Failure is the mother of success, failure is the key to victory, failure is ......, even if you beautify failure to the extreme, few people in the world will like failure itself, especially the kind of defeat that looks at the victory in hand, but in the end it is the failure of losing the wife and the army, which is even more hateful, isn't it? No matter how others let it go, at least Li Zhen will never like to fail, and he doesn't believe that Dadushe, who has always been smooth sailing, will easily accept the fate of failure, because of this, although Li Zhen borrowed troops from Li Xiyu to pursue Dadushe, but he was very cautious along the way, and he did not chase hard, and the sentinels and rangers were placed very far away, closely watching the movements of Xue Yantuo's army, and the large army was just hanging far behind Xue Yantuo's army, and it was easy not to get too close.

Unwilling, how unwilling, I didn't expect that I would be defeated so badly, how can I not swallow this breath, in the face of the powerful Tang Army's main force, retreating is of course a helpless move, but he is not willing to retreat to the grassland so disgraced, if so, it is a trivial matter to ruin the reputation of the former Hehe, and it is a weight that he cannot bear to be at a disadvantage in the battle for the throne of the Khan, if he is so defeated and retreats, Dadu's feet can also imagine how the gang of people will slander in front of his father Khan, so even if he is defeated, he can't be so ugly defeated, and biting Tang Jun backbite will become the last straw for Dadu's face-saving, and the 5,000 men and horses under Li Zhen's department have become the best counterattack target for Dadu.

Clear! Dadu set very clearly, what Li Zhen did was just to delay the speed of his retreat, waiting for the Tang army in the direction of Datong to gather in the Yungang area, but Dadu set more clearly is that although the Tang army in the direction of Datong has been assembled, but the army is not fast, it will not be able to reach Yungang before Xue Yantuo's army, this Dadu set has already been known by the sentinel of the rangers, and Dadu has sent 20,000 elite horsemen to seize Yungang in advance, and the back road is already worry-free, and now what haunts Dadu's heart is how to eat Li Zhen's department, It is best to capture Li Zhensheng alive, if so, although this trip is a loss of soldiers, there may be Li Zhen in hand, and there is still room for bargaining with Datang, although it is defeated, but the face can still be saved, or even a lot of money from Datang is not necessarily impossible.

It's been three days, and it's been three days since the guard rangers found that Li Zhen led his troops to chase after him, and the rangers on both sides have killed each other, but each other's main forces have never fought head-on, no matter how tempting Dadu set - pretending to be lax, deliberately dividing troops, and secretly ambushing all over again, but unfortunately Li Zhen's department that followed behind didn't take the bait at all, and always followed behind like a vicious wolf, waiting for Dadu to reveal a real fatal flaw, which made Dadu set like a bone in the throat, unable to swallow and spit out, It's hard to get hurt.

On October 27, the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Xue Yantuo's army withdrew across the Yungang Great Wall, and the Tang army in the direction of Datong saw that the fighter had been lost, and did not approach again, and retreated, only Li Zhen's troops pursued closely, and still hung unhurriedly behind Xue Yantuo's army, and planned to follow Xue Yantuo's army into the grassland, so that the already resentful Dadu set could no longer bear it, and ordered the whole army to camp in Nuozhenshui, and camped for several miles, and sent someone to Li Zhen to challenge the decisive battle.

What? Decisive battle? Ha, I can't stand it anymore, hehe, it's interesting, it's interesting! Li Zhen sat in the tent of the Chinese army, glanced at the so-called invitation to war, laughed, picked up the pen casually, didn't even bother to write a reply, and directly wrote a big word of dragon flying and phoenix dancing - "war" behind the invitation book set up by Dadu, raised his hand, threw the invitation to war into the arms of Xue Yantuo soldiers who came to write the war, and sneered: "Send off!" The subordinate soldiers immediately swarmed in, and they didn't give Xue Yantuo a chance to open their mouths at all, and dragged the people out of the Tang army's camp with push and drag.

"Your Highness, the enemy army is outnumbered, how can this battle be fought, why don't you wait for the two Li Shuai's armies to gather before making a decision, I hope Your Highness will think twice." Seeing that Li Zhen didn't even discuss, he accepted the invitation to fight, and Ying Yanglang hurriedly dodged Wu Yi out from under the tent and exhorted loudly.

"Yes, Your Highness, our army has already left the Great Wall, there is no danger to rely on on all sides, and we have to fight on our own, I am afraid that there will be accidents, Your Highness should be cautious." Liu Changhe also disagreed with Li Zhen's decision to fight against Xue Yantuo, and hurriedly stood up and echoed loudly.

