After Yusuf entered the valley, it was difficult for him to see anything ten paces away, so he had no choice but to dismount and walk.

His subordinate Issa persuaded him not to move any further, otherwise he would freeze to death in a blizzard, after all, they all lived around the desert and rarely encountered such extreme winds.

Yusuf thought it would be good to enter the valley, but now he realized that this valley was not at all the valley that he had traditionally seen, and its width and height were rare before. But now it is not easy to retreat, so I have to find a place to shelter from the wind and snow.

However, not to mention the tall trees, there is not even half a grass that is knee-high, and there are only low unknown weeds on the rolling hills, and it is simply wishful thinking to find a place to shelter from the wind and snow.

In desperation, they had to circle the war horses together, and then spread the tarpaulin, forming a half circle, and everyone dismounted and hid under the low wall of the war horse and the tarpaulin.

It's just that in this way, there will definitely be war horses that will be frozen to death by the wind and snow, but this is also a matter of no way, after all, human life is more precious than horse life.

It was also their luck that the blizzard lasted less than an hour before it gradually became smaller, and after counting, there were still hundreds of horses that were frozen to death, or had severe chilblains, and could only wait to die.

Yusuf sighed, this is really a disadvantage, before he met Tang Bing, he was robbed of a hundred excellent war horses by a snowstorm.

At this time, a ranger suddenly appeared, causing them to be nervous for a while, and when they looked closely, they were their own people, so they hurriedly met them.

When the knight on the horse saw his own soldiers, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and fell from his horse, and died of exhaustion after only one word.

"Tang Bing, here!"

Yu Sufu frowned, according to previous intelligence, the Tang Dynasty's Western Expeditionary Army had not yet set off in Chang'an, and it was impossible for them to come to Hexi so soon. And the ranger's words before he died were unclear, and it was impossible to ask, so he decided to send two teams of 100 people deep into the valley and rush to the southern foot of Qilian Mountain to test the truth.

The first 100 had no news from noon to night, and the second 100 had news at nightfall, but it was not good news. After they went deep into the Dadou Tu Valley, they encountered an ambush by unknown Tang soldiers and lost more than half of them, but in order to prevent the Tang soldiers from obtaining military information about Yousuf, they blocked the place and prevented the Tang soldiers from exploring the horses to go deeper into the northern foothills.

After Yusuf got the report, he felt that the opposite side of the mountain was a good opponent, so he intended to compete with him.

However, the Great Dou Ba Valley is the only passage to the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains, and any tricks are useless.

As soon as he thought of this, a sneer appeared on the corner of Yu Sufu's mouth, Shancheng, which is the closest to the Great Dou Ba Valley, only five thousand Tang soldiers were stationed, of course, it was impossible to pour out, so the Tang soldiers on the opposite side were at most three or two thousand people, and he hadn't paid attention to it yet.

"Overnight march, raid the Tang soldiers!"

Under the cover of night, more than 1,000 cavalry rushed south along the Great Dou Ba Valley.

……

Chen Changjie was quite shocked at this time, and after annihilating a team of 100 Hu soldiers, he was shocked to realize that these Hu soldiers were actually big cannibals, not tribal soldiers who were driven by them.

What does this mean? It shows that the big cannibals pay close attention to and attach importance to the Great Dou Tu Gu, are they going to cross the Qilian Mountain?

Chen Changjie could not guarantee that 5,000 people could block the front of the cannibals. Therefore, it was just a routine inspection, but now it can't be easily returned to Shancheng, at least it has to be tested to find out the reality and purpose of the big cannibal.

When encountering the second hundred-man team of the Great Cannibal, Chen Changjie and the seven hundred cavalry he brought were already a little overwhelmed, so they let these people retreat with their whole body.

After the two encounters, the sky also got dark, the temperature difference between day and night in Qilian Mountain was very large, and it was snowing for nearly an hour during the day, Chen Changjie decided to withdraw from the Dadou Bagu Valley and wait until dawn to bring his troops in.

Compared with the big cannibals, the Longyou Tang soldiers led by Chen Changjie have an advantage, that is, they are familiar with the terrain and can flexibly formulate battle plans according to the weather and terrain.

And in this kind of weather conditions, leaving the big bucket valley and camping is obviously the most suitable choice. However, even after evacuating the Great Dou Ba Valley, he still left a dozen scouts behind in order to keep an eye on the movements of the great cannibals.

In fact, Chen Changjie's decision allowed him to avoid a disaster.

A cavalry swept across the calm Dadou Tu Valley, the iron hooves crushed the snowflakes, and the Tang soldiers scattered in the valley scattered like startled birds and scattered away. Although it was in the darkness of the night, the cavalry still spotted the scattered horses and pursued them for a while, but they were still able to catch up.

There was no danger in the night, and Chen Changjie learned that there was indeed a big food cavalry entering the Great Dou Ba Valley, so he decided to explore the truth. However, he didn't plan to fight him face to face in the valley, and any adventure to put himself in a Jedi would be foolish until he knew the reality of the other party.

Therefore, Chen Changjie led 700 cavalry to circle in the open land at the southern foot of the Great Douba Valley, and when he encountered a small group of rangers, he annihilated them, and when he found that the large force of cavalry of the big cannibal appeared, he scattered as birds, even if the big cannibal intended to pursue, he did not know which part of the pursuit was scattered.

