While the two Hui soldiers were arguing, Guo Song flew over, and opened his bow with both palms at the same time, hitting them in the necks, and the two fell down limply without saying a word.

Without waiting for the third person to react, Guo Song grabbed his hands and hit him with an elbow hammer to faint painfully, but his foot kicked him sideways, kicking the fourth person's left chest, several of his ribs were suddenly broken, fainted on the spot, and his body flew out, hitting the fifth person hard, and the two fell into the corner together.

The fifth man was just about to shout, but he felt a pain in his neck, and he lost consciousness completely.

In the middle of the rabbit's fall, Guo Song, who looked like a leopard, knocked down all five sentries, and then drew a soldier's knife and threw it at the lantern.

The lantern was extinguished, and Guo Chongqing, who was thirty paces away, jumped up and rushed to the wooden pier with forty soldiers, removing them all.

The extinguishing of the lantern is the signal, Li Ji, who was three hundred steps away, gave an order, and more than two hundred Tang soldiers launched at the same time, urging the horses to run towards the exit of the valley, the wooden pier had been removed, and Guo Chongqing led the soldiers to turn over and get on their horses.

Li Ji hurriedly looked overhead, only to see a huge black shadow volleying down from the sky, landing right next to the Fire Dragon King, and gently spinning on the horse.

"Let's go!"

At the sound of Guo Song's order, the soldiers rushed out of the valley at a faster pace, rushed towards the vast mountain grassland, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

It wasn't until half an hour later that the awakened soldiers rang the alarm, and the Hui soldiers ran out one after another, confused for the head of a thousand households, the wooden pier was removed, and there were dense horseshoe prints on the ground, apparently hundreds of cavalry passed, but none of his soldiers died, they all fainted, what was going on?

He couldn't figure out the reason, but he rushed to the camp in time to report the situation to the main general, and the situation on the Wusun Ancient Road was reported level by level.

At this time, Guo Song led the cavalry to a hundred miles away.

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After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin sent the general Hou Junji to lead the army to Beiting, and established the Beiting Protectorate, directly governing the three states of Yi, Xi and Ting, and at the same time controlled many small countries and Turkic nine surnames west of Beiting, and established three armies of Han Navy, Yiwu Army and Tianshan Army, with a total of more than 20,000 people.

The Anshi Rebellion forced the Tang Dynasty to also transfer the main force of the Beiting Army back to Chang'an, and there were only a few thousand defenders left in Beiting.

On the one hand, it had a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, and during the Anshi Rebellion, they sent troops to help the Tang Dynasty suppress the rebels.

On the other hand, it continued to rob the interests of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention the plundering of the Tang Dynasty's women and property in Luoyang and Chang'an, and in the Western Regions, it also continued to devour the geographical interests of the Tang Dynasty, supporting Shatuo to invade the Hexi Corridor.

However, when the Tubo attacked Anxi and Beiting, the Hui supported the Tang army of Anxi and Beiting to resist the invasion of Tubo, and the reason why the Tang army still existed in Beiting was largely because the Hui people deliberately left the Tang army to contain the Shatuo people and prevent the Shatuo people from becoming larger, and at the same time could help it resist the invasion of the Tubo people in Beiting.

The behavior of the Hui people seems to be contradictory, but in fact it is not contradictory, the fundamental reason is still for its own interests, and after it completely defeats the Tubo west of the Green Mountains, it will turn around and destroy the Tang army and the Shatuo people, and completely take the Beiting and Hexi Corridor into its pocket.

Two days later, the Tang army entered Tingzhou and began to enter the sphere of influence of the Shatuo people, if the Beiting area is vast and the Hui forces are limited, it is impossible to fortify everywhere, so that the Tang army can pass all the way through the undefended area of the Hui people without being discovered.

Then the deployment of the troops of the Shatuo people in Tingzhou is very tight, and almost all the checkpoints and important passes are guarded by Shatuo soldiers, and the fierce battle to break through the checkpoints is inevitable.

On this morning, Guo Song led the Tang army to the north along the poplar water, when suddenly, a low horn sounded on the side ridge.

The soldiers of the Tang Army found that there was a beacon hidden on the side ridge hundreds of miles away, the color of the beacon was exactly the same as the mountain, it was difficult to see, they were discovered by the sentry on the beacon, and then the beacon ignited three pillars of wolf smoke, and the black wolf dung smoke rushed straight into the sky, warning the enemy to arrive.

Guo Song also knew that they would be discovered sooner or later, so he was calm, and immediately ordered in a deep voice: "Speed up and break through!" ”

The soldiers urged their horses to gallop towards the stone bridge more than 20 miles away.

