Two Uighur soldiers were arguing vigorously when Guo Song flew over and fired his bow with his left and right palms at the same time, hitting the two men's necks. They fell limply without saying a word.
Before the third person could react, Guo Song grabbed his hands and hit him with an elbow hammer until he fainted from the pain. Then he kicked the fourth person to the side, hitting his left chest and several of his bones.
His ribs were suddenly broken, he fainted on the spot, and his body flew out, hitting the fifth person hard, and they fell into the corner together.
The fifth person was about to shout when he felt pain in his neck and completely lost consciousness.
When the rabbit was up and the falcon was about to fall, Guo Song, who was like a leopard, knocked down all five sentries. He then pulled out a soldier's knife and threw it towards the lantern.
The lantern went out in response. Guo Chongqing, who was thirty steps away, jumped up and rushed to the wooden pier with forty soldiers, moving them all away.
The extinguishing of the lantern was the signal. Li Ji, who was 300 steps away, gave an order, and more than 200 Tang army soldiers mobilized at the same time, urging their horses to run towards the exit of the valley. The wooden pier had been removed, and Guo Chongqing led the soldiers to get on their horses one after another.
Li Ji looked over his head anxiously, and saw a huge black shadow flying down from the sky, landing right next to the Fire Dragon King, and he lightly turned on his horse.
"Walk!"
Guo Song gave an order, and the soldiers sped up and rushed out of the valley mouth, towards the vast mountainous grassland, and soon disappeared into the darkness.
It was not until half an hour later that the awakened soldiers sounded the alarm. The Uighur soldiers ran out one after another. The first thousand households were confused. The wooden piers had been removed. There were dense horse hoof prints on the ground. Apparently hundreds of cavalry had passed by.
, but none of his soldiers died, they all fainted. What's going on?
He couldn't figure out the reason, but he rushed to the camp in time and reported the situation to the general. What happened on the Wusun Ancient Road was reported level by level.
At this time, Guo Song led the cavalry to a hundred miles away
The Central Plains Dynasty's management of Beiting far exceeded that of Anxi. During the Sui Dynasty, Yizhou was established. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin sent General Hou Junji to lead his army to Beiting and established the Beiting Protectorate, which directly governed Yizhou and Xi'an.
He controlled the three states of Ting and the nine Turkic surnames west of Beiting, and established three armies, Han Haijun, Yiwu Army and Tianshan Army, with a total of more than 20,000 people.
The Anshi Rebellion forced the Tang Dynasty to also transfer the main force of the Beiting Army back to Chang'an. There were only a few thousand defenders left in Beiting. The Uighurs took the opportunity to annex the governor's offices of many small countries controlled by Beiting, and secretly supported the Shatuo people to occupy the three states of Beiting.
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The Uighur people's attitude towards the Tang Dynasty is relatively complicated. On the one hand, they have a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty. During the Anshi Rebellion, they sent troops to help the Tang Dynasty suppress the rebels.
On the other hand, it continued to rob the interests of the Tang Dynasty. Needless to say, it plundered the women and property of the Tang Dynasty in Luoyang and Chang'an. It also continued to devour the geographical interests of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, supporting Shatuo to invade the Hexi Corridor.
But when Tubo attacked Anxi and Beiting, the Uighurs supported the Tang army in Anxi and Beiting to resist the Tubo invasion. The reason why the Tang army still existed in Beiting was largely because the Uighurs deliberately left the Tang army to contain the Shatuo people and prevent the Shatuo people.
The Tuo people sit tall, which can also help it resist the Tibetan invasion of Beiting.
The behavior of the Uighurs seems contradictory, but it is not. The fundamental reason is for their own interests. After they completely defeat the Tubo west of Congling, they will turn around and destroy the Tang army and the Shatuo people, and destroy Beiting and the Hexi Corridor.
Completely included.
Two days later, the Tang army entered Tingzhou and began to enter the Shatuo people's sphere of influence. If Beiting is a vast area and the Uighur troops are limited, it is impossible to fortify everywhere, allowing the Tang army to pass through the undefended area of the Uighur people without being discovered.
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However, the Shatuo people's military deployment in Tingzhou was very strict. Almost all checkpoints and important passes were guarded by Shatuo soldiers. Fierce fighting to break through the checkpoints was inevitable.
That morning, Guo Song led the Tang army to the north along Baiyang River. Suddenly, a low horn sounded from the mountains on the side.
Only then did the soldiers of the Tang Army discover that there was a beacon hidden on the side of the mountain a few hundred meters away. The color of the outside of the beacon was exactly the same as the mountain. It was difficult to see. They were discovered by the sentries on the beacon. Then the beacon lit three pillars of smoke, and the black wolves
The dung smoke shot straight into the sky, warning the front of the enemy that enemy troops were coming.
Guo Song also knew that they would be discovered sooner or later, so he was calm and immediately ordered in a deep voice: "Speed up and break through the barrier!"
