Another day passed, and with the help of Yin Shishi and other Qin Wang allies, the camp of Qiao Peng Sui Army was successfully established. At the same time, the exhaustion of the army was greatly relieved, and the combat effectiveness was basically restored. How to fight a battle The important issue of winning the battle to share the pressure for Emperor Sui Yang was also placed in front of Chen Yingliang and Qiao Peng Sui Jun.
Chen Yingliang once hoped that there would be rainy weather that would be beneficial to the Sui army's operations. However, after Qiao Peng and the Sui army arrived in Xinkou, it was sunny for three consecutive days without any sign of rain. At the same time, he carefully studied the beauty provided by Li Jing. After carefully observing the meteorological records and astrology, Yuan Tiangang also told Chen Yingliang helplessly that it would not rain in the area of Yanmen Pass unless the wind direction changed drastically. Can't judge.
Fortunately, Chen Yingliang did not bet all his chips on fighting in rainy days, and he was not discouraged after hearing Yuan Tiangang's report. After a little calculation, he invited all the Qin kings except Li Yuan to command the camp, and jointly discussed to send troops to fight the Turks. However, to Chen Yingliang's disappointment, although these Qin Wang Youjun were very friendly to him, they did not trust his own strength very much. Except for Yin Shishi, none of the Qin Wang Youjun expressed their willingness to join forces with Chen Yingliang in attacking, all of them were force Advise Chen Yingliang to stand firm and wait for reinforcements, wait until more King Qin's allies arrive before marching together, and don't take the risk of going out to fight with an egg against a stone, which weakens the self-protection power that King Qin's army has just acquired.
Even Yin Shishi said that he was willing to help Chen Yingliang enter the army to fight, but he urged Chen Yingliang not to launch a large-scale attack. It is best to fight a small-scale outpost first and win a small one To win, distract the attention of the Turkic army, wait for the arrival of a large number of follow-up reinforcements, and then consider launching a decisive battle.
Qin Wang Youjun, represented by Yin Shishi, has no selfish intentions in persuading him. Chen Yingliang knows this very well. He knows that they are worried about his lack of strength, and he is somewhat afraid of the 250,000 Turkic cavalry. It is a good intention to oppose his attack. . But Chen Yingliang couldn't accept these good intentions, because Chen Yingliang didn't want to be reprimanded for fearing the enemy and avoiding war, but also somewhat aimed at the position of Commander-in-Chief of King Qin's army. He wanted to win a battle first to establish his prestige. In this position, words carry some weight when choosing the commander in chief—Chen Yingliang doesn't want Li Yuan to overwhelm the sky with one hand.
In view of these reasons, Chen Yingliang contemplated for a long time after sending away the generals of Qin Wang's friendly army, and finally decided to take the case and shouted: "Mother Xipi! They won't beat me! Blow the trumpet, raise the account, I will send troops!"
The soldiers led the soldiers out of the tent to blow the trumpet, and summoned the lackeys under Chen Yingliang's command to the big tent to listen to the order. The eldest grandson Wuji next to him was extremely worried, and asked cautiously: "Brother, have you considered it? If this battle cannot be won , then our military morale will not only be greatly affected, but your prestige among Qin Wang's friends will also be completely gone."
"We have to gamble." Chen Yingliang said viciously: "If I don't win the battle quickly, we will be suppressed by Li Yuan as soon as Li Yuan's main force arrives, and Li Yuan will ask everyone to recommend him as the commander-in-chief of King Qin's army." Commander, what objection do we have? We must fight, win a battle and get the right to speak, so that Li Yuan's mouth can be blocked!"
Changsun Wuji nodded, knowing that the time for self-army was running out, and Chen Yingliang had to take a risky gamble. And after Chen Yingliang made some calculations, he asked Changsun Wuji: "By the way, did Li Jing, Mayi County Prime Minister, speak just now? I was busy negotiating with others and didn't notice his situation."
"Li Jing?" Changsun Wuji recalled carefully, and shook his head after a while and said: "It should be that he has not spoken all the time, at least I didn't hear him speak."
"Didn't speak? Why didn't he speak? What kind of medicine does this guy sell in his gourd?" Chen Yingliang felt more and more that he had seen through Li Jing. He didn't understand what the future God of War of the Tang Dynasty was planning. Did he really want to help him? Or is he planning to use himself as his step in front of Li Yuan
At this time, the generals Qiao and Peng had rushed to the big tent to be ordered one after another, so Chen Yingliang could only put Li Jing's matter aside and start arranging to send troops. Since the enemy's situation was not very clear, Chen Yingliang did not dare to take the risk of using new tactics. Adopting Li Jing's trick to lure the enemy, he arranged for Zhang Di to lead a thousand light infantry to take on the task of luring the enemy. Generals Ma Sanbao and Kan Leng led 6,000 elite troops to follow behind, attacking the back of the Turkic outflanking team. Generals Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin led cavalry to follow behind, serving as a reserve team and taking precautions. The rest of the generals stayed in the camp and obeyed the orders of Yuan Tiangang and Wei Zheng. Changsun Wuji, who was proficient in Turkic, also went out with Chen Yingliang.
