Although the battle was won, Zhao Ziliang was not happy at all, the camp was burned to the sky, all the tents were sewn from cowhide or sheepskin, these things burned very smelly, and at the end of the battle, there were few tents in the camp that were intact.

The Arabs attacked very well, although they were fooled, but the first thing they did when they rushed into the camp was not to kill people, but to set fire everywhere, and set fire to most of the tents, people with a little military common sense know that the first priority of attacking the camp is not to kill people, but to set fires, and large-scale arson can make people who are sleeping panic and panic, so that they can make a mess and cannot organize effective resistance, which the Arabs know the essence.

In addition to the fact that most of the tents had been burned, the horses that had been placed at the entrance of the camp had been picked up everywhere by the Arab cavalry with spears and collapsed, and the surrounding wooden fence had been badly destroyed, leaving little defense.

The tent burned down, and the wooden fence didn't work, so Zhao Ziliang could only let the soldiers sleep outside, and simply removed the destroyed wooden fences to burn firewood, and set up several fires in the middle of the camp again, so that the soldiers could rest around the fire.

Chen Qingying's mother and daughter and the blacksmith Fu Kun were summoned by Chu Ge, and they worked with the military doctor to treat and bandage the wounds of the wounded soldiers.

Chu Ge walked over and bowed his hand to Zhao Ziliang and said, "General, the bodies of both the enemy and us have been buried. There must be more than two or three hundred troops in Kangguo, so it seems that we have to be careful tonight! ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "I'm not worried about tonight, after the fiasco just now, the enemy army should not come again tonight, but more than a dozen people were escaped by them before, and their main general should be among them, I am worried that they will not give up, and we may have ** annoyance in the next few days!" In any case, let the soldiers rest well, and tell everyone that food and water are sufficient, and in the future, it will be three meals a day, and one meal will not be less, so that the soldiers should not worry."

"No!"

Early the next morning, Zhao Ziliang asked Chu Ge to inform everyone to prepare to continue on the road, and called Brehan and said, "Brehan, I'll give you a task!" ”

Brehan immediately stroked his chest and said, "Please give the general's orders!" ”

"General Ben is worried that we are likely to be attacked by the big cannibals next, most of us here have superb riding skills, even if we can't beat it, we can still retreat and escape, but the riding skills of those two women and the blacksmith Fu Kun are far behind, so I want you to personally bring a few people who are responsible for the safety of Chen Qingying's mother and daughter and Fu Kun, if something happens to them, General Ben is the only one who asks!"

"No! Please rest assured, even if Brehan is dead, nothing will happen to them! ”

"Good, go ahead!"

A breakfast, everyone was well fed, in last night's battle, many Arab horses died in the battle, in line with the principle of not wasting, before dawn, Zhao Ziliang asked the men to set up an iron pot to cook horse meat, so that everyone was full, but he asked the soldiers to bury all their dead horses, which has nothing to do with beliefs and principles. He has always told the soldiers that the war horse and weapons are the brothers and second life of a soldier, and they are not allowed to discard their weapons and equipment at any time, and they are not allowed to eat the meat of their war horses or drink the blood of their war horses until they have to do so.

After breakfast, the team continued to advance to the southwest under the leadership of Zhao Ziliang, where Kang Guo was located, and thirty-two servants were killed in the battle last night, and now there are more than 190 people left in the whole team, and all the wounded soldiers and non-combatants are behind.

Just forty miles ahead of Zhao Ziliang and his entourage, Aple fled here with more than a dozen cavalry last night, and his main force of 500 people was also stationed here, and when he came out, he brought 800 people, and yesterday afternoon he sent 300 people to raid Zhao Ziliang's camp, originally thought that 300 cavalry was enough to annihilate Zhao Ziliang and his party, but he didn't expect that Zhao Ziliang and his subordinates were extremely strong in combat, and they were also ambushed, not only did not destroy Zhao Ziliang's mission, but let the men and horses he brought almost all the troops annihilated, Only he and a dozen horsemen were left to escape.

