Chapter 463
In the night, a white carrier pigeon flew into the military capital.
The pigeon was croaking, and Xu Guang, a pigeon trainer at the pigeon station, immediately heard the sound, carefully picked up the pigeon and took off the attached small bamboo message tube from its legs. "Hey, my little baby, it's beautifully done. Reward you the wheat rice mixed with fish meal and locust powder. This is your best food." Xu Guang held the pigeon that had just returned from the letter into a clean empty cage, and immediately brought it a specially prepared pigeon food. The pigeon was croaking, happily eating this nutrient-rich and protein-rich feed. After doing all this, he took out his notepad, first recorded the number of the pigeon's legs, and wrote the time when the pigeon flew back and the number on the message tube on his feet. After the record was completed, he copied another copy and presented it to his boss with the pigeon's letter.
Yi Feng stood alone on the city gate tower of Jundu Pass.
Since he arrived at the military gate, he has been thinking about a question whether he should go to war. Yi Feng once did not like the severe cold in the north, but as time passed, he gradually got used to it, and even fell in love with the scenery outside the frontier and even his coldness.
Yi Feng has always not believed in gods and Buddhas, and he believes in people more.
Because of this, he never wanted to hand over his destiny to others and be controlled by others. A real man should not be powerless for a day, but where does power come from? Yi Feng understands that power does not come from his background, nor his royal status, and even his grandson status is just false. He firmly believes that real power comes from his military power, just like the saying that power comes from the barrel of a gun, Yi Feng firmly believes that. When the Sui Dynasty reached its peak, it was already facing a turning point of prosperity and decline. Everyone wanted to fight for the throne, and whether Yi Feng wanted to fight or not, he was already involved in this battle, and the loser of the fight would definitely be miserable. He did not want to be imprisoned in the capital for the rest of his life, nor did he want to be enfeoffed to Nanyue to be a barbarian king.
But now there is another good opportunity in front of him, a very good opportunity. Gao Yang wanted to watch the fire from the other side of the river, but he originally wanted to preserve his strength. However, the development of the situation is strongly tilting towards his own side. Li Jing and a battalion of cavalry have disrupted the situation in Daibei, and Dou Jiande commanded the Chengde infantry and achieved unexpected victory.
What a surprise.
He leaned against the stool and rubbed his fingers against the rough brick surface.
This is a rare opportunity. Should I change my plan and take advantage of the situation to win the victory in one fell swoop? Gao Yang was holding troops and wanted to wait for the Turks and I to suffer both defeat. But what if I defeated the invading Turkic army with just one's own strength? Am I old and so conservative? Should I give up this opportunity? I just waited for Gao Yang. Could it be that Gao Yang would not come, and just sat and watched the Turks come here to rob, and then left with fear and fear? Thinking of the ambition in his heart, thinking of how he thought about how to change the fate of the Sui Dynasty, avoid the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, avoid the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty, and avoid the chaos in the dawn of thousands of dawns, and thinking of using what I know to change this era and make this era better. Why do I just keep thinking about stability now, and his passion?
But
The Turks still had more than 100,000 troops in Daibei, especially Li Jing's troops have not yet heard of them. Is it appropriate to leave the city to attack? The old thief Gao Yang has been holding troops and attacking by himself. Will it eventually be a defeat with the Turks and let Gao Yang reap the benefits?
"Your Highness, General Li San is asking for a meeting." Li Mi said softly, not as if he wanted to disturb Yi Feng's contemplation. In his mind, His Royal Highness the Grandpa must be thinking about the overall situation at this time, and every thought and action are related to the fate of dozens and millions of soldiers and civilians. "A pigeon is back." Li Mi admires the pigeons of Mr. Li very much. The little birds can quickly communicate news from all over the country. "It is the pigeon sent back by General Li Jing."
Yi Feng turned around suddenly when he heard this, and Bei looked at the red clouds all over the sky, "Please come up quickly."
Li San and Li Guest Master were light and he was in a state of peace during this period. First, his elder brother, the King of Medicine, was trapped in Heng'an Town and was trapped in a siege. It was almost like a life-and-death situation. Then the second brother, the pharmacist, broke into the heart of the Turks's tens of thousands. After losing news for many days, how could he not be anxious? However, today the Turks received the pigeons sent back by the second brother, the pharmacist, and the situation was very good.
The situation is not very good.
Mr. Li almost trotted up the city tower. When he saw Yi Feng's face, he said happily, "Congratulations to Your Highness, good news, great news." Because he was so happy, he was not careful and stepped on the air at the last few steps and almost fell down. Fortunately, the guard next to him was quick-eyed and quickly helped him.
"I heard that there is news about Li Jing?" Yi Feng asked impatiently.
"Yes, Your Highness, good news." Li Keshi, nicknamed Bird Thieves, replied that the three brothers of the Li family, the eldest brother and the second brother of the pharmacist, can fight well. The eldest brother of the pharmacist inherited his father's title in his early years. He had been in the army for many years and is now a general in the court. Although the second brother of the pharmacist, although he had been a civil servant in his early years, he is now a military officer and has followed His Royal Highness the Grand Prince, but he is also highly appreciated by the Grand Prince and is very respected. In a short time, he is now considered a Grand Prince under the Grand Prince.
