At the same time that Tuhuan learned that the ancient city of Dunhuang was captured by Li Yuntian's army, the Great Khan of the Timurid Empire, Khordu, also learned the truth of the matter, and was furious and smashed the wine glass in his hand.

He never imagined that Li Yuntian would be able to slip under the noses of Wen Du and the others outside Qinglong City, but Wen Du and the others knew nothing, resulting in the accidental loss of the ancient city of Dunhuang, and the grain and grass stored in it were burned.

"It's so arrogant to want to drink the city of Samarkand." Of course, what made Khordu Khan most annoyed was Li Yuntian's warning, and he angrily pointed at the generals present in the room and shouted, "You waste, you can't even hold a city, no wonder people despise us so much!" ”

"Great Khan, it was the people of Dayuan who evacuated first, and as soon as they left, the Ming army besieged all the soldiers of our army, and we had to ...... as a last resort" Hearing this, a general of the Timurid Empire said unconvinced.

When Li Yuntian led his army to capture the ancient city of Dunhuang, the Northern Yuan, who were eager to preserve their strength, retreated first, and their run affected the soldiers of the Timurid Empire who fought with the Ming army, and eventually led to a major rout.

"Shut up!" Before the general of the Timurid Empire could finish speaking, Hall interrupted him and shouted coldly, "When will we be reduced to relying on Dayuan to win the battle?" ”

Hearing this, the general of the Timurid Empire immediately closed his mouth, and his face showed an embarrassed look, I have to say that what Khordu taught was that because the days of ease in Guanxi were too long, the affairs of the Timurid Empire in the ancient city of Dunhuang couldn't help but become a little lazy.

"The Zhongwu King of the Ming Dynasty is our biggest threat, and Ben Khan ordered to mobilize 50,000 horses to go to Guazhou to assist General Wendu in capturing the Zhongwu King." Seeing that the general was silent, Hall glanced around at the generals and shouted coldly.

Before Hamiwei's grain and grass arrived at Yumen Pass, the first task of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan was to eliminate the Xiaowu army led by Li Yuntian, otherwise they would be in great trouble.

For some reason, it was clear that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty now had an advantage, but Holdu felt an inexplicable panic after hearing Li Yuntian's bold words that he wanted to "drink the city of Samarkand", which meant that he had inadvertently begun to be jealous of Li Yuntian.

Guazhou.

Guazhou City belongs to Shazhou Wei, is located at the west end of the Hexi Corridor, east of the Yumen City of Chijin Mongolian Guard, west of the ancient city of Dunhuang, northwest and Hamiwei, since ancient times it is the transportation hub of the east and west, and the important town of merchants on the ancient Silk Road.

The reason why Li Yuntian chose to come to Guazhou City is not only because of its extremely important strategic position, but also because of its special topography.

Guazhou is located in the Andun Basin, the topography is high from north to south, gradually inclined to the Shule River valley in the center of the basin, the north is the Qiqi Taizi Mountain, the south is the piedmont zone at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, and there are three basic landforms in the territory: the mountainous area, the Gobi and the corridor alluvial plain.

In particular, it is the endless desert Gobi, and if you look at the boundless Gobi in the early morning and noon, you will find that there are waves on the Gobi, with undulating waves, and like a mirror-like autumn water, or connected into a piece, or distributed far and near, forming a strange scene of change and movement at the junction of heaven and earth.

Moreover, in the past, tourists will often see mirages, pavilions and pavilions suddenly appear on the Gobi, and it seems to be a busy city, and it seems to be a changing city outline, all kinds of strange scenes, looming, changing colors, hidden in the desert veil.

The army brought by Li Yuntian included many soldiers from Guazhou, so Guazhou was the most suitable for Li Yuntian to fight guerrilla warfare with the pursuers, and he believed that the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan would definitely send troops to pursue him, because this was the only chance for them to seize him.

Sange, the lord of Guazhou City, was a local tribal leader who surrendered for the safety of the people of the city when the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan arrived.

Since the armies of the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan Dynasty were mainly concentrated in Jiayuguan and Qinglong City, as well as the ancient city of Dunhuang, there were not many people from the Timurid Empire and the Northern Yuan in Guazhou City, mainly collecting taxes and grain.

However, there are more than 2,000 servant troops stationed in the city of Guazhou from the Western Regions, responsible for guarding this important town on the Silk Road.

Sanger had more than 1,000 troops under his command, and although he was subordinate to Shazhou Wei, he was actually the ruler of Guazhou City, and usually only paid tribute to Shazhou Wei to obtain the protection of Shazhou Wei.

At noon that day, when the soldiers at the west gate of Guazhou City were lazily chatting in the shade with the spears in their hands, a sudden burst of dust flew in the distance, and a group of cavalry rushed to it.

Seeing that those cavalry were wearing the clothes of the Kwanti Army, the soldiers defending the city thought that they were their own people, so they waited for the cavalry to arrive without asking, and dodged to get out of the way, they could not afford to offend these Kwantai Army.

This group of cavalry was really quite a lot of people, as many as three or four thousand, and after entering the city, they immediately controlled the city gate, and then the soldiers acted in several ways, some went to the city lord's mansion, some rushed to the barracks in the city, and some rushed to the granaries and other places, and soon controlled the situation in various places.

Soon after, a mighty procession appeared outside the west gate of Guazhou City, and Li Yuntian led the main force of the Ming army into the city.

