Yang Chong and Liu Heimin's army was advancing towards Wuzhong County, Yang Chong looked at the rolling eastward flow of the Lu River, and sighed with infinite emotion; He checked the information of Zhuo County, in the eleventh year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao dug the Pingyu Canal and the Quanzhou Canal in Wuzhong County in order to conquer Wuhuan in the north, connected the Lu River and Gushui into a piece, transported military supplies through waterways, and opened up the first military transport route from the Central Plains to the inside and outside of the Great Wall, which was used for material exchanges between the north and the south in peacetime.

Wuzhong County is the junction of Yuyang, Beiping and Liaoxi, because the merchants of the Khitan and other ethnic groups in the northeast, Goguryeo, and Turkic all bought and sold from here, and an inconspicuous city with the rise of the bazaar, the flow of goods flowed. According to the report of the meticulous work, rice, silk and bamboo, tea and sugar in the south of the Yangtze River, ploughing cattle, war horses, leather, and medicinal materials in the north of the country, and fish, salt, iron, jujube, chestnut, and silk cloth in the Bohai Bay are all available in the market.

The Turkic Wolf Army led 30,000 Turkic wolf troops into Wuzhong County, not necessarily to help Li Shimin fight against Yang Chong, but more likely to occupy this feng shui treasure, strengthen his own power, and control the trade and lifeblood of the various ethnic groups in the Northeast in his own hands. There have been no major wars in Liaodong for many years, and the population has grown rapidly, with a population of up to 200,000 led by the seven tribes of the Yao, and a total of 140,000 people from the five tribes of the Xi tribe that have established an alliance; Although the northern and southern Murwei, Baifei, and Khitan were scattered, there were more than 100,000 people each.

Goguryeo can confront the Great Sui, and it is inseparable from the secret support of these Hu people, and the reason why Tuli wants to gamble is that he has a fancy for the broad prospects, and the bet is small and the harvest is high. It's just that the battle of martial arts impressed Tuli too deeply, so he didn't dare to go too deep into the Central Plains, even if he was beaten by Su Dingfang, he was still entrenched in Wuzhong County, being a turtle with a shrunken head, forcing Yang Chong to send troops.

In order to fight this battle well and prevent the accident of the sudden intervention of other Hu tribes, Yang Chong asked the Thunderbolt Battalion to bring all the Tianlei airships, no matter how critical the Yuyang War was, Yang Chong did not let the Hubu Battalion bring a little explosives. Tianqi looked at the Yellow Cliff Pass on the East Mountain in the distance, and reminded Yang Chong: "Family master, the wind direction is good, otherwise release four airships first." ”

Liu Heimin was the first to agree, since he knew that the airship had a set of flags to tell the enemy of the army, Liu Heimin couldn't wait for the airship to open the way every day on the march, but it was only because he knew that the airship had a problem with the direction of the wind, so Liu Heimin did not ask for the command of this team. Yang Chong nodded, and Tianjian immediately released four airships, scattered in the sky, reconnoitring the enemy situation around Dongshan, watching the airships slowly fly downwind, and the scouts below accelerated their marching speed so that they could report in time.

Dongshan, Xishan like a huge iron tongs, the Luhe waist locked, the Northern Qi Dynasty built a small castle, very suitable for the garrison, Tuli not only sent two thousand crossbowmen in the castle, but also set up a small village on the top of the East Mountain, prepared a large number of rolling wood stones, placed five hundred elite soldiers. It's not that Tuli doesn't want to put a few more people on it, but the top of the mountain is too narrow, or the five hundred people seem to be full.

Tuli himself, with 20,000 cavalry behind Dongshan, as long as the 15,000 Xi army in the mountains and forests moves, the Turkic cavalry will be killed from the mountain road in the shortest possible time, giving the Sui army a powerful look. The association rate suddenly let out a low cry, and four huge monsters floated in the sky, colorful, startling flocks of birds flying on the mountains in the distance; Tuli frowned, it was the ambush point of the Xi army, it must have been the Xi people who panicked and alarmed the birds.

