Shibi Khan glanced at his son Tuli, and thought to himself that although his son was also smart and brave, he still hadn't experienced too many ups and downs after all.

"Tuli, you have to remember that no matter what kind of covenant it is, it is only based on strength. Without strength, there is no covenant. This time, our Turkic southward march failed, and Chen Kefu of Liaodong would not continue the previous covenant. ”

Tuli was a little frightened, "Great Khan, that Chen Kefu is known as the number one general in the world, and he has never been defeated in the battle so far. Now that we are robbing while the fire is taking advantage of the fire and falling into the well, what should we do? ”

"Tuli, what a panic, you have to remember, you are my Ashina. Son of Duji, you have the blood of the Ashina family flowing in your body, which is the blood of the royal family. As a descendant of a wolf, no matter what time it is, you can't be so cowardly and panicked. Although Chen Pojun claims to be invincible, there will be no invincible generals in the world. Even if Chen Kefu is a tiger, don't forget, we are all descendants of steppe wolves. Wolves are never afraid of tigers, but tigers are afraid of wolves. ”

"Chuanben Khan ordered that the northern, eastern, and western gates of Dali should be closed first, leaving the south gate alone, and the five leaders of Jieli, Chuluo, Qiji, Tuli, and Locke should immediately lead their troops and horses out of the city. Remember, don't engage the enemy first, just gather your troops and horses, stabilize the position, and don't let them overwhelm the whole battalion. ”

One after another, orders were handed down, and countless torches began to be lit on the city, and Tuli and the others each led a group of soldiers and horses out of the city, but they did not immediately go deep into the camp. Instead, they stopped at the edges of the camp in all directions and formed a defensive camp. In the midst of countless fires, the Turks began to use the sound of bull horns to direct the panicked soldiers in the camp to assemble everywhere! "Hold your ground!" The herald rushed and shouted: "First row, squat!" The soldiers rested the poles of their spears on the ground, pointed their spears forward, and bent down to meet the enemy. The officers shouted in their ears: "Immortal God bless, prepare for battle!" ”

"Hold your ground!" The herald gave the order again. The soldiers who obeyed the orders nailed their feet to the ground even more firmly, clenched their spears tightly, and everyone's hearts were pounding. The teeth of the soldiers in the front row involuntarily made a "clucking" sound. Pale face. At the back of the phalanx, the small messengers of the tribe commanded the tribal cavalry to form a skirmish, and the bright arrows were aimed at the back of the soldiers in front.

Although a shield wall had been erected in the front row, and Rulin's spear was in front, the Turks were still terrified. The Turkic camp had already become a hell on earth by this time, and the tents had already burned in the dark night, emitting raging flames. In the firelight, there were bursts of thunder and heart-rending screams from time to time. Every scream terrified the Turkic soldiers. It's the natural fear of facing the unknown.

At the call of the horns, more and more Turkic soldiers rushed from the large camp to converge.

"Array, steady progress!" One by one, the heralds rode their horses and shouted orders in front of the phalanxes outside the camp. Although they were terrified in their hearts, under the supervision of the clan leaders behind, the rows of soldiers in front had no choice but to hold their shields and spears, and slowly advance in fear. Outflanked the camp.

At this time, the three-way men and horses of the Liaodong Army had already trampled the entire camp, and gradually merged into a large army, crisscrossing everywhere, killing the Turkic people and horses in the camp everywhere. Gradually, the grenades have been used up, even the crossbow arrows have been exhausted, and the feather arrows in the quiver have been exhausted.

Three thousand soldiers and horses. All of them took up spears and horizontal swords. Once again, the Turkic camp was cleaned.

"General, the Turks have reacted, and now they have gathered their soldiers and horses on all sides outside the camp, and they have slowly surrounded the camp." A captain was bloody, sweating profusely.

Zhang He looked around, looked at the Turkic camp that had turned into a fire, and took a few breaths and said, "It seems that we underestimated the Turks, although these Turks are defeated soldiers. But he still has some ability, and he still hasn't collapsed like this. In that case, let's withdraw, tonight is enough. ”

The other lieutenant also grinned, and his face full of smoke and dust suddenly showed a mouth full of big white teeth. "What the general said is that tonight is finally a good killing. The end will be estimated. The Turks who died tonight under the hooves of our horses are at least 10,000. Withdraw now, let's make a lot of money. ”…,

"Withdraw!"

Zhang He saw that the Turks had already gathered those soldiers and horses, so he applauded the collection. Waving his horse lance, he gave the order to withdraw his troops. Three thousand soldiers and horses fought in one night. It's also a lot of damage, even if they're fighting a raid war. Most of the way was a Mercedes-Benz sports battle, and in the end, more than 300 people were killed and wounded. Speaking of which, it is already a miracle that the Turkic battalion, which attacked 60,000 with 3,000, ended up with only more than 300 deaths.

