After two days and nights of fighting, the Tang army led by Gao Xianzhi changed from tens of thousands of people before departure to only more than 10,000 soldiers left.

Li Siye's front battalion suffered the heaviest losses, and in order to make a bloody way for the army to advance westward, the entire front battalion was almost completely lost. Of the 5,000 cavalry led by Lin Hui, the 4,000 people who crossed the river have long lost contact, and only half of the remaining 1,000 cavalry are now left.

In addition, Duan Xiushi was seriously injured after the break, and the army of the 3,000 rear battalion threw away the baggage cleanly. But this is not to blame Duan Xiushi, it is not easy to successfully escort the Chinese army westward with three thousand erlangs.

Seeing the remnants of the rear battalion holding Duan Xiushi, who was seriously injured and unconscious, came to him, Gao Xianzhi, who was disgraced, was speechless for a while. Lin Hui saw it in his eyes and took out his healing potion: "Give it to him, bandage it and find a horse to carry it away." ”

In the early hours of the night, the Tang army, which had been fighting for dozens of hours, was already sleepy.

Jumping into the trap comes at a cost, and that price is very heavy at the moment.

Nearly seventy percent of the soldiers and horses were damaged, and the backbone generals suffered heavy casualties.

Finally broke through a valley, and at this moment, the armies of the two sides took a break from the armistice across the mountains on both sides, and Lin Hui looked at Gao Xianzhi with complicated eyes.

In this battle, the probability of winning again is very slim.

But to say that you lose, it is not a complete defeat.

Charging forward with Li Siye, Lin Hui herself killed hundreds of Arab soldiers, Li Siye was a little less than her, but not too much.

This is just the battle exploits of the two, counting the bloody battle of the whole army, the combat power of the Tang army under adversity is extremely terrifying.

Lin Hui didn't have time to calculate carefully before, but now that he sat down and estimated, he could roughly guess that the number of casualties in the Arab army would definitely be more than twice that of the Tang army, or even three times that of the Tang army.

"Inheritance."

At this time, Gao Xianzhi, who had been silent, suddenly spoke: "Are all the military rations carried by our army's private horses still there?" ”

"Hui Yu, my lord, the last general just went to check, most of the private food was taken care of by the Bahanna cavalry, although half of it was lost when it broke through, but the remaining food was enough for us for ten days."

And grain?

Lin Hui, who heard this, was a little surprised, isn't it all the baggage in the back camp?

Seeing Lin Hui's strange expression, Li Siye coughed and said: "This is the secret of the adult's use of soldiers, as long as the long journey, the adults will prepare a standing baggage salary, and at the same time encourage our soldiers to bring their own private food, if the war is not smooth or need to last for a long time, they will use these private food, and when they win the battle and get the goods, the adults will reward the soldiers twice the price, and the soldiers will make a steady profit." ”

Private food?

There is still such a routine?

Lin Hui now knows why Gao Xianzhi and Li Siye have not allowed her to contact Dawan soldiers and horses, and there are secrets in the relationship that cannot be said.

It is definitely against military law to do so, but considering that Gao Xianzhi has been crisscrossing the green mountains all the year round, rushing and killing among the peaks of the plateau at an altitude of thousands of meters, this practice of hiding grain for soldiers seems to be extremely beneficial to strategic deployment.

After appreciating the brave side of Tang Jun, Lin Hui saw the other side of Gao Xianzhi's cunning. In this battle, it was she Lin Hui who was in command, and after two days and two nights of fierce fighting, she lost the logistics, and this battle really didn't have to be fought.

Lin Hui's thoughts turned with emotion, and Li Siye turned around and asked, "My lord, the soldiers are all hungry, do you want to arrange to bury the pot and cook first?" ”

Gao Xianzhi dragged his chin and thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Let the soldiers bury the pot, but this meal can't be eaten yet, a few of you listen, and then .........

………

"Report!"

"Smoke was spotted coming out of the northwest."

Just as Gao Xianzhi and the others were burying the pot and cooking, in the camp of the Arab army across the peaks on both sides, a fast horse sentry scout galloped over.

He jumped off his horse and trotted forward, and told the commander-in-chief of the battle, Abu Musirin, the governor of Khorasan.

"Smoke?"

Although Abu was the Abbasid Emperor's Founding Minister, and was not even weaker than Abu Abbas, the first caliph of the Black Food Dynasty, he was actually only 34 or 5 years old this year, which can be said to be in the prime of life.

Personally leading and even leading the troops to pursue here, Abu did not feel how tired he was, looked at the dark sky, and smiled inexplicably: "Our enemies, they are hungry. ”

As soon as he said this, someone next to him immediately answered: "You mean they are preparing dinner?" Should we send troops now and not give them any chance to eat their stomachs? ”

"Ziyad, do you remember our struggle in Khorasan? At that time, we will also face embarrassment, will we be afraid of fighting because we don't have enough to eat? ”

Abu's words made his henchman Ziyad immediately shake his head: "No, we are brave fighters and we will not fear hunger. ”

"Yes, we won't, and neither will the Tang people."

Abu shook his head with a smile and continued, "This is a respectable opponent and a terrible opponent. In the face of such adversity, he can still bring us heavy damage, and hunger will not defeat him. ”

"What does the general mean, keep them fed?"

It was also at this time that a lord player beside Abu lit up and said, "Tired people will be swept away by sleepiness after they have eaten enough, and they will urgently need to rest, even the will of Allah will be difficult to change." ”

"Yes, you're right, we're going to give them a full meal, and maybe they'll just have the last bit of rations." As a perennial leader of the uprising, Abu was not bad at brain, and his subordinates might be able to see three steps under his feet, but he could see five steps away.

Two hours later, around four o'clock in the morning.

Abu ordered the army to make a detour and attack from several mountain roads at the same time, whether it was him or those Arab players, they all felt that at this time, even if the well-fed and well-fed Tang army did not sleep to death, at least they had no intention of fighting again.

However, when the Arab soldiers and horses successfully walked out of the mountain road, they were greeted by an overwhelming number of flying arrows.

In the previous rush battle, the crossbowmen of the Tang army could hardly shoot in the breakthrough, and could only use swords to break through.

The reason why I didn't choose to ambush in the mountains is because there will be scouts from the other side in the mountains, and it is easy to expose my true intentions in advance.

However, even if there was no ambush, the Tang army was not afraid of any battle.

The meal is indeed ready, and the soup and water are available.

But Gao Xianzhi didn't give an order, even some of the wounded soldiers who were in charge of cooking rice didn't taste a bite. Everyone held their breath and waited for this counterattack before dawn.

"Follow me, rush!"

Li Siye, Gao Xianzhi, and Lin Hui respectively led their troops to rush towards the Arab soldiers who marched out of various forks.

With the help of the rain of arrows, he rushed straight to the front of the opponent.

The general is not afraid of death, and the pawn fights for his life.

As Abu thought, the Don army would not be afraid to fight because of hunger.

It's just that Abu still underestimated Tang Jun, Gao Xianzhi, Li Siye, and Lin Hui......