At dawn, Baidaojun Town in Dingxiang County was already bustling with hustle and bustle. The soldiers of the Sui Army started a day of training based on their regiments.
The loud shouts of the soldiers made Yang Xuangan, Tang Jian, Duan Da, Yuan Wuben, Zhao Huaiyi, Tang Yi and others in the official office unable to hear what each other was saying until they closed the doors and windows to block out the noise outside. The situation is getting better now.
"General manager!" Yang Wanqing pushed open the door and rushed in. He saluted and said, "The scout brigade commander is back."
Since arriving in Baidaojun Town, Yang Xuangan sent several waves of scouts, but two days passed and no one responded. At this time, when I heard that a scout had returned, I was shocked in vain and said quickly: "Invite him in quickly!"
Yang Wanqing stepped aside, and a veteran brigade commander came in and saluted, "I've seen the manager."
"There is no need to be polite during the march." Yang Xuangan waved him to get up and said, "Tell me, has there been any movement in the Turks these days?"
"Yes!" the brigade commander said in a deep voice: "Reporting to the general manager, the general and others have indeed found out the whereabouts of a large Turkic team. This team has about hundreds of thousands of people. In addition to soldiers, there are also old people and children. In addition, there are A large number of livestock and carriages. Judging from their marching route, they should be marching to the southwest. Now they are camping at the northern foot of Daqing Mountain, which is about 150 miles away from Jinhe Town and about 300 miles away from Huaishuo Town, Yulin County. "
After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. The Turkic army marched southwest along the northern foot of "Daqing Mountain-Yinshan-Langshan Mountain". It won't take long to bypass Langshan Mountain in the west of Wuyuan, and then Entered the country at the junction of Wuyuan and Lingwu.
What does the large-scale entry of foreign races mean? It means that it will bring a disaster to the Sui Dynasty. Everyone is aware of this.
"Is there any more detailed and specific information? Especially the Turkic army and strength." Although Yang Xuangan asked this, he himself did not have much hope for the answer. After all, there were too many people and the scouts could not approach openly. Go and see, how can you know anything?
Unexpectedly, the brigade commander replied without hesitation: "General manager, the Turkic army is a self-contained army. Every ten thousand people form one team. The general and others can see from the flags that the enemy soldiers have ten thousand guards, and the guards The soldiers call them the vassals, which are the bodyguards of the Turkic Khans, princes and nobles; followed by 30,000 elite soldiers with relatively high combat effectiveness, in addition to 40,000 warriors from various tribes and young men who control the strings. .”
Hearing these numbers, even Yang Xuangan, who claimed to be brave as an overlord, could not calm down. The Turks had 80,000 soldiers alone. If some herdsmen who were good at riding and shooting were selected from the population of hundreds of thousands, they would be able to fight. There are at least more than 100,000 soldiers.
How to fight this battle? Hold on or take the initiative?
But when Yang Xuangan thought about it carefully, he suddenly felt that something was not right. When his father was alive, he followed him many times and knew that the Turks did bring a large number of livestock as food when they went to war, but they did not have to support their families. So this large team looks like a large-scale migration, not a march to fight.
Thinking of this, Yang Xuangan looked at the brigade commander and asked: "Do you know what kind of force they are?"
The scout brigade commander replied: "Back to the general manager, this large team belongs to the tribe of Ashina Dubi in the south."
"Yeah!" Yang Xuangan nodded and asked a few more questions before letting him go down to rest.
After thinking silently for a while, Yang Xuangan said to everyone: "Everyone, judging from the number of people and the composition of the personnel reported by the scouts, I think Jieli is migrating as a whole family, rather than going to fight with me, the Sui Dynasty. Because no one will take the old man with him. , women, and children went to the battlefield. As for why he moved, it is most likely that there have been huge changes in the war in the north. But no matter what, we must be prepared for war."
With that, he ordered to Yuan Wuben: "General Yuan, order the soldiers to stop training and prepare for the expedition. At the same time, order the heavy army to prepare dry food."