If it weren't for the beginning, those grenades and crossbow arrows were too sharp, and most of the Turks thought that the 500,000 troops of the Sui Dynasty had caught up. It is impossible for them to achieve such a result, coming and going like the wind, Zhang He led the remaining more than 2,000 brothers, and before the Turks were completely encircled, they fought their way out of the bloody road and disappeared into the night.

Jieli and the others were planning to pursue and completely annihilate this group of people who took advantage of the fire to rob. But the order to withdraw the troops had already come from there, and everyone had no choice but to turn back.

The camp was full of ashes and wreckage, and Shibi Khan looked at all this with a gloomy face.

"The post-war inventory has been completed, according to the count, tonight there was a surprise attack, about 3,000 enemies, under the banner of the Sui State Zuotunwei. In the night battle, the enemy army was not only equipped with crossbow machines, but also a large number of Liaodong mines. Our troops were panicked and suffered heavy casualties. The total number of people killed, burned, trampled and killed by the enemy tonight was more than eight thousand. And there were many wounded soldiers, most of them burned to death, stepped wounded, and a large number of wounded soldiers are now unconscious, according to the shaman, all of them were poisoned. The Liaodong thunder of those enemy troops contained a large number of iron nails and other substances, all of which were highly poisonous. There is a shortage of medicinal herbs in the military, and most of them are difficult to treat. Nearly 5,000 people can't survive today"

Shi Bi and the others all looked gloomy, they never thought that there would be such a big casualty last night. More than 8,000 people have died in battle, and nearly 5,000 will die of poison today. In addition to these 13,000 people, in addition to the lightly wounded, about 2,000 people will be completely disabled and will not be able to fight again. Fifteen thousand, a night attack by a few thousand enemy troops, caused the Turkic battalion with more than 60,000 people to lose 15,000 men and horses.

"Damn Chen Kefu, this Khan will always remember this revenge, and in this life he swears to destroy the Chen family's children, and he will raise a grassland army one day. Completely set foot in Liaodong. Shibi Khan could no longer restrain the anger in his heart. Although he didn't take the covenant much in his heart at the beginning, he was hit the back by the Liaodong Army at this time, and he was extremely angry in his heart.

"Chuan Ben Khan ordered that all the bodies of the war dead be burned on the spot and their ashes brought back to the steppe. In the afternoon of this day, the whole army immediately set off. ”

Although he was angry in his heart, Shibi Khan already had a very bad feeling. This is a feeling like being targeted by a wolf, the Liaodong Army has hundreds of thousands of horses, and Chen Kefu is sung by the world as the world's number one general, such a person will not make a move. Now that it's done. How could it be that only 3,000 men and horses could be sent to fight? It is very likely that these 3,000 people are just the vanguard of the Liaodong Army, and the real main force is the back.

At present, there are only 50,000 soldiers in the Turkic tribes, and if they are intercepted by Chen Kefu again, then it is very likely that they will never return to the steppe. The leaders of the various tribes were also panicked at this time, although they wanted to take the corpses of the tribes back to the grassland, but they couldn't hold on at this time.

At the moment, the Turks packed up the camp. After reorganizing the remnants, set off immediately. Fortunately, most of the grain and grass in the army this time were hoarded in Dali County, and it was not destroyed, which was also a great luck, not as good as tens of thousands of troops, after passing Dali City, it was a long distance of vast uninhabited wilderness. They can't even plunder the grass valley if they want to.

Three days later. Shibi did not follow the road he came from and went to the moraine to return to the grassland. In order to prevent the Liaodong Army from reaching the east. Shibi led the army to the west, to Baidao, intending to follow the western line to Gandu Jin Mountain, and then turn back to the Turkic tent.

However, as soon as the Turkic army arrived at Baidao, they heard countless arrows suddenly flying out of the mountains and forests on both sides, and arrows rained down. The Khitan prince Abaoguo, who had been arranged by Wang Rengong to set up an ambush here, led 10,000 Khitan elite horsemen to kill in all directions, and the Turks and Khitans were both ethnic groups on the grassland. Both sides are very proficient in mounted archery, and both are horseback peoples. Although there were only 10,000 Khitans, they did not fall behind.

