At the beginning of the Battle of Mobei, the situation was that Abicheril's Turkey army of 80,000 against Liu Xianzhi's 95,000, Liu Xianzhi had a slight advantage in terms of numbers, but the problem was that not all of Liu Xianzhi's 95,000 people were combatants, including more than 20,000 people who drove cars. Moreover, the vast majority of Liu Xianzhi's troops were infantry, even if they all sat on mule-drawn vehicles to increase their marching speed, but in terms of combat ability, they could not be compared with the world-famous Tuqi cavalry.

More crucially, Liu Xianzhi did not know that Abicheril's troops were in front of him, and the Turkic army at least mastered the strategic movements of the Silk Country. This is very detrimental to the country of silk.

At the beginning of the war, the army of the Silk Country continued to advance northward without knowing anything, and the main task of the Tuqi army was to search for the main position of the army of the Silk Country in the desert. Abicheril divided the 10,000 men in the forward into fifty squads, and searched the desert in a fan shape, not to mention that the originally difficult and difficult desert was a serious challenge to the army of the Silk Country, and the route they could take could only advance with the few oases that could replenish the water source, even if Liu Xianzhi chose other unexpected routes, it would be difficult to escape the large net of the Tuqi army.

In a place where there were still about six days left before leaving the desert, Liu Xianzhi's subordinate Han Jianlong first encountered the Tuqi reconnaissance team. However, no armed clash broke out between the two sides at all, because the goal of the Turkic army was to find the enemy's main force, so they did not fight with Han Jianlong's troops, but immediately turned around and fled; And Han Jianlong was unable to catch up with these cavalry troops, so he only reported to the commander that the marching route he was on had been exposed.

This kind of unexpected situation was originally expected by Liu Xianzhi, and it was just a matter of time, so Liu Xianzhi did not pay too much attention to this report. The royal prince has been a frail and sickly body since he was a child, and even when he became an adult, he has not been able to become a heroic young man, and at the age of twenty-one, he looks as weak as a woman from the outside, and his thin face always has a lingering gloomy air. Therefore, an expedition like this one was not so much a great test of his command ability as it was a torture of his physical capacity. The scorching sun, dry air, and poor living conditions in the desert make this usually pampered prince uncomfortable everywhere. The chariot in which he rode was designed to keep out the scorching sun and to keep it airy, but even so he lay there almost all day ago, and barely spoke for the rest of the day except complaining about the lack of fruit and wine, so that he only glanced at it and threw it aside.

What really caught his attention was the news that in a day and a half, he received four reports from his subordinates in succession, each time encountering a troop of about two hundred people, each time retreating on its own without touching the battle, and appearing in different directions on his marching route.

At this time, the neural circuit belonging to the tactician in Liu Xianzhi's body suddenly awakened, and he immediately realized that this was by no means an accident, but the Turkic army was actively searching for his location! There is only one explanation for this, and that is that the main force of the Turkic army is nearby! Su Chengdong's plan to lure the enemy failed!

Liu Xianzhi immediately carefully filtered it in his mind, then turned out the combat map and carefully checked it, and then made adjustments to the existing deployment. It was because of this move that he saved the army of the Silk Country.

It stands to reason that once the location of the main force of the Silk Country is discovered, Abicil should take action, but at this time, Abilir also made a mistake that cannot be counted as a mistake, thus losing the God-given opportunity to defeat Liu Xianzhi completely before he redeploys. Abicheril had already learned about Liu Xianzhi's cunning, so he always doubted that Liu Xianzhi would have other intentions or deviate from the division, so he hoped to get more reports from the reconnaissance team. The other point is that Abiciel, out of the instinct of a battle-hardened general, hopes to win a complete victory, prompting him to find the specific location of Liu Xianzhi's troops transporting heavy grain and grass. If you can sneak attack the opponent's baggage troops before the battle, even if it is just a threat, it can greatly affect the morale of the opponent, create a favorable situation for defeating the enemy's main force, and if you can succeed in the sneak attack, you can even make the army of the country of silk trapped alive in the desert, as a military general, it is really difficult to resist this huge temptation.

But this time he was wrong, Liu Xianzhi did not have the so-called baggage troops at all. Since he had prepared more than 20,000 vehicles, his troops, baggage, grain and grass were completely integrated. Even if the food is eaten up in the end, the troops can still kill mules, horses and cattle as military rations and return to Taiyuan Mansion, which is why Liu Xianzhi's lion opened his mouth to ask Emperor Liu Yan for 400,000 taels of silver and 100,000 brocades, and he bought all of them just to strike with all his might.

However, Abicheril did not give up his fundamental purpose because of this great temptation, and after waiting for a day to no avail, he finally gave up his will to sneak attack the grain and grass before the battle, and began to drive the Tuqi army to attack the army of the Silk Country. And this precious day became the key to the survival of the army of the Silk Country.

When the rising sun rose again from the east side of the desert, the figure of the Tukchi cavalry also appeared on the horizon.

In addition, he also sent 20,000 horses led by Badr, the right virtuous king, to circumvent the army, in an attempt to launch a flanking attack from the rear of the army of the Silk Country, and at the same time cut off the enemy's baggage troops from his own team (at this time, Abiciel did not know that there was no follow-up force in the Silk Country).

On the other hand, the army of the Silk Country had already been prepared for battle, and they had gathered the people who were originally scattered in the army and arranged them in the center, so as not to make a move that would cause chaos for the entire army due to panic.

At this time, the mood of the soldiers on both sides can be said to be very different, the soldiers of the Turkic Army are full of spirit and self-confidence, and the soldiers of the Silk Country are in a nervous mood and trembling. The reason is very simple, in the long history of warfare between the Silk Country and the Tukchi army, there are very few records of victories in frontal field battles, and the most recent victory was achieved last year when the Liaodong Protector Su Chengdong was achieved, but that was also due to the successful rebellion against the eastern Liaodong clan and the disrupted deployment of the Tukchi army. No matter how elite the troops are, they can't help but be terrified when they fight face-to-face with the Turkic army in the field. Only the commander Liu Xianzhi sat calmly in his chariot, gently shook the fan in his hand, and ordered: "The whole army, change the formation!" ”

Just under the noses of the Tuqi army, the formation of the Silk Country changed.

It seemed that they had changed very little, only slightly adjusting their positions, but Abicheril's face changed slightly.

This is a formation that he has never seen before, which was figured out by Liu Xianzhi himself, called "Turtle Formation". In later generations, there were also those who were misrepresented as "ghost arrays". Liu Xianzhi formed the backbone of the formation of more than 20,000 vehicles, which seemed to be square but not square, round and not round. On the whole, it seems to be a circular array, but it is composed of countless small squares, each of which seems to be separated from each other, but in fact it covers each other alternately, can advance or retreat, and can be combined and divided.

Liu Xianzhi took the time to put out this formation that he had never seen before, did he want to use this formation to compete with him? ! Abiciel couldn't help but hesitate. (To be continued.) )