“…… And what about decades later? Li Qiyun asked.

Du Huaiguang said with a smile: "Ma Xiang said that after a few decades, the gap between the Tang Dynasty and the barbarians will be the difference between heaven and earth. In a few decades, those guys who grew on horseback will never be able to threaten Datang. ”

Li Qiyun nodded, and he was also leisurely for a while.

"I may not see what will happen in a few decades. Brother, you're still young, you'll be able to see that day, haha! Du Huaiguang laughed and said, the spur lightly touched the horse's belly, and the war horse jumped out like an arrow, carrying a spear and rushing towards the tent area.

Three thousand iron horsemen to wipe out a small tribe of Hui with only a few hundred tents is simply a knife to kill chickens, without the slightest suspense. All the tents in the valley were set on fire, all the people were killed, and by the time Han Haijun left the valley, there was not a single living Uighur inside.

Either you don't fight, or you want to kill them all, this is Ma Lan's request to the Beiting Army. Du Huaiguang completely followed Ma Lan's orders, and after cleaning up the valley, he took the Han Navy soldiers out of the valley and rushed straight to the Pu Sea.

This place is only a dozen miles away from the Pu Sea, and the smoke from the burning tents here can also be seen by the Hui people on the Pu Sea. There were a large number of sheep and horses in the valley, and the Turkic cavalry who followed the Han navy did not pay attention to it, because everyone knew that a great war was imminent.

After continuing to move forward for several miles, a group of Hui Hui light horses galloped over, and when they saw the Han Navy's brigade, they galloped back. These are the scouts of the Uighurs, and they will soon report back the news of the arrival of the Han navy.

Du Huaiguang didn't care about these guys, the Han Navy's expedition this time was originally an upright soldier, to fight with the Hui tribe who captured Pu County, and it was best to come here to immediately fight with the main force of the Hui Hui, and if you have already arrived here, you naturally don't need to hide your whereabouts.

However, the Han Navy scouts naturally refused to let these guys be so arrogant, and a group of scouts let them out, relying on the riding crossbows and single-bow crossbows in their hands to chase the Hui scouts to attack, and the Hui scouts were constantly shot off their horses. Some enraged Hui scouts came up to fight, and they were immediately hacked to death by the Han Navy scouts.

Scout squads on both sides fought before the armies. The Han navy continued to advance unhurriedly, and it didn't take long to turn a mountain pass, and a large open grassland appeared in front of it, and the roads on the grassland were criss-crossed. All lead to a city within a radius of several miles.

That city is Pu City, not far behind Pu City, you can see a large white water, it is the pearl of the Tianshan Mountains Pu Sea.

The grasslands are full of Uighur tents, and I don't know how many there are. Seeing the Tang army galloping out of the valley, he did not panic, and a group of cavalry slowly assembled on the grassland, and thousands of cavalry galloped out of the Pu City by the lake.

The Han Navy stopped at the edge of the grassland, the Hui people had no intention of attacking directly, Du Huaiguang was naturally not in a hurry, what he wanted was to fight a head-on battle with the Hui people, kill and injure the main force of the Hui people as much as possible, and wait for the Hui people to assemble It is naturally the best.

The Han Navy is also well-trained, and orders have been passed down one after another. The 10,000-strong army immediately set up a formation on the grassland. Six thousand soldiers of the Central Army dismounted and prepared for foot battle, with two thousand light horsemen on each side, ready to strike at any time.

The Beiting Protectorate was established when Empress Wu was in power, and before that, the jurisdiction of the Anxi Army covered the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, so the Beiting Army was actually from the Anxi Army. Like the Han army in the four towns of Anxi, the Beiting army was a horse infantry, riding horses when marching, and most of the soldiers were dismounted in a column and fighting on foot.

The new army of Anxi is the elite of the elite, and can use the Mo knife on horseback, but it will also dismount and fight at critical moments. Although the strength of the Beiting Army has increased greatly after the expansion of the army. But he didn't have the same quality of soldiers as the Anxi New Army, so Du Huaiguang still followed the original tactics. The soldiers at the front were armed with spears and large shields, and behind them were all crossbowmen, and behind the crossbowmen were five hundred warriors with strange swords. On top of the ox carts of the Chinese army are dozens of old-fashioned eight-ox crossbows. The light cavalry on both sides did not serve as the main force of the attack, and the attack adopted the tactics of hitting and retreating, that is, the so-called "take-off".

Ma Lan followed the elite soldier policy, and the Beiting Army could only be regarded as a third-line army, so he did not get the latest equipment from the Anxi Army. However, in Du Huaiguang's opinion, this is nothing, and the Beiting Army used to be only 20,000 hours. Isn't it a whole thousand to kill the Turks?

The scouts galloped back and forth in front of the army, expanding outward, completely controlling the area in front of the army. Du Huaiguang sat on horseback, squinting around the tents, estimating how many Hui people had come here.

A group of Uighur knights galloped from the direction of Pu City, bypassing the Uighur army that was gathering, passing through the tents of the Uighurs, and rushing straight to the camp of the Han Navy. At this time, due to the arrogance of the Tang Army scouts, the Hui people in the tent gritted their teeth with hatred, and when they saw this small group of Hui knights so brave, although they knew that this was a suicidal act, they still cheered loudly.

Several groups of Han naval scouts immediately rode their horses and rushed towards this small group of Hui knights, and before they could rush to the front, a shout rang out among the Hui knights, which was the authentic Anxi official dialect.

The Han Navy scouts paused slightly, then dispersed, allowing the small group of Hui Knights to rush towards the main formation.

