Chapter 974: Extra Arrangement Without Leaving Traces

After Zhang Xiaosong led the team to deal with it, they found a few bitter grasses that looked naturally piled up by the wind.

He led his men away again and joined the main force.

The team moved to the southeast, forty miles away from the place he had just been to, and set up camp in a straight line from east to west.

There was also grassland here, and the horses ate grass on their own.

The soldiers took out the powder made from roasted beans from the bags on the horses' backs, spread it flat in their palms and fed it to the horses.

At the critical moment, raw beans cannot be used to feed horses, and horses eat grass, and eating raw beans is easy to cause diarrhea.

The hot air balloon rose up and looked into the distance. Someone next to it started to build a frame. It was going to build a ten-foot-high wooden frame with a mortise and tenon structure.

When it was dark, the lookout stood on the frame to see that the hot air balloon could not be raised. The hot air balloon at night looked like a big lantern.

Zhang Xiaosong did not set up camp, but rested directly. He was not going to rely on the camp for defense.

He was a pure cavalryman. Cavalry needed a stockade?

It was dark, the horses were fed, and the hot air balloon came down without lighting torches.

Everyone put on their military coats and laid their horses down, leaning against them to sleep.

The horses could also sleep lying on their sides, and sometimes they felt very comfortable.

The stars in the sky were twinkling, and the moon... had already set. It was the beginning of the month, the waxing moon.

It rose early and set early.

Zhang Xiaosong had an extra blanket, but he didn't cover it with a blanket. Instead, he rolled it up and used it as a pillow, and called the young generals to sleep together.

The reverse-haired hat that could be put down was tied under the chin, and the body curled up, relying on the military coat to keep warm.

They had leather clothes inside, all sent from Chang'an.

Even so, the nose would be frozen red, it was really cold at night.

The soldiers were very content, because they didn't have military coats and thick hats before.

They ate whatever they had during the march, and now they also brought bamboo tube canned food, which was a world of difference compared to the past.

The sentinels standing on several observation towers and looking through telescopes chewed meat floss.

Meat floss is pork floss. Now the *** religion has its doctrines introduced into the Tang Dynasty, but few believers.

Otherwise, Li Yi would have a hard time preparing food, and he had to consider people's beliefs.

Now no one believes in the soldiers, so they eat pork floss, which is delicious.

There will be no believers in the future, and Li Yi will never allow the *** religion to come in again.

Time passed, and when it was almost midnight, a lookout first saw the team marching with torches at night.

It was said that they saw it, but in fact there were many small spots of light there.

The distance was too far. If it was too close, the enemy scouts would run twenty or thirty miles away. Otherwise, how could the team rest forty miles away from that location?

The role of the telescope was reflected at this moment, and the messenger slid down the rope on the slightly shaking lookout.

Find Zhang Xiaosong: "Patrol, patrol, here they come, the Arabs are coming, with torches, one by one."

Just as this person finished speaking, another soldier ran over: "Patrol, they are here."

Zhang Xiaosong was startled and sat up: "Give orders and get ready. It is indeed a night march. If we don't hurry up, the horses will have nothing to eat."

Zhang Xiaosong took out the water bag and poured some water to wash his face to wake himself up. As for whether his face would be chapped due to the cold at night, that was not considered.

Others were woken up one after another, and they also washed their faces and were about to fight.

Don't shout at the horses, some horses were standing originally, and many horses were huddled together to keep warm.

There was no need for Zhang Xiaosong to give any more orders, the soldiers knew what to do.

There was a large patch of grass in that place, and the Arabs would come over, and the horses couldn't stand it, so they would eat grass there.

The Arabs would also rest there, cook some food, and wait for dawn.

If the Arabs camped somewhere else tonight, then...that would be impossible, there would be no water.

Unless the distance is very far, but they fight together, if they cannot arrive together, the friendly forces will be finished.

The team set out, the lookout tower was not needed, and everyone rode slowly on horseback, forty miles away.

Without torches, the horses were very cautious when they stepped on the hooves, afraid of stepping into the pit.

On the other side, the white-clothed Arabs, who were said to be 20,000 people, were actually only more than 16,000 people and were indeed resting.

Zhang Xiaosong was too familiar with the living habits of the enemies in the Western Regions. There were also many white-clothed Arabs, more than people, to carry weapons and supplies.

The horses were eating grass, and the people were eating, eating dried meat, dried beef and mutton, and getting water from the stream.

They were very tired on the road, and the scouts were released so that they could eat at ease.

Zhang Xiaosong's team gradually recovered during the march, no longer so sleepy, and sobered up when the cold wind blew.

The horses were the same, and they gradually adjusted after exercise.

"Scouts go forward and shoot the enemy scouts." Half an hour later, Zhang Xiaosong ordered when he saw that he was about to encounter the enemy scouts who had advanced 20 miles.

In fact, the generals saw through the telescope that the scouts of the White-robed Arabs were illuminated by torches. Under the telescope, the torches were too obvious.

The scouts in the army dismounted and ran forward quickly with crossbows.

A quarter of an hour after they left, Zhang Xiaosong issued another order: "Speed ​​up, keep up, prepare for battle, rockets."

The people in the team changed arrows, wrapped the front of the arrows with burning materials, fired with crossbows, and fired after a while with lighters.

It is mainly used for lighting and igniting the fuse over there. There is no rush for large-scale war.

The scouts running with crossbows gradually approached the enemy scouts. The scouts of the White-robed Arabs were relatively relaxed and did not think they would encounter the Tang army here.

In their opinion, the Tang army should have just reacted.

But they did not know that they had long said that Sulu was getting stronger and they should lead troops to attack it.

None of the generals guarding the borders of the Tang Dynasty was given for nothing, including Wang Zhongsi in history.

He said that An Lushan was going to rebel, but unfortunately Li Longji thought it was impossible, and the result was...

Generals from the Kaiyuan to Tianbao periods were more sensitive than each other, and each one had a better grasp of the situation than the other.

A good hand of cards was ruined by Li Longji.

The current Tang Dynasty generals are like...

Like the period when Li Yi had just eliminated the Japanese, each of them could sit in one place.

Even if they defeated the national army again and founded the country later, they were still so strong with the shining stars of the generals.

And then they were beaten by that person, that person, who didn't play a cup of wine to release the military power, but directly took care of it.

The Tang Dynasty scouts approached, and the horses reacted first, but unfortunately, the people on the horses didn't feel the danger and were still strolling there slowly.

'Buzz~Buzz~Swoosh~Swoosh' A crossbow arrow went over, shooting people and horses.

The voices of more than a dozen scouts of the white-clothed Arabs gradually stopped after shouting, and none of them escaped.

Zhang Xiaosong and his men saw the situation and urged the horses, and the sound of horse hooves became louder.

When they arrived at the place, the scouts jumped on the horses and followed them.

The scouts of the Arabs who were far away didn't care, they didn't have time to react.

After 20 miles, the horses speeded up, and when they reached a distance of 10 miles, they changed horses and the speed increased again.

When there were five miles left, the sound of horse hooves had reached the Arab side, and it was known that thousands of horses were galloping.

"Get ready, the enemy is coming, the Tang cavalry is coming, get on the horses." The Arabs in white understood that such a loud sound must be the Tang cavalry.

In a panic, they all got up and looked for their horses. The horses were still eating grass. Horses are not people, and a bowl of noodles can be swallowed in one gulp.

If they eat cold noodles, a bowl of cold noodles can be filled in a dozen seconds without chewing.

Horses are not good, they eat grass, and they are eating comfortably when they are about to fight.