Qin Qiong led the heavy troops into the grassland, and learned that the Jili Khan led an army of 100,000 to come, so he kept his troops moving, for this, Qin Qiong was not too worried, 100,000 soldiers and horses, people eat horses and chew, such a consumption is not something that Jieli Khan can bear. On the other hand, although his number is less than the other party's 40,000, he is not worried about the problem of grain and grass, first, he is fully prepared, and second, there is no psychological pressure on the Turks north of Yinshan Mountain, which Jieli obviously can't do, otherwise he, the great khan, will also come to an end. Waiting for Jieli to come to the door is undoubtedly the best way.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Qin Qiong carefully folded the marching 'diary' and put it into a large envelope, in which there were more than 100 logs, in addition to one that must be written every day, there was also what he had learned from leading the troops.

"General Qin, this battle is very timely." Qin Qiong was busy, and Xue Wanche on the other side also put his own log, this log was originally a study task, but by now, the generals have formed a habit, if they don't write for a day, they always feel that they owe something, and sometimes when they look at it again, they always have another understanding, which also makes everyone more enthusiastic about writing about the march.

Qin Qiong nodded and said: "In the past two years of the Southern Khan, although His Highness intends to suppress it, it has developed its power very quickly, and the Turks outside the Great Wall have been almost absorbed by us, and if they go deeper, they will be within Jieli's sphere of influence, and if they attack there, they will become a lone army, and the cost is too great." We understand this truth, and Ashina Simo also understands it! What would you do if it were you when there was no war? ”

Xue Wanche muttered: "If it were me, I would work hard to manage the headquarters, train the elite soldiers, and reorganize the captured young men into elite soldiers." That's what the Khan of Qimin did back then. ”

"That's it!" Qin Qiong said solemnly: "Ashina Simo has as many as 130,000 young and strong, and now it is like a double-edged sword, before the grassland can be plundered, they are the sharp blade of His Highness to destroy the Turks." And these Turks have become accustomed to the previous huge profits, once they can't satisfy their interests from the harvest on the grassland, I'm afraid they will turn their eyes to our Great Sui, and now the Jieli army is coming, just to help us consume Ashnasmo's war potential. ”

Xue Wanche hesitated for a moment and said, "But the general shouldn't have formed a Turkic Modao army, that is our sharp weapon to restrain the cavalry." ”

Qin Qiong smiled, showed the fox's tail, and said, "The key to victory is not in the troops, but in the tactics. His Royal Highness and General Li Jing created the Modao Formation at the beginning, but it was actually because of the lack of war horses that forced them out of necessity. Now that we have a large number of war horses, who will be fed enough to study what to ride on foot? ”

"Mo knife soldiers can defeat cavalry, but not all Mo knife soldiers can deal with cavalry, if you want to resist the impact of cavalry, you must first have the courage to be afraid of life and death, especially the soldiers who stand at the forefront, in the face of the oncoming cavalry might, let alone be timid, to strengthen their defense line with a firm will, to have a certain heart that death can not move half a step, to put life and death out of the way, only in this way, can you block the huge impact force of the cavalry like a landslide and tsunami."

"Moreover, the Mo Dao soldiers are armed with heavy knives and wear heavy armor, and this slow mobility will be infinitely magnified in the grassland. Therefore, on the grassland, only cavalry can compete with cavalry. Therefore, the Mo Dao Soldier can only be used as a surprise soldier, not the main force. Besides, even if he taught Ashina Simo the complete Mo Sword Formation, he would not be able to exert his power. ”

"Why?"

"Do you think the Turks can forge Mo swords and heavy armor?" Qin Qiong asked rhetorically.

Xue Wanche was dumbfounded.

The Mo knife is seven feet long, the blade alone is more than three feet long, and it is also double-edged, the longer the blade, the higher the technology required, and the higher the material requirements, otherwise the long knife is easy to break, and the blade of the Mo knife is more than three feet long, in fact, it is not much worse than the blade of the horse lance.

The best and most expensive weapon in the army is the horse lance, the horse lance is eight feet long, and the blade alone reaches four feet, especially its blade adopts a special structural shape, which is conducive to armor piercing, which is far from being comparable to ordinary swords. The materials and processes required for the blade of the Mo knife are basically the same as that of the horse lance, which is also the expensive part of the Mo knife. Even the Great Sui, the first prince who inherited part of Yang Guang's legacy, didn't have many Mo Dao, Ashina Simo wanted forging techniques without forging skills, materials without materials, craftsmen without craftsmen, and wanted to form a Mo Dao Formation in his own army, which was a big joke.

What's more, the complete version of the Mo Dao Array is still a multi-arm cooperative operation, each class is a weapon, of which crossbowmen account for the largest proportion, and hand crossbows are not made by Turks.

