A few days later, under the city of Dingxiang, the Tang army camped.

"Report, big handsome, caught a small work, sneakily pretending to be a shepherd, and we found it and captured it."

Li Jing put down the military newspaper in his hand, got up and walked over, and carefully observed this meticulous work dressed as a shepherd, with a sturdy figure and the appearance of a Turkic person, although he was wearing the clothes of the Tang people, but that temperament could not deceive people.

Such a simple scout is meticulous, any Tang Army soldier can see through it, Jieli is not stupid enough to use such a person, right?

"You're not a scout, you must have come on purpose to find Ben Shuai. Say, what did Jieli ask you to find Ben Shuai? Li Jing stared at the other party majestically and asked.

The other party was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed and explained: "Hui, Hui Dashuai, the villain is not Jieli's subordinate." The villain was sent by the Turki chief. ”

Tuli? Li Jing was a little curious, and immediately started a war, what did the Turks send people to do?

At this time, Na Xiaozuo reached into his arms to take out something, and was held down by the guards on both sides, "Be honest! Don't move...... Be careful, it could be an assassin. ”

"The villain is not an assassin, the villain is a messenger, and he sent a letter to the commander of the Tang Army on the order of the Tuli patriarch. The epistle was in his bosom, sewn into his clothes. ”

Soon, a sheepskin with Chinese characters written on it was found.

After reading it, Li Jing ignored the content of the letter, and asked the man with great interest: "Tell me, Jieli has been in Dingxiang for ten days, how many people have you gathered?" What is the battle plan? ”

The man hesitated for a moment, then replied: "Now there are still the northernmost Hui tribes that have not yet arrived, and the other Turkic subordinates have arrived, with 170,000 soldiers and horses. As for the battle plan, the villain doesn't know, don't say it's a villain as a guard, even our Tuli patriarch doesn't know, Jieli is on guard everywhere, no, squeezing our patriarch everywhere, and not letting us contact the secrets of the army at all. ”

Li Jing was shocked: "Really? But Ben Shuai heard that Jieli and Tuli are uncles and nephews, and they have a close relationship. When the Turki tribe invaded my Tang Youzhou, Jieli also raised troops to help in the war, so good, how could they be guarded against everywhere? ”

"Dashuai, this person must have bad intentions, it's better to kill him!" Sima in the army next to him suggested.

Li Jing waved his hand, "Yes, let's kill it." ”

The man was so frightened that he softened and shouted loudly: "Dashuai, the villain's words are true, Jieli is afraid of our patriarch, afraid that our Tuli clan will seize the throne, and the day before yesterday he whipped our patriarch in public, and he couldn't get out of bed for three days, and he wanted to take away the military power of our patriarch......"

"Dashuai, our Tuli clan is sincere to vote for Datang, you must believe it......"

Wait!

Li Jing waved his hand to stop, walked into the scout, and said jokingly: "Go back and tell you the Tuli patriarch that if you want to make Ben Shuai believe him, you can accept a vote." There is no evidence, and Ben Shuai can't believe him. ”

Yes?

The scout said in his heart, our Tuli patriarch has been beaten so much that he doesn't dare to touch the ground, can't he believe it?

"The handsome forgiveness, the villain is not familiar with Tang, I don't know, I don't know what the name is?"

Li Jing was almost amused, thought for a while and said: "Let the Turks send a detailed Turkic defense map, and Ben Shuai believes that he is really taking refuge in Datang." ”

"If not, let's fight together, don't blame Ben Shuai for being ruthless, even your Tuli clan will clean up together! ! ”

The man fled in embarrassment, and Sima of the Chinese army whispered: "Dashuai, Tuli is the main tribe of the Turks, with a strength of fifty or sixty thousand. But his subordinates always feel that it is not right, Tuli and Jieli are just fighting for the throne, is it worth Tuli to be forced to Turkic and serve the Tang Dynasty? ”

Li Jing smiled, "Do you think Ben Shuai will believe it?" Let's see what tricks they want to play. ”

Sima asked, "Then what if Tuli really got the defense map?" ”

Li Jing pondered for a moment and said: "Send someone to inquire about the situation in Dingxiang City, if Tuli really breaks with Jieli, this time is just right, not that you can't take advantage of it." ”

"Order!"

