Hanhai silently unfurls the flag, and the sunset over the long river is light.

The three-way army was drawn one after another, and then disappeared into the vast Gobi, and Xiong Chu was still a little worried in his heart.

The main army of Yarkand Khan assembled in the Northern Tianshan Mountains, preparing to fight to the death with the Dzungar tribe, but his brothers had to fight independently and disperse across thousands of miles, which can be said to be the first time to open the world.

Even if there is no powerful army to resist, just galloping all the way for more than 10,000 miles, there are countless unpredictable difficulties and obstacles.

"My lord, of course there are risks involved, but we can't afford not to do it. If we want to return to Kannai safely, we must fight this battle. After all, nearly 10,000 of us are active on other people's territory, which requires a huge supply of grain and grass, and we will definitely not be able to hold on without fighting. ”

Military advisor Wan Lian couldn't see much worry on his face: "Besides, once the army is activated, there will be no absolute insurance measures, and there will inevitably be risks." Fortunately, this time it was a war outside the borders, and even if the brothers behaved out of line, it would be forgivable, so I didn't emphasize the military order. ”

Prince Xiong was just worried about his brothers, and he didn't have any other thoughts: "Now that all the former military camps are out, only our Chinese army camp is left, what are the military advisors going to do next?"

Military Advisor Wan Lian's face suddenly became stern: "Lord, I didn't say it in front of the public yesterday, because I was afraid that Huo Lianshan and Xiong Kaishan would be worried, because the task of our Chinese army camp is even more difficult. ”

"If we want to return to the Guannai along the way, we have to take a vital place with the fastest movements, and we have to hold on until the three-way army returns. This place is the Star Gorge. ”

Xingxing Gorge is the only passage into Gansu and Su Prefectures, and belongs to a canyon in Xingxing Mountain, Yumai Xingxing Mountain, East Tianshan Mountain System, formerly known as Moikou. After crossing the Xingxing Gorge, continue to the east for 450 miles to Dunhuang. The northwest corner of Dunhuang is the Crescent Lake, which is the location of the lone wolf Mingyue Fort. ”

"If we want to win the Star Gorge quietly, and relieve the defensive pressure that follows, we have to take Hami ahead of schedule. Xingxing Gorge, 400 miles east of Hami. Therefore, after we take Hami, we must immediately march east to occupy the tactical position of Xingxing Gorge and wait for the return of the three-way army. ”

As soon as the military advisor Wan Lian said casually, the army would have to travel more than 1,700 miles.

The bear prince didn't know how difficult it was at first, but as soon as the army hit the road, he understood.

In order to ensure the suddenness of the launch of the campaign, the entire Chinese army battalion not only did not go south, but followed the mountains in the north all the way to the east, and the winding march route added up to more than 1,000 miles.

After crossing the Habu Mountains, the Chinese army camp stopped to rest, and half a month had passed.

"Chige, your Shooting Battalion will set out at once, cross the five hundred miles of Hanhai straight south, and occupy Lake Balikun in three days. Remember, be sure to clear out a suspicious person within a hundred miles of the neighborhood to ensure that our actions are not leaked. Then we had a short rest, and without waiting we accelerated to the southeast, and in two days we took Hami. ”

"Sima Cheng, your trapping camp and Chige's shooting battalion set off together. But instead of going to Lake Balikun, you should go to Talenaqin, three hundred miles east of Lake Balikun, and sweep away all the remnants of the enemy nearby. After clearing the periphery of the Star Gorge, assemble at the Star Gorge and stand by. ”

"Qiu Boming, your town camp set off after that, after Chige took Hami, your town camp immediately accelerated, went straight to the Star Gorge in the southeast, and looked for a commanding height to occupy it. ”

"Zhou Laosi, your scout camp will set off immediately, and you will have to hide your whereabouts along the way. Regardless of the operational situation in all aspects, after crossing the Xingxing Gorge, they launched reconnaissance on the front line of Dunhuang, Crescent Spring, and Jiayuguan. And then so and so, and without mistake. ”

During this time, the main thing was to cultivate horsepower, and Xiong Chu had nothing to do, so he took Lan'er, Yan Erniang, Huang Yanying, and Xia Yun, under the protection of the Chinese army guards of Mandali and Fang Qianxun, to the north mountain to see the scenery.

