The moon stars are scarce, and the north wind is dry. At night in the desert, the sky is cloudless, and the soft light of the moon illuminates the earth.

On the vast plains, an army of 90,000 men galloped on horseback. Because the distance was only ten miles, it only took a quarter of an hour to ride a horse, so there was no need to deliberately hide anything, so the Tang army swaggered towards the Western Turkic camp on horseback.

In the distance, I could see the Western Turkic camp, and under the moonlight, I could only see sporadic soldiers patrolling back and forth in the camp with torches. I don't know why, seeing such a scene, Cheng Yanjin, Chen Fei and other generals had a bad premonition in their hearts at the same time.

It seems too smooth! Isn't it normal that you didn't even encounter a single enemy scout along the way?

The distance between the two armies is only ten miles, which can be said to be a moment, and the enemy will not even arrange scouts at such a short distance? Is it waiting for them to enter the camp and attack?

"Not good!" Cheng Yanjin immediately reacted that the situation was not right, and immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and the large force of 90,000 people stopped less than 100 meters outside the enemy's camp.

Cheng Yanjin shouted loudly: "Someone! Burn down the enemy camp with oil canisters and thunderbolts, and remember, don't trespass into the camp! ”

"Yes!" A general led several thousand soldiers into the enemy camp and threw oil cans, followed by thunderbolts. The fire spread in an instant in the enemy camp, but there were only a few screams scattered in the enemy camp, and it didn't look like there were many people at all, this was an empty camp! The Western Turks are not in it!

Cheng Yanjin's face sank, and he shouted: "He's really cheating!" Everyone obeyed the order and hurried back to camp! ”

As soon as the army turned around in a chaotic manner, they suddenly heard the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing behind them.

Chen Fei's face turned ugly the moment he heard the voice. If nothing else, they should be besieged outside their camp by an enemy army. And the enemy's camp has just been burned down by them, that is, they have no way to retreat now!

When the Western Turks killed, the Tang army's camp had not yet turned around, and the unstable camp was a taboo for soldiers, and the enemy rushed over under the cover of night, and it was about to get close, and the soldiers of the Tang army began to panic because of the unstable formation and the enemy killed the front.

If the panic cannot be suppressed, the Tang army will be defeated in this war! Cheng Yanjin is worthy of being a veteran of a hundred battles, although the situation is very crisis, he is still very calm and calmly gives orders. "Pass the order, the outermost soldiers throw all the thunderbolts in their hands to Lao Tzu, throw as far as they can, the people behind them adjust the formation as soon as possible, and wait until the outermost people say that the thunderbolts are thrown out, no matter whether the formation is adjusted or not, between five breaths, everyone rushes out to attack Lao Tzu!"

Cheng Yanjin is worthy of a generation of famous generals, stabilized the morale of the army in a very short period of time, and organized soldiers to start counterattacking.

After the explosions of the thunderbolts and explosions stopped, the Tang army did not pay attention to any formation, and rushed up with their weapons.

The Western Turks were also stunned, probably they didn't expect that the Tang army could organize an attack so quickly in the case of a sneak attack, and they were stunned by several rounds of thunderbolts, and before they could react, tens of thousands of Tang troops rushed up towards the weapons, red eyes, and some soldiers took out thunderbolts and threw them into the crowd, after the explosion, there were casualties, and the situation was completely reversed!

Now the formation is unstable and the morale of the army is chaotic, but it has become Western Turkic soldiers. The Tang army, on the other hand, became more and more courageous and soon gained the upper hand.

Once he has the upper hand, Cheng Yanjin can easily organize the soldiers to launch a counterattack.

When the Western Turks finally reacted and were about to suppress the Tang army's counterattack, they were surprised to find that the Tang army, which was originally fighting indiscriminately, had become orderly at this moment, and they couldn't suppress it by relying on their numerical superiority!

Soon, the Tang Army's meat grinder, the Modao Battalion, went into battle, and the three phalanxes of more than 1,000 people were in the shape of a zigzag, covering each other and entering the Western Turkic army.

More than 1,000 people waved their knives regardless of enemy and me, like a terrifying giant beast breaking in, bloodthirsty and devouring life, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of Western Turks were split into pieces.

The most incomprehensible thing about Modao is that no matter how many people you have, no matter how fast you are or standing still, as long as you are entangled by me, you will be waiting to be called a pile of minced meat!

Of course, the Mo Dao Formation also has weaknesses, and it is very afraid of the attack of long-range weapons, but in the middle of the night, the Western Turks did not dare to release arrows wantonly, for fear of hurting their own people, and a few arrows scattered did not affect the attack of the Mo Dao Array at all. Under the cover of the Modao Formation, the Tang Army was in a group of several people, covering each other and fighting together, killing the Western Turks who cried for their fathers and mothers.

Although the Western Turks outnumbered the Tang Army, the Tang Army was several streets behind the Western Turks in terms of weapons and soldiers.

Sometimes the war is not made up by numbers, so the two sides fought for an hour, and under the premise that the Western Turks attacked first, the Tang army gradually grasped the dominant position, and the Western Turks were defeated and retreated.

The Western Turkic Khan knew that it was not a way to go on like this, and the losses were too great for them to bear, so they had to temporarily order the withdrawal of the army, and the Tang army did not rush to pursue, and after confirming that the enemy had really withdrawn, they also withdrew to the camp.

After returning to the camp, the Tang army was surprised, because the camp was full of dead bodies, there were enemies, and there were also their own people, obviously a big war broke out here just now, and it was unthinkable that the Western Turks not only attacked their main force, but also hit their camp with the idea, no wonder the Western Turks could so generously hand over their camp for the Tang army to burn. It turned out that he wanted to attack the east and west, darken Chen Cang, and occupy this oasis!

Fortunately, Cheng Biting Jin is experienced, calmly commanded, and turned defeat into victory, otherwise after the main force was successfully attacked by the Western Turks, they would have transferred manpower to attack the oasis, and it is estimated that it is a bit suspenseful to hold only 10,000 horses here.

According to later statistics, the Tang army lost more than 3,000 soldiers in the two battlefields, more than 1,000 seriously wounded, and more than 5,000 lightly wounded.

The losses were not very heavy, of course, and this was when both sides invested a total of 250,000 troops.

As a matter of fact...... Because Cheng Biting Jin ate this turtle, he lost his temper in the camp tent for a day.

But before he could finish his temper, another not-so-good news came - a batch of their military rations had been robbed!

"Dog's day! Dare to touch Lao Tzu's military rations! Did the Western Turks do it? Cheng Yanjin grabbed the collar of the soldier who came to report the news and sprayed his face.

The soldier said in fear: "No...... No! General, it is not the Western Turks who intercept grain and grass, but ...... It's the Arabs! ”

(End of chapter)