When Yang Chong arrived in Yanchuan County, Han Shige had already captured all the twelve forts of Yanchuan, and also explored the situation in Shuofang, and Liang Shidu took down the six counties of Fenglin, Yan'an, Linzhen, Fushi, Jinming, and Weiping in Yan'an County and Yanfu, Dabin, Shangxian, Kaijiang, Funing, and Rulin in Diaoyin County, and only Suide and Chengping counties were still in Zhang Shilong's hands. Yang Chong couldn't help but be in a good mood, and couldn't help but praise Han Shige a few words, the army had a place to repair, and it could wait for the opportunity to move.

Yang Chong immediately sent fast horses to inform the counties of Honghua and Longyou in Yan'an to restore the supply of salt; As soon as Li Jing learned that Yang Chong personally led the Hexi Army out of Helan Mountain and was mobilizing men, Li Jing knew that the opportunity to snipe Yang Chong was lost. Political promises are unreliable, and no matter what Yang Chong promises Chang'an, raids are a means that can exist at all; As for Yanchuan County, if it was taken from Liang Shidu, Yang Chong would never hand it over.

Wei Jie and Li Zhengming's envoys arrived belatedly, and Li Jing finally saw Yang Chong's crusade against Liang Shidu and Liu Miaowang, and Li Jing suddenly realized that Yang Chong did not completely eliminate Xue Ju, just to block Chang'an and contain Chang'an's troops, including handing over Liupan Mountain to himself, which was a way to contain Chang'an's troops, in order to make the Hetao region rich and fight to Hexi.

Li Jing hurriedly wrote a letter to Chang'an, reminding Yin Shishi and Qu Tutong to prevent Yang Chong from occupying the Hetao and plotting against Hexi; Chang'an has received a letter and a recital from Yang Chong, Yang Chong bluntly said that he wanted to crusade against Liang Shidu and Liu Miaowang, and even hoped to buy some grain from Yan'an and other counties, proposing to exchange war horses for war horses.

The two generals thought differently from Li Jing, Yang Chong's goal was far away from Chang'an, which was much better than Li Yuan's intentions, and the threat was much smaller, not to mention that recapturing Shuofang County and Luliang Mountain was an absolutely beneficial thing for the Sui army, and Yang Chong also had to take the risk of facing the Turks. Chang'an adopted a silent attitude towards Yang Chong, and Qu Tutong sent a letter to remind Li Jing that Li Yuan was determined to win and should give priority to Chang'an's problems.

Yang Chong actually didn't care how Chang'an replied to himself, he had absolute confidence in capturing Shuofang County, Han Shige's tiger and leopard battalion and Suo Yanshou and Zong Luohu's cavalry had already entered Shuofang County by separate roads to attack Ningshuo and Changze counties. Wuyuan County is only two days away from Tongwancheng, and Wudu'er's rear army escorted enough grain and grass for a large army for a month, and grabbed the grain of Ningshuo, Changze and other counties, which can last until three or four months later.

The Liang division, who had just occupied Fushi County, was not aware of his danger until the bad news came, and the entire army of Ningshuo County was annihilated, and Suo Zhou, who had retreated from Yanchuan County to Ningshuo County, was only spared; Changze County is the thoroughfare from Shuofang County to Yan'an, and the grain and grass along the way have been wiped out. However, what comforted Liang Shidu a little was the news that Yang Chong did not attack Tongwancheng and Changze County, but only sent troops to take away the grain.

The Turkic general Ni Bushe, who cooperated with Liang Shidu to fight, understood as soon as he heard that Yang Chong was fighting the tactics of the Turks, first consuming the opponent and then breaking them one by one; However, the idea of Liang Shidu's request for a decisive battle between the 5,000 Turkic army and Yang Chong was scoffed, and Yang Chong's infantry was good at fighting, and once the army was gathered, the cavalry exceeded 10,000, and 5,000 people went, which was just to repeat the mistakes of Gaochang and Yiwu again, and give Yang Chong a chance to brush his reputation.

