After a day's journey, I only walked more than 30 miles, first, the road was difficult to walk, and secondly, I walked slowly, and camped after dark, after all, the grassland night was really cold and horses could not stand it.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, Li Jingbing sent Shuofang, with Xue Wanche and Xue Wanjun two brothers, Li Junxian, the general of the Left Guard, led 100,000 troops for the Chinese army, including 30,000 cavalry, Zhang Gongjin led the original Shuofang men and horses as the rear army, stationed on the Shuofang border, and responded to the front.

Li Ji, Chai Shao sent troops to Youzhou with 50,000 troops, including 40,000 cavalry, detoured to surround the Turks, and his subordinates had Cheng Biting Jin, Xue Rengui, and Li Xiaogong led the original border army as the rear army.

Li Daozong, Hou Junji sent troops to Yunzhong, sent 50,000 troops, only 15,000 cavalry, generals have Wei Chi Gong, Duan Zhixuan, Liu Hongji, and Changsun Shunde led the border army as the rear army.

This time, there were 200,000 soldiers from the 12 guards, and more than 80,000 border troops, but fortunately, Shuofang traded with the previous wars, and the Tang Dynasty formed nearly 100,000 cavalry, the richest is Shuofang, Feng Daiwen took away 20,000 war horses, and Zhang Gongjin was able to bring out 10,000 cavalry, but the war horses were collected by Li Jing. Li Shimin also tried his best, and even sent out Duan Zhixuan, the commander of his Xuanjia Army.

Li Jing would receive reports from other people every day, and he would constantly tell others about his location, and the only thing that had no news was Su Dingfang's 3,000 cavalry.

"See the Grand Steward! General Feng Daiwen came with news from the front: "Xue Wanjun entered the big tent and saluted Li Jing.

"No courtesy," Li Jing took the secret letter and checked the fire paint, motioned for Xue Wanjun to sit, and opened the letter himself. Quickly handed the secret letter to Tang Jian, the commander of the marching army, and said to everyone: "I just received the news that General Feng Daiwen in front is approaching the big Turkic tribes, and there may be a big war at any time, what do you think?" ”

This expedition is the largest expedition to the Central Plains since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an Xun nobles are trying to send the descendants of the family into the army, Li Jing also has the heart to carry the eldest grandson Wuji's son Changsun Chong, after the last time he lost face, he wanted to prove himself, begged to enter the army and wanted to do something, as well as Du Ruhui's son Du Wei, Fang Xuanling's son Fang Zhizhi, Qu Tuquan, Wei Zheng's son Wei Shuyu, this is all allowed by Li Shimin to acquiesce, after all, it is still necessary to cultivate the next generation.

Several people looked at each other and said first: "Back to the general manager, the lower official thinks that the march should be accelerated, so as not to break through the front army too quickly and get out of touch with the Chinese army," In fact, this is also Changsun Chong's cleverness, clearly saying that he wants to speed up, which potentially means that Feng Daiwen is greedy for merit and rushes too fast.

Li Jing didn't speak and looked at the other people, and several people agreed with what Changsun Chong said, and they all wanted to hurry up so that the Turks would not be killed.

"The last general thinks that the cavalry can be sent first, first, to meet the front army, and second, to join the battlefield at any time." Qu Tuquan said.

"The lower officials don't know anything about the military, so they don't dare to speculate." Finally, Wei Shuyu said.

After several people had said it, Li Jing said noncommittally: "What you said is very reasonable, the surprise attack of the front army, the important thing is to be fast, so this commander ordered, Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun led the cavalry to immediately set off with this officer, the infantry army was led by Li Junxian, and the others left to assist, all military affairs were arranged by General Li, and other affairs were taken care of by Tang Changshi." ”

At the same time, Li Ji also left Chai Shao to lead the infantry army, and he took 40,000 cavalry first. The only exception is Li Daozong who sent troops to the clouds, to fight in the clouds, first of all, to fight Dingxiang, this Dingxiang City to talk about but the child has no mother to say that it is a long story, the current Dingxiang is also called the Sui Dynasty, is the grandson of Yang Guang, the emperor of Sui, the widow of Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, a child who is just 10 years old was established as the king of Sui.

