A few days later, as Li Jixun expected, An Lushan left Chang'an. He asked Sun Xiaozhe and Zhang Tongru to guard Chang'an, leaving them 20,000 infantry and cavalry, and prepared to return to Luoyang with the remaining troops.

At the same time, the property they plundered in Luoyang, including the part of Li Jixun, was loaded on the canal ships, set out from Xingningfang, followed the Yongtong Canal-Yellow River-Yongji Canal, and then headed north all the way.

Target, Youzhou.

Like Luoyang, An Lushan obviously made two plans. If he could rely on Luoyang and Chang'an to annihilate all the living forces of the Tang Dynasty, it would be good. If it didn't work, he could also be a wealthy man in Hebei, a powerful wealthy man with the property and food of Luokou Cang, Hanjia Cang, Taiyuan Cang, Luoyang City, and Chang'an City.

You know, at this time, the Grand Canal connecting the north and south can be completely able to walk the big dragon boat of Emperor Yang of Sui, and a mere can carry about 200 stones of canal.

When An Lushan went south, he had only 100,000 troops. After taking over Hebei, Guanzhong, and southeastern Hebei, he divided his troops to garrison. The military strength of each place was very weak, so naturally the regular army would not be allowed to escort food and grass, so this task fell on Shi Jinu's guards.

Li Jixun became the leader of the grain escort team. He had been appointed as the commander of the Jinwu Guard by Shi Jinu, and walked along the above river with a thousand people. The supply along the way was also obtained from the canal ship.

At this time, Shi Jinu finally understood.

"These property and food will eventually be transported to Youzhou, and Youzhou is leaning against the border. Most of the Protectors will arrive at the juncture at this time. Haha, there will be a good show."

......

Sun Xiurong has indeed arrived in Mobei.

This time, he brought three camps of Bogda Camp, Bogra Camp, Tianshan Camp, as well as Chile Camp and two mountain camps. Since Gao Tinghui, the captain of Bogla Camp, had already followed Bai Xiaode to Mobei in advance, Sun Xiurong asked Yu Que to replace him as the captain of the camp.

The commander of Chile Camp was still Abus, and Sun Xiurong brought him and Wei from Yujue's room, with his purpose self-evident.

In his memory, An Lushan's "Yiluhe" cavalry, mainly the Tongluo people, rebelled after taking Chang'an and finally fled to the vicinity of Yinshan.

With Abus, if this army had not been destroyed by Guo Ziyi, there would be rescued, at least it could play a role in the wars of Mobei and Tang Dynasties.

As for Yuque, his mother and Sun Xiurong's mother are sisters and are also representatives of Beishi Wei. Since he has returned to his hometown, he will naturally bring him with him.

Since its establishment, the two mountain camps have no other chance of fighting except to cross the dangerous snow-capped valley along the dense water to rescue the saint in the Kizilsu River Basin. This time, Sun Xiurong brought them all with him.

Of course, he has his own considerations to use mountain camps instead of other camps.

A few years later, Kang Xiaorong, an ordinary Sogdian boy near Kangguo, had grown into an excellent mountain camp commander, one of the two mountain camp commanders, and the other was naturally Nan Gongxi, the son of the Heifu of the Nan Gong tribe.

Sun Xiurong set out in the summer, and his timing was just right. When Gao Xianzhi was transferred to Chang'an and the new Jiedushi Li Siye took the 20,000 Anxi Army eastward, he followed him eastward. He had been dormant in Hanhai County (Qitai County), where Bai Xiaode was the prefect, had been dormant for a long time.

The six camps looked quite powerful, but in fact there were only more than 20,000 people. When they were scattered in the vast desert north of the eastern end of the Tianshan Mountains, no one would notice it if they were not paying special attention.

Of course, the Yizhou army, which was originally set up near Pulehai (Balikun Lake), was too close to Hanhai County, and the Shatu people around Pulehai were slanderous, and the Tang Dynasty finally abolished the army and moved all to Yizhou (Hami).

So after the army arrived at Pulehai, it turned north and went straight east along the valley post road on the northern foot of Jinshan Mountain. The Suoye Army had been working hard here for several years, not for the caravans in Nasri, but today.

After the army stepped into the valley carelessly, they looked at the Udemao Mountain further north through the mountains, and there were still hundreds of miles in the middle. Both sides were at peace until they arrived near Huaishuo Town, north of Baotou, a sudden change occurred!

