April 19th, cloudy, Jiuquan Road!

Geng Changqing, the thief king of Hexi, stood on the high slope and rubbed his cheeks, which were as cold as iron armor......

The climate in the West is moody!

It's late spring, and it's almost early summer. In this season when the Central Plains is getting warmer, the Gobi in the northwest lives all year round.

Morning and evening are like winter, but noon and dusk are summer and autumn......

Today, the sun shyly hid in the clouds, which made the cold morning dew even heavier. The cold wind blew on the skin, and it hurt like a knife.

I don't know if I was used to living a comfortable life, Geng Changqing found that his enthusiasm for personally leading the crowd to loot did not have the original fanaticism. Rather than fighting and killing, catching wild horses in the Wild Horse River Valley, nesting in a warm place, and napping by the fire, is a kind of enjoyment.

If it weren't for the seriousness of the situation, he really didn't want to go out himself!

It's just that Pei Min's plan to purge the bandits in Hexi is really a knife hanging over his head, and as a horse thief king, he has the obligation to protect his brothers from being cleared.

No matter how unwilling he is to pull his younger brother into the water, he can't allow him to continue to play the drama of soldiers and thieves.

Geng Changqing is still extremely jealous of Pei Min, and he has two generals with outstanding achievements in the Kaiyuan Dynasty. One is Xue Ne, who has just died of illness, and the other is Pei Min: the rest of the generals are much inferior to them.

Geng Changqing has never dealt with Pei Min, but he has dealt with Xue Ne.

In the whole of Hexi, the wealth of Liangzhou surpasses the sum of the other six states, and there is no doubt that Liangzhou is fat, and it is also the foundation of his rise.

However, Xue Ne has only been in charge of Liangzhou for two years, and Ren is fighting him has lost his troops and generals, and he does not dare to set foot in Liangzhou, which contributed to his move to cultivate his younger brother.

At the beginning, a series of confrontations made Geng Changqing understand that he, a horse thief, could deal with some shrimp soldiers and crab generals, but against a famous general like Xue Ne, it was only for the sake of abusing vegetables.

Fortunately, Xue Ne was only the governor of Liangzhou, and he was only responsible for the military affairs of Liangzhou, which gave him a chance to breathe.

Pei Min's prestige is even higher than Xue Ne, and his power and strength envelop the entire Hexi.

Now don't take advantage of his unstable foothold to deal with him, and wait for him to really control Hexi, that is the end of their horse thieves.

In order to avoid the end of the road, this time he went out of the mountain in person, planning to do a big vote.

A horse galloped in the distance, "Master Qing! It's coming, Zhang Xiaosong, they're coming! ”

In order to avoid making people doubt the relationship between him and Geng Hou, Geng Changqing claimed that his surname was Niu and Niu Qing, and most adults called him "Qing Ye" in awe.

"Good!" Geng Changqing whistled, pointed at the saber in his hand, and said sharply: "A pair of Tang soldiers in front, not one is left!" ”

Geng Changqing is full of courage, since he has decided to make a good fuss, he doesn't plan to make a small fuss, looting is just one of them.

Killing Zhang Xiaosong is the real trump card......

Zhang Xiaosong has done a good job in the Western Regions and has a very high prestige, even if he was impeached and imprisoned, he is still a worthy and admirable figure.

Such a person, if an innocent person died in Hexi due to public security problems, Pei Min would be unable to escape the blame.

Coupled with the bandits everywhere, the army is full of grievances, this series of chaos, Pei Min has to slow down even if he is strong, which also gives them a chance to breathe.

Five hundred horse thieves roared forward, they usually take war horses as companions in the Guazhou Military Horse Farm, and their riding skills are particularly skillful, and they run like flies, like a whirlwind, sweeping towards the prisoner convoy ten miles away.

Ten miles away, in a blink of an eye!

Three hundred, two hundred and fifty, two hundred, two hundred, one hundred and fifty steps......

Geng Changqing looked at the prisoner cart not far away, and looked at the soldiers near the prisoner cart, the soldiers over there had already formed a stacked formation that was good at defense, and they were ready to defend in a short time......

Looking at this scene, Geng Changqing suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

The other party is too calm and calm!

How could you respond so quickly to this sudden attack?

Are you prepared?

Geng Changqing's mind was racing, and just as he was in doubt, he suddenly found that the enemy on the opposite side suddenly took out a huge powerful crossbow from behind his back......

In an instant, Geng Changqing's heart was cold, dumbfounded, and at a loss.

He had seen the power of the Tang crossbow, that terrifying long-range sharp weapon, with a range of up to three or four hundred steps, the power was extremely terrifying, and often an arrow could pierce three or four of them......

At this time, the distance between the two armies was still less than one or five hundred steps, and even if they were evacuated immediately, it would be too late to retreat.

There is only one way to resist a wave.

Even if the other party is prepared, there are only 100 people, but he has 500 people.

"Rush, only by rushing close can you avoid the strong crossbow!"

His voice fell, and in an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows roared, and the merciless crossbow arrows pierced through the people and horses, making the people and horses neighing and chaotic.

With this blow alone, Geng Changqing found that the soldiers under his command had lost more than 200 people......

After being attacked by crossbow arrows, even if you don't die, you lose your combat effectiveness.

Geng Changqing's heart is dripping blood, the forces he controls are not small, but these are the closest descendants, and he lost more than 200 people in this one face, and his intestines made him regret it.

This is not the end, the commander of the Tang Army is none other than Zhao Yizhen, who is good at tricks and flexible soldiers.

It turned out that when Wang Xiaobai received Pei Min's order to investigate the Guazhou Military Horse Farm, he found that there were only a few people in the Military Horse Farm, and the original guards were gone.

He made a quick decision, infiltrated the military horse farm, and found the steward who stayed behind.

The military horse farm was originally heavily guarded, and even Wang Xiaobai was not easy to sneak into, but almost all the guards were transferred, and the remaining soldiers were simply not enough to maintain the security of the huge military horse farm.

With almost no effort, Wang Xiaobai completed the task, forced Geng Changqing to attack Zhang Xiaosong, and passed the flying pigeon to Pei Min in Liangzhou.

When Pei Min heard the news, he responded quickly, and immediately formulated two plans, one conservative and the other unrestrained, with ensuring Zhang Xiaosong's personal safety as the first priority.

The decision-making power of the two plans Pei Min was handed over to Zhang Xiaosong, although Zhang Xiaosong was a first-order scholar, but he also had the courage to lure the enemy, and directly chose the unrestrained plan, personally lured the enemy with his body, and the interest came, and he also chanted Wang Zhilian's new masterpiece "Liangzhou Ci" shortly after he first came to Liangzhou.

Zhao Yizhen saw that Geng Changqing chose to continue the charge, and there was a burst of approval in his eyes: if the other party chose to command the troops out of the attack range of this terrible crossbow arrow, it would give them a chance to shoot in the second stage.

Continued to sprint, just in time to deal with the weakness of the strong crossbow's hurried rate of fire......

"Unload the crossbow and put the javelin on!"

The Central Plains battle array rarely uses javelins, but as early as the Three Kingdoms period, due to the influence of Western Qin, the army has been equipped with a special weapon javelin......

Zhao Yizhen is flexible in using troops, he likes to play this kind of messy troops, and he can also give full play to the strengths of these troops.

The speed of the thieves was raised again, and the fierce javelin flew head-on under the throwing of the Tang soldiers......