On the grassland, which is three days away from Dingxiang City, 80,000 elites of the royal court guarded the Turkic Jieli Khan, marching in the direction of Dingxiang.

Next to Jieli's chariot of King Khan, there were several prisoner carts, the prince of the Tang Dynasty had a single car, and the Tang envoys were divided into several cars.

Behind the army was the Turkic grain and grass troops. The grain and grass of the grassland march are different from those of Datang, the grassland does not produce grain, and grazing for a living, so the grain is mainly sheep, horses, and a small number of cattle. The march is also carried with air-dried jerky, and most of them still directly drive a large flock of sheep as military rations for war.

Of course, eating pure meat day by day will get tired, and people can't stand it, so the grassland is particularly fond of tea in the Central Plains, and even invented the local TES - oil tea and milk tea.

"Hahahaha, military advisor, I heard that Li Jing of the Tang Army arrived at Dingxiang City a few days ago, but he did not attack, waiting for Ben Khan to arrive. To say that this Tang people are brainless, there are too many rules that harm others and themselves. If it was Ben Khan, he would have broken through Dingxiang City as soon as possible. Jieli mocked Li Jing's operation.

Zhao Deyan couldn't laugh, and guessed: "Great Khan, don't underestimate Li Jing, this person has the reputation of the Tang Dynasty military god, he has been in the army for many years, and he has never tasted defeat......"

"Not a single defeat? Not necessarily. Last time, Dingxiang was guarded by him, and it wasn't broken by Ben Khan's dead soldiers? It's all bragged by the Central Plains people and deliberately scares people. Jieli was very disdainful.

Zhao Deyan didn't refute, nodded and said, "Yes, it's possible." But we can't take it lightly, Li Jing can break the decision but not break it, there must be some calculation. If I'm not mistaken, he probably wants to wait for our army to come together, and then the battle will be decided. ”

Jieli raised his eyebrows, and said in a contemptuous tone: "A battle is decided? Do you mean that his 100,000 people want to eat 200,000 warriors of my grassland? Joke! It's just that we are all unarmed, standing here and letting him kill, 100,000 is not my 200,000 opponent, let alone the battle to defend the city? ”

Zhao Deyan didn't say anything more, theoretically so, but the grassland soldiers are better at riding horses and fighting in the field, sticking to the city, I'm afraid they are not as good as the Central Plains infantry. If you simply defend the city, I am afraid that it will fall into Li Jing's calculations.

"Report, Great Khan, there is an unknown horse team twenty miles ahead, with about three thousand people." The scout general rode to report it.

Jieli and Zhao Deyan were slightly stunned, this is the territory of the grassland, where did the horse team come from? The grassland gathers generals to recruit troops, the royal court moves the fastest, and the soldiers and horses of other tribes are still slowly gathering behind, where is the horse team in front? Three thousand? Did Dingxiang City come out to greet you? It's not nonsense.

"Go, find out the identity of the other party immediately, and slow down."

Half an hour later, the scout general turned back at a faster pace to report.

"Report! Oh no, big sweat, no, yes, yes, it's Xiao, Xiao, Xiao Rui...... Xiao Rui is alive, Xiao Rui is alive......"

Well???

Who? Xiao Rui?

Jieli and Zhao Deyan glanced at each other, and at the same time showed a puzzled expression, what? Wasn't Xiao Rui hidden as a killer? Showing up at this time?

"Rubbish! Just a Xiao Rui scares you like this? Xiao Rui is dead, and it is impossible to come back to life. Explain what you see? Jieli scolded.

