It is late autumn, the days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer, the weather is gradually getting cooler, the first moment of the unitary hour has just passed, the Yanmen battlefield at a high latitude has been shrouded in darkness, the night stars are sparse, the waning moon passes through the thick and uneven clouds, although the ground is not so far as to reach out and not see the five fingers, but it is also a poor line of sight, it is difficult to see the situation in the distance.

Seeing such a night, Shibi Khan and Ashina's family frowned a little, because fighting in such an environment, the Turkic army's best cavalry and archery skills would be greatly affected because they could not see the target clearly, and the overall combat effectiveness would be somewhat reduced, which would not be conducive to the Turkic army's follow-up plan to defeat King Qin's Sui army in one fell swoop tonight.

But fortunately, the defeat of the Sui army Qinwang's army in World War I is only a follow-up plan for the Turkic side, and in the case of an unfavorable situation, the Turkic side can not attack the Sui army camp, and only need to annihilate the reinforcements sent by Chen Yingliang to Yanmen City, which is still a big victory for the Turks, so before it was completely dark, the Turkic army had actually made preparations for various night battles, arranged ambush plans and battle teams, and also arranged reserves and troops to continue to besiege Yanmen City, There are also the descendants of the Shibi Khan's Chinese army, which may not necessarily go to war, and they have also made arrangements to go out of the camp at night to fight, just waiting for the Shibi Khan's order, they can gather around the Shibi Khan to go south at any time and go straight to the Sui army camp.

The ambush plan of the Turkic side is like this, in order to ensure the complete annihilation of the two Sui troops reinforcing Yanmen City, and for the Sui army reinforcements going north on the main road west of the Hutuo River, Ashina decisively gave up the opportunity to ambush the Sui army in the southwest and northwest corners of the camp, and arranged the ambush battlefield in the north of the Turkic camp, ten miles away from the west gate of Yanmen City. At the same time, another Turkic army came out from the west of the camp, outflanked and attacked the Sui army reinforcements, and sandwiched the Sui army reinforcements, which not only did not give the Sui army the opportunity to escape back to the southern camp, but also took the opportunity to try to lure the Yanmen defenders out of the city to fight. Therefore, Ashina's family also attaches great importance to this battlefield, and has arranged 30,000 troops to arrange ambushes, and 10,000 reserves to prevent accidents.

Seeing this, friends may ask, since the Turkic army is sufficient, why not arrange an army in the northeast of Yanmen City, and the Sui army will be reinforced? The answer is just three words, not necessarily. The northeast of Yanmen City is indeed a gap in the Turkic defense circle, but if the Sui army flees in that direction, it will never have the opportunity to return to the Sui army's camp, and at the same time, it will completely lose contact with the main force of the Sui army. In this case, why bother to force the Sui army reinforcements into a corner, and fight with the Turkic army to break the net?

For the Sui army partial division on the east bank of the Hutuo River, there is Taihang Yumai in the east and Hutuo River in the west, in view of the narrow terrain, it is obviously impossible to encircle the Sui army and the division left and right, so Shibi Khan and Ashina simply arranged an ambush plan to close the door and fight the dog, and divided the ambush army into two teams, the southern team was ambushed ten miles south of Yanmen City, and the northern team was ambushed five miles south of Yanmen City. Then the southern team killed from the south to the north, closing the door and beating the dogs before and after the Sui army's partial division. Considering that the terrain of this battlefield is narrow, which is not conducive to the deployment of troops, Ashina's family only arranged 25,000 troops in this battlefield, and a considerable part of them did not need to participate in the ambush, and concentrated on preventing the defenders of Yanmen from going out of the city to assault.

In addition, in view of Chen Fuliang's cunning, the Turkic army, which had already suffered a lot of losses, also prepared a large number of reserves, ready to attack and respond at any time. At the same time, because the Tuan Hu soldiers were no longer reliable, in order to avoid leaking the news of the ambush plan, Shibi Khan and Ashina simply did not let the Tuan Hu soldiers know in advance that there would be a big battle tonight, and were ready to wait until the ambush was launched, and then ordered the Tuan Hu soldiers to prepare for battle, and then temporarily decided how to use these Tuan Hu soldiers according to the battlefield situation.

