The desert march is never a pleasing thing to the eye, not to mention that the soft sand often traps the horse's hooves, not to say that the dry climate can make people thirsty and smoke, just to say that the pervasive fine sand is enough to annoy people, often after a day of marching, take off your clothes and armor and see, I don't know when the whole body has been wrapped in a thin layer of fine sand, if you have not experienced it yourself, it is difficult to understand at all, if you have to keep fighting after the march, that day is even more miserableAfter more than half a month of desert trekking, they all seemed a little sleepy, and everyone's faces were full of exhaustion, but fortunately, they all won battles along the way, and they could still hold up in terms of momentum, otherwise, the army would have to be even worse.

Hardship, suffering, or torture, all of this, Li Zhen had already taken into account when he chose Anxi as his official land, the reason why Li Zhen would play such a big show with the sand thieves in the Hami area, in addition to planning to use himself as a bait to wipe out the sand thieves and stabilize the rear of Anxi, the main thing is to let his guards who have never fought in the desert have a chance to practice, otherwise, in terms of Li Zhen's best surprise attack, how can he tolerate the sand thieves calmly layout, has long been a surprise soldier to smash the bandits' nest, of course, the idea is conceived, but the implementation is another matter, Li Zhen did not expect that the war would be difficult to this point, a small battle actually made him lose more than 200 personal guards, which really made Li Zhen feel distressed, and even did not hesitate to risk the possibility of being escaped by the sand thieves, forcibly stayed in Liuyuan for a day and a night, and specially took a lot of time to carry out some rectification, and gave a tactical analysis lesson to the generals of the personal guards who had no one in their eyes. After completely dispelling the arrogance of the generals who despised everything, they set out of camp, gave up some of the camels that had exhausted their provisions, and handed over the prisoners of war and their wounded soldiers to Dong Qianli's headquarters who arrived later, and the main force of the Tang Army rushed to Xingxing Gorge, the purpose of which was to confuse the main force of the sand thieves who were wandering outside, and induce the sand thieves to have the illusion that the Tang army could not wait to rush back to Yumen Pass, so as to create an opportunity for the encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the sand pirates, as for whether such a strategic goal of once and for all could be achieved, Li Zhen is actually not 100% sure in his heart, he can only do his best, no, just turned over a sand beam that is not too high, and the craggy and continuous peaks of Xingxing Gorge are in his eyes, Li Zhen let out a sigh, and his heart moved-finally arrived, everything should be over!

Seeing that the Tang army had arrived at Xingxing Gorge, not only Li Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, but also Liu and Sha, two desert giants who had hid on the west side of Xingxing Gorge more than half an hour in advance, behind a sand beam about five miles away, also secretly breathed a sigh of relief - this rush was finally in vain, especially after seeing the luxury carriage suspected of carrying the princess on the sand beam, Sha and Liu were even more relieved, the only doubt was that they had not seen the figures of those sand thieves who fell into the hands of the Tang army in the battle the day before yesterday, which made Sha, Liu and the others couldn't help but secretly speculate, always feeling that something might be wrong, but they couldn't think of what was wrong, of course, the two would never believe that Li Zhen would kill all the prisoners of war, but what about people? Hundreds of captured men disappeared like this, how could they not make Liu and Sha babble in their hearts, but there was nowhere to ask at this time, and the two brothers could only put the questions in their hearts, silently watching Li Zhen's troops swaggering towards the mouth of the Star Canyon.

Perhaps because of the return to the heart like an arrow, as soon as the Tang army arrived at the Star Gorge, the already fast march speed was a little faster, and the footsteps walked into the valley happily, and after a few moments, dozens of Tang Army rangers as the guard turned around a few times at will outside the valley mouth, and also hurriedly rushed into the valley mouth, chasing the brigade, the originally noisy valley mouth was quiet again, and suddenly, a rolling thunderous sound suddenly broke out in the middle of the Star Gorge, and then a gray-white smoke cloud rose into the sky, Soon, mushroom-shaped clouds formed in the sky above Star Gorge, which was chilling to see.

It's done! Seeing such a big movement in the Star Gorge, Liu Whirlwind could no longer hold back the excitement in his heart, jumped up, pulled out the straight-handled scimitar from his waist, and shouted: "Sons, kill the past, block the mouth of the gorge, don't leave Li Zhen'er!" As soon as the words fell, no matter that the sand flying camel was still there muttering, he slid down the sand beam, jumped on the war horse, rushed to the sand beam like a fly, and rushed towards the Xingxing Gorge.

