The Shatuo tribe, also known as the Chuyue Turks, is a partial branch of the Turks, living in the northern part of the Western Regions in the area of Zheluo Manshan all the year round, and gradually became powerful in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

At present, there are 5,000 warriors in Shatuo, about 30,000 people, and the leader Zhu Xie Jinding led the whole clan to take refuge in the grassland overlord Hui Hui, and was named the Chu Yue Khan by the Hui Mu Yu Great Khan, and became the agent of the Hui Hui to attack the Hexi Corridor.

At present, the Shatuo chief who is leading 6,000 Shatuo cavalry stationed in the Hexi Corridor is called Zhu Xie Weiming, he is the Khan's half-brother, according to Turkic tradition, it should be the younger brother and brother, so Zhu Xie Weiming is also the first successor of the Chuyue Khan, and the Khan's biological son is ranked behind him.

Zhu Xiewei is about in his early thirties, thin but strong, his face is also very thin, he has a hooked nose, and his eyes are sinister and cunning.

Zhu Xie Weiming is very fond of using strategy, does not like to attack and fight, when he led 6,000 Shatuo cavalry in the Great Dou Tu Valley to meet 30,000 Tuyuhun, it was he who first sent strange soldiers to cut off the logistics and grain of the Tuyuhun army, so that the Tuyuhun army fell into chaos, and his army was in full swing and defeated 30,000 enemy troops.

In order to occupy the entire territory of the Hexi Corridor, he has made preparations for many years, and has a good understanding of the situation in Ganzhou and Liangzhou, Zhangye City has 6,000 Tang troops, the city is high and difficult to attack, Liangzhou has 10,000 Tang troops, occupying Wuwei City, it is also relatively difficult to fight.

He made a fuss about strategy, and he learned that the Tang Dynasty had put out a bounty list at the beginning of the town, and those who captured or killed themselves alive could be promoted to three levels and rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver.

And Li Chengjue, the governor of Ganzhou who guarded Zhangye City, is already fifty-five years old, and he will retire in a few years, and there is no hope of promotion. Will he pass up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? The official has been promoted to the third level!

Zhu Xie decided to take a risk, use himself as bait, and provide Li Chengjue with this opportunity, he didn't believe that Li Chengjue could bear it?

Of course, Zhu Xie Weiming also knew very well that he was taking risks, and while luring Li Chengjue, he himself was also in danger, after all, he only brought eight hundred troops.

After thinking about it again, Zhu Xie Weiming decided to set off before the heavy snow completely closed the road, and attacked the Baiting guard, who only had two hundred Tang troops, which posed no danger to him, and even if the heavy snow blocked the road, the Baiting guard would have enough supplies for him to return to the camp.

At this time, Zhu Xie Weiming led 800 cavalry to the south bank of Xiutu Lake, and the soldiers blew the horn three times, but they never saw the spies sent before to respond, which made Zhu Xie Weiming frown.

His first reaction was that something had happened to the sentry team.

The adjutant general next to him said in a low voice: "Dudu, could it be that they probed the situation of the Tang Army and were discovered?" ”

It is very likely that they must be close to the reconnaissance of the Tang army to defend the city, it is easy to be found in the white field, if something happens to them, the probability of being killed by the Tang army is the greatest, in addition, Zhu Xie has not thought of any other reason, the fifteen-person spy team is quite strong in combat, unless it is a regular Tang army, no one is their opponent.

But the Tang army will not come to Xiutu Lake at this time.

"Leave them alone!"

Zhu Xie waved his hand and ordered the army to continue eastward, his purpose was to let Li Chengjue know that he was here, and it was not necessarily a bad thing for the spies to be caught by the Tang army.

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At night, Zhu Xie Weiming led 800 cavalry to Baiting to guard the city.

"Listen to the Tang army in the city, the governor of Pontus is Zhu Xie Weiming!"