Qin Qiong saw that Xue Wanche was speechless, and said with a smile: "It seems that you also know that Ashina Simo can't form a Mo Sword Army, since this is the case, even if he learns it, it is useless." These five thousand Turkic Mo swordsmen will definitely be able to achieve a huge effect, but after a battle, I am afraid that there will be not much left, and Ashina Simo will definitely pick the bravest people to form a Mo Sword Army when he sees the huge effect! In short, what we have to do is to do our best to consume the strength of Jieli Khan and Ashnasimo. In short, the purpose of our battle is not only to destroy the enemy, but also to trap our teammates."

Xue Wanche nodded and said with a smile: "General Qin, don't worry, the last general knows what to do." ”

However, five days later, there was no movement from Jieli, and the Turkic generals under Ashina Simo were a little impatient to wait.

"General Qin, why don't we attack it?" Su Wu, the first brave general under the command of Ashina Simo, came to Qin Qiong's tent with a Mo knife, he was dissatisfied with Qin Qiong's management before, and was ruthlessly cleaned up by Qin Qiong with three strikes and five divisions, and now he is obedient and the chief general of the Mo Dao Army.

"We only have 60,000 soldiers and horses, but Jieli has more than 100,000, attack?" Another Turkic commander, Hela, stood aside and sneered: "If you want to die, no one will stop you, but don't drag my sons and daughters to accompany you to death!" ”

Su Wu glared at Hera fiercely: "You will talk big and empty words, but dare to fight with me?" ”

"Hah!" Hera's eyes were cold, and she glared at Su Wu coldly: "Fight, fight, I'm still afraid that you won't succeed?" ”

Seeing that the two of them were about to make a move, Qin Qiong frowned and said, "If you want to fight, get out of here, who dares to be presumptuous in the handsome tent!" ”

The two of them were startled, and their momentum was suddenly discharged, and they both glared at each other hatefully, separated the two sides of Ashina Simo, and stopped talking.

"General Qin, Jieli's recent movements are indeed a bit abnormal." Ashina Simo sat under Qin Qiong and frowned.

Qin Qiong nodded, it stands to reason that Jieli has the advantage in terms of troops, and the supplies are a little stretched, so at the moment, except for the decisive battle with him, there is no trick at all. Now that Jieli's prestige has dropped to the freezing point, if he wants to open up the situation and establish supreme authority, only by attacking his own side first can he have the strength and prestige to deter the grassland heroes, so as to twist the various tribes into a rope, and the longer the time drags on, the less time will be left for Jieli Khan to turn around.

"Unless ......" Xue Wanche looked at Qin Qiong, his face becoming a little solemn.

"Unless he has no faith and gathers another army!" Qin Qiong snorted coldly, and the murderous intent in her eyes was undisguised.

At present, whether it is the fifth division of Xue Yantuo or the third division of Qibi, it is unlikely that Tiele will take the initiative to increase his troops, because Jieli Khan does not have the prestige of being ordered to do what he wants, and the self-reliance of these two Tiele tribal alliances has never decreased, and his loyalty to the Ashina family is far less than that of the Turkic tribes.

Especially Jieli Khan's father-in-law, Yi Lost Bowl, is definitely a character who is more ruthless than a wolf and more cunning than a fox, and it is impossible for him to gamble on the fate of a clan for Jieli Khan.

The current reinforcements of the Jieli Khan, I am afraid that only he is in the base camp of Dujin Mountain, there are still 100,000 troops there, if the Jieli Khan pours out, then, the total strength is as high as 200,000, and the 60,000 troops here will face three times as many enemies, and the form is quite grim.

"If Jieli pours out to fight, then his intention is not only to fight against our 60,000, but to annihilate us and then go south, now the new Great Wall has been built to the intersection of Wuyuan and Wuwei County, and is extending to the west, if the Turks go south, it is also to bypass the gap in the Great Wall, and to the east can attack Wuyuan, Yulin and Guannei Road, and to the west can attack Lingwu. General Qin should have prepared something. Xue Wanche sighed and said.

Qin Qiong crossed his hands and ten fingers in front of his chest, leaned back slightly, shook his head and said, "Until the end, don't make random assertions!" ”

"Report!"

A hurried sound of horses' hooves came, followed by a voice dragging a long note from far and near, and the dusty soldiers rushed in from outside the tent, gasped and said, "General Qin, report urgently from Yudu Jin Mountain!" ”

"Bring it on!" Qin Qiong, Xue Wanche, and Ashina Simo's faces changed at the same time, and they waved their hands.

Su Wu took the urgent report and handed it to Qin Qiong.

Qin Qiong quickly opened it, looked at it quickly, his face gradually became iron-blue, and in the already smashing tent, he was instantly shrouded in a depressing aura, even the fierce generals such as Xue Wanche, Ashina Simo, Su Wu, and Hera, they couldn't help but feel a burst of depression, and their eyes looked at Qin Qiong in unison.

