The viscous red liquid turned the dry sand into a swamp, and it took a long time to pull out the foot when you stepped on it, and a horse lance was inserted into the ground and trembled with the wind and sand, and there was a faint sound of gold and iron, until the blood-stained hand pulled it out.

This battle absolutely broke the world record of more than 80,000 killings in a single day in the famous bloody battle between Carthage and Rome, the Battle of Cannae, holding the horse lance and looking forward, Gao Kan's eyes were full of lodging corpses, mourning war horses, although it was a desert, the flies and crows that heard the news, vultures still flew all over the battlefield, and the corpses of the White Huns soaked in blood were piled up in various shapes, and the last fear before dying was fixed on the face.

Although the White Huns are strong and strong, and they are also famous in history, they are divided into small tribes, and there is no unified co-lord for almost two centuries, and the battles between the tribes on weekdays are only a few thousand people fighting around, and even the big leader of Vesudeva was temporarily selected by the Fujian army when he was driven out of his place of residence, and his bloodline was closer to the ancient Kushan king, and there was no experience in the great war of millions of people of several nationalities fighting to the death.

The three sand dunes simply formed a natural trap, and the White Huns did not send scouts to find out in advance, and after almost the entire clan of warriors rushed from the slope to the flat land at the bottom of the valley, they immediately encountered a bloody attack by 200,000 Tang troops.

The light cavalry, which had no room for maneuver at all, did not have much advantage in the face of the organized heavy infantry, the forward attack was frustrated, and was counterattacked by the Tang army, and the rear army was on the highly mobile sand dunes, and there was a lack of contact between the front and rear departments.

At this time, millions of Hulu came to the west, the enemy was outnumbered, and this kung fu paid attention to what benevolence, righteousness and morality was the smiling and generous Song Xianggong in history, and the Tang army departments just let go to kill, and the desperate fighting and slaughtering were carried out for more than two hours, and when the sun set down, this nameless sand valley had been killed into a blood valley, and the reflection was in the eyes of the eagle falcon hovering in the sky, as if there was an extra piece of ruby buried in the yellow sand on the ground.

The great war related to the fate of the Central Plains began fiercely, and there was really no energy to take care of the prisoners, and almost all of the 120,000 White Huns were killed here by the Tang army, except for a few thousand who fled quickly at the end of the ranks.

Carrying the horse lance and gasping violently, looking at the soldiers under his command who were also wandering on the battlefield like ghosts, a stream of blood suddenly surged into his chest, and he suddenly held the horse lance high above his head, shouting loudly and excitedly.

"Datang! Banzai! ”

Fierce cheers rose to the sky, dispersing the eagle vultures that were still hovering in the sky, and also kicked off the vigorous opening of this epic war.

There was no time to wash the sweat and blood stains on their bodies, the Tang army even abandoned the people of Xizhou, and let them flee to the area of Zhangye Jiuquan by themselves.

There is a reason why Tang Xiujing chose to retreat, compared with the huge barbarian army that moved westward, the biggest advantage of the Tang army is not the combat effectiveness of the equipment, but the unity of command and dispatch, after all, the westward migration barbarians are two parts of Europe and Asia, more than a dozen large nationalities and hundreds of small ethnic groups are composed, if you sit back and wait for Xizhou, the Tang army will have to face millions of people who control the strings, but if you retreat, the barbarian united army with different customs and value orientations will definitely split, some pursue, some are satisfied with occupying the fertile soil of the Turpan Basin, and some are slow to pursue, The greedy chase faster, and the million-strong army must be dispersed.

To use a modern strategic term, it is to exchange space for absolute superiority in the local battlefield, and then use this superiority to push the entire war situation to develop on one's side.

Now Tang Xiujing's strategy has undoubtedly been achieved, and now every minute of time is gold for Tang Jun! There was no time to rest, taking advantage of the slightly cooler sunset, the Tang army, which was gnawing on dry food, was wearing the stars and the moon again, and attacked the next target with the will that was passed down to the ancestors of Lao Qin.

At night, Hu rode peacefully, suddenly the wind and sand were done, the sun and the moon hung upside down, and the heavenly soldiers arrived!

