Changguan Mandao, the endless wind blowing, this is the Datang border pass, the endless vast scene is displayed in front of everyone's eyes, it seems that there is only endless wind and sand between the whole heaven and earth, blowing all over the sky. The thick and vast earth at this moment shed all his clothes, revealing his majestic chest. There is not the slightest emerald green on the barren Gobi, some are just a piece of dry yellow, and the yellow sand is swirling in the wind, and it seems that every breath will have sand into the nostrils, making people want to wear gas masks. In this Gobi, the blazing sun is incomparably scorching, scorching everything on the earth and shrinking, no plant dares to show its body like the blazing fireball in the sky, because in this land lacking water, only by curling up to minimize water loss, can it be more long-lasting, those plants with verdant branches and leaves that are praised by the world are the first to die here. Only tough, tumbleweed-like vegetation can survive here.

A jackal stood on a sand dune, looking around, looking for food to feed his stomach, but what caught his eye was the desolate Gobi Desert, without the slightest anger, let alone animals, not even a trace of green. However, as one of the most powerful predators in the Gobi, the jackal has a keen organ that is very different from that of ordinary predators, and the harsh natural environment has allowed this predator to evolve a strong sense of smell, which can smell food from several kilometers away. This time was no exception, this jackal was on this high sand dune, and with a slight twitch of its nose, it knew that there was a smell of food several kilometers ahead, and it was a lot of food. This is a rare feast in the Gobi or even a hundred years, so this jackal rushed madly in that direction.

The sand retreated rapidly beneath its feet. The long-distance runner in the Gobi gradually approached the 'food', and as a result, countless vultures in the sky became its competitors. But there is a lot of food in front of me. It's enough to feast and feast. You don't even have to compete with those nasty scavengers in the sky, because so much 'meat' is thrown directly under the scorching sun, which is simply a tyrannical thing. So all the predators in the Gobi came out and came here for a feast and carnival.

The corpses fell on the Gobi like this, and under the scorching sun, the blood flowing from the corpses was rapidly evaporated, absorbed by the dry sand under them, and the tall figures in leather armor all became cold. No, under the blazing sun, these corpses are all steaming, and the moisture on their bodies will be evaporated in just a few hours = and then become a dried corpse like a mummy, these predators on the Gobi are all veterans with ears and eyes and a smart nose, so these animals all came here before the corpses were completely inedible, and at the last moment they took this gluttonous feast, and they ate this meal and didn't know when the next meal would be.

At this time, it is not far from this feasting place for animals on the Gobi. An army was departing at a rapid pace, an army that looked like ghosts, all wrapped in swarthy robes, black as black holes in the sun. Everyone walked silently, no one talked, and when they occasionally needed to speak, they all made sharp gestures. There was no sound at all, and everyone sat upright on horseback. The horses trampled on the Gobi, and the sound of horses' hooves became smaller. The endless potholes of all sizes on the desolate Gobi make it difficult for the war horse to travel here, and even the war horse in many places is jumping forward in one vertical and one jump, and the people on the horseback are constantly jolting with the war horse, but they do not shake at all, as if they are growing on the back of the horse. This kind of horsemanship, if they are said to be warriors of the Tang Dynasty, no one will believe it, because even the Turks who grew up on horseback since childhood, and the Xue Yantuo people can't do it so freely.

But this group of people is really the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and their current riding skills are not innate, because the Tang Dynasty does not have the conditions like nomads to let them contact war horses since childhood, so they only rely on hard exercise, from the years of contact with war horses, they risked their lives, just to experience the unity of people and horses integrated with war horses on war horses, only in this way when facing those nomads around Datang, they will not lose at the starting line. Because the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty lost in cavalry shooting, and there were no longer a few who were shot by these aliens, only by practicing without killing could they pick up a life on the battlefield. This is an iron law in the hearts of all Tang soldiers, but these people really don't know that there is a thing called stirrups in this world. It was only after they followed the new commander and embarked on an unknown journey that they realized how useful this little thing really was. With this thing, even a recruit who has just trained for a few months can play tricks on horseback.

The stirrup Li Kuan had actually already come out, and he made this thing together when he first made the horseshoe, but when he gave it to Li Er, because he first said the horseshoe, which shocked this emperor through the ages, he hid it a little, not that he was unwilling to equip the Tang army with such a good thing, but he hoped that this thing could become the first gift he gave to those aliens when he was fighting on the battlefield in the future, so that they would never forget.

