Xin Ai Huang Taiji was still riding on horseback, and he looked at his elite cavalry in a good mood, turning into industrious sappers, bringing stones from nearby, and then piling up small piles of stones on the wide road, or piling up low breastwork.

The stone henges they made were not even very dense, but very scattered, and the stone mounds were not tall, the highest was only half a person high, and many of them just threw stones on the road.

Because their purpose is not to say that it is impossible to build a wall of this wide area of several kilometers directly.

Their purpose is just to make this area impossible for large convoys to pass smoothly, and force the vehicles of the Tang Army to disperse, so that they can take advantage of it.

After all, the transport troops of the Tang Army, the biggest means of resisting the Tatar cavalry, that is, the array, and the array, whether it is the hollow phalanx of the infantry or the vehicle array, all need a wide area, especially for vehicles, a large open area is needed to maintain a tight vehicle formation.

If it was just an ordinary road, and it was impossible to drive on both sides, these vehicles would not be able to maintain a large phalanx, and could only advance in traditional columns.

In this way, it will give the cavalry of Xin Ai Huang Taiji a greater chance!

Xin Ai Huang Taiji's plan is quite simple, but extremely efficient.

When Liu Mengyang and the others came to this area with the transport troops, they were all shocked by the persistence of the Tatars!

What they saw at this time was a rocky beach!

That's right, it's a rocky beach, and Liu Mengyang can say with certainty that this broken place was definitely a flat avenue a day ago.

For a moment, he seemed to think that he was in the wrong place, but when he looked up at the mountains on the north and south sides, he knew that he was not in the wrong place.

But how is it that there are so many rocks in this place, and there are mounds of earth that have been excavated and built?

It is clear that this was done by the Tatars on the other side!

These Tatars are really speechless, in such a large area, they actually chose to intercept and ambush themselves here? Be stupid.

The reason why Liu Mengyang dared to lead the transport troops to this canyon area was because although this place could barely be called a canyon, it was definitely not a dangerous place, at most there was a low mountain on both sides, and these two low hills were the kind that could be rushed up directly on horseback.

At most, there is a small river nearby, but the water is not waist-deep, even if you cross the river directly, it will not make a difference.

Even if they are blocked, they can turn around and leave at any time, because this canyon is very flat, and at the same time it is two or three kilometers wide, which does not affect the combat and mobility of the troops at all.

Therefore, this place looks like a canyon, but it is definitely not a dangerous place, and it is unlikely that the enemy will intercept or ambush in such a place.

But that's what the Tatars on the other side did!

Moreover, the interception method is particularly strange, there is no list of cavalry charging formations, no tall city walls, and no traps, but a lot of earth pits are dug in the canyon, a lot of mounds are piled up, and many stones are moved from the nearby area.

Forcibly turned a flat land into a rocky beach with potholes!

What is this for?

It is not difficult for Liu Mengyang to guess that they must have the idea of breaking up their own car formation, and their own car formation cannot be maintained at all when they pass through this kind of rocky beach terrain.

Do you want to take a detour?

Liu Mengyang began to think about the possibility of detouring in his mind, this grassland is so wide, where to go is actually almost the same, the reason why he chose to take this road is only because of inertia, the main force of the Ninth Army before was advancing along this route.

Before that, there was no such thing as a road!

Most of the roads on the grassland cannot be called roads at all, and there is actually no difference between them and other places on the grassland, at most there are more people walking.

Therefore, the term "detour" does not strictly exist, because there is no road in the usual sense of the word, at most it is just a marching route.

At the same time, the troops of the Ninth Army have come and gone many times on this route, and they are relatively familiar with the situation along the way, and more importantly, they are the closest ones to take this route.

Otherwise, Liu Mengyang would not have chosen to take this path.

Detours are feasible, but they will also increase the distance and increase some uncontrollable risks.

What to do?

When Liu Mengyang was thinking about it, a captain next to him rode over and said, "Regiment commander, do you want to open the way?" ”

"Open the way?" Liu Mengyang didn't think of this possibility, when he saw this 'rocky beach', his first thought was that the Tatars had an ambush and then detoured, but he never had the idea of opening the road directly.

If you want to open the road, you need to remove the rocks on the road, fill in the dirt pits, not to mention tidy up everything, but at least sort out a few passages.

But in this process, the Tatars will certainly not be indifferent, and they are also people with bows and swords, and they will certainly not sit idly by and watch the way open.

At this time, Cao Guangtao also stepped forward and said: "If you open the road directly, I'm afraid it's very risky, the enemy will definitely fight to the death, and when the time comes, I'm afraid we will fall into a bitter battle here!" ”

But after Liu Mengyang heard Cao Guangtao's words, he seemed to remember something, and then muttered the word bitter battle on his lips, and then, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

This smile is not a sneer, but a smile full of confidence!

