Murong Hanzhu and Ge Erhe fled to the bank of the Shandan River, and they were suddenly furious when they counted the people and horses, and there were only more than 300 of the more than 1,000 brothers left, all of them were sluggish, lacking in spirit, and worried, where was there still half a sense of war!

Hanzhu was unfavorable, he was severely humiliated in the first battle, and he had already imprinted Xu Zhen's face in the Mud Pill Palace, and Geerhe hated it even more, this more than 1,000 people and horses were already his last capital, and since he was beaten up, how could he make a comeback?

However, he didn't dare to accuse Murong Hanzhu, but he only appeased many brothers and encouraged him to calm people's hearts.

Beitou Zhangye is also a helpless move, at this time the royal general Tu Han is leading his troops to attack Zhangye, and Tu Han is the son of the late advisor Tianzhu King in the Fuyun period, and the prestige in the army is quite high, it is this person who drove Geerhe out of the core, how can Geerhe slip to Zhangye for help?

In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the First Tang War broke out, and Murong Fuyun was defeated to the west, preparing to cross the Tulun River (Note 1) and defect to Khotan (Note 2). Li Jing supervised the army, and the general Qibi He Li heard that Fu Yun fled to the Tulun River, so he led Xiao cavalry to pursue Ganyu, because there was no water in the desert, the soldiers all drank blood from horses, and finally caught up with Fu Yun, attacked his tooth tent, annihilated several cadres, captured a large number of people, Fu Yun escaped, and then hanged himself in a desperate situation (Note 3).

Fu Yun's son, Murong Shun, the king of Daning, had to behead the king of Tianzhu, led his troops to the Tang Dynasty, and was named Khan, the king of Xiping County, and Tuyuhun became a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty.

It's only been a few years, Nuo Haobo has grown up, inherited his father's wolf nature, healed the scars and forgot the pain, decided to invade the Tang Bian, and wanted to use the descendants of the Tianzhu King, so he promoted the warrior to the commander of the general, and now he has been attacking Zhangye for several days.

Zhangye is named after "Zhangguo Arm Fold, in order to pass through the Western Regions", including Ganzhou City, Delete Dan and other counties, it is a fortress place, the city is high and solid, if it is captured, Ganzhou is precarious!

Murong Hanzhu was trying to persuade Geerhe to defect to Tu Yan and move people to take revenge on Delete Dan, but the scout in front came back with news that a team of remnants of the Tang Dynasty actually came from the direction of Zhangye, wanting to bypass the rear of the Tang Realm and surrender to Delete Dan!

Hearing that there were only hundreds of people in this **, and the action was hasty, the army was untidy, and the people's hearts were disheartened, Murong Hanzhu was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the scout to explore again, but he reorganized the team with Geerhe, and it was bound to eat the remnants of this team of Datang soldiers!

The scouts reported again that the remnants of the army had approached the mouth of the Shandan River for less than five miles, Murong Hanzhu and Ge Erhe personally investigated, predicted the direction of the remnants, and laid an ambush on the gentle slope near the mouth of the river, prepared more arrows, horses, and soldiers were silent, waiting for the enemy.

After half an hour, I really saw that the remnants of this army of less than 500 people came to the vicinity of the mouth of the river, and they were so embarrassed that they didn't even dare to let the scouts out, and rushed to cross the river, the flag was crooked and chaotic, and the word "Duan" on the flag was vaguely recognizable!

Duan Zan was also annoyed at this time, he had marched rapidly before, wanting to throw Zhangye to save Ganzhou, so he bypassed Delete Dan, passed from the rear of the county, knowing that Delete Dan was surrounded but not saved, he never thought of Zhangye, but he was already surrounded by enemies, as if it had become a lonely city, Duan Zan was shocked, he wanted to return to Delete Dan and help Xu Zhen, but he was discovered by Tuyuhun's rangers, and fought viciously, and the eight hundred recruits were so frightened that they were not possessed, and in the face of only more than three hundred enemy rangers, they were forced to be scattered by the other party and killed more than 100 people!

Hou Poyu was even more angry, because the leader of the three hundred rangers on the other side was actually Murong Xiao who he designed to let go!

This Hu Lu is tenacious and unyielding like a rock in the mountains, he has been captured several times, and escaped one after another, treacherous as a fox, tough as a wolf, but fierce as an angry tiger, not fighting with Duan Zhan on the whole face, just hanging all the way behind, just like a hungry wolf chasing a stag, the prey will launch a surprise attack when it is a little lax and careless, and immediately flee after biting off a large piece of fresh meat, so that you dare not pursue, and you can't help it, and it won't take long to go and return, keep repeating, let you bleed to death, until today, there are only less than five hundred of the eight hundred recruits left!

Duan Zan was also a dignified captain, a ruthless man with 5,000 soldiers, if it weren't for the fact that the recruits under his command were useless, and Zhang Shenzhi was a waste, he would not be so embarrassed.

Although Hou Poyu has a small courage, he acts softly and treacherously, always thinking of showing weakness to the enemy, and seizing the opportunity to counterattack in one fell swoop, but he does not know that with the strength of these hundreds of recruits, the counterattack is also an end of self-defeat.

Helpless, all Duan Zan could think of was the more than two hundred elites in Xu Zhen's hands, compared to these five hundred recruits, Duan Zan would rather choose Xu Zhen's two hundred steppe wolf soldiers, and even exchange them for eight hundred recruits, he didn't frown.

However, he knew that this was impossible, and for the sake of his current plan, he could only cross the mouth of the Shandan River and go down the river, hoping to attack the Murong army besieging Sudan from the rear and create some opportunities for Xu Zhen.