From there, the cycle began again and again, and after a long cycle of effort, the rangers sent out finally figured out the reality of this great food cavalry. This is just a lone army of about 1,000 people, and there is no follow-up team in the big fight.

As a result, Chen Changjie immediately changed his tactics, lined up in front of the Great Food Cavalry formation, and began to curse and shout.

The Great Eclipse Cavalry was led by the nose for most of the day, and they were also sleepy and lacking horses, so they did not respond to Chen Changjie's clamour, but stopped and watched. Soon, four more teams of 100 people were sent out in this formation, which attacked from two directions.

Seeing this, Chen Changjie knew that the opponent's main general was a person with extremely rich combat experience, so he only sneered and ordered the cavalry to dismount and confront each other with crossbows. His cavalry differed from the cavalry of other frontier armies in that they dismounted as infantry soldiers and mounted as cavalry.

The reason why the dismount fights on foot is to facilitate the use of the crossbow, which as the name suggests, must be pedaled with the foot with waist force, so its power is also incomparable to that of ordinary riding crossbows.

Often three rounds of salvo fire, you can break up the enemy's impact formation with an extremely sharp rain of arrows, this trick has been tried and tested against the Tubo people repeatedly, and now it is also familiar with dealing with the big cannibals.

Yousufu was led by the nose of Tang Bing for most of the day, and he was already a little impetuous, and suddenly found that the other party stopped going around in circles and turned to confront each other, so he felt that Tang Bing's generals had some meaning and could fight with him.

The four cavalry squads are just harassing the two wings of the Tang soldiers, as long as the other party has a flaw, Yusuf will not hesitate to lead the crowd to crush the past, the big food cavalry in the war to conquer Persia learned a method of war called "Parthian whirlwind shooting", now the Tang soldiers actually dismounted and fought on foot, obviously they have no confidence in cavalry combat, this method of combat is not used for the time being, so they can only change to the conventional cavalry combat method.

Suddenly, he saw a rain of arrows shot out of the Tang Dynasty army, covering the Great Food Cavalry squad with a range far beyond the bow riding, followed by a rain of arrows, Yousufu's eyebrows raised slightly, he immediately understood why these Tang Dynasty cavalry dared to dismount and fight, it turned out that the arrows of the Tang Dynasty had a range far beyond the range of the bow.

After two rounds of arrows rained down, the Great Eclipse Cavalry squad did not dare to continue to approach, but only cruised far away on the periphery.

This is difficult for Yu Sufu, although he was born in the aristocracy of the Great Food, but since he was a few years old, he followed his father and ancestors to fight in the north and south, and no matter how far the range of the Tang soldiers' arrows is, it is always beyond the reach of power.

"All the formations, divided into the front, middle and rear armies, advance one after another!"

No matter how far the range of the bow and arrow is, there is always a time when the strength is exhausted and cannot keep up, so as long as you fight hard to resist the first three or two rounds, the cavalry can break into its formation, and then even the longer range is useless.

The Great Food Cavalry had experienced a hundred battles, and the commander ordered them to form three formations, and slowly rushed to the Tang Dynasty's army of 700 people.

As they moved forward, the speed of the Great Eclipse Cavalry became faster and faster, and when they were about to reach the range of Tang Bing's arrows, the speed had reached its limit, like a violent wind, roaring and crushing over.

Sure enough, the first round of arrow rain of Tang soldiers smashed down, and when he landed, it provoked a group of people to turn on their horses, and the second round followed by it also smashed down, Yousufu stood in the original, under the protection of one hundred and ten personal guards, and did not participate in the charge, as the commander of the Eastern Expedition, it was already an adventure to personally go to the Great Dou Ba Valley to explore the virtual reality, of course, it was impossible to charge in person.

Seeing that the cavalry charged and resisted two rounds of arrow rain, Yusuf's face showed a smile of victory, Tang Bing only had a bow and crossbow in his hand, no horse rejection spear, as long as he was rushed to the front by the cavalry, he no longer had the ability to resist.

……

After three rounds of volleys, Chen Changjie shouted:

"Mo knife to get started, kill the thief horse!"

Mo knife is also known as *, as the name suggests, the big food cavalry kicked on the stone, and as the Mo knife array flew up and down neatly, it was immediately another group of people on their backs.

Yusuf's expression froze in an instant, and he looked at the battlefield in front of him in disbelief, feeling a little remorseful for despising Tang Bing in his heart.

The confusion of the Great Eaters was only temporary, they quickly returned to combat state, no longer entangled with the Tang soldiers, rushed out from the flanks, leaving the place of nearly a stone's throw away, and suddenly the whole army turned around and fired a volley with a cavalry bow, and the Tang soldiers were caught off guard and many soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.

But the Great Eclipse cavalry did not have a chance to fire a second time, Yusuf had already given the order to withdraw his troops, and all the cavalry retreated like a whirlwind.

In this battle, the two sides won and lost each other, and no one could take advantage of anyone, Chen Changjie saw that after the retreat of the big food soldiers, he ordered the whole army to get on the horse and slowly returned to Shancheng.

He knew that the strength of the Great Food Soldier was extremely strong, and today he was just underestimating the combat effectiveness of the Tang Soldiers......