"General, the Samanids are coming." When Xuan Yingwei's urgent information arrived at Broken Leaf City, Li Feixue's side was planning to attack Qarlu, as the salient of the Northern Frontier Corps of the Western Expeditionary Army, although Broken Leaf City was located in the south of Yibohai and was not on the same line as Zaisangbo where Gongyue City was located, but the two gathering places of Gelulu were basically the huge grasslands near the two big lakes of Yibohai and Zaisangbo. Therefore, after Li Feixue received Wan Yi's headquarters and directly subordinate corps to the north one after another, he immediately began to mobilize troops and horses, and at the same time notified Xuan Yingwei to summarize all the information of Ge Lulu and send it over. It's just that sometimes the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes, Li Feixue's confidence and preparation to fight with Qarluq with all his hopes were shattered by this urgent information, and the Qarluq people didn't come, but the Samanids came by themselves. And judging from the intelligence, the Samanid have arrived in Kulan City, west of Shattered Leaf City. That is to say, during this time, the Samanids were in a state of absolute secrecy, at least until they arrived in Genross. There is only one reason why they can hide the eyeliner and the layers of blockade of the dark guards arranged by the Xuanying Guard in the northwest, that is, this group of soldiers and horses had secretly arrived in Genross before the winter last year, and then evaded the detection of the Xuanying Guard under the cover of the winter climate and heavy snow and quietly appeared to the west of them. Thinking of this, Li Feixue's eyebrows were furrowed, he is not the kind of reckless person, he can sit in the position of the central garrison battalion for so many years, although he looks bluffing, but his heart is extremely delicate, if the Samanid people secretly infiltrated Genross before winter, there is only one reason, that is, the Samanid people were originally preparing to attack Shattered Leaf City or the Tiance Army before winter, and the reason why they lurked later was only afraid that there were other conspiracies besides the weather.

"Tonghuan, immediately send a message to the headquarters, asking the commander to quickly send the Uighur corps north to join our army, and at the same time send this information to the command headquarters, saying that our army is ready to take the initiative to completely defeat the attack of the invading Samanids, and create a stable western environment for our corps to advance north to exterminate Qarluq." Li Feixue said as he said that the copper ring next to him quickly took the record, "Then I told the marshal, and said that the Samanid people were only afraid that it would not just appear suddenly, and asked Xuan Yingwei to find out the reason immediately, and I was afraid that there was a bigger conspiracy in it." ”

"Then he ordered the whole army of the guard battalion to immediately pull out the camp and set off, and we went out of the city to meet the battle." Li Feixue stared at the huge military topographical map around Shattered Leaf City in front of him and smiled coldly, the 50,000 field troops of the Guards Battalion as the central garrison force were enough to stop any enemy here, and if the Uighur army of Hammad could even arrive, then he dared to guarantee that this time it would definitely make the Samanid repeat the same mistake again, and the whole army would be lost in Broken Leaf City. The out-of-town positions of Broken Leaf City have almost all been excavated in the winter when the guard battalion was stationed, and countless trenches from north to west almost fan-shaped the entire Broken Leaf City surrounded it, so after Li Feixue gave an order, the guard battalions that were originally scattered around the inner river of Broken Leaf City immediately concentrated the whole army into the trenches, and the artillery units attached to the guard battalion also immediately pushed all the artillery and mechanical crossbows that had been hidden for a winter onto the preset position, although ordinary soldiers did not know what was happening, But this state of imminent state of arrangement still let everyone smell a hint of the coming of war, those grassroots officers and veterans did not agree with the excitement and nervousness of the recruits, one by one the old gods are making pre-war preparations, either in which position to dig again east and west or with their own men began to check whether there is anything wrong with the minefield arrangement of the front position. Due to the fact that the guards of Broken Leaf City had been stationed for a winter, after Li Feixue had solved most of the food problems from the tribes, the logistics department had brought them a large number of mines with sufficient transportation capacity. Originally, according to the opinion of the command of the Western Expeditionary Army, this kind of defensive weapon is similar to mines, but now the Western Expeditionary Army has very little use on the side, but it can't stand Li Feixue has a soft spot for this kind of weapon that cannot be defended at all, and in his opinion, under the pre-arranged minefield, it is enough for the cavalry charge to resist the first wave of impact, and the use is very obvious for the current field warfare, so only the personal guard battalion of the entire Western Expeditionary Army has a large number of such weapons in the hands. So immediately after the order was given, the front-line troops took out countless mines from the warehouses and began to lay them in pre-dug pits. Obviously, Tonghuan was affected by Li Feixue, and he was also very interested in such things as mines, and even took the time to come over and take a look, which in his opinion was enough to offset the first wave of large-scale cavalry impact and win enough time for the infantry brigade to counterattack.

