The Rouran people did not grow up eating dry food, when the beggar army was completely annihilated by Xue Andu and Su Ji, the Rouran people closest to the camp of the beggar group realized that something was wrong, this Rouran army was sixty miles away from the location of Xue Andu and Su Ji's annihilation of the beggar group, in the direction of due north.

According to the deployment of Rouran Khan Tuhezhen, the armies of each department must contact at least twice a day, and any action must be notified to the two adjacent divisions in advance to ensure that one of the men and horses is in trouble, and the two adjacent groups can receive the news soon, if they do not receive a messenger from the two adjacent departments to report their safety within the specified time, it means that something must have happened to this group.

Sixty miles to the north, the commander of the Rouran army, the commander of the other tribes, Ku Renzhi, according to his agreement with the beggars, when the sun rose and was in the middle of the horizon and overhead, the messengers of both sides were to arrive at each other's camps to report their safety, that is, at the right time.

But at six o'clock, before Kurenzhi could wait for the messenger sent by the beggar return, he became suspicious in his heart, and immediately sent someone to report to the khan Tuhezhen, and at the same time ordered his 10,000 Rouran cavalry to quickly leave the place.

Sure enough, only an hour after Kuren led his troops to leave the same place, Xue Andu and Su Ji arrived with a large army, and they pounced.

Kurenzhi's army was gone, leaving behind a large amount of waste, such as worn blankets and skins, some half-burned branches and sticks, a large number of horseshoe prints, cattle and sheep footprints, and a lot of animal dung.

The spies were only a quarter of an hour ahead of the main army, and they were not able to catch up with Kurenzhi and his large group of men and horses to evacuate.

Xu Li, the head of the scouts, rode over from the camp of the Rouran people, "General, when the villain arrived with his brothers, the Rouran people had already left, but they had not been away for a long time, judging from the freshness of the feces left by the livestock, they had only left for about a moment before the villain and his brothers arrived, and it was only two moments away from this time, and the villain had already sent someone to track him down!" ”

Xue Andu looked at the messy camp left behind by the Rouran people, and he said: "When the outer guard post caught that Rouran messenger, I knew that something bad might happen, but I didn't expect this Ku Renzhi to be so shrewd and cunning, the messenger didn't arrive at the specified time and immediately led the troops to evacuate the place after only two moments, this Ku Renzhi is a little slippery!" Su Ji, where do you think our army should go now? ”

Su Ji thought for a while, clenched his fists and said: "General, we now have three choices: first, it has only been two moments since Ku Renzhi's men and horses have withdrawn from this place, if our army pursues, it is possible to catch up with them, and Xu Bingtou has already sent people to track them in advance, so we will not take a detour; secondly, to set up camp here for the soldiers to rest, and to send a messenger back to the camp to report the matter to Your Majesty, and ask Your Majesty to give a decree on the next step; Thirdly, we immediately withdrew the battalion to join the main forces! ”

Xue Andu nodded and asked, "If it were up to you to decide, which one would you choose?" ”

Su Ji weighed it in his heart, clenched his fists and said, "The third one will be chosen!" ”

"Tell me your reasons!"

"No! If it is in normal times, the soldiers are still young, full of blood and energy, even if they stay up for a few days and nights without sleeping, it is fine, but the march and combat are different, both a lot of energy is consumed, and energy is also consumed, especially the soldiers have already fought a battle in the early morning, and now they have only hurriedly rested for less than half an hour before they have gone out to march again, whether it is a war horse or a person, the spirit and strength are too much to lose, and they have not recovered, even if they barely catch up with Ku Renzhi's men and horses, if he turns around and comes back to fight with us, Even if we have an advantage in troops, I am afraid that we will suffer a big loss! ”

"There is also a possibility that Kuren Zhi has been hanging on us, neither turning around to engage us nor throwing us off, he will drag us down! So, that's why the last general didn't choose the first one! ”

"Let's talk about the second option, this place is about one hundred and twenty or thirty miles away from the camp, and the messenger has to run two hundred and fifty or sixty miles every time he goes, even if he keeps changing horses on the way, it will take at least a day, such a long time is enough for the Rouran people to concentrate their forces to encircle and annihilate us!"

