Chapter 85: Heading towards the Volga River!

The Thunder Leaf Palace has been destroyed, and Zhang Mai did not build another palace, but only set up large tents in the city. Fortunately, Shulu was used to it, and although he was pregnant, there was not much inconvenience.

Ge Lan knelt down fifty steps away from Longxiang's tent, crawling all the way in, seeing Zhang Mai calling out to the Khan of the Sky, Zhang Mai ignored his flattery and asked, "Is it true or false that you said there is news about General Yang Dingbang?"

At this time, the western generals of the tent were gathered in the tent, and each of them looked stern. If Ge Lan's answer was false, I was afraid that the generals would attack.

"It's true, it's true!" Ge Lan said: "This incident was a clue I got when I heard Satuk's confidant Horan make suggestions to Satuk that day."

"What do you mean?" Yang Zhuo asked. Yang Dingbang was his uncle, and he had the deepest relationship with Yang Dingbang here.

Ge Lan said: "After Satuk remarried his wife and concubine, he gave birth to a son, but he had been sick all the time. The generals in the army were uneasy, so Holland once suggested that it would be better to send someone to the northwest general Yang Dingbang... General Yang Dingbang captured him so that he could exchange his two evil seeds."

Satuk's two sons, the eldest son, Musa, and the second son, Ilik, are still in Zhang Mai's hands. Zhang Mai has not played this card, and only then was remembered when Ge Lan mentioned it.

Ge Lan said again: "But Satuk rejected it at that time. Holland stuttered and I was not easy to ask at the time, so I didn't know the following. However, since the words were revealed from the conversation between the two of them, the information was true, so I later asked about it from many sources and found out some clues."

"What's the clue?" the generals in the tent asked in unison.

Ge Lan said: "I heard that when our Tiance Army started, we fought a battle with Satuk in Talas."

"Not bad." Zhang Mai Youran said: "That...it seems to be something a long time ago."

The Tang army at that time was not called Tiance Tang army, but Anxi Tang army. Even the Tang army was a little reluctant. At that time, they were just a group of weak border generals from Xinruiye City, heading south to the Ruiye Desert and captured Talas and Julan City with tricks, but they could not compete with the Uighur army.

When Satuk was about to come, Guo Shidao and Yang Dingbang led the side troops to stop Satuk, while Zhang Mai and Yang Dingguo led the main force to walk the mountain road and enter the Ningyuan area, which was still called the rare trajectory at that time.

It was in that war that Guo Shidao died in battle and Yang Dingbang disappeared. That incident has become a mystery that the Tang army in Tiance has been concerned about.

Yang Zhuo said anxiously: "Don't talk about the past, you only say what you found out!"

Regarding Yang Dingbang's incident, the Tang army had already received some news, but these news was not accurate. So this time Yang Yi asked Yang Zhuo to come with Zhang Maixi. One of the reasons was to ask Yang Zhuo to see if his uncle Yang Dingbang was alive or dead.

At this time, Ge Lan said: "Yes, General Sin found out that after General Yang Dingbang escaped from the city that day, the road to the south was blocked, and he seemed to have other reasons. He deliberately left many clues and actually headed all the way to the desert to the north."

Guo Luo and Zhang Mai looked at each other, and they immediately thought that Yang Dingbang was buying time for their main force!

At that time, the Anxi Tang army was very weak. Not only was the combat power limited, but the supply was in danger of protection, but the morale was also very unstable. A wandering army without a rear might face the misfortune of falling apart as long as it was defeated. The process of entering the main force in Ningyuan area was actually quite smooth, but Yang Dingbang was not sure in the Talas area. Therefore, Zhang Mai and Guo Luo guessed Yang Dingbang's thoughts!

"Uncle Dingbang must be afraid that he would be followed by Satuk, so he actually asked them to find our main force, or Satuk guessed our intention from Uncle Dingbang's actions, and even used the flying master to cross the Pamirs. At that time, even if we crossed the Essays, we were afraid that we would not be able to pass the Tuoyun Mountain Pass!"

