The generals were still skeptical about the Western Turks joining the Tang Army at first, but after the reports of the return of several groups of probe horses, it can be further confirmed that it was indeed the Western Turk rangers.

This is by no means a fake of Li Tang's cavalry, because there are not many cavalry in Li Tang, and the unique faces of the Turks can also be confirmed.

In the end, the Zhao army reconnaissance cavalry took the initiative to attack, attacked Shi Danai's cavalry, captured more than 20 prisoners, and confirmed the news.

The captives confessed that they were indeed part of a tribe called the Turkish tribe under the tent of the Yehu Khan of the Western Turkic Empire.

The Western Turks have always been a strong tribe, when the Khan of Murodianmi led 100,000 people to conquer the West, first united with the Persians to destroy the powerful nomadic people in Central Asia, and later joined forces with the emperor of the Eastern Arhat Empire, Justinian I, to attack Persia.

After conquering a large area of today's Central Asia, the Khan divided the 100,000 horses that followed him into ten parts, also known as the Ten Surnames.

These ten surnames are bounded by the Broken Leaf River, the east of the Broken Leaf River is called the Left Chamber, which is the Wulu Division, and the official name of the leaders of each department is Si, and the captured Western Turkic soldiers are the Tuqi Shi who belong to the Wulu Land Department, the full name is the Tuqi Shi Heluo Shi, the east of the Broken Leaf River is called the Right Chamber, the five crossbows are lost, the official name of the leaders of each department is Qi Jin, and the ten soldiers and horses win hundreds of thousands.

Now in the hands of the Khan of Tongyehu, he joined forces with Emperor Heraclius of the Eastern Roman Empire and won a decisive victory over the Persian Empire at the Battle of Nineveh, completing the conquest of most of Central Asia.

The following is the speculation of Pei Ju, Ji Chuan and others.

In terms of familiarity with the situation in the Western Regions, Pei Ju can be called the first among the officials of Dazhao. Although Pei Ju is old. But this time it was also with the army. Pei Ju slowly analyzed with Li Chongjiu the reasons why the Western Turks betrayed.

Pei Ju said: "The Western Turks and the Eastern Turks were in conflict with each other because of the previous division of interests. The struggle for the Khan's throne led to a split between the two sides. At the time of the split. The two families fight each other every year, and they are on the same footing. ‘

At this time, someone asked Pei Ju: 'At the beginning, it was said that Pei Gong offered a plan to guide the division of the Eastern and Western Turks, which was a contribution to the world, but there were some of them?' ‘

Pei Ju smiled when he heard this: "There is indeed a plan, but the Eastern and Western Turkic Khans have long been inseparable, and even if there is no old man to offer a plan at that time, it will split in a few years." This is not because the old man is modest. ‘

I see, Pei Gong continued. Li Chongjiu said.

Pei Ju bowed to Li Chongjiu and said: "During the Great Cause. In order to make up for the previous fight, the two khans seem to have secretly reached a plan for the Western Turks to go west and the Eastern Turks to attack the Central Plains. ‘

Later, as everyone knows, the Eastern Turks, who eliminated the worries of the west, became strong and became the border trouble of the Central Plains Dynasty, and Shibi Khan first surrounded Emperor Wu in Yanmen. He also recruited Liu Wuzhou, Liang Shidu and others to invade the Central Plains with the strategy of separating the strong and combining the weak. ‘

Ji Chuan nodded after hearing Pei Ju say this: "Then I understand, now the Eastern Turks have been defeated by His Majesty, and the Western Turks are the male ruler Yehu Khan. After the defeat of Persia, a strong enemy in the west, it was decided to turn his attention back to the east and re-enter the Central Plains. ‘

Pei Ju said: "Yes. The Khan of Tongye Hu is also a male lord, in his hands. The national power of the Western Turks reached its peak, and the prosperity of Xirong under the Khan of the Emperor Yehu. Not yet. ‘

Listening to Pei Ju and Ji Chuan's analysis, Li Chongjiu knew more about the current shape than in the history books, and he remembered that in history, the decline of the Western Turks was due to the assassination of this eloquent and strategic commander Yehu Khan, who was assassinated by his uncle, and the Western Turks were divided internally, which led to the decline from then on. And Li Tang just seized this opportunity.

However, in this time and space, the Eastern Turks were wiped out by themselves in advance, which led to deviations in historical events. Now this majestic Tongye Hu is still alive. Without the Eastern Turkic elbow system of the Yehu Khan, he changed his strategic plan and no longer conquered the west, but secretly allied himself with Li Tang.

Zhang Xuansu said at this time: "In fact, we have always suspected that before the Eastern Turks perished, Li Tang also formed an alliance with the Western Turks in order to contain the Eastern Turks. Li Yuan even secretly made peace with the Western Turks. ‘

However, after that, the Eastern Turks were defeated by His Majesty, which shocked the Western Turks, so they temporarily submitted to His Majesty, and even cooperated with His Majesty to attack Li Tang. But this qiē was all the Tongye Hu Khan, deliberately pretending to be shown to others. ‘

Even the Tongye Huhu Khan deliberately lost to Chai Shao, mistaking both His Majesty and the Zhao military for thinking that the Western Turks were weak. In fact, after the completion of the defeat of Persia, the Western Turks had shifted their strategic offensive objectives to the east. ‘

After Pei Ju and Zhang Xuansu analyzed this qiē, the generals finally sorted out their heads, but according to intelligence, although the Western Turks had hundreds of thousands of troops, most of them were servant troops, and there were only 40,000 soldiers and horses who were really brave and good at fighting.

When the Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius joined forces with the city of Tbes to attack the Persian Empire, the Western Turks only dispatched 40,000 horses.

