In the early morning of this day, Liu Changgong, Yun Dingxing and Li Yuan, who were ordered to send troops, led 10,000 troops to the north, and came to meet Chen Yingliang outside the camp of Qian Peng, and the Yin Shishi also personally came with a thousand troops to help Chen Yingliang as a military law team and a supervising team, Chen Yingliang also took 10,000 troops out of the camp, and joined more than 40,000 troops to prepare for a decisive battle with the Turks in Laoxian County.

This is a hastily organized decisive battle, the preparation is not enough, and Chen Fuliang, who has lost his conscience, does not even have time to know the names and official positions of many Sui army generals, not to mention the combat effectiveness of each army and army, as well as the combat style and reliable Cheng Dù of each battalion and general, it is completely a decisive battle launched without knowing the enemy and the other, and the danger is extreme, which is equivalent to gambling on the prestige and authority of his own commander of the Qinwang coalition army. I can't explain it to the soldiers of the Qinwang coalition army.

In such a hasty situation, the reason why Chen Yingliang decided to launch this decisive battle was that all the generals of the Qin Wang Army knew that the weather on this day had become the key to the key, and as a result, when the sun gradually rose to the top of the East Mountain, Li Yuan's mouth couldn't close his smile, and Liu Changgong, who was closer to Chen Yingliang, and Yin Shishi were also worried - even after many sunny days, today is another sunny day, the sky is as blue as a wash, not to mention any signs of rain, that is, not even a ray of white clouds can be found.

Seeing this scene, even the old general Yun Dingxingyun, who relied on flattery to climb to General Zuotunwei, was a little weak-hearted, and couldn't help but ask Chen Yingliang in a low voice: "Dashuai, doesn't this weather look like it's going to rain?" Most of our soldiers are tired from afar, and fighting in such weather is very exhausting. ”

The matter is very important, Chen Yingliang is of course weaker than anyone else, but when things come to this point, Chen Yingliang can't turn back, plus Yuan Tiangang nodded with eyes one after another, asking himself to believe in his judgment, Chen Yingliang could only answer in a low voice with a word of reassurance, and then ordered loudly: "Order the three armies, march to Lao County!" ”

In the sound of the horn, the army of 40,000 Qin Wang began to drive north in turn, walking in the front of the Li Yuan team who volunteered to serve as the vanguard, Yun Dingxing's Zuo Tun Wei team followed, Chen Yingliang and Yin Shishi's team followed behind, Liu Changgong led the Eastern Capital Qin Wang Army at the end, the Great Sui Zhulu Qin Wang Army Commander Chen Zi Shuai Banner in the Qian Peng Army, the loud "Jing Zhong Serving the Country" military song in the Qian Peng team and the right Wuwei team neatly echoed, the four armies joined hands like a slow flowing torrent, Slowly but surely flowing northward.

Looking back and seeing Chen Yingliang's tall and handsome flag, Li Yuan, who led the army to the front, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, or looked back and saw Chen Yingliang's handsome flag, Li Yuan's baby son Li Er was full of envy in his eyes, and Li Yuan's baby son-in-law Chai Shao had an extremely complicated mind, and he didn't expect that the poor boy who was so poor that he couldn't even drink rice porridge would have such a day, and what he didn't expect was that after the poor boy climbed to the commander who commanded the 120,000 army, He would actually serve as a little lieutenant under his command, lead him to a horse and a stirrup, be a cow as a horse, and be a small chess piece on the chessboard under his command, a chess piece that is too small to see.

"Don't bully young people into poverty." Once his brother-in-law's words suddenly echoed in Chai Shao's mind, so that Chai Shao couldn't help but sigh softly, and for the first time he felt a little regretful.

At the same time, the news of the Sui army's large-scale dispatch to the north, of course, has also been reported by the Turkic scouts to the front of the main Turkic general Ashina Association in Laoxian County, and when he learned of this situation, Ashina, who had already suffered two defeats in front of Chen Yingliang in succession, was so angry that he scolded the Central Plains barbarians for bullying people too much, and immediately ordered the whole army to go out of the camp and fight to the death with the invading enemy.

