The crescent moon is like a tooth, and there is a cold silence.

Under the flickering firelight, thousands of Xituyuhun cavalry slumbered.

Silently, black figures quickly sneaked in, and the sharp blades instantly cut off the life of a soldier named Xituguhun.

"What people!" Someone woke up in a panic, and the fire suddenly rose.

In an instant, the sound of fighting had already resounded throughout the camp.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and countless cavalry directly entered the camp......

Chaos erupted, but the big picture was decided.

Li Xuan stood on a hill not far away, looking at the cold slaughter with a calm face.

He turned sideways, and behind him the streams converged into the source of the Bucha River, and then flowed down the river towards the city of Fuqi.

More than two hundred miles further south, the light of the fire faintly illuminated half of the sky.

There, Tuyuhun Murong Nuo Haobo and Dayan Mangjiebo, a pair of uncles and nephews, were leading tens of thousands of soldiers to fight each other.

At this time, Li Xuan quietly killed the source of the Buha River.

But his purpose was not here, but Lake Hara, sixty miles to the northwest.

Hala Lake is the largest salt water lake in Qingbei, there are exposed salt mines on the edge of the lake, as long as Hara Lake is won, Li Xuan will not lose this trip, and Datang will not lose.

Not to mention, after taking Hara Lake, you can also deal with Liu Xianli and Li Dan to the north.

……

The fighting in the camp was rapidly decreasing, and the soldiers of the right guard were calmly mending their swords, harvesting the heads of a remnant.

Soon, a figure had quickly come to Li Xuan.

Under the firelight, the familiar face is the new right guard general Yan Tao.

Yan Tao quickly came to Li Xuan's side, and solemnly arched his hand: "Back to the prince, it has all been cleaned up." ”

To clean it all up means to kill it all.

"Send scouts, check all within ten miles, don't let go of a single mouth, and the others clean up the camp and prepare to cook." Li Xuan spoke simply, and everything was quickly arranged.

The speed of the soldiers of Hangzhou Wei was amazing, and soon, all the corpses of Xitu Guhun had been thrown into the mountains and forests in the distance.

Li Zhu stood silently behind Li Xuan, and he could see Li Xuan nodding in satisfaction.

In today's battle, all the soldiers used were their own Hangzhou soldiers, and they were the most cronies.

Among the Yongzhou soldiers in the right guard, as well as Qianniuwei and Jin Wuwei, none of them were transferred.

In this case, they can use their abilities without any scruples.

Jumping out of everyone's sight, he went straight to the source of the Bucha River.

As for the Yongzhou soldiers, the 1,000 Yongzhou soldiers are now led by Qiu Zhenmu, pretending to be Li Xuan in a stalemate with each other in the river valley area on the east side of Delingha.

Murong Nuo led 10,000 Tuyuhun cavalry, Qiu Zhenmu led 2,000 Tang cavalry, pretending to be Li Xuan, and led a group of Jin Wuwei and Qianniu Guard, and firmly contained the 15,000 West Tuyuhun cavalry of Dayan Mangjiebo there.

In the land of Qingxi, there are 60,000 Tuyuhun cavalry under the command of Dayan Mangjiebo.

Among them, 20,000 were guarded in Shanshan, 10,000 in Golmud, 10,000 in Delingha, and 20,000 in the Qilian Mountains in northern Qingbei, led by two Tibetan garrisons each with 5,000 Tibetan soldiers, to resist the Tang Dynasty's offensive from Suzhou and Ganzhou.

In addition, 5,000 Tibetan cavalry were stationed in Golmud.

Therefore, when the news of Murong Nuo's recapture of Fuqi City arrived, Dayan Mangjiebo immediately led 5,000 Tubo cavalry to support Delingha.

He wasn't worried that Datang would attack the Qingxi Basin, no matter how strong Datang was, he would still run if he couldn't beat him, but once Murong Nuo entered the Qingxi Basin, the situation would immediately become critical.

After all, unlike East Tuyuhun who was stolen by Su and Gui, West Tuyuhun has always been under the rule of the Tuyuhun royal family.

Now that another Tuyuhun royal clan is going to break in, if Dayan Mangjiebo can resist it, if he can't resist it, the local Tuyuhun herdsmen will immediately throw themselves into Murong Nuo's arms.

It was precisely because of this understanding that Li Xuan had been constantly exerting pressure on Delingha since ten days ago, which made Dayan Mangjiebo ignore the land of Qingbei.

……

Lake Hara, a piece of clear.

Blue sky and white clouds, long mountains.

Li Xuan turned over and dismounted, stood in front of the white salt grains by the lake, and said with emotion in the wind: "If it weren't for the fact that this place can't treat people in winter, I'm afraid this area would have gathered into a city long ago." ”

There is a city next to Qinghai Lake, but there is nothing on the shore of Hara Lake.

"The water supply here is cut off in winter, and it's okay for 500 people to stay temporarily, but it's impossible for more people to stay here for a long time." Yan Tao couldn't help but shake his head, although the blue waves were rippling in front of him, the shores of the lake on both sides were already dry and yellow, without the slightest vitality.

Don't look at the water of the lake here that can moisten the shores on both sides through the mud, but the temperature here is just too low.

It's only early October, and it's close to below zero, but fortunately they are sergeants, and they are dressed thick enough, otherwise they would have shivered from the cold.

The cold temperatures kill all the plants, and the salt lakes here automatically precipitate salt grains.

"Let people spread out and look for it, where is the nearest freshwater river?" Li Xuan glanced sideways at Li Zhu, and Li Zhu immediately turned around and arranged.

