After Li San'er was set up by the people around him, the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade also began to throw grenades at the Shatuo cavalry who were already close at hand, and after the grenade with an iron shell exploded, the shrapnel flew in all directions, and countless fireballs rose into the air to envelop all the approaching Shatuo cavalry, and Li San'er also took this opportunity to pick up a life.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade in the other two corners of the original inverted triangle also began to move closer to Li San'er's side at this time, and the dense bullets whistled out and headed towards the Shatuo cavalry, which had already begun to be chaotic because of Shi Jianjiao's fall. Moreover, the 2,000 men of the Flying Eagle Brigade in the rear also began to move towards the depth, and the two joined forces to attack the Shatuo cavalry, preparing to rely on the strong combat power and firepower superiority to break the opponent's Chinese army and then blossom in the center.

Li San'er's side successfully shot down Shi Jianjiao, causing chaos in the Shatuo cavalry and began to reverse the tide of the war, and the 1,000 people of the Flying Eagle Brigade who were originally heading west attracted more than 7,000 Shatuo cavalry, but it was very difficult, although the Flying Eagle Brigade killed a lot of Shatuo cavalry in the continuous pursuit of me, but the speed of the Flying Eagle Brigade began to decline and casualties also appeared, if it were not for the grenades being thrown out at a critical juncture, killing and injuring countless people, this thousand people were really dangerous.

However, they have one of the biggest advantages is that they are walking west and getting closer and closer to Shazhou City, so when the Flying Eagle Brigade finally approached the sandbank, the Shatuo cavalry finally discovered this anomaly, and began to turn their horses and prepare to return to join Shi Jianjiao, but the soldiers of this Flying Eagle Brigade obviously knew Li San'er's thoughts, so when the Shatuo cavalry was about to turn their horses' heads, they began to attack forward again, so as to attract the Shatuo cavalry and prevent them from returning to the front line. In this way, the two men were in full swing near the east gate of Shazhou City, and the defenders in the city quickly reported the news to Wang Houchun, who had been supervising the battle in Xicheng. Wang Houchun was taken aback when he heard that there were only 1,000 people left in the Flying Eagle Brigade to retreat to the city gate, and thought that the Flying Eagle Brigade had made the other party's plot, so he hurriedly came to Dongcheng and sent troops out of the city to support the Flying Eagle Brigade, and at the same time, more than a dozen artillery pieces on the east city tower also opened fire quickly at this moment, and the rumbling artillery fire made the Flying Eagle Brigade under the city overjoyed, and after meeting with the reinforcements out of the city, they began to attack the Shatuo cavalry against the trend.

"Where's your captain? Why are there so many people left? Wang Houchun hurriedly found the person in charge of the Flying Eagle Brigade and asked.

"Minister Qiyu, Team Li is fighting against Shi Jianjiao in front, and our Flying Eagle Brigade has 4,000 people to surround the opponent's Shatuo cavalry with 20,000 people, I estimate." Before the person in charge finished speaking, a colorful smoke rocket suddenly rose in the distance, which immediately made everyone thunder with joy, and the colorful rocket represented that the task had been completed.

Wang Houchun nodded and said, "In this case, you can continue to fight." Find a way to entangle them and not let the Shatuo people fall out of the range of artillery, so that you can rely on the city walls and wait for the return of your main force, now there are not many troops in the city and there is no way to give you more support, everything needs to rely on your Flying Eagle Brigade itself. Wang Houchun patted the other party's shoulder and quickly returned to the city. If the Shatuo cavalry is really defeated by the Flying Eagle Brigade, it will inevitably lose its combat effectiveness in such a short period of time, then most of their worries will be relieved, as long as the road in the rear will not be cut off by the light cavalry of the other side, then there will be no problems whether it is Shazhou or the Yizhou front. Then all that remains is to hold on to the sandbar and wait for Wan Yi to lead the army back to help.

And when Wang Houchun's side began to look at Yizhou because of the results of the Flying Eagle Brigade, Wan Yi, the headquarters of the Yizhou Western Expeditionary Army, was also staring at the Uighur military camp that stretched for dozens of miles on the opposite side of the city, and the Uighur coalition army was not fighting against him for a day, and now the eyes of both sides were not in Yizhou, but on the sandbar hundreds of miles away, but unlike the Uighurs who just wanted to hold back the main force of the Tiance army, Wan Yi's side needed to find a way to mobilize the main force south to support the sandbar in order to complete his strategic deployment. And once the troops are discovered or seen by the other party, not only will the siege of the sandbank not be solved, but the remaining troops of the Tiance Army here will also face the attack of the opponent's main force regardless of it.

