On the night of the second day after going north from Lao County, in the case of only more than 30 miles away from the Turkic camp, the activities of the Turkic army were also rampant a lot, and there were two harassing attacks on the Sui army that night.

The camp is protected by fences and antlers to resist horses, it is relatively easy to defend, but the Sui scouts who went out to patrol and reconnoiter the enemy's situation suffered a lot of losses, in front of the Turkic sentry cavalry, who occupied an absolute advantage in numbers, the Sui scouts who attacked with fire as a unit were besieged by the Turkic sentry cavalry every time, and the casualties were not small under the outnumbered crowd, and more than 20 scouts were lost in just one night, and at the same time, the reconnaissance intensity of the Turkic army was also greatly reduced.

The news of the unfavorable scout war was sent to the big tent of the Chinese army of the Sui army, including Li Yuan and Li Ambassador Du Jian yì Chen Yingliang strengthened the scout war, protected the safety of the scouts, and more strictly prevented the Turkic light cavalry from penetrating the back of the Sui army, but Chen Yingliang smiled and said: "What's the hurry? We are only sixty miles away from Laoxian, even if the Turks want to intersperse on a large scale, they will not be in such a hurry, right? ”

Laughing and despised the opponent, Chen Yingliang ordered the army to continue to march north, according to the arrangement of the first day, the five-way army was divided into two teams, the front team was the Taiyuan Sui army and the Jiangdu Sui army, the number was about 50,000 people, and the rear team was Chen Yingliang's Chen Peng Yan line and Yun Dingxing's Zuotun Guard, Liu Changgong's right military guard, a total of about 70,000 troops, front and back, slowly approaching the Turkic camp, and only walked ten miles away to immediately set up camp, step by step towards Yanmen City and the Turkic camp.

When the movement of the main force of the Sui army reached the Turkic camp, the Ashina family led by Shibi Khan was a little breathless, and scolded one after another: "The cunning barbarians of the Central Plains dare not fight a sports war with us, so they use this shameless method to advance, wanting to compress our activity space and make our cavalry unable to play, right?" It's beautiful to think about! ”

No matter how much they scolded, there was no way, the Sui army went north for ten miles to set up camp, and the Turkic camp was only twenty miles away from the Sui army camp, if we didn't hurry up and do something to prevent the Sui army from repeating its old tricks, and then let the Sui army go north for ten miles to set up camp, there would only be ten miles of activity space left between the Turkic cavalry and the Sui army camp -- fighting with hundreds of thousands of Sui infantry in such a narrow space, no matter how many Turkic cavalry there were, it would be a nightmare. In desperation, the Ashina family had to make a hasty decision to send 50,000 troops out of the camp, led by Ashina Eliver, the younger brother of Shibi, to go south to engage the Sui army, prevent the Sui army from setting up camp, and also protect the necessary combat space for the Turkic cavalry.

By the way, in view of some special circumstances, before sending troops south, Jing Shibi Khan personally nodded, and the Ashina family hurriedly made a small decision, a decision about Li Yuan.

The news of the Turkic army's attack was quickly sent to Chen Yingliang by a scout, smiling that his treacherous plan to force the Turkic battle was successful, Chen Yingliang did not hesitate, and immediately ordered Li Yuan and Wang Shichong to lead 10,000 soldiers each out of the camp to meet the battle, and led the Chinese army to protect the camp under construction, and urged the rear army to seize the time to continue to set up camp. At the same time, in view of the lack of familiarity with the army under his command, Chen Yingliang took the initiative to express his position and allowed Li Yuan and Wang Shichong to meet the battle with a good formation, without directly specifying the formation of Li Yuan and Wang Shichong's army.

In a moment, Wang Li's second army quickly left the camp, and set up a position in front of the main gate of the camp, because Chen Yingliang said first, Wang Shichong, who was good at preserving his strength, was very polite, and immediately arranged the Fangyuan array with the strongest defensive power but almost no attack power, Li Yuan on the left was backed by the camp, and there was the Hutuo River on the right to protect the enemy, leaving only the enemy head-on; Li Yuan, who had 2,000 cavalry and many archers in his ranks, was quite kind, and arranged a kei formation on the left side of the camp gate, in addition to giving full play to the long-range shooting advantage of his own army generally equipped with a large number of bows and crossbows, he also retained the offensive residual strength, at least in terms of arranging troops, he seemed to be much more benevolent than Wang Shichong.

Because it was the first battle with the main Turkic force, Chen Yingliang of course had to come to the front of the battle to supervise and watch the battle, and the future Tang Dynasty military god Li Jing and Yin Shishi, Yuan Tiangang and other staff think tanks were also mostly present, seeing Li Yuan's Kei-shaped array and Wang Shichong's shameless Fang Yuan array, Yin Shishi and Yuan Tiangang and others were a little dumbfounded, and they all said: "It seems that today's battle is Ambassador Li's one-man show, Wang Juncheng is smart enough, Fang Yuanzhen, even if the marshal wants to mobilize Wang Juncheng's army to reinforce Ambassador Li, Wang Juncheng can also use the excuse that his army is not strong enough. ”

"It's shameless, it's really good at exploiting loopholes and squeezing oil and water." Chen Yingliang couldn't help but curse secretly, and then in order to prevent accidents, Chen Yingliang had to quickly arrange a reserve team to wait in the left gate of the camp, ready to go out at any time to reinforce Li Yuan's team, which was slightly lacking in defense - this was the first battle with the main Turkic force, and Chen Fuliang did not dare to joke and take revenge in this regard no matter how much he hated Li Yuan.

