The summer of the grassland is the most beautiful time of the year, the endless scenery, people are fascinated, the fragrance of flowers is everywhere, the pastoral song is melodious, it should be men and women catching sheep together to play, but now Tongwan City is like a cold winter. There were 35,000 troops in Yantuo and Xue Yantuo, 50,000 in Bulishe and Xiabu, 15,000 Hu people in the Western Regions led by the Tong Special Service, 20,000 Hu Xue troops in charge of the Hu Special Service, 30,000 troops in the Khitan, Yan Ya, Xi and other forces under the command of Tuli Khan, and 80,000 Golden Wolf Army under the command of Jieli Khan.

The concentration of so many large armies around Tongwan City is obviously a sign before the Great War, and the Turkic army set out from Tongwan City and traveled seventy miles west along the avenue, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and the rivers, grasslands, and mountains were lush everywhere. Under the clear blue sky, dozens of miles of green grassland, cattle and sheep leisurely eat the green grass; Wildflowers are purple and red, it is estimated that a roll is a floral fragrance, red-crowned cranes, antelopes, and yellow ducks haunt the grass and water, without the slightest scruples.

The tents of the Turks themselves are not visible, and what occasionally appears in the river is the hard edges and corners of the brick walls of the tiled houses. The Turkic army did not let out a deafening cry or blew the dreaded horn as usual, but quickly dispersed, divided into detachments, passed through the middle of the steppe, and disappeared into the steppe, on the banks of the river, in the swampy wetlands. Jieli Khan looked in the direction of Chang'an from afar, full of confidence.

Li Shimin of Beiping once again commanded an army of 60,000 to go south, directly waved his army to capture Shenzhou, and killed all the way to Luoshui County; Liu Heimin faced the battle on the one hand, and asked Xu Shiji and Luo Shixin for help on the other. Xu Shiji mobilized 70,000 troops such as Luo Shixin, Wang Bo, and Song Jingang to reinforce Luoshui County; Li Shimin heard that Luo Shixin had arrived, and hurriedly ordered Shi Wanbao to lead the troops to meet Luo Shixin from the shore of the river, when Shi Wanbao arrived, the camp of Li Ming, the king of Lujiang, the governor of Luozhou, had been captured by Luo Shixin, Shi Wanbao had no choice but to retreat, and Li Shimin and Xu Shiji held each other in the water.

In the northwest, Jieli Khan sent Buli to attack Lingwu County, all the way to Lianke Xincheng, Shiling, and Dagu; Hu's special army moved south and approached Rulin City. Jieli Khan himself, Tuli and Yantuo set up a command of 140,000 troops to kill Pingliang County, and let the special service cut off the connection between Huaiyuan City and the outside; All of a sudden, the wind in Guanzhong was loud, and Chang'an was shocked three times a day. Yang Chong announced that he would lead Jiang Duo, Shi Daqian, and Yang Gongqing to go on the expedition, leaving only Yao Junsu to defend the city.

Only Yang Gongqing was the first to be guarded, Yang Chong was waiting for Jieli to attack Xiaoguan or to attack Wugong County, after a long eight days, the beacon fire finally came, Xiaoguan was not attacked, and the Turks still wanted to attack Chang'an. Yang Chong and others immediately went to Wugong and sent a messenger to contact Zhuge Quan; The chariots, horses, and pedestrians with bows and arrows at their waists, the vast long queue disappeared into the smoke and dust, and the first duel between the Central Plains and the Turks began.

When Yang Chong arrived at the edge of Wugong Weishui, Yang Gongqing had already established a military camp, which was endless, and the key stone forts were all poured with cement. A wide pontoon bridge was left on the Weishui River, which became the only passage from north to south across the river, and there were five bed crossbows on each side of the pontoon bridge; From time to time, scouts rushed back from the other side to report the military situation, and the newly sent scouts crossed the pontoon bridge. Yang Gongqing dared to attack Yang Guang's army of more than 100,000 people with 3,000 men, and in addition to scouts, he also sent two cavalry teams of 1,000 people to attack and harass the Turks.

