"Big brother, the mountain ahead was chiseled by us, but two of our brothers accidentally fell down the valley, and we are afraid that their lives will not be saved now." At the tunnel construction site in Helan Mountain, Yang Hu had just finished breakfast when he heard his subordinates rushing to report.

"What's wrong again? How many are these? Yang Hu frowned, this is already the eleventh accident at the construction site of Helan Mountain, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that the person in charge of the construction company will be the end, "Don't you want to be careful and careful?" How can it still appear...... Wait, what do you say, you chiseled through? Yang Hu remembered the second half of his subordinate's report halfway through speaking, and hurriedly grabbed this guy's collar and asked, "Is it the Qianqiu Peak Mountain?" ”

"It's Qianqiu Peak. We pierced the mountain, and the two captives fell down the gap because they were standing too far forward. Startled by Yang Hu's movements, this subordinate hurriedly told all the information.

Yang Hu directly gave this guy a snap of his fingers, turned to the side and said, "In the future, you have to report the news first." I thought it was our own workers, and the captives were forgotten, and I just went back and asked the company to find their families and give them some bereavement benefits. The Qianqiufeng Tunnel opened the saddest hurdle at the construction site of Helan Mountain. Inform the bridge construction team to prepare for the final bridge connection immediately, and then let the logistics staff add food. Our good days are coming, grandpa's, it's been almost half a year, and I've finally got you through. ”

It can be said that this is the best news that Yang Hu has heard in the past six months, the Helan Mountain Tunnel Project is the most difficult railway line ever built, just the tunnel through Helan Mountain is more than seven or eight miles long, and this is not counting the few bridges across the canyon and mountain streams, think about how Yang Hu felt that he had come over this time.

However, the good news from Yang Hu's side also means that the most difficult part of Datang's lifeline for operating the Western Regions has now been overcome, at least when the Changjin Line is really repaired, then the large-scale materials in the customs will really flow into Hexi from now on, and then follow the pace of the army all the way.

In fact, just when Yang Hu imagined that one day he could build the railway directly to Anxi, the second half of the first battle of the Tiance army out of Hexi officially began at this time. In fact, it should be said that it has entered a climax, because when the fire was burning on the side of Huqiu Pass, Wan Yi led the artillery battalion to the scene and strengthened the firepower density of Xue Wanli's frontal corps.

In Liu Xuan's absence, Xue Wanli's chief of staff, Li Lisan, hurriedly commanded the reinforced artillery battalion to immediately build a position, and after the number of artillery pieces doubled at once, Xue Wanli's position pressure was suddenly much smaller, at least the reserves did not need to go to the position to prepare for the Uighur cavalry that broke through the defense line and rushed into the infantry position.

Wan Yi did not interfere in the command of the front, but stood in front of the artillery battalion position and picked up a clairvoyant mirror to carefully observe the movements of the Uighurs. In fact, this was the first time that the Tiance army had faced an organized Uighur cavalry. In fact, it can be seen from the historical records that the relationship between the Uighurs and the Tang Dynasty was very complicated, and during the Anshi Rebellion, Emperor Suzong finally borrowed the Uighur troops to defeat Shi Siming's rebellion in An Lushan during the Battle of Liangjing, but the Liangjing was also sacked by the Uighurs at the same time. In Anxi, the Anxi army was able to hold out in the end, and it was inseparable from the support of the Uighurs.

However, time has passed, and now the troops led by Wan Yi are the army of the Tang Empire, shouldering the heavy task of recovering the Western Regions, so anyone who stands in the way of his front is an enemy of the Tang Empire. Therefore, Wan Yi showed no mercy to the Uighur cavalry who were shouting and charging with the trumpet of the steppe in front of him. When Li Lisan adjusted the deployment of artillery, he also began to formally intervene in the command work of the front line, ordering the artillery battalion to immediately put in incendiary bombs.

It's called a trick to eat fresh all over the world. The fire that had just been staged in Tiger Hill Pass, Wan Yi didn't mind striking again on this thousand-mile grassland. I saw that the fiery red shells were stuffed into the chamber again, and the direction of the aiming was also the most dense area of the Uighur cavalry, only to hear Li Lisan's order, dozens of incendiary bombs were quickly shot out, with a terrible roar directly smashed into the Uighur cavalry array, and then exploded, the raging flames burned quickly with the explosion of the cannonballs, and a fire burned quickly on the battlefield.

