Li Yunze stayed in Niyang City for several days.

The main purpose was to rebuild the bombed-out section of the wall, plus to clean up the city and throw the defenders into the swamp.

Collect the remains of the Tang army who were killed before, leave the defenders and materials, and advise the city defense and many other matters.

Like the previous and last places, Jingjue here goes north into the Hanhai Sea, and there are also a series of oases that extend to the foot of the Tian Shan Mountains in the north.

These oases in the desert are like meandering curves, outlining a north-south, railway-like course of movement.

In the vast vast sea, of course, it is impossible to arm the whole line.

Blocking the entrances and exits of these green passages is the most effective way to cut off.

If the number of Tubo people in the north was not so large, Li Yunze would not dare to divide his troops like this.

However, it was precisely because of the large number of the Tubo Army in the North, which was gradually surrounded, far exceeding the carrying capacity of the oases along the way, that Li Yunze dared to boldly blockade the entire line with confidence.

Further south on the plateau, there were no reinforcements to send, after all, the strength of the Tibetan army must have been used to the limit.

At the foot of the world, the main army of Tubo who was ready to destroy the reinforcements was numerous, and when they realized that something was wrong and wanted to escape, as long as the commander was not a brain-dead, he would inevitably divide his troops and run along several green channels.

The division of troops everywhere is just blocking everywhere, except for the line where Li Yunze came, no other line can provide drinking water for tens of thousands of horses.

The chaos of the defeat, the rivalry and betrayal, the loss of organization and formation, and other factors all converge, and all kinds of soldiers and horses were lost in the vast desert.

Li Yunze continued to march westward along the southern edge of the Hanhai Sea, defeating many large and small groups of Tibetan soldiers and horses along the way, and did not care if they reported the news.

The Tubo people did not have a telegram, and by the time the main army under the foot of the world got the news, Li Yunze had already arrived in Shule.

Before arriving in Shule, Li Yunze only had the last important town left in front of him, Khotan, which is also one of the four towns in Anxi.

Although Khotan is only a small country, it has a long history of more than 1,000 years.

Here is the desert to the north, the Kunlun Mountains to the south, and the river in the middle.

Overall, Khotan is actually the largest oasis south of the Hanhai Sea.

Because the desert rivers are constantly being diverted, there are many criss-crossing rivers left here in Khotan.

And among these rivers, there are many precious jades precipitated, and these precious jades are called Hetian jade.

That's right, Khotan is Khotan here.

Li Yunze personally led the forward soldiers and horses along the surging river in the dry and rainy season, and the scouts in front of him quickly reported that they had made contact with the local natives, and learned that there were about 10,000 Tubo people stationed in Khotan, and the leader of the troops was still Tu

The famous general of Fan.

"Famous generals? Which famous player? Lu Dongzan? ”

For Tubo, Li Yunze only knows Lu Dongzan.

This person is thoughtful, and he is definitely a character.

I don't know about the horses, and the locals don't know either, but I only know that the Tubo people call them famous generals.

Li Yunze, who was very cautious on the battlefield, decided to slow down his advance and advance the distance with the soldiers behind.

In this way, whether the front army is attacked by the enemy or the rear team, they can get support as soon as possible.

After all, he is a famous general, and there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

Unexpectedly, when there were still dozens of miles away from the capital of Khotan, he actually encountered the Tubo army that poured out of the nest.

Looking at the Tibetan soldiers and horses who were shouting to cross the river on the opposite side, Li Yunze's expression was solemn, he felt that the Tubo people reacted quickly, and it was already the key point to mobilize a large army to reinforce Khotan, the most critical and important logistics supply line.

The troops and horses in front of them are here to attract their attention, and the main force of the Tubo people may cross the river at a suitable ferry upstream and downstream, and they will have to attack back and forth.

However, when Li Yunze was surprised, the elite exploration horse ran tired to death, and explored dozens of miles upstream and downstream, but he didn't even see a single hair from the Tubo people.

The river valley environment here is not suitable for ambushes at all, which means that there is really no Tibetan army on the side.

looked at the Tubo people on the opposite side who were in a chaotic formation with their backs to the river, no matter how they looked at it, they didn't look like they could learn from the overlord of Chu, and they would break 30,000 and defeat 300,000.

By the time the Tubo soldiers and horses rushed over shouting and shouting, Li Yunze could be sure that this so-called famous general was estimated to have a bad brain.

Fighting on your back is actually to sink yourself to death first, relying on the morale of the desperate outbreak to crush the enemy on the opposite side.

The reason why Overlord Chu is talked about is because in the countless backwater battles from ancient times to the present, there are only a handful of successes, and Overlord Chu is the one who does the best.

There were more than 10,000 Tubo soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and there were only 6,000 forwards around Li Yunze, but there were 4,000 Tang iron horsemen among them.

After confirming that the famous general on the opposite side was a parallel import, Li Yunze did not hesitate to directly command the cavalry to attack on both sides, and the infantry phalanx was hard to resist the impact of the Tubo soldiers.

The morale of the Tang army, which had won all the way, was extremely high, and their equipment was at least a few eras ahead of the Tubo soldiers.

The Tang army basically has iron armor here, and there is not much leather armor here in Tubo.

The whole battle was lackluster, and the infantry ranks of the Tang army easily resisted the onslaught of the Tibetans.

Immediately, the cavalry on both flanks rushed into the Tibetan army, galloped across the country, and easily destroyed and crushed it.