But what he didn't expect was that Xu Zhen had already taken the deletion pill and began to throw himself into Zhangye, not to mention that Xu Zhen's defeated general, Murong Xiao's boss Ge Erhe, was working with the military advisor Murong Hanzhu to open a bloody mouth at the ferry, just waiting for these five hundred pink and tender recruits to surrender to the tiger's mouth!

Murong Xiao chased after him tightly, although Duan Zan had scout veterans in his hands, but after several times of going and not returning, he simply didn't even let the scouts out, just wanted to quickly arrive in the Delete Dan Domain.

It was late autumn, the cold wind was already shivering, the army's heart was cold, and they encountered the black water to stop their waists, and many recruits were already miserable, but they could only grit their teeth and prepare to cross the estuary.

In the late autumn dry season, the water level is not high, although there is continuous light rain, but it cannot make the river more abundant, Duan Zan is glad in his heart, this is also a blessing in misfortune, while Murong Xiao has not yet arrived, he hurriedly called the brothers to explore the water level as quickly as possible.

The mouth of the river is only a few zhang open, but the water potential is also stable, the mountain people set up a single tree, three or three two and two to make a place, although not stable, but it is a wooden bridge, but unfortunately can not ride a horse, can only be carefully led by the horse, in case the horse's hooves fall into the gap between the single trees.

Duan Zan was the first to dismount, and after crossing the wooden bridge, his heart was tight, and he hurriedly instructed the recruits to cross the river first, and the few backbone veterans stayed behind the original hall.

In order to make these recruits take shape as soon as possible and motivate the recruits, Duan Zan temporarily put the post of captain of the army, and the recruits who stood out were the so-called pacesetters.

In this way, there are only a few dozen veterans, how can Duan Zan feel at ease?

Sure enough, I was really afraid of something, and the veteran behind the palace suddenly issued a warning call, but it was the ghostly Murong Xiao who chased after him again!

The recruits had already lost their fighting spirit, and the people were panicked, and when they heard the warning signal from the rear, they crossed the river in a panic, pushed each other, and the people and horses actually fell into the water a lot!

Duan Zan wanted to kill the rebels to supervise military discipline, but he gritted his teeth, after all, he was worried that this group of recruits would collapse, so he could only order someone to rescue the drowning man, but the horses and the materials on the horse's back had no time to pay attention to it.

At a critical juncture, the cannon horn suddenly sounded on the high ground on the slope ahead, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled and shook the pulse of the earth.

Geerhe was overjoyed when he saw his son leading the army to chase after him, the cavalry of the Murong Division, who had already suffered bad luck in Xu Zhen's hands, were like wolves and tigers, and their eyes erupted with hatred and anger, poured into the blade in their hands, but they were wantonly venting on Duan Zhan's recruits!

"Kill, !!"

A roar was like a mad beast, the Murong tribe rangers took the lead in launching a rain of arrows, Duan Zhan, who had just landed on the shore, had not yet gained a foothold, and had already been swept away by the rain of arrows, and the recruits were frightened and used their small shields to defend, but the rain of arrows was too dense, and the recruits were at a loss, so they could only pile up, wanting to use their companions as shields, and a large number of them fell in an instant!

"Raise your shield! Raise your shield! Hide behind a horse! ”

Hou Poyu roared hoarsely, because he was leading the horse to cross the river, he had to sacrifice the war horse at this time, hiding on the side of the horse, avoiding the rain of arrows.

This move really worked, the casualties immediately dropped, the recruits were like dead faces, and the veterans had already forcibly crossed the river, trying to push the wooden bridge into the river, but they couldn't catch it, Murong Xiao's rangers also began to shoot with bows and crossbows, Duan Zan hurriedly shouted for the brothers to fight back with bows and arrows.

But these recruits were trembling with their hands and feet, their minds were blank and numb, where could they still hear the order, Duan Zan saw that the whole army was about to be wiped out, and immediately stabbed to death a recruit who was crying and screaming to jump into the river to escape, and his voice was deafening: "*you* mother's stupid slave!" If you don't fight, you're dead, how did you do that shrunken king! Kill me with me! ”

After all, the veterans were more reliable than the newcomers, and the bows and arrows in their hands were buzzing, and the feathered arrows had already shot seven or eight rangers who were eager to cross the river into the water!

The souls of the recruits seemed to be forced back into their bodies by the shouting, their eyes burst out with the fierce light of fighting the trapped beasts, tears flowed down their eyes, and they raised their bows and arrows to reflect, Murong Xiao's people couldn't step on the wooden bridge after all, they could only keep shooting across the river.

The horses could only resist the feathered arrows on one side, and the horses were hurt by the arrows, and they lost control, neighing and fleeing everywhere, trampling and accidentally injuring many recruits, and the situation became more and more embarrassing!

Seeing that the fire burned his eyebrows, but it was worse again, Geerhe's side saw that the feather arrows were blocked by the horses, and hurriedly gave the order to charge, instantly rushing the large array of the Duan army to pieces!

Duan Zhan was determined to live and die, jumped on horseback, waved the lance in his hand like the wind, and led a group of veterans to collide with Geerhe's rangers!

Hou Poyu's heart sank to the bottom, thinking that the great glory had not been enjoyed, and the shadow of his father had not been enjoyed, so he immediately led his own soldiers, and as Duan Zan attacked the enemy army, the two had already made up their minds, broke through the blockade, and did not want these more than 400 recruits!

(Note 1: Also known as Tulun moraine, present-day Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang.) )

(Note 2: The Kingdom of Khotan (tian) is now Hotan, Xinjiang, which is the kingdom of the Western Regions in ancient times, one of the four towns of Anxi, the capital of the Tang Dynasty of China, and was changed to Khotan in the Qing Dynasty. ）

(Note 3: The "Zizhi Tongjian" says that he was killed by his subordinates.) ）