The orange-red sun rises from the east without any warmth. The cold wind is steep, and the battle flags on the roof of the enemy building are clamoring. The chief manager of the Jinshan Road of the Tang Dynasty stood in the enemy building, holding the fence and looking eastward. The water vapor exhaled from his nostrils condensed into a layer of white frost on the edge of the pocket.

"Master, go down and have some hot soup!" Secretary Xun Yingda, wearing a thick mink fur cloak, slowly walked up the steps. He clasped his fists and suggested with distress, "We sent brothers to take over Gushishan, Qishan and the Evangelist Hall are all smart enough. Once the latest news from the Young Marshal, we will definitely send it back as quickly as possible!"

"I know!" Guo Yuanzhen sighed and shook his head gently, "I just feel uneasy. Standing here to breathe the wind will make you feel better."

"Zhang Shaojian did not treat the young commander harshly, and he himself was not like a person who ignored his brothers' lives and death." Even though he knew that comforting was useless, Xun Yingda still added in a low voice.

Guo Yuanzhen did not respond, smiled at him, sighed again, turned his head, and continued to look at the wilderness in the east. The blizzards that had not melted a few days ago, and the world was snow-white. But to the east of Shule City, there was a very clear road that stretched out of his sight.

That was the road that the horse hooves stepped on. For half a month, Zhang, a rash ghost, sent messengers to convey good news to him. At the same time, he was invited to send follow-up troops to take over the forts and cities occupied by Tuqi Shiren a while ago, such as Gushishan, Qishan, and Evangelist Hall. At first, every good news and invitation came, which made him feel humiliated. Since three days ago, the messenger sent the good news to recover Jizhuoguan, but did not bring Zhang Qian's invitation to send troops in. All the humiliation and hatred in his heart became anxious.

To be honest, when Zhang Qian first forced his 3,000 troops to borrow, he was not optimistic about the other party. Although the ruthless and treacherous ghost was far beyond his expectations, the result of the war was determined by the overall strength of the army. The main general, ruthless and treacherous can play a very small role!

In Guo Yuanzhen's prediction, even if the brothers arranged by Xun Yingda were not allowed to make trouble, Zhang Qian would find it difficult to take down the fortress on Gushi Mountain with three thousand low-spirited soldiers. Once the troops stopped at the foot of Gushi Mountain and were unable to make progress for a long time, he could reconcile with the reckless ghost named Zhang.

Whether it is a force of force or a force from the court, he will definitely have the upper hand. As for the Hongmen Banquet and the transmission of information to Zhazi, it can be explained that it is a rash ghost named Zhang who is suspicious. Anyway, Princess Taiping has blocked the sky with one hand, and the rash ghost named Zhang who neither completes the task of restraining Soge and rescuing Kucha, and threatens him, the only person who can clean up the mess in public, and is very guilty.

What Guo Yuanzhen could not have thought that the rash ghost named Zhang was in a state of unstoppable state. The three thousand brothers of Jinshan Army who were forcibly borrowed by him not only did not have a low morale and had a disintegration of morale, but instead they were reborn from the rash ghost named Zhang, and even directly defeated a Turkic cavalry with a number of similar numbers as him in the field!

How is this possible?! When he first received the battle report, Guo Yuanzhen always thought that Zhang Qian was bragging and hoped that Zhang Qian was bragging. As the brothers he sent out took over Gushishan and Qishan one after another, and sent back the latest battle report with an eight hundred miles relay, he had to accept this series of hot reality.

"Just take down the Evangelist's Hall, you should be able to stop when you see it!"

"The Evange House is only 300 miles away from Gumo, the important place where Soge stockpiled food and supplies, which is enough to make Soge feel the pressure and divide his troops back to defend!"

"You can't move forward anymore. You should stop when you see the better! As long as Soge divides his troops back to defend, the threat to Kucha will be greatly reduced. With the experience of Niu Shi Award, you already have more than 80% of the opportunities to ensure that Kucha City is not lost!"

...

Every time he received a good news, Guo Yuanzhen tried to consider the overall situation and plan for Zhang Qian. However, he was concerned about his own face and the other party's attitude, and he let these plans fall into his stomach. The facts that followed proved that he completely underestimated Zhang Qian's ambition and madness. On the day he took the Evangelist Pavilion, the latter actually led his troops to pounce on the Jizhuo Pavilion.

Three days ago, the last good news sent by the messenger. The Jinshan Army side division of Zhang Qian's troops forced arriving in the Tuqi Shibasi tribe and took down the Jizhuo Pavilion. Then, the side division division was speechless.

