"Reported that General Ran, Zhang Duwei, Yuwen Duwei, Zhuge Duwei, and Qin general, the scouts sent out for investigation have returned."

Just after a day of rest in Xiaoguan, Zhang Yang, Zhuge Haoqiong, Yuwen Ruihao, Nangong Hongbo, Baoxing and others were full of energy and exhausted. They were holding a military meeting in the city guarding palace of Xiaoguan, discussing possible actions of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army, when the general in charge of scout suddenly broke in and reported.

Everyone who is troubled by insufficient intelligence and cannot accurately speculate on the enemy's advance, now there is finally no need to argue anymore.

This is not because Zhang Yang and others raided in the early morning of yesterday night, causing the Eastern Turkic army to jump for half a morning and lost the supreme leader. However, Zhang Yang and others were not very clear about the specific losses of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army. They could only analyze the scenes of the sneak attack, and knew that the Eastern Turkic vanguard army suffered heavy losses, but the specifics were not very clear.

This caused a faction to believe that although the enemy's vanguard army suffered heavy damage, Zhang Yang and others could not cause a fatal blow to the enemy due to the number of people they launched when they launched the raid. The enemy could gather troops again in a very short time to launch a retaliatory attack on Xiaoguan, so as to clean up the shame that Zhang Yang's people stolen the camp and give them a look!

However, a group of people believed that due to the loss of the vanguard army of Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks, the huge losses brought by Zhang Yang and others, especially the death of the supreme leader, brought irreparable losses to them. Now the vanguard army of the Eastern Turks is divided and cannot be effectively integrated. Before selecting a new vanguard general, no one convinced the public due to the struggle for power and profit. It is impossible to pose a threat to Xiaoguan!

However, regardless of the views of the two factions, the common view of the two factions is that they cannot relax the city defense of Xiaoguan. In case that the Eastern Turks led by Jie Li Khan and Tuli Khan may appear at any time, they issued orders to strengthen their vigilance.

As for the current debate between the two factions, it is whether the Eastern Turkic vanguard army can be strongly integrated after just one or two days of chaos, and then launch a retaliatory attack on the Tang Dynasty defenders of Xiaoguan.

In fact, even if no one can integrate it, with the marching speed of the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan, Tuli Khan and others, the time when the central army arrives outside Xiaoguan, it will reach Xiaoguan in three or four days, and the troops will be at the city.

This comprehensive time gap is only one or two days, and the plan to lure the enemy into depth is not very big.

According to the original plan, the 70,000 army led by Qin Shubao should be heading to the Yellow River Ferry to capture the retreat of Jie Li Khan, Tuli Khan and others. They were eventually trapped and died in the barren land outside Xiaoguan, a boundary area of ​​Lingzhou, which belonged to Yuanzhou, and the Eastern Turks would be severely damaged after this battle, and they would not be able to organize enough military forces in the next few years!

Although the Eastern Turkic vanguard army did not continue to be in chaos, it did not have much impact on the overall situation of this battle, but it had a great impact on Xiaoguan, because it was related to the wealth and life of the countless Tang Dynasty defenders on the Xiaoguan city walls.

Now, after receiving reinforcements sent by the governor of Yuanzhou yesterday, the defenders of Xiaoguan finally reached a scale of 10,000.

After marching to Xiaoguan last evening, these six thousand reinforcements were enough to fight a few days of offensive and defensive battle with the 200,000 troops led by the Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan and the Tuli Khan, without falling behind. With the dangerous position of Xiaoguan, the enemy is not much different from tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.

The terrain is narrow. Even if Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks, Tu Li Khan invaded hundreds of thousands of troops of the entire clan, Xiaoguan only needs to face tens of thousands of troops outside Xiaoguan. Due to the terrain, the other enemy troops could not set up their formations at all and could only take turns to attack.

