...

On November 27, a hundred miles away from Tujinze, Duan Yi led a total of 13,000 soldiers from Liangzhou and 25,000 war horses to station here.

Among them, the 4,000 new troops trained by Wu Qi were also in the army, all led by Duan Bing himself. In order to commemorate the past Wei Min's feelings, this army was specially named "Wei Wuzun".

In addition to Duan Yi, the chief generals in the army also had Sima Tianyan, Xia Yu, and Zhang Kai, the former former subordinate of Duan Yi.

This year's winter is still as cold as usual, but fortunately, it still has not snowed so far, which saves a lot of trouble.

In the marching tent, Duan Feng, Tian Yan, Xia Yu, Zhang Kai and others sat around in front of the bonfire and baked frozen hard Hu cakes (naan bread).

Because Hu cakes are easy to preserve, they will not deteriorate quickly even in summer. A Hu cake is cheap, with thick dough and hot soup. It is basically enough for adults to have a meal. It is extremely popular among the military and the people.

After Zhang Kai baked the Hu cake, he tore half of it and handed it to Xia Yu. He suggested to Duan Feng: "General Duan, there are 100,000 Qiang people entrenched inside and outside the Tujinze. If they fight head-on,

Our army will definitely suffer huge casualties. We will recommend looking for dangerous terrain to set up fortifications to lure the enemy to attack."

Duan Yang shook his head and said, "No, let alone the terrain is not as familiar as the rebels and Qiang. Even if there is a suitable place to set up fortifications, it will take a lot of time to wait until the fortifications are laid out.

The Qiang people were probably prepared for a long time, so this was like a change of attack and defense. Our cavalry advantage disappeared and we could not achieve the expected results.

What's more, our army has only been carrying military rations for fifteen days, and now it has been seven days. Establishing fortifications to wait for work will only increase the consumption of food and grass.

If the Qiang people noticed that the army was short of food, they just had to confront each other with their superior forces. When the food and grass were gone, we would have to return without success and even at risk of being counterattacked."

Tian Yan said: "How should we deal with it according to General Duan's intention?"

Duan Feng smiled and said, "You may not know the habits of the Qiang people living outside the border. They will scatter when they are free in war, as long as we can defeat their camps one by one.

It can overwhelm the morale and obtain supplies from their camps, making their tribes afraid of each other and not knowing the depth of our army.

It’s winter now, and it’s an excellent time to eliminate the Qiang people in one go. This time, this general will do it once and for all, uproot this rebel Qiang and eradicate it!”

Everyone was excited when they heard this. The Qiang people had been in danger of the northwest for many years. It was time to give them an extinction blow.

Duan Yan took out a sheepskin map drawn by the Intelligence Department, pointed to a place marked with Yangshan in Tujinze and said, "This place is called Yangshan County. The surrounding terrain is flat and suitable for our army to fight. It is the gathering place of Qiang Camp in Nunubatel. There are about 4,000 armored men in his army and more than 30,000 tribes.

This general decided that the first battle against Yuan Mastiff would start from Nunubatel. I believe that Yuan Mastiff had already learned about our arrival and would definitely lead the army to delay our army. It is necessary to defeat Yangshan County before him!"

The plan was finalized, and everyone in the tent took action immediately, returned to the camp to gather troops, preparing to launch a decisive battle against the Qiang people.

...

In Yangshan County, Nunubatel, who had returned from Tujinze City, immediately summoned his troops.

"I only have more than 4,000 people in my hands. Why do I kill you as a horse-handed horse for the Yuan Mastiff? Duan Bing is so easy to deal with. At that time, the 30,000 army in Xiazhou would not be defeated by him in one day. If you want to die, you will die. I will still go to the Western Regions to hide, and maybe he can dominate the side there!"

Nunubatel didn't want to fight Duan Jing to the end. He just summoned his troops and the elite, ordered them to pack up the fine and soft food and prepare to run away with him. As for the old and weak, he had already given up and let them die on their own.

Just as the 4,000 tribes were assembled and Nunubatel was preparing to give the order, a dull roar rang outside Yangshan County.

"What's going on?" Nunubatel hurriedly climbed up to the county's earthen wall when he heard the sound.

As a result, he saw a flag sweeping in the cold wind, and immediately realized that Duan Bing's army was here.

"Damn!" Nunubatel hit the earth wall hard, "It's still one step late. These Liangzhou soldiers came so quickly, and it seems that they can't leave!"

After muttering, Nunubatel turned around and shouted at the gathering tribes: "Warriors! There is a Liangzhou officer and soldier who is ignorant of the sky and earth outside the city who wants to destroy us! I need you to follow me and defeat those soldiers!

Once Yangshan County is occupied by officers and soldiers, your family will have no choice but to die. Draw your knife, raise the gun in your hand, step onto the war horse, and destroy them all!"

"Aoao~~"

The Qiang tribes howled loudly. Although they suffered repeated failures and setbacks in recent years, they were still full of arrogance and were very disdainful of the people of Central Plains, Liangzhou who were slaves in the past.

And so, under the instigation of Nunubatel, four thousand Qiang people instigated war horses and rushed out of Yangshan County without hesitation, and rushed towards the Han army.

"General, they seem to be rushing over!"

