Chapter Ninety-Eight: Take the Initiative

Not long after sending away the prince of Shi, Xiao Quai's illness was also carried to the private account arranged for him by Gao Xianzhi. In fact, Xiao Quzhi can still walk with the support of people, but he didn't do it, on the one hand, the wounds all over his body, especially the wounds on his thighs, are still faintly painful, and on the other hand, he doesn't want people to know that he is getting better so quickly.

Xiao Quzhi lay on the bed and thought about the current situation for a while, and then he calmed down, slowly running the toad fishing strength, carrying qi and blood, and conditioning and repairing wounds. It didn't take long for it to be seen by Kallulu Yehutun Viga.

Xiao Quzhi hurriedly stopped practicing, condensed the qi and blood in the lower abdomen dantian and legs, reduced and slowed down the blood flow on his face and hands, and immediately showed a pale face with excessive bleeding and serious injuries that did not heal and qi and blood deficiency.

Don Viga was also stunned when he saw him like this, didn't he say that he had gotten a lot better, why was he so weak when he saw him now? He was a little embarrassed and apologized: "Marquis Xiao, let me come to see you?" I didn't expect you to be so badly injured, why don't I rest first, and I'll come back in a few days? ”

Xiao Quzhi said in a weak voice: "No, if you don't come to me, I'm going to look for you tomorrow." ”

"Oh, you're looking for me?"

"Amir Jiang wants me to bring you a letter." Xiao Quzhi took out a letter with blood stains from his arms, probably a little big, pulled the wound, and sweated on his forehead in pain: "Uh...... Take a look. ”

When he took the letter, he saw that he was covered in bandages, grinning in pain, and his heart was also abrupt, but he really admired the bravery and fearlessness of this young man; At the same time, he was a little worried, this guy was so desperate and bold, don't throw his three thousand Lulu elite horses to the waves.

However, Amirjan's letter soon dispelled his fears. The letter was written in the native language of their tribe, and because Xiao Qubing was in a hurry, Amir Jiang only had time to briefly write down the results of several battles on the southern front with Xiao Quai.

Five hundred to six hundred, almost all annihilated!

Six hundred and fifty broke four thousand, almost all annihilated!

……

The series of achievements made Don Biga not believe his eyes, but this was the correct handwriting of Amir Jiang, and he had to believe it. In the letter, Amirjan also told him that the 3,000 Qarluq army had so far been killed in battle, and that no more than 400 had been wounded. In the end, he emphasized one point, telling him not to be half-hearted, and the Anxi army won this battle.

Reassured, he began to consider how much he would benefit from winning this battle, hoping that in the future, he would be able to relocate his tribes to the vicinity of Talas, in the area of Broken Leaves and Water, not only to temporarily avoid the oppression of the Uighur Khanate, but also to collect the commercial tax of passing merchants.

Xiao Quzhi saw the change in his expression, coughed and said, "Ye Hu, are you relieved now?" ”

"Marquis Xiao said with a smile, I don't feel worried, I just want to know how Amir Jiang is now, is he injured?"

"Amirjiang is fine now, but we can't come over for a while, as long as we defeat the main force of the Great Eclipse in a few days, we can go south to join them."

Don Biga was still a little worried: "You said that there are 100,000 reinforcements for this Great Eclipse? ”

Xiao Quzhi said firmly: "What about 100,000, I haven't rushed over alone." Please Ye Hu don't have any doubts, you must have confidence in our Anxi Army and your own combat effectiveness! ”

He coughed, paused and said, "I have sometimes heard the Amir River talk about my steppe, and I know how oppressive the Uighurs are to you. I don't like the Uighurs very much, if Ye Hu can do his best this time, even if the battle damage is bigger, as long as you win, you will make this great achievement, with the support of the Tang Dynasty, I believe that you will soon be able to develop. When the time comes, I will persuade Gao Cheng to make a proposal to the emperor to return the Qarluq tribes that had been annexed by the Uighurs. After all, an overly powerful Uighur also needed restraint. ”

Dhoffia's eyes suddenly shone like a wolf, which was almost his lifelong wish and the greatest hatred in his heart. If that were the case, it would have been worth the loss.

Don Bijia immediately slapped his chest loudly: "If this is really the case, Marquis Xiao is my great benefactor of Ge Lulu!" Don't worry, I'll have no two hearts in this battle! ”

When Dun Bijia patted his chest to make a guarantee, Gao Xianzhi, Ma Lu, Li Siye and others led 4,000 Anxi troops and 3,000 Ge Lulu and Ning Yuan troops on the road to the west.

Because of the arrival of Xiao Quai, Gao Xianzhi knew about the march of the Great Food reinforcements in advance. Immediately cast out five or six hundred scouts and sentinels in the direction of Whitewater City. By the afternoon, there was a scout report, and the vanguard of the Great Eclipse, 2,000 elite heavy cavalry, and more than 10,000 light cavalry had already marched from Whitewater City to Talas City, and it was expected to reach a position eighty miles away from Talas City before nightfall.

Gao Xianzhi thought about it and decided to strike first, take the initiative, and attack the enemy camp at night. For this point, Xiao Quzhi is a little uncertain. For with his ability, there was no way to lead 7,000 men on a march of 80 miles at night, and to fight at night at once.

But Gao Xianzhi looked very confident, and it was obvious that this was nothing to him. If it weren't for the injuries on his body now, Xiao Quzhi really wanted to go with him to see how Gao Xianzhi coordinated and commanded.

At this moment, they had already run more than half of the distance, Gao Xianzhi rode his horse and walked at the front of the team, and heard a team of more than ten people coming towards him from a distance. Gao Xianzhi's side immediately rushed out several guards and whistled over there.

The group replied, and the guards greeted them with torches, and picked up the dozen or so scouts. Gao Xianzhi recognized the scout captain named Chen Shuangmu and asked him, "How?" ”

"Back in Zhongcheng, the Great Food Barracks is thirty miles ahead, and their scout sentry is sent out for three or four miles, and we have been staring at them one by one. The cannibals are still sleeping, but we must extinguish our torches after another fifteen miles of march. ”

"How's their camp defending?"

"The fence is more than a foot high on all sides, a trench, and I don't know anything else."

"Got it, lead the way."

More than twenty minutes later, the 10,000-strong army led by Gao Xianzhi had already approached within fifteen miles of the Great Food Camp. The team stopped one by one, extinguished the torches, and took out the pins and bit them into their mouths.

The night sky was full of stars, gently shining on everyone's faces, and the silence between heaven and earth was terrifying, and almost everyone began to get nervous. Hearing only the sound of his own and the beating of his surroundings, Gao Xianzhi raised his hand, and led the way in front with dozens of guards and a dozen scouts.

After walking for about five or six miles, I could see the bonfire in the big food camp in the distance, and all the hearts of the people were lifted, and I only felt that my throat was dry and dry, but I couldn't stop to drink water, so I could only endure it.

After walking slowly for another four or five miles, at this time the order to stop came from the front, and the cavalry in front began to stop, and the rear slowly extended to both sides, from a column to a horizontal line.

The Mo sword soldiers had already dismounted, because it was a night attack, this time they did not wear two layers of heavy armor, but only wore a layer of iron armor inside, but leather armor on the outside. After the Mo Dao soldiers lined up in formation, they began to slowly march towards the Great Food camp, and Chen Ermu and his team of scouts had already gone to the front to pass the order.

Under the hazy starry sky, hundreds of Anxi Army scouts slowly touched within a hundred steps of the Great Food Scout and the Sentinel Cavalry, four against one, and the crossbow arrows were fired in a volley, and the Great Food Scout Sentinel fell off their horses one after another.