The Taklamakan Desert once had the following five routes, namely the South Road of the Silk Road, the Khotanese Road of Gumo, the Shule Road of Kancheng Shenshan Fort, the Yanqi Road of Khotan, and the Shumi Qiuzi Road. The "quicksand" referred to in the literature is the Taklamakan Desert. Regarding the transportation in the Taklamakan Desert region, the "Legend of Mu Tianzi" says that King Mu of Zhou entered Shanshan through the Qaidam Basin, circled the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, crossed the Pamir into the Wakhan Corridor, and finally reached Tashkent.

Hou Jing temporarily garrisoned the city of Mi, and during this recuperation period, after listening to the scouts' description of the military deployment of the Taklamakan Desert and the exquisite ancient city, he ordered all the demon soldiers to bring only enough military rations and drinking water for three days, and the army's equipment was mainly composed of scimitars, spears, bows and arrows, and gunpowder grenades thrown by hand or slingshots. All baggage and heavy ordnance were not carried with the army, only simple climbing ladders were carried with them, and the climbing ladders were divided into several sections to be carried by many demon cavalry, and the plan was to assemble them into ladders large enough to climb the city after they arrived. This practice is very perfect, can minimize the march time, so that the journey of three days can be shortened to two days, that is to say, after the city of Micheng to change clothes and rest, set off at 6 o'clock in the morning of the same day, then can arrive at the Exquisite West City at 6 o'clock in the morning of the third day, just at the turn of June and July when the sun is rising, the sergeant in such a cool morning battle is not tormented by the heat, the field of vision is broad, the morale and physical strength of the whole army are in the best state, one blow, can attack the city in one morning, the ancient city will be occupied。

However, it is said that the whole army is also in the midst of intense preparations for the battle at this time, and the people of the city, regardless of men, women, and children, have all taken action to prepare for the attack of the Beigong servant army, and the morale of the whole city is high, and they share the same hatred.

The multi-road exploration horses in the exquisite city are like marquees every day, and they come to report from time to time.

At three o'clock in the morning of this day, on the parade square of Jingjue City, the scout army came to report, "General, the vanguard corps of the Beigong Encirclement and Suppression Army is about to arrive at Heiyou Mountain, and it is now less than a hundred miles away from our city. ”

"Probe, report!"

"Whew!" several scouts hurried out of the square, flew on their horses, and left the city.

Fan Xiang looked at the more than 18,000 elite soldiers neatly arranged on the parade ground. After the fighting of the previous few days, the officers and men of the battalions were redressed with new equipment with the captured military equipment. The soldiers on the field were clearly dressed and armored, the military appearance was neat, the red flag was like a cloud, the spears were like a forest, and the morale was very strong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the 100,000 enemy troops we will face are a group of ferocious beasts. Do you know what kind of army these 100,000 enemy troops are? Let me tell you, this is a group of beasts with no humanity and no sense of morality. The leader of the army, Hou Jing, was born in Shuozhou, but he was a demon, early as a subordinate of Er Zhurong, and then took refuge in Gao Huan, and was reused, and later Gao Huan was defeated, Hou Jing became a refugee, and then turned to the Liang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. Emperor Liang took pity on his old age and loneliness, so he settled him in Shouyang, but Hou Jing, who was originally a refugee, was not grateful, and used Shouyang as a base to plot a rebellion. ”

Fan Xiang's voice paused for a moment, took a step forward, his tone was deep, his eyes slid over the faces of the neat and solemn soldiers in front of him, and said loudly: "Hou Jing is attached to the Beigong servant army, and under an excuse to raise troops in Shouyang, collect the demon refugees as wolf soldiers, the strength is about 8,000, and Hou Jing's army has grown to 100,000. Dongshengzhou, Jiangnan Sanwu was occupied by Hou Jingjiao's demon army, and its momentum reached its peak. He not only married Princess Liyang, but also proclaimed himself the general of the universe and the governor of the military. Hou Jing's rebellion caused an unprecedented catastrophe in Jiangnan, and he openly preached the massacre, declaring to his generals, 'If you break the city, kill it, let the world know my prestige!' His nature is as cruel as a tiger and wolf, 'It is to kill and plunder the army, hand over corpses and block the road, rich and wealthy families, wanton exploitation, children, wives and concubines, all into the military camp. and to build mountains of earth, not limited to the noble and low, day and night, and to beat them indiscriminately, and the tired people to fill the mountains because of their killing, and the sound of crying,

