More than a day passed, relying on the help of the Yin Shishi and other Qin Wang friendly troops, the camp of the Peng Sui army was set up, and at the same time, the fatigue of the army was also greatly alleviated, and the combat effectiveness was basically restored.

Chen Yingliang once pinned his hopes on the appearance of rainy weather that was beneficial to the Sui army's operations, but after the Sui army arrived at Xinkou, it was sunny for three consecutive days, and there was no sign of rain, and at the same time carefully studied the Xiurong meteorological records provided by Li Jing, and carefully observed the celestial phenomena and astrological texts, Yuan Tiangang also helplessly told Chen Yingliang, saying that unless the wind direction changes greatly, it will not rain in the area of Yanmen Pass, and when the wind direction will change, the demon Yuan Tiangang can not judge.

Fortunately, Chen Yingliang did not bet all his chips on the rainy day battle, and he was not discouraged when he heard Yuan Tiangang's report, and after a little calculation, he invited all the commanders of the Qinwang army except Li Yuan to come to the camp and discuss the matter of joining hands to send troops to fight with the Turks, but what disappointed Chen Yingliang was that although these Qinwang friendly troops were very friendly to him, they did not trust their own strength very much. Wait until more Qinwang's friendly troops arrive before joining hands to march together, and don't risk going into battle to hit a stone with an egg, which weakens the self-protection power that Qinwang's army just had.

Although the Yin Shishi expressed his willingness to help Chen Yingliang enter the battle, he strongly advised Chen Yingliang not to launch a large-scale attack, and it was best to fight a small-scale outpost battle first, win a small victory first, distract the Turkic army, and wait for a large number of follow-up reinforcements to arrive, and then consider launching a decisive battle.

Chen Yingliang knew very well that the Qin Wang friendly army represented by the Yin Shishi had no selfish intentions in such persuasion, knowing that they were worried about their lack of strength, and they were also somewhat afraid of the 250,000 Turkic iron cavalry, and it was a good intention to oppose their own attack. But Chen Yingliang couldn't accept these kindnesses, because Chen Yingliang didn't want to fall into the infamy of fearing the enemy and avoiding war, but also somewhat aimed at the position of the commander-in-chief of King Qin's army, and wanted to win a battle first to establish prestige, even if he couldn't win the position of commander-in-chief of King Qin in the future, his words would have some weight when he elected his favorite commander - Chen Yingliang didn't want Li Yuan to cover the sky with one hand.

In view of these reasons, after sending away the generals of King Qin's friendly army, Chen Yingliang thought about it for a long time, and finally took a few shots, and shouted: "Niang Xipi!" They don't beat me! Blow the trumpet, raise the account, I will send troops! ”

The pro-soldiers were ordered to go out of the tent and blow the trumpet, summoning the military lackeys under Chen Yingliang's command to the big tent to listen to the order, but the eldest grandson Wuji next to him was very worried, and asked carefully: "Brother, have you thought about it?" If we can't win this battle, then our military morale will not only be seriously affected, but your prestige among Qinwang's friendly army will also be completely over. ”

"Gotta gamble." Chen Yingliang said viciously: "If I don't hurry up and win a battle, as soon as Li Yuan's main army arrives, we will be immediately suppressed by Li Yuan, and then Li Yuan will ask everyone to elect him as the commander-in-chief of King Qin's army, what will we oppose?" You have to fight, win a battle and get the right to speak, so that you can stop Li Yuan's mouth! ”

The eldest grandson Wuji nodded, and knew that the time for the army was running out, and Chen Yingliang had to take a risk. And after Chen Yingliang thought about it for a while, he asked the eldest grandson Wuji: "By the way, did Li Jing of Mayi County speak just now?" I was too busy talking to someone to notice what was going on with him. ”

"Li Jing?" The eldest grandson Wuji recalled carefully, and then shook his head and said: "It should be that he hasn't spoken, at least I haven't heard him speak." ”

"Didn't speak? Why didn't you speak? What kind of medicine does this guy sell in his gourd? Chen Yingliang felt that he had seen through Li Jing, and he didn't understand what the future Tang God of War was planning, and he really wanted to help him? Or do you plan to use yourself as his promotion step in front of Li Yuan?