Since then, Guo Yuanzhen has completely been unable to sleep. Every day, he will stand in the enemy building before dawn, hoping that the messenger or his brothers will send him the latest news. However, every day, from morning to night, he only hopes for the increasingly bitter cold wind.

His only son was in that team. Although according to the report from the messenger and detailed, Major General Guo Hong did not suffer any harsh treatment and was in great harmony with Zhang Qianxiang. However, he believed that since Zhang Qian had already taken the Jizhuo Pavilion, he would never remain silent as he thought.

Zhang Qian, whose eyes were burned red by victory, would definitely pounce on Gumo City. Guo Yuanzhen didn't need to think about this. Gumo City is a major city in the Western Regions, with sufficient food, grass and equipment, and its troops are not weak!

"Does Zhang Qianneng take Gumo City too? If his attack is frustrated, how many opportunities will there be to withdraw from Jizhuoguan? If Bashi's troops surrender and rebel again, wouldn't Zhang Qian be attacked from both sides? If he can't stand in Jizhuoguan, where will he retreat next? If he is defeated and killed, Hong'er..."

Guo Yuanzhen didn't dare to continue thinking. Every time he thought of this, there was a blood light in front of him! In order to relieve himself, he tried hard to guess the best result. Zhang Qian was lucky. Before Soge sent troops back to the rescue, he defeated Ye Hu and took Gumo! In that case, the danger of Kucha would be completely resolved, and the destruction of Soge was just around the corner. However, Zhang Qian and Hong'er, as well as the three thousand brothers they brought, would probably all go without returning!

The crazy Soge will definitely pounce on Gumo at all costs. In order to ensure that the food and supplies in the city will not fall into Soge's hands again, Zhang Qian will definitely choose to defend himself. In order to avoid being surrounded and attacked, Niu Shizuo may not be able to lead his troops to rescue him in time. Zhou Yiti and Ashina Zhongjie were both defeated generals under Soge, so he definitely had no strength to save him. As for his side, it was more than 800 miles from Shule to Gumo, and even if he was sending troops now, it might not be too late...

"Master, Maldives, Ma, Horse! It's the messenger, our scout! Our scout and Zhang Qian's messenger are back together!" Just as he was feeling uncomfortable, Guo Yuanzhen suddenly felt that his shoulder was slapped hard. Then, the voice of the secretary Xun Yingda of the secretary came into his ears.

"Where?" Guo Yuanzhen shivered and rubbed his eyes with his hands while trying to look out.

It was indeed his own scout and Zhang Qian's messenger. He could tell clearly from the high flag raised on his back. The messenger had obviously run away from his strength and needed to tie himself to the horse's back with a rope so that he would not fall to the ground. The scouts under his command were closely protected by the messenger, as if they were protecting a rare treasure!

"Open the door, let them go, no! Take them in! I will pick them up in person!" The next moment, a sharp shout came from Guo Yuanzhen's mouth. He turned around suddenly, regardless of his age and physical condition, he stepped along the horse path, and in a blink of an eye, he came into the city gate.

The city gate was pushed away by excited brothers. Several personal guards were worried about Guo Yuanzhen's safety, so they quickly walked out of the city to block the scout's way. Then, together with the scouts, they lifted the messenger off the horse's back.

"Great victory, great victory. On the evening of the 17th of this month, the chief of the marching army captured Gumozhou, killed the pictures of Gumo's guard general and more than 1,300 people under his command, and the rest of the cavalry and the troops dispersed!" The messenger was so tired that he could not stand, but he still insisted on taking out a document bag with fire paint from the bamboo tube behind him and holding it in front of Guo Yuanzhen.

"Which day?" Guo Yuanzhen's body shook and almost fell down.

This was the best result he predicted and the worst result. At this point, Zhang Qian and Guo Hong stepped into the gates of hell with almost one foot.

"Seventeenth, evening!" The messenger gasped and repeated, his saliva and blood dripping down the corners of his mouth without control.

That was three days ago, no, three days and three nights ago! Guo Yuanzhen forced himself to suppress his nervousness and silently calculated. It was too late. Now, he really couldn't do anything, so he could only leave it to fate.

With his trembling hands, he pulled out the horizontal knife and cut the file bag sealed by fire paint. He took out the good news inside and browsed it quickly. He hoped that he could see a glimmer of life for his son and the three thousand brothers from the good news sent by Zhang Qian.

The Good News has a distinct Zhang style, consisting entirely of numbers and facts, without half a gorgeous word. But every sentence in the Good News made Guo Yuanzhen's heart tighter.

In Gumo City, there were indeed a large amount of food, supplies, and even very precious turbulent oil! Zhang Qian did not want this batch of supplies to return to Soge's hands. He certainly did not have the ability to organize manpower and transport the supplies away before Soge pounced back. However, he did not mention any words in the good news.

