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Chapter 43 Harsh Conditions

Crossing Dajin Mountain and heading north is the vast grassland. On this endless grassland, there is a small river flowing east-west, called Sulan River. Legend has it that it is a river formed by a girl named Sulan to save the arid grassland. This river is as quiet as a girl, slender and long as it has a hundred miles of origin, and is calm all year round. "/"/"/"

The Sulan River is about 300 miles away from the border of the Sui Dynasty. Shibi Khan's logistics camp is located on the south bank of the Sulan River. It is a vast camp with a large tent that stretches for more than ten miles, living with more than 10,000 herders and 15,000 troops, guarding millions of cattle and sheep and countless hay. This is the military ration for the 400,000 Turkic army. Every day, soldiers are specially transported to drive tens of thousands of cattle and sheep to the military camp. Cattle and sheep are endless on the grassland. There must be a large group of cattle and sheep appearing fifty or sixty miles apart.

But on the seventh day, the army transporting cattle and sheep was attacked by the Sui army.

Su Dingfang led 5,000 cavalry to run all the way. They relied on hunting the Turkic cattle and sheep along the way as supplies. They found the location of the Turkic logistics camp as early as the fifth day, but Su Dingfang was not in a hurry to attack. When he was in Yiwu County, he was humble and reckless, he left him the most profound lesson in his life. From then on, he thought twice before doing anything.

He must understand all the situations of the opponent's troops, the route of cattle and sheep transport, the number of herders and equipment, how many cattle and sheep are there, how the camp is stationed, etc.

It took two days for Su Dingfang to find out the situation of the Turkic Army's logistics camp and formulate a combat plan.

In the big tent, Su Dingfang was deploying his combat plan to the five Ying Yanglang generals. He drew a sketch on a large piece of paper.

"This long river is the Sulan River!"

Su Dingfang pointed at a long river with a wooden pole, and drew countless circles to the south. "This is their camp, with more than 3,000 tents. It is about fifteen miles long and 15,000 troops are divided into two places. One is on the west, about five thousand people, and the other is in the middle, about ten thousand people, with a tight defense. It is not realistic for us to attack the camp directly, but I have a way."

Su Dingfang moved the wooden pole to the south, and on the long road, a group of sheep were drawn at a distance on the road. The generals all laughed and painted quite funny.

Su Dingfang smiled and said, "This is the military ration route they went south. They bypassed the eastern foot of Dajin Mountain, passed through Fuqibo, and went straight to Yanmen City. If it was a cavalry, it would take four days, but they drove cattle and sheep. This journey was at least six days. In other words, there were six military ration transport teams on the road, each army had tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.*...*.*.*200 shepherds and 500 soldiers guarding us. Our primary task was to attack the food team on the road. But in this way, the enemy would definitely increase the food protection army, and the corresponding number of troops in the camp decreased, which created conditions for us to attack the camp."

Su Dingfang's eyes fell on Lang General Yao Dingguo, "General Yao, the task of attacking the food road is left to you. My request is only four words, kill them all!"

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On the grassland south of the Sulan River, there is a "horse road" made of hundreds of thousands of war horses, which leads directly to Yanmen County in the south. Every day, a team of grain transporters drives tens of thousands of cattle and sheep to the south. There is still 300 miles from Sulan River to Dajin Mountain. It takes three days to walk, and about every hundred miles, there is a huge cattle and sheep team.

At noon that day, on the grassland about 240 miles away from the Sulan River, an escort team was stopping to rest and eat, and a group of cattle and sheep were eating grass leisurely. Hundreds of soldiers and herdsmen were lying on the grassland, some fell asleep, some looked bored at the sky, and some gathered together, talking about the eternal topic of men, and burst into a wild laugh from time to time.

This time, the 400,000 troops that Suishibi Khan went south were not all Turkic people. Half of them were the various Tiel tribes, Uighurs, Sijie, Tongluo, Bayegu and other nine Tiel tribes, about 200,000 troops to provide for Shibi Khan's trend. The 15,000 troops responsible for the logistics of the Bayegu tribe were soldiers sent by the Bayegu tribe, who lived in the Edun River area. Their equipment was still the same as before. Even the Turks only had the same equipment as the Sui army.

This is the depth of the grassland. Their enemies were only wild wolves in the grassland. The soldiers of the Baye Gu tribe were not wary. At this time, a row of small black dots appeared on the grass hill in the distance. They rushed down the grass hill and rushed towards this side. Large groups of black dots continued to gush out of the grass hill, which were a thousand entire cavalry.

The fierce sound of horse hooves alarmed the soldiers lying on the grass. Many people jumped up and looked into the distance. After a moment, they began to shout. The cavalrymen boarded their horses and responded in a hurry. More than 200 herders rushed eastward with cattle and sheep.

A thousand Sui cavalry roared, and dense arrows shot towards the soldiers of Baye Gu. The enemy soldiers screamed and fell off the horse. The two armies collided in an instant and fought fiercely on the grassland. Dozens of Sui soldiers chased the herdsmen. Although the herdsmen also had swords, they were far from rivaling the well-weaponed Sui army. In a moment, dozens of herdsmen were killed, and screamed in pain. The other herdsmen were scared to death, leaving cattle and sheep, and desperately struck horses to escape eastward.

