It was the evening of the third day, and Qimin Khan and Xue Xuecang, who had been fighting in Naomugang for a long time, dropped the corpses on the ground and withdrew their troops in a tacit understanding.

"Qimin Khan, what's going on with you?" The white-haired Xiao Mohe heard the clarion call to retreat, rode his horse towards Qimin Khan, and asked angrily: "Just fight for a while longer,

The Tiele people can't hold on any longer. They can defeat the Tiele people's camp in one fell swoop, so why withdraw their troops at this critical moment?"

Xiao Mohe is a general under Yang Liang. After Chang Sun Sheng was injured, he was urgently sent from Taiyuan to serve as Qimin Khan's "supervisor" on Yang Jian's order. This old man only arrived on the battlefield four days ago. The day before yesterday,

Yesterday I saw Qimin Khan for three days in a row

He retreated when he was about to win and wasted precious fighter opportunities. He was extremely puzzled. He had reminded him twice in a row, but today, Qimin Khan still had a short memory and couldn't help but raise the issue in public.

question.

Many chiefs watching the battle also frowned and looked at Qimin Khan. After fighting for so many days, Qimin Khan would blow the trumpet to retreat at every critical moment. If it was only once or twice, everyone would understand and think that this man would not be able to fight.

Fighting, but it's the same with more work and more rewards. He has done it countless times and ruined the fruits of hard work countless times. He said it well the first night, but on the second day, he continued to return to his old ways.

This made everyone very puzzled. When they heard Xiao Mohe's question, they all looked over, wanting to hear his explanation.

"Old general, calm down." Qimin Khan complained in his heart and said with a smile: "It's getting late. Our warriors have been fighting for a day, and all of them are tired and exhausted. If we continue to fight, even if we break through the Tiele people's camp, we will

There will be heavy casualties, what will we do to fight Bujia Khan?"

"Still fighting Bujia Khan?" Xiao Maha saw Qimin's opposition forces being consumed for two consecutive days. In the end, all the chiefs quarreled angrily, realizing that Qimin Khan was consuming these chiefs through war.

Strength, sneered and said: "If you continue like this, all the warriors will be exhausted by you, and those who attack Tiele's soldiers are all

The tribes that Khan did not agree with, these tribes suffered heavy losses, but your soldiers were always hiding behind. I think Khan did not want to go to Ganzhou to fight at all, but deliberately consumed the opposition forces here, so that he could not only explain to the saint, but also

It's great to be able to consolidate your own power. You have used General Changsun's 'One Shot, Two Eagles' here."

This old man has a strong temper, which has become even stronger now that he is older, and his words are not polite.

After hearing what Xiao Maha said, the chiefs who understood Chinese suddenly changed their expressions, and looked at Qimin Khan with eyes full of anger.

Many of them were captured and brought under the control of Qimin Khan after the victory of the Sui Dynasty's Northern Expedition. The reason why they were willing to obey orders was because they were afraid of the fierce and powerful Sui Dynasty, not the "incompetent" Qimin Khan.

At this time, when they heard that Xiao Maha had "brought Qimin Khan's sinister intentions to the world", they naturally couldn't bear it. With just one word from Sui Dynasty, they would abandon Qimin Khan and leave.

"Old General, I've said that." Qimin Khan saw that it had aroused public anger and was worried about betrayal and alienation, so his tone became tougher and he sneered: "This is my tactic to defeat the enemy. The purpose is to drain away the vigor of Tiele's army.

, in order to catch them all in one fell swoop, lest they escape and join Bujia Khan and cause huge trouble to Ganzhou."

"Really? Maybe I'm overthinking it!" Xiao Mohe didn't believe his lies at all, but he also knew that Qimin Khan was the main force in this battle. It was not appropriate to force him too much at this time. If he followed the Huns' example and fled deep into the desert,

Da Sui not only had nothing to do with him,

It would also seriously affect this battle. Seeing that it had attracted the attention of the chiefs, he said no more and just warned: "What I want to remind Khan is: when I played with my own mind and the art of war, Khan was not yet born.

.Don’t take me for a fool.”

"Old General, don't worry, I know what I should do, otherwise I wouldn't have asked Duoji to raise an army." Qimin Khan was so angry that he just wanted to kill people, but he didn't dare.

