Liu Yu's Chinese army stopped about one hundred and fifty miles from Jinyao City, did not advance or retreat, and began to station. The Turks didn't understand, and even Jin Yaocheng and Liu Yu's soldiers couldn't figure out what he was going to do.

"Let Huo Ill lead his troops out of the city and join us!" Liu Yu ordered Li Mi, who was about to go to Jinyao City to inform him of the news.

Li Mi wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, this is Liu Yu's arrangement, and he has his own reason, although everyone is puzzled, there is a city in front of him that should be relied on as a base, why should the army be withdrawn to the grassland in the wilderness.

"What, you didn't bring me food, I want to evacuate, isn't it going to be hungry for a day?" After Huo Yi got the order conveyed by Li Mi, he was extremely angry, sat down on the city wall, and said, "The master is not full, he can't walk, and he resolutely does not go out of the city!" ”

Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng on the side glanced at each other, originally thinking that it was the right choice to hand over the city defense to Huo Ill, but now it looks like this kid is completely tricky, no matter what the reason for Liu Wenyan's order, but now the most important thing is to replenish supplies, there are many soldiers in the city who have been gnawing on turf for the past two days, and this kind of day can be said to be torment.

A person who walked over from the side, it was Hua Ji'an, who said a word in Huo Ai's ear, Huo Ai's eyes widened, and he seemed to be very embarrassed, and he said helplessly: "Withdraw and retreat, you withdraw first, master, I will lead the troops to the palace!" ”

Not only Li Mi, but even Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng also felt that Hua Ji'an was not a simple person, Hua Ji'an was the general of the Huai Army, and it stands to reason that no one in the army would be willing to listen to his opinion, but Huo Yi seemed to trust him very much, Li Mi used Liu Yu's order to suppress Huo Yao, Hua Ji'an said a word in Huo Yao's ear and asked him to obey obediently.

So the Shun Dynasty army in the city withdrew. Advance south to join Liu Yu's Chinese army. Because Huo is in charge of the queen of the palace. Li Mi had doubts in his heart, so he had to ask Hua Ji'an. Who knew that Hua Ji'an was very faceless, and arched his hand and said: "This matter, the general will explain it to the forward general!" ”

Li Mi went out with the army this time, and his military position did not change, his position was the same as Hua Ji'an, so Hua Ji'an did not need to be respectful to him, and his words were completely out of the courtesy of his colleagues. Li Mi sighed, this time out. I haven't seen the opportunity to make a contribution until now, but being a miscellaneous person by Liu Yu's side makes him very unhappy, and now even this general is rude to him, which makes him feel that he shouldn't have come to this trip.

It was only after the end of the war that Li Mi inquired in many ways, and it turned out that what Tianhua Ji'an said to Huo Zhi was: "If you don't withdraw, won't the person surnamed Liu rely more on your credit?" ”

Looking back, Li Mi thought about it, this was a bit unpleasant, and Hua Ji'an didn't want to say it in public, and he could understand it. Immediately relieved.

In the middle of the Dashun Dynasty's military formation, Liu Yu had already ordered to start digging pits and repairing trenches in the grassland. One by one, the mounds and bags of dirt were piled up on the ground as covers, Li Mi didn't say it, but Sui Yi was an anxious man, and he always had to ask things clearly, so Sui Yi anxiously went to the big tent of the Chinese army to find Liu Yu.

"Brother Liu, there is Jinyao City in front, how good do you say we are to enter the city, the city wall is high, there are houses to sleep in, why do you eat and sleep here, dig those pits and pile those sacks, and you don't get acquainted with the city wall, what's the use?"

Liu Yu was looking at the book to kill boredom listlessly, but when he heard this, he glanced up at him and asked, "Do you know how many soldiers and horses we have?" ”

A simple question stopped Sui Yi, he knew that Liu Yu did not bring many soldiers and horses from Chang'an City this time, about four or five thousand people. After joining up with the border army and sending troops, most of the border army was a remnant of the defeated army that had been gathered from the front line, scattered everywhere, and it was even more difficult to count them.

"Hundreds of thousands?" Sui Yi said with an indifferent expression, "What does it matter how much, it has to do with not entering the city?" ”

Liu Yu threw the book review book in his hand on the handsome case, put his legs on the way, and said, "Who said it has nothing to do." Since you don't know, I'll tell you a good story, now, our soldiers and horses, adding up all the armies, including the more than 10,000 remnants of Jinyao City, are only 50,000 horses! ”

Sui Yi was horrified in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Won't it?" That's it? We don't have an army of 200,000, even if it's not enough, it should be about the same...... So we only have 40,000 horses here? ”

"Less than 40,000!" Liu Yu picked up a stick and pointed to the military map hanging on the screen, "The coalition army of the various tribes in the central and southern Turks alone has as many as seventy or eighty thousand, if you count the reinforcements sent by the Turkic royal court, the Turkic cavalry alone is more than 100,000, although we have 40,000 horses, but more than half are infantry, how can you fight this battle?" ”

"Brother Liu is ready to withdraw?" Sui Yi asked.

Liu Yu shook his head and sighed: "You can't withdraw, this retreat, the borders of the Dashun Dynasty in the next few decades will not be peaceful, and you and I will be sinners!" This battle must be fought, and it must be won. ”

Sui Yi was completely panicked like this, he originally thought that following Liu Yu would come out to win the battle and make contributions, and discussed with Li Mi in private, and the results were all the same, that is, how could it be a big win to follow Liu Yu? In the past, the Dashun Dynasty was able to hold each other with the Turks in the northern border pass, one is by virtue of the danger of the pass, and more importantly, the military strength of the Dashun Dynasty is superior, and a draw is piled up with the advantage of troops.

