Xuan Ting was in the north, and he encountered the famous king of Qilian City, the famous king of Linqiang City, and the nomadic tribal king in the Datong Mountain area.

Among them, Linqiang City, located in Xiping County, was established at the beginning of the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and has always been the key road for the Central Plains region to go west out of Qinghai.

Before Yang Ming's army marched out, the entire Xiping County except for Huangshui County was occupied by Tuguhun because the rivers in the territory were crisscrossed, and the pastures were rich and suitable for grazing.

But right now, Shi Wansui has been ordered to clean up Xiping County, all the Tuguhun tribes will be driven out, as soon as the banner of the Taiping Duke arrives, the main force has gone to chase Xuanting's Linqiang City, surrendered without a fight, and asked to be attached to the Great Sui, but Shi Wansui did not agree, let them leave the Sui realm immediately.

Six days after Shi Wansui arrived in Xiping County, the two counties and one city in the territory all fell into the hands of the Great Sui.

At this time, Xuan Ting had successfully joined Gao Yin's department and fled all the way to the northwest along Qilian Mountain.

When they arrived at the Shule River, they found that the pursuers behind the buttocks were gone, Xuan Ting was not at ease, and sent a hundred horsemen to check behind, and finally found that the pursuers were indeed gone.

He was a little confused, not knowing what was going on.

In fact, Qilian City and Linqiang City were lost one after another, and the nest of the two cavalry chasing him was equivalent to being ended, so they rushed back to help, and the remaining famous king of Datong Mountain only had 2,000 horsemen, and Xuan Ting now had more than 3,000 horsemen, and the number of them was already superior, so they felt that the situation was not right, and they also withdrew.

"Give up the pursuit under such an advantage, I'm afraid that there will be changes in the rear, after we have a rest, it's best to go back to check, maybe there is something moving on Zhangye's side," Gao Yin didn't think that a second son like Xuan Ting would take the risk to come to the rescue, and his impression of Xuan Ting in his heart was greatly impressed,

In the army, righteousness is very important, and those who are not righteous will be scolded and even killed directly.

Yang Suzhi is like this, greedy for life and afraid of the dead, don't go to the battlefield to die, I'll send you away first.

Xuan Ting nodded: "There must be a situation in the back, otherwise they won't all withdraw, look at the flag, it should belong to three departments, can you be sure?" ”

At this time, the guide placed by Pei Ju's side nodded and said:

"It can be determined, it should be the Qilian City Department, the Linqiang City Department and the Datong Mountain Department, these three tribes, with the strongest Linqiang City Department, there are about seven or eight thousand cavalry troops, maybe more, looking at the situation in the past few days, there is obviously no tacit understanding between the three families, it can be seen that after discovering our whereabouts, we rushed to send troops."

"If these three departments are fully recruited, how many people will there be?" Staff member Sun Kai asked.

The guide said: "The three divisions plus the Tuolai River Division, which is the northern four divisions of Tuguhun King City, should be about forty or fifty thousand people if they are full of soldiers, but half of them must be composed of herdsmen, and the combat effectiveness is worrying, so when we encounter most of the people, we can fight instead, if it is a small group of elites, it is the most difficult to fight." ”

"I understand, it's not too expensive, it's not easy to control when there are too many people, not to mention that there are herdsmen who are not good at fighting," Yang Xuanting then inquired about the material situation, and then, under the guidance of the guide, planned to go to the lower reaches of the Shule River to rob some tribes, replenish food and drink, and then go east.

Tuguhun is limited by geographical conditions, although he has been vigorously trading or smuggling with the Great Sui to obtain the necessary materials for life and production, but the gains are limited after all, so their troops are not high in armor, and the toughness of the armor stomach is not as strong as that of the Great Sui, but in flexibility.

If there is a head-on contact, the Sui army is obviously stronger than Tuguhun, especially the cavalry army under Xuan Ting, which is an ordnance war horse replenished from his own pocket, and his combat effectiveness is even stronger.

A total of 4,000 people were gathered, and it took six or seven hundred miles to fight and kill before they lost 1,000, and among these thousand, at least one or two hundred people were scattered, and the main force was basically retained.

Robbery is bound to kill, if it is in the territory of the Great Sui, even if Xuan Ting dares to rob the people, he will definitely not dare to kill, but in Tuguhun, he has no scruples.

After plundering several tribes along the way, replenishing seventy horses, and enough dried meat and drinking water, Xuan Ting began to return in the direction of Fuyuan River.

At the same time, the pursuit of Xuan Ting's pulling wood shot, with 1,600 horsemen, rushed back to Qilian City to rescue, when he arrived, only to know that his father had been lost and hung up.

Wang Shuo didn't know that night's chase and killing killed the king of Qilian City, because when the famous king ran, he was wearing the clothes of an ordinary soldier.

Under the fury of the wood shooting, he began to recruit all the tribal men belonging to Qilian City in the upper reaches of the Haokan River, and five days later, he brought 10,000 cavalry to the city.

The offensive and defensive translocation, this time it was replaced by Wang Shuo to defend the city.

But Wang Shuo is not stubborn, this kid has read military books, originally illiterate, but he was trained by He Ruobi to read military books.

So he ordered the east gate to be opened and the people were driven out of the city, and many of the people in the city were family members of the soldiers under his command, so they did not dare to do it.

The first batch of 2,000 people were expelled, and when there was chaos outside the city, Wu Jinglong led a thousand elite cavalry to kill from inside the city, and after tearing a defensive line, he ran away.

