On the vast grassland, dozens of goshawks hovered in the sky, making a crisp chirping, in the distance is the towering Dajin Mountain, the black and swarthy mountain body is like a giant dragon lying across the grassland, the forest at the foot of the mountain is luxuriant, and the narrow forest stretches for thousands of miles.

This is the grassland north of Yulin County, dozens of miles to the east is Dingxiang County, here is still the territory of the Great Sui, but in fact, almost all the people living in this area are Turkic herdsmen, the Sui Dynasty once settled here the distressed Qimin Department, as the Qimin Department gradually became stronger and returned to the north, but there are still a small number of Turkic people who stay in this area to graze for a living.

There are Turkic tents distributed on the vast grassland, at this time, a group of cavalry galloped from a distance, about 200 people, each with two horses, like thunder, the Turkic woman in front of the tent hurriedly pulled the child into the tent, and several strong Turkic men walked out of the tent.

They were not panicked, and Sui army patrols often passed in front of their tents, and they were used to it.

"It's the patrol cavalry of Toyoshu."

A Turkic man stared for a long time and said, "I saw their Red Eagle Banner. ”

Since the five cities were repaired one after another last year, the cavalry patrols of the Sui army from Fengzhou have often appeared on this grassland, and they have appeared more and more often, and have gradually replaced the original border army of Yulin County.

As soon as the words fell, the cavalry of the Sui army rushed to the scene, and the fluttering red flag was embroidered with black goshawks, this was a group of Sui army scouts, they were ordered to find a group of Han people's traces,

The cavalry of the Sui army reined in their horses, arched their hands for the first captain, and said in Turkic: "I want to ask you about one thing, has there been any news that a large number of Han people have gone north in the past two days?" ”

Several Turkic men looked at each other and shook their heads, "There were a few months ago, but not recently." ”

One of the Turkic men said: "The general went to Yuanyang Town in the east to ask, maybe there will be news, and generally Han people have to pass through there when they go north." ”

"Thank you!" The cavalry lieutenant waved his hand back and led the cavalry to the east.

In the past two years, due to the continuous turmoil in the Central Plains, especially the rebellion of Wei Dao'er in Zhuo County, a large number of people have fled into the Turks to escape the war, and many of them have craftsmen, bringing advanced manufacturing armor technology and iron-making technology to the Turks, and smuggling is rampant, and strategic resources such as pig iron continue to flow into the Turks.

Originally, the bows and arrows of the Sui army's absolute superiority were no different from the Turks, but because of the lack of Turkic pig iron, the armor was slightly inferior to the Sui army, and other equipment was not worse than the Sui army, and the Turks had higher horseback riding skills, which made up for the lack of armor, which made the Turks increasingly powerful.

The Turkic rulers deeply felt the huge benefits brought by the Sui people, they not only took the initiative to accept and appease the fugitives, but also sent officials to the Sui border to encourage the Sui people to move north, but since last year, Fengzhou also sent officials to the Central Plains to publicize, accept the fugitives, and began to compete with the Turks, and the competition between the two places for the fugitives has become increasingly fierce.

A few days ago, the Fengzhou army stationed in Yulin County received information that a group of Sui people had fled north, and Yang Jiachen, the Yulin guard, sent a scout team to find these fugitives and prepared to persuade them to go to Hetao.

The cavalry of the Sui army galloped all the way, and arrived at Yuanyang Town the next morning, Yuanyang Town is located on the south bank of the Jinhe River, is the northernmost town of the Great Sui, from the Yuanyang Town to the north more than 100 miles, is the Dajin Mountain, although the north of the Dajin Mountain is still nominally the territory of the Great Sui, but in fact it is controlled by the Turks, and the Sui army must intercept the fugitives before they cross the Dajin Mountain.

The captain of this scout team is called Wu Zhiyuan, a veteran who has been in the army for ten years, and has been promoted to captain with great experience.

After a while, two of his subordinates galloped back and reported excitedly: "Captain, there is news that a group of fugitives went north last night, about 2,000 people. ”

"No horseback riding?" Wu Zhiyuan hurriedly asked.

"Part on horseback, part on foot, but I've heard that there may be Turkic soldiers from the north."

Wu Zhiyuan quickly estimated the time in his heart, the time has passed all night, if this group of fugitives does not rest, then it is likely that they have crossed Dajin Mountain, but if the old and weak women and children among them rest on the way, then it will be too late.

"Let's go!"

Wu Zhiyuan gave an order, and two hundred cavalry galloped towards the north.

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There are quite a lot of roads to cross Dajin Mountain, but the nearest road is called Baidao, it is a pass with dangerous terrain, the Han Dynasty had built a city here for defense, but with the turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the city has been abandoned, and the Hu people in the north can also bypass Dajin Mountain from the east hundreds of miles away to go south, the strategic significance of Baidao building the city is not much.

At dusk, about ten miles south of Baidao, a large group of Sui people were helping the old and the young to carry out the difficult north, about 2,000 people, this is a fugitive from Shanggu County and Zhuo County, because the Wei Dao'er Rebellion made it difficult for them to survive in their hometown, there was news that the people who fled to the Turks were doing well, there were large tracts of land to cultivate, there were almost no taxes, and there were no wars, these rumors were very inflammatory, and the people of several counties went to the Turks to make a living.

More than 2,000 people, half on horseback, half on foot, the march speed was not fast, hundreds of Turkic soldiers escorted them forward, but the attitude of the Turkic soldiers was rough, and the slow ones were scolded lightly, and the heavy was whipped with leather whips, and the Turkic officials who led them became cold, and completely lost the enthusiasm they had when they were agitated to the north, and the escort became an escort, and many people had begun to regret it, but at this time regret was useless, and the Turkic soldiers were closely watched, and they could not escape at all.