In view of the fact that the enemy situation was not very clear, Chen Yingliang did not dare to risk using new tactics, and adopted Li Jing's trick of luring the enemy in a roundabout way, and arranged for Zhang Di to lead a thousand light infantry to take on the task of luring the enemy, stealing Shangzi Ganyuan from the back mountain road east of the Hutuo River, and luring the Turkic light cavalry to cross the river and outflank him; He led Ma Sanbao and Kan Liang to follow behind, leading 6,000 elite soldiers to attack the back of the Turkic outflanking team, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin led the cavalry to follow behind, serving as a reserve and taking precautions. The rest of the generals stayed in the camp and obeyed the orders of Yuan Tiangang and Wei Zheng, and the eldest grandson Wuji, who was proficient in Turkic language, also accompanied Chen Yingliang on the expedition.

Because Chen Yingliang used his plan before, after hearing Chen Yingliang's arrangement, the generals of Qian Peng did not hesitate to listen to the order and sing the promise, Chen Yingliang himself was a little weak-hearted, and said: "Generals, this is the first battle of our King Qin, and it is also the first battle between our Central Plains team and the Turkic army, you must be mentally prepared to fight a bitter and bloody battle, you must not have any carelessness against the enemy, but you must not be timid and afraid of the enemy, fear the enemy like a tiger, understand?" ”

"Understood!" Chen Yingliang nodded, and explained that Zhang Di, who was on the task of luring the enemy, must be cautious, beware of the enemy from up and down the mountain, and also allowed Zhang Di to disband the team if necessary, so that the soldiers can be broken up and leave the battlefield, Zhang Di promised to remember, Chen Yingliang ordered the tent to be dispersed, and asked the generals to immediately return to the camp to prepare, and from the afternoon to the north, and cross the Hutuo River on the road at night, so as not to be detected by the Turkic scouts.

Since it is a friendly army, no matter how old and dead they are, the preparations of the Peng Sui army on this side still can't hide from the eyes of the scouts of the Taiyuan army, and Li Jing, who also participated in the meeting of the leaders of King Qin, also truthfully reported the situation of Chen Yingliang's meeting to Li Yuan, Li Yuan sneered again and again when he heard the report, and did not make any moves, but ordered the scouts to continue to investigate the every move of the Peng Sui army, and report immediately if there was a situation. However, Li Yuan's precious nephew Li Xiaogong was a little worried, and said: "Uncle, Chen Yingliang, this kid Chen Yingliang sent troops alone, what if he really got off to a good start?" ”

"Just him?" Li Yuan was a little disdainful, but still a little worried, and after a little calculation, Li Yuan ordered: "That's it, after Chen Yingliang's kid sends out the army, you also take a thousand infantry to the north, if he wins, you rush up to grab the credit, if he is in a stalemate with the Turks, you will join the battlefield under the pretext of helping the war, and then defeat the Turks, flee back immediately with the army, shouting the slogan of escape, shaking his military morale, understand?" ”

Li Xiaogong smiled and agreed, and immediately went down to prepare, while Li Jing smiled at Li Yuan and said: "The ambassador's clever plan, on the battlefield, there is indeed no friendly army that collapses more than the morale of the army." Yin him Chen Yingliang boy, and let him have nothing to say, he is really smart. ”

Li Yuan smiled and said: "The old man didn't mean to scare him, it's that this kid is too greedy and insufficient, just grab it before the old man to reach King Xinkou Qin, and he still wants to win in front of the old man, if he really wants him to succeed, the old man's old face will have no place to rest." Therefore, it was not the old man who deliberately corrected him, but he asked for it and forced the old man to do it. ”

Li Jing nodded in agreement, smiling as happily as Li Yuan.

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In this way, in the afternoon, Zhang Di led a thousand light infantry to take the lead out of the camp to the north, along the Hutuo River to the battlefield of Laoxian, half an hour later, Chen Yingliang personally led the main cavalry out of the camp, the infantry in front, the cavalry in the back, followed Zhang Di's team north, and Li Yuan received the scout report, did not rush to let Li Xiaogong's team send troops to help, until after the time of the day, repeatedly confirmed that Chen Yingliang did not have a follow-up soldiers, Li Yuan ordered Li Xiaogong's team to attack, and asked Li Xiaogong's team to go north slowly, do not rush too fast, but was used as cannon fodder by Chen Yingliang in front, and Li Xiaogong, who hated Chen Yingliang because of various things in his relatives' family, agreed, and really adopted the strategy of slowly going north.

