Chapter 301: Westward Expansion

After nearly 6,000 cavalry joined the battlefield, the situation on the entire battlefield changed rapidly.

These Tuyuhun soldiers have been attacking for five days in a row, and their will to fight has dropped a lot. Originally, in the face of Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche's 1,000 remnants of the army, they could still be as imposing as a rainbow and fight smoothly, but in the face of 6,000 reinforcements like a tiger descending from the mountain, they no longer had the courage to fight.

As soon as he made contact with these reinforcements, he was charged and killed for a round before retreating. The defeat was like a mountain.

The king of the pillars was surrounded by the chieftains and the rout, and went straight to the southwest. The reinforcements rushed and killed for a while, and the horses were exhausted, so they had to give up the pursuit.

"Hehe, two Brother Xue, don't you see how your situation is?" Looking at the Xue family brothers who were sitting on the ground and covering their chests and abdomen with their hands, Zhang Yunwen turned over and dismounted and said with a smile.

When Xue Wanche heard this, he immediately scolded: "Damn Zhang Yunwen, why did you arrive so late!" Lao Tzu was besieged for five days, and he almost couldn't survive! ”

Zhang Yunwen hurriedly explained: "Brother Xue, don't blame the little brother, the little brother is wearing the stars and the moon, and he rushed over day and night!" ”

"Bullshit, the camp of Nakushan is only a hundred miles away from here, and it can be reached in one day, how can it drag on for such a long time!" Xue Wanche asked with a slight annoyance.

Seeing that Xue Wanche was a little annoyed, and there was already some anger in his words, Zhang Yunwen said with a straight face: "Brother Xue, I'm not here from the Kushan camp!" After you were sent out, the chief steward led us all the way north, and fought with more than 20,000 Tuyuhun people nearly two hundred miles from Liku Mountain! As soon as we finished fighting, we had to rest and recuperate, and the news came that you were surrounded, and we rushed here day and night! ”

Hearing Zhang Yunwen say this, Xue Wanche was dumbfounded.

Seeing this, Zhang Yunwen hurriedly beckoned two soldiers to come over and carried the two of them back to the Chishui camp.

"Wait!" Xue Wanche glanced at the soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield not far away, and asked Zhang Yunwen in a low voice, "Yunwen, these soldiers seem to be Turks, right?" ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded and glanced in the direction of Qi Bi He Li, who was directing the soldiers to carry the corpse: "Among the five thousand five hundred people who came here to reinforce, five thousand are General Qibi's subordinates, and the rest are my soldiers!" ”

Xue Wanche listened, and immediately nodded thoughtfully.

Zhang Yunwen saw Xue Wanche's expression, and suddenly remembered that in history, after Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche broke through Tuguhun, Li Shimin sent the envoy Lao Jun to snatch the credit of Qi He Li at the celebration banquet, and provoked Qi He Li to draw his sword against him. Immediately I took it to heart and paid close attention to it.

After sending the Xue brothers back to the camp, Zhang Yunwen came to Qibi He Li to check the situation on the battlefield.

As soon as he arrived at Qibi He Li's side, this heroic Turkic man greeted him warmly: "Oh, Yunwen, come and see, the harvest of this battle is not small!" ”

Zhang Yunwen saw three piles of loot in front of him. The most are weapons, scimitars, straight swords, spears and axes, and they are piled up into a small mountain. Next to the pile of weapons, there were piles of leather armor and saddles, and they were also piled up. The last small pile is the property found by the soldiers on the Tuyuhun people who died in battle, gold, silver, jewelry and coins, among the coins, many of them are Zhenguan big coins of the Tang Dynasty, and there are many copper coins minted by the former Sui.

"Hehe, the harvest is really good! By the way, has the death toll been counted? Zhang Yunwen laughed twice and asked Qi Qi He Li.

Qi Qi He Li shook his head and pointed to the soldier who was carrying the corpse: "Well, I'm still busy!" ”

Zhang Yunwen smiled and said, "I'll find someone to register these things!" ”

After resting on the Chisui Plain for three days, the battle losses came out on the second day. In this battle, more than 6,300 enemy prisoners were killed, and more than 4,400 were lost by our own side, which can be said to be the largest loss since the beginning of the war. In this way, the Xue family brothers were depressed.