Zhu Xie Weiming shouted to the city head in fluent Chinese, "As long as you surrender, I will not kill a single person, on the contrary, I will let you go, I only need to guard the city and the food and grass supplies in the city." ”

At the head of the city, more than 200 Tang troops were silent, and Zhao Tengjiao gritted his teeth and said: "Sure enough, I want to lure Li Dudu to send troops!" ”

Deputy General Zhang Sen sighed softly, "Actually, this is also a good opportunity to kill him, but unfortunately we can't catch it!" ”

Zhao Tengjiao was stunned for a moment, a wave of enthusiasm was born in his heart, and he suddenly whispered: "I can take a few brothers out of the city......"

"No!" Zhang Sen and two brigade commanders opposed it together, it was too dangerous.

At this time, a soldier came running and said, "General, someone just shot this thing from under the north city!" ”

The soldier presented an arrow to Zhao Tengjiao, the arrow was wearing a tight small cloth bag, Zhao Tengjiao hurriedly waved his hand to Zhang Sen, and the two came to the city tower together, there was a table in the city tower, there was an oil lamp on the table, and the bean-sized light flickered on and off, making the light in the room very dim.

Zhao Tengjiao poured the things in the cloth bag on the table, just two items, one is the bronze square military card of the Shatuo army, which is engraved with several Turkic characters, but Zhao Tengjiao also knows that this is the military card of the centurion of Shatuo.

The other item was a folded white folded cloth, presumably torn from an undergarment and spread out, with lines written on it with branches dipped in blood.

'I want to kill the enemy chieftain, and when the enemy army is in chaos, the Tang army can go out of the city to cover and kill him!' 'There is a sword priest drawn below.

At the end, he added, 'If the whole army is ready, you can raise fire as a trumpet.' ’

Zhao Tengjiao and Zhang Sen glanced at each other and said in unison: "Guo Song! ”

Zhao Tengjiao suddenly became excited, "This kid must have slaughtered all the Shatuo spies, tsk!" Tut! It's not easy, and he actually killed a centurion. ”

Zhang Sen frowned and said in a low voice: "He said that he wanted to kill the enemy chieftain, could it be ........?"

Zhao Tengjiao and Zhang Sen were shocked at the same time, Guo Song wanted to kill Zhu Xie Weiming!

Is it possible?

Zhang Sen sighed softly, "It sounds like wishful thinking, but he has an intuition that he may be able to do it!" ”

Zhao Tengjiao nodded, he also felt this way.

He slammed his fist on the table and said categorically: "Anyway, if you don't surrender, you will die, and I will bear this risk!" ”

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"I finally give you a quarter of an hour to think about it, and if you don't surrender after a quarter of an hour, then don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless!" Zhu Xie Weiming coldly threatened the Tang army at the head of the city.

The 800 cavalry behind him did not line up in a phalanx, but in the shape of a crescent moon, and surrounded the governor Zhu Xie Weiming in the middle.

At this moment, there was an additional Shatuo cavalryman on the edge of the northernmost crescent, he wore a bronze helmet, the copper helmet was lower, covering his brows, wearing a double leather armor inlaid with a protective iron mirror, a black coat on the back, a sword at his waist, a bow and arrow, and a spear hanging on the saddle, this is a typical black tent archer cavalry attire, exactly the same as the soldiers around him.

With only 800 people, Zhu Xie Weiming of course wanted to use the elite black tent archers to protect himself, but this extra soldier was dressed up by Guo Song.

Shatuo spies all carry armor with them, it is easy to change their clothes, Guo Song can also speak the lingua franca of the grassland, and he wears a military badge, under the cover of night, as long as the other party does not carry a torch to take a closer look at his appearance, he will not find out that he is a fake Shatuo cavalry.

He hung on the very edge of the crescent moon array, the light was very dim, and the surrounding soldiers didn't notice how he got out?

Guo Song looked coldly at Zhu Xie Weiming who was riding on a high-headed horse in the distance, he was wearing a golden wolf crown, wearing golden armor, and holding a war sword, about one hundred and twenty steps away from him.

This distance is a bit far, but it is already the closest position he can get close to Zhu Xie Weiming, but the distance is not the key, but Zhu Xie Weiming is very well protected.

There are six soldiers in front of them holding their shields high, forming a shield wall, and behind them is a small circle of twelve cavalrymen besieging the city, which is impermeable to the front and back, only leaving a foot-long opening on the side, through this narrow opening, you can just see Zhu Xie Weiming.

