The confrontation between the Sui and Tang coalition forces and the Turkic army has entered the seventh day, and in seven days, in addition to the fiasco of the first day of the attack, the subsequent five consecutive attacks all ended in fiasco, the Turkic army suffered huge casualties, and its strength has been sharply reduced from the initial 90,000 to less than 40,000, with more than half of the dead and wounded, the morale of the army was shaken, and even Luo Khan completely lost confidence, and no longer attacked the Sui camp, but locked himself in a big tent to borrow wine to drown his sorrows. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the sharp reduction in troops has also brought another benefit, that is, the food is no longer so tight, first of all, the casualties of the war horses have also become edible meat, and secondly, the demand for stock cattle and sheep has also been reduced by half, which has made the original only ten days of grain extended to more than 20 days, and now seven days have passed, but they can hold out at least half a month.

However, the increase in food did not make sense to the Turkic soldiers, the key was that there was no fighting spirit from top to bottom, from the khan to the generals, from the generals to the soldiers, everyone's morale had collapsed, and they drank wine and ate meat every day, desperately ruining hundreds of Tiele women who accompanied the army, and living one day at a time.

That night, the general walked quickly to the Khan's tent when a dozen guards stopped him, shook his head at him, and told him not to disturb the Khan.

"I must persuade the Khan that if we continue like this, we will only die." Stubbornly said anxiously.

One of the commanders sighed and said: "The khan will not see anyone again, at least not at night, let the general go back!" Or try again tomorrow at noon. ”

Obsessed with his ability to faintly hear a woman's rapid scream coming from the big tent, everyone looked at him helplessly, meaning, you heard it!

Stubbornly gritted his teeth and said loudly: "Khan, I have something urgent to report!" ”

"Khan, maybe we still have hope to go back."

The sound in the big tent suddenly stopped, and in a moment, the curtain was lifted, and the shirtless Chu Luo Khan walked out, and through the wide gap in the curtain, two naked women could be clearly seen dressing.

"What did you just say?"

Chu Luo Khan drunkenly walked in front of the Lost Thoughts, and under the firelight, his red eyes stared at the Lost Thoughts like a wolf.

"Khan, the last general has thought of a way, maybe we can go back to the steppe."

His eyes lit up, he grabbed him by the arm, dragged him into the tent, and waved to the two young women, "Get inside." ”

Before the two women had time to put on their dresses, they hurriedly ran into the inner tent with their skirts in their arms.

"Tell me, what's the solution?"

"Humble office needs a map."

Chu Luo Khan stretched out his hand and waved it on the table, 'Whoa! With a bang, the wine, flesh, berries, and golden cups on the table were all swept to the carpet.

Chuluo Khan spread out a map on the table, "Say it! ”

Zhi Zhi Sili pointed to Lou Fu Pass on the map and said: "I figured it out, the Sui army's sneak attack on Lou Fu Pass must have climbed up the mountain from the south, from the Great Wall down to the pass, and there were tens of thousands of troops in the north to blockade, the Sui army had no chance to go up the mountain, only there was a loophole in the south, and they could go up the mountain from the west of Lou Fu Pass." ”

"Do you mean that we will also follow the example of the Sui army, go up the mountain from the west, and then go down the Great Wall to capture the Lou Fu Pass?"

Stubbornly shook his head, "The Sui army won't give us this chance again, and our war horses won't be able to go up the mountain." ”

"And what do you mean?" Churo Khan glared at him dissatisfied.

"The humble position only tells the Khan the reason why the Sui army captured Lou Fu Pass, not to emulate them."

Seeing the anger on the Khan's face, he hurriedly said, "There is indeed a way to go to Yanmen County. ”

"What's the way, hurry up, don't always say that useless."

"Consider taking the Hutuoshui Gorge."

"Impossible!"

Chuluo Khan said categorically: "Do you think I can't think of it? The water is too fast and too deep, the canyon can't pass at all, and the ice is almost the same in winter, but now is the flood season! ”

"Khan, I have thought about it carefully, we can be like the Sui army, first let thousands of soldiers walk up the mountain to climb the Great Wall, build a dam to the north of the canyon, and intercept the Hutuo water, so that the Hutuo water will become shallow and slow, and even dry up, and our army can go directly north from the canyon to Yanmen County."

Chu Luo Khan was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly slapped his forehead, "What a fucking stupid!" I didn't think I could build a dam. ”

Finally seeing a glimmer of hope, Chu Luo Khan suddenly became excited, and hurriedly said, "Then what should we do now?" ”

"We will first prepare dry rations, kill all the cattle and sheep, and give each soldier a portion, and then immediately retreat to the northeast, and the lowly has sent a patrol to explore the road, and we should be able to meet it on the way."