The Hui people were going to see the scene of the bloody battle between the warriors and the Tang people, but they didn't know what was going on, and they saw that a small group of Hui knights rushed through the layers of Tang army scouts as if they were in a no-man's land, and rushed directly into the Tang army.

"General Du!" The Hui knights led by him arrived at the Han Navy and bowed slightly to Du Huaiguang.

Du Huaiguang also returned the salute. To a certain extent, these Anxi agents are Ma Xiang's private army, not in the Anxi soldier sequence, but they have a very high status. This time, these spies came to Pu County to listen to the news before the army, which can be said to be a great risk, these are real warriors, and he has to show respect.

"What's the news, let's talk about it!"

A group of Hui knights all took off their robes and revealed their true faces. They are the Anxi spies of Tingzhou, almost at the same time as Du Huaiguang from Tingzhou to Puzhi County, because Du Huaiguang's army is accompanied by ox carts, and along the way to clear the small tribes of Hui, it takes a lot more time on the road, and they have already arrived here.

"General Du, these Hui people belong to the Fugu tribe. ……”

The Anxi secret agent led by him is named Cao An, who is extremely capable in his thirties, and his speech is also very neat, and he quickly told Du Huaiguang the news of the investigation.

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After the establishment of the Hui Khanate, the nine divisions of Tiele were all called Hui Hui, in fact, they still maintained relative independence. The various ministries were separated from the nomadic in peacetime, and in wartime they were levied by the Hui Ministry.

The Hui tribe is now the overlord of the southern and northern parts of the desert, and they are naturally arrogant. The most fertile pastures were all occupied by the Hui tribes, and all the tribes of Tiele were complaining.

Among the nine tribes of Tiele, the most powerful except for the Hui tribe are the three surnames of Gelulu. Decades ago, when the tribes descended to the Tang Dynasty, the Qarluq tribe was divided into three prefectures, which shows its strength.

After the establishment of the Uighur Khanate, the three tribes of Qarluq could not bear the drive of the Uighur tribes and were forced to move westward and leave the territory of the Uighur Khanate. Originally, there were also Qarluq tribes in the Western Turks, and they also occupied the territory of the three prefectures, and the three Qarluq tribes in Mobei moved westward and merged with the Qarluq in the Western Turks to form a new Qarluq tribe, which was even more powerful.

It is precisely because of this confluence of the Eastern and Western Qarluq tribes that after the Tang Dynasty completely destroyed the Turgish Khanate, the three surnames of Qarluq were able to dominate the Western Turkic tribes and become the new masters of the Land of Ten Arrows.

After the merging of the Eastern and Western Qarluqs, the second strongest force in the Uighur Khanate was the Fugu Division.

When Empress Gaozong was in power, the Turkic Khanate was revived, and the Hui tribe loyal to the Tang Dynasty led the nine tribes unwilling to submit to the descendants of the Ashina clan, and fought with the Turkic Khanate many times. Later, the Fugu Department and the Tongluo Department, both belonging to the Nine Surname Tribes, rebelled, and attached themselves to the Ashina clan to attack the Hui in turn, and at that time they formed a deep hatred.

Now that the Uighur Khanate was established, and the Tongluo tribe had ceased to exist, the Fugu tribe among the nine tribes had become the tribe with the deepest contradiction with the Uighur tribe.

After returning to the state of the Khanate of the Sul, he tried to penetrate his influence into the territory of the Eastern Murwei people, and at that time he was the vanguard of the Fugu tribe. The Murwei people live in the deep mountains, and they are also brave and warlike people, and the Hui attack on the Murwei Buke, and the Fugu people suffer heavy losses, and they are even more resentful of the Hui people.

Citing the ineffectiveness of the Servant tribes, Gel Khan cut large tracts of pastures from the Servug tribes, which made the Servog people even angrier. However, the Hui tribe was prosperous, and the servants did not dare to rebel openly.

After returning to their own territory, the servants always wanted to follow the example of Qarlu and move westward. This time, taking advantage of the harsh winter, he took the whole clan from the grasslands of Mobei to prepare to move to the far west and compete for territory with the weak Western Turkic tribes.

After Gele Khan knew, he ordered the Hui tribes along the way to intercept the Fugu tribe, but the Fugu tribe was the Mobei tribe, and the strength was extremely strong, and this time it was a matter of life and death, the warriors were naturally brave, not only defeated the tribes intercepted along the way, but also captured a large number of people, sheep and horses.

The whole clan of the Fugu tribe migrated, driving a large number of sheep and horses, and the speed was naturally not fast. The headquarters of Gel Khan caught up with the Fugu tribe east of Jinshan, and after a great battle, both sides suffered heavy losses.

After both defeats, the Uighurs gave up the pursuit and made a pact with the Fugu tribe to let them leave the Uighur Khanate. Only then did the Fugu tribe continue to migrate, and later came to the eastern section of Tianshan and invaded the territory of Puzhi County.

That is to say, the Hui people who invaded the territory of Pu County this time have nothing to do with the Hui people who circled around Pu County in the past few years, this time it is the Fu Gu people who escaped from the Uighur Khanate and passed through here during the migration, and they don't want to leave when they see the abundant water and grass here, and they are ready to live here for a long time.

After occupying Puzhi City, they did not know that they were afraid of the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, which would covet the wealth of the Han merchants and kill the Han people in the city. In fact, it was not only the Han merchants who suffered such a calamity, but also the merchants in the city.

Now around this Pu Sea are all the people of the Fugu tribe, there are more than 100,000 Dingkou, and about half of the men. (To be continued.) )