Zhang Xuan came out of Yun Dingxing's central army tent. He had just walked a few steps, but a black shadow stopped him. Several personal soldiers around him hurriedly drew their swords. Zhang Xuan stopped his personal soldiers. He recognized the other party. It turned out to be Li Shimin. ∑,

"Is there anything wrong with Mr. Li looking for me?"

"Does the general want to attack the Turks?" Li Shimin asked.

Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "Do you have any suggestions for Mr. Li?"

Li Shimin stepped forward and said, "In the Guandu War, Cao was weak and Yuan strong, but Cao Cao sneaked into Wuchao, causing Yuan Shao's military rations to be exhausted and defeated. I think the situation today is similar to Guandu. Why didn't General Zhang sneak attack the Turkic food and grass land and force the Turkic troops to withdraw?"

Zhang Xuan secretly praised him. This Li Shimin is indeed well-known and has a sharp look. He can see the weakness of the Turkic army at a glance. Zhang Xuan smiled and said, "I have this kind of consideration, too."

Li Shimin hurriedly said: "I am willing to follow the general to attack, and I beg the general to allow it!"

"Your father's side..."

"There is no problem with my father. He usually just asks me. In addition, I also want to bring my third brother Xuanba with me so that he can also have some practical experience."

Zhang Xuan smiled happily and said, "We will set out tomorrow at the fifth day of the day. If the young master can get up, just follow us!"

Li Shimin bowed and bowed, "I will definitely arrive early!"

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Before dawn the next day, Zhang Xuan's 6,000 troops began to gather quickly. Yun Dingxing was very efficient in doing things. Last night, he allocated five thousand war horses to him and prepared five days of dry food for each soldier, and arranged them overnight.

At the fourth update of the day, Zhang Xuan's army stood up to have breakfast and became familiar with war horses. Zhang Xuan ordered Yuchi Gong and Pei Xingyan to be the vanguards and led a thousand cavalry to explore the way first. He and Li Jing led a five thousand troops to take a step back, while Yang Shanhui stayed at Loufan Pass.

"General, Mr. Li is here."

Zhang Xuan turned around and saw Li Shimin walking quickly in his armor. He was following his brother Li Xuanba. Li Xuanba was still carrying his drum beating golden hammer and black helmet and black armor. From a distance, he looked like a piece of black charcoal.

This time, Li Xuanba, the king of the north, acted very low-key and followed his father all the time. If Li Shimin had not followed Zhang Xuan north this time, he would not have shown up. But it was obvious that he was very excited, with his small eyes glowing brightly.

Li Shimin went up and bowed, "Let the general wait for a long time."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "If the young master is ready, we will set off."

“We’re ready.”

Zhang Xuan turned over and shouted loudly: "Go!"

He rode his horse and rushed outside Loufan Pass, and the cavalry team behind him ran northwest like a torrent.

Just one hour after Zhang Xuan traveled, Yun Dingxing led an army of 50,000 and left Loufan Pass, heading north slowly, pretending to go east to Yanmen County. He needed to restrain the Turkic army for Zhang Xuan, and at the same time he also wanted to cover up their intention to travel north for Zhang Xuan.

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Five thousand cavalrymen ran in the vast canyon, with cliffs and lush forests on both sides, which was a very hidden road between the north and the south. They were two hundred miles away from the Zihe Channel where the Turkic army headed south, and more than a hundred miles away from the Mayi Traffic Road.

This road is called the wolf path. As the name suggests, it is the path taken by wolves. Wolves appear all year round. Even dozens of people walk together, they dare not walk, so they are rarely visited all year round.

Five thousand cavalrymen were sailing northwards with lightning sounds, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, rumbled and echoed in the valley because no Pei Xingyan's subordinates came back to report the news. Zhang Xuan knew that the vanguard had not encountered any danger when he went north.

At this time, Li Shimin urged the horse to catch up with Zhang Xuan and asked in a low voice: "The general already knows the important location of the Turkic army's logistics?"

Li Shimin discovered that the Sui army was extremely targeted, so he vaguely guessed that Zhang Xuan had already obtained information.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly. "Let's go to Yunnei County!"

Li Shimin was shocked, "That must be at the foot of Wuzhou Mountain."

"How do you know?"

"The food of the Turks must be millions of sheep. There is no place to raise sheep in Yungang County. There is a large pasture at the foot of Wuzhou Mountain, extending all the way to the Sanggan River, and you can go directly south into Yanmen County. There is no need to take a detour to Shanyang County, and take hundreds of miles away. This is very important for logistics transportation."

Zhang Xuan smiled: "Young Master is very familiar with Mayi County! Have you been here before?"

Li Shimin felt a little embarrassed, "I'm not hiding it with General, this is my first time here, but I spent a lot of time preparing before. Even if I haven't been here, the terrain of Mayi County is already very familiar."