As everyone knows, it happened to be this day that the military advisor Wan Lian had already sent all the troops out of the Chinese army's big tent.

In the vicinity of the entire Chinese army's big tent, there were more than 720 people left in a women's battalion of Wanying and Mu Qing, and then there were more than 460 Chinese guards of Mandali and Fang Qianxun. There were more than 2,000 horses left, 360 camels, and then the necessary provisions.

When Xiong Chu returned to the big tent of the Chinese army at sunset, he saw the military advisor Wan Lian alone, and was immediately taken aback: "Military advisor, what are you doing, you are alone in the empty account, and you are not afraid of accidents?"

The military advisor Wan Lian smiled: "The lord frowns when he sees so many troops every day, so I sent them all out to make you out of sight." Now it's just us who are left to be Wranglers. ”

"From today onwards, one hundred and eight women of the Chinese Guards will take care of all the camels. The Shen Ji team of the Chinese Army Guard was in the front, the archers and hobs were in charge of protecting the left and right flanks, and the women's battalion was responsible for 2,400 horses to follow. ”

Here they began to make the final preparations, Xiong Kaishan had already fought two bloody battles along the way, defeating two large tribes.

Although they did not suffer any casualties, under the fierce battles, Xiong Kaishan and the others finally realized the madness of religious fanatics. As a result, he killed people softly, and in the end, he was exhausted.

As the residence and grazing land of the Huozhou Ministry, Gaochang City is also the seat of the highest authority. Although the newly built city is not as large as the original ancient city, it is still more troublesome to storm it.

Gaochang City has a long history and has been destroyed in wars countless times.

In 640, Hou Junji, the secretary of the Tang Dynasty, led his troops to conquer Gaochang City and unified Turpan. In this Xizhou, under the jurisdiction of Gaochang, Jiaohe, Liuzhong, Puchang, Tianshan five counties. And brought wine and winemaking technology back to Chang'an, which won high praise from Li Shimin.

So there is a "glow-in-the-dark cup of grape wine, and if you want to drink the pipa, you will urge immediately." Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, and the ancients fought a few people back. "Singing through the ages.

Xiong Kaishan and his brothers climbed a hill more than ten miles north of Gaochang City, only to find that the target they were going to attack was extraordinary.

On the periphery of Gaochang City, there are tents dotted one after another, occupying a radius of more than 20 miles, and a yellow-colored four-cornered spire building is clustered in the middle.

It was the first time they had seen such a strange building, and of course they didn't know that this was a church, and it was also the most sacred place in Gaochang City.

Xiong Kaishan figured out the basic situation of this tribe, and only then did he know that although the army here had left, there were still no less than 6,000 people gathered.

Xiong Kaishan divided the hussar battalion into ten squads, and then ate dry food twenty miles away while waiting for dark.

His combat objectives were only three: to destroy the main building, to kill the enemies involved in the attack on the lone wolf Bright Moon Castle, to snatch out the twenty camels he saw, to carry a batch of grain and grass, and to leave.

However, he did not fully estimate the severity of the matter, so a simple action turned into a shot and did not clean up.

At the second watch in the evening, Xiong Kaishan gave an order, and the horses of the ten squads of the hussar battalion trotted all the way, slowly approaching about three miles near the gathering place, and a group of more than 50 cavalry people collided head-on, and the battle began here.

"Leave it to me here, Fan Tao and Yasburu will lead the others to act according to the plan and launch a surprise attack from four directions!"

