The second day of July in the first year of Dalong Yongping.
The Dalong troops and the Jin and Turkic reinforcements launched a protracted battle in which you chased me and I fled.
After receiving the message from Liu Mingzhi, the elite soldiers of Zhang Mo's Anxi Protectorate and the reinforcements from the Western Regions immediately abandoned the long-established fortress and launched a southward encirclement operation in a fan-shaped encirclement against the coalition forces preparing to withdraw outside the pass.
Suddenly, due to Dalong's sudden increase of 320,000 troops, the two coalition forces, who did not know the strength of Dalong's troops, began an exhausting retreat northward.
However, in all the state capitals in northern Xinjiang, regardless of the size of the troops, there are traces of dragon soldiers and horses wandering around in search of them.
The soldiers and horses of the two countries retreating north were afraid that they would be entangled by the dragon soldiers and horses, and then be surrounded by a large number of main forces and annihilated. They had to choose to retreat and find a good opportunity to escape.
With all their strength, the cavalry of the two countries could withdraw from Dalong Border Pass in five days. Under the encirclement and interception of Dalong soldiers and horses, they did not take a step outside the pass for more than a month.
For more than a month, the smoke and dust in the sky in northern Xinjiang did not disappear. The blue sky turned gray because of the smoke and dust stirred up by the cavalry's attack.
On the official road leading to Qizhou outside Yanzhou City, Huyan Yunyao's pretty face no longer looks the same as it did a month ago. Her pretty face is filthy with sweat and dust mixed together, and even her exquisite hat A thin layer of dust accumulated on top.
Huyanjunyao raised the water bag and took a big sip. Her dry throat felt much better. She put away the water bag and looked at the two men riding on the horse, holding a map in their hands and frowning slightly. Brother Hu Yanyu.
"Second brother, how are you? Is there a safe way to evacuate Northern Xinjiang?"
Hu Yanyu put away the map in his hand with a regretful expression, and shook his head slightly at his little sister with a lonely expression.
"Qizhou, Yanzhou, Fengzhou, Tanzhou, Linzhou, Hanzhou, Mingzhou, Qingzhou, the only roads we must take to withdraw from Dalong's northern border have been woven by Dalong's soldiers and horses. With a large, ventilated net, thousands of scouts are constantly detecting the traces of soldiers and horses from our two countries twelve hours a day."
"We have thousands of soldiers and horses at every turn, and we are so powerful that it is almost impossible to avoid their detection. If we divide into small groups and retreat, we will be annihilated by the soldiers and horses pursuing them from behind!"
"Now it's not just us, even the Jin Kingdom's troops retreating north are in a dilemma and are struggling to move forward!"
"Perhaps, the current situation of the Jin Kingdom is not as good as ours. After all, we are all cavalry. Whether it is retreating or charging, we have a greater advantage than the Jin Kingdom. Once the Jin Kingdom's infantry is entangled by Dalong's soldiers and horses, Without paying a certain price, it is just a daydream to escape unscathed."
"Although I have been exhausted these days, I also found that there are more and more corpses of Jin Kingdom infantry on the road. This shows that the situation in Jin Kingdom is now very bad."
Huyan Yunyao'e frowned, looked back at the more than 10,000 cavalry belonging to the Huyan Royal Court behind her and sighed a few times.
"We didn't even have a chance to clean up the corpses. It seems that the situation in the Kingdom of Jin has reached an unpredictable level!"
Hu Yanyu smiled sadly as he thought of his exhausting and chaotic escape life for the past month or so.
"Judging from this posture, Brother Liu plans to kill all our troops. Even if we can't kill them all, I'm afraid we won't be able to produce any power that can resist the dragon's domination of the world in twenty or thirty years. ”
"Either you escape to the desert and live to survive, or you wait for the dragon to come out from the north, and there will be no more Turkic tribes in the world!"
"As you said in Jingzhou, once Brother Liu's plan comes to a successful conclusion, he will be the second person to be slaughtered in the history books."
"Second brother, it's too late to say this. Let's think of a way first..."
The warning horn sounded, interrupting Huyan Yunyao's words. Huyan Yunyao and other generals and more than 10,000 Turkic cavalry subconsciously looked back.
