Under the sunshine, above the grass, several cavalrymen advanced together, and horses stomped on countless swaying flowers, chasing away groups of small beasts among grass.

This is a detour of a hundred miles to attack Dayan Lake, the commander Yuwenchui, and the younger brother of Yuwenke, the commander of the Donghu Hetao War Zone.

Yuwen Ke was not a stubborn general. On the contrary, among the Donghu, he was known as a wise general. In his opinion, in the war with the Donghu to fight for the Hetao Plain, what mattered was not the Pioneer City and Tongwan City that the Donghu had inserted on the banks of the Liao River. These were just two nails. What was really important was the Big Yan City under construction.

The Eastern Expedition Army established Dayan County and built Dayan City on the banks of Dayan Lake. Once it was successful, the Pioneer City in front of them would have a strong support point. The Eastern Expedition could also immigrate the people to Dayan County continuously. Within two or three years, it would be convenient to take root around Dayan City. At that time, Dayan City, Pioneer City, and Tongwan City could form an iron triangle. If you want to take it down, it would be difficult.

The Dayan City under construction is not the Pioneer City on the bank of the Liao River. It can be compared with the Dayan City. Compared with the Dayan City, the Pioneer City of Ten Thousand City can only be regarded as a larger castle.

More importantly, there are tens of thousands of civilians on the banks of the Dayan Lake, so Yuwen Ke's order to Yuwen Chui was to destroy the Dayan City under construction, and to kill as many civilians there as possible, kill them, kill them, and kill them so hard that they will never rush to the Hetao Plain again.

The Eastern Expedition Army on the banks of Dayan Lake was destroyed, and Pioneer City and Tongwan City immediately became rootless duckweed. The back road was cut off and the food was insufficient. It was a matter of time before it was captured.

It was Yuwen Ke's careful planning to put the attack time at this point. A little earlier, his troops were not uniform. Especially the scarce infantry was so scarce that he could not threaten Pioneer and Tongwan City. Later, the tens of thousands of acres of farmland in Pioneer City would harvest the first season of crops. At that time, the food and grass were sufficient, and if you wanted to break the city, it would inevitably increase the difficulty.

And now, it's just right.

Yuwen Chui took these five thousand cavalry to avoid the eyes and ears of Pioneer City and Tongwan City, and Yuwen Chui took great pains to wander upstream for hundreds of miles, and then avoided the opponent's whistle and cavalry. If Xu Yuan discovered their purpose and sent his cavalry to intercept him, although it was not terrible, the plan to raid Dayan City would inevitably go bankrupt. Sun Xiao, who received the news, would inevitably shrink his front line. With the turtle shell of the infantry of the Eastern Army, it would be difficult to defeat it. More importantly, he left the five thousand elite cavalry and the Eastern Army that led the vanguard and the ten thousand cities would inevitably come out in full swing. Now the two armies have more than 20,000 infantry, and the remaining thousands of iron cavalry and ten thousand infantry were against Yuwen Ke. Yuwen Ke was not very sure, let alone that he could not send all his soldiers across the Liao River and the east bank of the Liao River. He still needed troops to guard it.

At present, it is only two days away from Dayan Lake, and Yuwenchui cannot suppress his excitement.

"Report!" The horse hooves in front of him were heard quickly. Several whistle cavalry rushed towards him. "General Yuwen, fifty miles to the left of our army, found the Eastern Army, with about 5,000 people and about 500 cavalrymen. He was advancing towards the Liaohe River."

"Whose flag?"

"Sun should be Sun Xiao's troops stationed in Dayan Lake by the Eastern Army."

Yuwen Chui was overjoyed and was really sleeping, so someone gave him a pillow. Five thousand people, and only five thousand troops were garrisoned by the Eastern Army of the Dayan Lake. It seemed that Sun Xiao had actually gone out to support the vanguard to rule Wancheng. It seemed that the other party wanted to fight a decisive battle with his army on the bank of the Liao River, and wanted to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, thus establishing a security pattern on the west bank of the Liao River.

"Uncle, why don't we first attack the army and defeat Sun Xiao's troops, and then turn to Dayan City. Dayan City is just some civilians and vulnerable." Yu Wenming, the son of Yu Wenming, stepped forward to offer advice.

Yuwenchui touched his thick short beard and nodded slightly. Yuwenke's order was to destroy the enemy troops in the direction of Dayan City. Then, Sun Xiao's unit was naturally within the scope of elimination. They actually came out in full swing, but gave themselves a better chance. If he had to settle in Dayan City, he would have to spend more effort.

"Turn onto the left and destroy Sun Xiao!" Yuwen Chui waved his hand, and thousands of cavalry turned and rushed towards Sun Xiao's troops.

Just as the major shareholder Hu Cavalry turned around, Sun Xiao also got the direction to his right and found a large number of Donghu Cavalry's investigation. In an instant, Sun Xiao fell into an ice cellar.

"It's a large group of Donghu cavalry, not a small group of rangers?" He asked with all his might to calm himself down.

Several whistle cavalry also had white faces, "Commander, you can't be wrong. The black cavalry can't see the edge at first sight, but they are afraid there will be tens of thousands of people."

"Ten thousand people come from there!" Sun Xiao angrily rebuked. These whistle cavalry lacked the experience of fighting against the Donghu cavalry, and it was difficult to judge the number of opponents. Cavalry is not like infantry, and thousands of cavalry are spreading, which is indeed trembling and oppressing people's eyes. Yuwen Ke has only about 10,000 cavalry in Hetao. How could all appear here? Xu Yuan and Yan Peng are not fools.