Li Yuntian's residence in the city was naturally the City Lord's Mansion, and when he came to the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord of Guazhou City, Sange, had already led the officials of the city to kneel in the courtyard to plead guilty, hoping that Li Yuntian would open the net and forgive them for their guilt in defecting to the enemy.

Li Yuntian showed great tolerance for Sange and other fevers, forgave their guilt, and did not want to pursue this matter.

However, for those servant troops, Li Yuntian adopted a harsh method, beheading all the people who were unscrupulous on weekdays, and generally speaking, the servants rarely had a sense of shame, and acted more brutally and arrogantly.

Sanger didn't know Li Yuntian's identity, and Li Yuntian didn't publicize it, but only told Sanger that they would stay in the city for a few days, so that he didn't have to worry.

Li Yuntian originally wanted to stay in Guazhou City for a few more days, but unfortunately, he only stayed in Guazhou City for two days before he had to lead the army to leave.

It wasn't until Wendu and his party went on that Sanger learned that the young Ming army general who forgave him for his guilt turned out to be the dignified King of Zhongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and he was shocked by this matter.

Wen Du did not immediately pursue Li Yuntian, but rested in Guazhou City for a day, replenished enough water and food, and then continued to go out of the city to catch up, and made up his mind to take Li Yuntian down.

This morning, the East Thousand Buddha Cave.

The East Thousand Buddha Temple is also known as the Connecting Temple, located on both sides of the ancient river of Changshanzi in the southeast of Guazhou City, there are dozens of cave murals, especially the Xixia murals with rich content and exquisite skills are called unique in the world, and its Tantric Buddhist murals make up for the lack of Mogao and Yulin two caves, which can be called the treasure house of Xixia Buddhist art.

It is worth mentioning that in the "Tantric Mandala" in the second cave of the East Thousand Buddha Cave, Guanyin's graceful body shape, crop top, and ****** makeup are unique in the country, and it is known as the "first Yan Buddha" in ancient times.

Li Yuntian led Lin Xin and Yun Na and others to the East Thousand Buddha Cave to enjoy the murals and Buddha statues in the cave, and the Mogao Caves, the East Thousand Buddha private caves are the cave architecture, color sculpture, painting of the trinity of comprehensive art.

According to reports, the cave shape mainly includes Zen cave, central tower pillar cave, Buddha shrine cave, Buddhist altar cave, Nirvana cave, seven Buddha cave, big image cave and so on.

The content of the color sculpture combined with the plastic painting mainly includes Buddha, Bodhisattva, disciple, heavenly king, wrestler statue and so on.

The forms of color sculpture include round plastic, floating plastic, shadow plastic, good karma mud, etc.

Except for a few stone statues of stone fetal clay sculptures, the rest are wooden bone clay statues of Buddha in the center, and the two sides serve disciples, Bodhisattvas, heavenly kings, and wrestlers, with less than 3 bodies and more than 11 bodies.

According to historical records, Xuanzang's westward journey was not allowed by the imperial court and was wanted, Guazhou assassin Duguda and Li Chang were moved by Xuanzang's heroic deeds of learning scriptures, and tore up the text in person, and sent the young Hu man Shi Pantuo as a guide to cross the gourd river at night and steal through the Yumen Pass.

This historical fact is very consistent with the plot of the mural, and it has a high historical value, and Li Yuntian, who has come over, naturally knows its value.

Lin Xin and the others were very curious about Li Yuntian's visit to the East Thousand Buddha Temple and admiring those murals with great interest, because there were few things that could arouse Li Yuntian's interest.

"These are priceless treasures, and when we gain a firm foothold in Kansai in the future, this king will definitely let people properly repair and take care of them."

When leaving the East Thousand Buddha Temple, Li Yuntian said to Lin Xin who was following him with great interest, "You have to help this king remember it and remind this king at that time." ”

"Subordinates obey." Lin Xin was quite puzzled by Li Yuntian's move, she really didn't think that the murals in these grottoes had any value, this was too common in Kansai, and she didn't know why Li Yuntian valued them so much.

Li Yuntian knew that Lin Xin was very confused, but he couldn't explain more to him, after all, the murals in these grottoes in this era were far from being able to make people who were struggling for a living understand its value.

"Report, the chasing army is only twenty miles away from our army, and it is reported that the leading general is Wendu, the general of the Timurid Empire." Not long after Li Yuntian left the East Thousand Buddha Temple, a cavalryman came to him in a hurry, bowed behind him and shouted a loud message.

"This guy is really chasing after him, since this is the case, this king will play with you." Li Yuntian couldn't help but show a smile at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, if there was an opponent like Wendu, he would definitely not feel lonely, and then gave an order in a deep voice, "Pass on the military order of this king, the whole army is ready to enter the Gobi." ”

With Li Yuntian's order, the soldiers of the Ming army were busy replenishing the water source, and each of them had a leather water bladder to store water, which was a necessary equipment for the Xiaowu army in Guanxi.

Li Yuntian had already thought about it, since Wen Du was chasing after him, then he would play with Wen Du and see if Wen Du could catch up with him.

With the arrival of Wendu, Li Yuntian's heart secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Wendu is the military commander of the Timurid Empire, since he came to pursue, it means that the people of the Timurid Empire will not enter Jiayuguan for the time being, this is definitely good news for him, and he can finally compete with Wendu again, presumably Wendu also plans to do so.