The sunset has already set on Wuzhou Mountain, but the night has not yet fallen, and the sunset is full of sky, rendering the sky and clouds into a golden color, which is particularly magnificent.

On the banks of the sparkling Sanggan River, tens of thousands of young women squatted by the river to wash the leather armor and clothes of the Turkic soldiers, and the clothes and leather armor to be washed by the river were piled up.

Behind these women were hundreds of fierce Turkic cavalrymen, whips and knives in their hands, supervising the women's laundry.

At this time, the night was getting late, and the eyes of the Turkic cavalry became particularly evil, squinting behind the woman, and the campfire began to be lit in the distance, and there were bursts of drums and wild laughter.

Not all the women on the banks of the Sanggan River are Han women, there are also Qiang, Tiele and Xiongnu women living on the border of Saibei, but most of them are Han women.

They were all young women who had been captured by the Turkic cavalry from the counties of the three counties of Saibei during the southward march of the Turkic army, and the Turks, like other steppe peoples, had a strong desire for Han women.

This is not just a physiological need, but an urgent need for population reproduction, this need for population reproduction has lasted for hundreds of years, when Xianbei decayed, and the Turks occupied the land day by day, but their population reproduction could not keep up, this demand was even stronger, and gradually formed a kind of animal culture, which was also inherited by the later Hui, Tubo, Turkic, Jurchen, and Mongol, and there would be the tragic experience of Han women in the Sui and Song dynasties.

There were more than 15,000 young women who had been taken captive in the Turkic logistics camp on the banks of the Sangan River, and they would be slaves, and the wealth distributed to the generals would not be counted in the Turkic population.

At this time, in the Turkic camp, they undertook the heaviest labor during the day and were ravaged by the Turkic soldiers at night. They also had to endure the pain of having their families ruined, and many women could not bear this pain and committed suicide shortly after being taken captive.

In addition to the soldiers and captive women in the Turkic camp, there were tens of thousands of old and weak women and children of the southern Turkic tribes living at the foot of the Wuzhou Mountain in the north of the camp, and they also had hundreds of thousands of sheep in their hands, which were the reserve military rations of the Turkic army.

These tens of thousands of Turks were two Turkic tribes that Qimin Khan deliberately left in Mayi County. Although the Qimin Khan moved north, the Turkic nobles did not want to give up Yunnei, a strategic place to attack the south, so they left the two tribes to continue to occupy this steppe.

More than 8,000 young men in the tribe followed Shibi Khan to Yanmen County to fight, leaving only the old and weak women and children to guard their homes.

As night fell, the bonfires on the steppe burned, the Turkic elders, women and children came out of the tents to feel the joy of barbecue mutton, groups of Turkic children rolled on the grass, wrestled, rode horses and shot arrows, and laughter spread throughout the steppe.

And thousands of Han female slaves were busy cutting mutton. And they were going to feed the grass and milk the cows in the sheepfold, and they could not be seen by the campfire.

This is a very ordinary day, the spies patrolling around did not find anything abnormal, the Great Sui Emperor was trapped in Yanmen County, the Sui Dynasty army that came to support did not dare to go north to rescue, the Turkic army had the advantage, and the logistics camp was a little lax.

Ten miles west of the camp, in a forest covering an area of 1,000 hectares, a Sui army from afar was lurking in the forest quietly waiting for the order to attack. Although night had fallen, it was clear that the time had not yet come to strike.

A double tent has been erected in the forest. It is composed of two layers of tents, inside and outside, which can ensure that when people enter and exit, the light of the inner tent will not leak out.

There were five or six people standing in the inner tent, with the coach Zhang Xuan in the middle, Li Jing and Li Shimin next to him, and two generals on the other side, Wei Chigong and Pei Xingyan.

Jang Hyun pointed to the map on the small table and said, "According to the latest information." There are about 10,000 troops protecting the Turkic logistics battalion, 4,000 more than us, and we must wait for them to fall asleep before we can do anything. ”

Li Shimin next to him said: "In fact, you can use fire to attack, burn the logistics tent, and create chaos." ”

"No way!"

Wei Chigong sternly refuted: "There are more than 10,000 poor women who have been taken captive in the camp. If they attack with fire, they are the biggest victims, and they must not do so. ”

Li Jing knew that Wei Chigong was from Mayi County, and among these arrested women there may be friends and wives and daughters he knew, and Li Jing had been a magistrate in Mayi County for several years, and he also had feelings for Mayi County, and he did not approve of attacking with fire.

