In the end, Chuluo Khan could not bear the huge pressure, and was forced to stop the siege of Shanyang County, and the army immediately passed through the Loufu Pass to the south, but before the army went south, in order to prevent the Sui army from cutting off its back road, Chuluo Khan also made careful arrangements, first divided the 170,000 troops in his hands into two routes, he led 100,000 Turkic troops to the south, and Kang Sheli led 70,000 troops to stay in Mayi County. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time, he also ordered Kang to take Lou Fan Pass as the defense center, and moved the Yangma City located in Zihe to the south outside Lou Fan Pass, which was to prevent the long-distance transportation of cattle and sheep from being intercepted by the Sui army, and set up a large battalion in Qifubo, garrisoning 10,000 troops, responsible for communicating the connection between the royal court and Bingzhou.

After deploying the defense of Mayi County, Chu Luo Khan personally led an army of 100,000 through the Loufu Pass and rolled to the south.

In the afternoon of this day, in the wilderness south of Yunnei County, an army of 50,000 people was marching north at a rapid pace, this army of 50,000 people was the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Li Jing, his army had been stationed in Yanmen County, he had been patiently waiting for the opportunity, according to the prior deployment, once the main Turkic force went south, he would immediately lead the army to the north, pretending to attack the Turkic court with empty troops.

The time has gradually reached dusk, there are still ten miles away from Yunnei County, Li Jing ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot, the Sui army of the northern expedition is mainly infantry, but there are also 8,000 cavalry, the main cavalry of the Sui army is mainly deployed in Taiyuan County, ready to fight with the main Turkic force.

Li Jing's army and Wei Chigong's army were responsible for annihilating the 70,000 troops left in Mayi County.

Li Jing was in no hurry to go north, his formation was very large, and he needed to let the patrol team of the Turkic army find out.

When night fell, the soldiers who had marched all day were exhausted, and went to bed early after dinner, and they went north as light soldiers, without carrying tents and other baggage, and each soldier had only one military blanket, and he fell asleep on the grass with a blanket.

In the only marching tent, Li Jing stood in front of a sand table and pondered for a long time, he first had to solve the problem of 50,000 people logistics grain and grass, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that without strong logistics support, 50,000 people would actually be unrealistic for the northern expedition to the Turkic court.

The reason why the Western Han army was able to defeat the Xiongnu army again and again was because the Western Han Dynasty carried out logistical support with the strength of the whole country, so that in the later period of Emperor Wu, the entire Han Dynasty almost collapsed.

Li Jing was calculating the grain he carried, the dry food they carried could only support the army for ten days, and now that three days had passed, they had to find supplies as soon as possible, Li Jing planned to completely annihilate the 10,000 Turkic troops stationed in the begging and ambushing places, and seize their cattle and sheep materials.

He was a little worried that the garrison would evacuate in time after discovering the Sui army, so that they would rush through the air, and then their dry food supply would only be three days, and if they could find a grassland tribe, it would be fine, if they could not find it, they would face the crisis of running out of food.

This is also the biggest risk in the Sui army's plan to go north, which made Li Jing hesitate, of course Li Jing also wanted to bring more food, but the light soldiers went north, and the soldiers carried ten days of dry food was already the limit.

At this moment, a soldier reported outside the tent: "General Qiyu, our outer patrol post met four Sui soldiers, and they said that there was important information to report. ”

Li Jing was stunned and asked, "Where are the Sui soldiers?" ”

"It seems to be the defenders of Zihe Pass, they are separated from the main force and are preparing to divert to Yanmen County."

Li Jing immediately ordered: "Bring them to me!" ”

After a short time, several ragged Sui soldiers were brought in, these people were Han Qianhui and others who were the last to evacuate Zihe Pass, they encountered a Turkic patrol post when they went down the mountain, and one of their companions was injured, and they dodged in the area of Zihe for more than half a month before fleeing westward, and happened to meet Li Jing's army.

"See General Li for your humble duties!" Several soldiers fell on one knee and saluted.