At the same time, of course, there was already scolding in Li Yuan's team, and all the generals of the Taiyuan army scolded Wang Shichong for being brazen and arranging troops to care about his own life and death of friendly troops, Li Yuan was also a little annoyed with Wang Shichong's shameless self-preservation, but he did not say anything, and in turn appeased the generals under his command, asking the generals of the Taiyuan army not to be too harsh on the friendly forces, and to believe in the sincerity of the friendly forces to support each other.

On the side of Jiangdu Army, of course, Wang Shichong also knew that his formation was too ugly, and he knew that the friendly army must have been scolding his eighteenth generation ancestors, but the biggest advantage of our Wang Juncheng is that the thickness of his face is hard, not only is there no guilt and embarrassment in this regard, but he also proudly declared to his subordinates surnamed Wang: "Rest assured to face the battle, as long as the Turks are not fools, they will not come to trouble us, even if the Turks come, it doesn't matter, we have friendly troops on the left and rivers on the right, and there is the main army behind to go north to support, The Turks dare to come, and make sure that they can't eat and go around! ”

At the same time that Wang Juncheng was proud and scolded the Sui army in Taiyuan, soon, in the sound of horses' hooves like thunder, 50,000 Turks swept in, banners like the sea, swords and guns like forests, and the black cavalry was all over the mountains, almost submerging the open area between the two Taihang remaining veins, and the momentum was very amazing. Seeing this scene, the generals of the Taiyuan Sui army, who were full of anger, also quickly stopped scolding, and prepared to meet the battle - after all, under normal circumstances, the Turkic army must have made a move against the Taiyuan Sui army first.

Ashina Eliver, who commanded the troops south, was also a very experienced Turkic general, and did not immediately attack after arriving at the battlefield, but sent a large number of sentry horsemen while arranging the formation, wandering around to reconnoiter the Sui army camp, looking for the weak point of the Sui army camp that could be broken through, but although the Sui army camp had not yet been built, the fence to protect the camp had all been erected, and there were also a large number of crossbowmen lined up behind the fence to guard, and the Turkic sentry could not find a position to break through, so they had to report the situation back to Ashina Eliver. Ashina Eliver frowned, and immediately made the decision to attack head-on, and immediately pointed out the offensive position.

The Turkic army chose the attack point so that the Sui army smashed their glasses, and the Li Yuan team with insufficient defensive power in the formation did not fight, and the Turkic army actually chose Wang Shichong's team with a big turtle formation as the target of the knife, and in the sound of the horn, more than 5,000 Turks blew the bone flute, shouting Ella, and rushed directly to Wang Shichong's turtle formation like a flood, and also rushed to pull the bow and release arrows in the charge, showing the self-army's special horse shooting skills, and pouring colorful feather arrows all over the sky to the head of the turtle formation of the Sui army in Jiangdu.

Seeing this scene, of course Wang Shichong's family, who were hiding in the innermost part of the turtle array, were all dumbfounded, and the voices of schadenfreude in the Taiyuan army team were constantly cheering, but Chen Yingliang and Yin Shishi and the others looked at each other, all of them were a little stammered, and Yin Shishi also said: "Did the Turks take the wrong medicine? How to hit Wang Shichong's turtle formation first? Doesn't that make sense? ”

"Is there any trick of the Turks?" Chen Yingliang was also a little frightened, and hurriedly began to ponder, "Surround the point to send reinforcements?" Lure the enemy to defeat? Give the dummy? Who is this Turkic general opposite me, and why is it so unreasonable to use soldiers? ”

The Turkic knife target is indeed very unreasonable, but such an unreasonable thing still happened, in the case of the Jiangdu Sui army with a strong long shield protection on the outside, the Turkic soldiers still rushed to throw the feather arrows on the head of the Jiangdu Sui army, and also in the case of very limited activity space, around the Jiangdu Sui army's turtle formation continued to swim and release arrows, fire reconnaissance to find the weak point of the Sui army's turtle formation, and the Jiangdu Sui army hid behind the long shield and returned fire with a bow and crossbow, suppressing the Turkic soldiers' cavalry, and the Turkic army's bow and arrow exchange with each other , the arrows fell to the ground one after another.

It is also because the target of the Turkic army is too unreasonable, the Jiangdu Sui army, which was originally known for its battle formation, was a little caught off guard under the lack of psychological preparation, and the right flank of the Hutuo River was exposed to some flaws, and there were more soldiers who were wounded and shot down by the Turkic bow and arrow, and the formation was a little messy, and the Turkic cavalry was also unceremonious, and immediately rushed up, attacking the weak point of the turtle formation of the Jiangdu Sui army with all their might, and the strange screams of Ella Ella were earth-shattering, and even Chen Yingliang, who was hiding in the camp and watching the battle, could hear it clearly.

Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang was inevitably even more dumbfounded, and said in surprise: "What is crazy about the Turks? Wang Shichong's right wing is a little chaotic, but