"Report! General Li Hongyu has led his troops from the front of Yangwu City to the area between Xuanwei City and the difficult water, and is now waiting for the order of the army to attack! ”

"Report to the general, Xiping County battle report! General Ji Xiang led an army of 200,000 troops out of Xiping on August 20, and now has swept away more than 120,000 people from all Turkic tribes in southern Monan, and is now leading the army to the west along the Sui border to destroy all the tribes dependent on the Turks! ”

"Report, General Shi led 150,000 cavalry on the East Road has been ordered by His Majesty to go west, and is now coming west along the Gonglushui Road, and the Turks along the way are fleeing when they hear the wind, don't dare to meet them!"

People came and went in the Condor City for a while.

Although it was newly built, because the Condor City was the closest city to the Turkic tent in Mobei, Han Zigao, who was in charge of the offensive of the Xia army's northern route, took this place as his headquarters, and the whole city was crowded with Xia generals from all walks of life.

As the headquarters of Han Zigao's army, the city guard mansion is even more crowded with people, constantly sending information from all over the place, just the messengers who send orders back and forth make people feel dazzled, and the cavalry on the street is constantly bringing a sense of slaughter.

"Generals!" Han Zigao looked around majestically in the castle guard mansion, and the originally noisy atmosphere in the hall suddenly quieted down.

Han Zigao nodded secretly and continued to say in a loud voice: "The First War of the Turks is related to the changes in the situation in the whole world, and it is also related to the certificate of the knighthood of you and me in the future, and it will not be a matter of a year or two to have such a big battle after defeating the Turks this time!" ”

"So in this battle, I hope everyone will show their own skills, not only for the sake of Xia Guo, but also for everyone's reward in the future!"

"General Han, rest assured! Although we are all old guys, these cavalry under our command are young and strong young men, and it will not be difficult to deal with these Turks! Pei Jie patted his chest and assured Han Zigao.

"Yes, General Han, quickly order an attack, the other roads have already taken action, if we don't act again, I'm afraid that the battle achievements will be robbed by them in a few ways!" Fa Yan is also a little anxious, he hasn't made much credit over the years, if he delays it again this time, it will be difficult to find meritorious service in the future.

"Panic what!"

Han Zigao knew that the previous two large-scale feudal princes had made every general's eyes very hot, and he groaned and laughed, "We are more than a thousand miles south along the Suoling Water (Selenge River) next to this Condor City is the Turkic tooth tent of the Blue Khan.

As long as our army gathers here, Nadulan Khan will definitely concentrate the main force here if he wants not to lose the royal court, and the other roads are just cutting off the side branches of the Turks, and we are attacking the main force, so why can't we make a great achievement! ”

Seeing that the generals were excited but not noisy, Han Zigao also smiled with satisfaction: "It's just that when attacking Dulan Khan, Xue Yantuo, the Qigu people, and even the Western Turk Datou Khan will definitely not sit idly by, so I need someone to help contain these tribes from the west for me!" ”

Before Han Zigao's voice fell, all the generals in the room turned their attention to Yan Tieyi and Qin Han, and Yan Xiaowu and the two of them were also helpless, there was no way who let the war in the western part of Beihai led by the two of them at the beginning, and he was also the general of the Xia Army who was most familiar with the Qigu people, Xue Yantuo and other tribes.

"General Yan, General Qin, can you two have the confidence to resist the Qigu people and Xue Yantuo?" Han Zigao, who was already over the age of six, looked at the two who were also not young and asked.

"General Han rest assured!" Yan Xiaowu said, "The 100,000 sons under my command have long been looking forward to drinking the blood of the Tatars, and there are more than 200,000 Han herdsmen west of Beihai and Jianshui, these are all people who are accustomed to the battle array, and they can help!" ”

"General Han rest assured," Qin Han also smiled, "Now that our cavalry has all been equipped with muskets, although I dare not say that one will fight ten, but we can also fight five at one against the Qigu people and Turks, we are only afraid that the Qigu people will be beaten and dare not come!" ”

Hearing the assurances of the two, Han Zigao also nodded.

It is also said that after more than 20 years of research in the Xia Kingdom, the technological progress of the musket is more than a little bit? Originally, it could only shoot less than ten feet, but now there are many versions.

The very few rifles equipped by the Xia army with the longest range can reach nearly 100 zhang, and the muskets equipped with cavalry units can accurately shoot targets within 30 zhang on horseback because they must ensure that their weight is light enough.

Although the range of this short musket is still not as good as that of a strong bow, but the ability of the craftsmen on the steppe is limited, and only a few Turkic infantry bows can exceed the range of these muskets, and most of the steppe tribes still use riding bows with a range of only 20 zhang, so the range of these short guns has exceeded that of most Turkic bows and arrows.

With Yan Xiaowu and Qin Han's subordinates to protect their right flank, and Li Hongyu's subordinates to respond to their left flank on the side of the difficult water, and Ji Xiang and Shi Haiguang respectively led their troops to threaten the Turkic flank, so in the autumn and September of the 40th year of the Xia calendar, Han Zigao finally led the main force out.

