Liangzhou.
As the sun was setting, a group of rebel cavalry was galloping eastward in the wilderness. The cavalry captain of 3,000 people was armed with short crossbows and was well equipped. The elite of the battlefield.
The soldiers' faces were stern, and their temperaments were sharp, like sharp spears. Even if they didn't roar and fight, they still showed an extraordinary aura of iron and blood.
The leading general was in his thirties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a two-inch-long scar on his cheek, which spread obliquely from the bridge of his nose to the base of his ears, looking extremely horrifying.
He is Zhang Huaishen's nephew and the leader of this team. His real name is rarely mentioned, because his combat style is tough and he is good at fighting tough battles.
Elite soldiers and strong generals will leave the city, and naturally they will not be performing ordinary tasks.
At noon, Liangzhou received a military report that the grain transport team from Lingzhou was attacked, and the 500 soldiers who escorted the grain were killed and injured. Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and tens of thousands of stones of grain had fallen into the hands of the Uighur cavalry.
This batch of military rations was transported from Xiazhou via Lingzhou. In fact, this is a grain road that continuously transports grain and fodder. A few months ago, after the Spike Army defeated the party members, when the follow-up army took over the territory, they also brought an order to raise military rations for Hexi.
Liang, Ling, and Xia are all located in the north, and their eating habits are not much different. Mutton is the most popular among soldiers. Although the Dangxiang army is gone, the cattle and sheep are still there. It happens to replenish the army rations for Liangzhou nearby, so as not to have to transport them from Guanzhong.
The news of the attack on the grain road and the robbing of the army rations made Zhang Huaishen furious on the spot, and he immediately dispatched Zhang Daniu to lead the Guiyi army's fine cavalry.
The Northwest War has been fought until now, because the Liangzhou defense line is complete and tight, the Uighur army has never been able to capture the city, and the war has entered a stalemate. At this time, the importance of logistics supplies gradually became prominent, and their status rose steadily.
As a veteran general in the army, Zhang Daniu knew very well that what the two armies are now competing for is the ability to continue fighting.
For the Uighurs, they fought long distances, and Liangzhou was far away from the Western Regions, so it would definitely be more and more difficult to replenish food and fodder. As long as the Tang army's grain, grass, and military equipment can be continuously replenished, even if there is no reinforcements to join, it is very likely to win the war.
Unexpectedly, it was not the Uighur grain road that had problems first, but the Tang army grain transport team.
If you think about it carefully, this is actually very easy to understand. The Uyghurs had a large number of troops. Although they did not break through the Tang army's defense line, they had superior forces everywhere and were in an offensive position. The initiative on the battlefield was in their hands, and they had time to divide their troops to infiltrate.
As long as there are not many such soldiers and horses, it is possible to bypass the Tang Army's key defense areas and enter the Tang Army's rear.
It was precisely because he knew that there would not be many such soldiers and horses that Zhang Huaishen only asked Zhang Daniu to bring three thousand horses out to solve the problem. But to be honest, Zhang Huaishen couldn't allocate more troops when the Uyghur offensive was fierce and continued day and night.
"General, we are almost there!" A scout cultivator rushed back from the front and said to Zhang Daniu.
Zhang Daniu's eyes froze, he nodded without moving his expression, raised his arms and shouted: "We are about to reach the Valley of Wolf Smoke, the whole army is on alert!"
He is also a warrior of the military family, although this shout is not loud, but through the breath of his cultivation, every soldier can hear it clearly.
The forest of the Wolf Smoke Valley is high and deep, which is very suitable for setting up an ambush. Even a monk can't see clearly what's going on inside unless he goes deep into the forest. If not, the food transportation team would not have been killed or injured, and only one monk escaped to report to Liangzhou.
Zhang Daniu must be cautious.
"The brigade stopped in front of the valley entrance, and the scout monks went deep into the valley forest to see if they could find any traces of the opponent!" Zhang Daniu said in a deep voice.
They came to hunt down the Uyghur cavalry. According to common sense, the opponent had already disappeared without a trace, but Zhang Daniu was more cautious. His order was to rule out the possibility that the opponent was still in the Valley of Wolf Smoke and had an ambush.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he uttered his order, he heard the ground rumbling. Behind the mountains and forests on both sides of the Wolf Smoke Valley, two teams of cavalry came 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 number of Uighur cavalry attacking the grain transport team was only two thousand at most. Now that one's own side did not step into the unfavorable terrain of the valley, the opponent came out. In Zhang Daniu's view, this was simply sending him to death.
