This is the first time Zhang Yuan has walked on the Jiehe Crab Armor and marched among thousands of troops.

The armored march was because he was leading an army of 50,000, marching between the wastelands and oasis where the enemy could encounter any battles.

This is the real battlefield! It is not the kind of strategizing in a fortress that hides in a solid fortress away from the front line. The feeling of the two is completely different. Strategizing in a fortress is to play with other people's lives, and putting on the battlefield by yourself is to play with your own life.

The wasteland in front of me is truly desolate and vast. At the very end of my eyes, I can’t see a tree or a house. Apart from the rumbling army and the Xiliang cavalry guarding around the army, there is no one in the air. There is only a red sun, hanging in the western air, and under the red sun, there are a few wisps of lonely smoke rising up.

"The lonely smoke in the desert is straight, and the sun sets in the long river... The frontier where the lay Buddhist Mojie visited in the past is probably here, right?"

Zhang Yuanxun turned around and Ma Zheng rode his horse up at some point.

Xiao Heda, the general army representing the Hexi Army, is not in the army, so Ma Zheng has become the only general army of the 80,000 coalition forces gathered in Shache Oasis. Naturally, he has a heavy responsibility and busy affairs. Just now, he followed the members of the general army's general army computer room to convene a military computer room military conference on the way to the march.

Zhang Yuan pointed to the straight smoke ignited in front of him and asked Ma Zheng: "Zhongfu, the smoke pillar over there looks very straight. Did it be burned with wolf manure?"

"How is that possible?" Ma Zheng laughed, "The smoke from wolf manure is light brown, which is lighter than the smoke from the dry firewood pile, and is not easy to see in the distance."

"But the smoke from the burning of wolf dung gathers straight and even if the wind blows, it will not tilt." Zhang Yuan refuted.

"That's what Lu Taoshan said in the book "Piya"?" Ma Zheng smiled, "He must have not found a few pieces of wolf manure to burn it, probably won't find it. He, an old scholar, wouldn't be able to catch a few wolf to shit."

He paused and suddenly laughed: "But the Knights Academy has done such a stupid thing, and asked the students to catch a few wolfs and produce dung and burn it. The so-called wind is not slanted, which is purely nonsense. Moreover, the wolf does not poop much, and it produces very little feces. Where can I find so many wolves to poop for the official family? It is easy to get cow dung and it is easy to light it, but the smoke is not large, so it can only be used to attract fire, and it cannot burn cow dung all."

Zhang Yuan smiled: "The empirical school really emphasizes experiments, and it also specifically went to catch wolves... but it seems that there has always been a system for preparing wolf dung in the army."

"It's just a confusion between the upper and lower levels." Ma Zheng said, "In the past, the military rules were not rigorous, and there were many absurd rules. No one would seriously abide by them. It is precisely because of the lack of rigor that the military officers in the army cannot be educated through the school, and military officers who are from military prosecutors cannot lead soldiers."

Zhang Yuan nodded slightly, then raised his hand and pointed to the straight smoke in front of him: "That is the Fengyan that Nilu lit the air?"

"It's what they ordered," said Ma Zheng, "It seems that the Xiliang cavalry has already had a fight with them in front!"

“Woo woo…”

As soon as Ma Zheng finished speaking, a horn came from the front. Ma Zheng listened intently for a while and smiled and said, "I won, the front is unobstructed!"

The Hexi Army used the Western Expedition to have a total of 7 infantry generals and 3 cavalry generals. Now the three cavalry generals were taken away by Xiao Heda. The remaining 7 infantry generals arrived at Shache Oasis one after another under the leadership of Zhao Zhongshun. Now 6 Hexi infantry generals have participated in the advance towards Shule Oasis. These 6 Hexi infantry generals include 6 Xiliang Cavalry Departments and 6 Iron Harriers Battalions. A total of 5,400 Xiliang Cavalry and 1,800 Iron Harriers Cavalry.

In addition, the Anxi University Education Regiment also dispatched 2 infantry generals and 2,000 knights.

In other words, Zhang Yuan, Zhao Zhongshun and Ma Zheng had a total of 9,200 cavalry soldiers under their command. They all had half armor (front armor and helmets) or full armor, and were equipped with carriage rifles, stubborn sheep horn bows and cavalry crossbows. The combat power of individual soldiers is no less than that of the Guram of the Tianfang Cult country, and it is not something that the nomadic cavalry of the Dongkarakhan Dynasty can deal with.

By the way, nomadic cavalry is not all of the same level. Basically, the powerful ones are in the Mongolian Plateau. Others are relatively watery and are not the opponents of strictly trained light cavalry. And the nomadic tribes in the area of ​​Shache Oasis are even weaker. Ma Zheng and Zhao Zhongshun just sent one-third of the Xiliang Light Cavalry in their hands, and cleaned up all the rangers placed between the Shache Oasis and Shule Oasis.

"These semi-armored light cavalry of the Hexi Army are very good! They can serve as a ranger and form a formation assault. If they had such cavalry a few years ago, we would definitely not be able to get here."

The performance of the Western Liang cavalry of the Hexi Army in this war was indeed remarkable, and it also allowed Ma Zheng, who was a cavalry expert, to learn a lot. Of course, he also saw a trace of crisis!

Because of the same reform, not only the Hexi Army could adopt, but the Great Liao Kingdom in the north could do it! On the contrary, the Great Song Dynasty, because the cavalry foundation was weak, no matter how much reformed it, it could not make up for the number of disadvantages.

Therefore, when the Great Liao and the Great Song Dynasty carried out cavalry reforms at the same time, the little military advantage that the Great Song Dynasty had finally accumulated would be quickly surpassed by its opponents.