"Marshal, we have to make a plan as soon as possible, otherwise the sandbar is weak and I am afraid that it will not last long." Gao Siji watched Wan Yi sit in the tent and muttered silently for almost a day, and the entire group army headquarters was suppressed by a dull breath, so he opened his mouth to break the silence, as the deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, he naturally understood what Wan Yi was hesitating and worried about, so he said: "And according to Minister Wang's character, I am afraid that the troops from Suzhou will not be transferred to the sandbank, so if we delay for a moment at this time, it will be more dangerous for the sandbank." ”

"In the past two days, I have come up with a plan that can cooperate with the dark line on the side of the Xuanying Guard, and then we can separate the two Uighurs, and after this battle, we can calmly send the main force south to support the sandbank." Wan Yi pulled Gao Siji and gestured on the map: "From tomorrow onwards, we will start to reduce the foci, and then release the news to the two Uighurs through the dark line, I think they will definitely know what the reduction means, but as long as the two Uighurs operated by Xuan Yingwei will definitely disagree because of this, and then as long as one of them sends troops to come, we will ambush them here, give them a closed door and beat the dogs, after suffering a loss, I think the two Uighurs will definitely not believe each other even more, and will not believe the news we released, At that time, he could send troops to secretly sneak back to Shazhou to assist Houchun in solving Cao Rengui, and then lead the army westward to join Xue Yang's troops in Boxian Town and other places. ”

Wan Yi's strategy is very simple: first set a trap, and then let the dark line walk the news to the two Uighurs, and then create a contradiction in them, the two Uighurs have different ideas, and when the time comes, as long as they operate, they will inevitably attract one of the Uighurs to attack, and the other Uighur will definitely stand by and let the other Uighur find the way for him. In this way, after being ambushed, the two Uighurs will be held back by each other, and the most important thing is that although the method of reducing the focus is not recognized, the Uighurs will definitely not be fooled after being ambushed and then used in the back, so that the Tiance army will be given time to calmly arrange, if the front line is properly operated, then it can even win time to return to reinforcements and defeat Cao Rengui, and then turn back to defeat the Uighurs in a battle, and completely eliminate the living forces of the hostile forces in the Anxi region.

"Since the commander has decided, I will immediately go to Xuan Yingwei to arrange it, and notify the departments to reduce the stove by 30% from tonight, so that the strategy of the commander will be implemented as soon as tomorrow." Gao Siji also thought that it was feasible after thinking about Wan Yi's strategy repeatedly, so he nodded and immediately went to Liu Xuan, the chief of staff, and then began to arrange. The arrangement of the reduction method is very simple, after reducing the original cooking stove, only need to arrange some soldiers to stagger the meal time, and in order to hide people's eyes, Gao Siji secretly ordered some troops not to leave the camp during meal time, so that those scouts who came close to reconnoiter could not find anything unusual.

After Gao Siji and Liu Xuan had completed the arrangement, Wan Yi had already explained that Xuan Yingwei's secret guard was going for a walk and sent the news to Shi Congxin, and agreed on several secret locations to facilitate Shi Congxin to obtain the letter from the Uighur commander at a critical moment, so soon after this arrangement, Shi Congxin reported this discovery to Li Cunqiao and the Uighur commanders the next day.

The method of reducing the stove is recorded in great detail in the military books of the Central Plains, and both Sun Bin and Sima Sui Tho are the personal users of the method of reducing the stove, and the Uighurs may not know the allusions in it, but Li Cunqing, who lived in the Central Plains, understands what is going on. Therefore, after hearing Shi Congxin's report, he immediately sent secret men to reconnoiter in close proximity, and at the same time participated in an emergency meeting convened by the two Uighur commanders.

The commander of the Anxi Uighurs was the Uighur general Jiamu, who was a member of the Uighur royal line, but he was also a veteran general who could conquer and fight habitually, so after hearing the reports of Li Cunqiao and Shi Congxin, after thinking about it for a while, he felt that there seemed to be something wrong with it, and the method of reducing the focus was generally used to confuse the opponent and set up an ambush to defeat the opponent.

But he understood that this did not mean that the Uighurs of Gaochang were willing to believe it. After Li Cunmiao explained the allusion of the reduction method, Prince Halle, the general of the Uighur army of Gaochang at this time, had his own considerations, the Uighurs of Gaochang had lost nearly 100,000 troops in the Battle of Shazhou before, and the life and death of Prince Qibi Heli, the former commander of the army, was still unknown, which had made the Uighur Khan of Gaochang angry, so he was under great pressure at the moment. And he was not used to the Anxi Uighur general sitting next to him. In his opinion, all the people of the Anxi Uighurs were nothing, and the same group of traitors who had not been bullied by themselves in the past few years had just begun to show off their might in front of their royal lineage after turning over in the past few years. So after Jia Mu opened his mouth, he immediately retorted: "The Han people have been known for their treachery since ancient times, Jia Mu, how do you know that they are either doing the opposite, or they want to use this trick to paralyze us, so as to transfer troops to support Cao Rengui under our noses?" "I have to say that Prince Halle also has a long understanding of the Han people, not only can he say the allusion of "doing the opposite", but also knows the method of reducing the stove, in fact, combined with the current situation between the enemy and us, if the Tiance army really did not use the method of reducing the stove to confuse themselves, wouldn't it be just to give the other party time and let go of such a good opportunity in vain?

Li Cunmiao nodded at Prince Halle's words, originally he felt that the Tiance Army had expected that it would be easy for people on his side to understand the allusions to the Reduction Method, so it was obvious that the Reduction Method would be used in reverse, so as to make himself stagnant and buy time for himself.

