In the morning, Yang Yuanqing was gathering more than a dozen major generals in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss military affairs, when a personal guard reported at the gate, "Chief Qiqi, there is urgent information from the scouts, and the enemy's army, a cavalry of 30,000 men, has left the camp gate early and headed south. ”

This news suddenly made a whisper resounded in the big tent, and Yang Yuanqing's brows furrowed into a line, at this important juncture when the big war was about to begin, any deployment of the two sides was very sensitive, and 30,000 cavalry to the south?

Yang Yuanqing knew that Dou Jiande's cavalry would not be much, not to mention all of the 30,000 cavalry, but at least most of them, Dou Jiande actually sent out 30,000 cavalry, this would definitely not be an ordinary transfer, it should be an extremely important strategic deployment.

Could it be to deal with Xu Shiji's army, but it is impossible to think about it, Xu Shiji's fleet is still three or four days away from Zhangnan County, even if he sends troops to support, there is no need to send out a small number of cavalry.

"Chief, will they make a detour to the north and attack our rear?" Li Jing said in a low voice

― The sentence reminded Yang Yuanqing, he walked quickly to the sand table, and the sand table map in front of him gave him a more intuitive feeling, whether it was Yixian-Youzhou-Flying Fox or Jingcheng in his rear, there were troops guarding it, but there were not many troops, if the enemy carried out a sneak attack......

Qin Qiong next to him also said: "The humble position also agrees with Li Sima's idea, Dou Jiande is very likely to sneak attack our rear, but the cavalry is not good for attacking the city, and the humble position thinks that their target may be Hedong." ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, attacking Hedong, which is currently empty of troops, can be said to be Dou Jiande's best choice at present, no matter whether Dou Jiande really attacked his rear or not, he must take precautions.

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered: "Quickly pass the eagle order to Niu Jinda of Shanggu County and Li Haihai of Hengshan County, and order them to defend against sneak attacks, and not to be careless." ”

But this was not enough, Yang Yuanqing took the arrow and handed it to the Asian general Gao Zikai, "General Gao can lead the 10,000 cavalry to rush back to Shanggu County immediately to assist General Niu in defending against the enemy's sneak attack." ”

Yang Yuanqing is not worried about Jingcheng, there are 3,000 troops over there to strictly guard Tumen Pass, which is enough to defend tens of thousands of enemy attacks, the key is Shanggu County, which is not only his own logistics powerhouse, but also the main road of Flying Fox, if he is Dou Jiande, he will definitely choose to sneak attack Shanggu County.

"The last general obeys!"

Gao Zikai took the arrow and hurriedly went, Yang Yuanqing said to the generals: "In the battle of Guandu in the past, Yuan Shaojun was defeated by Cao's sneak attack on the Wuchao army's grain land, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past, in addition, I am ready to change my plan and attack the enemy village from today!" ”

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According to Yang Yuanqing's plan, it should be after Xu Shiji first takes Zhangnan County, he will break the enemy's military heart, and then start attacking the enemy camp.

War does not mean that it is fought and fought, but that a big war requires interaction between the two sides, and that is a fierce battle between the two sides when both sides put in heavy troops, set up the battlefield, and fight and fight in the wilderness.

If one side actively responds to the war, while the other side passively defends itself and hangs up the card of exemption from war, then the war cannot be fought, and the two sides can only be in a state of confrontation, and the war will break out until both sides can no longer hold their breath.

Therefore, this is the reason why battles often take several months, and the side challenges and the side refuses to fight, and most of the wells between the two sides are in a confrontation.

Dou Jiande's tactics were obvious, that is, to take the defensive, refuse to fight, and then send troops to attack the rear of the Sui army.

In the face of this passive defense, the Sui army's countermeasure was to let Xu Shiji lead the army to capture Dou Jiande's old nest Zhangnan County, exert pressure, prompt the disintegration of the opponent's army, and force Dou Jiande to fight.

Of course, there are many ways to hit the morale of the Xia army, and it is not entirely waiting for Xu Shiji's battle report.

At noon, the main force of nearly 100,000 troops of the Sui army crossed Qilipo, set up a large camp with its back against Qilipo, the large battalion commander was five miles, two miles wide, the tents in the camp were neat, and the soldiers were stationed in the camp area, the military grain and grass area, the baggage battalion, the sheep and horse battalion, the medical battalion, and the various functional areas were clearly and orderly.

The banner is clearly displayed, and in the middle is a three-pole flag, -- the pole is the red flag of the Sui Dynasty, -- the pole is the red eagle military flag, and in the middle is the king's flag inlaid with gold edges, and the flag is printed with the word "Yang" with a big bucket.

On three sides of the camp, a high-pitched barracks were erected, and a circle of troop wagons was enclosed inside the barracks, and six watchtowers were erected around it.

Four miles away, Dou Jiande's camp is located outside the north city of Leshou County, stretching for more than ten miles, and the camp gate of the Sui army is different, the Xia army is camped with a barrier, with huge trees and stones to build a dense board wall, strong and abnormal, the board wall is two feet high, there is a pedal behind the wall, for the soldiers to defend at the head of the wall.

This is a typical kind of defensive camping, which needs to be attacked like a city, and the 300,000 Xia troops, except for the 30,000 troops defending the capital Leshou County, the rest of the more than 200,000 troops are stationed in the camp.

The arrival of the Sui army made the Xia soldiers extremely nervous, and the walls were filled with tens of thousands of defensive soldiers, and the dense heads of people watched the Sui army camp in the middle and far distances.

