Liangzhou.

As the sun set, a cavalry of the Guiyi Army was galloping eastward in the wilderness, and the cavalry captain of 3,000 people was well-armed with a short crossbow and a well-equipped armour, and many of them had traces of knives and axes on their armor, showing that this was a team of elites who had been on the battlefield for a long time.

The armor soldiers have a solemn face and a fierce temperament, like a spear with a sharp handle, even if they do not roar and fight, they also reveal an extraordinary iron and blood.

The leader of the general was in his thirties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a two-inch-long scar on his cheek, which spread diagonally from the bridge of his nose to the base of his ears, and looked extremely hideous and terrifying.

He is Zhang Huaishen's nephew and the leader of this team, his real name is rarely mentioned, because his combat style is tough, good at fighting tough battles, and he often rushes the enemy army to the back of his horse when he rushes into battle, so he has the nickname Zhang Daniu.

The elite soldiers will go out of the city, and naturally it will not be an ordinary mission.

At noon, Liangzhou received a military report that the grain convoy from Lingzhou had been attacked, that the 500 soldiers who were escorting the grain had been killed and wounded, and that tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and tens of thousands of stone of grain had fallen into the hands of the Uighur cavalry.

This batch of military rations was transported from Xiazhou through Lingzhou. In fact, this is a grain road that transports grain and straw continuously. A few months ago, after the Wolf Tooth Army broke the party, when the follow-up army took over the territory, it also carried an order to raise military rations for Hexi.

Liang, Ling, Xia are located at the north end, the eating habits are not much different, mutton is the most popular among the soldiers, although the party and the army are gone, but the cattle and sheep are still there, just to Liangzhou to supplement the military rations nearby, the province has to be transported from Guanzhong.

The news that the grain road was attacked and the military grain was robbed made Zhang Huaishen angry on the spot, and he sent Zhang Daniu to lead the Guiyi army to set out.

Until now, because the defense line of Liangzhou was complete and tight, the Uighur army was never able to capture the city, resulting in a stalemate in the war. At this time, the importance of logistics supply gradually became prominent, and the status was rising.

As a veteran general in the army, Zhang Daniu knows very well that the current competition between the two armies is the ability to sustain combat.

For the Uighurs, with their long campaigns and Liangzhou far from the Western Regions, it was bound to be increasingly difficult to replenish their grain. As long as the Tang Army's grain, grass and ordnance can be continuously replenished, even if there are no reinforcements to join, it is very likely to win the war.

Unexpectedly, it was not the Uighur grain route that first went wrong, but the Tang army's grain transportation team.

When you think about it, it's actually quite understandable. Although the Uighurs did not break through the Tang army's defensive line, they had superior forces everywhere and were in an offensive position, and the initiative on the battlefield was in their hands, so they had time to divide their troops and infiltrate.

As long as there are not many such soldiers and horses, it is possible to bypass the key defense areas of the Tang Army and enter the rear of the Tang Army.

It is precisely because he knows that there will not be many such soldiers and horses, so Zhang Huaishen will only let Zhang Daniu come out with 3,000 horses to solve the problem. However, to be honest, under the ferocious and non-stop Uighur offensive, Zhang Huaishen could not divide more troops.

"General, it's almost time to get there!" a scout monk said to Zhang Daniu as he hurried back from the front.

Zhang Daniu's eyes lit up, he nodded without moving, raised his arm and shouted: "Coming to the Wolf Smoke Valley, the whole army is on alert!"

He is also a soldier general, although this shout is not loud, but it also makes every soldier hear it clearly through the breath of cultivation.

The Wolf Smoke Valley is high and deep, which is very suitable for ambush, even if it is a monk, if you don't go deep into the forest, you can't see the situation inside. Otherwise, the grain transport team would not have been killed or wounded, and only one monk escaped to Liangzhou to report the news.

Zhang Daniu must be cautious.

"The brigade stopped in front of the valley mouth, and the scouts all went deep into the valley and mountains to see if they could find any traces of the other party!" Zhang Daniu said in a deep voice.

They came to chase and kill the Uighur cavalry, according to common sense, the other party would have run away without a trace by now, but Zhang Daniu was more cautious, his order was to first rule out the possibility that the other party was still in the Wolf Smoke Valley and had an ambush.

Unexpectedly, as soon as his order was spoken, he heard the ground rumbling, and behind the mountains and forests on both sides of the Wolf Smoke Valley, two groups of cavalry flowed out in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Daniu's expression sank: "Phalanx, prepare to meet the enemy!"

