Liang Xiao re-took Hexi Road and felt a lot of emotion. ≤≤Little≤Say,

Last time he came back, he encountered the Huns intercepted him on the way. He had no choice but to go to the Qiang. Some Qiang people were very hospitable, while others were malicious. However, he had strict precautions and did not encounter any trouble.

This time, Hexi Road was completely controlled by the Han army, and the number of Qiang people seen along the way was greatly reduced. Only those tribes that had relied on the Han Dynasty from the beginning and made military achievements during the Cao period's conquest of Qiang had the opportunity to live in the Hegu continent. When they saw Liang Xiao and his party, they were all very friendly, whether they knew each other or not.

The Han army stationed along the way heard that Liang Xiao was passing by and wanted to return to the Western Regions, and was warmly welcomed and welcomed and sent him to the scene. He wished he could walk with Liang Xiao. Along the way, Xu Le and Liang Xiao were inseparable, and they saw Liang Xiao's position in the minds of the soldiers, and were quite moved.

Liang Xiao didn't have time to sigh. He began the integration training of the troops. In addition to the original knights composed of more than 100 Greek teenagers, he now has two hundred more Rangers recruited in Chang'an. Xie Guanglong and Guo Wu also brought dozens of knights, Xu Le and Batu, and some servants, all of which were added together, with more than 400 people.

Liang Xiao asked all these more than 400 people to participate in the training, even Xu Le and Batu were no exception. They did not need to kill the enemy themselves, but they had to be proficient in riding skills. Once they fought, they must keep up with the speed of the knights and not fall behind.

Liang Xiao originally thought that Xu Le would be a difficult situation, but he didn't expect that the first problem was Batu.

Batu stayed in Chang'an for several years. Although he still rode horses frequently, he had been pampering for too long, and his thighs were covered with fat, so he could no longer adapt to this kind of life that had been bumping on the horse's back for a long time. In just a few days, his thighs were worn out and blood was dripping.

Batu retreated and wanted to use his identity as a cover to withdraw from training. Liang Xiao told him that you can withdraw, just retreat to Chang'an and continue to be your hostage. Yuezhi has nothing to do with you since then, and you are not qualified to be the King of Yuezhi. Yuezhi is a nation on the back of a horse and has never followed the strong. Why you cannot get the respect of the tribes is because you are not as strong as Aliusu.

Now, Aliu is dead in battle, and his soul can ascend to heaven. If you can't even endure this little suffering, it's better to go to hell in the future, so as not to be ridiculed by Aliusu. To be on the safe side, you will finally cut a few cuts on your face before you die, and if you touch Aliusu, he will not recognize it.

Batu was blushed when Liang Xiao said it, which aroused the lurking blood. He gritted his teeth and continued to train.

Xu Le's situation was better than Liang Xiao expected. He came from Yan State and was no stranger to riding a horse. After receiving the edict, he learned that he would walk with Liang Xiao. From the day he left Chang'an, he had consciously trained the knights, and had already passed the most difficult period. When the muscles on his thighs became stronger, he was able to run smoothly with the knights.

As for Rangers, Liang Xiao doesn't have to worry about them. These guys are not self-sustaining, and cavalry fencing is common. They also know that this trip to the Western Regions was facing a fierce battle, and they would die if they were not careful. They knew that sweating more at this time was to bleed less in the future, so they did not need Liang Xiao to urge them to increase the amount and practice riding and shooting hard and tactics.

Liang Xiao once again appointed Xie Guanglong and Guo Wu as the chief and deputy cavalry generals to command these two hundred rangers. He himself studied ways to deal with Wu Shan with the guards around him.

Wu Dan not only has a hard bow with a range of 200 steps, but also has nearly a hundred mercenaries and horse thieves who are good at riding and shooting. This is simply an enhanced version of Liang Xiao. Liang Xiao has always been on the battlefield with this luxurious configuration. Now, he is facing a stronger opponent. If he does not make sufficient preparations, he will have no chance of winning.

Liang Xiao’s preparation is divided into two parts:

First, strengthen the archery training of himself and the five archers. It is unlikely to have a qualitative leap in the short term, but they need to improve the training intensity and keep themselves in a good competitive state. Although they were not idle when they were in Chang'an, it was better to devote themselves to the battlefield. He had to adjust before encountering the enemy to avoid being caught off guard and suffering heavy damage.

The second is to adjust the weapon equipment. The range of the ground bow in Wudan's hand exceeds that of the ordinary bow, and it has dozens of steps more than the black bow in Liang Xiao's hand. If the range disadvantage is not solved, they will always be in a passive situation of being beaten. Fortunately, the Han army has a large killer weapon like a crossbow, and the range is not a problem at all. The problem is that the eyesight is limited, and no one can guarantee the hit rate beyond two hundred steps.