Sha Feiluo is cautious, to be honest, with him a nameless boy from a small country in Qiuzi, it is not easy to make a name in the desert where all forces are entangled, if it weren't for the cautiousness, he would have died I don't know how many times, therefore, although he saw that Tang Jun seemed to have been ambushed, but he still couldn't believe that this would be the truth, without him, he had seen a lot of Li Zhen's power along the way, and he couldn't believe that Li Zhen would fall into the canyon so easily, not to mention that he was in a hurry when he arrived here, Although he sent people into the canyon to contact, but he himself had never seen the so-called ambush with his own eyes, so he was not very relieved, at this time, seeing that the "whirlwind thief" had already been killed, Sha Feiluo was not in a hurry, he wanted to see if the "whirlwind thief" such a rush would lead to a possible ambush of the Tang army.

Sha Feicamel didn't move like this, and the anxious person was not Li Zhen, who was now in the valley and his life and death was uncertain, nor was he the first to cover up the past Liu Whirlwind, but Xiao Dalong, the deputy town guard of the Tang Yumen Pass who was hiding on the north side of Xingxing Gorge - since he took down more than 100 sand thieves under Qin Wenhua's department last night, Xiao Dalong except for leaving some soldiers to pretend to be sand thieves and cooperate with the "Rising Sun" master to act, the whole army of 2,000 men and horses took advantage of the night to go out of Xingxing Gorge, and ambushed early behind a sand beam about four miles away from Xingxing Gorge According to Li Zhen's order to him, once the sand thieves cover up the valley, the soldiers of Yumen Pass must cover their back roads, force the sand thieves into the valley, and catch turtles in an urn, but now the "whirlwind thieves" rushed out, but they did not see the movement of the "Fallen Leaf Kou", which really made Xiao Dalong embarrassed, and he couldn't judge whether to send troops immediately for a while, so he had no choice but to turn his head to a man who called himself Eagle Five lying beside him, and asked tentatively: " Brother Eagle, should you do it? ”

Ying Wu is a man who doesn't talk much, although he is not very old, he can look at the old face, his face is full of wind and frost, this time he did not follow Li Zhen to fight in the desert, but has been staying in Xiao Dalong's team, but in addition to conveying the orders given by Li Zhen, he has never interfered with Xiao Dalong's command, nor has he been in Xiao Dalong's team, he just silently follows Xiao Dalong's left and right every day, with a respectful and respectful attitude, once Xiao Dalong asks, he will definitely give a satisfactory result to Xiao Dalong, Xiao Dalong admired his talent very much, and when he heard Xiao Dalong's question, Ying Wu did not answer immediately, but muttered for a while: "Don't worry, wait and see, I thought that the 'Fallen Leaf Kou' would eventually be dispatched." Seeing that Ying Wu said so surely, Xiao Dalong also calmed down, shrugged his shoulders, and no longer raised the matter of soldiers, but silently looked at the cavalry of the "Whirlwind Thieves" whistling by not far away.

Nervous, excited! Liu Whirlwind in the rush was so excited that it was almost uncontrollable, and rushed all the way to more than 30 steps away from the valley mouth, only to restrain the galloping war horse, and when he turned around, he just planned to command his subordinates to deploy the sand thieves, but suddenly found that there were only more than 1,000 people who followed his own killing generals, and the sand flying camel department was gone, and suddenly became anxious - according to the predetermined plan, Qin Wenhua will let go of the vanguard of Li Zhen's department, and then hit it halfway, and use wood and rolling stones to plug the valley mouth, cutting off the way forward of Li Zhen's department, of course, In order to prevent accidental injury to Li Zhen and the princess, it is impossible to really hit them halfway, and it may even be that Li Zhen's entire army is trapped in the valley, if Li Zhen finds that his way is cut off, he is bound to return to the army to attack the valley mouth at the west end, and with the good fighting of the Tang army, Liu Whirlwind is not the slightest sure that he can block the impact of Li Zhen's troops with more than 1,000 cavalry.

'Bastard, damn old slippery head! Liu Xuanfeng scolded angrily, and then hurriedly ordered all his subordinates to set up a formation, and at the same time sent a herald to summon Sha Feiluo to come to converge, so that he was busy.

"Big brother, let's wait and attack, but we can't let that kid Liu Whirlwind get the full credit, otherwise, that kid may sell me and others." Sha Kui climbed the sand beam, and saw that Liu Whirlwind had lined up at the mouth of the valley, and suddenly became a little anxious, bent down to look at the sand flying camel lying tightly on the sand, and hurriedly asked.