The ambush plan and contingency plan were arranged, but to the sadness of Shibi Khan and Ashina's family, they did not know the time of the Sui army's troops, so they could only sit and wait for news, and they didn't even dare to sleep and wait for the war to begin. But fortunately, Ashina's family also had a more qualified traitor named Li Er by his side this time, and he took the initiative to solve the problems of Shibi Khan and Ashina's family: "Khan, please rest assured, although Chen Yingliang's barbarian did not arrange a time to send troops before, but the night battle surprise attack is generally carried out in the middle of the night, and the younger generation dares to speculate that Chen Yingliang's little barbarian should send troops after the second watch, and the war may start after the third watch." ”

"Makes sense, it should be."

Ashina's family nodded one after another, and they all advised Shibi Khan to wait patiently, seize the time to rest, and recuperate enough to command the war. On the contrary, Li Er, who had sworn before, sneered in his heart, "You have to hurry up and rest, tonight's big battle, for Chen Yingliang, the sooner it starts, the more opportunities there are, if I expect it to be good, Chen Yingliang will definitely go against the norm this time and start in advance, and tonight's battle will definitely start earlier than anyone expected!" ”

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While waiting patiently, Shibi Khan and Ashina's family were of course a little worried, but compared with Liu Changgong, the pioneer of the Sui army, this worry was really nothing, and with the assembly of the right guards out of the camp, the queue gradually formed, and Liu Changgong's feeling of fear was even stronger, so nervous that it was even difficult to breathe.

Liu Changgong is just a rough and sloppy personality, not stupid, stupid words can't climb today's position, as early as the moment when Chen Yingliang hugged him goodbye, Liu Changgong already understood that the good brother gave himself the most dangerous task, and the danger Cheng Dù is extraordinary, and he may lose his head at any time. Of course, Liu Changgong also complained that Chen Yingliang was not righteous enough and did not give him an easier task, but Liu Changgong was also a little self-aware, knowing that he couldn't fight a tough battle, and the good brother handed over the escape task responsible for luring the enemy to himself, which was more or less a plan to show his strengths, and the military order was difficult to disobey, so Liu Changgong could only take over this task head-on, and help the good brother lure the enemy into dividing the army.

In order not to make the Turks suspicious, the lights in the Sui army camp were not dense, Liu Changgong's team did not play many torches, and more than 10,000 Sui soldiers who were on the task of luring the enemy carried three days' worth of dry food and quietly lined up outside the main gate of the camp, although except for a few Sui army generals, these Sui army officers and soldiers did not know what kind of hardships they would face, and they did not even know what their real purpose was, but these Sui army soldiers still had few words, and they all understood that there was a vicious battle waiting for them tonight, All these Sui soldiers could do, except to act according to orders, was only to pray, pray for a great victory in this battle, and pray that God would bless them through this night safely.

After the army was assembled, the time for the first moment of the attack also came, and the deputy He Lanyi reminded in a low voice, asking Liu Changgong if he gave the order to set off? After asking twice, Liu Changgong, who was nervous, woke up like a dream, first nodded hurriedly, and then looked back at the Sui army camp at night, as well as the handsome flag of the good brother flying high, Liu Changgong said in a low voice: "Pass the order, go!" ”

The order was conveyed, and the more than 10,000 right-hand guards who were responsible for the heavy task trotted northward, and under the guidance of the Ma Yi guide and Liu Changgong's banner, they silently trotted towards the Shura battlefield, which was destined to be full of blood and killing. Behind them, 15,000 Jiang generals and more than 2,000 Peng soldiers also began the final pre-war inspection, and when the pointer of time pointed to the second quarter of the first shift, these Jiang generals also went out of the camp under the personal leadership of Wang Shichong to assemble, and also gathered those Qian Peng soldiers who carried Zhangchang Mo's swords and carried cloth bags and weapons in the middle of the team, and used their flesh and blood as wall shields for them.

