Tuga Zhen hurriedly asked: "In this case, have you found out the whereabouts of Kurenzhi's army?" ”

The centurion's expression was gloomy, and he stretched out his hand to press his chest and bowed, saying, "I have found it, they have ······ Annihilated! ”

Although he had been prepared in his heart, Tuga Zhen's face turned pale in an instant, and the national teacher Tan Wuye and other ministers and generals next to him all looked not very good, and the news that the entire army had been wiped out just now was not as shocking as the news that Kurenzhi's army had been wiped out.

After a long while, a minister said with a sad expression: "First of all, all the 20,000 troops of the beggar were killed, and the beggar was also killed in battle!" Abu Ganyun was ambushed in the same place, and all 3,000 men and horses were destroyed; Subsequently, when ambushing Xue Andu, the general of the cadre army, it was a crushing victory, and our army lost nearly 10,000 people; Unexpectedly, the army of Kurenzhi and the army of Bendu were annihilated by the cadres one after another, and even the men and horses of Kuhehan lost 3,000, and now counting the 80,000 warriors of our army, there are only 24,000 people left! ”

More than two-thirds of the troops were lost, a level of casualties that was unacceptable to Toga Shin and his ministers and nobles.

Seeing that the mood of Tuga Zhen and the ministers and generals was not right, the national teacher Tan Wuye immediately stood up and said: "Khan, in terms of the situation, we are indeed in a disadvantageous situation now, but in terms of troops, the cadres should be equal to us!" We didn't have a chance to defeat them, and the poor monk thought that we should cheer up and not be defeated by this small setback! ”

Knowing that Tan Wuye's words lifted his spirits, Toga Shin looked at the centurion and asked, "Where were Kurenzhi and his 10,000 men wiped out by the Qian's army?" ”

"Reeds! Everyone was buried in the reeds, and if it weren't for the detective sentry who went deep into the reeds and searched carefully, they really wouldn't have found the burial place! Because of the rain that had rained for two days before, the battlefield outside the reeds was swept by the cadres again, and all traces were washed away after the rain! ”

Tuhe Zhen took a deep breath, "So our outpost can't track the whereabouts of the Qianjun?" ”

"Yes, all the horseshoe prints have been washed away by the rain, and even the breath has been washed away, and it is impossible to track!"

Tuga Zhen turned his head to look at Tan Wuye: "National Teacher, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Tan Wuye thought for a while and said: "Now it is certain that the cadre army has indeed divided its troops, which is consistent with our previous inference, so we are in a very dangerous situation now, and we may face a flank attack from two directions at any time!" ”

"First of all, the poor monk thinks that we should find out the approximate location of the two cadre armies, as well as the number of their respective troops, and then decide what to do next! Also, we must quickly change our position, otherwise we will be under the nose of the cadres and we will suffer a lot if we know nothing about the cadres! ”

Tuga Zhen looked at the other ministers again, and no one proposed any other way, so he agreed to Tan Wuye's suggestion and ordered: "We will leave here tonight and march in the northwest direction, and at the same time send scout sentry cavalry to reconnoiter the positions of the two cadre armies in the north and south!" ”

That night, the Rouran people marched in the northwest direction as fast as they could, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to the surrounding areas to probe the positions of the two cavalry of the Qian's army.

At this time, Wei Jing's new scout tactics had already begun under his command, and the soldiers and horses led by Yang Lie and the other five commanders surrounded the direction of the Shan Khan Mountain from all directions.

Chang Kun's army, which was following the Kuhehan army, approached the mountain in the evening of the same day, but because there was still the main force of the Rouran army in the mountain, Chang Kun did not continue to send wolf pack tactics and guerrilla tactics to attack, but camped more than 30 miles away, and sent scouts to the direction of the mountain for reconnaissance.

Some of the Rouran scouts who were reconnoitring to the east, northeast, and north encountered the cavalry of the Qianjun army sent by Wei Jing, and the Rouran scouts who reconnoitred in these directions were killed by the cavalry of the Qianjun army, and none of them recovered.

At dawn, the scouts of the cadres approached the vicinity of the mountain and found that the mountain was empty, and the people of Rouran only left a large amount of domestic garbage at the foot of the mountain.

Soon after dawn, Wei Jing and Chang Kun met at the foot of the Shan Khan Mountain.

Chang Kun rode on horseback and turned his head to observe the surroundings, and said to Wei Jing: "It seems that the Rouran people have evacuated overnight, and if they march at full speed in one night, they can also walk a lot of distance!" ”

Wei Jing asked, "In what direction does General Chang think they will evacuate?" ”

"I brought people from the south, last night my scouts spied and reconnoitred here from the south, and my men and horses were also thirty miles away from the south, so it is impossible for the Rouran people to go south!"

