"How long has it been since the Vanguard sent someone to report the news?" Nu Jun sat on horseback with a faint uneasiness in his heart, and asked Captain Zuo, who was in charge of intelligence next to him.

Captain Zuo said: "It's been almost an hour! ”

"How could it be so long?" Nu Du frowned.

At this time, Zuo Duwei opened his mouth wide and looked ahead, and a stupid look made Nu Du stunned, he followed Zuo Duwei's gaze, only to see countless vultures flying and circling in the sky above the small basin in front of him, black and pressing, and the croaking sound came from a distance, which made people panic in their hearts.

The ominous premonition was finally confirmed, everyone's faces changed, and several Xi cavalry galloped towards the small basin at a gallop speed, and it didn't take long to see a horse turning, and this person reported to Nu Du with a depressed expression: "Great Khan, the vanguard army is completely annihilated in the small basin ahead!" According to the investigation, the Tang army has just left! ”

Nu Du couldn't care about anything, and immediately rode his horse towards the small basin, and the five thousand cavalry behind him also sped up and followed him.

As Nu Jie rode his horse into the small basin, everything inside came into his eyes, corpses all over the ground, blood and water infected the whole grass, human and horse corpses were stuck with knives, guns and arrows, and the small pennant on the flagpole diagonally planted in the pile of corpses was still burning.

Some of the horses were not yet dead, lying on the ground neighing sadly, and croaking vultures and crows began to fly down from the sky to pick and feed the fastest-rotting corpses, they were not afraid of humans at all, and for the grasslands, they were cleaners and garbage collectors.

Nu jumped off his horse, and the corpse was covered with grass so that he could not get off his feet, so he had to step on the corpse and move forward step by step, and the vultures and crows that were gnawing on the corpse along the way were frightened and flew up.

The great wizard who came from behind seemed to be covered with dead breath all over his body, he staggered to the side of Nu Ji and said: "Great Khan, everything we have is under the control of Zhao Ziliang, he set a trap, step by step to introduce us into it, little by little to consume our strength, we can no longer be led by his nose, now we should immediately slaughter all the cattle and sheep into a butcher shop, and then move north as fast as possible, only by crossing the Dule River can it be safe!" ”

Angry and shocked: "Slaughter all the cattle and sheep? Grand Wizard? If there are no cattle and sheep, what do we eat and drink? We're going to starve to death! ”

The great wizard shouted: "Great Khan, we can rob again when the cattle and sheep are gone, but now these cattle and sheep are dragging us down, we must get out of the Tang Army's attack range as quickly as possible, the Tang Army's tactics this time are impossible to start, we want to fight, but they scattered and retreated, we stopped in place and did not chase, they came over and kept harassing, constantly consuming our strength, making us unable to prevent it, before we have found a way to deal with them, we can no longer fight with them, otherwise we can only die!" Great Khan, give orders, no longer hesitate! ”

Nu Jun was still a little hesitant: "At first, the sons and daughters haven't taken revenge, if they withdraw now, there will be many people who are not convinced!" ”

But he saw the great wizard and said: "Whoever disobeys will be killed!" Now it's a matter of life and death for the whole family, where can you take care of so much? It is better for a few people to die than for the whole clan to perish! Great Khan, the Tang people have a saying, 'Stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!'" Don't hesitate any longer, give the order! ”

Nu Du finally gave up under the persuasion of the great wizard, he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the whole army, immediately slaughter all cattle and sheep to make a butcher shop and distribute them to every soldier, and set off tomorrow to retreat to the north, whoever dares to oppose will be killed!" ”

Dozens of centurions and soldiers who were dissatisfied with Nu Du for not letting them take revenge were quickly arrested and beheaded in public, and with the support of the Grand Wizard, Nu Ji's orders were completely carried out, and no one else dared to mention revenge again, it was better to flee for their lives.

Xi people's movements were soon discovered by the Tang Army scouts, and the news reached Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang saw the information and asked people to convey orders to Zhang Shouyu, so that Zhang Shouyu's left army was divided into several branches, and kept harassing and attacking the tail of the Nu Ji Department that was fleeing to the north. So as to achieve the purpose of constantly weakening the strength of Xi people.

If the Xi people ignore it, Zhang Shouyu will keep sending people to harass them, so that the Xi people's marching speed will decrease, and they will not be able to rest well and drag them down!

Dealing with this guerrilla tactic of the Tang Army, Xi Ren had no way at all, and he couldn't think of a way to deal with this kind of guerrilla tactic, in just a few days, Nu Jun's men lost 2,000 people, and only 3,000 people remained, which made Nu Jun and the Great Wizard feel cold and cold.

Zhao Ziliang was leading the army to quickly pursue the Nu Jun Division, on the way to the march this day, he received Zhang Shouyu's flying eagle biography, and after reading it, he was overjoyed, and said to the generals and colonels around him: "Hahaha······ There are 5,000 people under Nu Jun's command, and 2,000 people were swallowed by Zhang Shouyu in just three days, at this rate, as long as it takes a few more days, Xi Ren will be finished! ”

When the generals heard the good news, they all burst out laughing.