No one knows what kind of weapons the more than 400 Qian Peng soldiers carried, the weapons in their hands were only more than four feet and five feet long, not thick, and they were all wrapped tightly in linen, like a wrapped stick, so that people could not see the clues, including Wang Shichong was full of curiosity about this weapon, but even Wang Shichong personally came forward to inquire about the situation and asked to see what these linen wrapped sticks were, but these Qian Peng soldiers categorically refused, and the three dogs who led this strange army also apologized to Wang Shichong. said that without Chen Yingliang's order, he absolutely couldn't let people see what was hidden inside, which made Wang Shichong touch his nose.

At the same time that Jiang Dushi left the camp, the Youwuwei Division, which had crossed the Hutuo River in advance, was also led by Chen Yingliang's old comrade-in-arms Xie Zichong, and advanced north along the narrow road on the east bank of the Hutuo River, and the news was sent to the big tent of the Chinese army of the Sui army, and Chen Yingliang, who was patiently waiting in the big tent, nodded, and said to the Yin Shishi and Li Jing and others next to him: "It's started, I bet that this night will definitely be a long night, and maybe it will be the longest night of my life." ”

After that, Chen Yingliang picked up the official document on the handsome case and watched it again, but for some reason, the official document he picked up knocked over the candlestick on the handsome case, the candlestick fell and rolled, everyone was taken aback, and Chen Fuliang couldn't help but laugh at himself: "I didn't expect that I was still a little nervous." ”

Everyone smiled, but Li Yuan, who was mentioned to the big tent of the Chinese army after dark, was expressionless, and he snorted coldly in his heart, scolding the poor boy who couldn't hold his breath, but after quietly scolding, Li Yuan found that his legs were trembling lightly unconsciously, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart, "Erlang, don't play evil and harm your father's life." ”

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Let's take a look at the situation on the side of Liu Changgong, the vanguard of the Sui army, according to Chen Fuliang's operational requirements, the vanguard of the Sui army completed the first ten miles at a trot, and the speed was not too fast, until it crossed the ten miles and entered the defense area of the Turkic army, Liu Changgong ordered the whole army to speed up in a low voice, and marched north as close to the Luliang Mountains in the west as possible, and passed through the side of the Turkic camp at the fastest speedand very few people are left behind.

The next ten miles of the road was certainly not a big problem for a healthy young man, but for Chen Yingliang, the commander of the Sui army, it was the most torturous time - if the Turkic army did not set up an ambush in the rear camp, but set up an ambush in the front camp or next to the camp, then Chen Yingliang's battle plan would be completely disrupted. Therefore, when he received the scout report, under the nervousness, Chen Yingliang simply strode out of the tent and looked north, listening to the echo of the valley, for fear of hearing the most unfavorable shouting and killing voice for himself, and the psychological pressure was huge, which was absolutely unimaginable.

At the same time, on the Turkic side, although Shibi Khan had deliberately withdrawn the Turkic sentinel cavalry that had been rampant before in order to invite the king into the urn, it was necessary to arrange some ambush scouts on the southern road to detect the movements of the Sui army, and the vanguard team of the Sui army led by Liu Changgong was quite large, and such a large-scale march, of course, it was difficult to hide from the eyes of the Turkic scouts, so when the vanguard of the Sui army was still three miles away from the Turkic camp, the Turkic scouts had already sent the news back to the camp. It was sent to Shibi Khan, who was recuperating with his eyes closed.

