In the early morning, smoke rose from the Zhou army camp standing around the hills. The chefs used marching picnic carts to cook and prepare breakfast for the soldiers of the army.

Yuwen Wen, who had been sleeping all night, was standing on the top of the mountain, bathing in the morning light, looking at the good news in his hand, and speechless for a long time.

In the early morning three days ago, the marching chief Li Jing led 15,000 cavalry to attack the tent of the Eastern Turkic Khan, Chuluo Khan. With the support of the Guli Cadre tribe, he defeated the Eastern Turkic army.

In that battle, more than 20,000 people were killed in the formation and more than 200,000 were captured (with the assistance of friendly forces that arrived later), hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and the Eastern Turkic nobles died and surrendered.

Chuluo Khan fell off his horse in the chaos and was captured by the Zhou army. However, because of his serious injuries, he died not long after sunrise that day.

There is no doubt that this was a great victory. The Eastern Turkic tent (the royal court) was destroyed, the Great Khan died, the Little Khan was injured and the Eastern Turkic was killed, the main army of the Eastern Turkic was finished, and the Eastern Turkic was about to finish.

Yuwen Wen looked at the "anti-counterfeiting mark" on the good news repeatedly, and after confirming that it was correct, he handed it over to the military officer: "Announce this good news to all the soldiers of the army."

A moment later, the sound of "announcer" sounded from the electric speakers everywhere in the military camp, and the tide of cheers rang out, and the sound became louder and louder, circulating in all directions.

Yuwen Wen listened to the cheers, looked at the sunrise in the east, and looked at the vast grassland in front of him, with both excitement and regret in his eyes.

The decisive battle was more than 200 miles north. Near the halfway to Yudujin Mountain, Yuwen Wen thought about it and found that Chuluo Khan was a high probability that he was setting up an ambush.

This is different from the confessions of those Turkic nobles, because according to the confession, Chuluo Khan should not be in that position.

Obviously, Chuluo Khan worked hard to set up a plan to deceive the Turkic nobles who played "Huang Gai" to deceive him, and then ambushed halfway while he led his troops to the Khan's tent that was "exposed on the position".

Yuwen Wen didn't feel any fear of this. He did plan to lead his army to the Khan den tent station mentioned by the Turkic nobles, but he would never relax his vigilance. When marching, he would send a cavalry around and spread the warning circle with a radius of dozens of miles.

Therefore, he will have a decisive battle with Chuluo Khan. No matter what tricks the other party has, there is only one result of the decisive battle, that is, he will win.

However, the decisive battle was not completed, and the actual whereabouts of Chuluo Khan were revealed to the marching general manager Li Jing by the secret chess set up by Zhou Guo.

If Yuwen Wen's imperial guards were in the open, the marching of Li Jing and other marching commanders was in a state of light and darkness. Taking advantage of the attention of the Eastern Turks, they were attracted by the imperial guards and detoured on the grassland.

Yuwen Wen's operation route is a "known number" for the general manager of each marching. Because the actions of the imperial guards are limited to specific areas, although each marching seeks enemies, they all have a tacit understanding of the imperial guards as the center of the circle and fight around a huge circle.

Therefore, when Chu Luo Khan was plotting against the Emperor of Zhou, his back was exposed in front of the Zhou marching. Then Li Jing, who received a secret report, gathered more than 10,000 cavalry to launch a fatal blow to Chu Luo Khan.

One battle will determine the world, and one can take it all.

Li Jing was lucky because the people sent by the Guli Cadre tribe to report the news, together with the Zhou military personnel who accompanied him, had no specific goals. They just had a pre-war plan to go to one of the several planned message delivery points to wait for the rabbit, and happened to be caught by the marching under Li Jing.

However, if you are caught by other marching troops, I think the other marching supervisors will not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

‘But, this opportunity is not the same as me.’

Yuwen Wen thought so, his heart full of regrets. He also wanted to put a perfect end to his career as an emperor with a thrilling decisive battle.

But then I thought about it, the emperor personally led the army to fight a great victory and annihilate the main force of the enemy. As the commander of the entire army, he has made great contributions to the command of the army, and his triumphant success was worthy of his name.

After returning, Yuwen Wen should "retire". Although he felt a little melancholy, he had no regrets anymore.

Pacifying the grassland is Yuwen Wen’s wish. He did it in his lifetime, so what else can I regret?

On the side, British Duke Yang Ji looked at the emperor's contemplation and secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the emperor looked good and showed no sign of a stroke.

When the good news came, Yang Ji was extremely excited, but he was worried that the emperor could not bear such surprise and was so excited that he had a stroke too much, so he was worried with the others. Now the emperor is safe, it is really worth the joy.

Yang Ji stepped forward to ask for instructions: "Your Majesty, will our army join forces next, or will we inform the army to return south first?"