In the summer, the snow melts from the surrounding mountains and turns into a river that flows into Lake Hara.

The Tuyuhun herdsmen migrated from the northwest and settled here, camped and grazed their livestock.

In winter, when the snow froze and the snow was cut off, the lake began to shrink, and the salt particles on the shore were immediately precipitated and then taken away by the Tibetan cavalry guarding here.

The Tibetans collected this salt, some of which were sold to Southern Tianzhu, some to the Western Regions, and some to reduce the price of salt internally.

There are several salt ponds inside Tuyuhun, and they don't care too much about the current one, but as the salt lakes are seized by the Tang Dynasty, the life of the Tubo people will become more and more difficult.

In the tent by the lake, Li Xuan stood in front of the unfolded map, carefully considering it with a solemn expression.

To the north of Zaha Lake, the 100-mile-long Shule South Mountain and the equally stretching Tulai South Mountain intersected, blocking the Tang army's route from Qilian Mountain to Tuyuhun.

"I'm afraid the Tibetans can't imagine that we will kill them from behind." Li Xuan's fingers lightly swiped across the map.

"Last year, the Tubo people crossed the Qilian Mountains four times and entered Ganzhou three times, and now we have come back with revenge, they should be able to think of it." Yan Tao looked at Li Xuan and said in a low voice: "Now it depends on whether the prince plans to bury all these 30,000 people here, or ......."

The 20,000 Tuyuhun cavalry and 10,000 Tubo cavalry were all buried in Qilian Mountain, and Yan Tao said that it was very easy to say that Nanshan and Shule Nanshan.

In his opinion, Li Xuan seems to be omnipotent, and this is almost the consensus of all right guards.

"That's not realistic." Li Xuan shook his head slightly, sighed and said: "Didn't you notice, we came all the way from the source of the Buha River, and there was more and more snow on the peaks on both sides, and the terrain was getting higher and higher, and it didn't take long for our soldiers to be out of breath." ”

Li Xuan turned his head to look in the direction of Tubo in the south, and said softly: "If this king feels good, this place should already be at the same height as Wuhai." ”

"Wuhai?" Yan Tao's face changed slightly.

The reason why these Jiangnan soldiers came to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and were able to adapt to the environment here stably was due to their arduous training of climbing mountains and entering the sea for three months, but even so, many people still fell.

If they let them climb the Wuhai Sea again, the drastic changes in their bodies would completely destroy many people.

"Order, scatter all the scouts, scatter them to the south, force Dayan Mangjiebo to retreat to Delingha, and then let Murong Nuo send two thousand Tuyuhun cavalry up, now if we want to advance steadily in this area, we need to rely on the strength of the Tuyuhun people." Li Xuan's expression was solemn.

The Tuyuhun people stay on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all year round and are more adaptable to the local terrain and climate than them.

"Also, send an order to Qiu Zhenmu, let him find a way to quickly break through Delingha and enter Golmud, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the army must stop advancing in November." Li Xuan's words were resolute, and the grain and grass allocated by the DPRK and the Central Government to Fu Qicheng were only available for one month, until the end of October.

"Whoa!" Yan Tao gave up his hand and immediately turned around and went out to make arrangements.

It's early October and the weather is getting colder, especially in places like Lake Bucha, where some parts of the lake are already frozen.

Li Xuan's gaze fell on the map.

Outside the tent, on the blue blue lake, in the endless clear sky, a goshawk is flying at a high speed, quickly flying into the vast mountains to the west.

In the depths of the staggered mountain ranges, you can faintly see the appearance of Tuyuhun camps.

Most of these camps were built on the herdsmen's camps that had migrated away, but more often than not, they deliberately gave up the Qilian Pass and gathered on the east and west sides of Shule South Mountain and Tuolai South Mountain.

It was not easy to climb to the top of the mountain, and the exhausted Tang soldiers were slaughtered before they even had time to unfold the military formation.

Li Xuan looked at the location of the map and said softly: "It's time, it's time to act." ”

……

On the north side of the South Mountain, three thousand cavalry slowly moved forward in the dark night, and the dark posts between the valleys on both sides had been completely pulled out before.

Li Xuanxing was at the forefront, and beside him was Murong Zhi, Murong Nuo's nephew.

Murong Zhi followed Li Xuan's side and walked slowly, and three miles in front of him was the garrison camp of five thousand Xitugu Hun soldiers.

But now, Li Xuan has led 3,000 cavalry to kill him, but the people over there still don't know anything.

Suddenly, Li Xuan's right arm rose, and in an instant, all the cavalry stopped.

"Ignition, charge." Li Xuan gave an order, and the next moment, countless torches had been lit.

Immediately after, Li Xuan waved his right arm, and in an instant, countless roaring horses' hooves had been frantically slaughtered towards the Xituguhun camp in front.

The cavalry who had just noticed it had not yet reacted, and the next moment, countless torches and rockets had been thrown frantically.

Then, after a frantic rush and killing, the cavalry of Datang and Dongtuyuhun began to spread rapidly to both sides.

The Xituyuhun cavalry, which was deliberately released in the center, subconsciously rushed towards the west.

As soon as they ran, the voice of the Tang cavalry behind them sounded, making their hearts even more anxious.

Countless figures began to rush frantically towards the exit on the west side of the Great Shake Valley.

The Western Tuyuhun cavalry on the west side of the Great Shake Valley had not yet reacted, and their own companions had already taken the lead in disrupting their camp.

Immediately after, the Tang army killed in.

Flames soar into the sky.

(End of chapter)