A gust of cold wind from the Western Regions rolled up countless winds and sand, making Zhang Liao, who had just come out of the tent, uncomfortable in his nose, but fortunately, in these days, he had long been accustomed to the environment of the Western Regions.

I remember that when I started to enter the Western Regions, Zhang Liao was not less swept by the wind and sand, although this Western Regions war exploit is something that everyone wants to take, but this crime is not something that people can bear.

The "Sima ......" guards outside the tent who stood up to guard the subordinates, as soon as they saw Zhang Liao come out, they saluted one after another, these people were all the township party cronies brought by Zhang Liao from Bingzhou, most of them were relatives of the Zhang family, about 20 people.

Of course, don't look at Zhang Liao's expedition to have so many relatives to guard, I think that the Zhang family is a local hero, but in fact, since the time of Emperor Wu of the former Han Dynasty, the ancestors of the Zhang family have declined, but the ancestors of the Zhang family at that time were not surnamed Zhang, but surnamed Nie, and the name was one.

Nie Yi is a wealthy merchant in the area of Yanmen and Mayi in the former Han Dynasty, and is the initiator of the famous "Mayi Strategy" in the former Han Dynasty.

It's a pity that the ambush that the former Han Dynasty had prepared for a long time was exposed by a small Wei Shi, and finally died without a problem, and as the initiator of the "Ma Yi Strategy", Nie Yi knew that he had offended the Huns, and lost his credit in the Han Dynasty, and even broke into a monstrous disaster, so that the Han Dynasty spent countless money and grain without any gain.

After everything calmed down, some people returned to their homeland, including Zhang Liao's ancestors, in order to avoid being held accountable for revenge, the Zhang clan never changed their surnames back.

This is the past of the ancestors of the Zhang family, and it is precisely because of this that the family is in decline, bearing a lot of family hatred, talented, and hoping to revive the family, Zhang Liao, will be willing to be a county official early and join the army, in order to get ahead and revitalize the family.

This time, to be able to be transferred, expedition to the Western Regions, it can be said that Zhang Liao is extremely happy, today to get up so early, the reason is naturally for the upcoming decisive battle between the Han army and the Han Sui army, expectations, after all, only military exploits are the basis for his promotion and revitalization of the family.

Seeing everyone saluting, Zhang Liao said "um" lightly, then turned around, raised his eyes, and in the dim field of vision, he seemed to see cooking smoke rising, looming, it was almost time to eat.

Since Fuquan came to power, he started because of his military exploits, and it can be said that he strictly forbade the Han army in the past to deduct soldiers and embezzle military funds, and sent people to supervise it from time to time.

The Han army clearly stipulated that before the war, as long as the conditions permitted, the soldiers must have meat in the meal, although at this time, although out of the fortress, but the army from Liangzhou still brought a lot of cattle and sheep, completely enough for the soldiers to eat in several successive battles.

Since the Han Dynasty successively swept away the Xianbei, Northern Xiongnu, Tuge, Wuhuan, Qiang and other foreign races, the seized cattle, horses and sheep were already many, plus after Fuquan took power, relying on the foundation of these livestock, used various measures, in addition to the border land, also encouraged the border officials to pay attention to animal husbandry.

Now, a few years of work has been completed, the three sides of the land, cattle and horses are herds, and even the excess inferior cattle and horses can be imported into the Central Plains for cultivation, which can be described as a prosperous image.

Since Ma Teng took charge of Dunhuang County, he was born in Liangzhou and was familiar with the logistics preparations for the expedition, in addition to preparing nearly 100,000 war horses for the expedition, he also found Zang Min, the assassin of Liangzhou, informed the idea, obtained his promise, gathered the power of Liangzhou, and prepared more than 200,000 cattle and sheep for the army to eat, otherwise, only with the strength of Dunhuang County, although Ma Teng can raise the strength of the whole county of Dunhuang today, he can also make up these cattle and sheep, but it will definitely make the strength of Dunhuang County greatly damaged.

This time, the Han army went out of the fortress, although it implemented the strategy of feeding the war with war in the grand strategy, but it itself had to bring food, otherwise it would starve to death before it could fight with the enemy, wouldn't that be a loss? Therefore, they can only learn the routine of the Hu people's expeditions in the past, and directly send out the troops with cattle and sheep, so as to ensure the basic food of the soldiers.

The cupboard guards began to kill cattle and sheep from late at night, put them into a cauldron, and simmer them for several hours, the flavor of the meat can be said to be extremely rich, even if Zhang Liao is far away from there, it is also drifting into Zhang Liao's nostrils along the breeze, which makes people can't help but have a big appetite and salivate.

At this time, a relative guard said: "I was supposed to call Sima Shaoqing and get up to eat, but I don't want Sima to wake up on his own......"

