On the second night after going north from Nao County, when the distance from the Turkic camp was only more than 30 miles away, the activities of the Turkic army suddenly became more rampant. They launched harassing attacks on the Sui army twice that night. Fortunately, the Sui army It is because the defense of the standing wood camp is relatively strong, and the small Turkic cavalry who attacked and harassed the Turkic cavalry with random arrows were shot twice. This did not give the Turkic army an opportunity to ensure the safety of the main force overnight.
The camp was protected by fences and antlers to keep horses away. It was relatively easy to defend, but the Sui army scouts who went out to patrol and scout the enemy suffered a lot. Every time the military scouts were besieged by Turkic sentry cavalry, they were outnumbered and suffered a lot of casualties. In just one night, more than 20 scouts were lost. At the same time, the reconnaissance of the Turkic army was also greatly reduced.
The unfavorable news of the scouting war was sent to the main account of the Sui army's central army, including Ambassador Li Yuan and Li, who suggested that Chen Yingliang strengthen the scouting war to protect the safety of the scouts, and to prevent the Turkic light cavalry from detouring behind the Sui army, but Chen Yingliang laughed: " What's the rush? We're only sixty miles away from Nao County, so even if the Turks wanted to make a large-scale detour, they wouldn't be in such a hurry, would they?"
Smiling and despising his opponent, Chen Yingliang ordered the army to continue marching north. According to the arrangement of the first day, the Fifth Route Army was divided into two teams. It was Chen Yingliang's Qiao Peng lineage, Yun Dingxing's Zuo Tunwei, and Liu Changgong's You Wuwei, a total of about 70,000 troops. They advanced together and slowly approached the Turkic camp. After only ten miles away, they immediately set up camp, step by step. They approached Yanmen City and the Turkic camp.
The movement of the main force of the Sui army spread to the Turkic camp. The Ashina family headed by Shibi Khan was a little impatient and cursed: "The cunning barbarians of the Central Plains dare not fight with us, so use This kind of shameless way of advancing, trying to compress our space for movement, so that our riding and shooting can’t be used? It’s a beautiful idea!”
No matter how much you yell, there is nothing you can do. The Sui army has set up camp another ten miles north, and the Turkic camp is only 20 miles away from the Sui army camp. The army set up camp ten miles north, and there was only ten miles of room for movement between the Turkic cavalry and the Sui army's camp. More is also a nightmare. In desperation, Ashina's family had no choice but to make a hasty decision to send 50,000 troops out of the camp, led by Shibi's younger brother Ashina Elifer, to go south to fight the Sui army, prevent the Sui army from setting up camp, and protect the Turkic cavalry Necessary battle space.
By the way, in view of some special circumstances, before sending troops to the south, Shibi Khan personally nodded, and the Ashina family made another hasty decision, a decision about Li Yuan.
The news of the Turkic army's attack was quickly sent to Chen Yingliang by the scouts on a fast horse. Smiling that he succeeded in forcing the Turkic army to fight, Chen Yingliang did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered Li Yuan and Wang Shichong to lead 10,000 soldiers to the camp to fight against each other. Lead the Chinese army to protect the camp under construction, and urge the rear army to seize the time to continue to set up camp. At the same time, due to lack of familiarity with the army under his command, Chen Yingliang took the initiative to allow Li Yuan and Wang Shichong to fight in the formation they are good at, without directly specifying the formation of Li Yuan and Wang Shichong's army.
Not a moment later, the two armies of Wang and Li left the camp quickly, and stood in front of the main gate of the camp. Because Chen Yingliang had spoken first, Wang Shichong, who was good at preserving his strength, was very rude, and immediately deployed the strongest defense but little attack power. In the square formation, with Li Yuan on the left and his back against the big camp, and the right side protected by the natural danger of the Hutuo River, he only faced the enemy head-on; Li Yuan, who had 2,000 cavalry and many archers in his team, behaved quite kindly, and arranged a garrison on the left of the camp gate. A skip-shaped formation, in addition to taking advantage of the long-range shooting advantage of a large number of bows and crossbows generally equipped by the army, also retains the offensive power. At least in terms of formation, it seems that it is much more benevolent than Wang Shichong.
