"With Xiao Jiu's Lian Rui Army, the Ran Army and the Angry Army guarding Shule, the back road is stable. Wu Yingying said to Xin Gudao, "Then according to the predetermined strategy, the army will go straight to the city of Samarkand, and General Fu Lao Xin will lead 30,000 hussars, Xie Fu, high hooves, poplars, Jiaorong, and iron bones to attract the main force of Samanid to fight a decisive battle. I led the Dragon's Tooth Army and the Flower Hat Army through the desert, and attacked the Samanid King Dubukhara, who was empty of troops, and whether he succeeded or not, he would definitely return to Samarkand within half a month and work together to defeat the enemy. ”

Xingu was silent for a moment, looked at the silent Gobi in front of him, and suddenly said: "Let Lao Xin go to attack Bukhara, and Your Majesty will lead the regular troops to stay in Samarkand." Wu Yingying stared at him and said with a smile: "The strategy that has been set a long time ago, when will General Xin's mother-in-law and mother get up," he turned his head to look at the camp where people were neighing, and said in a deep voice: "I sent Zhongyao and them to the envoy, they made great contributions, and I personally took them back." ”

"Khotan, are you sure about this road?" asked Shi Yuanguang of the Chengying Battalion, "The caravan has gone a few times, the guide should be fine, it is spring now, and the water source is still sufficient, if it is summer to cross the desert, it will be difficult to say." Kang Khotan hesitated for a while, and then said: "Yuanguang, among the Sogdians, you are the most trusted by Your Majesty. My father's intention was that since His Majesty had married the daughter of the Uighurs, and had recovered Samarkand, he would marry Kang Lisi to His Majesty as a sign of his submission to His Majesty. But Lisi only has His Majesty in her heart, and you know what happened in the first place. I know that the people of the Central Plains look down on women who remarry, if Your Majesty asks, I bother you to say a lot of good things for her. Shi Yuanguang was stunned for a moment, nodded silently, thinking of Kang Lisi and the sacrifice she made, both of them were a little depressed.

In the early morning of the next day, the Xia army pulled out the camp, drove the Turkic nomadic tribes that attacked the disobedience along the way, and went to Samarkand with great fanfare, arriving near Samarkand, and after discovering the main force of the Samanid army, Xingudu supervised the main force of the six armies to fight against it. Wu Yingying led the Dragon Tooth Army and the Flower Hat Army, with the assistance of the Chengying Battalion and the guides of the Military Intelligence Division, disguised as a nomadic tribe and made a detour to the northwest, intending to bypass Samarkand, cross a large area of desert and Gobi and steppe, and go straight to the capital of the Samanid Kingdom, the noble Bukhara. Under the city of Samarkand, the snow melted on the high mountains, the Nami River was shallow, and the armies of the Xia Kingdom and the Samanid Dynasty faced off on the other bank.

Iprahim, the commander of the Praetorian Guard and the governor of Khorasan, entangled the Turkic Janissaries and the Seljuks, and the Khorasan cavalry, totaling more than 40,000 people, were stationed outside the city of Samarkand, blocking the road to Samarkand for the Xia army. Looking at the strong barrier of the Xia army on the other side of the river, a hunting army flag evokes the long-term memories of many Turkic tribes. Annoyed and angry, Iprahim ordered the dispatch of 500 war elephants captured from Tianzhu as the vanguard, trampling on the Xia army camp, and the Khorasan cavalry followed up the invasion.

The Persian homeland originally had the tradition of serving war elephants, using tough belts to tie the iron wrapped guard towers to the back of war elephants to protect the shooters and royal hands from being hurt by the enemy, war elephants not only have rough skin and thick flesh, but also on the forehead, abdomen and other places with armor, hundreds of war elephants like hundreds of hills, standing up from afar, swinging their noses, wagging their tails, walking quickly towards the camp of the Xia army, the driver shouted loudly, so that the war elephants kept a straight line forward. Behind the elephants, the Khorasan cavalry and the Seljuks rode their horses slowly, and even they did not dare to get too close to the elephants, lest they suffer from the fish in the pond. Behind the cavalry were a large group of foot soldiers with javelins, axes, and swords and shields, and among the foot soldiers, an army of all dark-skinned Kunlun Nu, in the middle of which drove the spotted leopards, lions, and rhinos, and the leader of the group raised his curved sword and shouted, "Whoa, whoa!" and shouted, "Yaspur, Avraka!" and the Kunlun Nu and the beasts behind him roared in response.

Approaching the camp of the Xia army, the war elephants began to roar incessantly, while running in small steps, the sound was terrifying, and many of the pack horses of the Xia army began to snort uneasily, and some even tried to bite off the reins and flee to the rear.