"According to the calculation of time, at this time, the army of the Samanid people should have crossed Kulan City, you see, the distance from Kulan City to Broken Leaf City is about 800 miles, and the distance that our reconnaissance team can go out is only 300 miles, otherwise the news that comes back will not have much meaning because of the time limit, so according to my estimate, at most five days, our reconnaissance team will be able to detect the traces of the other party in this area. Although Xuan Yingwei's intelligence did not specify how many people there were, judging by the last time the Uighurs fought them, their strength would not have exceeded 100,000. After Li Feixue arranged for Tonghuan to check the preparation situation, he immediately summoned several commanders of the pro-guard battalion to begin to explain in detail his own plans for this battle, "Because of some unknown factors at present, it is very likely that this Samanid army is not acting alone, but cooperating with or cooperating with other forces, so we can't delay here, we must annihilate the other party as soon as possible, so as to be able to free up enough troops to deal with their next move." Li Feixue drew a line on the map with his hand and said: "Come and see, if the other party's troops and horses are just suspicious soldiers, and the real main force is rushing thousands of miles from Genros or other places to attack Shule, then how should our army respond?" At present, the main force of our Western Expeditionary Army has been going north one after another, and the deputy commander has also led his troops to the south, and Shule, the logistics base of our Western Expeditionary Army, is actually an empty city. Li Feixue's words shocked everyone present, if Shule was attacked by the other party, the consequences would be unimaginable, and even if the opponent's tactics were well grasped, he could even fight back from Shule before his own reinforcements went south, or freely grasp the location on his way back to ambush, which would inevitably be directly dragged to a dangerous situation by the other party.

In fact, Li Feixue's assumption was right, because after he couldn't figure out who this Samanid army was cooperating with, he directly assumed that the other party had another army and horses, and they were still waiting to attack Shule without being detected by themselves. Therefore, he made up his mind to do everything in his power to fight a quick battle, and as long as this partial army was defeated, he and the Uighur army would be able to attack in a combined attack from both the north and the south, and contain the enemy who was preparing to attack Shule in the north and south.

However, when Li Feixue's urgent news reached Wan Yi who was on the march, Wan Yi came to the opposite conclusion of him, and handed this urgent news with Xuanyingwei's intelligence to Liu Xuan and said: "The chief of staff immediately ordered Hammud near Dundo City to lead his headquarters to the northwest to Broken Leaf City to join Li Feixue with the Samanids, and also told Li Feixue that the idea of the Samanids was not in Shule but in Qarlu. It's a pity that Ge Lulu's thoughts were directly destroyed by Xiaohu's Flying Eagle Brigade's chaotic punches, so the Samanid people would have the idea of sneaking up on Broken Leaves, and asked him to be sure to annihilate all the enemies who came to me for me. ”

Liu Xuan's urgent report found Hammud, who was originally going to go north to join the Seventh Corps near the Ili River in Dundo City, and asked him to immediately lead his troops north to Shattered Leaf City, and it was different from Li Feixue. After receiving Wan Yi's reminder, he immediately understood that the Samanid people at this time were a lone army, and even the Samanid themselves estimated that they did not know that the Qarluqs at this time were in a leaderless situation because the Khan King was killed by the Flying Eagle Brigade, so they could not complete the purpose of reaching a two-front attack on the Tiance army with the Samanids. Therefore, Hammud immediately ordered the entire Uighur corps to immediately reroute to the northwest, and in order to pursue the speed of the march, he threw all the logistics baggage and artillery and other heavy weapons to the capital in charge of the rear of the palace, and led the main force of four battalions to rush towards Shattered Leaf City. As the Uighur corps composed of the Uighurs, the speed of the horseback people's march was desperate, and the general troops could not catch up at all, and the distance from Dundo City to Broken Leaf was almost not inferior to the distance from the Samanids from Genros to Broken Leaf, but Hammud stubbornly saw the walls of Broken Leaf City on the 23rd day of April in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, that is, in only six days, and rushed to meet Li Feixue in front of the Samanids.