Li Jing saw that their faces were yellow and thin, and their leather armor was tattered, but they were barely the appearance of the Sui army, so he asked, "Whose subordinates are you, and why are you here?" ”

Han Qianhui hugged his fists and said: "General Huiyu, we are under the command of General Zhang Zhenqiu of Zihe Pass, General Zhang was unfortunately killed, when General Niu led the army to evacuate Zihe Pass, he ordered us to go up the mountain to light the beacon fire, we were separated from the main force, and later encountered the Turkic patrol post, we hid in Tibet in the area of Zihe, and stole three horses a few days ago, so we ran westward and happened to meet General Li. ”

Li Jing nodded, he heard Niu Jun, who retreated to Yanmen County, say that Zhang Zhenqiu was unfortunately killed when he resisted the enemy, and the Turkic army was too strong to resist and was forced to evacuate Zihe Pass, these soldiers should be the soldiers who were scattered at that time.

"What's going on over there at Zihe Pass now? Is the pass still there? Li Jing asked again.

"Half of the pass has been demolished by the Turkic army, but there are still Turkic defenders there."

Li Jing was stunned and asked, "How many defenders are there?" ”

"Originally, there were 2,000 people, but a few days ago more than 10,000 people came from the north, and now there are about 10,000 people."

Li Jing was taken aback and asked anxiously, "Is your news serious?" ”

"How dare the villain deceive the general."

Li Jing hurriedly checked the map, he understood in his heart, this should be the army of Begging and Bo retreating south to Zihe Pass, and he was also preparing to go to Begging and Bo to annihilate this army, if it was not for this soldier to tell the situation in time, they would inevitably go north to pounce, the problem of fighting the air is not big, the key is that their food can only support seven days at most, and it will take eight days to go back and forth from here, and they will face the risk of running out of food halfway.

Li Jing broke out in a cold sweat on his back, he was secretly glad that he was lucky, and Li Jing hurriedly asked, "Is there a sheep and horse city in Zihe Pass?" ”

"Of course, we survived by stealing their sheep, and we also stole three war horses, about a million cattle and sheep."

Li Jing was overjoyed, he thought for a while and asked, "Did you come from Zihe and meet the Turkic patrol post?" ”

Han Qian bowed back and said: "General Huiyu, the Turkic army has set up heavy outposts on the south and east of the Zihe River, we dare not go from the south of Wuzhou Mountain, but make a detour to the north of Wuzhou Mountain, and then go south after returning to Yunnei County, and we did not encounter Turkic patrol posts along the way. ”

Li Jing nodded, asked the soldiers to take a few of them down to change clothes and rest, and prepared to use them as guides, and then he ordered: "Order the whole army to set off on the fifth watch!" ”

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At the fourth watch, a forward army of 3,000 people set off first with Han Qianhui and others as guides, and an hour later, the 50,000-strong army continued to pass through Yunnei County to the north, but they no longer went to beg for a berth, but detoured to the north of Wuzhou and detoured to Zihe Pass in the west.

It takes two days to get from Yunnei County to Zihekou if it is cavalry, and four days for infantry, which is still the time it takes to walk in a straight line, but if it is a roundabout curve, it will take more time, and the Sui army obviously knew this, they obviously accelerated the speed of the march, and no longer stationed at night, but continued to move west after a short rest for an hour.

Three days later, the army was still a hundred miles away from the mouth of the Zihe, Li Jing ordered the soldiers to rest in place for lunch, at this time, the forward army also slowed down, and was only thirty miles away from the main force behind, forming a pattern of echoing from the end to the end.

Not long after, a group of cavalry galloped over, they turned over and dismounted, and walked quickly into Li Jing's temporary marching tent with Han Qianhui, and the captain bowed and saluted: "General, he's here!" ”

Han Qianhui hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "See the general!" ”

He changed into a new clothes, put on the Mingguang armor, and cleaned up and was majestic, Li Jing glanced at him and said with a smile: "I heard the forward General Ma say, you are quite skilled, why is it just a small fire chief?" ”

Han Qianhui sighed for a while and said: "The villain doesn't dare to hide the general, we were originally trapped soldiers, and we were turned into official soldiers by General Zhang because of our meritorious service during the defense of Zihe, so the villain is just a fire chief." ”

Li Jing suddenly realized that they were all death row prisoners, and he was more interested in his heart, so he asked again: "Then what did you do before?" ”

(To be continued.) )