When the moonlight rose, the desert was full of black and crushed human heads.

This made Xiao Yuhua feel that the sand thieves and horse thieves in the entire sea road were coming.

Come to think of it, since the beginning of this giant caravan led by Yun Chu into the Great Sea Road, the sand thieves who relied on raiding for a living have already known about it.

It's just that when the caravan entered the sea road, they wore ordinary leather armor or cloth clothes, so that these sand thieves and horse thieves had errors in judging the strength of this team.

The error is very large, and it is simply a world of difference.

There is little need to compare the samurai with iron armor with the samurai without iron armor in terms of combat power.

Even the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty couldn't do it with full ironclad equipment, but Yun Chu's team did.

Actually, being a general is not that difficult.

When commanding a hundred foot soldiers, Yun Chu is always the one who rushes to the front.

When commanding five hundred foot soldiers, Yun Chu generally pressed the formation behind.

When he was in command of the three thousand foot soldiers, Yun Chu was deployed in the center, and where the attack did not go well, he would lead the troops to rush there, and where there was a sign of a breakthrough, he would go all out to smash the gap.

Now, Yun Chu is in the center of the military formation, Zhong Kui is in front, and Zhang Donghai is behind.

Yun Chu put away his horse, picked up his bow and arrows, and stood with the archers.

When the Tang Army is fully armoured, it is difficult to distinguish who is the general and who is the pawn.

Fighting at night, with bows and arrows first, when the rockets on Zhong Kui's side took off, the archers on Yunchu's side had already shot arrows with bows, and when the rockets landed, a large rain of arrows poured down.

Screams rang out from the other side of the dune, and then the sand pirates, who had been suppressed for a long time, screamed and attacked the dune.

In the sand, the effect of gunpowder bombs and oil bombs will be annihilated by the sand, so Zhong Kui did not use these things, but unhurriedly pulled his bow and shot arrows, shooting feather arrows at the figure in the dark.

Climbing the sand dunes is a very painful thing, often only one step upwards, and when the feet fall, they will slide down two steps, even though these sand thieves are natives living in the desert, and they climb the sand dunes in the same way as the Tang people climb the sand dunes.

Therefore, the people standing at the front were not in a hurry, and followed Zhong Kui to shoot arrows at the black shadow without hurrying.

This time, Xiao Yuhua did not attack rashly, so he followed Zhong Kui to draw a bow and shoot arrows, according to his opinion, by the time the moon set, the people here should have almost died.

And among this group of people who draw bows and shoot arrows, Avanti is the most courageous, not only pulling the bow and shooting arrows, but also constantly shouting and scaring the enemy.

The enemies in the desert finally fled.

They did not storm until dawn, did not consume the strength of the Tang army, and did not support the horse thieves to kill from the Gobi.

At this point in the war, the tactics of the sand thieves and horse thieves have been clear at a glance, first the sand thieves took advantage of the night to launch a group attack on the Tang people, and it was best to kill into the sweet water well, causing some casualties to the Tang people.

When there is light in the sky, the horse thieves on the Gobi will rush over on horseback, break through the defenses of the Tang people, and then the sand thieves and horse thieves will swallow this giant caravan in one gulp.

This was their plan, and without waiting for Xiao Yuhua and Avanti to torture the injured sand thieves who were captured alive, Yun Chu and these people already understood very well the superficial plan made by those people.

The whole army trimmed, sat cross-legged on their blankets, and quietly waited for the sunrise in the east.

When a lock of purple appeared on the edge of the sky, Liang Ying got up and stood next to the war horse who had rested all night, took out a handful of soybeans from his pocket and fed it to the war horse.

The rough mouth of the war horse kept rubbing against his palm, which made his palm tickle, and when a black line appeared on the Gobi, he shouted loudly, "Enemy attack, due east"

He was immediately mounted on his horse, joined by more than half of the regular cavalry of the 3,000-strong army.

The armor of the soldiers of Wannian County is all black, so after Liang Ying got on the horse, the cavalry under the red helmet was like a lump of black iron, and when the horse lance and spear were held between the right arm and raised, Yun Chu was no longer worried about these people, judging from the battle, Liang Ying, the leader of this army, became the most nervous one, and the red tassel on the head of his horse lance was trembling slightly.

Of course, the most embarrassing thing is not Liang Ying, but Xiao Yuhua and Avanti, Xiao Yuhua is dressed in a leather coat, and looks like a horse thief, as for Avanti, it is even more embarrassing, he rides a donkey.

But Xiao Yuhua and Avanti, who looked like this, won Zhong Kui's praise.

The horse thieves who poured out of the Gobi horizon stopped a hundred feet away, and the war horses circled around the Gobi in a chaotic manner.

Seeing that the opponent's formation was a little chaotic, Liang Ying shouted in a trembling voice, "Attack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the war horse under his crotch ejected out, and rushed towards the horse thief first.

Gently, he rode to Yun Chu's side and said, "Why don't you hide? So that those people did not rush forward, and gunpowder bullets, bows and arrows were useless."

Yun Chu looked at it and said gently, "As long as the cavalry starts to charge, it must move forward bravely, give up halfway, and wait to be chased and killed by the opponent.

Liang Ying deserves to be behind the goal, and the timing is good."