As soon as it got dark, Zhang Di's team along the Hutuo River to the north immediately crossed the Hutuo River at a place where the water flow was slow that had been explored in advance, and went north with torches to attract the attention of the Turkic scouts, and also deliberately fluffed with more flags and torches, while the main force led by Chen Yingliang set up a pontoon bridge to cross the river at another ferry port downstream, without torches, but only went north by moonlight, and slowly followed Zhang Di's team to the established battlefield that was beneficial to the self-army. And for the sake of insurance, Chen Yingliang not only asked the army not to expose it as much as possible when crossing the river, but also destroyed all the traces of the river crossing and the pontoon bridge, and the result was like this............

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At the same time, Zhang Di's team, which swaggered north with torches, also successfully attracted the attention of the Turkic scouts, and after the Turkic soldiers flew the news to the front of the Ashina Association Rate, the Ashina Association Rate, who had long prevented the Sui army infantry from seizing Ziganyuan, suddenly sneered, and quickly asked the Sui army about the number of troops, and the report scout replied truthfully: "The distance is far after dark, and it is impossible to judge the number, but judging from the number of banner torches, there must be a lot of troops." ”

"The more you come, the better, if you want to bully us, the Turkic Iron Cavalry is not good at mountain warfare, dreaming!" Ashina sneered, and then ordered 3,000 Turkic soldiers to immediately go out of the camp and go up the mountain, seize the nearby Ziganyuan Heights, hold the Houshan Road intersection and condescendingly attack the Sui army's mountaineering team, and ordered 3,000 light cavalry to immediately go out of the camp, take the Wangjiagou Road to the south, cross the Hutuo River and copy the back of the Sui army, and attack the Sui army up and down with the Turkic infantry who seized Ziganyuan in advance.

The task of outflanking was handed over to the love general by the association rate, and he asked Du Bi to try his best to kill all the Sui soldiers who stole Shangzi Ganyuan, and pile up the corpses into Jingguan, so that the Sui army team did not dare to peep into this tactical place that posed a great threat to the Turkic army. Then the association rate, which was quite tactically minded, carefully calculated, and arranged for 3,000 Turkic cavalry to go out of the camp and ambush on both sides of the flat and spacious official road, beware of the Sui army divided into two routes, all the way to steal Ziganyuan, all the way to the Turkic camp, until this qiē was arranged, the association rate fell back to the bed of the lying woman, while enjoying the folk women robbed by the Turks, while patiently waiting for the good news.

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Let's take a look at the situation on Chen Yingliang's side, although he made up his mind to snatch the first merit of King Qin's battle, and also figured out the truly correct tactics from Li Jing's contradictory words, but in fact, Chen Yingliang still didn't have much confidence in this battle, because Chen Yingliang knew too little about the Turkic army, and he hadn't even seen how the Turkic army fought with his own eyes.

In addition, Chen Yingliang was also very worried about Li Jing's strategy, because Li Jing did not give Chen Yingliang detailed instructions on how to fight, and using the sneak attack infantry as bait was completely Chen Yingliang's own brain, Chen Yingliang of course did not dare to determine whether Li Jing's words in the clouds were hinting at his own tactics, or deliberately misleading himself, helping Li Yuan to give himself a big defeat in the first battle, and even Chen Yingliang, who had always been handy, did not dare to guarantee success, and Chen Yingliang was naturally even more unsure of the victory in the first battle.

By the way, if it weren't for the fact that the terrain east of the Hutuo River was too favorable for the Sui army to fight, and it would be very convenient to attack and retreat, Chen Yingliang almost always planned to ignore Li Jing's bad ideas and adopt other strategies to win the first battle.

No matter how confident he is, there is no way, the army has already been dispatched, Chen Yingliang is too late even if he wants to regret it, so Chen Yingliang can only be worried about taking six thousand elites to follow Zhang Di's team north, while feeding the mosquitoes and praying that the tactics can be successful, fortunately, the road to the north is smooth all the way, the main force of the Sui army soon came to the edge of the predetermined battlefield, and ambushed in a hidden place eight miles south of the mountain trail behind Ziganyuan, and continued to feed the mosquitoes and wait for the fighters to appear.

