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On the vast prairie, ten cavalrymen rushed together at a rapid pace, and one of them asked loudly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Anyway..... Do your best to find it! "The wind is loud, and the sound of the team is intermittent," they.... 100,000 people, big goal! ”

This is a team of Tang army scouts, their task is to find the main force of the Hui army, the Hui 100,000 troops from Han'er Bali south, but now they suddenly disappeared, disappeared like air on the grassland, and they were not found for several days, Li Qing'an sent dozens of scout teams, like a net, let them search in the vast grassland.

This team is responsible for searching the southern foot of the eastern section of Yinshan Mountain, a radius of several hundred miles is their search range, they have been searching for two days, and now they have approached the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain.

"Let's find a place to rest!"

They had been running for three hours in a row, and were really tired, so they slowly slowed down their horses, and looked around for a place to rest, and in the distance were the reckless mountains, with their undulating and steep mountains, and large forests scattered at the foot of the mountains.

"Let's go rest in the woods, and maybe shoot a roe deer for dinner!"

The team was pointing to a forest in the north, everyone immediately cheered up and ran towards the woods, the characteristics of the grassland are that it seems to be close, in fact, it is still far away, this forest is still ten miles away from them, and when there are still two or three miles away from the woods, the team led by them suddenly waved his hand, "Wait a minute!" ”

The crowd immediately reined in their horses, "Look! Team Qi pointed to the distance and said, "What's that?" ”

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and saw two small black dots running towards him a few miles away, "It seems to be a cavalry too!" ”

"Hide in the woods!"

Qi team is urging the horse, leading his men to hide to the edge of the woods, they quickly hid in the nearest woods, until a long time, the two small black dots gradually approached, they also saw clearly, it was two Hui cavalry, it was estimated that they were patrols and the like, they quickly rushed to this side, look at their speed, they will not stay here.

"Shoot the horse!"

The Qi team immediately gave the order, and the remaining nine subordinates all raised their crossbows and aimed at the other party's two horses, the cavalry got closer and closer, and they were already thirty paces away, but they didn't find anyone here, in fact, they were careless, just now when the Tang army scouts rushed into the woods, they were startled by a group of birds, they didn't even notice, maybe they thought that there could be no army on this side.

"Shoot!"

The team gave a low order, and ten quenched crossbow arrows were shot out at the same time, all of which hit the two war horses, and the two war horses raised their hooves and neighed, and fell heavily to the ground, throwing the two Hui cavalry out more than a foot away, they were so frightened that they got up and ran, but the Tang army scouts had rushed forward like a gust of wind, and pressed their throats with spears, and the two Hui soldiers did not dare to move again, and obediently raised their hands.

"Take them into the woods!"

Several soldiers stepped forward, searched them, tied their hands behind their backs, and pushed them into the woods, and in a moment, under the torture of the Tang army, the two Hui soldiers confessed separately, and the result surprised the Tang army scouts, and the main force of the Hui army was less than twenty miles away from them.

As the team was looking, several soldiers slashed the Hui cavalry to death, hid their corpses and the corpses of the horses, and then ran forward along the woods.

Soon, they finally found a huge col with a dense forest several miles wide from which the two horsemen had come out.

They entered the woods, and walked along the mountain col all the way in, the Yin Mountain is a hundred miles wide, and there are many mountain pastures in the middle, which can hide a million troops, if they don't go into the Yin Mountain to look for it, they can't find it at all.

Several Tang soldiers traveled about ten miles, and there seemed to be a guard post of the Hui people in front of them, they no longer moved forward, but hid in the woods, and waited until it was dark, and then the team was leading another brother along the edge of the cliff to continue to explore, without riding horses, the two of them kept dodging in the gaps of the cliff, bypassing several guard posts of the Hui people, and finally came to a low post.

They climbed up a boulder and looked to the other side of the low hill, and they were stunned to see a mountain meadow, with a little firelight, as dense as the stars in the sky, it was a bonfire of the Hui people, and under the reflection of the bonfire, the swarthy tent could not be seen at a glance.