Since he grew stronger, he has always wanted to unify the Eastern and Western Turks and become the co-owner of the Turkic Khanate, thereby getting rid of the Sui Dynasty and no longer being a slave and vassal of the Sui Dynasty. However, the power of the Sui Dynasty made him dare not take the step of betrayal. More importantly,

Because his strength was too weak, Tiele tribes were still under the rule of Bujia Khan, and most of the former Dulan Khan tribe were still in the hands of Bujia Khan.

A few days ago, Xuexuecang came to see him secretly and said that as long as he was willing to help the Xuexue tribe get rid of Bujia Khan's control, he would surrender to him, and the other eight Tiele tribes would belong to him in the future. If anyone refused, Xuexuecang would do so unconditionally.

Help me fight.

The population of Tieleba tribe is 600,000-700,000. How could Qimin Khan not be moved? His current idea was to stabilize Xuexuecang first, and after the Sui Dynasty killed Bujia Khan, he could use the power of the Sui Dynasty to

They forced all the grassland tribes to surrender, and then turned around to deal with Xue Xuecang, and finally established the Turks into a highly centralized country, rather than the current tribal system.

Xue Xuecang helped him consume dissidents, which was the first step for the two of them to cooperate. He never expected that the Sui Dynasty would send supervisors this time, which not only seriously disrupted his plan, but also prevented him from being as popular as before.

No effort.

How can this be good?

"Boom, boom, boom!" At this moment, bursts of thunder-like sounds came from the southwest.

After a while, the thunderous sound seemed to become clearer.

"It's the cavalry." At this moment, the expressions of everyone on both sides of the enemy changed drastically. They quickly looked to the southwest, and the black line crawling at the end of the wilderness gradually became clear.

It's just that this cavalry is obviously not comparable to the cavalry on the grassland. Especially when the big flag with the word "Sui" on it becomes clear in sight, Qimin Khan's expression suddenly becomes incredible.

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"Sui Army? Where, where did the Sui Army come from?" Qimin Khan looked at Xiao Mohe aside in disbelief, his words a little knotted.

But Xiao Mohe couldn't answer at this time because he didn't know where this Sui army came from.

"Get ready to fight!" Xiao Mohe saw the Sui army killing the Tiele people who were slowly retreating, and the Tiele soldiers collecting the corpses were in a mess. He shouted with joy: "Warriors, prepare to fight. We will defeat the enemy."

Today."

"Ho ho ho..."

The angered chiefs ignored Qimin Khan and mounted their horses one after another, commanding their own warriors to fight from the east.

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"kill!"

The horn of the charge whimpered, and the deep horn sound resounded throughout the wilderness. Twenty thousand Sui cavalry accelerated their speed, erupting into earth-shattering shouts of killing, releasing their long-accumulated vigor. They were like a huge wave set off by a roaring mountain and a tsunami.

The heavy sound of horse hooves was like thunder on the plains, roaring towards the unprepared Tiele army.

The Sui army that suddenly appeared was naturally the 20,000 Lingzhou army led by Duan Wenzhen. They had already been lurking in the vast forest in the mountains in the southwest, like a tiger quietly waiting for its prey to appear.

They hid behind a vast forest so that both warring parties did not notice their presence. When the horns sounded on the battlefield to withdraw troops, Duan Wenzhen, who saw the Tiele soldiers retreating like a tide, launched an attack.

Tiele's soldiers had already reached a tacit understanding with Qimin's soldiers. After both sides retreated, they collected the dead bodies and did not pursue each other. Although they discovered the ambush when the horn sounded, they did not take precautions, and the team suddenly fell into chaos.

Xue Xuecang was so shocked that his scalp exploded. They were in a chaos now. It was not easy to quickly form a combat formation. Moreover, he now thought that Qimin Khan was a hound supported by the Sui Dynasty. No matter how powerful it was, it could not be bigger.

No matter how powerful the Sui Dynasty was, it was just a dog that was at the mercy of its master and did not dare to resist. In other words, Xuexecang was the one who tried to "seek skin from the tiger" because of his own cleverness, and eventually fell into the hands of Qimin Khan and the Sui army.

Calculation.

Xue Xuecang slapped his forehead in annoyance, hating himself for ignoring this fatal fact, but now it was too late to hate and regret. He was so anxious that he yelled at his younger brother: "Xue Xuecang, you bring five thousand cavalry to hold back the enemy."

, you must buy me time!"

