The Tang army sent a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses to the west, including 50,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry. It is worth mentioning that although the 50,000 infantry were called infantry, each of them was given a horse for the soldiers to temporarily adjust to cavalry combat in ordinary times or in battle.

Although the riding skills of these infantry are not as superb as the professional cavalry, they are also specially trained, and the whole people of the Tang Dynasty are martial, good at riding and shooting, and they will work hard in a few strokes one by one, so the gap between the cavalry and the infantry is only in the team formation drill, and the gap between everyone is not very big.

Moreover, since the Beiting Protectorate was incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the problem of war horses has been effectively solved. The imperial court, as well as traders from all over the country, came to the Beiting Prefecture to buy and sell good horses, which not only boosted the local economy, but also promoted the development of cavalry. At least for now, the army does not have to worry about sycophancy.

Not to mention anything else, but to say that of the 50,000 cavalry who went out this time, each of them was equipped with three war horses, including one war horse of the infantry, horses for transporting soldiers, and horses for transporting equipment, grain and grass, and the total number of zero and zero was 250,000 horses into battle.

This is a very terrible number, the number of war horses alone can scare many small countries to death, not to mention that this is only a part of the Tang Army's forces, if you count all the troops in the country, the number of horses equipped with it definitely exceeds one million.

In fact, having said so much, it is nothing more than to show that the Tang Army's current military strength is strong, even if it does not rely on firearms, it is definitely the world's leading boss.

And now, it is the time to reflect the speed of Datang!

The geographical environment of the Western Turks is very simple, so simple that there are no mountains, forests and rivers in the whole country, only barren rocks everywhere. If you put it bluntly, it can be seen as a plain.

The Tang army was divided into four directions, each with 10,000 cavalry, and went to destroy the oasis. The remaining 60,000 men, of which 45,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry remained in the fortified camp of the oasis, and the other 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry, a total of 10,000, were responsible for escorting food and grass supplies.

Yu'er and Wu'er followed the detachment to the west to the three oases they passed by, where they were to set up an ambush to leave a way out for the army to encounter adverse situations in the future.

Chen Fei and Cheng Yanjin sat in the Chinese army, waiting for news from various armies.

The speed of the Tang army's march along the way was indeed very fierce, in just three days, the Tang army had destroyed five oases, you know, there are only more than 20 oases in the Western Turks, which is the foundation of the survival of the Western Turks, but I didn't expect to be destroyed by the Tang Army by a quarter, which made the Western Turks suddenly red-eyed.

They knew that the chances of winning a frontal battle against the Tang army were not great, and even if they won, it would be a disastrous victory, so they simply avoided fighting, at most they sent a small force to harass the Tang army, and a large-scale encounter was absolutely unaffordable.

I thought that the Tang army would retreat in the face of difficulties, but I didn't expect this group of Tang troops to be so insidious and actually want to burn down their oasis!

The loss of the oasis is equivalent to the loss of their homeland, hundreds of thousands of Western Turks will be displaced and become wandering refugees, and the Western Turks will also be equivalent to existing in name only, which they absolutely cannot tolerate!

The so-called rabbit will bite people when it is urgent, not to mention a big country like the Western Turks, whose combat strength is not weak.

On the fifth day of the Tang army's operation, seven oases had been destroyed, and the other four were in the hands of the Tang army. The Western Turks couldn't sit still, they couldn't tolerate the Tang Army doing such a thing right under their noses.

On the sixth day, the 150,000 Western Turkic army was assembled, and for the sake of their homeland and survival, they would fight to the death with the Tang army!

On the seventh day, 150,000 Western Turks encountered 10,000 Tang troops moving north, and a round of long-range cavalry fire broke out between the two sides, and the Tang army began to retreat after more than a dozen casualties.

The generals of the Tang Army who led this army were very wise, although they carried firearms, but firearms were not of much use in such a high-speed engagement, not to mention that the enemy was more than ten times their own, and if they did not retreat quickly, then what was waiting for them would definitely be the destruction of the entire army.

Fortunately, the Tang Army's war horses were excellent, and one person carried three war horses, and the war horses could be changed in turn during the long-distance run, and the Western Turks had no way to catch up.

It should be said that the Western Turks were also a big country back then, but since they lost the grazing rights of the steppe, their horse breeding industry has also been in a slump, and there are few high-quality war horses in the army, and there are many old, weak, sick and disabled.

If a country built on a desert is built on a desert, where does the grassland come from for them to raise horses? 150,000 Western Turkic soldiers, with an average of only 1.5 war horses, the Tang army was not only three times as numerous as them, but the horse's physical strength and endurance were even more than a few streets away, so they quickly got rid of the pursuit of the Western Turkic soldiers, and smoothly transmitted the information to various armies.

After receiving the news, the Tang army began to gather its army, and the 100,000-strong army assembled in the oasis, and at the same time, the Western Turkic army also came to a place ten miles outside the oasis, camped and adjusted, and the two armies looked at each other from afar.

Both sides know that the final decisive battle is coming, and in the next battle, one side will win, and one side will fall, and the war will be bloody!

The arrival of 150,000 Western Turks also put a lot of pressure on the Tang soldiers, who knew that the Western Turks were strong and did not despise this enemy from the beginning, and now that such a large-scale decisive battle was about to break out in the front, and the Tang soldiers were inevitably nervous. Everyone is afraid of death, this is a normal performance, but I don't know which side will have the last laugh in the end.

Counting up, the Tang army is well-armed, and the overall quality of the soldiers is high, but the number of Western Turkic soldiers is more than half, and this is their main battlefield, so it is really hard to say who wins and who loses, and the two sides have half of the chances, and this battle will be a real hard battle!

What made the Tang army strange was that after the Western Turks came to camp ten miles away, there was no movement for three consecutive days, and it seemed that they were ...... Are they in no hurry again?

What's the situation? Could it be that because they don't destroy their oasis, they are not in a hurry again?

The Western Turks did not attack, and the Tang army did not dare to act rashly, so it was a stalemate for another day, and many generals in the army could not bear it anymore and asked for battle to attack.

Considering the mood of the generals and soldiers in the army, Cheng Yanjin agreed to the generals' request, but this time he also learned from Chen Fei and began to play yin, setting the time for the attack to be three watches in the middle of the night.

And this time they plan to play a big one, except for leaving 10,000 people to take care of the supplies, the other 90,000 people are all attacking, Cheng Yanjin plans to rely on night raids and firearms to determine the winner in one game!

On the day of the third watch, 90,000 soldiers were prepared, and all of them went into battle lightly, carrying two days' worth of dry rations, certain gunpowder weapons, and rode straight to the Western Turkic camp!

War is on the verge of breaking out! ()

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