According to the previous monk's report, the Uighur cavalry that attacked the grain convoy numbered at most 2,000 men. Now that he has not stepped into the unfavorable terrain of the valley, the other party has killed him, which in Zhang Daniu's opinion, is simply sending him to death.

But as the Uighur cavalry gradually rushed out, it was revealed

On the whole, there was a gasp in the Guiyi army. The other party is not 2,000 people at all, not even more than 20,000 people!

"How can there be so many people?!" Zhang Daniu's heart shook.

Obviously, when the Uighurs attacked the grain convoy before, only some of them were dispatched, and the others were hidden, and they were basically hidden in the deep forest. But how did so many Uighur cavalry sneak into the rear?

If the Tang army's defense line was so porous that 20,000 or 30,000 Uighur cavalry could penetrate it, then the Tang army would have been defeated in the Battle of Liangzhou long ago, and it would definitely not have been supported until now.

In an instant, Zhang Daniu's face sank like water. As a backbone general of the Guiyi Army, he grew up in the army since he was a child, and his attainments in the art of war are not bad, and he thought of the answer in a blink of an eye.

That's the one that creeps him out, and it's the only answer.

These Uighur cavalry did not penetrate the Tang army's defense line from the front at all, but made a big circle and avoided the entire Liangzhou defense line! Zhang Daniu could even imagine that they had entered the northern steppe from the northwest and then southward from the north, a journey of thousands of miles.

Because it was impossible to go south, the entire Hexi was controlled by the Tang army.

The Uighurs had been unable to attack Liangzhou for a long time, and the pressure on military rations was increasing, and they had to find a way to break the situation. In this respect, the Tang army's strategy of luring them to Liangzhou was correct, and it also caused them great pressure and danger.

But no one thought that the Uighur cavalry would make a detour from the north, which was a large circle, and there were large areas of desert, and the distance was definitely not easy to walk, and they could reach the border of Liangzhou, and the place where they could pass through the brigade of men and horses was guarded by the city. The probability of their operation failing is extremely high.

And yet they came in after all.

It is conceivable that those border passes of the Great Wall in the north, which are far away from the frontal battlefield, will definitely not have a living person now.

Since the Uighur cavalry had such actions, their strength would definitely not be weak, and they would certainly be far more than 20,000 or 30,000 men, and their intentions would certainly not be small. What makes Zhang Daniu even more frightened is that since they have appeared, it means that a bigger action has begun!

It is possible that the cattle and sheep are snatched to replenish food, or it may be just to attract the attention of the Tang army, share the mobile forces of the Tang army, and cover up their real goals!

"Their target is either Lingzhou City or Liangzhou City!" Judging this, Zhang Daniu couldn't help but feel like ashes.

Lingzhou supported the Liangzhou defense line in the rear, and once Lingzhou fell, Liangzhou would fall into chaos, and if the Liangzhou defense line was attacked from both sides, the consequences would be even more needless to say.

"Quickly report the situation here to the general, and ask him to be prepared!" At the moment before the two armies took over, there were already a large number of Uighur monks who had been hidden in advance around them, and they were rapidly approaching, and Zhang Daniu recalled all the monks accompanying him, telling them to break through at any cost, and they must send the generals back.

"General, what are you going to do?" asked the monk eagerly.

Zhang Daniu's face was as pale as iron, "We can't escape, only by killing a few more enemies, can we reduce the pressure on the battle situation!"

After that, he lifted the lance and pointed forward, and the power of the soldiers' battle array burst out, and his eyes were scarlet as bloodshot and shouted: "The husband is loyal to his duty and serves the country, at this time!

"Kill!" the 3,000 Guiyi soldiers let out a roar in unison and rushed towards the boundless Uighur cavalry in front of them.

They were once alone, surrounded by strong enemies, and they still fought endlessly, generation after generation, guarding the last territory of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest frontier.

They have been glorious, beating all the alien races and reproducing the style of the Tang Dynasty that everyone is in awe and admiration, and they have also suffered heavy defeats, with only two states left in the eleven states, and more than half of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded. The soldiers saw their relatives and friends die in front of them one by one, but they could not do anything.

Today, they are still fighting, for the dynasty, for their families, and for themselves. Over the years, many things have changed, but the only thing that has not changed is their bloody and heroic nature that they never fear in the face of the enemy and dare to rush into battle at any time!

