There was a great chaos in the rear of the Long family's army, although Zhang Sheng's team of 3,000 people was too small compared to the number of the Longjia army, but it couldn't stand it At this time, Long Yi had already transferred all the main force and elite to charge, and the rear army basically except for some defensive soldiers left, not at all the opponents of these former Tang Kou, and the people who were killed turned on their backs. Zhang Sheng quickly expanded the results of the battle with this unrivaled momentum, driving the defeated troops of the rear army to the front to attack the Chinese army of the Long Family. These people have long not needed to practice this kind of tactic, and they have long engraved their fighting instincts in their bones after more than ten years of fighting, and they can do it without even thinking about how to expand the results on the battlefield.

It is said that the Long family army only has 30,000 people, and Long Yi found out about the chaos of the rear army at the first time, but before he adjusted his deployment, there was already an enemy situation on his left flank, and at some point a large number of Tiance army troops appeared on his left flank, and these crowds of people who charged and shot while holding rifles knocked their cavalry placed on the left flank to the ground almost instantly. The sudden appearance of these people almost made Long Yi feel guilty, he had no way to draw troops to encircle him at this time, he had been surrounded by the other party on three sides, and there was only one road left in the western desert that had not yet appeared in the hostile situation.

"Retreat, give me a retreat to the western desert." Long Yi was in a hurry, and he didn't care whether the other party had adopted the tactics of encircling three or one, so he treated people directly and retreated to the only direction in the west where there was no enemy, preparing to withdraw to the jurisdiction of the Guiyi Army in advance, and then return to Suzhou first. Although the relationship between the Guiyi Army and the Long family has not been as good as before over the years, at least they will not rashly attack their own ideas.

Long Yi's actions naturally fell in Shi Jian's eyes, but he didn't have any intention of blocking this, but directly let the Modao battalion fight back on all fronts, preparing to let go of the opponent's vanguard and leave all the follow-up brigades behind.

In fact, Shi Jian's approach is very correct, when the troops are not enough to be surrounded on all sides, let them escape a small part, and concentrate on encircling and suppressing the main force that has been surrounded by himself is the best way. As a result, Long Yi's troops also lost most of their strength in this battle. After this melee was left behind by Long Yi, he suddenly found that there were less than 3,000 people who escaped with him, which almost made this rising star of the Long family fall to the ground. I haven't even discovered the true identity of the other party until now, and the whole army collapsed, how can I explain to the head of the family when I go back? Could it be the Tiance Army? Damn the Uighurs, why didn't you report that the Tiance army had arrived in our Suzhou?

In fact, Long Yi really misunderstood the Uighurs this time. After being defeated outside the Tiger Hill Pass, facing the danger of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, the Uighur leader Pang Teqin on the one hand gathered as many young and middle-aged people of his own tribe as possible to join the army, and on the other hand, he recruited the three tribes of the Longjia and the steppe to go south to support, and was unable to detect the specific movements of the Tiance army. And even if he had this ability, he couldn't do it anymore, when the main force of Wan Yi's army drove to the city of Ganzhou, Shi Jian's traces were actually covered by the main force. If the Uighurs knew that the Long army had been ambushed before they left Suzhou, they would probably have despised this group of native buns, and they would not have known to do a good job of pre-war reconnaissance.

In fact, this can't be all blamed on Long Yi, as a leader of the younger generation, Long Yi has also experienced the battlefield wolf, but this time it is within his control, he didn't expect that the Tiance army would be able to divide troops to attack him while confronting the Uighurs on the Ganzhou front, so although Long Yi had already guessed that he was ambushed by the Tiance army after calming down, but he was puzzled by the deployment of the other party, could it be that the Tiance army's strength was rich enough to support a two-front battle?

With these doubts, Long Yi went to the city controlled by the Guiyi Army, and the easternmost Brownstone Town was temporarily rested, and naturally the news of the defeat of the Long Family Army was quickly sent to the base camp of the Guiyi Army in Guazhou. At this time, the Jiedu envoy of the Guiyi Army had been controlled by Zhang Yichao, and Zhang Chaofeng killed Suo Xun with the assistance of Zhang Yichao's descendants and regained the power of the Guiyi Army. Originally, the Uighur letter sent by the Long family to Guazhou asking for help was naturally known to Zhang Chaofeng. It's just that he has just taken over the power and hasn't finished cleaning up the remnants of Suo Xun, so he hasn't done anything about it. However, the news of the defeat of the Long family army still surprised him, and while summoning his henchmen and generals to discuss the matter, he sent someone to Brownstone Town to pick up Long Yi, preparing to ask him in person. As a result, the rebel army was quickly drawn into the whirlpool of unification of the northwest after a short period of calm.

