When the moonlight came up, the desert was filled with black heads.
This made Xiao Yuhua feel that all the sand and horse thieves in the sea channel were here.
Come to think of it, since the giant caravan led by Yun Chu entered the Dahai Road, the horse thieves have known about the sand thieves who make a living by robbing.
It's just that the caravans were wearing ordinary leather armor or cloth when they entered the sea route, which made these sand thieves and horse thieves misjudge the strength of this team.
The error is huge, it’s a huge difference.
There is almost no need to compare the combat prowess of samurai wearing iron armor and samurai without armor.
Even the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could not equip themselves with full armor and equipment, but Yunchu's team did it.
In fact, being a general is not that difficult.
When commanding a hundred infantry, Yun Chu is always the one at the front.
When commanding five hundred infantry, Yun Chu usually holds the line from behind.
When commanding three thousand infantry, Yun Chu was in the middle of the deployment. Wherever the attack was not going smoothly, he would lead the troops to rush to that place. Wherever there were signs of a breakthrough, he would go all out to open the gap.
Now, Yunchu was in the center of the military formation, with Zhong Kui in front and Zhang Donghai behind.
Yun Chu put away his horse, picked up his bow and arrows and stood with the archers.
When all members of the Tang army were armored, it was difficult to distinguish who was the general and who was the soldier.
When fighting at night, bows and arrows take precedence. When Zhong Kui's rocket soared into the sky, the archers on Yunchu's side had already set up their bows and shot arrows. When the rocket landed, a large rain of arrows poured down. Down.
There were screams one after another on the other side of the dune, and then the sand pirates, who had been suppressing it for a long time, started screaming and attacking on the dune.
In the sand, the effect of gunpowder bombs and kerosene bombs would be obliterated by the sand, so Zhong Kui did not use these items. Instead, he drew his bow and shot the arrows slowly towards the figure in the darkness.
Climbing the sand dunes is a very painful thing. Often you only climb one step up, and when your feet fall down, you will slide down two steps. Even these sand pirates are indigenous people living in the desert. They climbed up the sand dunes to climb the sand dunes with the Tang people. It's the same fate.
Therefore, the people standing at the front were not too anxious and followed Zhong Kui to shoot arrows at the black shadow.
This time Xiao Yuhua did not attack rashly, but followed Zhong Kui to draw the bow and shoot arrows. According to his opinion, by the time the moon sets, the people here should be almost dead.
Among this group of people who drew bows and arrows, Afanti was the bravest. Not only did he draw bows and shoot arrows, he also kept shouting to scare the enemy.
The enemies in the desert finally rolled and crawled away.
They did not attack until dawn, did not consume the strength of the Tang army, and did not support the horse thieves from the Gobi side.
At this point in the war, the tactics of the Sand Thieves and Horse Thieves were already clear. First, the Sand Thieves took advantage of the night to launch a group attack on the Tang people. It would be best if they could enter Tianshui Well and cause certain casualties to the Tang people.
When there is light in the sky, the horse thieves in the Gobi will rush over on horseback, break through the defenses of the Tang people, and then the sand thieves and horse thieves will swallow up this giant caravan together.
This was their plan. Before Xiao Yuhua and Afanti could torture the injured sand bandits who had been captured alive, Yun Chu and others had already fully understood the superficial plan made by those people.
The whole army was repairing, sitting cross-legged on their blankets, quietly waiting for the sunrise in the east.
When a streak of purple appeared on the horizon, Liang Ying stood up and stood beside the war horse that had rested all night. He took out a handful of soybeans from his pocket and fed it to the horse.
The rough mouth of the war horse kept rubbing against the palm of his hand, which made his palm itchy. When a black line appeared on the Gobi, he shouted loudly, "The enemy is attacking, due east."
Immediately he mounted his horse, followed by more than half of the regular cavalry in the three thousand army.
The armors of Wannian County soldiers were all black, so after Liang Ying mounted his horse, the cavalrymen under their red helmets were like a pile of black iron. When the horses were lifted up and their spears were held in their right arms, Yun Chu I am no longer worried about these people. Judging from the formation, Liang Ying, the leader of this army, has become the most nervous one. The red tassel on his horse's head is trembling slightly.
Of course, the most embarrassing ones were not Liang Ying, but Xiao Yuhua and Afanti. Xiao Yuhua was wearing a leather jacket and looked like a Huihe horse thief. As for Afanti, it was even more embarrassing. He was riding a donkey.
But it was Xiao Yuhua and Afanti who looked like this, but they were praised by Zhong Kui.
The horse thieves who poured out from the horizon of the Gobi stopped their horses a hundred feet away and circled around the Gobi noisily.
Seeing that the opponent's formation was a little chaotic, Liang Ying shouted with a trembling voice, "Attack!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the war horse under his crotch ejected and rushed towards the horse thief first.
Wen Wen rode up to Yun Chu and said, "Why don't you hide it? So those people don't rush up, and the gunpowder bullets, bows and arrows have no use."
Yun Chu looked at Wen Wen and said, "As long as the cavalry starts to charge, they must move forward bravely and give up halfway, just waiting to be chased by the opponent.
Liang Ying is worthy of being the queen of the gate, and her timing is good. "
Zhong Kui looked at the cavalry team that had already attacked and said to Yun Chu, "They are now more powerful than on the Liaodong battlefield."