"I will obey your orders!" Yuan Wuben responded and left.
Yang Xuangan looked at Duan Da, then at Tang Jian, and said in a deep voice, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
After Tang Jian saw that the expressive Duan Da was reprimanded, he kept a low profile and did not come out to answer. He said: "I agree with the manager's speculation that there are changes in the northern war that we don't know about..."
"It's wise to pick up people's teeth!" Duan Da next to him interrupted.
"Shut up!" Yang Xuangan slammed the table, glared at Duan Da coldly, and said fiercely: "If you act weird one more time, I will use you as a suicide squad alone. I hope you are better off than before."
Every time Yang Su led an unfamiliar army to fight in an unfamiliar place during his lifetime, the first thing he did was to strictly enforce military discipline. Only by catching those self-righteous black sheep who violated the law and discipline and were self-righteous and punished severely according to military law could the entire army form a system of orders and prohibitions. Overall.
Only in this way can the coach lead an army he is unfamiliar with to judge the situation and deploy randomly in the war to win the final victory.
As for the captured black sheep, Yang Su did not kill them; instead, he let the black sheep form a suicide squad that charged into the battle. As long as their lives were high, they would be spared after the war. In order to survive, the death squads will explode with amazing fighting power, but if one of the last hundred people survives, it will be good.
If anyone among the black sheep is a prince or a general, Yang Suzhao will catch him without fail. When Yang Su was ordered to go to the south to quell the rebellion of Gao Zhizhi, Li Ji and others, Duan Da not only led an army of 10,000 to join the battle, he was also arrested by the young Yang Xuangan at the beginning and made to commit suicide.
Duan Da was highly skilled in martial arts, good at riding and shooting, and had good luck, so he survived by luck. After that, Yang Su reinstated his officer and continued to lead troops in battle.
It was also because of that experience that Duan Da changed his past and led his troops to fight in a down-to-earth and serious manner. In the end, he made several great achievements; and the reason why he has always had a negative feeling towards Yang Xuan is because of that incident back then. Section grudges.
Yang Xuangan naturally knew this well. He used to be too lazy to argue with Duan Da, but at this critical moment, this person unexpectedly jumped up and down and came to cause trouble, and he immediately became angry.
Facing Yang Xuangan's murderous eyes, Duan Da lowered his head in fear: he knew that if he dared to nag and look for trouble, Yang Xuangan would definitely kidnap someone with his own hands, and then let him serve as a suicide squad alone.
Seeing that Duan Da finally gave up, Yang Xuangan said to Tang Jian, who was trying hard not to laugh: "Tang Changshi, keep talking!"
"Here!" Tang Jian took a deep breath, suppressed the smile in his chest, then straightened his face and said solemnly: "Manager, judging from the information we obtained a few days ago, Shibi Khan has already mobilized in full force, named The men who control the strings are actually young and strong herdsmen, and they are also ordered to go north to fight. The southern Khan Court currently has only about 20,000 elite soldiers. Apart from this bodyguard, there are not many young and strong men available. "
"And Jie Li couldn't deal with Shi Ji, who was hostile to our Sui Dynasty, and even wanted to replace him. In order to gain the support of the Sui Dynasty, he sent envoys south again. With his ambition and ability that everyone knows, this If he had brought the 80,000 troops to the southern Khan's court as mentioned by the scout brigade commander, he would have been able to take away Khan Shibi in one fell swoop. But instead of sending troops, he instead moved his clans. This is not only strange and unreasonable, but also It’s very inconsistent with his ambitions.”
Tang Jian glanced at Yang Xuangan and said decisively: "For the above reasons, I think there is only one possibility for the huge change mentioned by the manager, and that is that something happened to Jie Li."
Yang Xuangan pondered for a long time, and out of caution, he asked Tang Jian: "In addition to the possibility mentioned by Chang Shi, could it be that Chuluo was defeated and died, and Jieli was afraid that he would not be able to finish the battle, so he fled in embarrassment and moved his family ?”
