Yaji cried and said, "It's not a villain who doesn't draw, but it's a villain who doesn't draw pictures. We Turks always rely on recording the terrain. The villain can tell at a glance that, but we can't draw it!"

"What?!" Su Dingfang was furious and kicked: "That's not what you said just now!"

Yaji hugged her head and wailed: "Don't worry, the villain can be found when he arrives, and he will definitely be found..."

Su Dingfang beat up again, but Yaji still didn't draw the picture. Li Mu stopped Su Dingfang from continuing to commit violence. He was beaten into a pig's head and could not draw it. Maybe this guy was illiterate.

After asking someone to take Zhutou Yaji down, Li Mu and Su Dingfang discussed it.

Su Dingfang said: "Marty, there is no exact location of the oasis now, there is only one approximate range." He frowned slightly and then said: "Our army must go deep into the desert at least more than a hundred miles. If we do not send people to verify it, we will not agree to send troops rashly."

"Don't worry about this," Li Mu shook his head slightly and said, "The scouts I sent are all Jinyiwei secret guards. They are very skilled in martial arts and are better at hiding their bodies. If they go deep into the desert and explore them, they will not alarm the enemy."

"That's great!" Su Dingfang was overjoyed when he heard this. Did he know that Li Mu had a few powerful characters around him. He guarded Li Mu Zhouquan openly and secretly. These people never talk to them and had no communication, just like shadows. But their skills were beyond reach. They never left Li Mu, but they didn't expect Li Mu to send them out.

"If these people take action, they will definitely lock in the exact position of the oasis and hit it with one blow!"

Now that we have a certain plan, we have started to implement it.

Li Mu sent a secret guard to take Yaji deep into the desert to explore, while the army camped and rested on the edge of the grassland. After continuous high-intensity conquests, both people and horses were exhausted and had to rest and adjust. What's more, the army was not well fed and needed to be replenished in urgent need of supplementary food and supplies. We had to stop and wait for the baggage troops and the general's food was transported.

...

At this time, Dingxiang City, trucks of grain and grass were loading. This was the second batch of grain and grass requested by Li Mu. The first batch had been shipped to Kucha for a long time and was transported to the edge of the desert where Li Mu was located. This was the second batch, because he was worried that Li Mu would not make enough preparations.

Because of the bumper harvest of potatoes, there are not many foods and grasses in Dingxiang City, right? At least one year or two, it is enough to eat them for at least a year or two. Li Siwen is Li Mu's brother. He must do his best to supervise the transportation of food and grass. The first batch of food and grass was theoretically enough, but he had to transport another batch. He also said that even if the front army could not finish eating, he could still give it to the people of Kucha. Of course, if it was really given to the people of Kucha, Moham would definitely have to pay...

Until the sun was over three o'clock, all the food and grass were prepared and the one guard was responsible for escorting the food and grass, and about three thousand soldiers were escorting a thousand carts of food and grass to set off.

Although there were not many three thousand people, according to the news ahead, the Turks had been destroyed and the remaining troops hid in the desert. As for those scattered small tribes, it would be nice if the Tang army did not mess with them, so how could they dare to come from the dead end?

Although there was no danger on the grassland, the officers and soldiers who were escorting the food and grass were still very cautious in checking the chariots, horses and weapons. The army was about to win, and no one wanted to make trouble at this time. Before leaving the city, the commander of the team commander ordered his subordinates to strictly follow the regulations, and the scouts came first. The army was behind. They traveled fifty miles a day and stopped advancing before dark, surrounding the grain chariots into a chariot formation, and the army was on shifts at night.

This will be carried out as planned and will not delay anything. You can arrive in Kucha two days in advance to complete the escort of food and grass.

With a creak, the door opened and the escort team slowly drove out of the city gate.

Dingxiang City, which was busy all morning, finally stopped. Li Siwen stood on the top of the city, watching the team escorting food and grass disappear on the horizon in the north. Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief. Except for the soldiers on duty, the rest were ready to go back to sleep and get back to bed.

Unexpectedly, someone suddenly exclaimed, pointed to the direction where the army disappeared and screamed: "Look! There is something wrong!"