Li Lisan did not hesitate to see the fire caused by the incendiary bombs, and directly waved his hand to launch all the remaining more than 100 incendiary bombs in his hand at the first time, and according to the semi-circular landing point of the bullets, he drew a semi-circular flame array among the Uighur cavalry. The Uighur cavalry in the center of the fire let out a miserable howl, and countless cavalry scurried around with flames all over their bodies, quickly igniting the fire-igniting objects they encountered along the way, which further fueled the momentum of the flames.

"Order the troops to assault with the whole army, and the heavy cavalry battalion to speed up and outflank the opponent and not let one go." Wan Yi raised the command flag and began to direct the 100,000 troops on the scene to fight back, and at the same time ordered the artillery battalion to immediately start extending the artillery bombardment to disrupt the follow-up command of the Uighurs. As a result, when the fire broke out, countless Celestial soldiers began to charge forward beyond the trenches, and the bullets flying in the sky became the deadliest weapons of killing, and the panicked Uighur cavalry who were burned by the fire were completely crushed by the Celestial soldiers who were everywhere with their guns and shooting.

At this time, the support troops led by Shi Jian had already arrived at the scene, and just happened to encounter Wan Yi's order to counterattack, and immediately entered the battle without hesitation, so that almost all the retreat routes of the Uighurs were cut off, and the Uighur commander under the command of the Chinese army could only let go of the restrictions of the rear army and began to retreat regardless of the order. However, it was too late at this time, and after the Uighur cavalry's formation was disrupted, and the cavalry was constantly affected by the artillery bombardment, the main cavalry force that had been put into the battlefield could not be restrained at all, and could only watch as it was divided and surrounded by the Tiance army.

At this time, no one cared about the semicircular flame array in front of Xue Wanli, which was constantly rising huge smoke and flames, and it had become a region, whether it was the soldiers of the Tiance Army or the Uighur cavalry who lost their armor and lost their armor by the fire, no one could be calm in the face of this fire, not even Wan Yi himself could do it.

"Dashuai, I'm afraid that this fire will make all the ethnic groups in the northwest chill when they see the banner of my Tiance Army from now on." The front line entered the counter-charge stage, and the commander of the artillery battalion, Li Lisan, also handed over to the captains of the major brigades, asking them to randomly adjust the firing range of the artillery, and some of the artillery had been withdrawn from the position and prepared to follow the infantry movement. It's just that the artillery of this era could not be as good as that of the later Napoleonic era, and the artillery could accompany the infantry to carry out accompanying attacks. However, under Li Xuanqing's intervention, the artillery technology equipped by the army today has already crossed the Bronze Age, and the latest artillery equipped by Wan Yi's Western Expedition Group Army can already move forward slowly under the drag of war horses.

"Don't worry about this, the northwest has been separated from my Tang Dynasty for more than a hundred years, but I'm afraid that these tribes have long forgotten the majesty of my Tang Dynasty army across the Western Regions. Therefore, this fire is just a good thing for all ethnic groups to remember again, everything as far as the eye can see is the land of our Datang, and anyone who dares to be unfavorable to my Datang will be killed. Lisan, don't be afraid of killing, sometimes killing will make people know how to change and know how to surrender to the strong. Wan Yi obviously knew what Li Lisan was thinking, shook his head and said, "If I want to re-establish the rule of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest, I must go through this. Our Tiance Army officers and soldiers must also go through these in order to intuitively feel the tragic deeds of the Anxi Army a hundred years ago. The military soul of the Tang army needs blood to recover. The process of the dragon soaring for nine days was accompanied by endless conquests. This is called the inexhaustible wildfire, and the spring breeze blows and grows. He has no regrets in a hundred battles, and he has been reborn in blood, and now he is naturally reborn from the fire. ”

Li Lisan may not be able to feel Wan Yi's state of mind, as a new general cultivated during the rise of the Tiance Army, he has not experienced the tragedy of the Northwest Frontier Army resisting the invasion of a few tribes, he can't imagine what Wan Yi is thinking at this moment, but what he sees now is that the Tiance Army counterattacked the Uighur cavalry with the blessing of artillery and muskets, and gradually compressed its main force into his encirclement. Just in front of Li Lisan, behind the half-moon-shaped fire array, new artillery positions were also beginning to assemble, and the sound of shelling and the boundless explosions brought by the shells landed were heard one after another. New killings were beginning there, and perhaps the Uighur cavalry themselves still had the strength to fight back, but they had lost their most basic morale and courage under the attack of shells and incendiary grenades, and the unimaginable weapons of the Northwest tribes were being mastered by the soldiers of the Tiance Army and then used to take revenge.

Yes, it is in revenge, and gradually almost all the shouts of the soldiers of the Tiance Army began to be gradually dyed with an inexplicable sadness, the vicissitudes of history and time made Li Lisan stand tall, is this what Wan Yi said about the revival of the soul of the Tang Army?