Ringing the heavens and the earth. The people did not dare to hide it, and they went out of it, and in the middle of the day, the crowd reached tens of thousands...... Raided Wuzhong, mostly self-dispatched, forced children, and poisoned the people. 'Originally known as 'like a piece of gold, without a single injury' in the south of the Yangtze River, 'thousands of miles of smoke, rare people, white bones gathered like a hill'. ......”

"Soldiers, what should we do with such an army?"

"Kill, kill, kill!" The crowd on the field was excited, each raised their fists, danced up and down, and shouted loudly.

"In the face of such an army, yes, we have to fight with it, and no one will be left!" Fan Xiang also raised his fist and said loudly.

"Kill, kill, kill! Avenge our people in Jiangnan!"

"In the face of such an ungrateful and vicious army, we have no choice but victory. We are not their enemies, but they want to deprive us of our right to live, they want to put us to death, we have to fight against them, we have to fight for a world that belongs to us. We are now in an environment of extreme survival, we are fighting alone, there is no rescuer outside, but we have a great country behind us, there is a group of people who have sacrificed their lives and forgotten death, what are we afraid of?...... Are we afraid? Yes, we are afraid, we are afraid of losing our freedom, we are afraid of losing our right to live, soldiers, are we afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

All the soldiers united, raised their arms, and shouted loudly.

"Soldiers, the country, the land, the relatives, and the homeland behind us need us to take up arms, and with courage and wisdom, to destroy the ignorance and arrogance of the enemy. For the sake of freedom, for survival, we don't want to be deserters, we will never compromise, and people must have a little backbone in this life. ...... If they want to fight, we will fight!" Fan Xiang took the painted dragon and heavenly halberd from the hand of the pro-army standing beside him, and pointed it high into the dark black sky, like a tall statue.

"If they want to fight, we will fight!"

"If they want to fight, we will fight!"

"If they want to fight, we will fight!"

The morale in the parade square was high, and in the unyielding shouts, the soldiers stabbed their knives and guns into the dark and empty night sky again and again,......。

"The armies obey orders!"

There was silence in the "......" square.

"According to today's military deployment, the generals of each battalion will lead the elite warriors into the predetermined battle position, and there must be no mistake! The twenty-eight sharp soldiers will follow me forward fifty miles to meet the Hou Jingqi demon beast soldiers. ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The three armies of the elite beggar army were cleaned up, and retreated from the parade square in an orderly manner according to the order of the Fanxiang army, and the armies entered the predetermined battle positions.

Seeing that all the troops were preparing for the battle in an orderly manner according to the military order, Fan Xiang carried out the preparation for the battle before the start of the battle, so he carried the dragon and the heavenly halberd, stepped on the earth mole divine horse, led the twenty-eight elite horses, went out of the west gate, passed through the poplar forest, stepped on the desert land, and rushed towards the black oil mountain.

Along the way, I saw a line extending from the semi-desert Gobi, full of bonfires, extending to twenty or thirty miles away, and from a distance, it looked like an army of tens of thousands was camping, which was a suspicious soldier set up by elite soldiers according to military deployment.

"Brothers and sisters, we went to raid this time, with only one purpose, which is to stimulate the nerves of these demons and devils, and let them speed up their march, so after encountering the enemy, we only make a charge, not to fight, and try to kill and injure as many living soldiers as possible of the enemy, to provoke them, let them run after us, and let them run as fast as possible. ”

"Wow!" the crowd replied.

Everyone walked out of another four or five miles, only to see that under the night sky, in the dim starlight, a group of soldiers and horses were marching along the desert, and where the hunting banner was flying, it was the beast soldiers in Hou Jing's army

Striker.

