It was not a simple matter to catch Ge Boling's cavalry team, first of all, Abicheril learned that almost a month had passed since the incident occurred when the battle of Baijiantan occurred, and Ge Boling had long since known where he had gone, and secondly, even if he knew his whereabouts, it would not be so easy to catch a cavalry unit. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info Although the Tuqi cavalry is superior to the cavalry of the Silk Country in terms of mobility, it is not easy to completely surround them. However, Abicil did just that, not only thanks to accurate intelligence, but also thanks to the ability of Abiciel's army to be dispatched.

Although his opponent was only a small 3,000 cavalry, Abicherier's command skills were still talked about by later generations of soldiers. He was not in a hurry to surround Ge Boling's troops with a large army, because he knew that if that happened, Ge Boling would definitely scatter his troops and flee, and it would be very difficult to annihilate this army at that time. On the surface, Abiciel's army was only approaching Rigberling, but in fact he had arranged for four troops to go around to Gerboling's rear, and he himself led a large army to drive the prey into the trap he had designed.

If Ge Boling was a second-rate general, then he would probably obediently fall into Abiciel's trap and then be wiped out, but Ge Boling's sense of smell was sensitive, and he noticed something strange when he retreated, that is, the road he retreated was too calm, which did not conform to Abiciel's style of using troops, so he suddenly changed the direction of the march at the moment before falling into the trap.

Abicheril's plan to encircle failed, but Ge Boling still lost a third of his men when he broke through, and he led his army to the north of Fengzhou in two days, and forced his way across the fork of the Yellow River, successfully hiding on a small island in the middle of the Yellow River, thus making the offensive of the Turks difficult. But Ge Boling himself was in a desperate situation, because there were no shoals to cross the Yellow River, and there were no ferries, but instead the Tuqi army crossed the Yellow River by detouring to the shoals upstream, thus encircling him in the Yellow River.

Finally, Ge Boling sent three junior colonels to cross the Yellow River to Fengzhou before it was completely surrounded, but Fengzhou's troops had difficulty even resisting the Turkic army in the city, let alone supporting him, so the urgent documents were sent to Taiyuan Jingluo Mansion by Starry Night.

Ge Boling's luck was not good, at this time, Taiyuan was slightly envoy, and Liu Xianzhi, the king of Zhongyi County, happened to have a recurrence of his old illness, and he was sick in bed and could not be a director, and all affairs were represented by Lu Qinghan. In order to stabilize people's hearts, the news of Liu Xianzhi's illness was kept strictly secret, except for Lu Qinghan and the henchmen in the palace of Zhongyi County, he only reported this matter to Liu Yan, the emperor who was far away in Chang'an.

As for how Liu Xianzhi's disease recurred, since it was not mentioned in the official history, various wild histories made up various reasons. But Liu Xianzhi's illness is really strange, because his physical condition has shown great signs of improvement in the past few years, and he is almost no different from ordinary people, but he suddenly became ill, and it is no wonder that people have all kinds of speculations later. One of the less outrageous speculations is described in a book called "Notes on the Plain Garden", because the author of this book was written in his old age by a steward in the county king's palace. The book says that Liu Xianzhi was wandering outside the Dao Taiyuan Mansion in the winter of that year, and found a white pheasant flying in the sky. How could there be a pheasant in the snowy and frozen winter, which made Liu Xianzhi puzzled, so he opened his bow and shot an arrow at the pheasant. To say that Liu Xianzhi's archery skills are probably only at the level of a third-rate, even he himself never expected that this arrow would be shot. Overjoyed, Liu Xianzhi rode his horse to harvest the prey, but he forgot that there was a frozen Fen River in the heavy snow in front of him, and when his horse stepped on the ice of the Fen River, the ice broke and Liu Xianzhi and his horse fell into the Fen River. Although the subordinates pulled him up almost immediately, he was stimulated by the ice water, and Liu Xianzhi began to have a fever that night, and as a result, the old root of the disease was hooked out.

In any case, it is a fact that Liu Xianzhi cannot be a director, so all the responsibilities must be borne by Lu Qinghan. Of course, Lu Qinghan knew that he shouldn't leave Taiyuan Mansion now, but he couldn't let Ge Boling die in vain, after all, he was the initiator who led the cavalry to attack the hinterland of Tuqi. Therefore, he had to summon the three generals of Jingluo Mansion, Hao Mancai, Han Jianlong and Situ Botong, informed the three generals of the situation of Jingluo Mansion, and then entrusted the affairs of Taiyuan Mansion to these three people, and led 10,000 cavalry to Fengzhou in the starry night.

Of course, Lu Qinghan knew that his 10,000 cavalry alone could not deal with many Tuqi cavalry, but he wanted to rely on the cavalry's high mobility ability to catch the opponent by surprise. As long as he could reach the banks of the Yellow River, then he would have a way to rescue Ge Boling, because he thought of a way to transport friendly troops across the Yellow River without boats.

Lu Qinghan's method was to tie up a large number of whole cowhides everywhere, and then blow it so that it could float on the water, and then tie these cowhides to wooden planks or bamboo poles with ropes, so that they could be made into a simple raft to transport the cavalry across the river. It was still possible for the cavalry to carry these cowhides and bamboo poles and planks.

Lu Qinghan's plan was very successful, and his sudden arrival really caught the Turks by surprise, and the all-out assault of 10,000 cavalry scattered the Turks who had not had time to form a formation, and almost did not encounter effective resistance, and they successfully came to the bank of the Yellow River. And Ge Boling's situation is also better than Lu Qinghan imagined, of course, this so-called "better" refers to the desperate Ge Boling lost more than 800 people in these days, and also ate a considerable number of horses, which reduced the pressure on rescue a lot.

The relieved Tukchi army immediately began to counterattack, and Lu Qinghan led his troops to resist the frantic attack of the Tukchi army while rescuing Ge Boling trapped in the Yellow River as quickly as possible. After a whole day of fierce fighting, Ge Boling's troops were finally rescued, but by this time Abichelier, who had learned the news, had also crossed the Yellow River.

Abicheril, who witnessed this scene, sneered: "God really has eyes, I just wanted to catch a mouse, but a sheep came, it seems that it is time to fight a good fight." ”

Abichiril would say this because the original purpose of his attack this time was only to avenge the huge casualties caused by Ge Boling in the Battle of Baijiantan, and he did not really want to attack the Silk Country, but he didn't expect Lu Qinghan to lead his troops to come to the rescue. You must know that Lu Qinghan is the culprit who caused huge losses to the various tribes of the Tuqi by sneaking up on the Tianshan Mountains, and it is not a day or two that Abicheril wants to get rid of this person. It's just a coincidence, since that battle, he has not had the opportunity to encounter Lu Qinghan head-on, and today can be regarded as an opportunity, how can he let it go?

Abichilil's order was simple: there was only one target for the entire Tuqi army, and that was Lu Qinghan himself. Those who get Lu Qinghan's head will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold, and whoever dares to let Lu Qinghan go will be beheaded!

Who dared to slack off the Tukchi army who had been ordered by the Great Khan, and there was a reward of 10,000 taels of gold, after the Tukchi warriors were afraid of being defeated, they rushed towards Lu Qinghan's troops all over the mountains. (To be continued.) )