I saw a long dragon of smoke and dust rolling up on the official road in the rear, the Longwu flag whistling in the wind, and the Northern Xinjiang Longwuwei, who could not see the exact number of troops, brandishing his weapons, was charging towards his side.
Huyan Yunyao's pretty face turned cold, and she really wanted to order her soldiers to start a life-or-death decisive battle with the Longwu Guards who were endlessly pursuing their side.
But her reason told her that this was not feasible. Once entangled by this army and horses, waiting for the other dragon soldiers and horses to surround them, her own soldiers and horses would be completely destroyed on the official road between Qizhou and Yanzhou.
Even if Long Wuwei only had eight thousand soldiers and horses, he would not dare to test his strength easily.
It is not that they are afraid of them, but that they are afraid of the endless dragon soldiers and horses that are attacking day and night on the northern plains.
"All officers and men obey the order and retreat to Fengzhou. Ignore Long Wuwei's clamor!"
As Huyanjunyao's order was passed on, more than 10,000 Turkic cavalry began their retreat again.
The Protector of the Country looked wildly at the Turkic cavalry who had fled away again, and shook the whip in his hand with an unwilling expression.
"Damn it, let them get away again!"
Ke Yan looked at the smoke and dust gradually disappearing with the same regretful expression, and shook his head helplessly.
"General, there is nothing we can do about this. Except for the cavalry from the Western Regions and the cavalry under King Pingjian, who are equipped with excellent war horses from the Western Regions, our war horses are far from being the match of the Turkic war horses!"
"Besides, we still have half of the infantry, how can two legs outrun four!"
"The letter from King Bingjian also said that the enemy does not want to fight, and with our current strength we simply cannot encircle them. They are desperately retreating, and we cannot catch up with them at all!"
"The soldiers and horses of the Jin Kingdom are okay. The infantry are mixed among them, and they can still entangle and kill them for a while. But for the Turks with their fast cavalry, we can only stay behind!"
Zhang Kuang inserted the sword in his hand into the scabbard and looked around at the group of old brothers: "How many days is it today?"
"It's the second day of July!"
Zhang Kuang clutched the horse's reins with a gloomy expression: "It's been fourteen days since June 18th, the second day of July. With the speed of the cavalry, it is said that the imperial court's 100,000 new cavalrymen should have joined forces long ago. Why are they now on the battlefield in Northern Xinjiang? There is no trace of them yet.”
"Is this... could there be some unforeseen changes on the road?"
Zhang Kuang's expression also hesitated: "It's not impossible, but what kind of change can be more important than the war in Shangbei Xinjiang!"
"If we don't encircle you in time, if this continues, the enemy will eventually find out something is wrong!"
"Once the enemy knows that the forces we have encircling them are comparable to theirs, they will calm down and plan a retreat route, and by then it will be too late!"
"Especially the Turkic cavalry. With the speed at which they attack, once we have a detailed plan, we have almost no hope of keeping them."
"If we are again held back by the Jin Kingdom's troops and horses, if we want to capture the Jin Kingdom, the price we have to pay with the main Turkic troops and horses will be several times what it is now."
"The consumption of food and grass alone is an immeasurable amount!"
"Alas! There is no point in talking about this now. Send a message to King Jingjing and Duke Jingguo to see how the situation is on their side. Let's continue to search the enemy soldiers and horses to see if we can encounter the Jin Kingdom's infantry!"
"The last general takes command!"
As the sun sets and the moon rises, a valley fifty miles southwest of Fengzhou is extremely quiet.
Except for the occasional sneezing sound from the war horses, everything was filled with the smell of silence.
Huyanjunyao and his troops didn't even light the bonfire, they just chewed dried meat and drank cold water in silence.
Huyan Yunyao, who was sitting quietly on the stone chewing dried meat, looked at the bright moonlight in the sky, and a trace of doubt flashed from time to time in her flexible beautiful eyes.
"Second brother!"
Hu Yanyu, who was sleeping with Pu Dao in his arms, suddenly opened his eyes. He subconsciously scanned the surrounding situation, and when he noticed that there was no enemy situation, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked at his younger sister Hu Yanyun Yao.
"What's wrong?"
Huyanjunyao tore off a piece of marinated dried meat and looked at Huyanyu with bright eyes.
"Have you ever felt that although Dalong's soldiers and horses were very aggressive when they chased us, they always seemed a bit out of control."