This night, Apule didn't sleep, he couldn't sleep, the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and before dawn he summoned the generals to discuss in his big tent.

Aple clenched his fists and said to the following generals with a gloomy face: "I have always heard that the Tang people are cunning, and last night's battle really made me see how cunning the Tang people are, they only left more than thirty people in the camp, so that the general thought that they were all sleeping in the camp, so he could rest assured that he led the army to rush in, but he didn't expect the Tang people to hide most of the main forces on the sand dunes on the northwest side, waiting for us to all rush into the camp, and then they rushed down and killed us by surprise, it was really hateful, three hundred warriors when I went, But only a dozen people came back! ”

A subordinate general stood up and saluted: "General, we have lost so many people, if we go back like this, General Arap will definitely not let us have a good time, according to our subordinates, we might as well order all the horses to fight with the Tang people again!" ”

Aple nodded when he heard this, but he was a little hesitant, he was frightened by Zhao Ziliang's tricks last night, "You are right, but the ・・・・・・ Tang people are as cunning as foxes, if we are calculated by them again, won't we be wiped out?" ”

The general said: "General, since the other party is cunning, then we will not fight with them and play tricks, and directly have a dignified decisive battle with them, and the subordinates will not believe it, we have 500 invincible warriors who have experienced a hundred battles and cannot defeat the opponent with less than 200 people!" We will conquer all the peoples of the East by force, defeat them with dignity, and let the Tang people know that the people of Allah Allah are invincible! If they want to win over the Zhaowu Sogdians, it's a fool's dream! ”

Aple listened to the general's words and couldn't help nodding: "Not bad, in that case, then let's have a dignified fight with the Tang people, everyone listens to the order, immediately let the warriors eat, and after eating, they will set off to meet the Tang army!" ”

"Yes!"

At about ten o'clock in the morning, Zhao Ziliang and his party were walking on a sand dune ridge, and a horse on a sentry came galloping, shouting all the way: "Report-report-"

"General Qiyu, there is an army twenty miles ahead, with a well-groomed appearance, about five hundred people, all masked, just like the enemy army that attacked our army yesterday night, is approaching our army at a marching speed of sixty miles per hour!"

In the desert, the march cannot be as fast as on flat ground, and the march of thirty miles per hour is already very fast. Zhao Ziliang estimated that according to the current marching speed of the two sides, it would only take about ten minutes for the two sides to meet.

Zhao Ziliang was thinking about countermeasures, and Chu Gece immediately stepped forward and said: "General, the other party's men and horses are two and a half times that of our army, and there is a huge difference in strength, so our subordinates still avoid their edge and immediately make a detour before encountering them!" ”

"Detour?" Zhao Ziliang said and shook his head, "After suffering last night's defeat, the other party's main general must be unwilling, do you think they will let us go if we take a detour?" They disguised themselves as horse bandits because they didn't want to reveal their identities, but they didn't want us to go to Kangguo, and they wouldn't stop until they eliminated us! If we avoid the war, they will definitely stare at us like wolves, as long as we relax a little, they will pounce on us and bite hard, rather than being gradually eaten by them and finally all die, it is better to fight to the death with them, with our combat effectiveness, we will not necessarily lose! ”

Chu Ge said: "What the general said is very true, and his subordinates are not thoughtful!" General, shall we catch up now? ”

Zhao Ziliang observed the surrounding terrain and raised his hand: "No, since they are here, why should we rush to meet them and spend our physical strength and spirit?" We are now in a high place, surrounded by a wide and open space, which can be killed and retreated at any time, or can be outflanked in a roundabout way, and the order to go down, let the wounded soldiers and non-combatants all retreat back ten miles and hide, and order the combatants to feed and water the horses, and nourish their spirits, and we will wait here for work! ”