"It's already here?!" Shibi Khan, who had not expected the Sui army to do so quickly, was taken aback, and when he jumped up to look at the leaky clock by the tent, he found that the time was just beginning to approach the second watch, and he was suddenly surprised and said: "It's not here before the second watch?" Why did Chen Yingliang strike so early? ”

"Khan, this is the usual method of Chen Yingliang's barbarians, taking him by surprise and attacking him unprepared." Li Er next to him pointed out: "The younger generation said before that for any night surprise attack, the time to send troops is usually around the second watch, and the third or fourth watch is to start, but some military experts do not stick to this routine, or do it in the evening, or before dawn, the purpose is still nothing more than to surprise and seize the opportunity." Chen Yingliang's little barbarian is treacherous, and it is not strange to use such means. ”

Feeling that Li Er's analysis was reasonable, Shibi Khan just nodded, and did not go deep to analyze the real purpose of Chen Yingliang's move, but a few people from the Ashina family next to him couldn't wait to ask: "Khan, do you send troops to fight?" ”

"Idiot, we have already arranged an ambush, so what should we do if we do it at this time and beat the barbarians away?" Shibi Khan scolded angrily and shouted: "Pretend not to know, let the barbarian army cross our camp, and when they enter the trap, Nalun will clean them up!" Furthermore, continue to closely monitor the movements of the barbarians, and report any abnormal movement immediately, without the slightest delay! ”

Relying on the deliberate indulgence of Shibi Khan, the vanguard of the Sui army came to the southwest corner of the Turkic camp very smoothly, and advanced north at a faster speed, rushing to Yanmen City, thirty miles away. At the same time, the movement of the right Wuwei division in the Hutuo River has also been reported by the Turkic scouts to the front of Shibi Khan, and because of the geographical advantage, the last thing Shibi Khan is worried about is the Hutuo River, the battlefield of the partial division, not only was he not surprised when he received the news, but also sneered: "Come quickly, although that road is ten miles closer to Yanmen City than the main road, but the terrain there, hum, into the trap I laid there, you dog barbarians don't want to run!" ”

This is also a night when the scouts of the two armies are destined to work hard, the second correction has just arrived, and the scouts of the Sui army sent the news that Liu Changgong's team entered the open land west of the Turkic camp to Chen Yingliang, but Chen Yingliang not only did not rejoice because of the smooth progress, but on the contrary, his face was more solemn, and with a wave of his hand, he sent the scouts who had worked hard to charge for twenty miles to leave, and then turned his eyes to the outside of the camp, and at this moment, the Sui army team assembled three miles north of the camp had been replaced by the main force of Zuotunwei led by Yun Dingxing, The second wave of Jiang Duqin's army had already moved north according to the established plan a quarter of an hour earlier, saving time and distance, and at the same time deliberately letting the Turks notice.

At this time, the Yin Shishi, who took over the three dogs and led the military law team to protect Chen Yingliang, came to the front and said to Chen Yingliang: "Marshal, General Yun's team has entered the established position, when will the main force of our army leave the camp?" Please show me down. ”

"No, let's talk about the war after confirming the front." Chen Yingliang shook his head, clenched his fists again, and found that his palms were covered with cold sweat.

Time seemed to freeze, walking extremely slowly, the commanders of the two armies were waiting in fear, the vanguard of the Sui army led by Liu Changgong finally crossed the side of the Turkic camp silently, turned around in the relatively open northeast corner of the Turkic camp and headed east, and kept running towards Yanmen City. At the same time, there was also news that a Sui army was advancing to the north, and it was also sent to Shibi Khan by the Turkic scouts!

Li Er, who volunteered to stay in the Turkic camp as a hostage, finally faced the first test, and when he heard the news that the Sui army still had a rear army, Shibi Khan immediately turned to Li Er and asked loudly: "Why do the barbarians still have a rear army?" When you introduced the barbarian tactics to us before, you didn't mention this barbarian rear army? ”

"The Khan forgives his sins, and the younger generations don't know why." Li Er's face was full of panic, and he hurriedly said: "When my father introduced Chen Yingliang's barbarian tactical plan to me, he didn't mention this barbarian army, and the younger generation didn't know what had happened. ”

"Khan, maybe Chen Yingliang temporarily adjusted his tactical plan." The few civilian staff officers in the Turkic army insisted on thinking and analyzed: "Sending troops to reinforce Yanmen City in a roundabout way, once we find out, it must be extremely dangerous, and it is not surprising that Chen Yingliang's barbarians arranged a rear army to respond in order to prevent changes." It is also possible that this army will attack our camp on purpose to lure us to the south, so that the barbarian reinforcements can storm the city of Yanmen. ”

