It is twenty miles away from the city of Dali.

The vanguard of Chai Shao of the Tang army encountered a group of Turkic light horsemen galloping in.

"Jieli Khan has entered the Great Wall first, going to the clouds, he left soldiers and horses in Dali City, for the general to prepare grain and grass and other supplies, hope that after the general supplies, go south as soon as possible to join the division."

The news was reported back to the Chai Shao office of the Chinese army in the back.

"Jieli Khan has already entered the customs? It's so fast. Chai Shao was stunned for a moment, "Fortunately, he also left us supplies, gave us an order, accelerated our progress, and entered Dali City for the night tonight." Tell the brothers that there is food and grass in Dali, and that they will have a full meal today. ”

The original plan was that the Tang army should have arrived in Dingxiang half a month ago, but because of a delay in Jiuyuan for a few days and a detour due to floods on the way, Chai Shaojun arrived half a month late.

This also led to the fact that Chai Shao's army was now running out of grain and grass, and the rations had been controlled on the road, and many Tang troops were hungry. As soon as I heard that there was a supply of grain and grass in front of me, and I could have a full meal, I immediately came to my senses.

General Wang Changkai said, "We have delayed too much time, Jieli has already entered the Great Wall." ”

Another general, Sun Hua, said, "Even if Jieli takes Taiyuan, it doesn't matter, we can still have fewer casualties." ”

Chai Shao thought the same thing in his heart, but after all, the ultimate goal of sending troops this time was to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and to destroy Qin first by allied forces, so he still had to do a good job in his relationship with Jieli.

"Hurry up the march."

At dusk.

Chai Shao's whole army finally arrived outside the city of Dali in a hurry, and from a distance, the Tang army saw the few tall human heads outside the city.

"It's all the heads of the people who have just been built in the new base, and if you look closely, all the heads are Han people."

Hearing the report, Chai Shao frowned.

"Hu Lu was really brutal, he broke through the big profits, and he actually slaughtered the city, and after the slaughter, he also built a capital to show off."

Hu General Shi Danai on the side stood there a little embarrassed, he is also Turkic, but he is not an Eastern Turk but a Western Turk. He was a general under Luo Khan of the Western Turkic Division, and later the Luo army was defeated and surrendered to the Sui, he escorted him to come, and was left in the Central Plains by Yang Guang after entering the Sui, and Shi Danai was transferred to the Sui general.

Later, Li Yuan raised troops into the Guanzhong, and Shi Danai, who was in Chang'an, also joined the Tang army.

"Sooner or later, my Datang will destroy such a ferocious captive." Chai Shaodao, but on the other hand, after seeing these Jingguan, he also thought that Jieli was powerful at this time, so he didn't doubt the authenticity of the Turks in Dali City.

Several Turkic knights galloped out of the city, saying that Dali City was small, and had just experienced a siege battle, the city was ruined, and it could not accommodate all the Tang troops, so he asked Chai Shao to station the army outside the city, and only led the officers into the city to rest.

As he spoke, a convoy came out of the city, full of truckloads of grain and even some wine and meat.

Chai Shao and the others had no opinion on this, but were very satisfied.

Now let the generals set up camp and divide the food.

He led the generals into the city to thank the Turks.

The grain cart entered the camp.

A group of Tang troops surrounded them.

Someone rushed forward without hurrying, lifted the cover on it, and saw the bags of grain, and couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha, grain, grain, come and see, it's all millet, it smells so fragrant, it must be the new grain just harvested this summer." ”

Someone over there shouted, "What is millet here, I have mutton here, fresh mutton that has just been slaughtered, you see how bright red this meat is." ”

"I have wine here, wow, it's so fragrant, I can't help but salivate."

Some officers came over and picked up these excited Tang soldiers, "Don't rob indiscriminately, all retreat to the side, the officers of each battalion come over to receive grain, wine and meat, those who should chop firewood go to chop wood, those who should fetch water go to fetch water, those who should drink horses go to drink horses, and remember that every two teams dig a latrine, and they must be dug at the downwind." ”

The officer issued orders in an orderly manner, looked at the chaotic soldiers, and couldn't help but shake his head.

The soldiers of Guanlongfu, who once had a dazzling world, had already been almost lost in the chaotic war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the 100,000 troops who went north this time were mostly recruited from the Longyou region, and the vast majority were the original Western Qin army. The vast majority of the Western Qin army were Qiang tribesmen from Longyou, as well as many bandits and bandits from Longyou who rebelled at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Although these people put on military robes and took up arms, they have neither military discipline nor combat power.

All the way from Longyou to this Saiwai Dingxiang, the road marched for several months, and even many people fled in the middle, so they had to force and strengthen Ding along the way to supplement a lot.

If it weren't for Chai Shao, Shi Danai and others who also had some skills, this army would not have been able to go here at all.

80,000 Tang troops surrounded Dali City and set up a ten-mile company camp.

The Tang army was very relaxed, camped very casually, and set up tents in a mess, with neither barracks nor trenches, and not even watchtowers.

The camp is lively and noisy, and they are all looking forward to the distribution of food, wine and meat, so they have no heart to rectify it.

Anyway, in their minds, since Jieli had already destroyed the Dingxiang Qin army and slaughtered Dali and Tucheng, there would not be a single enemy army within these hundreds of miles.

In this way, there is naturally no reason to be too vigilant.

Everyone was waiting for a full meal, they were just looking at how much food they could get and how much wine and meat they could get together.

80,000 horses, and in the end, each team was given a stone of millet grain, ten catties of meat, and then a bucket of wine.

The number is not much, but for the Tang army, who has been half-starved and half-starved for many days, it is tempting enough. As soon as they received the food, the teams immediately got busy.

There are some people who are responsible for the corn husk, these millet are shelled, after one stone of corn husk can be left about seven buckets, the average person is more than a liter of corn, but enough for a full meal.

"It's only ten pounds of meat."

"This meat is not good, and it has bones and internal organs."

"Some of them are good to eat, and they still complain. Damn, ten catties of meat are also meat, bring water, stew in a pot, and when the bones, meat and intestines are all stewed, they will all be in the soup, and everyone can be delicious. The team leader said loudly.

So everyone went to collect firewood and grass, and the water was carried by the water, and the stove was dug by the stove, and the rice was not lively.

Sunset.

There was a joyful scene under the city of Dali, as if it was camping on a picnic.

Siye stood at the head of the city, looking at the ten-mile company camp outside the city, "Has Chai Shao entered the city?" ”

"Chai Shao has entered the city with hundreds of officers and personal guards, according to the instructions of the King of Jin, I have arranged them in the backyard of the original county government, prepared enough wine and meat for them, and now they can't wait to start roasting meat by themselves."

"Good."

"King Jin, Chai Shao urged again and again, saying that he wanted to thank you in person."

Si Ye sneered, "What he wants to thank is the Turks. ”

Everything is ready, just wait until it gets dark.