the forage hoarded in the city, they expressed their willingness to follow Zhang Yuanzuo to fight the big cannibal to the death.

To be honest, Zhang Yuanzuo doesn't trust these border troops who have repeatedly betrayed, but these people also have an advantage that the Shenwei army does not have, that is, they are familiar with geography and people, and they may have unexpected gains after being co-opted.

In order to win Zhang Yuanzuo's trust, Chen Yongxiao, the commander of the defenders of Hugh Slaughter City, took the initiative to offer a plan.

"The west of Ganzhou is the largest horse breeding place in the imperial court, when the Tianbao period was extremely prosperous, the imperial court raised more than 150,000 military horses there, although the war has been going on for many years, it has cost a lot, and now there are at least more than 10,000 horses left, if the general can take away these tens of thousands of military horses, one will eliminate the other, and the big cannibal will definitely be frustrated!"

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing seized this place from the Huns, and has been providing a large number of high-quality war horses for the Central Plains Dynasty.

Zhang Yuanzuo knew this very well, but he was strange, the Delete Dan was only a hundred miles away from Zhangye, and the Great Cannibal had besieged Zhangye for two months, so how could he ignore the Delete Dan who was close at hand? That's tens of thousands of military horses!

Chen Yongxiao said:

"General, think about it, if you change places with the boss of Dashi, the battle of Zhangye will not end for a long time, and the Delete Dan military horses have long been in the bag, looking at the surrounding hundreds of miles, is there a more suitable place for temporary storage than the Delete Dan grassland?"

After Chen Yongxiao's explanation, Zhang Yuanzuo suddenly understood that there is mostly farmland near Zhangye, which is naturally not suitable for raising horses, and if the big cannibal transfers the war horses of Delete Dan to the army, in addition to consuming more forage in the army, I am afraid there will be no help.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuanze's eyes burst out with excitement.

"Okay, let's go and delete Dan!"

A fire burned down the city of Hugh, and the Shenwei army rushed westward, walked for a whole day, and crossed the Yanzhi Mountain, and there were patches of grassland. At a glance, the eyes are full of green, and as far as the eye can see, there are faintly rolling mountains.

In Zhang Yuanzuo's impression, Hexi should be mostly barren land, and loess and wind and sand should be the most common. And the least he saw along the way were these two things, which were very different from what he imagined. The places where the Shenwei army passed all the way, farmland, mountains, forests, grasslands, and meandering and clear rivers were really like a paradise and a plug outside the south of the Yangtze River.

In fact, there is only a narrow stretch of land west of the river that has such a scene, and the width from north to south is only a few hundred miles.

After a day and two nights of rapid advance, when the cavalry of the Shenwei Army arrived at Cheldan, they saw groups of war horses galloping on the grass, and there were not many big cannibals guarding the city, and it seemed that the big cannibals had reached an outrageous level because of a series of victories.

Zhang Yuanzuo sneered, these big cannibals who don't know whether they live or die will have to pay a painful price for their enemies sooner or later.

For the war horses raised in the pasture, of course, it is impossible to burn them like the forage in the slaughter city. But they can't be kept, they are all taken away, and none of them can be left for the big cannibals.

As a local, Chen Yongxiao even proposed an even more vicious strategy.

"The general can set fire to the pasture and burn it clean, completely eliminating the idea of cannibalism!"

Zhang Yuanzuo thought about it for a while, but he still didn't make up his mind after all.

After all, this is the grassland of the Tang Dynasty, the fire is burning, the grass blades are roasted, the grass roots are dried, and the court will drive away the big cannibals in the future, what else will you use to raise horses?

Seeing that his idea was denied, Chen Yongxiao was a little stupid, these big cannibals stained his military career, he not only hated these big cannibals, but also wanted to starve them to death and die in this place west of the river.

Zhang Yuanzuo was under the command of the elite Tubo cavalry, and even the cavalry at the peak of the Tang Dynasty could only fight with it. He didn't think that the Great Cannibal would be able to bargain in front of this black-armored iron horseman.

"General, there are 300,000 cannibal soldiers and horses, if you don't use extreme measures, how can you win more with less?"