When the war began, the Tubo soldiers roared like thunder, and the imposing Tubo soldiers quickly broke and fled after being defeated.

The front and both wings were sealed, and they could only turn around and flee into the rushing river.

The Tang army easily chased and drove most of them into the river.

As for the result, it is natural that there are countless floating corpses.

"This is a famous general?"

Li Yunze shook his head and arranged to clean up the battlefield and build a pontoon bridge to prepare to cross the river.

The main force of the Tibetan soldiers stationed in the capital of Khotan was swept away by their famous generals, and the remaining ones could not form an effective defense capability after the arrival of the Tang army, and were drummed down in the siege battle.

Li Yunze seized a large amount of supplies here.

The main thing is livestock, and in addition to that, barley.

With the end of the Ice Age, temperatures have warmed up, making it possible to grow crops even on the highlands.

Then there are a lot of furs, as well as weapons and arrows, tents, and so on.

These were sent down from the plateau and prepared to be sent to the front line of the Tien Shan Mountains.

The Tibetans were not defenseless, they left more than 10,000 soldiers and horses here in Khotan, and if they were stationed in the city, they would be able to hold on for a long time.

What they didn't expect was that in the environment of the world's attack on Tang, the Tang army was still able to mobilize a large number of reinforcements in a short period of time, and brazenly crossed the Hanhai Sea to cut off their supply line from the southern front.

According to their thoughts, when the Tang Army sent a message to Chang'an City, it would be at least a few months before the troops were being raised and sent for reinforcements.

By that time, the Tang Army on the southern front was basically finished, and the soldiers and horses mobilized by Tubo could also drive the herd of livestock down the mountain to strengthen the defense of the southern front.

I never thought that the Tang Army would be able to get the news so quickly, and the reinforcements would arrive in such a short time as if they had put on wings and flew over.

In the end, the famous generals stationed in Khotan, who obviously had a city but did not defend it, but went out of the city to fight.

As a result, Li Yunze wiped out with 6,000 strikers in one fell swoop, and even the most important logistics supply point was captured.

In the final analysis, it was still a sentence, the Tang army's reaction and action were too fast and fast, completely disrupting the rhythm of the Tubo people.

Khotan is extremely important here, you can go north along the desert river Yuhe all the way deep into the Hanhai, wait until the desert river disappears into the desert, and you can also rely on the oasis along the way to go north to Gumo and other places.

This is also the main logistical supply line of the northern route of the Tibetans.

To the west, crossing the Shache country is the important town of Shule, another army of the Tubo people, who is cooperating with the Zhaowu nine surnames to besiege it.

The supply line over there also goes here.

In such an important place, Li Yunze simply left 7,000 troops to garrison it, and wanted to completely cut off the retreat of the Tubo people.

By the time he escorted a huge supply convoy to Shule, there were only a little more than 10,000 soldiers left around him.

However, this time, Li Yunze changed his previous slow devouring, and cooperated with the marching speed of the supply convoy, and instead left 4,000 foot soldiers to escort the supply convoy forward, and he himself took more than 6,000 cavalry to carry ten-day rations, and one person and two horses went crazy towards Shule

Soaring.

His favorite tactic was the rapid assault of the cavalry group, which had not been used before because there were too many targets along the way and they were all defending the city.

Now, only the final goal is Shule, and it is still a siege relief battle, so it is natural to bring out the best of the best.

From Khotan to Shule for a thousand miles, Li Yunze showed a strong ability to execute, and with a speed close to Xiahou Yuan's 'five hundred in three days, one thousand in six days', it took seven days to rush to Shule.

The Tang army that fell behind along the way was only a few hundred, and less than a quarter of the horses died of exhaustion.

In terms of the conditions of forced marches in this era, it is already very good.

Li Yunze, who had eaten dry food all the way, stopped to repair in Yandu Prefecture, which was only dozens of miles away from Shule.

The sky was dyed red, and in the evening the sergeants lit a fire, set up iron pots and began to cook hot food.

The soldiers of the Tang Army and their war horses all had a full meal.

The Tanma who went to Shule to investigate came back and reported to Li Yunze that there were a sea of people outside Shule City, and there were messy camps with the surname Zhaowu Jiu and miscellaneous people from all over the place, and all the people with high noses and deep eyes were seen as far as the eye could see.

As for the Tibetans, their camp was located outside the southern part of the city, and the camp was large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of troops.

"It can't be tens of thousands."

Li Yunze shook his head again and again, "There are really so many, I have long driven the miscellaneous beards to fill the city, and I will kill one or two thousand horses." Their main force must be heading for Qiuzi. ”

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yunze issued an order: "The whole army should go to bed, cook at three o'clock when it is ugly, and send troops at the wrong time!" ”

That is, cooking at almost two o'clock in the morning, and sending troops at three o'clock.

There is no doubt that this is to fight the night attack.

The coalition forces besieging the city of Shule numbered almost 100,000 men, to say the least.

If Li Yunze led these thousands of Tang troops to fight head-on, it would be very difficult.

In this case, a night raid is the best option.

Tang Jun here, because of his long-term nutrition, there is almost no night blindness.

"Send a message to Cheng Chumo in Shule City." Li Yunze once again instructed, "Let him pay attention to cooperation, our army will attack in about an hour." ”

The transmitter is very precious, so Cheng Bitingjin's Southern Route Army only has one.

And he left this transmitter in Shule City, which is suitable for Shule's important position.

It's just that Cheng Biting Jin's thoughts, everyone who understands understands it, and he is really a good father.