Shi Congxin originally thought of persuading Prince Halle, but what he didn't expect was that Li Cunqiao actually said everything he wanted to say, and he was suddenly surprised. You must know that compared to Jiamu, in fact, Haller is easier to convince, Jiamu is a veteran general who leads troops to fight all year round, and has a battlefield intuition. But Prince Haller is different, although he has also been on the battlefield, but it was many years ago, and this time it would not have been possible for Prince Qibi Heli to go into battle in person.

Li Cunmiao's words made Haller nod his head, Li Cunmiao has been committed to building good relations with the Uighur high-level in these years since he brought the Shatuo people to the territory of the Uighurs in Gaochang, so that the tribe can have a chance to recuperate, and the Uighurs have indeed been very good to the Shatuo people in these years, not only helping them find the tribesmen who were separated in Luntai in the early years, so that the more than 30,000 Shatuo cavalry who came with him to the west have a foundation, but also often funding the Shatuo people, Li Cunqiao was able to tide over the difficulties really relied on the support of Hale and a group of Gaochang Uighur royal families.

"Prince Halle, General Jiamu, don't quarrel with the two, I don't think it's as good as us, send an elite main force to attack the other side tonight, if the strength of the Tiance Army is really reduced, I think we can still feel it, and then we will naturally be able to distinguish the true from the false." Seeing that the two sides were arguing more and more, Shi Congxin hurriedly stood up and said what he had already thought in his heart. However, his words obviously did not stop the quarrel, because the Tiance army had as many as 200,000 troops here, even if the other party really secretly reduced the troops in front, how could a mere army be able to detect it? If the other side really didn't reduce its troops, wouldn't this soldier and horse be sent to death in vain?

However, although Shi Congxin's method is not feasible, it makes everyone present feel that this is not a good way, although Jiamu insists that there is fraud in this, but it doesn't hurt to give it a try, but how many troops need to be eliminated makes him feel a headache, you must know that the Yizhou front line plus Khotan's 30,000 horses are only more than 300,000 and less than 400,000 horses, how many people are useful?

"Do you want to let the Khotanese go up?" Prince Halle stared at Li Cunmiao, who proposed, and shook his head, at the same time, Jiamu was also not interested in this proposal, in the northwest, the Khotanese people are the tribe closest to the Tang Dynasty, let them go up, in case they surrender directly on the battlefield, wouldn't it be a meat bun and a dog to fight and have no return? Besides, 30,000 people to test the 200,000 army, even if the Khotanese people are fine, they can't test the depth.

"Why don't you Anxi Uighurs send troops? Anyway, the occupation of the sandbar by the Tiance Army poses the greatest threat to you, and it is time for you to help. Prince Halle's eyes rolled and he suddenly thought of a good idea, and immediately turned his head to Jiamu and said with a smile. At this moment, Jiamu directly felt that this old guy must be cheating himself, and now he wanted to let himself die without being sure whether the other party had an ambush, this success is still the old guy's command, and the loss of failure is his own strength, so Jiamu ignored Halle's proposal at all.

The dispute between Halle and Jiamu made Shi Congxin feel bad, this was out of his expectations, and it was not in line with the instructions from the Tiance Army, but before he could figure out any way to turn the situation around, he hurriedly walked in outside the tent with the guards and a few scouts sent by himself.

"Qi Qi several commanders, subordinates were ordered to reconnoiter the Tiance Army camp, and there is important intelligence to report." The scout knelt down on one knee and reported: "The auxiliary army in the camp of the Tiance Army has been reduced by about 30%, and there are a large number of footprints and horseshoe prints in the southern direction of the rear army. ”

The scout's words surprised everyone, and didn't cleaning up the footprints and sending troops on a breakout mission mean that the other side had already started to act?

"Have you scouts been captured besides you?" Prince Halle asked directly, his voice was a little trembling, no way, if the other party didn't notice that he had gotten the news on his side, then he could directly hit the Tiance army by surprise, on the contrary, the other party could really ambush and beat himself in an urn to catch turtles.

The scout shook his head and said, "I'm waiting for three people on this trip, the other two are responsible for answering, and I'm in charge of investigation, and no one of the three of them has been arrested." ”

"Okay, great, boy, you have done a great job, guard, reward him with a platinum coin and ten cows." Prince Haller laughed, waved his hand and asked the guards to take the scout down to receive the reward, and said with a smile: "Jiamu, you should believe it now, right?" But if you don't believe it, when I defeat the Tiance army, you Anxi Uighurs don't think about getting a piece of the pie. After finishing speaking, he strode away with Li Cunqiao and the others.

"General, do we need to send troops to accompany Prince Halle and them?" As soon as Haller and the others left, several generals beside Jiamu got up and asked.

"No need, let's go down and guard our own defenses." Jiamu waved his hand, although he also believed that what the scout saw was true, but he always felt that there was something wrong with this, and since Haller had already said that kind of thing, he had no way to send troops to go with him, and the face of the Anxi Uighurs did not allow him to do so.