A Wei Wuzhang School standing beside Duan Yan muttered nervously, but Duan Yan heard it.

He stared at the enemy cavalry rushing towards him, and shouted in a cold tone: "The whole army obeys the orders, and all those who make noise will be engaged in military law! Focus on forming formations and prepare for combat!"

"Drink~~"

Duan Feng's cold and ruthless words instantly dispelled the fear in everyone's hearts. Four thousand mighty soldiers shouted loudly, quickly formed a battle formation, staring at the cavalry approaching.

"One hundred and fifty steps, the long bowman is ready!"

"Crack..."

The Qiang cavalry approached, and the rangefinder roared, and a thousand step bows, which were one or five meters long, pulled the bowstrings together, lined up behind the long shield array, aimed at the front inward.

"One hundred and twenty steps, let it go!"

"Bang~~"

"Huh~~"

After several months of hard training, the Wei Wushu soldiers performed their effectiveness at this moment. Only a uniform sound of strings was heard, and a thousand feather arrows were like meteors passing through the moon, falling from mid-air towards the aggressive Qiang cavalry.

"Puff puff puff..."

“Well…”

"ah……"

In an instant, a group of people and horses were overturned in the Qiang cavalry formation. Countless cavalrymen fell into dust under the ruthless attack of arrow rain, and were trampled into meat mud by iron hooves behind them.

A Qiang rider wearing a Hu circle kept waving his mace in his hand, sweeping away the rain of arrows that had fallen into the air, making a beast-like howl, clamping the horse's belly and continuing to sprint forward.

Unfortunately, a sharp arrow broke through the air and was nailed directly to the horse's head. As the war horse made a sharp neigh, it threw it hard on the hard ground with the Qiang people.

"Puff~~"

The Qiang man spit out a mouthful of black blood, and was smashed to pieces in his five internal organs and died of blood from seven holes.

Another cavalry hung his body on one side of the horse's body, protecting his head and neck with a round shield. He thought he could avoid death, but in the end the horse's speed was out of control and tripped by the horse that fell to the ground in front. When the horse's body was overturned, his heavy body was thrown forward several meters away. Finally, he hit a raised stone, smashing the sky spirit cover and dying.

There was also a Qiang general who led the three horses to use Gao Chao's riding skills to get along with each other and avoided the attack of arrow rain. When he was about to break out of the death penalty area, he did not expect that when he jumped to the horse's back on the left again, the horse and horse fell to his front hooves and leaned over, causing his crotch to fall, stepped on the ground with one foot, and directly broke his foot bones, and sat heavily on the ground.

“Ah~~”

He let out a painful roar, and tears fell from his eyes unconsciously, but he was immediately overwhelmed by the waves behind him.

This wave of arrow rain caused at least 300 casualties, mostly caused by trampling on each other, and the casualties caused by bows and arrows were not large.

"Strong Crossbow!"

"Cum~~"

The longbowman retreated, and the thousand soldiers holding arms and opening crossbows were lined up in two formations, aiming the thick crossbow arrows at the Qiang cavalry that entered within a hundred steps.

"Cabinets gathered up and accelerated charges. Warriors, destroy all the Liangzhou slaves who were ignorant of the sky and earth!" Nunubatel howled loudly and commanded.

Under his command, the cavalry that had originally scattered began to gather at the Nunubatel Central Army after entering a hundred steps. Facing the tightly defended formation, only a dense charge could be destroyed in one fell swoop.

This was a taboo in military strategists. The dense formation was easily taken care of by long-range strikes. However, when Nunubatel saw the arrow rain stop on the opposite side, he felt that the enemy officers and soldiers would not shoot arrow rain again, so he boldly surrounded and attacked.

However, if he knew that the Han army's most proud long-range cold weapon was a crossbow, he would definitely regret his decision for the rest of his life.

However, he was about to regret it, or he had no chance to regret it.

"Let it go~"

"Huh~~"

With a military order, five hundred crossbow arrows roared straight from behind the long shield and rushed straight to the Qiang cavalry. The favorite thing about straight-line shooting is the dense formation, which does not require deliberate aiming. Any crossbow arrows will definitely reap the results when they leave the groove.

"Puff puff puff puff puff..."

"Well~~"

In front of the Qiang Cavalry formation, people were tilted up again, and crossbow arrows directly broke through the thin armor of the cavalry, breaking their bodies and bringing out delicate and cruel blood flowers blooming.

"Let it go~~"

With another command, another group of five hundred crossbow arrows shot again, causing a bloody storm.

Duan Yang looked at the Qiang cavalry rolling on the ground like dominoes, layer by layer, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "With such excellent weapons, are you still worried that you can't dominate the direction of the war?" Perhaps this is what Bai Qi said, strength is the origin of everything...

Nunubatel saw his companions around him easily take away their lives by the other party's arrows, but he could not enter the Han army for fifty steps. He couldn't help but start to be frightened, slowly slowing down his horse and looking left and right, as if looking for a suitable direction to escape.

“Woo~~”

At this moment, another horn sounded. Nunubatel looked towards the source of the sound, but saw a two thousand iron-armored cavalry rolling towards him on the left. A Han general led by a long spear in his hand, driving straight in like a tiger pounced on a rabbit.
Chapter completed!