The Qi team was in ecstasy, they found the main force of the Hui, at this time he pressed the excitement in his heart, pulled the soldiers, and the two quietly returned from the same way, very careful, for fear of alarming the Huifu sentinels, they would give up their efforts.

They retreated into the woods, withdrew from the col, returned to the woods where they had originally ambushed the Hui sentinels, set up a small tent, and covered the candlelight.

When the ink was dry, he stuffed it into a small bamboo tube and handed it to his subordinates, "Send it back!" ”

The soldier took the bamboo tube, took the eagle cage from his horse, and there was a letter eagle inside, he tied the bamboo tube to the eagle's legs, opened the cage, and whispered: "Go!" ”

The eagle soared from its cage into the sky, piercing into the sky, and with a clear chirp, it flapped its wings and flew westward.

"Team, what should we do then?"

Team Qi was looking at the swarthy mountain and smiled, "Naturally, we are staring at the Hui people!" ”

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Since the annihilation of Shi Siming's army, Li Qing'an led the army to withdraw to Heicheng, at the same time, the Tang army also captured nearly 20 tribesmen of the Servant Bone Tribe, Li Qing'an ordered the marching army Sima Xin Yunjing to escort these Turkic herdsmen to Jiujiuquan, and Li Guangbi captured the Tongluo and Sijie tribesmen, a total of more than 400,000 Turkic people.

After the end of the entire Huifu campaign, all the grassland herdsmen will be changed to mining Tang people, assigned to settle in major mines, cultivate fields and weave cloth, and officially become ordinary civilians in the Tang Dynasty.

But Li Qing'an is most concerned about the whereabouts of the Hui Gele Khan, it is now late April, and it has been almost a month since they sent troops to the grassland, and the main force of the Hui 100,000 is still missing, just like the sudden collective disappearance, which makes Li Qing'an deeply confused, of course they will not disappear, and hidden, so where will they hide?

In the big tent, Li Qingan stood in front of the sand table and stared at Yinshan for a long time, he believed that the main force of the Hui must still be near the Yin Mountain, but the Yin Mountain was more than 2,000 miles long and more than 100 miles wide, making it difficult for him to find the hiding place of the main force of the Hui Hui.

But one thing is certain, Gele Khan will no longer have the idea of attacking the Tang Dynasty, maybe he never thought about it, he just used the excuse of attacking the Tang Dynasty to annex Shi Siming and the attached Turks, and it can be seen from his timid dispatch this time that he has no confidence in attacking the Tang Dynasty at all.

It was just a coincidence that the Hui troops went south and the Tang Dynasty sent troops north, and whether the Hui people wanted to attack the Tang Dynasty or not, Li Qing'an decided to take advantage of the opportunity to eliminate Shi Siming to completely eradicate the threat from the north.

Pondering this, Li Qingan suddenly asked Li Sheng beside him, "What's the situation on Li Baozhen's side?" Is there any news from the Murowei Department? ”

Li Sheng just walked into the big tent, just to report the situation on the Bohai side to Li Qing'an, but Li Qing'an was contemplative, he didn't bother, he immediately said: "Li Baozhen just sent the news that Mu Wei has surrendered and is willing to accept sinicization and enter the Bohai country as a farmer." ”

"The tribe I specially advised, the Muromontou tribe, have they moved into the Central Plains according to my plan?"

"Yes! More than 10,000 people from the Mughal Chambers were scattered and moved into Silla, Henan, and Hebei, where they mixed with the Han and Silla people, and this matter was in progress. ”

Li Sheng didn't understand a little, the Mughal Murwei Department was only a small tribe in the Murwei Division, and it was rarely known, why did Li Qing'an attach so much importance to it?

