The cold wind howled, like a raging beast sweeping across the bare mountain ridge, with a biting cold, raging on this snowy plateau with an average altitude of more than 4,000 meters, the air became extremely dry, and every breath was like an ice blade cutting the heart, which made people feel awe.

This was the most daring strategy Li Jing had ever made in his life, and the army marched on the deserted Gobi, the burned grasslands, and the snow-covered ice fields.

This is far more dangerous than the surprise attack on the Winter Turkic Royal Court at the beginning, and even more dangerous than the original Luo Shi across the vast desert to kill the north of the desert, the slightest carelessness is the end of the entire army.

"Don't fall behind, don't fall behind, once you fall, you can't stand up again, sons, go forward."

Li Jing shouted loudly, in this extreme environment, the light and heat of the sun lost the soothing effect of warmth, leaving only the dazzling light falling on the snow, which looked quite uncomfortable for a long time.

Li Jing only felt that the difficulty of the march was even a little beyond his expectations, and the Northern Route Army would only be more difficult, and at this time, a scout suddenly rushed back, and said excitedly: "Chief, I found a tribe in the Xiyan Kingdom in front of me, with cattle and sheep. ”

Li Jing's eyes turned green when he heard this.

Cattle and sheep, he licked his lips, the most critical point of his raid plan is that if you want to eat the enemy, you must know that even the Central Plains is not clean many times, even if the king of Xiyan orders all the tribes to retreat, but it is impossible to really retreat, and so many cattle and sheep can't all be placed on a grassland, they must be scattered.

"Sons, there is a tribe of Xiyan in front, there are fat cattle and sheep, catch cattle and sheep, stew and eat meat and drink soup!"

The sharp sword in Li Jing's hand pulled a sword flower, swung it forward, and laughed loudly.

When the soldiers who had eaten snow for several days heard this, their morale was immediately bursting, this is the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty now, and the difficult environment will not wear down their fighting spirit, but will only make them more eager for victory.

After the one-sided slaughter, Li Jing looked at the captured cattle and sheep, and was determined that fighting here was like a snowball, the most important thing is to win the first battle, get the supplies of cattle and sheep, and then you can drive the cattle and sheep to fight and fight those battles behind.

Compared with the south road where Li Jing is located, you can still meet the tribes who come to graze, and the north road that Li Ji took is the real peerless domain.

The altitude is higher, the environment is harsher, and even the locals don't graze here.

The snow-capped mountains rise in the sky, cold and hard as iron, and the endless peaks and peaks are like the back of a giant dragon, plunging straight into the clouds.

The cold wind was fierce, like a knife cutting the face, the flag hunted in the wind, and the pattern on the flag was particularly eye-catching under the snow light, Li Ji could only let the soldiers put away the flag for the time being, and only kept a very small number of flags.

After separating from Li Jing's Southern Route Army, Li Ji led the army to gallop all the way, and soon came to the most difficult road, and many of the soldiers suffered from altitude sickness.

Li Ji rode his horses through the army, and his soldiers meandered along the rugged mountain road, their hooves crushing the snow and making a creaking sound that echoed between the valleys on the plateau.

Almost every soldier wore thick felt boots and heavy furs, but it was still difficult to resist the bitter cold of this plateau, his face was frozen purple, and the breath from his mouth instantly turned into white mist and blended into the cold air around him.

As night fell, the tents swayed in the cold wind, and the bonfires burned brightly, reflecting the tired faces of the soldiers.

Li Ji and other generals sat around the fire with the soldiers to stimulate the fighting spirit of the soldiers.

"The cold glacier can't defeat us, and neither can the barren wasteland, wait for us to leave here, find the king of Xiyan, cut off his head, and pay tribute to the dead robe, this general promises here, and when the day comes to defeat the king of Xiyan, all the gold and silver treasures, take them as you like, and the general will bear the responsibility.

Brothers, sing a war song, this desolate night, if you sing a war song, it will probably be good. ”

"The four seas are the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Rong Yi is not even more weary, and it will be successful today. ”

Singing war songs, what else can make the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty excited more than "King Qin's Breaking Array Music"?

How many people here are there who are on the march for the Son of Heaven?

Too many to count.

But at this time, only by singing the music of King Qin's breaking formation and recalling King Qin's great martial arts can they best overcome all the difficulties of reality with enthusiasm.

The soldier's singing was so loud, the starry sky at night was dazzling, but it was also accompanied by unimaginable low temperatures, and under the silent night, only the cold wind and singing echoed in the valley, silent and magnificent, cold and enthusiastic like fire.

Li Ji has fought all his life, and I don't know how many wars he has experienced, but this time is definitely the most difficult and dangerous one.

He and his men endured unimaginable torture, leaving them desolate for thousands of miles, or covered with snow and without any supplies.

People and horses can only survive by eating snow and ice, and horses that are injured and unable to move forward will be killed, and horse meat is the hair, and the hot horse blood and horse meat can not only satisfy hunger, but also warm the body from the inside out.

