The sun was born, the suburbs of Chang'an.

All members of the 100,000 forbidden army arrived, waving their banners and wearing armor.

The forbidden army lined up in a square formation outside the city, motionless as a mountain, boundless at a glance.

Envoys from various ministries such as Roshna, Gumo, Qiuzi, Buyeo, and Wuhuan were also invited to the city wall to observe the ceremony.

Looking at the Han army that seems to be able to extend to the end of heaven and earth, everyone is awe-inspiring.

The gathering of 100,000 forbidden troops is like a mountain. That kind of unshakable military momentum and powerful and unparalleled will to fight shook the heavens and the earth.

In the early morning, the sky in Chang'an was a little gloomy.

But 100,000 forbidden troops gathered, and there was a faint shadow of a big god formed by the pouring of soldiers in the sky over Chang'an, like a majestic peak towering into the clouds.

The clouds were pierced by this big shot.

At this time, above the sky, there are no clouds, and the sun shines in the clear sky, which shows the condensation of the Han army.

When Huo Qubing and the emperor ascended to the top of the city, thousands of Han troops shouted in unison:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"Champion Hou, Champion Hou! Champion Hou! ”

Just seeing them appear, the momentum of the Han army was already boiling, and the sound was shattering.

Even at the top of the towering city, you can still feel the sound of the gathering of thousands of armies, like a strong wind blowing in your face.

Huo Quzhi raised his arm, and the army was silent in an instant.

The emperor's voice shook the crowd:

"Today, I worship the champion Hou as a general, for me, and for my Han Dynasty. I want to know, you are willing to follow the champion Hou, defeat the Huns, and forge the undefeated power of our Han army! ”

"I am willing to follow to the death, and the Huns will not be defeated and will not return to the court!"

"Swear to kill the enemy, and the Huns will be defeated!"

"Swear to kill the enemy, and the Huns will be defeated!"

The earth-shattering sound even showed a moving look in the emperor's calm eyes.

He turned his gaze to Huo Quai.

Huo Quzhi said solemnly: "If you are here, you should take the Western Regions directly for Your Majesty, open up the territory and return!" ””

The forbidden army below is still repeating the determination to defeat the Huns over and over again.

In Chang'an City, hundreds of people are also looking at the direction of the city gate.

"Okay, I'm waiting for the news of your triumphant defeat of the enemy!"

The emperor swept the emotionally agitated Han army under his eyes, and said to the queen beside him: "These soldiers are so supportive of getting sick, when they see him, they shout louder than when they see me!" ”

Wei Zifu raised his eyebrows and glanced at the emperor, and when he saw his rare face smiling, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Sometimes, it is not a good thing for the limelight to overpower the emperor.

But when this person was replaced by Huo Quai, the emperor obviously didn't mind, but was very happy.

The Emperor stepped forward and said in a low voice:

"Go to illness, I have always believed in you, and I know that you are determined to fight, and you should win all battles. But you must know that you are still young, and the battlefield is changing rapidly, there are always uncontrollable accidents, if you can't do anything, you should retreat to return to the court, and protect yourself! ”

Huo Quai's heart was shocked.

What the emperor meant by this was that if the battle situation was unfavorable, it would be better to lose and let him come back safely, and he could also save the opportunity to fight again, and not to put all the victories and defeats on the first battle, and if he did not retreat, he would lose the opportunity to come back.

The emperor was afraid that he would be too proud, and would rather bend than bend.

Huo Qubing saluted again, and then turned around, holding the bronze Yue given by the emperor, and jumped straight down from the city.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, I will be undefeated in this life, and I will never disappoint Your Majesty's trust."

At the forefront of the forbidden army below, Jin'an rushed out with his hooves raised in a long hiss, like an arrow from the string, just catching the master.

Jin'an immediately lifted his front hooves off the ground, stepped in the air, and hissed long.

The scarlet big scarlet wolf behind Huo Quzhi hunted in the wind like a red cloud, his eyes were as pressing as arrows, and he looked at the whole army.

When the freshly clothed angry horse breaks the enemy, it lives up to the battle and knows!

He looked back at the tower on horseback.

The emperor, the empress Wei Zifu, the relatives of the Han Dynasty, and all the officials are here, this splendid mountain and river is worth anyone to throw their heads and spill their blood, and they will not regret a hundred battles!