"Haha, old ha, your speed is not inferior to my personal guard battalion." Li Feixue gave Hammoud a big bear hug without any surprise, and self-righteously gave the other party a nickname, and said with a smile: "Our reconnaissance detachment reports that the Samanids will be able to reach Broken Leaf by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, and as expected, the other party has nearly 100,000 cavalry, and there are also a large number of logistics personnel and livestock, this posture does not look like a fight and leave." ”

"The marshal said that the Samanid people originally planned to cooperate with the Qarluqs to attack us in separate ways, and they should have cooperated with the Qarluqs to send troops along the way, but the current situation is that the Han king of Qarluq was directly killed by the Flying Eagle Brigade, and the result is that the Qarluqs are fighting for the Khan throne throughout the winter, and the internal division has also begun, I think at this time, the Gongyue City side must be more lively than your side." Hammud spread his hand and told Li Feixue the instructions from Wan Yi's side: "The current situation is that eighty percent of the Samanids don't know the current situation of the Qarluqs at all, after all, our Xuanyingwei are blocked by the heavy snow and can't detect them before they hide in Genross, and it is normal for them to not know about the changes in Qarluq further north. Hammad's words made Li Feixue suddenly realize, and said with a smile: "I thought that the Samanid people wanted to sneak attack Shule, which made me nervous for several days. ”

"Sneak attack on Shule?" Hammoud asked Deying to lead the army to follow Tonghuan to the barracks to rest temporarily, and he and Li Feixue nodded while walking to the position outside the camp: "Feixue, your idea is not bad, if it were me, I would definitely not divide the army with the Qarluqs to attack our army's idea, and I will definitely follow your idea to let the Qarluqs be responsible for dragging the main force of our army in the north, and then this Samanid army will quickly attack Shule before we react, and then completely destroy the logistics base of our army, Then, while our army was returning to help, he set up an ambush and attacked again on the way, gathering and annihilating most of our army or the forward in the movement, and then not only cooperated with the Qarluq on the northern front, but also played a practical role in weakening and annihilating our army. ”

"Fortunately, you are now my colleague, otherwise I would have personally led the army to destroy you, it would be too dangerous." Li Feixue's face was not good-looking when he said it, and it could be seen that Hammud was a veteran general who could fight habitually, and the most important thing was that Hammud was still a Uighur.

"Don't worry about it, okay? Since the commander was able to guess the collusion between the Samanids and the Qarluqs in an instant, do you think our commander and command would not know the importance of Shule? Do you know where the regiment under the command headquarters marched when the commander informed me? Hammoud shook his head, during this time he also knew that the guy in front of him who looked big and grinning was actually very delicate in his heart, so he continued while dispelling Li Feixue's doubts: "Although the Uighurs used to fight against the Tang Dynasty, we are now a family, you can't bully my brothers. ”

"Gotta get it, can't I be wrong? I'm cheap. You see that I still miss you very much, and the first thing that comes to my mind when I have the opportunity to annihilate the Samanids is your brother, how about it, my brother did the right thing, it's still interesting enough. Li Feixue grabbed Hammoud's cloak and smiled: "In order to show my sincerity, I plan to invite you to drink at night, okay?" Tell you, this is the wine brewed by the queen mother herself, and I didn't even want to give it to the handsome, how about giving it to you now to make amends? ”

"I'll go, Queen? Didn't you kid say it earlier, take it out quickly, what kind of crime are you making? Drink it first, and the Samanid won't arrive until tomorrow anyway. As soon as Hammoud heard this, the wine brewed by the queen's mother suddenly couldn't sit still, and he didn't even remember what he said just now, so he pulled Li Feixue and walked back directly, without even looking at the position, and Tang Yan in his mouth was even more neat than Li Feixue.

"No, isn't it, isn't it? I said, Lao Ha, are you going to do this exercise? "After Li Feixue was brought to the big tent by Hamuda, he immediately let the copper ring, who was the chief of staff, prepare wine and food. This scene made Li Feixue and Li Xuanqing learn new words one after another, "I told you that I only had the last three bottles, didn't you see me take all the way from Chang'an to here?" Don't drink it all for me. ”

"Isn't it just three bottles of wine? It's okay to go out, and when our class teacher returns to Chang'an, I tell the emperor that I don't want anything, and all the merits will be replaced with wine, right? Hammoud joked indifferently: "I can't say that the emperor won't reward me with a winery at that time?" Soon after a few nonsense words, a strong smell of wine began to permeate the tent.