At this time, the army had already withdrawn to Pingyao.

This kind of strategic retreat was nothing for the highly mobile parallel army, and the retreat had already begun almost at the beginning of the Tang army's march in Jiangzhou, so the time left for the army was too much.

And in order to confuse the Tang army as much as possible, there was a fight with the Tang army in the Bird Mouse Valley, which also bought the army more time.

Li Po arrived in Pingyao, so that the army was stationed in this place to rest for a day, and then began to deploy in Pingyao, anyway, idle is also idle, high camp deep base, it took more than ten days, the whole Pingyao City and the surrounding miles into a large barracks.

When Wei Chixin and the others returned with their troops and calmly entered their respective garrison areas, Pingyao City looked like a giant beast covered with thorns and sharp claws.

By the time the front reported that the Tang army had left the Bird Mouse Valley and entered Jiexiu City, it was completely different from the Tang army, and the Dai army had completely quieted down, and the whole army was waiting for the final decisive battle.

And the movements of more than 100,000 Tang troops nearly 100 miles away from the army can no longer escape the eyes and ears of the army.

In fact, at this time, from Li Po down, all the way to the generals in the army, and even the soldiers in the army, there was no other thought, just waiting to fight with the Tang army.

Strategically, the Tang Army has completely entered the rhythm of the combined army, all the pre-war plans have been realized, and the rest is a tactical contest.

At this time, Li Po no longer thought about whether the Tang army would come north, and there was no other difference between the Tang army gathered in Jiexiu and the previous 30,000 Tang army except for the superiority in numbers, and there was still some room for the Bird Mouse Valley.

Even if the Tang army does not come, he will lead the army south to fight the Tang army before winter comes.

In fact, in Li Po's view, from the moment the Tang army passed through the Bird Mouse Valley and entered Jiexiu, the Tang army had almost lost the possibility of retreating.

The narrow Bird Mouse Valley is not at all a place where more than 100,000 Tang troops can calmly retreat.

Li Shentong's so-called advance can be attacked, retreated, and defended, which only exists in his own imagination.

Just like once the Judai army chooses to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army south of the Sparrow Mouse Valley, then the back road of the Judai army has actually been cut off, and once the battle is unfavorable, they want to retreat from the north of the Sparrow Mouse Valley...... It's no different from digging your own grave.

And now, Li Po has dug a grave for Tang Jun in this nearly 100-mile place, whether Tang Jun jumps in by himself or waits for others to kick it, it is almost the same for Li Po, the difference is only in the matter of time and energy and his own casualties.

More than 40,000 cavalry troops, except for Ashina Jihu who led 5,000 people as Li Po's Chinese army, stayed in Pingyao, and all of them were stationed south of Pingyao.

The distance is less than 100 miles, and the territory is far from being open, and it is indeed not the best battlefield for cavalry.

But there are too many cavalry in the same army, and whether the cavalry of this size is charging head-on or harassing along the way, the impact of distance on them is actually not very important.

If there is a suitable battlefield, these cavalry alone can compete with more than 100,000 troops in the field.

In fact, the biggest mistake of the Tang army was not in its own situation, nor in entering the battlefield set up by the enemy, but in the fact that the Tang army was not prepared to deal with tens of thousands of cavalry.

The so-called Li Shentong, who knew himself and knew that he would not be defeated in a hundred battles, and who held more than 100,000 horsemen for the first time, and even most of the generals of the Tang Army, consciously or unintentionally ignored this point.

Most of them are self-righteous and believe that Li Po, who started from the border county and represented the country, could not stop the Tang army with strong troops at all.

And Jiang Baoyi, the only one who has seen and represented the military might of the army, also played a vital role in it, only looked at the head of Jiexiu City a few times, and then he was dizzy in defending the city, plus in order to shirk the responsibility of defending the city, he brought a lot of wrong information to the Tang army.

Especially in the number of cavalry, it is even more nonsense.

Of course, no matter what, Li Po can't hear so much good news and bad news now, and his rule is not as big as Li Tang, and he doesn't have so many enemies.

This is the good thing about the border counties, as long as the Turks do not come, then they will have no worries.

And Li Po is not a former general, he is the master of the two states, no one can force him to do anything, a corner of the land also has the benefits of a corner of the land, there are not so many troubles of Li Shentong and Pei Lian.

These days, Li Po has been very regular, listening to reports, inspecting various military camps, and in the evening, he will summon idle generals, have dinner in the marshal tent, and discuss the military situation by the way.

Chen Yuan's injuries were almost healed, and Li Po ordered him to lead his troops to guard the four cities of Pingyao, almost replacing Xue Wanche and becoming Li Po's central officer.