Yuwen Wen looked south after hearing this: "Go south, pass through the Dazhi and the southern grassland of Ji, and the southern end is the Wuyuan area of ​​Hetao?"

"Go back to Your Majesty, it's almost the same. According to the longitude, Wuyuan is in the south-east direction, and the straight line distance is about one thousand miles."

Yang Ji hoped that after Yuwen Wen had arranged the follow-up military affairs, he would return south quickly and not eat wind and sand on the grassland and Gobi, and have a good rest. However, Yuwen Wen looked around, as if thinking about something.

After a while, Yuwen Wen ordered to station on the spot for one day, and the troops of all units were on guard against sneak attacks, and then sent an envoy to notify the marching army and to meet at one of the predetermined locations according to a certain plan.

Yuwen Wen has always been cautious and feels that he cannot be taken lightly after winning a big victory, so as not to be attacked by some shrimp soldiers and crab generals. That would be a bad thing.

The royal court of the Eastern Turks was over, but his side had to strike while the iron was hot and clean up the remaining Eastern Turkish forces in the northern grassland of the Jibei. This was something that must be done immediately, so Yuwen Wen felt that he could not rush back.

Of course, he didn't need to stay in Jibei and wait until the dust settled before going back. After meeting, he could make arrangements for everything and return south and take the train back to Chang'an.

Seeing that Yuwen Wen looked around, Yang Ji was a little unwilling to accept his expression. He was worried that this person would lead his army to clear away the remnants of the Eastern Turkic forces, so he quickly advised: "Your Majesty, you have to take charge of the matter of plowing the courtyard and sweeping the caves. Your Majesty only needs to be in the rear."

Yuwen Wen looked at Yang Ji after hearing this and said, "No, I am not going to plow the courtyard and sweep the caves myself, but I feel that I have always felt a little regretful when I didn't go to Yanran Mountain to see it."

During the Former Han Dynasty (Western Han Dynasty), Huo Qubing attacked the Xiongnu in the north and sealed Langju Xushan; during the Later Han Dynasty (Eastern Han Dynasty), Dou Xian attacked the Xiongnu in the north and tied the stones of Yanran.

The seal of Langjuxu and the stone of Yanran demonstrates the great martial arts of the Central Plains dynasty, but there are many different opinions on where Langjuxu Mountain is located, and there is no certain argument.

However, everyone thinks that Yanran Mountain is the current Yudujin Mountain.

It is the original location of the royal court when the Turks was founded.

When Yuwen Wen went on a war this time, he thought of taking a walk around Yudujin Mountain (Yanran Mountain), which was also considered as a "travel here". By the way, he could see if he was lucky and whether he could find the location where Dou Xian had serked Shi Yanran.

Yudujin Mountain is actually a mountain range with many peaks, not a lonely mountain. There are many different opinions on where the "Yanran Mountain Inscription" recorded in historical books is engraved in Yanran Mountain.

For Yuwen Wen, he just felt that he was unable to walk around Yudujin Mountain (Yanran Mountain) and saw the scenery.

Seeing the sun rising in the east, he was about to go down the mountain, but he thought of something and specifically instructed the military officers to keep the artillery position on the top of the mountain and then demolish it before leaving tomorrow.

The army camped with this mountain as the core, which actually ensured that there was a commanding height, which was to facilitate observation of the enemy situation and to facilitate the deployment of artillery and to shoot invading enemies from a high place.

This mountain is actually more like a large mound. If it is in a mountainous area of ​​the Central Plains, it is a very inconspicuous hill.

The hillside is not steep, and there is a dark red rock on the top of the hill, which looks like a cockscomb from a distance.

The rock has dozens of steps long, east-west, three or four meters high, and several rock walls on the side are relatively flat. Zhou Jun has observation posts and optical observation devices on the top of the rock, which can play the role of optical communication and enemy situation observation at any time.

Yuwen Wen was about to go down the mountain, but heard the discussion. When he turned around, he saw several soldiers and military officers pointing at a certain point in the rock wall.

When someone asked, it turned out that someone had discovered the traces of the man-made polishing in the middle of the south side of the rock wall, ground into a flat surface, with a length and width that looked like an ordinary bed size, and there were also words engraved on it.

Because the sentry had to use the rope ladder to climb to the top of the rock, and the rope ladder happened to be near the stone carving, the soldiers who climbed up and down quickly noticed that this area was a bit special.

Because the literacy rate in the army was relatively high (relative), the soldiers barely recognized the characters engraved on the rock wall as Chinese characters, such as the words "Nan Dan (pronounced 'Dan') Yu".

Yuwen Wen smiled when he heard this: "Nan Dan (pronounced ‘dan’) Yu? It should be Nandan (pronounced ‘chan’) Yu. The two and Yu are connected together, which is a specific word. The pronunciation of a single word must be ‘chan’..."
Chapter completed!