After hearing this, Wei Jing said: "I was ordered to lead the army to kill Rouran's scout outpost, and the soldiers came from the east, northeast and north directions, and there will be no gap in the middle for more than 20,000 Rouran troops to pass through, so it is impossible for them to go from these three directions!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a knight rode over and reported: "General Qiyu, according to the investigation, the Rouran people have run away from the northwest!" ”

Hearing this, Wei Jing took out the map and looked at it, and ordered: "Pass my order, each tooth will carry out a dragnet reconnaissance in the direction of Zhuo Evil Mountain, and the speed will be doubled, the Rouran people are afraid that they have gone far after a night's march, if our speed is not fast enough, it is likely to let them out of our sight!" ”

"Yes!" The herald took the order and departed.

At this time, Zhao Junsheng was coming from the northeast with a large group of soldiers and horses, and the news of the withdrawal of the Rouran people overnight quickly reached him.

After listening to the report, Zhao Junsheng said: "The terrain in the direction of Zhuo Xie Mountain is complicated, which is easy to hide, and Tuhe Zhen may be based on this consideration, or maybe he also considered that evacuating from other directions in the past may encounter our army halfway!" ”

After careful consideration, Zhao Junsheng gave an order: "Order Chang Kun to lead the army to the left flank, follow behind the scouts, and advance in the direction of Zhuo Evil Mountain as fast as possible!" ”

After the order was issued, Zhao Junsheng's side had already advanced in the direction of Zhuo Evil Mountain with the fastest speed on the right flank.

In any case, the terrain within a radius of several hundred miles of the cadre army scouts has been very clear, and it is very clear where an ambush can be set up and where a horse is flat, so as long as the two armies are on the march, they only need to send scouts to explore the road 20 miles in front of them, and conduct prior reconnaissance in the dangerous terrain, so they do not have to worry about being ambushed.

The speed of the pursuit of the two armies was very fast, and they kept changing horses halfway in order to maintain a fast march and close the distance between them and the Rouran army as much as possible.

More than 20,000 Rouran troops ran one hundred and twenty miles after a night march under the command of Toga Zhen, which was already very fast, and by dawn, the Rouran soldiers were sleepy and tired, and they could not walk anyway, so Toga Zhen could only order to camp on the spot and send scouts to explore the surrounding terrain.

Scouts are the hardest, most tiring, and most dangerous of one of the troops, and they have to undertake reconnaissance missions after such a large-intensity overnight march, and in this case, the reconnaissance range of scouts is limited to a radius of a few miles from the place where the army is camped, and no matter how large the range is, they have no ability to send back news in time, after all, the scouts are also sleepy, and they want someone to replace them to carry out the task.

The cadres who marched and pursued during the day were much faster, there were scouts in front of them to open the way, and the terrain was relatively familiar, and they knew where the terrain was dangerous and where the terrain was flat, so they could advance at full speed in the flat terrain area, slow down in the place where the terrain was complicated, and send scouts to reconnoiter first, without delaying the march of the army in the slightest.

Before the two armies of the Qianjun army arrived, Wei Jing's scouts had already caught up with the Rouran army and engaged in a confrontation with their outposts scattered around the perimeter.

A large number of small groups of cavalry of the cadre army coordinated the encirclement and suppression of the threat to the Rouran scout, the Rouran scouts found the scouts of the Qianran army, and they quickly pounced on them to prepare for the fight, but they soon found that the cadres did not have only one scout team, when a number of small groups of cavalry of the cadre army surrounded from the perimeter, it was too late for the Rouran scouts to escape back to report the news, and they were surrounded and killed.

In less than an hour, all the guard posts scattered around the perimeter of the Rouran army were cleared.

At the end of the afternoon, the Rouran people finally sensed that something was wrong, and the guard posts deployed on the periphery had not sent anyone to report safety for an hour.

The intelligence officer quickly sent out some of the scouts who had been rested to find out if the scout sentries on duty were asleep at their posts.

At the second moment, the intelligence officer reported to Tuga Zhen with a serious expression: "Khan, we may be in big trouble!" ”

Toga asked, "What happened?" ”

"Because the guard post I sent out has not come back to report for an hour, so I sent a few more scouts to check two minutes ago, but no one has come back to report the news until now!"

Tuga really couldn't calm down: "You mean that all the scout outposts we sent out were killed?" ”

"There are only possibilities, and the only thing that can kill them is the dry army sentinels!"

Toga immediately summoned all the ministers and generals to discuss the matter.

After the news spread among the ministers and generals, everyone was worried.

The national teacher Tan Wuye was also quite frightened: "The scouts of the cadre army are coming so quickly!" ”

After saying this, Tan Wuye asked, "In that case, the scout outpost we sent out when we left the Shan Khan Mountain has not returned until this moment?" ”

"No, not one!" The intelligence officer shook his head.

Tan Wuye was also very anxious in his heart, and the several groups of scouts sent out did not return, which showed that the Rouran people could no longer obtain any news from the Qianjun, what method did the Qianjun use to clear all the Rouran Sentinels, and even not a single one of them escaped back to report the news?

Tan Wuye understands that the situation of the Rouran army is quite dangerous at the moment, and not being able to obtain any news about the cadres is equivalent to becoming a cage and a blind man, and it is clear what the cadres are doing at a glance, and they don't know anything about what the cadres are doing, isn't this terrible? No one knows when the cadres will touch their side, and they will still be kept in the dark.