While discussing the military situation in Datong City, Yang Jiye took action.
After he had arranged the rear affairs, he no longer paid attention to the defense issues in Ganzhou, Yizhou and other places. Since he had arranged the manpower, he should trust them. If you have to take care of everything and intervene in everything, you will end up with nothing being done well and nowhere to be taken care of.
However, after some arrangements were made, the only people available to Yang Ji were Wang Xingben, Yao Junsu, Li Datong, Li Daliang, Xue Ju, Su Dan, Liu Tongren and Yiwu Prince Achi.
After careful consideration, Yang Ji divided the 20,000-strong army into four armies. The front army led by him, Xue Ju and Su Quan was composed of 5,000 Donggong Iron Guards, the left army was composed of the 5,000 Ganzhou garrison commanded by Wang Xingben, and the right army was composed of Li Datong. and the 5,000 Guazhou garrison commanded by Liu Tongren, and the rear army was a 5,000-strong miscellaneous army commanded by Yao Junsu and Achi. This army was composed of Ganzhou Qiang soldiers and Yiwu soldiers, each accounting for half.
After Yang Ji's arrangement, 8,000 Yiwu soldiers were dismembered into three groups. Except for the group that accompanied him on the expedition, Xue Shixiong and Gao Junya were stationed in the grassland they had just captured from Chuyue. The last group They were led by Sima Wangwei of Yizhou to prevent them from defecting on the battlefield and surrendering to the Turks again when the war was not going well.
The thousand royal guards led by Li Daliang were responsible for liaison matters with the four armies, and at the same time communicated with Shi Huaiyi's scout battalion.
Yang Ji's current goal is very clear, that is, the Great Lakes Basin area in the northeast.
The Great Lakes Basin area is located between Jinshan Mountain and Yudujin Mountain. It consists of three major basins: Ubussu, Kyrgyzstan, and Shargayin. There are more than 300 lakes distributed among them. Some lakes are connected by the north-south Zabhan River and Kob Many rivers are strung together, and two rivers 'go hand in hand', nourishing the entire Great Lakes Basin region.
This huge basin is more than 200,000 miles wide. Except for the snow-covered northern area, the rest is full of fertile pastures with rich water and grass. It is also the main territory of Bujia Khan east of Jinshan. Most of his forces If this area is spread out, as long as corpses are everywhere and rivers of blood flow, Bujia Khan, who is marching south to Ganzhou, can only send his troops to help, and the crisis in Datong City will be resolved without a fight.
This is a tactic similar to besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao, but the current "Wei" and "Zhao" are both Turks. If things go wrong, their group of invaders will turn into blind and deaf beasts under the attack of Turkic soldiers and civilians. , and was eventually submerged in the vast ocean of Turks.
But Yang Ji had no choice. Even if his 20,000 troops went to support Ganzhou, they would still be pinned down by nearly 200,000 enemy troops. If Bujia Khan divided his troops and marched westward at this time, only the state soldiers and new soldiers would be stationed there. Chuyuebu Qianli Grassland, Yizhou, and Guazhou are 90% likely to fall. Instead of doing so, it is better to use the 20,000 mobile troops to attack the key points that the Turks must rescue, and transfer the powerful enemies in the south back to the Great Lakes Basin area. As for ourselves, The safety of the more than 20,000 people involved is something that needs to be considered in the future.
If Bujia Khan's armies had not been mobilized by him, they would have hurt each other. As long as the Ganzhou army persisted in Datong City for five days, soldiers from Liangzhou, Huizhou, Lanzhou, Lingzhou, and Yuanzhou were in place. If we persist for another six or seven days, the elite troops from Guanzhong will be in place. By that time, it would be difficult for Bujia Khan to retreat.
