In the early morning of June 22, Zhao Ziliang ordered Wang Can to send people to climb the Duotan Ridge to investigate, and if he found the secret notes left by the previous team at night, he would find a way to secretly get in touch with them, and at the same time bring back the news of the broken up plot and Hu Luju. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At about midnight, a team sent out to go up the mountain to investigate did not return a single person at night, and brought back the investigation on the mountain, and brought back the news of the Mouluo Department and the Huluju Department.

After Wang Can got the news, he immediately came to the big tent of the Chinese army and reported to Zhao Ziliang, "General, the investigation is clear, there is no trace of the strong people on the mountain, presumably they quickly evacuated after the successful ambush last night, and the outpost also got in touch with the front team of Ye Buhui, the front team of Ye Bu followed the men and horses of the Mouluo Department was ambushed as soon as they walked down the middle of the north slope of the mountain, and the losses were quite large, and the Hu Lu Ju Department above the mountainside suffered heavy casualties, and now these two people and horses are scattered all over the north foot of the mountain, and they are being chased and killed by the strong force of the mountain!" ”

The severity of the situation is beyond expectations, and the losses of the Mouluo Department and Hu Luju are also much greater than Zhao Ziliang expected, Zhao Ziliang got up and said: "It seems that we must immediately turn over Duotanling to collect the scattered Hu Luju and Mouluo Ministry, otherwise I am afraid that they will be eaten by all the troops who have stepped on the strength of the army!" ”

After speaking, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Come on, order all the departments to march quickly to Duotan Ridge, the Tang Army first, He Luoshi second, and after the Sheti Department is broken, today we must turn over Duotan Ridge and camp at the foot of the north of the mountain!" ”

"Obey!"

After the military order was issued, the Tang army, with the infantry as the lead, quickly went up the mountain with shields in hand, and soon occupied the top of the mountain, and after confirming that there were no enemy troops on the top of the mountain, they immediately left a part to respond, and most of them drove to the foot of the north of the mountain.

It is not an easy thing for thousands of people to climb over a small mountain, on the mountain trail in the south and north of Duotanling Mountain, the Tang Fan coalition army is advancing rapidly during the dense distribution, the Tang soldiers have undergone strict training, and the ability to climb and wade is much stronger than these barbarian soldiers who usually only ride horses, they are very easy to walk quickly on the mountain path, and the barbarian soldiers are as tired as ox gasping.

At dusk, the whole army finally crossed the Duotan Ridge and reached the foot of the north of the mountain, Zhao Ziliang ordered the whole army to camp, and at the same time ordered to launch the assembled green fireworks into the sky, which was an order to assemble here to the scattered Hu Luju and Mouluo troops.

As soon as the camp was set up, the green assembly fireworks launched had already had an effect, and some scattered Huluju and Mouluo people rushed to assemble, these people were extremely embarrassed one by one, and some of them were already so hungry that their chests were close to their backs.

Zhao Ziliang had to send people to prepare food and water for these people, and at the same time send people to ask these people for the news of the two leaders, Qu Tu and Babuli, and at the same time ordered people to continue to launch green assembly fireworks into the sky to point out the direction to those who came to assemble.

In the early morning of June 23, 3,000 people from the scattered Huluju and Mouluo tribes had rushed to converge, and the two divisions had a total of 5,000 men and horses, and they were ambushed and were able to come back with 3,000 people, which was already very lucky, and the leaders of the two divisions, Qu Tu and Babuli, also rushed over, but Babuli was not lightly injured, and Qu Tu's helmet and armor were discarded in the flight, which can be described as extremely embarrassing.

Babuli and Qu Tu burst into tears when they saw Zhao Ziliang, "General, we are so miserable, our 3,000 people have lost half of our men and horses, in order to escape for their lives, Xiao Khan had to discard all the injured black horses!" ”

Zhao Ziliang comforted repeatedly: "Okay, okay!" General Ben will avenge you! The two of you must have been frightened this day and night, I have ordered someone to prepare food and drink, and at the same time I will send someone to appease your subordinates, you just have to eat and sleep well, and we will talk about it tomorrow! ”

After listening to Zhao Ziliang's words, the two began to eat and drink, and the appearance of eating was really difficult to compliment, like the reincarnation of a starving ghost.

After this ambush, the original 13,000 men and horses of the Tang Fan coalition army lost 3,000, and only 10,000 horses remained.

After resting in place for three days, Zhao Ziliang ordered the whole situation to continue to march to Xuanchi, because the Mouluo Division, the Huluju Department and the Setsheti Department were ambushed by the enemy and suffered considerable losses, only the Heluo Division was still intact, so Zhao Ziliang ordered Tang to transfer the Khan to lead the men and horses of the headquarters as the front army, and the most lost Strategy, after the division was in charge this time, the Huluju Department and the Setsheti Department were still responsible for the left and right wings.