Zhang Di's team carrying torches to the north has arrived at the foot of the back mountain of Ziganyuan, but the highlands of Ziganyuan and the west of the Hutuo River are still quiet, and there is no abnormality. Didn't you say that the Turkic side would definitely attach great importance to Ziganyuan? ”

"What's the hurry?" Chen Yingliang scolded angrily: "This is just the beginning, and the Turks are not fools, of course, we will not show up until our army is halfway up the mountain, so that we can surround Zhang Di and them in front and back. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji nodded as if he didn't understand, then closed his mouth and accompanied Chen Yingliang to wait, Chen Yingliang found a relatively flat place to sit cross-legged, looking at the fire of Zhang Di's team in the distance, his heart was uneasy, and he couldn't help but think a little cranky, and said secretly: "God bless, as long as I can attract the Turkic army to a sneak attack successfully, I will swear not to fight the idea of the daughter of the master of the netherworld." ”

When the moon is in the sky, the grasshoppers are tirelessly calling in the grass nearby, and the lure army led by Zhang Di slowly climbs up the mountain in the distance, gradually approaching the mountainside, but the mountain and the Hutuo River are still silent, only the mountain wind is howling, and the river is surging. Seeing this situation, the eldest grandson Wuji, who was still young, couldn't help but ask Chen Yingliang a question of course, Chen Yingliang asked him to shut up again and wait patiently, and said in his heart: "God bless, as long as this battle can be successful, I swear not to fight Pei Cuiyun's idea." ”

The night wind blew Chen Yingliang a little trembling, and the lure army led by Zhang Di had also climbed to the middle and upper part of Ziganyuan, but the top of the mountain was still quiet, and the west bank of the Hutuo River was still dark, and there was no sign of the Turkic cavalry crossing the river, and the matter came to this point, not to mention that the eldest grandson Wuji was even more uncontrollable, and the soldiers around Chen Yingliang also began to worry, and asked Chen Yingliang if the Turks did not outflank and encircle at all? Otherwise, we should have started crossing the river a long time ago. Chen Yingliang wanted to cry without tears, and said in his heart: "You ask me, who do I ask?" I haven't fought the Turks, so how can I know if they're going to be tricked? ”

"I don't even want Mulan!" Chen Yingliang gritted his teeth and said in his heart: "As long as this battle can be successful, I don't want Mulan's tigress!" ”

"Brother, it may be that the Turks are coming!" The eldest grandson Wuji suddenly spoke, and said in a deep voice: "Pay attention, there is an eagle cry ahead, my father once said to me that the Turks like to use the eagle call instead of code words, and communicate with each other in the dark night!" ”

"Really?" Chen Yingliang was overjoyed, and hurriedly listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the call of the eagle, or the rhythmic call of the eagle, which was very much like someone was imitating the call of the eagle to send a signal.

"It's the sound of an eagle." Ma Sanbao came up, and then whispered: "But it's not right, there is no movement on the other side of the Hutuo River?" How did the Turks cross the river? ”

Hearing this, Chen Yingliang was stunned at first, and then suddenly remembered the map that Li Jing gave him, and hurriedly whispered: "Wangjiagou Road!" The path in Wangjiagou is in the valley of the Hutuo River, where there must be a ferry, and the Turks must have crossed the river there and touched the mountain directly, so there was no movement on the west bank of the Hutuo River! ”

Speaking of this, Chen Yingliang also slapped his forehead violently, and said in a low voice of annoyance: "How did I forget that path?" The Turks want to outflank Zhang Di, take the official road must pass through our scout patrol area, bypass the high mountains to outflank the detour, it is easy for us to detect, only by taking Wangjiagou can you appear in the rear of Zhang Di unconsciously, Li Jing also noted on the map that this path cavalry is feasible, why did I forget? ”

"Uh——! Knock knock knock! ”

Chen Yingliang's annoyed words were not finished, on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain, there were already horns sounding, war drums were playing, and at the same time, torches were everywhere, and countless Turkic soldiers with torches appeared, and at the same time, in front of the Sui army, a large number of torches suddenly appeared, and countless Turkic cavalry appeared in the light of torches, galloping down the mountain with torches, screaming and provoking, and they were really surrounded by Zhang Di Luring Army located on the mountainside.

