On the morning of July 8, 427, in a desert about 200 miles south of Timirtau Province, 50,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry of the Dongfan tribe, plus 20,000 cavalry and 160,000 infantry of the Anxi Protectorate, had gathered together, and opposite them was the army of Gaochang State, which was like a cover from the sky. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

There were 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry each in the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorates, and they did not line up in front, but stayed in the desert a few miles away, protecting nearly 240,000 women and children of the Dongfan Tribe, as well as nearly 300,000 old and weak women and children in the Anxi Protectorate.

At this time, around the army of the Eastern Tibetan Protectorate and the army of the Anxi Protectorate, the army of the Gaochang State gathered 1.3 million troops, including more than 600,000 troops of the Eastern Governor's Office, 220,000 troops of King Mujshid, nearly 400,000 troops of the other three Metropolitan Governors and more than 50,000 troops of several vassal states, only the 100,000 troops sent by the Western Governorate later, because of the long distance, have not yet arrived here, but even so, the number of troops of the Gaochang Kingdom far exceeds the combined army of the Eastern Fan and the Anxi Protectorate.

Haner Apudu, the Eastern Governor of Gaochang Kingdom, rode on a horse, looking at the troops of the Dongbo tribe and the Anxi Protectorate in the distance, a cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and finally blocked the rebels of the Dongfan tribe and the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate.

In order to completely eliminate the rebels of the Eastern Tibetan tribe and the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate, his Eastern Governor's Mansion paid a very big price, and took the opportunity to pick up the cheap Hawks' Army, and now it has captured the eight provinces of the Oriental Governor's Mansion, and just yesterday news came from Talas City that the cavalry units of the Hawk'an Army have appeared in the territory of Almaz Province and Jezkazgan Province, so that these two provinces will definitely fall into the hands of the Hawk'an Army in the near future.

After all, the two temporary corps of the two provinces, one to Timirtau and the other to Salma, made Almuz and Jezkazgan almost no longer have any ability to resist the Hawkish army.

However, the Eastern Governor Haner Apdu believed that as long as the rebels of the Eastern Tibetan tribe and the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate could be completely eliminated, the price paid by the Eastern Governor would be worth it, and since the Hawkish Army had already extended its hand to Almaz Province and Jezkazgan Province, then he at least did not need to worry about the Hawkish Army appearing here.

Haner Apudu turned his head and said aloud to the twenty or so commanders of the Gaochang Kingdom: "The order of the Governor of the Metropolitan of Chuanben is that all the troops in this battle must fight bravely to kill the enemy, so that the rebels of the Dongbo tribe and the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate will disappear completely, and those who delay the fighters, no matter who they are, will be severely punished!" ”

These 20 or so army commanders of the Gaochang Kingdom belonged to the four major governors and the king Mujshid, and as soon as Haner Apudu's words fell, these army commanders patted their chests and promised that they would not let the rebels of the Dongbo tribe and the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate escape.

At this time, the generals of the Dongfan clan and the Anxi Protectorate looked very solemn, and the Protector Zhao Shiwang of the Anxi Protectorate said to the generals on both sides in a deep voice: "The Gaochang army that appeared around is far more than the total strength of our Anxi Protectorate and the Dongfan Clan, especially the cavalry of the Gaochang Army, there must be at least four or five hundred thousand, our battle will be very difficult, it will not work hard if you don't work hard, it seems that women also have to go to the battlefield!" ”

Nangong Jing, the new patriarch of the Dongfan tribe, also said with a solemn face: "There are still 100,000 young women left in our Dongfan tribe, and they are all equipped with weapons at this time, and if necessary, they can attack the army of Gaochang Kingdom like the men of our Dongfan tribe." ”

Zhao Shiwang, the protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, nodded and said: "Since our Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the team of the Dongfan clan have arrived here, then we have no way back, either to defeat the army of Gaochang State and we successfully return to the Great Jin Dynasty, or the army of Gaochang State will completely encircle and annihilate our Anxi Protectorate and the Dongfan clan here, so this battle is a battle of life and death, and those who do not order to retreat will be killed!" ”

Nangong Jing echoed: "It should be so!" ”

The main force of the Dongfan Protector Army and the Anxi Protectorate Army, a total of only 260,000 people, in the face of the Gaochang Army, which was far beyond their own strength, they did not choose to take the initiative to attack, but let the 30,000 infantry of the Dongfan Nationality and the 160,000 infantry of the Anxi Protectorate put out a huge infantry battle formation, waiting for the Gaochang Army's army to launch an active attack, and the Gaochang Army, as they wished, soon launched an attack on the infantry battle formation of the Dongfan Protector Army and the Anxi Protectorate Army, and a tragic battle began.

