The grim situation made everyone's expressions cold, and after a while, Xing Tiancai said worriedly: "Eight hundred miles of Hanhai, we have passed most of it, but the remaining three hundred miles are killing step by step. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info horses should not travel long distances in the desert, and they should not be ridden all the time when traveling, otherwise not only will the horsepower be poor during the battle, but the horses may even be exhausted to death. The soldiers were equally exhausted, and if they continued to toss around the clock, even the most courageous warriors would collapse. Guo Jia said: "I know, the problem is, we don't have a choice now!"

He paced in the tent for a while, and said in a deep voice: "It's my underestimation, this road is eight hundred miles of Hanhai, and it is difficult for a single inch of grass to grow, I never expected that such a powerful enemy would appear! It is impossible for a powerful armed force to appear here, and it is even more difficult to determine our position in this eight-hundred-mile Hanhai, but now these impossibilities have become possible!"

He slowly asserted: "Our itinerary is exposed!"

When he said this, everyone's faces became ugly, Guo Jia sighed and said, "Okay, it's useless to know this, the top priority is how to get out of the predicament." ”

Wei Yan thought for a while and said, "My lord, do you want to send light horsemen on the road, rush to Aksu first, and ask the king of Aksu to raise a large army to meet your lordship?" Guo Jia said: "Seeing the enemy's meticulous actions, this point has long been thought of by them, if we send a small group of men, I'm afraid we won't be able to reach Aksu at all!" Wei Yan was anxious: "Since we can't find reinforcements, and now we are being watched by a strong enemy, can we just do nothing, wait for the soldiers and horses to be weak, and the strong enemy will not be able to attack?"

Guo Jia said in a deep voice: "There is no victorious general in the world, you have to plan for the worst! General Xing, you are most familiar with the desert wall, now, I will hand over the power of commanding the whole army to you, including me, everything will be arranged by you!"

This is Guo Jia's cleverness; he is clever, not because he has exhausted all his strategies, and he is proficient in the art of war without a teacher, and he is familiar with the characteristics of operations in various terrain environments, but he can use people and give full play to the ability of his generals; he is not a person who can generalize, but he can general! What he has is: strategy.

The geography of the Western Regions, with the desert walls in the majority, and the northern grassland is different, the northern grassland is covered with snow everywhere in winter, and here often passes through the barren land that does not even snow, the environment is a hundred times worse than the north, here, even Wei Yan is considered a layman, only Xing Tian is familiar with everything and understands everything.

Xing Tian was a little surprised when he heard Guo Jia's order, he didn't expect to be able to give him such trust, this was to hand over his net worth and life. Xing Tian was both frightened and excited, he wanted to give in, but Guo Jia said in an unquestionable tone: "Don't shirk it! Here, if you can't command well, we can't do it even more!"

General Xing, you just have to let it go, no matter what arrangements you have, I will give it my full support! The current situation is very dangerous, and a strong enemy will launch a deadly attack on us at any time, and I have asked you to take over the overall command, not that you must solve this problem, but that it will be difficult for the strongman. No matter success or failure, no matter life or death, do your best and obey the destiny of heaven!"

"I ...... I...... The last will obey!"

Xing Tian was agitated and solemnly gave a military salute to Guo Jia.

Xing Tian hurried to the baggage camp and circled around the camels.

The 2,000-strong army crossed the 800-li Hanhai, and the people were fed by horses and horses, and a lot of food and water were needed, so hundreds of camels were prepared in the baggage camp, and almost half of the camels that could be requisitioned in Dunhuang were brought. Camels have a strong load-bearing capacity and are suitable for activities in areas such as the desert wall, which is the best means of transportation, and if it were not for the fact that most of the soldiers were not accustomed to riding camels, and there were not enough camels, he suggested that the soldiers should change to riding camels when they set out, so that they would not have to carry so much baggage.

Xing Tian arrived at the baggage camp, around the camels, the camel team does not need a rider for each camel, as long as a person is asked to ride the camel, and then connect the reins together, you can lead a long line of camels to travel, so there are not many people who take care of the camels, Xing Tian found them all, and carefully asked which camels have a bad appetite, do not like to eat grass, and even do not eat or drink, rumination stops, always stand on the high ground to the wind, especially some foaming at the mouth, constantly grinding their teeth, and the smell on the tail is particularly strong, The more unpleasant smelling male camels were all picked out by him.

Wei Yan looked at his strange actions, a little puzzled, and stepped forward to ask, "General Xing, what are you doing here?"

Xing Tian said in a low voice: "We can't grasp the enemy's movements, so we can only wait for the enemy to take the initiative to attack, when they attack with all their might, it is the best time for us to break through, I will pick some camels out as a ride for everyone, as a last resort, we must always do our best to ensure the safety of adults!"

Wei Yan was dumbfounded and said, "This ...... These camels that refuse to graze and foam at the mouth are the ones you chose to ride? Camels are so slow that they can ride them to break through?"

Xing Tian glanced at him and snorted: "What do you know, camels usually walk slowly, but they really run, in this desert wall, faster than horses! These camels I picked out are all male camels in estrus, and the camels at this time run twice or even twice as fast as usual!"

Xing Tian looked at the thirty or forty camels that he picked out, and said in a deep voice: "Whether or not the adults can break through depends on our sworn fight, luck, and ...... These camels in heat!"

The enemy, who had been hiding behind, finally attacked at dawn the next day.

