"Deputy marshal, the marshal has already fought with Jiamu outside Jiaohe City." Zhao Si was the busiest person during this time, not only to arrange the connection with the secret guards in Jiaohe City, so that he could probe the movement of the Uighurs from the inside, but also to arrange for the Xuanying Guards to intensively investigate the movement of reinforcements from the important town of Tingzhou in the north and the Uighurs from Gaochang in the west. Yanqi was an important town of the Anxi Uighurs in the north, and it was also a border with the Uighurs of Gaochang, where the Anxi Uighurs had amassed 100,000 troops during the Battle of Yizhou, ready to reinforce Yizhou at any time, and on the other hand, to contain the Uighurs from doing anything to the coalition forces they had sent over. But at this time, the Tiance army besieged Jiaohe City, and if Anxi made a deployment, the 100,000 troops could almost arrive in Gaochang within a day and come to Jiaohe City to participate in the battle at a very fast speed, so Zhao Si had to invest a lot of manpower to arrange intensive reconnaissance along the way. This point is even more important than letting the Anxi Uighurs transfer Jiamu back to China, because Jiamu is a real person in the military and political system of the Anxi Uighurs, and he has won the trust of the Anxi Uighur royal court, so it is too difficult to do anything to him, and Zhao Si did not intend to succeed from the beginning, after all, the Anxi Uighurs lacked a target like Shi Congxin who was rebelled against by him. However, it is precisely because of the existence of Shi Congxin that at least the internal actions of the Gaochang Uighurs can be almost clear, and when the last main force of the Gaochang Uighurs in Tingzhou in the north goes south is almost all tracked by Xuanyingwei, which is for Zhao Si and Gao Siji, who concentrate their forces to defeat this main force under the surprise of the other party, and the Gaochang Uighurs will inevitably face the collapse of the entire front, so that they can also move the battle line forward to the heart of the Anxi Uighurs almost directly in a battle, thus placing the battlefield in Yanqi, to seize the main stronghold of the Northwest Han Army, which has been one of the four towns of Anxi since the Tang Dynasty.

Gao Siji took the information handed over by Zhao Si and hurriedly read it and nodded, although there was almost a big problem on the side of the Western Expeditionary Army headquarters because of the water source, but Jia Mu and Chai Jia were able to fight smoothly, which can be regarded as a smooth connection of the whole plan. Relying on the tens of thousands of Gaochang Uighurs in Jiaohe City, if it weren't for the need for this bait, the Modao battalion might not even need a day to take it down. Now it's up to Yanqi and Tingzhou to see who can come first.

"Vice marshal, let's prepare a table of meals, but I don't know if there will be two tables of guests, and the biggest possibility is that these two groups of guests may arrive at the same time." Zhao Si looked at Gao Siji with a wry smile, and didn't feel that he had inadvertently said a classic quote from later generations. The distance between the Anxi Uighurs on the Yanqi side is very close, but they need to get the consent of the Anxi Uighur royal court to send troops, and the Tingzhou cavalry corps, the last main force of the Gaochang Uighurs on the northern front, does not need to be so troublesome, and the emergency messenger sent from Jiaohe City is estimated to have arrived in Tingzhou at this time, but the road is far away, and it has just set off at this time, and it will take three to five days for the cavalry to go all out from Tingzhou to Jiaohe City.

"Therefore, the Jiamu side is very important, as long as the commander can successfully take the Jiamu Corps and then find a way to persuade the Jiamu to surrender or at least use the Jiamu as capital to negotiate with the Anxi Uighurs, delay their time to send troops, and give us a day's time, when the time comes, whether the Anxi Uighurs send troops or not, it will not have much impact on us. Great, we will go to fight the Anxi Uighurs immediately after the defeat of the Tingzhou cavalry corps. Gao Siji didn't have the slightest worry about this, everything that happened in Jiaohe City at this time had a crucial impact on the overall situation of the entire battle, and Wan Yi on the Anxi Uighur side already had a plan, so he let himself lead the largest main army of the Western Expeditionary Army to lurk just to give the other party a ruthless blow.

However, when Gao Siji and Zhao Si focused their attention on the two sides of the fierce battle east of Jiaohe City at this time, Chai Jia also waited for a new opponent, and an army with an earthy yellow military uniform appeared in everyone's sight among the Anxi Uighur cavalry regiment wearing gray-brown military uniforms. The last 20,000 men in Hammud's hands finally appeared on the battlefield at this time.

