For this expedition, the elite of the Anxi Protectorate was exhausted, and only a small number of royal guards were left in Lhasa, and most of the other armies were transferred to the front line to participate in the upcoming imperial war.

The Tang Dynasty dispatched a total of 350,000 troops, and requisitioned 50,000 soldiers from the Hanna tribe and Tubo, and the battle sequence of the 350,000 Tang army was as follows;

Li Ji, the general of the Tang Dynasty's Western Expedition, Xue Rengui, the deputy general of the Left Guard, Pei Xingjian, the deputy general of the Right Guard, 105,000 infantry, and 500 people in the Ya Barracks, that is, the pro-military battalion, and the guards of the Duhufu.

The Tiger Battalion has 53,000 people and the Scout Battalion has 15,000 people, these are all regular Tang Legions, and in comparison, there are four elite corps battalions.

The Longxiang battalion, the whole army is equipped with heavy armor, carrying stainless steel shields, and the number of 3,000 people is under the command of Xue Rengui, the general of the left guard.

Jumping battalion, 2,100 Mo swordsmen, all the soldiers of the regiment have martial arts, commanded by Pei Xingjian, the right guard general.

Xuanjia Battalion, this corps is after the "Xuanjia Elite Cavalry", which was founded by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and led by the famous generals Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie.

The current Xuanjia army was formed by imitating the "Xuanjia Elite Cavalry" back then. The Xuanjia army is all composed of cavalry, the Xuanjia elite cavalry inherited some of the legacy of the heavy cavalry of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the Xuanjia army canceled the iron face armor, the war horse armor only retains the front horse body part, the rectangular shield should be a light 'V' shield, all the Mingguang Kai also greatly reduced the burden of people and horses, the riders of the Xuanjia Army are each equipped with a horse lance, a horizontal knife, and a 'V' shield. Some riders carried a longbow and twenty arrows. The Xuanjia Army is based on the brigade as the basic structure, and is distinguished by red, yellow, blue, green, blue, blue, purple, and white feathers.

The Xuanjia Army is the elite of the Tang Dynasty. Personnel selection has always been extremely selective. So this expedition. Li Er also did not hesitate to spend his blood and allocated 3,000 Xuanjia troops to assist Li Ji in the battle, you must know that the entire Xuanjia army stationed in Longyou of the Tang Dynasty is not more than 10,000, and 3,000 troops can be allocated.

Compared with the first three battalions, the fourth battalion is now a household name in Datang, which symbolizes the strongest combat power in the Datang army: the Chengguan Garrison. Although the number of this army is not much, but with advanced weapons, it soon became one of the first-class troops of the Tang Dynasty, and then, in the Eastern Expedition to Goryeo, Western Expedition to Tibet and other battles have reflected strong combat power, quickly replaced the Xuanjia Army, become the first strong army in the Tang Dynasty, this time the Chengguan Garrison is still led by the veteran general Biao Daguang, but unlike in the past, this time the Chengguan Garrison is equipped with a new and powerful equipment.

After the presentation of the four main forces. The rest were logistics troops, with a battalion of 15,000 baggage trucks. Commanded by Bi Sichen, the general of the Yaya, the archer battalion was 16,000 people, the machine crossbow battalion was 15,000 people, and the engineering battalion was 6,000 people, of which the 2,000 people in the Fan barracks were mainly composed of Xi people, Tuguhun people, Dangxiang people, and Zahu people in the Western Regions, and were commanded by General Lou Yurun.

The army set off towards the Green Ridge, and at this time, the army in white clothes and food was also gathering towards the Green Ridge, and as the two sides continued to approach, in the Pamir Plateau, a shocking war of the century was about to be ushered in......

Since the vanguard troops were all infantry, and the soldiers of the Tang sergeant were all equipped with private horses, the light infantry was faster than the city management garrison equipped with the Xuanjia battalion, the chariot battalion, and the secret weapon. Once the main force of the Great Eclipse arrives in front, the forward army will face a stronger enemy dozens of times. Therefore, the vanguard troops must be cautious every night when they are stationed, and the soldiers will be on guard in turn, and the scout battalion will patrol the city for fifty miles and be on guard.

On the second day of the ninth month of the 11th year of Zhenguan, the vanguard of the Tang Army arrived at the Green Ridge, which was also known as Buzhou Mountain in ancient China, located in the southeast of Central Asia and the western end of China, spanning Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan. It is the convergence of many major mountain ranges in Asia, with an average altitude of 4,000 to 7,000 meters, here, in later generations, it is also called the Pamir Plateau, "Pamir" is the Tajik language "roof of the world" meaning, this plateau mountain range, everywhere is the undulating mountains, continuous, snow peaks stand together, towering into the sky, is a natural danger place.

The spies who had been waiting for a long time in the Green Ridge opened the way for the army, and pointed out many places that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the commander Li Ji immediately made a decision and ordered the soldiers to set up camp in the Green Ridge.

The speed of the Great Cannibal march was exactly the same as Li Ji expected, and on the sixth day of encampment in the Green Ridge, the army of the Great Food in white also arrived at the Green Ridge Plateau.

In the early morning of the fifth day of the first lunar month, scouts came to report that the Great Food Army was still a hundred miles away from the Tang Army barracks, and at ten minutes of sunrise on the sixth day of the first lunar month, huge smoke and dust were raised on the vast plain horizon.

"The Xuanjia Army and the Chengguan Garrison are all in place?" Li Ji turned his head to Xue Rengui beside him and asked.

"General Hui, all of them arrived two days ago."

"Hmm." Li Ji narrowed his narrow eyes, looked at this empty and open field on the plateau, crossed the stream in front, Da Shi and Da Tang, and began the first real head-to-head confrontation.

The dust in the sky was flying, and the dust collected by the cavalry was like a fog, hiding all the Great Eclipse Army, but soon, in front of a not very wide river, the Great Cannibals also stopped, because they also saw a huge Tang Kingdom Golden Dragon Banner erected on the high mountain in the distance.

As the Great Cannibal stopped, the dust raised slowly settled, and a black-pressed Great Eclipse army also appeared in front of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

The military flag of the big cannibal is a crescent hook, hundreds of crescent moon flags shake with the mountain wind, it looks extremely spectacular, looking at the army of the big cannibal, their war horses are mostly brown and yellow, and the warriors on the horse are wearing light armor, with a scimitar around their waists, wearing a silver helmet, and wearing a white drape, tens of thousands of people gathered together are also very imposing.

Infantry was rarely seen in the cannibal troops, but their cavalry was very diverse, with heavy cavalry wearing iron helmets on their heads, armor made of raw cowhide, and their horses wearing oil-soaked yakhide armor, armed with short spears, protective cowhide shields, and blunt machetes. The light cavalry wore silver armor and white robes, armed with scimitars and spears.

Li Ji's eyes flashed with the light of wisdom, in his mind, in countless deductions about how the battle situation would change, but every deduction, will make the smile on the corner of his mouth a little better, riding on the horse, Li Ji said loudly: "The soldiers are arrayed, the generals will go out of the camp with the generals, go, let's go and meet these big cannibals!" ”…… (To be continued......)

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