Just as the allied forces of the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate were fighting a bloody battle with the Gaochang army, eleven cavalrymen suddenly appeared behind a sand dune seven or eight miles northeast of the battlefield, and in addition to Liu Ji, the remaining ten of these eleven cavalry were Liu Ji's puppet bodyguards.

"Let's stay here, pay attention to the scouts of the Gaochang cavalry, as long as there are scouts of the Gaochang cavalry approaching, we will kill them all!" Liu Ji ordered the ten puppet bodyguards in a deep voice.

On the same day, after Liu Ji and Lian Po, Wang Ben, and Zhang Han studied the current situation, Lian Po, Wang Ben, and Zhang Han all thought that they could not let go of the army of Gaochang State and destroy the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorates, after all, the enemy's enemies were friends, and the armies of the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorates were known for their toughness.

In Liu Ji's heart, it doesn't matter what the Dongfan clan is, it will be destroyed by the Gaochang army, but the Anxi Protectorate, after all, are all Jin people, or after the Great Jin Dynasty withdrew from the Western Regions, the Jin people who have persisted alone in the Western Regions for more than a hundred years, Liu Ji does not want the Anxi Protectorate to be wiped out by the Gaochang Army.

Therefore, after discussion, Liu Ji, Lian Po, Wang Ben, and Zhang Han decided to transfer some troops from the westward army to move closer to the eastward return team of the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate, preparing to rescue the team of the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate from the encirclement of the Gaochang army.

In addition, Heishuitai learned that the Holy Fire Sect had dispatched a large assassination team, ready to assassinate Liu Ji in Ilgu City, just in case, and in order to absorb more soul points on the battlefield, Liu Ji secretly followed the troops of the Westward Legion and left Ilgu City together, Liu Ji only brought the 9,000 cavalry in the Guard Battalion with him, and the remaining 10,000 infantry in the Guard Battalion stayed in Ilgu City and handed them over to Wang Ben and Zhang Han to lead, ready to meet the huge assassination team of the Holy Fire Sect.

This time, in order to rescue the Dongfan people and the Anxi Protectorate, the Westward Advance Army transferred a total of eight cavalry battalions of Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Xu Chu, Wu Yunzhao, Chen Wu, Pan Zhang, Zang Ba, and Cao Xiu, as well as seven infantry battalions of Wang Bodang, Shi Bao, Liang Xing, Gong Yi, Gong Wu, Wei Chi Hui, and Wu Anguo, and then 9,000 cavalry from the Guards Battalion, as well as 9,000 Dongfan cavalry who entered the area controlled by the Jue'an Army.

In addition, Lian Po, the commander of the Westward Advance Army, personally went out this time and brought his 2,000-man guards with him.

In order to keep the infantry from affecting the speed of the cavalry, the 210,000 infantry officers and soldiers of the seven infantry battalions were all given a war horse or a horse, and the westward expansion corps could have drawn more infantry this time, but because there were not enough horses, only seven infantry battalions were sent.

On 7 July, the troops drawn from the Westward Advance Army approached the main battlefield of the Gaochang Army's encirclement of the Dongfan and Anxi Duhufu armies, but Liu Ji and Lian Po immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing and set up camp in a small oasis of several tens of square kilometers, which was at least seventy or eighty miles from the main battlefield.

Shangguan Qiu, the commander of the 10,000 cavalry of the Dongfan tribe, was very dissatisfied with Liu Ji and Lian Po's orders, and even ran to Liu Ji and Lian Po and asked Liu Ji and Lian Po, why didn't they move on? Didn't you say that our Dongfan clan and the team of the Anxi Protectorate had already left Anxi City? Why don't you go and pick up our team from the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorates as soon as possible?

Immediately, Shangguanqiu, the commander of the Dongfan tribe, was sent away by Liu Ji with a sentence that the situation ahead was unclear, although this time it was a team to rescue the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate, but it did not mean that the eight cavalry battalions and seven infantry battalions of the Westward Advance Legion should be compensated, even if Liu Ji had already felt that the great battle between the Gaochang Army and the Dongfan Clan and the Anxi Protectorate was about to break out, and they were not ready to let the eight cavalry battalions and seven infantry battalions of the Westward Advance Legion appear immediately.

