The main cavalry of the royal court was defeated, and many tribes no longer followed in his footsteps, and scattered in the grassland, and they would definitely become prisoners of the Tang cavalry, and might even be picked up by those dirty horse thieves.

It scared him.

One moment he became the king of the whole world, and the next moment he was shot through the cheek by a dark arrow on the way to the throne, and the blood flowed uncontrollably, and it was ugly - it was difficult for anyone to accept the fact that his faith and ambition were crushed together, and they could not be broken again.

It scared him.

What scared him the most was that when he watched tens of thousands of wild horses come in the morning glow and watched those magical things happening in front of him, he realized that all these years of high spirits and the ambition of riding horses in the Central Plains were actually a scam - this was the bureau of the academy and the bureau of that person.

A few years ago, the Xiling Temple negotiated peace with the Tang Kingdom, and the Golden Horde Court obtained the greatest benefits from it, whether it was the cession to the Late Plains or the handing over of the war horse, no matter how you look at it, it was a leather cord around the neck of the Tang State - now it seems that this is a move by the Tang State to show weakness and induce the royal court to take the risk of raising the clan south.

"Rather lacking, rather lacking, rather lacking......"

He silently recited the name, many times, over and over again.

He didn't understand - this bureau of the academy was actually very risky, if there was a slight problem, the steppe cavalry could whip south and sweep across the Central Plains, then why did the academy do this?

In addition to exterminating the Golden Horde, what other purpose was there for the Tang State to take such a risk?

When did the academy become so cold-blooded?

What is the deep hatred between Mr. Thirteen, named Ning Que, and himself?

Shan Yu thought about it for a long time. The mood gradually became calmer.

He has eloquence and strategy, although he was defeated by the Tang people outside the valley river, and even saw the true picture of the abyss of destruction, but he is a great man after all, how can he be willing?

Calm again, he decided to take an adventure.

Since the Tang people can set up a situation, they can endure for three years, and they can take risks to become immortal.

Why can't he take risks, why can't he succeed?

He believes. Changshengtian did not abandon himself.

It didn't take long. The respected old man in the clan, Ada and General, and the high priest who was the representative of the national teacher all came to his room and saw Shan Yu's silent back facing the sand table.

Shan Yu pointed to an inconspicuous small city on the sand table and said calmly: "I know that many people in the Tang people and tribes think that this war is over. The battle that day was a decisive battle. But I don't think so. This is the earthen city under our feet, and it is also the place of my choice for the decisive battle. “

No one understood what he meant, and Wang Ting was far from being an opponent of the Tang Kingdom. Even if you want to fight to the death, how can the other party give yourself a chance, in other words, where does the royal court have the qualifications?

"Tang people...... In other words, the purpose of the academy is to destroy the tribe, they want to kill us, and our goal now is to break away from the pursuit of the Tang people and return to our hometown. ”

"We don't have food or grass. ”

"There are some in the Seven Cities, and I have already sent Su Yong to transfer them. ”

"There's not enough food and grass to support us back. ”

"Hundreds of thousands of people are naturally not enough, but if only 30,000 people go, it is still enough. ”

"The Tang people will always follow us. ”

"So we need a victory, a decisive victory that will confuse the Dons, and only in that case will we be able to keep the last flame of the tribe. ”

Shan Yu looked at the flat field on the sand table and the seven walled cities above that echoed each other, and said after a moment of silence: "Xu Chi wants to kill us, so he can only gather troops to push north in a line, the formation can't be too thick, if there are 10,000 horsemen to break through the middle belly line and kill to the northern camp, or even further south...... Do you think the Tang Kingdom will be in turmoil, and what will be the Academy's reaction?"

General Loeb said: "The main force of the Tang Army will arrive tomorrow morning, and Xu Chi will not make such a mistake." ”

"Of course, the best player in the world would not make such a mistake, but that was before...... Just as this king would not have made the mistake of marching with all his troops before. ”

Shan Yu shook his head and said: "I didn't see through the bureau set up by the academy, and Xu Chi had to follow the path of the academy, because the academy wanted all of us to die, so he could only do so." ”

The room was silent, and everyone felt that it was inappropriate: Shan Yu's decision was not a risk, it was a crazy gamble - no, not even gambling - it was more like turning around and shouting angrily and helplessly before the abyss of despair, even if Xu Chi really put the Tang army's formation in the shape of the most easily chiseled line, even if Duo'er Qi could really break through to the south, it would not be able to change the whole situation.

