The sky has just dawned, the sun has not yet risen from the horizon, and the vast Anbei grassland has just woken up from the morning light, and the sky and the earth are very quiet.

The whole earth looked white by the light that had just been revealed, and it was frost from the cold of the night, and some unmelted snow, and a slight light mist, which was cold and cold when inhaled into the nose.

Now it is almost the middle of February, and the solar term is close to the spring equinox, which can be regarded as a warmer early spring in Chang'an, but it is still a cold winter in the Anbei area, although the weather is fine these days, but the temperature is still very low, which makes people feel extraordinarily cold, especially in the early morning. On such a cold winter morning, there are few herdsmen and other people on the vast Anbei grasslands.

There are exceptions to everything, south of Daqing Mountain, outside a valley with a somewhat steep mountain, but a large group of people appeared, nearly a thousand soldiers on war horses were running at a medium speed, looking for a place to hide, judging from the costumes, these people were dressed a little strangely, and they couldn't tell which side of the team they belonged to.

Although the weather was cold, these soldiers who came from afar did not feel the slightest chill, and all of them had an excited look on their faces, and they had white mist in their mouths, marching or assembling in an orderly manner under the orders of their respective officers.

It was a well-disciplined force, and although it marched in the cold morning, there was no noise or confusion, and all the horses marched or stood in their own order, and appeared to be in good order.

"General, the Turks shouldn't have come so early, what should we do next?" A rider asked in a low voice as he drove up to the leader, who was standing on a high spot holding something and watching.

"Captain Huan, order the brothers to get off their horses and rest, your department is on guard, don't slack off, and then send scouts to find out the situation!" The young lord took his eyes off what he was holding in his hand and turned back to command.

"Yes, General!" The captain surnamed Huan should be ordered to ride his horse and leave, and arrange affairs.

This young general was none other than Liu Yi, and the one who reported the situation to him on the side was his subordinate lieutenant Huan Yanfan.

After receiving the order from Pei Xingjian, Liu Yi immediately rushed back to the camp where he was stationed, and announced the following operational tasks, Liu Yi ordered the soldiers to start the camp immediately, each of them brought enough dry food for five days, and acted overnight.

Liu Yi's subordinate officers at the first level of the captain were very outstanding, and it only took half an hour for everyone to assemble, take advantage of the night to leave the camp, and gallop north.

This team of more than 1,000 people, under the guidance of the guide, took advantage of the moonlight at night, rushed forward overnight, traveled nearly 100 miles at an incredible speed, arrived at this selected ambush site before dawn, and seized the time to rest.

It was an excellent place to set up an ambush, and a valley in the middle could pass through this not low hill, with high and low slopes on both sides, not very steep, which was very suitable for the ambush of cavalry of several thousand men.

Usually the Turks will come from different directions every time they come to grab grain, but after taking the grain and grass, they will retreat from this valley. Because of the large size of the carts carrying grain and grass, it was almost the only option to return to the location of the Great Tent from the south of the Castle Hills, passing through the widest valley. Crossing this mountain to the north, although there are several roads closer to this valley in the east-west direction, those are small roads, the terrain is very undulating, and it is not a problem for cavalry to pass, but it is basically impossible for the carts carrying grain to pass.

If you don't pass through this valley, you will either have to go around and pass on both sides of Daqing Mountain, but that will take a few more days of running. Therefore, every time the Turks went south to plunder property or grain and grass, they would pass through this valley, which was the information obtained in exchange for the lives of many soldiers of our army, as well as the loss of countless grain and grass.

Liu Yi was holding a telescope in his hand, using this thing to observe the surrounding situation. There are only two things like this treasure at present, one is in Pei Xingjian's place, in the process of Pei Xingjian's command of military operations in Anxi, this sharp weapon that can detect the enemy's situation one step earlier has played a great role, especially in the grassland area with a good field of vision, and the role of the telescope is even greater.

Liu Yi observed for a while, there was no abnormal situation on the side, and immediately ordered the sergeants under his leadership to rest separately, replenish food and water, and restore the strength of people and war horses, so that they could have good physical strength in the next charge.

It is difficult to wait for it, Liu Yi, who has carried out many secret missions in later generations, knows this truth, so he also ordered the soldiers to calm down, and not to have any abnormal movements, and violators will be severely punished.

In coordination with Liu Yi's troops, Zhang Qianmiao's troops, who were hidden in the grain trucks, set out from the camp early the next morning, and they escorted 300 carts transporting grain and grass from the direction of Shan Yuhufu to the Sangqian Governor's Mansion under their jurisdiction.

It is also a very common thing for our army to escort grain and grass in peacetime, not to mention that it is still wartime. The imperial court sent a large army led by Xiao Siye to fight against the Turks in the previous year, although the army was defeated, but there were still a large number of soldiers stationed in the Shan Yu Du Hu Mansion about hundreds of miles northeast of Shuozhou, and several Du Yu Prefectures under the rule of the Du Hu Fu, as well as the prefectures and counties also have garrisons, because the garrison is quite large, and the lack of grain and grass in winter, it is necessary to transport grain and grass to the Shan Yu Du Hu Mansion in the rear, the Turks are aware of this situation, and often send rangers to attack our team to transport grain and grass, and a large amount of grain and grass is looted by the Turks. Xiao Siye was also because the grain and grass were plundered by the Turks, which made the army unstable and unable to continue to advance north.