At this time, Shi Jian, who was outside the Yumen Pass, naturally didn't know that Long Yi, who let him go, would cause such a big movement. After strangling the remaining resistance forces of the Long Family Army, Shi Jian and Zhang Shengbing split into two routes, one of which was Zhang Sheng's own responsibility, mainly to continue to monitor the movements of Suzhou, and harass the follow-up troops of the Long Family Army when necessary, and not let them rush to the aid of Ganzhou. And he himself led his troops to attack Ganzhou in the starry night and support Wan Yi's main force. As for the captured captives, Shi Jian and Zhang Sheng were released directly after summing up, and after these people returned, they might be able to play a role in disturbing the enemy's morale. Wan Yi on the Ganzhou front line naturally didn't know that Shi Jian had won the battle near Yumen Pass, and he didn't know that the Guiyi Army had eased up and began to pay attention to himself. However, even if they knew about Wan Yi, they would not care, because by this time the cavalry of the three tribes had already arrived in Ganzhou, and even the Uighurs had sent most of them to join them after learning of the arrival of reinforcements, and discussed how to take Wan Yi's Western Expeditionary Army.

However, the Uighurs were originally reluctant to leave the city, and even according to Pang Teqin's plan, they led the main force of the Uighur army to defend the city to attract the Tiance army to divide their forces to attack the city, and the Tatars were responsible for attacking the main position of the Tiance army, so that Wan Yi could take care of one thing and lose the other, and achieve the goal of the first battle. Since ancient times, the Central Dynasty has conquered the northwest, and its troops have never been many because of the limitations of logistics conditions, and it can be said that Wan Yi was able to lead more than 100,000 troops to the expedition this time, which has opened a precedent for a large-scale march into the Western Regions. These Uighurs naturally knew about it, so in his opinion, as long as the main force of Wan Yi's troops was defeated, then the Tang Dynasty would have no power to interfere with the Western Regions for the time being.

It's just that the three tribes of Datar will not coexist peacefully, and the three tribes are happy to fight for leadership, and they all want to get the leadership so as to drive each other to gnaw bones in the battle, and then enjoy the benefits of the fisherman. In this way, the Uighurs' wishful thinking was completely frustrated. However, it has to be said that this generation of Ganzhou Uighur Pang Teqin was indeed talented, and it took several days to persuade these Tatar leaders to use the main force of their own troops as the central army, and he was responsible for commanding the entire coalition army to attack the Tiance army. The ancient city of Ganzhou left some men and horses behind to prepare to cooperate with the upcoming Longjia army, so his plan was realized. Because soon after the Long family decided to send troops, they sent him a letter in an urgent manner and asked him to be responsible for answering it.

It can be said that under the sufficient strength base of the coalition army, Pang Teqin's arrangement can be said to be comprehensive, and after failing to reasonably arrange the dominance of the coalition army to the three tribes of Datar, he simply drove his main forces out of the city, so that he could rely on his home advantage and strength advantage to subdue the other three tribes during the field battle, so as to form the main corps to fight against the Tiance army. And his own nest was handed over to the Long family to be responsible.

According to Pang Teqin's arrangement, the Uighur and Datar coalition forces quickly adjusted their formation, and formed a half-moon-shaped encirclement in front of the position of the Tiance army, and according to Pang Teqin's arrangement, there were strong cavalry groups on both flanks, which could completely encircle the Tiance army at any time.

In the face of Pang Teqin's arrangement, Wan Yi only hid Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion on the left flank of the army, and arranged all the more than 90 artillery pieces of the artillery battalion in the position of the frontal corps, so that the strongest firepower of the Western Expedition Group Army would be gathered before the three main positions of the front line corps in the zigzag. Wan Yi saw the minds of the Tatars very clearly, and as long as the Uighurs' battle formation collapsed, they would not joke with the names of their own people. Therefore, for Wan Yi, no matter how many men and horses the opponent has, as long as he keeps an eye on the Uighurs.

It's just that after the coaches of both sides arranged all this, the eyes of both sides invariably stared at the ancient city of Ganzhou. Pang Teqin was worried about why the Long Jiajun did not arrive in Ganzhou within the agreed time, because according to the date of the letter sent by the other party before, the Long Jiajun should have arrived in Ganzhou today and tomorrow, but why was there no news at this time? Could it be that Cheng Long's family regretted it? As for whether the Long family will defect to the Tiance Army, Pang Teqin is not at all worried, but his neighbor is not even willing to return to the righteous army, let alone the Tang Dynasty in the east? Who wouldn't want to be the emperor of the soil?

