At dawn, in the camp of the Qiang army, a group of Qiang soldiers dragged their sleepy and tired bodies back and forth.

The period before dawn was the hardest, and when sleepiness hit, a Qiang soldier yawned and said to his chief: "Brother Haji, why does General Yueji always let our team keep vigil and patrol?" I stayed up all night this night, and I could only sleep in the tent during the day, how could I have the spirit to go out and grab the good things of the Han people! ”

The chief named Haji glared at the Qiang soldier and reprimanded, "Don't talk nonsense! Beware of General Yue Ji hearing your complaints and court-martialing. ”

The Qiang soldier shrank his head in fright when he heard Shi Chang say this, and he didn't dare to speak anymore.

And when Haji saw him like this, he also sighed slightly, and said with some grievances: "Alas, it's all to blame for that little prince, who has to let us rob those Han girls for fun, and who doesn't have mothers and sisters, and the most annoying thing is that he even ran to King Cherrigi to sue us." King Cherrigi did not want to save his face, so he had to punish us for being on duty all day and night. Entering the mother, everyone came out of the tribe, and the head was pinned to the waistband of the trousers to fight desperately, isn't the picture of the Han people's flower world, and his subordinates who are obsessed with him also robbed a lot of property? Why are you blocking Lao Tzu's way to get rich! ”

Haji, who had made his subordinates cautious at first, became more and more indignant the more he spoke, and was about to open his mouth to curse a few words, but he heard a gust of wind piercing the air in his ears and a whooshing sound, followed by his subordinates screaming and falling to the ground.

Before Haji could understand what was going on, his shoulder ached, and a crossbow bolt landed in his shoulder.

Haji looked up in horror and saw that countless black shadows were moving in the camp, like rolling dark clouds in the dark night, surging and quietly pouring in.

Enemy attack! Haji realized immediately. But then he fell into a wave of confusion. The place where he patrols is close to the Chinese army camp, not only are there patrolling soldiers in front, but there are also comrades on duty outside the gate, how did these people come in quietly?

Haji didn't have much time to think about it, and another bolt quickly pierced his throat, sending a bloody light and the body fell to the ground on its back.

The black shadows rushed into the camp tent of the Qiang soldiers, and cut the sleeping Qiang soldiers to the ground like chopping melons and vegetables. For a while, the screams of the Qiang army in the camp were endless.

General Yueji was the first senior general in the Qiang army to react. He has a long and majestic figure, and his face is full of horizontal meat. used to hunt tigers alone in the mountains, and he was also a rare tiger general in the Qiang army.

Awakened by the noise, Yue Ji walked out of the tent to see that the tents in the barracks had been doused with fire oil and set on fire. By the light of the fire, Yue Ji immediately recognized that it was the imperial army's army that attacked the camp at night and set fire to kill people everywhere.

Since Liu Wei carried out the reform of the military system, all the troops under his command have taken off their fat shirts and hakama, and changed them into close-fitting narrow clothes and narrow pants with a modern style. This greatly facilitates the movement and daily life of the soldiers. The other princes of the Han Dynasty did not participate in the change of clothes because they resisted this military reform, which caused the uniqueness of the troops directly under the imperial court, so Yue Ji could recognize at a glance that it was the imperial army's army that attacked the military camp at night.

Yue Ji didn't have time to think about why the imperial army's army appeared here, because at this time, the entire camp had become a mess. Although the Qiang soldiers fought fiercely and were not afraid of death, they only had a high quality of individual combat, but their overall combat ability and military literacy were not strong, and sometimes they were even inferior to the Yellow Turban Army, so the sudden night attack of the Han army could cause great confusion to the camp of the Qiang army.

Yue Ji looked at his subordinates who were flying like headless flies, he was so angry and angry that he picked up his weapon, the car ** axe, and rushed forward with a roar.

Before Yue Ji could restrain the army and resist the Han army, his roar had already attracted the attention of others. A Han general in silver armor and white robe, who straddled a white horse, stared at the tiger and rushed towards him with a silver spear in his hand.