The crowd stumbled north, and at that moment a thunderous sound of horses' hooves was heard from behind, and a cavalry was speeding towards it.

"It's the Sui Army!"

The Turkic soldiers shouted loudly, drew their swords and arrows, and went up to meet the battle, 2,000 Sui people were so frightened that they wanted to flee in all directions, but more than 100 Turkic soldiers whipped and whipped, "Don't run, squat down!" ”

Several screams were heard, these were several young men trying to escape on horseback, but they were killed by the Turkic soldiers with arrows, and the two thousand Sui people were so frightened that they squatted down and huddled together like sheep.

In the distance, the Sui cavalry has already caught up, although the task of the scouts is not to fight, but if they don't make a move at this time, the Sui people will cross the Dajin Mountain and enter the Turkic sphere of influence, and the captain Wu Zhiyuan resolutely decided to attack, annihilate the Turkic soldiers, and regain these populations.

He shouted, "Watch your formation, defend against enemy bows and arrows!" ”

The two hundred Sui troops slowed down, the other side was about five hundred people, more than twice them, and the two hundred Sui troops were divided into four teams, each with a team leading, and they slowly approached the Turkic army with bows and arrows in hand.

About 300 paces, Wu Zhiyuan waved his hand, the Sui soldiers stopped advancing, and the Turkic soldiers confronted, only less than a quarter of an hour, the Turkic army suddenly broke out, hundreds of cavalry rushed towards the Sui soldiers at a gallop, the war horses galloped, the spears were sharp, and there was a hideous wild smile on their faces.

Wu Zhiyuan was unusually calm, and he shouted, "Bow and arrow ready!" ”

Two hundred bows and arrows were raised on the ground and aimed at the Turkic army that was rushing densely, and the Turkic army rushed into one hundred and twenty steps in an instant, which was the range of the Sui army's bow and arrows, "Shoot!" Wu Zhiyuan gave an order, and two hundred arrows rose into the air and rained into the rushing Turkic army, and a miserable scream sounded, and dozens of people were shot down.

But at this time, the Turkic army also fired arrows, they ran and shot arrows, one arrow after another roared from a hundred paces away, the Sui soldiers raised their shields to meet each other, but still a dozen people were shot by arrows, screaming and falling off their horses.

The Turkic soldiers had rushed to seventy paces away, the second round of arrows of the Sui army was fired, the arrows were strong, piercing through the enemy's leather armor, a Turkic soldier rolled over and fell to the ground in the gallop, two rounds of arrows, the Turkic army lost more than 90 people, but at this time, they had killed forty paces away.

"Two dragons out of the water array!"

Wu Zhiyuan gave an order, and the Sui army immediately divided into two ways and rushed to both sides to avoid a frontal collision with the Turkic soldiers.

The weakness of the Turkic army is that the team is chaotic, there is no formation, almost fighting separately, the advantage is strong impact power, superb equestrianism, but the advantage of the Sui army is that it is well-trained, pays attention to formation coordination, has strong overall combat ability, and has elite armor, but there are also weaknesses, mainly because the horse control technology is inferior to the opponent.

At this time, the Sui army had defused the first wave of the impact of the Turkic cavalry, and turned to meet the battle, and launched a fierce cavalry battle in the grassland, although the number of both sides was not large, with less than two hundred people against three hundred, but it was still a thrilling and tragic fight, the spears on both sides fought, swords and swords, and soldiers were constantly killed, screaming and falling off their horses.

Although the number of soldiers of the Sui army is slightly inferior, these two hundred people are scouts with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and they are the elite of the Sui army.

On the contrary, the Turkic soldiers almost did not cooperate, they were all in their own formations, most of the time they were running, they seemed to be dazzling, but they did not have much time to kill the enemy, and the combat efficiency was low, which was the difference between training and non-training, which was also the purpose of the Sui army to open the battle line, making it difficult for the Turkic soldiers to concentrate on combat.

The Sui army became more and more courageous, gradually gaining the upper hand, the ratio of forces has been reversed, the number of the two sides has been equal, at this time the sky is already dark, the stars are hanging in the sky and twinkle, the vicious battle on the grassland is still continuing, the night combat training of the Sui army began to play an advantage at this time, although the Sui army continues to attrition, but the remaining soldiers still follow the fire chief, and the fire commander follows the team, the formation is not chaotic.

The Turkic soldiers did not have the habit of fighting at night, and when the Turkic commander saw that the casualties were more than half, he shouted, and the remaining 150 or so Turkic soldiers turned their horses and fled to the northeast, and the nearly 100 Turkic soldiers guarding the Sui people no longer cared about the Sui people and fled to the northeast with their leader.

The grassland resounded with the cheers of the victory of the Sui army, and the two hundred Sui troops lost more than 60 people, while the other side lost more than 270 people, and this encounter ended with a great victory for the Sui army.

Wu Zhiyuan urged him to step forward and shouted to more than 2,000 frightened fugitives: "Don't be afraid, we are the Sui army of Fengzhou, leading you to settle in Fengzhou, there is no war there, there is no rebellion, you can have enough food and clothing, it is a hundred times better than going to the Turks to be slaves!" ”

When the fugitives heard that it was the Sui army of Fengzhou, their hearts of fear disappeared slightly, and at this time they were no longer willing to go to the Turks, so they turned around and headed in the direction of Yulin County under the escort of the Sui army scouts.

[Note: During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, a large number of Sui Dynasty refugees fled to the Turks]