"My cavalry and mule soldiers of the White Grass Army, one man and two horses (or mules), carry five days' worth of wheat rice, plus a salt bag for the horses, and Fan Yang has a bow and thirty arrows for each member, a collar of armor, and a lacquer lance; Each member of the mule soldier has a crossbow and twenty arrows, a collar of armor, a horizontal knife, a pair of regimental cards, and a horse felt; Fan (party item) cavalry each member bows and arrows thirty, and the armor of the war equipment is prepared for ......" At this time, Ximen Cang, the supervisor of the Baicao Army, hung his hand with a wound that had not yet healed, and loudly gave a face-to-face lecture to many generals who participated in the surprise attack to prepare for war.

Because of the previous defeat in Goutouyuan, the Tang army captured a lot of livestock, among which there were naturally many war horses from Xifan, and now they are arrogant enough to be able to have one soldier and two horses.

Therefore, Gao Yue took the opportunity to expand the cavalry team of the White Grass Army: the 800 Fan Yang soldiers who were previously in Lingtai Tuntian, Gao Yue gave full play to their strengths, let them change their steps into cavalry, selected 400 of them as cavalry, and used hundreds of long handles (lances, in ancient times, which were important military artifacts that were strictly forbidden to trade and circulate among the people) made by the Xingyuan Mansion workshop, wedged the lance made by Xingyuan Mansion, and quickly armed this group of cavalry, and they would be the main force charging on the battlefield.

Fan Yang's cavalry envoy, Gao Yue appointed Mi Mu Changyuan, the former shooter from the "Xiao Sanzhou Party Item", and changed his name to "Mi Yuan".

As for the other two chieftains of the Xiaosanzhou Party, one is called Tuojiu Bo and the other is Sha Tongju, and they have also changed their Chinese names, the former is called "Zhu Bo", and the latter is called "Shatong". Ximen Cang asked these two people to lead dozens of horsemen when they set out on the expedition, and they went out for hundreds of miles to serve as scouts.

After the arrangement was completed, just as the generals were ordered to prepare to return to the camp for arrangement.

Gao Yue suddenly called out to them.

The generals all sat back in their seats.

Gao Yue said: "There is news from Shangdu that the noble concubine Niangniang has been canonized as the queen. ”

Then Gao Yue paused, "Empress of the day, Your Majesty is Empress Zhaode." ”

Soon in the crowd, Guo Zaizhen's lips trembled, and then the wings of his nose were together, and tears flowed down, with a cooing sound, and his head knocked in the direction of the east, which he couldn't afford for a long time.

Gao Yue also lowered his eyebrows, he knew that Guo Zaizhen was definitely moved by true feelings this time: his marriage with Yuwen was facilitated by Empress Zhaode.

Then Gao Yue said again: "Before Empress Zhaode died, she also asked Your Majesty, are my soldiers in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty well fed and warmly dressed?" ”

Even the steely soldiers in the tent were crying.

"Please wear filial piety for Empress Zhaode when you go on the expedition." Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan, Wang Tong and others will ask in unison.

Gao Yue looked at Ximen Cang, the Ximen Supervisor nodded, and then choked up and added, "The three armies are numb, and they can be hidden under the armor so as not to reveal their identities." ”

At this time, Gao Yue got up behind the case and waved his hand, "Everyone, we'll see you in Xiaoguan Baicaoyu in three days." ”

"Whoa!" The generals gritted their teeth and hated the same enemy.

The next day, Shang Jiezan was full of surprise, stepped on the pedal road of Pingliang City, and came to the back of the horse-faced wall, where several enemy defense envoys from Xifan were standing there, looking at him silently.

Shang Jiezan stepped forward and looked through the battlements, "What's going on?" ”

Ten miles outside the city, the Tang army with the right army of the Shence Jingxi camp and the Jingyuan camp of nearly 30,000 troops, lined up into a majestic array, the drum shook the clouds and scattered, the golden crow deviated, and what was more terrifying was that all the Tang soldiers were tied with silk on their clothes and armor, like frost and snow on the ground, all holding weapons in unison, lying on the ground, facing the direction of Chang'an City in the east, the Changjing of the Shence army, the military flags of the Jingyuan camp of "the vestibule of the Western Regions, the rear of the Che Division", "Xia Cai's Expedition, and the Guangwu Army" were all replaced with white.