Yue Ji hadn't seen who it was at all, he only felt a flash of silver light in front of him, and he couldn't help but be shocked, so fast! The spear had pierced his throat in an instant.

The enemy general rode a horse past Yue Ji's side, Yue Ji's body fell to the ground with a bang, and before he died, he was still unwilling and stunned to think: "There are still such fast people in the world?" ”

After Yue Ji was killed in seconds, Qiang King Cheriji was also awakened by the earth-shattering killing shouts, he was already not confused, he had just inherited the throne of the Qiang King, and he was hesitant and satisfied, and this time he came to the Central Plains at the invitation of Li Dao Guo Yan and robbed a lot of property. After walking out of the tent and seeing the chaos in the camp, he thought of not organizing soldiers to resist, but ordering his subordinates to load the looted property into a truck and prepare to escape.

Cherrigi had this idea, and his subordinates were even more reluctant to snatch the Han people's property. It's just that the attacking Han army how could they calmly pack their belongings and escape, those Qiang soldiers and Qiang generals who gave up resistance but were reluctant to flee with their belongings were all cut down by the Han army who rushed over.

As the king of Qiang, Cheriji naturally had more money around him than ordinary soldiers, so he walked slower than people. Seeing that the Han army was getting closer and closer to the Chinese military tent, the little prince of the Qiang army ran to Cheriji and persuaded: "The defeat is decided, the enemy army is coming, the king should stop being obsessed with property, and run with me quickly!" ”

Although Cherrigi and Midang belong to the same Qiang tribe, they do not belong to the same tribe. Cheriji was friends with Mi Dang's grandfather, the old Qiang king of another tribe, and when he invaded the Central Plains with Li Dao, he brought Mi Dang to the Central Plains at the request of the old Qiang king to make a fortune.

Although Cherrigi usually has a respectful attitude towards the mir, but at this time the situation is chaotic, and he himself is greedy for profit, and he is reluctant to turn the property in front of him into water, so he just shook his head again and again for the kind words and persuasion of the mira, and said: "I came to the Central Plains with my life, for these gold, silver and jewelry, the little nephew's wealth is small, so naturally I don't care, but it is impossible for me not to take them away." ”

Seeing that he was so dizzy, he had no choice but to sigh helplessly, and no longer cared about whether Cheriji was alive or dead, and led his subordinates to flee westward.

While running, Mi Dang also ordered people to scatter the stolen gold, silver and jewelry all over the ground. , in the hope that the pursuing Han army would be busy picking up treasures and slowing down the pace of pursuit.

However, this Han army was a bit too much to do, this Han army was very disciplined, and they did not treat the treasures on the ground as if they were nothing, but they did not pursue the troops of Midang. This is mainly because there are too many people in the Qiang army who are greedy for money and have no time to escape, and this Han army is a little too busy to deal with them, how can they have time to care about this Qiang army that gave up their baggage and fled lightly.

In the end, the king of Qiang did not escape safely with all the treasures, and the Han army that killed him surrounded him, and in the face of the weapons in the hands of the Han soldiers, Cheriji's legs began to tremble.

A tall, tiger-backed Han general walked up to him and looked at him with contempt characteristic of a victor.

"Who are you?" Cherrigi asked in a trembling voice.

"Jiang Qi, the general of the Great Han West Garden!"

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In October of the second year of Guangxi, the Xiyuan Army, which retreated southward, avoided the counterattack of the Xiliang rebels and launched a series of attacks on the Qiang army that was plundering in the Central Plains near Taibai County.

Because the Qiang tribes that invaded the Central Plains were mixed, did not belong to each other, and were scattered and plundered in the surrounding counties, it was easy for the Xiyuan Army to defeat them one by one.

After breaking two Qiang armies in a row, the Xiyuan Army attacked the largest tribe of the Qiang army that invaded the Central Plains on the night and night of the 26th, the Cheriji Division.

After the battle, the Xiyuan Army killed 3,000 Qiang soldiers, captured 5,000 people, and carried countless grains and grasses. Captain Zhao Yunli beheaded the enemy general General Yueji, and the enemy chief Cheriji and Prime Minister Yadan were captured.