"Khan, this one could be big." Ashina Yu also said: "We don't need to worry, in order to guard against changes, we have also prepared an absolutely sufficient number of reserves, the barbarian rear army feints to attack our large camp, we can defend the camp, if the barbarian rear army runs to rescue their front army is better, our reserves can immediately leave the camp from the west gate and the south gate, impact their flanks, and also cut off their return route, so that our gains will definitely be greater." ”

Shibi Khan nodded when he heard this, and then his heart moved again, and he hurriedly ordered: "Quick, keep an eye on the situation of this barbarian rear army, find out what they are from there, and see if it is the army of Duke Tang, if it is, it will be bad." ”

The tent was attached to the promise, and immediately went down to make arrangements, and Li Er hurriedly said: "Khan, it is definitely not my father's army, if this rear army is my father's army, then he must have sent someone to contact you immediately." ”

"Kind of makes sense." Shibi Khan nodded, and then remembered that if the rear army of the Sui army was Li Yuan's team, Li Yuan would definitely send someone to contact him immediately, but this situation has not happened so far, which is enough to prove that Li Yuan is still in the Sui army camp, and the Turkic army still has the hope of breaking the main force of the Sui army and cutting off Chen Yingliang's head in one fell swoop.

The next time was even slower, Chen Yingliang and Shibi Khan were more than 20 miles apart, almost invariably in the Chinese army tent with their hands behind their backs, Chen Yingliang also gnawed his nails very disrespectfully, his face was as solemn as water, and the Shibi thief chief was even more uncivilized in public to pull a maid in the tent into his arms, reached into her clothes and kneaded it roughly, venting the tension in his heart, until the maid's whole body was covered with bruises and bruises, and tears continued to flow.

The second and second quarters had passed, and just as the hands of time were about to point to the second and third quarters of the modern time, at 11:30 p.m., just as Chen Yingliang had almost gnawed off the nails of his left thumb, and when Shibi Khan could not bear to tear open the maid's shirt in his arms and lay on her to bite her, the east side of the Hutuo River took the lead in sounding earth-shattering shouts of killing, war drums and gongs. Hearing this sound, Shibi Khan, who had already bitten his mouth full of blood, suddenly raised his head, and then the shouts of killing and the sound of drums and gongs sounded directly north of the Turkic camp at the same time, and the two ambush positions of the Turkic army, with less than a minute apart, actually fired the first shot at the same time.

"Here we go!" Shibi Khan spit out the raw human flesh in his mouth, pushed away the maid who was already a blur of flesh and blood on her chest, and said viciously: "It's finally begun!" Dog, come on, come as much as you want! ”

The two ambush positions of the Turkic army were far away from the Sui army camp, and although the sound of the battle was loud, it could not spread so far, and Chen Yingliang had to wait for the scout report to know about the situation, so he had not received this news for a while. However, these two battlefields are only ten miles away from Yanmen City, and the sound of the sound in the dark night is extremely far, and such a loud shouting and killing sound has of course only taken more than ten seconds to enter Yanmen City......

Hearing this shout of killing, the Yanmen defenders, who would have to run out of food tomorrow morning, were of course overjoyed, and Emperor Yang of Sui, who had just slept with Empress Xiao, also immediately got out of the bed, and immediately prayed for the blessing of the heavens after asking the reason, so that the battle of the loyal minister Chen Fuliang was successful. But when the old sparrows on the battlefield such as Laihu'er, Yuwenshu and Pei Renji rushed to the city wall to check the situation, they all had gloomy faces, because they could all see at a glance that the reinforcements sent to them by Chen Yingliang were ambushed! Yes. Li Er's face was full of panic, and he hurriedly said: "When my father introduced me to Chen Yingliang's barbarian tactical plan, he didn't mention this barbarian army, and the younger generation didn't know what had happened. ”

