Chapter 342: The Fire on the Bank of the Sanggan River
Little old man Yang Yichen was lucky. Under the desperate cover of the Sui army, he was lucky enough to escape from the siege of the Turkic soldiers!
Moreover, old man Yang Yichen didn't have to go to Shandong. He just left Yanmen County and just arrived in Shanggu County next door, when he accidentally discovered the traces of Yuwen Xiao Magan'er.
It turns out that this little Yuwen Magan'er had just wiped out the rebels in Shandong. He happened to hear that the rebels in Shanggu County were making a lot of noise. King Wang Xuba and Li Shanfei Wei Dao'er were all ten.
There were tens of thousands of troops, and they seemed to be colluding with the Turks! So, Yu Wenxiaomagan'er personally brought an army of 100,000 to Shanggu County to suppress the bandits!
"Yanmen County, Your Majesty is besieged by the Turks? How many days have it been? Why hasn't this general received any news?"
After hearing the statement of the little old man Yang Yichen, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er did not rush to send troops to rescue, but muttered to himself and began to think deeply.
"Could it be that in our Sui Dynasty, someone deliberately intercepted and concealed the news that the Turkic soldiers had invaded?"
"This..." After hearing what Yu Wen Xiao Magan'er said, little old man Yang Yichen was also stunned. After thinking for a moment, he couldn't figure it out. Little old man Yang Yichen quickly put down his thoughts and turned to urge, "
Young General Yuwen, look, are we going to set off right now? Your Majesty is looking forward to the stars and the moon, waiting for you to rescue us!"
Being urged by the little old man Yang Yichen, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er quickly came to his senses. He knew that this was not the time to think too much. After asking the little old man Yang Yichen about the situation in detail, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er started to calm down.
The army set off.
However, Yuwen Xiaoma Gan'er did not lead his troops from Shanggu to Yanmen. Instead, he made a slight turn and entered Zhuojun to the north. Then he mobilized a group of large and small warships and a lot of military supplies, and then along the
The Sanggan River flows upstream and reaches the north of Yanmen.
Yuwen Xiaomagan'er's purpose is very simple, which is to cut off the Turks' escape route.
This time, more than 300,000 Turkic troops went out to fight, and they were all cavalry. The people on the grasslands were tough and tough, and they were not as easy to bully as the Goryeo Bangzi!
Even though Yu Wen Ma Gan'er has a hundred thousand elite soldiers in his hands, he is not willing to confront these prairie barbarians now!
So, of course, Yuwen Xiaomaganer took the idea of providing food and supplies for the Turks!
The amount of cattle and sheep fodder consumed by an army of more than 300,000 people every day is an astronomical figure!
But as long as the supplies of the Turks are cut off, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er is confident that he will be killed, let alone an army of 300,000, even if it is 3 million.
Hard work pays off!
After sending out a large number of scouts, the Sui army soon found two logistics supply bases of the Turks.
Located about ten miles away on the north bank of the Sanggan River is the general logistics base of the Turks. It is guarded by more than 10,000 Turkic soldiers and more than 100,000 Turkic women and children. There are nearly one million cattle and about three to four million sheep, as well as
Mountains of fodder!
On the south bank of the Sanggan River is a transit supply camp with about 100,000 cattle, about 500,000 sheep, and a lot of pasture! The defense of the Turkic soldiers on this side is slightly stronger, with about 20,000
Turkic soldiers and about 30,000 Turkic women!
After receiving the exact news, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er immediately began to mobilize his troops.
According to Yuwen Xiaomagan'er's arrangement, the silly boy Yuwen Chengdu and Yuwen Chengxiang, Li Jing, and Zhang Xutuo led a total of 40,000 troops to burn the Turkic base on the north bank of the Sanggan River. After finishing this operation, the four
There is no need to return troops, just lead the army all the way north and implement the three-guang policy! As for all the food and grass needed for supplies, they will be collected on the spot. The Sui army only needs to bring some salt, tea, cooking utensils and cotton clothes.
