The originally bright sky gradually began to overcast at noon, and the atmosphere in the camp tent in southern Xinjiang was as oppressive as the clouds in the sky.

All the tribal leaders were gathered in the camp of the commander Usman, and their faces were gloomy.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, but there was no sign of the reinforcements and food and grass scheduled to arrive early in the morning. Usman had already sent out more than a dozen teams of scout cavalry in succession, and all the commanders could do now was wait for the results in their tents.

Usman sat expressionlessly in the center of the tent, his fingers subconsciously tapping on the hilt of the knife, and faster and faster.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the tent, and a cavalryman rushed directly to the outside of the tent before stopping in the long neighing of horses!

Immediately after, one of the scout cavalry sent by Usman rushed into the camp tent and hurried:

"Lord Commander, we have not found any reinforcements for more than ten miles, and from the top of the mountain on the south side, we can't see any reinforcements within a radius of a hundred miles.

"What?" Usman roared and involuntarily stood up!

A tribal leader with a meaty face asked, "Then have you seen any traces of the battle?Have you found anyone from the Shengyuan Dynasty?!"

"Nothing, my lord!"

Usman sat down slowly, closed his eyes, and said in a heavy voice, "It's impossible for the people of the Shengyuan Dynasty to sneak around from under our noses to sneak up on reinforcements. If there are no reinforcements from the top of the hill on the south side, there will be no more reinforcements. ”

The commander still held out a little hope, and said, "Could it be that God delayed your lord......ship?"

He thought about it for a while, and his voice slowly lowered: "But the Liping Walled City is only less than two hundred miles away from here, how can it be more than two days to arrive......

Usman slowly opened his eyes, got up again and said word by word: "Everyone, although I don't want to admit it, there will be no reinforcements coming. We...... I'm afraid I've been betrayed by God. ”

There was a dead silence in the tent.

Usman perked himself up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we are not desperate yet! We only have three days of food, so the time is very critical at the moment, and we must immediately inform the tribes of the southern Xinjiang of the news of the betrayal of the divine envoy.

Only when the prince sends troops to capture Liping can we be saved. The walled city of Liping has been abandoned for a long time, although the horse brought reinforcements this time, and there are a lot of people, but these people may not necessarily listen to him.

The Qiang and Zhuang reinforcements were only a day's way from the walled city, and they were more than capable of taking it in a day, and arrived before we ran out of food, and fought off the damned Central Plains with us. ”

The other commander suddenly said, "Lord Usman, don't forget, the Qiang and Zhuang clans are on the same front as the Divine Envoy, will they help us?"

Usman shouted: "Although Danmuji of the Qiang tribe is old, he is still a hero of southern Xinjiang, not to mention Song Wenzhao of the Zhuang tribe, he has led the wolf soldiers for many years, and the strength of the Zhuang tribe has been recognized in southern Xinjiang.

This is a time when the entire Southern Xinjiang Province is at stake, and I believe they will make the right choice!"

The Commander looked at Usman's gloomy expression, and swallowed back the words he had wanted to say more.

Usman continued: "The army of the Shengyuan Dynasty will definitely attack in a big way in the past few days, and our forces are at a disadvantage.

If they don't attack today, then we will retreat into the Yupingtong Gorge overnight and defend to the death!

The cavalry is of little use there, and if all the horses are killed, we will be able to support it for a few more days!"

"But...... As soon as we withdrew, there was no one to protect the back villages, and the Shengyuan Dynasty had slaughtered the villages. ”

Usman was silent for a moment before he said, "What can we do...... Only to avenge them. ”

He slapped the table heavily and said, "Go and get that special green harrier!" Hmph, Xu Fusheng, you probably wouldn't have thought that I still have a green harrier that can fly directly to Fengcheng, right?

Also, tie the same distress letter to the four green harriers who will return to the Liping Walled City, and release them at the same time!"

Usman looked around at the tribal leaders and said, "Everyone, we are not desperate yet! After intercepting our Qing Harrier for help, Xu Fusheng may still think that his plot has not been exposed!"

If we can surprise us, the Qiang and Zhuang clans will capture the city of Liping in half a day! We will be ready now and retreat as soon as it gets dark!"

At this moment, the sound of trumpets was faintly heard in the distance, and all the leaders in the camp felt the earth tremble slightly.

One of the soldiers rushed into the tent and said urgently: "Lord Usman, the enemy is attacking..."

Usman's face was gloomy, and with a wave of his hand, he led the generals to the lookout in a hurry.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the earth was still shaking.

A moment later, a torrent of steel appeared at the end of the line of sight, and then the infantry of the Shengyuan Dynasty also walked out one by one, and in the blink of an eye, an incomparably majestic lineup appeared in front of the generals.

In the center of the formation, a cavalryman rushed to the front of the formation with a large banner representing Zuo Xiaowei, the banner shook left and right, and the teams on the left and right flanks quickly gave up their positions in the center.

