War horses are their second life for the grassland warriors, without war horses, they will not fight in the wilderness, the siege has made it difficult for them, if they are allowed to fight like the infantry of the Central Plains, they will become a group of rabble who do not understand formation, do not know how to cooperate, and fight separately. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The sharp cavalry of the Sui army had turned their attention to the running Turkic army, and they were broken into pieces, and the five thousand cavalry broke down into fifty hundred-man cavalry teams, each led by a brigade commander, and the fifty cavalry teams galloped and slaughtered in the dense Turkic army, tearing the Turkic army to pieces.

The Turkic army was slaughtered to the ground, rivers of blood flowed, stumps and severed arms could be seen everywhere, shouts, shouts, cries, and pleadings...... The chaos on the battlefield was to the extreme, and countless soldiers ran desperately to the north, not knowing whether they were chasing their horses or fleeing for their lives.

Kang Sheli had already shouted hoarsely, he found that there were not many cavalry in the Sui army, only about 5,000 people, as long as they organized, they could completely annihilate this cavalry, but they had no chance to organize their troops anymore, the soldiers of various tribes were mixed, the soldiers could not find the generals, they could not find the soldiers, and tens of thousands of people were in chaos.

What's worse is that the escape of the Sijie tribe created a very bad start, and the Uighurs and servants also fled, and their escape led to the flight of more Tiele people.

Kang Shali hated so much that blood was dripping in his heart, if they could still return to the grassland, they must not spare the Sijie Division, it was the unauthorized withdrawal of the Sijie Division at the critical moment that ruined the entire battle.

"General, the Sui army is here again!"

A soldier pointed to the north and shouted, Kang Sheli also saw that another Sui army was coming from the north, Kang Sheli saw that the situation was not good, turned the horse's head to the northeast and fled.

This is Wei Chigong led 20,000 infantry to kill, they are only a moment slower than Luo Cheng's cavalry, the soldiers let tens of thousands of running horses, but just intercepted the Turkic soldiers who fled behind, the Sui infantry quickly lined up, Wei Chigong shouted: "Crossbowmen prepare, shoot!" ”

The Sui soldiers fired thousands of arrows in unison, intensively shooting at the fleeing Turkic soldiers, and the Turkic soldiers were shot down one by one, followed by the second and third rounds of arrows, and five rounds of arrows were fired in just a moment, knocking down thousands of Turkic soldiers, completely blocking the way to the north, and the rest of the Turkic soldiers let out a cry and turned to the east.

Wei Chigong pointed at his sword and ordered sharply: "Intercept on the left flank!" ”

'Woo-'

The low horn sounded, and the five thousand soldiers on the left flank rushed to the east, at this time, Luo Cheng led three thousand cavalry to chase from the south, Luo Cheng saw clearly, he led the cavalry to open the encirclement from the east, and the infantry with Wei Chigong quickly cut off the retreat of the Turkic soldiers, and more than 10,000 Turkic soldiers fled one after another, seeing that there was no way to escape, they knelt down and surrendered.

In this battle of Lou Fu Pass, in addition to the escape of the Sijie Department in the direction of Yanmen County, only a few thousand people escaped, and the logistics army also fled more than 5,000 people, more than 13,000 people were captured, and the entire 60,000 army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties, and the entire army was annihilated by the Sui army.

At this point, the Turkic army north of Loufu Pass was completely wiped out, leaving only the main force of the 100,000 Turkic army south of Loufu Pass.

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At noon on this day, Ling Jing, a member of the Sui army, arrived in Taiyuan City under the escort of a Sui cavalry, Ling Jing was a return visit to the Sui army as an envoy to the Wei expedition, and the two sides have been in contact many times, although the two sides agreed to destroy the main Turkic force, but they have never been able to agree on the details, Zhang Xuan felt that the Tang army was still suspected of taking advantage of the fisherman.

This time, Ling Jing's envoy to Taiyuan was invited by Li Jiancheng, and the background of the invitation was that the Sui army regained control of Lou Fu Pass, which made the war situation in Bingzhou take on a new look.

Taiyuan City is still under strict military control, only the south gate is open for one hour every day, only allowed to go out of the city, not allowed to enter the city, even if you go out of the city, you will be subject to extremely strict searches, to prevent the leakage of the city's defenses.

Ling Jing's arrival coincided with the opening of the south city gate, but Ling Jing didn't see anyone out of the city, only to see that the city gate was full of Tang soldiers, at this time, a team of people galloped out of the city gate, led by a dark-skinned civil official, it was Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng hurriedly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and bowed and saluted: "Wei Zheng is late to greet him, so Ling joined the army for a long time." ”

"Where! Where! I also just arrived, and Lao Wei sent you out of the city to greet me. ”

"This is as it should be, Ling joins the army, please follow me into the city."

