Outside the Wandering Castle, there is still the Gobi Desert spreading above the sky and connecting with the sky.

But after all, this place belongs to the border area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. Just outside the orange-yellow Gobi Desert, it is the grassland where the Turkic barbarians are located.

Even so, the Youhun Castle is still the largest city in the northern part of Longyou Road, the northernmost city. Going further north, there is no pass that can resist the Turkic one, only a few beacon towers.

It is still summer now, and the sky in Mobei is still as hot as usual, making people feel bored.

The Tang soldiers guarding the beacon tower were soldiers under Yang Huzi, the major protector of Anxi Protectorate. These soldiers received news that the Turkic barbarians were about to enter the country the day before yesterday.

According to the news, the Turkic barbarians could have walked through the observation range of their beacon tower yesterday. At this time, they probably had already arrived outside the Wandering Soul Castle.

But they have been waiting for the battle since yesterday. It took only a few hours. Today is coming to evening again, and there is still no bird. Looking at the north of the Gobi Desert, except for the yellow sand reflected by the sun, there are no Turkic barbarians.

There is about one fire man guarding the beacon tower. If a large army is stationed and a bonfire stove is set up, and the soldiers surrounding the same bonfire are called a fire. According to the military calculations of the Tang Dynasty, a fire is ten people.

After lunch, the fireman stood on the beacon tower and laughed and joked: "This group of barbarians were afraid of being beaten by my Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago. If they really dared to attack the border, there would be no need for many people in my Tang Dynasty to beat them up."

Even though he was joking, the soldiers under his command still did not dare to relax, because the fire chief whispered: "I looked far away and could see the yellow sand in the sky. They would definitely come before dusk today."

These soldiers under their command were a little relaxed, but the words of Huo Chang made their nerves tense again. They followed Huo Chang to make a living in the northern desert for a long time. Huo Chang's speech has always been very accurate.

It's been an hour and a half since I looked at it. The sergeant standing on the observation deck was already sleepy with heat. But after yawning, he suddenly saw a horse emerging from the yellow sand in the distance.

"Someone is here!" The sergeant hurriedly shouted at the under the observation deck.

All the soldiers, including the Fire Chief, hurriedly picked up their weapons. The Fire Chief, with a sergeant, climbed up to the observation deck in panic.

These sergeants were all wearing leather armor, which was not much different from the standard armament of ordinary escort guards. However, these sergeants had no horses except fire length, and had one more skeleton, one left and one right, and two skeletons, and the light crossbow could only cross behind the butt.

When they walked, the light crossbow was behind their butt, and someone laughed and called them the butt crossbow army.

Fire long

He covered his forehead with his hands, squinted his eyes carefully for a long time, turned around and asked the sergeant, "Just see this one?"

"Ah?" The soldier was stunned for a moment. After seeing the horse again, he was not sleepy. However, after Huo Chang's words, he still felt a little confused: "Just see this one."

"That's a big deal!" Huo Chang kicked the sergeant in the butt, but he still stood on the watchtower and did not leave.

He also ordered the soldiers who accompanied him to come up: "Let everyone prepare and we go out to fight against the Turkic barbarians."

"As for order." The sergeant walked down the observation deck, and a thin old horse had been led by a sergeant.

"Look at Fire Chief, look." The sergeant who was still standing behind Fire Chief suddenly trembled his legs and almost collapsed on the ground in fear.

"No prospect." Huo Chang didn't look back and kept looking away.

The first horse that appeared in their eyes had already stopped early. It was indeed a Turkic barbarian, holding a flag in his hand. The soldiers didn't know what was written on the flag, so they just knew that they must be a barbarian.

Not long after the barbarian carrying the flag stopped, a surging yellow wave suddenly set off on the originally calm Gobi Desert. It was impossible to see how many soldiers were in the wave, and the cavalry and Turkic cavalry were the ones leading the wave.

From this end of the Gobi Desert to the other end of the Gobi Desert, it turned into an extremely wide wave, rolling in.

