Guo Song stood in front of the map, staring at several marching routes on the map, from the broken leaves to the north garden, he drew a total of three lines, the southern line is to go through the Yili River Valley, which is almost a straight line, the closest to the north garden.

The second is the middle line, through the Alashan Pass, along the northern foot of Cheling all the way to Tingzhou, this route is to take the bow back, a little farther.

There is also the road to bypass Jinshan and enter Yizhou, which is too far away, and it is completely unrealistic to pass through the main pastures of the Hui people.

Guo Song could have concluded that the Qarluq people must have taken the middle line and crossed the Alashan Pass to Tingzhou, and they may have thought that Tingzhou was empty of troops and directly dug out their lair.

Thinking of digging out the nest, Guo Song suddenly had an extremely bold idea in his heart.

He paced back and forth with his hands in his hands, and finally stopped and asked Zhang Yuanzhi: "You can tell me about the situation of broken leaves again!" ”

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Before dawn, an army of 19,000 with tens of thousands of camels began to march westward, and Guo Song sent people to inform Tingzhou at the same time, paying attention to the surprise attack of the enemy.

This is a big gamble, Guo Song is also betting on the emptiness of the army of the Qarlu lair, which is actually a branch of the Turks, and they should have the same customs and rules as the Turkic tribe and the Tiele tribe.

Generally, this kind of nomadic people will have two kinds of armies, one is the Khan's direct army, the other is the herdsman's army, the Khan's direct army is a professional army, the 10,000 troops that were completely annihilated by themselves before, and the 30,000 troops who went to attack Beiting this time, should be the Khan's direct army, 40,000 direct troops, this is basically all the professional army of the Qarluqs, and the old nest either has no army, or only a few thousand people left.

The main reason why Guo Song judged that the 30,000 troops who went to attack Beiting were directly subordinate troops, not herdsmen's troops, was that they could set off immediately, and if they were herdsmen's troops, it would take at least ten or twenty days to gather from all over the country.

This is a rare opportunity for them, and once they are caught by the Tang army, the Qarluqs will have to pay a heavy price.

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Zhang Yun led two hundred scouts into three ways into Broken Leaf City, Zhang Yuanzhi told him that Broken Leaf City was not a military and political stronghold for the Qarluq people, but just a commercial center that brought them a lot of commercial taxes, and most of the time during the day there were not even soldiers guarding the city, only when the city was opened and closed in the morning and evening, soldiers would appear, and there was no defense at night, and the soldiers in the city were just to maintain order.

However, the location of the Qarluq Khan was extremely heavily guarded, not to mention ordinary merchants, even Qarluq herdsmen were not allowed to come closer.

After Zhang Yun found that there was indeed no one to guard the city gate, he simply disguised his armor and weapons as goods, and they entered the city wearing ordinary Hu clothes.

Zhang Yun found several of Zhang Yuanzhi's subordinates in the inn next door to the 'authentic Taibai Restaurant', this inn was also opened by the proprietor of the Taibai Restaurant, the inn occupies a large area, the yard can accommodate thousands of camels, Zhang Yun's two hundred subordinates have lived in this inn.

In the evening, the proprietor of the inn came to visit Zhang Yun, Zhang Yun brought too many subordinates, all of them were young and strong men, and the shopkeeper had already vaguely guessed one or two points.

Of course, it is impossible for the shopkeeper to denounce it, everyone is Han, and the shopkeeper told the proprietor in time.

The proprietor's surname is Li, more than forty years old, tall and fat, his ancestor is Hexi Li, the early Tang Dynasty came to settle in Broken Leaves, and the most famous person in their family is the great poet Li Bai.

"Zhang Dongzhu is from the North Garden?" Li Dongzhu asked tentatively.

Zhang Yun said with a smile: "I guess your shopkeeper has also guessed my identity, so he will report to the proprietor Li, if we are the Tang army, could it be that the proprietor Li will also report to the Qarluq people?" ”

Li Dongzhu was startled, and his head shook like a rattle, "Impossible, how can I report my own clan, and the consequence of reporting is to bring extinction to all the Han people in Broken Leaves, including ourselves, I just came to tell you, be careful, don't go out all at once, it will attract the suspicion of the Qarlu people." ”

"Suspect that we are Tang Jun?"

Li Dongzhu shook his head, "I suspect that the Han people of Broken Leaf want to gather a crowd to rebel, we Han people living in Broken Leaf are not allowed to gather more than ten people, and if we catch it, we will be killed, for so many years, everyone is very cautious." ”

"How many Qarluq troops are there in Broken Leaf?" Zhang Yun asked.