The golden armor was shining in the firelight, and there was a vertical collar on the armor, covering the neck, if Zhu Xie was wearing a golden helmet today, then Guo Song would have nothing to do.

Zhu Xie wore a golden crown with a wolf's head, which was the symbol of the Khan's heir, and his hair was tied up, revealing his long, thin and pale face.

It can only be said that this is providence.

The opportunity is fleeting, but Guo Song must wait, he needs to give the city a little time to prepare.

At this moment, the fire flashed a few times on the city, which was the agreed fire, and most of the Tang soldiers on the city disappeared.

Guo Song took one last look at Zhu Xie Weiming, Zhu Xie Weiming just happened to say something to the soldiers in front of him, revealing half of his face, the best opportunity came.

Guo Song suddenly raised his bow with an arrow, pulled the bow like a full moon, and as soon as the string was loosened, a wolf's tooth arrow shot towards Zhu Xieweiming's head like lightning, and the powerful arrow instantly passed through the mouth that was only one foot wide, and shot straight at Zhu Xieweiming's head.

Zhu Xie never dreamed that deadly danger would shoot from the side, 'Poof! The arrow hit his temple, penetrating from the left temple and penetrating through the right temple, and Zhu Xie Weiming didn't even scream, 'Goodong! 'Drop off the horse.

Guo Song didn't stop, and then the second arrow was shot immediately, this arrow pierced the tripravinal of the front leg of Zhu Xie Weiming's war horse, and the tall war horse neighed miserably, and then fell, pressing Zhu Xie Weiming under him.

"Dudu, what's wrong with you!"

Several of Zhu Xie's unknown personal soldiers shouted loudly, and suddenly someone shouted angrily: "The governor is dead!" ”

Guo Song turned his horse and galloped around the crescent moon array in the back, and he shouted in Tiele language: "Run! The Governor is dead. ”

The Shatuo army was in chaos, and at this moment, the city gate was opened, and two hundred Tang cavalry under the leadership of Zhao Tengjiao came out, like a sharp sword, piercing the center of the crescent moon array.

The lieutenant general brought by Zhu Xie Weiming, a commander of a thousand soldiers, waved his spear and shouted: "Don't mess up! Against! Ying-"

Before the commander could finish shouting, an arrow came from his mouth in the darkness, and the tip of the arrow came out of the back of his head, and the commander planted his horse on his back and was killed on the spot.

The main general is dead, the commander is also killed, the Shatuo cavalry is in chaos, they turn their horses and run westward, several pro-soldiers want to snatch the body of the governor, how can they be pressed by the war horse, the Tang army has been killed, even killed several pro-soldiers, the others have to give up robbing the corpse, and flee in panic.

Guo Song was finally discovered, he had just shot the commander at the same time, a centurion roared angrily and swung a spear at him, Guo Song dodged the fatal spear, sneered, jumped forward, cut off the opponent's head, and then kicked the opponent's horse, a backflip, and rode back to his own horse.

Guo Song saw that the soldiers in the southwest were weak, he swung his sword and rushed into the enemy group, the cold light flashed continuously, Guo Song killed four Shatuo cavalry who blocked him in a row, and finally killed a bloody road, and the horse disappeared into the darkness.

The Shatuo army was defeated, and the cavalry of the Tang army pursued the victory, chasing and killing nearly 500 people in a company, and then beat the victory drum to return to the city.

The battle of Baiting City can only be regarded as a small-scale battle in scale, the total number of troops invested by both sides is less than 1,000 people, but the political impact of the battle of Baiting City is very far-reaching, the first heir of Shatuo Khan was killed, making the position of Shatuo Khan unstable, Shatuo fell into a fierce struggle for the inheritance of the Khan, Shatuo army had no time to take care of the Hexi Corridor, 6,000 cavalry was forced to withdraw from Ganzhou, retreat to Suzhou.

It was not until a few years later, when the new Khan of Shatuo succeeded to the throne, that the army of Shatuo relaunched its attack on Zhangye City.