The soldiers galloped towards the stone bridge more than twenty miles away.
After the spring floods, the Baiyang River flowed rapidly and the river was very deep. It was difficult for the cavalry to cross the river. In this case, they could only use the bridge.
Baiyang Bridge is a stone bridge built by the Tang Army in the first year of Tianbao. It is the only way to go to Tingzhou on the northern route of the Silk Road. Of course, if it is the dry season in autumn and winter, you can go directly through the river bed without crossing the bridge.
Baiyang Bridge is also a checkpoint, and there are more than 200 Shatuo soldiers stationed there. The centurion of Shatuo Army has already seen the smoke in the distance. He hurriedly ordered the soldiers to get on the bridge, bows and arrows ready, and they were ready.
Not long after, yellow dust was billowing in the distance, and a cavalry was rushing towards this direction. The centurion shouted: "The enemy is coming, listen to my order and fire arrows!"
The cavalry of the Tang Army stopped advancing when they were about 150 steps away from the bridge. The weapons of the Shatuo Army came from the Uighurs. The Uighurs were good at making swords, but their bow-making skills were not. The bows they made were worse than the composite bows of the Tang Army.
The shooting range is generally only eighty or ninety steps, but the Tang army's stone horn bow has a killing range of one hundred and twenty steps.
The gap of thirty steps was enough to affect the situation of the battle. Li Ji gave the order, and the Tang army's cavalry galloped forward twenty or thirty steps, drawing their bows and shooting at the enemy troops on the bridge while running.
The arrows were like a rain of arrows, and Shatuo soldiers were hit by arrows one after another. They screamed and fell from the bridge into the river. One round of arrows killed more than 20 people. The Shatuo people also fired arrows, but their arrows were far away from the Tang army.
There was still some distance before he landed.
The centurion shouted anxiously, "Squat down and wait for the enemy to get close before shooting!"
At this time, Guo Song took the lead and ran diagonally across the bridge. When he ran across the bridge, he shot an arrow. The arrow went straight to the centurion. Guo Song's archery skills were much more mature than when he was in Lingzhou, showing that he was capable
Predicting that the arrow was going faster, the centurion hurriedly dodged, but the arrow was accurately calculated in the direction of his dodgment, and it was in front of him in an instant, 'Poof!' The arrow shot from the center of the eyebrow, straight through the head, and the tip of the arrow penetrated from the back of the head.
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The centurion died tragically on the spot, but the rest of the cavalry followed Guo Song and shot arrows like a stream of arrows from the bridge head towards the Shatuo soldiers. More than 20 Shatuo soldiers were killed again.
The remaining Shatuo soldiers were frightened, turned around, rushed off the bridge, and fled eastward.
Guo Song led the Tang army to the stone bridge and speeded up their horses to cross the Baiyang River.
Although the Tang army seized the opportunity and rushed three checkpoints, their whereabouts and strength were completely exposed. Zhu Xiejinhai, the chief general of the Shatuo Army stationed in Tingzhou, personally led five thousand cavalry to encircle and suppress this group of two to three hundred people.
Tang army cavalry.
Five thousand Shatuo cavalry were deployed in the Zhangbao Shouchu area in the west of Luntai County. They were divided into five thousand-man cavalry teams and deployed on a 20-mile-wide grassland. To the south was Tanhan Mountain in the Tianshan Division. The Tang Army
There was no way to go. Unless the Tang army went north and took a detour through the desert, they would inevitably encounter one of the cavalry.
As long as they encounter one of the cavalry teams, the other four thousand-man cavalry teams will quickly encircle and annihilate the entire Tang army.
The Eagle Attack Army led by Guo Song was stationed on the east bank of the Jianhe River. He looked up at the Mengzi in the sky. The Mengzi arrived at Beiting before them. It only took one day to fly over the Tianshan Mountains and stayed in Beiting for seven or eight days before finding Guo Song.
Song and his party.
Li Ji was also observing Mengzi, and saw Mengzi hovering twenty miles away, flying from north to south, but he could not understand the meaning of Mengzi's flying like this.
"Chang Shi, Mengzi, what does this mean?"
Guo Song said in a deep voice: "I asked it to find where the enemy troops are? It told me that the enemy troops are twenty miles away, and they are all enemy troops from north to south."
Li Ji was startled, "Such a deployment would require at least tens of thousands of people!"
Guo Song shook his head, "Shatuo's total strength is not tens of thousands, it should be only a few thousand. They are just divided into several cavalry teams. No matter how we go, we will be discovered by the opponent."
"How about taking a detour to the desert!" Guo Chongqing suggested next to him.
Guo Song still shook his head, "Thousands of people are too spread out, there will definitely be loopholes. Let's rest where we are now and look for opportunities later in the evening."
Li Ji and Guo Chongqing suddenly realized that they were good at night fighting, and the opportunity was of course at night.
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[On the last day to ask for monthly tickets, Lao Gao will fight to the death even though he is sick!]