Li Shimin pointed to a large mountain in front, "In front is Bailang Mountain, Mayi County. It is east-west, and it stretches everything from Mayi County for thousands of miles, but there are more than a dozen mountain passes that can pass through Bailang Mountain. The most famous mountain pass is called Bailang Pass, which is the only way to the business road, about eighty miles east of us."

Zhang Xuan asked with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Li is indeed familiar with the terrain of Mayi County. So, has the young master studied the road we are taking?"

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "I have seen in the Mayi local chronicles that there is a secret road 80 miles west of the White Wolf Pass through the mountains. The valley is deep and rarely visited. There are wolves from time to time, so it is called Wolf Road, which is a shortcut to Wuzhou Mountain!"

Li Jing laughed loudly when he heard this, "Young Master said it's a good idea. Walking through Bailang Mountain and then forward for 300 miles is Wuzhou Mountain. This is the closest road to Wuzhou Mountain. However, the book will not write about how to go. Only those who have walked it a few times will know."

"Mr. I have taught me a good lesson. Traveling thousands of miles is better than reading thousands of books. I told me five years ago."

"You know each other?" Zhang Xuan asked strangely.

Li Jing nodded, "I have taught military tactics in Wuchuan Prefecture for several years, and the second young master seems to have come to listen to my class."

Zhang Xuan remembered that Li Jing was originally a doctoral student from Dou Qing, but was eliminated from the list of Wuchuan Mansion by Dugu Shun, who was highly employed in blood.

At this time, someone shouted in front of him: "It's going to enter the hole!"

The cavalry team turned their horses to the west, left the valley avenue, ran up a small path, and rushed into a three-meter-high and two-meter-wide cave in the distance. Li Jing smiled and said, "Second Young Master, this is the wolf's den, you didn't say it in your book!"

Li Shimin shook his head, "There is no record in the book. If I didn't leave once, I really don't know."

Everyone accelerated their horses and ran towards the gloomy cave. This was a natural cave that was more than ten miles long. After passing through this cave, the vast grassland suddenly appeared in front of them...

Yunnei County is today's Datong, Shanxi. It is located east of Wuzhou Mountain. To the north is Baideng Mountain surrounded by the Huns.

Two hundred years ago, after the Xianbei people established the Northern Wei Dynasty, they established their capital in Yunnei County, making Yunnei County the most prosperous capital in the north of the border. The famous Yungang Grottoes are at the foot of Wuzhou Mountain west of Yungang County.

However, as the Northern Wei Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang and the passage of time, Yungang was gradually flooded by the sandstorm of time, the prosperity of the capital faded, the glorious buildings of the past became ruins, and Yungang County also became an important town in the northern part of Mayi County.

Although Yunnei County is an important town in the northern part of Mayi County, the logistics location of the Turkic army this time was not in Yunnei County, but on the grassland about fifty miles southeast of Yunnei County, close to the middle of the Sanggan River.

This place was originally a refuge for the previous Turkic Khan in the Sui Dynasty. Shibi Khan grew up here, and he was very familiar with this area.

But Shibi Khan set up the main logistics site of the army here not because it was his hometown where he grew up, but because its strategic location is extremely important.

Since the Huns era, Yunnei County has been a strategic location for the nomadic peoples to invade the Central Plains in the south. From here, you can go south to Mayi Road and enter Bingzhou, or go east along the Sanggan River to Junduxing to enter Youzhou, and the cavalry can even go to Feihu Road to enter Hebei.

This time, the Turkic army brought millions of sheep as military rations. Tens of thousands of sheep were rushed to Yanmen County every day, ensuring the food security of the 300,000 Turkic army.

The grassland logistics base where the logistics center is located covers an area of ​​about 5,000 acres, consisting of thousands of large tents and three sheep pens covering hundreds of acres each. Ten thousand troops are stationed here to protect the safety of the logistics center.

This was not only a heavy food area for the Turks, but also a place for their trophy storage. This time, the Turkic army marched south to plunder Dingxiang, Yulin and Mayi counties, and plundered countless cattle and sheep and tens of thousands of young women.

When they retreat, they will bring the plundered population back to the grassland. This is the tradition of the nomadic peoples in the grassland for thousands of years. Women are also their wealth. They not only milk and make clothes for them, but also have to give birth to children and raise their offspring.

Shibi Khan thought that the Sui army coming from Hebei might attack his logistics location, so he deployed 20,000 troops in Lingqiu County, and 8,000 cavalry in Yangyuan Town, middle reaches of the Sanggan River, and firmly focused on Wang Shichong's army coming from Shanggu County and Luo Yi's army coming from Zhuo County.
Chapter completed!