"The third option is the safest, the soldiers are already sleepy, even if they barely continue to fight, their combat strength is only seventy or eighty. Now only Kuren Zhi should know that we divided our troops to attack the Qilie Guibu, and Rouran Khan Tuhe Zhen should not know yet, before Tuga Zhen reacts and sends troops to arrive, we still have enough time to withdraw to the main camp and join the main army, as long as we return to the main camp, it will be safe! If we continue to stay here, this is tantamount to leaving a flaw for the Rouran people, and when Tuga Zhen gets the news, he can immediately order all the troops to pounce on us like wolves and bite us, and divide us up, and during this period, His Majesty's side simply does not have enough time to come to the rescue! ”

After Xue Andu listened to it, he didn't make a sound, and after a cup of tea, he sighed: "Su Ji, you are indeed very talented in marching and fighting, and it is really commendable to be able to consider so much in such a short period of time, much stronger than those little cubs in my family!" ”

Su Ji modestly clenched his fists: "The general praised it falsely!" ”

"No, it's not a compliment, it's a fact! You're saying it well, but ······ If you just want to be a general, your current talent is enough, but if you want to be a handsome talent who can stand alone, you have to think more! Don't forget, Your Majesty's order to us is to take down Qiliegui and Kurenzhi one after another! The beggar has been killed by us, but Kurenzhi has run away, although something happened in the middle of this, but this cannot be a reason for the commander of the army to give up and continue to carry out the order! How can we pay the order to Your Majesty when we go back like this? When Your Majesty asked, should we say: 'Your Majesty, there was an accident on the way, Ku Renzhi was too cunning, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he led his troops to run away, and the brothers were sleepy and lacking horses, and the ministers were worried that they would be besieged by the Rouran army, so they brought people back.' Your Majesty originally asked us to solve the trouble, but we are better to bring the trouble back to Your Majesty! What will Your Majesty and other ministers of civil and military affairs think of us? The responsibility of the courtiers is to share the worries for His Majesty, if His Majesty is allowed to share the worries for the courtiers, what else does the court want us to do? ”

Su Ji was speechless on the spot when he heard Xue Andu's words, he was so ashamed that he was ashamed, and he hugged his fists and said: "It's still the general who can see far, and the last general can't shoot the horse!" ”

Xue Andu waved his hand, and his thoughts seemed to be flying.

Su Ji waited for a moment and asked, "General, then what should we do next?" Do you want to choose the first one? ”

Xue Andu thought for a while, his eyes became firm, and he seemed to have an idea, he shook his head and said, "No, it is not a wise move to pursue a cavalry army with full combat strength with a tired army!" Send more scout sentries to catch up with the scout brothers who have already tracked the past, and make sure that Kurenzhi and his men are in our sights, this is the first step! Second, immediately send a dozen small groups of cavalry to search the net within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, I am sure that Ku Renzhi must have hidden a sentry in this vicinity, and his sentry must be watching our movements! Third, let the soldiers dismount and rest for half an hour! Tell the cavalry officers and soldiers who went to search the enemy's secret posts that they should not only move quickly, but also be careful and meticulous, and not let go of anything suspicious, they only have half an hour! ”

"No!"

Two scout sentry teams were sent out to track in the direction of the withdrawal of Kurenzhi's army, to reinforce the brothers who had already tracked them down.

Fifteen elite cavalry squads spread out in all directions, and quickly and carefully began to carry out a dragnet search, in fact, the secret post left by Ku Renzhi was hidden near here, because they wanted to observe the soldiers and horses of the cadres nearby, and they could only clearly observe the situation of the cadres by hiding nearby.

In less than a moment, two groups of Rouran sentry cavalry were searched out one after another, these Rouran sentry horses were hiding in the dark to observe, who would have thought that the cadre army would send a large number of cavalry squads to search, this time they could not hide, and the number was small, they would definitely not be able to fight, they could only escape, but they were rounded up faster.

During the roundup, four of the Rouran Sentinels were captured, and the others were killed for escaping or resisting.

Su Ji immediately found someone to interrogate a few Rouran sentinels who were caught, due to the urgency of time, he had to use cruel means during the interrogation, and the Rouran sentinels couldn't stand the torture, they couldn't die if they wanted to, and they couldn't live if they wanted to, so they could only tell what they knew.

Su Ji immediately reported to Xue Andu: "General, the trial has come out, and three of these four Rouran Sentinels said that Ku Renzhi might lead the army to retreat to the foothills of the western section of Junji Mountain fifty miles away!" ”

Xue Andu thought for a moment and immediately ordered: "Execute those Rouran captives!" Send someone to report to Your Majesty, and say that our department has annihilated the Beggar Gui Ministry, but there was an accident on the way to raid the Kuren Zhibu and was discovered by Kuren Zhi in advance and led the troops to escape, please rest assured that Your Majesty will solve the Kuren Zhibu and then return to Your Majesty! ”

"No!" Su Ji clenched his fists in agreement, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then ······ My ministry is now ······"

"Pass the order, the army will return the way it came, and go back to the location where we annihilated the beggar return department and hide!"

Su Ji was stunned for a moment, then showed admiration on his face, and hugged his fists and said: "Ku Renzhi must have sent someone to report to Tuhe Zhen at this time!" The Rouran would never have imagined that we would return there, and their spies would never find any trace of us! If the general of the Toga Zhen faction led the troops to check, our army just set up an ambush and waited for the Rouran people to send them to the door, and the general's soldiers were really unpredictable! ”