Since Pan Lengleng got the news from Huo Kan, he accidentally leaked his mouth when he persuaded the people out of the city, the news of the imminent attack of the Tuqi Shi people spread all over the city like wings, and soon spread throughout the city, and the city was suddenly in chaos, and the shops on the street in the city closed their doors one after another, and the vendors who set up stalls on the street also quickly packed up their stalls and ran away without a trace, and the people who were still wandering and shopping on the street were also scattered, and in just half an hour, there was no figure to be seen on the streets of the entire city.

In fact, it is not the first time that the Turgish people have raided the city, in the past, the Turgish Khan Sulu had led people to take great risks to cross the Bodaling and raid the big stone city and the city, at that time, the city was completely defenseless, and was washed in blood by the Turgish people. But it was in the summer, even though it was winter, it was clear that the bloody lesson was still vivid, and many of the people in the city still remembered it vividly, and when they heard that the Tuqi Shi people were coming again, the people would rather believe it and all hid, which saved the city lord Pan Lengleng a lot of trouble, at least there was no chaos in the city.

However, he said that Zhao Ziliang came to the Swap River soon after leaving the city with a large group of men and horses, and he didn't know which section of the river the Turkish people had reached, if the Turkish people marched too fast west of the Tianshan Mountains, he was afraid that it was not far from the Swap City, and if the Turkish people were blocked by heavy snowstorms on the road, then he still had enough time to prepare, so he had to send someone to investigate.

Zhao Ziliang immediately called Wang Can and instructed: "Immediately send out a fast horse to search and explore upstream along the Swap City, each equipped with three war horses, and once the traces of the Tuqi Shi people are found, they will immediately fly to report!" ”

"No!" Wang Can took the order and left.

Zhao Ziliang called the leading lieutenants and lieutenants of several other battalions over, and said: "Maybe you still don't understand why this bonus is taking you out, it's not a secret, according to our detailed work in the Turgish, the Turgish people have sent a team of people and horses to my Datang territory, the number is not much, only 3,000 people, and now it is winter, according to our previous thinking, we think that in this weather, it is impossible for the Turgish people to raid our Datang border, so the Turgish people dare to come with confidence, according to the analysis of the news from all sidesYou see, if it is in peacetime, it is extremely difficult for the Turgish people to cross the Tianshan Mountains to come to the city of Change, and our town guard has also arranged troops to garrison in Bodaling, but now that the River is frozen, they can completely slide over the ice on the river, and I don't know where they are at this time, we are ready to meet the battle earlier, and we have a better chance of winning! Now the Turgish would not have imagined that we already knew what they were doing, so we could have caught them off guard halfway through their arrival in the city! ”

Fighting a war is a happy thing for the generals, because if they fight, they will have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and they will be rewarded and promoted for meritorious service, and the opportunity is precious. Of course, this is only one aspect; On the other hand, not all soldiers are only for rewards and promotions, there are still a considerable number of people who come for the ideal of serving the country, and now that the enemy is coming, they have waited so long, and the opportunity has come, of course, they will not let it go.

Li Siye, Wei Meng, Lei Wu, Huo Kan, Liang Qi, Zheng San and others all bowed their hands and said: "Please give the general an order, we will fight the enemy to the death!" ”

Zhao Ziliang beckoned, and a man took a sheepskin map, Zhao Ziliang found the location of the city, moved his finger to the west, and pointed to the intersection of the Hulu River and the River and said: "If the Turks want to slide over the ice, there will be no cavalry, people can slide on the ice, but the horses can't, so they must have given up their horses in Dundo City, and sliding over the river is the fastest, and here, where the two rivers meet, the river is wide and the terrain is flat compared to other river sections, So they should stop and go ashore in this area, but the ice here should be thinner than other river sections, easy to chisel through, Wei Meng, you take all the cavalry first, rush here and use weapons to chisel the ice on the river surface, if the Tuqi Shi people don't have time to stop, they will inevitably slide into the river, even if they can swim, they will freeze to death in this weather! If the follow-up men and horses have not arrived after you have cut through the ice, and the Turks have not yet arrived, you will find a place to hide on both sides of the riverbank, if the follow-up men and horses have not arrived, and the Turkishes have arrived first, you can decide whether to attack or continue to hide according to the actual situation, but you must send someone to report it! ”

"No!" Wei Meng agreed, and soon led all the cavalry forward, while Zhao Ziliang took the third battalion, the Modao team, and a small number of people from the second battalion, as well as the baggage team, to speed up the way.

If it is a field army, such as the Shule army, each soldier has his own private horse, not only can ride and hurry, but also carry a large amount of equipment, grain and grass, and the marching speed will not be much slower than that of the light cavalry army, this is mainly because the salary of the field army is much higher than that of the garrison, and the soldiers are relatively rich and can afford to buy private horses, while the garrison is not.

Because he did not know the specific location of the Turges, Zhao Ziliang did not dare to let the army run forward, which would consume the physical strength of the soldiers.

In fact, since Zhao Ziliang took up the post of guard and capture envoy, special attention has been paid to the training of the soldiers in terms of physical fitness, and the training time is not short, but this time is still too little, if there is three to four months, the physical fitness of the soldiers will be greatly improved, but now it is less than two months, although the physical fitness of the soldiers has improved a lot, but it is far from Zhao Ziliang's requirements, this place is still more than ten miles away from the confluence of the Swap River and the Hulu River, if the soldiers run and march at full speed, By the time they got there, the soldiers were already too tired to fight, so what kind of battle were they fighting?

The army walked for about half an hour, and suddenly a few fast horses galloped in front of them, one knight rode one, and the other two horses were vacant.

"Newspaper-report-general, Captain Wang asked the villain to report to the general, the Tuqi Shi people are coming, at this time it is only forty miles away from the confluence of the two rivers, and according to their sliding speed on the ice, it will only take half an hour to arrive!"

Zhao Ziliang listened to it with a grim expression, and calculated in his heart, this place is still seven or eight miles away from the confluence of the two rivers, and if the whole army trots forward, it will take half an hour to arrive, which means that the preparation time left for him is only about half an hour, maybe less than half an hour.

Zhao Ziliang immediately said to Chu Ge: "Order the whole army to trot forward, especially the baggage team, you must keep up quickly, and this general will also use their Fuyuan crossbow and arm open crossbow!"

"No!"

The order was quickly conveyed, and many heralds rode fast horses to and fro on the side of the army, shouting as they ran: "The general has an order, the whole army trots forward!" The whole army trots forward! ”

The whole team moved quickly, the flags that could be seen everywhere were waving in the wind, blowing loudly, and the soldiers ran with neat steps, constantly exhaling hot air, and their bodies were warm as they ran. The baggage team at the back of the line was also much faster than before, and the mules and sleds and carts were pushed by the soldiers to gallop through the snow.