On the contrary, the Khitans, relying on the crossbow equipment they obtained from the Liaodong Army, plus waiting for work, will rush desperately for days. The Turkic tribes, who had long been physically and mentally exhausted, were slaughtered one after another. The battle lasted all day, and the two sides rushed back and forth, and the blood flowed like a river. Until dusk, Shibi sent his most elite battalion of golden wolf knights to participate in the battle, and the Khitans lost more than 3,000 soldiers and horses. Only then did he feel exhausted, and he withdrew westward like the wind. …,

See the Khitan cavalry heading west. Although Shibi Khan still felt that he should continue to the west, the leader of the Xia tribe, Locke and others, were already a little frightened. In any case, they were reluctant to go west, not only because the Khitans retreated to the west, but also because it was possible that the main force of the Liaodong Army was in the west. Moreover, at this time, the army with the largest number of soldiers and horses was in the eastern part of the Turks, that is, the two divisions of Fugu and Paiyaji, which were also in the northeast. At present, all the tribes on the grassland are being attacked, and if you go west, even if you go back to the grassland, you have to go around in a big circle, and you can't return to the tribe without a month or two. Therefore, with more than half of the soldiers and horses in their hands, the three divisions of the Xiabu, the Dialyeji, and the Servant Bone resolutely refused to go west.

Shibi Khan had no choice but to lead his troops to the east and east to Tuntie Mountain. After temporarily resting the soldiers and horses, he will cross the sand sea and return to Mobei. However, as soon as Shibi arrived at Tuntie Mountain, Mo Ge, the young patriarch of the Dahe clan in Liaodong, had already led 10,000 Dahe cavalry to kill again.

At this time, there were only more than 40,000 Turkic soldiers and horses left, and they were already exhausted, and even the grain and grass were burned by the Khitan cavalry during the previous battle of Baidao. If it weren't for the belief in returning home, these tens of thousands of people would have collapsed. The Turks, who were tired and tired, had not eaten for two days, and had relied entirely on horse meat for the past two days. Even along the way, in order to hurry, even the road is eaten raw.

More than 40,000 Turks fought against more than 10,000 cavalry of the Dahe clan from the Khitan steppe, and they were killed in a big battle. Mogo, the leader of the Oga clan, was very cunning, and he did not fight the Turks head-on, but was always entangled, not giving the Turks a chance to rest at all. From day to morning, from morning to night, the two sides fought continuously for a day and a night, and the Turkic horses were exhausted and died.

By the end of the battle, most of the Turkic soldiers had collapsed, and many of the Turkic soldiers who were not afraid of death in the past simply lay there after their horses fell to the ground and fell to the ground. Seeing this, Shibi Khan was also anxious and shocked. In the end, in desperation, he discarded nearly 10,000 horses who had lost their horses, and fled in panic with only more than 30,000 horsemen.

Like lost dogs, the Turks fled all the way along the eastern part of Yinshan, intending to flee across the moraine and across the sand sea to Mobei.

Under the unknown foot of the Yinshan Mountain Range, the broken leg of Shibi Khan had already moved the bone again due to the panic that had fled for several days, and after many days at this time, the broken bone had been generated, and one of his legs had completely become a lame leg. However, at this time, Shibi Khan no longer cared about his lameness, and stood on the hillside, looking at the chaotic Turkic cavalry at the foot of the mountain, his heart was full of fear.

Since arriving in Dingxiang, along the way, it seems that all their movements have been known by the Liaodong Army one step ahead. He had just arrived in the city of Dali when he was attacked that night. He went west to Baishan, but was ambushed by the Khitan cavalry, and he fled to Tuntieshan, but was also intercepted by a large army. At present, it is not far ahead, it will be the moraine, after the moraine, through the sand sea, it will be the Mobei grassland.

Although he was only one step away from returning to the Central Plains, he felt more and more uneasy in his heart. He already felt that there must be a more elite Liaodong army waiting for him at the mouth of the moraine. In Dali, the Liaodong Army dispatched only 3,000 cavalry. In Baidao and Tuntieshan, although the soldiers and horses are 20,000 years old, these horses are all Khitan soldiers and horses, not those of Liaodong.

Although he knew that the Khitan and Liaodong had already become a family, everyone knew that the real elite soldiers and horses of Chen Pojun were not those tribal alliances, but the Liaodong Army created by him himself. In the first battle of Dali, the 3,000 Liaodong Army was able to break his camp and let him lose more than 10,000 yuan. At present, the Khitans have dispatched 20,000 people, and according to the guess in his heart, there will definitely be no less than the Khitan Liaodong army there in the mouth, waiting for the net.

There is no way to retreat, he will not forget that the Khitans have two armies, and now there are more than 10,000 people who are retreating westward. When he retreats westward, he can only be a sheep into the mouth of a tiger. in, likewise lifeless. The moraine is like a death trap there, which is clearly known, but it cannot be bypassed.

With a long sigh, Shi Bi held the spear used as a crutch in his hand, staggered a few steps, and said to the tribal leaders with sad faces behind him in his infinite loneliness, "Tuli, you take a team of envoys to inform the commander of the Liaodong Army that Ben Khan is willing to surrender to the Liaodong Army. ”