Xue Shao sent several capable troops to follow Xue Rengui with carrier pigeons, maintain contact at any time and exchange military information between the two sides. After arriving in Shuozhou, Xue Shao set up tight defenses in the Great Wall area to build countless beacons, and many other whistle cavalry patrolled everywhere day and night. The spies of scouts and secret spies set up in the dark extended their reconnaissance activities to a large area around 30 miles.

Compared with other generals of the same era, Xue Shao attached more importance to intelligence collection on the battlefield. This may be a habit developed by his years of special operations experience in his previous life. This habit made him invincible in the wars of the Tang Dynasty, which was in line with the ancient military strategy of "Knowing yourself and your enemy will never be defeated."

Xue Shao played the role of the scout to the fullest.

Especially in this battle to reinforce Hebei, hundreds of new scammers brought by the original twenty old scammers under Guo An grew up rapidly in actual combat, and some even shone brightly and became talents who stood alone. The performance of the Xue family's army was also quite excellent. They were essentially also scammers, but they were only affiliated with Xue Shao's personal personalities in their identities, not real nominal soldiers.

Seven days after arriving in Shuozhou, news finally came from Xue Rengui that after Xue Rengui led his main force to Xiaoyi of Guliang, he found that the Turkic enemy troops had not fulfilled their contract to fight. On the contrary, they gave up Yunzhou - put oil on the soles of their feet and ran away!

Xue Rengui was furious and led his army to Yunzhou in one breath, and found that no one of the enemies had left and ran away. At the same time, the entire Yunzhou City had turned into a ruin of fire, and the people and property were all empty. Xue Rengui had to temporarily station the army in the open space between Yunzhou City and Great Wall City Pass, and let the rear transport food and grass to supply the army. At the same time, he told Xue Shao that he asked him to go to Yunzhou to discuss the next military plan.

When Xue Shao received this news, he was both shocked and angry. Unexpectedly, the Turks actually played this way. It seems that the evaluation of the Turkic Hu people circulating in the world is "no faith and too deceitful" and is really groundless.

Xue Shao speculated that the Turks' escape from the fun battle was nothing more than two reasons:

First, they did not want to fight to the decisive battle at all. The reason they took the initiative to come to the War Book was to divert the attention of the Tang army, delay the Tang army's opportunity to send troops, and win time for their safe retreat. If they really drove to Guliang Xiaoyi to fight the Tang army, even if Xue Shao did not use the surprise troops to capture Yunzhou, the Youzhou Grand Governor's Office might do this. Once Yunzhou behind them was cut off, they might be trapped in a siege and unable to escape.

Secondly, they did make a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain, but found that Shuozhou had Xue Shao's tight defense and could not start, and there was no oil and water left and right, so they simply left. In any case, the frontal decisive battle was definitely not something the Turks were good at and expected, and it was useless to take the city of Yunzhou. They never really wanted the city of the Tang Dynasty. They only had the wealth, food and population in the city.

Xue Shao replied to Xue Rengui, informing the old general of his speculation and analysis first, so that he could learn from the situation. Then Xue Shao led the jumping army out of the city to Yunzhou to meet with Xue Rengui to discuss the next military plan. The important task of defending Shuozhou was to his deputy Tang Xiujing and the main force of the Shuofang Army's cavalry.

Three days later, Xue Shao led his troops to Yunzhou. All he saw were scorched earth ruins.

Xue Rengui's subordinates are working hard to clear the embers in the city and bury the corpses of the people and soldiers. However, a few days have passed, and there are still a large number of corpses in the city that have not been buried. Among them are old people and children with no power, most of which are missing. It is difficult to see a complete set of corpses. Many women were stripped of clothes and hung on trees, with blood on their lower bodies, which is enough to show that they were stabbed by the Turks with a knife and killed them. Among them, many pregnant women had their stomachs cut open and exposed the dead fetus in their abdomen...

All the miserable appearances made Xue Shao and his subordinates gritted their teeth and burst into anger.

A general in charge of burying the body found Xue Shao and invited him to the government office of the Yunzhou Governor's Office to see him. After Xue Shao went in, he saw a large number of heads in the main hall of the Governor's Office, with each head marked with a note of name and official position.

All those who died here were Yunzhou's officials. The head of the Yunzhou Governor Li Wenjian had been burned to a charred black and placed in it.

Next door to the main hall, there was still trace of a banquet. It can be seen that the Turks held a celebration banquet after slashing a group of officials and generals from the Tang Dynasty here.

The plaque of the main house of the Governor's Office has been taken off, replaced by a large silk banner dozens of meters long with a line of words written on it—

"I would like to use the creatures in Yunzhou to sacrifice to our Turkic Khanate to be killed in the two states of Shuo Dai! Today I will hold my clan to swear that the Turkic Khanate will kill Xue Shao, and will avenge the national humiliation and blood feud!"

Xue Shao looked at the lettering, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and his teeth clenched, making his bones roar.

