In the evening, piles of bonfires were lit in the Sui army camp. Yang Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Sui army, ordered the slaughter of 20,000 sheep to reward the three armies. Although there was no wine, all the Sui army officers and soldiers were happily enjoying the joy of victory. .
In the open space in front of the Chinese army's tent, Yang Ji and several generals were enjoying today's dinner while enjoying the cool air. On the tables that were simply set up one after another, in addition to Shi Wansui, Yang Lun, Xue Shixiong and other later generals, there were Meat, Yang Ji, Wang Xingben, Yao Junsu, Xue Ju, Li Datong, Su Quan and others all had wild vegetables, mushrooms and other vegetarian dishes in front of them. These vegetarian dishes cooked by Zhang Chuchen were extremely delicious.
"Vajra slave, you have always enjoyed all things meat, why don't you eat meat today?" This was not a formal occasion, so Yang Lun called him quite casually, and said with a smile: "Do you want to become a monk?"
"I'm not short of money, why am I going to be a monk?" Yang Ji said with a look of disgust: "I have been eating meat for too long, and it makes me feel sick to my stomach when I see meat, and I feel like vomiting."
"What your Highness said is absolutely true." Wang Xingben, Yao Junsu, Xue Ju, Li Datong and others heard this and nodded in agreement. Since they set out from Yizhou, they have eaten meat every day and every meal. Who can stand it? ?
"You are so blessed that you don't know how blessed you are." Yang Lun was a little bit dumbfounded. For the first time in his life, he heard someone say that eating meat made him feel sick and made him want to vomit.
"I can understand it. Just because I felt the same way when I went deep into the desert to plunder the Turks." Shi Wansui laughed and asked Yang Ji. "King Wei, now only the tens of thousands of Ashinabudu's soldiers are left. What should we do next? Are we going to fight tomorrow?"
Yang Lun answered: "This is also what I want to ask, but before I ask this question, I have to ask a question that I don't understand."
"What's the question? Just ask." Yang Ji said with a smile.
"In today's battle, Bujia Khan not only lost more than 100,000 troops, but he was also killed by me. It can be said that the overall situation has been decided. As for Ashina Budu who was caught in the attack from both front and rear, although Ashina Budu Du still has more than 40,000 elite troops, but his military strength is far inferior to our Sui Dynasty and Qimin Khan. In fact, he can no longer afford to make any waste." Yang Lun looked at Yang Ji and asked: "I The question is—our army could clearly defeat Ashina’s pace today, so why did it stop moving forward?”
"The Turkic soldiers under Ashina Buddu will indeed fall into temporary chaos, fear, and panic because of the war. But if we attack by force today, it will definitely arouse their determination to fight to the death, which will cause our army to suffer heavy casualties. ." Yang Ji finished explaining and said with a smile: "But if we wait two or three days, the effect will be completely different."
"What's the difference?" Yang Lun asked doubtfully.
Everyone also stopped eating chopsticks and looked at Yang Ji.
"Brother Wang may think that those defeated troops will increase Ashina Budu's combat effectiveness, but I think those defeated troops are not combat effectiveness, but spreaders of panic and fear." Yang Ji said: "The Art of War has this cloud : 'In all ways of conquering a country, attacking the heart is the top priority, and attacking the city is the bottom; winning the heart is the top, and winning the army is the bottom.' What we have to do is to defeat the enemy without fighting, rather than to confront the enemy head-on. Therefore, we must use the route of defeating the enemy. This feeling of fear and fear has spread to the whole army. Now we are standing still and preparing to attack. This is to tell them: it is not that we cannot defeat them, but that we do not want to fight or are too lazy to fight. While they are relieved, that feeling The fear will continue to expand. Two or three days later, when our army attacks again, we will first use the golden wolf-headed banner and the heads of Bujia Khan and the Second Khan to intimidate them, and then use their troops to attack fiercely. The army must be demoralized, so our army can decide in one battle! Besides, if Ashina Budu wants to break out, he won't fight on our side, right?"
It's not that Ashina Budu can't be beaten, it's just that the timing is wrong.
