"My cavalry and mule soldiers of Baicao Army, one man and two horses (or mules), carrying five-day portions of wheat rice, plus salt bags for horse food. Each Fanyang cavalry bowed one arrow with thirty arrows, one armored one neck, and one lacquered spear; each mule soldier had a crossbow with twenty crossbows, one armed one neck, one horizontal knife, one plaque of horse felt; each Fan (Dangxiang) cavalry bowed one arrow with thirty arrows, and each armed armor was prepared..." At this time, Ximen Can, the general of Baicao Army, hanged his hands, whose wounds were not healed, loudly gave face-to-face advice to many generals present participating in the surprise attack.

Because the Tang army had previously defeated Shang Jiezan in Goutouyuan, many animals were seized, including many war horses from Xifan, and now they are so prosperous that they can have one soldier and two horses.

Therefore, Gao Yue took the opportunity to expand the cavalry team of the Baicao Army: the 800 Fan Yang soldiers who had farmed in Lingtai before, Gao Yue used their strengths to turn them into cavalry, chose 400 of them as cavalry, and used hundreds of long handles made by the Xingyuan Mansion A workshop (spike rods were an important military object that was strictly prohibited from being traded and circulation in ancient times), and wedged the spear heads made by Xingyuan Mansion, and quickly armed the group of cavalry. On the battlefield, they would be the main force in charge.

The military envoy of Fan Yangqi, Gao Yue appointed the original shelf-shen official Mi Mother Changyuan, who was born in the "Little Three Prefectures Dangxiang", and changed it to the Chinese name "Mi Yuan".

As for the other two chiefs of Dangxiang in the three provinces, the Shesheng officials, one was Zhajiubo and the other was Shatongju, and they also changed their Chinese names. The former was named "Zhubo" and the latter was named "Shatong". Ximen Can asked these two people to lead dozens of foreign cavalry each to go out to the expedition, and went forward to serve as scouts.

After the arrangement was completed, just as the generals were ordered to prepare to return to the camp to arrange their own arrangements.

Gao Yue suddenly called them.

All the generals sat back on the seat.

Gao Yue said: "The news came from the upper house that the imperial concubine was enthroned as the queen."

Then Gao Yue paused, "The empress died that day, and Your Majesty added the title of Empress Zhaode."

Soon, in the seats, Guo Zaizhen's lips trembled, then his nose was winged, and tears flowed down as he brushed his head, and his head was knocking eastward, and he couldn't get up for a long time.

Gao Yue also lowered his eyebrows. He knew that Guo Zaizhen had definitely had a real relationship this time: his marriage with Yuwen Saijin was facilitated by Empress Zhaode.

Then Gao Yue said again: "Before Empress Zhaode died, she asked Your Majesty, are my soldiers in Tang Northwest eating and wearing warm clothes?"

Now even the soldiers like steel in the tent cried everywhere.

"Please wear mourning for Empress Zhaode when you go out to war." Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan, Wang Qi and others will request in unison.

Gao Yue looked at Ximen Can, and the military supervisor nodded, and then choked and added, "The three armies can hide under the armor to avoid revealing their identity."

At this time, Gao Yue stood up behind the desk and waved his hand, "Everyone, we will see you in Baicaoyu, Xiaoguan in three days."

"Here!" The generals gritted their teeth and shared the same hatred for the enemy.

The next day, Shang Jiezan was surprised and stepped on the pedal of Pingliang City. He came to the horse-faced wall. Several Xifan enemy defense envoys were standing there, looking at him without saying a word.

Shang Jiezan stepped forward and looked through the battlements, "What's going on?"