Therefore, even if the 40,000 elite cavalry of the Western Turks are added, it is impossible for Li Tang's main force to defeat Wang Junkuo's 200,000 army head-on.

Now what is the whereabouts of the Western Route Army, everyone does not know. From the confession of the captive, there is only a word, only that there was indeed a fierce battle, but after a few days, the Zhao army seems to have retreated, and then the khan declared the battle victorious.

Hearing the explanation of the captive, the generals were even more sure that the Western Route Army was not defeated by Li Tang.

Therefore, Ji Chuan said before that he did not believe that the Western Route Army was defeated, which also represented the bottom of the hearts of many generals.

Wang Mahan then said, 'No matter how powerful the Western Turks are. The 200,000 troops of the second boss are not eating dry food, even if the Western Turks and Li Tang wolf bèi are traitors, but the second boss will definitely be on guard for a long time, and he will definitely not fall for the scheme. ‘

Although Wang Mahan is now a heavy general, he is still in awe when he mentions Wang Junkuo, which is a habit that has been developed since the time of Qiqianzhai, so he is still a mouthful and a second master in terms of title.

If you want to say that the Western Route Army was annihilated, Wang Mahan was the first to disbelieve.

Yu Shinan also said: "We have only temporarily lost the news of the Western Route Army, it does not mean that the Western Route Army has been annihilated, and at the last moment before we get the news, we must not speculate." ‘

Xu Shiji said: "Your Majesty, the 3,000 Western Turkic cavalry that Li Shimin deployed to the north of Sanyuan before was obviously to demonstrate to our army, and he wanted to use such a strategy to make the main force of our army chaotic. ‘

But the more Li Shimin is like this, the more it shows that he is actually not really sure to defeat the current main force of our army. ‘

Listening to Xu Shiji's words, Li Chongjiu slapped his thigh and said: "Xu Qing said it well, Li Shimin wants to take advantage of the chaos in our army to fish in troubled waters, if he is really sure, why doesn't he attack directly." We respond to change with the same. ‘

'No! The generals listened to Li Chongjiu's order and agreed immediately.

The base camp of the Zhao army in Sanyuan is still the same. With the assistance of 50,000 civilian servants, the outer perimeter of the camp with double-layer walls has been repaired.

At the same time, outside the large camp, the militia began to dig trenches, provocations against the three thousand Western Turkic cavalry. The Zhao army was also not afraid at all, and sent cavalry to fight in turns.

The two armies engaged in a fierce scout battle, and the scale of this was no more than a dozen or dozens of people. The scouts of the Zhao army have long hated the betrayal of the Western Turks, and in such a scout battle, they showed no mercy, and when they encountered the prisoners of the Western Turkic cavalry, they were directly captured and wiped their necks with a knife.

The Western Turkic cavalry was also merciless, and the scout battles on both sides could be said to be very tragic.

But in every engagement, the Han cavalry of the Zhao army was able to gain the upper hand and complete a good exchange ratio.

The Western Turks did not expect that the Han Chinese, who had always been not good at cavalry warfare in their eyes, would be so skillful in cavalry warfare.

They didn't know how much effort Li Chongjiu put into training the cavalry of the Han army. For example, war horses are always the best on the grassland.

The training of cavalry also combined the strengths of the Turkic, Murde, and Turquoise steppe divisions.

As for the equipment, it can be said that it is the best of this era. The cavalry of the Western Turks, why did they confront the cavalry of the Zhao army.

After each cavalry defeat, the Western Turkic cavalry, who had escaped for their lives, could only watch the Zhao cavalry show off their might.

After three days, the Zhao army camp in Sanyuan was not harassed by the Western Turkic cavalry, and the construction became stronger and stronger.

At this time, news came from the distant scouts that Li Shimin had joined forces with the Western Turks. The Western Turkic Khan commanded Ye Hu and led a cavalry of more than 20,000 people to join forces with Li Shimin.

Li Tang's total strength is estimated to be between 140,000 and 160,000.

Then Li Shimin led the army from Gaoling County, crossed the Weishui, and went straight to the camp of the Zhao army in Sanyuan.

The Zhao army stationed in the Sanyuan camp had a total of 100,000 people and 50,000 civilian servants.

After the main force of the Tang army arrived, some generals built a yì to Li Chongjiu, transferred men and horses from Tongzhou and Jingyang, and came to reinforce them.

Li Chongjiu did not agree, because the strategic position of Jingyang and Tongzhou is also very important. Jingyang has enough troops to use a month's worth of military rations, while Tongzhou is the back road and grain route.

His 100,000 army in Sanyuan only defended and did not attack, and the Zhao army had a convenient location. At the same time, Li Chongjiu wanted to lure the Tang army to attack, if he increased his troops from other places, then Li Shimin would not have any idea about Sanyuan, but would weaken the troops in other directions.

Li Chongjiu has now made up his mind and stationed in Sanyuan. Didn't Li Shimin say that the main force of the Western Route Army was annihilated?

Li Chongjiu is betting with Li Shimin to see who is more beneficial if they continue to hold each other for a long time.

The main forces of the Tang army had arrived one after another, and Li Shimin rode his horse to watch the camp of the Zhao army, and beside him was the Western Turkic Yehu Khan.

This Tongye Hu Khan was dressed in a green silk robe, with his hair exposed, and his forehead hung down with a zhang of silk practice, and more than 200 Turkic dignitaries beside him were all braided in brocade robes, and the stars surrounded him like the moon. The Western Turkic armies were all dressed in fur and brown fur, and their horses were divided on the left and right.

Now Li Shimin and Tong Yehu Khan are assessing whether the camp of the Sanyuan Zhao army can be attacked. (To be continued......)