Because of Chen Yingliang's scheming before, after hearing Chen Yingliang's arrangement, General Qiao Peng obeyed the order without hesitation, but Chen Yingliang himself was a little guilty, and said: "Generals, this is Our first battle of King Qin is also the first battle between our Central Plains team and the Turkic army. You must be mentally prepared to fight a hard and bloody battle. You must not underestimate the enemy, but you must not be timid and afraid of fighting. Fear the enemy like a tiger, understand?"
"Understood!" General Qiao Peng sang promises in unison, Chen Yingliang nodded, and explained that Zhang Di, who was in charge of luring the enemy, must be careful and be careful not to be double-teamed by enemies from up and down the mountain. Zhang Di was also allowed to disband the team when necessary, so that The soldiers broke up and left the battlefield. Zhang Di promised to remember, and then Chen Yingliang ordered to disperse the tents, and asked the generals to return to the camp immediately to prepare. From You o'clock in the afternoon, they sent troops to the north one by one, and crossed the Hutuo River on the road at night, so as not to be noticed by the Turkic scouts.
Since it is a friendly army, no matter how old and dead they are, Qiao Peng Sui Army's preparations for the war still cannot be hidden from the eyes of the Taiyuan Army scouts. At the same time, Li Jing, who participated in the meeting of King Qin's leaders, also truthfully reported the situation of the meeting held by Chen Yingliang to Li Yuan In front of him, Li Yuan sneered again and again when he heard the report, and did not take any action, but ordered the scouts to continue to detect every move of Qiao Peng Sui army, and report immediately if there was any situation. On the contrary, Li Yuan's precious nephew, Li Xiaogong, was a little worried, and said, "Uncle, Chen Yingliang sent troops alone, what if he really hit a good start?"
"Just rely on him?" Li Yuan was a little disdainful, but still a little worried, and after a little calculation, Li Yuan ordered: "How about this, after Chen Yingliang sent troops, you also lead a thousand infantry northward, and if he wins, you rush up If he is in a stalemate with the Turks, you can join the battlefield under the pretext of helping the Turks, and then defeat the Turks in one touch, and flee back with the army, shouting escape slogans, to shake his morale, understand?"
Li Xiaogong grinned and agreed, and immediately went down to prepare, while Li Jing cupped his hands to Li Yuan and said with a smile: "Ambassador's trick, on the battlefield, there is really no friendly army that collapses before the battle is more damaging to the morale of the army. Shame on him, Chen Yingliang, and let him have nothing to say , Sure enough."
Li Yuan smiled and said: "The old man didn't mean to bully him on purpose, it's just that this kid is too greedy, it's fine to reach King Xinkouqin before the old man, but he also wants to win the battle before the old man, if he really wants to succeed , the old man's old face has no place to put it. So, it's not that the old man deliberately punished him, but he asked for it and forced the old man to do it."
Li Jing nodded in agreement, smiling as happily as Li Yuan.
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In this way, one thousand light infantrymen led by Zhang Di left the battalion at the right time in the afternoon and headed north along the Hutuo River to the battlefield in Kuo County. Afterwards, Zhang Di's team went north, and after Li Yuan received the scout report, he was not in a hurry to let Li Xiaogong's team send troops to help. It was not until after Xushi, after repeatedly confirming that Chen Yingliang had no follow-up troops, that Li Yuan ordered Li Xiaogong's team Attack, and asked Li Xiaogong's team to go northward slowly, don't rush too fast, and Chen Yingliang will be in front of him as cannon fodder. Northbound strategy.
Of course, Li Yuan did something bad with good intentions. As soon as it got dark, Zhang Di's team went up the Hutuo River along the Hutuo River, and immediately crossed the Hutuo River at a place where the water flow was slow that had been surveyed in advance, and went north with a torch to attract the attention of the Turkic scouts. They also deliberately played more flags and torches to bluff. The main force led by Chen Yingliang built a pontoon bridge at another ferry downstream to cross the river. The established battlefield. To be on the safe side, Chen Yingliang not only let the army not be exposed when crossing the river, but also destroyed all the traces of crossing the river and the pontoon bridge. As a result...
