"Save the principles of heaven and destroy the demons! Preserve the principles of heaven and destroy the demons ......"

When the sky was dark, the cheers of the Shangtaohuashi army sounded outside the Alai Pass, which really shook the mountains and valleys, and even the earth seemed to tremble a little.

Although the march on the plateau at an altitude of about 4,000 miles was only more than 300 miles, it still made both warring sides suffer enough. Rao is indoctrination regiment - the Hexi coalition army is well prepared, carefully preserving the physical strength of the soldiers along the way, and everyone has lost weight, and their faces have also been exposed to the hot sun on the plateau "plateau red", and the healthy horses under the crotch can't stand the thin air of the plateau, not only losing fat, but also panting heavily.

To make matters worse, there were still many soldiers who were not physically adapted to the plateau climate and fell ill and tired, and the total number of soldiers had exceeded 10%, and in order to take care of them, they had to transfer some troops and horses to evacuate to the lower altitude Stone Town (another stone town, this stone town is the Tang Dynasty Green Ridge Guard Residence of the East Tajiks) to recuperate.

However, the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Hexi Coalition Army did not weaken in the slightest because of this. In the early hours of this morning, Zhang Yuan, Zhao Zhongshun, and Ma Zheng jointly issued the order of "full meal" and "preparation for war", followed by the earth-shaking cheers of the three armies!

The march, which was more arduous and dangerous than fighting, could now finally come to an end. The final decisive battle with the Turkic invaders, the great eaters who invaded China, and the few high-ranking feudal lords of the Qarakhanid who colluded with foreign invading armies, is about to begin!

Because of the previous series of victories, no one will doubt how cruel the upcoming battle will become, and the victory will definitely belong to the Great Song Dynasty, to the Hexi Army, and to Tianli!

Surrounded by the happy guards, Zhang Yuan, Zhao Zhongshun, and Ma Zheng climbed a heavily guarded slope together. Under the banner of the hunting and dancing, each of the three raised a telescope and began to observe the terrain and the Qarakhanid camp.

Now the Turkic-Qarakhanid camp was divided into two parts, one part was stationed around the Karahu Lake, except for the elite Ghulam warriors and the Iqtar knights, the officials and scholars of the Aslan Khan regime, and the families and servants of the officials, knights, and scholars, plus skilled craftsmen and wealthy merchants, and some elite militiamen, oh, and quite a few young women. In short, it's all elite soldiers and the core population!

The other part of the camp is located outside the Alai Pass, and the road to the Alai Pass is blocked, making it look like a refugee camp from a distance. The "refugee camp" was of course full of people who had been abandoned by Aslan Khan, either old and weak, or people who did not belong to the Qarakhanid tribe. dragged his family with his mouth, with a small amount of belongings, and followed the masses who did not know the truth all the way from Aslan Khan.

In fact, Aslan Khan's regime was a foreign regime compared to the aborigines of Shule and Khotan. The aborigines of the Shule and Khotanese generations are all mixed with the ancient Aryan race, the Han Chinese and the Turkic other Uighur races, and perhaps a considerable part of the Tibetan blood - the Tajiks in the mountains of the Green Mountains are actually the ancient Aryans with relatively pure blood, while the Shule and Khotanese areas are mixed with the ancient Aryan race and the Sino-Tibetan race.

Aslan Khan's Qarakhanid headquarters were nomadic Turkic tribes in the Land of the Seven Rivers, and although they also had a little Uighur ancestry, they were not Uighurs, and they did not recognize them themselves, but were mistaken for Uighurs by Song officials.

So the aborigines of the Ansi generation were not Turkic, nor were they the basis of the rule of Aslan Khan. On the contrary, the Qarluqs of the Land of the Seven Rivers were closer to the Qarakhanids and could be regarded as the basis of the Aslan Khan.

When the catastrophe is coming, it has always been the survival law of the steppe nomads to preserve the core headquarters, abandon the dependent tribes, and even abandon the old and weak of the headquarters, and preserve the strong. The foundation of the Aslan Khan regime is actually a nomadic people, so naturally they will not talk about loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

And this part of the people abandoned by Aslan Khan exceeded 200,000! During the more than ten days of marching on the plateau, about half of the troops were reduced for various reasons. Now there are only more than 100,000 people left, and under the pressure of the Qulam fighters of the invader Sanjar (both Sanjar and the caliph of the Tianfang Sect recognize a Taohuashi, so his current behavior is a gross interference in the cause of Taohuashi, that is, the cause of China's reunification, which is an act of imperialist aggression), they set camp in the valley outside the Alai Pass.

It was said to be a camp, but in fact it was a refugee camp, and there were no trenches, no fences, no arrow towers, no watchtowers, not even tents and carts that could be relied on—these baggage, as well as the livestock brought out of Kashgar, were all discarded on the march or captured by the pursuers. For those who fled to the Alai Pass, it was already very good to have a blanket to spread on the ground and a piece of naan to make ends meet.

