Yuanzhou is located in the plateau, by the Longshan remaining veins, Jingshui, clear water and other water sources from this, the realm of Xiaoguan is one of the four dangers in Guanzhong, this realm is also the heart of Guanzhong.

Located in the Qingshui Valley near Yuanju, there is a Tang garrison set up Tuntianzi City here.

On the slope outside the city, the sound of killing shook the wilderness, and hundreds of Turkic cavalry galloped at the mouth of the river, constantly driving the miscellaneous bearded men with braided hair or hair on the top of the hill to rush to the castle on the slope.

These miscellaneous men were disheveled in their robes, and they could only carry simple instruments such as clubs and lassoes, which were not at all as well equipped with bows and knives and neat armor as the Turkic cavalry in the rear, not to mention the Tang defenders in the city.

"Closer, closer...... Stupid, are you going to strangle your fingers! ”

At the head of the city, in order to save physical strength, the Tang army guards did not wear armor, ran back and forth at the head of the city, and observed the thieves outside the city to adjust their tactics.

The scale of this sub-city is not large, it is mainly used to collect and release grain and grass, except for the high base slope top, one side of the water, far from the danger. There were only more than 80 guards in the city, and at this time there were more than 30 people at the head of the city to defend against the enemy, and the rest of the soldiers sat under the inner walls to recuperate.

There were as many as 200 Turkic cavalry in armor outside the city, and more than 600 vassals and vassals they drove out.

The men arrived outside the city in the afternoon, and after a short rest, they launched an attack, killing dozens of people at the beginning of the battle. Although the Turkic cavalry was stronger, they did not start the battle, but only drove the miscellaneous men forward to consume the strength of the defenders.

This time, the Turkic cavalry suddenly bypassed Xiao Pass and entered Kouyuan Prefecture, and the state city of Pinggao was caught off guard.

The Turks rushed for a long time, lacked men and horses, and when they first entered the city, they were busy looting, and they didn't care about chasing and routing the people for a while, which gave the cities of the valley time to prepare for defense.

Yuanzhou should be rushed, the state capital Pinggaocheng is located in Jingyuanpi, although it is a key road, but it is not the essence of the state's vitality. However, the Qingshui River Valley has an open terrain and a vast inner abdomen, and in a few years, more than 2,000 hectares of fertile land have been developed, which is where the soldiers and materials of Yuanzhou are concentrated.

The Turkic thief Kou did not know the reality of Yuanzhou, and after Kou entered Pinggao City, he thought that everything was fine, but unexpectedly, there were not many material reserves in Pinggao City, and only some caravans stationed in Pinggao City suffered. After detecting the truth and truth, he hurriedly organized the army and marched towards the Qingshui Valley.

However, by the time the Turkic cavalry arrived, the armies had already prepared. Although the Turkic cavalry came and went like the wind, they were not resistant to attack.

In particular, the Qingshui River Valley is surrounded by seventeen cities, forming a corner of each other, pulling a hair and moving the whole body, although the defenders are only more than 3,000, but they have trapped the Turkic attack here for nearly 20 days.

If you don't capture the Qingshui River Valley, it will not be of much significance for the Turks to raid Yuanzhou, although they have swept away other situations and swept a lot, but sitting back and looking at the fat in front of them, if they don't eat it in one bite, how can these wolf riders be willing to leave.

Although the Turks also had other options, such as going south along the Jingshui River and going straight into the hinterland of Guanzhong, or crossing the Piyuan and plundering Gyeongju in the east. However, this time, the Turks have taken advantage of the unexpected convenience of moving south along the Helan Mountains, and if they continue to penetrate into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the risk will undoubtedly increase several times.

And if they don't uproot the Qingshui River Valley, the stronghold of the Tang army, no matter where the Turks move, this army will be a sharp knife against their backs. Therefore, despite the fact that the city was so uninstructive and difficult to gnaw, the Turkic cavalry still had to stay here.