Ashina's decision to form an association rate was persuaded by the love general Dubi, and he persuaded him: "Duke Yusheng, our army has fought twice before, and has failed twice in a row, and the morale has been affected, and the barbarians of the Central Plains have dispatched more than 40,000 troops this time, and the momentum is not trivial, and they rashly go out of the camp for a decisive battle, if there is no disadvantage, it is difficult to even retreat to the camp to hold on." The task given to us by the khan is to intercept the reinforcements of the Central Plains, and the terrain in this area is not very open, rather than risk a decisive battle, it is better to hold on to the battalion, lure the Central Plains army to attack, resist the enemy with the bow and arrow we are good at, first frustrate the sharp spirit of the Central Plains army, and wait until their morale declines and reveals flaws, and then send troops from the rear camp or both flanks to outflank and attack, attack the weak points of their positions, and win a great victory. ”

Feeling that the construction of the love general was reasonable, Ashina did not hesitate, and immediately changed the order, so that the army first held the camp, and then waited for the opportunity to attack, and at the same time, for the sake of insurance, Ashina Association rate listened to the construction of the arrogant and sent a messenger to the brother Shibi Khan to report the movement of Sui army reinforcements, and asked Shibi to send an army south to reinforce as a precaution.

Of course, Chen Yingliang also sent scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Turkic army, seeing that it was only fifteen or sixteen miles away from the Turkic camp, but he still did not receive a report that the Turkic army left the camp and headed south, Chen Yingliang was inevitably a little puzzled, and asked left and right: "Didn't you say that the Turks are good at riding and archery and like to fight field battles?" Why did our army go north and get here, but the Turks haven't sent troops yet? Is the Turks going to fight a camp offensive and defensive battle with us? ”

"The Turks like field battles, but they are afraid of battles, especially against our Great Sui army." A voice in the distance sounded first, and said calmly: "In the second year of the opening of the Great Sui Emperor, the Great Sui War General Da Xi Changru led an army of 3,000 to meet 100,000 Turks, and set up a square circle array in the field to meet the enemy, and fought fourteen times in three days, my Great Sui soldiers ran out of weapons, and they had to meet the enemy with their fists and feet, and fought fiercely until their hands and bones were exposed, but the Turkic army still could not break our square circle array, and was forced to withdraw its troops, our army died seven or eight out of ten, but the Turks died more than 10,000 people!" Since then, the Turks have been most afraid of fighting in the field with our Great Sui army, and they only like to fight with our Great Sui army in the field. ”

Hearing this, Chen Yingliang hurriedly turned his head to look at the person who spoke, but saw that the person who said this happened to be Li Jing, the commander of Mayi County, whose position had never been sure. Seeing Chen Yingliang looking at him with a surprised expression, Li Jing smiled slightly, and said: "Dashuai, the lower officials don't know if you have the intention, in short, you let our four armies march in line, and the distance between them is extremely close, which happens to be the most feared way of marching by the Turks, because once they come out of the camp to attack, we will immediately be able to line up and fight, and the Turkic army does not want to suffer the loss of the battle, of course, it will not come to die in vain." ”

Chen Yingliang suddenly realized, and said with a somewhat embarrassed smile: "Don't hide it from Li Juncheng, I am Meng, I don't know much about the Turkic army, and I am indeed a little afraid of their cavalry, so that the army marches in formation, ready to meet the battle at any time, so that the front and rear armies are close to each other, and it is also to facilitate mutual reinforcement and command." ”

"You can find the best way to restrain the Turks based on intuition alone, and Dashuai really deserves to be a genius." Li Jing smiled as if he was a little sarcastic, and said with a smile: "But with all due respect, although the Turkic army is not good at defending, their camp is not so easy to take, we attack head-on, just give the Turkic bow and arrow a chance to be powerful, the Turks line up to release arrows, the bows and arrows are endless, overwhelming, our attacking army will inevitably suffer a lot of casualties, and we have to beware of them from attacking from the two flanks of the rear camp." We are surrounded by camps on all sides, and the troops seem to be somewhat insufficient, we have 40,000 troops, and the Turks also have more than 40,000 troops, and the strength is basically equal and surrounded on all sides. ”

Chen Yingliang was silent, looked up at the sky again, and saw that the sky was still a red sun, with no clouds in sight, and no sign that it was going to rain. Did you throw gunpowder weapons on the battlefield of the Turkic divisions? The result of the calculation is that if it doesn't rain today, he can only play the last hole card gunpowder weapon in front of the Turkic division and sworn enemy Li Yuan, and use a victory to establish his prestige and prestige.

In fact, the Turks are reluctant to go out of the camp for a decisive battle, the biggest reason is that the terrain in this area of Laoxian County is not open enough, the area of Laoxian County that is surrounded by the Luliang Mountains and the remaining veins of Taihang Mountain, the average width is only more than 20 li, such terrain is suitable for blocking but not suitable for mobile warfare, the Laoxian Turks who shoulder the task of blocking the Sui army reinforcements also make good use of this narrow terrain, and establish a strong camp with a length and width of about ten miles in the road, and it is rare to dig a trench to protect the camp, standing wood as a fence, and build the camp quite solidly, Under the condition that the strength of the troops is basically equal, to be honest, the Sui army is not very sure of breaking the enemy in a battle.