Fan Xiang said loudly to the twenty-eight sharps behind him: "The sharps set up a three-star formation, spread out on my two wings with a Yanling formation, wrapping the two wings of the enemy's forward, and the three-person team of Ayiguli followed me straight to the middle, and the whole army was waiting for bows and arrows." After breaking through, kill and injure the enemy soldiers in this lane, and you can turn the horse's head and retreat towards the Essence. ”

After speaking, he shouted, held the dragon and the halberd, urged the earth mole under the crotch, took the lead, and killed the enemy forward.

"Oh, obey the general's orders!"

Twenty-eight warriors rode on Dawan good horses, lined up in a herringbone shape on two wings, like a gust of wind rolling up in the flat sand, like a wall, and followed in. Aisha held the horn of the yak and blew the trumpet of the march, and a terrible and loud trumpet sounded, like a sharp spear piercing the silence of the night sky in the Taklamakan Desert, and the air of slaughter seemed to stir.

Chun Yutiying waved the red Tang Dao military flag, rode a big green horse, and charged forward closely with Fan Xiang.

Everywhere the battle flag passed, this small elite team was like a big Kunpeng bird with wings spread, waving the Mo knife, reflecting the dim bright color of the last quarter moon in the night air at the end of June, and the silver knife surface swept through the air, crossing a dark knife shadow, like a piece of flying feathers.

The Rui Shi team was originally one of the best in the hundred, after Fanxiang to learn the secret method of the Lingtai thatched cottage to be trained, and then after more than a month of hard training, each has been able to make the oblique moon knife method quite proficient, and polished in several actual battles, its individual strength is not what it used to be, can be a hundred enemies. When the team was 300 paces away from the enemy, each of the sharps drew a strong bow, fired three beads in succession, the arrows were like flying locusts, and every wave of eagle arrows was fired, 84 enemy soldiers fell off their horses, and when they advanced to 20 paces, more than 1,000 soldiers of the enemy were already shot and killed. Then, the twenty-eight sharps waved the Mo knife, like a sharp knife straight into the enemy, vertical crotch of the good horse, and performed the oblique moon knife technique, but when the blade was crossed, the enemy soldiers were all broken, and the power was unstoppable.

The enemy's advance was like a bend in a calm lake, and a huge net was thrown in, and the waves cracked, and twenty-eight sharp men wrapped the enemy soldiers who came out from the two wings, and swept away like the wind.

Rows of wide blades of Mo knives swept through the calm treetops like an autumn wind, and the forward enemy troops were chopped off one after another.

Seeing that the enemy army was in an instant, after a charge, more than 1,000 demon enemy soldiers died under the sword, so he patted the earth mole, held the painted dragon and the heavenly halberd, turned back, and the twenty-eight sharp soldiers divided their horses, wrapped around the enemy soldiers who had been scattered in the enemy's forward formation, charged back, and slaughtered all the remaining soldiers of the enemy's forward.

Seeing that the enemy's Chinese troops and horses had moved, Fan Xiang was clamoring to come, so he led Ruishi to retreat to the east.

Hou Jing saw the rout of the vanguard soldiers in the Chinese army, so he led the troops to catch up, only to see that in the desert, under the light of the fire, in the reckless yellow sand, all the corpses of their own soldiers, and the enemy's horses were fast, had run away, and couldn't help but be furious, and ordered the trumpeters in the army to blow the marching horn and beat the cowhide drum, only to hear a rumbling drum, the army moved, like a tide to the Jingjie City to cover up.

The whining horns, the rumbling war drums, and the sound of slaughter echoed in the empty and dark night sky of the desert with poignant and majestic sounds.

The army of 100,000 demons rolled over the flags, urged the war horses together, and rushed to the place where Fan Xiang and the others fled. Along the way, I saw that the desert was full of bonfires left behind by the enemy troops after camping and roasted beef and mutton with hot air all around, and it seemed that hundreds of thousands of soldiers had just left in a hurry.

When Hou Jing saw this, he was overjoyed, and shouted with a whip: "The army listens to the order, the main force of the enemy army is in front, the brothers catch up, kill the three officers above the centurion of the enemy, and set up a reward of thousands of gold, and promote the third rank to the third level, so as to kill this gang of bandits!"

When the demon army heard this, their morale soared, they all shouted and shouted, held their weapons, and swarmed forward, their banners rolled like waves, and their swords and guns were like thorns, and they pursued and killed the beggar army in the Elite City.