Don army battalion.

The camp is rudimentary, but regular, and it is full of mysteries, and it is poorly arranged to save time when pulling out the camp, and although it is rudimentary, its defense is hidden in it.

In the past few days, Zhao Ziliang has raided the soldiers and horses of 23 large and small Khitan tribes in this vicinity, annihilating a total of 12,700 Khitan troops and people, and his own losses have not exceeded 500, and there are 3,800 people after joining up with Gao Xiuyan, and after excluding losses, there are now more than 3,400 people.

Many soldiers in the camp are sharpening their horizontal knives and arrows with stones, the high-intensity combat in the past few days, the joy after winning the battle and a large number of captures have made the soldiers forget their tiredness, and their spirits are getting better and better, but the weapons are seriously damaged in the battle due to continuous combat, many soldiers have cut their blades into notches or seriously dull, and the arrows have lost their sharpness, although the arrows collected from the battlefield can still be eaten, they also need to be polished, so the soldiers can be seen sharpening their knives everywhere in the camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Xuan Si was reporting to Zhao Ziliang that a large number of scout cavalry of the Khitan Xi tribe had broken through the reconnaissance cordon and infiltrated this side, but he was afraid that the strength of the Tang army would soon be exposed.

After Xuan Si finished speaking, Zhao Ziliang instructed the other subordinates to prepare meals and camp tents for him and his accompanying subordinates, so that they could go to rest after eating, and after Xuan Si left, Brehan stood up and said to Zhao Ziliang: "General, it is better to let the last general send the elite to conduct a large-scale search at night, and annihilate all these Khitan scouts who broke through the reconnaissance cordon, so as to prevent them from approaching our army camp and snooping on our army!" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's too late, the Khitan people have been living in this area, and their reconnaissance and camouflage skills are no worse than yours. ”

Gao Xiuyan frowned and said: "General, in this way, the Khitan Xi clan will soon learn that our army is false and real, and Nu Du is likely to raise the entire clan's troops to approach our army, and then look for fighters to fight a decisive battle with our army!" ”

For this situation, Zhao Ziliang has long thought that the news cannot be tightly sealed, Nu will definitely find a way to find a way to find out the truth of the Tang Army at all costs, and then seek a decisive battle with the Tang Army, if it is in peacetime, Nu will probably still fight with the Tang Army in the prairie, but not now, it has now entered late autumn and October, and it is about to enter winter, if you can't prepare enough forage and food before winter, the Xi people will suffer heavy losses in this winter, so Nu Du can't afford to delay, He didn't have time to spend it with Zhao Ziliang.

After thinking for a long time, Zhao Ziliang asked: "Brehan, did you find out that there are Khitan tribes coming over here today?" ”

Brehan shook his head and shook his head: "From yesterday afternoon until now, I have not found any Khitan tribes coming to this side, and my subordinates estimate that most of the main forces of the Khitan tribes living in the east have been annihilated by our army, even if there are some small tribes that have not sent troops to come, the number will be very small, and all the tribes in the east should only be left with old and weak women and children!" ”

Zhao Ziliang took out an arrow from the desk and said to Brehan: "Give you a thousand cavalry, go and eradicate all the old and weak women and children of the Khitan tribe in the east, and leave no one behind!" ”

"Ah-" All the generals in the tent were shocked, Zhao Ziliang was going to be slaughtered! They don't have anything to do with themselves, Zhao Ziliang will carry them out when he orders them, what they are worried about is that Zhao Ziliang gives such an order, if it hits the imperial court, there will definitely be officials who write to the emperor and attack them wantonly, sometimes rumors can kill people!

Guo Ziyi is a soldier educated by orthodox Confucianism, and he was the first to stand up and bow his hand to Zhao Ziliang: "Enshuai, I'm afraid that this move is inappropriate, our army will enter the grassland, annihilate the living forces of the Khitan, and drive them further north, so why do you need to do anything to their old and weak women and children?" The soldiers are afraid that they won't be able to do it! ”

Zhao Ziliang ignored Guo Ziyi, looked at the other generals, and asked, "Do the others think the same way?" ”

All the generals and colonels bowed their heads, not daring to express their opinions, nor daring to oppose Zhao Ziliang's orders.

Zhao Ziliang said in a deep voice: "The military order has been issued and must be executed!" All the consequences will be borne by General Ben! It's not okay to wait for opposition, now this is the general in charge, and when you become the chief general, you can act according to your own wishes! Brehan, don't you want to go? ”

Brehan hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The last general has orders!" ”

After speaking, Brehan said again: "General, the young general has been following the last general these days, fighting bravely, killing dozens of enemies, according to the theory of military merits, it is enough to be promoted to the position of captain!" ”

Zhao Ziliang glanced at Zhao Hu, Zhao Hu immediately puffed up his chest and was quite complacent, but heard Zhao Ziliang say: "This battle has not been fought yet, and after this battle is over, we will reward and punish you!" ”

Zhao Hu hasn't grown up after all, he is still a child, and when he heard this, he was a little deflated, and his head drooped, which made the generals of the uncle generation next to him can't help but be happy when they see it.

