In May of the third year of the Apocalypse, as the commercial network within the Tang Empire gradually took shape, the transportation companies represented by the six wealthy merchants drove full horsepower to transport goods from all directions to various places for sale, and then transported the special products of various places to several major ports along the coast and various places in the north, so that under the condition of unprecedented increase in the speed of commercial circulation, the development of the empire's economy entered the fast lane of development, and the proportion of new industries such as cotton textiles, shipbuilding, and coal mining began to gradually increase in the economy. In particular, with the advance of the Tiance Army in the northwest region, the construction of the rear needs a large number of materials, and most of the personnel captured by the Western Expedition Group Army were used by Tuoba Sizhi on the spot to rebuild the long-abandoned straight road in the northwest region, and it will be connected with the road of Hexi Province, so that dozens of transportation companies and commercial houses in Guanzhong driven by the Yelu family and the Murong family quickly spread out in the northwest, on the one hand, they collected the specialties of the northwest and the products of the Western Regions that flowed from the Silk Road to the country. In addition, a large number of materials were transported from Guanzhong, Lingzhou and other places to the front line. The Ha Xi province has set up an entry and exit gate in conjunction with the customs to ensure that all goods can be cleared temporarily.

As for the mainland, spices, fruits, beef and mutton and leather products from the northwest have also begun to circulate in major cities in Guanzhong. Although due to the existence of customs, luxury goods entering the interior need to be heavily inspected, and the tariffs are very heavy, the gold and silver products seized by the Tiance Army and a large number of gold and silver coins are directly transported to the Ministry of Finance in the name of seized materials, and then most of them are classified directly into the money bank as reserves, and a small number of exquisite handicrafts are directly auctioned off and exchanged for money to be invested in the northwest region.

Although the climatic conditions in the northwest region are not good, and the geographical environment is even more different from the Central Plains and other places, but since ancient times, the flow on this road is bright gold and silver, so as long as there is profit, there will never be a shortage of business giants chasing profits.

While the rear was gradually stabilized by Yang Yi, and the remaining stragglers were gradually wiped out by the National Guard, the farthest place in the northwest of the Tiance Army, which was located on the front line of Yumen Pass, was the first to ignite the flames of war because of the intervention of the Long family. In fact, the Long family did not expect that they were actually the Uighur network organization, and the Tiance Army had actually penetrated into the territory controlled by Suzhou itself, and they had been waiting for them for a long time. Speaking of which, Shi Jian's department was able to hold on for so long without being discovered, except because the Yumen Pass had long been abandoned now, and the merchants and travelers had basically begun to take a detour, the biggest reason was that after Zhang Sheng arrived, he and Xuan Yingwei joined forces to suppress the Long family's spies' search for the traces of the Tiance Army. As Xuan Yingwei, who has crushed the level of intelligence collection in this era, he has the concept that Li Xuanqing brought from later generations in this regard, and it is not at all comparable to a local force like the Long family. In addition, after Zhang Sheng's arrival, the Long family even had a home advantage. Long Yi's Long Jiajun can be said to have been reported to Shi Jian by Zhang Sheng after leaving the city. However, it is clear that the Long family, with their Han Chinese traditions, was not comparable to the Uighurs in Suzhou, and Zhang Sheng's desire to attack Suzhou was quickly frustrated after some reconnaissance.

However, this is not difficult for Zhang Sheng, who has long been accustomed to mobile combat, so he directly followed the Long Jiajun, so that Long Yi was directly blocked by Shi Jian and Zhang Sheng on the road from Suzhou to Ganzhou.

"Boss, this Long family is really a local tyrant, you see that their armor is the caliph armor that came from the Western Regions, I heard that the defense is excellent, and the war horses under their feet are all high-headed horses, so rich? We're making a lot of money this time. Zhang Sheng, who had quietly touched the close reconnaissance of the Long Jiajun with a few people, heard the words of his subordinates, and there was a large number of black lines on his head, so he hurriedly slapped the ignorant subordinate on the head, and said angrily: "What boss? Do you think we're the Tang Kou of the past? Remember, now we are the regular troops of the imperial court, understand? We are the emperor's own imperial generals, and we will call them generals in the future. Whoever calls the boss again, I'm in a hurry with him. ”

