"It's been two days, why hasn't Jeluhan sent someone back to report it? Could it be that something happened to him too? Nu was anxious in the big tent, and kept walking back and forth.

The other commanders in the big tent all looked at Nu all one by one, they all knew that the situation in the Khitan was not optimistic now, the Hedong Army broke into the depths of Mobei this time, and the tactics used made the leaders of these Khitan tribes unheard of, only less than a year later, the Hedong Army is different from the past, what is going on?

At this time, the great wizard, who had not spoken a word for two days, finally spoke: "Great Khan! ”

Hearing this voice, Nu Du stopped moving, his body trembled, turned to look at the dark place in the corner of the big tent, and said in surprise: "Great wizard, you can finally speak?" ”

The shaman still had the same old and hoarse voice, and his tone was flat: "Great Khan, how is the situation outside?" ”

Nu Du began to introduce to the shaman: "I sent Yeluhan to take a team of 1,000 people to test the reality of the Tang army, and two days have passed, and no one has returned!" ”

The shaman seemed to have known that this would be the case, and asked, "How many tribes have come together in the past two days?" ”

When asked this question, Nu Ji's face was not good-looking, and he immediately became gloomy: "No, there is not a single tribe, it's really hateful, these dogs who are forgetful of profit and are greedy for life and afraid of death, they may have seen that the Tang Army is coming for our Xi tribe this time, so they are afraid of offending the Tang Dynasty, so they dare not come!" ”

The shaman snorted coldly and said: "I'm afraid that things are not so simple, the Tang people have a saying that 'under the nest, how can there be eggs?'" 'Without my Xi clan, the other tribes are a fart?' None of those tribal leaders were stupid, how could they not understand this powerful relationship? The reason why they didn't come is that I'm afraid that things have changed, and what I'm worried about now is that the Tang army ambushed them halfway and annihilated them before they arrived! ”

"Shhh ”

The shaman shook his head: "Nothing is impossible! ”

There was silence again in the tent, everyone was thinking about it, and I don't know how long it was, when the shaman spoke again: "Great Khan, retreat north!" Cross the Dule River, go to the territory of Tongluo, and then borrow the road from them to continue north! ”

Angry and stunned, he didn't get angry, but asked, "Why?" ”

"Because of one person, Zhao Ziliang! This is a killing star, at the end of last year, he went to Hedong and became Tian Renwan's left wing soldier and horse envoy, his arrival made the entire Hedong undergo earth-shaking changes, the Hedong Army has changed from beginning to end, and it is no longer like before, it can be seen from the attack along the way that the Hedong Army entered Mobei, this person is extraordinary, even if it is Wang Zhonghei of Shuofang, he dare not say that he can do better than him! ”

Shamans are not really able to predict many things through divination, and they may be able to predict good luck and evil through divination, but when it comes to Zhao Ziliang, it is obvious that this shaman has another source of information.

"There are two people in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Zhongsi and Zhao Ziliang, in Shuofang and Hedong, and the unruly people on the Mobei grassland are all subjugated and honestly do nothing, Great Khan, keep some blood for the Khitan!"

These words were too sad and helpless, which made the coldness in Nu Du's heart even worse, and Nu Du sighed: "Great Wizard, how can Nu Du not understand what you mean? It's just ・・・・・・ how easy it is? It would be easy to cross the Dule River, but will the Tongluo people allow us to pass through their territory? They don't think that our excuses are false and our attacks are real? Besides, our Xi tribe lost a lot of troops last year, but there are still more than 30,000 old and weak people, and it is not feasible for so many people to move to the north of the Dule River in a short period of time, and I am afraid that the Tang army may be hoping that we will be like this, so that they can chase and kill us later! ”

Although the great wizard can divinate and predict good fortune and evil, and can obtain some information through some special channels, but after all, he doesn't understand military and politics, and he can't think about many things.

The Great Wizard said, "I don't know much about this, but when the Great Khan thinks about it, what is more important to you than to exterminate the clan?" ”

Anger shook his body in horror, and said solemnly: "Great wizard, is it so serious? ”

"Yes・・・・・・・" The archwizard could no longer speak after only one word, as if some force had imprisoned him to continue.