"Mr. Xue, our people found several people in Yunzhou who survived by chance in the city." The general who led the way said to Xue Shao, "They said that after the Turks captured Yunzhou, they began to search for officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in the city, robbed property and raped women. Soon after, they began to massacre in the city. Except for a few craftsmen with ingenious craftsmen and beautiful young women, the rest were all killed. Moreover, when the Turks killed people, they also claimed to the military and civilians of Yunzhou that if they wanted to blame, they blamed Xue Shao for killing too many of their people in the two states of Shuoday. They were avenging their compatriots. All the revenge must be attributed to Xue Shao alone!"

As soon as the general finished speaking, all the soldiers behind Xue Shao cursed.

"It's such a clever word, shameless!" Zhang Renyuan shouted loudly, "There is no selfless hatred on the battlefield, and each of them is their own masters. How can the hatred be extended to the unarmed people? The Turks are so cruel and unkind, even if the world is not eliminated, the sky will eliminate it!"

"It's just a beast!"

"Next time I see the Turkic people, no matter who he is, I will kill all without leaving any one!"

"Kill them all!!!"

"We must avenge our fellow villagers and robes in Yunzhou!!"

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"Shut up!" Xue Shao shouted, "Are you all shrews from the city? Are you actually cursing here?"

Everyone stopped the sound, but they gritted their teeth and couldn't get rid of their anger.

"We are soldiers, and the weapons in our hands are our language." Xue Shao said, "No matter how much hatred you have, I will vent my feelings on the battlefield. Don't talk nonsense on weekdays and don't fart!"

"yes!!"

"Let's go and see the old coach!"

Not long after, Xue Shao entered the camp and met Xue Rengui.

"Have you seen the scene in the city?" Xue Rengui's face turned pale.

"I also went to the Governor's Office and saw the banner." Xue Shao said, "The Turks vented hatred on the common people, and Xue Shao could no longer bear it!"

"Isn't that the same?" Xue Rengui gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "I just regret that the bandit was so slick that he immediately fled from Yunzhou after the massacre of the city. I sent a number of scouts to inquire and learned that their troops had not been completely withdrawn."

"Oh?" Xue Shao was a little curious, "I haven't completely withdrawn, what should I say?"

Xue Rengui replied: "As far as I know, after the Turks withdrew from Yunzhou, about half of the men and horses fled into the desert with their people and wealth, but another half of them stopped on the northern Gobi Desert about a hundred miles away from Yunzhou, as if they had other plans."

"This is strange." Xue Shao also felt a little surprised, "The Turks have actually massacred Yunzhou City, so there is no reason to stay. Could it be that there is a disagreement within them?"

"For a moment, I don't know." Xue Rengui said, "I was about to lead the army to pursue him, but I was afraid that the enemy's condition would fall into an ambush and be trapped. It was the young marshal who came. I wanted to hear the young marshal's opinion - that enemy, is it not to kill?"

Xue Shao pondered for a moment and said, "As the old general said, the enemy's situation is unknown, you should not act rashly. For the current plan, you can only send additional scouts to find out the enemy's situation and make a decision. There are still a few capable scouts under my command. If the old general can trust it, I will send them to go there."

"Very good." Xue Rengui smiled slightly, "I am waiting for the young marshal's words - the scout under the young marshal's command has long made me look at him with admiration. Now, it is the time for them to use their skills!"

Xue Shao immediately called Guo An and assigned the task.

When Guo An led Nuo away, Xue Rengui praised repeatedly, "I have never seen such a capable scout in my life. The young marquis is good at training troops!"

"The veteran general has been awarded!" Xue Shao smiled without saying a word, thinking that I was naturally unique in using modern special combat experience to train the scouts.

The next day, the scout sent by Xue Shao had not yet returned the enemy's situation, but a messenger came to the Bingzhou Governor's Office in the rear.

It turned out that Wu Chengsi was extremely happy to learn that Yunzhou had "returned without fighting" and sent someone to congratulate Xue Rengui and Xue Shao, and at the same time, "please ask the two military commanders to write a good news early to inform the court."

Wu Chengsi, this is a hurry to ask for merit from the court.

Xue Shao and Xue Rengui wished they could kill the messenger on the spot.

"Hurry back to Bingzhou and say to Wu Chengsi!" Xue Rengui shouted angrily at his messenger, "Yunzhou has returned without a fight, but it has completely turned into an empty city without a man, a purgatory of corpses and blood. All the soldiers, civilians and people have been massacred by the Turks! In this situation, how can we still have the face to ask the court for merit? It is too late to apologize!"

"Yes, yes!..." The messenger could resist Xue Rengui's power, and his legs were scared and he wanted to escape in a hurry.

"Let's go!" Xue Shao stopped him, invited Xue Rengui aside, and whispered, "The old general is angry. Now our logistics supply and food transportation are all supported by Bingzhou. We still need Wu Chengsi. The restoration of Yunzhou is not only not a military merit, but once the court investigates it, it will be a huge crime. Since Wu Chengsi is now determined to deceive military merits and ask for rewards to the court, why don't we use the tricks and give him all the credit for regaining Yunzhou?"

Xue Rengui immediately smiled knowingly, "Since the dog can't change his shit, let's feed him a piece of good feces mixed with arsenic and frost!"

Arsenic | Good feces for frost?

Xue Shao couldn't help laughing. The old general is quite talented!

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Chapter completed!