Liu Lancheng squinted and observed the big camp in the distance, the night was very dark, the military camp could only see an outline, there was actually nothing to see, there were already soldiers secretly observing during the day, what the military camp was like Liu Lancheng knew very well, the key was that he wanted to see the sentry at night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Thanks to the two torches on the gate, under the light of the fire, he saw the situation in front of the gate of the barracks, there were only two sentries, but it is estimated that the other sentries are secretly sleeping, and these two sentries will be replaced in the second half of the night, but no more than six people.

Liu Lancheng judged based on his many years of experience that if there were no more than ten sentinels in front of the camp, then there would be no secret sentry hidden by the camp fence, and nothing happened after more than a year of confrontation, and the secret sentry should not be necessary.

Liu Lancheng waved his hand, and a captain stepped forward and said, "Please give the general's orders!" ”

"Take ten brothers and set fire to the back, and try to have as many tents as possible."

"Obey!"

They have small torches specially used for setting fires, which look very much like the old-fashioned grenades of later generations, which are very practical, and they don't need to enter the camp at all, they throw them directly from the outside, and of course they can also use rockets, but the wind is very strong in the valley, and the effect of rockets will not be too good.

"Follow me!"

The lieutenant led ten soldiers to the back of the battalion, each of whom carried ten small torches, enough to burn the battalion.

Liu Lancheng divided his troops into two routes, one followed him quietly to the gate of the barracks in the dark, while the other group of 100 soldiers went north under the leadership of a general Lang and ambushed the stone wall on the road that the Tang army must retreat south.

About a quarter of an hour later, dozens of fireballs appeared, one after another, thrown towards the Tang army camp, only a moment, the Tang army camp many places on fire, but the fireballs kept appearing in the air, thrown to all corners of the camp, the fire took advantage of the wind, quickly swept the camp.

The sleeping Tang soldiers in the camp were woken up by the fireworks, only to find that they had been surrounded by flames, frightened them into a disillusionment, and fled barefoot, and soon, the entire camp was engulfed in flames, the Tang soldiers shouted in fear, scrambled to flee outside the camp, the soldiers trampled on each other, screams, wails and wails one after another, many soldiers escaped from the camp, only to find that they were surrounded by another army, except to kneel and surrender, they had no choice.

Liu Lancheng originally wanted to ambush the escaped Tang soldiers, but found that these soldiers were barefoot, wearing underwear, unarmed, and did not need to attack at all, and directly captured the prisoners.

The three hundred Zhou troops are all selected from the elite, although it is a bit exaggerated to use one enemy and ten, but it can be completely done with one enemy and five, and at the same time occupy the ambush, and the one hundred Zhou army is a gesture against the three hundred Tang army.

Liu Lancheng's goal was the commander of the Tang Army, but he didn't see the figure of the commander until the fire burned the camp gate, and he knew that the commander had been buried in the fire nine times out of ten.

The day gradually brightened, the fire had been extinguished, the barracks were burned to the ground, and there were burnt soldiers everywhere, two thousand soldiers only escaped more than 1,200 people, more than 700 people died in the fire, most of the three hundred Tang troops at the stone wall were killed and wounded, only more than 100 people survived, but all the 150 Tang soldiers in the castle escaped, but Liu Lancheng was not worried, he brought 3,000 vanguard cavalry, and he could kill the Pipa Valley before the deserters.

At this time, the soldiers of the Zhou army came over one after another, and Li Keshi stepped forward and said with a smile: "General, General Zhang has also arrived." ”

Zhang Li, who had been promoted to General Huben, led 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry as backup, but he didn't expect them to come so quickly.

Liu Lancheng was overjoyed in his heart, and he immediately smiled at Li Keshi: "According to the agreement, the Pipa Valley belongs to General Li, and General Li can set off now." ”

Li Keshi rubbed his fists, they had not fought for almost a year, and his heart was already impatient, Liu Lancheng told him a few more words, and he led three thousand cavalry through the Great Douba Valley and killed in the direction of Pipa Gorge.

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Li Shimin deployed 20,000 troops in the Hehuang area, which is today's eastern Qinghai and southern Gansu, except for Xihai County, which was reoccupied by the Tuyuhun people, the other five counties were in the hands of the Tang army, including Xiping, Heyuan, Douhe, Caohan and Lintao.

Among them, Xiping County was the most important part of the Hehuang region, where the Tang army stationed 10,000 troops, and the other 10,000 were scattered to the other four counties.

However, the enemy of the Hehuang Tang army was not the Zhou army, but the Tuyuhun people who had revived in Xihai County and the Tubo people who had begun to rise gradually in the south.