Walk along the Jinshan Mountain intermittently to the east until the mountains completely disappear, the post road will cross a desert of hundreds of miles to the northern foot of Yinshan. In addition to avoiding encounters with the powerful Uighurs, this way also has the factors of using relatively more aquatic and grass resources on the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain.

What's more, if Sun Xiurong guessed well, most of the Shuofang Army was fighting fiercely with the rebels in Hedong and Hebei areas under the leadership of Guo Ziyi, so how could there be too much military force to protect the vicinity of Yinshan?

However, Guo Ziyi doesn't mean that the court doesn't. It's already the first year of Zhide (756). After losing Luoyang and Chang'an one after another, the new emperor Li Heng would naturally use all the power that could be used, so he thought of the Uighurs.

Unlike in history, after Guli Peiluo died of illness, it was not his famous son of Mo Yanchu. Mo Yanchu had already died in the Battle of Tanshi Huaitai when he fought against the Sacred Ye Army. The only one who succeeded the throne was his two grandsons, Ye Hu, who moved to the ground.

The Uighur Khanate had just emerged, and before Guli Peiluo died, he could only let the older Ye Hu succeed to the throne. However, he moved his young son to another core area in the northern part of the desert, the Tula River Basin, which is the later area centered on Ulaanbaatar, and allowed him to rule over the Tongluo, Pugu and other tribes who remained there, taking into account the Klulun River Basin.

After the eldest son Ye Hu ascended the throne, he was soon enthroned as the Yingwu Khan by the Tang Dynasty - this one that should have fallen to the throne of his father Mo Yanchu's head.

Without Mo Yanchu's constraints, Ye Hu's relationship with the Tang Dynasty became increasingly close.

When Li Heng sent the deposed crown prince Li Xian, Dunhuang King Li Chenglu followed Pugu Huaien to contact the army to borrow troops. Prince Ye Hu made his aunt Yao Luoge Alina to him. When Li Heng learned about it, he agreed and named Alina "Princess Viagra".

After that, Ye Hu ordered the Khanate to kill the southeast, and Guchu, one of the nine surnames, led five thousand elite cavalry south to aid the Tang Dynasty.

For the Uighur Khan, whose main territory is located in the Udeshu Mountains and the Soling River Basin, it is naturally the most convenient to go south from Guchu's territory and then pass through one of the three "Tantian Khans" paths in the middle of Yinshan (Huyan Valley, north of Baotou).

When Sun Xiurong arrived in Huaishuo Town, Gu Chuo, Li Chenglu, and Pugu Huaien's men were also on the way! And it was only a hundred miles away from Huaishuo Town!

Gu Chuan, whose full name is Ge Sa Gu Chuan, when Sun Xiurong led the army of the sect to the west, he had an indirect fight with him, and finally ended with Gu Chuan's eyes to see the army of the sect to go far away.

However, this time, I suddenly learned that Sun Xiurong was back, and Gu Chuo didn't dare to leave. He stopped in the north of the Sacred Ye Army, where Baiyun Ebo was later, and sent a quick horse to report to Ye Hu like a report.

Ye Hu was different at this time. When he took over the throne of the Khanate, he immediately went south to ask for marriage and enthronement. At that time, in order to suppress the Khitans and the Ye army, Li Longji married the daughter of Prince Li Heng to him for the first time.

Now that the father-in-law is in trouble, how can the son-in-law not help?

When he learned that there was a broken Ye army in the south, Ye Hu ignored his advice and personally led 20,000 cavalry to the south. This caused the situation in Mobei to be in chaos again. This is a later statement, and I will express it later.

As the Thunder Ye Army, who was covered by 50 miles, naturally discovered the traces of the Uighurs.

But now Sun Xiurong is a little worried.

Just in Huaishuo Town, he received news that Bai Xiaode sent a quick horse to deliver it to him in the east.

"When the commander-in-chief Xiangping, the farmers near Liucheng and the herdsmen were escorted by Li Huaide's two thousand cavalry and crossed the southernmost tribe of the Khitan tribe, they were suddenly attacked by the Khitans. Li Huaide only retreated with a few hundred cavalry, and all the households were taken away by the Khitans!"

"There are many enemies, so it is definitely not the Neil tribe who did it. Most of them, after receiving the news that the Sailye Army went deep into Liaodong, the Neil army withdrew from Sumoshui."

"Based on the guess of the Ministry of Justice, Neri thought that only one of our army came to Liaodong, and it was not enough to worry about it, so he took the initiative to attack."

