Li Yuan led 30,000 soldiers and horses, starry night to the north to rush to Bingzhou reinforcements, half a month later, the forward has arrived in the southern suburbs of Bingzhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Yang Guangde reported the great news, and assigned Zhang and Wang to go out of the city to greet him on his behalf, and took Li Yuan and the army under his command into Bingzhou.

The two brothers have been separated for nearly half a year since they parted from Chang'an, especially Yang Guang, although they are in the state, they often think of this cousin who will become the terminator of the Sui Dynasty many years later.

To Yang Guang's surprise, he never imagined that Li Yuan would volunteer to lead the army north to reinforce him. Could it be that the script of history has quietly made major changes, Li Yuan is no longer the Tang Gaozu in real history, and his fate will be turned upside down? Yang Guang faced Li Yuan, who was in the dust, and thought wildly in his heart.

Li Yuan led the army to come to reinforcements in time, which added more hope to the safe withdrawal of Yang Shuang's army from the pass. However, after Yang Guang discussed with Li Yuan, Zhang Wei, Wang Shao, and Li Che, it was believed that the biggest problem at present was that it was difficult to send effective scouts to break through the encirclement of the Turkic army, and report the news of the arrival of reinforcements in the Guannai to Yang Shuang, who was trapped in Wuyuan City, and agreed with him to act simultaneously on the north and south roads to break the encirclement of the Turks in one fell swoop.

Prior to this, whether it was Yang Guang himself or Li Che, who had led the army to try to recover Baidao Prefecture, he had sent many scouts, or disguised himself as Turkic herdsmen, or made a detour, trying to go to Wuyuan City to contact Yang Shuang, but just like the multiple scouts sent by Yang Shuang to Guannei in Wuyuan City, they were all gone, I don't know if they were lost on the grassland, or they were found and killed by the Turks.

Since he led the army to the war with the Turks, Yang Guang has always felt the importance of the speed of information transmission to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and he also deeply realized how difficult it was to maintain the undefeated victory as a commander of the whole army under the conditions of cold weapon combat in the Middle Ages.

There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward. After repeated consideration, Yang Guang finally came up with a way to offer a reward to recruit scouts in the army and contact Yang Shuang when he went out. He awarded a reward to all the garrison barracks in Bingzhou, including his own hussar battalion: any scout who can go out of the customs to contact Yang Shuang's army, agree with him to act on the north and south roads at the same time, and then return to Bingzhou alive, no matter what position he is in, he will recommend him to the emperor as the commander of the Hebei Provincial Xingtai Shangshu Order, and reward him with ten thousand dollars.

Although the position of Yi is not very high, it is also an unattainable high position for ordinary Sui army sergeants, not to mention the reward of 10,000 dollars? Less than three days after the award was awarded, the sergeants who came to sign up as scouts broke the threshold of the duty room of the Xingtai Bureau.

Yang Guang ordered Duan Da to screen out twenty sergeants among the sergeants who came to sign up, and gave them the same task: no matter what method was used, even including surrendering to the Turks, go north to contact Yang Shuang's army, and return to Yanmen Pass within ten days.

Yang Guang also decided that no matter whether any of the twenty sergeants could contact Yang Shuang's army, three days later, with Li Yuan and Li Che as the commanders of the army, he led 40,000 troops to attack Baidaozhou.

As a result, when Li Yuan and Li Che had just arrived outside the city of Baidaozhou with 40,000 troops and set up a camp, there were sergeants outside the tent of the Chinese army to report that someone from the scouts sent by the King of Jin to contact Yang Shuang's army came to report the news.

Li Yuan also gave up, and as soon as Li Che, who was sitting at the bottom of the house, heard the news, his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered the scout to come into the account to see him.

After a while, I saw a big man in herdsman's costume striding into the tent, entering the tent, bowing to Li Yuan and Li Che, and said loudly: "Zhao Cai is not talented, and brought back a handwritten letter written by King Wei to the two generals, and asked the two generals to take a look." As he spoke, he took out a letter from his bosom and presented it to Li Yuan.

"Zhao Cai, let me ask you, how did you escape the layers of Turkic checkpoints in such a short period of time and go to Wuyuan City to meet King Wei?" When Zhao Cai reported his name, Li Che suddenly remembered that he was the original owner of the "Killing Hu Village" who was entrusted by Yu Xiaoren to bring a letter to Yang Guang, and couldn't help but ask him in surprise.

"It's not that difficult. Seven days ago, the small one went out of the pass, not straight to the north like others, but all the way to the west, out of a hundred miles, and then to the north, as a result, along the way not even a Turk did not meet, just climbed two mountains, came to the city of Wuyuan, and met the king of Wei. ”

Within seven days, he came back and forth between the two places that were more than 300 miles away from the north and south, and this Zhao Cai was not only good at identifying the direction, but also his foot strength was by no means comparable to ordinary people! Li Che listened to Zhao Cai's brief explanation, and secretly smacked his tongue and exclaimed.

"Let me ask you, King Wei's letter did not specify the time and place of the simultaneous action of the north and south roads, but he confessed to you in person?" Li Yuan hurriedly skimmed through Yang Shuang's handwritten letter, handed the letter to Li Che, and asked Zhao Cai.

"The general is really wise." Zhao Cai praised Li Yuan in person without knowing the depths, signaled Li Yuan to retreat from the tent, and waited until only him, Li Yuan, and Li Che were left in the Chinese army tent, and then lowered his voice and reported, "Before the small one left from Wuyuan City, King Wei specially confessed that he wanted the small one to report to the main general who led the reinforcements out of the customs to meet him, and he will personally lead the army in the middle of the night five days later, and break through to the south from the south gate of Wuyuan City twenty miles to the east, and ask the two generals to take corresponding actions at the same time to cooperate with the breakthrough." ”

"Under the command of King Wei, how many fighting troops are still preserved?" Li Yuan nodded and asked again.

"This, King Wei didn't say, and the little one doesn't know. It's just that King Wei once took the little one to the south gate of Wuyuan City for a walk, and the ground was stained red with blood, and there were dead bodies everywhere......"

"Okay, you can take a break for the time being, the reward promised to you by King Jin will be fulfilled to you later." Li Yuan interrupted Zhao Cai's chatter and ordered him to withdraw from the tent, and Fang said to Li Che, "Qi Angong, it can be preliminarily concluded that Zhao Cai's words are probably true. Let's follow what King Wei said, set the time for launching an attack on Baidaozhou in five days, strive to capture Baidaozhou in a battle, and receive the army to withdraw to Guannei. ”

The progress of the war was far smoother than Li Yuan and Li Che expected, because Yunzhou City, the main communication route between the east and west of the Turkic territory, was unexpectedly captured by Yuwenxin and his army, so that the main Turkic force that returned to Wuyuan City on the eastern route had to transfer troops from Baidaozhou to the west, intending to recapture Yunzhou City from the Sui army as soon as possible, and ensure that the Sha Bolu army of the western expedition against Apo could return to its hometown safely, so the Turkic army left behind in Baidaozhou City had received an order from Gu Hezhen before the Sui army attacked the city: there was no need to defend the city. Just leave a retreat for the Sui army.

It is precisely because of this that the commander of the Turkic Eastern Route Army, the Second Khan Anluo, did not lead the army to stop Yang Shuang's army from breaking through to the south, but tacitly retreated from each other: the Turkic army let Yang Shuang's army smoothly join up with Li Yuan's troops who came out of the pass to reinforce and jointly withdraw to Yanmen Pass, and the Turkic army followed and occupied Baidaozhou again, so that the situation outside Yanmen Pass was restored to the original state before the war between the two countries.