Tianqi and the others looked at the chaos above the mountain, and sighed in their hearts, it is common knowledge for the birds to fly at night, and now it can only mean that there are people on the mountain, and there are a large number of people. If the Hexi army has no allies in this area, then it must be an enemy, Tianjian looked at the banner and explained word by word: "There is a camp on the top of the mountain, a castle on the mountainside, there are about 10,000 people in the woods, and there are 20,000 cavalry behind the mountain road." ”

is so clear, Liu Heimin and the others were stunned, so what else do you want scouts to do? They all raised their binoculars to watch, but in the distance, they didn't find anything except the mountains and forests. Hao Ying said leisurely: "Ten thousand people, it is definitely not a bandit and a hunter and a ginseng picker, you should order the troops to stop advancing and prepare for battle." ”

Yang Chong sneered and said, "Release all the airships, use the heavenly thunder and fat water, and set that mountain forest on fire." ”

Liu Heimin agrees with this style of play, as long as more than 30,000 people are annihilated, it is a big deal to pat his ass and return to Beiping, it is just a matter of 200 miles. For the sake of insurance, Liu Heimin still ordered Zhang Teli and Dong Kangmai to lead 3,000 infantry troops as the vanguard, advancing from the mountain roads on both sides, looking for opportunities to occupy the mountains.

"Boom!" "Boom! Thirty airships were dispatched, the first to blow up was the small village on the top of the mountain, 500 people had nowhere to hide on the bare mountaintop, more than a dozen thunderbolts went down to kill and injured countless people, and the rest of the people rushed to open the gate of the village and ran down lifelessly; I don't know who broke the rope that bound the rolling logs, or if the stones that held the ropes were blown apart, and countless rolling logs and stones rolled down from the top of the hill and smashed into the castle, the mountain path, and the woods.

The rockets dropped from the airship ignited the trees, and the bombardment of the heavenly thunder caused the Xi warriors, who had never seen such a scene, collapsed, and ran out of the woods one after another, ignoring the wood and stones falling all over the mountain, and ran towards the back of the mountain desperately. The Turkic archers in the castle held out for more than half an hour, and finally could not bear this endless fear, opened the gates and fled; On the way, Zhang Teli's army killed more than 700 people.

The commanding heights of the mountain range were occupied by the Hexi army, and Liu Heimin's army intercepted and killed the fleeing Turkic and Xi soldiers after the wood and stone rolled, cleaned up the mountain road, and slowly passed through the East Mountain; Tuli escaped from Dongshan under the bombardment of the thunder, trampled each other to kill more than 3,000 people, and wounded countless people, and after meeting with the Su branch of the great chief of the Xi people, the two counted the men and horses, the coalition army of 38,000 people, lost 9,000 people, and more than 6,000 wounded soldiers.

Su Zhi refused to retreat, not because the Xi people were brave and good at fighting, but because most of the Xi people's war horses stayed in the mountains and forests, and when they retreated at this moment, the Turks got on their horses and left, and the 10,000 war horses of the Xi people were less than 2,000, so they naturally became the target of being slaughtered by the Sui people after the break; In the dispute between the two sides, the troops of the Hexi Army rushed out of Dongshan, and before the two armies approached, the flying airships began to bomb the Turkic coalition forces, although the number of remaining thunderbolts was not much, but the deterrent effect was huge, and the soldiers of the Turkic coalition army all chose to flee for their lives.

The rest is a chase and kill battle, Tuli tried to gather men and horses to fight back several times, but they all gave up because the Chang Jie battalion led by Su Dingfang followed behind to the death; When Song Shena, the Turkic general around him, was killed by Su Dingfang's arrow, Tuli trembled in fright, completely gave up the idea of being a hero, and fled back to Wuzhong County without his life. In the First Battle of Dongshan, the Hexi army killed 20,000 Turkic coalition troops, captured 4,000 people, captured 7,000 war horses, and countless armor and weapons.

(End of chapter)