"Ha, you don't need to say much, this king just wants to taste the taste of defeat." Li Zhen got up with laughter, walked to the sand table that a group of guards had just formed, pointed to the sand table and said, "Tell me both of you, if our army wants to completely annihilate the enemy, how should we fight this battle?" ”

Li Zhen said in front of his head that he wanted to taste the taste of defeat, but then he let people say what the truth was for the total annihilation of the enemy army, such inconsistent words suddenly made Wu and Liu both dumbfounded, glanced at each other, looked at each other, and didn't know what to say for a while, but Li Zhen didn't care about the embarrassment of the two, and pointed to the sand table and said: "Two of you, please see, this place is the location of the camp of Dadu's children, and it is three miles away from the battlefield of the invitation to fight, and our army is currently here, and it is five miles away from the white wolf, hehe, Dadu's invitation to our army to this place is just to defeat our army head-on with the main force, attack our camp with strange soldiers, cut off our army's rear road, and completely annihilate our army. ”

Wu Yi looked at the sand table, raised his head, and asked with a slight hesitation: "Your Highness's intention is to do the opposite, the virtual army White Wolf Plain, but in fact, in the ambush barracks, first destroy the enemy's surprise soldiers, and then take advantage of the weakness to take the enemy's camp?" ”

Hehe, it's rare for this kid to think of this strategy, and he has a bit of a future for cultivation! Li Zhen's heart moved, and he had the heart to win over, but he didn't bring it to his face, he just shook his head with a smile and said: "Although this plan can be won, but if you want to completely annihilate Xue Yantuo's army, it is impossible to get it, at most it is a rout battle, moreover, our army has few soldiers, and it is difficult to hide too much magnanimity if you want to be on top of the battle array, this king really wants to fight a defeat, hehe, General Wu will take a good look at the sand table, calculate the location of the two Li Shuai, can you see some doorways?" ”

Wu Yi was originally a awake person, and he was an old man, after Li Zhen's reminder, he had vaguely guessed Li Zhen's arrangement, but not only did he not have a look of surprise on his face, but he turned pale, sighed and said: "Your Highness, if you really want to do this strategy, our army's casualties are only afraid of a lot of ......."

"Well, it's not small, isn't Mofer afraid?" Li Zhen's eyes narrowed and asked lightly.

Although Liu Changhe has the same official rank as Wu Yi, he is just a rushing general, and he doesn't know much about battle strategy, at this time, seeing Li Zhen and Wu Yi playing dumb riddles, he suddenly became a little anxious, his dark face was red, and he said with a stiff neck: "Your Highness, we are by no means greedy for life and afraid of death, but how this battle should be fought, please explain it." ”

"It's good not to be afraid of death! General Wu, you can talk about it, this king has to repair two letters and two Li Shuai, and if there is something difficult to understand when he turns back, this king will explain in detail. Li Zhen laughed, didn't say anything more, turned around and walked back to the desk, in Wu Yi's babbling explanation, he waved his pen and wrote quickly, but he had already written the letter in a moment, and hurriedly sent a ranger to Li Ji and Li Xiyu to send it without mentioning it.

The winter night of the grassland came early, but it was only two o'clock, but it was all dark that day, the wind was very strong, blowing on people, a cold like a gust, but Da Du She didn't care, since he received the war letter sent back by Li Zhen, Da Du She had been standing outside the tent for a whole hour without moving, his face was very calm, and no one could see what he was thinking.

"Governor, it's cold, I'm afraid it's going to snow, so you better go into the tent and rest." Seeing that Dadu had never moved his figure, Captain Amuda admonished with some concern.

"Hmm." Dadu replied noncommittally, didn't even turn around, stood silently for a while, and suddenly said: "Amuda, do you think Li Zhen'er will fight tomorrow?" ”

Amuda hesitated for a moment, pondered for a while, and said: "The Tang people are treacherous, and they can't be trusted, but from the point of view of the last general, Li Zhen'er is a warlike person, and the last general thinks that he should be able to fight." ”

"Yes, the Governor thinks so." Dadu set sneered and said: "This governor is sure that Li Zhen Xiao'er plans to use himself as bait this time, hmph, I don't know that it can no longer be reasonable, everything is not the road of soldiers, this governor will definitely take down this little thief this time, hum, the grassland is the grassland of the grassland people, it is definitely not the backyard of his Tang Dynasty, you can want to go, then it depends on whether the governor agrees, herald: blow the trumpet!" As soon as the words fell, he strode into the big tent of the Chinese army, but after a while, the terrible horn sounded outside the big tent of the Chinese army, and the battalion commanders rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army one after another.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Li Zhen'er has promised to fight tomorrow." Dadu set glanced at the generals under the tent, and said calmly: "It must be unprepared tonight, the governor plans to send troops to rob the camp, who dares to go?" ”

As soon as Dadu's voice fell, Captain Wan should have quickly taken the lead and said in a loud voice: "Governor Yudu, the last general is willing to go on a trip." ”

"Good!" Dadu set a few shots, and Huo Ran said: "That is the case, the third watch cooks, the fourth watch starts, and the governor is waiting for the general's good news in the camp." ”

"Yes, the last general obeys!" He quickly accepted the order very respectfully, and was just about to retreat, but Amuda stood up and said: "Metropolitan Governor, the Tang people are treacherous, if Li Zhenxiao'er sets up an ambush first, our army may miscalculate if he rushes to rob the camp, and I hope that the Metropolitan Governor will think twice." ”

"Hmm." Dadu paused for a moment and said: "If General Amuda is not at ease, then then the troops should be brought in quickly, if the general should be killed, your troops will go up and annihilate the Tang army in one fell swoop, if the Tang military is prepared first, your department should also withdraw quickly, so decided, the rest of the departments hurry up and prepare, if the camp is not smooth, tomorrow morning the whole army will send the white wolf plain, be sure to annihilate the enemy in a battle!" ”