At noon on the third day, Captain Wu Zhiyuan led the soldiers to escort more than 2,000 refugees who fled north to Yulin Lake, the refugees were exhausted, but they thought that the Turkic army would chase after them, and their fear made them dare not rest, and fled all the way south, and finally arrived at the safe area that the Sui army said, and saw the blue lake like a jewel, more than 2,000 men, women and children were in high spirits, cheering and running to the lake, drinking the lake water, and laughter resounded through the lakeside.

At this time, a soldier pointed into the distance and shouted: "Captain, look! ”

Wu Zhiyuan saw it, and saw a huge military camp a few miles away, and the soldiers all shouted together: "It's a military camp!" ”

The barracks that appeared on the shore of Yulin Lake could only be the Fengzhou Army, and a team of patrol cavalry in the distance rushed over, and after a while, they looked at the thousands of refugees in the black pressure by the lake in surprise, and the leading officer asked loudly: "Where did it come from?" ”

Wu Zhiyuan stepped forward and bowed, "Below is Wu Zhiyuan, the scout captain of the Fengzhou Army stationed in Yulin County, who was ordered by Yang to intercept the return of the Sui people who fled north. ”

The officer smiled and said, "Sure enough, it's you, the chief has an order, if you come back, let the captain go to see him, and the refugees will be temporarily resettled in the camp." ”

Wu Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, "Is the manager here?" ”

"The chief manager led the army to Yulin, and he is in the camp at this time, please come with me!"

Wu Zhiyuan nodded, and asked his subordinates to bring the refugees back to the camp, and he urged the horse to follow the patrol officer to the camp.

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This is a large battalion of the Sui army with 20,000 elite troops, commanded by Yang Yuanqing himself.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the map, his expression was grim, ten days ago, several merchants from the Turks brought the same news, the Turkic tribes are gathering on a large scale, which is a precursor to the Turkic about to launch a large-scale military operation, which makes Yang Yuanqing deeply worried.

Since the autumn of the previous year, Shibi Khan used the advantage of the bow and arrow to defeat the Turkic Utu Department, which reversed the Turkic situation, and the Utu Department was forced to flee far north of the Jianhe River, and the ability to contain the Shibi Khan was greatly weakened, and with the strength of Shibi Khan, he has been able to fight on two fronts at the same time, and the threat to the south is increasing day by day, the first is the pressure on Yang Yuanqing, at this time, the power of the Fengzhou Army has expanded eastward to Yulin County, which also greatly increases Yang Yuanqing's attack surface against the Turks, plus the 50,000 troops deployed by Qu Tutong in Yan'an County, He was in danger of being attacked on his back.

Once Shibi Khan was assembled and the army went south, the rich Fengzhou was the first target of his attack, although Fengzhou could mobilize 100,000 militia soldiers and 60,000 regular troops, but it was still very difficult compared with the Turkic army of 450,000, even if Fengzhou used the Yellow River to defend against the Turkic attack, what should be done about the Hetao area of Yulin County? The five newly built county towns were also bound to be destroyed at the hands of the Turks, which would seriously affect his eastward strategy.

Yang Yuanqing was very worried, according to his experience, it generally took more than a month from the Turkic assembly to the dispatch of troops, even if the territory of the Shibi Khan was vast, two months would be enough, plus the journey on the road, then the time for the Turkic army to arrive in the Great Sui would be between mid-July and early August.

It is now late May, and the Turkic army will arrive at the Sui and Turk borders in two months at the latest, and the only way to deal with the Turkic southward movement is to use the whole country's troops, but how could Yang Guang agree to his suggestion?

At this time, the soldiers outside the tent reported: "Chief, the scout captain who went to intercept the fugitives has arrived." ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Wu Zhiyuan walked into the big tent quickly, knelt down on one knee and said, "Scout Captain Wu Zhiyuan see the chief manager!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and asked, "How did you complete your task?" ”

"Returning to the governor, the humble brother intercepted more than 2,000 fugitives at Baidao, and fought a fierce battle with the Turkic army, and the humble man won with 200 men against 500 men, and killed 270 enemies."

"How much did the brothers lose?"

Wu Zhiyuan sighed, "Sixty-two people were killed. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "I will give generous condolences to the brothers who died in battle, and this time your military exploits will also be rewarded, I came to you for another matter." ”

Yang Yuanqing walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and asked, "Is the Turkic armor you captured still there?" ”

"Back to the chief, I brought them all."

"Very well, you go get a few pairs."

"Obedience!" Wu Zhiyuan saluted and retreated.

Yang Yuanqing immediately ordered: "Go and find a few overseers and Li Sima." ”

Not long after, Yang Jiachen and other four overseers and Li Jing all came to the Chinese army's big tent, and Wu Zhiyuan also took four pairs of armor, including the leather armor, spears, knives, wooden shields and bows and arrows of the Turkic soldiers, and the complete equipment of a Turkic soldier.

"Let's take a look! This is the equipment of the Turkic soldiers, and then compare it with the equipment of the Sui army. ”

Everyone gathered around, except for the leather armor has not changed, the other weapons are different from before, although the Gaz produces high-quality Gaza knives, but after all, it is a small amount, only the guards of the Turkic Khan can be equipped, the general Turkic soldiers' knives, spears and shields are of poor quality, but what they see now is that the workmanship is exquisite, the iron quality is excellent, not much worse than the Sui army's weapons, especially the bow and arrow, it is simply a qualitative leap.

Yang Yuanqing picked up the bow and arrows, opened his bow and shot the arrows into the distance, the arrow was strong, and it shot a hundred steps away, and the bows and arrows of the Sui army were nothing more than that.