"Yes!" Xue Xue blew the horn of assembly. The soldiers he led were the troops escorting the soldiers out of the battlefield. They were also an army with a relatively complete formation. When he gave the order, five thousand cavalry arrived immediately.

The Sui army two miles away met and left to fight.

Xue Xuecang's army was quickly gathering soldiers, but the prairie people seldom paid attention to formations when fighting, and once they retreated, they would become a mess. At this time, it was very difficult to assemble the army. In an emergency, they had to

Placed ten thousand of his own cavalry at the front.

The 20,000 Sui cavalrymen ran closer and closer, and finally collided with Xuexue Meng's 5,000 cavalrymen. These 5,000 cavalrymen seemed like big rocks in the river, but they responded to the battle in a hurry, and people were panicked. How could they stop waiting for work and equipping them with equipment?

Excellent, many people

How many Sui cavalry? In just a moment, they were swallowed up by the massive Sui cavalry. The left army composed of 10,000 Sui cavalry and the right army quickly bypassed both sides of the battlefield and continued to rush forward, intercepting them again.

Ten thousand enemy troops were fighting in one place.

And Zhao Cai led the five thousand rear army to rush north. Over there was the rebel army, which was tentatively called the "rear army". His mission was to kill this rebel army into chaos and chaos.

Fleeing in all directions prevented Xue Xuecang from forming a formation. The ultimate goal was to reduce the pressure on his own front army and left and right armies.

The "rear army" was two or three miles away from the front army where the Chinese army was fighting. Since there was no highly respected person to command it, they had to form a hasty formation and shoot at the roaring Sui army cavalry with their bows and arrows.

They raised their shields to meet them, but more than a hundred horses were knocked down by the shots. The cavalry rolled and fell to the ground, and were tragically trampled to pieces by the horses behind them.

The Tiele people fired a round of arrows, and the Sui army was already rushing to kill them. They rushed into the enemy group like a violent storm. Zhao Cai wielded his sword and killed an enemy general. The sword flew left and right, and led the Sui cavalry in

Bloody killings broke out among the rebels.

This is an asymmetrical unilateral killing. Once the prairie cavalry falls into chaos, it is like a flock of sheep without a shepherd and leader, and can only be allowed to be devoured by wolves. The combat unit of the Sui army soldiers goes deep into the five-person unit.

Before the war, the soldiers were mentally prepared to die in battle, so even if the corps leader, fire chief, or team member were dying in battle, there would still be someone designated in advance to lead the soldiers to continue fighting, so that the team would never stop fighting.

chaos.

This time the Sui army had the advantage of being unexpected and unprepared, waiting for work at ease, and having sharp blades and strong armor, so they fought very calmly. They didn't care about the enemy's howls, but they didn't care. They just tried their best to kill and kill the chaotic enemy.

They were so distraught that they fled in all directions.

The battle was fiercest with the Sui army on the left and right and 10,000 Xue and Xue soldiers. The Sui cavalry relied on sharp weapons and tough armor to gallop through the enemy groups, killing Xue and Xue soldiers with corpses all over the field, and the ground was stained red with blood.

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But Xuexecang's army was his elite main force after all. Although they were ambushed by the Sui army and fell into chaos, they did not abandon their armor and flee, but fought hard with the Sui army.

Their successive blocking of 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 cavalry finally worked, withstanding the fierce offensive of the Sui front army and the left and right armies, buying Xue Xuecang valuable time, allowing him to gather thousands of cavalry.

And throw themselves into the battle by adding fuel to the fire.

Judging from the comparison of numbers, the Sui Army is at a disadvantage, but in terms of military equipment, willpower, and combat proficiency, the Sui Army soldiers who have been defending Lingzhou all year round have the upper hand. More importantly, the Sui Army is ready to work and is fully prepared. Hu Xue

Cang’s army is not only Cang

In order to promote the battle, and they had fought Qimin Khan's army for a whole day under the sun, they were unable to exert their best combat power. Although Xue Xuecang's army tenaciously responded to the battle, they were always at a disadvantage, even if they continued to add more troops.

The oil was quickly swallowed up by the Sui army.

Duan Wenzhen was the commander, but he did not participate in the battle. If he had participated in the battle, the entire Sui army would have been able to form separate formations instead of cooperating. He was guarded by a thousand fine cavalry and stood on a hill.
To be continued...