"God, I didn't think of the path in Wangjiagou just now, so what I just said doesn't count, the beautiful daughter of the Yin World Master, Cuiyun and Mulan I will keep our power unchanged!"

After quickly swallowing back the oath he had just made in his heart, Chen Yingliang stood up and shouted: "All ready, when you hear the order, immediately attack the whole army and kill the Turks by surprise!" ”

Almost at the same time, Li Xiaogong's team, which was slowly moving north along the official road, finally heard the sound of war drums and horns on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain, and saw the fire on the mountain on the east bank of the Hutuo River. Chen Yingliang thief, when did he run to the west of the Hutuo River? ”

"Huh——! Woohoo Blah ——! ”

What made Li Xiaogong dumbfounded was still behind, his screams were not finished, there was already a bee's wing-like bowstring humming on both sides of the road, countless feather arrows flew through the air, roaring overwhelmingly and falling on the head of Li Xiaogong's team, the unlucky Taiyuan Sui army was caught off guard, and was suddenly shot dead and wounded, Li Xiaogong was shocked, screaming that there was an ambush, and immediately took the army to turn around and run away, and the Turkic cavalry who had been ambushed here scrambled to kill from the ambush, screaming and charging to kill, Constantly throwing feather arrows at the heads of the Taiyuan Sui army.

"This ......, how is this possible?" Li Xiaogong was completely crying without tears, "How can there be an ambush?" How could it be an ambush among us? You Turks don't ambush Chen Xiaothief, why are you coming to ambush me? I'm here to help you! Speaking of this, Chen Yingliang also slapped his forehead violently, and said in a low voice of annoyance: "Why did I forget that path?" The Turks want to outflank Zhang Di, take the official road must pass through our scout patrol area, bypass the high mountains to outflank the detour, it is easy for us to detect, only by taking Wangjiagou can you appear in the rear of Zhang Di unconsciously, Li Jing also noted on the map that this path cavalry is feasible, why did I forget? ”

"Uh——! Knock knock knock! ”

Chen Yingliang's annoyed words were not finished, on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain, there were already horns sounding, war drums were playing, and at the same time, torches were everywhere, and countless Turkic soldiers with torches appeared, and at the same time, in front of the Sui army, a large number of torches suddenly appeared, and countless Turkic cavalry appeared in the light of torches, galloping down the mountain with torches, screaming and provoking, and they were really surrounded by Zhang Di Luring Army located on the mountainside.

"God, I didn't think of the path in Wangjiagou just now, so what I just said doesn't count, the beautiful daughter of the Yin World Master, Cuiyun and Mulan I will keep our power unchanged!"

After quickly swallowing back the oath he had just made in his heart, Chen Yingliang stood up and shouted: "All ready, when you hear the order, immediately attack the whole army and kill the Turks by surprise!" ”

Almost at the same time, Li Xiaogong's team, which was slowly moving north along the official road, finally heard the sound of war drums and horns on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain, and saw the fire on the mountain on the east bank of the Hutuo River. Chen Yingliang thief, when did he run to the west of the Hutuo River? ”

"Huh——! Woohoo Blah ——! ”

What made Li Xiaogong dumbfounded was still behind, his screams were not finished, there was already a bee's wing-like bowstring humming on both sides of the road, countless feather arrows flew through the air, roaring overwhelmingly and falling on the head of Li Xiaogong's team, the unlucky Taiyuan Sui army was caught off guard, and was suddenly shot dead and wounded, Li Xiaogong was shocked, screaming that there was an ambush, and immediately took the army to turn around and run away, and the Turkic cavalry who had been ambushed here scrambled to kill from the ambush, screaming and charging to kill, Constantly throwing feather arrows at the heads of the Taiyuan Sui army.

"This ......, how is this possible?" Li Xiaogong was completely crying without tears, "How can there be an ambush?" How could it be an ambush among us? You Turks don't ambush Chen Xiaothief, why are you coming to ambush me? I'm here to help you! ”