Chapter 64: Conspiracy (3)

After receiving the battle letter from Thunder, Hu Tatar ordered the barbarian army to retreat twenty miles and camp north of Shouyang Mountain.

On the eve of the decisive battle, Hu Tatar handed over all the barbarian iron cavalry to the general Tie Ye, and he divided his army of 50,000 to hide behind Taiwu Mountain in the east. Despite the fact that it was a decisive battle in which his side had an absolute advantage, Hu Tatar did not want to make a mistake.

On January 20 of the second year of Kangping, the two sides agreed on the day of the decisive battle.

On the eve of dawn, the eastern sky was just white.

"Father", Hu Xie came into the tent, "Just now the scouts came to report, there were two groups of unknown number of Xiao cavalry to the north of Shouyang Mountain, it seems that they were ambushes set up in advance before the decisive battle, but their location is not clear. ”

Hu Tatar thought about it for a long time, the people of Zhongzhou were scheming, judging from the previous raid on Jingqi, there was at least one quite powerful strategist in Shouyang Pass. Since the other side dares to propose a decisive battle, and at this moment there are ambush troops dispatched, it must have the means and certainty of victory.

"Father, the whereabouts of these two troops and horses are unknown, and we still need to take more precautions, especially for grain and grass."

"Well, be prepared, you immediately send someone to inform Tie Ye and strengthen precautions."

"Yes." Hu Xie took the order and went.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the white fish belly in the east was already full of morning glow, and the city gate of Shouyang Pass was opened. Thunder, the eldest son of the Xiao country, rode out of Shouyang Pass with a long knife in hand, and the Xiao cavalry behind him rushed out.

The cavalry did not have any formation, they marched in such a chaotic manner, the dust on the ground raised by the horses' hooves and spread all around the army, and it was impossible to detect the number of cavalry for a while.

Hearing the scout's report, Hu Tatar personally went out of his tent and climbed the high ground of Taiwu Mountain to look. From a distance, the Xiao cavalry marched fast, dusty, and far away in the direction of the north of Shouyang Mountain.

Judging from this situation, the cavalry led by Thunder should be the main force in the decisive battle, plus the previous two armies, Shouyang Pass is obviously an empty city at this moment. Hu Tatar recalled the situation when Bai Lang came to write the war letter that day, Bai Lang first glanced at Bai Yan when he entered the account, which was obviously deliberately for Hu Tatar to see, and then Bai Lang said that he was willing to raise fire for the inside, but the decisive battle was obviously in the daytime, and it didn't make sense to raise fire as a trumpet. Later, a military general came to hear Bai Lang and Bai Yan whispering, but it was noon, Hu Tatar looked around the big tent, and anyone who approached the big tent would be reflected on the white canvas of the big tent, which was quite obvious, that is to say, Bai Yan and Bai Lang in the tent had already discovered the overlistening military general but did not interrupt the conversation. All these doubts indicate one thing, that is, there is something wrong with Bai Lang's surrender.

Hu Tatar remembered the two ambushes again, and his elite scouts failed to find out their whereabouts, which shows that they have put a lot of effort into counter-reconnaissance, and these two cavalry are regarded as very important, that is to say, they are really sure that they can reverse the disadvantage with these two ambushes, as for what task they are going to perform, sneak attack on grain and grass or decapitation, it is unknown.

But since the Zhongzhou Army focused on the decisive battle, what happened to Bai Lang's surrender before?

"Great Chief", Hu Tatar turned his head to see that it was a lieutenant general, Hu Tatar nodded and motioned for him to continue.

"Big leader, now that the Zhongzhou army is pouring out, we will definitely succeed in a sneak attack on Shouyang Pass now."

Hu Tatar looked at the lieutenant general, who was not in the big tent when Bai Lang came to give the war letter, so he didn't know anything about Bai Lang's surrender.

Hu Tatar pondered for a long time, then suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed three times, patted the lieutenant on the shoulder, and the lieutenant retreated in flattery.

Yes, if Bai Lang does not come to surrender, then the best strategy is to sneak attack Shouyang Pass like this, and Bai Lang's flawed surrender makes people think of Bai Lang's fraudulent surrender and Shouyang Pass at this time is a trap, so he does not dare to sneak attack Shouyang Pass. In fact, the real situation is that the Zhongzhou army is sure of the decisive battle, but at the same time of the decisive battle, there are not enough troops to defend the city, so they came up with this easy-to-see trick to make the other party mistakenly think that there are ambushes in the city and dare not sneak attack, in order to protect Shouyang Pass, in fact, there are not many troops in Shouyang Pass.

"Hahaha, pass the order, the army will attack, the target - Shouyang Pass."