This time, with these thousands of people, he wants to go on an expedition to the Western Regions, which is just Li Er's vision, and it is also a delusion, because the number of people is there after all, Xue Yantuo has hundreds of thousands of people anyway, and the number of people who can fight is 100,000, so many people are even chickens and ducks, so you have to kill them for a long time, and even kill them until they are soft, not to mention that these people are all fierce warriors, all of them are skilled archers and horses, although they do not have such elite equipment as the army under Li Kuan, they are wearing leather armor, Not ironclad. But I can't stand the many people's families, and I can't stop the people's horses! Can't you beat it and still can't run? And Xue Yantuo, who occupies a favorable geographical position, has more advantages than the Tang army that came from an expedition, where there is a water source, where there is food that can be supplied by the army, these Xue Yantuo people know it clearly, so they can completely hold the nose of the Tang army and play this army around. This is also the reason why Datang has been difficult to open up the situation in the Western Regions over the years, because it is useless if there are fewer people, and there are many enemies, and the consumption is too large for Datang to bear.

Therefore, although the Western Regions has always made Li Er blind, it has also made it difficult for him to succeed, and now he has finally trained an army that can be a hundred, these soldiers are all people who have practiced the martial arts provided to them by Li Er, each of them has two blows, and the strength is much greater than that of ordinary soldiers, which can be described as the strongest force in the real Tang Dynasty. Each of them can be a petty officer like a centurion in an ordinary army. But he was all stuffed into this army as a small soldier, and he was a small soldier like a death squad. This is Li Er's biggest adventure, he is gambling, betting that this army can be in the Tang Dynasty's Western Regions can hardly see results, and then there was a complete counterattack, so that the banner of the Tang Dynasty can fly high in the desolate land of the Western Regions.

Li Kuan did not live up to Li Er's high hopes, after leading this army on an expedition of thousands of miles, he finally came to this piece of Gobi, and the Tang army that crossed the vast desert did not lose a single person, because every day there will always be a large pot of water to be distributed, and every meal will be distributed with fragrant food, which makes these soldiers feel incredible, and thousands of people eat and drink every day is an astronomical amount of consumption. When will Datang be able to supply without hesitation? You must know that half a year ago, under that harsh natural environment that was life-threatening, they were nibbling on dough cakes that were frozen like ice cubes and hard at a glance, and they wanted to drink water, so they just held a handful of snow in their mouths. In this environment, they persevered and forged their steel-like quality. But this time, the soldiers, who were ready to drink their own urine, did not expect such treatment in this vast desert. At this time, they knew that their commander this time was so extraordinary, and when they were the most elite brothers of the Tang Dynasty who were about to be the same age as a young man who had never reached the crown, the resentment in their hearts was dissipated with a smile.

They maintain the most vigorous energy every day, and every day is the peak state, without the slightest fatigue of the expedition, which is also the reason and motivation why they can meet a Xue Yantuo's army head-on on the Gobi Desert, and launch a charge in a single face, and annihilate the opponent without losing one person. Their commander said that as long as they could go back with the ears of the enemy, then they could use the ears of these Xueyantuo people to exchange meat for him, and of course pay enough of the enemy's ears, then it was okay to drink two cups once in a while. As a man in the army, this rule is really a blessing. The enthusiasm of the whole team was mobilized, because as long as you kill the enemy, it means eating meat and drinking wine.

"Woo woo ......" under the long night, the cold wind is fierce, in the vast Gobi in the Western Regions, the temperature at night is so low that people can't help but shiver, the temperature difference between day and night is unbearable, the day can almost heat people to death, but at night is to go out to pee to beware of being frozen baby. This climate makes all the people and animals living in the Gobi very strong, able to withstand the scorching sun and the bone-chilling wind. At this temperature, a sip of wine is a great happiness, because after drinking this sip of wine, the whole body will be warm for a long time. This is also the reason why Li Kuan agreed to let the soldiers exchange wine for drinks, if they don't drink a few sips of wine to warm up, I'm afraid no one will be able to survive this bone-chilling night. And under this cold winter night, the sound of the whining Qiang flute also made Li Kuan feel like he was in the territory of the Hu people in the Western Regions for the first time. He was shocked to realize that this was no longer the Tang Dynasty, but Xue Yantuo's territory, and this was the enemy's country. (To be continued......)