Yunchu laughed and said, "Warriors are all fed by victory. As long as they feel that they are invincible, it is really possible to become invincible."
After hearing Yun Chu's words, Zhong Kui laughed it off, but his smile was full of pride.
Naha stood on the carriage shaft and laughed happily, mainly because Afanti was far behind by the cavalry, and the way she used her whip to urge the donkey was too ridiculous.
"Having a subordinate like Afanti who is unwilling to leave Xiao Yuhua in life and death shows that Xiao Yuhua is not a failure as a human being. At least there is one person who is willing to accompany him in life and death."
Unexpectedly, he didn't smile at Afanti's usual gentleness as a joker, and his eyebrows were filled with admiration for Afanti.
Yun Chu smiled and said, "You are a nobleman and the head of the family. Of course, you appreciate servants who follow their masters forever and ever. Don't you think this kind of appreciation is a bit perverted?"
Wen Wen said decisively, "I'm not perverted. Afanti will come back later and he should be rewarded."
Zhang Donghai came back from chasing the sand pirates, empty-handed. Judging from his proud look, the result should be good.
"The general chased them out of two sand dunes, destroyed the water bladders they piled in the sand nests, and then came back."
Yunchu smiled and nodded in approval. Tianshuijing was the only drinking water source within a radius of three hundred miles.
Now, their water bladders were destroyed. No matter how far those sand pirates ran at this time, they would still have to come to Tianshuijing if they wanted to survive. What Zhang Donghai did was very vicious.
It is very consistent with Yun Chu's idea of annihilating the sand pirates in this area.
Now, all the bandits entrenched in Tianshuijing are dead. Once the powerful sand bandits in the surrounding area are also killed, then the business shortcut of Dahai Road will be safe for at least five or six years.
Unless there is a complete change in the living environment of the entire Western Region people, it will be impossible to kill all the bandits, sand thieves, and horse thieves in the Western Region.
In Yunchu's view, within a few decades, the living environment of the people in the Western Regions will still not change significantly. Unless the Tang Dynasty makes up its mind to start a thorough purge of the Western Regions and truly bring this area under the management of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise, the people in the Western Regions will be lax. It is impossible to achieve true peace with a changeable, suspicious, and murderous character.
The biggest issue in the Tang Dynasty is the relocation of the capital. Li Zhi, Wu Mei and his wife want to move all civil and military officials and most of the government offices to Luoyang, the sacred capital. This will cost a huge amount of money and materials.
At this moment, there is absolutely no interest in tilting the Tang Dynasty's resources to the Western Regions. Even if the couple agrees, they will not be able to pass the test of civil and military officials.
The Western Region is Jisi, the place where the Tang Dynasty draws blood. As long as there is always blood to draw, they will continue to draw blood. Even if the Western Region is drawn to death, they will not have any mercy.
After a brief confrontation with the horse thieves, Liang Ying's cavalry officially began their massacre.
The quality of the horses ridden by the horse thieves is far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the personal qualities of the horse thieves are also far inferior to that of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, the Tang Dynasty soldiers' war horses had horseshoes on their feet. On the gravel-filled Gobi desert, those horse thieves could not escape from their grasp.
"Boom, boom, boom." The sound of sparse explosions of thunder and fire bombs came from the distance. This was the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty using thunder and fire bombs to blow apart the gathered cavalry.
At this time, the more scattered the local cavalry became, the less able they were to resist the hordes of Tang cavalry.
The army is still fighting, and the generals have no room to return to camp to rest. The Huotou Army has already started cooking.
The thieves in the army also began to pack their bags. As long as Liang Ying wiped out the horse thieves, they would take the captured horse thieves straight to the horse thieves' lair and get back the spoils belonging to the caravan.
These people knew that the only reason why they were here was because of the county magistrate, who was prepared to let them do some dirty work.
Therefore, they are very conscious.
Sanshanmu of Daotiou Town rubbed his hands and carefully came to Yunchu, saluted and said, "Your Majesty, we don't have enough manpower."
Yunchu said indifferently, "Find a way by yourself."
Zhen Sanshan hurriedly said, "I beg the county magistrate to allow me to catch some live animals."
Live animals are not cattle, horses, camels. In the Western Regions, they refer to captive slaves.
Yun Chu thought for a moment and said, "I'll raise my own food."
Zhen Sanshan smiled and said, "This is nature, this is nature. I will never use our food to feed livestock."
Yun Chu frowned and said, "Forget the name of live animal from now on, and use another one that is less insulting."
Zhen Sanshan chuckled and said, "The only word left is labor."
Zhong Kui said on the side, "Don't take things too far. After all, we are people of the Tang Dynasty. We are humans, not beasts."
Zhen Sanshan quickly said, "That's what the general said."
Zhong Kui said again, "I won't stop you from getting rich. It's better not to do anything that is harmful to nature. Otherwise, you won't get any good fruits after you go to the eighteenth level of hell."
Zhen Sanshan naturally nodded his head. Now, the news that Zhong Kui created an eighteen-level hell in Zhongnan Mountain has spread among the army. In addition, the ghost slaying incident happened in front of him a few days ago. Zhen Sanshan couldn't help but Those who have ghosts in their hearts are secretly frightened.