"What a big guy!" Tu Ning, the ten-captain of the Jincheng Battalion, exclaimed, aiming the bed crossbow at the head of the war elephant, "Why does it seem to have entered the opera garden." These words caused a burst of laughter from the surrounding comrades, and everyone's nervous mood also relaxed, the crossbowmen of the arms and arms of the gods aimed at the eyes of the war elephants, and the archers of the Condor battalion changed to rockets.

The ground seemed to be rumbling and trembling, and the sky in front of it seemed to be darkened, only to see hundreds of never-before-seen behemoths roaring towards the military formation, Cai Shun held his breath, saw the Chinese army give an order, waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "Shoot!" With a thud, a thick armor-piercing arrow shot out of the hand of the archer beside him, shot at the armor of the forehead of the war elephant in front, and slid out, because of the war elephant's huge weight-bearing capacity, its most vulnerable head armor was also surprisingly thick. However, the armour-piercing arrows of the baggage camp were more powerful than the bed crossbows that were wound on four pack horses, and the whole arrow, made of fine iron, with a strong wind, shot into the head of the war elephant with a pop, and the behemoth hissed earth-shatteringly, and after a few steps of rapid running, finally fell limply to the ground.

The fall of the first war elephant caused a burst of cheers in the summer army camp, this never-before-seen giant beast was not invulnerable, and then, the god arm crossbow, rockets, stone throwers, bed crossbows were launched together, although the war elephants from Tianzhu were specially trained for the battle array, but they had never seen such a fierce blow, except for those who could not afford to the ground, they all howled loudly, regardless of the control of the driver, and even disturbed the Khorasan cavalry behind them, some war elephants simply rushed into the ranks of Kunlunnu, and those rhinoceros, lions and leopards were so frightened that they desperately struggled to pull the chains in the hands of Kunlunnu。

Dozens of frightened war elephants were not fatally wounded by crossbow arrows, and they ran towards the Xia army's army with their huge legs as thick as pillars. Shrouded in the huge shadow of the war elephant, the faces of Cai Shun, Tu Ning and other crossbowmen were slightly sweaty.

"Mo Dao Hand stand up!" Bai Sheng, the commander of the Jiao Rong Army, is also the commander of Mo Swordsman, after receiving the order of the Chinese general, he immediately opened the shark cover of Mo Dao beside him, and stood next to him with a long knife, Bai Sheng stared at the seemingly invincible behemoth in front of him and shouted: "Forward! Chop them into meat sauce!" The three thousand Mo swordsmen lined up in three sparse lines, climbed over the barracks, and marched like a wall, the cold and shining long blades reflected the blazing sun, and even the Khorasan cavalry who followed behind the war elephant from a distance felt a burst of murderous aura.

The frightened war elephants did not care about this, and even the riders on the elephant's back could not control it, and several wooden towers fell to the ground and broke into pieces due to the broken belts of the elephants during the elephant's wild run. Seeing a giant beast like a small mountain running towards him frantically, the power of the earth shaking the mountain has never been seen in a dream, the ten-captain Xiong Dongwu held the Mo knife tightly in both hands, he was so nervous that he couldn't feel his existence, and held his breath. In addition to the battle, at this moment, there is only a blank in his mind, he wants to get ahead, he wants to glorify his ancestors, the position of centurion, Guanzhong's daughter-in-law is already pregnant, and these distracting thoughts disappeared in an instant. When the elephant ran closer, Xiong Dongwu kicked his legs hard, rushed to the side of the war elephant, and went down with a knife, bringing up the sound of the wind, and cutting the rolling elephant's trunk into two. The war elephant was in pain, and shook its nose in anger, but a rain of blood spewed out, and Xiong Dongwu was violently thrown aside by the huge force like a mountain, and fainted on the spot.

The rest of the Mo knife hands also gathered around the war elephants, regardless of the danger of being trampled into meat cakes, with Mo knives to attack the soft places around the war elephants, dozens of crazy war elephants under the siege of the Mo knife hands, before rushing to the camp of the Xia army, they wailed and softened to the ground.

The Khorasan cavalry following the war elephant took advantage of the bargain, hit the horse and rushed forward, the Mo knife hand was not afraid of fighting separately, the long knife danced, and the battlefield saw only the bloody wind and rain, as long as the Khorasan cavalry who rushed into the Mo knife formation rarely could retreat with his whole body, even if he could result in the life of one or two Xia army Mo swordsmen, the war horse and cavalry could not escape the revenge of being disemboweled. It wasn't until Bai Sheng once again gathered the remaining more than 2,000 Mo swordsmen into an array that a heavy armored infantry formation composed of a long knife with a cold light slowly pressed towards the enemy again.