Chapter 626: Beacons Burning Everywhere in the Western Regions

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What is the situation in Shazhou, it is difficult to know in the cultivation, which makes him even more worried, in the battle of Baiyuhe, he lost nearly 3,000 men and horses, and finally was forced to retreat to the upper reaches of Baiyuhe;

But this is only an expedient measure, the source of the Baiyu River is Kunlun Mountain, that is to say, further south is the year-round snow, the uninhabited Kunlun Mountain.

In this kind of inaccessible place, it is difficult to even raise food and grass supplies, if you don't find a way as soon as possible, without Hassan to fight, more than 10,000 Song troops will have to starve to death at the foot of Kunlun Mountain.

Ma Yuan licked his chapped lips, looked at the slanting sun that was about to fall down the mountain, and couldn't help frowning, this ghost place is so hot that you can bake eggs during the day, but it is so cold at night that people can't stand it, and the more you go to Kunlun Mountain, the greater the temperature difference between hot and cold.

In just two days after this alternation of cold and heat, many non-commissioned officers in the army fell ill because they could not adapt to the weather for a while.

Ma Yuan hesitated for a moment and said: "General Chong, now that even the Achaibu has defected, Shazhou must be in great danger, let's just fight with Hassan, otherwise if it goes on like this, the brothers are only afraid that they will fall ill more and more." ”

On the Kunlun Mountain in the south, the snow reflects the sunset, which is brilliant and magnificent, but it is a pity that Chongjian has no intention of enjoying these scenery at this moment;

He said in a deep voice: "It's just to fight, but also to think about how to fight first, the morale of the Black Khan army is now soaring, and there are more than 10,000 people and horses in the Achai Department to help, and then fight hard like the day before yesterday, but it is to kill a thousand enemies, and lose 800 self-losses, we have too many troops against each other, and then fight hard like that, it will not help." ”

"These last generals also know. It's just that if you don't fight, you will spend it in this hellish place. The brothers won't be able to hold on for long. ”

"Wait for the scout to come back and see if you can get supplies in Yuzhou Town."

There is also a small town called Yuzhou in the upper reaches of the Baiyu River. It is a place where the herdsmen in the vicinity trade daily necessities, and there is a small number of people living in a small group, which is the only place where the cultivation can be replenished for a few days at a time.

"General Plant, even if Yuzhou can get three or two days of food, it is not a way after all, now Hassan has given up the pursuit, and instead blocked our way back to the east with the soldiers and horses of the Achai Division, obviously wanting to consume us to death under this Kunlun Mountain, how can we spend it like this with him?"

Chong Jianzhong replied confidently: "He can't kill us." As long as there are two or three days of supplies, it is enough! ”

Ma Yuangang wanted to ask what the plan was for Jianzhong, but at this time, several scouts in the south galloped back, and reported from afar: "General Chong, there are about 100 families in Yuzhou, and there are some black sweat herdsmen scattered nearby. ”

"Without further ado. Ma Yuan, you immediately take two thousand men and horses, and raise as many as I want. ”

"Whoa!" Ma Yuanlang responded, and soon led two thousand men and horses to gallop away on the sunset.

Ma Yuan went and robbed the town of Yuzhou. Even the newborn lamb was not spared.

The army of Chong Jianzhong rested for the night, and the next day suddenly waved his army to cross the Wuyu River and kill to the west. There is a great elephant to rush to Shule.

This move was unexpected, and Hassan and Achai's troops and horses strictly prevented him from crossing the Baiyu River and returning eastward. But I didn't expect him to be white, but he couldn't come to black.

Could it be that Chong Jianzhong really wants to use these 10,000 lone troops to run rampant in the Western Regions and destroy the Black Khan? This is a bit of a fool's dream!

But no matter what, Chong Jianzhong's move hit Hassan's soft underbelly at once.

Earlier Akmor had lost 40,000 men. When Chong Jianzhong captured Khotan, he destroyed another 10,000, and then Hassan attacked Khotan without losing casualties, and suffered nearly 30,000 casualties. He now led more than 40,000 horses to defend Khotan and the Baiyu River, and 10,000 horses to the west of the river.

This pass is added and subtracted, it is nearly 140,000 troops, although the territory of the Black Khanate is very large, but the population is difficult to compare with the Central Plains, all the young and strong people who can fight are pulled up, there are only about 100,000 horses.

Except for these 140,000, there are really no troops left in Shule and other cities.

In case Jianzhong is really desperate to go west, there is a great danger in Shule and other cities, Hassan led the army to pursue, and at the same time did not relax the blockade in the east, because he felt that nine times out of ten, Jianzhong was playing a trick of attacking the east and attacking the west, and the rush to the west was just to divert his own forces, and the ultimate goal was to return to the east.

Under the city of Suzhou, the battle was still raging at the moment, although the Jin of Vigab returned to Gaochang with more than 10,000 horses, but he still left 5,000 people.

The first reason for this is to let the various departments insist on attacking Hexi, and only by defeating Hexi will Xizhou be safe, so as not to directly face the army of the Song State.

The second is that they are unwilling to give up the fruits of the victory that are about to be reached, although the situation in Xizhou is critical, with 15,000 men and horses who have returned to help, and a few thousand men and horses who remain in Gaochang City, it will not be a problem to defeat the invading enemy.

Seeing that the rich Hexi was about to be obtained, as the leader, Vigab's Jin would get more than the entire Xizhou, so even if there was a fire in the backyard, Vigab's Jin still left 5,000 men and horses to attack Suzhou with various departments for various reasons.

At present, there are nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses in the various departments besieging Suzhou, and Yao Xiong led 10,000 troops from Hetao to arrive in Suzhou, and fought a big battle with the allied forces in the south of the city.