Everyone on the top of the city raised their heads and looked in the direction the man pointed. At this time, a long line of black appeared on the horizon in the northeast. In the midst of smoke and dust, a large group of cavalry rushed towards Dingxiang City...

The urgent alarm bell rang at the head of Dingxiang City!

Three days later, Kucha City.

According to the agreement, today is the day when the second batch of food and grass supply arrives. However, Usman, who was preparing to respond in front of the camp, waited left and right, but there was no sign of the baggage soldiers. In order to prevent accidents, he was planning to send a scout out.

But when he heard the alarm bells sounded from the building, the sentry shouted loudly: "More than a hundred cavalry are coming from the east!"

The officer on duty quickly climbed up to the stairs and looked at it with the telescope left by Li Mu. He breathed a sigh of relief: "Look at the outfit, he should be his own. Send someone to pick him up..." Then he thought of something and looked frightened, so he quickly asked Usman to report!

When they arrived near the camp gate, the quarantine officer recognized the troops that were clearly responsible for escorting food and grass!

The soldiers of the defenders obviously recognized these people, and immediately spoke nervously. At this time, a baggage officer in the lead turned over and dismounted, staggeringly shouting: "I have an emergency military situation!" After that, the person fainted!

After finally waking up the person, Usman looked cold and heard the baggage officer crying: "Two days ago, we had just taken the food and grass north and had just left the city ten miles and were surrounded by tens of thousands of cavalry! Without saying a word, they began to attack the convoy. Although we fought to the death, the enemy was powerful and could not fight hard. Not only were the food and grass taken away by the enemy, most of the brothers died on the spot..." Speaking of this, the officer could no longer help, and burst into tears, crying, while crying, "It's a pity that Dingxiang's robes are so close that they can't help but not rescue them. What's wrong with them? Why do they have the heart to watch us being killed!"

Amid the officer's crying, the atmosphere in the tent was extremely stagnant, and everyone looked extremely sad and angry. Until now, the injured soldiers were not as many as the dead in this case!

"Can you see clearly how many people are there, which tribe? Are they Turkic? Or are they the ninth surname Tiel?" Although Usman's eyes were full of anger, he also understood that something abnormal would happen. He asked the officer in a deep voice: "Also, what about the situation in Dingxiang City?"

"There are at least 30,000 cavalrymen attacking the grain team. Without any sign, I can't tell where they came from." The officer stopped crying, paused and said, "Thinking about it now, it may not be Dingxiang's robes that didn't save us. Maybe they were too busy to take care of themselves. The attack was a group of troops. The real main force rushed straight to Dingxiang City... No, Dingxiang now has less than 30,000 people, and the prince is still in Dingxiang!" The officer was excited and shouted to kill him. Usman suppressed him and asked for some details. After the officer finished saying everything he knew, he raised a knife to knock the person out, and asked someone to take him down to rest.

There were generals of the Tang Dynasty in the tent. Before Li Mu left, he left five thousand soldiers for Kucha. Otherwise, Usman, the general stationed in Kucha, would be a bare commander. These officers were all troops trained by Li Xiaogong after he came to Dingxiang and recruited refugees. They had a deep relationship with Dingxiang and completely regarded Dingxiang as their own family. Seeing that Dingxiang was besieged by the army, who could still sit still? They asked for battle and wanted to rush to Dingxiang.

When Usman was angry, he heard these people making noise and could no longer help scolding the generals, saying, "It's all scary! Do you know how many enemy troops there are and what are the backgrounds? You have to take the army to avenge? There are 30,000 people attacking the grain team. This is still a branch. How many people are there? These thousands of people are not enough to get a juncture! Should we take revenge or die?!"

Although Usman became their leader, this guy used to be a bandit and had enough momentum. All the generals shut up and gradually calmed down. This calmness was nothing, it was terrifying to think about it carefully...

Thirty thousand is just a branch, so the main force must be at least... 100,000 people? Where did this force come from in the vast grassland?

Soon, they thought of who it was, and Usman slowly said: "It's Xueyantuo."

"There is no one except them." Everyone echoed: "In the past two battles, the Turks were already dead. The remaining scattered tribes were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and it was impossible for so many people to have so many people. Now, there are only Xue Yantuo in the north on the grassland. As early as when we learned that the Western Turks were advancing eastward, we found that the Xue Yantuo tribe had been mobilized. Unexpectedly, they had so many people."