The Sui army did not chase after him and began to slaughter cattle and sheep. The blood stained the grass red. In less than a quarter of an hour, the soldiers of the five hundred baye Gu began to fail to support him and quickly collapsed. They fled out of the battlefield and fled northeast. The Sui army chased and chased for more than ten miles and killed 300 people.

When the fire burning the corpse was ignited, the command of the Lang General Yao Dingguo, the Sui soldiers turned their horses and headed south, chasing another target.

Within a day and a night, two grain-delivery teams were massacred, which meant that the 400,000 troops in the south would be out of food for two days. The logistics army realized that something was wrong, so they sent a 3,000 grain-protecting team to rush to the south to protect the other four grain teams. At the same time, they changed the grain delivery plan and increased the escort army to 3,000 people, and the number of cattle and sheep delivered at one time increased to 200,000 heads. This was three days of food.

The army of the camp began to decrease rapidly. Su Dingfang's army lurked like a wolves in the grassland, waiting patiently for the opportunity. On the third day, another team of 3,000 people guarded 200,000 cattle and sheep, which reduced the number of troops in the camp to 4,000, and the opportunity finally came.

At night, Su Dingfang led 4,000 cavalry to wait ten miles east of the camp. The cold moonlight shone on the 4,000 cavalry, adding a solemn and murderous aura. Su Dingfang was holding a silver helmet and iron armor, holding a golden-backed tiger-toothed sword in his hand, and was at the forefront of the team. He immediately stood with his sword and his eyes were coldly waiting for the situation in the military camp to happen.

Due to the continuous incidents of the Sui army attacking the grain transport team, Ye Hususa, the chief general in charge of logistics security, sent people to Yanmen County to report Shibi Khan, and also strengthened the control of the camp and compressed the originally sixteen-mile-long camp to ten miles, so as to facilitate military patrol. Every night, five hundred-man patrol teams patrol back and forth in the camp to prevent the Sui army's night attack. Even so, the huge team of millions of livestock still made it difficult for them to cover everything.

At the first update, a scream suddenly broke out from the camp on the west side, and then the fire light rushed into the camp. A group of Sui cavalry with thousands of people rushed into the camp. They killed everyone and lit the tent. There were wailing screams. The cattle and sheep in the circle were frightened and fled in all directions.

Ye Hususa, the Baye Gu tribe, urgently led 4,000 cavalry to fight. They ran westward, while the terrified herders fled eastward.

At this time, on the grassland ten miles east, Su Dingfang saw the fire from afar. He waved his sword and pointed at the camp, and ordered coldly: "Kill me! No matter how men, women, old and young, there is no one left."

Four thousand cavalry suddenly launched and rushed towards the Turkic camp. After a moment, the Sui army cavalry rushed into the east camp, killing the Turkic herdsmen's heads and blood flowed into a river. The torch lit the tent, and the steep fire rushed straight into the sky, reflecting the night sky on the grassland red...

In August of the 11th year of Daye, five thousand Sui cavalry, led by General Su Dingfang, attacked the Turkic logistics area at night, killing tens of thousands of enemies, and millions of livestock were poisoned by the Sui army's poisonous weeds in two days, completely destroying the logistics area of ​​the 400,000 army.

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Xixing Pass is known as the leader of the Nine Passes. The majestic pass is surrounded by the mountain and is lying high on Gouzhu Mountain. One man is at the pass, and tens of thousands of men cannot open. At this time, Xixing Pass has been occupied by the Turks, and an army of thousands of people is stationed, controlling the throat road from Mayi County to Yanmen County.

The night was shrouded in Xixing Pass. The sky was gloomy and the moon hid in the dark clouds, making the night at Xixing Pass particularly dark. At the third watch, the city gate had already been closed. On the top of the city, more than a dozen Turkic posts were patrolling back and forth, watching the movements outside the pass.

But behind Xixing Pass, a team of more than 800 Sui army scouts had approached quietly. They were led by Lang General Wu Zhiyuan and took a desperate bet. The cliffs on their way to the road were particularly dangerous and could only go down, but not up. If they could not seize Xixing Pass, they would be unable to escape and would be wiped out.

But the Turkic army never dreamed that the Sui army scouts appeared behind them, but there were still two Turkic sentries patrolling the city wall behind Xixing Pass.

Wu Zhiyuan slowly approached with several scouts. They observed for a while and confirmed that there were only two sentries. Wu Zhiyuan winked at another archer scout. The two took off military crossbows from their backs, put a crossbow arrow coated with papamu poison into the arrow groove, and raised the crossbow and aimed at the two sentries.

‘Click! Click!’ Two light sounds, crossbow arrows shot out like lightning, and the two sentries groaned and covered their throats and fell from the city one after another. Several Sui soldiers rushed up quickly and used their sleek ropes to climb up the city like monkeys. In just a moment, the city gate slowly opened.

Wu Zhiyuan was overjoyed. With a wave of his hand, the eight hundred Sui army scouts rushed into Xixing Pass...

The Sui army successfully attacked Xixing Pass at night, and most of the Turkic defenders were killed in their sleep. At the fourth update, Xixing Pass fell into the hands of the Sui army.

The unexpected loss of Xixing Pass cut off the connection between the two Turkic armies in Kanto and Kansai. What's more serious is that the 100,000 Turkic army that was confronting the Fengzhou army was facing the crisis of cutting off food supply.

......(To be continued...)

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