At this time, it is the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Chang'an City is a day of scorching sun, and the eldest grandson is still tasting the sour plum soup in the well.

The rapeseed, barley and oats around Qinghai Lake are also in harvest season. But as far as the eye could see, General Duan Zhixuan's eyes were full of lush grassland.

He and his army have been here for two months. This has to start with Tuyuhun Khan Fu Yun.

At first, Tuyuhun Khan sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute, but did not return to the original place, and went to Shanzhou to loot and return. His Majesty Li Er only sent envoys to blame them, and at the same time recruited Fu Yun to Chang'an, who claimed that he was sick and did not come, but proposed marriage for his son Zun Wang; His Majesty Li Er thought that this Tuyuhun was still obedient, so he allowed it.

asked them to come to Chang'an to welcome their relatives, but the king did not come, and he broke off the marriage in anger. Fu Yun also sent troops to invade Lan and Kuo Prefectures. Moreover, this Fu Yun is old, listened to the slander of his ministers, violated the border of the Tang Dynasty many times, and even put the envoy Zhao Dekai under house arrest.

His Majesty Li Er personally met with the Tuyuhun envoy, and personally learned about the blessings and misfortunes on the platform in front of the palace, but Fu Yun had no intention of repenting in the end. This can be regarded as a naked slap in the face, so where to put the name of His Majesty Li Er's "Heavenly Khan".

As a result, the Son of Heaven was furious and ambushed millions of corpses. Duan Zhixuan became the chief of the march of the West Sea Road and came to conquer Tuyuhun.

At the beginning, it was relatively smooth, but with the passage of time, the army became more and more desolate, and the world-famous Mo sword soldiers of the Tang Dynasty actually had a problem.

At the beginning, there were only a few people who felt dizzy, had difficulty breathing, and had a few diarrheas, but now even Duan Zhixuan feels a little struggling.

"Enemy attack!" The scout who had been released in front of him shouted loudly.

The Mo Dao soldiers who were originally sitting in the carriage quickly got out of the carriage and began to form a formation. The scattered cavalry was also regrouped, and none of them even came out to take command.

After decades of continuous warfare, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have long been part of a killing machine, and what they do is only repeat what they have done before. The only difference is the location.

"General Speed's intelligence." He had his own generals to arrange these things, and General Duan, who was immediately swordsman, didn't even blink his eyes.

"General Qiyu, about 3,000 Tuyuhun cavalry five miles in front of the right have already occupied the high place, and they may attack at any time." Despite the scout's flushed face, he still meticulously completed the report.

"How many crossbows and arrows do we have available now?" Duan Zhixuan came back to his senses from his contemplation, thinking about the document next to him and asked.

"Chief Qiqi, our army's existing arrows and crossbows can support about three times of today's war with their current situation." The clerk took several breaths before answering, and this was already the third clerk.

"Got it." Duan Zhixuan's brows furrowed, this is bad news. I don't know what happened to this report to His Majesty, and there was no news of the letter to Duan Zan asking for help. Once these arrows and crossbows in this reserve are consumed, these 30,000 troops can be said to be the target of the enemy's slaughter.

"Give me orders, and the armies will go forward." Duan Zhixuan knew that what was needed for this matter was morale, and so many years of war career made him have a feeling that others could not understand about morale.

"God bless the Tang Dynasty, the country is long; Where the long knife goes, bravely move forward. The army let out a roar, and the formation began to move forward in an orderly manner, and the horns whined......

Stepping on an undulating hill, the traces of the Tuyuhun people finally appeared.

"Drink, ......" came out of his mouth, and the Tuyuhun began to charge.

This is not a close contest, but in this special battlefield, the geographical advantage is always on the side of the Tuyuhun people.

The Mo swordsmen put the knives in their hands in the right position, and the sunlight shone on the snow-white blade, and the reflected light made the formation of Tuyuhun and the others a little scattered.

"Archer, ready, sixty steps to shoot." Instead of shooting at eighty paces as usual, altitude sickness prevented the archers from sustaining it.

"Crossbowmen prepare, twenty steps and three arrows." The military marquis scolded loudly, and their voices quieted the somewhat commotionous Tang Army.

Compared with the Tang Army, the Tuyuhun people are more like children who don't know anything, advancing with enthusiasm.

The effect of the projectile was not very good, and the sparse arrow miss did not change much in the formation of the Tuyuhun people.

The crossbowman's accumulation of fire caused a large area of casualties among the Tuyuhun cavalry, and this direct-fire weapon has the characteristics of being easy to operate and simple to use, and the hit rate is also okay, but the range is really long.

The long-range weapon of the bed crossbow has long been out of use, and the arrows have been lost, and they are inconvenient to carry and burned to the ground by a fire.

About half of the Tuyuhun people still rushed into the formation of the Modao team.

This most advantageous type of army to deal with the northern nomads seems to be cursed here, and it has begun to have casualties, which makes Duan Zhixuan's heart bleed. In any Tang army, the Modao team is the elite of the elite, and the damage caused to them by these three thousand Tuyuhun people is somewhat more than he imagined.

The Tuyuhun people finally retreated, and the rest of the centaurs were much less when they turned around, and the already somewhat sparse formation was even more sparse.

At this time, it should be the time for the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty to come into play, which is the most effective time to expand the results of the battle.

But the cavalry did not hear the trumpet of the march, but heard the sound of Mingjin, which was the signal to withdraw the troops. They complained, but none of them dared to pursue it alone, it was a violation of military orders.

This battle made the already small number of arrows miss even less.

The Auxiliary Ice poured into the battlefield and began to clear the battlefield.

Separate the corpses, pile up the Tuyuhun people together, and burn them with a fire, and separate their own people and send them to the back first. Collecting the arrows that can still be used is one of their most important duties. Horses killed or wounded in battle went into the cauldron.

Duan Zhixuan looked at everything he was familiar with, and there was no movement.

Most of the time in war, this is such a hard-fought contest, and there are really not many opportunities for conspiracy or conspiracy to be used on the battlefield.

The casualties were finally counted, and almost all of them were Modao soldiers, and they were the ones with the largest casualties, with more than 320 killed and more than 600 wounded.

This made Duan Zhixuan, who only had a total of 4,000 Mo sword soldiers, lose nearly a quarter. This is an unthinkable battle damage. But in this hellish place, it just appeared. Some Mo Dao soldiers could only barely raise the heavy Mo Dao in their hands at the moment of battle, and fainted with a swing.

When will reinforcements come over, this is Duan Zhixuan's idea. For the first time, this man, who had never bowed his head on the battlefield, had such a thought. (To be continued.) )