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At the same time, Zhang Di's team, which swaggered northward with torches, also successfully attracted the attention of the Turkic scouts. After the Turkic soldiers reported the news to Ashina's association leader, they had already prevented the Sui army's infantry from seizing Zigan. The original Ashina association leader immediately sneered, and hurriedly asked about the number of troops of the Sui army. The messenger scout replied truthfully: "It is dark and the distance is far away, so it is impossible to judge the number, but judging from the number of flags and torches, there must be a lot of troops."
"The more you come, the better. If you want to bully our Turkic cavalry who are not good at mountain warfare, dream!" Ashina sneered, and then ordered 3,000 Turkic soldiers to go out of the camp and go up the mountain immediately, to seize the nearby Ziganyuan plateau, hold the rear At the mountain crossing, they attacked the Sui army's mountaineering team condescendingly, and ordered three thousand Qingqi to leave the camp immediately, take the Wangjiagou path to the south, cross the Hutuo River to copy the Sui army's back, and attack the Sui army with the Turkic infantry who seized Ziganyuan in advance.
The task of outflanking was assigned to the love general Duo Bi by the association rate, and Duo Bi was asked to try his best to kill all the soldiers of the Sui army who stole Ziqianyuan, and piled up the corpses into a Jingguan, so that the Sui army would not dare to peek at the Turkic enemy again. The army threatened the strategically important position, and agreed with a grinning grin, and immediately led the troops out of the camp. Then the tactically minded association rate was carefully calculated, and another 3,000 Turkic cavalry were arranged to go out of the camp, and lay in ambush on both sides of the flat and spacious official road, to prevent the Sui army from splitting into two groups. , Until all these arrangements were made, the association leader slept in the bed where the woman was lying, and while enjoying the folk women plundered by the Turks, he patiently waited for the good news of the victory.
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Let's take a look at the situation on Chen Yingliang's side. Although he is determined to take the first place in the battle against King Qin, and he has figured out the true and correct tactics from Li Jing's contradictory words, in fact, Chen Yingliang has a lot of confidence in this battle. Still not very sure, because Chen Yingliang's understanding of the Turkic army is too little, and he has not even seen how the Turkic army fights with his own eyes. Of course, Chen Yingliang didn't dare to be as confident as usual.
In addition, Chen Yingliang was also very worried about Li Jing's strategy, because Li Jing didn't give Chen Yingliang detailed instructions on how to fight. The use of sneak attacks on infantry as a bait was completely made up by Chen Yingliang's own imagination. Of course, Chen Yingliang was not sure about what Li Jing said. The cloudy words, are they hinting at this tactic of their own, or are they deliberately misleading themselves, helping Li Yuan to get himself a big defeat in the first battle? Not sure.
By the way, if it weren't for the consideration that the terrain east of the Hutuo River was too favorable for the Sui army's operations, and it was very convenient to attack and retreat, Chen Yingliang almost planned to ignore Li Jing's bad idea and adopt other strategies to win the first battle.
No matter how hopeless you are, there is nothing you can do. The army has already been dispatched. Even if Chen Yingliang wants to regret it, it will be too late, so Chen Yingliang can only follow Zhang Di's team northward with 6,000 elite troops in fear, feeding the mosquitoes and praying for the success of the tactics. Fortunately, the journey to the north went smoothly. The main force of the Sui army soon arrived at the edge of the predetermined battlefield, and ambushed in a hidden place eight miles south of the back mountain trail of Ziganyuan, continuing to feed mosquitoes and wait for the fighters to appear.
Zhang Di's troop headed north with torches had arrived at the foot of the back mountain of Ziganyuan, but the highlands of Ziganyuan and the west of the Hutuo River were still quiet, and nothing unusual was seen. Liang and Qiao Peng were still a little patient, but the eldest grandson Wuji, who followed Chen Yingliang on the battlefield for the first time, was a little impatient, and couldn't help asking in a low voice: "Brother, why haven't you seen the Turkic barbarians yet? Didn't you Say, the Turkic side will definitely attach great importance to Ziganyuan?"
"What's the rush?" Chen Yingliang scolded angrily: "This is just the beginning, and the Turks are not fools. Of course, we won't show up until our army is halfway up the mountain, so that we can encircle Zhang Di and the others. Zhang Di run away?"
Changsun Wuji nodded half-understood, then closed his mouth and waited with Chen Yingliang, while Chen Yingliang found a relatively flat place and sat cross-legged, looking at the flames of Zhang Di's team in the distance, feeling uneasy and unable to bear it. Zhu was thinking wildly, and secretly said: "God bless, as long as I can attract the Turkic army to attack successfully, I swear I won't have any ideas about the daughter of Master Yin."
