Tang Emperor Li Shimin slowly stood up from the dragon chair, walked down the imperial steps, walked to Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche and said: "It's rare that you are loyal to the monarch and patriotic, how can I not allow it?" Fight for your country, take care. ”

After the three of them left, Sun Wuji, the middle elder of the Wenxuan Shilang of the Military Department, who was standing on the other side of the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, reminded Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, they are all the old descendants of King Xi, let them go to fight against Jieli, will they do this on purpose, will they defect in battle, leak the truth of Chang'an City, the capital of my Tang Dynasty, and put me in danger of the Tang Dynasty?" After all, Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, is now an empty city, and the garrison army is less than 10,000 people. ”

Tang Emperor Li Shimin waved his hand very resolutely and said: "Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche are all loyal and righteous people, they have the heart of death and serve the country, we can't suspect them and hurt them." ”

In the early morning of the second day, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin personally sent the 5,000 old troops led by Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche out of Chang'an City.

Before leaving, the Tang Emperor Li Shimin said affectionately to Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche: "If something can be done, it will be done; If you can't do anything, you will go back. At this time when the country is in danger, you have a loyal and patriotic heart, and that is enough. Your loyalty, I and the Manchu Dynasty are also clearly visible. I can't hold it, I just retreat, don't force it, don't give my life in vain. ”

Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche knelt in front of the Tang Emperor Li Shimin, and wept bitterly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your concern." In this battle, the ministers all have the will to die. The ministers will fight to the end, fight the blood of my Datang, fight the dignity of my Datang, and never let the Turks look down on my Datang. ”

Tang Emperor Li Shimin let out a long sigh and watched helplessly as the five thousand old troops led by Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche left.

The Wei River is the first major tributary of the Yellow River, the mother river of the Tang Dynasty, which originates in Longyou (later Gansu), passes through the Hetao (Ningxia), passes through the Guanzhong Road, and finally returns to the Yellow River. In the county town of Wugong where the Turkic Jieli Khan was stationed, there is the Wei River ten miles away from the city gate, and there is only one bridge on the Wei River, called Wei Bridge, which is the only passage from Wugong to enter the imperial capital Chang'an.

In the early morning, on the Weiqiao Bridge, Feng Li, Xue Wanjun, and Xue Wanche organized five thousand old troops to slowly set up a formation.

The formation is divided into three rows.

In the front row were two thousand sword and shield soldiers, dressed in heavy armor, holding shields in one hand and swords in the other. The shield is more than one person high, can completely protect the person behind the shield, the shield has five corners, the bottom of the middle of the extra corner, buried deep in the ground, so that the shield is unusually stable, all the shields together constitute a solid iron wall, in the sunlight flashing a cold black light. The knife in their hands is a simple but long ring hand knife, ordinary but strong and sharp.

In the middle platoon were a thousand lance soldiers, who were also wearing heavy armor, holding long lances more than two meters long in both hands, and the sharp tips of the lances threw their shields and emerged at the front of the formation. On the tip of the cold lance, there were bursts of cold light, like the sharp fangs of a fierce beast, ready to devour and bite its prey.

In the back row were two thousand crossbowmen, also heavily armoured and armed with crossbows, with sharp swords hanging from their waists.

It was an army composed entirely of hoplites, and their opponents were 320,000 elite Turkic cavalry.

Feng Li said impassionedly to everyone: "This is where our bones are buried. In this battle, fight to the death and never retreat, kill for the country! ”

"Fight to the death and never retreat, kill yourself for the country!" Everyone's loud response echoed.

Wugong County, within the sweat tent of Jieli Khan.

Dressed in a white lambskin robe, the Khan sat on a tiger-skin chair in the center of the tent, while his confidant Bother stood respectfully behind him. There is a huge brazier in the middle of the big tent, the coals in the brazier are blazing, so that the temperature in the big tent suddenly rises a lot, warm, very comfortable, and there are a number of torches inserted around the big tent, so that the whole big tent is very bright.

Jieli Khan's face was gloomy, and his heart was unusually angry. Just last night, he saw his left army, 3,000 Turkic soldiers who had their left arm and right leg cut off by the Tang Dynasty. There are only 3,000 wastes left, so what's the use of these wastes? could only reduce the morale of the 320,000 troops of his Great Turkic Khanate, and Jieli ordered all the 3,000 Turks to be buried alive. Since you are defeated, why don't you die on the battlefield and come back with your face, and be embarrassed. Thinking about the 80,000 descendants of his Left Route Army, such an ending, Jieli Khan felt extremely heartbroken. He originally planned to attack Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, so that the forces that were secretly fighting against him, such as Tuli and Qibi He Li, would compete with the Tang Dynasty, so that he could gain the benefits of the fisherman, not only swallowing the Tang Dynasty and subverting the Tang Dynasty, but also weakening the strength of Tuli and Qibi He Li, and stabilizing his rule in the Great Turkic Khanate. His own plan is not shrewd, but people are not as good as heaven, who would have thought that Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, did not only have 30,000 troops at all? The strength of Tuli and Qibi He Li was not damaged, but his 80,000 descendants were swallowed by Datang in one bite. That's a full 80,000 descendants, originally he was the strongest in the Great Turkic Khanate, with a full 280,000 troops, and he only had 120,000 troops in Tuli and Qibi, and the difference in strength between the two sides was still very large, but who would have thought that? Now that he will lose a full 80,000 troops, there are only 200,000 troops left, which is only 80,000 more than the strength of Tuli and Qibi He Li, so can he wantonly suppress Tuli and Qi Bi He Li in the future? Tuli, Qibi What is the force, they don't want to work directly against themselves, are they going to turn the sky upside down?

Jieli Khan looked at them with a sharp expression, and said secretly in his heart: "You guys just pretend, seeing that I have lost a full 80,000 descendants, your hearts should have already been happy." It's so hateful, if it hadn't taken you twenty days to pass through a secret passage that we had only taken eight days to walk? Why is this the case now? If you can arrive early, I'm afraid that the 400,000 troops of our Great Turkic Khanate would have burned and looted in Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty. It's heart-wrenching to think about, I lost a whole 80,000 descendants. ”

But thinking of the 120,000 army under the control of Tuli and Qibi He Li, he had to suppress his anger and looked at the handsome case with an expressionless face.