"General Qin?" Ashina Simo called softly, worried: "But as General Xue expected? ”

"Exactly!" Qin Qiong slammed the urgent report in his hand on the small table, the table shattered, Qin Qiong gasped fiercely, looked at the people with surprised faces, and said in a deep voice: "The scout is here to report, there are a large number of Turkic soldiers and horses gathered in Dujin Mountain. ”

"Have the scouts found out how many people are there?" Ashnasimo took a deep breath and asked in surprise.

"I don't know, I only know that the number is huge, I'm afraid that the 130,000 troops of Yudu Jin Mountain are here. It seems that as General Xue expected, Jieli Khan wanted to defeat us and then went south. Shaking his head, Qin Qiong tried his best to suppress the boiling anger in his chest.

"General Qin, retreat!" Ashina Simo took a breath of cold air and bowed to Qin Qiong.

If it is only a hundred thousand troops from a hundred miles away, even if the difference in strength is four times, with the ability of the soldiers of the headquarters to fight a decisive battle, the result may not be lost, but if these 130,000 troops are also involved, it is far beyond their bearing.

"Retreat?"

Qin Qiong looked at Ashina Simo, with a strong unwillingness in his eyes, he had already asked His Highness for his life to fight, and this time he was about to settle the situation, but at this time, he wanted him to retreat? How can it be?

"The gap in our forces is too great, there is no city to defend on the grassland, and we have no other way but to withdraw our troops! If Jieli's troops break into the Great Wall, our losses will be great. With these 60,000 living forces, they will definitely be able to contain the Turkic army beyond the Great Wall. Xue Wanche sighed helplessly, he grew up in Zhuo County, and the five of their brothers spent half of their time on the grassland under the order of their father Xue Shixiong, and he knew better than Qin Qiong that he knew the power of the Turks, if he defended according to the danger, 10,000 Sui troops were enough to block 100,000 Turks, but if it was about field warfare, the Turks who grew up on horseback since childhood, and were good at riding and shooting were too powerful.

"Can't be returned!"

Qin Qiong's face sank like water, this is not only the first time he led the army to fight, but also related to the security of Guannei Province and the state, if he retreats today, the Turks will definitely take advantage of the situation to go south, if they fight locally, the victims are the people of the Great Sui, and more importantly, he sees a deeper impact, if he retreats without a fight, if the Turkic army attacks the city, the invincible power of the Great Sui outside the territory will be gone, and when the time comes, it will definitely affect the domestic war situation, not to mention the ambitious Li Yuan of Guannei Dao and Hedong, I am afraid that Wang Shichong of the Central Plains, Li Mi and Dou Jiande will also have the idea of the Great Sui, but even Goguryeo will join in the excitement in Liaodong.

Da Sui will also fall into the predicament of fighting on all sides because of this, and this consequence is not only unbearable for him Qin Qiong, but also for Yang Tong and Da Sui.

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Qiong finally gritted his teeth and said: "Bingzhou has the former Inner and Outer Great Wall to defend, but what about Guannei Dao? If we retreat, a large area of land in Kannai Province will be turned into a thousand miles of red land! Once Jieli and Li Yuan are connected, the consequences are unimaginable. ”

Guannei Road is not a state, it does not have so many dangerous places to defend, the only dangerous place is the Shuofang Great Wall, but Liang Shi is self-reliant to Shibi after the minister, he is loyal, he actually dismantled the Shuofang Great Wall nearly 100 miles, this is not at all a moment and a half will be recovered, if there is no block, the Turks can drive straight in, even more than Guannei Road, even the state that has just recovered a little vitality will be in chaos because of this, this price, Qin Qiong can not afford.

"It's just that now our army has the strength to defend ......" Ashina Simo hesitated, he naturally understood Qin Qiong's worries, but right now, Jieli Khan already had an army of 100,000, and an army of more than 100,000 was ready to go south, with only 50,000 people, how could he prevent it?

Qin Qiong knew that Ashina Simo had the ambition to retreat, and said with a cold smile: "I have two Great Walls in the Great Sui Prefecture before, and the Guannai is vast and sparsely populated, so it is a big deal for us to retreat to the south of the Yellow River, even if there are millions of troops in Jieli, it is difficult to fly; In Baitan County, Youzhou, east of the Monan grassland, we have the Great Wall running north-south to connect with the Yanshan Great Wall, so we only need to guard these three points, and there is actually no loss. And the southern khan, what about you? First of all, Jieli Khan hated you the most, once he triumphantly went south, the first thing to deal with was you; Secondly, where you are now, except for a white city, the entire Monan grassland has no danger to defend, if you retreat today, you will be the one who should defend it! The consequences of the poisoning of the two dozen armies must be very clear in the hearts of the southern khans. ”

With these words, Ashina Simo and other Turks found that they had no way out, and one by one their faces were as pale as earth and sweating.

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