In the early morning, the air of the grassland is fresh, and the grass and blades of the grass on the ground are covered with dew.

Zhao Junsheng walked out of the tent, stretched his limbs, and after a crackling sound of the bones of his whole body, the whole person felt comfortable.

The smell of dirt and grass filled the camp, and the soldiers were busy washing, feeding the horses, or sitting in a circle on the ground, munching on dry food and gossiping.

Kang Yide came over with two eunuchs, "Your Majesty, it's time to wash!" ”

"Okay, I'll put a low table here later, and I'll have breakfast here after I'm done!" Zhao Junsheng took the towel handed by the eunuch and prepared to wash.

"No!" Kang Yide agreed, and hurriedly gestured to a little eunuch next to him to ask him to prepare.

When Zhao Junsheng finished washing, the two eunuchs carried a low table and a horse and put it beside them, and the eunuchs had already brought the food up and put it on the low table.

Zhao Junsheng sat on the horse and saw the food on the low table, and there were even Hu cakes, a roast rabbit and a pot of fish soup, and looked up and asked Kang Yide: "Didn't I say that everything is simple during the march and battle?" How can there be Hu Cake, Roast Rabbit and Fish Soup? ”

Kang Yide bowed: "It was the Hu cake that was fried by the minions, the rabbit was found and shot by the scouts during the patrol last night, and the fish was caught by the soldiers of the forbidden army when they found a fish in the water when they were washing by the lake." In addition to the Hu cakes, the rabbits and fish are not specially prepared for His Majesty, since the soldiers have already brought them, and they are also a piece of their heart to His Majesty, they must hope that Your Majesty can eat well and be full, so that Your Majesty can have the spirit to command the soldiers to win the battle."

Zhao Junsheng groaned, "Only this once, not for example!" ”

"No!"

Looking at the freshly fried Hu Cake, the roasted rabbit meat and the boiled fish soup were still steaming, the aroma of the food made Zhao Junsheng have a great appetite, and he picked up a piece of Hu Cake and feasted on it.

While eating, Kang Yide's voice came: "See His Royal Highness the King of Shu!" ”

Zhao Ping nodded to Kang Yide, walked up to Zhao Junsheng, hugged his fists and bowed: "Father is early!" ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his head: "Have you eaten?" ”

"Also······ Nope."

Zhao Junsheng said to Kang Yide: "Bring him a Maza!" ”

"No!"

At Kang Yide's signal, a little eunuch immediately ran into the tent and took a horse and put it behind Zhao Ping.

"Father Xie, it's better to come early than to come by chance, and the son has a good mouth!" Zhao Ping smiled and sat on the maza and ripped off a leg of the roast rabbit and gnawed it, praising it while eating: "This barbecue technique is not bad, Kangyide, did you roast it?" ”

Kang Yide bowed: "Your Highness laughed, the old slave doesn't have such skills!" ”

Zhao Junsheng scooped a small bowl of fish soup and ate it with Hu Cake, took a bite of Hu Cake and drank a mouthful of fish soup, chewed and chewed in his mouth and asked: "Say, are you here to report good news or bad news?" ”

Zhao Ping also replied while eating: "One joy and one worry!" Does the father want to hear the bad news first, or do he want to hear the good news first? ”

"Don't talk to me, first talk about the news from the Southern Dynasty!"

Zhao Ping said helplessly: "How did my father know that there was news of the Southern Dynasty?" Okay, well, Erchen said, Lin Jinghui sent a message that the civil strife in the Southern Dynasty would not last long, after all, the rebels were just landless farmers, even if our dynasty sent people to mobilize these people, but after all, the time is still short, there is a lack of effective organization, there is no clear goal, and the people's hearts are not aligned. ”

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng said: "I didn't expect those rebels to be able to drag down the Southern Dynasty, nor did I expect them to fight with the officials and troops of the Southern Dynasty for ten or eight years, they can support them for more than half a year, right?" Tell Lin Jinghui not to let those rebels not stick to one place, just leave if they can't fight, and find a way to jump out of the encirclement of the official army of the Southern Dynasty, how can being besieged by the official army be a dead end? Could the black-clothed guards no longer be able to control them? ”

Zhao Ping said: "Erchen also guessed that the black-clothed guards were likely to have lost control of this rebel army, after all, they acted too hastily, and many things were not prepared, some of the leaders of the rebel army were not black-clothed guards, and those people were poor and scared in the past, and they had a low status, and now they are in a high position, and they can get carried away and be unstoppable!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a moment and ordered: "Give Lin Jinghui a death order, no matter what he does, this rebel army must exist for the time being!" Although I am not afraid of the Southern Dynasties raising troops to attack, if the Southern Xinjiang can be stable, I will also be more stable in my heart! ”

"Yes!"

"What else is there to say?" Zhao Junsheng asked, ripped off a rabbit leg, and pushed all the rest down in front of Zhao Ping, "The rest is yours!" ”

Zhao Ping glanced at the roast rabbit and said: "The war in the Western Regions has come to an end, just as my father and his sons deduced a few days ago, the people of the Bada could not attack Tianyun Pass for a long time and withdrew, they did not choose to attack from the Yile River Valley and Alishan Pass, but chose the closer Bodaling!" ”

"General Gao Jinzhi analyzed that if the Bada people raise troops to knock on the pass again, the target must be Bodaling, so he led the coalition army of 24,000 people to Bodaling, and before the army arrived at Podaling, the Bada people raided and broke through the fort above, and more than 200 soldiers guarding the fort of Podaling were all killed!"