"The current ministry has occupied Yu Pass and is confronting Shi Siming across the pass. According to the plan of the Great Protector, you must not go out of Yu Pass before you receive your order, so..."

(Yuguan, Shanhaiguan in later generations)

Time has come from the summer before departure to the autumn before departure.

Sun Xiurong, accompanied by Sun Xiaoke and Jia Dan, rode his horse on the grassland of Huaishuo Town.

After the abandonment of Huaishuo Town of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty had not been restored. The Sui Dynasty claimed to have been restored, but in fact the real strength range did not extend to the north of Yinshan Mountain.

The reason why Huaishuo Town rose was because it was sandwiched between Tieshan (Ebo Mountain in Baiyun, where the Turks once mined iron ore in large quantities, which was called the slaughter of the slaughter) and Yinshan Mountain, and there was also the Kundulun River passing through it, so it was naturally unique.

At this time, near Huaishuo Town, there were many tributaries on both sides of the Kundulun River and abundant water and grass. They were originally a good pasture. They were also one of the bases for the Tang Dynasty to migrate the four Blue Turks south since the demise of the Eastern Turks. However, at present, due to the repeated strangulation of the Tang Dynasty and the Later Turks, such a border buffer zone, nine out of ten rooms were empty.

The demise of a large tribe naturally came at the cost of an extremely tragic end. Historical books did not describe the whereabouts of the Eastern Turks in detail. However, it can be referred to the situation of the Qing Dynasty's destruction of the Junggar tribe in later generations. It is estimated that the difference is as if it were.

This is also the reason why Sun Xiurong dared to set up his business road here in a panoramic way.

The temperature in the Kundulun River Basin north of Yinshan has dropped to around zero degrees in autumn and is constantly gathering. The strengthening north wind is carrying a large amount of sand and dust to hit people's faces, and some even get into their clothes, making people shudder.

The 36-year-old Sun Xiurong straightened his upper body, placed the reins on the horse's back, and controlled the horse with his legs. His body moved up and down from time to time as the horse rose and fell.

When the war horse is about to climb a hill and fly over obstacles and needs to shake violently, he will naturally raise his buttocks and step on the saddle with his feet. He has long been integrated with the war horse.

At this time, the unique cotton armor of the Thunder Ye Army was also improved.

In summer, the iron sheets are naturally beaten on both sides, which have strong protection ability but have average warming effect. However, in winter, the outer side of the iron sheets is still carefully beaten on the cotton. After repeated pounding, the toughness of the cotton silk reaches the maximum after drying.

The inside is filled with ordinary cotton, which is very warm in a fluffy state.

In winter around minus ten degrees Celsius, this kind of cotton armor is enough to fight. If it is colder, you can add a sheepskin waistcoat or a sweater inside.

How to effectively protect and protect the body effectively, Sai Ye Jun naturally did the best.

Sun Xiurong himself was also a yellow-brown cotton armor with cheesecloth on the cloth and covered with copper nails that were wiped with shiny wipes.

The wide-eave iron helmet is covered with sheepskin top, cheeks and neck protection. This is a specially tanned sheepskin. It only uses leather in summer, but also uses wool in winter. In any case, there are very thin iron products inlaid inside and reinforced with copper nails.

At first glance, Sun Xiurong's troops were quite similar to those of the Ming and Qing dynasties in later generations.

The Fire Dragon Horse, who has been with him for more than ten years, has long been old at home to liven up. The war horse under his seat is still a hybrid of Dayuan horse and Yanqi horse. It has dark red skin and a height of five feet. It is only five years old. It is very similar to the Fire Dragon Horse before, but it is taller.

At this age, he was at the peak of a man's physical strength. Many of the tiger guns, long swords, black cloud bows, and short crossbows made specifically for him were hung on him.

Of course, the short gun he made himself was also inserted in the dark.

Jia Dan, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty in history, is now "a permanent marching Sima" towards the Ye Jun, who is the role of chief of staff in later generations, and after his long-term follower of Sun Xiurong, he naturally learned to ride horses and shoot archery. In addition, his experience at Tianshan University, he was familiar with this position.

His adopted descendant, Xiaoke, was a former slave of the Gongyue tribe, and was over thirty years old. He followed closely with the hilt of the knife behind Sun Xiurong.

Behind him is his personal captain, Steynmé.

It is said that An Lushan is also believed in Zoroastrianism. With the follower of the magic fire envoy, Stayland and Myanmar, I believe it will have a unique effect.
Chapter completed!