Because it was the first battle with the Turkic main force, Chen Yingliang had to come to the front of the battle to supervise and watch the battle in person. Most of the future Tang army god Li Jing, Yin Shishi, Yuan Tiangang and other staff and think tanks were also present. They saw Li Yuan's skipping formation and Wang Shichong's shamelessness Yin Shishi, Yuan Tiangang and the others were a little dumbfounded, and said: "It seems that today's battle is Ambassador Li's one-man show. Wang Juncheng is smart enough. Fangyuan formation, even if the commander wants to mobilize Wang Juncheng's army reinforces Ambassador Li, and Wang Juncheng can also use the excuse that his army's mobility is insufficient."
"You are shameless, you really know how to take advantage of loopholes and squeeze oil." Chen Yingliang couldn't help cursing inwardly. Then, just in case, Chen Yingliang had to quickly arrange a reserve team to wait for orders at the left gate of the camp, ready at any time. The battalion was sent to reinforce Li Yuan's team, which was a little weak in defense—this was the first battle with the Turkic main force. No matter how much Chen Sangliang hated Li Yuan, he would not dare to make jokes or take personal revenge on this aspect.
At the same time, Li Yuan's team was of course full of curses. All the generals in Taiyuan scolded Wang Shichong for his brazenness. In turn, he appeased the generals under his command and asked the generals of the Taiyuan Army not to be too harsh on the friendly forces, but to believe in the sincerity of the friendly forces in mutual support.
On the Jiangdu Army side, Wang Shichong certainly knew that his formation was too ugly, and he also knew that his 18th generation ancestors must have been scolded by his friendly troops, but the biggest advantage of our Wang Juncheng is that the skin is thick and hard. Without any guilt or embarrassment, he triumphantly declared to a group of Wang's subordinates: "Don't worry about fighting, as long as the Turks are not fools, they won't come to trouble us. Even if the Turks come, it doesn't matter. We have friendly troops on the left and rivers on the right." , there is still the main force behind us who can go north to support, if the Turks dare to come, I guarantee that they will not be able to eat and walk around!"
While Wang Juncheng proudly scolded the Sui army in Taiyuan, soon, 50,000 Turks swept in amidst the sound of horseshoes like thunder, with flags like a sea, swords and guns like a forest, and black cavalry all over the mountains and plains, almost dividing the distance between the two Taihang remnants. The open area was submerged, and the momentum was astonishing. Seeing this, the generals of the Sui army in Taiyuan, who were full of anger, quickly stopped cursing and organized their troops to prepare for the battle. After all, under normal circumstances, the Turkic army must attack the Sui army in Taiyuan first.
Ashina Elifer, who led the troops to the south, was also a very experienced Turkic general. He did not launch an attack immediately after arriving on the battlefield, but sent a large number of sentry cavalry while arranging the formation, wandering around to scout the camp of the Sui army, looking for the Sui army The weak points of the camp can be broken through. However, although the camp of the Sui army has not yet been built, the fences protecting the camp have all been erected. There are also a large number of crossbowmen behind the fences. The situation was reported back to Ashina Elifer, who frowned, and immediately made a decision to attack frontally, and immediately pointed out the attacking position.
The attack point chosen by the Turkic army made the Sui army shattered their glasses. Li Yuan's team with insufficient defensive power did not fight, but the Turkic army actually chose Wang Shichong's team with a big tortoise formation as the target. More than 5,000 Turks, playing the bone flute and calling Aila, rushed directly to Wang Shichong's tortoise formation like a flood. Arrows poured overwhelmingly onto the heads of the tortoise formation of the Sui army in Jiangdu.
Seeing this scene, Wang Shichong's family hiding in the innermost part of the tortoise array was of course all dumbfounded. The low-pitched gloating voices in the Taiyuan army continued, but Chen Yingliang, Yin Shishi and others looked at each other, all a little dumbfounded, Yin Shishi He also said: "Did the Turks take the wrong medicine? Why did they attack Wang Shichong's tortoise formation first? Isn't that unreasonable?"
"Could it be that the Turks have some tricks?" Chen Yingliang was also a little frightened, and quickly began to ponder, "Siege the spot to fight for aid? Lure the enemy to feign defeat? Hit the east and attack the west? Who is this Turkic general opposite me? Why is it so unreasonable to use troops?"