Having said that, Zhang Yang and others knew that the current Xiaoguan defense army had little problem in defending Xiaoguan. At least before the enemy of the Eastern Turks broke through Xiaoguan, the three armies of Qin Shubao, Hou Junji, and the governor of Lingzhou Rencheng, Li Daozong, were able to complete the encirclement of the 200,000 Eastern Turks who went south and began to end the battle.

After all, wars will kill people. Whether they win or fail, they are destined to die. It’s just that more deaths are killed, or whether the purpose of the battle is completed, it’s not about death. If you start a war, someone will be destined to die.

Since people are destined to die, more deaths and less deaths are so important.

As long as the vanguard army of the Eastern Turks continues to be in chaos and only integrates after the arrival of Jie Li Khan of the Eastern Turks, the time between the gap will be without war, and then Xiaoguan will not die in those few days.

In the end, when the battle to lure the enemy into deeper will be completed, more people in Xiaoguan will be able to survive.

If the vanguard camp of the Eastern Turks now could integrate with extremely fast time after chaos and launch a retaliatory fierce attack on Xiaoguan, then by this battle, Xiaoguan would have died a lot of people.

In order to visit the military information of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army, Zhang Yang and others sent all the scouts in Xiaoguan to inquire, in order to accurately obtain the military information of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army and to deploy more detailed military defense plans.

Fortunately, the emperor paid off. Just as Zhang Yang and others were arguing about this matter, the scouts they sent came back.

After hearing the news, Ran Hongzhi immediately looked at Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan, waiting for his next decision.

Although Xiao Guan now gathered 10,000 troops, the nominal supreme leader of Xiao Guan was still the guardian general of Xiao Guan. Before other high-ranking generals came to take over Xiao Guan’s city defense, no matter how many people came, the commander was Ran Hongzhi.

Even if Xiao Guan now gathers more than a dozen Tang troops in Zhe Chongxiafu, there are more than a dozen Zhe Chongwei, dozens of Guo Yi and other generals cannot shake Ran Hongzhi's leadership position, otherwise what would it be for him, Xiao Guan, to be the guardian.

However, Ran Hongzhi was obviously self-aware and knew that he had opened up all six orifices for marching and fighting. He was not good at it.

After he handed over the military command to Qin Liyan, he had no intention of taking it back. At least he had no such plan before the battle. After Zhang Yang came, Qin Liyan gave the command to Zhang Yang. Although Zhang Yang wanted it very much. However, he should not be greedy. He had already had great merits in killing Ashide's grass mud horses, and he also planned to compete with Qin Liyan for me. After the two of them gave in, Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan took a step back, ended peacefully, and commanded together. As for the more than ten Zhechong commanders who later wanted this command.

However, after knowing the identities of Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan, he acknowledged the command of the two, and did not feel dissatisfied.

Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan respected Ran Hongzhi for Ran Hongzhi. So after nodding gently, Ran Hongzhi said, "The scout is back! Why don't you ask them to come in? We are waiting for them here for so long, just wait for them to report the information of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army they found. It is time to discuss the next combat plan and further deploy Xiao Guan's defense!"

"It's General Ran. Then General will call the scouts in and report the military information to all the generals." After saying that, the general who came to report turned around and left the military conference hall where Zhang Yang and others were, and went to call someone.

After a while, the general walked in with a few scouts dressed in. Ran Hongzhi bowed and said, "Report to General, the last general Qu Deyuan has brought the scouts who went to inquire about the enemy's situation and report to the general what they found."

"Very good. Since you are here, then you will talk about the enemy situation you have found. This is important. You report it according to facts."

After Qu Deyuan finished speaking, Ran Hongzhi looked at several scouts and asked them: "Report to General, the young Hao Gaoyang was ordered by the scout brigade commander Qu Deyuan this morning, and went to the enemy camp to investigate the enemy situation with Lu Hanyi, Yan Zhengqing and Wei Yingrui. Once we received the order from brigade commander Qu Deyuan, we left the pass early this morning to inquire about the military situation.