"Khan, maybe Chen Yingliang temporarily adjusted his tactical plan." The few civilian staff officers in the Turkic army insisted on thinking and analyzed: "Sending troops to reinforce Yanmen City in a roundabout way, once we find out, it must be extremely dangerous, and it is not surprising that Chen Yingliang's barbarians arranged a rear army to respond in order to prevent changes." It is also possible that this army will attack our camp on purpose to lure us to the south, so that the barbarian reinforcements can storm the city of Yanmen. ”

"Khan, this one could be big." Ashina Yu also said: "We don't need to worry, in order to guard against changes, we have also prepared an absolutely sufficient number of reserves, the barbarian rear army feints to attack our large camp, we can defend the camp, if the barbarian rear army runs to rescue their front army is better, our reserves can immediately leave the camp from the west gate and the south gate, impact their flanks, and also cut off their return route, so that our gains will definitely be greater." ”

Shibi Khan nodded when he heard this, and then his heart moved again, and he hurriedly ordered: "Quick, keep an eye on the situation of this barbarian rear army, find out what they are from there, and see if it is the army of Duke Tang, if it is, it will be bad." ”

The tent was attached to the promise, and immediately went down to make arrangements, and Li Er hurriedly said: "Khan, it is definitely not my father's army, if this rear army is my father's army, then he must have sent someone to contact you immediately." ”

"Kind of makes sense." Shibi Khan nodded, and then remembered that if the rear army of the Sui army was Li Yuan's team, Li Yuan would definitely send someone to contact him immediately, but this situation has not happened so far, which is enough to prove that Li Yuan is still in the Sui army camp, and the Turkic army still has the hope of breaking the main force of the Sui army and cutting off Chen Yingliang's head in one fell swoop.

The next time was even slower, Chen Yingliang and Shibi Khan were more than 20 miles apart, almost invariably in the Chinese army tent with their hands behind their backs, Chen Yingliang also gnawed his nails very disrespectfully, his face was as solemn as water, and the Shibi thief chief was even more uncivilized in public to pull a maid in the tent into his arms, reached into her clothes and kneaded it roughly, venting the tension in his heart, until the maid's whole body was covered with bruises and bruises, and tears continued to flow.

The second and second quarters had passed, and just as the hands of time were about to point to the second and third quarters of the modern time, at 11:30 p.m., just as Chen Yingliang had almost gnawed off the nails of his left thumb, and when Shibi Khan could not bear to tear open the maid's shirt in his arms and lay on her to bite her, the east side of the Hutuo River took the lead in sounding earth-shattering shouts of killing, war drums and gongs. Hearing this sound, Shibi Khan, who had already bitten his mouth full of blood, suddenly raised his head, and then the shouts of killing and the sound of drums and gongs sounded directly north of the Turkic camp at the same time, and the two ambush positions of the Turkic army, with less than a minute apart, actually fired the first shot at the same time.

"Here we go!" Shibi Khan spit out the raw human flesh in his mouth, pushed away the maid who was already a blur of flesh and blood on her chest, and said viciously: "It's finally begun!" Dog, come on, come as much as you want! ”

The two ambush positions of the Turkic army were far away from the Sui army camp, and although the sound of the battle was loud, it could not spread so far, and Chen Yingliang had to wait for the scout report to know about the situation, so he had not received this news for a while. However, these two battlefields are only ten miles away from Yanmen City, and the sound of the sound in the dark night is extremely far, and such a loud shouting and killing sound has of course only taken more than ten seconds to enter Yanmen City......

Hearing this shout of killing, the Yanmen defenders, who would have to run out of food tomorrow morning, were of course overjoyed, and Emperor Yang of Sui, who had just slept with Empress Xiao, also immediately got out of the bed, and immediately prayed for the blessing of the heavens after asking the reason, so that the battle of the loyal minister Chen Fuliang was successful. But when the old sparrows on the battlefield such as Laihu'er, Yuwenshu and Pei Renji rushed to the city wall to check the situation, they all had gloomy faces, because they could all see at a glance that the reinforcements sent to them by Chen Yingliang were ambushed!