After kneeling and saluting, Zhao Ziliang handed over the edict to Dugu Jun, turned to Wang Jin and asked, "Lord Wang has ever seen Brother Wang Wei when he arrives in Western Qin?" ”

Wang Jin shook his head and said: "No, the lower official heard that he went to the Tocharian Capital Protectorate to be an official, if he wanted to meet his brother, he was afraid that he would have to take a long detour and delay a lot of time, so he didn't go!" ”

Zhao Ziliang sighed and said to the two: "Since Lord Wang and General Zang have come to the shore of the Khazar Khanate and the Khazar Sea (Caspian Sea), they will stay here for a few more days to see the grassland scenery here." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The Khazar army will arrive here tomorrow, the decisive battle between our army and the Khazar army will be within these two days, if the two of you are not afraid, you can stay and watch the battle scene, this can be regarded as a national battle between my Western Qin and the Khazar Khanate, the total number of troops dispatched by both sides has reached 100,000, this kind of force scale is not common in the Western Regions! ”

Zang Xiyan was a little interested, and said, "I'm very interested, but I don't know how Lord Wang is?" ”

Wang Jin smiled and said: "It's a blessing to be able to see the king commanding the army to fight with his own eyes, since General Zang is interested, how can the lower officials not give up their lives to accompany the general?" ”

The three laughed: "Hahaha・・・・・・"

Li Yu, the new emperor of the Tang Empire, ascended the throne and changed the yuan, taking this year (762 AD) as the first year of Baoying, which was for the Tang Dynasty! Zhao Ziliang ordered that the Western Qin Kingdom follow the era name and calendar of the Li Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains.

The eighth day of June, night!

Zhao Ziliang held a grand welcome ceremony in the camp to welcome the arrival of Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan, and at the welcome banquet, various programs came one after another, such as playing and singing, singing and dancing, wrestling, sword competition, horse racing, archery, tug-of-war, polo, and bowing one after another, so that Wang Jin and Zang Xiyan applauded loudly, and tens of thousands of soldiers who watched broke out into bursts of warm applause.

A tug-of-war game was going on on the field, and more than 100 people on both sides used their strength to pull the thick hemp rope, and the onlookers shouted cheers.

Wang Jin turned his head to Zhao Ziliang and said: "King, Xiaguan has opened his eyes today, I didn't expect that there are so many interesting things in this world besides singing and dancing!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "This is nothing, our programs and activities are relatively gentle, focusing on participation, cultivating everyone's unity, and being more entertaining." It is said that in addition to singing and dancing in the Eastern Roman Empire, there is also an activity called gladiatorial fighting, extremely bloody, up to the emperor, down to the common people are very keen to watch and participate, their government specially built a gladiatorial arena that can accommodate tens of thousands of people, put the enemy prisoners captured in the war into it, let the two captives fight each other, not only the government opened the handicap, even the people also opened the handicap to bet on who lives and who dies, the people, the nobles want to go in to watch must pay for tickets, the audience can bet on who wins, People outside the market can also participate in this kind of gambling. If there were no prisoners of war, in order to maintain the business and operation of the gladiatorial arena, the official would send people to capture or pay for the purchase of large beasts, so that the prisoners sentenced to death would fight with the large beasts in the gladiatorial arena, and the prisoners had to fight with the beasts in order to survive! ”

Wang Jin was surprised: "This person from the Eastern Roman Empire is so cruel? ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Not all people in the Eastern Roman Empire are so cruel, most of the people who have this kind of heavy taste are officials, nobles, soldiers, royal families and their families, their spiritual life is relatively boring, and they are more fond of this kind of bloody activity after long-term suppression, most of the ordinary people are on the life and death line to solve the problem of food and clothing, how can they have time to watch this bloody activity, and the tickets are not cheap!" ”

"I see! It's a pity that there is not enough time, otherwise Xia Guan really wants to go to the Eastern Roman Empire to have a look! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "It's not impossible for Lord Wang to go, in fact, this place is not far from the Crimean Peninsula of the Eastern Roman Empire, and it is only four days away on horseback, and when you reach Kerch on the shore of the Sea of Azov, you can enter the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov by sea boat, and after about ten days of sailing, you can reach Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire!" If you hurry up a little faster, you can arrive in eleven or twelve days! We have sent envoys to Constantinople all the year round, and the letter of resignation from this king will be sent through official channels, and the envoys stationed in Constantinople will arrange everything for the king."

Wang Jin shook his head and said: "Forget it, this is still the territory of the Khazar Khanate, and I am afraid that the Sea of Azov will be in danger when I go to the Sea of Azov!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said confidently: "After tomorrow, this will not be the Khazar Khanate!" ”

The tug-of-war ended with the cheers of the spectators, followed by the start of the polo match. Soon after the game began, Wang Can walked up to Zhao Ziliang and whispered: "King, General Zhao Hu sent someone to report that the naval army has been trained and can cross the sea to fight!" ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately said: "Order him to immediately lead the army across the sea to attack Samandar!" ”

"No!"

