February of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Dunhuang, Crescent Spring, Mingyue Fort.

It has been eight months since the former army battalion of Huolian Mountain attacked in three directions in July last year, and it has not rushed to the front line of Yumen Pass to join the Chinese army battalion, which is beyond the time planned for the campaign.

At first, Xiong Chu was worried day and night, but now the military advisor Wan Lian also didn't understand what was going on, so he was naturally also worried.

An army of more than 5,000 people is gone, and no one can be indifferent and peaceful.

Fortunately, the weather was not bad during this time, although it was very dry and cold, but the sky was clear and the view was wide.

So Yan Erniang and Lan'er put on thick mink coats and rode the golden eagle to the west every day at noon.

But after the golden eagle took a person, it could only fly as far as 300 miles, and as a result, it didn't find anything for half a month.

It turned out that Xiong Chu and Wan Lian followed the predetermined plan, commanding the Chinese army battalion to take Hami and Xingxingxia successively, and wiped out a thousand-person team of the Huozhou Department and the Shanshan Department, and then went south to Guazhou.

Immediately afterwards, under the guidance of Mo Dongnian, after a surprise attack by three people and horses in the middle of the night, they destroyed a guerrilla battalion of more than 700 people in the Yarkand Department, recaptured Mingyue Fort, and occupied the area of Mogao Grottoes and Crescent Spring in Dunhuang.

In three consecutive battles, more than 3,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 29,000 cattle were captured, and more than 600 lone wolf remnants were rescued again.

It has been four months since more than 3,000 people from the Chinese army battalion came to Mingyue Fort, but Huolian Mountain and they still haven't come to meet.

According to the original plan, it was supposed to cross the Great Wall before the arrival of winter, find a hidden place in the Guannai to spend the winter, and at the same time learn about the various changes in the interior during the past four years.

But because Huo Lianshan didn't return on time, all their plans were in vain.

waited until the beginning of March of the following year, Yan Erniang and Lan'er finally brought back good news: "The large army is back, it should not be a big loss, there are still more than two hundred miles away from the first line of Yumen Pass, and they can rush to Guazhou in three days." ”

In fact, Huo Lianshan can't be blamed for this, the problem lies with the Xiao cavalry battalion commanded by Liu Guozhi.

According to the battle plan, the first combat goal of Liu Guozhi's Xiaocai Battalion was to launch an attack at the same time as Xiong Kaishan, break through the Shanshan Division, and then move south to capture Loulan City and Kasi Lake.

However, the whole battle plan ignored a big problem, that is, the Shanshan Department belonged to the general rear of the Hami region in the east, so Abdullah, the king of the Tu Domain, ordered the main force of the Shanshan Department to ride 3,000 fine horses at home and not move.

As a result, after Liu Guozhi raided the location of Shanshanbu and annihilated more than 800 troops, he encountered two blockades on the way south, each of which was a head-on bloody battle.

Fortunately, the cavalry battalion is all iron spears, which have an advantage in weapons and formation combinations, and the Uzhumuqin horse has stronger endurance and is not afraid of continuous combat.

After two months of entanglement between the enemy and us, in the end, Liu Guozhi simply wore out the 3,000 elite horsemen of the Shanshan Department, and he only lost more than 100 people.

Liu Guozhi used more than 1,200 people to kill the 3,000 elite horsemen of the Shanshan Department, which is not a miracle, it doesn't matter.

The key is that the last battle was fought and the enemy's main commander was captured: the murderer of the lone wolf, the brother of Abdullah, the king of Tuva, Suritan.

caught Su Litang, this matter did not attract Liu Guozhi's special attention, but he ordered his subordinates to tie them up and take them away, and when the time came, he would cut off his head to pay tribute to the lone wolf.

Without the entanglement of the enemy, Liu Guozhi continued to go south to seize Loulan City and Kasi Lake, preparing to welcome Xiong Kaishan and Huolian Mountain to the east.

Huo Lianshan and Xiong Kaishan rushed east from Bosten Lake to make peace, and it was already two months later, and the guard camp that had been left in Khotan to plunder also rushed back.

According to the original plan, the entire former army camp rested at Kasi Lake for a month, and returned to Yumen Pass after recovering its horsepower.

But at this time, Abdullah, the king of Tufan, led the main army of 20,000 people to return to Gaochang City from the Tianshan Mountains, and then saw that all his tribes were in ruins, and not a single living person or animal was seen.

The remnants of the fleeing army reported that Abdullah had been defeated by his brother Suritang and that he had been captured by the enemy.

Huo Lianshan and they finished their rest and began to return eastward, but before they had gone three hundred miles, Abdullah's vanguard had already arrived.

This time it became an old routine again, Huo Lianshan, Xiong Kaishan, and Liu Zhiguo, according to the explanation of the military advisor Wan Lian, began to lead their troops to set up ambushes in turn, alternately covering the retreat. This way down, you can't go fast.

There were more than 20,000 people chasing after them, and after fighting for three months in a row, Huo Lianshan and they could be regarded as getting rid of the enemy's pursuit, and they lost more than 1,000 troops before and after, which was equivalent to a quarter less than the large battalion of the former army, which was equivalent to removing the establishment of a battalion.

When Xiong Chu saw the army of dusty soldiers, he didn't know what to say for a while, and he turned it upside down with four words: "It's good to come back!

The former army battalion was exhausted and suffered heavy losses, and now the large army can't leave if they want to, so they can only continue to rest in Mingyue Fort.