Uncle Wei Qing will also leave Chang'an later and go to the front line to set up defenses.

In the carriage at the city gate, the mother Wei Shao'er was also secretly staring at the son for whom Wan Jun was boiling.

"Get out!"

The sound of horses' hooves began, and the Han Forbidden Army followed the figure of the freshly clothed angry horse and galloped west of Chang'an.

The drums of war that sent the army to the earth were beaten.

On that day, all eyes were on, the young man rode his horse, and the army went west.

There were more than 10,000 elites in the 100,000 forbidden army, who were drawn out by Huo Qubing and went with him.

In addition, there are 40,000 troops, which will then advance and go to Xiguan to join the border army and participate in this confrontation against the Xiongnu.

The army drifted away.

In the city, Liu Qing could also hear the sound of war drums.

She didn't go to the city to see her off, and it was not easy to see Huo Qu sick on the battlefield.

At the head of the city, the crowd slowly receded.

And in the Weiyang Palace in the city, Concubine Jin was also in the palace, overlooking the direction outside the city.

She regretted letting Jin Xu go to the forbidden army.

The lieutenant commander of the court didn't care about her greetings at all, and actually asked Jin Xu and other newcomers to the forbidden army to form a separate team, along with the follow-up army of 40,000, to also go to the battlefield in person.

If you have the chance, you might even have to go to the battlefield to fight.

Concubine Jin felt a sense of panic.

The battle between Han and Hungary is related to national fortunes, which time is not a bloody meat grinder!

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The guards left Chang'an, and on the first day, Huo Qubing did not leave the team, but was in front of the whole army, and rode in.

In the evening, the whole army advanced more than 200 miles to the west, crossed the city, and camped on the spot.

Also accompanying the army were Roshna, Gumo, Qiuzi envoys and others, including Zhang Qian.

In addition, among the 40,000 people of the main force of the rear army, there is also a team of embroidered clothes, and the masters gather, Lei Quilt who came back from the grassland and Beiguan, Wu Quilt and other Huainan King generals, are all among them.

The rear team led the army to advance was the generals Gongsun Ao and Zhang Cigong.

After setting up camp, Roshna washed up briefly, and was about to fall asleep, but she heard a personal soldier come and ask her to go to the Chinese army's tent to discuss things.

Roshna was dressed in cobalt blue, and when she came to the Chinese army's tent, Huo Quzhi was wearing armor and dressing neatly:

"The general is leaving the camp so late?"

"It's not just me going out, you're going to go too. You guys know a lot about the situation in the Western Regions, follow me all the way. ”

What does Huo Quai's sentence mean that he is leaving the team, and his destination is the Western Regions?

Roshna was full of doubts: she was still in the Han realm, and the closest place to the border was seven or eight hundred miles away.

Is it necessary to start the night march now?

She was puzzled, but she didn't ask much, and immediately went back to the tent to make simple preparations and pack up her things.

Roshna, her close attendant Baoqimu, Qiuzi, Gumo envoys, Bowang Marquis Zhang Qian, only these five people were able to accompany the army.

The sky is full of stars.

A team of 10,000 elites, led by Huo Quzhi, lost a trace of one person and three horses the moment they left the barracks.

Huo Quai's knowledge of the sea, the military book is shining, and he is promoted to the middle strategy of hiding the sky and crossing the sea, and the talent and military strategy are on the top, and both are integrated with the wonderful marching method.

The team left the camp silently as if intertwined with the night.

Roshna and the others personally followed Huo Quai's march to know why he was seven hundred miles away from the border, and began to travel in a hurry.

Because it's too fast.

Seven hundred miles won't take a night.

The scenery on both sides flew away, and even the sound of the wind could not be heard.

The whole team stalks like ghosts.

The two envoys, Gu Mo and Qiu Ci, were both marching with Huo Quai's illness for the first time, with ghostly expressions on their faces.

It's too exciting...... The two of them were wrapped in a force, and they had a strong sense of weightlessness, feeling that the world was spinning, and they had lost their sense of direction.

Roshna estimates that at this rate, she may be able to reach the border in the second half of the night.

To her surprise, they did arrive at the border pass in the second half of the night after a rapid march, but not the northwest border pass as she or others thought.