The chief of the Hehuang region is Li Shimin's confidant Hou Junji, Hou Junji is currently sitting in Huangshui County, he was ordered by Li Shimin, taking advantage of the opportunity of a one-year truce to raise horses and Tuntian in Hehuang, because the Hexi corridor rich in war horses was occupied by the Zhou army, the Tang army lost several large horse farms and more than 100,000 war horses in Hexi, and the Hequ horses from the Hehuang area became the only source of war horses for the Tang army.

In addition, the Hehuang Valley has fertile land, convenient irrigation, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is the foundation of the Xue family's father and son's tuntian, which is extremely suitable for the army's tuntian, starting from last year, the Tang army has more than 100,000 hectares of tuntian in the Hehuang Valley, and after the wheat harvest this autumn, it will completely reverse the embarrassment of insufficient grain in Li Shimin's army, which is also Li Yuan's secret suppression of Li Shimin, and the lack of food and materials will force Li Shimin to make concessions to the imperial court.

The grain fields are distributed in the Hehuang Valley, while the horse farms are mainly distributed in Heyuan County, where the plateau meadows are the main ones, and they are famous for producing the endurance and strong Hequ horses.

Huangshui County is currently the largest county in Xiping County, located in the south bank of Huangshui, the circumference of the county seat is about 30 miles, although it covers a large area, but the population of the county is not much, only more than 20,000 people, this is also the serious consequence of Xue raising the army, the Hehuang area was ravaged by the war, ten rooms and seven empty, the society withered, a large number of people fled to Longyou and Guanzhong.

Hou Junji's military office is located in the county office, these days Hou Junji secretly married a concubine outside, but his wife cried and made trouble after learning about it, and was rescued by someone who hanged himself twice, which made Hou Junji upset, he simply didn't see anyone, and locked himself in the study to sulk.

In the afternoon, Hou Junji was reading a book alone in the study, when there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and a soldier reported: "General Qiqi, His Royal Highness the King of Qin has an urgent military order to deliver!" ”

"Where is the military order? Show it to me. ”

A soldier walked in and presented an eagle letter to Hou Junji, who opened the eagle letter and read it, in which Li Shimin asked him to immediately strengthen the defenses of the Great Dou Ba Valley and the Pipa Valley, because of the abnormal movement of the Zhou army in Hexi.

Hou Junji suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Go and prepare a horse for me quickly, go to the barracks!" ”

The Tang army camp is also in Huangshui County, accounting for almost half of the county, Hou Junji walked into the Chinese army's tent and urgently ordered: "Drum and gather generals!" ”

The rumbling war drums sounded, and more than 20 generals rushed to the big tent, Hou Junji said to everyone: "I just received an urgent military order from His Royal Highness the King of Qin, asking us to immediately strengthen the defense of the Great Dou Tu Valley and the Pipa Valley, I am afraid that the Zhou army is going down from Hexi, General Zhao and General Sima, the two of you can lead your headquarters to rush to the Da Dou Tu Valley to support, General Han, you lead two thousand troops to enter the Pipa Valley." ”

The three generals bowed together and said, "Obey!" ”

Hou Junji had already deployed 2,500 soldiers in the Great Dou Tu Valley before, and another 1,500 people had been deployed in the Pipa Valley, and there were already 4,000 people, and this time he added 4,000 troops, then there would be 8,000 troops, which should be enough.

At this time, Shi Zhang, the commander of the army, persuaded wisely: "Although we have sent 8,000 troops, they are scattered in two places, and there are not many troops in one place, so it is better to concentrate our troops in Dadou Tu Valley." ”

Hou Junji looked at Li Shimin's military order again, and sighed: "Your Highness just said that there was an abnormal movement in the Zhou army in Hexi, but he didn't make it clear what was going on, so people didn't know what to do." ”

Zhang Mingzhi thought for a while and said: "If the Zhou army is killed from Jincheng County, His Royal Highness the King of Qin must know, indicating that we are safe in the east, and it is recommended that the whole army be concentrated in Huangshui County, and the general will personally lead the army to Dadou Tu Valley, if Da Dou Ba Gu is lost, you can retreat to Huangshui, and refuse by water, what does the general think?" ”

Hou Junji was right to think about it, so he said: "Then listen to the words of Changshi!" ”

Hou Junji immediately ordered the Tang troops stationed in various counties to immediately withdraw to Huangshui County to assemble, and he asked Zhang Zhizhi to guard Huangshui County, and he himself led a thousand soldiers to Dadou Bagu.