After discovering that the Turks had invaded on a large scale, Xue Boren immediately sent troops to the front line to support. According to his estimates, the Turkic army would bypass Shuozhou and attack Xinzhou, the gateway to Taiyuan. However, for the Turkic army, which is not good at attacking the city, Xinzhou is not so easy to be captured, so Abichilir will not stop the city, but will cut off the internal and external connections of Xinzhou, and then lead the army south to Taiyuan. In this way, he would inevitably face a battle with the Tuqi army in the field, which would be extremely disadvantageous to the Taiyuan army, which was dominated by infantry—since the cavalry unit was still being trained and formed, Xue Boren did not intend to put the inexperienced cavalry unit into actual combat at this moment. Therefore, Xue Boren judged that the surrounding area of Xinzhou City would become the main battlefield. After making such a judgment, Xue Boren led an army of 50,000 to march quickly to the periphery of Xinzhou.

Due to Xue Boren's quick response, when his troops reached the Xinzhou front, the Tuqi cavalry, known for their quick attacks, had not yet arrived. This was somewhat unexpected by Xue Boren, but since this was already the case, then taking the opportunity to strengthen the defense in the surrounding area of Xinzhou would gain a greater victory in the field battle with the Tuqi army, so Xue Boren quickly adjusted his deployment and began to deploy defenses in the area north of Xinzhou City.

After some deliberation, he chose Lan Fengji as the location of the handsome tent. It is an ideal location with the mountain at its back, facing the avenue, overlooking the overall situation, attacking and retreating. But when he led 15,000 soldiers to prepare to enter the area, he was confronted by the Tukchi forces.

For the same reason, Abicheril also chose Lan Fengji as the temporary king's tent, which was slightly different from Xue Boren. Due to the unfamiliarity of the terrain, Abiciel chose this place only after scouts had scouted it. This is a little later than Xue Boren. When his escort outpost encountered Xue Boren's troops, both sides were taken aback. After learning that this is a main force in the Silk Country. Abicheril, while rallying his troops to move closer to him, decided to immediately attack with all his might. Because the total number of his escorts does not exceed 5,000 people, if the other party knows his true strength, I am afraid that he will be surrounded immediately, then he, as the Great Khan of Tuqi, has to retreat from the front of the enemy, which is a big blow to the morale of the army. Moreover, the speed of the Tuqi cavalry's reinforcements will be much faster than that of the infantry of the Silk Country, and they will soon be able to occupy the advantage in terms of strength. Crush this main force of the enemy.

As a result of Abicherier's judgment, the Arashi Bongji encounter inevitably began, and both sides continued to gather forces to this location, so that a dog-tooth melee situation was formed, which multiplied the scale of the battle.

In the face of the fierce attack of the Tuqi cavalry, the army of the Silk Country was in chaos for a while. Due to the fact that the Great Khan's guards were all the most elite Turkey warriors, and it was a sudden encounter, the infantry of the Silk Country did not know the number of opponents, and they had no intention of resisting. Began to retreat to Arashi Bongji. Although the army of the Silk Country paid heavy casualties for this, it also bought Xue Boren time to prepare. This time, Xue Boren brought a chariot of his own design, which could be pulled by oxen and horses, or propelled by infantry. In peacetime, it can be used to transport military grain and grass, and in wartime, it can be used as a fortification by simply erecting the wooden planks wrapped in cooked cowhide on the truck. Joining these vehicles together formed a wall, and it was not so easy for cavalry to cross this small wall. Coupled with a spear, it was possible to stop the cavalry from forcing a breakthrough. Although the number of chariots was small, Xue Boren took advantage of the favorable terrain of Lan Fengji to quickly form a defensive barrier. The infantry fired arrows at the Tukchi cavalry within this wall, inflicting considerable losses on the Turges. Seeing that the strong attack was ineffective, the Tuqi cavalry began to set fire, and once broke through the defense line in the southeast corner of Lan Fengji, but Xue Boren sent people to desperately block the gap and recapture the defense line, so that the two sides fell into a stalemate.

At dusk, the first support army of the Tukchi arrived on the battlefield, and the number of Abicheril's troops rose to more than 10,000 men, and immediately launched a full-scale attack. So far, everything was as Abicil had expected, and his tactics were successful. But after that, things started to get unmanageable.

At dawn, reinforcements from the Silk Country also arrived on the battlefield. Although this army was only 2,500 people, it greatly encouraged the besieged army in Lan Fengji, especially this army dispersed the forces of Tuqi, making the offensive against Lan Fengji significantly weaker, and giving Xue Boren a chance to breathe.

In fact, there was some luck in the fact that this force was able to rush to support. Because there were two Tuqi reinforcements and four Silk Country reinforcements encountered that night, the two sides fought in the dark night, and this unit was divided by the Tuqi cavalry and got lost, and came to Lan Fengji by mistake. After daybreak, the armies of both sides gathered more and more, but neither of them could reach the battlefield of Lan Fengji, but continued to fight with the enemy troops they encountered. In this situation, the advantages of the Tuqi cavalry could not be brought into play. Originally, the tactics of the Tuqi were very clear, that is, to charge the cavalry group to break up the formation of the infantry of the Silk Country, and then sweep it away, if the opponent's formation was solid, the Tuqi cavalry immediately retreated, and began to attack the opponent. However, this tactic could not be used at all in this battle, because Xue Boren's subordinates were well versed in the defensive tactics of the main general, and the solid lineup made it difficult for the cavalry to be effective. In this way, the cavalry of Tuqi and the infantry of the Silk Country were completely mixed together, and the two sides simply fought each other without any tactical use to speak of, especially after the troops were dispersed, even if the general in command wanted to reverse the situation, it was already impossible to do it.

With no new reinforcements available to either side, and had to contend with his opponent with his existing strengths, Abicialir had to face the disadvantage of two enemy forces in front of him, as soon as he attacked either one, the other would attack him in the back, and when he counterattacked with the speed of his cavalry, the force would quickly retreat into defensive positions. The back and forth resulted in neither side taking advantage, but simply increasing the casualty figure.

"What an ugly battle." Faced with Arashi Bongji, who was as hard to gnaw as a hedgehog, Abicheril let out such an exclamation. In fact, he didn't know that his opponent Xue Boren was also having a headache for the battle situation at this time. Knowing that his troops were bogged down in a scuffle, especially when he estimated that the opponent was equal in strength to his own, Abicheril decided to immediately stop the battle and begin to retreat - after all, he was here to cover the infiltration of the intelligence network, and it would be better if he could fight a good battle by the way. Now that the goal has been achieved, and the battle situation is so stalemate, continuing to fight will only increase the loss of one's own strength and will not do any good, so it is the right choice to retreat immediately.

Therefore, Abicheril immediately led the rest of his army to lift the siege of Lan Fengji and began to retreat north. In order to get the troops out of the quagmire, Abicilir personally led them out of the battlefield one by one, and in the process, he amazed all the soldiers of the Silk Country with his bravery. In the previous battle, although the two sides suffered heavy casualties, they were basically evenly matched, but in the process of Abiciel's personal battle, seven captains and more than 20 lieutenants and halberds in the army of the Silk Country died at the hands of Abicilir alone, and the resulting lack of command gave the Turkic cavalry an excellent opportunity to get out of the predicament. By the time Xue Boren's troops arrived, the main force of Tuqi had already broken away from the army of the Silk Country and quickly retreated north. (To be continued......)