People have the instinct to survive, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, Chu Luo Khan will not give up, he has to grit his teeth and say: "Just do it!" ”

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In the east of Lou Fan Pass is the remnant of Taihang Mountain, Wutai Mountain, the reckless mountain lies across the land of the north, completely separates Lou Fan County and Yanmen County, the mountain here is dangerous, full of strange peaks and cliffs, like a natural barrier, isolating the hope of the Turkic army to go north to Yanmen County.

But the mountain is rigid, only the water can be broken, the Hutuo water originates in Yanmen County, roars and rushes to the south, the water potential is turbulent, runs through the Wutai Mountains, and crosses the Taihang Mountains to the east, and flows into the land of Hebei.

Among them, the canyon that runs through Wutai Mountain is called Xinkou, the width is only dozens of zhang, there are cliffs on both sides, the turbulent river and rushing through the canyon, just as the words of Luo Khan, it is now in the flood season, the water is turbulent, people and horses can not wade to the north, only wait for the winter to freeze, you can directly pass from the ice.

Hundreds of miles away in the southwest direction of Xinkou, there stands a big mountain with a radius of 100 miles, called Chenghou Mountain, where the mountains are high and the valleys are secluded, the forests are luxuriant, and an official road bypasses the west side of the mountain, leading to the Turkic camp 300 miles away.

At noon on this day, a group of 20 Sui army scouts sat in the woods next to the official road for lunch, the leader of the scouts was a brigade commander, named Li Wenyao, about 20 years old, a native of Hengshan County, Hebei, was a very strong and shrewd and capable young man, who had only been in the army for three years, and had made many meritorious achievements, and was promoted from a scout soldier to a brigade commander step by step.

Since the Turkic sneak attack, the scouts of the Sui army have held their breath, and all the scout soldiers have worked hard to consciously expand the scope of surveillance, and the scout team led by Li Wenyao belongs to the free scouts, with no fixed tasks, and is only responsible for inspecting the enemy situation in the northeast of Loufan County.

Three days earlier, they had received news from another scout team that they had found traces of Turkic cavalry in the vicinity of Chenghou Mountain, and Li Wenyao immediately led his men to Chenghou Mountain.

The subordinates sat on the grass in a forest next to the official road to rest and eat, and Li Wenyao sat in front of a big rock to check the map, he found that the map was drawn incorrectly, the official road on the map was on the east side of Chenghou Mountain, but there was also a road in the west, which made him very annoyed, should he believe this map anymore? This is a map issued by the marching horse!

He sat in front of the boulder and sulked, and a subordinate next to him munched on the dough and biscuit meat, and said vaguely: "Chief, maybe it's just a few deserters, there is no hostile situation, let's run for nothing." ”

"Eat your stuff! Don't fart around. Li Wenyao turned around and glared at him fiercely, and everyone laughed.

At this moment, Li Wenyao suddenly booed and quieted everyone down, everyone couldn't help laughing and quieted down, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves faintly in the distance.

"There's a situation, get on the horse!"

Everyone threw away the bread in their hands, got up and got on their horses, and ran out of the woods, and just ran out of the woods, they saw three small black dots running on the official road to the north, which seemed to be three cavalrymen.

Li Wenyao immediately decided: "Use a tripping horse!" ”

Two soldiers quickly ran to the opposite side and pulled up two tripwires, while four soldiers lay in ambush on both sides of the road, while the rest hid in the woods.

Not long after, three Turkic cavalry galloped over, the horse's hooves stirred up rolling yellow dust on the official road, Li Wenyao raised his crossbow, and whispered to his subordinates: "Shoot the horse and catch it alive." ”

The soldiers raised their crossbows one after another, aimed at the three cavalry, at this time, the three Turkic cavalry had already rushed to the front of the woods, actually bounced up two triphorse ropes on the ground, the two war horses could not dodge in the run, tripped by the ropes, fell in the grass, the two Turkic cavalry on horseback were also thrown out of the distance, the third cavalry reacted very quickly, the war horse jumped up, jumped from the triphorse rope, but at this moment, more than a dozen crossbow arrows were shot at the same time, the war horse was hit by more than a dozen arrows, neighed, fell to the ground and died.

The scouts of the Sui army rushed out of the woods one after another, and in a moment surrounded the three Turkic soldiers who had lost their horses, the three soldiers were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Li Wenyao shouted, "Tie them up!" ”

The soldiers rushed up and tied the three Turkic soldiers firmly with ropes, and the two soldiers searched out a few freshly drawn maps from behind them and handed them to Li Wenyao, "Head, look at this." ”

Li Wenyao opened the map and looked at it for a moment, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he said urgently: "Return to the camp immediately!" ”

Twenty scout cavalry mounted their horses with their captives and galloped towards the Sui army camp in the southwest. (To be continued.) )