At the beginning of spring in 387 AD, Gao Chang finally tore off his docile and amiable appearance, revealing a hideous and terrifying face, and the army stared at the northwest direction. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to go to Wusun, Gaochang gathered thousands of camels and horses to ensure the logistics supply of the army.

At the beginning of March, when everything was ready, Wei Shuo bid farewell to Yang Han and Song Xuan, took Li Wei as the vanguard, and personally led the army to ride north with 12,000 steps, opening the prelude to the conquest of Wusun Kingdom.

Knowing that the main force of Wusun was heading north to meet the Yuebanren, Wei Shuo immediately ordered the army to march forward to fight for the main force of Wusun to return to the division and take the land and population in the eastern part of Wusun.

The remnant sun hanging in the western sky painted the golden sand dunes with a layer of red, and the snowy Tianshan Mountains in the distance were also dyed with the color of blood by its yang at this time.

A gust of wind blew, and the sand and dust on the ground were rolled up, and they scattered after a few spins on the ground.

Suddenly, a black dot slowly appeared behind the sand dunes high on the southern horizon. As the sun set brighter, the black dots grew larger and larger, and after a few moments there was a faint rumbling sound faintly from the south, and gradually the sound of people neighing came from far and near.

A foraging lizard, as if sensing something, stopped its creepy move towards the spider, raised its head alertly, felt the earth tremble, and then, as if frightened, suddenly dragged its long tail headlong into the sand.

Suddenly, the black dot quickly grew larger, stretched into a neat horizontal column, swept across the entire sand dune, and then rushed down.

Countless cavalry seemed to erupt from the ground, and they appeared faster and faster and in greater number.

In the end, it finally became a black patch, like an overwhelming black flood, undulating and rushing on the continuous sand dunes, raising sand and dust that covered the sky and the sun, with a low rumbling sound like rolling thunder, constantly pouring down from the sand dunes, covering the entire blood-colored desert endlessly.

The leading general was dressed in bright light armor, and under the setting sun, it shone with a golden light. As a result of the rapid gallop, the white cotton cloak behind him, as if straightened, rolled in the air and crackled.

The sand, which looked as smooth as silk from a distance, left a long series of pits after his mount had stepped on it.

Soon, where he had trodden, countless horses' hooves fell again like a torrential rain, rushing forward with a low roar and a cloud of dust.

The poor lizard, pipped out from under the sand where it was hiding by the hooves of the horse with its iron palms. When the endless stream of iron finally passed, and the desert returned to desolation and silence, it was very, very lucky that it did not lose its life.

The cavalry that had just galloped past was the vanguard army led by Li Wei, with a thousand knights. Their mission was to sweep away the Wusun tribes and strongholds scattered at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, clearing the way for the army to pass through the Tianshan Mountains and the troops to come to the city of Silai.

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A young man came out of the tent of the tribe and walked towards the stable, where he wanted to gather the horses before it was dark to prevent them from being attacked by wild wolves at night.

As he approached the herd, he was surprised to find that the horses were a little restlessly stirring.

He looked around in confusion, but couldn't find anything to make the horses commotion.

He stood there, slowly turning his head to look south, and something seemed to be wrong in that direction. In the twilight, which had not yet completely darkened, he suddenly saw a cloud of smoke rising from the south, and there seemed to be a faint neighing of horses.

His heart tightened, and he hurried a few steps forward, jumped on the back of a tall horse, and squinted his eyes into the distance.

Then, just as he opened his mouth wide and wanted to turn around and shout, a long arrow flew silently, pierced his throat, and then pierced the back of his neck, and with a wisp of blood, it flew straight forward and disappeared into the twilight.

All of a sudden, the Wusun people, who had been eating, suddenly dropped their rice bowls and shouted loudly, the women hid in the corners in panic and shivered, while the men hurriedly jumped on their horses and tried to intercept the attacking enemy.

However, the enemy came fiercely, the offensive was fierce, and the long arrows flew almost continuously, no matter whether the Wusun people ran or crouched, someone would fall and die with each arrow, killing dozens of young men in a short instant.

More and more people rushed out of their tents to try to save the day.

I saw that in the twilight, a knight galloped forward, and the crossbow in his hand shot a series of long arrows, and the Wusun people who had just rushed out continued to fall.

Immediately after that, like a tide, the Gaochang cavalry group kept pouring out, and when they were approaching the camp, the cavalry raised their sabers in their hands in unison, and then rushed into the camp with a deafening shout.

A few quarters of an hour later, there was no sign of life in the Wusun tribe, which had been laughing and laughing just now, and the entire camp was almost completely flattened.

A large number of corpses of Wusun people were lying on the ground, but it was rare to see Gaochang cavalry wearing white steel armor.

Li Wei ordered coldly: "Report to the rear commander, say that the vanguard army has swept away the Wusun tribes along the way, and ask the army to pass through the Tianshan Mountains immediately." ”

After saying that, he personally led the rolling iron horse torrent, and continued to surging north in the roar and smoke.

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The sun rises in the morning, raising a burst of white mist in the cold oasis. In the early spring of the Tien Shan Mountains, the temperature difference between day and night is very large. You can freeze a person into a popsicle at night, but during the day it will be warm and comfortable, as if it will become warm up in the sun.

There is a tent in the center of the oasis camp, which is a cut above the others, this is Wei Shuo's main tent, and it is also the temporary command post of the current army.

At this moment, Wei Shuo removed his armor and was wearing a black cotton uniform, sitting in the tent, dealing with the military information reported by the scouts on one hand, and secretly planning the next deployment on the other hand.

Since the army set out on the expedition, in order to make the enemy army unable to figure out the reality of the army, he specially ordered Li Wei to bring a thousand elite cavalry as the vanguard, responsible for sweeping the Wusun tribes along the way.

So far, the plan has gone well, and until now it seems that the Wusun people have not been alerted. However, he also knew that he would not be able to hide this matter for long, but after all, he had bought time for the army, and by the time the enemy reacted, perhaps he had personally led the main army to the city.

At that time, the entire Junggar Basin will be under the deterrence of the army, and one of his goals in this battle is to seize the entire Jungar Basin, use it as the pasture of Gaochang in the future, and provide a steady stream of war horses for the army.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and I saw Kang Long open the curtain and come in, and then Xu Zhao and other generals also walked in.

Wei Shuo raised his head and said, "Everyone, sit down, I just received a report from the striker Li Junhou that he has swept away the Wusun people living at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, just waiting for the army to cross the Tianshan Mountains. ”

"Hahaha, I didn't expect Li Junhou to fight so fiercely, in just a few days, he wiped out no less than dozens of Wusun tribes, and the Wusun people who were wiped out together were more than 7,000 people, and nearly 1,000 war horses were captured."

Wei Shuo got up and paced back and forth in the big tent, and said softly: "Beyond the Tianshan Mountains is the endless prairie, where nearly 200,000 tribes live in the eastern part of the entire Wusun Kingdom. The primary goal of this war was to swallow this vast grassland and the 200,000 Wusun people in one bite, so that they could become the pastures and herdsmen of Gaochang. ”

"Pass my order: the army immediately set out of camp and strive to cross the Tianshan Mountains and join the front as soon as possible!"