"Archwizard, what do we do now?" Nu had no other choice but to ask the shaman for help and let him give him advice.

The Great Wizard slowly opened his old eyes and said: "Great Khan, I have long asked you to retreat north across the Dule River with your clansmen, but you don't listen, now it's okay, the whole clan is left with us people, and now I still mean to cross the river through the territory of the Tongluo people as soon as possible, if the Tongluo people don't allow us to borrow the way, we will not hesitate to fight with them!" We must find a way to capture as many women as possible as quickly as possible, and find a safe place to reproduce, or our people will not be far away! ”

After hearing this, Nu Du sighed: "I don't know what the Great Wizard means, why don't I want to do this, but Great Wizard, look at it, the sons have been blinded by hatred, if you don't let them take revenge, I'm afraid they won't recognize my identity as a khan soon!" ”

The Grand Wizard was silent for a while, and asked, "What do you mean?" Do you really want to go to Tang Jun for revenge? ”

Nu Jun thought for a while and said: "Great Wizard, Ben Khan wants to lead them to pursue the Tang army that attacked the tooth tent, fight a battle, let the anger in the hearts of the sons and daughters vent out, and then order to cross the Dule River, in this way, it should be easier!" ”

After listening to Nu Ji's words, the great wizard thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense, if he didn't let these soldiers fight a battle, vent some anger, drag it down, I was afraid that there would be problems, and it would be difficult to control it at that time, and it would be easy to control their anger after a battle, so he agreed: "Okay, then catch up with this Tang army and fight, try to control the casualties, win or lose, and immediately lead the army to the north to cross the Dule River after the battle!" ”

Nu Du nodded, after all, he was the leader, although he had hatred in his heart, but he was still sensible, knowing that now was not the time to fight with the Tang Army, and evacuating north was the most correct choice!

Nu immediately summoned his commanders and centurions to discuss the matter, and there was only one theme for the discussion!

"You have all seen the reaction of the sons, the hatred between Tang Jun and us cannot be resolved, so I summoned you over to discuss what we should do next? Is it to seek revenge on the Don Army, or to retreat north? ”

A centurion stood up and said: "Great Khan, of course I am looking for revenge on the Tang army, this group of Tang troops attacked our tooth tent, they are our enemies of life and death, we must not let them go!" And they left with all our cattle, sheep and horses, they can't go fast, we don't have any burden now, we are pursuing at full speed, we should soon catch up with them! ”

Nu Ji's subordinates still have reasonable people, and a commander of a thousand stood up and said: "Great Khan, I think we should retreat to the north immediately now, and we will talk about revenge later, now we have always been led by the nose by the Tang army, and we are controlled and tricked everywhere, and if we don't go, we are likely to be led into a bigger trap by the Tang army!" ”

The commanders and centurions in the tent expressed their opinions and opinions, and after most of them had spoken, Nu all said: "Ben Khan means to lead the sons to chase and kill the Tang army that raided our tent, they can't run far, and when they defeat them, they also give the sons an explanation, let them vent their anger, and then retreat north!" What do you think? ”

Nu's approach is actually a compromise solution, which is acceptable to both sides who have their own opinions.

"Okay, since you all agree, then let's discuss how to catch up with this Tang army that raided our tooth tent as soon as possible to defeat them, let the sons vent the anger in their hearts, and then retreat north to avoid Tang Jun's edge, and when our strength is enough, we will come back to find the Tang army for revenge!"

After some discussion, Nu Jun and his generals quickly had a result and a decision, discarding all unnecessary burdens, and marching as fast as possible to pursue Zhang Shouyu's department.

Zhang Shouyu, who was on the march, soon got a report from the reconnaissance cavalry - the Xi army caught up!

"There are more than 7,000 people in the Xi army, and the vanguard of 2,000 cavalry is only forty miles away from the rear of our army, according to the current marching speed of our army, it will only take half a day to catch up! The main force of the Xi army, 5,000 cavalry and the vanguard army, are forty miles in succession, and they can catch up in two quarters of an hour! ”

Zhang Shouyu listened to the report and said with a smile: "I didn't expect Xi Ren to come quite quickly!" The order was given, discarding 5,000 cattle and sheep, and the whole army was divided into two, the first part of 500 cavalry drove the cattle and sheep to turn around and continue to advance southward, and the remaining 1,400 cavalry were the second part, turning around and advancing to the southeast, Liu Zhengchen! ”

"The last general!" Liu Zhengchen, who was promoted to general by the line of fire, immediately gave up his hand.

"Order you to take your cavalry battalion for the first part, drive the cattle and sheep to the south, continue to advance as fast as possible, and whenever the Xi people are about to catch up, throw away a part of the cattle and sheep, delay the pursuit of the Xi people, and report the situation to the general at any time!"

Liu Zhengchen immediately said: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

Not long after, Zhang Shouyu and others took 1,400 horsemen to watch Liu Zhengchen lead 500 horsemen to drive tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses to the south, leaving behind horse dung, cow dung and sheep dung.