Immediately afterwards, a battle flag with a black panther and a yellow bottom and a yellow character on it was raised high in the camp of the Shengyuan Dynasty, and the flag-bearer urged the horse to come to the front of the formation, and a shout suddenly sounded in the army of the Shengyuan Dynasty!

In the midst of cheers, cavalrymen dressed in black and brown heavy armor and riding black war horses under their seats poured out like a frenzy and lined up under the battle flag.

Usman's face darkened when he saw the banner, and by the time he saw the black-brown cavalry, his face was pale.

There was an exclamation from the lookout!

"Leopard Ride!"

"Oh my God! It's Yang Yichen's border army leopard cavalry and the forbidden army's Zuo Xiaowei!"

Usman's deputy also exclaimed: "Yang Yichen's border army leopard cavalry has been guarding the northern frontier, how can they be here?!"

As long as the people on the land of the Shengyuan Dynasty know the existence of the border army leopard cavalry, perhaps they are not as famous as the Li family's Xuanshuang heavy cavalry for their combat power.

But as we all know, north of the northern Xinjiang is the grassland of the fierce peoples, there is the hometown of the cavalry, and the Turkic wolf rider is the god of killing who comes and goes without a trace.

But Yang Yichen was stunned to let Yang Yichen take the leopard cavalry of the border army, and successively entered the grassland dozens of times, forcing 100,000 Turkic wolves to retreat into the depths of the grassland, and then the leopard cavalry has been guarding the northern frontier.

Yang Yichen was not originally surnamed Yang, he was a nobleman of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Weichi Gate Valve, because of his brilliant military achievements, he was given the surname Yang by the emperor.

Leopard riding

It was the cavalry corps he built after he went to northern Xinjiang, and before the leopard cavalry, he was the head of the infantry march of Pingchen's government soldiers, which is under the banner of His Majesty today.

Starting from the first emperor, he has participated in almost all kinds of battles of the Shengyuan Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has fought hundreds of battles in the south and the north, and has not lost a single one, but a fact.

Whether it was the battle of the unification of Pingchen and Pingdi, or the battle to eliminate the rebellion of the acting king, and then to the later extermination of Tuyuhun and the killing of Turkic soldiers, he participated in them one by one, and they were all commanders of the first army.

In his hands, whether it is infantry command or cavalry command, or even a combination of the two, he can quickly command like an arm, and no one knows how he did it.

Of course, it is precisely because he is too capable of fighting that he has always been the commander of the first army or the frontier guard, and he can no longer reach a high position similar to that of the old man of the Yuwen brothers or the prince Li Shude, and I don't know if it is lucky or unlucky.

But it doesn't matter anymore, Yang Shuai appeared in southern Xinjiang with a leopard horse, what does that mean, Usman quickly understood.

He suddenly shouted to the deputy behind him: "Li Cheng, go and mobilize my five thousand personal guards, I will personally take them to break the queen! You immediately lead the rest of the men and horses to retreat to the Yupingtong Gorge! No matter what, you must support the arrival of the allied forces of all races!"

Remember, from now on, you are the supreme commander of these fighters!

Li Cheng shouted, "Lord Usman......!

Usman slapped Li Cheng on the shoulder and shouted, "You are still young, and I am already in my fifties! Retreat! Hold on until the arrival of the Southern Xinjiang Coalition Army! This is my last order!"

An endless torrent began to sweep in, and a group of warriors in heavy armor and armed with huge shields and axes began to move forward!

One after another, black torrents rolled towards the fragile southern Xinjiang camp!

With a roar, the wooden camp walls began to collapse one by one under the impact of the giant logs, and the soldiers of the border army leopard cavalry roared wildly and rushed into the camp.

On the high ground not far away, the battle flag fluttering in the wind stimulated their eyes, it was the battle flag representing the 60,000 soldiers in southern Xinjiang!

Coincidentally, several black torrents aimed at the isolated island in the sea......

Half an hour later, a amiable Yang Yichen was already standing where Usman had fallen.

Thousands of corpses were piled up on this small plateau at the moment! Many corpses were still fighting each other, and there were even several soldiers from both sides who were entangled and died.

Although Usman had been dead for a long time, his corpse was still on the back of his sword, glaring angrily ahead. He didn't know how many wounds there were on his body, and the blood that spilled out had covered his whole body, as if he was wearing a crimson armor.

Around him, there were more than ten corpses of border soldiers, Yang Yichen sighed softly, stroked Usman's eyes with his hand, and whispered:

"With only 5,000 soldiers, you can bury 2,000 of my most elite border troops, and you are a respectable general!"

A bloodied general walked in and said, "Yang Shuai, his subordinates are incompetent, and the main force of the army has taken advantage of the chaos to escape." Looking at the direction, it should have retreated to the Yupingtong Canyon. ”

Yang Yichen said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, we will chase it now, notify Yu Wenhua, and let Zuo Xiaowei block the valley mouth."

Let them starve to death there, and then it will be up to our little allies to hold back the armies of the various ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang. ”