"Damn it!" Huo Chang just glanced at him and then hurriedly swallowed. According to his eyesight, there were at least tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry under the yellow sand.

The rolling yellow sand is a wave, surging very quickly, and it is impossible to see how many rows there are, but the formation is very long.

Looking at this scene, could it be that there will be 50,000 Turkic barbarians?

When this wave also reached the barbarian carrying the flag, it gradually stopped. The rolling yellow sand never stopped and still rolled forward for a long time before gradually fading away.

In the eyes, they were all Turkic cavalry, only two or three rows, but the front line was very long. Almost all the yellow sands that could be seen on the left and right on the observation deck were the figures of Turkic cavalry.

This is far more than that. The Tang sergeants on the observation deck have not yet awakened from the shock of these Turkic cavalry. Another wave of waves rolled on the horizon again.

It was not the first time these Tang Dynasty soldiers had seen Turkic barbarians. In recent years, there would be friction between the Tang Dynasty and Turkic barbarians on the border from time to time, but only a small-scale battle of fifty or sixty cavalry was fought. This was the first time that a large formation like today.

The fire chief slapped the sergeant behind the head, and then woke the sergeant up: "Go down, ride my horse, say to the brothers in the observation deck behind, ask them to light the beacon fire and notify the Wandering Soul Castle."

“Ah, OK

.” The sergeant hurriedly got off the lookout, but accidentally got under his feet and swayed halfway on the wooden ladder and fell down.

He didn't have time to pay attention to whether he had fallen or not. The soldier hurriedly took over the reins of the horse and leaned over on the back of the horse.

The sergeant who originally wanted to leave saw the envious gazes in the eyes of the other sergeants, then seemed to wake up and looked at the lookout: "Captain Fire, don't you retreat?"

"Retreat?" Huo Chang turned his head unhappily: "You can do whatever you want. After a while, the Turkic barbarians came. The beacon cannot be transmitted to the Wandering Soul Castle. Any wife, children, and children in the city will die. Who can let you go by the brothers present?"

The soldiers around seemed to know that the boy riding on horseback was the youngest and only came to their fire last year.

A veteran came to the back of the horse's butt and kicked it hard: "Go quickly."

The horse was in pain and its feet began to run wildly. Although it was a thin horse, this old horse had saved Huo Chang's life several times back then.

The fire chief had already taken off the light crossbow from behind his butt and walked down the watchtower. He stuck out his tongue and licked his lips: "If you are not afraid of death, prepare to fight with me. If you are afraid of death, get out as soon as possible."

The remaining soldiers around did not retreat and took out light crossbows.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, regardless of age, were not afraid of death.

At this time, the second group of Turkic cavalry had just stopped in the distance.

Huo Chang seemed to know why the lookout in front did not convey the message, and why these Turkic barbarians arrived at them one day late.

Immediately afterwards, Turkic cavalry kept setting off waves from the yellow sand in the distance, and they stopped until they saw the horse's butt of the front team.

Under each wave, it lies across the sides of the Gobi Desert that humans can see with their naked eyes. When the yellow wave fades, these Turkic barbarians with scimitars on their waists will make a strange scream in their throats.

After waiting for five yellow waves to fall, 50,000 Turkic cavalry were all presented to the eyes of these Tang sergeants.

Only when all the soldiers under this observation deck died under the scimitar of the Turkic barbarians did the army choose to continue moving forward.

At this time, it was almost dusk.

Outside the Wandering Soul Castle, beacons were lit on one after another, but in the end, only a soldier who was only fifteen or sixteen years old returned to the city.

On the north-facing city, the Zhenwu Captain, who was responsible for the guard of the Wandering Soul Fort, had arranged the city defense and hurried to the Deputy Protectorate's Mansion. He wanted to report the situation that had just been transmitted to the city to the people in the mansion.

Even now, all the military power of this Wandering Soul Castle is in his hands.
Chapter completed!