When he was puzzled, there was a sudden sound of footsteps running outside, and some soldiers reported loudly: "Report to the general, report to Vice General Li, we have scouts who have discovered the main force of the Hui army, and a letter has been delivered!" ”

Li Qing'an and Li Sheng were overjoyed at the same time, and Li Qing'an hurriedly ordered: "Quickly bring the letter in!" ”

After a while, a personal soldier brought in a tube of eagle letters and presented them to Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an took out a piece of silk paper from the letterbox, it turned out to be a map, he unfolded the map, Li Sheng also moved the candlestick a little closer, under the candlelight, I saw that the map was drawn in great detail.

"We're here!"

Li Qing'an pointed to a black triangle sign, and his finger moved eastward again, and finally stopped at a black circle point in Yinshan, where the main force of the Hui army was found.

"Humph! It's actually in the Yin Mountain six hundred miles away, no wonder I can't find them. ”

Li Qingan couldn't help but snort coldly, "It seems that they don't know the news of the fall of Han'er Duo Bali yet." ”

"I don't understand, why does Gele Khan keep hiding in Yin Mountain?" Li Sheng asked with a frown.

"That's because you've been fighting with the Tibetans, so you don't understand the Turks."

Li Qing'an smiled and explained to him: "After the Turkic split, there are many tribes, basically they are all in their own factions, although the Hui people are strong, but they are only one of them, because there are many tribes, so the tribes are deceitful to each other, use each other, and dump each other, just like Shi Siming is hiding in the Yin Mountain, he just wants to wait for us to defeat the Hui Hui, and then he will clean up the Hui and dominate the grassland, the Hui is actually the same, he was in a hurry to send troops at first, he wanted to subdue Shi Siming and several other Turks, but we found that we have sent troops, He didn't come for a long time, but he refused to go back, so he hid in the Yin Mountain and waited for us to pass, and then they came out again to plunder the captured Turkic people, and I guess that was his purpose. ”

"Isn't he afraid that the lair will be attacked again? Like last time? Li Sheng still can't see through it.

"It's easy! Because he didn't know that I was going to send troops to the north to return to Hui, he also thought that I was temporarily transferring troops to defend him from going south, in that way, Tongluo was far away in the west, and the Beiting army did not have time, only more than 10,000 Shatuo people in Juyan Haiti, he was not afraid, if he knew that I had begun to transfer troops from Beiting and Tongluo as early as winter, I guess he would not dare to leave Han'er Bali even if he died. ”

After many years of dealing, Li Qing'an has seen through the inferiority complex and darkness in Gele Khan's heart, he is like a greedy and cowardly dog, shrinking in the Yin Mountain and waiting for a mouthful of leftovers to appear, but now, he himself has become the target of hunting.

At this time, Li Sheng took a closer look at the sand table and suggested to Li Qingan: "General, I have a suggestion that you can completely annihilate the Su army. ”

"You say!" Li Qingan still admires Li Sheng's tactics very much.

Li Sheng pointed to the Ninety-Nine Miles Spring with a wooden pole and said: "The general found that no, in fact, the place where the Hui army was hiding was very close to General Li Guangbi's station, only more than 400 miles apart, maybe as the general said, they still wanted to eat the captured Turkic herdsmen, if General Li Guangbi withdrew his troops at this time, leaving hundreds of thousands of Turkic men and women in the Ninety-Nine Spring, as a bait, I think even if the Hui army will not rush up to eat the bait at once, they will be eyeing the sidelines, waiting for the opportunity to ....."

"And then?"

Li Qing'an was very interested in Li Sheng's suggestion, and Li Sheng was very right, the Hui people were as suspicious and greedy as steppe wolves, and they would not leave easily when they saw prey, nor would they easily swallow.

"Then ....."

Li Sheng pointed at Nuozhen Water City with a wooden pole, "Then we will quickly cross the Yin Mountain from here, and cut off their retreat to the rear of the Hui people, and then Li Guangbi's army will press again, and our 300,000 troops can trap the Hui people in the Yin Mountain." ”

"Wonderful! That's a great plan! ”

Li Qingan high-fived and praised, Li Sheng deserves to be a famous general, after listening to his own analysis of the psychology of the Hui people, he can draw inferences from one another, and it is really powerful.

"Just do what you do, you go to reorganize the army now, and I'll write to Li Guangbi!"