Without the drag of cattle and sheep, Zhang Shouyu took the remaining 1,400 horsemen all the way to cover up and sweep the traces and quickly moved towards the southeast, and at the same time reported the latest information to Zhao Ziliang with the flying eagle.

When Zhao Ziliang received the news from the flying eagle, Brehan had turned around after four days of fighting, and all the old and weak women and children left by the eastern Khitan tribe had been cleared, and there was no master on the grassland of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and at this time, Zhao Ziliang's Chinese army and the Gao Xiuyan division of the right army had also completely recovered their combat strength after a few days of rest.

After reading Zhang Shouyu's Flying Eagle Biography, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the Chinese army and the right army to advance northward, following the rear of Xi Daren's army.

In this grassland, Liu Zhengchen received Gao Xiuyan's flying eagle from time to time to take the Xi army around in circles, stop and go, and leave some cattle and sheep from time to time to delay the pursuit of the Xi people's army, cattle and sheep are rare food for the current Xi people, Xi people do not farm, the cattle and sheep that were prepared to attack Zhao Ziliang's Chinese army were not very many, these days to consume meat is not a few, for the Tang army discarded by these cattle and sheep, the Xi army all caught them and drove them to pursue Liu Zhengchen's department, They needed these cattle and sheep to provide milk and goat's milk, so the pursuit speed of the Xi army also became slow, and they never caught up with Liu Zhengchen's troops.

Under a mountain, a scout horse galloped quickly and reported to Zhang Shouyu: "General Qiyu, the scout cavalry of the Xi people has passed, and in another two quarters of an hour, the vanguard of the Xi people will arrive with two thousand horsemen, and the main force of the follow-up Xi people is fifty miles away, and we have two quarters of an hour to fight and evacuate!" ”

Zhang Shouyu's eyes flashed, and he stood up and said: "I have been paralyzing and taunting people for several days, and now is finally the time, pass the order down, all of them are ambushed, without an order, no one is allowed to make a noise and attack without authorization, otherwise it will be killed!" ”

"No!"

Here is a small basin about three miles long and about one mile wide, high on both sides and low in the middle, Zhang Shouyu ambushed his 1,400 horsemen behind the highlands on both sides, the scout cavalry of the Xi people's vanguard army has passed, they did not find the situation behind the highlands on both sides and planted a small flag indicating safety before leaving, and after the Xi scouts left, Zhang Shouyu took the ambush army to ambush behind the highlands on both sides of this small basin, and these days there have been several such small basins, At the beginning, the Xiren vanguard army also sent people to climb the high ground on both sides to check, but then they didn't bother to send people to check, Zhang Shouyu just used people's habitual psychology to arrange this ambush.

All the preparations for the ambush took a total of three quarters of an hour, and Zhang Shouyu and his 1,400 cavalry troops only waited for a quarter of an hour, and the 2,000 men and horses of Xiren's vanguard army entered the small basin and entered the sight of Zhang Shouyu and others.

"It's coming, it's coming!" One of the servants whispered with some excitement.

Zhang Shouyu glared, so frightened that Na Hu quickly shut up and lowered his head, watching the Xiren vanguard army walk into the small basin from far and near.

After a while, a lieutenant came to Zhang Shouyu's side and whispered, "General, can you attack?" ”

Zhang Shouyu looked at the rear of the Xi Pioneer Army, shook his head and said, "Wait, the Xi Pioneer Army has not completely entered the ambush circle, and it is not too late to do it after their rear has entered the small basin!" ”

It stands to reason that in this kind of terrain, the leading generals must send people to investigate the situation on the high ground on both sides to prevent the enemy from ambushing, but the first few times nothing was found, the general of the Xi Pioneer Army also relaxed his vigilance, and did not send anyone to investigate again last time, and this time there was no exception, and the Xi Pioneer Army walked into this small basin defenselessly.

After a cup of tea, the Xi vanguard army finally completely entered the ambush circle, Zhang Shouyu found that the time had come, immediately launched an attack, a horn sounded, Zhang Shouyu took the lead in riding a horse from the high ground to rush down, on both sides of the high ground behind a row of Tang cavalry rushed down the hillside, a wave of arrows like flying locusts to the Xi vanguard army flew over.

"Boom ・・・・・・" arrows rained down, the Xi cavalry fell off their horses one by one, some let out a tooth-sore scream, and some fell to their deaths silently.

"Kill—"

"Kill—"

The shouts of killing came one after another like a wave, the Xi soldiers and generals were shocked and chaotic, and the leading generals wanted to gather their subordinates to organize resistance, but both sides of the army were flanked at the same time, and the army's heart was in chaos, and the military orders could not be conveyed to the ministries, and the ministries did their own thing, so it was even more chaotic.

When the Tang army entered the Xi army, the Xi people had already lost their fear, had no intention of fighting, and fled one after another. Countless people trampled each other to death.

"Speed up, kill!"

After Zhang Shouyu's order was issued, the Tang army attacked more violently, and some small groups of Xi people who had just organized to resist were quickly dispersed, and the rest were seriously killed and wounded. (To be continued.) )