Chapter 884: True and False
Yunzhong County.
At the foot of Wuzhou Mountain.
Jieli Khan was discussing with the generals in the Golden Wolf Tent.
"Where did this cavalry come from?"
Someone asked suspiciously.
"About 8,000 horsemen, looking at their outfits and flags, they are playing the green ox and white horse flag and the black eagle flag, as well as the Luozi general flag, which is estimated to be the Khitan and Kumoxi, the two Xianbei Yuwen mongrels."
The Turks worship wolves and use wolves as totemic banners, while the Khitan use green ox and white horse as totemic banners, which is inseparable from the legend of the Khitans.
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a goddess who lived in the heavenly palace for a long time felt the boring and lonely of the heavenly palace, so she drove the green ox out, from the flat pine forest along the river down the river, it just so happened that an immortal rode a snow-white horse, from the horse Yu Mountain along the earth river to the east of the horse from the reins, the two met and fell in love, gave birth to eight sons, the descendants of the clan gradually flourished, so it became the Khitan eight departments.
Therefore, even if it is no longer the ancient Babu era that it used to be, but in the current era of the Dahe Alliance, the Khitan people still use the green ox and white horse as the flag, whether it is the tribal alliance meeting or the time when the army is sent to fight, they all hold the green ox and white horse flag.
Now that the Qingniu White Horse Banner is here, and there is also the Luo Zi Banner, there is no doubt that it must be the Khitan leader who belonged to Luo Cheng of the Qin State and changed his name to Luo Guozhong.
The full name of the Xi people was Kumo Xi before, and it was referred to as Xi after the Sui Dynasty, and its family name originally meant sand, and its family totem was the desert eagle, a black eagle.
Jieli couldn't help but frown, he didn't quite know where the two of them came from.
"Great Khan, could it be said that Zhao Gui has already captured Zhuo County?"
"Impossible, Gao Kaidao has already led an army of 20,000 to reinforce, not to mention that the Great Khan also gave him 5,000 Turkic warriors, how long has it been, how can it be said that defeat is defeated?" Jieli shook his head.
Zhuojun Huairong is five or six hundred miles away, and the road is full of the Great Wall, mountains, and river valleys, and the road is difficult to travel, so Jieli's information is not timely and accurate.
His information on Zhuojun's side is still stuck in Gao Kaidao, who led the army back from here not long ago, and then, there is no other information.
"Maybe Zhao Gui is besieging Zhuojun, and then let the two thief chieftains of Xi Qi lead a light cavalry to come to the rescue of Yunzhong."
Jieli can only speculate like this, because he really can't believe that Zhao Gui can take down all Zhuojun so quickly, after all, before Gao Kaidao came back to help, Gao Tansheng has held on for a long time, and there is no reason why the army will be defeated all of a sudden.
"Damn, there's no news back." Someone scolded Gao Kaidao.
I have to say that in the current Great Wall War, the intelligence ability of the Turks has indeed exposed its shortcomings, compared to the mature intelligence line of the Qin army, especially the magical means such as their ability to fly pigeons and pass books, Jieli's intelligence ability is average, and they don't even pay much attention to it.
Otherwise, the 5,000 soldiers and horses left behind in Dali City would not have been deceived into raiding, and Jieli would not have waited for Dali to lose ground for several days before he knew the news.
And Liu Wuzhou, Chai Shao, Gao Kaidao, and Liu Heimin, these coalition forces, are not much stronger in this regard.
So this battle, in fact, has been very passive.
Either the intelligence is seriously lagging behind, or some wrong information, and Jieli, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, made a decision based on this true and false information, and if the intelligence is wrong, of course, his decision will be very problematic.
He didn't know that after Dali City lost 5,000 horsemen, Huairong lost another 5,000.
And he didn't know that after Luo Siye defeated Chai Shao, he had gone all the way to the west, and even killed him in Lingzhou, and he also sent 50,000 troops to find and pursue Luo Siye.
As for the 50,000 horses he sent to reinforce Liu Wuzhou, he is still completely unaware of the changes in the situation around Yanmen.
"I also think they came by a detour, and Zhao Gui's main force must still be besieging Zhuojun City."
Based on this determination, Jieli thought that he could first divide his troops to defeat the Qin army that came to the aid of this light cavalry, and at the same time send troops to continue to storm Yunzhong, since he had taken Niupiguan and Heng'an Military Town one after another, it was impossible for the remaining ruined Yunzhong City to hold on.
"Since they're thousands of miles away, let's eat them first!"
Jieli always believed that there were only 8,000 Hu cavalry, without the support of infantry, especially the support of the elite infantry of the Qin army, and the 8,000 light cavalry of Dahe Duluo and Kedu were vulnerable.
After all, even if he divided his troops several times, there were still as many as 80,000 horsemen under Yunzhong City.
Even if it was true that nearly 10,000 people were lost during this period, many of whom fell ill due to the scorching heat, there were still ten times as many light cavalry as the Qin army that came to aid them.
Jieli sent his brother to lead 30,000 horsemen to eat the 8,000 light horsemen.
At this time.
Jieli's other two legions of 50,000 men, one of which was still aimlessly searching for the whereabouts of Luo Siye's main force in the Eilechuan, their rangers found some traces showing that Luo Siye's troops left in two ways after defeating Chai Shao in Dali, one of which went west and one went north.
Based on the study of the traces, they found that the one that went north was more numerous, and the one that went west was slightly less.
In the end, they came to the conclusion that Luo Siye should lead the main force into Wuchuan through Baidao, and then retreat eastward to Fanyang. As for the traces to the west, it was Luo Siye who sent a light cavalry to continue the pursuit and rout of Chai Shao's troops who fled westward.
Until this time, they did not know the specific process and result of the Qin-Tang ambush in Dali City, only knew that the Tang army was defeated here, and did not know that they had been defeated and completely lost their combat effectiveness, and even more than 50,000 people were captured and 3,000 people were beheaded.
Kang Sumi, who commanded the 50,000 Turkic army, thought twice.
"The Great Khan ordered me to lead the army to pursue Luo Siye, since Luo Siye is now fleeing in panic, then no matter how he escapes, I should continue to pursue with the army, and order the whole army to pursue out of the white road."
Someone asked, "What about Simeon?"
"The Great Khan sent someone over before, saying that he had sent an order to the three sets of Desire Valley, Yu She, and Buli, and asked the three of them to lead the 10,000 men of their headquarters to move south to Shengzhou, Fengzhou, and Lingzhou to settle and graze, and they will be handed over there, and we will just go after Luo Heiye."
Kang Sumi led 50,000 horsemen to the north through Dingxiang out of Baidao to cross Wuchuan, and then pursued all the way to the east, but he didn't know that what he was chasing was not the main force of Luo Siye at all, but only the more than 50,000 Chai Shaojun prisoners escorted by Luo Siye's 3,000 troops.
Another 50,000-strong army that went south to Yanmen, led by Jie Suishe, and its 50,000 soldiers and horses went south along the Sanggan River and went south through the White Wolf Fortress, but the Turkic military discipline was too poor and plundered all the way. When passing by Shenwu City, Jie Shishe actually clashed with Gao Manzheng, the guard of Shenwu City under Liu Wuzhou.
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