Powerful crossbows are all covered strikes and are rarely used for individual snipers. Even famous shooters like Li Guang will use powerful crossbows to kill the opponent's generals when they are in line to defend. They must use powerful crossbows on a fast-moving war horse. Whether it is winding or shooting, it is a difficult problem to solve.

In order to solve this problem, Liang Xiao had two ideas: one was to make up for the speed disadvantage with the advantage of the number of people. He prepared five six-stone crossbows with a range of 240 steps and handed them over to twenty personal guards for use. These personal guards were all childhood friends he brought to Jiangdu. They were loyal and had received strict training from Huan Yuan and Zhongli periods, so they were not unfamiliar with the use of crossbows.

Another way is to build a new weapon, which requires both the rate of fire of a crossbow and the range of a crossbow. This arduous task was handed over to Deng Guobin. Deng Guobin followed Liu Ling, from Lushan to Chang'an, and now followed Liang Xiao to the Western Regions. Along the way, he was the only person who did not need to participate in fighting training. His task was to be familiar with various crossbows and then design improvement plans.

Deng Guobin proposed a very creative idea. He wanted to use pulley sets to improve the problem of difficulty in catching crossbows. Pullway sets can save effort, and this has been proven that how to apply it to the crossbow has become the core issue he is considering now.

Technological improvement is by no means an easy task. Even though Deng Guobin has outstanding achievements in machinery and crossbows, the manufacturing of new crossbows is still difficult. Fortunately, Liang Xiao did not expect him to take it out immediately. He focused more on training crossbowmen. If five six-stone crossbows are cooperated with tacit understanding, it should be enough to balance Wu Dan's range advantage.

In addition to deploying a series of training tasks, Liang Xiao himself also began intensive training.

After several years of guidance practice, he has reached a height that ordinary people cannot reach, but he has never reached the level of archer that Huan Yuan mentioned. His current level is slightly better than Huan Yuan. Within seventy or eighty steps, even the slightest footsteps cannot escape his ears. He can shoot in response to the activity targets beyond a hundred steps, and his hit rate is more than 80%.

If Wu Dan had not appeared, such shooting skills would have been enough to dominate the world. Even Huan Yuan thought he had no opponent. Unfortunately, his eyesight was not so clever. He could not see the leaves of a hundred steps away, and it was a legend after all. The resolution of hearing was obviously not as good as vision. He could ejaculate the chest of a humanoid target outside of a hundred steps away, and he could ejaculate the head when he was particularly sure. It would be difficult to be accurate.

He encountered a bottleneck and now he met a strong opponent. The addition of the two did not make him lose confidence, but instead aroused his fighting spirit.

He practiced hard as he had never seen before, just as he had just arrived in this world.

After leaving Chang'an, he no longer had to rack his brains to figure out the emperor's thoughts, and he truly calmed down and focused on dealing with Wu Dan.

Time passed quietly in the arduous training. At the end of April, Liang Xiao and his party arrived at Xingxing Gorge.

Xingxing Gorge can be regarded as the division point between the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions Desert. After Xingxing Gorge, there are two business roads: one business road heads north and travels west along the northern edge of the desert. You can go to Pulei, Cheshi, and the other business road head south, enter the desert, and go straight to Loulan.

Liang Xiao underwent the last rest and sent someone to contact Ma Qi, the commander of Xiaoyuezhi.

After not seeing each other for a few years, Maqi's beard turned a little whiter and he was not in good spirits. The moment he saw Batu, Maqi burst into tears. "Little Prince, you are back. If you don't come back, there will be no Yuezhi east of the Palacio."

Liang Xiao was puzzled and pulled Maqi to ask carefully. Only then did he realize that the situation in the Western Regions had deteriorated to an unimaginable level.

Tianlang shot Aliusu, and his reputation was greatly shocked. The countries in the south of the desert were frightened by his reputation and had to express their surrender to him. Even the Yuezhi people split, and at least half of them surrendered to Tianlang. Ma Qi sent people to Li Shuyun and Li to seek help from the family, but the two Lis were insufficient in their troops and did not dare to act rashly. The Han army showed weakness, and Tianlang's arrogance became even more arrogant. Now, not only in Monan, but also in Mobei, there are people showing goodwill to him.

The Yuezhi people have no leader. If Batu does not come back, the Yuezhi people east of the Pamir Mountains either become subordinates of Tianlang or are killed by Tianlang.

"Little Prince, you must kill Tianlang, take back the prince's head, and avenge the prince."

Batu's face froze. Kill Tianlang? He didn't have the ability to do this. He smiled awkwardly and turned his gaze for help to Liang Xiao.

When March saw this, he frowned secretly, and his disappointment was beyond words.

Liang Xiao saw it and knew that Batu was a second-generation ancestor, so it was impossible to count on him to kill Tianlang. However, because Batu was not as strong as Aliusu, he had the opportunity to use Batu to control the Yuezhi people.

"Uncle, don't worry, this time I am ordered to escort the prince back to the country. I will never leave unless I kill Tianlang."