When he heard that the Tang army had left the Bird Mouse Valley and entered Jiexiu, Li Po was determined that the war had come to this point, and it was all in his expectations, and the satisfaction of strategizing was difficult to describe in words.

At this time, what he wanted to do was very clear, in addition to carefully probing the movements of the Tang army, he also had to shield the battlefield.

At this time, he didn't care about the Tang Army, with Jiexiu and Bird Mouse Valley, the possibility of the Tang Army taking the initiative to withdraw from Linfen was very small.

Putting on a decisive battle to lure the Tang army north or deter the Tang army from Yu Jiexiu was within the range of what he could accept.

This is undoubtedly a contest between the scouts of the two armies, in a few days, from Pingyao to Jiexiu, within a radius of dozens of miles, the scouts of the two armies went back and forth, fighting each other, and first spilled countless blood on this fertile soil.

The elite of the frontier army, the Daizhou rangers who had fought with the Turks on the steppe, with their fierce ferocity and more skillful killing skills and their tacit cooperation, easily became the protagonists of this battlefield after a few days.

Since the arduous battle in the winter of the eleventh year of the Great Cause, the Daizhou cavalry, which had never flinched in front of the enemy, was obviously suppressed too hard by Li Po this time.

When Li Po let go of the reins slightly, these cavalry elites were like beasts that had just escaped from the cage, and they were a little too crazy.

A few days later, when the Tang army scouts were seriously injured and fled back to Jiexiu, there were many parallel cavalry figures around the Tang army.

Of course, if they ran far enough, they were quickly recruited back, otherwise, these guys might try to storm the Tang Army's outlying camp.

The desire to fight among the generals and soldiers of the army was completely different from that of the Tang army, although it was also very strong, but when the soldiers of the border army were about to fight, the desire to kill and destroy actually accounted for a large part.

When they entered the wartime state, they all became outlaws, and they only wanted to see blood, whether it was someone else's or their own.

And around the neck of this very crazy beast is a rope called military discipline, otherwise, they would be no different from the Turkic elves.

Unlike the soldiers under his command, who were already a little too irritable, Li Po calmly observed the movements in the south in Pingyao, and tried his best to continue to suppress the voices of the cavalry generals begging for battle.

He patiently reiterated military discipline to the generals over and over again, and asked the generals of all departments to obey orders and not act without permission.

The infantry army is much more worry-free, they have two legs less than the cavalry.

At this time, Li Po actually felt a little strange, you must know that there are more than 100,000 people in the Tang army on the opposite side, which is not a small number.

When everyone was talking about choosing to fight the Tang army south of the Bird Mouse Valley, everyone was apprehensive, and their confidence in the decisive battle of the army was a little insufficient.

But when the army retreated to Pingyao, the generals suddenly gradually changed, and they were full of confidence, as if they were a few points stronger than him, the commander.

When the battle was about to go, Li Po had no time to think about it, it was always a good thing to have high morale.

In fact, there is nothing strange about this change, and the cavalry of the northern Jin Dynasty, which is almost victorious, has gradually developed their own self-esteem and pride in more and more frequent wars.

Although the act of retreating had a clear strategic purpose, it still stimulated their hearts and made them vaguely feel humiliated, and this inexplicable psychological state made them quickly put aside the last bit of jealousy of the Tang Army in their hearts, and were eager to prove on the battlefield that victory would always belong to them.

Such a proud army cannot be formed in a moment, once upon a time, the permanent elite army of the Great Sui actually had such a proud mentality, and was sure that no one could defeat them.

But time has passed, the wind and snow in Liaodong and the surging rebels from all walks of life, and the devastated Central Plains have buried all this in a few years.

And Li Po led the border army of Jindi, and recast all this with the blood and lives of countless enemies.

When they faced the Turks, they still knew that they were weak and could not fight strongly, but once the enemy was replaced by a patchwork Tang army, their pride was aroused, and even a slight retreat made them a little unacceptable.

This kind of thing that cannot form a specific concept naturally takes a longer time for people to have an accurate understanding.

This is the process of forming the soul of the military, slowly and imperceptibly.

The funny thing is that Li Po has always wanted to build an army with a sense of honor, but now when things are happening, he didn't feel it at the first time, and it is not a big joke.

And at this time, Li Po was indeed laughing, of course, he was not laughing at himself, but laughing at his enemy.

On this day, the scout escorted several people to Pingyao, and soon sent them to him again.

They came from the Tang army, and they also brought with them a letter from Li Shentong, the king of Yongkang and the head of the Jinju Provincial Marching Army......

(Monthly pass, monthly pass, well, the baby can't help it, a little verbose can explain the war before and after, these chapters are valuable, not watering, right?) (To be continued.) )