The soldiers and horses are superior, and the battle is not easy to fight, not to mention that the soldiers and horses are now inferior, and there are more than half of the Turkic soldiers and horses.

Sui Yi calmed down a little, thought for a while, and said: "Brother Liu, since we have fewer soldiers and horses than the Turks, we can't go head-to-head with the Turkic cavalry, so we shouldn't be stationed outside the city, and when we enter the city, wouldn't it be safer to have a backing?" ”

Liu Yu said helplessly: "Do you want me to be the second Min Shaoqing, to scourge the soldiers of the Dashun Dynasty again, and then stay in the city and wait for the imperial court to send a batch of reinforcements to rescue us?" ”

Sui Yi understood what Liu Yu meant, that is, Liu Yu did not enter the city because he was afraid of being trapped in the city by the Turks.

"Not really, right?"

"Why not, we have 50,000 soldiers and horses, lack of soldiers and food, and enter the city as soon as the Turkic cavalry attacks, what should we do? Don't want to abandon the city? The Turks trapped the city, and the soldiers and horses were less than half of them, do you think we can break through? ”

The more Liu Yue said that Sui Yi felt more and more frightened, and thought about it carefully, didn't he? If the soldiers and horses have the advantage, forget it, now the soldiers and horses are at a great disadvantage, and when they enter the city, it is like digging a pit to bury themselves and waiting for others to sleep.

Liu Yu picked up the book and continued: "The best way now is to camp outside the city and confront the Turks, they don't know how many soldiers and horses we have, even if we come to attack, we fight in the field and have firearms, and we may not be at a disadvantage." ”

"But Brother Liu didn't say that we can't afford to have a shortage of soldiers and food?"

"Who said you want to spend it with them?" Liu Yu glanced at Sui Yi again, and he refused to reveal the rest of the more detailed content.

Sui Yi thought about it, if you don't consume with the Turks, that is, you want to ...... Decisive battle?

Sui Yi was shocked in his heart, now with such a few people, a decisive battle with the Turks is really no different from seeking his own death.

"Know your opponent and know your friends, and win all battles!" Liu Yu threw the book to Sui Yi and said, "Go back and read the military book well, don't come and make trouble for me when you are idle!" ”

Sui Yi walked out of the big tent with the military book, saying that he was worried about nothing. Looking at Liu Yu's calm and calm appearance, he must have a bamboo in his chest, and then think about it, whether it is the battle of Kwaishui River or the battle of pacifying King Huai, Liu Yu is winning more with less, especially the battle of Kwaishui in which he personally participated.

Thinking of this, Sui Yi's heart and strength also rose, but after thinking about it again, the battle by the Kwai River had the right time and place, and the ambush was set up in advance. Now, in the territory of the Turks, in the vast steppe, if you can win by digging a few pits and piling a few dirt bags, it will really become a myth.

"Go, the sky is falling, there is Brother Liu on top, what the hell am I doing!"

Sui Yi went back to his tent with the book of war, looked at the book of war, and felt bored at first, and then there were some actual combat stories, one by one the ancient famous generals went into battle to kill the enemy, and he also read it as a book of commentators, which looked like a fun picture and was quite enjoyable.

Jin Yaocheng's remnants of the army converged with Liu Yu's Chinese army in more than a day, although the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses on this road was not weak, but the body was obviously a little unbearable, as soon as they converged, they began to eat and drink, all of them were like hungry ghosts reincarnated, Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng and the original Chinese army generals, including Liu Yu's old acquaintance He Mao, all went to see Liu Yu, handed over the dragon fu and tiger charm, and Liu Yu officially became the commander of the three armies.

After a day or two, the Shun army did not move any more, and kept digging trenches and piling dirt bags, everything seemed to be quiet, but every night the Shun army would retreat the camp a mile back, which was very puzzling to the Turks. What is even more puzzling to them is that the Shun Dynasty army dug the pit the day before, and the next day it will be filled by themselves, probably because they feel that the place where the pit was dug is wrong, but it has been like this every day for three days, and the Turks are a little unable to sit still, this can't be some kind of conspiracy?

"I think it's these bastards who want to run away!"

At the tribal assembly, one of the leaders expressed his opinion, and many nodded in agreement. If the army of the Shun Dynasty did not want to withdraw, why did it need to retreat one mile a day?

But think about it again, only one mile a day, this has to retreat to the north pass of the Great Shun Dynasty, isn't it going to retreat for several years?

Now the two armies are separated by nearly three hundred miles, if the army of the Shun Dynasty continues to retreat like this, and suddenly withdraws greatly overnight, it may be too late for them to pursue, and now the reinforcements of the Iron Wolf Guard and other tribes of the Turkic royal court have not yet arrived, and they cannot deal a fatal blow to the Shun army. So the chiefs of the tribes summed up and decided to advance the camp two hundred li and station it in the direction of a hundred li north of the Shun Dynasty army. In this way, they had their backs to Jin Yao City, and if the army of the Shun Dynasty suddenly rushed forward, they could also retreat to the city.

All the chieftains thought that this plan was very good, so they began to send troops that night. When the Shun Dynasty army heard that the Turkic soldiers and horses were moving forward, they really seemed to be afraid, and they no longer retreated every night, and they did not retreat after retreating for three miles. (To be continued......)