For Yang Ji, this army no longer poses any threat. However, after this war is over, Liangzhou will enter a period of rest and use the extra time to build the place. The key is that the Qiang issue is the most important problem to be solved. Although many Qiang villages have been persuaded by Wei Yunqi to come down the mountain, there are still many Qiang tribes and villages that have not come down. The secondary reason is that they do not trust the court. The main reason is that they do not trust the court. He was still bewitched by Murong Fuyun.
During this period of time, these Qiang and Tyuhun people were flirting with each other and were very dishonest. Not only did they try to fish in troubled waters, some Qiang tribes even robbed some caravans traveling between Guazhou and Ganzhou with the Tyuhun people. This was also Yang's fault. Collect the news heard from Shi Wansui.
Yang Ji naturally had to liquidate the evil done by these people one by one; and liquidation meant that he needed an army capable of fighting to suppress it, so he did not want to waste his soldiers in this must-win war. Of course, it would be more complete if Ashina Buddu and Qimin Khan were dog bites dog.
"You guys, after three days of separation, you really impressed me." Yang Lun clicked his tongue and said, "When did you become so cunning? Who did you learn from?"
"Of course I learned it from Sun Tzu." Yang Ji smiled and said, "Let's not talk about it anymore. How many prisoners did we capture today?"
"Your Highness!" Su Dan stood up and answered with cupped hands: "In a hurry, I counted more than 36,300 people."
"So many?" Yang Ji was shocked when he heard this.
"It's not much." Shi Wansui, who knew the situation better, said: "Bujia Khan brought 350,000 troops, and Yin Shishi led the army to defeat 50,000 forwards. Nearly a dozen people died inside and outside Datong City. Ten thousand people, and another 60,000 Tiele soldiers were dispersed by Duan Wenzhen and Qimin Khan, and Ashina Budu dispersed another 60,000 people. Now it is reasonable for us to capture more than 36,000 people."
"That's it!" Yang Ji nodded and asked worriedly: "Are there any seriously injured or disabled people?"
"No!" Su Dan said solemnly: "The wounded Turkic soldiers were very brave. Instead of surrendering, they dared to fight back against our army. Therefore, our soldiers were forced to fight and killed them one by one."
Are you the one who let people slaughter you?
"..." Everyone looked at Su Dan who was seriously talking nonsense, and they were speechless.
Yang Ji ordered: "Heroes deserve admiration and will be buried well tomorrow."
"Here." Su Dan responded and sat down again.
"In this battle, Datong City not only fought the hardest, sacrificed the most, and killed the most enemies...if they hadn't contained Bujia Khan's army for me, I wouldn't have been able to kill the special forces in the Great Lakes area without any worries. Kill." Yang Ji said: "So the first contribution should be made to the soldiers and civilians of Datong City and the soldiers and civilians of Ganzhou."
Everyone secretly regretted hearing this. In fact, Yang Ji's contribution was the greatest. He annihilated many Turkic soldiers and Turkic men in the Great Lakes area, and he was the commander in chief of this battle. The contribution made by the army and people of Datong City was actually due to his proper employment of people, so in the final analysis, the first credit lies with him. However, everyone was filled with admiration. They were willing to give up their first achievements for their subordinates, which was not something ordinary people could do.
Yang Lun, on the other hand, listened thoughtfully and roughly understood Yang Ji's intentions. After all, he was a prince, and his official title was Liangzhou Governor, Chief Superintendent, and Right Guard General. When he reached this level, his official career was almost over. Well, if he wins the first achievement, how will the court grant him a title?
Although in Yang Jian's era, there is no need to worry about great achievements and shocking the master, but what about in the future? If Yang Ji performs meritorious service in the future, how will Yang Guang be granted the title? Therefore, Yang Ji's initiative to give up his first contribution was actually a very wise choice.
And with Yang Jian's wisdom and love for Yang Ji, how could he treat his precious nephew badly? A lot of real property is definitely indispensable.
"Report to the King of Wei." At this time, a school captain hurriedly came to report: "Zhang Sima, Liu Governor, Deputy General Manager Zhang, Yang Mincao, Yin Bingcao and others want to see you."
"Please." Yang Ji quickly stood up to greet him. Datong City turned into a scorched earth. It can be said that everything is in ruins, and these great heroes worked too hard, so Yang Ji just asked people to give him the results and rewards he had achieved. Send them and let them rest for a few days, but who would have thought that they would still come.
