The ancient silk road leading to Ashburai City is located in the west of Qianquan Mountain, is a branch of the Tianshan Mountain Range, from a distance, the whole mountain peak gives birth to many folded cliffs, so that the snow on the mountain is also cut off into a series of snow marks, like a thousand waterfalls pouring down from the mountain, so it is called Qianquan Mountain.

The slope below the hill was trampled by perennial caravans, and the ground was even bare with rocks, hard and reddish-brown, and weathered rock fragments were scattered along the road, with sharp edges and corners, almost cutting the horse's hooves.

There was a light rain in the morning, and it was quickly dried up and evaporated by the sun, and thousands of troops and horses stepped on the ancient road, stirring up bursts of dust, although it was not as much as three thousand miles of smoke and dust, but there were still several miles of land.

Li Siye tore off the hem of a middle coat, tied it to his mouth as a mask, and walked in such dust, not waiting to reach Ashi Bulai City, he was full of soil alone.

The earthen walls of rock and rammed earth came into view, and the banner of the Khan of Bahana fluttered above the city.

And all the people hastened their pace, and soon came to the gate of the city. The gate of Ashi Bulai was wide open, and the tooth banner of the Khan of Bahana stood in front of the city gate, and the Khan and his entourage lined up the military array to welcome the Tang army from afar.

Fumon Lingcha turned over and dismounted, and after greeting each other with Bahana Khan Asilanda, he inquired about the situation ahead.

"When the Khan entered the city, did he encounter resistance?"

Asiranda nodded and said, "There are only merchants and residents in the city, and I have never encountered an army, and I am afraid that the same is true of the city of Kulan in front, according to my speculation, it should be the contraction of the Erwei special service, and all of them are concentrated in the city of Talas."

"That's true," said Fumeng Lingcha, "according to rumors within the Turgish, the Erwei Special Service is inferior to his brother Tuhuo Immortal Khan in terms of talent and fame. From this, it can be inferred that the people he collected in Talas City are probably not as good as Broken Leaf City. ”

"If that's the case, that's fine, hopefully to minimize the killing."

"Someone should be sent into the city as soon as possible to find out what is true."

The two talked a few words, and Asiranda took the initiative to take a half step back, bowed down and said, "Please General Fumeng enter the city."

Fumeng Lingcha also stretched out his hand to invite: "Khan, please."

Asiranda: "General Fumon, please."

"Khan, please."

"It's better for the general to ask first."

Fumeng Lingcha's blushing face smiled, and he reached out and grabbed Asiranda's arm and said, "You and I are allies, no matter what priority, the two of us will enter the city together."

With that, the two of them laughed at the same time, and walked side by side through the doorway. Li Siye stood in the distance and looked at it from afar, feeling that the way Fumeng Lingcha got along with the small countries in the Western Regions was the most appropriate, and he would not be domineering with the posture of the suzerain's empire. Even if you want to drive people to sell your life to you, you should always have a good face, and courtesy is the least costly, and it is best to use it.

The army rested in the city for the night, and on the second day marched into the city of Kulan, and sure enough, as Asiranda had guessed, there was no Turk army in the city.

Fumeng Lingcha ordered all the regiments of the three armies to carry out a major rest, and all the logistical baggage teams stopped and camped in the city to prepare dry rations for 15 days, and the non-combatants were to stay, and the troops were reduced to 5,000 men, with 25 regiments under its jurisdiction, with six regiments as the central army, a total of 1,200 men, and each regiment as the left and right Yuhou army, and each army with 800 men. The remaining 2,800 people formed the left and right front and rear armies, forming a small six-flower array. This is a small sparrow, but it has all kinds of organs.

Li Siye also took the opportunity to fry fried noodles from the fire in the group and made compressed biscuits to supplement the dry food consumed a few days ago, and by the way, he also made a lot of Hu cakes to change the taste.

The origin of Hu cake is likely to come from the dry food of the march, the cake in the army can not be as particular as the cake in the city, a variety of crops ground into flour kneaded into dough, there are not too many requirements for cooking utensils, a piece of iron plate can be, when there is no iron plate, even the stone slab in the wilderness can be used as cooking utensils.