The target of the Turkic sword is really unreasonable, but such an unreasonable thing still happened. Under the condition that the outer layer of the Sui Army in Jiangdu was protected by a strong long shield, the Turkic soldiers still scrambled to throw arrows at the Sui Army in Jiangdu. On the head, and under the condition of very limited space for movement, the tortoise formation surrounding the Sui army in Jiangdu continued to walk around and shoot arrows. The crossbows fought back, suppressing the riding and shooting of the Turkic soldiers, and shooting each other with the bows and arrows of the Turkic troops, and those who were hit by the arrows fell to the ground one after another.
It is also because the target of the Turkic army is too unreasonable. The Jiangdu Sui army, which was originally good at battle formations, was a little caught off guard due to lack of psychological preparation. Facing the right wing of the Hutuo River, some flaws were exposed. The soldiers who were shot down by the Turkic bows and arrows There were many, and the formation appeared a little messy. As a result, the Turkic cavalry was not polite, and immediately rushed up, attacking the weak point of the Sui army's tortoise formation in Jiangdu with all their strength. Chen Yingliang, who was watching the battle, could hear it clearly.
Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang was inevitably even more dumbfounded. He said in amazement: "What the hell is going on with the Turks? Wang Shichong's right wing is a bit chaotic, but to the right of him is the Hutuo River. There is no room for a large number of troops to charge, which is not very ideal. breakthrough?"
While Chen Yingliang was amazed, the Turkic cavalry had already engaged the Jiangdu Sui army head-on. Taking advantage of the limited space to charge, the Turkic cavalry raised their speed as much as possible, and before colliding with the Jiangdu Sui army, the Turkic cavalry suddenly raised their horses and jumped up, condescendingly. Stamping on the soldiers of the Sui army with horseshoes also had some effects. Relying on the charge force of the horses and the impact force of jumping into the air, they knocked down many shield-hand soldiers of the Sui army. A crack was opened on the edge of the formation, and the Turkic soldiers behind rushed forward and started a close bloody battle with the soldiers of the Sui army.
Fortunately, the narrow space limited the charging power of the Turkic army. In the case of being unable to increase the speed to the fastest, the Turkic cavalry only successfully charged into the crowd of the Sui army and started a melee, and did not rush into the Sui army's tortoise formation , gave the Sui army in Jiangdu a chance to breathe and adjust. Without Wang Shichong's order, the Sui army in Jiangdu on the right wing had already fought desperately with the Turkic soldiers. Wang Shichong also sent a thousand reserves to reinforce the right wing without hesitation. At the cost of re-stabilizing the tortoise array. At the same time, Wang Shichong was inevitably extremely aggrieved, secretly cursing that the Turkic general this time was nothing, and that the Sui army in Taiyuan, which was not strong in defense, would not fight, but came to fight him hard.
At this time, the Turkic side made a new move, and another 5,000 Turkic cavalry came out. With 1,000 armored cavalry as the vanguard, they directly stormed the front of the tortoise formation of the Sui army in Jiangdu. Fortunately, Wang Shichong had arranged for the heavy infantry On the front where the enemy is most likely to be attacked, there is no need to worry about being in a hurry. However, in this way, the north and east positions of the Sui army in Jiangdu had already fought against the Turkic cavalry, and only the west and rear facing Li Yuan's team were safe for the time being.
The battle was fierce, the Turkic cavalry attacked fiercely, and the Sui army in Jiangdu struggled to support it. You attacked and I defended and fought hard. The Turkic cavalry came and went quickly, bows and arrows rained, sometimes walking and shooting arrows, sometimes charging and hitting, like a giant hammer, constantly Hitting the tortoise array of the Sui Army in Jiangdu, the shouts of killing were like the sound of iron, deafening; the Huainan Army of Jiangdu, known for its bravery in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, lived up to its reputation. With the advantages of a dense formation, they fought close to the Turkic cavalry with blue faces and fangs. They repelled the collective charge of the Turkic cavalry several times. Their Taiyuan allies couldn't help but feel admiration—and it also made Li Yuan feel a little wary, secretly said: "Damn, I really underestimated this Wang Shichong before. I didn't expect that the direct descendant of this sycophant can beat him so much."