I don't know when the enemy will come, the Xiliang army has been in battle for a night. Rushing back and forth, fierce battles are fierce. Guo Jia flashed his eyes and looked at the entire battlefield. The location of the battlefield was Guo Jia's camp, the enemy launched an attack at dawn, and after most of the fierce battle, after paying heavy sacrifices, they broke through the defense line of the Xiliang army, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat. Now even Guo Jia's side has begun to appear on the enemy's side, and the situation is precarious. There were three thousand enemies, nearly twice as many as they were. The Xiliang Army, which was already physically and mentally exhausted, had such a big gap in numbers that it was gradually unable to parry.

Guo Jia found that the other party's mixed army was not inferior to his two thousand elite cavalry in terms of riding and archery, and it was obviously the elite selected from the elite. In the entire Western Regions, who has the ability to select a full 3,000 first-class knights from an elite division, and they are of all kinds of races? The answer is already coming out: Timur! The question is, how could Timur have such an accurate grasp of his itinerary, route, and time? If the other party's intelligence work is so meticulous and solid, and has such an efficient transmission speed, I am afraid that this great collision of the strongest armed forces between the East and the West, I am afraid that the Yuan Empire will have to pay heavy sacrifices. Of course, this is just a flash of thought in Guo Jia's heart, and the top priority is to break out. Guo Jiayou looked around and found a weak point of the enemy's army: the southwest. The Southwest Army is in the direction of the baggage battalion, some baggage grain and grass in that direction are on fire, and the soldiers on both sides are fighting the least, Guo Jia's eyes lit up, he drew his sword out of the sheath, and shouted: "General Wei, fight quickly!" "Southwest, kill out!" Guo Jia gave an order, Wei Yan led hundreds of dead soldiers to respond in unison, and even men and horses were like surging waves, killing generals in the direction he pointed.

Guo Jia had already had a conflict with Xing Tian because of the breakout, according to Guo Jia's meaning, he asked Wei Yan to lead a team of men and horses to break through the siege, waiting for an opportunity to move troops to the king of Aksu, and he and the team together, and fought and retreated, attracting the enemy army.

But Xing Tian opposed this plan, if possible, he wanted to personally escort Guo Jia away, but the problem was that the enemy was so cunning, and the strength displayed by silently killing five hundred elite horsemen was even more amazing, and the entire brigade was like a torch in the night, there was no way to escape, not to mention anything else, just the road that thousands of troops and horses had trampled, as long as there was even a trace left, it was enough for the experienced desert people to always catch up like maggots attached to the bones.

However, the traces of a small group of men and horses walking are easily wiped out by the wind and sand, and at the same time, they are more mobile and flexible, so under such special battlefield conditions, the breakthrough of small groups of troops is actually the least noticeable. Wei Yan also did not agree with Guo Jia to stay, insisting on protecting him to leave while the war was raging, Xing Tian said even more clearly: "My lord, the other party's goal is you, as long as you leave, we can scatter and flee for our lives, and then gather in Aksu, if you don't leave, then we will not live and die together, but abandon life and die together!"

This was very serious, and Guo Jia also knew that what he said was reasonable, so he had no choice but to agree.

Xing Tian arranged for the five-way people to break through, in order to seek the effect of doubtful soldiers, these five-way breakthrough people, as much as possible with food and some ordinary shepherd's clothes, in order to keep out the cold, some soldiers are in addition to the military uniform with civilian clothes, so it is not difficult to do this, the main characters in the five roads are equipped with male camels in estrus.

Although the other party cleaned the battlefield as much as possible, and even took away all the corpses and horses, in case the Ming army deduced their approximate numbers and weapons from the situation of the deceased and the wounds on their bodies, so as to make a more accurate estimate of them, but no matter how clean the cleaning was, the traces could not be completely wiped out.

At that time, careful spies had already found that there were camel footprints at the scene, but they had carefully cleaned the battlefield, and when they retreated, they dragged the captured war horses to the end with the corpses, and the traces were completely destroyed, and the number of camels could not be estimated, but since they knew the purpose of the other party, they could deduce the body of the other party's soldiers, and the soldiers must have used military camels, and military camels were to gelding off camel eggs.

** It's a man's engine, and it's the same for a male camel. However, although the running speed of the male camel in estrus will be doubled to two times, but as an army, coordination and cooperation is the most important, it is impossible to raise a male camel without gelding, otherwise the war, these camels are walking like flying, those camels are far behind, suddenly see the female camel, and live and die, even jumping to lift the master down, this battle does not need to fight, they will be messed up first.

The camels in Xingtian's army are not used to make military camels, but livestock raised by herdsmen, requisitioned for the purpose of carrying goods, so that once they can break out of the encirclement, it is the key to get rid of the pursuing soldiers, in this kind of terrain, horses run not as fast as camels, even if you have camels, but I am twice as fast as you, and the hope of escape will be greatly increased.

At the moment, Xing Tian led the Xiliang Jing cavalry, fighting to the death with the enemy, the two sides were entangled, the formation was scattered, the opportunity was in front of him, this was the opportunity that the soldiers fought for him with their lives, Guo Jia dared to delay the fighter, and with an order, Wei Yan took the lead and rushed to the southwest corner, followed by Guo Jia and a group of others.

Five groups of men and horses acted at the same time and broke through in five directions.

Every group of centaurs was shouting: "Protect the adults and break through!"