Yang Chong and others used binoculars to officialdom and the enemy, when the sun was in the west, the sun was setting, and the mountains, rivers and fields were shrouded in golden silence, dressed in red glow. A disarrayed cavalry galloped in, and there were only five or six hundred of a thousand men left, all covered in blood, and both men and horses seemed to be wounded, and they ran scatteredly, and some of the warriors almost tied themselves to their horses. The infantry on the other side of the river quickly arranged for the cavalry to cross the pontoon bridge, and the general led by the leader shouted "Twenty miles away" as he walked.

Yang Chong didn't move, and went to show off to appease the cavalry who came back, that was the matter of the leading generals, Yang Chong was observing the direction in which the Turkic cavalry might come; After a while, the second cavalry of the right guard appeared, and even fewer returned, less than three hundred, and the Turkic cavalry of two thousand followed closely; Yang Gongqing saw clearly that the fleeing cavalry was indeed his own men, and said with relief: "I finally brought the Turks over." ”

Yang Gongqing was the one who participated in the Lishan conspiracy, and of course knew that if Yang Chong and Zhuge Quan's guesses were wrong, the Turks did not take this route, which would have a fatal impact on the occupation. The bloody battle of Xiaoguan is a big deal about the loss of territory and personnel, but the attack on Chang'an will shake the whole country and make the military in Hebei panic, but fortunately, everything is on the preset track.

On the other side of the river, there were explosives buried, and a hundred soldiers who lit the fire hid in holes one by one, just like the crossbowmen guarding the bed crossbows, they were all warriors who were not afraid of life and death, and it was the task of the two thousand cavalry to gather the Turkic army in front of the pontoon bridge. The bed crossbow fired a volley, countless arrows roared in the air, two thousand Turkic cavalry were killed six or seven hundred people in a blink of an eye, and the rest of the people quickly retreated, the crossbow arrows of the Hexi army are famous all over the world, and no one will be hard.

The cavalry of the Hexi Army was running on the pontoon bridge, and there was the howl of the horn on the opposite bank, and the deafening sound of horses' hooves made the earth tremble, and more and more cavalry appeared on the horizon, gradually turning into a rolling torrent. The Hexi army did not burn the pontoon bridge, and thirty bed crossbows were quietly facing the pontoon bridge; In the camp behind, Tianjian was directing the soldiers of the Perak camp to erect fifty airships, waiting for an order to light the hot air balloon.

There was a rhythmic sound of drums, and the soldiers of the Hexi Army on the north bank used ten bed crossbows to fire a last crossbow arrow, shooting down hundreds of enemy cavalry, and then they were cut down one by one by the swarming Turkic cavalry, and several soldiers who beat the drums behind gave up the opportunity to jump into the Weishui, and the drums burst until they died. Yang Chong and others were in a tense mood, and the sound of the drum was a signal to ignite the explosives; It is not known how many people had the opportunity to ignite explosives.

Boom, boom, boom, explosives exploded, and the Turkic cavalry fell into a panic, because there were too many Turkic cavalry, a hundred explosion points did not need to consider whether there was an enemy approaching, as long as it exploded, it would hurt people. Tens of thousands of war horses galloped, and the smoke and dust raised blocked the sight of Yang Chong and others; Wang Gong signaled that the wind was in the right direction, the Hexi Army's charge horn sounded, fifty hot air balloons rose into the air, and Shi Daqian commanded 10,000 cavalry, rushing from the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank like a whirlwind.

When the Turkic army heard the charge on the south bank, they were still ready to reorganize their ranks, but fifty airships kept throwing thunder from the sky, which made the Turks completely lose their fighting spirit. Jieli Khan's golden banner was particularly conspicuous in the sun, and he was closely followed by Tianjian commanding four airships, and the falling thunder blew up the Golden Wolf Army, and Jieli Khan felt that he was on the verge of death.

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