In Dingxiang City, Tuli lay on the bed and scolded Jieli hatefully. The scout came back and told him about the petition.

Tu Li scolded: "Tang Li Jing is not a good thing, this king once had a very good relationship with the current emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and spitting is a nail, he doesn't trust it?" If it weren't for the lack of strength, how would he have voted with him? If this king is the Great Khan of the Turks......"

Speaking of this, Tuli felt a pain in his heart. At this time and then, people have to bow their heads under the low eaves.

In Dingxiang, it can't be mixed, Jieli is running everywhere, if you stay any longer, it will obviously be sent to the front by Jieli to die.

"The defense map of Dingxiang City? So, is Li Jing trying to attack the city? Hmph, it is rumored that Li Jing is the god of the Tang Dynasty, but now it seems that it is nothing more than that. Although we Turks are not good at defending the city, we have a large number of soldiers and horses, and the Tang army is less than 100,000. Can you take it? ”

The subordinate asked in a low voice: "Patriarch, what about this name defense map?" To give it back or not to give it back? ”

Tuli smiled, "Give, of course." He thought this thing was important, but in fact, what about the defense in the city? If you can't attack it, what's the use of having a map? ”

"Then if the Tang army is defeated by then, won't we be ......," the subordinate worried.

Tuli nodded: "So, this Dingxiang City can't stay for a long time." In the past two days, I have to find a reason to take our people out and let Jieli and Li Jing fight to the death. It's better if both sides lose, and our Turki tribe retreats with all their bodies......"

The subordinate praised: "The patriarch is smart, when the time comes, we can destroy Jieli, then we are the biggest force in the steppe, and you are the Khan of the Turks!" ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Tuli asked people to draw pictures, and he sent another cronie to keep an eye on the military newspaper to see if there was any suitable opportunity to sneak out.

Coincidentally, perhaps because of the luck of Tuli, the intelligence from Shanxi sent over, saying that Xiao Rui took the Xuanjia army and joined Li Ji, the governor of Bingzhou, and prepared to send troops from Yunzhou to invade the Turkic rear.

The Tang Dynasty soldiers are divided into two routes, so we Turks have to divide our troops to deal with it. So Jieli held a meeting to discuss who would resist the state army and the Xuanjia army.

Xiao Rui?

As soon as I heard that it was Xiao Rui's name, the generals and patriarchs of the Turkic side all shrank back, and no one wanted to confront Xiao Rui.

Zhao Deyan explained: "According to intelligence, Li Ji's Bingzhou army is insufficient, only 30,000 main forces. ”

Qi Bi He Li said with a sad face: "Military advisor, why don't you talk about the Xuanjia Army led by Xiao Rui?" No one is afraid of Li Ji, but they just don't want to fight with Xiao Rui, that person is too ......."

This goods is also fateful, last time he acted as a dead soldier to recapture Dingxiang, rescued the Turkic prince, and survived by luck, Jieli left him alive. It's good today, do you owe it? Everyone doesn't break it, you speak first?

Jieli scolded: "What is too much? Idiot, a dead man scares you like this? ”

"Dead people?" The crowd was puzzled.

Zhao Deyan hurriedly explained, it was still the same set of stand-in rhetoric. Among them, the main force of Wang Ting is unbelievable, and last time I saw Xiao Rui with the Xuanjia Army. The other tribes believed, and reluctantly raised a glimmer of faith.

But the Tang Xuanjia Army is not easy to gnaw, the legend says that 3,000 can break 100,000, and none of us can beat it alone, right?

At this time, the wounded little Khan of Tuli stood up, "Great Khan, Tuli is willing to go, isn't it the 30,000 state army and the 3,000 Xuanjia army?" Tuli promised to block them and never let them step into the grassland! ”

Everyone looked at this one, and cast a look of admiration, he is a fierce man, Xiao Rui, you are not afraid?

Tuli really wants to explain to you that I may be more afraid of staying in Dingxiang and being killed by Jieli than facing Xiao Rui.