Upon hearing this, Xiao Poxian, the commander of the Imperial Guard, was taken aback. He thought to himself: "Is Your Highness confused? Aren't the Longcheng army of Shule City all here? How can you possibly summon troops to quell the rebellion?"
However, Xiao Po still chose to carry out the orders of Prince Chen Huai'an without hesitation.
With a simple gesture, he sent out a signal arrow that was always ready to fire, which flew out of his arm with a whoosh.
Whoosh!
Beep—
A red arrow shot into the sky exploded over the vast Gobi Desert outside Shama Town, bursting into an orange flame.
Everyone present, whether soldiers from Longcheng or soldiers of the Western Regions Allied Forces, instinctively focused their attention on the arrow that had just shot into the sky.
Azhar, the Uyghur warrior closest to Chen Huai'an, looked around from his horse, only to find that all he could see were sand dunes in the Gobi Desert.
Apart from the yellow sand drifting in the wind, there wasn't even a lizard in sight, let alone any Han reinforcements.
Although the Uyghur Khan Guli Peiluo, who was further away, could not hear what Azhar and Chen Huai'an were saying, he could see the arrow that shot through the clouds in mid-air very clearly.
That was a type of signal arrow commonly used by the Han army, which used different gunpowder explosion colors to indicate different commands.
There is even a saying that goes, "One arrow pierces the clouds, and a thousand armies come to meet you."
Gu Li Pei Luo appeared calm and collected, but in reality, he was extremely nervous. He was unsure whether Chen Huai'an's release of the Cloud Piercing Arrow was actually an ambush of a surprise force outside Shama Town.
Only when Bargu, the commander of the Imperial Guards beside him, reported to him that everything in the surrounding Gobi Desert was normal and there was nothing unusual did Gulipeiro's face regain a smug smile.
He ordered, "Pass down the order to General Azhar to lead his troops to attack the enemy immediately, without delaying the battle!"
"Your subordinate obeys!"
At a command, the flag bearer in the central command tent of the Western Region barbarian army vigorously waved the triangular command flag in his hand, giving the order to attack to Azhar, who was in charge of the troops!
Soon, Azhar, the most valiant general of the Uyghurs who commanded 50,000 cavalry, responded.
With a hint of sarcasm, he said sternly, "You bastard Chen Huai'an, you're about to die, and you're still trying to scare people with your antics!"
"Uyghur cavalry soldiers, heed my command—"
Thump!
Thump!
Thump!
Hazar's order to launch a full-scale attack was still stuck in his throat when he heard the thunderous sound of war drums, like a bolt from the blue.
Shh! Shh!
Shh! Shh!
Immediately following was the rustling sound of sand and gravel sliding down the Gobi Desert.
Hazard frowned and peered around again.
He is someone who has lived in the desert and Gobi for many years, and he is extremely familiar with this rustling sound.
To make the surrounding sand slide and produce such a pleasant rustling sound, one would need at least a large caravan of camels or a herd of warhorses moving around.
Could it be that Han reinforcements have arrived?
Sure enough, as Hazar looked around with suspicion, he noticed that the undulating sand dunes of the Gobi Desert not far away were beginning to move.
The first thing that appeared in the sight of Azhar and the Western Regions allied forces was a Han general riding a tall warhorse, wearing heavy armor, and holding a short sword with a ring pommel in one hand.
Alone on horseback, he crossed the sand ridge and climbed the dune, his blade aimed directly at the back of the Western Regions allied forces.
Although the distance was too great, Azhar could not see the expression on the Han general's face.
However, the ruthless aura emanating from him clearly indicated that he was no pushover; he must have been a fierce warrior who had fought his way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood to possess such a powerful presence.
A furious roar erupted from the newcomer, shaking the very heavens and earth:
"General Lan Yu, the commander of the Longcheng army on its western expedition, is here. You lowly scoundrels from the Western Regions, why don't you dismount and surrender immediately!"
Those who surrender will be spared!
Suddenly, Lan Yu's voice seemed to be amplified countless times by a loudspeaker, resounding throughout the Gobi Desert near Shama Town.
Those who surrender will be spared!
Clearly, Lan Yu did not have a loudspeaker.
