359, five days to extinguish three (five)

After more than a day of long-distance raids, Jingwen and the others finally rushed to the vicinity of the Tatar tribe at night, two days after the destruction of the Kreh tribe, and the Tatar department also received the news that the Kreh tribe had perished. However, the Tatar Ministry has not been very prepared yet, because they have only received the news less than three hours, that is, six hours. However, the leader of the Tatar tribe, Xue Wuletu, still had a certain luck mentality, believing that the Han people simply did not have the ability to hit him so quickly. What's more, he thought that even if the Han people defeated the Kerebu, they would suffer great losses and would no longer be able to attack themselves. However, the Tatar Ministry also has a plan at present, that is, to respond to the alliance of Jieli Khan and quickly gather the forces of the Turks.

Because he also realized that if he continued to disperse his forces in this way, he would probably not be an opponent of the Han people at all. The leader of the Tatar tribe, Xue Wuletu, had already begun to prepare, and would rush to the north tomorrow morning to join forces with Jieli to fight against the Tang army. At present, the military pressure of the Tang Dynasty has overwhelmed the Turks, and many small tribes have surrendered to the Han Chinese. If this continues, then I am afraid that the deterrent power of his big tribe will be greatly reduced. And as a scheming leader of a big tribe, he knows very well that if the other party destroys the Kereh tribe, then his own Tatar tribe will not be able to escape. Naturally, he had to find a way to unite so that he could retain his tribal rule.

"Chief, are we going to leave overnight? In case the Han people come, we may not be able to defend against it! Someone immediately persuaded.

However, Xue Wuletu shook his head and said, "It is impossible for the Han people to fight with us at night, because at night, they can't see at all!" ”

However, a few kilometers away, Jingwen slapped the table and said, "We are going to have a night battle with the Turks!" Only by fighting at night can we increase our combat effectiveness and suppress the combat effectiveness of the Turks to the extreme! ”

Jingwen mentioned the night battle at the beginning, but he was immediately opposed by many generals. Because the history of war is winter battles and night battles. It's all a big nuisance. Winter operations aside, this one is easy to think of. However, night battles were also very troublesome for the ancients. Because the lighting ability of ancient times was very poor, even torches could not really illuminate too effectively. And the ancient generals would not choose to fight at night unless it was a sneak attack. Night battles are also prone to get out of control and cause confusion in the command system. At night, everyone can't see the flag, and if you are not careful, you will hurt yourself. Therefore, night battles are actually a double-edged sword, so if you can avoid night battles, you still have to avoid night battles.

But now Jingwen actually proposed to fight at night. This is a bit unacceptable. The people present are all veterans, can they not know the dangers of night fighting? It's good to succeed in the night battle, but if it fails, it's probably a lot of trouble. Therefore, the generals present were not in favor of night fighting, but Jingwen was left to his reasons.

"Are you afraid that we are not good at night fighting, that we will have problems? Although we are not good at night warfare, I want to tell you that the Turks and other steppe peoples are even worse at night warfare than we are. Let me explain it to you. Why are the Turks not good at night fighting, and even afraid of night battles? Jingwen said.

When Jingwen received the Turkic princess Ash Nayun two years ago, he had spent a night in the wild with Ash Nayun, but that night Ash Nayun changed from a tsundere princess to a timid girl. And Ashina Yun also inadvertently revealed. Steppe peoples such as Turkic people have a very common form of night blindness, that is, they cannot see clearly in relatively dark places, let alone in the dark. And Jingwen actually can't understand it, because this kind of night blindness is actually due to a lack of a vitamin. That is, vitamin A. And this thing is common knowledge in later generations, and many people know about it. And if you want to relieve the problem of night blindness, as long as you eat more vegetables, it will not be a problem.

However, the Turks lacked vegetables. And at that time, tea had not been traded to the Turks on a large scale, so the Turks were strict and deficient in vitamin A. Once vitamin A is deficient, it is the arrival of eye blindness. But later, Jingwen was still a little curious, because the nomads had a lot of cattle and sheep, and although there was vitamin A in vegetables, there were also in the livers of many animals. Why weren't the Turks able to eat animal livers to solve this problem?

But later, when Ash Nayun ate, he deliberately avoided eating the internal organs of those animals, and Jingwen knew the reason. Because the Turks lacked salt and their food was kept for a short period of time, the Turks mainly relied on dairy products. As for meat, it is also eaten more planned. Because they don't keep their food long enough, they slaughter their cattle and sheep with the utmost precision to avoid waste. But they never eat the internal organs of animals. Because many Turks ate the internal organs of animals, as a result, they died of various diseases. Therefore, many nomads have always told their descendants not to eat the internal organs of animals.

As for the reason why the Turks got sick from eating animal offal, Jingwen guessed that the main reason was that the nomads had difficulty making fires, and there were many more parasites in the internal organs than ordinary meat. In the absence of an effective killing of parasites, the Turks did not eat the entrails of animals. However, there is a lack of vegetables, and animal offal cannot be used as a channel for vitamin A supplementation, so that the night blindness of Turkic people is widespread. Once night comes, the Turks are not much stronger than lambs at all. As a result, the nomads were very shy about fighting at night, even later by the Mongols.

However, the Han people are different, and the Han people can eat vegetables regularly, so the incidence of night blindness is countless times less. As for night warfare, although the Han people are not good at it, the Turks are more afraid of night battles than the Han people. In this case, it was certainly more miserable for the Turks to conduct a night battle. It's like a fight between a person with short-sightedness and a completely blind person, and in the vast majority of cases, the person with short-sightedness wins. If two ordinary disabled people fight, in most cases, it is not the disabled person with less disabilities who wins!

Therefore, although both sides had influence, the Tang army did not have night blindness, and the Turks were almost blind at night. In this way, the fighting power of the Turks cannot be brought into play, so the Turks must be very sad. If you fight at this time, you will definitely be able to get a lot of results very easily.

"If that's the case, then I agree!" Feng Yong agreed.

"Yes, as long as we solve the situation of command confusion at that time, then I can also agree." Liu Renliang said.

Liu Renliang said more conservatively, because he also had his own plans. Because of this shameful army, it has become the army with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Tang Dynasty. And if this army is used to risk a night battle, the loss of that thing is too great, and it is a loss of Datang. Liu Renliang has already been able to determine that in the future, the Tang army will be transformed according to the model of the Xue Shame Army, so being able to leave some more seeds now will be of great benefit to the change of the Tang army in the future. Therefore, it is not advisable for the Snow Shame Army to lose too much. This is also what the emperor secretly told him, and it is best to avoid losses.

"Establish a command in the chaos, I still have a way!" Jingwen said. (To be continued......)