The general is now. Although the third brother, Li Keshi, also from a military general family, has been very good at swords and guns since he was a child. He likes birds and concentrates on raising birds and taming birds. He was once thought to be unemployed, but now he is also learning and has gained some appreciation and support from his grandson and established a flying pigeon transmission system. Although he has not yet achieved great success, the current situation is already very praised by his grandson. "The pharmacist ambushed the Daman tribe at Shaliangpo, Yuquanyi, at the junction of Tiancheng and Huaian, and a great victory!"
"Oh!" Yi Feng was excited and quickly took Li Jing's flying letter from Li San. The letter was not long, but the content was quite exciting. Three days ago, after Li Jing captured Tiancheng and lured several nearby Turkic soldiers in Tiancheng County, he blunt his flag in Tiancheng and made a persistent move. In secret, he led his army out of the city in the middle of the night and marched to Shaliangpo, Yuquanyi, which bordered Huaian to Huaian in the north of Tiancheng. When Daman led 10,000 troops from Huaian City to Tiancheng to pass Shaliangpo, he was suddenly ambushed by Li Jing's troops.
What came out was not the five thousand Han cavalry learned from Daman's intelligence, but the Han and Fan cavalry with more than 15,000 people. In addition to Li Jing's sixth cavalry, which had almost no reduction in personnel, there were 24 temporary Fan cavalry regiments. This ambush battle caught Daman off guard, and what surprised Daman even more was that Li Jing, who ambushed him, did not use the Han army's long tactics against the grassland cavalry, and used infantry formations or chariot formations. Li Jing directly used the cavalry skills of the light cavalry.
Holding three thousand Huaihuang cavalry in his hand, plus more than 12,000 Turkic cavalry from Poshi and others, Li Jing was very bold and generous in his army. He directly asked the Turkic generals such as Poshi to lead the army to attack fiercely. Both sides launched a large-scale cavalry battle on Shaliangpo. Li Jing used Turkic cavalry to attack Turkic cavalry, and used Turkic tactics to attack Turkic people, and used more attacks and fewer attacks, waiting for hard work, and even prepared for attack without defense. The war was quite smooth. Daman betrayed the Turkic uncle Poshi, and he could not reverse the situation at all. The battle lasted for a whole day and night, and Daman insisted and did not want to retreat. He was waiting for his reinforcements. Not far behind him was the 10,000 cavalry sent by Kuhezhen, which was not far from him. He had been waiting for these ten thousand soldiers.
But he waited for a day and a night, and finally his 10,000 troops were almost killed or injured. After his final collapse, he could not wait for An Xida's ten thousand troops. He had no idea that when he was ambushed by Li Jing, An Xida had received the order of Kuhezhen to retreat to the front of the army, and was also ambushed halfway. However, what he encountered was the ambush of 10,000 Chengde infantry led by Dou Jiande, but the result was the same. An Xida was killed as soon as the war started, and his subordinates were eventually surrounded by the Chengde army. After a tragic fight, more than 30% of the people died in the battle. The rest were forced to surrender after they could not break out.
The other reinforcements Daman was counting on were similar.
The two troops of Kuhezhen and Daman of Weizhou also sent troops to aid, but the general manager of Yizhou Li Yuan received the order of Yi Feng and joined forces with the brothers of Yingzhou and Hengzhou Yuan to launch an attack on Weizhou. Although it was just a harassment, it was very popular and made great efforts, which forced the two Turkic troops of Weizhou to quickly summoned the troops sent back. However, the troops sent from Yunnei were far away and difficult to reach for a while.
Before setting off, Daman was full of confidence and asked five armies to encircle Tiancheng and peel off the five thousand Han troops who dared to break into the heart of more than 100,000 Turkic army. As a result, when he was attacked, no one from the left and right helped him, and the Han army took the lead in defeating him.
What he didn't expect was that he had always believed in his heart that his uncle, Poshi, who was leading troops to find the Sui army to fight, had already turned to the Sui army. In this short period of time, he had helped the Sui army recruit more than 10,000 Turkic troops, and now he has killed him.
Daman was unable to turn the world back and could not wait for reinforcements.
After a day and night of fighting, the Daman tribe collapsed completely, and nearly half of the seriously injured people died in battle. Although the rest fled, most of them were eventually chased and captured. Only Daman fled back to the camp under Huaian City with his elite cavalry.
If the battle ends here, it is already very good. But Li Jing is much more courageous than Yi Feng. After winning the Shaliangpo victory, Li Jing did not take advantage of the victory to chase Huaian City. Instead, he returned to Tiancheng again. After a brief rest, he led his army to the bank of Baideng River southwest of Tiancheng to set up an ambush again. Li Jing doesn't care about using the same tactic twice, as long as it works. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations, monthly votes, and your support are my greatest motivation.)
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