Zhang Liao bowed his head, didn't say much, not long after, the drum sounded, the sleeping Han army soldiers, hearing the drums, hurriedly turned over and got up, dizzy scrambling for clothes and boots, noisy and shouting, dressed, holding weapons, rushing out of the big tent, leading their horses, and finding their respective queues.

Zhang Liao stood with his hands in his hands, nodding his head again and again, not to mention anything else, just talking about the speed of the gathering of soldiers, all the armies of the Western Regions, even the soldiers and horses of Han Sui's old thief, could only follow the Han army and eat ashes.

Of course, this is still cavalry, if it is replaced by foot soldiers, the speed of the Han army may be faster, but this expedition, the hussar general did not send it for logistical reasons and other reasons.

However, this is nothing, although there are no foot soldiers, the superior military formation of the Han army cannot be brought into play, but Zhang Liao believes that the 30,000 Han cavalry with such sharp weapons as stirrups and horseshoes will definitely make the countries of the Western Regions cold.

Thinking of the shock when he rode a war horse equipped with stirrups and horseshoes for the first time, Zhang Liao still couldn't forget the appearance when he rode his horse and wielded a long knife, these two sharp weapons can completely make ordinary knights become warriors in an instant.

It is no wonder that when the hussar general was the pastor of Liangzhou, the general Huang Zhong was able to create the Han cavalry, facing twice as strong the enemy, causing dozens of damages, and defeating the myth of the enemy, it is really difficult for the hussar general to come up with such a subtle thing.

Zhang Liao's subordinates were mainly from the northern counties of Bingzhou, mixed with some Central Plains soldiers, and his guards had the same background, and many of them were from Yanmen County, a border area. These township parties were all selected by him and other Han army generals after he went to Dunhuang with the army.

Fuquan stationed troops in Dunhuang in advance, but did not immediately arrange the commanders above the commander of the tun, so he had this intention, it was really that he drew too many soldiers and horses from all over the world, and these elite soldiers had the regional discrimination that the Han army had always had.

Since ancient times, the township party has the deepest connection, and Fu Quan knows this well, so he intends to let these future generals arranged by him be selected. Zhang Liao is not an incompetent person, and even other Simas and school captains are the same, when selecting soldiers, they are mainly based on the township party first, and then supplement other soldiers and horses in the end.

For this expedition in the Western Regions, each of their generals knew the importance of it, and they all wanted to win a meritorious service on the battlefield, so they naturally selected troops very carefully.

The Han soldiers were in an orderly manner, sitting in a group with a group of soldiers and teams, eating the wheat rice that the army had brought from afar, chewing large pieces of meat, and drinking broth, which was delicious for the soldiers who were so bored on the march.

From time to time, you can see that some grassroots officers in the army took the initiative to take out the wine in their hands and drink a few sips with the soldiers under their command. Most of the people are used to killing, and drinking before the war will not only not disturb their minds, but will be more sober and increase their force value.

When they had eaten to their heart's content, these veterans would take advantage of what might have been their last leisure time before the war to talk about their past experiences, or tell such and such a bad story, or even tell some meat jokes, relieving each other's tensions. From time to time, there was a burst of laughter, and continued to radiate around, and in a moment, the Han army in the entire camp was in a relatively relaxed atmosphere, of course, for these elite soldiers who had experienced a lot of war, they naturally knew that all this was just an illusion of their self-comfort, and when the two armies fought, I don't know if they still had the opportunity to eat a mouthful of meat, drink a sip of wine, chat with each other and fart.

Zhang Liao was not in a hurry to eat, but took his subordinates and guards to travel everywhere to comfort the soldiers, and every time they passed, the soldiers got up and saluted, with a touch of admiration in their eyes.

Although Zhang Liao is only 24 years old this year, he has been famous for a long time, when he was young, he was a thief Cao Peng of Yanmen County, and in just one year, he led the county soldiers to level more than a dozen horse thieves, robbers, and bandits, and became a famous young warrior in northern Xinjiang.

Later, Zhang Liao was even more because of his superior force, appointed as the governor of the state, followed Lu Bu and others, attacked Montenegro in the east, slaughtered each in the west, repeatedly beheaded the bandit leaders, Hu chieftains, and the weak crown came out.

For the people of Bingzhou, especially the people in the north of Bingzhou, without the leadership of Lu Bu, the general of Bingzhou, Zhang Liao is their hero, and even Gao Shun, who has the same military achievements as him, cannot compare, so these Bingzhou soldiers selected by Zhang Liao know their command and are willing to serve their lives.

Zhang Liaoqiang endured hunger, and after going around the camp for a week, he cared for his soldiers from time to time, talked a few words, and waited until he watched them finish eating, and then went back to eat some meat and rice to fill his stomach with his subordinates.

