The Tian Shan Mountains traverse almost the entire Western Regions, but at that time not all of them were called Tian Shan, only the northeastern part was called Tian Shan, and the southwest part was called Beishan.
Akaya Castle, the capital of the Usun Kingdom, is located at the foot of the North Mountain, and if you want to break through the Akaya Castle, you must pass through the North Mountain Pass.
North Mountain Pass, the wind roars, and the yellow sand rolls.
Ten miles ahead of the North Mountain Pass, on the vast desert like the sea, 80,000 Wusun iron cavalry gathered into a huge cavalry formation, dense as locusts, the barren desert was covered by a large gray-brown crowd in an instant, and the billowing smoke and dust rolled up from behind the Wusun cavalry formation, gradually rising higher and higher, and wanted to cover the entire sky.
In front of the Wusun formation, the general Ma Chao was wearing a white robe and silver armor, holding a tiger's head and a golden gun, sitting on top of the flying horse in the sand, squinting his eyes slightly, looking at the extreme, only to see the silver-white waves rolling in front of him one after another, and in a blink of an eye, it was two or three miles away.
Ma Chao's eyes were full of murderous intent, and his fighting spirit was raging, perhaps this would be his last battle with Gongsun Bai, if he wins, he will live, and if he loses, he will die.
Suddenly, Ma Chao raised his right arm.
"The general has an order.
The whole army stopped advancing and formed a formation" Dozens of cavalry heralds galloped away from both sides of Ma Chao's war horse, quickly conveying Ma Chao's order, and the surging cavalry formation gradually stopped, and slowly spread out to the two wings from a thousand steps away from Gongsun Jun.
It was like locusts sweeping across the meadow, and in an instant, the vast desert in front of the cavalry of the Gongsun Army was obscured.
The endless white waves on the opposite side also gradually stopped, and the distance between the two sides was only more than 400 steps.
Gongsun Bai stood on his horse, and while ordering the soldiers to straighten out the queue, he turned back and asked Guo Jia and Sima Yi suspiciously: "Wusun Kingdom has been defeated and fought repeatedly, and the loss is not only 60,000 or 70,000, why are there so many soldiers and horses?"
In Gongsun Bai's mind, there should only be about 50,000 cavalry left in Wusun, but at this moment, there are at least nearly 30,000 more soldiers and horses in front of him than he imagined, and these cavalry don't look like soldiers and horses that are temporarily pulled to make up the numbers.
Guo Jia narrowed his eyes, raised his eyes, and quickly saw the clue, and said: "In the middle is the Xiliang cavalry, on the left is the Wusun cavalry, and although the cavalry on the right is under the banner of the Wusun people, it is obviously from other places." ” Gongsun Bai and the generals looked up, and sure enough, they saw that the cavalry on the right side was obviously different: all brown leather armor, leather helmets, and even the war horses were covered with half-pulled leather armor covering the horse's face and the lower part of the horse's neck, and the probability of arrows in these two parts was the highest, and they were covered; This unknown soldier and horse is about 30,000 horsemen, and its momentum is not weaker than that of the Xiliang cavalry, which is obviously much stronger than the languishing Wusun cavalry.
In the entire Western Regions, there are only a handful of countries that can come up with 30,000 cavalry, not to mention the countries that secretly support Wusun in the name of the Wusun Army, and their combat effectiveness and equipment are significantly stronger than those of the Western Regions.
"I'm afraid it's the Da Yue Clan," Sima Yi said suddenly.
Kushan Empire Gongsun Bai's heart sank.
The Kushan Empire, that is, the Great Yue Clan in the Han population, was known as the four great powers along with the Great Han, Anxi and Rome, with a population of nearly 10 million people and hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
During the period of Emperor He, the Kushan Empire was in a period of expansion, and the Kushan King Gadphisses I asked Ban Chao to marry the Han Dynasty and marry the Han princess.
Ban Chao refused his request.