Everyone's hearts became extremely heavy, and the truth was before them, and they could not believe it, and the Turkic force combined with their weapons made them even stronger.

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "Everyone, wait a minute, I'll be back soon." ”

Yang Yuanqing walked towards the back tent, and after a while, a warrior covered in armor walked out of the back tent, the heavy armor wrapped the whole body tightly, only a pair of eyes were exposed, he held a long knife with blades on both sides, exquisite workmanship, one zhang and five feet long, and every step of the warrior was extremely heavy, as if the earth was shaking.

Everyone was stunned, who is this? At this time, the heavily armored samurai smiled, "Don't you know me?" ”

Listening to the voice, everyone suddenly realized, it turned out to be Yang Yuanqing, Li Jing looked Yang Yuanqing up and down, he realized, and said in surprise: "The chief is going to deal with the cavalry!" ”

Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "To be precise, it is to deal with the Turkic cavalry, everyone follow me to do an experiment." ”

He slowly walked out of the tent, everyone followed him, Li Jing somewhat understood, the two-edged long knife in Yang Yuanqing's hand, the Han Dynasty called the horse sword, now called the blade, but the blade he had seen was heavier than the one in Yang Yuanqing's hand, not as light and delicate as the blade in his hand.

"Remember, I am now a heavily armored soldier, and the weapon in my hand is called Modao, as you can imagine, there are a hundred of the same heavy armor soldiers around me, standing side by side with me in a row."

Yang Yuanqing stood still in front of the big tent, and he shouted, "Come on!" ”

I saw several pro-soldiers galloping on horseback in the distance, and they shot arrows at Yang Yuanqing together, and several arrows were shot at Yang Yuanqing, 'Dang! While! Bounced off, but could not penetrate his heavy armor, the three war horses galloped closer and closer, and slammed into Yang Yuanqing, a horse in the middle was aimed at him, the fierce horse galloped, and it was about to collide, and immediately jumped off the horse with his own soldiers, and the other two horses passed by him, leaving only one war horse rushing towards him, and everyone exclaimed.

Yang Yuanqing shouted, only to see a cold light flashing, the neck of the war horse was actually split in two by him with a knife, and the huge impact made him take a few steps back, but finally stood firm, and the horse's blood sprayed him, and Yang Yuanqing practiced this knife for three days.

This thrilling scene stunned all the soldiers and generals, for a while, Li Jing applauded gently, followed by a thunderous applause, everyone understood, this kind of heavy armor Mo sword soldiers is a sharp weapon to restrain the Turkic cavalry, hundreds of heavy armor Mo sword soldiers standing in a queue, will be a nightmare for the Turkic cavalry, this is the magic is one foot high, but the road is one foot high, even if the Turks learn the bow and arrow of the Sui army, but the Sui Dynasty will still have more powerful weapons.

The soldiers moved the horse corpse away, Yang Yuanqing took off the heavy armor, and smiled at everyone: "I started to prepare as early as a year ago, think about it, who is not here this year?" ”

Yang Jiachen blurted out, "Yang Sien! ”

Everyone thought about it, it was true, they hadn't seen Yang Sien for almost a year, Yang Yuanqing nodded: "In February last year, I selected tall and powerful people in the whole army and militia groups, and selected a total of 3,000 people, Yang Sien trained them in a secret place, I believe it will surprise everyone." ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, imagining how powerful and magnificent it was for three thousand heavily armored soldiers like Yang Yuanqing to appear in a line.

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Everyone retreated, and Li Jing was the only one in the big tent, Li Jing picked up Yang Yuanqing's Mo knife, waved it a few times in the tent, and couldn't help but admire, "Good knife!" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled faintly on the side: "This kind of Mo knife, there is only this unique one in the world." ”

Li Jing was stunned, "Didn't you say that Yang Sien led three thousand soldiers to train hard?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled bitterly, "This is right, people have it, and there is armor, but there is no Mo knife, the knife maker I recruited can only make an ordinary blade, and cannot make a Mo knife in my hand, in this case, the power will be weakened by at least two percent, which is a pity." ”

Li Jing was confused when he heard this, and asked suspiciously: "If you can't make it, then where did you get this Mo knife?" ”

"This is half a month ago, I ordered Zhang Liang to invite a knife master from the capital, named Wang Zhongsheng, known as the first knife maker of the Ordnance Supervisor, this Mo knife is what he used to transform an ordinary blade in three days, but it is too late to transform 3,000 in two months."

Speaking of this, Yang Yuanqing sighed, "In fact, even if three thousand people use the same Mo sword as me, but with the strength of Fengzhou alone, if you want to deal with four or five hundred thousand Turkic troops, you still can't resist it, I just want to give you confidence today." ”

Li Jing frowned and asked, "How does the chief know that it is an army of four or five hundred thousand, what if it is an army of one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand?" ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "If it is less than 200,000, he has it near his own tooth tent, and there is no need to gather troops in various places, the Turks now have 500,000 armor soldiers, and he wants to leave 100,000 to defend the Utu department, then I deduce that he should lead the troops south this time It should be about 400,000, and if he is preparing to deal with the Utu department, then he should gather at the northern palace, and he should not gather troops in the tooth tent, so the possibility of going south is seventy percent." ”

Li Jing pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Although the situation is very serious, but the chief manager led 20,000 troops to Yulin County, I always feel that you should have a countermeasure." ”

Yang Yuanqing said helplessly: "There is no way to deal with it, but I thought of a dangerous plan and want to discuss it with you again." ”