"That's great." March felt relieved. "I thought about it, the only one who can deal with Tianlang is the only one who can deal with Tianlang."

Liang Xiao nodded without any modesty. This was not the time to be polite. The people of the Yuezhi race were almost at a loss. He had to give them a few injections of heart augmentation and stabilize the situation first.

"I have two things, I want to entrust the captain."

"June, you said."

"First, help me send letters to various tribes, saying that I, Liang Xiao, is back. My great man will not give up on the Western Regions, but will only strengthen the protection of the countries in the Western Regions. Please rest assured. Second, help me find out about Tianlang's nest. I want to compete with him first to see what tricks he has."

Maqi pondered for a while. "June, Tianlang is coming and going without a trace. It is difficult for us to find out where he is. Moreover, the desert is rarely visited. Even if we find him, we cannot deliver the message in time. However, I have an idea, maybe we can ask him to come to you."

"you say."

"After Tianlang killed our prince, he cut down his head and sent his general Yiwuer to patrol everywhere. Now Yiwuer is in Nanshan. If you kill him, Tianlang will naturally know that you are here."

"Okay." Liang Xiao agreed without thinking.

Maqi seemed a little hesitant. "June, the other party is crowded with people, with about two thousand cavalry. Yiwuer is the confidant of Tianlang and his archery skills are also very exquisite. We tried to grab the prince's head several times, but we failed, but lost a lot of people."

"It's just two thousand riders." Liang Xiao waved his hand. "It's okay, just take me there and find someone familiar with the terrain to help me with guides. If you can arrange some supplies for me, I will be grateful."

"This is natural." Seeing Liang Xiao full of confidence, Ma Qi was also excited. "I sent someone to inform the tribes and ask them to prepare food and grass for Junhou, and I will never let Junhou fight on hungry."

Liang Xiao nodded with satisfaction.

Ma Qi was satisfied and took the people there. Liang Xiao wrote a letter asking Ma Qi to arrange for someone to send to Dongfang Shuo and announce his return.

After several days of pursuit, under the leadership of Maqi, Liang Xiao found Yiwuer.

Under the great publicity of Maqi, Yiwuer already knew about Liang Xiao's arrival. Rather than Liang Xiao found him, he found Liang Xiao. As Wu Shan's former personal guard general and the only follower when Wu Shan was in a desperate situation, he knew too much how much Wu Shan hated Liang Xiao.

If you can catch Liang Xiao, it is possible for Wu Dan to reward him with a country, so Yiwuer not only did not escape, but was on guard. He sent someone to deliver a letter to Wu Dan. When Liang Xiao came, I will cut off his head and offer it to the king as your sacrificial flag for you to rebuild the Hunxie tribe.

Yiwuer was very confident and did not even prevent nearby tribes from watching the battle. He wanted to defeat Liang Xiao in full view of everyone and completely defeat these unwilling tribes. Aliusu's head could not achieve the goal that Liang Xiao's head might be able to achieve.

One afternoon, Liang Xiao and Yiwuer met head-on on an oasis under a nameless mountain.

More than two thousand riders spread out behind Yiwuer, and the formation was relatively loose. The knights from all races were wearing all kinds of clothes, some sat on horseback, and some held their heads with their hands, looking at the Han army in the distance. Although the weather was cool at the end of April, they were still unwilling to wear armor. The troops on both sides were very different, and many people thought that this battle could not happen at all. Just like before, the Han army would retreat without fighting.

Yiwuer thought so too. Unlike ordinary knights, he was unwilling to let Liang Xiao escape unconsciously. He wanted to catch Liang Xiao.

The sound of desolate horn sounded, and Yiwuer ordered the knights on both wings to launch an offensive first, cutting off Liang Xiao's retreat.

The sound of horse hooves gradually sounded, and five hundred cavalry each rushed out from the left and right wings, circled in a circle from afar, and surrounded Liang Xiao's left and right.

Seeing this scene, Liang Xiao was ecstatic and returned to the first battle of the Western Regions. He not only wanted to win, but also win beautifully, otherwise it would not be enough to remind the existence of the tribal men who were watching the battle. It is certainly not an easy task to win with less and win beautifully, but Yiwuer's underestimation gave him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, which allowed him to see hope.

Liang Xiao secretly thanked that it seemed that God still took care of me and sent such an important but not smart enough opponent.

He pretended to be disdainful and sneered: "It seems that my great man's sword has not been sheathed for a long time. These barbarians have healed their scars and forgot to hurt, and forgot who is the hunter and who is the prey. Li Dang and Li Shuyun is ineffective, so let's wake up these idiots and let them see who is the master of the Western Regions."

Liang Xiao pulled out the jade sword given by the emperor and pointed forward. "Beat the drum and kill Yiwuer!"

"Kill Yiwuer!" Xie Guanglong raised the spear in his hand and shook it gently in the air. The war horse spread its four hooves and ran forward-
Chapter completed!