"Jito, why did your army withdraw first on the battlefield without my orders?" Tuoba Shi Shu said with a gloomy face at this time, staring at an army leader in front of him who was disheveled and had blood stains faintly stained between his armor.

"The short sticks used by the Han people on the other side are very sharp, and my warriors have lost more than half of them before they have even come into contact with them, and when they finally want to catch up with these Han people in hand-to-hand combat, these Han people flee away on horseback. The order I received before the military first battle was to contain the Han army, so I naturally wanted to continue the pursuit with my warriors, and when we reorganized our formation and launched a pursuit, those Han people would use the kind of fiery short sticks to shoot down our warriors one after another. We couldn't get close to the Han people throughout the battle, and the bows and arrows we carried couldn't shoot through the armor worn by the Han people. Therefore, in desperation, my army can only retreat first and rest before continuing to fight, otherwise I am afraid that there will be a rout in the pursuit of those Han Chinese. The leader named Jito also did not back down at this time, and said to Tuoba Shishu.

Jito himself was a force loyal to Shibi Khan, and although Shibi Khan was ill these days, he handed over the command of his army in public to the non-nonsense Tuoba Shishu in front of him. However, Jito was keenly aware that Tuoba Shishu seemed to be planning something very unfavorable to Shibi Khan with someone, so at this time, he held a trace of preserving the strength of his subordinates on the battlefield, in order to protect the safety of Shibi Khan in the turmoil that might occur in the near future. So they exaggerated a little bit about the situation their own army, but the situation they encountered was real.

Li Wenyuan had a headache for a while in the face of the problem of how to deal with the Turkic cavalry, but later, inspired by the method of cavalry warfare mentioned in the graduation thesis of an officer in the military academy, he finally remembered the most effective combat method of cavalry after the invention of the musket. In fact, to put it bluntly, this combat method is the same as the traditional combat method of the cavalry archers, which is to harass and kill the enemy with the bow and arrow in his hand when he keeps a certain distance from the enemy; When the enemy is angry and chasing, it can use the horse's high-speed maneuverability to always maintain a distance from the enemy that can only be killed with bows and arrows, and then destroy the enemy in constant motion, and finally let the pursuing enemy suffer casualties and rout on his own. The method proposed by this cadet was nothing more than replacing the bows of the cavalry with muskets, and after this method proved to be indeed effective, it was quickly popularized among the Western Regions army, and at this time, Li Wenyuan's army on the Western Front was able to defeat the cavalry of the Western Turks head-on, and they all relied on this ranger combat method.

"Nonsense! I can see clearly in the rear formations that your army has suffered only a few hundred casualties. How can there be any claim that more than half of the damage is made? This is obviously an excuse for you to escape from your cowardice and avoidance behavior! Tuoba Shi Shu pointed to Jito in front of him and said angrily.

"Things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and as a general in it, I naturally know what I should do when and when, and it is not your turn to teach me how to fight a war from a foreigner who only knows how to point fingers by the khan's side." Jito raised his chin and said proudly to Tuoba Shishu.

"Good, good, good." Tuoba Shi Shu said a few good words in succession with an angry backlaugh, and then said to Jito: "Do you know that your retreat has caused the entire flank of the army to be exposed to the threat of those Han Chinese! Thousands of warriors of the steppe died in vain because of the choices you made that you supposedly knew about the battlefield situation! That's what you say, know what to do when and when? Then you may have some strange misunderstanding of this sentence. ”

"My army is completely acting according to your orders, but now facing such heavy casualties, it can only mean that your orders are wrong, it is you who have arranged a mission for my troops to die, and as their military commander, I have the right to refuse to carry out this irrational mission of yours for the sake of their lives." Jito still said lukewarmly to Tuoba Shishu.

"Jito, don't think that Lord Khan takes a fancy to you and relies on you, so you have to be proud of your achievements! Do you know that my Turks have always been like military orders, and your current behavior is a blatant disobedience to military orders, so I have every right to deal with you accordingly. You must know that the Khan himself has now given me full authority to command the army to Tuoba Shishu, then that means that from that day on, all of you will fight according to my arrangement. What I say is a military order! Since it is a military order, you must obey it! Before Tuoba Shishu's words were finished, Jito interrupted him directly:

"Shit! Tuoba Shishu, you don't want to use chicken feathers as arrows, okay. You're thinking about what you can hide from others, but you can't hide it from me. Today, since you are here to deal with me on those trumped-up charges, then I would like to ask you, what kind of disease has the Khan had for so long, and he has not asked about the military for so long, and has completely entrusted you with a foreigner? ”

"What disease does Khan have? You incompetent shitty people still have the face to ask me? If it weren't for your incompetence in the fierce battle under the Great Wall, and if you were repeatedly repelled by those Han people, how could the Khan have fainted in a moment of anger and vomited blood in public? Now you come to me again and ask what disease Khan has. Well, I'll tell you: Khan has a heart disease! It's a heart disease that is angry with you people who only know how to be greedy for pleasure and useless on the battlefield! Now the Khan's physician told me that the Khan needed to recuperate from this illness, so the Khan entrusted me with all the military and political affairs. Let me exercise the rights of the Khan in his place, including, of course, the power of life and death over you. I would like to reiterate here today that the main purpose of Shibi Khan's act of giving me the power of the Khan to Tuoba Shishu is to hope that I will complete my revenge on Li Wenyuan in the Western Regions on his behalf. The Khan has told me to do whatever it takes to win this battle, so I hope you will do whatever it takes. As for you, Gito, who openly disobeyed the military order, withdrew from the battlefield without permission, and caused thousands of warriors to die on the battlefield in vain. You have an inescapable responsibility for both public and private purposes, so now I judge you for withdrawing your troops from the battlefield without permission, disobeying military orders, and punishing you by beheading in accordance with our Turkic military law. ”

(End of chapter)