The bright moon was in the sky, the grasshoppers were calling tirelessly in the nearby grass, and the lure army led by Zhang Di slowly climbed up the mountain in the distance, gradually approaching the mountainside, but the mountain and the Hutuo River were still silent, only the mountain wind roared , the river is surging. Seeing this situation, the still young Changsun Wuji couldn't help asking Chen Yingliang the natural question again. Chen Yingliang once again asked him to shut up and wait patiently, but said in his heart: "God bless, as long as this battle can be successful, I swear not Hit Pei Cuiyun's idea."
The night wind made Chen Yingliang tremble a little, and Zhang Di's lure army had already climbed to the middle and upper part of Ziganyuan, but the top of the mountain remained quiet, and the west bank of the Hutuo River was still dark, and no Turkic cavalry were found crossing the river. At this stage, not to mention that Changsun Wuji was even more impatient, the officers and men beside Chen Yingliang, Qiao Peng, also began to worry, asking Chen Yingliang whether the Turks did not encircle them at all? Otherwise, we should have started crossing the river by now, right? Chen Yingliang wanted to cry, but he thought to himself, "Ask me, who should I ask? I haven't fought Turks before, so how can I know if they will definitely fall into the trap?"
"I don't even want Mulan!" Chen Yingliang gritted his teeth and said in his heart: "As long as this battle can be successful, I don't want that tigress Mulan either!"
"Brother, it might be Turkic coming!" Changsun Wuji said suddenly, and said in a deep voice, "Listen carefully, there is the cry of an eagle in front of you. My father once told me that Turks like to use the call of an eagle instead of code words. Contact each other!"
"Really?" Chen Yingliang was overjoyed, and hurriedly listened carefully, and sure enough, he heard the cry of an eagle, and it was a rhythmic cry of different lengths, as if someone was imitating the call of an eagle to send out a signal.
"There is the sound of an eagle." Ma Sanbao approached, and then said in a low voice: "But it's not right, there is no movement on the other side of the Hutuo River? How did the Turks cross the river?"
Hearing this, Chen Yingliang was startled for a moment, then suddenly remembered the map that Li Jing gave him, and hurriedly said in a low voice: "Wangjiagou small road! The Wangjiagou small road is in the valley of the Hutuo River. There must be At the ferry, the Turks must have crossed the river there and directly touched the foot of the mountain, so there was no movement on the west bank of the Hutuo River!"
Speaking of this, Chen Yingliang slapped himself on the forehead and said angrily in a low voice, "Why did I forget that path? If the Turks want to encircle Zhang Di, the official road must pass through our scout patrol area and bypass the high mountains." Only by outflanking and turning around, it is easy for us to detect it. Only by walking through Wangjiagou can we appear behind Zhang Di without anyone noticing. Li Jing also marked on the map that this path is feasible for cavalry. Why did I just forget it? "
"Woo! Boom, boom, boom!"
Before Chen Yingliang finished his annoyed words, on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain, horns were already ringing, war drums were roaring, and at the same time, torches were flying everywhere, and countless Turkic soldiers with torches appeared. At the same time, right in front of the Sui army, suddenly A large number of torches were shown, and countless Turkic cavalry appeared in the light of the torches, galloping down the mountain with torches, screaming provocatively, and they were really surrounded by Zhang Di's lured army on the mountainside.
"God, I didn't think of the small road in Wangjiagou just now, so what I said just now doesn't count. The beautiful daughter of Master Yin, Cuiyun, and Mulan, I will keep the same power!"
After quickly swallowing the oath he had just made in his heart, Chen Yingliang stood up and shouted: "Everyone is ready, when the order is heard, the whole army will make a surprise attack immediately, killing the Turks by surprise!"
Almost at the same time, Li Xiaogong's team, which was slowly heading north along the official road, finally heard the sound of war drums and horns on the top of Ziganyuan Mountain. Seeing the fire on the mountain on the east bank of the Hutuo River, Li Xiaogong was dumbfounded on the spot and blurted out his surprise. He shouted: "Why are you on the west bank? Little thief Chen Yingliang, when did you go to the west of the Hutuo River?"
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
What made Li Xiaogong even more dumbfounded was still behind, his screams hadn't finished yet, the humming sound of bow strings like bees spreading their wings came from both sides of the road, countless feathered arrows flew through the air, and fell to Li Xiaogong overwhelmingly with a whistling sound. On the head of the team, the unlucky Taiyuan Sui army was caught off guard, and was immediately shot and suffered heavy casualties. Li Xiaogong was shocked, screaming that there was an ambush, and immediately led the army to turn around and run away. The Turkic cavalry who had been ambushing here already They scrambled to kill from the ambush, charged and chased with strange screams, and kept throwing feather arrows at the heads of the Sui army in Taiyuan.
"This..., how is this possible?" Li Xiaogong was completely about to cry, "How could there be an ambush? How could it be an ambush among us? Why don't you Turks ambush Chen Xiaozhai? Why did you come to ambush me? I am here Help you!"