Xiong Kaishan had a double hammer in his hand, and Chrysanthemum had already rushed out of the queue, and with a loud roar in his mouth, the two hammers had already opened their bows left and right and smashed out.

One hundred and twenty people dealt with a patrol squad of more than fifty enemy people, and it was a surprise attack, plus Xiong Kaishan was brave, and there was no suspense in the battle.

Even if they fought in the dark, because the brothers had been fighting together for four years, the soldiers of the hussar battalion had already become very tacit, and the combat power of the three-person team was definitely not something that ordinary armies could resist.

Especially the head-on chain of three sticks streamlined by Xiong Chu, even ordinary Jianghu experts will be caught off guard, not to mention ordinary army soldiers.

After a frontal charge, the enemy's more than fifty people were still on horseback, and there were already less than ten.

After a few clicks, a fifty-man patrol of the enemy was wiped out without even making a splash.

At the same time, Fan Tao and Yasburu had already led a large army into the core area of Gaochang City.

These two guys didn't care whether these people should be killed or not, and they did exactly what they were told.

Fan Tao is an orphan selected after Miao Sanguan led people to take Qinglong Village, after he entered Qinglong Village, Pu Changnian was trained in strict accordance with the army, and he did not talk about conditions for carrying out orders.

Yasburu was originally a slave, a Mongolian Tumut tribe Sunit Gahamonoyan, who was given to Huolian Mountain's own soldiers and died, and he has always been a predator.

Fan Tao and Yasburu's subordinates are an iron-blooded death squad.

The meaning of the death squad is to take one's own life seriously.

People who don't take their own lives seriously are even less likely to take the lives of their enemies seriously, so killing people is as clean as chopping melons and vegetables.

This time to carry out a sweeping mission in the enemy's hinterland, there were only two orders in total:

The first is not to take prisoners, and the second is to burn a qiē.

And the key to burning Yiqiē today is to completely burn the building with the spire, because that is what cost a lot of money to build.

Everything that the enemy spends a lot of money on is the object of destruction as much as possible, so that the enemy will waste more money and manpower when rebuilding, so as to weaken the enemy's power.

This is one of the strategic objectives of war, and it is also one of the crimes of war that destroys civilization.

When Fan Tao and Yasburu led the people to burn down those tents, they did not encounter particularly great resistance.

But when the two centurians lit torches and rushed to the spire, something happened.

Thousands of old and weak women and children went crazy in an instant, broke through the temporary cordon set up by Fan Tao and Yasburu, and shouted and pounced on the white-roofed building, tearing and biting the soldiers who were about to burn down the building.

The brutality and consequences of war can be changed and escalated without limit.

If it's just to push the soldiers away, that's acceptable.

But those old and weak women and children rushed up and put the soldiers to death, which cannot be forgiven.

When the throats of the two soldiers were bitten off and their eyeballs were gouged out, the consequences that could or could not be imagined were already doomed.

When the church was on fire, there was no one left alive except the soldiers. Home to a settlement of 10,000 or 20,000 people, one of the most important fortresses on the Silk Road, the city of Gaochang was once again in ruins.

Xiong Kaishan was very angry.

He led a team of 100 people to hunt on the periphery all the time, just to prevent the enemy from rushing out to ventilate and report the news.

In one hour, he killed more than 600 people, all of whom were young and strong.

In order to be able to escape and report the news, these young men are completely fearless of death, and they follow one after another.

In any case, a rabble of rabble could not stop the army's attack, and in the end, none of them escaped the net.

However, when Xiong Kaishan led the team back, he heard Fan Tao's report: In the melee with those old and weak women and children, nineteen soldiers were killed, and he couldn't get angry.

Anger doesn't solve the problem, it's a lesson in blood.

Xiong Kaishan finally regained his strength, and shouted at Fan Tao: "What are you doing here?" Hurry up and order some of the brothers to scrub the horses, some of the brothers to kill all the livestock here, and the rest of the people use the fire to roast the dried meat, and set off in two hours!"

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