"There is a troop of cavalry breaking through and looking east!"

Captain Wan, who failed to intercept Gan Yanshou's cavalry, came to report to Ogedai.

"How many people left?"

"More than 100 people."

"A hundred people, and when they leave, let them go. The Great Khan's cavalry in Yanqi might have killed them. ”

Wokotai didn't care much about Gan Yanshou's cavalry squad.

Yelu Dashi moved his neck and looked at the war eagle in the air: "Reinforcements from the Han Empire will come soon." It is said that when the Great Khan attacked the Cheshi Kingdom, he was repelled by the Han army. ”

Ogedai was indeed horrified to learn that Temujin had been defeated, but that was all: "Even if they could repel the Great Khan, they would not be able to destroy the Great Khan's cowardly army. Mobei already had a cavalry corps teleported to the Tianshan Mountains, and then to the Yanqi Kingdom, which was enough to make up for the Great Khan's losses. ”

In order to appease Yelu Dashi and keep him loyal, Ogedei knew that his generals could not think that Temujin was no match for the Han Empire's expeditionary force.

At present, Temujin suffered some losses in the face of the Han Empire expeditionary force, but it was not completely annihilated.

If the Han Empire expeditionary force wanted to completely annihilate the main force of Temujin, it would also have to pay an extremely heavy price, not an ordinary price.

"Besides, that guy from Chagatai should be here too."

Ogedai looked to the west.

To the west, Chagatai, the khan of the Chagatai Khanate and the second son of Temujin, led the army of the Chagatai Khanate, together with the captured Seljuk and Khorezm servants, on an expedition to Luntai.

The Ili River Valley is not far from Luntai, but because of the Tianshan Mountains, it will take time to bypass the Tianshan Mountains.

"Ogedai is really unlucky, in order to help me, my khanate was destroyed by the protector of the Western Regions. This time, I will help him once, and the kindness is considered two clear. ”

Chagatai drove the Seljuks, Khorezm and other Central Asian servant armies, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep to advance.

These 70,000 or 80,000 Central Asian servant troops were the cavalry captured by the Chagatai Khanate after the Battle of the Ili River Valley and the defeat of the Seljuk Empire and the Khoraz Kingdom.

In addition to the 70,000 or 80,000 Central Asian servants, Chagatai himself brought an army of 100,000 from the Chagatai Khanate, which was assembled in the Western Regions under the orders of Temujin.

Chagatai's army was all over the mountains, full of cattle, sheep and war horses.

All the cavalry in the Western Regions, centered on Luntai City, quickly converged and involved several Han Empire princes and several Mongol Great Khans.

Luntai City became the center of the storm.

Huo An repelled the Mongol army attacking Luntai City, but the bombardment of Luntai by Xiangyang artillery never ended, but continued to bombard the city, the fireball burst, the fire spread in Luntai City, and the defenders had to be distracted to extinguish the fire.

"After this battle, even if our Western Regions Protectorate still exists, I am afraid it will take two or three years to recover its strength, and the pace of entering Central Asia will eventually be delayed."

Huo An stationed his sword and confronted the Wokotai and Yelu Dashi under the city.

They all have a determination to dominate Central Asia.

It's just that their struggle allowed the Chagatai Khanate to take advantage.

The yellow sand was everywhere, and the huge iron-clad war elephant took heavy steps, leaving huge footprints on the Gobi.

Groups of Han cavalry marched in the yellow sand, sand and gravel flying, striking the iron pieces of armor, and the battle flag was broken.

The Xuanjia army had to take off their armor and carry it on pack horses, and then temporarily put on their armor during battle.

The same is true of Le Yi's Yan Jia, all of them travel lightly.

The Eagle Scout's eagle soars through the air, and once an enemy cavalry is spotted, all legions are put into combat readiness.

Sun Bin was talking to the locals, as if trying to figure out the change in wind direction.

The time is very important.

……

"The teleportation array of Luntai City of the Han Empire, hasn't it been opened yet?"

In the Grand Duchy of Moscow, after Catherine discovered the changes in the Golden Horde, she was concerned about the opening of the teleportation array in Luntai City.