"The soldiers and horses of both sides encountered in the valley twenty miles west of Dashicheng, and then a big battle broke out, the terrain of the valley was narrow and winding, the cavalry not only could not play its due mobility, but also could not turn around in time after being blocked, our army and the infantry of the coalition army played an important role in this battle, the coalition army under the command of Gao Jinzhi defeated the people, beheaded more than 9,000 ranks, captured more than 6,000 levels, captured more than 12,000 horses, and other burdens were innumerable, but unfortunately the commander of the army ran away by the Bada people!"

Zhao Junsheng finally showed some smiles on his face after hearing this, "This is indeed good news!" ”

"Gao Jinzhi said in the war report to the imperial court that the thousands of people who fled lacked food and straw, and burned and plundered everywhere in Dawan, which caused the people of Dawan to boil, and the lord of Dawan has sent envoys on the way to Chang'an, and wants to ask me to send troops to teach the Dada people a cruel lesson! The 6,000 captured people have also been escorted to Chang'an, and they should be on their way now! ”

These things are naturally handled by the ministers and officials who stayed in Chang'an, and Zhao Junsheng is not allowed to worry that they will not handle it well.

Just after breakfast, Na Yan, the captain of the scout battalion, walked quickly to report: "Your Majesty, there is news of the Rouran Army ahead!" Last night, General Yang Lie and others led troops to attack the Rouran army, and first eliminated a thousand cavalry teams they deployed on the periphery, because it was at night, the Rouran people were worried that they would be ambushed if the pursuit was too far, so they all shrank the vigilance forces deployed on the periphery to the large battalion, and used the defensive facilities around the large camp to defend! ”

"Our army is all cavalry, and the light is dim at night, I can't figure out the traps they deployed on the periphery, and they can't break through their camp for a while, General Yang Lie and others can only keep attacking, the Rouran army shouldn't have rested well last night, but just received a report from Kuaimalai, the Rouran army still pulled out the camp and set off, and they each deployed a thousand cavalry as a peripheral escort force in the front and back!"

"General Yang sent someone to report that if wolf pack tactics and guerrilla tactics are used, their forces are slightly weak, and he also asks Your Majesty to increase his troops by 10,000 people!"

After listening to this, Zhao Junsheng thought that Yang Lie's request was reasonable, the Rouran people still had 23,400 cavalry, and Yang Lie only had five or six thousand people in his hands, not to mention that Wei Jing's men and horses were not at his disposal, even if Wei Jing's 3,000 men and horses were allocated to Yang Lie, there were only eight or nine thousand people, and with such a small number of troops, it was indeed a little less in terms of strength to use the wolf pack tactics to deal with the Rouran army with more than 20,000 cavalry!

Zhao Junsheng thought for a moment and asked, "Where are Chang Kun's men now?" ”

"General Chang's men and horses are still about sixty miles away from the Rouran Army, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to catch up with the Rouran Army today!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it and ordered: "Tell Yang Lie and let him use the six thousand people in his hand to test it first, and see if the Rouran people have a countermeasure against the wolf pack tactics!" ”

"Yes!"

Subsequently, Zhao Junsheng issued an order, and the whole army set off to march in the northwest direction.

It was already noon when Yang Lie received Zhao Junsheng's order, he read the content of the order, and then looked at Wei Jing, Wei Jing waved his hand: "Don't look at me, I, the three thousand people, will be responsible for cutting off all contact between the Rouran Army and the outside world, so that they will become deaf and blind, and they will not be able to know any news from us!" Therefore, it is impossible for me to lend you these 3,000 men, but I can guarantee that none of your actions will be detected by the Rouran people in advance! ”

Yang Lie put away the official order document, turned his head and shouted: "Someone, order the soldiers to get on their horses and prepare to attack with me!" ”

Half an hour later, Yang Lie came to the vicinity of the marching Rouran army with a thousand cavalry, and the one thousand Rouran cavalry on the periphery of the right flank immediately reacted and prepared to attack.

"Kill me—" Yang Lie raised his weapon and roared as he hit the Rouran army in front of the horse, and a thousand cavalry behind him followed at a faster speed.

"Attack—" Commander Rouran roared with his mace and slapped his horse to meet him, and a thousand cavalry behind him let out a strange scream.

The main force of the Rouran army, which was attacked on the right flank, stopped advancing, and thousands of men and horses were ready to reinforce at any time under Togajin's orders.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves and a large number of shouts of killing kept coming, and all the Rouran soldiers turned their heads to look a few miles to the right, and the cavalry of the rushing cadre army quickly shot arrows, wave after wave of arrows, but they quickly turned around.

It is simply unbelievable that the cavalry formation, which originally attacked the cadre army in a long cross-section and short depth formation, completed the process of turning and turning around in an extreme period of time.

The current situation is that 1,000 Rouran cavalry are chasing behind, and 1,000 cavalry of the cadre army are fleeing in front, but these cavalry of the cadre army are running away on horseback, and at the same time they turn back to the pursuing Rouran army and keep firing arrows, and the pursuing Rouran cavalry in the rear keeps being shot off their horses, which makes the other Rouran cavalry angry and eager to immediately catch up and shoot and hack to death those fleeing cavalry.

But no matter how the Rouran cavalry pursued, they could never catch up with the cavalry in front.

The commander of Rouran, who led the team, sounded Khan Tuhezhen's order, and immediately stopped his horse: "Don't chase, go back!" ”

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