Relying on the bloody battles of Huainan soldiers, the battle situation was drawn into a stalemate. Tens of thousands of Turks stormed part of the Sui army's position in Jiangdu, so they were still unable to make a breakthrough. Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang, Li Jing and other decision-makers of the Sui army nodded repeatedly. The fighting ability of the self-army team is full of confidence, but Ashina Elifer on the Turkic side can no longer hold his breath. Relying on the advantage of local troops, Ashina Elifer once again gave an order, Another 7,000 Turkic cavalry came out, of which 5,000 went to attack the left wing of the Jiangdu Sui Army, and 2,000 were deployed as a reserve force at the junction of the Jiangdu Sui Army and the Taiyuan Sui Army to prevent the Taiyuan Sui Army from advancing eastward to reinforce Wang Shichong.
At this stage of the war, Chen Yingliang should have two choices. One is to dispatch a large battalion reserve team to help Wang Shichong, and the other is to order Li Yuan to send troops to go east to reinforce Wang Shichong. However, after a little calculation, Chen Yingliang made a third choice, called a messenger to him, and told him: "Go and tell Wang Shichong, just tell me what I said, and ask him to continue to stand up for me. If you can attract Turks to add another five thousand soldiers to him, I will give him the first credit for this battle! Let him know by the way that we have follow-up reinforcements. For every soldier he sacrifices, I will give him two more !"
The messenger took the order and rushed to deliver the order with Chen Yingliang's orders, while Li Jing beside him smiled and said: "Commander, you are amazing, you really know how to understand the psychology of your subordinates. Hearing your order, Wang Juncheng will not fight hard." No more."
"He should have fought hard. Could it be that my son-in-law is for nothing?" Chen Yingliang asked back very confidently, and then took the time to point to Li Yuan's team and asked, "Li Juncheng, do you find something wrong? Ambassador Li Although the trapezoidal formation has relatively strong attack power, its defense power is weak, and it is the most ideal field target for the Turkic army. It is impossible for the Turkic side not to understand this, so why did they make the wrong choice?"
If Li Jing didn't find this wrong, then he wouldn't be worthy of being the military god of the Tang Dynasty in history. Hearing Chen Yingliang directly ask this question, Li Jing was silent for a while, and then said: "Commander, it's best not to be too unreasonable to Ambassador Li." Malicious speculation, sorry to remind you, Ambassador Li's two sons are in the camp, if Ambassador Li has any disagreements, he doesn't want his son?"
Chen Yingliang nodded, and felt that it was unlikely that Li Yuan would collude with the Turks, because the Turks' attack this time was not a decisive battle. Leaving Li Yuan alone, but holding on to the toughest Wang Shichong, Chen Yingliang was a little puzzled.
"Could it be that... is it a deliberate alienation?!"
Chen Sangliang, who has lost his conscience, is Chen Sangliang, who has lost his conscience. After thinking hard, Chen Yingliang suddenly came up with such an idea—could this be a deliberate alienation by the Turkic army? Many people know about the conflict between myself and Li Yuan's family, and I deliberately designed to let my eldest grandson Shunde release this rumor to lure the enemy. To create suspicion, to magnify the conflict between himself and Li Yuan, and then prompt the self-military team to disintegrate and collapse? !
Thinking of this problem, Chen Yingliang hurriedly whispered the situation to Li Jing, who had gradually begun to trust him, and Li Jing nodded his head when he heard it. At the same time, Li Yuan also sent a messenger to report to Chen Yingliang. : "Commander, our Ambassador Li saw that Jiangdu's friendly army was fighting alone. We were worried that the enemy was outnumbered, and it might not be difficult to hold on for a long time, so we sent a villain to ask for orders to divide our troops westward to reinforce Wang Juncheng. Please allow the commander."
Looking at each other with Li Jing, Chen Yingliang nodded slightly, knowing that Li Yuan must also be worried that this was a scheming scheme, and he took the initiative to ask for a fight in order to show his heart. After a little calculation, Chen Yingliang ordered: "Go back and tell Ambassador Li, I appreciate his kindness. But there is no need to worry, Wang Juncheng can still hold on, let Ambassador Li continue to stand still and wait for orders."
The Taiyuan army sent the order, and flew back to the Taiyuan army to report Chen Yingliang's answer to Li Yuan. After hearing this, Li Yuan was not angry, but just hummed: "Little bastard, you are smart, if you really dare to have doubts about the old man , the unlucky person will only be you."