"The order is that as long as the cavalry in the khaki uniform does not come within a hundred feet in front of us, we will not attack them, and continue to focus on the Anxi Uighurs." Chai Jia held the Qianli Realm and saw this scene, and asked the herald behind him to quickly give orders to the officers and men of the Eleventh Corps on the three main positions, and at the same time ordered the artillery to start changing the direction of the shelling, and the fifty artillery pieces were supported by the mechanical crossbows that had just arrived, and the cannonballs that roared out were like flying locusts bombarding wildly, and the range of up to two miles allowed these fifty guns to easily carry out the barrage attack tactics that the main artillery force behind could not execute, According to the latest shelling schedule, round after round of shells exploded, forming a huge and dense barrage of bullets, slowly advancing. Although the speed of the cavalry determines the attack speed of the artillery and the gunner's adjustment of the firing range cannot keep up, but because of the continuous impact of the opposing cavalry, in fact, this kind of artillery bombardment can extremely effectively weaken the continuous impact and combat power of the armor wood corps, and weaken the combat power of the cavalry corps to the maximum as much as possible.

If the new tactics of artillery are to rely on the latest tactics of barrage Xu Jin to give the 11th Corps the greatest support, then the mechanical crossbow has become the firefighting team in the field, as long as there is a dangerous situation, the cavalry charge is approaching their own position, then the mechanical crossbow will adjust the direction and firing distance in the shortest possible time, and then quickly support the front line with the rain of arrows collected, reducing the pressure on the infantry.

With the effective support of artillery and mechanical crossbows, relying on three relatively independent but internally connected infantry trench positions, Chai Jia always held a reserve of 10,000 to 20,000 men in his hands to prevent the opposing cavalry from rushing into the position. In the nearly half hour since the start of the battle, the reserve has already made three sorties, and the Uighur cavalry that rushed into the position was killed on the spot in time to prevent them from taking advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle, and causing a large defensive hole in their own position. It can be said that after the popularization of gunpowder weapons, all the generals of the Tiance Army have been accustomed to reserving enough troops just in case of operation, and the reserves are kept in the hands of the main general to support the front-line battle at any time.

After the assault of the whole army of Jiamu, the prominent position of the 11th Corps, which was at the forefront of the army, soon heard the sound of dense gunfire. After the dense cavalry rushed through the death zone of the shell bombardment, although the formation was chaotic, many war horses were startled by the sound of shell explosions and fireballs rising in the air, but the huge cavalry charged up and still let everyone go all out, the rate of fire of the medium formal rifle in the hands of 20,000 people in front was stimulated to the extreme, from the beginning of the soldiers of the 11th Corps still need to aim before firing, to the end almost as long as the gun is fired, The huge target of the cavalry makes the soldiers of the Tiance Army can easily fire the bullets without much accuracy, and the hit rate is higher than that of the infantry, because in the high-speed gallop, whether it is the cavalry itself or the war horse, as long as either of the two is shot, then there is almost no life at all on the battlefield where thousands of horses are galloping.

When Chai Jia's side went all out to intercept the Jiamu Corps, the cavalry corps of the Tiance Army Tuoba Siji hidden in the northwest direction had also begun to assault the whole army at this time, because there were five or six miles away from the main battlefield, and there was a deafening sound of shell explosions in the distance, so all the cavalry on Tuoba Siji's side threw away all the camouflage and disguise, and urged the speed of the war horse under the crotch to the maximum, and the cavalry corps of 30,000 people launched a charge, and the horse's hooves fell and stepped on the ground like thunder, shocking people's hearts.

As the distance got closer and closer, all the soldiers of the cavalry corps began to follow the rumbling artillery fire and gradually disperse to form a loose front formation, and at the same time, the soldiers of the cavalry artillery also began to gradually break away from the charging force, preparing to find a suitable artillery position in front of them.

Tuoba Siji's punctual start to charge meant that all the troops that Wan Yi had deployed around Jiamu appeared on the battlefield. At this time, Hammoud, who was next to Jiamu, had also made his own choice, and the captain of the personal guard who was sent to the front line secretly notified the captain of the two 10,000 troops in front of him and rode back to Hammoud's side, and nodded imperceptibly after seeing Hammud's gaze, and the two completed an exchange without Jiamu noticing, and then Hammoud turned around and looked at Jiamu, who was single-mindedly observing the battle situation in front of him, and sighed silently, only afraid that his action would have taken the opposite path with the other party from then on. Originally, after the Battle of Yizhou, the two felt that under the external pressure of the Tiance Army, perhaps the two Uighurs would be able to merge with each other in the continuous conquest and eventually become one. But now, I'm afraid that there will never be such an opportunity again.