From here to Xuanchi can be described as a flat river, there is no longer a place for the strength of the army to set up an ambush, the place where the strength of the force lives around the Xuanchi, the area is not very large, the west of it is not very harmonious with the Chebi people, the east is the Mukun Division, and the relationship with the strength of the Ministry is not very good, the north is Jinshan, the Tang Fan coalition army is coming from the south, the strength of the force does not have a vast strategic depth to carry out roundabout operations, it is not feasible to retreat to the east or west, the Chebi people and the Mukun Department will not allow the strength of the force to withdraw into their territoryThe leader Lu Li knew that he could not let the Tang Fan coalition army advance to Xuanchi and then fight with it, so he decided to lead the troops to meet the Tang Fan coalition army, he left a thousand elite soldiers and horses in the Xuanchi tent to guard the old and weak women and children, cattle, sheep and horses, and personally led 7,000 main forces and 2,000 temporarily transferred herdsmen to form a 9,000 army to meet the Tang Fan coalition army.

On the morning of 27 June, the Tang Fan coalition army and the army of the Ta Qiang Force encountered each other 200 miles south of Xuanchi, and both sides did not rush to attack, but sent small groups of men and horses to each other to test the opponent's combat strength.

In the first three days, the two sides fought six battles, each time the total number of troops invested was only 2,000 people, the two sides had each other's victories and defeats, no one stood on the cheap, in these six battles, the Tang army only sent 1,000 cavalry, with a slight advantage to achieve victory, annihilating 500 people in the strength of the force, and its own loss of more than 300 people, while the Tang infantry did not participate in the battle.

On the night of the first day of July, the Tang Army made a big tent.

He Luoshi transferred the khan and said to Zhao Ziliang: "General, in the past few days of fighting with the stepping power department, the enemy and us have won and lost each other, and we have also figured out the details of the other party, Xiao Khan feels that it is time to have a decisive battle with the stepping strength department!" Moreover, it has been nearly a month since our troops came out, and there is not much grain and grass left, if we delay any longer, when our army's food and grass are exhausted, it will lose its combat effectiveness, and the troops can take food nearby, then our army will be in danger! ”

The Heluo Shi Department is the farthest from here, and it is also the first tribe to set off, it set off at the beginning of June, and it has been almost a month now, and they are all cavalry, and the cavalry troops can carry not much grain and grass, after a month of consumption, and there is no replenishment, where is how much is left? This is also the reason why the Khan is in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the Treading Strength Division, if he can defeat the Stepping Strength Division, he can obtain some captures to supplement, at least the cattle and sheep brought by the Stepping Strength Department to fight this time will definitely be captured.

After the Khan finished speaking, the leaders of the other departments also turned their heads and whispered, Zhao Ziliang coughed twice to attract everyone's attention when he saw this, and said: "Today, the general invited the leaders here to talk about this matter, today is the fourth day of our encounter with the Treading Strength Department, the first three days we fought with the Treading Power Department six times to win and lose each other, and then the small-scale battle is just a fuel tactic, fighting each other to consume, it is really unwise, this general believes that the leader of the Treading Strength Department Lu Li will definitely feel the same way, So even if we don't fight a decisive battle, they will take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with us, and what General Ben means is that instead of letting the other side take the initiative, it is better for us to seize the initiative and force Lu Li to fight a decisive battle with our army, I don't know what you think? ”

The Khan immediately said, "Little Khan agrees!" ”

Several other leaders saw that the transfer khan agreed, and they also agreed to a decisive battle with the Ta Strength Department, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered: "Build a fire to make food at dawn tomorrow, and after eating, the whole army will gather in formation and advance to the camp of the Ta Strength Army, and force Lu Li to have a decisive battle!" ”

The leaders stood up together and said, "Obey!" ”

At dawn the next day, the Tang Fan coalition army began to make a fire to make rice, more than 10,000 people in the whole army had breakfast and rested for a while, and then it was time to arrive, with a long and desolate horn, the tribal army and the Tang army began to assemble, Zhao Ziliang immediately issued an order, by the He Luo Shi Department of 1,000 men and horses for the front army to deploy as a horizontal long phalanx, He Luo Shi Department of 1,000 men and horses behind the Tang Army 3,000 foot soldiers, is the main force of the operation, there are He Luo Shi Department of cavalry in front of the front, the enemy will not find that there are infantry in the Tang Army. Behind the infantry were 1,700 cavalry of the Tang Army, which was responsible for breaking the rear and supporting. The 1,300 cavalry of the Sesheti division and the 1,200 cavalry of Huluju were deployed on the left flank, and the 1,500 men and horses of the Mouluo division were deployed on the right flank.

When Lu Li, the leader of the Taqiang Division, heard the report of his subordinates that the entire Tang army was approaching his camp, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the whole army of 7,800 people to assemble.

Lu Li decided to divide the whole army into two, sent 4,000 people to face off with the Tang Fan coalition army, and the other 3,800 cavalry attacked the Tang army's relatively weak right flank from the side, as long as the front can temporarily withstand the attack of the Tang Fan coalition army, and the other half of the troops and horses arrived after the roundabout can defeat the Tang army from the flank, in order to confuse the Tang army, Lu Li also let the soldiers in charge of the frontal battle each ride two horses, that is to say, the number of war horses will not be less than the number of their own troops, if the Tang army reconnaissance cavalry does not look closely, it can not be found at all.

On the way to advance the army in an army formation to the camp of the Taqiang Division, the scout cavalry came to report: "General Qiqi, the enemy army has seen that the whole army of our army has been dispatched, and all the soldiers and horses have also been dispatched, and about 8,000 men and horses are coming towards our army!" That's not more than ten miles."

"Probe!" Zhao Ziliang waved his hand after hearing this.

"No!" The sentry agreed and rode away. (To be continued.) )