In the big tent of the Tang army, Xie Yingdeng said to Wang Junkuo worriedly: "One leaf can know the autumn, from today's Zhang Xuan organized the generals to summarize the battle, and even the soldiers participated, you can know why the Northern Sui army can win many battles, why it rarely makes mistakes, on the contrary, it can often catch the mistakes of others, I know the reason now, Jun Kuo, the Tang army is really not an opponent!" ”

Wang Junkuo said for a while: "Zhang Xuan may be training generals, so he will gather generals to summarize lessons together, I admit that this is indeed a good way, but let the soldiers talk about the lack of heavy crossbows, don't you think it was arranged in advance?" ”

Xie Yingden shook his head, "I don't think so, anyone can think of this kind of thing, the key is whether it can be done, I, Xie Yingdeng, have also considered soliciting the ideas and opinions of the soldiers, but I can't do it, because I can't put down the face, but the dignified King of Qi has done it, this is not the first time, I heard that in Liaodong flooded Yancheng, it was a soldier's idea, I think Zhang Xuan would really bend down to ask for the soldiers' ideas and opinions, from these little things we can see Zhang Xuan's extraordinary, if we let the Son of Heaven compare with him, I'm more optimistic about Jang Hyun. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"General Xie!"

Wang Junkuo's face sank, and he shouted: "You have forgotten your position!" ”

Xie Yingdeng didn't say a word, and only snorted after a while, Wang Junkuo wanted to talk about him again, but at this moment, a soldier said urgently at the door: "General Qiqi, King Qi has an urgent military order!" ”

Wang Junkuo and Xie Yingdeng were stunned at the same time, what happened? Wang Junkuo hurriedly said: "Let the messenger come in!" ”

After a while, a soldier who reported the news of the Sui army walked into the big tent quickly, knelt down on one knee, raised an arrow and said: "The commander has an order, the Tang army immediately gathers the army and sets off immediately." ”

"What happened?" Wang Junkuo and Xie Yingdeng asked at the same time.

"Qiqi two generals, the scouts have sent information that the Turkic army has begun to move westward, and it is possible that it has crossed the Yellow River and retreated westward."

Wang Junkuo nodded, "Please tell Your Highness, we know, immediately concentrate our forces westward!" ”

The messenger got up and hurried away, Xie Yingdeng hesitated a little and said: "Could this be the plan of the Turks, because it is difficult to attack the big camp, they want to lure us out, and then fight head-on!" ”

"Maybe it's possible, but we don't have a choice, what if the Turkic army really retreats west?"

Xie Yingdeng nodded silently, stood up and said, "I'll go and gather the army!" ”

At this time, Wang Junkuo no longer cared about arguing with Xie Yingdeng about the victory of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he quickly got up and walked outside the big tent.

At the same time, there was a rumbling war drum in the camp of the Sui army, which was a signal for the army to assemble, and a group of soldiers rushed out of the big tent and began to assemble rapidly, from fire to team, from team to brigade, from brigade to battalion, from battalion to regiment, and even into an army into a guard,

The soldiers of the Northern Sui Dynasty were divided into ten people, fifty people as a team, one hundred people as a brigade, three hundred people as a battalion, one thousand two hundred people as a regiment, and five thousand people as an army.

The 400,000 troops of the Northern Sui were divided into eleven guards, but the number of each guard was different, or it would be temporarily combined, and the main guard of each guard would be a general.

In order to facilitate the soldiers to fight and assemble, the Northern Sui Army set up a regimental flag on the regiment, with eight flags such as flying lion, flying tiger, flying leopard, flying wolf, flying eagle, flying fox, flying bear, flying elephant, etc., and twelve colors, so that the flag of each regiment is different, so that when the army is fighting, the soldiers can identify and follow the battle flag to which they belong.

The camp of the Sui army was extremely busy, with 100,000 troops gathering from all directions, officers and generals at all levels were shouting orders, waving large flags one after another, guiding the soldiers to their own ranks to assemble.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the soldiers are also busy cleaning up, Zhang Xuan stood in front of the sand table with his hands in his hand, and looked at the west of Lou Fan County for a long time, the west of Lou Fan County is the northern remnant of the Luliang Mountains, and through the Lu Liang Mountain is a large hilly area, the terrain is undulating, but there are no lofty mountains, but the northernmost part of Lou Fan County is a big mountain crossing, and the only mountain pass is Lou Fan Pass.

However, if you cross the Yellow River, although the mountains and the Great Wall are also blocked by the Great Wall, when there are many passes, and there is no Sui army to stop you, the Turkic army can pass through the mountains and go north to the Hetao, and return to the grassland from the Hetao.