This is the most terrifying, because in this way, he can't concentrate on attacking the city, and he has to pay attention to Wu Jinglong to kill a horse gun at any time.

And at this time, the old lady and his wife and children who pulled out the wood were also taken to the city wall by Wang Shuo, and the intention was obvious, if you dare to attack the city, I will kill your wife and children.

He was also a ruthless man, and he directly ordered the siege of the city, and he didn't care about the life or death of his wife and children.

Wang Shuo also admired this kid's ruthlessness, but he didn't kill anyone, Pei Ju confessed, women and children, if they can, they won't move.

So he threw down the beams, pillars, wood, furniture, and other flammable materials that had been removed from the houses in the city earlier, and threw them down the city wall.

Try it, just try it.

The ladder has already begun to be attached to the wall.

Don't think that people are so backward that they can't even use the ladder to climb the wall, they are the neighbors of Dasui, and they have learned a lot of things, and they understand smelting and casting, let alone climbing the ladder.

Wang Shuo gave an order, and the oil was poured down, and then it was ignited with an arrow, and in an instant, black smoke rose everywhere, and the flames rose high, burning many people to death.

The smoke and fire were so smoky that they couldn't climb the wall, so they had to order the siege troops to withdraw and wait for the fire to finish before passing.

Behind him, Wu Jinglong frequently attacked and swept, annoyed, and in a fit of rage, he simply allocated two thousand horsemen to be responsible for driving and chasing.

Wang Shuo's side, just like this, there are still a lot of flammable materials stored on the city wall, as long as it can be delayed until the evening, it will be easy.

At night, Wang Shuo sent the hussar general Yang Wengan, who also drove the people, and then led a thousand horsemen to attack and disturb the army outside the city.

And Wang Shuo directly opened the north city gate and invited you into the urn.

He knew that there was a deception, but how could he let go of such a good opportunity, so he ordered a general under his command to lead the cavalry to enter through the north city gate.

On the city wall, arrows shot down.

After entering the city from the north city, it was a straight main road, leading to the south gate, and after the Tuguhun cavalry entered the city, they did not notice any movement at first, until about five hundred horsemen entered, and the cavalry was instantly encountered by a rain of arrows on the low houses on both sides of the road.

For a time, people turned over on their backs, and the most serious thing was the city gate, which was basically shot clean by the crossbow arrows on the city wall and the houses, and even the people and horses were shot.

At this moment, the corpse blocked the city gate, and the cavalry behind could not enter, so they could only dismount and rush inside.

And the Mo knife men who had been ambushed in the surrounding alleys for a long time were also surrounded and launched the most tragic street fighting.

Later that night, the war was over.

Although the troops attacking the north gate retreated, the gate was also rotten and blocked by the piles of corpses.

In the battle in the first half of the night, the Great Sui suffered very few losses, only 70 people were killed, and 500 enemy troops were annihilated.

After resting for half the night, early the next morning, the wood shot continued to attack the city.

At this time, Yang Xuanting was already less than a hundred miles away from Qilian City.

When Xuan Ting received the battle report of the scouts in front, he did not hesitate to lead the main force of this cavalry army and quickly rushed to Qilian City.

At noon that day, he also knew that there were troops behind him, and the siege situation was not ideal, and there were a lot of losses, in this case, he could only withdraw.

As soon as he retreated, the experienced Wang Shuo immediately reorganized the army, ordered the remaining 1,000 horsemen to go out of the city, and pursued them.

All of a sudden, another big scuffle unfolded.

There were 3,000 Xuan Ting, 1,000 Wu Jinglong, 1,000 Changyang Wengan, and 1,000 Wang Lian, a total of 6,000 horsemen, running back and forth to kill, tearing at the defense line of pulling wood and shooting.

In the evening, more than 2,000 remnants of the wood pulling fire fled to the west.

In this battle, 4,600 horses were captured and more than 3,000 people were captured.

Yang Xuanting's troops, the cavalry army instantly expanded to 10,600, Yang Ming gave him the order at the beginning, that is, to prepare the military horses by himself, and now, he has made all the preparations.

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As for the 3,000 captives, plus the family scrolls of the King of Qilian City, they will be escorted to Zhangye and handed over to Pei Ju to deal with.

Generally, after capturing foreign captives, the Great Sui either engaged in farming on the border or went to the Central Plains as slaves, and generally with these two options, the captives would also be incorporated into the army under special circumstances.

When he fled to the upper reaches of the Haokan River, the southern foot of Che I Zhen Mountain, and temporarily rested, he met Shi Wanbao's 5,000 elite horsemen.

Only Bamu Shot and more than 40 people of his own clan escaped from the siege and fled to the direction of Wangcheng.

At this point, the Qilian City Department of the four northern parts of Tuguhun was wiped out.

Because transportation was not developed in ancient times, and the means of communication were not developed, Yang Ming, who was in the rear, could not accurately grasp the changes in the war.

What he and Gao Gong can do is actually only strategic planning, and the specific implementation depends on the generals in front.

Pei Ju and Gao Gong were eyeing Qilian City at the same time, which was the unification of strategic intentions, so what Yang Xuanting had to do next was to go south to harass the Datong Mountain tribe and clear the obstacles to the westward exit of Shi Wansui's main force in Xiping County.

And the famous king who lost Linqiang City, after learning that it was the famous Shi Wansui who occupied Linqiang City, did not dare to enter Xiping County at all, but urgently took the tribal herdsmen to migrate to Datong Mountain in the west.

And to the southwest of Datong Mountain, is the Tuguhun King City.