The snow-capped peaks that stand in the distance, one taller than the other, stretch majestically into the sky in the night sky, reflecting a layer of brilliant glass, majestic. The mountain is long, like a half-reclining giant, overlooking the sparse village at the foot of the mountain, and listening to the heart-rending trilling sound in the howling north wind. Under the bright moon, there was obviously a lot more smoke in the Hunter Village than in the past, and there were hundreds of bonfires that kept rising, densely packed.

The hunter village is not big, there are more than 20 houses in front and back, and there are only three large stone houses, which are filled with the screams and cries of women, and the laughter of the Tiele people. Sitting in the corner of a stone house outside, he looked with some disgust at his companion who was acting recklessly in the inner room, and could not help but put down the wine and leg of mutton in his hand, and went out of the door; The chieftain of Yizha, Yizhan Han grabbed the Qilu Ge and asked drunkenly, "Does Gaochang have any fine wine?" ”

Qi Bige sighed helplessly and said, "Yes, Gaochang has endless wine, and there is also the liquor invented by Yang Junshou. ”

Yi Yuhan grinned and said, "When I take down Gaochang City and capture that county guard, I will ask him to make wine for me." ”

The chief of the Su Po tribe, Su Mu Lichi, burped, raised the wine bag in his hand and shouted: "Defeat Gaochang, defeat Gaochang." ”

The shouts reached the outside of the house, and many Tiele warriors began to respond, shouting wildly after them, and the sound of prostitution in the stone houses became more intense, and the same sound came from some grass huts and mud houses. During the carnival, no one found that Suo Yanshou had already mixed into the village with people, and there were Turkic people in the nine tribes themselves, and they were not together on weekdays, and under the fire and wine, it was inevitable that there would be some negligence.

Suo Yanshou led all the trained good hands of all ethnic groups, and after finding the grain cart of the Tiele people, he killed the guards who had been staggering, poured diluted oil on the grain cart, lit a fire, and then took advantage of the chaos to walk outside the village. The first to discover Suo Yanshou was the first to find out that the person who was walking in the opposite direction became really suspicious, and when the Qilang gathered two hundred people to chase it out, he saw a group of black shadows running wildly, fleeing to the south desperately.

Chelange decisively ordered: "Blow the trumpet." ”

The desolate sound of the horns sounded, and in the midst of the whining, nearly three thousand horsemen gathered one after another, following behind the Che Ge and chasing after him.

The Gaochang area has a high latitude and is a natural oxygen bar, which is like a fire island in summer, and even if it snows in winter, it will melt quickly, and there is very little road icing; Even at night, the temperature is rarely below freezing, unlike the cold of winter in the northern part of the White Mountain, where the wind blows and the teeth of the people chatter. For the Tiele people, it is extremely pleasant to gallop on such a night, and it is necessary to catch those arsonists and teach them a lesson.

After chasing for more than half an hour, the closer they got to the other side, the bows and arrows of the two sides began to shoot at each other, and the two sides knew that the overall situation had been decided, and as long as the fleeing side kept turning back and shooting arrows, it would slow down the speed of escape; And the chasing side relies on the large number of people and takes turns to shoot arrows, which will only speed up the pace of the chase. In addition to the excitement of the Tiele people, they didn't care about the more than 100 riders who wanted to extend their lives, and they had already turned the fork in the road and approached a hill.

By the time Khama realized that something was wrong, there were already rain of arrows on the hills and in the poplar forests not far away, and a Khambi warrior who was close to Khama planted his horse in a flash; As soon as he hurriedly crouched down, he heard two feathered arrows slashing over his head. The Tiele people whirled around, there was no counterattack at all, and their own family knocked off their horses and trampled to death, and after the opponent was killed by two rounds of arrow rain, Che Bige led people out of range, losing more than 1,000 people.

The shouts rang out, and a large number of cavalry poured out on the hills and in the poplar forests, and the Khambegar hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the people who had gathered temporarily were from various tribes, and they could not fight in formation; The morale of the Gaochang Iron Cavalry was unprecedentedly high, and they pursued and killed for thirty miles, and cut down 400 heads of the Tiele people before they closed the team and returned.

Unbeknownst to him, he was only facing more than 2,000 cavalry from Suo Yanshou and Xie Yingdeng, and the army was still behind. When he returned to the hunter village with the remnants of the army, the fire was still extinguished, but less than 20% of the grain and grass were snatched out, which was enough for the army for four days, and the number of people was counted, and 1,700 people were lost.

"I'm going to light all the Gaochang people with sky lanterns." Su Muli shouted angrily, without enough food and grass, the cavalry could not go south to make meritorious achievements; Bo Luochang Hesong opened his hand on the woman's body and said indifferently: "It's better to withdraw from the army." ”

The Bo Luozhi tribe is the second largest tribe in the alliance, with 4,500 people controlling the strings, only less than the 6,000 horsemen of the Qibi tribe, and the territory of the Bo Luozhi tribe is in the easternmost part, the north is Saiwai, and the south is Yiwu County, so they are not enthusiastic about capturing Gaochang, this time only 2,000 light horsemen came, and the clansmen did not come. Seeing that Qi Bige had lost more than 1,000 people, Bo Luo Changhe was a little happy, and none of his army followed to chase and kill.

Qi Bige frowned and said: "Now the entire alliance, including the old people and children, are coming south, it is estimated that it is almost out of the Tianshan Mountains, even if we retreat, we have to come again, and it will be empty of food and grass again and again, once the whole alliance is in crisis, it will be even more terrible than the current situation." ”

Yi Yuhan said with a fierce look in his eyes: "Then continue to move forward, and if you take Gaochang City, you will have everything." ”

Bo Luo Changhe was about to ridicule, and the scout came back to report that the Sui army was 2,000 people, and it was already in the village at the road crossing sixty miles away; As soon as he heard the number of people, blood immediately surged to his brain, if this was spread out, how could he, the successor of the Qibi family and the White Mountain Alliance, be the successor. As for whether to retreat, wait until the end of the battle, maybe the Sui army has abundant supplies and can supply the army to Gaochang City.

Yi Yuhan and Su Mu Lichi took the lead in setting off, and quickly went south to keep an eye on the Sui army; Led by the 3,000 Tiele coalition army, if the Sui army was still in place, he bypassed the enemy camp and cut off the Sui army's retreat; Bo Luo Changhe led 2,000 cavalry of Bo Luo's division as a connection point between the two teams, and the remaining more than 1,000 allied troops took supplies to the palace, and then joined Yi Yuhan's team to participate in the attack.

Qi Bige's arrangement is beyond reproach, as long as this Sui army does not retreat, he will be crushed; The problem is that after more than an hour of rapid marching, just saw the camp of the Sui army, and the scout reported a new situation, thousands of Sui troops were rushing here, but the strange thing was that the speed of the other party's march was not fast, and it was driven by nearly a thousand cattle.

Qi Bige asked clearly that Niu was at the front of the army, and said with great joy: "God help me, the Sui army behind must think that the camp is in front and everything is safe; And the Sui army in the camp is surrounded by us, unable to send messengers and scouts, as long as we defeat the Sui army that comes to help, turn around and break through the camp, the grain and grass materials will be available, and Gaochang will be just around the corner. Bo Luo Changhe and I took 5,000 men to raid, and you were responsible for stopping the Sui army from coming out of the camp. ”

Qi Bige's psychology, last night's defeat was just a trick, if it was a face-to-face fight, the cavalry of the Sui army was not the same as the infantry, they were all the objects of their own slaughter.

(End of chapter)