There is no 10,000 cavalry, but there are three or four thousand cavalrymen. Even if there are only three or four thousand people, the threat to Sun Xiao is already very great. Retreat? It is impossible. A distance of dozens of miles is coming in a flash. The infantrymen spread out like long snakes during the march. Once they encounter a cavalry raid, they will easily be cut into several sections by their opponents and become the targets of slaughter.

"Come!" In the blink of an eye, Sun Xiao had made up his mind, "Send someone to Pioneer City immediately to send a message to the city of Pioneer City, and the entire army will attack and fight the enemy with a decisive battle."

"As for the order!" More than a dozen whistle cavalry came out and rushed towards the direction of Pioneer City and Tongwancheng. If Yuwen Ke sent thousands of cavalry to raid the Dayan Lake, then in Pioneer City and Tongwancheng, the enemy would be absolutely empty. Yuwen Ke would have to keep guards to guard the east bank camp. At most, there would be seven or eight thousand infantry and four or five thousand cavalry attacking these two cities. The total number of infantrymen of Xu Yuan and Yan Peng was close to 20,000 and cavalry more than 2,000.

Seeing the back of the whistle rider disappearing into his eyes, Sun Xiao had calmed down. He knew that he had underestimated his opponent. He wanted to make a contribution to the battle and fight against the opponent on the bank of the Liaohe River. He decided the situation on the West Bank in one battle. However, the opponent thought a little deeper. Now, what he had to do was to stick here, attract invading enemies, and then wait for news about the battlefield between Xu Yuan and Yan Peng under the Pioneer City.

"Immediately send a letter back to Dayan Lake and tell Shangshu Guo that there might be an enemy attack, so that he could quickly organize the young and strong and prepare for defense." At this time, what Sun Xiao was most worried about was that his opponent ignored his troops and sent troops to attack Dayan Lake. That would be awful. Wherever Dayan Lake is, although there are tens of thousands of civilians, for the army, it is just a group of lambs without resistance. There are only hundreds of guard soldiers who stay where he is.

Now, Sun Xiao only hopes that his attraction is great enough to let the enemy deal with him first, thus gaining a little time for Dayan Lake.

Now, he finally understood that when he came to the Hetao Plain, Gao Yuan and Jiang Jiaquan repeatedly reminded him that he had participated in too few major wars. Over the years, Gao Yuan had always left him to guard his hometown. Now he suddenly stood alone, and immediately exposed his shortcomings and fell into the other party's plan.

"The whole army formed a formation!" Sun Xiao suddenly drew out his sword, "Fight to the enemy to the death!"

An hour later, when Yuwen Ke appeared in front of Sun Xiao, he saw a steel jungle, with five thousand infantry forming five square formations, four out of them, one in a staggered and neat square formation, piles of shallow trenches dug out to block the road of cavalry attack. The spear blades flashed with cold light, reflecting the sunlight in the sky, shining. In the passages in several square formations, the cavalry patroled. The dull drum sound was beaten rhythmically.

"The Yan people like to set up turtle formations. This formation is beautiful, but they don't know whether it works!" Yuwen Chui laughed loudly. Is there a big suspense for the five thousand cavalry against the five thousand infantry?

"Amin!" he shouted.

"Uncle!" Yu Wenming rode his horse to his uncle.

"The Yan army is used to play, turtle-retreat defense. When our army launches an attack, we first use a crossbow to conduct long-range attacks, and then use a bow and arrow to cover and shoot, and practice attacking me to attack the horse team. Finally, when our army rushed to their infantry, it was no longer in a queue. When we met their heavy infantry, we would not take advantage of it at all. If you were the vanguard, how would you plan to fight?"

"Uncle, the enemy has five square formations, forming four corners, protecting the middle army. If my uncle takes me as his vanguard, I am ready to attack the square formation in front of the left first."

"Front impact?" Yuwen Chui frowned.

"No, I will order my subordinates to form a column to attack the front corner of the left square formation. In this direction, it is impossible for them to arrange a bed crossbow. The square formation beside him has a smaller shooting angle. In this way, the casualties of our army during the charge can be minimized. This front corner is also the connection between the left and right parts of the enemy, and it is also the weakest point. If you break this corner, you can defeat this square formation."

"Yeah!" Yuwen Chui nodded with relief, "You are right and you are very accurate in your opinion. However, this weakness is not available in all enemy formations. It's just that Sun Xiao's command does not have enough cavalry to cover the flanks. He now only has hundreds of cavalry, which can only be used as mobile forces. If you encounter an enemy with enough cavalry, your set will not work."

"But now, it works very well!" Yu Wenming grinned.

"Okay, let's take you as the vanguard and chew off this military formation for me." Yuwenchui laughed, "This is the last enemy army around Dayan Lake. If he eliminates him, Dayan Lake is like a big girl who has taken off all her clothes. You can do whatever you want."

Listening to the shouts from the Donghu army suddenly rise, and looking at the direction of the Donghu cavalry pounced on him, Sun Xiao sneered. Yu Wenming saw it very accurately, but they forgot that the Eastern Army had a sharp weapon that the Dayan army did not have, an arm-sing crossbow. This long-range strike weapon with a range and power that was inferior to the bed crossbow but far better than the bow and arrow, was enough to carry out cover shooting, so that any enemy's plan would fall into the air.
Chapter completed!