The Baiyang River was turbulent after the spring flood, and the river was very deep, and it was difficult for the cavalry to cross the river, so they could only take bridges in this case.

Baiyang Bridge is a stone bridge, built by the Tang Army in the first year of Tianbao, is the only way to go to Tingzhou on the northern route of the Silk Road, of course, if it is the dry period in autumn and winter, you can also pass directly from the riverbed without crossing the bridge.

The Baiyang Bridge is also a checkpoint, there are more than 200 Shatuo soldiers stationed, the centurion of the Shatuo army has seen the wolf smoke in the distance, he urgently ordered the soldiers to go to the bridge, open their bows and arrows, and wait for the battle.

In a short time, the yellow dust was billowing in the distance, and a cavalry was rushing towards this side, and the centurion shouted: "The enemy is coming, listen to my order to release the arrows!" ”

The cavalry of the Tang army stopped moving forward when it was about one hundred and fifty steps away from the bridge, and the weapons of the Shatuo army came from the Hui people, and the Hui people made knives were good, but the bow making technology was not good, and the bows they made were far worse than the compound bows of the Tang army, and the range was generally only eighty or ninety steps, while the killing range of the Tang army's one-stone corner bow was one hundred and twenty steps.

The difference of thirty paces was enough to affect the battle situation, and Li Ji gave an order, and the Tang cavalry rushed forward twenty or thirty paces, pulling their bows and shooting at the enemy on the bridge while running.

Arrows rained down, Shatuo soldiers were hit by arrows, screaming and falling from the bridge into the river, a round of arrows shot more than 20 people, and the Shatuo people also released arrows, but their arrows were still some distance away from the Tang army and landed.

The centurion shouted in a hurry, "Squat down and wait for the enemy to approach before firing arrows!" ”

At this time, Guo Song took the lead, ran through the oblique stab, and shot an arrow when he ran across the bridge, this arrow went straight to the centurion, Guo Song's archery skills were much more mature than in Lingzhou, showing that there was a prediction, the arrow speed was faster, the centurion hurriedly dodged, but this arrow calculated the direction of his dodge, and instantly arrived in front of him, 'poof! The arrow entered from the center of the eyebrow and pierced through the head, and the tip of the arrow peeked out through the back of the head.

The centurion died tragically on the spot, but the rest of the cavalry followed Guo Song, and an arrow shot out like a flowing arrow, shooting from the bridgehead to the Shatuo soldiers, who were again shot and killed more than twenty people.

The rest of the Shatuo soldiers were frightened, turned around and rushed off the bridge, fleeing eastward.

Guo Song led the Tang army to rush onto the stone bridge and speed up the horse to cross the poplar water.

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Although the Tang army seized the opportunity and rushed three checkpoints in a row, their whereabouts and troops were completely exposed, and Zhu Xie Jinhai, the chief general of the Shatuo army stationed in Tingzhou, personally led 5,000 cavalry to encircle and suppress this Tang cavalry of two or three hundred people.

5,000 Shatuo cavalry deployed in the west of Luntai County in the Zhangbao Guard, they are divided into five thousand cavalry teams, deployed on the grassland 20 miles wide, south is the Tianshan Mountains, the Tang army has no way to go, unless the Tang army goes north to detour to the desert, otherwise it will inevitably encounter one of the cavalry.

As long as one of the cavalry teams is encountered, the remaining four thousand-strong cavalry will quickly encircle and annihilate this Tang army.

The Eagle Strike Army led by Guo Song stopped on the east bank of the Jianhe River, he looked up at the fierce son in the sky, the fierce son arrived in the north court before them, it only took one day to fly over the Tianshan Mountain, and stayed in the north court for seven or eight days before finding Guo Song and his party.

Li Ji was also observing Mengzi, and saw Mengzi circling twenty miles away, flying from north to south, but he couldn't understand the meaning of Mengzi flying like this.

"Changshi, what do you mean by Mengzi?"

Guo Song said in a deep voice: "I let it find out where the enemy army is?" It told me that the enemy army was twenty miles away, and that there were enemy troops from north to south. ”

Li Ji was taken aback, "If you deploy like this, it will take at least tens of thousands of people!" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "Shatuo's entire army does not have tens of thousands, it should only be a few thousand, but it is divided into several cavalry teams, no matter how we go, we will be discovered by the other party." ”

"Why don't you take a detour into the desert!" Next to Guo Chongqing suggested.

Guo Song still shook his head, "Thousands of people are too scattered, there will definitely be loopholes, let's rest in place now, and look for opportunities in the evening." ”

Li Ji and Guo Chongqing suddenly woke up to the fact that they were good at night fighting, and the opportunity was of course at night.

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[On the last day of asking for a monthly pass, Lao Gao fought to the death with a sick body! ] 】