As a result, Gadphices I sent his vice-president Xie to lead an army of 70,000 to cross the Green Ridge to attack the Western Regions, but was defeated by Ban Chao.
After that war, the Kushan Empire abandoned its eastward expansion and turned its expansion west and south to occupy the Indian subcontinent.
However, that battle was not the true strength of the Kushan Empire, the Kushan cavalry traveled thousands of miles over the green mountains, and the grain, grass, baggage and transportation could not keep up, and Ban Chao implemented the strong wall and clear the field, only defending but not attacking.
Attacking the city and breaking through the pass, it was originally not the strength of the cavalry, coupled with the lack of food and grass, and could not be replenished on the spot, the Guishan people could not attack the barriers and checkpoints that they could not hold on to after work, and had to retreat to the south of the Green Ridge in ashes.
Judging from the current situation, it is probably the most reasonable explanation that these cavalry came from the Kushan Empire, otherwise it would be impossible for such a strong army to fall from the sky out of thin air.
Sima Yi said: "I'm afraid that the people of the Dayue clan also heard that the Han family was weak, and they were thinking about marching into the Western Regions and expanding to the east, and they were jealous of King Yan's military horses, so they secretly sent troops to aid the Wusun people to test the strength of King Yan." ” Gongsun Bai thought further, the Kushan people came to rely on the Silk Road to make a profit, and became a link and trading transit place between the Han Dynasty and the western countries, so the national strength was strong, but since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there have been years of chaos, the production order has been destroyed, and the Silk Road is no longer smooth, and the economy of the Kushan people has been seriously hit, so it is also one of the important reasons to want to develop eastward.
With Gongsun Bai's current situation, it is obviously unrealistic to want to send troops across the Green Mountains to invade the huge Kushan Empire, but since the Guishan people are ready to move, they will give his mother a ruthless time, so that the Guishan people dare not look at the Green Mountains, and wait until they unify the Han Dynasty, and then come to clean up this country that does not know the height of the sky.
A sly smile appeared at the corner of Gongsun Bai's mouth, and he turned back to the generals behind him and shouted: "Later, the battle will be together, Bai Ma Yi will attack the Xiliang Cavalry from the main attack, the Flying Wolf Cavalry will attack the Wusun Soldiers, and the Moyun Cavalry will kill the Dayue Clan with all his might, once the enemy army is defeated, then Bai Ma Yicong will pursue the Dayue Clan with all his might, and be sure to kill its main general."
"Oh" The generals behind him agreed in unison Gongsun Bai waved his halberd: "Array, meet the enemy" In the enemy formation on the opposite side, on the right flank was the cavalry of the Kushan Empire, at the invitation of Wusun Kunmi Tianyunmi, on the order of the Kushan King Vesudeva I, to come to help in the battle and to probe the strength of the Han army.
As Gongsun Bai guessed.
As the Silk Road passed through Kushan, Kushan merchants played the role of middlemen.
They went south to South Asia, east to the Central Plains, west to rest into the Roman Empire, transported silk, spices and all kinds of luxury goods from the East to India and Rome, and transported Roman weapons to the East, while China obtained grapes, broad beans, pomegranates, crocflowers, walnuts and so on from Central Asia.
However, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Silk Road was no longer smooth, and the economic development of the Kushan people suffered a serious setback, and their strength gradually showed a downward trend, so the Kushan King Vesudeva I was anxious to get rid of this predicament, and was afraid of the strength of the Han Dynasty.
This time, Nikolai, the general in charge of leading the troops, held a golden spear in his hand, straddled a nearly nine-foot war horse, stood proudly in front of the large army array, turned his head and saw the powerful cavalry formation behind him, and then looked at the less than half of the Gongsun army cavalry in front, and felt great joy and pride.
"The powerful Han army in the mouth of Wusun is nothing more than that, the former vice king Xie is just a tactical mischief, when I can capture the Yan king of the Han Dynasty, and then ask the king to send troops, only 100,000 fine horsemen, you can sweep the Western Regions, and then go east, forcing the Han people to reopen the Silk Road" Nikolai screamed, causing the morale of the thousands of Kushan cavalry behind him to rise, and they all raised their weapons and shouted loudly.