At this time, the battle between the Jiangdu Sui army and the Turkic army has also entered a fierce battle. The Turkic cavalry, which is superior in number, is like a frenzied flood, repeatedly attacking the positions of the Jiangdu Sui army one after another. However, they tried to maintain a dense formation and struggled against the impact of the Turkic cavalry with their flesh and blood. The area occupied by the square array was also shrinking under the impact of the Turks. The Turkic cavalry, which gained more battlefield space, continued to extend to the two wings, gradually Surrounded the Jiangdu Sui army regiments.
Seeing this situation, Wang Shiyun and other Jiangdu generals who stayed in the camp were of course very anxious. They asked Chen Yingliang several times to send reinforcements to relieve Wang Shiquan's pressure, but Chen Yingliang ignored these relatives of his wife's family at all; But he nodded again and again, and finally saw with his own eyes the superiority of the Sui army infantry who maintained a dense formation in front of the Turkic army, and their confidence was greatly increased. Zhu Can and others said, "Have you seen that? Turkic riding and shooting is not too scary. As long as our formation is dense, it is definitely not a problem to withstand the Turkic attack."
Experts watch the doorway, laymen watch the excitement, and some people don't understand Chen Yingliang's good intentions. At least Chai Shao, who almost became Chen Yingliang's brother-in-law, asked Li Er suspiciously: "Erlang, we still have a lot of fresh troops. The Turks have already taken Wang Shichong. Surrounded by groups, why doesn't Chen Yingliang send reinforcements to help?"
"Chen Yingliang is testing our battle strength to see if our infantry formation can really withstand the charge of the Turkic cavalry." Li Er replied: "Our army is dominated by infantry. Only when you know what is in your heart can you dare to use troops with confidence. As for the reinforcements, he will dispatch when it is time to dispatch. Let’s learn from it. My father is so fond of him, and he is full of praise for his ability to catch fighters. This is a goal worthy of our study. "
Chai Shao nodded, and continued to look at the battlefield, but Li Er sighed quietly, looking at Chen Yingliang's handsome flag, he was extremely envious, and secretly said: "One day, I will be like him, using the earth as a chessboard, Thousands of troops are on the chess pieces, and in front of the people of the world, play out my chess game!"
Relying on the bloody battle of the Sui army in Jiangdu, King Qin's Sui army gradually gained confidence and vaguely understood how to deal with the Turkic bandits on the grassland. Ashina Elifer, who commanded the battle, was even more furious. He never thought that the tortoise formation of the Sui army would be so difficult to attack. He invested 15,000 troops including 2,000 armored cavalry , they couldn't break through the tortoise array, but they were killed with corpses all over the ground, causing a lot of casualties. In a fit of rage, Ashina Elif quickly calculated, and then shouted: "Ming Jin, bring the army back and regroup."
Dang Dang Dang Dang, I don't know where the stolen gong rang, and the Turkic cavalry who stormed the Sui army's tortoise array quickly left the battlefield and retreated to the distance to regroup. Jiangdu, who also suffered a lot of casualties The Sui army cheered and regrouped as if they were being amnesty. Wang Shichong also hurriedly dispatched men to ask Chen Yingliang for help, saying that the Turkic army was only temporarily retreating, and they might attack, or even storm their own army, and asked Chen Yingliang to quickly send reinforcements to strengthen himself. Troops, replenish combat power, so as not to be exhausted in battle and endanger friendly forces.
Facing the fact that the father-in-law Wang Shichong asked for help, Chen Sangliang also showed his utterly conscience-stricken style, and told the Jiangdu army's messenger directly, saying: "In the second year of the Kaihuang reign of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Turkic Sabolo Khan personally Leading 100,000 main cavalry to invade the Central Plains, Daxi Changru, a famous general of the Great Sui Dynasty, led the army to fight, with only 3,000 infantry under his command, fought fiercely with the Turkic main force 14 times in three days, without taking a step back, and without a single soldier. The reinforcements of the pawns finally defeated 100,000 Turks and killed more than 10,000 enemies. Go back and tell Wang Juncheng, I believe that General Daxi Changru can do it, and he, who is also a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, can also do it!"
The messengers of the Sui Army in Jiangdu rushed back to deliver the order with a sad face. Hearing this answer from the unworthy son-in-law, Wang Shichong was completely about to cry, and cursed: "When I go back, I must cut the belly of that yellow-faced woman open." Come on, let's see how she gave birth to that daughter, and how did she find me a son-in-law? Use me as Daxi Changru, if I have the ability of Daxi Changru, it's his turn to take the position of King Qin's commander?"