Chapter 463: Good news
In the night, a white carrier pigeon flew into the military capital.
The pigeon cooed, and Xu Guang, the pigeon trainer in the pigeon station, immediately heard the sound, carefully held the pigeon, and removed the small bamboo letterbox tied to it from its leg. "Hey, my little darling, well done, and reward you with a mixture of fishmeal and locust meal, which is your best food." Xu Guang put the pigeon that had just returned from the letter into a clean empty cage and immediately brought it a specially prepared pigeon food. The pigeons cooed and happily ate on this nutritious, protein-rich diet. After Xu Guang finished this qiē, he took out his notepad and recorded the number of the leg ring on the pigeon's leg, and then wrote the time when the pigeon flew back and the number on the letter box on the foot. After the record was completed, he copied another copy and presented it to his boss along with the pigeon letter.
On the tower of the city gate of the military capital, Yi Feng stood alone.
Ever since he arrived at Jundu Pass, he has been thinking about whether he wants to go to war. Yi Feng used to dislike the cold in the north, but as time went by, he slowly got used to it, and even liked the scenery outside the Saiwai and even his cold.
Yi Feng has never believed in gods and Buddhas, he believes in people more.
Because of this, he was never willing to leave his fate in the hands of others, and let others control it. The eldest husband can't be without power for a day, and where does the power come from, Yi Feng understands that power does not come from his background, not his royal identity, and even if his grandson identity is only % false, he firmly believes that the real power comes from his own military power, just like the sentence that comes out of the barrel of a gun, Yi Feng firmly believes it. When the Great Sui reached its peak, it was already facing a turning point of prosperity and decline. Everyone wants to compete for the throne, regardless of whether Yi Feng wants to fight or not. He has been drawn into this fight, and the loser of the fight will end up in absolute tragic. He didn't want to be imprisoned in Jingshi for the rest of his life. I don't want to be divided into South Vietnam to be the king of the barbarians.
But right now, there is a good opportunity in front of him, a very good opportunity. Gao Gong wanted to watch the fire from the other side, and he also wanted to preserve his strength. However, now the development of the situation is strongly tilted towards his side, Li Jing with a battalion of cavalry has already disturbed the situation in Daibei, and Dou Jiande commanded the Chengde infantry army to achieve a victory that he did not expect.
What a surprise.
He leaned against the pheasant, his fingers rubbing against the rough surface of the bricks.
This is a rare opportunity, should I change my plans and take advantage of the situation to win in one fell swoop? Gao Gong supported the troops and did not advance. I want to wait for the Turks to defeat both of us, but what if I defeat the invading Turkic army with my own strength? Am I old and so conservative? Am I going to give up this opportunity, just sit and wait for Gao Gong, don't Gao Gong come, just sit back and watch the Turks come here to plunder around, and then leave with a swagger? Thinking of the ambition in his heart, he thought about how to change the fate of the Sui Dynasty and avoid the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty when he was quiet at night. To avoid thousands of dawns from being lost in war, I want to use my knowledge to change this era and make this era better. Why is he blindly thinking about stability now? What about his passion?
But yes
The Turks still have more than 100,000 troops in Daibei, especially Li Jing's department has no news so far, so he left the city to attack. Is it appropriate? The old thief has been holding the army backwards. Attack on your own, will you end up losing both with the Turks. And let Gao Gong sit and reap the profits.
"Your Highness, General Li San asks to see you." Li Mi said softly, as if he didn't want to disturb Yi Feng's contemplation. In his mind, His Royal Highness Taisun must be thinking about the overall situation in his mind at this time, and every thought and action is related to the fate of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians. "A pigeon is back." Li Mi admires Li Keshi's pigeons very much, but the small birds can make the news from all over the world exchange quickly. "It's a pigeon sent back by General Li Jing."
Hearing this, Yi Feng turned around violently, facing the red glow in the sky, "Quickly invite him to come up." ”
Li San Li Keshi walked lightly, during this time he was uneasy, first the eldest brother Yao Wang was trapped in Heng'an Town, and fell into a siege, and it was a situation of nine deaths and one life. And then the second brother pharmacist broke into the hearts of hundreds of thousands of Turks, and lost news for many days in a row, how could he not be in a hurry. However, today the Turks received the pigeons sent back by the second brother pharmacist, and the situation is very good.
The situation is not generally good.
Li Keshi almost trotted up to the city tower, and when he saw Yi Feng's face, he said with joy on his face, "Congratulations to Your Highness, good news, great news." Because he was so happy, he didn't pay attention, and he almost fell down when he stepped on the last few steps, but fortunately, the guard next to him was quick and quickly helped him.
"I heard that Li Jing has news?" Yi Feng also couldn't wait to ask.