Li Daozong, the famous king of the Li Tang royal family, is now like a demon, where is there still a little royal atmosphere, which is why Li Shimin is tolerant of those who follow him from birth to death, and whether it is meritorious service or title, it is higher than that given by Wenchen, because he knows very well how dangerous it is on the battlefield, and the generals are desperate with their heads pinned to their waists.

Li Jing's Southern Route Army, after obtaining cattle and sheep as supplies, galloped all the way, and defeated the Western Yan Army at Qinghai Lake, which had not yet had time to withdraw, and then pursued it to Bohai.

When Murong Yun got the news of the Tang Army, he couldn't believe it at all, "Does this Tang Army have wings?" How did they get here through the snowfields and the Gobi? ”

In terms of strength, Xiyan Kingdom is not the elite opponent of the Tang army at all, and Murong Yun himself has no tactics, his tactics are to rely on the plateau, one word flip-flop, and then one word to boil, drag the Tang army's logistics to death, and he can win without a fight.

But he didn't expect that Li Jing would actually fight him with a knife, and he would cross thousands of miles to chase and kill him, and he didn't expect that in the face of the hungry and cold Tang Army, he couldn't beat him!

Yan is no longer the powerful country that established the Northern Dynasty back then, and now Yan is just a small kingdom on the plateau, and it is a tribal kingdom, which is completely different from the well-organized empire at the beginning.

Murong Yun fled all the way to the west, Li Daozong, Li Ji and others walked two thousand miles in the no-man's land, and many Tang soldiers stayed in the ice and snow forever.

Murong Yun was so frightened when he saw this, his dream of restoring the Great Yan Kingdom was instantly thrown out of the sky, and he led the remaining Yan Kingdom soldiers to flee wildly in the desert of the Qaidam Basin.

To say that this Murong Yun is indeed a talent, in the desert, he can still run so fast, Tang Jun naturally will not give up the pursuit, Murong Yun tried to hide in the desert.

But just as he didn't know how the Tang army appeared in front of him from the sky, now he doesn't know how Qi Bi He Li attacked his royal court in the vast desert.

Murong Yun was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but life and death were big things, and he knew that Tang Jun would never let him go, so he could only run away again.

He ran all the way out of the desert, then ran all the way into the no-man's land, and even ran into the Western Regions to Taklamakan, which is the heart of the Tarim Basin.

The Western Regions is three mountains and two basins, and the basin in the south of the two basins is the Tarim Basin, running all the way from Qinghai Road to Tarim, even Qibi He Li, who chased and killed Murong Yun, and a group of Tang soldiers felt that this goods were too capable of running.

The wars along the way, the places where they took place, either in the snowy plateau, or in the desert, or in the no-man's land, there was no normal, basically the area where it was difficult for travelers to get out when they entered, known as the "Death Domain".

Murong Yun himself ran a little desperately, it was the kind of despair that couldn't see the future at all, not to mention the people around him, the more he looked at Murong Yun, the more resentful he became, originally there was no war between Xiyan Kingdom and Datang.

is the person in front of him, he has to provoke the Tang Dynasty, obviously he can't beat it, he has to jump, and in the face of Tian Khan's reprimand, he didn't care, and as a result, he caused the catastrophe of the current country, and countless people of Yan Kingdom were implicated with him.

What a damn one!

This old man is damned!

Once this kind of thought comes to mind, it can no longer be erased.

Murong Yun was like this, full of horror, wah-wow screaming, and died in the hands of the pawn without the slightest heroic demeanor.

He Li, who followed closely, finally breathed a sigh of relief and killed Murong Yun, this war could be regarded as a perfect end, he wrapped Murong Yun's head in lime that had been prepared a long time ago, and then shouted loudly to the hundreds of cavalry who came with him: "The king of Xiyan has been ambushed, you can present it to Your Majesty!" ”

The tired officers and soldiers of the Tang Army wept with joy, and the earth-shattering cry sounded, celebrating this hard-won victory, and at the same time commemorating the dead robes.

Qibi He Li did not stay long in the Western Regions, and soon led hundreds of light horsemen to return, and the rest of the road chiefs on the road were envious when they saw Murong Yun's head in Qibi He Li's hands.

The moment he saw the army behind Li Jing, the strings that had been tight finally relaxed completely, "Boss, live up to your mission!" ”

Li Jing looked at the blue sky, and laughed loudly: "General Qibi does not disgrace his mission, and I do not disgrace my mission, sons, the class teacher returns to the dynasty!" ”

"Ten thousand years of Datang!"

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If the Tang Dynasty's attack on the Winter Turks was to eliminate the border threat of the Tang Dynasty, then the capture of Yan was a key step in the Tang Empire's foreign strategy, which not only once again demonstrated the Tang Dynasty's strong force, but also achieved the strategic goal of containing Tibet and controlling the Western Regions. ——"The History of the Rise and Fall of the Tang Empire"

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