After catching Yelu Dashi, Liu Xing's mind couldn't help but turn to the Western Regions thousands of miles away by Yelu Bashen's words.

It was also when Liu Xingyao was thinking about the war on the Silk Road, the Western Regions and the edge of the Wugula Desert.

Zhang Yang led 10,000 fire cavalry and used the cover of the sandstorm to go around to the back of the Yuanfan Alliance.

The sandstorm eased a little, and Zhang Yang stood on a sand dune to exert his skills, so that his eyes could look thousands of feet away, and glanced at the enemy camp of the ten-mile company camp.

It's been four months, and in the past four months, Zhang Yang has been like a straggler, using the cruising tactics that Liu Xing taught him to constantly attack and kill the enemy.

Within four months, Zhang Heizi led his team with 40,000 troops to resist a million-strong enemy. Not only did he never suffer defeat, but he created a war miracle one after another in 60 large and small wars without losing a single defeat.

In those sixty battles, large and small, Zhang Heizi and his army were not destroyed by other distant enemies, but became more and more powerful.

It's just that in the past four months, Liu Xing didn't know whether Liu Xing was returning to the Western Regions, and Liu Feng, who was against Yelu Dashi's neck in the northwest direction and didn't let him send troops to help the enemy from afar, also knew that Zhang Heizi's troops had actually reached about 150,000 at this time.

There are strange things every year, especially this year. There are only hundreds of thousands of Han people in the Western Regions, where did Zhang Heizi get so many soldiers and horses?

Everything is thanks to those enemies who have come from afar, and it is the group of bandits who have grown rapidly to help Zhang Yang.

How so? The reason is that after the distant troops entered the Western Regions, the former army suffered heavy losses from Zhang Yang repeatedly.

After being ambushed, raided, and beaten in sparrow warfare again and again, Ushaf, the commander of the distant army, realized that he had fallen for the Jerodashi.

This cannot be a war that can be resolved quickly and with overwhelming and quick conclusions, as the Emperor of Naxi Liao said, it will be a protracted war that can be fought for a long time.

The opponent is too cunning, and about a thousand people can beat him with the sharpness of firearms.

After beating him, wait until he wants to gather heavy troops to encircle and annihilate the opponent's soldiers and horses. The damned opponent seemed to have evaporated on the vast Gobi Desert, and disappeared without a trace in an instant, so that he could not find the slightest clue.

On several occasions, Ushav was so angry that he thought about letting the army go straight to Shule City and dig out the old nest called Zhang Yang.

The result? Every time his army was about to move, the royal troops of the Great Song Dynasty who had entered the Western Regions would appear on the main road to Shule City. is either engaged in actual combat drills, or is conquest of the rebellious Song tribes.

His army wanted to go over unless he fought with the Great Song royal forces first, but Usaf had already learned from Yelu Dashi how strong the Great Song royal forces were now.

One year to destroy Western Xia, two years to surround Beijing, less than three months to sweep away Tibet. Such a Great Song Dynasty royal division, don't say that it is more than 100,000 people, even if it is tens of thousands of people, Ushav will not dare to provoke easily.

In this way, every time he wanted to attack Shule City, he would encounter the royal troops of the Great Song Dynasty. The royal troops of the Great Song Dynasty refused to give way under various excuses, and he could only look at the sea of sand and be angry.

But in the midst of a protracted war, Ushaf, who was on an expedition to the Western Regions, knew that what he needed most was a large enough supply of food and grass. If he wanted to complete the agreement with Yelu Dashi in the Western Regions and get the benefits he wanted, he could only learn the flamboyant method and let the soldiers under his command rush to the four directions to plunder the tribes.

is also a tactic of fighting to feed the war, how did Zhang Heizi do it?

Only kill the local tyrants and inferior gentry, and only kill the slave owners and the rich. Zhang Yang's subordinates knew very well that in the process of carrying out the guerrilla warfare, they could only attack those tribal leaders and rich people who were unkind to the rich. Otherwise, if a civilian is killed by mistake, Zhang Heizi will take off their heads at any time.

The same tactic of fighting to feed the war, what did Ushav do?

When his men stormed the nearby tribal villages, they looted both the rich and the poor. If someone resists, the family will be wiped out, and the entire village will be slaughtered.

Ushaf's soldiers and horses sacked villages and slaughtered them when they resisted, and the result was that corpses were strewn everywhere the army passed and countless innocent people died under the butcher's knives of the distant enemy.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Liu Xing's words were quickly fulfilled again in the Western Regions and on the Silk Road.

Usaf and his soldiers and horses not only oppressed the tribes of the Western Regions, but also slaughtered all the tribes they could see as if they were fish to be slaughtered.

As a result, the army from afar has arrived, and all the villages have fled. Dozens of tribes fled to the southeast as a whole, leaving not a single grain of rice or a ration for the distant army, and at the same time, those tribes poured in and gathered in large numbers in Shule City.

In the face of a large number of people fleeing from those tribes, Zhang Yang didn't say much, and everyone came as guests, and I will draw land around Shule City for you to settle down for the time being.

But I don't have any money to care about you, so if you want to live, exchange the only remaining useful resources from your families with me!

The most useful resource left? What resources did the fleeing tribes have to exchange with Zhang Yang? Women? No, although Zhang Yang is also lustful, he is not a demon in the color who hits a tree when he sees a beautiful woman. The resources he was referring to were men, young men from all tribes who could be used as recruits.

"The team that defected to me has food, and the monthly salary of the leader can support your family. Thirty percent of the income from fighting a war goes to individuals, and seventy percent is turned over for military use. Those who make meritorious contributions will be rewarded, and those who kill many enemies will soon become rich. This is the condition that Zhang Yang prescribes to those tribal men, and it is the temptation of Chiguo to a group of men who have not eaten a meal.

First show kindness, and then throw out such a big temptation, it is difficult for Zhang Yang not to grow his strength quickly. So, in just over three months, Zhang Heizi now has 150,000 soldiers and horses.

Although 120,000 of them were "returning soldiers" composed of men of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions without firearms. Those "returning soldiers" only have cold weapons in their hands, but they are all locals who are good at riding and archery and shuttling in the desert.

It is the time of heaven that is changed by virtue of the geographical advantages occupied by the men of the various tribes, the harmony of the people obtained by the favor and temptation, and the firearms against the heavens. Zhang Yangcai won many battles and was elusive, so that Ushav and his soldiers and horses did not dare to be honest at night, and did not dare to relax or slack off during the day.

However, he only relied on cruising warfare, and when the war lasted for the fourth month and Zhang Yang's own soldiers became stronger, that kind of monotonous war could no longer satisfy Zhang Heizi.

After some thought, he decided to give Ushav a big counterattack completely. Victory, drive it farther to the west, so that the city of Shule can be safer. It's a big deal to lose some Xiyi men, and retreating to Shule can also make Naushav even more frightened. (To be continued.) )