A goshawk flying from Hekou City fell into Dali City, and in a moment, an eagle slave rushed to the city with a red letterbox in his hand, "Chief, Hekou urgent!" ”

The dazzling red color of this letterhead made Yang Yuanqing feel an ominous omen, he took the letterbox, and shook out a thin roll of silk from it, the news from Hekou City made his fears come true, Yongfeng County was broken by 70,000 Turkic troops, 10,000 defenders killed nearly 7,000 people in battle, the overseer He Liujia was killed during the breakout, and the remaining 3,000 remnants of the army retreated to Hekou City under the leadership of the deputy general Cui Pojun.

Yang Yuanqing sighed deeply, he could imagine the tragedy of the war in Yongfeng City, 10,000 Sui troops died 7,000 people, and even the main general was killed, He Liujia was the original Yang Qilang, he was the first brother to die in the eighteen guards of the Iron Shadow.

But at this time, Yang Yuanqing had no time to grieve, the grim situation was in front of him, whether Pei Renji and his son and 18,000 defenders of Hekou City could hold the last pass, if Hekou was lost, then the gate to Lingwu County would be opened, and the six cities of Lingwu County were relatively low, and they could not withstand the attack of the Turkic army's siege weapons.

Yang Yuanqing knew that he had to make a decision, he pondered for a moment, and then decisively ordered: "Send the eagle letter to Jiuyuan City immediately, and order Su Lie to abandon Jiuyuan City, join Li Jing, and support Hekou City." ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at the more than 1,000 Sui troops who were repairing the city wall, and he gave a second order, "Destroy all the trebuchets on the outer city, and order all the defenders to withdraw to the middle city and abandon the outer city!" ”

The commander's order puzzled the soldiers, the loose walls of the outer city could be repaired, and most of the catapults were intact and still had great lethality. Why abandon the city?

A group of generals rushed forward. pleaded with Yang Yuanqing, "Chief, we can hold the outer city, we can't give up!" ”

Yang Yuanqing looked at a pair of expectant and pleading eyes, he shook his head, "I know that everyone can hold it, but you may not know that Yongfeng City has been breached. In order to drag the main force of the Turkic army in Dali City, we must give up the outer city and use it as a bait to hook the main force of the Turkic army, this is a necessary strategic retreat, everyone should stop asking for war, listen to the order to retreat! ”

The crowd retreated silently, and groups of Sui troops and militia groups, carrying various supplies, began to retreat along the drawbridge towards the semicircular Midtown, bed crossbows and stone cannons were also evacuated at the same time, and hundreds of soldiers poured fire oil on trebuchets. Ignitions began to burn, and a raging fire broke out over the outer city.

Qin Qiong frowned and asked Yang Yuanqing, "Chief, can such a retreat hook the Turks?" ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "You don't understand the status of Dali City in the hearts of the Turks. This city is a monument of shame in their hearts, and I know very well that this man is extremely arrogant in his bones, and other Turkic generals may want to burn and plunder, but for him, raze the city of Dali and get my head. Much more important than burning, killing and looting, he will definitely stay and take the city of Dali. ”

Qin Qiong pondered for a moment and then said: "He can use the art of war, leave Dali City to feint and attack Hekou City, force the governor to abandon Dali City and go to the aid of Hekou, and then it will be easy for him to attack Dali City again, and he thinks that he is likely to adopt such a strategy." ”

"You're right. That's why I'm going to give up the outer city and hook his main force in the big city, I think, with the allure of the big city, once he swallows this bait, it will be very difficult to spit it out again. ”

Yang Yuanqing patted Qin Qiong's shoulder with a smile, and walked quickly towards Zhongcheng, Qin Qiong still felt that something was wrong, and caught up with Yang Yuanqing and asked: "If the Turkic army controls the outer city and divides a part of the army to assist the estuary, has the chief manager thought of this danger?" ”

Yang Yuanqing stopped and looked back at him, with a sly smile in his eyes, "This is exactly what I hope will happen." ”

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With the Sui army abandoning the outer city, the Turkic army after a day of observation, under the cover of the dense fog the next day occupied the outer city, Shibi Khan was not in a hurry to attack, but ordered the army to demolish all the buildings in the outer city, razed the outer city to the ground, and ordered half of the army to enter the outer city, ready to attack the middle city, in order to increase the pressure on Yang Yuanqing, as soon as possible to open the road to the south, Shibi Khan and Wanfu Daman led 30,000 troops to support the attack on the estuary city of Ashina Dubi.

The battle of Ori Castle was in a state of stalemate, but the entire battle of Toyoshu was turned around in a small village.

About 150 miles away in the southwest of Dali City, there is a city called Yasuhara, in the administrative division of Wuyuan County, here is called Anyuan County, under the jurisdiction of more than 10,000 households, the city is not big, can only accommodate more than 2,000 households, the rest are distributed in the form of villages on both sides of the three huge irrigation canals, the land here is fertile, the water source is sufficient, there are ten thousand hectares of fertile land, it is an important grain-producing county in Wuyuan County.