Zhao Ziliang didn't care about him, and said: "Use the flying eagle to send a letter to Zhang Shouyu to order, once Nu Du leads his troops to approach our Chinese army, he will immediately contain it, or swim or attack, it is all up to him to decide, in short, he can't let Nu Du be comfortable!" ”

"No!"

According to the current situation, the strength of the Khitan tribes scattered in the eastern part of the grassland has been almost eradicated, leaving only the old and weak women and children, but the physical strength and energy of the soldiers who have been fighting for several days have been relatively large, although the soldiers are very excited after winning the battle, but this is just an illusion, the soldiers are really tired physically and mentally, and they need to rest, so Zhao Ziliang gave Zhang Shouyu an order to let him contain the Xi people from the northwest direction, and not let the Xi people approach him wholeheartedly.

The general situation of the Tang army was transmitted to the big tent of Nu Ji through the scout cavalry who fled back, and Nu Du's face was very ugly after hearing it, the great wizard was right, the Tang army intercepted the eastern Khitan tribe army that came to converge in the middle of the road, and killed all these armies, so that the Xi people were isolated and helpless, and the Tang army was so poisonous!

Nu all shouted angrily: "The Tang army is really cunning, and it actually uses this despicable and shameless method to weaken our strength, and now we have no other way, except to cross the Dule River and escape to the north of Tongluo, and then raise the whole clan to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army and kill them all!" ”

"Kill them all, kill them all・・・・・・" The commanders and centurions in the big tent shouted with their fists raised.

On that day, Nu Du ordered, leaving the old and weak women and children in the tent station, and he took the great wizard and the whole army of more than 7,000 horsemen to the south to approach Zhao Ziliang's Chinese army.

On October 18, after two days of continuous marching, more than a dozen fast horses caught up with the Xi army led by Nu from behind.

Nu Du was shocked when he saw these dozen Xi soldiers, and immediately asked the leading commander, "Babu, didn't you let you lead the troops to guard the tooth tent?" Why do you look like that? ”

Babu rolled down from his horse, fell to his knees, and cried: "Great Khan, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's all over the 30,000 old and weak women and children of the same tribe!" ”

When Nu Du heard the news, he almost fell off the horse, his face turned pale, he didn't agree to stabilize his body, he calmed down, and immediately asked, "What's the matter?" What's going on here? You make it clear to Ben Khan, make it clear quickly! ”

Babu took a breath and said: "One day after the Great Khan led the army to leave the tooth tent, early yesterday morning, a Tang army suddenly came from the northwest direction, the number of about two thousand horsemen, this Tang army cavalry is very strong, everyone has two horses, I have not had time to gather the sons and daughters to be scattered by the Tang army, I led more than two hundred people to resist, but the other side is too numerous, the combat power is too strong, I can't resist, I was seriously injured and comatose and escaped with the protection of my subordinates, according to his subordinates, the Tang army slaughtered in the tent camp, not a single living mouth was left ・・・・・・・".

Hearing this, Nu Du couldn't hold it anymore, his mental blow was too great, and he fell off the horse and fainted as soon as he rolled his eyes.

Nu Ji was finally rescued by his subordinates and woke up, it has been half a day, and the tooth tent has been removed by the Tang Army, which is too big a blow to Nu Ji, which shows that he has no way to retreat, even the old nest is gone, where is there still the heart to continue to fight Zhao Ziliang, so he immediately ordered: "Come on, order everyone to turn around and go back, go back!" ”

The soldiers of the Xi army were inexplicable when they heard this order, and many of them expressed their dissatisfaction, but the news spread quickly, and the nest was wiped out by the Tang army, and this time the Xi army turned around one after another, and no longer had the idea of continuing to advance towards Zhao Ziliang's Chinese army.

After galloping for a day and night, Nu Jun finally rushed back to the tent camp with the Xi army, but what he saw was hundreds of vultures eating corpses all over the ground, countless corpses on the ground, all kinds of weapons inserted on the corpses, some flags were burned and half were still fluttering in the wind, some thick tents were still burning and emitting black smoke, and the cattle, sheep and horses were all gone.

The rotting corpses emitted a foul smell, but the vultures ate with relish, and Nu and the thousands of soldiers of the Xi army under him were all stupid.

I don't know how long it took, but I don't know who shouted: "Revenge!" ”

This instantly ignited the fire of revenge among all the Xi soldiers, who angrily raised their weapons and shouted: "Revenge, revenge ・・・・・・・."

Parents, children, brothers and sisters and other relatives are in front of this large corpse, and the corpses are still being eaten by these vultures, which makes the Xi soldiers explode into unprecedented hatred, but they have also become a real lone army!

Everyone else was blinded by hatred, but the Great Wizard and Nu were not, the army without the backing of the people was a lone army, and the lone army could not get any supplies and support, even if they won the Tang army, if they didn't find a way to capture a large number of women to recuperate and breed, it wouldn't be long before the Xi people perished. (To be continued.) )