To the east of Butana, three knights of the Anxi army galloped desperately to the east.

The leader is none other than a scout captain in Anxi, named Zhang Xiaogou. Because in the scout battle a few days ago, he killed a lot of heads, and was promoted to captain, and was rewarded with two nailed Arab war horses and a Damascus scimitar.

With the improvement of salary, the deputies have a heavier task, and their task is to closely monitor the movements of the Great Food Barracks.

For two days in a row, the Great Food Army was not out of the camp, and even the sentry cavalry only sent out three miles, and as soon as the Anxi army scouts approached, they retreated. Zhang Xiaogou and they can sometimes even oppress less than a mile away, looking at the Dashi Military Village from afar.

Zhang Xiaogou originally thought that it would be like this today, but he didn't expect that at about the end of the hour, a small group of big food sentinels took the initiative to come to him for trouble.

"Mother, the big dog has grown up today!" Zhang Xiaogou excitedly took out the single-bowed crossbow that had already been wound, and together with one of his subordinates, rushed towards the more than 20 people who rode towards the big food sentinel. About sixty paces apart, the two of them buckled their teeth together, then turned and ran.

The two crossbow arrows achieved the result of one dead and one wounded, and the remaining Great Eclipse cavalry was in hot pursuit. Zhang Xiaogou blew the bamboo whistle while winding the single-bow crossbow on the horse. Because he was running too fast, his subordinate could not wind up on the back of such a bumpy horse, so he hung his single-bow crossbow on the saddle, took out his six-bucket riding bow and shot arrows backwards.

After chasing for two or three miles, the big cannibal began to slow down, ready to turn back, and Zhang Xiaogou and the others also followed and rushed towards the big food sentry again. This time, they only achieved one serious injury and one minor injury, but fortunately, they once again attracted the Great Sentinel to pursue them.

After being lured three times in a row, Zhang Xiaogou's elite scouts finally converged. A salvo of more than 20 single-bow crossbows killed more than a dozen big food sentinels, and the remaining seven or eight sentinels turned around and fled, and Zhang Xiaogou's scout team of 30 people chased after them. After chasing out for five or six miles, they finally settled all the accounts of the other party, but Zhang Xiaogou and the others were also stunned.

They heard the sound of thousands of horsemen galloping together, followed by more large sentinel horses.

"My good boy, what are you doing here?"

"Entering the mother, this still has to ask, in this direction, what else can it be in addition to attacking our Anxi army camp?"

"Big dog eater on dog day, Captain Zhang, what should we do now?"

"No way, you guys on dog days, don't be stupid! Hurry up and wind the crossbow machine! Let's drag here first, find out the number of people sent out by the big dogs, and then hurry back to the camp. ”

"I joined the mother, I was idle for two and a half days, and now it is finally open again, and Lao Tzu can overtake it with two less heads. The big dog eater came just in time! ”

Although it was said freely, everyone actually understood in their hearts that the battle in front of them was not easy to fight. Unlike the last time, this time they had no reinforcements, no ambushes, no numerical superiority. They can turn and run when faced with a large Sentinel Rider that is several times their size, but in order to obtain more accurate information, they choose to charge the enemy.

After fighting with more than 80 Great Food Sentinel Cavalry for half an hour, Zhang Xiaogou and the others finally found out that this team of Great Food Cavalry had as many as 10,000 horsemen, and most of them were Khorasan cavalry. Zhang Xiaogou whistled, and more than a dozen Anxi scouts immediately left the battlefield, retreated sharply, and scattered to confront the Great Food Sentinel Cavalry from afar. And Zhang Xiaogou personally led two of his subordinates to rush desperately to the Anxi camp.

"What? Tens of thousands of cannibal cavalry are coming towards us, and now we are almost fifty miles away! When the first batch of scouts brought back the news, Xiao Qubing was discussing the issue of the Zhaowu Nine ** Team with Duan Xiushi in the big tent of the Chinese army. The Great Cannibal's tight control over the kings of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu and the important Dehgan left the two at a loss.