The Qiang soldiers who invaded the Central Plains were dealt a serious blow, and the other tribes began to retreat westward to the vicinity of Chencang and Yuxian, ready to run away at any time.

Hearing the news that the Cherrigi Department was completely annihilated, Li Dao was angry and angry, he didn't expect that the Xiyuan Army would not care about the competition for one city and one pool with him, and specifically aimed at destroying his living forces. However, he looked forward and shrank his forces, and finally the allies suffered heavy losses.

Li Dao had a headache about the strange tactics of the Xiyuan Army, and in the Xiyuan Army resting in Taibai County, Xun You also raised his incomprehension of this novel tactic to Jiang Qi.

Since Xun You entered the Xiyuan Army, Jiang Qi has always respected him as a teacher, and he doesn't care that Xun You is not a few years older than him. And the reason why he has such a respectful attitude is because Liu Wei once said to him a sentence about Xun You's evaluation: "Gongda is considered to have no last resort, and after reaching the power change, the talent of good and fair is still too much!" ”

In Liu Wei's heart, Xun You was regarded as a more powerful character than Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, which naturally made Jiang Qi immediately respect Xun You. Liu Wei also told him many times to learn more from Xun You, so Jiang Qi treated Xun You as a teacher.

Jiang Qi's humility surprised Xun You, he thought that Jiang Qi was the kind of close minister of the Son of Heaven who was from a low background and suddenly soared to the sky by the Son of Heaven, and he would definitely be pampered and arrogant, and he would not take him seriously. However, after the actual contact, Xun You felt that Jiang Qi respected him so much, which made Xun You feel a little embarrassed, feeling that he was spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and he really had the demeanor of a big family.

Therefore, Xun You also began to make friends with Jiang Qi, and the two had many exchanges in military affairs. In Xun You's eyes, although Jiang Qi's ability is only a middle-class person, he is better than being able to make up for his clumsiness, and he also has a set of methods for training and governing the army. Just like this time to avoid the edge of the Xiliang rebels, the tactics of attacking the Qiang army in the south are his deployment. This surprised Xun You, and after careful questioning, he learned that it was the method of sports warfare taught by Liu Wei, the son of heaven.

Xun You didn't expect Liu Wei to be proficient in the art of war, and he could train Jiang Qi, who was a middle-spirited person, so powerfully. A more detailed question about what sports warfare is.

Xun You is his own person, Jiang Qi naturally will not hide it, and tell the essence of sports warfare.

Movement warfare is a combat mode in which the weaker side of the two sides of the war relies on the terrain and the mobility of the troops to carry out large-scale military transfers, exchange space for time, and then concentrate superior forces to quickly resolve the battle, and launch an ambush and encirclement against the enemy's detachments and even the main force to annihilate them. It is mainly suitable for battlefields with complex terrain, and requires you to be familiar with the geographical environment. And the main goal is to destroy the living forces of the enemy. In the Kuomintang-Communist War, this tactic was widely used by the PLA.

Liu Wei, who had the modern knowledge of his previous life, taught this tactic to Jiang Qi and practiced it on the battlefield in ancient times. Jiang Qi said to Xun You that if Li Dao had not tightened his forces and hesitated, he would have absolutely been sure that he would have dragged down the Xiliang rebels in the movement war and annihilated them. However, this time it was able to hit the Qiang army hard and cut off Li Dao's wings, which can be regarded as a gain.

In the end, Jiang Qi summed up the essence of sports warfare in one sentence:

"Avoid the enemy's main force, lure the enemy deep, and concentrate superior forces to break through one by one."

Xun You silently recited these words, and couldn't help but sigh with admiration: "Your Majesty's wisdom is extraordinary, unfathomable!" ”

After defeating the main force of the Qiang army, Jiang Qi received a military order from Liu Wei to return to Wugong, Zhou Zhi and Huangfu Song's army to prepare for a decisive battle with the Xiliang rebels!