When the group of them had walked less than a hundred steps, they saw a group of exhausted warriors walking towards them.
Everyone is unkempt and shabby. Although they have lost their previous heroic appearance and grace, everyone has a tiger-like aura about them, which makes people dare not look at them.
"Zhang Xutuo meets His Highness."
"Liu Quan meets His Highness."
"Zhang Dinghe meets His Highness"
"Yang Shan will meet with His Highness."
"Master Yin Shi meets His Highness."
"Wei Yunqi..."
"Li Jing..."
"Dugu Pingyun..."
"Song Zhengben..."
When everyone saw Yang Ji leading the crowd to greet him, they quickly stepped forward to salute.
"No gifts!" Yang Ji hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hands to help everyone up one by one, looked at their haggard faces, and felt a little tight in his chest, pretending to be dissatisfied and said: "Didn't I let you rest? Are you running away anyway? Are you here? If you don’t obey the coach’s order, you will each be punished by eating ten pounds of roasted mutton.”
"???" Everyone looked at each other in silence.
"What? Do you think the punishment is too light?" Yang Ji asked with a smile.
"Of course not!" Zhang Xutuo smiled bitterly and answered on behalf of everyone: "In normal times, General Mo and others would have wished for such a punishment, but today they smelled the corpses of tens of thousands of people changing from the smell of meat to the smell of burning. It’s really hard to eat now, so if His Highness wants to punish us today, just punish us by not being able to eat.”
"Zhang Sima's words are right." Liu Quan also smiled bitterly and said: "You eat meat, we just drink a few bowls of water."
Yang Ji and others all laughed. Yang Ji smiled and ordered Li Daliang: "Go find some wine. This stuff is very sweet and can nourish the stomach."
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Zhang Xutuo and others thanked him.
After everyone sat down again, Yang Ji asked: "You are all here, who will clean up the mess in Datong City?"
"General Manager Flexitu."
"General Manager Flexitu."
"Qu Tu Tong."
"..."
Yang Ji couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he heard that everyone reported Qu Tutong in unison, but he didn't take it to heart, and then said to Zhang Xutuo: "Zhang Sima, tell me about the situation on your side in detail. "
"Here." Zhang Xutuo took a deep breath and told the whole story from Yang Ji's departure from Ganzhou, to Bujia Khan's arrangements after his massive suppression of the country, and then to the court officials' detention of military information...
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At the same time, the Ashinabudu Camp forty miles away was filled with a sad atmosphere. The cool night wind was mixed with some sad tunes and wailing sounds. Those were the voices of priests mourning the dead, but Listening to Ashina Budu's ears at this moment, those sounds slowly changed their taste, and the sound of crying became louder and louder, and soon filled the entire military camp.
All in all, it has only been more than two months since they sent out troops. However, in this short period of time, earth-shaking changes have taken place. First, an army of more than 300,000 people marched towards Datong City with great momentum and ambition. , at that time, almost everyone believed that no blade of grass would grow if the front of the army passed by. But then he was knocked to the bottom.
The situation, which was originally facing the Turks, began to reverse quietly without knowing when.
Ashina Budu thought about it carefully. In terms of time, they should have detoured from Yangji to Xiongnu Lake and made a surprise attack on the Great Lakes area. In just one month, their Great Lakes area was killed and littered with corpses. They asked for help. The messengers came one after another. The Great Khan originally wanted to fight the Sui army in Liangzhou, but before they even approached Datong City, the 50,000 forwards were killed by the Sui army... So far, only his army is left. Even if the defeated troops were added up, there were only more than 70,000 people, and the 350,000-strong army was suddenly reduced by four-fifths.
He is now trapped in the camp with tens of thousands of soldiers who have no intention of fighting, and he is watching helplessly as the aura of despair envelopes the whole camp little by little, but he has no way to do anything about it. After all, they were defeated so miserably today that they even couldn't even fight. Important figures such as the Great Khan and the Second Khan were all dead.
Such an army, let alone fight against the Sui army with high morale, even Qimin Khan might not be able to defeat it.
What's even worse is that his logistics center is at the old camp, and the food he brings cannot last four days.
Once it is completely consumed, defeat is only a matter of time.