However, at this time, Wan Yi was worried about whether the Flying Eagle Brigade in the city could open the city gate on time, if there was an accident at this pass, then according to the firepower of the siege troops at this time, it would be impossible to break through the city defense, and the Tiance army of more than 10,000 people would have almost no hope of winning if they wanted to open the defenders of the enemy at least twice as much.

Chief of Staff Liu Xuan was still adjusting the deployment of the position, and Zhao Si, who was beside Wan Yi, came over and said: "Commander, please rest assured, since the Flying Eagle Brigade can put forward this plan, it will definitely be able to open the city gate, and I have already sent the deployment map marking the defenders in the opponent's city to the 75th Battalion of the siege force, I believe there will be no problem, and he also has a backup plan on his side." ”

"Forget it, leave him alone, at least today to defeat the Uighur coalition." Wan Yi also knew that any pre-war plan would change, so he didn't force it, so he stood up and came to the artillery battalion position, which was a dirt mountain built by the Tiance Army itself, which was enough to ensure the shooting angle and sight range. At this time, the Uighur coalition forces on the opposite side had already begun to line up. Zhao Si was a little strange and said: "Dashuai, it stands to reason that Pang Teqin can hook up so many allies in a short period of time, why don't you wait until the arrival of the Long Family Army to get together?" Could it be that something went wrong? ”

Wan Yi shook his head, because the messenger from Shi Jian's side had not yet arrived, so although he had guesses, he did not have accurate information, but according to Wan Yi's understanding, he was afraid that it might not be Pang Teqin who discovered the situation in the west, so he only muttered: "I'm afraid it is caused by the coercion of the Tartars." The Uighurs and the Tatars were already at odds, and the price to be able to fight together this time was not small, but there was no absolute strength and prestige on the battlefield, and the Tatars might not be able to buy him wholeheartedly. ”

In fact, Wan Yi guessed well, the Tatars saw that the Tiance army was waiting for the battle, so they thought about sending an army to test the strength of the Tiance army, although the Uighurs and the Tiance army fought a battle, but because the western Tatars did not participate in the war when Chen Fanbei conquered Huangjiasi before, so they did not know much about the combat power of the Tiance army. At this time, it is actually normal to want to test the water, but Pang Teqin is unwilling to consume the troops in his hands at this time, especially although this kind of thing can test the strength of the other party, but the Uighurs who have fought a battle with the Tiance army understand very well that it is basically useless, and Wan Yi's army of more than 100,000 is enough to destroy the small number of soldiers and horses he sent out at the first time, so it is not so much a temptation as to send him to death. If it was in peacetime, he would be happy to send the Tatars to death, but at this time, it was a coalition battle, especially since his own side had little room for struggle, and this battle must be won, otherwise the Uighurs were afraid that all of them would be wiped out by the Tiance army, so they did not hesitate to refuse the Tatars' request.

The problem is that he has refused to do anything about the Tatars, and he is about to fight a decisive battle, and he has not yet figured out what the opponent's combat strength is, so how should the next battle begin? Therefore, in the face of the words questioned by the leaders of the three major tribes, Pang Teqin couldn't explain, he couldn't say that he couldn't afford to lose this battle, right? This was tantamount to recruiting a strong opponent for the Uighurs again, so in desperation, Pang Teqin could only prepare for war, and advance the official war to suppress the doubts of the three major tribes.

However, it is obvious that at this time, Pang Teqin chose to start the war, but Wan Yi no longer had the intention to care about the situation on the side of the siege troops, after Tie Liang took the 20,000 heavy armored cavalry of the heavy cavalry battalion to hide and prepare to charge, he was the only one to command the entire army, and Liu Xuan was already on the front line at this time to coordinate the three main positions. Therefore, after seeing the opponent's formation, Wan Yi almost without thinking began to order the troops to be on alert and ready to fight at any time, and the artillery of the artillery battalion had all been debugged, except for the twenty artillery pieces that took care of the two wings, the main force was all concentrated on the front. Wan Yi expected that if the Uighurs did not take the initiative to attack, the Tatars would never move, because only the Uighurs and the Tiance army had faced each other head-on among their coalition forces, and this point would never have been explained if Pang Teqin did not take the initiative.

In fact, it was also true that, under heavy pressure, Pang Teqin commanded the center of his main Uighur army and the small number of troops of the Datan army to form a formation of 130,000 troops, and simply used all his strength after being unable to get the Tatars to come out. Sure enough, after all the Uighurs concentrated their 100,000 men and horses, the command of the entire coalition army began to be coordinated. The Tatars are still somewhat self-aware.

The two armies faced each other on the desert, and a big war was about to break out. Just when Shi Jian led his troops to gallop towards the Ganzhou fast horse, in the middle of May of the third year of the Apocalypse, the war outside Ganzhou City was finally ignited.