Li Jing said in a deep voice: "There is no need for a fire attack, as long as we sneak attack in the middle of the night, the effect is the same, the key is to capture the stables, so that the Turkic soldiers have no horses to ride." Then this sneak attack is in control. ”

Li Shimin's suggestion was opposed, and he stopped speaking, at this time Zhang Xuan said again: "Attacking the camp is only our first step, there is still a Turkic camp in the north of the camp, although it is not an army, but they also have hundreds of thousands of sheep, which can still be used as food support for the Turkic cavalry, so this Turkic camp must also be eliminated tonight." ”

The principle of operation has been decided, Zhang Xuan looked at everyone again, everyone did not object, Zhang Xuan said slowly: "The time is set to attack at the fourth watch, let's talk about the details, General Pei Xingyan led a thousand cavalry to attack the Turkic army stables from the south——"

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The time gradually came to the fourth watch, and the entire Turkic logistics camp gradually quieted down, only a few big tents still faintly heard the sound of wild laughter and women's wails, the captive women were concentrated in the north, their big tents were also quiet, and there were hundreds of Turkic cavalry patrolling back and forth outside the tent to prevent the women from escaping.

There were also cavalry patrols around the three sheepfolds, and there was a constant disturbing commotion from the huge flock, and the sheep came with 'Baa! Baa! '.

At the fourth watch, the night was very quiet, and most of the Turkic cavalry were sleeping soundly, and the hearty drinking of mare's milk wine made them sleep very sweetly at night.

At this moment, a long black line appeared on the grassy slope two miles to the west, which was killed by 6,000 cavalry led by Zhang Xuan, and soon a Turkic patrol found them, and they began to panic and run towards the camp.

Zhang Xuan looked coldly at the Turkic camp tent that stretched for ten miles in front of him, and he resolutely gave an order, "General Pei will attack the stable, and the rest of the army will enter the camp!" ”

The overwhelming cavalry of the Sui army roared down the grassy slope, like an avalanche, and swept towards the Turkic camp, the Sui soldiers brandished their swords, their eyes full of desire to kill and the excitement of meritorious service.

Dozens of slower-running Turkic patrol posts were caught up and killed by the Sui army, and in an instant, the overwhelming Sui cavalry group rushed into the Turkic camp.......

Pei Xingyan took the lead and led a thousand cavalry to enter the stable camp of the Turkic army like a torrent of steel, where 10,000 war horses were fed, and each war horse had its owner.

In the darkness, the Sui cavalry galloped back and forth, the horsemen were chopped off their heads in the run, blood burst out, the stout stable railings were opened, and ten thousand war horses rushed out and rushed towards the grassland to the east.

The chaos in the stable camp alarmed the Turkic army camp, and more importantly, the earth tremors caused by Zhang Xuan leading 5,000 cavalry to kill woke the Turkic soldiers from their sleep.

They went from surprise to panic, and when they finally fled from the tent in a hurry, 5,000 Sui cavalry had already entered the camp, iron hooves galloping, swords swinging, spears stabbing to kill, and the Sui army ruthlessly slaughtered the Turkic soldiers who were scattered and running.

Li Xuanba was even more crazy in the Turkic army wanton slaughter, he held his breath, to compete with the silver hammer Pei Xingyan, the sledgehammer flew over, a group of Turkic soldiers had no power to fight back, was hit by his sledgehammer to the brain, the body was shattered, Li Xuanba's surrounding corpses were all over the field, miserable.

Without war horses, the Turkic soldiers don't seem to know how to fight, there is no formation, no one is organized, and they don't even have the consciousness of infantry fighting, no wonder they themselves are just herdsmen of the Turkic tribes, and they have the horse fighting skills they have cultivated since childhood, but without the war horses, they have become a group of sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

In the camp, the Turkic soldiers fled in all directions with a wail, but they could not outrun the war horses of the Sui army, and were mercilessly killed in the screams, this battle was extremely tragic, more than 8,000 of the 10,000 Turkic soldiers were killed, and only more than 1,000 escaped.

Zhang Xuan immediately divided his troops into two routes, and he ordered Wei Chi Gong and Pei Xingyan to lead 1,000 men each to kill the Turkic tribes in the north, completely destroying the logistics and supply of the Turkic army.

"Regardless of the old, weak, women and children, those who resist will be killed!" Jang Hyun ordered the two to be slaughtered.

In the dawn of the morning, 2,000 cavalry galloped towards the Turkic tribes more than ten miles to the north.

It was not until more than two hours later that the killing of the Turkic logistics battalion gradually stopped, millions of sheep became the trophies of the Sui army, and more than 10,000 Han women who had been reduced to female slavery were also liberated, and their humiliation and anger erupted at this moment, and they cried and vented their inner pain on the hundreds of captured Turkic prisoners of war.

Hundreds of Turkic prisoners of war were torn to pieces by them, and the women in the camp cried. (To be continued.) )