Ah Da's eyes lit up, and he fully understood what Shan Yu meant. Shan Yu didn't want to win at all, he just wanted to take away more than 20,000 elite horsemen, so if he lost this war, he couldn't let Tang Guo get his wish, and after he recuperated and recuperated, he could win the whole world again.

Loeb was silent for a moment and then said, "I'll go." ”

No one fought with him, because this was not a battle feat, nor a martyr's court, but a cold realistic consideration, neither Ata nor those priests were generals who could command a large number of cavalry.

The high priest said, "The National Teacher will join us to escort Shan Yu to his original place. ”

Ah Da didn't say anything, he knew the role he was going to play, when that Duo'er rode through the Tang army's defense line and entered the southern grassland or even near the northern camp to burn and loot without anyone expecting it, the Tang army would pursue the royal court where Shan Yu was located at the fastest speed - the fastest speed requires the nearest distance, and the closest distance is a straight line, which seems to be the truth from the academy.

The royal court wanted to return north from Weicheng, and the Tang people wanted to pursue from Weicheng.

What he had to do was to stay on the only street in Weicheng.

Ah Da bowed to Shan Yu, turned away, walked into the street, pushed open an old shop in the dust, sat down at the table, and never left.

The rest of the people left the room one after another, and began to prepare for the escape and the south.

After the national teacher knew Shan Yu's plan, he naturally had to make corresponding arrangements.

People go to empty houses. Alone outside the steering window. Looking at the bright moon in the night sky, from those warm and loving radiance, it seems to gain some kind of strength.

After the slaughter of Weicheng, most of the houses were uninhabitable, and the grassland people were also used to living in tents outside the city.

He didn't know who this small courtyard used to belong to, and he didn't know who used to belong to this Weicheng, so he didn't know. Why did that man have to kill him—if he knew that the Immortal Heaven had also lived here for many years. Or maybe his thoughts will be more different.

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The battle that took place on the grassland outside the valley river was the most spectacular and tragic cavalry war in the whole thousand years since the Tang State defeated the barren people.

The number of cavalry of the Golden Horde court participating in this war exceeded the number of cavalry of the Tang army. Moreover, the cavalry of the Tang Army rarely conducted cavalry training in these years. So logically speaking. The royal court had the upper hand, but the Tang army won the final victory, especially before the Zhenbei army appeared in ambush on both sides. The cavalry of the vanguard battalion stubbornly blocked the royal cavalry that was surging like a tide, and that was because the Tang army had more breath than the royal cavalry.

In the spring wind of the grassland, the Tang army brandished the Pu knife and silently hacked one enemy after another, and those wild horses stepped on the wild flowers and grass clippings, galloping recklessly, and even learned from the Tang army's appearance, and bullied the grassland horses of the royal court to the extreme embarrassment.

The Battle of the Valley River is destined to remain on the magnificent historical picture, and in hindsight, this cavalry war may not be regarded as the final battle of the whole world, but it is definitely the most important war.

After winning this war, even if the Golden Horde Court still has the strength to fight again, there is no way to pose any threat to the foundation of the Tang Kingdom, and more intuitively, even if the Golden Horde Court exerts its full strength after that day, there is no way to let the Tang Kingdom perish.

For the whole world, more importantly, the Tang State has solved the great trouble that has been in the north for many years, and now the monarchs and ministers in Chang'an City can invest all their spirit and resources in the south, if they can preemptively settle the situation before the Daomen resolves the internal disputes, Momoyama will face unimaginable pressure.

A few days later, Situ Yilan came to the front line of the Seven Cities with the cavalry of the vanguard battalion, and at this time, she and all the Tang troops had confirmed the victory, but they wanted to win a greater victory.