The difficulty of flying birds at Tuoyun Mountain Pass is not a place that can be attacked by troops. If Shule had not had any precautions at the beginning, how could Zhang Mai and others be able to trick him so easily? If Satuk had obtained information earlier and learned about the intentions of the Anxi Tang Army, he would not have to send a large army. As long as there was an order to fly to the post of Tuoyun Mountain Pass, they ordered them to guard against each other, they would be afraid that the Anxi Tang Army would be blocked to advance and retreat west of the Palacioles!

Although that happened a long time ago, Guo Luo couldn't help but feel a little cold sweat when he thought of the danger in the past - it would be terrible if things were like that.

However, Satuk continued to move south slower than Zhang Mai and others expected. Among them, Guo Shidao's strict defense and defense were the main reason. Later, if Yang Dingbang really did not escape south but went north as Ge Lan said, and deliberately left some clues to make Satuk fool, it would have won a lot of time for the Tang army.

The Long March of the Anxi Tang Army has spread all over the world. Afterwards, Zhuge Liang and others all knew that the Anxi Tang Army was going south at the beginning, but Satuk said that if Zhang Mai dared to go south to get Shule by misleading the traces - such a bold strategy was something that most people would not have imagined. On the contrary, the Tang army could not defend Talas and retreated to Xinshuye City - such an action would be "reasonable". Therefore, if Yang Dingbang had retreated into the valley of Dingxia and left traces at that time, it would have been even more disturbed by Satuk's audio-visual.

Zhang Mai also thought of this and became even more grateful to Yang Dingbang! He thought to himself: "Although we left secret notes for the fathers and brothers who were cut off from the rear, they actually did not intend to follow us from the beginning! Everything they did was to create conditions for us to escape from the day of birth, and for this purpose, even our own lives were not cared about!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Mai felt even more awe of the dead martyrs!

The strategy that was originally swept and won was very dazzling in the "Anxi Tang Army Long March Change" article. Everyone praised Zhang Mai's military strategy as magical, but few people noticed that the reason why many tricks were realized was because a group of people behind them actually used their lives as the price! If they lacked this spirit as the basis, those so-called tricks would be just talk about war on paper!

"If General Yang Dingbang is still alive, then no matter how much the price is spent, we must find them!" Zhang Mai made up his mind secretly!

Nowadays, finding Yang Dingbang is no longer to find a living force, but to a spirit. The deceased martyrs can only miss it, but the heroes who are wandering outside should be found to receive the highest respect from the Tiance Tang Dynasty!

"What about later?" Zhang Mai asked.

In fact, Ge Lan provided very little information, but this little bit of information can be vaguely connected with the memories in their hearts. Such information actually made Zhang Mai and Guo Luo feel even more credible.

Ge Lan said: "After these people entered the desert, Satuk also sent people to search, but the desert was vast, and it was not easy to find hundreds of people. Before the people were found, news came from the southeast!"

Zhang Mai and others thought that Shule was in a hurry.

"As soon as Satuk heard that something happened to Shule, he didn't care about General Yang Dingbang and hurried to the Pamirs. So this matter was never mentioned again, until he was defeated by the Marshal and retreated to the Talas region. At this time, he thought of colluding with Huo Xunren, and not only wanted to offend the Marshal, but also had ambitions towards Arslan, so he also had a strategy for Sailye since early on."

"It's from the upper reaches of the Thunder Ye River, that is, the former site of the New Thunder Ye City, to invade the East and disrupt Arslan." Guo Luo said, "and then pretended to be my Tang army, saying that General Yang Dingbang was invading the lower reaches of the Thunder Ye River."

"No, that... is not completely fake." Ge Lan said: "Actually, I only learned later that Satuk secretly ordered Holan to enter Huoxun with some lecturers and elite troops from the Tianfang Sect, and led Huoxun to the upper reaches of the Saiye River, but he met the remaining troops of the Tang army there."

Yang Zhuo yelled and said, "Is it..."

"It must be that way. If all you say is true." Shi Ba said: "It is impossible for you to stay in the valley under the lamp for a long time. General Yang failed to go south and had to return north."

Ge Lan said: "Sin General also speculates in this way, but Sin General has not received much news, and some of them are just speculations, but every sentence I just said is true and there is no lie."