Sha Kui's words are true, once Li Zhen really fell into the hands of Liu Whirlwind, maybe Liu Whirlwind can really only care about signing an alliance with Li Zhen, so as to put the "Fallen Leaf Kou" aside, once this is the case, Li Zhen, who feels that he has lost face, will definitely raise the army to crusade against the same involved in it, and there is a "Fallen Leaf Kou" who has never held a handle in his hand, then the result is not what Sha Feiluo wants, at this time, seeing that the "Whirlwind Thief" has held the valley mouth, but has never found that there is an ambush of the Tang Army, Sha Feiluo's heart and eyes immediately came to life, and when he saw a herald coming from the valley mouth on a flying horse, he immediately lost his breath, jumped up, and shouted: "Attack!" The fierceness of his movements and the loudness of his voice startled the unprepared Sha Kui, who was not paying attention, slipped under his feet, and rolled down the sand beam, which immediately provoked the sand thieves to lean forward and backward with laughter, and they were very happy.

"He@@, laughing, big brother has an order, attack, he @@给老子上马!" Sha Kui, who felt that he had fallen, jumped up, waved the horse whip in his hand angrily, drove away a group of laughing sand thieves, jumped on the war horse with a curse, and rushed out first, and the group of sand thieves behind him also followed the killing to the valley mouth.

Chaos, a big chaos, with the arrival of the "Fallen Leaf Kou", stirred up the billowing smoke and dust, and the "whirlwind thieves" who had been lined up in formation were also disrupted, and the two sides scrambled to get a card position, both thinking that they could grab a good place and lay a good foundation for the next step to get Li Zhen into their own hands, so that before the battle was fought, the two groups of sand thieves almost fought by themselves, and before Liu Whirlwind and Sha Feiluo made the problem of ranking clear, a mournful horn suddenly sounded not far away, Immediately after a sand beam on the north side of Xingxing Gorge, a large group of Tang cavalry poured out, and quickly divided into two roads, each with about a thousand soldiers and horses, and instantly blocked the retreat of the sand thieves - Xingxing Mountain is not tall, but the strange rocks are craggy, steep, and the stretching mountains are dozens of miles long, there is no other way except for such a gap in Xingxing Gorge, and the Tang army is so blocked, the sand thieves have nowhere to escape, although the Tang cavalry did not immediately put into the attack, but slowly moved forward, But the huge killing intent made the panicked sand thieves shudder.

It's over, it's all over! As soon as he saw the main force of the Tang Army appear here, Liu Whirlwind knew that he had been tricked, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom - at this time, he suffered a crushing defeat, the soldiers had no heart to fight, and he came from a long journey, and the men and horses were in a dilemma, how could he block the fierce attack of the Tang Army, if he wanted to break through the formation of the Tang Army and kill a bloody road, it was purely a fool's dream, it was impossible to kill it, and there was nowhere to escape.

Compared with Liu Whirlwind's lost soul, Sha Feiluo was somewhat sober, as soon as he saw the Tang Army ambushing and killing, he didn't care about complaining about his previous inability to hold his breath, and with a roll of his eyes, he had already guessed the reason why the Tang Army did not attack immediately - the Tang Army made such a bold gesture of encirclement and annihilation, its intention was just to force itself into the Star Gorge, thinking that there should be a follow-up ambush in the Star Gorge, entering the valley is definitely a dead end, and only by killing the past can we get a glimmer of life!

"Sons, kill it, kill it!" Sha Feiluo waved the straight-handled scimitar in his hand regardless of it, shouted, and rushed towards the Tang army column that was slowly approaching.

Xiao Dalong, as the deputy envoy of Yumen Pass, is not a matter of one or two days to deal with this gang of sand thieves, in the past, he was always helpless to take this gang of sand thieves for various reasons - send a large army to encircle and suppress, and the sand thieves will come to avoid fighting and drill into the desert, so that the Tang army of Guazhou who cannot cross the border to pursue is helpless, and dispatches a small unit @ team to maintain order, but they are often beaten by the sand thieves. Xiao Dalong had already launched a general attack as soon as possible, and wiped out this gang of sand thieves, at this time, seeing the sand thieves desperately fighting back, he was not surprised and rejoiced, laughed and waved his hand and said: "Release the arrow!" ”

With Xiao Dalong's order, the cavalry of the Tang Army, which had already been ready, immediately unceremoniously poured the rain of arrows of death on the sand thieves who rushed over, and in an instant, dozens of sand thieves who rushed to the forefront were shot into hedgehogs. Seeing that the time was ripe, Xiao Dalong waved his hand unceremoniously and said, "Attack!" Suddenly, a loud horn sounded in the Tang army's array, and the two thousand elite cavalry immediately mobilized the whole army, shouting to cover up the past to the sand thieves.