After Zhang Sheng scolded and chattered, he suddenly remembered something and asked, "How are the brothers familiar with the guy in their hands in the past two days?" I don't want to be ridiculed by the brothers in the other battalions. You have also seen that now that the army of the Tang Dynasty has all used this kind of musket, if we don't make it, then even if the emperor values us Anxi descendants again, there is no way to shelter them. Therefore, if you want to make a contribution and fight back to Anxi, you must show momentum on the battlefield and the momentum of our Anxi army back then. ”

Zhang Sheng was about to continue to say a few words, and suddenly found that the Long family army in front of him began to gradually speed up its pace and began to transform into a rapid march. This made Zhang Sheng think that he was exposed, and then suddenly heard a few gunshots in front of him, and suddenly secretly screamed that it was not good, eighty percent of the Long family army had discovered the ambush on Shi Jian's side. However, Zhang Sheng pinched his fingers and calculated the time, and then looked at the surrounding terrain and estimated that it was almost not far from the place where Shi Jian was ambushed, and immediately put his mind at ease and said: "Go and inform our brothers in the Anxi camp, keep up with the Long family army, 30,000 against 30,000, General Shi's side will directly defeat this group of guys who have never seen the world, we can't go late, otherwise it is estimated that there will not even be soup left." In fact, when Zhang Sheng and others were in Chang'an before, they had observed the shooting training of the guard battalion, and they were afraid of the tactics of tens of thousands of people shooting together, and the bullets were continuous and endless, and when Zhang Sheng personally tested hitting a target of more than 100 zhang with a bullet, the Mini bullet actually exploded directly on the target. This weapon, which he had never seen before, gave him an invisible deterrent.

In fact, the Mini bullet is not its best killing distance at a distance of 300 meters, but Zhang Sheng's ability to hit a distance of 100 zhang also shows that this guy has talent. Recently, the Central Garrison Battalion has begun to test new tactics, and the Armament Department has also solved the difficulties of new rifles, and the production of new rifles will begin one after another in the near future. It's just that what makes Li Xuanqing indecisive is the bullet that he has been ignoring before. The new rifle is no longer the current mini-bullet that uses lead as a raw material, but a copper bullet that is similar to later generations in the true sense. Rushing to open the production line is only afraid that the already insufficient supply of copper will immediately affect the economic development. Therefore, before the copper industry in Shandong, Huainan and Jiangxi did not meet the economic needs, Li Xuanqing planned to temporarily suppress it, but it was really impossible to equip the main force in small quantities.

But these have nothing to do with Zhang Sheng and Shi Jian. In fact, it was similar to Zhang Sheng's guess, the previous gunfire was indeed caused by Shi Jian's small force, because Shi Jian found that there was a little deviation between the direction of the Long family's march and his own position, which happened to be turned in the northeast direction of his position, so he couldn't help but make this move in the hope of attracting the attention of the Long family's army, so that the two sides could quickly contact, and as long as the fight started, everything would be easy to do. As far as Shi Jian's understanding of Zhang Sheng and the fact that they were called Tang Kou before, they would definitely not give up the idea of following and chasing, and the front and back attacks would definitely be able to achieve miraculous results when the time came.

Shi Jian's abnormal actions and the killing caused by the small force of the Tiance Army made the Long Family Army instantly change its battle formation, like a hedgehog erecting spikes all over its body. It's just that this method is still very good when dealing with the troops of other forces in the past, relying on the armor and sophisticated weapons that are equipped, basically no one wants to fight with them, but this approach of the Long Family Army is right in the hands of the Tiance Army, and almost all the soldiers of the Tiance Army who came forward have stepped forward to shoot in the direction where the Long Family Army gathered, and even disengaged directly regardless of whether they were hit, and then loaded and shot again.

The musket of the Tiance Army is the first time to see it, and like almost all opponents, it is impossible to think of effective defense methods in a short period of time, and compared to other troops, the Longjia Army can almost be regarded as a heavy armor unit, although the weight of the caliph's armor is much lighter than the plate armor of the Tiance Army, but it is still much heavier than the leather armor of the light cavalry, resulting in although they are equipped with good horses from the Western Regions, their speed cannot be compared with the light cavalry in the real sense. In this way, under the kite flying tactics of the Tiance Army coming and going wave after wave, there is no room to fight back. Therefore, after holding on for half a tea hour, Long Yi decisively sent forward troops to press on it, ready to crush this group of monsters who came from unknown places, and probe their bottom by the way. Long Yi probably didn't even think that he would directly bury the 30,000 army in his hands with this investigation, and also fixed the fate of the Long family on this big battle.

