The adventures we are talking about here are not military, but political.

Although the feudal ethics and morality of the Tang Dynasty were not as strict as those of later generations, they were also in the initial stage of formation - even if it was to deal with the party's decline, if the means of barbaric slaughter and extermination were adopted, I am afraid that it would also arouse the accusations of public opinion of the government and the opposition.

Therefore, in this plane, when the Northern Song Dynasty fought against the Western Xia, it launched cavalry to implement the strategy of "fighting the clan", that is, indiscriminately attacking, plundering and slaughtering the Qiang tribe in Hengshan.

"Nanshan, Dongshan, Liufu, Pingxia and other parties have fallen, and they are not grateful and awe of the grace of the imperial court, but they have swarmed up to fund Xifan, besiege my Tang City, and kill my Tang soldiers and people, and I Tang must treat them as traitors, and there is no need to be gentle." Gao Yue didn't think so, anyway, he was the supreme commander here in Yuanzhou, and he had the final say on everything.

Of course, Gao Yue also has a far-reaching "abacus" for doing this:

He deliberately stirred up the blood feud between the Tang Dynasty and the various party items, made the relationship between the two sides uncontrollable, and waited for an opportunity to completely solve the party problem in the entire Liuhu Prefecture area, at least destroy their vitality and destroy their mobilization potential.

So he ordered a purging of the order.

The target range, with the destruction of sand castles until Baicaoyu as the central axis, the troops are divided into three routes, and the central road is advanced from the north to the Mingsha and Zhongwei areas by the Yellow River, and the three generals of Mi Yuan, Zhu Bo and Shatong lead the cavalry and mule soldiers of the Baicao Army a total of 2,000; Shimen Pass, the target of the northwest road, led by Zhang Yufei, Liu Guoguang, and Shi Fu, the generals of the Jingyuan army, with a total of 2,000 cavalry, uprooted the rebel party or other Qiang fortress strongholds along the road, and approached Huizhou in Western Tibet; All the way to the southwest, Ma Youlin was led by Shence, with 1,000 cavalry, to defeat and sweep the Mamao Mountain between the sand castle and the Pingliang, and eradicate the remnants of the defeated soldiers of Xifan and Qianghu in this area, and completely open up the road to Guyuan and Pingliang.

Subsequently, more than 10,000 infantry of the Baicao Army guarded the ancient city of Baicao, divided into three times, each time 3,000 soldiers served for ten days, and rebuilt the military city on the spot, which was completed within a period of one month.

There were another 1,000 soldiers, and Gao Yue handed over to his subordinate general Sun Bingqian to defend and destroy the sand castle and repair the fortress damaged in the previous battle.

At the same time, Gao Yue also summoned the large and small businessmen who were originally doing business in Baili City, Yimaguan, and Jingzhou Anding City, and this group of people was very familiar with the situation of the party in various places, so Gao Yue was half persuasive and half coerced, and asked them to act as guides for all kinds of cavalry, guiding the locations where the Xiqiang and Nanshan Qiang tribes lived, so as to help encircle and suppress.

"Cavalry from all walks of life, carrying a number of dry food, a small sickle, cutting water and grass along the road to feed horses, no need to gather ants when clearing, with fifty horsemen and one hundred horsemen as a wing, attack from all sides, and imitate the rules of the party and the race to do things." In the end, Gao Yue gave the opportunity to fight.

In the spring, the Killing Bull Ridge in the north of Xiaoguan, the black and blue woodland between the mountains, is still covered with residual snow, the east and the west are extremely uneven, in the terrain surrounding, several places of the Nanshan Party Item's Fan Luo camp are spliced together, stretching for three or four miles, the bonfire is slowly inside, these few Fan fell when Ma Chongying invaded Yanzhou last winter, not only provided cattle and sheep to Xifan, but also gave way to the road, and helped the Xifan soldiers defeat Kang Rizhi's Shuofang army, captured Mingsha City, looted, and then entered the Killing Niu Ridge for the winter.

They never expected that the Tang army would be able to reach such a level, so they sent people to Gyeongju to warn Ma Chongying, and on the other hand, they were ready to wait until the snow melted, and all of them accepted the arrangements of Xifan, and crossed the Yellow River on a sheepskin raft (the Yellow River is in the Lingwu area, the river bank is soothing and open, suitable for crossing), and broke away from the Tang army's attack range and became a subordinate outpost of Xifan.

However, the cavalry of the White Grass Army, under the guidance of merchants who were familiar with geography, lined up in a winding procession, crossed a merchant path, and suddenly appeared at the pass of the mountain peak, overlooking the camp of the Nanshan party.

The leading general was Yonehara, and the cold wind at the pass was cold, and the snow particles rolled up covered his eyebrows and beard, dyeing them white, and the armor of his sash and arrow sleeves was also covered with six-out flowers, and then Yonehara followed Gao Yue's instructions and waved his lower arms to the left and right:

Zhu Bo, the shooter, immediately led fifty elites, quietly dismounted, carried Hulu's quiver on his back, formed several evacuation formations from the left flank of the pass, passed through the mountains and forests, and approached the target camp like a fan;

On the other side, the archer general Sha Tong, also led fifty soldiers, also dressed in the same attire, dismounted and lined up, silently advancing from the right flank.

Throughout the mountain, the morning sun had not yet fully risen, and the soldiers' boots made a subtle creaking sound on the snow.

Followed by the mule soldiers led by Xu Si, they were covered with armor, and they all got off their mounts, lined up according to the fighting style of the foot soldiers, and went down the mountains and forests in the dark, and many people also led the camels and calves captured from the Jingyuan battlefield, carrying all kinds of utensils.

And Mi Yuan at the top, and the most elite Baicao cavalry, including 800 Fan cavalry and 400 Fan Yang cavalry, saw that everyone in front of them had touched down, and began to outflank the back and flank of this group of Nanshan party camps along the ridge.

"Scared!" At the edge of the camp and woodland, a sentry from the Nanshan Party tied his mount to a tree, and when the mount suddenly hissed, he was awakened in his dream, and hurriedly grabbed the birch bow beside him.

His horse's eyes were red, his mouth was wide open, his teeth were bared, and he neighed wildly with the rope he tied to the trunk, and the snow foam kicked up by his hooves tried to gouge out the wedges that had been nailed to the ground.

The sound of restless horses echoed through the woods.

The scout opened his eyes, and saw a multitude of bright-eyed men pouring out from all corners of the woods, dressed in soap-colored robes under their armor, and bows in their hands were full of curved arcs.

"Tang, Tang Bing is here!" The scout shouted, and threw himself at his horse, to pull out the wedge, untie the rope, and rush back to the camp to report the news.

Three iron arrows spun at once, and the white feathers on their tails swept over the snow that had fallen from the branches, shooting at different angles into the scout's mount.

Before he died, the horse could not bite the rope that bound him, so he screamed and fell to the ground.

The scout popped, instinctively leaning against the trunk of the tree, then stretched out his right arm, and hung his quiver on the branch above, the arrows in which were clustered with bones.

After all, the armament of the party at this time was still quite backward compared with the Tang, Xifan, and Hui, and the Tang government had implemented an embargo policy before, so there were very few iron weapons.

Another arrow flew accurately, "Ah! The scout screamed: his right arm was completely nailed to the trunk of the tree, unable to move.