The Tang army was well-equipped, not to mention that Yuanzhou was originally the gateway to Guanzhong and the rear base of the garrisons of Hequ Prefectures, and there were more than enough reserves of all kinds of ordnance and materials.

Although the Turkic cavalry has plundered the north and south of the desert and the border states of the Tang Dynasty in the past few years, and the military appearance has been quite good, it is still not as good as the Tang army. Perhaps the Eastern Turkic armed forces in their heyday were comparable to those of the Tang Army, but they obviously did not include the remnants of the Later Turks in front of them.

Outside the city, there were more than 200 Turkic cavalry, most of them wearing light leather armor, and occasionally a piece of iron on their chests, and even iron scarf. Of course, it is also related to their tactical choices at the moment, maintaining the clutch momentum, retaining the power to come and go, and reducing the armor to reduce the consumption of the war horse.

In order to reduce their own consumption, the Turkic cavalry chose to recruit and expel the opposition people to participate in the battle.

In Yuanzhou, Hu and Han live together, and some Hu people are not used to living in the city, but are just nomadic along the river valley. The Yuanzhou guards were able to organize the defense of the Qingshui River Valley in a hurry, and they were already prepared for danger in times of peace and agile in response, and they had no spare strength to restrain or disperse these people in the opposition.

As a result, these Hu people became expendables who were driven to the battlefield by the Turkic cavalry. Of course, the Turks also plundered a lot of Tang people, and after the Pinggao city was broken alone, thousands of people were captured in the city.

However, the lives of the Tang people are much more expensive than these miscellaneous gold, and the Tang people themselves have cultivation and weaving and various skills. If necessary, it can be used as a condition for negotiations with the officials and soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, once the Tang people are driven to the battlefield, it is possible that these Tang people will immediately turn against their battle formation, thus creating a fighter plane for the defenders to cooperate with the outside and attack the enemy.

When the Turks had just regained their army, they suffered many losses in this regard, and later, the Tang people they captured were either quietly besieged and killed, or gathered behind the battle to guard them strictly. It was only to take some captured Tang officials into battle to coerce and shake the morale of the defenders.

Although they were both Hu people, the Turks had little sympathy for the Hu people outside their own tribe, and even more hatred than the Tang people.

Originally, the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan was the overlord of the desert, and all the Hu tribes had to submit to their king's tent, but under the provocation of the Tang people, those who surrendered to the Hu tribe, the nine surnamed Tiele led by Xue Yantuo Khan Yinan, took the lead in betraying Jieli Khan and annexed to the Tang Dynasty.

In the eyes of the Turks, the betrayal of the nine surnamed Tiele directly caused the fall of the Turkic Han State, and if it were not for the rebellion of these slave households, the Turks may still be the overlord of the steppe.

Of course, it is not unjust that the nine surnamed Tiele were so hated by the Turks. After the fall of the Eastern Turks and the fall of Jieli Khan, Xue Yantuo dominated Monan and retaliated against the rest of the Eastern Turks.

Even after the Tang Dynasty arranged the rest of the Eastern Turks in the Hequ Prefectures, Xue Yantuo Yinan Khan led his army to attack the remnants of the Turks in this realm, in order to express his dissatisfaction with the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time wanted to beat the water dogs, hoping to completely eliminate the East Turks and consolidate their hegemony.

And this crazy move also directly caused the downfall of Xue Yantuo. When Emperor Taizong clearly expressed his dissatisfaction with Yinan Khan, the Tiele tribes that originally surrounded Xue Yantuo also dispersed, and finally in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, Xue Yantuo was defeated by Li Tao, ending his sloppy grassland hegemony.

In the final analysis, Xue Yantuo didn't understand the temperament of the generation of monarchs and ministers who founded the Tang Dynasty.