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The reason why the Hexi Corridor is called the Hexi Corridor is for a reason, this narrow plain is located in the north of the Qilian Mountains, the south of the Heli Mountains, and the west of the Wusheling Mountains, forming a relatively closed plain surrounded by a large number of mountains, which is a strategic place, since the Han Wu Emperor attacked the Xiongnu in the north to occupy this rich land, and established the four counties of Jiuquan, Wuwei, Zhangye, and Dunhuang, it has always been the forefront of the war between nomads and farming peoples.

Xizhou and Shazhou are actually located near Dunhuang County, the westernmost part of the four counties of Hexi, and then to the west, it is a relatively closed area of the Turpan Basin, and the city of Mokou is located in the middle of these two closed areas, which was once the east gate of Gaochang to defend the Central Plains.

However, since Tang Taizong sent Hou Jun to destroy Gaochang, it has become an important stop on the Silk Road after crossing the moraine, and the merchants from the west are here to replenish food supplies and finish the last journey to Chang'an, and the merchants who went to the east have experienced the tempering of the moraine, and they are also full of ambition to carry the oriental silk to the world.

However, in the middle of the canyon, the bustling city of Mokou was silent, and its owner had a new face, a tall and strong Frankish man with curly hair and beard.

As a branch of the Germanic peoples, the Franks also had a tradition of separation, according to the Frankish code, once Pepin II died, the Frankish kingdom he established would be divided equally among his sons, thus reopening the division.

However, it was not easy to establish a large empire comparable to the Western Roman Empire, Pepin II was obviously unwilling to divide the leading country again, so it became his political decision to restore the Eastern and Western Roman Empires with Li Jie, and the old fox Pepin hoped to set up another emperor on the heads of many kings, so that the situation of imperial unity could be maintained, after more than 300 years of division of the Merovingian dynasty, the old Pepin did not want to let the Franks fight the civil war again.

However, while Li Jie compromised, he gave him a more radical proposal, since he didn't want his sons to split up, why didn't he send them to the East to fight for Min and Tang? Power outweighs affection, this proposal obviously made Pepin II's heart pound, so Pepin recruited several of his sons to the imperial front, except for the heir he chose, he gave the remaining sons two choices, either take his people to the East to establish their own kingdom, or with their father, the new Western Roman Emperor Peping His Majesty to become political enemies, everyone fight!

These sons were joined by the unruly Saracen nobles, the Counts of Burgundy, and the lords of Aquitaine, and more than 100,000 Franks waged war eastward under the trumpet of Li Jie.

However, compared with those plundering Central Asian nomadic barbarians, the Franks were obviously much more civilized at this time, and the Frankish princes were not very willing to attack Chang'an to the east, and conquered the entire Western Regions, and now the greatest wish of the Frankish princes is to establish a new kingdom on the spot and settle down.

As for attacking Chang'an? As soon as Hexi arrives, the barrier in Guanzhong has been lost, and it will be a long time coming!

The city has now become a fief of the Duke of Bavaria, and the city head of the city that was originally patrolled by soldiers and horses in Xizhou has now become a constant flow of Franks with braided beards and flying axes pinned to their waists, and under the city, the residents of the Western Regions who were originally Loulan, Qi Yan, and Gaochang were not taken away have become slaves, sweating and working under the Franks' leather whips.

In the past, the wind-blown and sandy border passes of the Tang Dynasty have now become colonies of these Germanic people.

The well-carved Bodhisattva statue, the Buddha statue was broken and carried out of the city like garbage, and the slaves of the Western Regions who carried the heavy burden were filled with grief and anger one by one, and they still faintly looked at the direction of Chang'an when they stopped step by step.

"Frank squid! Hurry up! More than a dozen Franks were arrogantly brandishing whips and shouting, and the slaves who beat them could not raise their heads.

In the crowd of slaves, a thin woman suddenly fell to the ground with exhaustion, the headscarf wrapped in her hair fell off, revealing a beautiful black hair, and more than a dozen Frankish overseers immediately surrounded her with bright eyes, shouting in surprise as if she had received a treasure: "There is actually a Tang woman!"

"Haha! A few brothers are not shallow, they have slept with so many girls, but they have never played with the Tang people, pull her back, the brothers have a good time, and then sell them to the west, and they can make a lot of money, hahaha! ”

Restrained to the ground like these Frankish barbarians catching chickens, the woman begged to look back at her Loulan husband, but shrank in the crowd, but the man did not dare to come out at all, and seeing that his innocence was not guaranteed, the woman scolded bitterly in the local language.

"It won't be long before the imperial army will definitely fight back and send you barbarians back to hell!"

