Yang Yuanqing was stunned, the Hui envoy came, what was going on? He didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly ordered: "Bring him to me quickly." ”

In a moment, the young Hui Thousand Commander was led in front of Yang Yuanqing, and he bowed and saluted, "Hui Thousand Commander Tu Fan is confused, see His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”

Yang Yuanqing saw that this person looked very powerful, so he nodded and asked him in Turkic: "What is the matter with you coming to me?" ”

"I have been ordered by the Great Chief to send a letter to His Highness."

He presented the letter to Yang Yuanqing, Yang Yuanqing took the letter, the letter was written in Turkic script, he read it quickly, his brows furrowed slightly, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Immediately, the look of surprise disappeared, his face completely returned to normal, and he asked quietly, "Since your great chief is unwilling to serve the Turks, why don't you withdraw your troops now?" ”

Tu Midu saluted again, "The lowly is only responsible for delivering the letter, and the lowly has no right to answer the rest of the things!" ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him, this is a person who abides by his duties, Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Okay!" Go back and tell the Great Chief, and I have accepted his letter. ”

"Humble resignation!"

Tumidu saluted, and he was just about to retreat, Yang Yuanqing suddenly remembered something and said with a smile: "Can General Tumidu do me a favor?" ”

Tu Midu hesitated, he finally couldn't push away the King of Chu begging in person, nodded silently, Yang Yuanqing whispered a few words to a personal soldier next to him, and handed him a silver medal.

The pro-soldier nodded, hugged his fists at Tumidu and said, "Please!" I'll explain Your Highness's arrangements. ”

Yang Yuanqing looked at Tu Midu and walked away, and couldn't help but smile, the arrival of this person tonight is an unexpected gain.

At this time, Luo Shixin on the side was a little worried: "Your Highness, this critical moment. Beware of deception by the enemy. ”

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment. In fact, he was also quite surprised that Hui Hui sent someone to contact him privately, this is by no means a trivial matter, and he must beware of fraud. But also see hope in the middle.

"I know, thanks for the reminder!" ……

As the night wore on, the soldiers had fallen asleep. Yang Yuanqing was still pondering the matter of Hui in the big tent, this matter came unexpectedly, but it was reasonable, Yang Yuanqing had dealt with the Turks for nearly 20 years, and he was very aware of the relationship between the Turks and the Tiele tribes, and they had always been a relationship between enslavement and enslavement.

The strength of a grassland nation means, first of all, the conquest and subjugation of other grassland peoples, in the grassland where strength is paramount. The conqueror is determined to maintain his rule, while the conquered are the ones who are fighting to get rid of the conquered. And then to conquer others.

The Turks enslaved the Tiele tribes very deeply. Fearing that the other tribes would become stronger, it imposed heavy taxes on the Tiele tribes. In order to weaken the strength of the steppe tribes, the Tiele tribes had to hand over half of the newly born cattle, sheep and horses to the Turks every year.

This heavy tax squeeze also made the rebellion of the Tiele tribes one after another, which became a means used by the Central Plains Dynasty to weaken the Turks, and historically, the Sui Dynasty mostly used the internal contradictions of the Turks to weaken the Turks, such as the internal strife between the Eastern and Western Turks.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, the rebellion of the Tiele tribes was used to weaken the Turks, but this in turn led to the emergence of new and more powerful steppe peoples, such as the Hui and Khitan.

Whether it was the internal destruction of the Sui Dynasty or the external strife of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, it was not a fundamental solution, and the fundamental solution still depended on iron and blood.

Yang Yuanqing looked at the dark clouds in the distance and sighed slightly, but in any case, the rebellion of the Hui Hui can be used, but it is by no means on the battlefield, but after the war, after the war to rebuild the order of the grassland.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing's eyes turned to the north, and his heart was full of anticipation for tomorrow's battle......

The cold wind was howling in the dark night, a group of cavalry was galloping on the grassland, and the young commander Tumidu led more than thirty followers all the way there.

Behind him, in addition to the dozen or so retinues he brought, there were also twenty Sui army scouts, all of whom were dressed as Turkic army attire, led by a lieutenant about thirty years old, named Zhong Gensheng, a native of Taiyuan, who could speak fluent Turkic and participated in the battle of Fengzhou to resist the Turks.

Tumidu's mood was a little heavy, he didn't know if his decision to lead the Sui army into the camp was correct, but he knew very well the thoughts of the big chief, the big chief hoped that the Hui would be able to win or lose, and if the Sui army failed, they could grab rich spoils from the Sui Dynasty, but if the Turks failed, they could also harvest the most precious freedom.

However, the young Tumidu hoped that the Turks would be defeated, and in his opinion, no matter how rich the booty was, it was not as valuable as freedom, and the Hui could even replace the Turks, and it was with this idea that he resolutely agreed to help the Sui army scouts.

The cavalry team rushed all the way to the northwest, and the area of the Turkic camp patrol area was ten miles, and the Turks deployed 20,000 sentries on the periphery, divided into three lines of defense, to prevent the Sui army from attacking the camp at night, but the westernmost defense was the responsibility of the Hui army.