Ling Jing turned over and got on his horse, he pointed at the city gate with a horsewhip and said with a smile: "It seems that no one has left the city." ”

Wei Zheng smiled slightly, "The people who go out of the city are all from the government or the military to Guanzhong on business, how can real ordinary people be allowed to go out of the city, just make a gesture, please join the army!" ”

Ling Jing laughed, "Completely understood, please make you!" ”

The two men beat their horses, one after the other, and galloped towards the city.

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Li Jiancheng's military office is located in Jinyang Palace, which was originally the palace of Yang Guang, the former Sui Emperor, and is now changed to the prince's palace, the palace itself is not large, covering an area of only more than 100 acres, but the warehouse of Jinyang Palace covers an area of thousands of acres, which stores countless grains, grasses and ordnance.

Jinyang Palace was an independent palace city close to Taiyuan City, in order to defend against the attack of Liu Wu Zhou's army, Li Yuanji expanded the city, connecting Jinyang Palace and Taiyuan City as a whole.

What Ling Jing didn't expect was that Li Jiancheng not only sent Wei Zheng out of the city to greet him, but also personally greeted him in front of the gate of Jinyang Palace, which really surprised him, he hurriedly turned over and immediately stepped forward to salute, "Ling Jing see His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

As the prince of a country, Li Jiancheng personally greeted Ling Jing in front of the gate, which is a very high etiquette, which contains a profound meaning, and it is actually a disguised apology from Li Jiancheng.

This was the third contact between the two sides, and the first two times the two sides failed to agree on the details of the joint annihilation of the Turks, the fundamental reason was that the Tang Dynasty was not sincere, to be precise, the Son of Heaven Li Yuan wanted to use the confrontation between the Turks and the Northern Sui army to seek the benefit of the fisherman.

This was not Li Jiancheng's original intention, as the commander of the annexed state, Li Jiancheng was more worried about the damage of the Turkic army to the annexed state, but his arms could not twist his thighs, and Li Jiancheng had to implement his father's strategic intentions.

And this time Li Jiancheng decided to disobey his father's will and annihilate the Turks with the Sui army, of course, this is directly related to the Sui army's recapture of Loufu Pass.

Li Jiancheng smiled and invited Ling Jing into the Jinyang Palace, the two sides sat down in the lobby, although there was only Ling Jing on the Northern Sui side, but there were more than a dozen people sitting on the Tang Dynasty side, in addition to Li Jiancheng personally presiding over the consultation, there were also Wei Zheng and Li Zhongwen, the secretary of the parallel state Xingtai, in addition to Li Jiancheng's henchmen Wang Junkuo, Xue Wanjun, Xue Wanche and others, which is enough to show Li Jiancheng's attention to this consultation.

A team of maids came in and served tea to everyone, Li Jiancheng waved his hand to let the maids retreat, and he said unhurriedly: "Since the Warring States Period, the threat of the steppe nomads to the Central Plains has always existed, especially after the Turks replaced Rouran into the grassland, they have repeatedly threatened the Central Plains Dynasty. ”

Ling Jing smiled and nodded, "If there is no consensus, I will not come to Taiyuan today to discuss the big plan, His Royal Highness King Qi has always been full of confidence in the cooperation between our two families." ”

Ling Jing opened the scene first, and as soon as the topic changed, he cut to the substance, "It's just that time doesn't allow us to negotiate repeatedly, once the Turks can't recapture Loufu Pass, the Turkic army will face the danger of running out of food, and the Turkic Khan will inevitably jump over the wall in a hurry, and the Turks' breakthrough is just around the corner." ”

Next to him, Li Zhongwen interjected and asked, "May I ask Ling to join the army, what do you think the Turkic move will be?" ”

Ling Jing smiled slightly, "His Royal Highness the King of Qi thinks that there will be two directions for the Turkic to break the situation, one is to solve the crisis of food shortage, and the other is to find a way home, and the only way to solve the danger of food shortage is to plunder, either go south to Xihe County, or go west to Lishi County, and the Turkic army has only one way to return to the grassland, so we think that it is very likely that the Turkic army will go west to Lishi County." ”

At this time, the general Wang Junkuo suddenly asked, "May I ask Mr. Ling, where is King Qi now?" ”

Wang Junkuo was extremely sensitive in military tactics, and since Zhang Xuan judged that the Turks would retreat westward, it was impossible for him to stay in Shiai County all the time.

Li Jiancheng also understood what Wang Junkuo meant, and hurriedly asked, "His Royal Highness King Qi should not be in Shiai County now!" ”

Ling Jing nodded, "The opportunity must not be lost, it will not come again, of course the Northern Sui army will not miss the opportunity to completely annihilate the Turkic army, and do not hide it from His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the King of Qi has now led a large army in Jiaocheng County." ”

There was an uproar in the lobby, Jiaocheng County is located a hundred miles northwest of Taiyuan, it turned out that the Northern Sui army had marched east for hundreds of miles, and the Taiyuan Tang army actually knew nothing, everyone looked at each other, and their eyes showed extremely shocked looks. (To be continued.) )