In the ninth year of Wude, Taizong Li Shimin had just completed the transformation of Xuanwumen and became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and Jieli Khan led an army of 100,000 to Weibei, a stone's throw away from Chang'an. Under internal and external troubles, Li Shimin was forced to have no choice but to meet with Jieli Khan for an alliance under the city.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, Jieli Khan revisited the old place, but this time it was not to show off his might, but to enter the court as a prisoner of war to plead guilty. In just four years, the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers tried their courage and destroyed the Eastern Turks, the overlord of the steppe.

In the face of such a monarch and minister, Xue Yantuo Yinan Khan actually delusionally thought that he could replace the hegemony of the Eastern Turks in the steppe, which was really whimsical and self-defeating!

It is precisely because of this period of history that the remnants of the Turks are extremely hostile to the nine surnamed Tiele.

Gu Dulu raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, and the first pot of gold was obtained from the nine surnamed Tiele, and even the Yu Dujun Mountain, where Gu Dulu restored the country and built the teeth, was where the original Xue Yantuo tooth tent was located, and the resentment against the nine surnamed Tiele can be seen.

Therefore, these Turkic cavalry who entered Kouyuan Prefecture did not treat the local Hu people as human beings at all. These anti-bone boys, subverting their hegemony, still want to fall into the well and kill them all, and now seize the opportunity, it is to consume these lives, which is not only revenge, but also to consume the combat effectiveness of the Tang army.

"These thieves, are they going around the pass to the south, just to drive people's lives? Zhou Lvshuai, why don't we put on our armor and go out of the city to kill for a ride? Those Hu'er outside the city have a lot of idle offerings, and it is really unbearable to shoot them like this. ”

A soldier pulled the string and shot a Hu man who was about to turn over the city to reject the horse, and couldn't help but turn his head and say to the commander.

As soon as these words came out, many soldiers in the city turned their heads and looked at them, quite agreeing. The Hu people who rushed forward outside the city were unarmed at all, and some of them rushed forward with hemp felt sand on their backs, completely unable to resist the arrows shot from the city.

The battle had been going on for more than a quarter of an hour, and in fact, the Hu people who had rushed into battle had already collapsed, only to be surrounded by a group of Turkic cavalry between the slopes outside the city. Forward is death, and backward is death.

Up to now, most of the people shot by the defenders of the city were people who were in a panic and close to the city defense line, but in fact, they had already been broken and their actions were meaningless. Therefore, the guards also hated the Turkic cavalry outside the city who disregarded human life and showed off their might, and they were unwilling to shoot those mixed herdsmen again, and wanted to kill those Turkic thieves directly.

"What nonsense? It's a pity for the lives of people outside the city, but it's not a pity for the lives of my battalion soldiers? ”

When the commander heard this, he immediately frowned and snorted coldly: "Cheer up!" The Turks have attacked thousands of miles away, and they can enter Yuanzhou silently, do they really have no strength to fight? At the moment, it consumes human lives and preserves power, and I don't know what kind of evil thoughts I have! Anyone who came near the rejection of the horse was shot and killed, and those Hu people may be pitiful, but once the city is broken, they are accomplices. Do not shoot from a distance, and do not give the Turkic rangers a chance to collect our arrows! ”

At this time, behind the slope ridge a few miles away in the Qingshui River Valley, a cavalry team of more than 2,000 people was slowly approaching the Qingshui River Valley.

The team was well armed, with armor wrapped in sheepskin pockets hanging from the side of the saddle, spears with a near-foot-sharp and cold glow, a pot full of arrows hanging from each man's waist behind the bow, a braided hair tied with a leather band at the back of his head, and a felt hat on his head with a brim hanging between his ears.

If there are people who came and went in the desert in the early years, they will definitely be able to exhale in surprise when they see the outfit of this group of cavalry, this is the attached wolf rider directly led by the Turkic Khan's tooth tent! The wolf rode out and the khan came, which was a nightmare for the entire Mobei group! Now, nightmares have returned.