The climate on the plateau is unusually harsh, with nights as cold as winter and noon as hot as summer. For the Tang soldiers, it is a severe test.

The howling cold wind swept in with a biting chill, and even with the thick sheepskin jacket on, countless ice needles still blew in through the cracks.

The Tang army had never marched in such a harsh environment, but fortunately, all the troops used this time were elite, and many of the soldiers participated in the raid on the Turkic royal court that year.

Coupled with Wang Xuanji's logistical supplies, the Tang army still maintained sufficient combat effectiveness.

In order to pursue Tuyuhun, Wang Xuanji adopted the tactics of the Huns and drove a large number of cattle and sheep for food. Wang Xuanji befriended the Xiqiang, Zahu, Dangxiang and other tribes, and exchanged a large number of livestock with them as military rations.

Coupled with the fact that there were Xiqiang and Dangxiang people who were familiar with the local environment, the Tang army did not lose its way on this complex plateau.

Instead of losing his way, he followed closely behind the Tuyuhun tribe.

Wang Xuanji's preparations for this expedition were very sufficient, but even so, there were still many soldiers killed and wounded. Many soldiers accidentally fell and fell, and some soldiers suddenly had altitude sickness, and they died in a foreign land because they didn't have time to treat them.

Li Jing, Xu Shiji, Hou Junji, Li Shentong and others only understood how dangerous this road was after they really pursued them deeply.

At this time, they were deeply impressed by Wang Xuanji's foresight, if Wang Xuanji had not prepared so many supplies, the difficulties that their army would have to face would be more serious than now.

The Tang army divided into two routes, and then marched left and right, so to speak, this war has become a clash of wills between the two sides.

Under such cruel natural conditions, whoever has the stronger will and the courage on both sides will be able to achieve the final victory.

Cliffs, thousands of snow-capped peaks.

The army galloped all the way to the mountains, and then staggered along the steep and steep mountain paths. On the mountain road, from time to time, some gravel fell, and the tumbling gravel fell into the cliff, and after a while, there was a crashing sound.

The horses creaked and cracked as they stepped on the snow and ice. There are even war horses that stumble and slip to the ground.

The war horse struggled to get up, but he couldn't stand up, and finally he could only let out a burst of mournful screams, and the soldiers next to him wanted to help him stand up, but found that the war horse's legs had been broken.

Looking at the old man who couldn't stop screaming, the warrior was full of grief, but he had to kill him.

Although there were many preparations, by this time, the food of the army was no longer enough, and they had to cherish every grain of food, and the same was true for war horses in times of tribulation.

There were no supplies along the way, but sometimes they would find the evacuated small tribes of Tuyuhun. Even if millions of Tuyuhun people are prepared to evacuate in advance, there will always be various accidents. Some tribes evacuated early, others later.

Most of these discovered tribes were broken by the army and then plundered.

The army has traveled all the way, thousands of miles of wasteland, Gobi, and snow-capped mountains, and the logistical supply has reached the limit. Finally caught up with the Tuyuhun army.

After Murong Fuyun learned the news that Tang Jun had caught up, he was stunned. He was very aware of the difficulty of this road, and the Tang army actually chased all the way here.

You must know that they can take this road because there are a large number of cattle and sheep on the road, and they are well prepared, but how did those Tang people do it?

Tuyuhun was able to survive the repeated blows of the Sui army and have always been independent, not because of how strong they were, but because they were able to drag it until the Sui army could not bear it and dragged down the logistics of the Sui army, and then they were victorious.

They originally wanted to use the same method to deal with Tang Jun, but this time Tang Jun's willpower was unexpectedly strong, and he was able to come here.

In fact, Murong Fuyun was very aware of the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, so he planned to use delaying tactics from the beginning, but he didn't expect that the Tang Army would actually cross thousands of miles to chase and kill him.

What's worse is that after thousands of miles of migration, the Tuyuhun tribe has completely relaxed their vigilance when they come here, and in their cognition, they don't think that there will be enemies who will cross thousands of miles to come here, so from the herdsmen at the bottom to the nobles at the top, no one is on guard.

As a result, the Tang army had already come to the vicinity, and someone found out, but it was already too late by this time.

Tens of thousands of exhausted, hungry and tempered by the cold winds of the plateau and the Gobi desert came to the vicinity of the West Sea.

Although they were exhausted by now, their spirits were becoming more and more tenacious, and everyone's eyes suddenly bloomed with infinite brilliance after seeing the Tuyuhun tribe.

After Li Jing and Xu Shiji saw this scene, they immediately shouted: "Sons, these Tuyuhun tribes in front of them have fat cattle and sheep, countless military exploits, and thousands of miles of attack, all today!" ”

Military merit, food, wealth, these things are what this army is most eager for at the moment, and the soldiers who have experienced the cold wind and yellow sand have been tempered by these have heard this, and their morale is even higher.

In the face of tens of thousands of Tang elites, Tuyuhun, who had no defense, could not resist at all, and the army rushed straight in, and these tribes of Tuyuhun did not even set up a Mushan fence, and the Tang army successfully rushed into the camp without much effort.

The Tuyuhun tribe in a panic could not organize any effective counterattack at all, and almost no people were wearing armor, not even war horses.

The only force that the Hu people can compete with the elite of the Central Plains is the cavalry, and now without the cavalry, in the face of these elites of the Tang Dynasty who are high morale and armed to the teeth, they are simply vulnerable.

The Tang army rushed into the camp and constantly slaughtered the panicked, frightened, and angry Hu people, and the battlefield was full of the sound of Hu people screaming.

When Murong Fuyun saw the Tang army rushing towards him, he understood that the general trend had gone, and even if he was reluctant in his heart, he could only turn around and flee. He knew very well that the clansmen who did not ride on the war horses were not the opponents of the Tang Army at all, and only by fleeing could they have a chance of survival.

Murong Fuyun took advantage of the time when the Tang army was fighting with others, and fled directly with his cronies without looking back, for fear that he would be chased and killed by the Tang army if he ran slowly.

Fleeing from the West Sea, Murong Fuyun did not dare to stop all the way, and continued to flee westward, and further west, the terrain was more precipitous, and there was a more vast desert. But by this time, he couldn't care about it anymore.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that before he could escape a hundred miles, he crashed headlong into the army led by the Wang clan of the Western Regions who had outflanked him all the way.

This time, Murong Fuyun, who was exhausted from running, was directly tied up by his nobles and surrendered to the army before he could react.

Immediately afterwards, the Wang clan of the Western Regions brought these Tuyuhun kings to join Li Jing and Wang Xuanji.

After seeing that all the Tuyuhun kings were arrested, Li Jing, Wang Xuanji, Xu Shiji, Li Daozong, Qibi He Li and others were immediately overjoyed and said: "All the kings are victorious, sons, the class teacher returns to the dynasty!" ”

PS: Tendosynovitis is committed, and the book will be finished as soon as possible.

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