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Li Qing'an took Li Sheng's advice, and the Tang army began to move, and that night, 150,000 Tang troops set out overnight, leaving behind a huge empty camp and 5,000 military horses to confuse the Hui spies.

Five days later, the army crossed the Yin Mountain, turned around and headed east, just when Li Qing'an led the army to the north, Li Guangbi also received Li Qing'an's order, he ordered 300,000 Turkic old and weak women and children to stay in Jiujiuquan, and he himself led 150,000 troops to escort more than 100,000 Turkic young men and women to the south to withdraw the army, using more than 300,000 Turkic women and children as bait to lure the predation of the Hui people, leaving less than 10,000 troops to garrison.

The core of Li Sheng's strategy is to let the Hui stay in Yinshan and not leave, to buy time for the encirclement of the Tang army, just as Li Qing'an understands the Turks, the Hui people are also a branch of the Turks, they worship the wolf, the biggest characteristic of the wolf is that they are suspicious and good at waiting, once they find the prey, they will not give up easily, but will wait patiently for the opportunity, will carefully observe whether the surroundings are safe, and wait until they are fully certain, and then attack the prey like lightning.

The special surnames of these wolves are vividly reflected in the body of the Hui people, and in the Hui camp, Gele Khan has learned the news of the withdrawal of the Tang army from the ninety-nine springs, and went south, where there are still hundreds of thousands of Turkic women and children who have not had time to evacuate, and there are only less than 10,000 Tang troops left.

On the surface, this is the Tang army evacuated a part of the Turkic people first, why not withdraw the women and children and withdraw the young and strong, it is very likely that the Tang army is afraid of the Turks to make trouble and adopt the separation method, using women and children as hostages, to coerce the young and strong to obediently go south, this is the consistent practice of the Anxi army, in Anxi they also dealt with the Tubo people in this way, separated the women and children, and let the Tubo young and strong men obediently open mines for them.

Is this the case this time?

Gele Khan's heart was full of doubts, he felt that the Tang army should not leave people on the grassland so easily, there may be a conspiracy, but hundreds of thousands of women and children undoubtedly and strongly tempted him, women and children are a huge temptation for any grassland people, which means that the population multiplies and breeds, just so doubtful and worried, and full of ** to grab these populations, the purpose of his leading the army south this time is to eat Shi Siming and the Turks attached to the Tang Dynasty, Shi Siming He has no hope, But these Turks are not willing to give up anyway.

He hesitated to observe the situation, and sent one group of Hui spies to Jiujiuquan and its surroundings, just like wolves also had wolves spying on their prey, and the other Tang army on the Heicheng side had been resting since the destruction of Shi Siming's army, and there was no sign of going north.

The Hui army waited for an opportunity in suspicion and great temptation, but they did not know that they themselves had become the prey of the Tang army.

After nearly ten days, Gel Khan could no longer bear it, he led an army of 100,000 to leave Yinshan, preparing to go south to the Ninety-Nine Springs to grab these hundreds of thousands of Turkic women and children, this prey that made them extremely red-eyed, a news that made him both remorseful and shocked, the Tang army's hundreds of thousands of troops were killed again, and the speed was extremely fast, and it was coming to their side.

Gel Khan was remorseful and resentful, he had lost a great fortune in his hesitation, and if he had decided to go south to plunder the population, he was now on his way back to Han'erduobali, and he had lost the opportunity.

Gele Khan knew that there was no chance, and when he returned to his station, preparing to cross the Yin Mountain and return to Han'er Duobali, an even more terrible news came, which frightened his heart to stop beating, and another Tang army of more than 100,000 people had cut off the exit to the north.

He finally realized that he had been deceived, and he was anxious to break through to the south, but at this time, Li Guangbi's 150,000 troops had caught up with him, and more than 100,000 troops were blocked south of Yinshan.

One in the north and one in the south, the 300,000 Tang army surrounded the main force of 100,000 Turks in a Yinshan gorge that was more than 100 miles long and 20 miles wide.

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(To be continued)