Zhong Kui looked at the cavalry team that had already attacked and said to Yun Chu, "They are now even more fierce than on the battlefield in Liaodong."

Yun Chu laughed and said, "Warriors are all fed by victory, as long as they feel that they are invincible, then it is really possible to be invincible."

Zhong Kui listened to Yun Chu's words and smiled, but his smile was full of pride.

Naha couldn't laugh happily when she stood on the wheel of the carriage, mainly because Avanti was far behind by the cavalry, and the appearance of desperately pushing the donkey with a whip was too ridiculous.

"There is a subordinate like Avanti who is unwilling to leave Xiao Yuhua in life and death, which means that Xiao Yuhua is not a failure as a kid, at least there is one person who is willing to live and die together."

At this time, Avanti showed the gentleness of the person who likes to joke the most, and he unexpectedly did not smile, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of appreciation for Avanti.

Yun Chu smiled and said, "You are a nobleman, the head of the family, of course, you most appreciate the servant who follows the master in life and death, don't you think this appreciation is a bit perverted?"

Gentle and categorically said, "Don't change the state, wait a while Avanti will come back, and he should be rewarded."

Zhang Donghai came back from chasing the sand thieves, empty-handed, looking at his proud appearance, the results should be very good.

"The last general chased out the two sand dunes, destroyed the water bladders they had piled up in the sand nests, and returned."

Yun Chu smiled and nodded in approval, the sweet water well is the only source of drinking water and water within a radius of three hundred miles.

Now, their water bladder has been destroyed, no matter how far those sand thieves run at this time, if they want to survive in the end, they still have to come to the sweet water well, Zhang Donghai's hand is very vicious.

It is very in line with Yun Chu's idea of annihilating the sand thieves in this area.

Now, the robbers entrenched in the sweet water well are dead, and once the powerful sand thieves around are also killed, then the shortcut to doing business on the sea road can be safe for at least five or six years.

Unless there is a complete change in the living environment of the entire people in the Western Regions, the robbers, sand thieves, and horse thieves in the Western Regions will not be able to kill cleanly.

In Yun Chu's view, in a few decades, the living environment of the people in the Western Regions will still not be greatly changed, unless the Tang Dynasty is determined to start a thorough purge of the Western Regions and truly bring it into the management of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, with the scattered, changeable, suspicious, and murderous character of the people of the Western Regions, it is impossible to get real peace.

And the biggest thing in Datang at present is the relocation of the capital, Li Zhiwu and his family want to move the civil and military officials and most of the official yamen to Luoyang, the capital of the gods, which will cost a lot of money and materials.

At this moment, there is absolutely no interest in tilting the resources of the Tang Dynasty to the land of the Western Regions, even if the couple agrees, they will not be able to pass the level of civil and military officials.

The Western Regions is a place of restraint, a place where the Tang Dynasty draws blood, as long as there is blood to draw here, they will continue to draw it, even if the Western Regions are drawn to death, they will not have half a point of mercy.

Liang Ying's cavalry officially began their slaughter journey after a brief encounter with the horse thieves.

The quality of the horses ridden by the horse thieves is far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the personal quality of the horse thieves is also far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the war horses of the Tang Dynasty soldiers are all bound to horseshoes, and on the Gobi full of rubble, those horse thieves can't escape from their palms.

"Boom, boom, boom" There was a sparse sound of thunder bomb explosion in the distance, which was the Tang Dynasty cavalry using thunder bombs to blow up the gathered cavalry.

At this time, the more scattered the local cavalry, the more powerless they were to resist in the face of the hordes of Datang cavalry.

The army was still fighting, and the generals had no room to go back to the camp to rest, and the firehead army had already started cooking.

The thieves in the army also began to organize their bags, as long as Liang Ying exterminated the horse thieves, they would escort the captured horse thieves straight to the horse thieves' lair and get back the booty belonging to this caravan.

These people knew that the only reason why they could come was because of the county honor, and they were ready to let them do some dirty work.

Therefore, they are very self-conscious.

Sanshanmu of the big thief head town rubbed his hands and came to Yun Chu carefully, and Shi Li said, "County Zun, we don't have enough manpower."

Yun Chu said indifferently, "Figure it out yourself"

Zhen Sanshan hurriedly said, "Ask the county to allow the inferior people to catch some live animals."

Live animals are not cattle, horses, or camels, but captive slaves in the Western Regions.

Yun Chu thought for a moment and said, "Self-raising of food"

Zhen Sanshan smiled and said, "This is nature, this is nature, and the humble will never use our food to feed the livestock."

Yun Chu frowned and said, "In the future, forget the name of the live animal, and change it to a less insulting one."

Zhen Sanshan smiled and said, "Then there are only two words: labor."

Zhong Kui said on the side, "Don't overdo things, after all, we are Tang people, we are people, not beasts."

Zhen Sanshan hurriedly said, "What the general said is true."

Zhong Kui said again, "I won't stop you from getting rich, don't do anything that hurts heaven and reason, otherwise, after he goes down to the eighteenth layer of hell, he won't have any good fruit to eat."

Zhen Sanshan naturally nodded again and again, and now, Zhong Kui made an eighteenth-layer hell in Zhongnan Mountain, which has spread in the army, plus the matter of killing ghosts happened in front of him a few days ago, and he can't help but be secretly frightened by the ghosts in Zhen Sanshan's heart.