The place where Huo Qu's illness came from is the junction of Wudu County and Longxi County, which is the closest in a straight line to the west of Chang'an.

From the border city here, it is the clan land of Xiqiang, the area near Jishi Mountain.

That is, before Li Dang, Yao Zhao attacked and defeated the direction where the Qiang Department was located.

Marching north from this direction is the northwest border pass of the Han Dynasty.

From the northwest border pass to the west, it is the narrow corridor connecting the Western Regions, which is the main section of the Silk Road that was later called.

The long and narrow corridor is nearly 1,000 miles long, and at one end is the Xiguan of the Great Han Dynasty.

At the other end are Loulan and Pu, one left and one right, guarding both ends of the corridor.

And Huo Qubing came out of the Han border pass, Wudu County, located in the south of the Silk Road, about five or six hundred miles.

Five or six hundred miles, it sounds like it is not far away at the speed of Huo Quai.

But to go north from here, you need to cross the remaining veins of Jishi Mountain and Qilian Mountain, as well as many Qiang and Qi villages.

The mountain road conditions were not conducive to marching.

What's more, there are cottages of the Qiang and Di tribes along the way, and occasionally there are miasma and deep streams, so it is impossible to march quickly.

What did Huo Qubing do with the Han army here, fight Qiang Village?

Roshna and the others couldn't figure it out at all.

The moon hung high, just past midnight.

When the envoys of Gumo and Qiuzi arrived at the place, their faces turned pale, and they tumbled off their horses, and vomited on one side.

It's too fast, and it's seasick.

"Lang Zhongling!"

Huo Qubing arrived at the border pass, and Li Dang came out of a border city to greet him.

Li Kang never returned to Chang'an to change his guard. During this time, he was always in Xiguan, completing the tasks assigned to him by Huo Quai.

Now, it's time for him to come back to life:

"Lang Zhongling, the last general has made preliminary preparations as instructed."

Huo Quzhi's eyes shone brightly in the night: "Zhao Ponu, where is Yao Zhao?" ”

"The last general!"

Zhao Ponu and Yao Zhao, one left and one right, hugged behind.

Huo Quzhi said: "Now I order you two to lead the army, go north along Xiguan, and turn to advance westward after reaching the northwest of my Han realm."

The two of you march at full speed, and if you meet an opponent, do not seek total annihilation, and continue to move forward after defeat, and we will meet on the road. ”

Zhao Ponu and Yao Zhao agreed loudly and didn't ask a word.

Huo Quai's illness made Li Dang lead troops to Xiqiang more than a month ago.

He joined Yao Zhao at that time, and there were 5,000 troops under his command.

At this time, Li Dang followed Huo Quai, and Huo Qubing only took a small number of pro-troops, separated from the brigade, and together with Roshna and others, went directly to the west, entered the area of the Qiang and Di tribes, and disappeared again.

Zhao Ponu and Yao Zhao unified the elite of Wan and went north in a straight line along Xiguan.

Huo Qubing led his troops out of the border pass, which meant that this battle started faster and earlier than everyone expected.

On the first day the Han army left Chang'an, the battle began!

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"We received news that the Han army had left Chang'an."

"The Han-Hungarian war has a great stake, what are your plans?"

"Let's see before we ......"

All parts of the world are paying close attention to this battle!

"Who do you think has the better chance of winning?"

"If it were a few years ago, I would say that the Xiongnu had a better chance of winning, but in recent years, the Han army has become more and more powerful, and it has defeated the Xiongnu in a row.

The Xiongnu had borage and were undefeated. But Han Zhiwei Qing, Huo Quai, is also a famous general who is not in the world, I can't see this victory. ”

The forces on the sidelines are speculating and discussing.

The eyes of the whole world seem to fall on the northwest direction of Dahan.

"The Xiongnu are good at attacking, and the borage is known as a god general, and he has long been settled in the Western Regions to induce the Han army to go out.

If the Han army goes out of the customs and confronts it in the Western Regions, it will not be advantageous, and the Xiongnu are poised to wait, and I think the Han army is mostly negative. ”

The son who is hidden in the shadows is also existing with someone on the other side at this time, and he uses bamboo slips to pass on the book and make contact.

