317, panicked Turks

"His Majesty the Khan, the Tang Dynasty has declared war on us." Someone hurriedly reported the news of the Tang Dynasty's war against the Turks to Jieli Khan.

"What? The people of the Tang Dynasty actually dared to take the initiative to fight our Turks? We didn't even take the initiative to hit them! Damn it! Jieli said angrily.

Jieli really couldn't imagine that he didn't go to the Tang Dynasty to fight the Turks, but the Tang Dynasty actually dared to take the initiative to attack the Turks. And usually it is these northern nomads who attack the Han people, but this time it is the Han people who take the initiative to attack themselves? This is the so-called bandit logic, a robber can only allow himself to rob others, but he does not allow others to rob himself. What's more, Datang was originally an ATM for the Turks, and now they actually found out that Datang dared to take the initiative to attack them, which was unforgivable for them.

"Hurry up and inform the grassland, gather the troops, we will defeat the Tang Dynasty this time, and then enter the customs and loot on a large scale!" Now that the winter is getting colder, since they dare to take the initiative to attack us, then we should go and plunder them. Jieli said.

Jieli didn't realize for a while that the news he got was more than ten days ago. In ancient times, the means of communication was to get the news, and it was necessary to transport it by guò horse. However, this news, from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, to Dingxiang City of the Turks, will take up to more than ten days. And this news is already quite lagging news. And the Turks did not realize at this time that there was already an army that was about to arrive in Dingxiang City.

After only about five hours, or about ten hours, the Turks came to report again.

"His Majesty the Khan, the army of the Han people is coming!" Immediately another soldier shouted.

"What? How many? Jieli said angrily.

"All over the mountains, all over! I'm afraid, no less than tens of thousands! The soldier said.

Jieli immediately said angrily: "Nonsense, where is there a Tang Dynasty army around here, where did they move from." Even if they are assembled, our scouts should be able to spot it! ”

Jieli didn't believe that there were tens of thousands of troops outside, so Jieli immediately went up to the top of the city wall to see. As a result, there were tens of thousands of troops outside.

"How did the people of the Tang Dynasty come, did the tens of thousands of troops fly here?" Jieli said angrily.

As a result, the Turks were silent for a while, how did they know where the tens of thousands of troops came from? It stands to reason that the infantry was slow to assemble, and the march was slow. The reason why the Turks chose to establish a companion capital in Dingxiang City at that time was actually a certain consideration, that is, there was no Tang Dynasty army near Dingxiang City. Moreover, even if a large army was assembled in the Tang Dynasty, the Turkic probes were easy to spot. But now that the Tang Dynasty army has been assembled so quickly, this makes them speechless for a while.

"Strange! If it's cavalry. I still believe it, but these are infantry, how can they come from Chang'an so quickly? Jieli thought.

Jieli didn't know that the infantry of this Snow Shame Army had been motorized more than a thousand years ahead of schedule, and the infantry could rush to the battlefield by car. Therefore, the speed of the infantry is not necessarily much slower than that of the fast horse, and Jieli has suffered a big loss this time.

And at this time, Zhao Deyan, a Turkic national teacher with a pig's brain, immediately said: "Khan, no matter how they marched over. And so they marched. We must have been very tired, and we took the opportunity to send our cavalry to raid them. Naturally, they can't fight us with their tired divisions, and I don't think they need 3,000 cavalry. You can be defeated by them! ”

The Turkic generals felt that it made sense, because the infantry marched over, but they were so tired that they could not continue the battle at all. Do not attack them at this time. How long will it take? And even if you take 10,000 steps back, these infantry come on horseback, but riding a horse is also a very energy-consuming thing. In the eyes of the Turks. These infantry are absolutely vulnerable, because they have consumed too much energy.

"Okay, immediately send 3,000 cavalry and give me to repel them!" Jieli said.

Soon, the 3,000 Turkic cavalry soon went out, but they were subjected to a heavy rain of arrows from the Snow Shame Army, and as a result, they shot the 3,000 cavalry back.

"Khan, these Han people don't look like tired soldiers, their bows are very sufficient, and the losses we have received are very huge!" said the Turkic general.

Jieli's face became gloomy, how strange these Tang Dynasty troops looked! However, now is not the time to think about this, let's think about how to survive these dangers! The army in Dingxiang City is actually not very large. Because of the Turkic political system, the non-war army was scattered among the tribal leaders, and the khan actually did not have many people. But now the Tang Dynasty declared war too suddenly, and the Turks did not have time to mobilize for war at all. What's even more deceptive is that an army of 40,000 people seemed to fly from the sky, and they arrived here at once. The Turks did not gather a large army to deal with it at all, which made the Turkic Jieli Khan angry.

"Khan, let's take advantage of the fact that the Tang Dynasty's army did not surround Dingxiang City, and quickly retreat back to the Turks." Zhao Deyan said kindly.

But immediately someone quit and said angrily: "Are you asking us Khan to hide from the Han Chinese? If this is the case, how will our Khan rule the steppe in the future! ”

Jieli couldn't help but scold this Turkic in his heart, in fact, Jieli also wanted to retreat in his heart, but this old guy actually said that he couldn't rule the grassland after retreating. Indeed, retreating if the enemy came was a big blow to the Khan's prestige. However, Jieli's eyes rolled for a moment, and he immediately had an idea.

"That's right, if we retreat as soon as the Tang Dynasty people come, then how can I rule the grassland? Therefore, we must defeat these Han people with dignity. Didn't we occupy the walls? If they want to attack, they have to climb our walls. When the time comes, it will be them who will lose. Therefore, we have to defeat the Han people, so that we can shock the grassland, so that we can take advantage of the victory to counterattack and go to the place of the Tang Dynasty to loot! Jieli said.

"Long live the Khan!" "Long live the Khan!" ……

The Turks shouted, apparently very well morale. And they didn't know at all, but their khan had a few accounts in his heart, and he already had his own little abacus. And those Turks, who also hope to defeat the Han people, can go to the territory of the Tang Dynasty to loot, so that they can get supplies and survive this snow disaster. (To be continued......)