Outside Jiayu Pass, a team of 3,000 people is trekking through the vast snowfield.
This is Xia Xun's centaur.
The departments outside Jiayu Pass are only instinctively attached to the Ming Dynasty, the most powerful empire closest to them, this political position is originally wavering, and the decision lies in the deterrent power of the Ming Dynasty to the Western Regions, and now Timur has embarked on a journey, the news has spread in the Western Regions, and the position of the Western Regions is very warm.
However, Xia Xun also insisted on his own opinions, in his opinion, it is precisely because the position of the foreign departments is vacillating, we need to communicate more with them at this time and do more work.
If Timur's army has not arrived, and the Ming army has closed the door and left them out, then they will have a feeling: "We have been abandoned by the Ming Dynasty and the Ming are afraid of Timur" If that's the case, when Timur's army arrives, these tribal forces, which don't have much loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, will inevitably throw themselves into Timur.
Xia Xun did not expect them to resolutely resist Timur, but once Timur occupied these areas and attacked under Jiayu Pass, whether these local snakes had a perfunctory attitude towards Timur or actively cooperated with him, to a large extent, determined whether Timur could use Mongolstan, Beshbali, and Hami as his three-stage springboard, which was of great military significance.
Song Sheng is the commander of the Western Regions Army, who is popular and expected, and he needs to sit here in order to play his greatest role.
Moreover, his physical condition, it is impossible to get out of the customs, he is the commander, Xia Xun is equivalent to the "political commissar", this thing that unites all the forces that can be united is used by me, he Xia Xun does not do it, who will he call it The argument between the two ended with Xia Xun's victory.
Song Sheng had no choice but to allocate it to Xia Xun from his own pro-army guard to protect his safety.
Song Sheng's pro-army, 1,500 people, is a brave soldier selected from the Jingliang Iron Cavalry, and the establishment is more than half of the ordinary Qianhu Office, and the commander is a Qianhu, called Feng Cracking.
Feng Rift Yan is originally from Hexi, familiar with the customs of the Western Regions, and this army is also the best equipped and strongest force in the Xiliang Army, in order to deal with possible dangers and ensure Xia Xun's safety, Song Sheng has spared no effort.
Xia Xun himself also brought 1,500 people, led by Saihazhi.
Combined, there were only 3,000 people.
This number is the best choice for the winter snow march to ensure that the guard force is as strong as possible, and has considerable mobility and flexibility.
Further west, it enters a sparsely populated area, the distance between each city is quite far, in the middle are uninhabited walls, sandbanks, if in danger, such a force can protect the commander, leave as quickly as possible, and it is easy to get rid of the pursuers, if the team is larger, but bloated, difficult to dispatch, although the number of people is large, but it is easier to become the fish on the chopping board of others.
Xia Xun took Liu Yujue, Chen Dong, Ye An, as well as Xilin, Jeanne and Sai'er.
Celine and Jeanne had to bring them, which was originally the reason why Xia Xun brought them to the Western Regions.
They are from the ancient kingdom of Qiuci, which is centered on the Kuqa Oasis, and at its peak its jurisdiction included Luntai, Kucha, Shaya, Baicheng, Aksu, Xinhe and other places, and its places were originally in the areas of Hami, Beshbali and Mongolstan.
Ciline and Jeanne are very familiar with the chieftains and gentry in this area, and they know more about these forces and big families than the officials and secret agents can know.
As for Tang Sai'er, according to Xia Xun's meaning, she originally wanted to leave this little girl in Gansu Town, but the little girl was unwilling, the little girl who never knew the taste of father's love knew the taste of marrow, and now she is closer to her godfather than anyone else, and she is reluctant to separate, and as soon as Xia Xun and Xilin Jeanna leave, she will not have anyone she knows in Gansu Town, and she is unwilling to stay here.
Xia Xun thought about it for a while, now Timur's army is still far away, and the wealthy clans and local chieftains of the Western Regions who are here to visit will never dare to disadvantage him, otherwise if Timur's army arrives, the Ming army will be able to go out of the customs to exterminate them, and there should be no problem with safety, anyway, they have already brought two women, Celine and Jeanna, and there is nothing wrong with asking Sai'er to join them.
So, Tang Sai'er happily joined the team.
The winter scenery in the Western Regions is beautiful.
The birch forest covered with rime, the small wooden houses piled up with snow to form mushrooms, the snowcocks pacing in square steps on the snow, the foxes probing their brains in the forest, and the people outside the Saiwai wearing big leather jackets and driving sleds on the reckless snowfield, everything seems to be quiet, and the movement in the stillness gives people the feeling that it is also quiet.
When leaving the village and entering the Yibi, the snow-covered peaks in the distance are frozen into ice and covered with snow, and the glacier in the shape of a river can be faintly seen in the same color as the snow field, the fluffy reeds covered with snowflakes, the poplars like bunches of torches burning into the sky, and the shallow ripples carved by the wind in the sand dunes in the distance, which really make people feel that they don't know what day is going on It's just that this kind of scenery is very amazing when you first look at it, but you have to look at the same scenery for two or three days in a row, and during this time, you have to keep trekking through the snowfield, it is not a pleasure, but an unspeakable torment.