"Yes, Your Highness, good news." Li Keshi, nicknamed the bird thief, replied, the three brothers of the Li family, the eldest medicine king and the second pharmacist can all fight well, and the eldest medicine king inherited his father's title in his early years, and he was in the army for many years, and now he is a general in the court. The second pharmacist, although he has been a civilian in his early years, but now he is a martial artist and has followed His Royal Highness Taisun, but he has also been appreciated by Taisun, and he has to be reused, and in a short time, he is now a general under Taisun. Only the third Li Keshi was also born in a family of military generals, but since he was a child, he is not a small knife and gun, he likes birds, concentrates on raising birds and taming birds, and was once thought to be not doing his job, but who knows that now he has also learned to be useful, and has been appreciated and supported by the grandson, and the establishment of the flying pigeon transmission system, although it has not yet been completed, but the current situation has been praised by the grandson. "The pharmacist ambushed the Daman Department at the Yuquanyi Shaliangpo at the junction of Tiancheng and Huai'an, and won a great victory!"
"Oh!" Yi Feng was excited, and hurriedly took Li Jing's flying letter from Li San's hand. The letter is not long, but the content is quite inspiring. Three days ago, after Li Jing captured Tiancheng and captured several nearby Turkic soldiers in Tiancheng County, he bluffed his banner in Tiancheng and made a gesture of holding on. Secretly led the army out of the city in the middle of the night, marched to the north of Tiancheng and Huai'an junction of Yuquanyi Shaliangpo ambush, when Daman led 10,000 soldiers and horses from Huai'an City to Tiancheng passing through Shaliangpo, encountered a sudden ambush by Li Jing's department.
What was killed was not the 5,000 Han cavalry known in Daman's intelligence at all, but as many as 15,000 Han cavalry, including 24 provisional Tibetan cavalry regiments, in addition to Li Jing's 6th cavalry battalion, which had almost no attrition. Daman was caught off guard by this ambush battle, and what surprised Daman even more was that Li Jing, who ambushed him, did not use the Han army's long-term tactics against the steppe cavalry, using infantry formations or chariot formations, and Li Jing directly used the cavalry skills of light cavalry.
Holding 3,000 Huaihuang Jing cavalry in his hand, plus more than 12,000 Turkic cavalry of Po Shi and others, Li Jing was very bold and heroic in using his troops, and directly let Po Shi and other Turkic generals lead the army to attack, and the two sides launched a large-scale cavalry battle in Shaliangpo. Li Jing used the Turkic cavalry against the Turkic cavalry, used the Turkic tactics to fight the Turks, and attacked more and less, waited for work, and even prepared to attack without defense, the battle was quite smooth, Daman faced the betrayal of the Turks, betrayed his uncle and mother-in-law, and could not reverse the situation at all. The battle lasted a whole day and a night, during which Dammam held out and did not want to retreat. He was waiting for his own reinforcements, and there were 10,000 cavalry sent by Kuhezhen not far behind him, not far from him, and he had been waiting for these 10,000 soldiers and horses.
But after waiting for a day and a night, until finally his 10,000 horses were almost dead and wounded, and finally collapsed, he couldn't wait for Anxida's 10,000 horses. He didn't know that when he was ambushed by Li Jing, An Xida had already received Kuhezhen's order to retreat to the front of the Duguan, and he was also ambushed on the way. However, he encountered an ambush of 10,000 Chengde infantry led by Dou Jiande, but the result was the same, An Xida was killed as soon as the battle began, and his subordinates were finally surrounded by the Chengde army, and after a tragic tear killing, more than 30% of the final battle casualties were killed, and the rest were forced to surrender after breaking through.
The other reinforcements that Dammam was counting on were in a similar situation.
The two troops of Kuhezhen and Daman in Ulzhou also sent soldiers and horses to help, but Li Yuan, the governor of Yizhou, received the order of Yi Feng, and joined forces with the Yuan brothers, the governor of Yingzhou and the governor of Hengzhou, to take the initiative to attack Ulzhou. However, the soldiers and horses sent from Yunnei were far away and difficult to reach for a while.
Daman was full of confidence before setting off, and wanted the five-way army to encircle Tiancheng and peel off the 5,000 Han army that dared to break into the heart of the more than 100,000 Turkic army, but when he himself was attacked, there was no one to help him, but the Han army was the first to break through.
What he didn't expect was that he had always believed in his heart that his uncle Po Shi, who was leading his troops to find the Sui army to fight, had already fallen to the Sui army, and even in this short period of time, he had helped the Sui army recruit more than 10,000 Turkic soldiers and horses, and now he was put to death.
Dammam was powerless to return to heaven and could not wait for reinforcements.
After a day and a night of fighting, Daman's division completely collapsed, nearly half of the dead and wounded in the battle, although the rest fled, but in the end most of them were pursued and captured, only Daman fled back to the camp under Huai'an with his elite cavalry.
If this is the end of the battle, then it is already very good. But Li Jing was much more courageous than Yi Feng, after achieving the victory of Shaliangpo, Li Jing did not take advantage of the victory to pursue to the city of Huai'an, but he returned to Tiancheng again, and then after a short rest, he led the army to the southwest of Tiancheng on the bank of the Baideng River to set up an ambush again. Li Jing doesn't care if the same tactic is used twice, as long as it works. (To be continued......) R1292