Guo Luo thought to himself: "The so-called groundlessness must be caused. Uncle Dingbang led the remaining troops of our army to wander upstream of the Suoye River, and must have advanced eastward to harass and robbery. Satuk later took advantage of this and took advantage of the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the banner of the remaining troops of the Tang cavalry. However, Uncle Dingbang took away not many people, and without the help of the Zheng family, the repair of weapons and other weapons would be a problem. This team is afraid that it will shrink more and more. If he meets Holland, he has Satuk's elite and the fire search for people, Uncle Dingbang will definitely not be his opponent."

Zhang Mai also had the same idea and asked hurriedly: "How was General Yang Dingbang after meeting Holland?"

Ge Lan said: "I heard that the two sides met near the ruins of Xinxuye City and fought. General Yang was not good..."

All the generals also guessed that if it was a war, Yang Dingbang would definitely not have a good result. Yang Zhuo shouted: "Then my uncle Dingbang is okay... is it okay?"

But he heard Ge Lan say, "Although Holland is victorious, General Yang Dingbang is very alert, and he still lets him retreat and retreat to the north. Until recently, I heard from the mouths of some mountain and forest hunting tribes that there seemed to be a group of people moving among the mountains, forests and grasslands more than a thousand miles away. However, they dare not get too close to Huoxunhai and dare not come back, but turned to the northwest step by step."

"More north?" Yang Zhuo shouted: "Xin Ruiye City is already a bitter and cold place. If it goes north, then..."

His fearful look floated on his face.

After letting Ge Lan continue, Zhang Mai discussed with the generals again. After carefully pondering Ge Lan's words, everyone said: "This Ge Lan doesn't look like a lie, but if he hadn't lie, then General Yang would be in danger now."

Zhang Mai said, "No, General Yang should be alive." He said nothing loudly, but his tone was very slow, which made people feel that he had full confidence!

"Marson, is Uncle Dingbang still here?" Yang Zhuo said.

"Yes, it must be still here!" Zhang Mai said: "From the north of Xinxueye City, it is also a bitter and cold place. The more we go north, the worse the environment, and we can't raise many people. But don't forget that after General Yang Dingbang suffered several setbacks, the number of people under his command will definitely not be many. If hundreds of people rely on the mountain and forest resources in the north and all the abilities of General Yang Dingbang himself, there is a great chance of survival. However, due to the isolation for too long, they may not know that we have risen, so they did not come back."

Hearing this, several generals from Lingxixi stood up almost at the same time and said in unison: "Marson, please allow me to bring a group of troops to search northwest, and we must take General Yang Dingbang back!"

Zhang Mai pondered silently. Others might not know what was going to the northwest, but he knew it.

"I won't be careful, I'll go there..."

The cold Eastern Europe, Luoba, is not the direction of Zhang Mai's advancement. The current convergence point of the Tiance Tang army's conflicts lies in the east and the rivers, and the northwest direction, and there was no motivation to go there.

But now it's different.

If Ge Lan had not lie and Yang Dingbang had not gone far, then at this time he should have heard of the Tang army conquering Lingxi. As long as they heard about it, what else could stop them from returning to the east? The only explanation was that they had left too far to be isolated from the news here.

If we use the geographical concept of later generations, Xin Ruiye City is already westward in central Asia, and further west to north, it is the junction of Asia and Europe. If we go there, there will be another vast plain and a civilization at two extremes with China! If Yang Dingbang really goes to Europe...

Then it wouldn't be possible to find him by sending hundreds of people, and the search situation would become extremely difficult.

However, how could the Tiance Tang Army ignore the lost brothers and the lost heroes?

"Europe?Soviet?Russia?" Zhang Mai's world history is only worse than that of Chinese history, but he also vaguely remembers that Eastern Europe in this era should not have such a powerful country - at least the polar bear that looked up to the world in later generations has not yet risen. In other words, if Yang Dingbang really went to Europe, then what he still had to face was a group of barbarians.

As his thoughts turned, Zhang Mai gradually had an idea. Of course, the army's strategy could not be changed because of Yang Dingbang's affairs, but the thing that Yang Yi said might be arranged by this.

"The Volga River..." No one could hear clearly the river that he spit out of his mouth.

At this time, a young general stood up.
Chapter completed!