As one of the two world trade nodes of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Luntai City in the Western Regions Protectorate opened a teleportation array with St. Petersburg, and the teleportation array had not yet been restored at this time, indicating that Luntai City was still besieged by Mongolian cavalry.

If Luntai's teleportation array fails, it will be difficult for Catherine to travel to the Han Empire, and the cities between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Han Empire have been blockaded by the Golden Horde and the Mongol Empire.

Catherine decided that it was necessary for her to go to the Han Empire and be sure of one thing.

"According to the news from players of the Han Empire, the Han Empire organized an expeditionary force of at least 400,000 people to enter the Western Regions to support Luntai City. If the Han army can lift the siege of Luntai City, then the teleportation array between St. Petersburg and Luntai will be reopened. ”

"Wait for the teleportation array in Luntai City to open, let me know immediately."

"Yes."

Ekaterina was a little uneasy.

The Golden Horde plundered gold and silver near the Volga Valley, and then narrowed its sphere of influence, choosing to avoid her forces, leaving Catherine somewhat confused.

……

The Chinese army of the Han army, the war eagle sent by Mulan to explore Luntai, came back and brought back Huo An's note.

Huo Qing couldn't wait to come up, wanting to know about his brother's safety.

"Sure enough, Huo An was besieged in Luntai City, and there were at least more than 100,000 enemy soldiers surrounding Luntai City."

Chu Tian took down the note, and Huo An only used a short sentence to describe the situation of the Luntai, the governing place of the Western Regions Protectorate.

"There are more than 100,000 people on the other side, and there are at least tens of thousands of defenders in Luntai, why didn't he choose to break through? If he chooses to break through, then Ogedai won't be able to stop him......"

Huo Qing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he learned that his brother Huo An was fine, and at the same time wondered Huo An's choice.

"Only he has the prestige to defend Luntai, he chooses to leave Luntai, the people's morale and morale in Luntai decline, even if he leaves a general to defend the city, then it will be useless. Luntai must not be lost, otherwise, the Western Regions Protectorate will be destroyed, and only the Cheshi Kingdom will remain...... We can't keep garrisoning troops in the Cheshi Country, and the crisis of the Western Regions Protectorate will eventually have to be solved by the Western Regions Protectorate. ”

Chu Tian knew that Huo An personally sat in Luntai, mainly to appease people's hearts.

"Oh."

Huo Qing was still a little worried.

"It seems that Huo An also sent a cavalry to join us, maybe the general of that cavalry will tell us more about Luntai City and your brother."

Chu Tian learned that a small group of cavalry had successfully broken through.

At this time, Sun Bin was riding a horse, and his expression was a little worried.

"What's the matter with the military advisor?"

Chu Tian rarely saw Sun Bin feel uneasy because of the situation.

Sun Bin said: "There is a lot of wind and sand here, so you need to be careful of Temujin and Subutai taking advantage of the flying sand and rocks, and attacking back and forth. ”

Chu Tian knew that Sun Bin had a certain ability to predict danger, and his worries were not unreasonable.

In the battle of Cheshiguo, Temujin used the strong wind to attack, and once the sand and rocks were flying, the Han army in the downwind direction would be very passive.

Sun Bin sensed this.

"Inform the front army and the rear army that they must be careful of the wind and sand and protect the water source and arrows."

When Chu Tian and the others were marching, they always kept the water bladder water.

Without food, you can still kill camels and war horses to satisfy hunger, and without water, then the expeditionary force cannot move, and without arrows, it cannot fight back in the face of the Mongolian cavalry who are good at riding and shooting.

The two war eagles flew towards Huo Quai's front army and Lao Qin's rear army respectively, reminding them to pay attention to the wind and sand.

Sun Bin paid attention to the changes in the banner in the army: "It's not good, the sky changes from time to time." ”

"Why, it's going to be windy again......"

Chu Tian's heart sank.

The expedition to Luntai is definitely not so easy, and if you are not careful, 400,000 Han troops and millions of cattle and sheep will all be buried in the Gobi and desert.

"I'll lead my troops to the front army to support!"

Mu Ke held back a fire, full of hatred for the Mongol Empire besieging Huo'an, so he urged the Nanzhong Army to go to support the front army.

The Nanzhong Army supported the front army, Chu Tian didn't say anything, he was also worried that the front army would be attacked by Temujin.