Instead, it was the soldiers and officers of Longcheng under his command who kept crossing the sand ridges and climbing the sand dunes that repeatedly roared General Lan Yu's words of persuasion to surrender, until they reached the ears of every barbarian soldier from the Western Regions.
In the blink of an eye, the troops from Longcheng, who kept appearing behind the Western Regions Allied Forces, had already formed a siege against the Western Regions barbarian cavalry.
Everywhere he looked, there were Han soldiers dressed in armor and holding sharp weapons.
Scarlet battle flags bearing the character "晋" (Jin) sprouted up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain across the vast Gobi Desert, fluttering in the strong winds.
That's not all!
Just as the Uyghur Khan Guli Peiluo, the first warrior Azhar, and a group of Western Region barbarian soldiers were astonished by the Han cavalry that appeared behind the Western Region cavalry.
How did they manage to evade the scouts of the Western Regions allied forces and appear undetected behind the Uyghur army? Just then, a deafening roar erupted from the Gobi Desert dunes behind the Western Regions allied forces' central command tent:
"Pang Xianchu, the valiant general of the Dragon City Vanquishing Army—"
"Fan Wuji, Commander of the Dragon City Iron Pagoda—"
"Here I am!"
"You lowly scoundrels from the Western Regions, why don't you dismount and surrender immediately!"
The two commanders flanking the Uyghur Khan Guli Peiluo in the center of the army were none other than Pang Xianchu and Fan Wuji, who commanded the Dragon City Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Iron Pagoda Cavalry.
"Those who follow the will of King Jin will prosper;"
"Those who defy the Jin dynasty shall perish!"
For a moment, the roars of the Dragon City Iron Cavalry and Tiger Leopard Cavalry soldiers echoed across the entire Gobi Desert on the undulating sand dunes near the central army of the Western Region barbarian troops.
In this way, centered on the small town of Shama in the western region, two huge encirclements radiate outwards from the Gobi Desert for dozens of miles around, like a loop.
The first line of defense was the Western Region barbarian soldiers who surrounded 30,000 Guan Ning cavalry and Anxi border troops.
The second force was the Dragon City army, which had completely surrounded 150,000 Western Region barbarian soldiers, totaling a massive force of 170,000.
"What... what exactly is going on?"
In the central command tent of the Western Region barbarian army, the Uyghur Khan, Guli Peiluo, had lost his usual composure and roared furiously, "Who can tell me what's going on here?"
"Bargu, are all the scouts, agents, and spies you sent out blind?"
"How could they not have discovered such a large-scale ambush by the Han army?"
"That Han bastard Chen Huai'an, where did he get so many troops? Does he have the ability to turn beans into soldiers?"
Gulipe Luo roared in exasperation, "How did all the sand and gravel on the Gobi Desert turn into fully armed Han soldiers overnight?"
"Tell me, what exactly happened?"
However, no one could answer Gulipeiro's question.
at the same time.
The Uyghur warrior Azhar, who was closest to Chen Huai'an, no longer had the arrogant and domineering look on his young and proud face. He couldn't utter anything more. A single spit from each of them could drown out Chen Huai'an's wild words.
At this moment, Hazard looked completely bewildered.
He racked his brains but couldn't figure out how these suddenly appearing Han reinforcements had managed to evade the detection of the Uyghur scouts and agents.
This isn't a matter of a hundred or so people casually finding a sand dune to lie down in and blend into the sky and earth.
The Han army that appeared behind the Western Regions coalition numbered at least 100,000 to 200,000 men.
Could it be that this Han Chinese scoundrel Chen Huai'an is using some kind of illusion to turn all the Uyghur scouts and agents into blind men?
The original plan was to deploy a large force in Shama Town to trap the Han Chinese Chen Huai'an like a turtle in a jar.
Now, it's still like catching a turtle in a jar.
However, he and his Uyghur cavalrymen had gone from being the ones to be the ones to catch the turtle to the turtle themselves!
Before Hazard could even adjust to the psychological gap of "the one who caught the turtle has become the turtle," Prince Chen Huai'an of Jin, who was at the core of the two-layered encirclement, shouted at him again with a loud laugh:
Hahaha!
"Hey, you barbarian lads from the Western Regions up there, do you still want to compete with me to see who has more soldiers?"
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