The crowd gradually became silent. If this was the case, the trouble would be really great. Xue Yantuo was originally one of the Tiel tribes, and was formed by the merger of Xue and Yantuo tribes. At first, they were slaves of the Turkic tribes in the Tula River Basin in the northern Mo Dynasty. They were originally slaves of the Turkic tribes, but later the Turkic tribes split into two khanate countries in the east and west, attacking each other. Xue Yantuo took the opportunity to move north and escape control. Later, the Eastern Turkic tribe was destroyed, and some of the remaining tribes fled to the north and were absorbed by Xue Yantuo. Xue Yantuo gradually grew stronger and claimed that there were 300,000 tribes.

Unexpectedly, it was still too small. Seeing that it could mobilize a hundred thousand troops now, its tribe probably had at least fifty or six hundred thousand people.

"It is said that Xue Yantuo and the Turks have a feud. The two sides have a great friction and almost become water and fire." A general asked strangely: "How could they risk offending the Tang Dynasty and send large troops to help the Turks?"

Unlike common sense, nomadic peoples are not family members. This is not difficult to understand. The Han people attacked them and then withdrew after they fought. They would not annex their grasslands, nor would they look down on their tribesmen. However, the war between the nomadic tribes aimed at annexing the other party's territory and tribesmen, so they naturally remained unstoppable.

"It depends on whether the benefits are great enough!" Usman spent his whole life in the grassland and had a very thorough understanding of the thinking of the grassland tribes: "The tribes on the grassland are all hungry wolves. If they don't bite, they don't have the chance. If they have the chance, they will bite them!"

"No matter whether it is possible, they have already appeared there." Usman said in a deep voice: "We must decide immediately how to deal with it, and we cannot delay for a moment!"

The generals nodded one after another, and it was indeed impossible to delay for a moment. Dingxiang is now in danger. If Dingxiang is destroyed, Xue Yantuo will directly kill Chang'an City. If Dingxiang resists, the angry Xue Yantuo will definitely turn his spear and rush to the Western Region countries that have just been destroyed by the war. Kucha and Gaochang are their first choice.

The walls of Kucha are broken and there are not many intact buildings in the city. As soon as the Turks were sent away, Xueyantuo came, and there were only five thousand defenders. Even with the blessing of artillery, they would definitely not be able to withstand it.

"If it really doesn't work, let's go?" a general said tentatively; "Let's go west too, let's go to find the marquis. The marquis must have a way......" The more he said, the less confident he became. Obviously, under such circumstances, he couldn't think of any way Li Mu could do.

"Nonsense!" Usman glared and said, "We don't know the situation on the Marquis' side. Besides, there is only so much food transported from the first batch. Can we eat it if we go there? Moreover, there are so many people here, so you let them all die?"

"But, don't we have no choice?" In the past, after being scolded, basically no one dared to say anything more. At this moment, the general said, "Xue Yantuo can only have more people than Turkic people, and will definitely not be fewer than Turkic people. We don't need to be beaten. They just need to be besieged and starve us to death!"

"Look at your cowardly!" Usman spitted on the general with thick phlegm and cursed: "When I was defending the city, I never thought about what you were in your head!" As he said that, he glanced at the generals with a stern look and shouted: "There is a big scar on his head. Whoever wants to leave will leave. Anyway, I won't leave! I want to defend Kucha City. If the war on the front line is unfavorable, there is still a way out. If Kucha City is gone, when the Marquis retreats from the desert, he will face more than 100,000 Xueyantuo tribes. It will be a dead end. The Marquis treats me well. Even if my life is returned to him, it will be worth it!"

Everyone was agitated by him, and they were all bloody men. They could not bear it. They shouted: "Who is afraid of death? If you defend the city, you will be able to defend the city. At worst, you will burn your jade. We still have gunpowder, so we will take a cushion before we die!"

"Yes, there is still gunpowder!" Usman's eyes lit up and said, "There is gunpowder in Dingxiang City. If you have this thing, you may not be able to defend it. Maybe Xue Yantuo could not withstand it because of the heavy casualties, so they retreated by themselves."

"Yes, the Turks have retreated, Xue Yantuo has many birds?"
Chapter completed!