The cavalry gradually approached the sentry post, and in the dark night, a patrol team roared up, and more than 100 bows and arrows were aimed at them, "Stop! ”

Tumidu stepped forward and replied: "It's me, Tumidu, who went out on errands on the order of the Great Chief!" ”

He raised a golden arrow, and the sentinels knew this first warrior of the Hui Dynasty, and when they saw that he had the golden arrow of the great chief, they retreated, and Tumidu urged the horse to lead the people to continue to run towards the main camp, and passed two more sentry posts in a row, and at this time the cavalry was less than a mile away from the main camp, and the outline of the dark Turkic dome could be faintly seen.

Tumidu reined in the war horse, turned back to Zhong Gensheng and said in a deep voice: "There will be no patrol post any further, I can only help you so much, tonight's password is 'The Eve of the Great War', take care of yourself!" ”

Zhong Gensheng bowed to him, "Thank you!" ”

With a wave of his hand, he led the nineteen scouts to gallop eastward, and Tu Du looked at their distant backs, shook his head, and urged his horse to return to the camp.

Zhong Gensheng and his nineteen scouts wore hats, thick leather jackets, and sturdy leather armor, and covered half of their faces with thick fur collars, dressed entirely as Turkic cavalry, and they galloped east along the edge of the camp.

Zhong Gensheng is an old scout, he knows the rules of the Turkic camp well, they have passed three checkpoints, as long as they do not enter the royal tent area, they will not encounter any interrogation, these twenty Sui army scouts are specially selected, except for Zhong Gensheng and the other two scouts are Han, the remaining seventeen people are Turks from the Utu department.

They entered the large Turkic camp from a relatively quiet camp, and most of the Turkic soldiers had already fallen asleep, and no one had come to interrogate them along the way.

After walking for several miles, and then going forward is the king's tent area, there is a trench on the ground, and groups of Turkic guards patrol back and forth, the defense is very tight, Zhong Gensheng turned around and nodded to everyone, it is ready to act, 'Click! Then one torch was lit, and then twenty torches were lit, and they suddenly started to run to the tent with torches in hand, and began to set fire to the tents.

The tents were lit one after another, the flames were soaring, the smoke was billowing out, and countless Turkic soldiers rushed out of the tents, shouting loudly, desperately beating the lit tents, and the Turkic camp was in chaos.

Pei Sa, the Great Chief of Hui, stood in front of the big tent, looking at the firelight in the distance, and he suddenly glanced back at Tumidu.

Tumidu lowered his head, and Peisa turned his head to look at the distant firelight, and a fire of hope slowly flickered in his eyes.

Perhaps, as Tumidu said, freedom is more important than wealth......

Jieli Khan was also alarmed, he ran out of the king's tent, looked at the sky-high fire in the distance, and asked anxiously, "What is the matter?" ”

A soldier rushed to report, "Khan, a Sui army spies have infiltrated the camp and set fire to the camp, and we are searching for it." ”

Jieli Khan stomped his feet in hatred, and ordered urgently: "Order the guards to be dispatched immediately, and line up on the periphery to wait for battle to prevent the Sui army from attacking at night!" ”

100,000 Turkic Guards cavalry dispatched, they lined up in the wilderness in front of the camp, preparing for battle, but on the dark and dreary grassland, except for the cold north wind howling, there was no Sui army.

The Sui army just came to disturb the morale of the army and interfere with the rest of the Turkic army, and there was no plan to attack at night......

The day was getting brighter, 'woo-woo-, the trumpet sounded in the camp of the Sui army, and the low horn sounded on the grassland, which was the trumpet sound of the coming of the great war.

The soldiers of the Sui army put on armor and helmets one after another, packed up their war horses, their spears were sharp, their blades were sharp, their bowstrings were replaced, and the long arrows were reinserted into the quiver, the war horses were fed, and the wills and belongings left by the soldiers to their families were carefully wrapped and silently handed over to the captain.

Under the urging of the constant sound of horns, the soldiers turned on their horses, gathered into a cavalry team, marched north out of the camp, and followed thousands of hunting banners to the Turkic camp dozens of miles away.

But after only a dozen miles, a scout rushed to report to Yang Yuanqingyu, the commander of the Sui army under the banner: "The Turkic army has moved south, and now it is twenty miles away!" ”

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, "The army stops advancing, line up!" ”

80,000 Sui cavalry began to re-array, divided into the left and right middle three armies, Yang Yuanqing personally led 50,000 troops for the middle army, 15,000 people on the left and right wings, the left wing commander will be the general Luo Shixin, the deputy general Wang Junkuo, the right wing commander will be the general Pei Xingyan, the deputy general Xie Yingdeng, and the rear army will be Niu Jinda, he led 10,000 troops to drag back.

This time, the Sui army was mainly cavalry, with 6,000 heavy armor soldiers and 4,000 strong crossbow soldiers, and 5,000 heavy armored cavalry handed over to Li Jing, who led 15,000 people to respond as a new force in the middle of the war.

The 80,000 Sui army has completed the army on the grassland, thousands of banners are distributed on the battle line about three miles long, the strong wind blows the banners, the morale of the Sui soldiers is high, the murderous spirit, even the war horses feel the tension before the big battle, bow their heads and neigh, and snort.

At this time, more than a dozen Sui army scouts rushed towards the Sui army's large array, it was Zhong Gensheng and others who attacked the Turkic camp last night, the Sui soldiers thought they had been killed, but at this time, their unexpected appearance made the Sui army's large array full of jubilation.

Just as the Sui army was cheering, a whimpering horn suddenly sounded in the distance, and a black line about ten miles long appeared at the end of the grassland