In fact, on the grassland, it is precisely the nomadic tribes that can exert the greatest power of guerrilla tactics, they are very familiar with the climate and mountains and terrain on the grassland, all of them are cavalry, the speed of maneuvering is very fast, and there is a broad mass base, but Nu does not understand guerrilla tactics, and Zhao Ziliang has killed all the nomadic tribes on this grassland, and Nu has also lost the mass base.

Zhao Ziliang knows very well that if you want to use guerrilla tactics and give full play to its power, the army must have iron discipline and tenacious will to fight, this is the first, although the Hedong Army is still a little bit worse in Zhao Ziliang's eyes, but it can barely use this tactic, the second is to have a broad mass base, which can achieve the purpose of covering and providing sufficient supplies and food, at this point, the Tang Army has no advantage, so Zhao Ziliang ordered to kill all the nomadic tribes encountered, so that the Xi people have no mass base, Everyone was in the same fair environment, and Zhao Ziliang ordered in advance to take away all the captured cattle and sheep, and divide some of them into butcher shops as food, so as to achieve the purpose of sufficient food reserves and supplies.

For guerrilla tactics, Gao Xiuyan, Zhang Shouyu and others have only learned the surface, Zhao Ziliang did not teach them the essence, once the environment is changed, their guerrilla tactics are likely to fail to achieve the purpose and effect of the operation, this is Zhao Ziliang deliberately guarding against them, after all, according to the original history, Gao Xiuyan later put into the command of An Lushan.

Xi people's temporary camp, inside the tent of Nu Ji.

The helpless anger held the waist knife and kept walking around in the big tent, the losses of the past few days made him exhausted, he went back and forth a few times, he stopped looking up to the sky and sighed: "Is God really going to destroy my Xiren tribe?" ”

In the big tent, several commanders and centurions almost lost their struggle and courage, and the tactics of the Tang army were too scoundrels, and they did not fight head-on, they ran away when they hit, and they kept sending people to harass them, making people unable to sleep at night, and for several days in a row, even these commanders and centurions looked tired and had dark circles under their eyes.

At this time, the Great Wizard finally spoke: "Great Khan, since the Tang army attacked us by breaking it into parts, we can also use the method of breaking it into pieces to quickly disperse and escape, whoever escapes to the Dule River first will cross the river first, and after crossing the river, they will meet on the north bank!" ”

Nu Du's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said, "That's right, turn it into zero!" We can also use the method of breaking the whole into pieces to deal with the Tang Army! ”

The Great Wizard immediately objected: "Great Khan, don't be whimsical, how do you break the whole into pieces to deal with the Tang Army?" The Tang army has plenty of grain and grass in their hands, and we don't, the Tang army's combat effectiveness is not worse than ours, and it is stronger than us, they robbed the horses of many tribes on the grassland, they have enough war horses for high-speed maneuvering and detouring, we only have one horse per person now, and we can't catch up with the Tang army at all, the Great Khan still extinguished this thought, let the sons and daughters break into pieces and rush to the north to cross the river as soon as possible! ”

The Great Wizard's words interrupted the last backbone of Nu Ji, and he sat on the big chair and sighed: "You all heard it, go back and give an order, take ten people as a team, the whole army is scattered, and each of them will advance northward, and if you can beat the Tang army, you will fight, and if you can't beat it, you will run, and after you reach the Dule River, don't hesitate, cross the river quickly!" ”

In this case, there was only this way, and Xi Ren quickly began to act.

Where can Xi people's actions be hidden from the investigation of the Tang Army's reconnaissance and cavalry detective outpost, the news quickly spread to Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang's army is less than fifty miles away from Xi people, but now the Xi people are scattered and fleeing north, which does bring Zhao Ziliang a certain amount of trouble, but this is not difficult for Zhao Ziliang.

Looking at the information in his hand, Zhao Ziliang's eyes flashed, and after a while, he said to Brehan and the others: "I didn't expect that Xi Ren has also learned to be smart, and he knows that the attack on turning the whole into pieces is much smaller!" Give Zhang Shouyu an order to do everything possible to intercept and kill a small group of taunts! ”

Brehan promised: "No! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and looked at Guo Ziyi who was standing next to him, "Guo Ziyi, you lead five hundred people to guard the wounded and protect the cattle, sheep and horses to follow in the rear, and the others will bring enough dry food and drinking water for ten days, and follow this general to the Dule River in a hurry!" ”

All the generals stood up together and clasped their fists and saluted: "No! ”

Dule River is the dividing line between Khitan and Tongluo, south of Dule River is Khitan territory, north of Dule River is Tongluo territory, northeast of Tongluo is the territory of the Servant Bone Clan, the Servant Bone Clan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty more than 100 years ago, and paid tribute every year, and the leader of the Servant Bone Clan today is the father of the Servant Bone Huaien. Further north of Tongluo, on the shores of Lake Baikal, there are Guligan tribes. (To be continued.) )