"Is there a character in the Tang family who has died?" Shang Jiezan muttered.

"Empress Zhaode is in a big line, the tomb is in the east, woo hoo lament!" With the shouting of the secretary in charge of the military government, 30,000 Tang soldiers read this sentence in unison, looking at the east and bowing together.

"Queen Zhaode's great line, the body has been dusty, but virtue will last forever, woo hoo lament!"

"Woohoo!" The officers and men of the three armies, including Xing Junya, Liu Haibin, etc., all cried and threw themselves to the ground.

"Empress Zhaode is on a big trip, but Choufan took advantage of my new funeral to invade my territory, and the sons of the three armies can use their lives to move forward, and they will not let Choufan go back to Qinghai!"

"I will let the ugly horse not be returned!" The 30,000 Tang soldiers all gritted their teeth, then got up while crying, lined up in a large array, pulled the artillery cable, flew like rain, the light of the armor was like the sun, and the silk was like snow, rolling towards Pingliang City to attack.

For a time, the debris of the Pingliang City fortress and buildings were flying wildly, Shang Jiezan was almost unstable, and several Xifan generals held him to protect Da Xuan from being hit.

"What, the queen of the Tang family has gone?" At this time, he realized that the Tang army in front of him had become a mourning soldier who had become a decisive death, and poured all their grief and hatred into the arrows and stones, "Quick, Soma, take my paperwork, give you ten flying bird envoys, and send this news to the god Zampu." ”

"Master, what do you want to say to Zamp about this?" Soma asked.

"Tell the god Zanpu, now Pingliang, no, the situation in the entire Longyou, either he allows me to flee back to Shanzhou, or he can give me Shang Jiezan to reinforce the 30,000 forbidden army Dongdai, I can barely hold Pingliang - but no matter what, let Zanpu quickly send the most noble minister to enter Chang'an City to mourn the queen of the Tang family."

Next, the entire Pingliang City was slaughtered, and Shang Jiezan stayed anxiously in the safe watchtower in the west of the city, he was hesitating and hesitating: whether this battle can be fought or not, regardless of righteousness, but now with the departure of the queen of the Tang family, the soldiers of the entire Tang Kingdom have turned into Shura mourning soldiers, and they are all killed with red eyes.

But at the beginning, he advocated crossing the border to punish Tang Jun, but he was himself!

Just when Shang Jiezan was still at a loss, the 5,000 elite horsemen gathered by the four departments of Baicao, Jingyuan, Shence, and Fengxiang had set off on time along the narrow river valley between Qingshiling and Jingchuan.

Gao Yue looked back and looked at Lianyun Castle, the beacon fire was still wrecked, the light was extinguished, flocks of geese returned from the north, hovering and screaming above the heads of the cavalry, the cold wind wrapped in gray mist, violently blowing the yellow reed grass under the horses' hooves, flocculent broken clouds flew through the sky, the sun was blown into a blur, shrunk into a dusky round nucleus, like a bloody head that had been cut off hung there.

Five thousand soldiers of the Tang Army, tens of thousands of war horses, iron-blue faces, iron-blue armor, and iron-blue lances danced in the wind, turning into a huge sharp arrow that could not be seen from the beginning to the end, passing through the long Jingchuan River valley and heading straight to the direction of Xiaoguan Tower.

The next day, Zhu Bo and Shatong, who were scouting, reported that there was only a small group of soldiers stationed at Xiao Pass, and there was no vigilance at all.

"Ming Huaiyi, you and your two brothers, and take Zhu Bo and Shatong, lead 700 Tibetan cavalry as the vanguard, dress up as Western Tibetan soldiers, and go straight to Xiaoguan." Gao Yue commanded.

"No problem." Ming Huaiyi immediately, put the leopard skin captured by Gou Touyuan on his armor, dressed as the appearance of the "leopard skin general" in Xifan, and his two younger brothers also wore tiger skin shawls, followed closely behind, and then 700 white grass army riders, the sound of horse hooves suddenly rose, shouting Qiang language, the deer skin Hulu (quiver) tied under the saddle swayed rapidly, carrying axes and iron bones on his shoulders, like a torrent, the first to attack to the north......