Long Yi's actions almost made Shi Jian cheer, while the previous continuous harassment, the Modao battalion was also urgently adjusted, part of the army had been transferred to the east, and there was not even any fortification ready to lie on the ground directly with a gun to aim, and the only thing that was adjusted was the ten artillery pieces that were carried. Therefore, almost as soon as the Long Jiajun entered the firing range, the ten guns immediately adjusted the firing distance and then ignited and fired.

The rumbling artillery fire opened the prelude to the war, and also set off the first bloody storm in this vast land, and the sudden falling shells blew up this yellow sand desert, and also shattered the Long family army that faced the artillery for the first time. Like all troops facing artillery for the first time, the powerful explosion caused these cavalry to begin to disagree, and the frightened horses began to scurry around without following orders, and the entire formation of the Long Family Army was disrupted by these dozen explosions.

"The whole army fired." Shi Jian stood on the front-line position and raised his hand for the first time, and suddenly there was a dense sound of gunfire from this position, and the whistling bullets rushed towards the Long family army at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

"Order a battalion of the reserve to give me a detour to the left flank, shoot at close range, and don't let these guys escape." Shi Jian asked the captain of the personal guard around him to quickly give a battalion order to the reserve, and took advantage of the fact that the main position had already opened fire to detour to the left flank, preparing to start a battle from close and completely intercept the Long family's army here. He didn't know what was going on on the Ganzhou battlefield now, but the only thing he had to do was not to let the Long family army go over.

In fact, Wan Yi originally gave Shi Jian an order to intercept the Long family and the Guiyi Army, but so far the Guiyi Army still hasn't moved much, so Shi Jian put all his thoughts on the Long family. Compared with the chaos in the upper echelons of the Guiyi Army in the past two years, the Long family has recovered after many years of recuperation, and after Suzhou has autonomy, it not only recruits troops and horses, but also relies on the advantages of the Silk Road to expand rapidly.

"Who is this?" Long Yi was actually stunned by the news from the front line at this time, he had no way to figure out who the enemy in front of him was, Shi Jian removed all the signs of the Tiance Army in order to hide his traces, it can be said that in addition to the weapons in his hands, the outfit of the Modao Battalion at this time was a typical desert horse bandit. However, after the artillery fired, Long Yi couldn't think about it anymore, and as the soldiers of the Long Family Army in front of him were caught off guard and were knocked down a large area, these people with strange weapons had already begun to attack their formation. At this time, he had no choice but to give an order, and the 30,000 people of the Long family army brought out by him this time were all immediately pressed up, ready to use the advantage of superior forces and cavalry to break through the opponent's blockade.

This time, all the Long family army received the signal, the Chinese army war drums kept conveying the order of Long Yi's whole army to charge, the formation and speed of the Long family army's charge were still very good, at least under the drive of these good horses in the Western Regions, the short-distance charge was already almost feeling the speed of the light cavalry, only to see that countless strands of yellow sand on this desert were stirred into a long dragon, and countless cavalry flickered when this long dragon spread, swarming towards Shi Jian's position.

At this time, the Modao battalion no longer needed Shi Jian's order, all the soldiers did their best, the sound of rifle firing sounded in pieces, and the dense bullets rushed forward like rain, blocking the pace of the Long family's army's charge, after experiencing one battle after another, the Tiance army at this time was able to form a three-stage shooting with two rows of people, so even if Shi Jian transferred a battalion to the left flank, the gunfire on the front position did not appear at all. At the same time, the ten artillery pieces are also turning on the maximum firing speed, almost all the time to stuff the cannonballs into the barrel and then ignite the fire, these whistling cannonballs have become the biggest obstacle for the Long family's army, because the huge power and the huge explosion sound make these unaccustomed war horses themselves disrupt their formation, and the worst thing is that the corpses of those war horses and soldiers who fell to the ground have become an unavoidable barrier for all cavalry in the way of the charge. The Modao Battalion officially relied on these to stabilize the first wave of impact.

At this time, Zhang Sheng, who was behind the Long Family Army, saw the official start of the fight, and also began to gather all the brothers of the 3,000 Anxi Battalion under his command, unlike Shi Jian's defensive battle at this time, he directly led the team to charge, and after the first bullet was fired immediately, these Northwest men who were not very familiar with rifle shooting directly used the scimitar of the past and rushed into the rear army of the Long Family Army, and the movement brought by the slashing and killing was not smaller than the front at all, which made Long Yi, the commander of the Long Family Army, make a well-known battlefield misjudgment at this time, It was this battlefield misjudgment that directly determined the outcome of this battle.