In addition to the vast fertile land, Anyuan County is surrounded by gently undulating hills, and there are large forests distributed on the hills, the small ones are hundreds of acres, and the large ones are dozens of hectares, just like beautiful turquoise stones inlaid in the vast and fertile land of the Hetao Plain.

Like other prefectures, the inhabitants of Yasuhara County have all withdrawn south to Lingwu County a month or two ago, and Anyuan County has become an empty city, and villages have become deserted, and at night, it has become a deathly silence.

But the arrival of the Turkic army broke this silence, Shibi Khan ordered the prince uncle Ashina Kunji to lead an army of 30,000 to destroy the cities, villages and farmland in Fengzhou, Ashina Kunji soldiers divided into ten roads, from the east, the middle and the west three roads to the south, swept through the counties of Fengzhou, where the army passed, the city collapsed, the village was burned, the farmland was trampled, and all the agricultural civilization disappeared under the iron hooves of the steppe army.

But soon, an abnormal situation happened, the two Turkic armies swept in Wuhai County on the east road were annihilated by a Sui cavalry and killed more than 6,000 people, this news made Ashina Kunji very angry, and he vowed to kill all this Sui army to eliminate the hatred in his heart.

Anyuan County belonged to the scope of the Central Turkic Army's sweep, and the three Turkic armies needed to carry out five consecutive sweeps from north to south and then from south to north, destroying all villages and cities within 60 miles.

In the early morning, the fog shrouded the field, the milky white mist seemed to fall from the sky with a veil, making the heaven and the earth become boundless, the distant forests, villages and canals were covered by the veil, only within a hundred steps, you will find an irrigation canal, and then closer, you will find a large camp of the Turks by the irrigation canal, there are not many tents, only more than a hundred, a group of war horses are tied to the camp tent, from the number of war horses, you can infer the number of this Turkic army, only a thousand people, much less than the normal ten Turkic armies.

Several Sui cavalry scouts appeared not far from the camp, and after observing for a moment, they galloped south.

They ran about twenty miles to the south, and rushed directly into a forest covering several hectares, and there was a Sui army hidden in the forest, about 5,000 people, which was the 5,000 cavalry led by Li Jing.

Li Jing received Yang Yuanqing's task to eliminate the small Turkic army in Fengzhou, and Ashina Kunji's ten sweeping armies were the objects of their hunting, Li Jing had hunted two Turkic armies in a row, a total of 6,000 people, all of which were completed by sneak attacks, but he was extremely ruthless, and all the Turks were killed completely, leaving no one behind, not even prisoners of war.

A scout rode to a small tent, turned over and dismounted, and a soldier immediately entered the tent to report, and after a moment came out to the scout, saying, "Sima ordered you to go in!" ”

In the camp, Li Jing is standing in front of a sand table to check the surrounding terrain, this kind of sand table is completely involved in the real terrain of Fengzhou, rivers, cities, villages, bridges, hills, forests, all available, you can intuitively understand the surrounding situation, Li Jing pays special attention to the time and place in the war, and is good at winning by surprise.

He planted a small red flag in a forest, which was his garrison, and at this time the scout team was entering the camp tent, kneeling down on one knee and saluting, "See Sima for your humble duties!" ”

Li Jing nodded and asked with a smile: "Is there a gain?" ”

"Returning to Sima, twenty miles north along the Hansan Canal, we found a Turkic military camp with about a hundred large tents and only a thousand war horses."

Li Jing frowned, there are only a thousand war horses, the Turks will have one person and two horses, but there will never be two people and one horse, and the hundred tents cannot be only five hundred, from this point it can be inferred that the Turkic army has about a thousand people.

But why only a thousand, and not the normal three thousand? His eyes were focused on the sand table again, Han Sanqu was about four miles away from here, he followed the canal all the way north, walked twenty miles, and asked the scout, "Is this here?" ”

The scout looked at it and nodded, "It's here!" ”

Li Jing planted a small white flag, and looked around the Turkic garrison, which was quite far away from the canal bridge, and the nearest bridge was also twenty miles away, and his eyes fell on the west side of the garrison, at this time he unexpectedly found that there were two forests five miles away from the Turkic garrison, one south and one north, and the Turkic army garrison was in a triangle, and between the two forests was a ditch between the hills, called Xujiagou, two miles wide, seven or eight miles long, a village was distributed, and a small river flowed through the village.

Li Jing looked at these two forests, and then looked at the Turkic army station, he couldn't help but gasp, this is a typical triangular killing, if there are ambushes in the two forests, he can't escape to the east, no matter the north and south, he will be intercepted and killed by the Turkic army.

Li Jing immediately understood that this thousand Turkic troops were actually a decoy, and heavy troops should be laid down in the two forests, and the annihilation of the two Turkic armies in one row by himself had already posed a huge threat to them, and they wanted to get rid of themselves at any cost.

Li Jing pondered for a moment, then pointed to the two forests and said to the scouts: "You quickly take the brothers to explore these two forests to see if there are any ambushes, and if so, how many?" ”

In fact, Li Jing can already guess that if there is really an ambush, it should not be less than 20,000 people, but the question is, he only has 5,000 people, how can he completely annihilate the other party?