The key to this army is the word "fast", which must be non-stop and quickly sweep across the grasslands with thunderous momentum, destroying the war potential of the Turks to the greatest extent...
Yuwen Xiaoma Gan'er himself personally led an army of 40,000 to burn down the Turkic base on the south bank of the Sanggan River. The other 20,000 troops were at the bank of the Sanggan River as general backup and ready to respond.
As prairie barbarians, the Turks' style on the battlefield has always been to fight the enemy head-on with real swords and guns. As for such shady activities as sneak attacks, the Turks have always disdained it and have not even thought about it.
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You know, the food of the Turks is beef, sheep and horse meat, and they are eaten and killed immediately. On ordinary days, these are all living animals!
From the perspective of the Turks, even if no one is sent to watch these cattle and sheep, if they are left there openly for those Central Plains people to rob, they don’t have the ability to rob them? Do the Central Plains people know how to herd sheep?
As for burning it, that’s even more impossible! Are you just a stupid cow or sheep? Wouldn’t you run away if it caught on fire?
Precisely because they have never encountered or even thought about the possibility of their own food and grass being robbed, the Turks are not very strict about the food and grass supplies! The 20,000 Turkic soldiers are not so much here to guard the food and grass.
, might as well be said to be responsible for killing cattle and sheep!
Therefore, the Turks who were not very vigilant met Yuwen Xiaomaganer, who made his fortune by stealing camps and robbing villages, and they were destined to be in trouble!
It's a dark and windy night, and it's really a good time for murder and arson!
Still relying on special tactics, he knocked down the Turkic sentries cleanly and opened the gate of the Turkic camp. Then, Yuwen Xiaomagan'er personally led the army to swarm in, divided the troops into ten groups, and started killing and setting fire.
The 40,000-strong army only raged in the Turkic camp for less than an hour. Yuwen Xiaomagan'er had to lead his troops to withdraw from the Turkic camp. Because the fire was too big!
It's late autumn, and the Turks feed their horses, cattle, and sheep with hay. If this thing catches fire, it will definitely make a blind man blind, and there is no way to save it!
What's more, the north wind is howling at this time of year, and basically any spark can ignite into a huge fire! What's more, the Sui soldiers also scattered a lot of fierce fire oil on every pile of hay and tents!
Under the scorching flames, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses went into a frenzy, and clashes raged in the Turkic camps. Not only did they cause heavy casualties to the panicked Turkic soldiers and Turkic women, but they also caused the fire to burn quickly.
Visited every corner of the Turkic camp.
At this time, Yuwen Xiaoma Gan'er had already led the crowd in a large circle around the Turkic camp, burned the outermost periphery of the Turkic camp again, and then shot all the arrows he carried into the Turkic camp.
, then slowly and slowly retreated to the Sanggan River, and also burned several pontoon bridges built by the Turks!
The monstrous fire quickly alarmed the main Turkic army dozens of miles away!
However, it was midnight at this moment. When Shibi Khan Dujishi got the news and gathered more than 100,000 Turkic soldiers, they ran for dozens of miles panting and arrived at the bank of Sanggan River. Yuwen Xiaomagan'er was already there.
It has been withdrawn for nearly an hour!
"Put out the fire! Put out the fire! Let him put out the fire for me!"
Looking at the large baggage camp that had been completely submerged by the fire snakes, and listening to the wailing screams of the Turkic women and children in the camp, Dujishi's eyes were spitting fire, and he roared at the top of his lungs!
Of course Dujishi has reason to be angry, because the people who are responsible for the logistics this time are basically women from the Dujishi tribe! Moreover, more than half of the cattle, sheep and horses are from the Dujishi tribe!
Just when Du Jishi was furious and bursting with anger, a middle-aged scribe came on horseback and slowly took his mount. The middle-aged scribe turned over and dismounted, waving his feather fan lightly and pacing to Du Jishi.
In front of Ji Shi, "Khan, this fire started suddenly, I think someone may have done it deliberately, so Khan should be careful to ambush you!"