"It's a pity that we can't count on them to deal with the Khitans, otherwise it will be much easier to go north in Japan." Zhang Yuan sighed.

"Yes," said Ma Zheng, "There are tens of thousands of Western Liang cavalry guarding each other, and the army advances on the front and marchs in the rear, as they are marching in the rear, with peace of mind and no need to prepare for war at all times, and they can save all their strength and spend it on fighting.

Moreover, the enemy did not know the reality of our situation. If we wanted to ambush and attack, we didn’t even have any direction, so we had to sit in Kashgar and wait for death!”

"Will the Lion Khan sit and wait for death?" Zhang Yuan asked.

"It's probably possible." Ma Zheng looked at a ray of smoke from afar and was dissipating. "Liu Khan not only didn't know our reality, nor did he know the reality of Xiao Heda's troops at the entrance of Datulu Attidazan. He is now attacked from both sides, so it would be nice not to be scared away by us. How dare you take the initiative to attack?"

"Will Lion Khan abandon the city and flee?" Zhang Yuan asked again.

"It's hard to say," said Ma Zheng. "Lion Khan is already a turtle in the jar. The Datulu Attidaban Pass in the west was blocked by Xiao Heda. Kucha in the north had been taken away by Gaochang Uighurs, and only a road left for crossing the Pamirs in the south was left. Whether he could walk depends on whether the forces south of the Pamirs could tolerate him. In addition, it depends on whether Zhao Zhongshun and Xiao Heda would refuse to let him go south.

Now that Xiao Heda is in the west, we are about to approach the Nanpaoling River again, blocking the east side of Kashgar. Lion Khan wants to go south, won’t the Xiliang cavalry chase? After chasing all the way, it would be great that 10% of the ten-year-old horses could pass the Paoling River."

"Will he surrender?"

"Not whether it can, but can it?" Ma Zheng turned around and glanced at the flag of Zhao Zhongshun, the governor of the Hexi Army. Among the 80,000 troops here, it was the Hexi Army!

Whether the Lion Khan can surrender depends on the attitude of Zhao Zhongshun and the Hexi Army. The goal of the Hexi Army is not to turn the Dongkara Khan Dynasty into its own subordinate, but to take advantage of the lack of opportunity for the Hexi Army to scatter its military power and try to create another world in the Western Regions and Tianzhu.

Therefore, there must be some benefits to subdue Lion Khan. He is a good leader. However, Lion Khan has many people and religious conflicts with the Hexi Army, so it is not easy to digest it.

"Now, let's look at the people south of the Pamir Mountains!" Zhang Yuan sneered, "If they don't come to the Pamir Mountains to support and are unwilling to let the Lion Khan lead his troops south. Then at most, the Lion Khan will have to surrender for another five or six months."

"No need for five or six months," said Ma Zheng. "At most, two or three months, Lion Khan will have to surrender... or fight hard. Because once the weather is in autumn, there will be less time left for him. If he cannot cross the Pamir Mountains before the snow covers the mountain, his soldiers and people will be desperate."

"Okay!" Zhang Yuan smiled, "It seems that this battle is easy to fight. As long as the Turkic Sultans south of the Pamir Mountains do not send troops, we don't have to fight in the wild. Just stick to the barriers, we can force the Lion Khan to bow down and surrender."

Ma Zheng shook his head and said, "Great Master, it's not us who are afraid of the war in the wild now, but Aslan Khan! If he is willing to go out of the city to fight this time, Nashule will be determined in the battle!"

...

At the same time, just behind the marching column where Zhang Yuan and Ma Zheng were, the seemingly mature and steady Brother Cha, who was Zhao Baozhong, was in charge of the deputy commander Cao Mian.

Cao Mian was the Xixia general who once defended the Qin King Chuan City and blocked the progress of the Song army's Hexi Army. He was a descendant of the last Jiyi Army's Jiedushi, and his matriarchal originated from the descendants of the royal family of Khotan. In the area of ​​Khotan and Shule, he had some influence.

Among the royal family of the Dabao Khotan Kingdom, many people dream of restoring their ancestral property! The only people they can rely on, besides the "family planning" Gaochang Kingdom, were surrendered to the remaining Guiyi Army of the Western Xia. The Gaochang Kingdom and the remaining Guiyi Army of the Guiyi Army, including the Western Xia, were also happy to give them some assistance, and then let them go to and from Khotan in the name of merchants, Shule’s hometown, to find out the information and facts of the Karakhan Dynasty.

In order to facilitate their actions, some descendants of the Khotan royal family disguised themselves as merchants of the Tianfang Cult. Many shopping malls were opened in the former places of Khotan and Shule, and over time, they took on many routes to the upper level of Karakhan.

During this "Peach Blossom Stone Civil War", these spy merchants controlled by Cao Mian even caught up with Aslan Khan who was trapped in Kashgar.

"The army commander, Aslan Khan is willing to pay tribute to Tengri Khan, and is willing to cede Khotan, Kucha, and Shaye, just to be able to support his old age in Shule."

Listening to Cao Mian reporting the result of the secret contact, Zhao Zhongshun just snorted coldly, "I am raising aged in Shule? I dare not even think about it, he dares to think about it? Dream!"

"In addition," Cao Mian said, "our people also heard that the Sultan of the Turkic State (not the Sultan actually) had already gathered a hundred thousand troops south of the Pamir Mountains!"

"100,000?" Zhao Zhongshun smiled, "It would be great if there was a 100,000! Then we will let Zhang Yuan learn from Li Shimin and destroy the two countries in one battle!"
Chapter completed!