Celine and Jeanne, who had just returned to their hometown, and Selle, who had never seen such a beautiful winter snow scene and had been sitting on the wheels to admire, had returned to the warm tent to sleep in the warm tent with great interest.
Ye An sat on the horse, his hands on his sleeves, covering himself tightly, his knife hanging on the side of the saddle, clanging, and a layer of hoarfrost on the scabbard.
He is from Jiangnan, he is not very familiar with the situation here, he didn't pay attention to it for a while yesterday, his hand poked out of his sleeve, and he went directly to get his own knife, but only touched it lightly, and his hand stuck to the knife swallow, and even the knife was put in his arms to warm up before taking it away, if it was hard to pull, it was inevitable that a piece of skin would be torn off, and now he really knew the taste of the cold outside the gate.
Xia Xun sat on the horse, his waist was straight, he didn't even wear a scarf, looking forward to the left and right, very calmly.
In fact, this has nothing to do with the level of martial arts, Ye An and Chen Dong's martial arts are good, and their bodies and bones are very strong, but in such a cold weather, they also wrap themselves like a doll who has not been out of the Three Dynasties, Xia Xun has mainly stayed in Liaodong for a long time and has been used to this kind of weather.
Although it is cold in the Western Regions, when the wind calms down in most areas, it is warmer than that in Liaodong.
"My godfather is so powerful, Sister Cyrin, have you seen it, on such a cold day, he still sits upright on the horse, without fear" Celine rolled her eyes and said against her: "What is this, look at those who are dressed in three layers inside and three layers outside, they are all soldiers brought over by our Jiangnan, aren't all the people under the command of the wind like this?"
Xilin is full of resentment, and she is ready to dedicate herself more than once, but this grandfather of the country seems to turn a blind eye to the two lively beauties around him, and he is really closer to a little girl whose hair has not faded than them, and they want to hug Xia Xun's neck and sit on his lap to be the one who is coquettish.
Now that she and Jeanne are completely dead, hearing that Sai'er has to praise her good godfather even for such a trivial matter, she is angry, so she naturally wants to contradict her.
Sai'er wrinkled her little nose and said unconvinced: "My godfather is also from Jiangnan, but he is not afraid of the cold."
Celine and Jeanne looked up, rolled their eyes, and snorted coldly.
Sai'er cocked her chin, snorted coldly, and turned her head to ignore them: "These two stupid sisters are too discerning to tell them" The pine is dark green, the birch is golden, and the thin snow gently covers the forest, quiet and wonderful.
Xia Xun grabbed the reins of the horse, looked around, and ordered: "It's getting late, let's set up camp, the soldiers are divided into two roads, and they are stationed on the two slopes of the valley mouth nearby, and on the other side of the hillside and the valley mouth, and stationed the fixed sentry and the flow sentry."
Along the way, he basically followed the opinions of Wind Rift Flame regarding the camp deployment, but along the way, he carefully figured out the various arrangements for Wind Crack Flame and Sehazhi camp, and this great general, who had never read military books since childhood, also understood some key points of camping and choosing a location, and began to try to manage some specific matters of marching and camping.
His choice at the moment was decent, but there was no flaw, Wind Crack Yan and Sehazhi agreed, and immediately ordered to go down, and the three armies were to enter the valley and set up camp in the leeward and sunny place.
The outpost went first, went to the valley to survey the terrain, check whether there was an ambush, more than 100 rode into the valley, there were those who tended to move forward, and there were also those who abandoned their horses to go up the mountain and retrieve the mountains and forests.
The horses had disappeared into the valley, and it seemed that they were going all the way to the end of the valley.
The soldiers who searched both sides of the valley were very careful, and some of the high places were difficult to climb with their bare hands, so they threw their flying catches, and climbed them by the trees on the high places, and looked at the posture, and they had to check until they reached the top of the valley.
Suddenly, the sound of a horn reverberated through the valley, grim and desolate.
High on both sides of the valley, countless figures suddenly jumped out of the snow, and with their movements, huge stones covered with snow also rumbled down the hillside, wrapped in a plume of snow, and smashed heavily in the middle of the valley, with a terrifying sound Feng Rifty's face changed, and he immediately shouted: "Form a formation, meet the enemy" Saihazhi shouted loudly: "Cloth the circle array, protect the country" One elite of the Beijing battalion, one Xiliang iron cavalry, and the two Ming armies immediately moved in an orderly manner.
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"There's going to be a war" Tang Sai'er poked her head out of the car window and looked excitedly, her little face swollen red: "Sister Xilin, Sister Jeanna, it's going to be a war."
Jeanna was afraid that she would go out and hurt the arrows, so she hurriedly pulled her back and scared her: "Well, you stay in peace, be careful so that the king of the mountain will see it, and rob you to be the lady of the village."
"Will it?"
Tang Sayer was a little worried, but he turned his head to look at Celine and Jeanne's bewitching figures, peugeot faces, and then at his chest that was flatter than the mirror, and immediately put his mind at ease, and made a grimace at them and said, "You should be careful, hehe" To be continued: