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Li Yunze stayed in Nirang City for several days.

The main purpose is to rebuild the part of the city wall that was blown up, plus clean up the city, and throw those defenders into the swamp.

Converge the remains of the Tang army killed before, leave the defenders and supplies, tell the city defense and many other matters.

Like Qiemo and other places before, Jingjue goes northward and goes deep into the vast sea, and there are also a series of oases extending to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains in the north.

These oases in the desert are like winding curves, outlining a north-south direction, similar to a railway-like action route.

Of course, it is impossible to deploy defenses across the vast expanse of the sea.

Blocking the entrances and exits of these green passages is the most effective way to cut off.

If there were not so many Tibetans in the north, Li Yunze would not have dared to divide his troops like this.

However, it was precisely because of the large number of the Northern Tubo Army that was gradually being surrounded, which far exceeded the carrying capacity of the oasis along the way, that Li Yunze dared to boldly block the entire line with confidence.

On the plateau to the south, there is already no reinforcements to send. After all, Tubo's military strength must have been used to its limit.

There are so many main Tubo corps preparing to destroy the reinforcements. When they realize that something is wrong and want to flee, as long as the commander is not insane, he must divide his troops and run along several green passages.

The division of troops happened to be blocked everywhere, except for the line from Li Yunze, none of the other lines could provide drinking water for tens of thousands of horses.

The chaos at the time of defeat, mutual competition and betrayal, marching without organization and formation, and other factors come together, and all kinds of soldiers and horses will have to lose in the vast desert.

Li Yunze continued to march westward along the southern edge of the vast sea, defeating many large and small groups of Tubo soldiers along the way, and he didn't care about them reporting the news.

The Tubo people did not have telegrams, and by the time the main army under the world got the news, Li Yunze had already arrived in Shule.

Before arriving at Shule, Li Yunze only had the last important town left in front of him, Khotan, one of the four Anxi towns.

Although the Kingdom of Khotan is only a small country, it has a long history of more than 1000 years.

Here is the desert in the north, the Kunlun Mountains in the south, and the rivers in the middle.

Generally speaking, Khotan is actually the largest oasis south of the vast sea.

Because the rivers in the desert kept diverting, many criss-crossing rivers were left here in Khotan.

And in these rivers, there are many precious jades deposited, and these precious jades are called Hetian jade.

That's right, here in Khotan is Hotan.

Li Yunze personally led the vanguard and marched along the surging river in the dry and rainy seasons. The scouts in front quickly reported that they had contacted the local aborigines and learned that there were more than 1 Tibetans stationed in Khotan. people, and the leader is still vomiting
Fan's famous general.

"Famous general? Which famous general? Lu Dongzan?"

For Tubo, Li Yunze only knew Lu Dongzan.

This person is meticulous and thoughtful, and he is definitely a character who can bend and stretch.

I don't know about Tanma, nor do the local people. I only know that the Tibetans call him a famous general.

Li Yunze, who was very cautious on the battlefield, decided to slow down his advance speed and increase the distance between the soldiers and horses behind him.

In this way, whether the front army encounters the enemy or the rear army is attacked, they can get support as soon as possible.

After all, he is a famous general, so there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

I never thought that when I was still tens of miles away from the capital of Khotan, I would encounter an army of Tubo people who came out in full force.

Looking at the Tubo soldiers and horses who were yelling to cross the river, Li Yunze looked solemn. He felt that the Tubo people's quick response was already the point of mobilizing large troops to reinforce Khotan, the most critical and important logistics supply line.

The soldiers and horses in front of me are here to attract my attention. The main force of the Tubo people may cross the river at a suitable ferry in the upper and lower reaches, and they will attack front and back.

However, when Li Yunze was surprised, the elite scouts were exhausted from running, and scoured dozens of miles up and down, but they didn't even see a single hair of the Tubo people.

The river valley environment here is not suitable for an army to ambush at all, that is to say, there is really no Tubo army around.

Looking at the Tubo people who were chaotically lining up across the river with a little doubt, no matter how they looked at it, they didn't look like they could learn from the overlord of Chu, and they broke the boat with 30 people and defeated [-] people.

When the Tubo soldiers and horses rushed over, shouting and shouting, Li Yunze was sure that this so-called famous general probably had a bad brain.

Fighting with one's back is actually putting yourself in a deadly situation first, and relying on the morale of the desperate outbreak to destroy the enemy on the opposite side.

The reason why the Overlord of Chu is talked about is because of the countless backwater battles from ancient times to the present, there are only a handful of successes, and the Overlord of Chu is the best one.

There are more than 1 Tubo soldiers and horses on the opposite side, and Li Yunze has only [-] forwards, but among them are [-] Tang cavalry.

After confirming that the famous general on the opposite side was a parallel importer, Li Yunze directly directed the cavalry to attack on both sides without hesitation, and the infantry phalanx resisted the impact of the Tubo soldiers head-on.

The morale of the Tang army, which has been victorious all the way, is extremely high, and their equipment is at least several times ahead of the Tubo soldiers.

Basically everyone in Tang Jun has iron armor, but there are not many leather armors in Tubo.

The whole battle was lackluster, and the Tang army's infantry formation easily withstood the impact of the Tubo people.

Immediately, the cavalry detoured on the two wings and rushed into the Tubo army formation, galloping vertically and horizontally and easily destroying it.

When the battle started, the Tubo soldiers roared like thunder, and they fled quickly after being defeated.

The front and both wings were sealed, so they could only turn around and flee into the rushing river.

Tang Jun easily chased and drove most of them into the river.

As for the result, there are naturally countless floating corpses.

"This is the famous general?"

Li Yunze shook his head and arranged to clean up the battlefield and build a pontoon bridge to cross the river.

The main force of the Tubo troops stationed in the capital of Khotan was wiped out by their famous generals, and the remaining ones were unable to form effective defense capabilities after the arrival of the Tang army, and were blown down during the siege battle.

Li Yunze seized a large amount of supplies here.

The most important thing is livestock, and the other is highland barley.

As the Ice Age ended and the temperature became warmer, crops could be grown even on plateaus.

Then there are a lot of furs, as well as various military resources such as weapons, arrows, tents, etc.

These were all sent down from the plateau, ready to be sent to the front line of the Tianshan Mountains.

The Tubo people were not defenseless. They left more than 1 soldiers and horses here in Khotan. If they garrisoned the city, they would be able to hold on for a long time.

What they didn't expect was that under the circumstances of the global attack on Tang, the Tang army was still able to mobilize a large-scale reinforcement in a short period of time, and brazenly crossed the vast sea to cut off their supply line from the south.

According to their thinking, it will be at least a few months before the Tang army sends a message to Chang'an City, and they are raising troops and horses to send reinforcements there.

By that time, the Tang army on the southern front was basically finished, and the soldiers and horses mobilized by Tubo could also drive the livestock down the mountain to strengthen the defense on the southern front.

It was never expected that Tang Jun could get the news so quickly, and the reinforcements arrived in such a short period of time, as if flying over with wings.

In the end, the famous generals stationed in Khotan, who obviously had a city but did not stick to it, instead went out of the city to fight in waves.

In the end, Li Yunze used [-] forwards to wipe out the battle in one fell swoop, and even the most important logistics supply point was captured.

In the final analysis, it is still a word, Tang Jun's reaction and action were too fast, which completely disrupted the rhythm of the Tubo people.

Khotan is extremely important here. Going north, you can follow the desert river Yuhe all the way deep into the vast sea. When the desert river disappears in the desert, you can rely on the oasis along the way to go north to Gumo country and other places.

This is also the main logistics supply line for the northern line of the Tibetans.

Going west, crossing the Shache Kingdom is the important town of Shule, where another army of the Tubo people is coordinating with Zhaowu's nine surnames to besiege there.

The supply line over there also goes here.

In such an important place, Li Yunze simply left [-] troops to garrison, to completely cut off the Tubo people's retreat.

When he escorted the huge supply convoy to Shule, there were only a little over [-] soldiers around him.

However, this time, Li Yunze changed his slow pace from before, and instead left 4000 infantry to guard the supply convoy, while he himself led more than 6000 cavalry to carry the ten-day march. With rations, one man and two horses are mad at Shule

Soar ahead.

His favorite tactic is the rapid assault of the cavalry group. It was useless before because there were too many targets along the way and they were all defending the city.

Now, only Shule, the final target, was left, and it was still a siege battle, so it was natural to show off their best tricks.

From Khotan to Shule for a thousand miles, Li Yunze showed strong execution ability, and arrived at Shule in seven days at a speed close to Xia Houyuan's "five hundred in three days, one thousand in six days".

There were only a few hundred Tang troops who fell behind along the way, and less than a quarter of the total number of horses died of exhaustion.

In terms of the forced march conditions of this era, it is already very good.

Li Yunze, who ate dry food all the way, stopped to rest in Yandu Prefecture, which is only a few dozen miles away from Shule.

The sky was covered with red clouds, and in the evening, the soldiers lit up a fire, set up iron pots and started cooking hot food.

The generals and soldiers of the Tang army and their horses all had a hearty meal.

The detective who went to Shule to inquire came back, and reported to Li Yunze that outside Shule was crowded with people, everywhere was a messy camp of Zhaowu nine surnames and miscellaneous beards from all over the place, and all they saw were people with high noses and deep eyes.

As for the Tubo people, their camp is located outside the south of the city. The camp is very large and can accommodate tens of thousands of troops by visual estimation.

"There can't be tens of thousands."

Li Yunze shook his head again and again, "There are really so many. They have already driven the miscellaneous beards to fill the city, killing 2 horses. Their main force must be going to Kucha."

After thinking about it for a while, Li Yunze issued an order, "The whole army should go to bed, make meals at the third quarter of the ugly hour, and dispatch troops at Yinshi!"

In other words, cooking at about two o'clock in the morning, and dispatching troops at three o'clock in the morning.

There is no doubt that this is a night attack.

The coalition forces besieged outside Shule City numbered at least 10.

It would be very difficult for Li Yunze to fight head-on with these thousands of Tang troops.

In this case, night attack is the best choice.

Tang Jun here, because of long-term rich nutrition, almost no night blindness.

"Send a report to Cheng Chumo in Shule City." Li Yunze instructed again, "Let him pay attention to cooperate, and our army will launch an attack at about ten o'clock."

The transmitter is very precious, so Cheng Yaojin's South Route Army only has one.

And he left this transmitter in Shule City, which is appropriate considering Shule's important position.

It's just that anyone who understands Cheng Yaojin's mind can understand, he is really a good father.