During the three days, Zhang Yunwen also learned something about this place. This Chishui Yuan is located east of the Dafei River, where the river meanders and the precipitation is abundant, and it is a natural grassland. When looking west at Dafeichuan, a hint of gloom flashed in Zhang Yunwen's heart. In history, there was a battle in Dafeichuan that decided the Tang Dynasty's control of Longyou and the Western Regions. In this battle, Xue Rengui led 200,000 elite soldiers of Longyou were defeated by Tubo, and from then on, the western door of the Tang Dynasty was opened, and the four towns of Longyou and Anxi began to be harassed by it. In the end, it finally fell into the sphere of influence of Tibet. This battle can be said to be a defeat and a complete loss in the northwest.

And now, Zhang Yunwen is in Datang, how can he let such a thing happen again?

"Oh, Brother Xue, you are seriously injured, how can you move around like this!" Seeing that after the two brothers Xue Wanjun were resting in bed for two days, they covered their wounds with the bandages provided by Zhang Yunwen and began to walk around the camp, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but say.

Xue Wanjun waved his hand: "It's not in the way, our brothers grew up in the military camp since childhood, and they haven't suffered any knife wounds and arrow wounds, this little injury is not in the way!" ”

Xue Wanche on the side also smiled: "We are manly husbands, and I am afraid that this little injury will not work!" ”

Zhang Yunwen had no choice but to let these two go.

After resting for three days, just as everyone was discussing and setting off for the north, the scout came to report that Li Jing was coming here. Everyone had no choice but to continue to stay in the camp and wait for Li Jing to arrive.

After Li Jing led an army of 6,000 troops to be stationed in this camp, he immediately summoned all the generals and said to them: "Everyone, the old man has received information the day before yesterday, Li Daliang and General Manager Li defeated Tuyuhun in Shuhun Mountain, beheaded more than 10,000 people, and captured 5,000 enemies. As for the Southern Route Army, although there is no news for the time being, but now the vast area east and south of the West Sea is occupied by our army, so the old man decided that the army will march westward and enter Fuqi City to quickly annihilate the remnants of Tuyuhun! What a force! At the end, Li Jing began to order.

"The last general!" Qi Qi He replied confidently. looked at the Xue family brothers next to him for a while.

"Let you lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters as the vanguard and march west along the Dafei Sichuan!"

"Zhang Yunwen!"

"The last general!" Hearing his name, Zhang Yunwen was slightly surprised, he only had a few hundred subordinates, did he have to go all the way?

"You stay in the army and pass with the old man! Liaison with all ministries is up to you! ”

Hearing this task, Zhang Yunwen breathed a sigh of relief.

Then Li Jing successively assigned other generals, but most of them acted with Li Jing. Finally, when Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche arrived, Li Jing said: "If the two of you are injured, the old man will not assign you a task!" Take good care of your injuries, you have to lead the army to fight, there are many opportunities! ”

The two of them were about to open their mouths to ask, but when they heard Li Jing's words, they couldn't help but stop.

After the assignment was completed, Li Jing lowered his head and looked at the map on the desktop.

Seeing this, all the generals stood up and said, "The last general will leave!" ”

Li Jing nodded, but said in his mouth: "Disperse!" By the way, Yunwen, you stay, and the old man will talk to you about this contact! ”

Zhang Yunwen suddenly stopped and returned to his position.

"Yunwen, the old man of your reconnaissance battalion has transferred back more than 500 people, you have to help the old man do a good job of contacting!" Li Jing said with a smile.

Zhang Yunwen said confidently: "Please rest assured, the last general went out this time and brought more than ten carrier pigeons, four on the south road, and the rest of the departments also have it, and this communication will be done well!" ”

However, Li Jing smiled embarrassedly: "Ahem, Yunwen, this is what the old man wants to tell you!" A few days ago, when the army was short of food, several of the old man's own soldiers were concerned when they saw that the old man was old, so they stewed the five pigeons you left in the camp and served them to the old man......

Zhang Yunwen: "......"