The army continued to advance, and two days later it was convenient for the scouts sent by Li Jing to meet.

The scout said to Gao Fuji: "Generalissimo, the Grand Governor has led us to explore the Evil Sun Ridge twice, and now that the coalition forces have dispersed, there are now less than 40,000 horses and horses in the Turkic Great Tent, and there are more than 100,000 herdsmen. ”

Gao Buer nodded and asked, "How is the Turkic disaster?" ”

"The chief manager found my Tang merchant who was stranded in the Turks, and asked carefully, and now the Turks have two meals a day have become a problem, eat

Food was given priority to men and children, many of the elderly Turks starved to death, and we encountered many abandoned corpses along the way. ”

Gao Buer asked the scout to go down, and called Chai Shao and Xu Shiji to discuss: "Now we are still about twenty days away from the Evil Yang Ridge, and Jieli's big tent is still there, with less than 40,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of herdsmen, how about I let Li Jing attack and explore the truth?" ”

Naturally, the two of them have no opinion. Gao Buer said: "Okay, now give Li Jing an order to let him test it, Xu Shiji will give you 10,000 fine horses, you take a detour to secretly attack Baidao, if Jieli loses and flees north, Baidao is a must-pass place." At the same time, he ordered Xue Wanche to immediately set off from the moraine and rush to Baidao to join your troops. ”

Xu Shiji took the order and left, Gao Buer asked the scout to pass the order to Li Jing, and then continued to lead the army forward with Chai Shao.

Li Jing was overjoyed after receiving Gao Buer's order, for a few days he had already found out the truth of Jieli, and had been thinking about attacking, but the army did not arrive, and he was afraid of rashly marching for fear of being besieged, and now the army was on the side, and after receiving Gao Buer's order, Li Jing immediately attacked the Turkic camp at night.

Jie Li, who was asleep, was shocked, and regardless of the concubine in his arms, he lifted the blanket and pulled out the saber and ran out of the tent and said, "What happened?" ”

"Great Khan, just now a small group of Tang troops attacked the camp, and they have been repelled by General Ashina Simo, and General Ashina Simo has already led his troops to pursue the Tang army."

Jieli said in a deep voice: "You immediately go to chase Ashina Simo, just say what I said, let him stop chasing him, and immediately rush back to the big tent." ”

The guards took the order and left, and at dawn, Ashnasimo led the army back to the Turkic tent to meet Jieli.

Jieli asked, "How many men are there in that Tang army?" Where did it go? ”

"Back to the Great Khan, the Tang army was only about 3,000, and his subordinates chased them all the way to the foot of Yin Mountain, and they came back after receiving the order of the Great Han."

"What do you think is the purpose of the Tang Army's small group of men and horses?"

"My subordinates thought that it should be the stubborn emperor of the Tang Dynasty who sent troops to repay the resentment of my army going south before

Showing off their might. ”

Jieli nodded, from his heart, he didn't believe that Li Er, who was slaughtered by himself, only four years later, he had the strength to dare to launch a decisive battle against himself, it is estimated that he went south last time and returned in vain, and now the Turks have encountered a snow disaster, and they want to vent their anger, so they sent a small group of people to vent their anger.

Jieli said: "Send people to pay close attention to the movements of this small Tang army, the New Year is coming soon, and the winter will pass soon, and we will immediately go south in the spring, and we are teaching the emperor of the Tang Dynasty a lesson." ”

Hearing this, Ashnasimo and the other Turkic nobles in the tooth tent all laughed.

But the next thing made Jieli quickly unable to go on, in less than a month, the small Tang army actually harassed the Turkic tent no less than seven times, if there was no large army on the side, this Tang army would not be self-defeating.

While Jieli was anxiously waiting for the military situation, a worse news came belatedly, the Tang army Xu Shiji attacked Baikou, and the moraine was also taken by Xue Wanche, and now the two of them joined forces and were coming towards the Evil Yang Ridge. At the same time, a large force of Tang troops appeared nearby, with no less than 70,000 people, and Jieli was shocked, and immediately evacuated from Evil Yang Ridge and went to Dingxiang.

At this time, Li Jing had already met Gao Buji, and it was snowing heavily, and Jieli, who had fled to Dingxiang, thought that he could finally take a breath. However, Gao Buer let Li Jing lead his men and horses to attack Dingxiang at night, and the panicked Jieli left a large number of people behind and fled west to Tieshan with the remnants.

In order to give himself a chance to breathe, in the first month of the second year, Jieli, who had stabilized his foothold in Tieshan, sent his brother Zhili Khan as an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, like Li Shimin expressed his willingness to attach. wants to exchange this for Li Er's withdrawal of troops and drag it out until the spring of next year.

The sudden arrival of the Turkic envoys surprised Li Erjunchen, but now that the Tang army has attacked and is victorious, where will Li Er easily change his strategy, so he played a trick for Jieli Jiang Gan to steal books, he agreed to the Turkic attachment wish, and also sent an envoy headed by Zhang Jian to follow Zhiwei Sili to see Jieli, and on the other hand, he sent someone to tell Gao Buer about his strategy to confuse Jieli, so that he could seize the fighter.

At this time, Jieli in Tieshan has gathered seventy or eighty thousand horses, but the battlefield was lost a while ago, most of the people were lost, so many people together the supply problem is still not solved, I heard that Datang has agreed to his request, Zhi Sili has brought the Tang envoys to Tieshan, his heart is determined, he is secretly preparing two months later, that is, after the beginning of spring, to go south.

At this time, Gao Buer had already joined forces with Xue Wanche and Xu Shiji, and the number of men and horses reached 70,000, plus the auxiliary soldiers and Li Daozong, who was rushing in the starry night, there were 200,000 people in total, which can be said to be in full swing.

Gao Buer held a pre-military meeting in a large tent outside Dingxiang City.