Of course, these "refugees" still have a weapon or two in their hands! This is what is used to save your life. However, it is not used against pursuers, but against their companions.

Now that these refugees have lost most of their luggage, even eating has become a big problem, what can not be done to compete for the only remaining resources that can keep everyone alive temporarily? Even the Ghulam fighters sent by Sanjar to control the refugees could not stop the refugees from killing each other for food.

And in the eyes of these slave warriors from the Kipchak steppe, who had been trained in extremely brutal militarization since childhood, there was nothing wrong with killing each other in order to survive.

Probably aware of the abnormal movement of the camp of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone Army (they are all screaming, and if they don't notice it, they are deaf), so the Ghulam soldiers who pressed the formation, and the imams who accompanied them, all took action, organized the refugees who were able to take up arms, and forced them to form rows of horizontal formations, and a dozen formations outside the Alai Valley.

After the formation, all the people knelt down in the direction of Mecca under the command of the imams and began to pray before the battle.

Zhao Zhongshun put down the telescope first, glanced at the Great Sect of the Great Sect of Zhang Yuan, and sighed: "Great Sect, their sect is quite able to unite people's hearts, hundreds of thousands of people have followed here, and they can still fight in formation, our three sects of Confucianism are not as good as others." ”

Zhang Yuan nodded, "They do have merit!" To tell the truth, a few days ago, the official also read their translation of the Quran, and also asked an imam who could speak Chinese for advice, and found that their reasoning is similar to our science and the "Heavenly Reason". Their Lord is our heavenly Principle...... It's just that they have a prophet who can get the truth directly from the Lord, and we are only saints, and we must seek the truth contained in the heavenly principles by rational reasoning. Without the help of Positivism and Reason, our Heavenly Principles may not be as good as their Lord. ”

In fact, there are interactions and commonalities between Eastern and Western philosophies, so they can communicate with each other and promote each other. Because China has historically been far away from other major civilizations, it is difficult for China to absorb enough ideological nutrients from other civilizations until modern times. Coupled with the decline of civilization caused by the Mongol massacre, Confucianism came to a great stagnation after the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty was the highest peak of Confucianism, producing sage-level Confucians such as Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi, and Lu Jiuyuan. Although Zhang Yuan is not as good as them, but compared to the brainless Qing Confucian, I don't know how much stronger - the highest peak of Qing Confucianism is "middle school for the body, Western learning for use", but they don't know that the body of middle school can also absorb nutrients from the body of Western learning, and in fact, they don't really understand what the "body" is? That's why while talking about middle school as a body, a large number of Western schools were introduced, which resulted in the total collapse of middle schools.

After absorbing the nutrients of the "Theory of Heavenly Principles", "Positivism" and "Theory of Reason", Zhang Yuan, who was active in his thinking, has now begun to absorb the essence of the philosophical ideas of the Heavenly Fangjiao.

Many years later, Zhang Yuan also became the great master and sage of the Confucian Tianli School, and became one of the founders of the Tianli Sect in the Western Regions.

At this time, Zhao Zhongshun snorted: "Even if their reasoning is meritorious, their art of war must have nothing to merit...... Great Teaching, I see that it is almost over, can I go to the yak array? ”

The tactic of driving cattle into battle and camping was a common tactic used by the nomads in that part of the Mongolian plateau, and later Genghis Khan's Mongol army was particularly adept at this tactic. The party members are semi-nomadic, and although they don't play much about running bulls, they can do this. Moreover, when Ma Zheng led the troops through Qinghai Road, they got a lot of yaks that adapted to the plateau environment, raised cattle, and now they are all brought to the plateau. Now they were driven by the herdsmen of the Hexi auxiliaries or the herdsmen of the yellow-headed Uighurs, who were good at grazing, and had gone to the battlefield......

Driven by the herdsmen, the yak began to run, first slowly, then faster and faster, and finally in a frightened frenzy. More than 10,000 yaks galloped up in the open valley, as if they were floods rushing down from the sky, surging and unstoppable.

If they are attacking a well-trained infantry, they will be swept away by the galloping herd. But after all, it can still be resisted, after all, there are 100,000 people, and there are more than a dozen formations, how can they be leveled by more than 10,000 cows? If there is anything on fire or a firearm, it can even scare the cattle back.

However, the rabble that Aslan Khan and Sanjar used to drain the strength of the Song army did not have the courage to withstand the impact and trampling of the herd. Before the yaks could moo and rush up, the armed refugees in the first row had already begun to retreat. After days of fleeing and being pursued by the tail rank of the Song cavalry, the morale had long been extremely low, and if it hadn't been for the green mountains, there was no way to escape, and it would have collapsed long ago. Now that I see the cattle coming like a flood, what can I do but collapse?

Tens of thousands of people turned around at the same time, and even the Ghulam warriors of the overseer array were no exception, shouting in horror while rushing with all their strength, forming a "flood peak" and rushing towards the second group of armed refugees hundreds of paces behind them.