The scout general froze, swallowed his saliva, and said with fear: "Great Khan, the banner is correct, it says Tang Dynasty champion Hou and Xiao, by the way, there is also the banner of the Tang Xuanjia Army, and there are two general banners, Zhai and Zhang." ”

Zhao Deyan was surprised: "Xuanjia Army? ”

Jie Li asked curiously: "Is it the legendary Xuanjia Army?" ”

Zhao Deyan nodded, "It should be." In that year, the Tang Dynasty and the Great Xia Dou Jiande fought against each other, and the Xuanjia Army created a myth of 3,000 breaking 100,000. Later, the commander of the Xuanjia Army became the emperor, and the actual commanders of the Xuanjia Army were Zhang Shigui and Zhai Changsun. ”

Hiss...... 3,000 to 100,000? What a big name.

"Strategist, is the Xuanjia Army really that powerful?"

After pondering for a moment, Zhao Deyan shook his head and said, "Three points are true and seven points are false." At that time, the Xuanjia Army was strong, and many of the founding generals of the Tang Dynasty were compiling. Although the opponent has 100,000, it is not elite, and it is all infantry, so it is not surprising that the Xuanjia Army has achieved extraordinary results. But now it is not necessarily, those fierce generals all led the army alone, and the Xuanjia Army did not have a strong backbone of fierce generals. If it is against our grassland cavalry, hehe, we are not the group of straw bales under Dou Jiande. ”

"Don't say 100,000, 30,000 and they will have a hard time."

Thirty thousand???

Jieli's face is not very good-looking, my royal court guards are also elite, and they are the elite of the elite in the Turks, how can they compare with the Tang Xuanjia Army, and they have to be ten to one? Is the gap so big?

Narrator: I'm sorry, but that's the big gap. The strength of the Xuanjia Army can be ranked in the top five in history. It's not just personal combat power, it's more from equipment bonuses. The Xuanjia Army is a heavy cavalry, which is almost equivalent to the existence of invincible tanks on the ancient battlefield.

Although the steppe cavalry was skilled in bows and horses, they were poorly equipped and had almost no armor, most of which were covered by animal skins, and their defense was extremely poor.

The soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty are different, even the infantry is wearing armor, the difference is leather armor, iron armor, paper armor, fish scale armor, Mingguang armor and so on. If the ancient arrows did not hit the vital point, generally an arrow was not fatal, and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could still fight with arrows all over their bodies, but the Turkic soldiers could not.

Because the Tang soldiers were wearing armor, the arrows did not penetrate deep into the flesh, and they seemed to be full of arrows, but in fact, they were mostly slightly injured.

History records that in the Battle of Xiaoshang Bridge in the Song Dynasty, the famous general Yang Zaixing led 300 soldiers and horses, fought against the Jin army of 10,000 people, killed more than 2,000 enemies, and finally died of exhaustion. Later, the Jin army burned the corpse and burned as many as two liters of arrows on General Yang's body. It shows that the arrows do little damage to the people wearing armor.

Getting back to the point, when they heard the name of the Tang Xuanjia Army, the Turks didn't react so strongly. But when he heard the name of Xiao Rui's Tang Dynasty champion Hou, in addition to Jieli and Zhao Deyan, the guards and elites around him were all in an uproar.

Xiao Rui's name was too big, and 3,000 people killed the Turks and wiped out the nobles of the royal court. One person killed into the army of ten thousand, captured the military division Zhao Deyan, and finally left intact. It can be said that you can come and go as you want, and no one can stop you. Such a character, we don't want to fight with him.

Zhao Deyan scolded: "Confused! Xiao Rui has died a long time ago, but the Xuanjia Army came out to scare people under the pretense of Xiao Rui's banner. The whole army is on alert, and the forward general personally goes to meet the other party for a while, and 3,000 people block the road? Do you want to intercept and kill the elite of our royal court? Pipe dream. ”

As soon as this statement came out, it really worked, and many people believed Zhao Deyan, it turned out to be just Xiao Rui's banner.

The forward general stiffened his head and led 10,000 forwards to meet the Xuanjia Army.

The imaginary charge did not take place, but the Xuanjia Army sent a team of small flags and sent a letter of worship.

"Report, the Xuanjia Army sent a letter of worship to the Great Khan."