Temujin was defeated in the Cheshi Kingdom, and it is estimated that there was also a wave of anger in his chest, wanting to inflict heavy damage on the Han army.

Qin Liangyu and the white pole soldiers, the vulture bones and the rattan armor soldiers, under the leadership of Mu Ke, accelerated the speed of the march and caught up with Huo Quai's army as soon as possible.

In the former army, when Huo Quzhi, Wang Xuance, Li Siye and others received Chutian's reminder, the sand and dust in the sky had already begun to fill, and only the camels accompanying the army were calm.

Huo Quzhi, Li Siye, Wang Xuance and others were already familiar with the Gobi and desert in the Western Regions, and although they felt that it was tricky, they still marched to Luntai according to the established route.

"General, the last general, please be the vanguard!"

Huo Quai's deputy general, Zhao Ponu, took the initiative to ask Ying to be the vanguard and test the enemy cavalry that might appear in front of the army.

Wang Xuance twisted his eyebrows: "At this time, there is a strong wind, you should stop marching, wait until the wind and sand are over, and then march to Yanqi and Luntai, so as to ensure that you will not be attacked by Temujin." ”

Li Siye was also a little impatient: "Luntai is besieged by the Mongol army, and there is always a danger of falling. It is better to take advantage of the wind and sand, run thousands of miles, capture the Yanqi Kingdom, and defeat Temujin in one fell swoop, in order to avenge his attack on the Western Regions Protectorate! ”

"Temujin is good at cavalry, and he must be prepared for a hundred miles of attack, I am afraid that he will fall into the mouth of the tiger, please be sure to think twice."

Wang Xuance thought that Li Siye's proposal was too risky.

In front of cavalry generals who are good at running for 100 miles, it is extremely dangerous to implement the tactics of running for 100 miles.

Huo Qubing is the commander of this legion, and the proposals of these people will ultimately be decided by Huo Quzhi.

Huo Qubing has always adopted the tactics of roundabout surprise attacks, but after a long time of competing with Subutai, Huo Qubing found that the Mongolian cavalry was wary of this tactic.

If there were only Huo Quai's 40,000 soldiers and horses, Huo Qubing would dare to gamble, but in the rear of Huo Quai, there was also Chutian's Chinese army and Lao Qin's rear army.

Once the front army fails to run for a hundred miles, it may lead to the collapse of the middle army and the rear army.

"Since the general has asked us to be careful, we will stop marching for the time being, and wait for the sandstorm to pass and the Chinese army to follow."

Huo Quzhi rarely chose relatively conservative tactics.

Li Siye and Zhao Ponu were both people who dared to take the initiative to attack, and at this time they were dissatisfied because of Wang Xuance's relatively conservative proposal.

"When the wind and sand are over, the Chinese army will follow, and we can report to the general and ask for a surprise attack on Yanqi and open up the passage to Luntai."

Wang Xuance saw everyone's disappointment, so he took the initiative to propose to launch a surprise attack after the wind and sand.

Wang Xuance is as crazy as Huo Quzhi, Zhao Ponu, Li Siye and others in his bones, the first thing they think about is to attack, and the second thing is to defend.

This time, for the sake of the safety of the 400,000 expeditionary force, Wang Xuance encouraged Huo Qubing to choose conservative tactics, otherwise, Wang Xuance would really be able to go directly to Yanqi as Li Siye said.

The wind blew the dunes, and Temujin rode his horse and led a mighty cavalry force over the dunes.

Temujin's face was not very good-looking, and he lost a cowardly general of the Xue army, Borhu, and Temujin went on a hunger strike for two days.

The Han army gathered forces in the Cheshi country and began to advance towards the Yanqi country, and was about to arrive in the Yanqi country, and Temujin had to block the Han Empire's expeditionary force from continuing to advance.

Temujin wanted to lure the Han Empire's expeditionary force to the Western Regions and annihilate it.

However, even if the Han Empire expeditionary force was lured to the Western Regions, right under his nose, Temujin found it difficult to swallow this huge expeditionary force.

"The Gobi and the desert will be their burial place, and Subutai agreed with me to leave at least 100,000 Han troops here."

Temujin's horsewhip pointed at the marching Ho Qu Sick Corps.