It is estimated that the secret rebellion will not work, and it is impossible to get in touch with them in advance, and if it is for the sake of profit, can it still be expected that these soft bones of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, the grass on the wall, under the persecution of the big cannibal scimitar, suddenly come to their senses, spontaneously revolt in front of the battle, and fight back?

Is there any way to secretly get in touch with the Great Cannibals under their strict defense, and to make these soft-boned people who are afraid of death and forget their righteousness to make up their minds to resist the Great Eclipse?

Just when the two of them couldn't think of a good way, the news that more than 10,000 big food cavalry was about to kill came one after another. The entire Anxi battalion had less than 10,000 soldiers to fight, and the Anxi army and the Qarluq army did not exceed 5,000 in the battalion.

Xiao Qubing didn't have much experience, Duan Xiu began to give various orders in his heart, and more than 10,000 coalition troops began to prepare for battle.

The Anxi army and the Qarlu army did not have anything, they were used to fighting, and they were not afraid of the big cannibals at all, and at this moment they were fighting fiercely, and all kinds of preparations were carried out in an orderly manner. On the contrary, a few days ago, many of the Zhaowu Nine ** teams who were full of confidence and threatened to attack the big food camp immediately were stunned.

At first, they tried to keep their composure, but when more and more scouts brought back the news, and the atmosphere of the camp became more and more tense, depressing, and solemn, they began to panic, began to hesitate, and began to be afraid.

Xiao Quzhi couldn't help but worry when he saw them like this. Originally, I thought that after a few victories, these soldiers of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu would be able to have some courage against the Great Food Army, and they could fight a battle. But looking at it now, it's still far away, not to mention that it's not good to be a soldier, it's enough to be an auxiliary.

I am afraid that as soon as the war does not go well, these soldiers of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms who are afraid of courage will be defeated. Your mother's troops are not enough in the first place, and you have to worry about guarding against you waste.

It's really hard to do!

Li Ergou and some Sogdian-speaking Anxi officers were loudly cheering up these soldiers of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms at this time: "...... There is nothing to be afraid of big cannibals, they will also hurt and die if they are cut down! It is said that the big dog eater is powerful, and it is not a fart in front of our Anxi army! We killed more than 8,000 of their food eaters in three battles, and the damage on our side was less than 800! Now they have only more than 10,000, but we have 5,000 here, this big war, you don't need to fight, you just need to do your duty as an auxiliary soldier in the camp! When the time comes, it's up to us to kill the enemy, a bunch of cowards, don't be stunned, hurry up and get to work......"

Gu Xiaojun didn't know Sogdian, so he didn't bother to listen to Li Ergou's chatter, he came to Xiao Quai's side and said, "Captain Xiao, what are you doing erecting such a red deer fence outside the wall?" ”

"It's getting blocked."

"What if the big cannibal moves away?"

"First, these two-pointed stakes are driven into the earth at one end, and it is difficult to move them away for a while; Second, I could shoot him in the back. ”

"But we only have less than eight hundred single bows, Fuyuan crossbows and Zhangzhang crossbows at all, and there are less than a thousand one-stone step bows, and the others are all six-bucket soft bows."

"I think that's enough, and I'll see when the time comes. You arrange some people to be optimistic about these soldiers of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms at any time, I don't feel at ease with them. ”

An hour later, more than 10,000 cannibal cavalry finally arrived, 10,000 Khorasan religious warriors and 5,000 Syrian mercenaries to be exact, led by both Posirin and Ziyad. Behind them, Abda led more than 20,000 Arab militiamen, 2,000 Khorasan warriors, and 30,000 soldiers from the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu to follow slowly.

To the surprise of both sides, after arriving at the battlefield, he did not immediately attack, but asked people to waive a white flag and shout loudly in a very lame Tang voice: "Please see the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu!" ”

A group of Anxi sergeants looked at each other, and when they were inexplicable, Xiao Quai, who was standing at the gate of the camp, laughed suddenly: "Big dog eater, this is scared!" ”