On the ninth day of the sixth month of the first year of Baoying, the Khazar army under the leadership of Habil caught up with the Western Qin army, and the Western Qin army had been waiting here for a long time.

"Newspaper - King, the Khazarian army is less than fifty miles away from our army!" The Huya Army detective Sentinel Pegasus came to report.

After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang ordered: "Pass on the order of the king of this army, and the whole army will set off to meet the Khazarian army!" The Huya Army continues to probe the movements of the Khazarian army! ”

"Yes, King!"

Nearly 30,000 Western Qin troops set up a long snake formation to quickly advance in the direction of the Khazar army, cavalry combat focuses on maneuver and rapid reaction, this place is still fifty miles away from the Khazar army, the long snake formation can maintain the fastest possible marching speed, but also can become other formations in a very short time.

The reason why Zhao Ziliang took the initiative to lead the army to meet the battle instead of waiting for the arrival of the Khazar army in the same place had three main intentions and purposes: first, to seize the initiative; second, not to give the Khazarian army time to rest; Third, don't give Habir time for other deployments! Forced Habir to immediately fight a decisive battle.

The two armies are coming in the opposite direction, and the sentinel scouts on both sides have already fought in the middle, and the officers and men of the Huya Army are the elite of the elite who have undergone extremely strict and brutal training, and Zhao Ziliang can be confident that there is no army in the world today that can compare with them.

In the competition of the scout outposts, the Huya army of Western Qin had the upper hand at the beginning and was soon in absolute advantage, and the ranger sentry posts of the Khazar army were almost wiped out, and only a few escaped back.

The Ranger Sentinel could no longer detect the situation of the Western Qin army, which made Habil a little anxious, he began to hesitate, and ordered the army to slow down the march, until the Western Qin army was only five miles away from his Khazar army, he regained some grasp of the situation of the Western Qin army, but at this time it was too late to make other deployments.

The Western Qin army is based on a slope under the leadership of Zhao Ziliang, and the Khazar army is slowly coming towards them, although the two sides are still five miles away, but Habil has no choice, at this time it is impossible to avoid the battle and retreat, once retreating, the Western Qin army has raised enough horsepower to fight and kill, and the Khazar army will not even have a chance to turn over.

Today's temperature is a little high, the sun is at the top, the scorching heat is nothing for the soldiers of the Western Qin Army, they have lived in the surrounding areas of the Central Asian desert these years, and they have long been accustomed to it, but the Khazar army was originally a northern nomad, they are not tolerant of the heat, love the cold, so they have to migrate to the north every summer to escape the heat, the west bank of the Volga River is a good place for them to escape the heat, but it has now become the pasture of the Western Qin army.

The scorching sun was in the sky, there was no breeze, Daxu and Jingqi were hanging weakly, the war horses were constantly wheezing due to the scorching heat, and the foreheads of the soldiers of the Western Qin Army were so sunburned that a layer of fine sweat was faintly oozing, but no one reached out to wipe the sweat.

The Western Qin army is divided into three parts: left, center, and right, and the distance between the three armies is about two miles, which seems to be not a short distance, but compared to the total strength of nearly 50,000 on the battlefield, these two miles are really not long.

The reason for this deployment was to prevent a flank attack by the Khazarian army, although there was no information that the Khazar army had sent another division, but this was also to prevent it from happening. In addition, if the whole army is divided into three parts, and the distance between the various armies can be two miles away, it will be convenient to mobilize support, and if all the forces are concentrated together, in case any part of the battle is unfavorable, it will be very difficult to send troops and horses to reinforce it, because there is no gap and channel for mobilization, and there is no such problem in this deployment.

Zhao Ziliang was observing the Khazar army that was slowly approaching and forming a position in the march, Wang Can quietly walked over and whispered in his ear: "Wang, some brothers reported that they had discovered a new situation, there are three thousand mercenary infantry in the Khazarian army, but looking at their appearance, they don't look like mercenaries, because their military discipline is strict, their behavior is straightforward, and they are obviously regular troops that have undergone strict training. These are the three thousand heavy infantry of the Eastern Roman Empire supporting the Khazar Khanate! ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang was quite surprised when he heard this, and after thinking for a moment, he whispered a few words to Wang Can.

Wang Can hugged his fists and said: "The last general understands, let's do it!" ”

The heavy infantry of the Roman Empire has always been a sharp weapon in the army, in this regard, the Western Roman Empire has developed the heavy infantry to the extreme, but if it encounters the light cavalry of the nomads, it will only be passively beaten, the light cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and the use of cavalry shooting is constantly carried out long-distance strikes, and the heavy infantry can not catch up, of course, this is in the case of a wide battlefield, once the light cavalry loses the roundabout space for high-speed maneuver and is entangled by the heavy infantry, it will be really miserable.

Now, on such a battlefield with a total strength of nearly 50,000 horses, the use of light cavalry against heavy infantry seems to be ineffective, and Attila, the king of the Huns three hundred years ago, suffered this kind of big loss in the last battle.