These Kushan cavalry were not only well-equipped, but also well-armed, and their morale was sky-high, which not only formed a sharp contrast with the sluggish Wusun cavalry, but also had a little more momentum than the Xiliang cavalry.
Driven by the Kushan people, the morale of the Xiliang people and the Wusun people has also been significantly improved, although they did not follow the Kushan people to shout, but they also raised the weapons in their hands in unison, and the shining blade formed a dead forest in the air, and the murderous aura was all over the sky.
"Augustus" At this moment, Nikolai suddenly let out a loud shout.
A nine-foot-tall Kushan warrior rode forward, marching two hundred paces with a bow and arrow.
Far away in the sky.
The three-stone strong bow slowly opened until it stretched like a full moon, and the sharp arrow cluster pointed at the Han army camp more than a hundred paces ahead.
Immediately, his right hand was released, and only a buzzing sound was heard, and the wolf's tooth arrow on the string had already swept into the air "Huh" The sharp wolf's tooth arrow crossed the sky in an instant, and flew into the cloud-like banner of the Han army with a sharp scream, the cold light flashed, only to hear a clatter, and the flagpole of an embroidered flag was broken by force, and the arrow was only a few steps away from Tai Shi Ci.
Tai Shi Ci's face sank, at such a distance, there was such a penetrating power, and the arm strength of this noble frost archer could be described as terrifying It's nothing short of naked demonstrations and provocations "Damn" Tai Shi Ci was so angry that he jumped like thunder, put his hand on it, and said sharply, "Bow here" There were already soldiers who sent the iron tire bow to the front, Tai Shi Ci stretched out his hand to grab it, galloped more than 100 steps, pulled a feather arrow from the quiver and put it on the string, and then raised his head and shouted, the muscles on his arm bulged violently, and in a piercing crunch, the iron tire bow with five stone pulling force was already full.
"Hey" "Huh" Tai Shi Ci exhaled, let go of his hand, and the sharp wolf tooth arrow came out of the string, swept over the battlefield in an instant, and shot directly into the Kushan army formation, the arrow was like a meteor, and the main flag in the Guishan army formation on the right wing was actually shot off Nearly 300 paces away to shoot the main flag, what a divine shot The Guishan cavalry was in an uproar, everyone's eyes showed shock, and their morale suddenly dropped greatly.
Nikolai originally wanted to use the magic technique to suppress the morale of the enemy army, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face by Tai Shici once.
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Although it is said that the main flag is the banner of the Wusun people, the main flag was broken, which is not only unfavorable for the division, but also inconvenient for command.
Nikolai was frightened and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to change the flagpole of the main flag.
At this time, the great war was on the verge of breaking out.
Ma Chao looked at Gongsun Bai under the banner of "Gongsun", the battle intent in his eyes was strong, and he said loudly: "Blow the trumpet, beat the drum, and prepare to fight to the death" A huge earth horn was lifted up and pointed into the sky, and a famous drummer with a bare chest and belly also climbed onto the drum rack, and his thick arms burst into green tendons like earthworms, and he clenched the two heavy drumsticks in his hands, and slammed them down on the war drums as large as the canopy of a car.
"Knock" A suffocating drum suddenly sounded between heaven and earth, as if it were striking directly on the heart of a warrior.
The blood boiled, the searing killing intent began to pour out of the eyes of every warrior, and the time for the battle drums to rise and the swords to raise their swords and show their courage had arrived "Knock Knock" "Woo woo" The fierce sound of war drums and long trumpets continued to rise, intertwined, and a strong aura of slaughter stirred in the desert, and the sky and earth were permeated.
As soon as the battle flag danced, the cavalry of the 80,000 mixed army, under the leadership of Ma Chao, crushed the Gongsun army like a rolling iron stream
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