Because of this, after seeing the situation of the Turkic camp with his own eyes, Chen Yingliang, who was barely an old sparrow on the battlefield, was still a little worried, but he didn't dare to show anything about this worry, Chen Yingliang could only order the army to line up in front of the road, and arrange his command flag array on a small hill on the left side of the official road, and the Qian Peng Sui army was responsible for defending the flag array as the phalanx of the Chinese army, and the Dongdu Army led by Liu Changgong was arranged on the left flank, and the Zuotun Guard Army led by Yun Dingxing was arranged on the right flank, The Taiyuan Sui Army under Li Yuan was unceremoniously put at the forefront by Chen Yingliang, serving as submachine cannon fodder and part-time human shield.

The time is already more than half of the hour, the autumn tiger is raging, the sky is like a fire, the Sui army officers and soldiers who came from afar have not been fully rested, and the body has been affected quite a lot in such weather, and it is barely a little conscience to let the officers and soldiers of each army take a short rest, Chen Yingliang hurriedly summoned Li Yuan, Yun Dingxing, Liu Changgong and Yin Shishi and other generals to hold a final pre-war meeting and arrange combat tasks. After everyone arrived, Chen Yingliang immediately ordered Li Yuan to dispatch 3,000 light infantry to serve as sappers, and use the shrimp and toad carts brought by the army to fill the trenches of the Turkic camp, first open the road to attack the camp, and then put in the heavy infantry to attack the Turkic camp head-on.

Hearing Chen Yingliang's order, Liu Changgong, who had not been on the wrong side before, and Yun Dingxing, who had changed the position of his butt in time afterwards, both covered their mouths and snickered, but Li Yuan's face turned a little pale, and he said angrily: "Chen Dashuai, do you really want to attack head-on?" How powerful the Turkic bow and arrow are, you haven't seen it, let the team of the last general go to fill the trench of the Turkic battalion, don't you know how big the casualties are? ”

"Ambassador Li, I already told you yesterday that today's battle is a head-on battle." Chen Yingliang said calmly: "The Turks refuse to go out of the camp for a decisive battle, how can we attack the camp if we don't fill in the Turkic camp trenches?" And how to fight a decisive battle with the Turks? ”

After Li Yuan was speechless when asked, Chen Yingliang smiled slightly and added: "Besides, Ben Shuai is enough for you to be the ambassador, at least I brought you a shrimp and toad cart in advance, so that you can easily fill the thief's camp trench, it's better than asking you to carry soil and stones to fill the trench directly, right?" Don't worry, I'll give you plenty of time to fill in the two-mile-long trench of the Turkic camp in an hour, won't it be difficult for you? ”

Looking at the twelve shrimp and toad carts brought by the Qian Peng Sui army with the army, Li Yuan immediately understood that Chen Yingliang was not holding back for a while, but had long expected that the Turkic army might close the camp and hold on, and had already sent scouts to find out the situation in the Turkic camp, so he prepared the shrimp and toad carts early and prepared in advance to let the self-army serve as engineer coolies. secretly hated and almost chewed his lips and bleed, but Li Yuan had no choice but to clench his fists and say that the general would obey the order, and then rushed back to the army team angrily to arrange the arrangement, leaving Liu Changgong and Yun Dingxing to laugh even more happily in Chen Yingliang's banner array, glad that the army did not have such an unlucky thing.

In a moment, Li Yuan's team hurriedly prepared to fill in the trenches, and when the war drums sounded, the first battle after Chen Yingliang became the commander of the Qinwang coalition army began, and the Taiyuan Sui army, which served as the vanguard, first sent a large number of long shield men out of the battle, covering the crossbowmen to slowly step forward, and arranged temporary fortifications outside the Turkic camp, covering the crossbowmen to suppress the Turkic soldiers in the camp with bows and arrows, and reducing the forward pressure of the shrimp toad convoy, and then twelve shrimp toad carts stepped forward, and a group of 100 people pushed a shrimp toad cart, relying on the long shield hand to protect the wings and strive forward, Rush to the trench outside the Turkic camp.

By the way, Li Yuan wronged Chen Yingliang a little bit this time, these shrimp and toad carts were actually not built by the Qian Peng Sui army, but were left after the Turkic army failed to attack the Qian Peng camp last time, and was brought here by Chen Yingliang to prevent accidents.