Thinking of the bleak future, Ashina, who was sitting in the tent, sighed leisurely.
Others may be able to survive when the camp is broken, but he will definitely not be lucky, because he is not only the commander-in-chief of this army, but also a descendant of the Ashina family and one of the future successors designated by Bujia Khan. Qimin Khan did not let him go. The Sui army did not let go of their own reasons, and even the Tiele people in the army did not let go of their own reasons.
So he could only leave before he was defeated. As for where to go?
The south to the east of Dujin Mountain was ruled by Qimin Khan, and the north was ruled by the Tiele people. The Great Lakes area was not safe either. As for going to the Western Turks from the territory controlled by the Sui Dynasty, Ashina Buddu did not even think about it. Dare to think about it, now it seems that the only choice is to go to Yazhang. With his ability, not to mention that he can unify the Eastern Turks, but there is no problem in the vast valley grassland between Dujin Mountain and Kent Mountain. Even if he Although he does not have the ability to be a great khan, he can still respect one of the greedy Khans or Ashina Huaide as the great khan.
The biggest problem now is how to take this army away.
"General, what do you want from us?" At this time, Meng She and several generals came to the tent tiredly and saluted Ashina Budu.
"Are you all here?" Ashina Budu glanced at everyone and said directly: "Our army was affected by the defeat, and the whole army lost the courage to fight. Moreover, we have no reinforcements from outside and no food and grass inside. "If you continue to defend, I think it will be a dead end. Meng She, what do you think?"
Meng She, who was named, nodded silently and said with a wry smile: "As the general said, our soldiers have been affected by the defeat to the point of collapse. Whether they are fighting or defending, it is the result of defeat. But I don't know what the general has done. idea?"
Ashina Budu sighed: "Duan Wenzhen and Ranqian have retreated to the pass seventy miles away to rest, while the Sui army in the west is busy cleaning the battlefield and has not formed an encirclement on us. We can lead the army to retreat north. .”
"Evacuate north? How?" Meng She asked with a frown.
Ashina Budu said: "When I was preparing to ambush Ranqian, the scouts discovered a gap thirty miles to the west. This gap led to Longle River. Going west along Longle River for dozens of miles, we reached Zhuo River. Zhuxiexing in Xie Mountain, from here you can enter the Great Lakes area."
"Zhuxiexing?" Meng She pondered for a long time and said: "Zhuxiexing is extremely difficult to travel, and if we travel more than thirty miles westward, the army will not be able to hide it from the Sui army scouts."
"Naturally, the 70,000-strong army cannot be brought together. You select 5,000 warriors who are loyal to you from the Servants and Bones Department, and I select 10,000 warriors, and then each person has three cavalry and more food and fodder. Once ready, let the entire army march towards The Sui army surrendered." Ashina Budu said: "The fifteen thousand of us served as the rear army. After arriving at the pass, we quickly separated from the army and flew towards Longle River. As for other things, we didn't need to worry about it."
Ashina Budu is preparing to survive with his arm broken off!
In their current situation, they cannot fight or defend. It is better to take advantage of the Sui army to relax their vigilance, use the surrender of the army as bait, and quickly escape with their trusted soldiers. By the time the Sui army gathers the surrendered troops, they will have already surrendered. Yuan Dun, originally he did not want to take Meng She with him, but this man was the deputy general of the army and was extremely shrewd. His actions could not be hidden from Meng She, so he was included.
Meng She thought for a while, nodded bitterly and said: "I have no objection, then let's do it."
This is the only way to survive at the moment. Although he can only bring five thousand warriors back, in terms of total strength, his ratio far exceeds that of Ashina Budu who can only bring ten thousand people.
"Okay, let's get ready." Ashina Budu ordered helplessly.
In fact, there is such a pass more than 20 miles to the east, but Ashina Budu did not want to give this army to Qimin Khan. After all, the two of them were direct competitors of the Eastern Turks. How could he do it in vain? Send tens of thousands of troops to Qimin Khan, who is destined to be his enemy? As for the Sui Dynasty, not only was it an outsider in the Eastern/Turkic dispute, but the Sui army itself was already extremely powerful. Even if they completely annexed this surrendered army, it would have no impact on Ashina Budu.
For this reason, he decided to give this army to the Sui Dynasty.
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