Hammud hesitated for a long time before he looked at the captain of the guard who had been waiting for his order, and suddenly said: "Marshal Jiamu, the front will be handed over to your command, I will go to the rear army to see if I can organize those auxiliaries and let them also help, the Tiance army has already prepared, I am afraid that our troops may not be enough." Now, in the face of the opponent's firepower, if we don't have enough troops, I'm afraid it will be difficult to break into the opponent's defense. ”

Hammad's words made Jiamu nod for a while, he is a guest army, so almost all the logistics auxiliaries are Gaochang Uighurs, so after hearing Hammad's words, there is no objection, after all, after fighting these battles with the Tiance army, the advantages of the Tiance army and the tactics that his own side can play are only a few, except for relying on the speed and numerical advantage of the cavalry to break through the opponent's defense line in a short time. Although those auxiliaries have poor combat effectiveness, they can charge into battle even if they ride on war horses, as long as they rush in, they will be victorious, and the worst can also open the passage for the regular army behind them. In fact, Jiamu never suspected Hammud, even though he had been captured by the Tiance Army before. Because Hammoud is a tough person, he is decisive in doing things, just like himself.

It's just that what Jiamu never expected was that what this friend of the Gaochang Uighurs said at this time was to convey the final order to his personal guards, only to see that Hammud had just left the Chinese army, and his personal guards began to surround Jiamu under the secret deployment of the captain, and used various opportunities to isolate the distance between the other party and his own soldiers before preparing to start.

"Oh no, General Jiamu, a large number of cavalry of the Tiance Army have been found in the direction of the right flank of our army, and they have already rushed towards our army." And just as the captain of Hamoud's personal guard was secretly deploying, a scout horse came from the flank and carried the news of Tuoba Siji. Tuoba Siji had chased and killed Jiamu before, and there was only this complete formed cavalry corps in the Tiance army, so Jiamu guessed this old opponent in an instant, but before he could think of a way to adjust the deployment, there was already a dense sound of horses' hooves and gunfire on the right flank, and a large number of cavalry began to attack the already weak right flank defense line, because the number of troops was insufficient, so Jiamu transferred all his forces to the front to attack the Tiance army, so there was almost no defense on the two wings, Tuoba Siji's cavalry is simply like entering a no-man's land. Even the cavalry artillerymen, who were about to look for artillery positions, saw how fast their troops were rushing ahead, and they all began to turn around and mount their horses and continue to move forward, which was too fast.

"Immediately dispatch the 10,000-strong team of Monton to the top, and everyone in the Chinese army will resist with me. Quickly inform General Hammoud and organize a detour of the army to attack from the north as soon as possible. Jiamu quickly came up with a way, in addition to sending a team of 10,000 people from the front line to compete with Tuoba Siji, and then brought one of the few 3,000 personal guards of the Chinese army forward, ready to go into battle in person to block the momentum of Tuoba Siji's charge, and asked the captain of Hammud's personal guard to immediately go to the rear army to inform Hammoud that he was ready to take all the rear army to the north to attack Tuoba Siji.

Kogi's reaction was not unpleasant, and in the shortest possible time, he came up with the idea of stabilizing the right flank defense line and preventing Tuoba Siji from rushing into the core of his army formation and completely disrupting his attack formation, so that if the front line army could attack the blocking position of the opposing infantry, then there would be a glimmer of life. However, just when Jiamu was about to step forward and fight to the death with Tuoba Siji, although the captain of Hammud's personal guard took over the order, he quietly gave an order to his own people who had unknowingly approached Jiamu's side, only to see countless figures flying in an instant, and several Hammud's personal soldiers suddenly jumped up from the horse without any warning and pounced directly towards Jiamu, and directly threw Jiamu off the horse without the other party noticing.

"Tie him up for me." The captain of Hammoud's personal guard shouted violently, and Jiamu was completely blinded at this time, and he didn't expect that the captain of Hammoud's personal guard would suddenly attack him at this time. So he was subdued almost in a short instant, and even his own soldiers nearby didn't react.

"All Uighur brothers, immediately lay down their arms and join the Chengtian Army, otherwise there will be no forgiveness." At the moment when the captain of his own guard subdued Jiamu, Hammoud also rushed up with all the auxiliaries of the rear army and shouted loudly. This angry shout almost confused almost all the Uighur soldiers instantly.

"Surrender immediately." At this time, a cavalry force suddenly made a rapid detour to the south towards the rapidly changing Uighur Chinese army, and the flying Uighur banner of Gaochang made the Anxi Uighur soldiers who wanted to snatch their own commander rest their movements.

"Hammoud, you-" At this time, Jiamu still didn't understand what was going on, but as soon as he said a word, he was slashed on the back of the head by the captain of Hammoud's personal guard behind him, and he was knocked unconscious at once. This faintness of Jiamu completely buried the tens of thousands of Anxi Uighur cavalry on the battlefield at this time, and the original fierce battle between the two sides ushered in a sudden upheaval.