Nu was very anxious, he walked around the big tent, and said as he walked: "Until now, we don't know the specific situation of the Tang Army, how many soldiers and horses they have, how many cavalry, how many infantry, what is the specific combat strength, who is the commander of the army?" Why? Why is this happening? How dare the southern barbarians go deep into the desert north to attack us? Since I can remember my anger, this phenomenon has never occurred, the southern barbarians only know that they are cowering within the Great Wall to defend, and they never dare to go deep into Mobei, even Wang Zhonghe, who defeated me, has never done this kind of thing, who is the commander of this Tang army? ”。

A commander next to him said: "Great Khan, didn't the Great Wizard just now say that a person named Zhao Ziliang came to Hedong and became different?" Will the commander of the Hedong Army this time be him? ”

"Zhao Ziliang?" Angry were stunned for a moment, and then clapped his hands: "Yes, it is likely to be this Zhao Ziliang, no one in the entire Hedong was in my eyes before this, otherwise they would not have been killed by us last year, and only this newcomer Zhao Ziliang could do this kind of thing!" ”

There was a civil official next to him who said to Nu Jun: "Great Khan, judging from the changes in Hedong in the past year and the recent breakthrough of this Tang army into the hinterland of our Mobei, this Zhao Ziliang is a person who is good at taking risks, and the Great Khan must not be taken lightly!" ”

Nu Du sighed in his heart: "I just want to wait for the idle eye, everyone is killed at the door, where can I still wait and ignore it?" ”

Nu Jun thought about it for a while and looked at all the people above the commander level in the tent, and asked, "Now that we don't even know any movement of the Tang Army, how can we make a bystander and deployment?" The top priority at the moment is to find out the situation, and we must continue to send people to find out the situation of the Tang Army in order to make a move, otherwise everything we do will be blind! ”

One of the commanders said: "Great Khan, Yeluhan has not heard from him for two days, and they will probably never come back, which means that even if we send a thousand people, we can't handle the Tang Army's reconnaissance cavalry, or that the Tang Army has deployed a trap in front that we don't know and waiting for us to automatically send it to death, and a thousand people have not bubbled up in it, this is really terrible, we can't send more people, and the only way now is to divide the reconnaissance cavalry into many squads, each squad has three or five or six or seven people, The Tang Army's vigilance and defense cannot be airtight, and only by sending a number of scout cavalry or a dozen scout cavalry to make the Tang Army unable to defend itself can it be possible to break through their reconnaissance and alert deployment line and go deep into the upper part of their sphere of influence to investigate the situation! ”

Nu Jun listened to the words of the commander and thought about it carefully, it is not a good way to do this, as for whether it can be done, only after trying it will you know, and now that is the only way, it is possible to figure out the situation of Tang Jun.

Nu Du immediately ordered the 150 scouts to be divided into 30 squads, each with five scouts, one of whom was the squad leader.

Breaking into pieces is indeed a good way to hide strength and traces in the vast grassland, this move of Nu Ji has brought a lot of pressure to the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry under Zhao Ziliang and the remaining one hundred and sixty elite cavalry after the battle, mainly because there are too many small groups of Khitan scouts, and they are too scattered, plus the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry They need to be on guard too much, and it is impossible to be foolproof.

After chasing and killing twelve Khitan scouts in a row, Xuanyi waited for reports from others, and at least more than the number of these killed scouts broke through their cordon.

Faced with this situation, several leaders of the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry gathered together, and Xuan Er asked, "Boss, what now?" We can't let these Khitan scouts who break through the cordon and go deep into our army's sphere of influence, once they find out the situation of our army, the general's deployment and plan will be affected! ”

Several other people, Xuan San, Xuan Si, Xuan Wu and others all looked at Xuan Yi, waiting for his decision, Xuan Yi thought for a while, and said: "The matter has come to this, we have to find a way to remedy it as much as possible, now there are two things to do, first, divide half of the men and horses to chase and kill the Khitan scouts who broke through the cordon, and the remaining half of the people must not only prevent more Khitan scouts from breaking through our cordon, but also do everything possible to prevent the Khitan scouts who have broken through the cordon from returning, intercept and kill them, so that they can't bring back the information of the reconnaissance road; Second, immediately send someone to report the situation to the general, so that the general has a preparation in his heart, and maybe the general will adjust the deployment and tactics according to this situation! Xuan Si, your riding skills are the best, and you can report this matter to the general in person! ”

Xuan Si arched his hand and said, "Understand, I'll take four people!" ”

Xuan Yi said to Xuan Er again: "Xuan Er, you will take half of the men and horses to hunt down those Khitan scouts, and use the Flying Eagle to communicate at any time if there is a situation!" ”

"Understood!"

Nowadays, there are several main means of transmitting information, the first is word of mouth; the second is fast horses, such as 600 miles expedited, 800 miles expedited; The third is the flying pigeon, this means of conveying information is very fast, but there are limitations, you must take the carrier pigeon away, and then release them when transmitting the message, they will automatically return to the nest, so as to achieve the purpose of transmitting information; Fourth, the flying eagle transmits the book, the tool for transmitting information is the eagle, the eagle is much smarter than the pigeon, a well-trained eagle can find its owner and target at any time and any place, so that the information is sent to the other party, but the method of training the eagle is not a secret, and very few people will use this training method. (To be continued.) )