When the starry night had fallen, Fumon Lingcha led the marquis and the guards of the various armies to consult with the Khan of Bahana Asilanda in his tent to attack the city of Talas.

Before that, it is necessary to grasp the specific number of troops in the city, the morale of the army, the wisdom of the generals, etc., as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, this is a very simple truth, but there have been many fiascos for thousands of years and suffered such losses.

Asiranda was the first to say: "The appearance of your Han people is very different from that of the local Sogdians and Turks, so it is better for me to select the elite warriors of the clan to enter the city disguised as merchants, and report back after finding out about the enemy."

Fumeng Lingcha arched his hand: "In this case, I will bother the khan to send someone to go."

That night, Asirandar Khan sent ten men and marching camels disguised as a Sogdian caravan from Kulan to Talas.

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The army had been stationed in Kulan City for three days, and sent small groups of cavalry to patrol around every day, hoping to capture a few turas and scouts and get some information.

Li Siye volunteered to lead a team of rangers, and he selected a dozen skilled veterans from the regiment to gallop out of the city.

He was actually in a panic in the city, and he hadn't had any meat for more than a month, so it was better to take this opportunity to go out and bake two antelopes to try it.

They cruised along the valley of the branch of the Thousand Springs Mountain, where the grass was green, there were mountain springs flowing in between, and occasionally a few animals jumped on the rocks.

There are many sharpshooters in the eighth regiment, from generals to ordinary soldiers, each with a short crossbow or horn bow, and the training requirements of the Anxi army for soldiers are also to be proficient in the use of knives, bows, guns and other three weapons.

Li Siye is not the top in terms of bows and crossbows, so he led everyone to shoot and hunt down, and he didn't even touch half of the sheep's horns, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart. I thought that these soldiers were real, and they didn't have any eyesight, so it was no wonder that they couldn't be promoted.

They set up the wood by the river, and the soldiers took their short knives from their belts, and stripped and washed the sheep by the river, and put the salt they had with them, and roasted them on the fire.

The roasted leg of lamb does not look very good, one black and one yellow, the traces of smoke are too heavy, it seems that the charred roasted leg of lamb dripping oil in the TV series has deceived him for many years.

The two soldiers took the initiative to offer the roasted leg of lamb to him and Tian Zhen, Li Siye felt a little satisfied in his heart, and took a bite Although the fishy fat was too heavy, the taste was still palatable.

After destroying the two sheep, Li Siye ordered everyone to extinguish the bonfire, get up and search on the flat mountain road, and come out to improve their lives, but they must not forget about business.

They rode forward for more than ten miles, not to mention the scouts surnamed Tuqishi, and they didn't even encounter a ghost. The red sun on the horizon has turned golden, and it is sprinkled with golden light against the mountains.

Li Siye put his hand on the pergola and glanced at it from afar, and sighed that the sunset was infinitely good, but it was almost dusk, he immediately pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and said: "Today's bad luck, I didn't meet the ranger surnamed Hei Tuqishi, go back to the city, remember to wipe the oil on your mouth before entering the city, don't let your comrades blush."

"Huh?"

Tian Zhen abruptly stopped the movement of reining in the horse, pointed to the distance and asked, "What do you think is that?"

Li Siye followed his fingers and looked over, and there was an imperceptible cloud of smoke and dust on the horizon in the distance, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see what it was.

He clamped the horse's belly between his legs, waved his hand and said, "Let's go, go over and have a look!"

A dozen horses galloped forward, and the smoke and dust in the distance gradually amplified, and there was a spot in the smoke, no, there were more spots moving forward, and because it was against the sun, their focus could only be discerned to this extent.

When he approached the other party for three miles, he could see it completely, a camel in front of him was galloping, a dozen horses were chasing behind, and immediately the turks in leather and armor let out a threatening sound.

Li Siye was taken aback, this camel's running speed is very fast, and it is not inferior to horses at all.