Yao Xiong was originally a fierce general of the Western Army, and in recent years, the Great Song Dynasty soldiers were extremely powerful, and the generals in the army were inevitably a little proud.

As a result, Yao Xiong suffered a heavy defeat in this battle, he also ate a secret loss of Arab horses, and when the battle between the two sides was in full swing, thousands of Black Khan soldiers riding Arab war horses rushed strongly into Yao Xiong's left flank, causing his left flank to collapse first.

In this battle, Yao Xiong lost more than 2,000 horses and horses, and had to retreat to the Lu'anling Mountains in the south to regroup.

At this time, the Western Regions can be described as full of smoke, the war in Suzhou is not over, the city of Gaochang is also a tide of killing, Princess Adella led five thousand young people out of the city, although she is not accustomed to the battle formation, but her guard Mo Ying is quite clever.

Princess Adella as the commander of the army is just a symbol, the actual command of the battle is in charge of Mo Ying, the Xizhou Uighurs are mainly nomagular, these thousands of young people are inspired by the goddess, the morale is very high;

Mo Ying did not lead them to fight directly with the enemy Gu Lie, but continued to harass the guerrillas, which made it difficult for the enemy Gu Lie to divide his troops to loot everywhere, and the provoked enemy Gu Lie desperately pursued;

Mo Ying was forced to fight a tough battle with the enemy's army at Liushenpo south of Gaochang, and was defeated and lost more than 1,000 people.

Seeing that the morale was greatly damaged and embarrassed to fight again, Mo Ying suggested that Princess Adele give up containing the enemy Gu Lie and instead attack the North Court.

The enemy Gulie had not many troops, and there were even fewer people and horses left behind in the North Garden, Princess Adewei led thousands of men and horses to suddenly cross the Tianshan Mountains to kill the North Court, and the remaining enemy soldiers and horses fought hard for half a day, with more than half of the casualties, so they had to abandon the North Court and go to the enemy Gu Lie.

The enemy Gulie is also helpless, he is now too few troops, and he is basically still in the stage of going where to fight, if he leaves a large number of troops to guard the next place, in the case of the people's support, how many cities can he defend with that little man?

The North Courtyard was the place he planned to settle down, so he left 1,500 men and horses to guard it, but unexpectedly, Princess Adela suddenly killed back, so that the North Courtyard that had just arrived was lost again.

The enemy Gulie was about to wave his army back to Beiting, when news came that Vigab's Jin led 15,000 men and horses, day and night, and had rushed back to Yizhou.

Chi Tier said to the enemy Gu Lie: "Vijab's Jin is only 15,000 men and horses, our strength is about the same as him, he rushed back from Suzhou day and night, the army must be tired, we can ignore Beiting first, if we can defeat Vijab's Jin in one fell swoop, Gaochang and Beiting will become our bag." ”

Enemy Gulie also felt that Chi Tie'er's suggestion was very reasonable, as the so-called capture of the thief first captured the king, if he could defeat Vigab's Jin first, Gao Chang and Beiting would definitely go down without a fight.

So the enemy Gulie immediately led his army east to meet Vijab's jin, and after arriving at Chiting to defend and capture, he set up a formation here to wait for the arrival of Vijab's jin.

"Guarding and capturing" is a kind of formation of the Tang Dynasty army, and the New Tang Dynasty Book. The Soldier's Chronicles said: The soldiers who defend the border, the big army, the small one who guards and captures, the city, the town, and in short, the road.

The geographical location of Chiting is very important, when the Tang Dynasty placed the Anxi Protectorate, there were town soldiers guarding the garrison in Chiting, and this name has been used.

Chiting guards the red lonely hill about 200 zhang high at the easternmost end of the Flame Mountain in the north, facing the Gobi Desert, which is a great plague and ghost, and there are two roads in the north to cross the Tianshan Mountain to the North Garden, choking the gateway of Yizhou into Xizhou; It is the first oasis after the Gobi Desert within a radius of 800 miles from the west of Yizhou;

Coming from the west of Yizhou, passing through the Gobi Desert for 800 miles to Chiting to guard and capture, it often gives people the feeling of nine deaths and one life.

The enemy Gulie chose here to meet Vijab's jin, which can be said to be the right place, unless Vigab's jin does not come, if he wants to come, he must pass through the red pavilion to capture.

Vijab's Jin is like an arrow, leading 15,000 men and horses across 800 miles to cross the Gobi Desert, this midsummer weather, the Gobi Desert is like a fire, the heat wave is rolling, almost can scorch people, when the people and horses of Vijab's Jin arrive at the Chiting Pavilion, they are already tired and tired, hungry and thirsty.

The Uighur army was exhausted, but there was no way back, and the enemy Gulie fought a difficult battle with the charge led by Vijab's Jin himself;

The two armies fought fiercely for nearly two hours, suffering heavy casualties, and finally the Uighur army was unable to continue, and many of the horses fell to the ground with exhaustion and died, and Vijab's 15,000 men and horses were finally defeated.

There was no escape from such a place, and even escaping into the Great Gobi Desert was a dead end, and the 7,000 Uighur army, including the seriously wounded Vijab, was captured.

This time, Vijab's jin can be said to have capsized in the gutter, and was robbed at the gate of his house, but the enemy Gulie was not happy, he also suffered nearly 4,000 casualties, this battle was fought so fiercely by the two sides, it was the enemy Gulie they never dreamed of.

But in any case, the main force of Vijab's Jin was finally destroyed, and it should not be difficult to capture Gaochang next.

PS: Today, Hyway is overhauling the network line, so the update has been delayed until now, I hope you will forgive me. I'm working the codeword, I hope you will also support it.

(To be continued.) )