Fortunately, the remnants of the lone wolf heard that they had captured the enemy Su Litang, and a breath of resentment in their hearts finally emanated. The remnants of the lone wolf who returned before and after more than 900 people, all of whom joined the former army camp of Huolian Mountain, could be regarded as barely replenishing the establishment.

The large army has returned, and the attention of the military advisor Wan Lian has returned to the practical problem: how can so many people and materials be brought into the pass in concealment?

"My lord, there are two paths to go now, but they are both very difficult. Seeing Xiong Chu coming to ask, the military advisor Wan Lian pointed to a map and said: "You can turn over the Qilian Mountain in the south of the country, cross the Yellow River from Helan Pass to Liupan Mountain, and then go south to the Qinling Mountains." You can also take the north of Jiayuguan to fly across the Great Wall and enter the Yansui line in the Hetao area. ”

Xiong Chu was a little worried about these two lines, so he still had a glimmer of hope: "Qi Lianshan, I have talked with those subordinates of Big Brother Lone Wolf in the past few days, and this road is really not easy to walk. As for flying over the Great Wall in the north, I'm afraid it's not easy to walk. Going directly from Jiayuguan, isn't there any hope at all?"

Wan Lian nodded: "Hope is naturally there, and it's still big." However, this requires the lord to make a decision, starting today, we will officially declare war on the imperial court, and the first battle is to capture Jiayuguan. ”

"The scout battalion has sent back the news that the defenders of Jiayuguan are a guerrilla general Qi Dazhu, with a thousand-strong team under his command, one hundred and twenty-four tiger squat cannons, and six Hongyi cannons. There were 480 rope-haired birds, and 240 people from the five thunder gods. ”

"Although the Great Wall can stop the army, it can't stop the roosters and dog thieves in the scout camp, so they have already explored the north and south sections of Jiayuguan. You can sneak over, or you can force your way in. ”

"If you forcibly break through the pass, it will definitely alarm the armies of Gansu and Suzhou, and then you will have to fight head-on. If you want to survive, you must first lay a foothold in Chang'an. Then seize Tongguan and occupy Luoyang, so as to dominate the world. ”

"This is not appropriate!" Xiong Chu hurriedly denied Wan Lian's increasingly excited battle plan: "This is too rushed, I don't want to dominate the world." Let's talk about how to get into the customs quietly, which I prefer. ”

Military advisor Wan Lian smiled slightly: "That's okay, we can do it by killing one of them and reoccupying Hami, and I have already prepared, so don't worry about this matter." In order to attract the attention of the imperial court, the lord had to take on an important task. ”

When Xiong Chu heard that he first had a task, he immediately became interested: "Tell me, what should I do next?"

Military advisor Wan Lian stretched out his hand and clicked on the map: "It's very simple, I concentrated the large troops on the Dunhuang line, and as long as the guerrilla general Qi Dazhu in Jiayuguan is not a fool, he should already know the news, so the attention of the officers and soldiers should be focused on this place." ”

"In order to cover the movement of the army, the lord needs to lead a small army to enter Jiayuguan in advance, reveal his identity, achieve the purpose of distracting the attention of the officers and soldiers, and create conditions for the operation of the army on my side. In the future, the place of convergence is temporarily set on the line of Liangzhou Wei (now Wuwei). ”

However, things often turn out unexpectedly, and plans don't change as quickly.

Qiu Boming, the commander of the town military battalion, suddenly came in and reported: "Lord Qiqi, military division, the shooting battalion went out to reconnoiter today, and actually encountered the enemy eighty miles west of Yumen Pass. After half a day's maneuvering, all the enemy's hundred-man squad was shot dead. But they rescued a woman, who is currently being rescued in the women's barracks. ”

It turned out that because the former army battalion needed to be restored and the more than 900 new recruits needed to be trained, the patrol task of the first line of Dunhuang was handed over to the battalion of the Chinese army battalion Chige and Sima Cheng's trapping camp.

Xiong Chu was a little strange: "What's the fuss about rescuing a woman, and asking you to come and report it in person?"

Qiu Boming smiled: "This woman is only in her twenties, she looks like a flower, and she is not an outsider." And Miss Lan'er and Yan Erniang judged that this woman must be a martial arts master. It's a pity that I'm unconscious, I don't know why. ”

As the saying goes: blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

At noon the next day, before the women's battalion could figure out what was going on with the woman she had rescued, Li Qing from the scout battalion suddenly broke into the Chinese military tent with a sweat on his head: "Master, military advisor: When our scout battalion was exploring the passage the size of Qilian Mountain, we found a strange thing!"

"What's the hurry?" Prince Xiong was very dissatisfied with his disciple: "How many years have you been here, and you are still so frizzy." Qilian Mountain, what? You came back from Qilian Mountain? Tell me, what's weird?"

Li Qing saw that the master was more anxious than himself, and immediately smiled: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just very strange." There is a small village on the Heifeng Ridge of Qilian Mountain, and there are more than 20 households, all of which are farming families who hunt and collect medicine. We had a good relationship with them in the scout camp, and we brought them some things along the way. ”

"Five days ago, when I was returning with a small team, I passed by Black Wind Ridge and wanted to stop by to see an old friend and ask for a hot cup of tea. As everyone knows, more than 70 people in the village were all killed. Because I found some strange clues, I flew back and asked Master and Strategist to judge what was going on. ”

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