The adventure mentioned here is not military, but political.

Although the feudal ethics and morality of the Tang Dynasty were not as strict as those of later generations, they were still in the initial stage of formation. Even if they were to deal with Dangxiang Fanluo, if they adopted barbaric massacre and extermination, they would probably arouse accusations from the government and the public. After all, in the hearts of most Tang Dynasty ministers, it was still necessary to educate this group of uncivilized Fan tribes with benevolence and virtue. The so-called "Dangling wars without the San Miao patrol" is always their ideal state.

Therefore, in this plane, when the Northern Song Dynasty was fighting against the Western Xia, it launched a cavalry to implement the "tribulation" strategy, that is, to carry out indiscriminate attacks, plunder and slaughtering the Qiang tribes in Hengshan. Although it once made Xixia feel unbearable and achieved brilliant results, it was strongly criticized by the sergeant and doctors of the court, believing that it hurts benevolence and virtue, it was a typical example of ethical interference in war.

"Xiang Fandao, Nanshan, Dongshan, Six Prefectures, Pingxia and other parties were not grateful and respectful to the court's grace. Instead, they rushed to support Xifan, besieged our Tang city, and killed our Tang soldiers and soldiers. I Tang must treat him as a traitor, and do not have to be gentle." Gao Yue disagreed with this. Anyway, he was the supreme commander in Yuanzhou, and everything was decided by him.

Of course, Gao Yue has a far-reaching "abbreviation" when doing this:

He intentionally aroused the blood feud between the Tang Dynasty and the various parties, made the relationship between the two sides uncontrollable, and waited for an opportunity to completely resolve the party-environment problem in the entire Liuhu Prefecture area, at least destroy their vitality and destroy their mobilization potential.

So he ordered the extermination.

The target range is based on the sand castle to Baicaoyu as the central axis, and the troops are divided into three groups, and the central route is located in the north to Mingsha and Zhongwei areas on the Yellow River. The three generals of Miyuan, Zhu Bo and Shatong lead the Baicao Army cavalry and mule soldiers in total. The northwest route is targeted by Shimen Pass, led by the Jingyuan Army general Zhang Yufei, Liu Guoguang and Shi Fu, with a total of 2,000 cavalry. The rebel Dangxiang or other Qiang people's fortress strongholds were removed along the way, and the Huizhou of Xifan was approached by the southwest route. The Shence general Ma Youlin and had 1,000 cavalry to attack and sweep the Mamao Mountain in the sand castle and Pingliang, and eliminate the remaining Xifan in this area. The defeated soldiers of Qianghu were completely opened up the road to Guyuan and Pingliang.

Subsequently, more than 10,000 infantry from the Baicao Army guarded the Baicao Ancient City, and was divided into three groups. Each period of 3,000 soldiers served for ten days, and the military city was rebuilt on the spot, with a period of one month.

Another thousand soldiers were handed over to Sun Bingqian, the subordinate general, to guard the sand castle and repair the city walls damaged by the previous battle.

At the same time, Gao Yue summoned all the merchants who were originally doing business in Bailicheng, Yimaguan and Anding City of Jingzhou. These people were very familiar with the situation of the Dangxiang Fanluo in various places, so Gao Yue half persuaded them to act as guides for various cavalrymen and guide the locations where the Western Qiang and Nanshan Qiang live together to help encircle and suppress them.

"Cabinets from all walks of life carry a few dry food, a small sickle, and cut aquatic plants along the way to feed horses. There is no need to gather ants during the clearance. Fifty cavalry and hundreds of cavalry are one wing, attack from all sides, and just do things in accordance with the rules of the Party and the Gangsters' rewards and tribes." In the end, Gao Yue issued an opportunity to fight.

