Chapter 66: The sword will be raised

To the southwest of Yin Mountain, the Turkic camp led by Ashina Fu Nian.

It was the morning when the camp was ready to start, several light horsemen rushed in from outside the camp at a very fast speed, straight to the main tent, those Turkic soldiers in the camp who were busy dismantling the camp tent and preparing for a new day's journey, hurriedly dodged, even those Turkic soldiers who patrolled, saw these fast horsemen rushing in, and immediately got out of the way, let them pass, everyone knows, this is the scout sent out to listen to the news to report the situation, the battle may start soon, no one dares to stop the scout who reported the news.

"Khan, find the traces of the Tang Army!" A scout quickly rushed into Ashina's tent and immediately reported.

"Where is the Tang Army? How many centaurs are there? Who is in the lead? Ashina Fu Nian, who was discussing things with several of his subordinates, shook his head and asked repeatedly.

"Hui Khan, is the commander of Cheng Wuting, the governor of Fengzhou, with a number of about 10,000 to 20,000 people, about seventy miles away from our army, and is rapidly coming in the direction of our army, it is possible to find our army and prepare to attack our army!" The scout gasped and answered Ashina's question.

"Order the whole army, prepare for battle, Ben Khan said today that he will completely annihilate this Tang army!" Ashina Fu Nian is a little high-spirited.

A subordinate named Ashina Lazhong on the side of Ashina Fu Nian hurriedly reminded: "Khan, that Cheng Wuting is a good general, the last time Ashid served Ye Hu was captured by his army, this person has been in Fengzhou for many years, has defeated the invasion of various tribes many times, and is a general of the Tang Army that cannot be underestimated. They are coming quickly in the direction of our army, they must have discovered the traces of our army in advance, and they must guard against other possible means of the Tang army, and we do not know the movements of the other Tang troops!"

"Ben Khan knows that Cheng Wuting is a brave general, but Ben Khan's subordinates are also brave sons, the descendants of the wolf god on the grassland, they will definitely be able to defeat the Tang army that came to attack, not to mention that our number is more than double theirs, Ben Khan wants to completely annihilate this Tang army, let Pei Xingjian see, who is powerful!" Although Ashina Fu Nian had some worries in his heart, he was still very hard in his words, "Prepare for battle immediately!"

At this time, Ashina Funian was still holding his breath in his heart, some time ago, the messenger sent by Pei Xingjian came to his tooth tent, explained the benefits to him, and told Ashina Funian that this Turkic rebellion was all because of Ashdwin Fu, he was just instigated by someone and used by Ashdwin Fu. Knowing that he would not be tolerated by the Tang Dynasty, Ashdwin Fu was afraid that his strength would not be able to withstand the attacks of the Tang army and other tribes, so he came to unite with him Ashina Fu Nian, if Ashina Fu Nian could restrain himself from the precipice and rejoin the Tang Dynasty, Pei Xingjian would definitely try his best to protect him from the punishment of the imperial court, and he could give him the territory that originally belonged to Ashdwin Fu.

Pei Xingjian sent a messenger to send such a message to make Ashina Fu Nian a little tempted, but also wondered if Ashdwin Fu was really as Pei Xingjian said, just using his tribe and his Turkic royal identity to appeal in order to strengthen the anti-Tang forces, so in the later actions, he did not join forces with Ashdwin Fu, but acted alone with each other, one to the west and the other to the southeast, preparing to strike preemptively against the Tang army coming from afar. Just like the previous year, he forced the Tang army led by Xiao Siye to retreat to the Shan Yu Protectorate.

The envoy sent by Pei Xingjian also told Ashina Funian that if he was obsessed and insisted on confronting the Tang Dynasty, then Ashina was familiar with the mud and Ashide was an example, which made Ashina Funian furious, and decided to give the Tang army a dismount, so that Pei Xingjian could see how he defeated the Tang army, but in order to leave a way back for himself, he did not embarrass the messenger sent by Pei Xingjian, and now the Tang army, which is much smaller than his own department, is about to encounter him, Ashina Funian wants to use a victory to prove his ability, Therefore, without hesitation, he ordered his subordinates to prepare for battle.

"Yes, Khan!" All of Ashina Funian's men went out of the camp to prepare-

"General, we'll be able to go out of the White Road soon!" Wang then rode his horse to Liu Yi's side and reported loudly.

Wang Sui and the hundreds of men and horses led by Wang Zhou, who had already run out of the white road and were leaving this canyon nearly 100 miles long, running a few miles forward to take on the task of guarding the whole army outside the canyon. After the men and horses he led ran out of the canyon and found no abnormality, Wang Sui led more than a dozen of his men and ran back to report to Liu Yi, who was following closely.

From the time when it was about to be dark to carry out the canyon where the white road was located, to the time when it took almost a whole night to cross the entire distance, it was still early spring, and the head fell early and rose late, and the whole night was still relatively long, at least about seven hours, in this nearly seven hours of time, the soldiers marched at the fastest speed they could reach, and when the sky was just bright and the sun was still hovering on the horizon, they were about to leave the canyon, which was a speed that most of the soldiers did not expect, When Liu Yi gave the order to cross the White Road overnight, few people believed that they would be able to pass through here in one night.