The west gate of the Han army camp is the closest to the Han Sui army opposite, after the Han army in various places finished eating, the formation was completed, Zhang Liao held a long knife in his hand, stared closely at the gate of the Han army camp, and wanted to leave the camp.

The benefits of camping in Ximen are undoubtedly obvious, that is, the soldiers and horses under his command will be the first to engage the enemy, at this moment Zhang Liao's heart and blood are becoming more and more fanatical, he wants to win the first merit of the expedition to the Western Regions, make a name for the state, and revitalize the family.

At that time, the sky was still not bright, and the white light that pierced through the dawn was sometimes more like the moonlight on the borderland.

It's just that the military order doesn't care about this kind of scenery, and after a while, "Boom! Boom! Boom! The slow and heavy drum beat of the ...... swept across the entire camp in an instant.

The soldiers of the Han army, who had already mounted their horses in formation, immediately swept away their original relaxed atmosphere before and after meals, and replaced it with a dignified and boundless dignified......

The soldiers began to check their armor and blades for the last time, some were thinking about their lives, some were looking forward to military exploits, some were looking forward to victory, and they were going home as soon as possible, and some were accustomed to life and death, no matter what their attitude, they were all waiting for the order of the superior, and then went straight to the battlefield, and had a cruel battle with the enemy that was either you die or I die.

"Out of the camp!"

With the Han army's main general Fu De shouted, 25,000 Han cavalry, poured out, this battle, as the first battle of the Han army, Fu De is determined to win, and he is not ready to leave any guards at all.

Before the Han army left the camp, the treacherous and cunning Han Sui had already ordered the soldiers to eat in advance, and quietly went out of the camp to line up, knowing that the Han army with stirrups and horseshoes was terrifying, and knew that the number of cavalry on his side was less than that of the Han army, so he could only fight the Han army with a foot formation, so he deliberately left the camp early to step into the formation.

When the Han cavalry arrived ten miles in front of Han Sui's camp, they saw that on the opposite side, Han Sui's army had more than 50,000 cavalry, and they had already set up a large array, ready to go, just waiting for the Han army to come.

On both sides of the Han Sui army, there were about 5,000 horsemen wandering around, all over the battlefield, many Han soldiers saw that those Han Sui cavalry had two iron stirrups under their feet, and they couldn't help frowning a little, although they didn't know the strength of these cavalry, but with stirrups, they couldn't help but pay attention to it.

Thinking that although Han Sui was defeated by the hussar general and retreated to the Western Regions, his strategy was not within the reach of ordinary people, it seemed that this battle was not as easy as they thought before.

And in the Han Sui army array, with the shouts of the Western Regions Hu language and Liangzhou sound, one after another, I saw thousands of Western Regions Hu and Liangzhou Han people, united together, moving with slogans.

The generals of the Han army looked at it closely, and their brows furrowed even deeper, because what they were struggling to push was dozens of large bed crossbows, and at this moment, these people were in the Han Sui army formation, trying to move the bed crossbows to the best position.

Fu De rode his horse, looked at Han Suijun's preparations in advance, and said in a somewhat solemn tone: "Before leaving Luoyang, my brother warned me that I should be careful to guard against Han Sui'er, his scheming is so deep that it is rare to see in the world, I didn't think that he actually hid a bed crossbow, but it was a little difficult to do." ”

Sima Yi, who was appointed by Fuquan as an assistant to the army, although he didn't know Han Sui's scheming, he was not frightened by the bed crossbow, and said on Fu De's side: "Han Sui's old thief has exhausted all kinds of scheming, if he only relies on the bed crossbow, this is wrong, the general does not need to fight hard with him face to face, only need to leave a soldier and horse to deal with his army, after the rest of the cavalry rushed to attack the thief, the bed crossbow is bulky and not easy to drag, even if Han Sui has dozens of bed crossbows, it is useless!" This earthquake is beyond its own strength, and the mantis arm is used as a car, and the road to defeat is in vain.! ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't measure yourself, or if you use your mantis arm as a car, the old thief still has this scheming, why be afraid?" After hearing this, Fu De smiled coldly, raised his hand, and shouted: "Order, all units of the front army control the distance, after the attack on the thieves, the rear army will contain the enemy formation, and when the time comes, the four years will be encircled, and the drums will be beaten...... Marching into ......"

Fu De is not a fool, Han Suijun has a bed crossbow, he will not charge directly as soon as he slips through the smoke, even if Sima Yi doesn't say it, he will also use the tactics of outflanking and besieging the enemy from all sides. If Han Sui has no other secret moves, this battle will be hanging!

Soon, the Han army was ordered to attack, which was the first battle after the Marquis of Fude, and for him, there was absolutely no room for loss.