But as the Uighur cavalry gradually rushed out, revealing their overall appearance, there was a gasp in the Guiyi army. The opponent is not two thousand people at all, not even twenty thousand people!
"Why are there so many people?!" Zhang Daniu was shocked.
Obviously, when the Uyghurs attacked the food transport team before, only a part of the manpower was dispatched, and the others were hidden, and they were basically hidden in the deep forest. But how did so many Uighur cavalry sneak to the rear
If the loopholes in the Tang army's defense line were so large that 20,000 to 30,000 Uyghur cavalry could infiltrate, then the Tang army should have been defeated in the battle of Liangzhou long ago, and it would definitely not last until now.
In an instant, Zhang Daniu's face sank like water. As the backbone general of the Guiyi Army, he grew up in the army since he was a child. His military skills are not bad, and he thought of the answer in a blink of an eye.
That was the only answer that made his hair stand on end.
These Uighur cavalry did not infiltrate the Tang army's defense line from the front at all, but circled a big circle and avoided the entire Liangzhou defense line! Zhang Daniu could even imagine that they entered the northern grassland from the northwest, and then went south from the north, traveling thousands of miles.
Because it is impossible to go south, the entire Hexi is under the control of the Tang army.
The Uighurs have been attacking Liangzhou for a long time, and the pressure on military supplies is increasing. They have to find a way to break the situation. From this perspective, Tang Jun's strategy of luring them to Liangzhou was correct, and it also caused great pressure and danger to them.
But no one thought that the Uyghur cavalry would detour from the north. It was a big circle, and there was a large area of desert. guard. There is a high probability that their actions will fail.
Yet they came in after all.
It is conceivable that there will be absolutely no living people at the northern Great Wall border gates that are far away from the frontal battlefield.
Since the Uighur cavalry has such actions, their strength will definitely not be weak, and it must be far more than 20,000 to 30,000 people, and their plans must not be small. What made Zhang Daniu even more terrified was that since they showed up, it meant that a bigger action had already begun!
The robbing of cattle and sheep may be to supplement food, or it may be just to attract the attention of the Tang army, share the mobile force of the Tang army, and cover up their real goal!
"Their goal is not Lingzhou City, but Liangzhou City!" After judging this, Zhang Daniu couldn't help feeling ashamed.
Lingzhou supported Liangzhou's defense line in the rear. Once Lingzhou fell, Liangzhou would fall into chaos; and if Liangzhou's defense line was attacked by two sides, the consequences would be even more needless to say.
"Quickly report the situation here to the general, and ask him to prepare for it!" The moment before the two armies joined the battle, there were already a large number of Uighur monks who had hidden in the surrounding area, and they were approaching rapidly. If the price breaks through, the general must report it back.
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"General, what do you do?" the monk asked eagerly.
Zhang Daniu's face was iron, "We can't escape, the only way to reduce the pressure on the battle situation is to kill a few more enemies!"
After saying that, he raised the long spear, pointed forward, and the power of the military strategist burst out, his eyes were scarlet like blood, and he shouted: "The man will dedicate himself to his duty and serve the country, this is the time! Kill!"
"Kill!" The three thousand Guiyi Army soldiers roared in unison, and rushed towards the endless Uighur cavalry in front of them.
They used to hang alone outside the Great Wall, surrounded by powerful enemies, and they still fought endlessly. Generation after generation, they guarded the last piece of territory of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest frontier.
They were brilliant once, beating all the alien races and fleeing with their heads in their arms, recreating the style of the prosperous Tang Dynasty that everyone respected and looked up to; they also suffered a disastrous defeat, with only two states remaining in the land of eleven states, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed or injured. The soldiers saw relatives and friends dying in front of them one by one, but there was nothing they could do.
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 that they never fear the enemy, and dare to fight bravely at any time with blood and heroism!
In just half an hour of fierce fighting, Zhang Daniu was already out of breath, and batches of guards around him died, and he was also covered in cuts and bruises.
The power of his military formation has been exhausted. Although before that, the Uighurs paid a price of more than 3,000 people, but he knows that their army will definitely be wiped out today.