In just half an hour of fierce fighting, Zhang Daniu was already panting like a cow, and the guards beside him died batch after batch, and he was also covered in bruises.

The strength of his army had been exhausted, and although the Uighurs had paid far more than 3,000 men before that, he knew that their army would be wiped out today.

The war never ends, and there are no immortal soldiers.

Zhang Daniu didn't care about thinking about his ending, and in the midst of the bloody battle, he took the time to look back, wanting to see if the monks with the army had successfully broken through and brought the military back in time.

He was disappointed.

Behind the battle array, there were crow-like Uighur monks, like dark clouds, and their monks all fell in pools of blood in front of the dark clouds, and did not break a gap in the dark clouds.

No one succeeded in breaking through,

Military newspapers cannot be returned.

Zhang Daniu roared sadly and angrily, desolate and unwilling, full of despair.

This means that their sacrifice can only be in vain, and it will not have any meaning.

"Break through! Break through! Even if only one person survives, the general will send it back!" When Zhang Daniu roared, a large piece of blood burst out of his mouth, "The deputy general will lead people to break through, and the general will be broken!"

Without hesitation, the lieutenant led the men around a corner and fought their way into the cascade of Uighur warriors.

Seeing that they were about to break through the last layer of enemies, their own people were the first to die.

When the lieutenant fell off his horse, he stared at the front.

Detachment after group scattered to break through, but they were the first to be wiped out, and those who were lucky enough to break out of the Uighur army were also intercepted and killed by the monks on the periphery.

The Uighur cavalry had already surrounded them three layers inside and three layers outside, and there were still a large number of monks outside, so they had no chance of breaking through.

Of the three thousand, less than thirty percent were soon left.

When the exhausted Zhang Daniu was stabbed off his horse with a spear, he still refused to give his head to the head, and drew his horizontal knife and slashed at the rushing Uighurs.

He knew that his movements were already very slow, his strength was already very small, and this sword containing the last bit of aura might be able to kill an ordinary soldier, but it would definitely not be able to do anything with that Uighur general.

He will also be trampled on by the other party's horseshoe, and say goodbye to the part he is still fighting for.

However, a strange scene appeared, his sword swept out, and the Uighur general, who had killed countless people, burst into a large cloud of blood mist!

Not only the Uighur general, but also the well-cultivated Uighur cavalry beside him were also shattered!

Zhang Daniu was stunned.

His sword will never have such power, unless it is when his combat power is complete.

What's going on?

In the next moment, he understood.

Because the impregnable Uighur cavalry in front of them were like pinched eggs, and they died suddenly on the spot one after another. After they all fell, a soldier in black robe and iron armor appeared in his field of vision.

This is...... Wang Shi?!

An elite royal division that turns Uighur cavalry into corpses all over the ground!

They surged past Zhang Daniu on either side and struck at the panicked Uighur cavalry with unrivaled majesty.

Zhang Daniu pressed the knife and got up, almost crying with joy.

A young general, stopped his horse in front of Zhang Daniu, and after seeing his armor clearly, he rolled over and rolled off the saddle, clasped his fists and saluted: "The last general, Xu Jingzong, the commander of the Yulin Army, dare to ask what department the general belongs to?"

"Return to the righteous army, Zhang Zhixing!"

Zhang Daniu reported his real name, and he didn't have time to think about anything else, so he hurriedly said eagerly: "The Uighur cavalry made a detour from the back and went deep behind Liangzhou, there is only a small part here, there must be stronger forces, either to attack Lingzhou or to go to Liangzhou, and please General Xu immediately report the military situation!"

Xu Jingzong didn't move.

In Zhang Daniu's puzzled and urging gaze, he showed a relieved smile: "General Zhang don't worry, the day before yesterday, there were indeed 100,000 Uighur cavalry attacking Lingzhou, but they have been defeated by us in one fell swoop. ”

Zhang Daniu opened his mouth unexpectedly: "Hit ...... Defeated?"

Xu Jingzong said: "General Zhang doesn't know that the Youyun War has ended victoriously, and the Yulin army was ordered by King An to support Liangzhou through Yunzhou, Xiazhou, and Lingzhou, and happened to encounter the Uighur cavalry attacking Lingzhou, so it was naturally defeated by us with one blow!"

"We've won in the clouds......?!

"Yes, the battle of Liangzhou will be won soon. So, General Zhang didn't have to worry about anything anymore. ”

Zhang Daniu looked up to the sky and laughed three times, very happy.

Then he fainted in the pile of corpses.