In March of the third year of Xingyuan, the Ma Chongying tribe who came from Wuyuan, Yanzhou, had a total of 40,000 Xifan and Tuyuhun soldiers, crossed Yanchi County and came to the western border of Anlezhou.

The soldiers of Xifan were all walking around the wild. They abandoned almost all their livestock, baggage and camp tents, and the people seemed to be stuck on the saddle. They ran for three days and three nights before they passed through half of the dry sea. Before they retreated, most of them were given to Xiang Fanluo, who had fled to Baiyu Mountain. Most of them hung a bundle of weeds on horseback, several skins filled with water, and weapons were bows and arrows or black dogs. Only a few armored gate cage officials and tiger and leopard knights who were guarding Dalun were equipped with armored soldiers.

"There is no sword that can be forged again. If the war horse is killed, it can be shepherded again. Only the warriors of the god Zanpu cannot be lost. I, Ma Chongying, swore to all the mountain gods and brought everyone back to the kingdom of Dafan." Ma Chongying said so.

"Everyone, the goal of Xingyuan Baicao Army in this battle is to try to intercept the cavalry of the traitors. What we want to cut off is the head and drain all the blood from the north of Hexi Road. I, Gao Yue, don't have so many spoils, just Ma Chongying's head, just the head of the tiger and leopard warriors in Xibo, just the head of the Jiamen Warriors in Xibo, just the head of Xibo Gui and Yong." In front of the towering enemy tower in Qingzhou City, in front of a row of war drums, Gao Yue raised his hand high and kept falling, and told the soldiers, Yu Hou and generals who were surrounding him that the most basic goal of this battle was the "head".

At this time, the generals of the Baicao Army silently pulled out the knife they were carrying and held the handle. In the sunshine in the north, they looked at the inscription "Pinglong" on the blade.

The shrill sound of trumpets sounded, and everyone hurriedly looked towards the east and northeast of the city.

On the deserted sandy ground, small groups of white grass army scouts rode their horses, and shook the flags in the direction of the building, galloping from all directions, which meant "The enemy is coming!"

"Rise the beacon tower and burn the wolf's smoke." Gao Yue waved his hand and said in a deep voice.

Soon, black and gray smoke rose and danced on the various beacon piers in Anlezhou City.

"Anlechuan is a must-fight place. The whole army will drive, and cross the river and stand up behind the water!" Gao Yue then stretched out his hand.

"Oh!" A large number of infantry teams of the Baicao Army crossed the temporarily built earth embankment crossing road in Anlechuan and headed to the east coast of Anlechuan.

On the east bank, a crossbow platform is built at any distance, with animal skin tents on it, bed crossbows or tiger flying cannons are set up, and a soldier from a garrison team is responsible for the guard. At this time, they are responsible for ensuring the existing battlefield.

"Here, come." Almost at the same time, on the crossbow platform, on the river bank, and on the Anlezhou city wall, the soldiers of the Baicao Army were so nervous that they stopped breathing.

Singing sand, singing sand, when people walk on it, the sand will be twitched and yelled continuously.

When the cavalry of Xifan appeared in the Zhulong area east of Anlezhou, it seemed that a swarm of locusts suddenly surged from the ground, and the sound of horse hooves trampling on the sandy ground, like the endless thunder, covering the war drum horns of the two armies - "Ma Chongying is here..." After watching the railings in the tower, Gao Yue, who witnessed the entire battle formation, narrowed his eyes and almost jumped out of his chest.

In the red and yellow dry sea desert, the cavalry of Xifan were hundreds of large square formations, with white war horses, red war horses, blue-gray war horses, earth-yellow war horses, spotted war horses, and solid-colored war horses. They were in full swing and rolling in the ground. Even though there were many deaths and losses along the way, Ma Chongying's main team was still enough to draw a camp according to the colors of different war horses.

"A great remark, Tang soldiers occupied Anlezhou City!" Ma Chongying had obtained information at this moment.

When he and the generals stood on the dune and looked away, they realized that the situation might be worse than they thought.

Gao Yue's Baicao Army was digging soil at the Anle River to build several embankments across the river, blocking soil and bamboo cages, cutting off the water flowing north!

The Anle River flows through the dry sea desert. It was originally shallow. Now this part causes the water in the middle and lower reaches to dry up quickly. If Ma Chongying did not entangle with the Tang soldiers guarding Anlezhou City, but bypassed and followed the Anle River to Mingsha Town, then the nearly 200-mile journey would not have enough water to drink.

At this time, many Western cavalrymen touched the skin hanging under the saddle or on the armor, and the inside was already shriveled. The war horses stretched out their nostrils and breathed with difficulty. They were already feeling the pain and torment of lack of water.

Because Ma Chongying's team had obtained water plants in Yanzhou City before, after such a long distance, it consumed almost half of the supplies through the Hengqu, Yanchi and Zhulongzhou wasteland desert.

With Jia Dan’s map, all of this was conspired to death by Gao Yue.

"Who is the commander of this Tang army? So treacherous!" Ma Chongying became angry. He also looked at the black and white Pixiu flag on the other party's city, knowing that this army had never fought before.

On the east bank of Anlechuan, several crossbow platforms were surrounded by 6,000 infantry soldiers of the White Grass Army, and 2,000 earthen regiment crossbowmen, all stood with their backs and formed a huge formation. Facing Ma Chongying's Western-French army, they were full of momentum that "if you want to seize Anlechuan, unless you trample on our bodies."

The one who guarded the city was a thousand earth regiments. As for hundreds of mule troops, Gao Yue was placed on the north side of the city as a mobile force, waiting for an opportunity to launch a strike against Ma Chongying.

"What should I do if the big thesis?"

"Don't panic, there are not many soldiers on the other side. All they can do is rely on castles and rivers to block them, and they are unable to attack me." Ma Chongying was the last general after all. "Sent orders to let the cavalry outside each formation be covered with heavy armor and horse armor, erect long spears to shock the enemy with strong momentum."

Soon, tens of thousands of Xifan cavalry were divided into ten large formations, among which the weak, sick, lacking horses or lacking armored soldiers were all inside the formation. The cavalry outside the front were all "complete armor" and covered with sand and dust stirred up by horse hooves. From a distance, it seemed that all the cavalry were wearing strong and sharp, shining brightly and extremely majestic.

This is a kind of military deception on the battlefield.

Then Ma Chongying said again, "Transfer my order, and the two large formations, plus the ten thousand households in Tuyuhun, go to take turns to conflict with the Tang army formations by the rivers, and the other eight large formations, regardless of their care, follow me to rush straight to Mingsha."

"But the big remarks, we have no water!" The generals were a little panicked.

Ma Chongying told all the soldiers that as long as they could run seventy to one hundred miles in one go, they could reach Bole Mountain, where I had the strongholds left by me and plenty of spring water. They were originally used by the Tang family to irrigate the fields of Huile County, Lingzhou. It was enough for everyone to drink. Don't just hang around in the city of Anlezhou, otherwise we would be destroyed.

In fact, Ma Chongying even cheated his subordinates. Bole Mountain is 150 miles away. What he said can only be said to be Cao Cao's old trick of "looking at the plum blossoms to quench his thirst."
Chapter completed!