There is no end to the war, and there are no immortal soldiers.
Zhang Daniu didn't care about thinking about his own ending. During the bloody battle, he took time to look back, wanting to see if the monks accompanying the army had successfully broken through, and brought the general back in time.
He was disappointed.
Behind the battle formation, there were a flock of Uighur monks like black clouds, and their monks all fell in the pool of blood in front of the dark clouds, without breaking a gap in the dark clouds.
No one succeeded,
Military papers cannot be sent back.
Zhang Daniu roared in grief and indignation, desolate and unwilling, full of despair.
This means that their sacrifices can only be sacrifices in vain, without any meaning at all.
"Breakout! Breakout! Even if only one person survives, the general must report it back!" When Zhang Daniu roared, a large amount of blood gushed out of his mouth, "The deputy will lead people to break through, and I will die!"
Without any hesitation, the lieutenant led his men around a corner and entered the crowd of Uighur fighters.
Seeing that they were about to break through the last layer of enemies, their own people died first.
When the lieutenant fell off his horse, he stared straight ahead.
One team after another dispersed to break through, but they were the first to be annihilated. Those who were lucky enough to stand out from the Uyghur army were also intercepted and killed by the monks on the periphery.
The Uighur cavalry had already surrounded them with three layers inside and three layers outside, and there were still a large number of monks blocking them outside, so they would never have a chance to break through.
Three thousand people, and soon there were less than 30% left.
When Zhang Daniu, who was exhausted, was stabbed off his horse with a spear, he was still weak and still refused to give the head. He drew out his horizontal knife and swung at the rushing Uighur general.
He knew that his movements were already very slow and his strength was already very small. This knife with the last bit of spiritual energy might be able to kill a group of ordinary soldiers, but it would definitely not do anything to that Uighur general.
I will also be crushed by the opponent's horseshoe, and I will bid farewell to the parts I am still fighting.
However, a strange scene appeared, he swept out with this knife, and that Uighur general who had killed countless people exploded with a bang, turning into a cloud of blood mist!
Not only the Uighur general, but also the well-trained Uighur cavalry beside him were all torn apart!
Zhang Daniu was taken aback.
His knife will never have such power, unless it is when his combat power is at full strength.
How is this going
In the next moment, he understood.
Because the Uighur cavalrymen in front of them, who were like iron walls, died suddenly one after another on the spot like eggs that had been squeezed and exploded. After they all fell down, a soldier in black robe and iron armor appeared in his field of vision.
This is... Master Wang? !
An elite royal division that turned the Uighur cavalry into corpses all over the ground!
They surged past both sides of Zhang Daniu, and charged at the panicked Uighur cavalry with incomparable majesty.
Zhang Daniu pressed his saber and stood up, almost weeping with joy.
A young general stopped his horse in front of Zhang Daniu. After seeing his armor clearly, he turned over and rolled off the saddle, and bowed his fists: "The last general, Commander of the Yulin Army, Xu Jingzong, may I ask which department the general belongs to?"
"Guiyi Army, Zhang Zhixing!"
Zhang Daniu reported his real name, and before he had time to think about anything else, he hurriedly said: "The Uyghur cavalry detoured from the back and went deep into the back of Liangzhou in a big way. The ones here are only a small part. There must be stronger forces, either to attack Lingzhou or I'm going to Liangzhou, and I ask General Xu to report the military situation immediately!"
Xu Jingzong did not move.
Under Zhang Daniu's perplexed and urging eyes, he showed a relieved smile: "General Zhang, don't worry, there were indeed 100,000 Uyghur cavalry attacking Lingzhou the day before yesterday, but they were defeated by us in one fell swoop."
Zhang Daniu opened his mouth wide unexpectedly: "Smash... crushed?"
Xu Jingzong said: "General Zhang does not know that the Youyun War has ended victoriously. The Habayashi Army followed the order of King An to support Liangzhou via Yunzhou, Xiazhou, and Lingzhou. It happened that the Uighur cavalry attacked Lingzhou. We're knocked out!"
"We won in Youyun?! Doesn't that mean..."
"That's right, the battle of Liangzhou will be won soon. So, General Zhang doesn't need to worry about anything."
Zhang Daniu looked up to the sky and laughed three times, extremely carefree.
Then he fainted from exhaustion in the pile of corpses.