Heda led nearly 4,000 men and chased down the west bank of the Ili River without stopping. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although Heida has not had a chance to take a direct look at his opponent so far, the opponent's actions and combat characteristics have gradually become somewhat clear in his mind.

They did not have baggage, they moved flexibly, and the long-distance attack of Tianshan Mu from the west bank of Xuanchi to Alashankou for more than 700 miles surprised Heida.

They are tough and love to win, as the two battles that have taken place illustrate this. Otherwise, they will be like in Alashankou, and the harassment will immediately run away without a trace.

With more than 1,000 people like the Gollulu tribe and the best in the Ebiru land department, they can kill not a single one, so it is dangerous for the squads of other tribes with less than 1,000 people to act alone.

Heida could see that they cared a lot about the secrecy of their operations, and they also cared about casualties, and they probably wouldn't engage if they weren't more than seventy percent sure. In this way, it is easy to say, I have people, the terrain is familiar, and there will be no problem with military quartermasters.

Then he stalked the Tianshan herdsman, and once he caught the traces of the other party, he bit and did not let go. They can't afford to hurt and can't afford to drag it out. Because of the inflow of the Ili River, the western half of Lake Balkhash is fresh water, and the water in the eastern half is bitter and astringent. These people in Tianshan Mu had no water to drink, and they couldn't hold out for even three days.

There is no drinking water for two hundred and forty miles from the lake, which is bordered by a flat sandy corridor twenty miles wide, and a low hill running southeast to northwest on the periphery. Further down the hill there is a river with broken leaves, but at this time of year and in this area, there should be no water in the river.

Although it is possible for them to burrow into the dense and long forest where they cannot find it, they will always have to drink water, and they will surely come back to the lake.

While leading his men to chase along the lake, Heida sent people to the rear and ordered the 4,000 men at Alashankou to also rush over to support. These 8,000 people are all the power that Heida can control, and he wants to pull these people over to deal with Tianshan Mu.

Some of the minor leaders under Heda had raised suspicions, after all, they had only seen the footprints of two horses, what if the enemy was really not in the west? Wouldn't such a transfer just let go of the Alashan Pass and let them return calmly?

Heda didn't see it that way, believing that the hoof prints of the two horses were definitely not left by the Tocharians. Since their last defeat at the hands of Gorluch, the Tocharians had not made it a hundred and fifty miles east of the border. Moreover, the arrow with the two-headed snake stuck in the ground was not Tocharian - the tip of the Tocharian arrow was not trimmed, and the method was simple.

And Heida has long asked people about themselves layer by layer, no one has ever seen such a snake with two heads, so who else will there be? According to Heida's guess, Tianshan Mu, who was originally not a large number of people, would definitely not leave his two people behind and take the team to another place.

As soon as the people sent by Heida to move troops left, the messenger of the Khan of Ashina Desire Valley arrived, and he brought an order from Ashina Desire Valley: let Ashina Desire Valley bring all the people back.

The reason is that the main force of the Tianshan herd was found on the opposite side of the valley of the Broken Leaf River, where the khan's tooth tent was located. In order to convince Heida, Ashina Desire Valley also asked someone to bring an arrow.

This arrow was completely different from what Heida had seen before, the shaft of the arrow was less than a foot, and the wedge of the arrow was sharper than that of ordinary long arrows. And its tail feathers are not feathers, but thinly shaved but still hard, translucent - donkey skin.

In addition to the 8,000 men of Heda, there were also 10,000 troops in the Ebi Lu Army, which were controlled by the clans of Ashina Desire Valley, and the khan could not move lightly, which was his last guarantee as a khan.

Since the four hundred people of Tianshan Mu have been wiped out, why hasn't Heida returned to the army? But when it was not only so, I heard that he had led his army to the west again. Ashina Desire Valley has his own judgment, and he wants to place a group of men and horses mobilized from the rear behind Heda in case of accidents.

A khan is not something that can be done casually, and he has reason to suspect everything, including Heda, and he has temporarily drawn a contingent from each of his small tribes, each of them led by the leader of his own tribe, and has just assembled across the river from the khan's tent, and the vanguard has been drawn.

However, there was a hundred-strong squad that dragged at the end, and perhaps their patriarch thought it was safe to drag behind. They waited until all the teams had disappeared into the avenue behind the jungle, and then delayed for another hour before slowly embarking on their journey. Then there was no news of them.

When someone realized that a small group had not followed, they thought they had escaped and quietly returned to the tribe's station. It wasn't until they sent people along the road to look for them that they found them lying in the weeds, and none of them were alive.

"How many of these arrows have been found at the scene?" Heda asked.

"That's the only one I found." The person who came said, "The Khan said that the reinforcements were quickly retreating, so that they did not have time to recover this arrow, or that the Tianshan Mu had missed it in a hurry. ”

"You go back and tell the Great Khan, and I conclude that there will be no more than fifty of them, a hundred miscellaneous ...... I've said more than fifty people. ”

"Why? You know that the orders of the Great Khan cannot be disobeyed! ”

"I did not disobey, the Great Khan ordered me to destroy the Tianshan Mu, and they are in the west, they can kill our 1,200 most elite Golluqs, it is impossible for them to be three or four hundred...... That little bit to the east! Isn't the Khan's 10,000 men still capable of taking care of them? Heda ordered, "Keep going!" ”

Gao Jun took these people to the west overnight. Siqing was unconscious, and there were enemy troops behind them, so they could only go west along Lake Balkhash and find a quiet place for Siqing to treat the residual poison of the pit viper.

Siqing is not good, there is no way to fight anymore, and it is impossible for Gao Jun to leave her. Even if you have to engage the enemy as a last resort, you have to settle her first. And since Gao Jun sucked the wound for Siqing, the lower half of his face was swollen, let alone whistling, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

People hadn't eaten all night, and Gao Jun thought he was out of danger after a night of running. So in the early hours of the morning he ordered to go to the left, to lurk in the hills twenty miles away, and to light a fire in the woods there, for the fog in the woods in the early morning would hide the smoke, and the light of the fire would not be as evident as at night.

They were accompanied by a dozen horses, which were their fresh rations. But at this time, there was no time to kill the horse, so I had to cook shredded yak meat.

There was no water in the woods, let alone mountain streams, and there was not even a small patch of moss on the dry woodland. Many people were asked to fetch water from the lake on the right, but after a while, the fetcher came back on horseback with empty water bags.

As soon as they ran to the sand by the lake, they saw a sky of sand and dust rising on the eastern horizon, and a black and crushed pursuer appeared in the dust.

Master Gao ordered to collect the pot and hurry, and save a meal first. He did not let people go into the woods any more, and two hundred and sixty men rushed to the lake at once, and each man had to fill his water bag with water before he could run away.

Presumably, this was their last chance to replenish their water, and as long as Heda's brigade reached the lake, they would never be able to come near it again. People jumped off their horses by the lake, first holding the water and drinking for a while, then filling their water bags and getting on their horses, and turning to look behind them. The two sides were dozens of miles away, and for the first time, they fell into Heida's eyes.

Heida's subordinates greatly admired their main general, that wasn't who Tianshan Mu was, and he was really here! Only a few people were already waving the white flag and fleeing in the direction of Tocharo.

The uneasiness that Heida had felt about resisting Ashina's orders had disappeared, and he raised his iron rod on his horse and shouted to his men, "You can see them all, it's them, they're all here." Give me chase! caught up first, and the female captive of Tianshan Mu rewarded him as a slave! (To be continued.) )