But the facts proved that they had completed this almost impossible task, and when they went out of the White Road, they did not find the enemy's situation, which was really good news for the 6,000 sergeants of the Tang Army, and many people felt that God was helping them.

Liu Yi also immediately ordered the soldiers to get out of the canyon as soon as possible, and prepared to stay in some hidden places outside the canyon to rest.

The soldiers ran around all night, even if the two horses changed horses, the people and horses were tired, and then there was a continuous march, and they might soon launch an attack on the Turks' tooth tent, whether it was a soldier or a war horse, the physical strength must be guaranteed, especially the physical strength of the soldiers, which was the most critical factor in victory, if our army successfully reached outside their tooth tent before the Turks found out, but had no strength to impact, suffered heavy losses in the battle with the Turks, and could not complete the original designed task, it would be a failure, Even defeated by the Turks, this is a situation that Liu Yi will never allow to appear.

Half an hour after Wang Sui came back to report the situation, all the men and horses went out of the white road and went to the outer sides of the canyon to hide and rest.

Liu Yi, who was a little tired, was still not idle when the people in his department were resting, and led some of his subordinates to run to a high place and use binoculars to check the surrounding situation.

Although the craftsmen from Persia have arrived in Chang'an for a period of time, but because of the influence of various factors, there is no very high quality, which can be used for telescopes and other glass production with higher requirements for light transmission and refraction, making glass is of course a gradual process, on the basis of continuous improvement of conditions, and gradually improve the quality of the products produced, Liu Yi believes that in a few years, there must be less impurities, It has high transparency and can be produced using glass on a telescope.

Liu Yi checked the surrounding situation for a while, and then returned to the place where the sergeant rested, and while replenishing food and water, he gathered several major subordinate generals together to prepare the situation.

Before Liu Yi gave a new order to the generals, a few horsemen galloped in the distance, and the vigilant sergeant, under the leadership of Jinghui, immediately outflanked and surrounded the horsemen who were rushing in the direction of our army's rest, but soon a group of knights came over to this side, and it was the vigilant sergeant who escorted the horses who had just come over to Liu Yi's place.

The people who came were several guards sent by Liu Yi earlier, and they had come back to report the latest situation.

According to the reports of these guards, the Turks in the tent did not discover the whereabouts of our troops, and did not make any unusual defensive moves.

According to the reports of these guards who came back, there were more than 30,000 people in the camp where the Turks' tooth tents were located, but most of them were women, old and young people who had no combat power, and only 5,000 people really had combat power, and the rest were taken away by Ashina Funian and went to the southwest of Yinshan. One of our men has infiltrated its camp, waiting for our army to arrive, and we will be able to respond in the camp... Several guards also reported in detail the distribution of the Turkic camp, guarded the place where the sergeants were stationed, and brought back a map of the vicinity of the Turks' tent and a detailed map of the distribution in the camp and handed it to Liu Yi.

After listening to the report of the guards coming back, and seeing them draw a few pictures, Liu Yi was overjoyed, these guards who had not been trained for too long had a good ability to act secretly, not only captured the Turkic prisoners, interrogated some key news, but also successfully latent the Turkic camp in the camp, Liu Yi did not have any worries about winning this raid.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Ben will now lay out a specific attack plan!" Liu Yi spread the picture brought back by the guards on the ground, and said with a finger: "The most important thing in our battle is to eliminate these 5,000 Turkic soldiers and other Turkic people who have combat effectiveness, force them to surrender, and kill as few people as possible, especially Ashina Funian's relatives, and there must be no harm to them without special circumstances..."

"We are still more than 200 miles away from the Turks' tooth tent, we must arrive outside the Turks' tooth tent before dawn tomorrow, and attack when the Turks are defenseless in the early morning," Liu Yi put his hands behind his back and looked at the generals next to him, "The arrangements of the various departments are as follows, General Yang Yuanyan is away from 2,000 people and rushes the camp from the west side of the Turkic camp, General Zhang Qianqiao also leads 2,000 people to charge the camp from the east side, and the two men and horses will divide their troops and turn after traveling a hundred miles, and the general will lead the rest of the men and horses to rush the camp from the south side, and strive to do it in the shortest possible time." Annihilate the 5,000 Turks who have combat effectiveness, force down the other Turks, and try to end the battle before dark! Do you understand everything? ”

"Got it!" Yang Yuanyan, Zhang Qianqiao and other generals all straightened up and ordered loudly.

Although the generals were a little tired, everyone was full of excitement at the thought that they would be able to attack the Turks immediately and win this rushing battle.

"Let's get ready, and we'll start in half an hour!"

"Yes, General!"

It was about time for the sword to be raised, and the voices of the generals were full of determination to win...

(To be continued)