The sand thieves who were huddled together saw that the Tang army was rushing over, and they immediately became chaotic, and they didn't know who took the lead first, and rushed into the canyon in a swarm - Sha Feiluo and Liu Whirlwind knew that the valley was actually a dead end, and they kept talking and shouting, but at this time, the military spirit was already in chaos, and the efforts of the two of them did not have an effect, but they were wrapped up in the chaos and retreated into the canyon involuntarily, and fled all the way to the middle of the canyon, but saw a pile of boulders and trees that had cut off the canyon. It's a pity that the Tang army has never seen the dead and wounded, this ambush that was originally used to block the way out of Li Zhen's department has now become a trap to block his escape, and he really lifted a stone and hit his own feet, in the face of such a cocoon and self-restraint, Sha and Liu wanted to cry without tears, and what made the two even more ashamed and unbearable was that Li Zhen, who was supposed to be the target of the pit, was sitting on a boulder halfway up the mountain at this moment, looking at the embarrassed sand thieves with a smile, and the playful smile fell in the eyes of Sha and Liu. It made both of them want to die.

"Why did the two masters arrive, but let this king wait, or not, for the sake of waiting for you to wait these days, this king will give you a chance to choose, and those who descend will not be killed!" Li Zhen smiled and puffed his palms, and said a word with a joking, but there was no momentum, and the sound actually penetrated the chaos in the canyon and reached the ears of every sand thief, as if Li Zhen was talking in their ears.

As soon as Li Zhen's words fell, on the mountainsides and hills on both sides of the canyon, a large row of Tang Army soldiers with bows and arrows suddenly stood up in the chaotic pile blocking the canyon, and more than a thousand masters shouted in unison: "Those who surrender live, those who resist die, kill, kill, kill!" ”

People are always greedy for life, even the sand thieves who have always been brave and ruthless are no exception, in the face of the choice of life and death, people who can be indifferent to life and death are definitely a minority, facing the end of no escape, the vast majority of sand thieves can not care so much, they have dropped their weapons, rolled the saddle and dismounted, squatted on the ground with their hands raised, only a few brave sand thieves gathered around the sand and Liu, waiting for the two masters to make the final decision.

The situation is stronger than people, facing the situation of no way out, even if Sha and Liu have all the ability, there is no room to play, the two glanced at each other, each lowered his head, silently threw the scimitar in his hand on the ground, dismounted, and stood upright on the ground, which was already resigned to fate.

Oh, I'm waiting for you! Li Zhen is not a cruel and murderous person, at this time, seeing Sha and Liu dismounted and surrendered, he didn't overdo it, but he just smiled lightly, turned around, and explained to Yan Shiba, who was standing beside him: "Eighteen, bring Liu Whirlwind and Sha Feiluo up, and the rest will collect weapons and horses on the spot, and then order them to carry sundries, and reopen the passage within one day." As soon as the words fell, he didn't wait for Yan Eighteen to leave, he got up and walked to the tent set up on a platform on the mountainside.

"Get on your knees!" Several palace guards who escorted Sha and Liu into the tent saw that Sha and Liu did not kneel down, and they unceremoniously broke off drinking.

"Stand down." As soon as Li Zhen raised his hand, he stopped the guards' intention to teach Sha and Liu a lesson, and looked at the two giants with gloomy faces with a smile, but he didn't say anything to ask, and the scrutinizing gaze made Liu and Sha uncomfortable.

"Since so-and-so has been defeated, he only wants to die quickly, His Highness is a master, why bother to play such a trick on so-and-so?" Liu Whirlwind, who was extremely uncomfortable by Li Zhen, finally couldn't help but scream.

"Do you just want to die like this, heh, if you die, have you ever thought about what will happen to He Yueqi's mother and son?" Li Zhen asked quietly.

"You ......" Liu Xuanfeng's eyes turned red, and he glared at Li Zhen angrily and said: "If you admit that you are guilty, your Highness will take a certain wife and children, don't you think you will do it?" ”

"Joke, Er is just a bandit in the eyes of this king, what is the death of this king, hum, Er's wife and children are also bandits, the Tang Dynasty has its own laws, why do you need this king to care, hey, you are happy to die, but your wife and children will be scolded by everyone but die, and then ask yourself, are you worthy of your wife and children?" Li Zhen sneered and counted unceremoniously.

