In the valley of Baicaoyu, the infantry and cattle of the Xifan Transportation Team who were flocking here threw cloth bags loaded with millet, salt and armor all over the ground. They either rode horses or walked, rushing out of the pass of Baicaoyu, and went back to report the situation to the sand castle - Xiaoguan, and suddenly appeared a large number of elite Tang troops!

"Woooooooooooooooo!" The shrill and terrifying horn sound exploded.

In the Xiaoguan barrier, the red tooth flag also rose to a long pole and then bulged.

Taking this as a signal, a large number of cavalry appeared on Baicaoyu, who were led by Zhang Yufei, the Jingyuan camp, and the ambushed here. At this time, the road was divided and the rushing down like a sharp arrow, and the transportation team was about to cut off the way back.

Not only that, there were also loud horse hooves among the foothills of Liupan Mountain opposite - Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan led the White Grass Cavalry in several horizontal lines. The front team raised the recurved bow in their hands, while the back team held up a forest-like horse spear and swarmed from the slopes at the foothills to capture the slopes.

"Kill Fan Zi!" When the soldiers of the Fan Yang of the Baicao Army who had just recovered their cavalry were rushing to their horses and their hooves flew, they all raised their horse spears over their shoulders with their hands, and the blade of the spear was slightly slanted downwards, and were on the top of their helmets. From a distance, they shone with their armor, shining with a little cold light, which made people scared.

The first several Fan Yang cavalrymen rushed down. When they saw the Xifan infantry running tremblingly in front of their horses, they took advantage of the power of the horse's charge and stabbed the horse's spear down. The sound of "clicking" bones and flesh shattering sounded - the spear blade penetrated the backbone of the Xifan infantry, and then quickly pulled it out. The horse's hooves then stepped over the rolling British soldiers' corpses and continued to move forward bravely.

Between Baicao, the platform and the river valley road, Ma Youlin and Liu Guoguang crushed the front, Zhang Yufei, Shi Fu, Ming Huaiyi, and Mi Yuan broke the road, and then there were 4,000 cavalrymen who rushed down from three directions, devouring less than 300 infantry and cavalry like giant whales, killing less than 300 soldiers of Xifan, stabbing spears and arrows, and slashing axes. Even if the soldiers of Xifan fought to the end, they would be nothing but flesh and blood, and they were soon killed.

Half an hour later, the smoke and dust floating in Baicao Valley slowly dissipated and fell silent.

After another half an hour, Gao Yue, Gao Gu and Ximen Can rode a horse through the Hulu River and came to Baicaoyu Valley. They saw the bodies of people and horses all over the ground. Several cavalrymen of the red-eyed Baicao Army were still riding their horses back and forth, repeatedly stabbing the horse spear into the dead soldiers.

"Master-in-law!" When a group of "foreign soldiers" who spoke Chinese language were escorted to Gao Yue, Gao Yue could see at a glance that these were all soldiers of the old Changwu Army who defected.

"Where is the thief in the Dynasty?" Gao Gu asked immediately.

These soldiers could recognize Gao Gu and knew that he was Hun Yu's adopted son, so they beg for guilt that the Chaogan and Da Xi Xiaojun, including three or four hundred Changwu Army soldiers who defected in the past, were now incorporated by Hu Qulu, a commander of the Dafangcheng who destroyed the sand castle, and were included in the "city defense force" system in the fort, and mixed with the foreign and Qiang soldiers to strengthen control and digestion.

In this support mission, they were hugged by Hu Qulu in the red book, but they did not expect to suffer such a catastrophe in Baicaoyu.

"I won't kill you, but you must tell me the terrain, command and city defense links of the sand castle. I can give you equal parts of the land after returning to Xingyuan Mansion immediately." Gao Yue felt that these surviving rebels were of great use, and then he said with a smile, "I know that you were all killed by the dynasty at the beginning, and Da Xi Xiaojun was forced to do so."

"Yes, we are all being held captive." These old soldiers of the Wu army hurriedly answered, it seemed that they had a very strong desire to survive.

"Then you have to redeem your sins!" Gao Yue shouted.

The soldiers immediately lost their souls and told Gao Yue everything they knew.

Gao Yue and many military generals immediately dismounted, found some loess, and simply built up stones. According to what these soldiers told him, a simple model of destroying sand castles was drawn, and finally concluded: "Hu Qulu Ximeng was a brave general of the Western Fan period and was in charge of destroying sand castles for many years. He was very proud of his trust. If he attacked the tough head-on, he might not be able to succeed, so it is best to use a surprise attack."

After the direction was set, Gao Yue quickly re-emerged. "The battlefield was a problem with the supervision of the Laoximen Army to clean up. General Xu Si and the Mule Army stayed in Baicaoyu and Xiaoguan to guard against the possible enemy situation in the north - everyone else, do your best to stop. We will drive away quickly, and we will attack the sand castle!" Gao Yue said simply and forcefully.

"Please wear armor by Lian." At this time, Gao Gu asked, and several soldiers immediately handed the deputy armor to Gao Yue.

"It's too late, soldiers are very fast. Everyone rides a horse and lightly wears a sand castle. At the same time, they take a horse and wears armor. It's not too late to wear it in wartime." After saying that, Gao Yue scolded his mount and went forward, and then raised the tip of the whip and turned to Ming Huaiyi. "Three Ming brothers, you are the ones who take the lead this time. Dress me up like a little!"

"Dad, please rest assured." The three Ming brothers threw down their helmets and exposed the braids hanging on the back of their heads and necks.

As the dusk became darker, the moon slowly floated out from the high mountains and ridges of Ziwu Ridge. The sound of rhinoceros horns echoed each other among the towers of the sand castle. Every twenty steps above the city, there were doors and crossbows. The soldiers garrisoned Xifan held torches and patrolled vigilantly, and looked at the valley ridges from time to time.

The fortress is backed by Liupan Mountain, and behind it connects several passes such as Mucheng, Xiwating, and Liuzhou in Huizhou. It is located on a raised high ground west of Hulu River. It only connects to the plains below the city, and overlooks Yuanzhou Lisuoguyuan City.

However, Guyuan City has now turned into ruins. Since Xifan seized Yuan and Hui two states, all the native Tang people here migrated to the distant Hexi, which became a barren grassland "idle field". Every year during the season, Xifan people come from Huizhou to grazed horses and cattle and sheep. In this way, the sand castles can control the land on all sides, and increase the difficulty of the enemy's attack (there is no place, you cannot obtain any supplies on the spot).

On the bulging horse-faced wall on the city, the ambassador of the city, Hu Qulu Ximeng stood there, explaining various matters to the city soldiers in detail, and then reminded several of them, "Don't forget to warn those rebels from the Tang family."

The rebels he mentioned were the old Changwu Army such as Wang Chaogan, Da Xi Xiaojun, etc.

These people did not gain any trust in the sand castle. Hu Quluximeng wanted to use them and guard against them. Therefore, the camp of the old Changwu Army was located in the northwest corner of the city wall. It did not directly access any city gate, but Hu Quluximeng did not dare to set up their camp outside the city because he was afraid that they would take the opportunity to escape and return to the Tang territory.

After giving the order, Hu Quluo got off the city and returned to his yamen office.

Slowly, the entire sand castle became quiet. Except for a small number of guards guarded on the city walls or patrolled on the main roads in the wild, most of them rested in the city barracks.

After all, compared to Pingliang, the situation here is much more comfortable.
Chapter completed!