"I think it's unlikely." Tang Jian shook his head and gave his reason: "If Chuluo was defeated and died, then Jieli should attack the southern Khan's court; because at this time he only needs to easily kill Shi Bi Yiguoduan, he is the only king. If that is the case, why should he run away in embarrassment and move the whole family?"
"What Chang Shi said is absolutely true! But no matter what, we must closely monitor every move of this large team, and we must not let them enter our Sui territory." Yang Xuangan thought for a while and ordered: "After an hour, Generals Yuan and Tang and I led a main force of 10,000 people to go north. General Zhao, take your troops to stay in the military town of Baidao. At the same time, send people to warn Dugu Governor, Dingxiang County, Zhang Taishou and Liu Taishou to be on guard. "
"General, I obey!" The generals stood up and responded with a roar.
Yang Xuangan glanced at Duan Da. He didn't want to take this person with him at first, but when he thought that Tang Jian couldn't control him, and if he was left here, it would be easy for him to do bad things, so he said: "Deputy General Duan, I will talk to you later." I will send troops together."
Duan Da felt a shiver in his heart, he wouldn't really use me as a suicide squad, would he?
As soon as he thought of this, he quickly stood up, bowed his hands respectfully and said: "I will obey your orders!"
Yang Xuangan said to Tang Jian: "Tang Changshi, you are a scholar and are not suitable for long-distance marches. You are here to debug with General Zhao. You are responsible for liaison with all parties. No matter what military information there is, you must send someone to notify me as soon as possible." , be sure to notify all parties as soon as possible.”
Tang Jian stood up and saluted: "I obey your orders!"
Yang Xuangan ordered in a deep voice: "Without further delay, everyone go down and get ready!"
"Here!" everyone responded.
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Just as everyone was about to disperse, a soldier stepped inside and saluted: "General manager, the patrol in Wuchuan Town captured two Sogdians in Baidao. Those two people said they had important military information to report; the sergeants took them there." Brought here."
"Oh?" Yang Xuangan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said quickly: "Invite them in."
With that said, everyone was seated again.
"Yes!" The soldier obeyed and left. After a while, he brought in two dusty Sogdians.
Two Sogdians came forward to receive the gift. One of them took out a letter, handed it over with both hands, and said in blunt Chinese: "Manager Yang, the chief asked me to deliver the letter. You must read it with your own hands."
Yang Xuangan took the letter and did not open it immediately. He looked at the person and asked, "Which tribe are you from? Who is your chief?"
The Sogdians said with some embarrassment: "For the safety of the chief, we cannot reveal the name, and please forgive Mr. Yang. We can only say that we are from the Khan Court in the south."
Yang Xuangan glanced at the man, then checked the letter. Seeing that the envelope was intact, he opened the seal, took out the letter and read it.
After reading the letter, he said to Tang Jian in amazement: "As expected by Tang Changshi, something happened to Jieli. He was killed by Shibi in the palace of Khan Ting."
Everyone was stunned. Tang Jian calmed down and asked: "General manager, does the letter say who is in charge of Jieli's tribe and who is leading the large team?"
"It's not written in the letter!" Yang Xuangan shook his head and asked the Sogdian, "Do you know who is in charge of Jieli's tribe now?"
"We don't know either!" said the Sogdian: "Mr. Yang, it's not that we deliberately concealed it, but the tent tent set up in the south is southwest of the Khan Court in the South. The two are hundreds of miles apart. We galloped from the Khan Court. Come on, I don’t know anything related to the establishment of tribes in the south!”
Seeing that Yang Xuangan couldn't find any clues, he asked his soldiers to take them down to rest. Then he said to everyone: "The matter has become very obvious. Let's act according to the arrangements! Tang Changshi and General Zhao, when you warn all parties, be sure to add that killing first and last can be beneficial. The speed of sending the message must also be Go faster and faster.”
"As you command!"