During this period of time, the personal soldiers of the Beida Battalion and a certain unit of the Western Army that was quietly transferred from the Green Ridge to this half a year ago, fought for heavy sacrifices, biting the Golden Horde royal court cavalry like wolves, and refused to let go even if they were covered in blood, and the royal court cavalry, which has always been known for its flexibility and mobility, was slowed down to retreat north, and only entered the front line of the Seven Cities Walled City yesterday, and was caught up by the main force of the Tang Army.

Under such circumstances, the steppe cavalry who had retreated to the Seven Walled Cities did not dare to leave the walled city and march towards the grassland, because that would be tantamount to handing over their backs to those terrible Tang people - even the Duo'er Cavalry who had camped in Weicheng did not dare to do so - which would inevitably mean destruction.

More than 100,000 remnants of the grassland cavalry, with the help of the Seven Cities Walled Quarters, tried to temporarily stabilize the situation, and after forming a confrontation, they found time to retreat, get rid of the pursuit of the Tang army, and fled into the depths of the grassland.

However, those tribes who are still holding on to the luck mentality have no idea that Shan Yu has made a cold-blooded and only correct decision, he will use these tribal cavalry to attract the main force of the Tang army, try to thin the formation of the Tang army, and then send 10,000 elite Duoer cavalry to the south again to everyone's surprise!

These arrangements will make more than 100,000 grassland cavalry die, and if one qiē shun lì, it can be exchanged for 20,000 Duoer cavalry and Shan Yu and other big men successfully escape back to the depths of the grassland.

This kind of exchange is cruel and seems to be a loss, but it must be done. Now that the Tang army has a war horse, it is no longer so easy for the royal cavalry to withdraw to the grassland, especially now that the Tang army has obviously gone crazy, it is more like a terrifying wolf pack than the grassland people, if the Tang army is allowed to concentrate on pursuit, the royal cavalry does not dare to turn back and intercept, but they are afraid that if they can't go out of three hundred miles, they will be wiped out!

While Shan Yu was making the final preparations, the Tang army surrounded the Seven Cities--it is not accurate to say that it was encircled, because the grasslands in the north seemed to be vast and could be entered at any time--that was the way of life, the way of life left by the Tang army to the cavalry of the royal court, and it was also the real way of death.

The main cavalry of the Zhenbei Army and the cavalry of the various tribes in the Seven Cities Walled City formed a confrontation, but this situation did not last longer. Without warning, the battle between the two sides began violently again, seemingly indefinitely, reaping the lives of soldiers on both sides, and fighting everywhere.

Three days later, the king's flag was unfurled, the sky was full of smoke and dust, and the military tent of the Tang army also came to the south of Weicheng.

Xu Chi, the general of the Tang Town, finally came to the front line. He wasn't late, as long as he could see the Golden Horde annihilated before the war ended. Then it's not considered late.

It's surprising. Neither Xu Chi nor Shan Yu in Weicheng issued any direct orders for this bloody battle on hundreds of fronts across the north of the continent, they just watched in silence as the cavalry kept charging and dying. Then they replenished their forces towards Kaiping and the rest of the walled cities.

This war was originally a national war. It can't be done in a day. Before the fight is over, there is simply no time to breathe, only you die and I can live. That's what it is.

So Xu Chi doesn't care, Shan Yu doesn't care, just put each other's sons into the battlefield, let them kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy, especially for the Tang army, they have already won the victory, so they want to kill and injure as much of the enemy's living force as possible, since they want to destroy the clan and the country, this is also the true meaning.

A few simple paragraphs are far from enough to describe this bloody battle that took place on the front line of the Seven Cities, and it is not enough to describe the pressure faced by the remnants of the Golden Horde and the sacrifices made by the Tang army. One needs only remember that in just a few days of siege, there were almost more dead than there were on the valley that day.

Unlike several walled cities such as Kaiping and Qucheng, Weicheng, which was supposed to be the real main battlefield, seemed very quiet, without bloody and tragic cavalry rushing and killing, and even the sound of horses' hooves could not be heard.

The Golden Horde is here, and the Tang Army is here, but the battle seems to be far away from here.

Xu Chi looked at the gray and simple earthen city in the telescope, frowned slightly, and was silent.