Although the Westward Advance Army was not ready to enter this big battle between the Gaochang army and the Dongfan clan and the Anxi Protectorate, Liu Ji quietly infiltrated the battlefield with ten puppet bodyguards, on the one hand, to observe the situation of this big battle, and on the other hand, to absorb soul points.

For Liu Ji's willful behavior, Lian Po was originally strongly opposed, after all, Lian Po didn't know that Liu Ji could absorb the soul value from the people who had just died, thinking that Liu Ji was just to observe the situation on the battlefield, but in the end, Lian Po still couldn't stop Liu Ji, so Liu Ji ran to the battlefield with ten puppet bodyguards.

Liu Ji's distance of absorbing soul points has now expanded to within twenty kilometers, so Liu Ji took ten puppet bodyguards and found a sand dune seven or eight miles away from the main battlefield of the two sides, and quietly began to suck soul points.

The battle between the Gaochang army and the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate lasted until the evening of July 8, when the exhausted two sides temporarily stopped, and after a brief cleaning of the battlefield, the armies of both sides slowly retreated and began to camp in the desert, waiting for the next battle tomorrow.

On this day's battle, both sides suffered very heavy losses, and on the side of the Dongfan and Anxi Duhufu, the army alone lost almost 100,000 people, and also lost 60,000 old people, teenagers and women.

The number of troops of Gaochang State far exceeded that of the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorate, and the Gaochang Army attacked the main army of the Dongfan and Anxi Protectorate in front of it, and also sent a large number of troops to attack the rear team of the Dongfan Nationality and the Anxi Protectorate, and in the face of life and death, the old people, teenagers, and women of the Dongfan Tribe and the Anxi Protectorate all took up arms and fought with the Gaochang Army, and broke out with a very strong combat effectiveness.

The rear troops of the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate only exchanged the lives of 60,000 old men, teenagers, and women, plus the loss of 15,000 out of the 40,000 troops, for the loss of almost 100,000 people in the Gaochang army.

The 85,000 people lost by the main army of the Dongfan tribe and the Anxi Protectorate were exchanged for the lives of more than 200,000 troops of the Gaochang State.

On the evening of 8 July, in a felt bag in the temporary camp of the Dongfan people and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Zhao Shiwang, the Metropolitan Protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Feng Zhongkun, the Metropolitan Protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Shanshi, the Metropolitan Protector of the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, and Sun Xibao, the Metropolitan Protector of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, gathered here, and everyone's faces were very solemn.

Zhao Shiwang, the protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, said in a deep voice: "Today's battle with the army of Gaochang Kingdom, our four Protectorates combined, the army alone lost 65,000 people, and 40,000 old people, teenagers and women were also killed in the battle with the Gaochang Army, and now our four Protectorates add up to about 390,000 people, of which the army is 135,000, and the army of Gaochang Kingdom, without the slightest sign of retreat, will definitely continue tomorrow." ”

Feng Zhongkun, the protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, immediately said: "No matter what, we also have to fight, since the four of us have left Anxi City, then we have no chance to go back, now we can only fight hard, there is a chance to survive!" ”

Zhao Shiwang hesitated for a moment and said: "If we continue to fight like this, the four of us will really fight out, maybe tomorrow our four Protectors and the Dongfan clan will be able to hold on under the attack of the Gaochang Army, but what should we do the day after tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?" ”

Li Shancheng, the capital protector of the Kunling Metropolitan Protector Mansion, frowned and asked, "Zhao Duhu, what do you mean?" The four of us have been surrounded here by the army of Gaochang State, what else can we do but fight hard? ”

Zhao Shiwang said in a deep voice: "It is impossible for all of us to leave together with the four Duhu Mansion and all the people of the Dongfan Clan, Bendu Hu just discussed with Nangong Jing, the patriarch of the Dongfan Clan, and is ready to disperse and break through tomorrow, no matter how much you can escape, it is better than the annihilation of the whole army!" ”

Feng Zhongkun, the protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Shanshi, the Metropolitan Protector of the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, and Sun Xibao, the Protector of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, looked at each other, and there was a look of despair in their eyes, they did not expect that Gao Changguo could mobilize so many troops to encircle and suppress the four Metropolitan Protectorates and the Dongfan clan, and they would have decided to return to the east in such a hurry if they knew it.