From the very beginning, the main purpose of the Condor City was to serve as the forefront base for attacking the Turks, and Han Zigao led the Sixth, Second, and Ninth Armies under his command, as well as the cavalry drawn from the Guligan and other tribes around Beihai that had been completely recovered, and there were 250,000 cavalry. I love eBooks

If you want to add Yan Xiaowu and Li Hongyu's department, then Han Zigao's North Road army alone has three or four hundred thousand cavalry, and the threat to Dulan Khan is not small, this battle is a full-scale war against the Turks, after nearly twenty years of encroachment, Xia Guo no longer needs to care about the Turks' dying counterattack.

The best way to march on the steppes was still along the river, and hundreds of thousands of Xia troops marched along the Suoling River, like a powerful tribe migrating across the steppe.

"I've heard people say in the past that this desert north is a bitter cold place, and it is not suitable for us Han people to live at all, but today it is not all like this!" Fa Yan looked at the fertile land along the Suoling River and said to Pei Jie beside him, "Anyway, I look at the soil along the river here, it's quite fat!" ”

"It's a fact that Mobei is bitterly cold!" Pei Jie was covered in black armor, he withdrew his gaze from the army and turned back to Fa Yan and smiled, "But compared to the rich land of the Central Plains, of course, it is bitter cold, but compared to the land around our Xia Kingdom in Beihai, this is a good place!" ”

The nature of the Han people's agricultural civilization determined that no matter how much land they owned, their thirst for land was still endless, and although most of the area along the Suoling River was not suitable for farming, there was some land that could be cultivated for wheat.

After all these years of exploration, the Xia people have also understood that the desert grassland is not all unsuitable for the Han people, such as the Suoling River, the Egen River, and the Duluo River, which are the most suitable places to live on the grassland at any time.

Even on some alluvial plains along the river, a small amount of arable land can be reclaimed, and the harvest is more abundant than the land around the North Sea.

"That's right," Fa Yan looked at the land along the Suoling River, and then whispered to Pei Jie, "I don't know where you and my brothers will settle down in the future!" ”

"Whatever!" Pei Jie said in high spirits, "After this battle, you and I will definitely be able to divide the princes in turn, and with Your Majesty's actions over the years, we will definitely not treat you and me badly!" It's still serious to fight well! ”

"Your Majesty promised before the war that as long as you have made meritorious contributions in this war, you will take out the most fertile pasture on this prairie and reward it to the meritorious soldiers!"

When Han Zigao promulgated this order, the soldiers who were already high in war were infinitely stimulated, and the princes could not take their turn to be these soldiers, but the land and pasture in their hands were the greatest wealth, although this desert north was cold, but it was suitable for shepherding the best war horses.

The soldiers were in high spirits, but Han Zigao felt that something was wrong the more he walked.

He originally planned that Dulan Khan would inevitably have a decisive battle with him in the lower reaches of the Suoling River, but now he was only twenty or thirty miles away from the Egen Water, not to mention that the shadow of Dulan Khan was still not seen, not even the shadow of a Turkic scout.

Could it be that Dulan Khan took a detour to attack the Xia Kingdom territory behind him?

No way, Dulan Khan doesn't have that guts at all! If he had the courage to start a war with the Xia Kingdom, he would have been able to win over some Turks, Tiele people, and even other small tribes to join him, and he would not have fallen to the point where he is today.

Puzzled, Han Zigao had no choice but to slow down the march, and then released the scouts and probe horses in a large area to spy on the surrounding intelligence, but these scouts kept finding out that Dulan Khan had no possibility of setting up an ambush two hundred miles away.

What made Han Zigao even more strange was that not only did the Tanma not find the shadow of the Turkic army, but even the Turkic tribes, including other small tribes attached to the Turks, did not have any shadow, and the already sparsely populated steppe seemed even more deserted at this time.

"Report! General! ”

Just when General Han Zigao was puzzled, a group of Xia army scouts reported in from afar, "General, our department has found the whereabouts of the Turkic army at the junction of Egenshui and Duluoshui, there are about more than 100,000 cavalry!" No other tribes followed! ”

"General, General Shi's headquarters has arrived at the source of the Gonglushui River, are you waiting for General Shi to lead his troops to come and attack together?"

"Not necessarily!" Han Zigao waved his hand and said, "Dulan Khan has a total of more than 200,000 troops, and this time he actually divided half of them, and the rest is missing, but even if all his troops are pressed together, we are not afraid, not to mention that there are only more than 100,000 Turks!" ”

Speaking of this, Han Zigao shouted an order to the generals: "Since more than 100,000 Turks have been found in front, then we will deal with them!" All the army is attacking! ”

Don't blame Han Zigao for being disdainful, there is a flat river for dozens of miles on the prairie, not to mention that the Turks have no possibility of setting up an ambush, that is, the Turks have set up an ambush, and there is no double the strength of the Xia army.

So no matter what idea the Turks have, Han Zigao can guarantee that he will win absolutely, and this steppe can only have one master, and that can only be the Han people!