"The one who can really fight is 30,000 Duoer rides. ”

A staff officer was puzzled and said: "According to calculations, there are at least 10,000 horsemen left around Weicheng, is Shan Yu really ready to defend the city?"

Weicheng is the smallest earthen city in the seven walled cities, not to mention that the grassland people are not good at defending the city, this small earthen city has no way to accommodate 20,000 cavalry, and now those Duoer cavalry are camped in the grassland north of the city, but they did not withdraw before the arrival of the Tang army, are they ready to fight to the death here?

Xu Chi looked at the earthen city and suddenly said, "They want to go south again." ”

The officers in the Chinese military tent raised their heads one after another when they heard this, and they were very surprised.

After such a painful defeat just now, would those steppe people still dare to go south? Even if Duo'er rode through the defense line of the army and entered the Xiangwan Plain, what could they do? Do they still dare to go to Chang'an City?

Suddenly, someone realized the problem.

"The defense of the Chinese military tent is too weak, General Situ should be asked to help immediately!"

A staff officer said urgently: "Otherwise, if you really let Duo'er ride over, the safety of the Chinese military tent is a big problem, and the most important thing is that once there is chaos, it is really possible to let Shan Yu escape!"

"Don't do things that don't matter. Xu Chi looked at the earthen city, thinking about the man's promise, and said, "Where do you say those Duo'er riders will attack from?"

"Attacking around the city is too consuming to fight horses, and it is easy to be effectively killed and injured by our army's crossbow array. If I were Shan Yu and really wanted to go south again to cause chaos, I would definitely choose to pass through the city. ”

Xu Chi didn't say anything more, turned around and walked behind the tent, ready to sleep for a while.

For several days and nights, he didn't close his eyes much, and he was indeed tired.

As for Shan Yu's deep planning or foresight, admirable determination and courage...... Now that he has seen through it, he naturally doesn't need to worry about anything, because someone has promised that there will be no problems.

Xu Chi slept very well this night, and when he woke up, it was not yet full of light, it was the darkest time before dawn, he got up and washed, took a bowl of mare's milk and drank it all, then put on his armor, led his mount to the slightly higher meadow beside the camp, took off the binoculars from the saddle, and looked at the earthen city again.

At dawn, the heavens and the earth are silent.

The gate of Tucheng is closed, and there is no light inside, like a ghost town.

Xu Chi knew that the strongest cavalry alone would rush out of that city gate later.

He was very calm in front of the soldiers, but in fact he was still a little worried, otherwise he would not have come early in the morning to observe the enemy's situation, and wanted to confirm the time of the enemy's attack earlier.

The main cavalry of the Zhenbei Army has been transferred to Kaiping, Qucheng and other battlefields, and the Chinese army tent is facing the main tent of the Golden Horde.

Xu Chi always thought that he could fully trust that person.

However, looking at the quiet pre-dawn Tucheng, he was still a little uneasy.

The earth city is not high, the arrow tower on the city gate is only three zhang away from the ground, when the morning light comes, people with better eyesight can even see clearly those stubborn weeds sandwiched in the loess.

When Xu Chi looked at Tucheng, there were also people watching him in the city.

The Golden Horde National Master looked at the camp tent of the Tang Army's military tent in the meadow in the distance, looked at the war horses that bowed their heads and ate grass, and corresponded to the military information transmitted back by the royal court's cavalry, and the old man's face still did not regain calm.

The military tent in the Tang Dynasty was very quiet, and when he connected to the tragic scenes in the rest of the walled cities and the hard support of the royal court's cavalry, he knew that Xu Chi had already guessed Shan Yu's intentions, so why was he so cooperative?

The national teacher did not want to speculate that the tactics of taking risks alone had a few chances of success.

Since Wang Ting has been forced to the abyss by the Tang people, then there must be a struggle, it is impossible to fall like this, the last choice is the best choice, isn't it?

Yes, he knew that this sentence came from the academy.

Xu Chi's confidence probably also comes from the academy.

Since the start of the war, the academy has not really made a move.

Those who are really strong have not yet made a move.

In the quiet dawn, the national teacher looked at the sky, waiting for the arrival of some people.

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...... (To be continued......)