In spring, the black and blue forest land between the mountains north of Xiaoguan was still covered with snow, and one piece in the east and one piece in the west was extremely uneven. Surrounded by the terrain, several banyan camps in the Nanshan Dangxiang area were spliced ​​together, stretching for three or four miles, and the bonfires inside slowly. When Ma Chongying invaded Yanzhou last winter, these banyan not only provided cattle and sheep to Xifan, but also gave way, and helped the Xifan soldiers defeat Kang Rizhi's Shuofang army, captured Mingsha City, robbed a lot, and then entered the Sanieling Mountain for the winter.

Several chiefs who fell to the fortress knew that the Tang army had already attacked and captured Shabao and Xiaoguan, and were very frightened. They never expected that the Tang army could reach such a level. So several people gathered together and sent people to gallop to Qingzhou to warn Ma Chongying, while they were preparing to wait until Xuerong to accept Xifan's arrangements and cross the Yellow River with a sheepskin raft (the Yellow River is in the Lingwu area, the river bank is soothing and open, suitable for crossing), breaking away from the attack range of the Tang army, and becoming a subordinate outpost of Xifan.

However, under the guidance of merchants who are familiar with geography, the cavalry of the Baicao Army lined up a winding team, crossing a small road to travel, and suddenly appeared at the pass of the mountain, overlooking the camps of the Nanshan Dangxiang.

The leading general was Mi Yuan. The wind was cold at the pass, and the rolled snow particles covered his eyebrows and beard, dyeing them white. The armor of the trousers and arrow sleeves was also covered with six flowers. Then Mi Yuan followed Gao Yue's instructions and waved his arms left and right:

Zhu Bo, the general of the shooting industry, immediately led fifty elite troops, quietly got off the horse, carried Hu Lu quiver, and lined up from the left wing of the pass into several evacuated formations, crossed the mountains and forests, approaching the target camp like a fan;

In addition, Sha Tong, the general of the shooting athlete, also led fifty soldiers, dressed out of the horse and marched silently from the right wing.

The sun was not yet fully raised in the entire mountain, and the soldiers' boots stepped on the snow, making a slight creaking sound.

Following closely behind were the mule soldiers led by Xu Si. They were covered in armor and all got off their mounts, arranged in an array according to the combat style of infantry, and went down the mountains and forests in black. Many people also led camels and oxes seized from the Jingyuan battlefield, carrying various utensils.

At the top of the Miyuan and the most elite white grass cavalry, including 800 foreign cavalry and 400 Fan Yang cavalry, saw that everyone in front of them touched them, they began to detour along the ridge towards the back and flanks of the group of Dangxiang camps in the Nanshan Mountains.

"Scared!" A man who was guarding the Nanshan Dangxiang scout tied his mount to a tree. When the mount suddenly made a hissing sound, he was awakened in his dream and hurriedly grabbed the birch bow beside him.

His horse's eyes were red, his mouth kept wide open, showing his teeth, and frantically hoarsely tying the rope he tied to the tree trunk, and the snow foam kicked from his hooves filled with attempts to dig out the wedges nailed to the ground.

The anxious horse screamed in the woods.

The scout opened his eyes and saw many people emitting their eyes everywhere in the woods. Under their armor, there were soapy robes, and the bows in their hands were curved.

"Tang, the Tang soldiers are here!" The scout shouted, then rushed to his horse, and wanted to remove the wedge and untie the rope, and rush back to the camp to report the news.

Three iron-clustered arrows immediately rotated, and the white feathers on their tails passed by the snow on the branches and shot into the scout's mount from different angles.

Before the horse died, he failed to bite the rope that imprisoned him, so he screamed and fell to the ground in depressed form.

The scout thudded, instinctively leaned against the trunk, then stretched his right arm high, hanging his quiver on the branches above, and the arrows inside were clustered with bones.

After all, the military preparations of the Dangxiang and the various foreign countries at this time were quite backward compared with the Tang, Western and Uighurs. In addition, the Tang government implemented an embargo policy before, so there were few iron weapons.
Chapter completed!