The front line of the battle has long been a rain of arrows, the feather arrows of the Turkic army are falling all the time, like a storm and rain continue to sweep the battlefield, even if the archers of the Sui army are also covered by long shields, they are still pressed by the Turkic bows and arrows to raise their heads, there are not many opportunities to fire back, the Sui infantry pushing the shrimp toad cart forward is even more miserable, even if there is a towering shrimp toad cart in front of him to protect the front, there is also a long shield to protect the wings, and it is still the Turkic feather arrows that are thrown from the shoot to kill and wound many, One of the toad carts even stopped moving because there were too many arrows in the driver's hands.

Feathered arrows of different colors continued to fall like hail raindrops, and the twelve shrimp and toad carts soon turned into twelve huge hedgehogs, and the Sui army riders pushing the carts kept screaming behind the cars, and the Taiyuan generals represented by Li Xiaogong and Xu Shixu roared beside Li Yuan, asking Chen Yingliang if he would fight in the end? He even questioned why Chen Yingliang would hand over such a drudgery to the self-army? Li Yuan stared ahead with a blue face, and wanted to tear Chen Yingliang apart and chew it raw in his heart.

Of course, Chen Yingliang was also watching the battlefield nervously, and when he saw that the feather arrows planted next to the temporary fortifications of the Sui army were as dense as reeds, Chen Yingliang's heart moved, and he hurriedly called Li Jing in front of him, and asked: "Li Juncheng, I have something to inquire, since the Turks use feather arrows so extensively, what do they rely on to ensure the supply of feather arrows?" The cost of feathered arrows is not low, how can the Turkic army have so many feathered arrows? ”

"There are three reasons why the Turks have so many feather arrows." Li Jing replied truthfully: "First, the Turks are good at shooting, hunting countless birds on the grassland, with sufficient feathers, and the price is far cheaper than that of the Central Plains. Second, the territory of the Turks is vast, there is no shortage of timber in the territory, the wood is cheap, and we do not pay as much attention to the quality of the arrow shaft as our Central Plains army, the arrow shaft is generally discarded when it is used up, and only the iron arrow shaft is recycled, the source is very extensive, and the quantity is naturally guaranteed. Third, the Turks paid attention to the protection of craftsmen, and the men looted from the Central Plains were basically used to produce feather arrows, so the supply of feather arrows was very sufficient. ”

Chen Yingliang nodded, and asked thoughtfully: "In that case, why don't you border officials consider controlling the supply of pig iron to the grassland?" Without arrowheads made of pig iron, no matter how much wood and feathers there are on the Turkic side, it is useless? ”

"I've been controlling it, but it's been very effective." Li Jing replied: "Smuggling is too strict, and it is impossible to prevent it at all. ”

Chen Yingliang nodded again, and after a little more calculation, Chen Yingliang instructed Li Jing: "Li Juncheng, go and contact the interpreters under your command, and ask them to teach all the soldiers the Turkic saying of surrender and not killing, and by the way, tell the officers and soldiers of our army, just say that it is my order, when our army pursues and kills after victory, the officers and men of our army can shout this slogan to surrender, and they must not kill the Turkic surrenderers." ”

Li Jing agreed without hesitation, and immediately went down to arrange the arrangement, while Yuan Tiangang came up and said in a low voice: "Dashuai, you really don't plan to kill, do you?" The Turkic barbarians are not our people of the Great Sui, do they need to be so benevolent to them? ”

"Sometimes, when it's time to be righteous, you have to be kind." Chen Yingliang replied with a smile: "In order to shake the enemy's morale and hit the morale of the Turks, I have another decision, that is, the Turkic soldiers who are captured in the future will be released immediately after interrogating and confessing, so as not to stay and waste food." ”

Chen Yingliang, who usually hates foreign races and barbarians, suddenly decided to have such a kind heart, Yuan Tiangang was inevitably a little dumbfounded, and when he hurriedly asked the reason, Chen Yingliang smiled and did not answer, saying that you will understand in the future, and then urged in turn: "Pay attention to the weather, and tell me immediately if you find that it is going to rain, whether I, the coach of Qinwang, can sit on the handsome chair tightly, but it depends on you." ”

"Don't worry, it's going to rain today, you can't be wrong with that." Yuan Tiangang said confidently: "The specific time of the rain, although it is not yet certain, can at least be predicted within a moment before the rain." ”

"It's up to you." Chen Yingliang smiled, and was indeed full of confidence in Yuan Tiangang's magic stick skills - after all, China has been up and down for 5,000 years, and what can be compared to Yuan Tiangang in this regard is the super demons of Zhuge Cunfu and Liu Yaobi.