Li Lisan looked at Wan Yi, who was standing still beside him, as tall as an unfalling pine, and for the first time in his heart, he felt a trace of fear and awe for this handsome man. Without waiting for him to think about anything else, Wan Yi seemed to know the thoughts of the young general beside him, and said slowly: "The soul of the Tang Dynasty has recovered, and Anxi has been alone for decades, relying not on benevolence, but on iron-blooded battles again and again. If it weren't for the fact that Hexi was cut off by Tubo, which caused it to lose the support of the mainland, I am afraid that Guo Daduhu would not have died tragically in the ancient city of Qiuci. Lisan, I hope that your generation will remember this, and in the future, I will go to Qiuzi to find the old traces of the heroes, and bring them back to the Heroes Memorial Hall for future generations to remember. ”

"Lisan takes orders." At this moment, Li Lisan couldn't say anything, just bowed down to receive the order.

"Let's go, let's go over and have a look, and go and see the final end of the Ganzhou Uighurs." Wan Yi came to the front line with the personal guards and Li Lisan, at this time the formation of the Tiance Army was also completely chaotic because of the continuous pursuit, but the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were smooth did not have the slightest confusion because of the scattered formation, after the popularization of rifles, the military system formulated by Li Xuanqing before Li Xuanqing is playing an increasingly important role, imitating the squad tactics brought by the establishment of the army in later generations is forming a powerful combat force on the battlefield, and the cooperation between the squads is also very tacit, basically you come and go, covering each other, Makes up the interval between the firing of the breech gun. The Uighur cavalry, surrounded in the center, had begun to be swept over like headless flies, leaving behind corpses in one drive after another.

"Now there are about 20,000 or 30,000 Uighurs on the battlefield, go and inform Xue Wanli to let him start surrendering, we have destroyed Tiger Hill Pass this time, a large number of people need to be resettled, and there is just a shortage of labor." When Wan Yi instructed Li Lisan to go to Xue Wanli to prepare for surrender, the end of the Uighurs had basically fallen, and the Uighur commander's special service, who had escaped from the encirclement one step earlier, wanted to reflexively kill and come back to rescue the main Uighur troops and horses that were surrounded, but was intercepted by the heavy cavalry battalion led by Tie Liang. The cavalry of the 20,000-strong cavalry battalion charged, almost in two waves, directly taking away all the 30,000 people in the hands of Pang Teqin. Pang Teqin, who was stabbed in the body, only took a few dozen people and fled in embarrassment.

Tie Liang was still fond of the charge of the heavy cavalry battalion in the era of cold weapons, so much so that he knocked the main force of the Uighur cavalry off his horse and muttered there, sighing that the battle was not enjoyable. However, as soon as Tie Liang turned around and found the Uighurs in the encirclement, he immediately smiled with joy and without saying a word, rushed directly with his men, ready to enjoy the charge of the dwindling heavy cavalry battalion.

It's just that this wish of his obviously can't be realized, and by the time the heavy cavalry battalion entered the encirclement with indomitable pace and momentum, Xue Wanli's horn had already sounded, and the soldiers of the Tiance Army who got the signal around them also began to shout, the slogan of "surrender and not kill", and many Uighur soldiers also used Uighur to surrender. This made Tie Liang completely depressed, and after a long time, his heavy cavalry battalion rushed up to increase the weight of these infantry. However, the Uighurs did not dare to resist at all, and obediently put down their weapons, and disembarked from their horses and walked towards the crowd of the Tiance army. Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion had become a veritable cavalryman, which made him almost fall off his horse.

Regardless of Tie Liang's reaction, the first major battle of the Tiance army out of Hexi came to an end, and the incendiary bomb was used as an opportunity for the Western Expedition to take the fortress of Huqiu Pass at a negligible cost, and the 100,000 cavalry of the Wen people were wiped out, and even the 100,000 Uighur cavalry who came to the rescue were also buried here. It can be said that Wan Yi directly burned nearly 200,000 people in a fire, and since then, the prestige and violence of the Tiance Army have resounded throughout the Ganzhou region, and continue to spread westward over time, and an unprecedented crisis has begun to loom over the heads of all ethnic groups in the northwest.

At the end of April of the third year of the Apocalypse, when Yang Hu began to prepare for the construction of the final bridge of the Helan Mountain Railway with great interest, Wan Yi's military report was also sent to the Chang'an base camp by Pegasus, and the battle report was followed by a record of all the performance of the incendiary bomb on the battlefield, which caused no less uproar after being transmitted back to the General Staff Department as no less than Wan Yi's brilliant achievements on the battlefield.