"What is Your Highness thinking?" Fang Xuanling stepped forward and asked with a smile.

"I'm wondering, is the Turkic army capable of crossing the Yellow River?" Zhang Xuan said in a deep voice.

"This is indeed a very critical issue, we interrogated a lot of prisoners of war, and they can't say clearly, but I personally estimate that they have a certain ability to cross the river, but this ability is by no means large, it is difficult to say whether they can cross the Yellow River, and it should be possible to do it without passing through the Turkic Khan."

Zhang Xuan frowned, "Are you saying that Chuluo Khan wants to abandon his army?" ”

Fang Xuanling nodded, "At a critical juncture, he will definitely do this, this person is cold-hearted, harsh, and extremely unpopular in the grassland, so there are constantly other Turkic nobles who oppose him and want to seek his throne, from how he treats the Tiele army." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, and the night before yesterday he attacked the camp of the Sui army, and the Khan fled north regardless of the life or death of the two armies, so it can be seen that this person will definitely abandon the Turkic army at a critical moment.

"Whether Chu Luo Khan wants to cross the river to the north or plan to lure his troops westward, we can't avoid a battle with the Turkic army, and it is the best strategy to respond to all changes without change."

At this time, the marching Sima Jia Runfu walked into the big tent and said with a smile: "Marshal, only the Chinese military tent has not been dismantled." ”

"Alright! Let's go to the assembly place. ”

Zhang Xuan led everyone out of the big tent and walked towards the army assembly place outside the big camp.

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The northern part of the Luliang Mountains is composed of two large mountains with a radius of hundreds of miles in Luya Mountain and Guanshui Mountain, this area is densely forested, there are many alpine grasslands, ravines, canyons are vertical and horizontal, the terrain is very complicated, after the Turkic army failed to sneak attack the Sui army, it changed its strategy and turned to the west, although the sneak attack lost nearly 20,000 people, but the main Turkic force still has 90,000 troops, and there is enough military strength to fight with the Sui and Tang coalition forces.

The Turkic army marched west from the Jingle Basin, and two days later entered the Luliang Mountains, if the Turkic army did not go to Lishi County, there were at least five roads to choose from through the Luliang Mountains, and the Turkic army chose the middle one, which was about one hundred and fifty miles long, and it took two days to walk through the entire mountain range, with low grassy slopes on both sides, and dense forests above, because the Turkic army carried a large number of cattle and sheep, the marching speed was not fast, and the numerous alpine pastures also gave them rich food for horses and livestock.

At noon the next day, about 20,000 people of the rear army of the Turkic army stopped to rest in a small basin, and several miles away was a large forest, and the soldiers lit hundreds of bonfires, and they all gathered around the fire to roast mutton, talking and laughing, and it was very lively.

Not far away, there are thousands of camels lying in wait, this is the logistics and material convoy of the Turkic army, each camel is carrying heavy goods, because it is only a temporary rest, the materials carried by the camels have not been unloaded, so that they can set off at any time.

These materials were not tents, the tents were carried by the soldiers themselves, and half of these camels carried the personal belongings of the generals, and the various belongings of the Luo Khan alone required three hundred camels to carry them, and the other half of the camels carried rafts to cross the river.

Whether it is the personal belongings of high-ranking officials and khans, or rafts to cross the river, they are very important materials, so the Turkic army also deployed heavy guards, with 5,000 soldiers to guard these more than 1,000 camels.

At this time, in a forest a few miles to the north, a group of Sui scouts appeared at the edge of the forest, observing the Turkic army from a distance under the cover of trees.

The Sui army scouted about fifty people, and the first twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old general was Sun Ying, the general of Lang.

Not long ago, the camp was attacked by the Turkic army, although the commander thought that this was a problem with the deployment of the scout's army, and it had nothing to do with the scout soldiers, but the Sui army still put the responsibility on the scouts.

This time in response to the Turkic southern expedition, Shen Guang and his scout guard did not fight, they stayed in the Northern Sui for internal defense, the scouts who accompanied the battle were only 2,000 people, it was led by Ying Yanglang General Sun Ying, the sneak attack brought great pressure to Sun Ying, but also brought him a huge shame, he vowed to wash away this shame.

Sun Ying personally led the team to go deep into the enemy's garrison to investigate intelligence, this time Sun Ying mainly explored the sheepskin raft of the Turkic army, which is related to the real purpose of the Turkic army's westward advance, and it is an extremely critical intelligence.

Sun Ying had already explored the Turkic front army and the Chinese army yesterday, but did not find any sheepskin rafts, and today he explored the rear army and finally found a thousand camels carrying heavy loads.

(To be continued.) )