Immediately, everyone heard Liu Mengyang say: "Since the Tatars are so confident, then naturally we can't retreat, right here, let's fight with them!" ”

After Liu Mengyang finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates: "Order the whole army, prepare for war, today, we will fight a bloody way!" ”

While waiting for his subordinates to receive orders and go to prepare, Liu Mengyang immediately took two steps forward, looking at the rocky beach in front of him, as well as the thousands of Tatar cavalry behind the rocky beach!

Then he said to a pro-soldier behind him: "You immediately report to the military department!" ”

When he said this, he paused slightly, and then said in a serious tone: "Let's just say that the headquarters intends to use the baggage as a temptation to fight to the death with the Tatars, this battle is dangerous, I am afraid it will be difficult to ensure the safety of the baggage, I hope the military department will send friendly troops to respond quickly!" ”

Liu Mengyang's personal soldiers heard this, and they still didn't react for a while, the conversation between the officers just now, he heard the words, even if he wanted to open the way and rush over, but it was definitely not to the point of fighting to the death, it really didn't work, they could still retreat, and then detour, how did it get to Liu Mengyang's mouth, this became a battle to the death!

And there's no plan to use baggage as bait!

The pro-soldier did not understand, but this did not prevent him from obeying orders!

After Liu Mengyang said that, he quickly wrote a letter with charcoal, stamped it with the regimental headquarters and his own private seal, sealed it in wax and handed it to his own soldiers, and asked him to send it to the military headquarters as soon as possible.

With doubts, the soldiers began to gallop on horseback, he didn't know what Liu Mengyang's plans were, but he could see from Liu Mengyang's demeanor that the matter was very serious and could not be delayed at all.

This pro-soldier naturally didn't know, and the other officers didn't know either, Liu Mengyang was planning to do a big deal!

How big is it?

It will wipe out this transport force completely!

Liu Mengyang once again took out his monocular and looked at the five thousand Tatar cavalry in front of him!

muttered in his mouth: "As long as you can maintain the previous battle loss ratio, what's the matter if you fight with this Tatar, if you can annihilate this cavalry, even if the whole regiment is exhausted, it will be a big profit!" ”

At this time, there were no other subordinate officers around him, and there were no personal soldiers, so no one heard his muttering, and if any subordinate heard his words, I am afraid it would cause an uproar.

Liu Mengyang didn't think about breaking through at all, and he didn't even care if he could send the baggage to the military department, anyway, the military department carried a lot of baggage with the army, and there was no shortage of materials escorted by him in a short time.

In addition, there are too many reserves on the side of the Great Wall, and if you lose such a transport force as yourself, you can send a few more at any time!

But if you use your own transport force to fight out the opponent's thousands of cavalry, you don't need to fight all their 5,000 cavalry, as long as you get rid of most of them, then you will make a lot of money.

Because he knew that if his transport force was annihilated, in two days at most, the second transport force on the side of the Great Wall would appear again, or even two in a short time.

But will the Tatars be able to pull out another 5,000 cavalry to intercept the grain routes?

And even if it could, how long would it be possible to hold out with the strength of the Tatars?

In Liu Mengyang's view, it is to exchange the lives of these Tatars for a life, and it is best to be able to fight all the hundreds of thousands of Tatar cavalry, even if it is worth paying the same price of hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and wounded.

Because he knows very well that the loss of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops is at most a pain of broken arms for the huge Tang Empire, but as long as the Tang Empire is given a few months, it can be relieved.

But at that time, I am afraid that there were not even a few young and strong Tatars in the north......

Nothing is as effective as fighting the population!

Liu Mengyang holds this idea, and many senior generals actually hold this kind of thought, but for the vast majority of middle and low-level officers and even ordinary soldiers, this idea is too extreme.

Even if it is a high-ranking officer, not everyone is like Liu Mengyang, who can regard the lives of the soldiers as a cold number, and think that 3,000 infantry for 3,000 cavalry is a big profit.

Liu Mengyang also knows that he has this kind of idea, and he can do it in private, but he must not do it publicly, let alone say it, otherwise he will shake the morale of the army 100%!

Liu Mengyang held the mentality of fighting the entire 13th Baggage Regiment and creating an opportunity to kill more than half of the cavalry on the opposite side, and led the troops to make a move to break into the rocky beach!

This move also made Xin Ai Huang Taiji on the other side frown deeply!

At this moment, he was quite unhappy, because he felt that the Southern Tang barbarian on the opposite side had ignored him!

Such a big trap is here, and they can't see it?

No!

They can see it!

So why did they still break in?

Because they think that this trap is not enough, and they can get through it safely!