Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 2466
Rolling yellow sand and mighty rivers spread across the sky in this vast and boundless Western Region.

Along this ancient silk road, the two armies entangled and fought in the Gobi desert. One side fought and retreated, and the other slowly advanced...

Xue Rengui rode his horse and held his spear, and marched among the army.

Now, instead of boosting morale and leading the soldiers under his command to fight the enemy bravely, he has to constantly appease these arrogant soldiers who are already red-eyed by the military exploits they are about to achieve, so that they will not be red-eyed by the military exploits. The soldiers were casualties, and they chased and killed the fleeing Arab army...

He is the commander in chief, not a general, and he must not disregard the strategy of the entire Western Region for the sake of temporary military exploits.

Without the armored cavalry with huge lethality, once the two sides fall into a melee, the casualties will inevitably increase sharply.

Until now, his goal is not to annihilate the invading Arab army, to fight a victorious battle, to make great achievements in the world and to be promoted.

No matter the Arab soldiers fleeing in a panic, they were not a group of harmless rabbits.On the contrary, once the desperate Arab army realizes that there is no hope of escape, they will fight desperately, and the casualties of the Tang army will increase greatly.

On the side of the Tang army, the heavy cavalry lacked the ability to run long distances, and in terms of endurance, they were not even comparable to the infantry relying on the soles of their feet to travel long distances.

The result of losing both sides is definitely not what Xue Rengui wants.

He wants to ensure that the Anxi Army has enough troops to deter the countries of the Western Regions, especially the Western Turks, who have always been ready to move and are not dead.

When the Eastern Expedition was about to begin, the imperial court had no time to look west and could no longer recruit troops to the Western Regions. As Sima of the Anxi Protectorate, his primary duty was to ensure the stability of the Western Regions.

That's the top priority.

Therefore, he had to reject the requests of the generals under his command to take advantage of the victory again and again, which made the generals feel uneasy, and their eyes were red with anxiety...

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The Arab infantry fled desperately on the desert, while the light cavalry, led by Muawiya's son Yazid, gritted their teeth and guarded the rear and two wings of the infantry, chasing and killing them from time to time. The Tang army fought hard to resist.

The Tang army harassed all the way, neither launched a full-scale onslaught, nor gave up chasing and killing, just hanging so far away, accumulating strength to charge suddenly for a while, making the Arab cavalry maintain a high degree of vigilance from the beginning to the end, and it was miserable.

The two sides stopped and walked like this, fought for a while, and gradually walked out of the foothills of Yili Mountain along the direction of Suiye Shui.

Xue Rengui looked at the foothills of the Western Tianshan Mountains not far to the south, and ordered the generals under his command: "Continue to chase the Arabs with tails on their tails. You are only allowed to harass the Arabs, and you are not allowed to fight to the death. Otherwise, you will be severely punished! I will lead people to Suiye Shui Mountain Pass to find out whether There are scouts from our army fighting to the death!"

"Here!"

The military order is like a mountain. Although these arrogant soldiers are eager to catch up with the Arabs and slash and kill them while gaining military merits, no one dares to resist Xue Rengui's unquestionable order.

After Xue Rengui gave some instructions, he led a group of personal soldiers to break away from the main force and headed straight south, stepping on the rolling yellow sand, approaching Suiye Shui Mountain Pass.

The foothills of the Western Tianshan Mountains lie in the Gobi desert, and when you cross several oases and approach the foothills, you can see mighty rivers rushing down between the foothills.

On the sunny side of the foot of the mountain is the hot sea that is not frozen in four seasons and has mighty waves, and it is also the birthplace of Broken Leaf Water.

Xue Rengui rode up along the river bank which was getting higher and higher, and the riverside became narrower and narrower. By the time they reached the mountain pass, their eyes were blood red from the horror in front of them!
The broken leaf water mountain pass is full of rivers, and the mountains on both sides stand tall like a ghost ax splitting in the middle.

And in this mountain pass, the mountain wall on the difficult side and the ground are black and gray scorched earth left over from the explosion of the thunderstorm, and the ground is full of gravel.
The ground is full of broken corpses. Some corpses have their armor pulled out, and they are just lying naked on the ground. Their bodies have long been eaten by wild wolves or other wild beasts. Broken, broken limbs and broken arms splashed everywhere.

Xue Rengui and the hundreds of soldiers behind him just sat on the horse blankly, looking at this hell on earth in a daze.

As a soldier, he naturally disregarded life and death, and he had already prepared for the shroud in horse leather.

They fought on the battlefield and rolled among the dead. What kind of bloody scene have you never seen?However, the extremely tragic scene in front of them shocked them all!
Xue Rengui jumped off the horse, took two steps forward, knelt down on one knee, hammered hard on the left chest with his right hand, his eyes were red, he was choked up and speechless.

More than a hundred soldiers also dismounted silently, and knelt on the ground one by one behind Xue Rengui, with grief and anger in their hearts and tears in their eyes!
In the scorching sun, Tang Jun's body was devoured by wild beasts and the remaining corpse exuded a terrible smell of decay, but no one felt sick.

Xue Rengui stood up silently, stretched out his hand to pick up a broken arm, walked slowly to an open space before the mountain pass, put the broken hand there, turned back, picked up a broken leg...

The soldiers also stood up, imitating his appearance, and began to gather together the broken bodies of the dead soldiers little by little.

The wind passed over the mountain pass, making a whirring sound like a whimper.

The river is rolling and flowing without stopping.

After they saw the mountain pass, the small path hidden among the thorns beside the river, an indescribable sense of tragedy suddenly hit their hearts.

It's not that this scout team has no chance to escape, the road is behind them, leading straight to the east.

But they all faced the west, backed by the mountain pass, faced an enemy a hundred times their own, and swore to fight to the death without retreating a single step!

Xue Rengui pierced a vulture that was standing on the corpse and refused to leave with a spear, took a deep breath of the unpleasant air, and said in a deep voice: "There are more than fifty soldiers, there is a way behind them, but they are fighting hard. Therefore, they would rather die than retreat. They must block the Arabs with their flesh and blood, so as to give Pao Ze enough time to pass the news of the Arabs' invasion to Gongyue City, so as to prevent the main force of the army from being ignorant. , was hit hard by the enemy bandits."

Holding the spear in his hand firmly, he threw the stabbed vulture fiercely on the mountain wall, and his tone was full of grief and anger: "They are all warriors, heroes of the empire! However, Ben will want to know Where is Pao Ze, the messenger who let them risk their lives to protect, now?"

The messenger who can be ordered in the face of danger must be an elite recognized by everyone. Such a person is extremely capable of surviving in the wild, and for the sake of insurance, it is absolutely impossible to send only one person back to Gongyue City to report the news. It is impossible for several people to encounter an accident together.

(End of this chapter)