Lu Jilan, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, suggested: "Liang Luoren and Feng Duan can stick to Tongwancheng, wait for work, and no longer transport grain in a short time, Yan'an County can raise grain on the spot, and wait for the army to be mobilized, and then fight a decisive battle with the Hexi army." ”

It was impossible to occupy Yan'an County and withdraw it, and Liang Shidu was reluctant to take this good place, so he adopted Lu Jilan's suggestion and notified Shuofang to hold on, and Diaoyin County sent troops to Yan'an to assemble; Nibu also ordered all the Turkic cavalry to be concentrated in Fushi County, looking for an opportunity to annihilate Yang Chong's small group of men.

Tanma inquired clearly, and Ling Jing proposed: "Our army might as well be a battalion step by step, occupy the two counties of Dabin and Weiping, cut off the passage between Diaoyin County and Yan'an County again, and lead the Liang army out to attack us; If we don't come, we will take Changze County, so that the four counties of Wuyuan, Changze, Dabin, and Weiping will be connected. ”

Yang Chong only brought 30,000 people, and did not have the capital to spread out in 20 counties to fight, only to constantly create a sense of crisis for the opponent, lure and pressure the opponent to fight, and look for opportunities to attack the opponent. The Northern Wei Dynasty once set up Shuofang County in Dongxia Prefecture, Shuofang County was located in Weiping, leading Weiping, Dabin, Chengzhong, Shuofang, Zhenghe five counties, Dabin County in the early Sui Dynasty belonged to Diaoyin County, Weiping County belonged to Yan'an County, and Changze County was next to each other, and Dabin County used to be the county of Diaoyin County, but sixty miles away.

After everyone discussed, they adopted Ling Jing's idea and ordered Jiang Duo to lead 10,000 people in the trapping camp to attack, and sent 6 Han Bakui and Liu Harrier to lead 5,000 cavalry from the headquarters and 500 people from the Thunderbolt Battalion to help fight; The trap camp consisted of 3,000 iron cavalry of Zong Luohu, 5,000 infantry of Yang Yanwu, and 2,000 miscellaneous cavalry of Jing Pantuo.

It is known as miscellaneous cavalry, because in terms of war horses, armor, and weapons, it is not as uniform as the cavalry of Zongluohu; Liu Harrier's 2,000 cavalry were also miscellaneous horses, and they even had camels at first, and they all changed their horses when they arrived at Helan Mountain. However, Jing Pantuo and Liu Harrier have both trained serial horses, but the training time is too short, and they can't even do a row of ten people, and they are changed into a three-person group of kidnapping horses by Jiang Duo.

Jiang Duo first captured Dabin County, and then Weiping County; When the Liang division heard the news, it was a step too late after all, so he could only mobilize 20,000 troops with Nibu to come to the decisive battle, Jiang Duo withdrew from Weiping County, and set up a position in Dabin County and Liang Division. Jiang Duo transported 3,000 pairs of cooked leather vests in advance, and selected 3,000 cavalry from Liu Harrier and Jing Pantuo, equipped with 2,000 spears and 1,000 long-handled knives, and each three horses were connected by iron cables as the main force of the two wings.

According to the suggestion of the mud step, the Liang division charged from the front with 10,000 infantry troops, and 5,000 cavalry on one side; As soon as the Liang army fought, they understood why the Turks were so afraid of confronting the Hexi army head-on, and Yang Yanwu's 5,000 infantry was blocked at the front, like an impenetrable Great Wall.

The Hexi army unhurriedly used the power of the bed crossbow, first shot through the shield with an iron spear, and then shot a giant bow, and when the Liang army finally charged, a round of jackdaw arrow rain instantly shot thousands of arrows, and more than 3,000 infantry were shot down in a distance of 100 to 300 steps. When the Liang army rushed within 100 paces, they were burned by the Greek fire, messed up the formation, and were blocked by the giant bow again, and suddenly lost the courage to charge, and when they fled for their lives, they were pursued and shot, and returned to their own position with less than 6,000 people.

The cavalry on both sides suffered a big loss in front of the kidnapping horse, after the cavalry of the Liang army was killed by a thousand people, the mud step had to let the four thousand Turkic cavalry go down in advance, relying on the fierceness and tenacity of the Turks, the crutched horse was defeated, but the casualty ratio was two to one; After the 6,000 cavalry of Zong Luohu and Po Liuhan Bakui were thrown into battle, the Liang army was defeated.

(End of chapter)