We followed the horse hoof prints that came yesterday by Zhang Duwei, and searched for the enemy camp of the Eastern Turkic vanguard army.

On the way closer to the enemy camp, we found that many Eastern Turkic scouts along the way began patrolling twenty miles away from the enemy camp.

So I, Wang Yingrui, Lu Hanyi, Hao Gaoyang, and others hid the horses in the dense forest and left Wang Yingrui to take care of him. After disguising ourselves, we lurked and hid all the way. Finally, after spending more than half an hour, the enemy camp approached, and arrived at that place, which was probably Zhang Duwei and others. We launched a night attack on the enemy camp, which was a hidden hill. Since we were already within the observation range of the enemy camp's post-strike, we observed on the hill.

During the more than half an hour we observed the enemy camp, we met more than ten enemy scouts in which area took turns patrolling.

On average, there was a team of scouts passing by the hills beneath us. If we hadn't been hiding well, we would have almost been exposed several times. It was obvious that the enemy had strengthened the defense of the enemy camp and strengthened the patrol after being attacked by Zhang Duwei at night.

At the same time, we also found that the enemy camp has now returned to normal from the chaos after the night attack by Duwei Zhang and his men!"

"You read that right. The enemy has really restored the normal marching order. This is impossible. With the military qualities of the Eastern Turks, how could it be possible to return to normal from the chaos of losing the leading general in such a short time? This is not in line with common sense. You read that right?"

He had always believed that he knew the Eastern Turks quite well. He had been fighting with his army for many years and had been fighting with his army. He roughly interrupted Hao Gaoyang's speech and asked loudly, obviously he did not believe in the information about Hao Gaoyang's inquiry.

Indeed, with the military qualities shown by the Eastern Turks over the years, it is impossible for them to recover their combat effectiveness so quickly after facing such a heavy blow, especially when this pioneer general was Ashide's mud horse, which is even more impossible.

Regarding Ashide's grass mud horse, Le Zheng Junxiong knows him better than Zhang Yang, Qin Liyan, Ran Hongzhi, Zhuge Haoqiong, Yuwen Ruihao and others.

Because he had been dealing with Ashide's grass and mud horses for many years, when the Eastern Turks went south to Lingzhou and disturbed each other, he would basically take his Zhexia Mansion to Lingzhou to support the governor of Lingzhou, Rencheng King Li Daozong, and fight with the Eastern Turks' army to the south to invade the border.

Therefore, the number one executioner is very well-understood by Ashidecao Nima, Jie Li Khan's confidant.

I know that although he was Jie Li Khan's beloved general, he was not the Shi Jin of the Ashide clan. To be precise, he loved you wholeheartedly after failing to compete with Ashide clan's Shi Jin's position.

In this way, because Ashide grass and mud horses were not Ashide who had been waiting for the jin. He was just a wandering general and had no real supporters.

In order to tie the Ashide grass mud horse to his chariot, Jie Li Khan made him work wholeheartedly for him. Although he raised his official position very high, he did not divide his tribes to him, which caused him to be a general every time he went to war.

In fact, the military force that really belongs to him is just the two or three thousand people he has accumulated over the years. The others are either the warriors of other tribes or the soldiers under Jie Li Khan. However, the pioneers are usually composed of warriors from other tribes.

No, it is because the vanguard army has the highest proportion of casualties. In order to consolidate its position, strengthen its tribe's strength, and at the same time weaken the military strength of other tribes, this destination for the stone and number of birds, so Ashide grass and mud horses usually lead people from other tribes to fight.

There were already many contradictions between the tribes of the Eastern Turks. If it weren't for the pressure of the external environment and the suppression of Jie Li Khan, civil strife would have long been initiated. Even so, several internal wars would be launched between the tribes every year.

Now the vanguard army of the Eastern Turks has no suppression of the vanguard general Ashidecao Nima. Logically speaking, the tribes that formed the vanguard army of the Eastern Turks should be quarreling endlessly for the position of vanguard general of this vanguard army.