Ten miles outside the city, the Tang army was equipped with the right army of Shence Jingxi Daying, and nearly 30,000 troops of Jingyuan camp, forming a majestic formation. The drum sounded so that the flowing clouds scattered, and the golden crows were slanted. What was even more terrifying was that all the Tang soldiers were wearing white clothes and armor, like frost and snow on the ground, holding weapons, lying on the ground, towards the direction of the east Chang'an City. The long flags of Shence Army, the "Western Regions Frontier, Cheshi" of Jingyuan camp, and the military flags of "Xia Cai's Liaison, Guangwu's Guard" were all replaced with white.

"Are someone in the Tang family dead?" Shang Jiezan murmured.

"Empress Zhaode is in great service, and the grave is in the east, how sad!" With the shout of the secretary in the military palace, 30,000 Tang soldiers recited this sentence in unison, looking east and kowtowed.

"Empress Zhaode's great deeds have become the same body as the dust, but virtue lasts forever. Alas!"

"Alas!" The soldiers of the three armies, including Xing Junya, Liu Haibin, etc., all cried.

"Empress Zhaode is in great service, but Chou Fan takes advantage of my new mourning and invades my territory. The three armies can use their orders to move forward, and they will not let Chou Fan go back to Qinghai!"

"I will let the ugly horse not return!" All the 30,000 Tang soldiers gritted their teeth, then stood up while crying, formed a large formation, pulled the cannon rope, flying stones were like rain, armor lights were sunny, white silk was like snow, rolling towards Pingliang City.

For a time, the buildings in Pingliang City were hit by fragments flying around, and Shang Jiezan was almost unstable. Several Western Fan generals supported him and protected Da Lun from being hit.

"What, the queen of the Tang family died?" Only after this fashionable knot realized that the Tang army in front of us had become decisive soldiers, pouring all the grief and hatred into arrows and throwing them on the rocks, "Hurry, Soma, take my documents and give you ten bird companions, and send this news to the god Zamp."

"Master, what do you want to say to Zamp about this?" Soma asked for instructions.

"Tell the god Zanpu that now Pingliang, no, the situation in Longyou, either he allowed me to escape back to Shanzhou, or he could give me Shang Jiezan a reinforcement of 30,000 imperial guards Dongdai, and I could barely defend Pingliang - but no matter what, Zanpu quickly sent the prime minister who had the noblest confession and immediately entered Chang'an City to mourn the queen of the Tang family."

Next, the sound of killing in the entire Pingliang City was shocking, and Shang Jiezan stayed anxiously in the safe building in the west of the city. He was hesitating: Can this battle be fought? Regardless of morality, now with the death of the Tang family queen, all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty turned into Shura's soldiers, and they all killed red-eyed. This war is probably not sweet to me, Xifan.

But he was the one who advocated crossing the border and punishing the Tang army himself!

Just when Shang Jiezan was still at a loss, the five thousand elite cavalry gathered by Baicao, Jingyuan, Shence and Fengxiang had set out on time along the narrow river valley between Qingshiling and Jingchuan.

Gao Yue looked back and looked at Lianyun Castle. The beacon fire was still deserted, and it was unclear. Flocks of geese returned from the north, hovering and chirping above the cavalry's heads. The bitter wind was wrapped in gray mist, roaring and blowing violently on the yellow reeds under the horse's hooves. The floc-shaped broken clouds swept through the sky. The sun was blurred and shrunk into a dim round core, hanging there like a blood-sucking skull.

Five thousand Tang soldiers, tens of thousands of war horses, their iron-green faces, their iron-green armors, and their iron-green spear tassels danced in the wind, and turned into a huge sharp arrow that could not be seen at the beginning and end. They passed through the long Jingchuan Valley and headed straight towards the Xiaoguan Tower.

The next day, Zhu Bo, who was scouting, came to report that there was only a small group of foreign soldiers in Xiaoguan, and there was no warning.

"Ming Huaiyi, you and your two brothers, led Zhu Bo and Sha Tong, and led the seven hundred foreign cavalry as vanguards, dressed up as Western foreign soldiers, and went straight to Xiaoguan." Gao Yue ordered.
Chapter completed!