Grain and grass were attacked, this is a very headache, grain and grass is an indispensable thing for the soldiers stationed at the border pass, so when escorting grain and grass, a large number of sergeants were sent to escort to guard against the looting of the Turks, because our side strengthened defense, the Turks were not so easy to get. The Turks also discovered this situation, and each time they sent out to loot grain, there were more people, from a few hundred at the beginning to thousands or even thousands now, because of the competition for grain and grass, the two armies often had fierce battles.

When Liu Yi led the army to arrive at the target place, the team led by Zhang Qianqiao to transport grain and grass also set off from the camp in the light of the morning light, they used to "transport" grain and grass this time are very large carts, each cart can be loaded with a lot of stone grain and forage, but this time the car is mainly loaded with forage, but there is not much grain, the most important on each cart is five sergeants with weapons, several sergeants add up to six or seven hundred catties, covered with thick forage, which makes outsiders see that each cart carries a lot of grain and grass.

There was only one sergeant in each car, and there were nearly two hundred sergeants who were "escorted".

The carriage drove out of the camp and headed north.

Zhang Qianmiao, who led the army, was also lying in the grain cart like other sergeants, he was not very confident about this operation, and with the bumps of the carriage, Zhang Qianmiao was also thinking about how to make remedial measures in case the Turks found a flaw, and how to contact Liu Yi who was in ambush.

In the steppe south of the green hills, a large group of Turkic rangers was moving rapidly.

"Big brother, we have been wandering in the grassland for three days, and we have not met the Tang army's grain transportation team, it seems that the Tang army knows that we are going to rob their grain and grass, and dare not send troops to transport grain!" A Turkic man dressed as a leader rode up to another man in a similar costume and said loudly.

"Second brother, let's look further south, if we really don't meet the herdsmen who are in transition, and the Tang Army's grain transportation team, then we can only go back to the errand!"

This is the Turkic leader Ashed under the appointment of two tribal heads, two brothers, the elder brother's name is Ashed Yuanhao, the younger brother's name is Ashed Nabu, the father of the two brothers has just died, the two were appointed by Ashid to jointly take charge of tribal affairs, this time it was also on the order of Ashde's office, went south to rob property, or the grain and grass of the Tang army, but they wandered in the grassland for several days, just robbed some shepherds' hundreds of cattle and sheep, the harvest was not abundant, unwilling to go back, continue to go south, They wanted to rob the Tang army's grain transport team or other herdsmen who had transferred to the field, and after robbing more livestock and property, they would go back to restore their lives.

The two brothers are still united, and after the death of their father, they are also in charge of the tribal affairs they lead, and there is no fight for power, mainly because of the big age difference between the two brothers, and because their tribe has only more than 10,000 people, their strength is weak, and they are easy to be cleaned up when they fight internally.

As their 2,000-odd riders continued southward, they also sent some ranger detectives to spy on the situation in the vicinity.

In the field of vision of the Ashid Yuanhao brothers, the rangers sent out by several horsemen were returning quickly, and the leader was still shouting there, but the distance was far away, and the sound of horses' hooves was chaotic and noisy, and he couldn't hear what he was shouting.

"There must have been a discovery of the situation!" Ashide Yuanhao ordered the headquarters to stop, and he was very excited in his heart. After a few days of idleness, it was very boring, and they wanted to do a good job, robbing a large number of livestock and property, and so on, so as not to wander around the uninhabited grassland.

Several horsemen rushed to the front, and a subordinate sent out to inquire about the situation gasped and reported: "Leader, five miles ahead, I found that the Tang army's grain convoy had a total of two or three hundred vehicles, and the Tang army guarding it was only a few hundred!"

"Good! Hahaha..."Ashide Yuanhao laughed proudly, it really paid off, when they felt that they were going to return in vain this time, they sent such a big deal, hundreds of carts of Tang Army grain and grass, and only a small number of sergeant guards, the more than 2,000 sons and daughters they led, they would definitely be able to easily solve this Tang Army.

"Big brother, give the order quickly!" The young Ashid looked excited.

This is a bloodthirsty tribe with a surname, they all like to kill, and evaluate a person's bravery by killing more, and the young Ashed Nabu is no exception, hoping to show his blood surname in the fight.

"Follow me, rush south, and intercept the Tang Army's grain convoy!" Ashed Yuanhao pulled out his scimitar and shouted loudly.

Over the years, they have been under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so that they hold their breath, the last year a number of tribal chiefs united against the Tang Dynasty, so that they regained their self-confidence, although they were defeated by the Tang Army at the beginning, but in the end the victory made them despise the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, the Tang Army is just a group of rabble, as soon as they encounter defeat, they will flee for their lives, Ashed Yuanhao believes that he rushed over with his subordinates, and the Tang soldiers who escorted the grain and grass would also run away immediately.

More than 2,000 Turks, under the leadership of the Ashed Yuanhao brothers, brandished scimitars, screamed all the way, and under the leadership of a few rangers who had just run back, they ran in the direction of discovering the Tang army's grain convoy...

(To be continued)