Although it is not as serious as the entire martial arts, it is even more impossible to resolve the conflicts between all parties within a day!

This is why Le Zheng Junxiong suddenly lost his beauty after hearing the enemy situation that Hao Gaoyang discovered, because he didn't believe that according to the past practice, it was impossible for the East Turkic vanguard army to complete a compromise in all aspects in such a short time.

Although Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan were quite unhappy about Le Zheng Junxiong's impolite behavior, they were here to support themselves. Besides, since Le Zheng Junxiong said this must have his own reason, you must know that such words cannot be said casually.

Ran Hongzhi, who was signaled by Zhang Yang and Qin Liyan, spoke and asked Le Zheng Junxiong after Le Zheng Junxiong said: "Prince Le Zheng, why did you say that the situation that Scout Hao and the others had just discovered was incorrect? I think you must have your reasons. Please tell me and let us know why you judged that Scout Hao was wrong!"

Although Ran Hongzhi asked Le Zheng Junxiong in a very serious tone, he was also comforting Hao Gaoyang, Lu Hanyi, Yan Zhengqing and Yingrui, who were startled by Le Zheng Junxiong, comforting Hao Gaoyang, Lu Hanyi, Yan Zhengqing and Yingrui, after all, he believed that the scouts he photographed would not tell lies to deceive him.

Le Zheng Junxiong, who reacted at this time, also said embarrassedly in Ran Hongzhi's serious tone: "Report to General, I only know more about the Eastern Turks than most of the people here, especially the enemy vanguard general Ashide Cao Muma, who was killed by Zhang Duwei. I have fought with him. After years of dealing with him, it can be said that he has an abnormal infiltration, and I know him..."

As Le Zheng Junxiong finished telling what he learned, everyone knew why Le Zheng Junxiong interrupted Hao Gaoyang's report. If they knew these situations, they would probably not be able to control themselves and suddenly asked. After all, they were soldiers, not politicians, and they did not have such a deep cunning life. In addition, the current host is not a famous general in the world. After all, Ran Hongzhi's official power is not enough.

Hao Gaoyang, who was watched by many senior officials in the army, was also a little panicked and quickly defended: "General Ran, General Zhang, General Qin, and all the commanders, the young man said it is true, it is really true that the young man saw it with his own eyes!

When all the generals faced me, how dare I lie? If all the generals don’t believe me, you can ask me Lu Hanyi and Yan Zhengqing who were with me, and they investigated the situation of the enemy camp with me. They have also seen what the younger one said. Please observe clearly!"

After Hao Gaoyang finished speaking, Lu Hanyi and Yan Zhengqing, who were standing beside him, hurriedly said: "Report to all generals, what Hao Gaoyang said just now was indeed what the young people saw with their own eyes. If there were any lies, the young people would be willing to engage in military law!"

As soon as this "military law is engaged in" is expressed, everyone knows that what they are talking about is the facts, otherwise how dare they issue this military order?

At this point, everyone was puzzled. How could the vanguard army of the Eastern Turks gather in such a short time? This shouldn’t be!

However, Zhang Yang seemed to understand a lot and said, "After killing Ashide Grass Mud Horse, I heard that the vanguard of the enemy camp was waiting for the jin Ashidewu to sip. I think this is the reason why the enemy will gather again so soon."

When they heard that it was Ashidewu, everyone showed a look like this.

Then, when Hao Gaoyang continued to talk about the matter, they found the enemy situation.

"Report to General, after the young men had investigated for half an hour, we found a commotion in the enemy camp, as if there were troops gathering. So the young men hurriedly retreated. The young men were putting their horses and renounced with Na Yingrui, after a while, a team of thousands of enemies passed by.

The young men quickly followed him on horseback. Less than five miles away from Tongxin County, the young men found that the cavalry was running towards Tongxin County. After discovering this situation, the young men immediately rode back and reported it!”!~!
Chapter completed!