"Win or lose, we've been waiting for this moment for years. If Han and Hungary engage in war, there will be a great upheaval in the Western Regions, and many small countries will be destroyed. Even though a country is small, it has a lot of energy, and this is part of the purpose of our plan. ”

"Hmmm......"

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The section of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions starts from the Yellow River to the west and advances along the northwest.

Its long and narrow road is bordered by Altun Mountain and Qilian Mountain in the south, and Horsehair Mountain, Heli Mountain and Longshou Mountain of the Western Xiongnu in the north.

It is equivalent to saying that this corridor-like passage (in present-day Gansu) is surrounded by mountains on both sides.

Therefore, as long as the Xiongnu held both ends, they could control the throat of the Han to the Western Regions, and their strategic position was extremely important.

And because it is located west of the Yellow River, it has been called Hexi since ancient times.

Although its terrain is long and narrow, the surrounding water sources are abundant and the land is fertile, and it was once a treasure land where the Otsuki clan lived according to it.

Later, the Dayue clan was defeated by the Xiongnu, and north of this narrow strip, it was obtained by the Xiongnu Hutu King Department and the Hun Evil King Department.

The southern side was jointly occupied by the Western Qiang tribes.

The Qiang and Xiongnu colluded with each other to curb the connection between the Han and the Western Regions.

The two divisions of King Hutu and King Hun were originally separated by five or six hundred miles, and they were distributed in the key positions of Hanxi Pass to the Western Regions.

The Hugh Slaughter Department was sent to Xiguan by Huo Quai's last time, and after being defeated, it retreated for hundreds of miles.

Now King Hutu led the remnants and received the order of the Randy to come and join the evil king.

The two combined troops amounted to 30,000 people, stationed at a necessary place leading to the Western Regions, cut off the connection between a team that had been pushed forward by the Han army to Yumen and Xiguan, and waited for the follow-up Han army to ambush.

"The spies who went to the Xiguan of the Han Army, do you have any news to report back?"

At this moment, the big battle was imminent, and the Hugh Tu Wang Department and the Hun Evil King Department converged, and the two got up early in the early morning to check the military situation.

King Hutu and King Hun Evil are both born very strong, but they have different styles.

King Hutu is a burly man with a large skeleton, but his muscles are tight, and at first glance he looks a little thin.

The evil king is as majestic as a mountain, with a bronze complexion, and his hair is made of a beast bone, which is obliquely inserted at the back of his head, with a rough image and blazing eyes.

In the last campaign of Huo Quai's troops in Xiguan, more than half of his subordinates were slaughtered, and many relatives were also killed in the battle with the Han army.

So he hated the Han army very much.

After receiving the order of Borage, to stop the Han army here, King Hutu was quite excited and brought all the elites under his command.

"I received the news earlier that the Han army officially started from Chang'an today and will arrive at the Great Han Xiguan in a few days."

"The position we hold is the way they have to go. And General Borage has other arrangements, and this time it will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the Han army. ”

After getting up early to inspect the barracks, the evil king returned to the big tent, fished out a stewed lamb bone from the pot, and put it in his mouth to chew along with the oil and meat:

"I heard that the Han general Huo went to the sick, and the march was fast. Even the royal court was defeated under its offensive before, and Da Shan Yu was also created by it, such an opponent, I thought I would meet him. ”

In the camps built by the mountains of the two tribes of Hun Evil and Hutu, the tents are continuous and heavily guarded.

They are holding on to the highest position in the surrounding area, taking advantage of the terrain.

"Will Admiral Borage come over?"

"What is the general's plan, how can I know, let the Han people have a headache." The Evil King laughed.

King Hugh Tu said viciously: "This time against the Han army, there is no need to leave a living mouth, all of them will be killed, in order to repay the grudge against the previous loss of our department, are you willing to help me?" ”

"It's up to you how you do it."

"Someone comes, pass on the king's order, in the direction of Xiguan in the Han realm, a team of sentry scouts should be arranged every three miles, look at each other, and report immediately if there is any movement."

The Evil King sneered: "Then Huo is sick and good at marching and attacking, I want to see, under my layers of defense, how can he come over?" ”

King Hutu also picked up a piece of meat and put it in his mouth: "If you can take Na Huo to get sick this time, you can relieve his hatred for slaughtering my subordinates." ”

PS: Let's see if we can add 9,000 words today, and ask for tickets!

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