In the evening, a Turkic team of ten thousand people crossed the passes of Jinshan Mountain and Shiluoman Mountain, entered a basin full of jungles, valleys, and grasslands, and continued to march westward under the afterglow of the setting sun.
Before the sun set, the army came to a small lake formed by many small streams. The small lake was close to the northern mountains and looked like a pearl inlaid on the earth. It was shining brightly under the setting sun and was very beautiful. The small lake was about 100 meters in diameter. For a mile or two, the lake surface is crystal clear, and even the deepest center of the lake is only as deep as a person's knees. If it comes in autumn and winter, this small lake that has lost its water source will completely dry up.
But the amount of water in this small lake is enough for the very thirsty Turkic soldiers and horses.
Marching in the hot summer was very hard, and both men and horses were sweating profusely. The Turkic soldiers and horses were sweating wet and dry, and dry and wet again. By the afternoon, the men and horses had no sweat left. Now, after a day of galloping, the men and horses are exhausted. .
Seeing the clear lake water at this time, the war horses rushed into the lake to drink water without being urged. The soldiers on horseback cheered and jumped into the refreshing lake water while drinking with their war horses. The muddy water was poured into the lake. While cooling down with the cool lake water, they did not forget to give their beloved war horses a bath. Once they relaxed, everyone felt as if all the bones in their bodies were falling apart. They didn’t even want to move more and just went to the shore. After being urged by his colleagues, he came out of the lake lazily and unwillingly, and changed a group of people to enjoy the muddy and smelly lake water.
This 10,000-person army was the vanguard that Quan Xu had guessed. The soldiers were all servants and the general was a captain of 10,000 men from the servants. When he saw that the soldiers were exhausted and there was a flat and wide grassland to the south, he decided to The order was given: "Let the army camp on the spot."
The soldiers rested for a while, and when their physical strength recovered, they took off the tents from the camels and lazily set up camp. In fact, according to the soldiers' ideas, it would be cooler to just lie down on the grass and sleep for a night, but the order was given, so they had to comply. .
The captain didn't care about them. He and the ten captains discussed the next itinerary in front of a bonfire from a distance. One person asked: "What should we do tomorrow? Should we continue to move forward or wait for the young patriarch and the others?"
"Of course, let's move on! In order to avoid Ashina's plan (Bujia), the young patriarch took the initiative to ask to be the vanguard of the army. Moreover, he was accompanied by Ashina Daben, who was a lewd and cruel man. Bad breed. If we stagnate, won't the Turkic dogs have something to deal with us?" The captain sighed and said: "We rest here for one night and set off as soon as the light comes out. If it is hot tomorrow afternoon, the army will also You can go to bed early and don’t have to work as hard as today.”
"Since the time of Sabolo, our warriors have been killed by the Turks, their livestock and women have been robbed more than the grass on the grassland, and their hatred has been longer than the Kerulen River." A captain said angrily: "On the other hand, the Sui Dynasty has no grudges against us. Why do we have to fight to the death with the Sui Dynasty? If we help the Turkic dogs defeat the Sui army, the Turkic dogs will still bully us in the future. Why bother?"
"How can there be such a good thing in the world? We are fighting for the beautiful silks and beautiful women of the Sui Dynasty." The ten thousand captain said with a cold smile: "Old Ashina Dingjue promised the young patriarch in public that as long as we capture In Datong City, let us, our slaves, Ganzhou, rob Ganzhou for one day, and everything we get will belong to our clan."
"Really?" The captains all became excited.
"Old Ashina Dingjue promised in public that he would not dare to go back on his promise, otherwise, even the Immortal God would not be able to spare him."
"That's good, that's good."
"Has the patrol been sent out?"
"Sent. During the day, five hundred warriors were sent. If there is a situation ahead, they will definitely report back."
"That's good." The captain became radiant when he saw the ten generals talking about wealth. He shook his head helplessly and ordered: "Go to rest early! This place is very close to Datong City. We must make arrangements for the evening." Patrol and alert, let people light more bonfires to guard against night attacks by wolves.”
"Yes!" The captains dispersed one after another.
When the order was given, the exhausted soldiers had no intention of collecting firewood everywhere. After they found enough fire for the wolf-proof bonfire, they ate barley cakes and dried meat indiscriminately, and went to sleep in the stuffy tent with their upper bodies naked.
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The night was getting dark, and the soldiers in the Turkic camp fell into a deep sleep. They snored loudly due to fatigue. Several teams of patrols patrolled back and forth around the camp. Several sentries at the "gate" sat on the ground and took a nap. Some even lay directly on the soft floor. Sleeping soundly on the grass.
"The invading enemy is ten thousand people. Bujia Khan really gave us a great gift!"
Next to a jungle less than three miles away from the Turkic military camp, Master Yinshi was riding on a war horse, looking at the camp in the distance, and without looking back he said to Quan Xu next to him: "Captain Quan, I will serve you after the war." Show merit."
"Thank you, General Yin." Quan Xu saluted excitedly and suggested, "General Yin, should we kill the sentry now?"
Master Yinshi raised his head and looked at the faint waxing moon in the sky, and said to Quan Xu: "You are a scout, and you are better at this than me. I will leave the sentry and patrol team to you. I will leave things like breaking the camp to me. .”
"I obey my orders." Quan Xu saluted and gathered his elite scouts together to assign tasks.
Ten soldiers, led by the fire chief, quickly rushed to the sentry post. They hid behind a big rock. He first pointed to the crescent moon in the sky that was about to disappear into the thick clouds, and then pointed to the right. Everyone nodded. Nodding, knowing that he meant to take action after the moon entered the clouds, a corps leader led the soldiers to run behind another heavily weathered boulder.
When the crescent moon disappeared into the clouds, two hunting teams rushed towards the camp gate from the shadows. When the sentry did not react, they covered their mouths and swiped their necks with the dagger in their hands. The sentry struggled for a moment and died immediately.
On the other side, Quan Xu led the team. He had mastered the patrol rules and waited in a shadow. When the patrol soldiers passed by unsuspectingly, the soldiers crawling in the shadows quickly stepped forward, and then He jumped into the air, threw down twenty patrol soldiers from their horses, and beheaded them with a single stroke of his sword. He was so clean that the dozen patrol soldiers didn't even scream.
"Go and set up an ambush in the east. Don't spare anyone." Master Yinshi used the light of the bonfire to see Quan Xu and the others successfully hunted down the sentries and patrols, and issued combat orders to the two captains beside him.
The two captains bowed their hands and led 600 elite cavalrymen to bypass the enemy camp and head east.
Master Yin Shi saw them gradually disappearing into the night, and he asked his soldiers to light torches.
In an instant, the edges of the jungle were lit with torches, which looked like fireflies from a distance. The Yinshi master Ma Shu pointed forward, and the Jingqi beside him rushed out first.
Seeing this, the Sui troops on both sides also rushed their horses to kill.
Under the darkness of night, the 'fireflies' turned into a huge stream of arrows, running towards the enemy camp three miles away like a sharp crossbow arrow.
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