"Hmph, I wish he would call back! But your emperor ran away with his tail between his legs! He proudly dragged the woman to the city, and the barbarians laughed arrogantly: "It won't be long before we, with God's blessing, we Franks will fight to Chang'an, where you infidels gather, and turn it into a new empire of Germanic people, hahahaha!"

The shrill screams of the women, the whipping, the cries of the slaves, the setting sun, the sun seemed to be disgusted with such a day, and would not swagger for a second longer, but the Frankish rule seemed to be stable, and if nothing else, it might become extraordinarily long.

But just when the Franks were dreaming about the city of the Tang people, on the opposite side of the city, on the towering mountain of Qilian Mountain, a fire suddenly lit up.

Although the city is a trade center, but perennial in the farming people and nomads, the official army and the sand thieves ring the horse to compete for the key points, the whole city is still dominated by militarized colors, the whole city is surrounded by small rings, the outermost ring is the moat, and then there is more than eight meters high, the circumference of one kilometer of the city wall, the northwest of the city wall, and there is a garrison fortress more than ten meters high, the city high wall is thick.

Guarding the drawbridge at the gate of the city, the two Franks leaned against the pillar and fell asleep, snoring like thunder, and the pigs in the pigsty on the opposite side of the snoring were trembling, and they had trekked for more than a year, from distant Europe all the way to the Western Regions, and had plundered the Western Regions for more than five months.

No one noticed that in the slave circle on the side, more than a dozen people with turbans wrapped around their heads, their faces were very different from those slaves in the Western Regions, with round foreheads, narrow noses, and large and towering cheekbones.

The Frank man who was leaning on the pillar on the right vaguely felt a little cold light and opened his eyes in shock, but the next second he felt that he actually flew up, and two headless corpses spurting blood collapsed under the pillar.

The one on the right, why is he so much like himself?

Two Franks were cut off with a sword, and the slave men who came out did not stop at all, and the six well-trained men climbed up to the city gate, took bows and crossbows, and looked carefully, and the two lowered the drawbridge, and finally the captain-like man took the torch and waved it three times at the fire on the opposite hillside.

A moment later, in the night, a winding procession rushed towards the place.

"The Tang people have counterattacked!"

Suddenly, the whole town of Mokou was in an uproar, and the Franks who lived in the outer city rushed out of the houses in panic, some of them had just finished sleeping with women, and they were not even wearing pants, and the sleepy-eyed Frankish barbarians had just come out, and before they could see where the enemy was coming from, they had been shot to the ground by rockets like raindrops on the city walls.

The city wall, which was originally used as protection, has now become a favorable weapon for the Tang people, covered by the wall with a circumference of one kilometer, the Tang army's shooting has almost no dead ends, and the crowds of Franks were shot to death in the city without even engaging in hand-to-hand combat, and the rest were terrified and fled to the inner city in panic.

"How is this possible? Didn't the Tang people be chased and killed by the Bada people a thousand miles away? ”

The Germanic Duke from Bavaria was also panicked like a grasshopper at this time, wearing armor and carrying an axe in panic, and shouting anxiously: "Send a message to Reims immediately!" Ask King Sharmat for help! ”

"Hmph, you don't need it!"

A cold and arrogant voice suddenly sounded in the garrison fortress, the wall shattered with a bang, and the four Bavarian dukes were caught off guard and were suddenly pierced through the chest by the Tang army warriors who rushed out of the wall, and fell in a pool of blood, followed by several Tang army warriors, a seat of armor, a long beard fluttering, and the old but energetic eldest grandson Wuji actually led a dozen crossbowmen out from behind the wall.

"Who are you?" The Duke of Bavaria screamed in disbelief, and the plate axe in his hand even fell to the ground, but unfortunately the eldest grandson Wuji shrugged his shoulders.

"The old man doesn't understand."

He tilted his head and waved his hand: "Kill him."

More than a dozen crossbows pierced through the body, the sturdy Duke of Franks fell to the ground without looking at him, casually threw the Lion Flag of the Franks into the firepower, a Tang rune was hung on the wall, and the eldest grandson Wuji unfolded the map in a sassy manner, at this time, the shouting and killing in the inner city also stopped, and hundreds of Tang Army sharps suddenly opened the fortress door with bloody swords, and knelt down on one knee neatly.

"Meet the eldest grandson Sikong!"

In the torch hunting that surrounds the city, Datang, it's back!