"A certain ......" Liu Whirlwind, as a giant sand thief, is not such a brainless reckless man, he understands that what Li Zhen said is the truth, and when he thinks of what happened to He Yueqi's mother and son in the future, his heart is like a knife, and he can't go on.

Sha Feiluo is a veteran of the rivers and lakes, at this time, he heard Li Zhen's words vaguely revealing the meaning of solicitation, and immediately his heart came alive, of course, he didn't want to vote for Li Zhen on this, but he was thinking that he could use words to fool him through, and then took the opportunity to escape, at this time, he saw that Liu Whirlwind was so angry that he couldn't continue, for fear that Liu Whirlwind would say something even more unpleasant, so that he angered Li Zhen, so that he was beheaded together, and hurriedly interjected: "Brother Liu misunderstood, His Royal Highness is a magnanimous person, how can he embarrass us, Since he was defeated, he was willing to surrender, and since then he has followed His Highness, and there is no second heart. ”

Ha, @@, you old bastard, what you say is better than what you sing, @@的, acting with Lao Tzu? Li Zhen is best at observing the face, as soon as she saw Sha Feiluo's appearance, she saw through the small abacus in Sha Feiluo's heart, but she didn't break it, just smiled and said: "Sha Dangjia said it well, this king loves to hear this, but this king has a question, and it is good to ask Sha Dangjia to be honest." ”

Sha Feiluo couldn't guess what kind of medicine was sold in Li Zhen's gourd, seeing that Li Zhen said very politely, his eyes rolled, and he smiled with a smile: "Your Highness is polite, if you have any questions, just give me orders, the little one knows everything and says everything." ”

"In this way, the king will have to thank the Sha master first." Li Zhen looked at Sha Feihu with a smile and said, "The question of this king is, what is the use of you to this king?" ”

Although Li Zhen's face was smiling, but the words asked were very heartfelt, Sha Feicamel heard it, his face suddenly turned pale, without him, although Sha Feicamel's martial arts are good, but compared with Li Zhen's gang of masters, it is just an ordinary role, and now the sand thieves under his command have been wiped out, and the biggest reliance is gone, really calculated, for Li Zhen, he Sha Feicamel is really a dispensable character, at this time, Li Zhen's question was faintly murderous, and his heart was immediately cold, and he couldn't say it. The sweat on his forehead flowed down like a waterfall.

"What? Sha Dangjia thinks this question is difficult to answer? Well, then the king will ask a different question, hey, what do you want to get by taking refuge in this king? Li Zhen smiled mockingly, and continued unhurriedly.

"A certain ......" Sha Feiluo pale face, hesitated for a long time, and then peeked at Li Zhen's murderous face, and after stammering for a while, he sighed and said: "The villain just wants to live, and the rest is nothing else." ”

@@, don't force you, you kid really takes Lao Tzu for a fool. Li Zhen saw that Sha Feiluo was soft, smiled indifferently, put away the gradually growing murderous aura, glanced at Sha Feiluo and said: "Sha Dangjia is really ambitious, he took refuge in this king just to live, and he really lived in vain." ”

Li Zhen said something, but the meaning inside was deep, Sha Feiluo heard it, his eyes immediately widened, and after being stunned for a while, he said loudly: "A certain is a grass people, I really don't dare to think about it......"

Fuck, fuck you @@, I really want to rebel and I need to pull up and wait for this unreliable guy, damn dog! As soon as Li Zhen heard Sha Feihuo's words, he knew that this old boy wanted to be crooked, but he didn't bother to explain, so he just sneered and said: "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, you can understand this, hey, although the world is big, it should be the world of my Tang Dynasty, in the eyes of this king, there is nothing to say, you are all the people of the Tang Dynasty, you just have to follow the king to pacify Anxi, a marquis of ten thousand households can't run, seal the wife and the shadow, life is happy, the big husband stands in the world, how can he walk in vain, he must be famous in history, You can see the true colors of heroes! ”

Sha and Liu are both long-standing people, and they can hear that what Li Zhen said is from the bottom of their hearts, but they did not express their position immediately, but stood there silently, with a thoughtful face, but Li Zhen was not in a hurry, sitting on the horse, smiling lightly, waiting for the two to make the final choice......

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