However, Yang Ji's first step in completing this strategy was to enter the Great Lakes Basin area without alerting Bujia Khan's army. Fortunately, when the Jinshan Mountains reach the northern part of Guazhou, they extend to the east in a low, gentle and intermittent manner. As long as they find a gap suitable for cavalry to pass far away from Bujia Khan, they can enter. If you were noticed first and were chased from behind by tens of thousands of people, it would be the end.
The army marched eastward for more than seventy miles along the southern foot of Jinshan Mountain, and at dusk arrived at the habitat of a small tribe.
This unknown tribe was still a prosperous village on the first day. Last night, it was completely slaughtered by Shi Huaiyi's scout camp. The corpses that lost their lives in their sleep were old and young, male and female. Now that they have all been piled up in one place, you can vaguely see the expressions of these people having sweet dreams before they died.
Yang Ji looked at the scene in front of him without feeling any discomfort. This was a war between two countries and two nations, and there was no room for mercy. If the Sui Dynasty needed to survive, it must deal with the Turks and Turks who were always ready to invade the Sui Dynasty. His servants responded with murder, and one day, they might be able to live in peace, but definitely not now.
Su Dan was still a little uncomfortable. Even though Yang Ji and others had already told him these principles, and even he himself felt that they made sense, his deep-rooted view of benevolence and righteousness suddenly suffered a subversive impact, making it difficult for him to change his mind in the short term. Completely turned around.
"Your Highness, the general is lucky to have fulfilled his mission." Shi Huaiyi, who looked tired, stepped forward and reported: "There are three tribes ahead, and they were also massacred."
"Well done." These tribes had to be slaughtered in order to cover up the whereabouts of the army, so Yang Ji could only admire the scouts headed by Shi Huaiyi, not the slightest dissatisfaction, and asked: "Have you found a suitable gap to enter the Great Lakes area?"
"Your Highness, there is a gap suitable for cavalry to enter the Great Lakes area forty miles away. The Jinshan gap is located fifty miles southwest of Xiongnu Lake (Benchagan Lake) in the Great Lakes area. Thousands of Turkic soldiers are stationed there." Shi Huaiyi glanced at Yang Ji. , continued: "The gap is more than 360 miles away from the Punushui grassland where the Turkic army is located. If the army enters from now on and the news is leaked when it captures the first tribe, it will take a day. Bujia can Only Khan can know.”
"Yes!" Yang Ji nodded and said, "In other words, as long as we pull out the defenders of the gap without anyone noticing, we will have at least three days' time difference with Bujia Khan's army?"
Shi Huaiyi thought about the meaning of the time difference and soon understood it. He nodded with a smile and said: "What your Highness said is true. As long as there is a time difference of three days, we can keep Bujia Khan's pursuers far away." . And the tribes in the Great Lakes area are too scattered, and the young people were dragged away to Punu River by Bujia Khan, so our army can easily annihilate them!"
"Is the defender's camp in the middle of the gap?" Yang Ji asked again.
"No." Shi Huaiyi shook his head, handed a sketch to Yang Ji, and said with a wry smile: "Their camp is located to the west of the gap, which is close to us."
Yang Ji took a look at the sketch and saw that the camp above was divided into two. There was a tent in the front and a very abstract horse behind. The camp was backed by a mountain and was located between three forks. He frowned and said: "What if In the sudden attack, the defeated troops have two ways to escape, one is to enter the Great Lakes area, and the other is to lead to the army of Bujia Khan in the east."
"That's right!" Shi Huaiyi nodded and said: "This is also a headache for the general. If one person is missing, we will lose at least one day of time difference."
Yang Ji thought for a moment and then asked: "There are people living in the front of this camp, and a horse pen in the back?"
Shi Huaiyi quickly replied: "Exactly."
"What is this?" Yang Ji pointed at the diagonal lines above the camp and asked.
"This is the mountain." Shi Huaiyi said with a smile: "The mountains in this place are high and low. The camp is located at the bottom of the mountain, so rain and snow cannot get to them."
Yang Ji thought for a while and said, "I have a way to catch them all."
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