With the last expectation, Guo Yuanzhen's eyes quickly fell to the end of the good news, and a line of domineering handwriting quickly entered his eyes. "Food and grass are unsustainable, and the morale of the Soge army will be in chaos. The opportunity is rare, so Manager Guo must not miss it!"

Guo Yuanzhen's heart twitched again, his eyes turned black, and then his whole body felt relaxed.

He quickly put the documents into the envelope. He gritted his teeth and ordered in a deep voice: "Yingda, prepare a book for me for Soge. Tell him that if he disbands his subordinates now and goes to Chang'an with me to carry the thorns and apologize, I can still protect his wife, children and tribe members. If he continues to be obsessed with it, I will all set up Shule's troops and plow his tribe up and down to sweep the caves, hoping that he can do it himself!"

Immediately, he swung his sword hard and slashed his body, and his domineering aura appeared. "Beat the drum, gather the generals, and the soldiers entered the Lone Stone Mountain. I want to fight with Soge!"

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Under the night, in Axiyan City, less than fifty miles away from Gumo City, war horses cried endlessly.

In the central army's tent, the white-haired Sogdians translated it. According to the order of Sogge, a letter of war shot from the Tang army scouts into the city was unveiled and read it aloud.

"You are barbarians, with only one village, and only one hundred households. They have no size to the country, and they have no talent and virtue to convince the people. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty did not think that you were despicable, and granted you high-ranking officials and titles, and gave you seeds and utensils. They are horse bones in a thousand gold market!" The Sogdian general translator's face turned pale, and his voice became lower and lower, "You are not greedy, and you are getting more and more flaws. You want to compete with the fireflies and fireflies with the sun and the moon, jackals, dogs and dragons..."

"Stop thinking, it's too much!"

"Damn it, the person named Zhang deserves to die. Sooner or later, I will catch him and crush his bones and ashes!"

"Catch him, take him to Kucha City, and cut him into pieces!"

"Catch him and take him to Kucha City to light the sky lantern!"

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All around, curses were heard one after another. The special agents under Soge's tent, Ye Hu, Chuan, Ajin, and Dagan, were all so angry that their eyes turned red and white foam on the corners of their mouths splashed.

Seeing that Kucha City was about to be captured, the army had to turn around and rush back because Gumo City, which was storing food and supplies, were stormed. They were originally filled with nameless karma fire. But now, Zhang was actually very bold and shot Zhan Shu directly into Axiyan City, which made them unable to bear it.

Axiyan City is less than fifty miles away from Gumo Prefecture. If it weren't for the long-distance marching by brothers Soge Nian and were worried about being attacked by Zhang's halfway, the army of the thief Shi had now reached Gumo City, surrounded the dog thief named Zhang and killed him. How could it be possible? Let this guy send someone to provoke him and take advantage of the darkness to shoot the Zhan Shu full of words everywhere?!

"Continue to recite!" The only person who remained calm was Soge, who claimed to be the Khan of the Tenth Knight of Tuqi. As if he liked to be scolded, he put down the teacup in his hand and ordered calmly.

"Yes!" The Sogdian translation did not dare to disobey it, and continued to read it carefully to the war book, "In the spring, I remember that you first committed suicide, and the Tang Dynasty did not want to be punished without teaching, and gave you a chance to return to the lost path. But you didn't know how to be grateful, but instead thought that my soldiers were cowardly. In the late summer, you came all over again, first robbed Gumo, then in Kucha. Kill my people, destroy my farmland, burned my house, and dirty my school. Is it tolerable, who is intolerable?!"

"Zhang, under the order of the court, raised three thousand iron armor, and within half a month, he repeatedly dug up several cities and cut off your retreat. Your gains from plundering, as well as food and supplies, have fallen into Zhang's hands at this moment. If you have not lost your rationality, you should know that your situation is gone. You tie your arms as soon as possible to surrender. Zhang thought that he had the virtue of living in heaven, and promised to kill only the evil ones, and never ask! If you are obsessed with it, Zhang would carry a three-foot sword, kill you on the horse, and then rush your master to attack your nest."

Sogdian's voice stopped again, his face turned pale, and he looked up and watched with a cold sweat.

"Continue to recite, why don't you recite it anymore?" Soge glared at him fiercely and urged him sternly.

"Small, small ones dare not!" Sogdian translated two wars and kept raising his hands to wipe his sweat.

"If you ask you to recite, just recite. Otherwise..." Soge was impatient and quickly grabbed the handle of the knife at his waist.

