The desert is dark, and the red flag is half rolled out.

The former army fought in Taohebei at night, and it has been reported that it has captured Gu Hun.

The freshly baked Hu cake exudes a rich burnt aroma, accompanied by yellow millet porridge and emerald green shallots, which makes people salivate, but Chen Tang has no appetite at all, and it has been half a month since he set off, and he has not yet walked out of the green ridge, which makes him can't help but admire Zhang Qian of the Wu Emperor Dynasty. Fortunately, there are fresh shallots every day to whet the appetite of the soldiers, and the journey under their feet is much faster.

The southern road led by Chen Tang needed to cross the vast green mountains, which was later called the Pamir Plateau, which was now lush and green, and from time to time there was the sound of tigers howling and wolf howls, and the soldiers on the night patrol saw a pair of green eyes more than once at night.

Passing through the Green Ridge, it is the Dawan country, where the BMW is a good product in the Western Regions, this time passing by just buy more, a little training is a brave cavalry. In this expedition, Chen Tang also had the idea of dying for a lifetime, not because he had no confidence in this battle, but because his division was famous but unfounded. After that night, Gan Yanshou was sick, and he was very sick, so sick that he couldn't handle government affairs, until Chen Tang Jiaozhao sent the capital to protect the palace guards, the Cheshi Guo Wuji Captain Tuntian envoy, and the Western Regions Fifteen Nations Alliance, when more than 40,000 people gathered on the battlefield to point troops, he was seriously ill and recovered, feigned anger at Chen Tang, and took the lead in writing a confession of impeachment and handed it to the messenger to the heavens, and led three troops by himself, wearing Wusun, and taking the north road to attack Kangju, so that Chen Tang led three troops, crossed the green ridge, crossed Dawan, and took the south road to send troops to the Western Regions.

"Newspaper—"

A long shout came, interrupting Chen Tang's thoughts. The junior colonel came to report: "Captain, the former army has come out of the Green Ridge, and the Kangju soldiers robbed the Dawan border on the road, please make a decision!" ”

Chen Tang rode forward, and after a short time, he came to a high slope, and looked on the ground, only to see a group of white-clothed Kangju cavalry burning and looting, and the women and grain were loaded onto the cart and ready to be transported away.

"Order Shule, Shache, and Yanqi to surround from the south, Qiuzi, Khotan, and Jingjue from the north, and Weisu, Huaguo and other countries to take the middle road, Tuntian envoys and escorts as the vanguard, and Pu and Cheshi cavalry to shoot and kill the Kangju cavalry and march!"

With the sound of the horn, a dense rain of arrows shot out, and the Kangju cavalry suddenly became a mess, and one of the generals led by them shouted loudly, and the cavalry quickly assembled and retreated to the depths of the village.

The encirclement gradually tightened, the Tuntian envoy held a spear in front, the escort held a ring-headed sword, and occasionally a cavalry of the chariot division wandered left and right, shooting crossbow arrows. The Kangju cavalry gradually calmed down, and they knew that it would soon be a battle of life and death.

The struggles of the nomads were bloody and direct, and the gradually shrinking encirclement did not panic the Kangju cavalry, but ignited their high morale. The cavalry shouted loudly, and rushed forward with scimitars, and the Western Regions Alliance Army did not flinch, and greeted them with a strange scream.

Since ancient times, an inch is long and an inch is strong, especially in the face of cavalry, the spear is simply a nemesis. The three-person Tuntian envoy is simply the end of the Kangju cavalry, just swinging the spear on the road, the war horse under the crotch neighed, raised the front hooves to avoid the insidious stab, the stomach of the middle road was stabbed by the third spear, fell to the ground in severe pain, the huge body directly crushed the knight's legs, the wailing knight did not have time to pull out the legs, the ring head knife has been pierced into the chest. The whole scene was like a one-sided massacre, and in less than half an hour, the battle ended, and all but a few dozen horsemen escorted one person out of the battlefield, and all the others were killed.

Visited the king of Dawan, returned the people of Dawan who were plundered by Kangju, the king of Dawan was very moved, and offered to give Chen Tang 500 Dawan horses, the coalition army repaired in Dawan for a day, killed all the captured horses and livestock, the army had a full meal, and continued to set off for the west on the second day.

A month later, Zhizhi City.

Zhizhi City is a city named after Zhizhi Shan Yu, and it is also a new city. After Zhizhi killed Gu Ji, he was afraid of the revenge of the Han Dynasty, so he fled north in a hurry and fled all the way to the east of Kangju. Zhizhi was a ruthless man, and the Hun cavalry was fierce and warlike, successively attacked Wusun twice, blackmailed Dawan, and killed Princess Kangju, and it didn't take long to gain a firm foothold and run rampant in the Western Regions. When Chen Tang arrived, the Zhizhi City built for him by Kang Juguo had not yet been completed.

The soldiers approached the city, Gan Yanshou stepped forward under the escort of the shield soldiers, and the small colonel passed on: "The Western Regions of the Han Dynasty is the protector of the mansion, and the cavalry captain Gan Yanshou asks Zhi Zhishan to answer in Shangcheng!" ”

Before the words fell, the outer heavy wooden city wall suddenly opened the city gate, and a strange-shaped army rushed out, about three hundred people, wearing a red cockscomb helmet, heavy armor, and holding a one-man high shield, quickly gathered in the open space outside the city gate.

Gan Yanshou saw that Zhi Zhi refused to come out to answer, so he returned to the military formation, pointed to the strange army on the opposite side and asked Chen Tang: "Do you know what kind of army is on the other side?" ”

Chen Tang thought for a while: "Well, a few years ago, the last general heard that there was a country to the west of the Western Regions, named Daqin, and its soldiers were tall and often fought in a phalanx. ”

Gan Yanshou laughed: "The country of Xiaoxiao, dare to assume the name of the former Chinese dynasty, I really don't know the height of the sky, who dares to try the edge with me?" ”

Before the words fell, a general held a scimitar shield and jumped out of his horse: "The young general is willing to take his own cavalry to try!" Chen Tang looked back, and it turned out to be the young general of the Elite Country. Gan Yanshou said softly: "General be careful, the military formation is strange, just try it, if there is a problem, return immediately, otherwise the queen will not be able to protect her face." ”

Nabi performed a salute, led the headquarters of five hundred cavalry, rushed out, before the halfway point, the knights immediately set up their bows, a rain of arrows shot out, a drum, has shot out three rounds of arrows, the army hung bows and guns, the horses have reached the front of the army fifty paces.

Gan Yanshou twisted his beard and said approvingly to Chen Tang: "The exquisite queen really trained a good soldier, although there are only five hundred people, and the combat power is also a corner, it is really unseemly." ”

Chen Tang restrained the irritable war horse, and also replied approvingly: "The captain is reasonable!" ”

At this time, there was a slight change on the battlefield, the Great Qin army formation began to set up at the beginning of the Nabi Shi charge, the soldiers in the front row stood on the ground with a one-person high shield, and the soldiers behind protected the front chest and the top of the head in turn, only to hear a jingling, after three bursts of arrow rain, the Great Qin army formation did not move, but the arrows were all scattered on the ground. When the elite cavalry charged to fifty paces, only a shout was heard in the military formation, all the shields fell to the ground, and a rain of javelins came in an instant, and many cavalry were nailed to the spot on the spot and crushed by the cavalry behind. At this time, there was another shout in the military array, the soldiers in the front row of the Great Qin army put their spears on their shields, the soldiers in the second row put their spears on the shoulders of a row of soldiers, and the soldiers in the back row saluted the sky with spears, and there were bows and arrows flying out of the army from time to time.