In the second year of Wude, Dou Jiande defeated Yu Wenhua, and Yang Zhengdao and his grandmother, Emperor Yang of Sui, Xiao Shi (Empress Xiao) fell into the hands of Dou Jiande. In April of the same year, Dou Jiande named Yang Zhengdao as the Duke of Yun.

In February of the third year of Wude, Luo Khan, the Eastern Turk Khan, sent an envoy to Dou Jiande, welcomed Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao to the Eastern Turks, supported Yang Zhengdao as the king of Sui, and allocated all the officials and people of the Central Plains who remained in the Eastern Turks to Yang Zhengdao to govern and restore the "Great Sui" regime.

In fact, the Turks did not have a little good intentions in supporting the independence of the Central Plains regime, firstly, to make the Central Plains not calm, and secondly, to have a gateway to invade the Central Plains at any time.

Jieli was not at ease after becoming a khan, although he did not cancel the title of King of Sui, but he also brought Yang Zhengdao and Empress Xiao to the royal court, and took care of Xiao Wang in the name of beauty.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, Feng Daiwen, who was anxious, finally received the news of the horse exploration and found the traces of Tuli, "How many people are there?" Can you find a pursuer in the back? Feng Daiwen asked happily.

"General Hui, in front is the Turki Khan's Daxu, there are two or three thousand men, and there are more than 50,000 pursuers ten miles behind," Tan Ma Hui reported.

"Three thousand, fifty thousand," Feng Daiwen muttered to himself, turned back and asked the others around him, "What do you think?" ”

Li Zhengbao said: "General, there are too many enemies, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight, if one is not good, we will startle the snake, we can't continue, it's better to go around and fight directly." ”

"What about you? Whatever you think, talk about it. Feng Daiwen disagreed. There is no objection to asking others again.

"Fight, it's only 50,000 people, what are you afraid of, yes yes is just killing a lot today." Cheng Chumo said excitedly.

"Nonsense, how much can you kill alone? You definitely have to fight, but you have to think about how you want to fight. Yu Chi Baolin glanced at Cheng Chumo and said.

Qin Huaiyu looked around and said: "The terrain here is too flat, you can find it in a few miles, it is better to quickly eat Tuli after the hill in front of the troops, and then deal with the chasing soldiers behind." ”

Feng Daiwen said appreciatively: "Brother Qin is right, we are the vanguard, in order to raid Jieli, there is absolutely no reason to avoid it, defeat this wave of chasing soldiers, and rush to raid before them." ”

Feng Daiwen explained to a few people and continued: "Just put down a pocket behind the big hill in front, and wait for Tuli to jump in, it is best to force down, if you can't kill them all, not one will be left,"

After coming to the hill, Feng Daiwen ordered: "Qin Huaiyu, you will take three thousand cavalry, lie in ambush behind the small hill over there, and wait for us to kill immediately under the anxiety of the Turkic pursuers,"

"The last general obeys!" Qin Huaiyu agreed to lead someone to ambush.

"Chen Xiong, Chen Hu, you take 5,000 infantry to set up a shield formation, if the Turks attack, give me a dead resistance, if the Turks run, advance forward," Feng Daiwen continued to order.

"Well, the last general understands," Feng Daiwen said that the shield array is the big shield in front, the middle of the shield is Rulin's spear, and the back is the crossbowman suppression.

"Xi Junmai, Xin Lu'er, Cheng Chubi led 5,000 cavalry to break in on the left, Feng Daihuo, Cheng Chumo, Wei Chi Baolin led 5,000 cavalry to advance on the right, Zhang Shanfeng, Li Zhengbao led 3,000 cavalry to go around, Ben will take the last 2,000 people to delay, give him a ten-sided ambush, we are less than the first to shoot arrows in the rush, don't be reckless, one person with more than 1,000 people, don't be alone." After instructing, Feng Daiwen told again and again.

"The general can rest assured," a group of young people are newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers, and their eyes are full of excitement.