―Generally speaking, as long as the two armies were within ten miles of each other, it meant that a great war was about to break out, and it took two hours for the Sui army to set up camp, until the time of the Yellow Vice-Chief, a huge military camp appeared in front of the Xia soldiers.

The length of the Sui army camp is less than half the length of the summer army camp, and it is not as tall as the summer army camp, and there is no edge in sight, but it is tight and strong, like a clenched iron fist, concentrated in strength, murderous and awe-inspiring, and people feel a kind of inexplicable pressure.

It was dark, and just when the soldiers of the Xia army had just breathed a sigh of relief, the drums of the Sui army suddenly sounded in the camp of the Sui army, 'Knock-knock-knock!'.

The sound of the drums was low and slow, and then the door of the Sui camp was opened, and the cavalry marched out of the camp, with 200 cavalry as the team, and in the two groups of cavalry was a huge catapult, pulled by 50 oxen, followed by 300 infantrymen.

6,000 cavalry cavalry -- 30 huge trebuchets -- 10,000 infantry lined up in turn, and hundreds of paces away, another 30,000 cavalry pressed into formation, the Sui army was neat, the armor was bright, the spears were like a forest, their steps followed the drums, and from time to time a huge cry broke out in the legions, "Kill!" ”

The murderous momentum was extremely shocking, making the Xia soldiers in the board wall panic, and even Dou Jiande, who was watching the battle on the high platform, couldn't help but change his face, he fought in the south and north over the years, and defeated countless forces, including many Sui troops.

However, the Sui army he defeated was all -- prefecture-county, with thousands of people and tens of thousands of people, and most of them were defending cities, and he was still the first to see that even in Zhuo County, he did not face it so clearly and intuitively.

With such a powerful Sui army formation, he only felt that his mouth was dry, and his thighs trembled, and then the general Fan Yuan stepped forward and persuaded: "The lookout tower is within the killing range of the Sui army's trebuchet, please retreat to the middle camp to watch the battle." ”

Dou Jiande nodded, "It's up to General Fan to command the counterattack." ”

"Lord Wang, please rest assured, we will fight with the bed crossbow, and we are not afraid of the Sui army's blows!"

Dou Jiande quickly stepped down from the watchtower and moved to the middle camp inside and outside, and when he walked away, the general Fan Yuan shouted: "Prepare for the bed crossbow attack!" ”

Five hundred bed crossbows were lifted onto the pedals, and the walls were drilled with shooting holes, and the Xia soldiers put iron arrows the thickness of thumbs and three feet long into the firing slots and aimed them at the trebuchets hundreds of paces away.

As night fell, the trebuchet was pushed three hundred steps away from the wall, the trebuchet was fired with a winch, dozens of soldiers pushed the crank of the disk, and as the wheel turned, the three-foot arm was gradually pulled and pressed down.

Several soldiers of the Sui Army put dozens of pounds of fire cloth balls into the launch bucket, which was a kind of large ball made of fire oil cloth with an iron core in the middle, weighing about 40 catties.

With the 'Boom! Thirty soldiers with torches lit the ball of fire at the same time, and the ball of fire quickly burst into flames.

Thirty trebuchets were fired at the same time, and thirty fireballs rose into the air, and the bright red light streaked across the dark night, like meteors falling from the sky, smashing into the enemy camp, and the huge fireballs bounced off the ground and rushed straight into the dense crowd of soldiers.

The soldiers shouted in panic and scattered in all directions to dodge, many soldiers were knocked over by the balls, and more than a dozen fireballs rushed out -- more than 100 paces -- rushed into the camp tent, the camp tent was quickly set on fire, and the camp tent was surrounded by chaos -- chaos.

At this time, the 500 bed crossbows on the wall also launched a counterattack, and with the order of the general Fan Yuan, the sound of the bangzi sounded, and 500 bed crossbows were shot out at the same time, and the bed crossbows could shoot at a distance of up to 400 steps, and the powerful arrow power was enough to open the golden cracking stone.

Five hundred iron crossbow arrows roared towards the Sui trebuchet, and at this time the cavalry and infantry retreated to a distance of five hundred paces, their task was only to deter the enemy, and not to engage in battle, - only about fifty soldiers operating in front of the trebuchet.

Powerful iron crossbow arrows are coming! More than a dozen soldiers were shot, and the iron arrows pierced through their chests, and they fell to the ground screaming, most of the iron arrows were missed, but more than a hundred iron arrows were shot at the trebuchet and nailed to the thick wooden frame, and the belt of the trebuchet was shot, and several belts broke at the same time, causing the long arms tied to the wooden frame to fall off and roll down.

The bed crossbow could not stop the Sui army's attack, and the second round of fireballs rose into the air again and threw themselves into the enemy camp, and the burning camp tents in the large camp had been extinguished by the Xia army with sand, and they had already begun to have some point defense experience.

When the fireball rushed over, hundreds of soldiers at the side of the camp raised their shields to resist and block the fireball out of the camp, and several soldiers quickly pushed the fireball into the dug pit with steel forks and filled it with earth.

After five rounds of offensive and defensive battles at night, the Sui army found that there was no longer a fire burning in the enemy camp, so they changed their methods, filled the sealed wine jar with fire oil, and then brushed it with a layer of oil, and when the jar was set on fire, the trebuchet threw the burning oil jar into the enemy camp.

The camp of the summer army suddenly turned into a bottle of fire