Sogdian's translation had no choice but to bite the bullet and stammer and continue reading aloud, "After seeing this book, if the Tuqi Shi tribes come to see him, the previous crimes will be forgiven, and the Tang Dynasty will be granted the title of Saoge. If the Tuqi Shi tribes do not cut off the mat with Saoge as soon as possible, the day when Saoge is destroyed will be the time for you to die! At that time, the warriors under your command will kill the special forces as the special forces, and the Ye Husband will kill Ye Husband, and the Tutun will all use the Tang Dynasty..."

"Stop, stop thinking!" Soge suddenly lost his calmness, stood up, and kicked Tong Yi half a foot away.

The Sogdian interpreter vomited blood, but did not dare to shout for justice. He lay on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy. Sog, who claimed to be the Khan of the Tenth Knight of the Thunder Cavalry, forgot that he had insisted on asking the translation to read, waved his hand, and ordered the warrior to drag the translation to death. Then he gritted his teeth and asked around him sternly: "Did you hear clearly?"

"I heard it clearly!"

"No, no, I didn't hear it clearly!"

"I heard the previous one clearly, but I didn't hear the last few words!"

...

There were a variety of responses. His direct generals dared to tell the truth. However, those servants and tribes were afraid that the answers they said would not satisfy him, and they would immediately suffer from the disaster!

"I don't care how much you heard it clearly, but I must tell you that in the eyes of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, we are all a group of barbarians! This book of war is well said, he used to be kind to us, and he was always for others to see, without a trace of sincerity!" As a hero of a generation, even though he was scolded so much that he still did not forget to find the most beneficial part of him in the book of war, and incite the servants to various departments. "However he scolds me today, he will scold you tomorrow. Even if you are loyal to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, in the end, they are just a horse or a watchdog he raised in his family!"

"Damn it!"

"It's too much to deceive others! The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty bullies others too much!"

"Go back to Gumo and grab the food!"

"Kill someone with the surname Zhang and light the sky lantern!"

...

All the Aijin and Tutun, no matter what they thought, were waving their arms with red eyes and making them angry.

"He is actually right!" Knowing what these kilograms under his command were all. Soge gritted his teeth and continued to add loudly, "What he said is actually right. My tribe has only more than a thousand tents. The ranch I originally owned is indeed larger than a village in the Central Plains! But, I, Khan Soge, of Tuqishi, swear to the sky today that I would rather die than be a tycoon for the Tang Dynasty! I, Tuqishi's man, would rather fight for the last breath than be a slave!"

"Never be a slave!"

"Turkish man, I would rather die than surrender!"

"The Tuqi Shi man will never be a slave!"

...

In the conference hall, the shouts were heard. The special agents under Soge, Ye Hu, Ai Jin, Chuo, Dagan, and Tutun, whether it was his own tribe or not, all their eyes were filled with tears and they swear to the sky.

Knowing that inciting alone was not enough, Soge suddenly pressed his hand down and signaled everyone to silence. After the shouts subsided, he asked proudly, "Malente, tell everyone, after we evacuate from Kucha City, will the Tang army have the courage to chase after?"

"No!" Soge's brother, who was named Secret Service by him, immediately understood it, stood up and announced proudly, "Niu Shizhao was scared out of his courage and sent only a dozen scouts out of the city. When we found the broken-back troops we left behind, we immediately frightened and ran back. The four gates were closed and we never dared to show our heads!"

"Hahaha..." Soge's direct generals laughed arrogantly and were extremely disdainful of the reactions of the Kucha defenders.

"And Zhuo Ye Hu, let me tell you, Zhou Yiti and Ashina Zhongjie, what are you doing at Sanhekou?" Soge curled his lips and continued to ask loudly.

Ye Hu Qiezhu, who had named him, also understood it. He stood up and bowed proudly, "Report to the Khan, I ran away, and ran away the day before yesterday! I found that we were evacuating from Kucha, Zhou Yiti and Ashina Zhongjie were both worried that we would turn around and beat him, so we fled into the desert. In this cold weather, when they walked through the desert and walked out from the other side, at least 30% of the soldiers under their command would die!"

"Hahaha, hahahahahaha..." Not only did Soge's head soldiers laugh wildly, but the other servants and Tutun people also shook their heads while laughing.

Zhou Yiti and Ashina's loyalty had long been defeated by Soge. This time, he pretended to come to rescue Kucha, but the forward never crossed the Chi River. He had only tens of thousands of troops, and except for the Niu Shi Award in Kucha City, he did not have any other effect.

If the Tang army had this kind of combat power, let alone 10,000 or 20,000, or more than five times, the thunder cavalry and thrust people could kill them!
To be continued...