"There are basically no Broken Leaf City, at most a few hundred people, and they are not real Qarluq cavalry, they are only equivalent to the regimental training soldiers of the Tang Dynasty."

Seeing that he had misunderstood, Zhang Yun smiled and said, "I'm not asking about Broken Leaf City, it's Gelulu's tooth tent." ”

Li Dongzhu scratched his head, "It shouldn't be much!" I heard that Amit Khan led an army of 30,000 to the north, and since the Khan went north, he basically took most of the soldiers away. ”

"Is it the Khan himself who went on the expedition?"

"Yes, the notices have been posted, because the Khan is on an expedition, and the city gates will be closed when dark, and you are not allowed to go out on the streets at night, so I have come to remind you not to go out at night."

"We'll be cautious [pencil] hearts, thank you proprietor!"

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After six days of marching day and night, Guo Song led an army of 20,000 to Broken Leaf City, which was still thirty miles away from Broken Leaf City and fifty miles away from Ge Lulu's tooth tent.

After grasping the information, Guo Song immediately summoned all the generals to come to the discussion.

"This is a raid war, we hope everyone can understand this, our target is not Broken Leaf City for the time being, but Ge Lulu tooth tent, according to the intelligence of Commander Zhang, there are still 3,000 troops left behind in Ge Lulu's lair, we must first annihilate these 3,000 troops, and then start a comprehensive purge, I will make it clear to everyone, women do not kill, children do not kill, old people do not kill, the rest of the Qarlu young men are all killed, all the Qarlu people are soldiers, once they are recruited, all the young and strong men will become soldiers, so we must not be merciful, Got it? ”

"Understood!" The crowd replied in unison.

Guo Song nodded: "Lead the army and set off!" My orders will be executed from now on. ”

'Woo! The horn sounded, and a group of Tang cavalry set off, and 16,000 Tang cavalry, led by Luo Daxiao and Li Bing, went straight to Gelulu's lair, which is also the location of the assassination department.

Guo Song led 3,000 troops to the city of Broken Leaves, and the soldiers sounded the horns continuously.

Not long after, the east gate of Broken Leaf City opened, and Zhang Yun led his men to greet him, he stepped forward and bowed and said, "See the envoy!" ”

Guo Song nodded, "You scout army has worked hard this time!" ”

Guo Song immediately ordered: "The army enters the city!" ”

Three thousand cavalry marched into Broken Leaf City, which was exactly thirty years after the fall of Broken Leaf City, and the Tang army once again stepped into the westernmost military town of the Tang Dynasty.

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30,000 Qarlu cavalry under the leadership of the Khan's assassination of Amit, quickly marched to Tingzhou, all the way to rob the cattle and sheep of the Wusun people as military rations, although they walked on the back of the bow, the distance was much farther, the Tang army set off a few days later than them, just when Guo Song led the Tang army into the city of broken leaves at the same time, the Qarlu cavalry also entered the boundary of Tingzhou.

The Tang army's beacon fire in Donglin was ignited, the military city was on the mountainside, the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Ge Lulu could not attack, and he did not have the heart to attack, and the 30,000 army rushed through from three miles away from the city.

The smoke of guarding the city was lit one after another, and it soon spread to Jinman County, where there were 8,000 defenders, including 5,000 Hexi Army and 3,000 Beiting Army, the main general was Li Jiao, and the deputy general Sun Xiangyang.

At this time, both of them stood at the head of the city, looking at the beacon fire in the distance, from the time the beacon fire was lit to the time when the enemy army was killed in Jinman County, there was at least one day, and it was completely time to evacuate the peasants outside the city.

Sun Jiao said in a deep voice: "If I am not mistaken, this Qarlu army came from the side of Huangcaobo, and they bypassed the Yili River Valley. ”

Sun Xiangyang, like all the soldiers of the Hexi Army, admired their commander incomparably, and he smiled and said: "This is all expected by Guo Yuanjun, he sent soldiers to tell us, don't worry too much, the Qarluq people will not attack the city, guess why?" ”

Sun Jiao raised his eyebrows and wondered, "I haven't figured out why?" ”

"I figured it out, what Guo Yuanjun meant was that the Qarluqs did not carry siege weapons, and their goal was to deal with the main force of the Tang army that had withdrawn from the Yili River Valley."

"Siege for reinforcements!" Sun Jiao suddenly came to his senses.

Sun Xiangyang nodded, "The other party should be this strategy, but since the envoy has already expected it in advance, how can he let them succeed?" ”

Sun Jiao sighed softly, "To be honest, I'm looking forward to them attacking the city and giving them a taste of iron and fire!" ”