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Chapter 200
Regarding Song Jingang's battle plan, the generals discussed overnight, and finally agreed that they were going to besiege Fan Yang with a large army first, so as to induce Song Jingang to send troops from Yicheng to rescue, and then surround the point to attack Song Jingang's reinforcements with the main force, forcing It accepted the decisive battle, and then took advantage of the grassland ranger field battle to win the decisive battle.

This tactic can be said to be very capable of taking advantage of Li Chongjiu's cavalry.However, the plan is only on paper.In order to prepare for this decisive battle, Li Chongjiu stepped up training the ten thousand prairie rangers, and on the other hand sent a large number of spy agents to spy on the terrain of Yi County and Fan Yang, where soldiers can be used, where ambushes can be used, and where decisive battles can be carried out. A map came.

However, [-] cavalry eclipse the horses every day, which is a huge expenditure, not to mention people, it is the hay that the horses eat every day, which is an astronomical figure.When Li Chongjiu was trying to figure out a solution to this problem, it was Ertuo, but Ying Hofer laughed when he heard about it, obviously not paying attention to it.

It turns out that every barbarian on the grassland has several occupations, usually hunters, herdsmen, warriors, and of course robbers in the ancestral industry.The Han people called their behavior Kou Chao, but the Xi people called themselves Dacaogu.The term "threshing grass valley" is very vivid, because herdsmen have to collect hay everywhere every autumn to store it for sheep and horses to spend the winter.Of course, Li Chongjiu would not let the barbarian cavalry attack Caogu on his own territory. He would also be the prefect in the future, governing Shanggu County. If he robbed his own people now, even if he came to power in the future, he would never be popular.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu temporarily moved the cavalry to Yanmen County. Originally, the imperial court set up a horse-grazing prison here. Later, because the Turks surrounded Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty in Fenyang Palace, the horse-grazing prison was abolished. Although there were no war horses, the pasture still.Li Chongjiu simply stationed [-] cavalry in Yanmen first, and ate there while training.

On a certain day in October, new snow fell, and the people of Shanggu County all put on winter clothes to prepare for the winter. However, such a heavy snowfall was not too cold for the barbarians on the grassland.Not to mention the white disasters and black disasters on the grasslands, but only that there are strong winds on the grasslands now, and the climate is much colder than that in the Central Plains.Rouran, when the Turks were strong, they would take advantage of the fall and winter to invade the Han land southward every year, firstly to fight grasslands, and secondly to avoid the severe winter on the grasslands.Sometimes the Yellow River freezes, and the prairie cavalry can even cross the river on ice, and return to the grassland in spring.

The ground was covered with fresh snow, and the tip of the grass had not been wiped off, but only a thin layer. Suddenly, the ground trembled, and the snow pit was broken by the horse's hooves.In Shanggu, the Hu cavalry, holding horned bows and horses straddling quiver, swept across from west to east like a torrent, and the smoke and dust rolled towards Fan Yang.

Now Fanyang County, which is less than two feet high, is surrounded by tens of thousands of troops, surrounding Fanyang City.The guards of Fanyang City looked for their faces and saw that there were countless people in the city with their hair on their left lapels and their bodies wrapped in leather. Not afraid of the cold, many people took their right arms out of their clothes and pulled out their horned bows. This shows the bravery of the enemy.And the horsemen on all sides of the city are in full swing, setting up a formation, each cavalry must have at least three horses, the white air exhaled by the horses rises into the air, and the city is covered with a layer of white mist, covering the faces of the horsemen Flickering.

Seeing this scene, Xun Xun was horrified. Fan Yang is in the interior, not as strong as the border counties and border towns, not to mention compared to Jixian, a big city like Jinyang. People's Army for a few days.

"General, with our isolated city, we certainly can't withstand so many horsemen. Finally, the general is willing to risk his life and lead more than a dozen horsemen to break out of the siege and report to Marshal Song!"

"No need," Xun Xiang waved his hand, several veins popped out on his forehead, and shouted, "This place is only sixty miles away from Yi County, Marshal Song must have known about it long ago, we can rest assured to wait for reinforcements."

Song Jingang army camp in Yi County, the scene before a big war came.

Song Jingang was wearing heavy armor, followed by a row of personal guards, strode into the big tent, stood up facing the generals, and pressed his hand: "Sit!"

There was a clang of armor, and the generals sat in pairs on a long table. Song Jingang walked up to the main seat and said, "Everyone already knows about Fan Yang's siege. If you don't send troops to rescue quickly, the city will be destroyed!"

Before Song Jingang finished speaking, the next general stood up and said, "I will report to the commander, according to the report from the spies, the enemy army has not attacked the city yet, so why don't you take a look at it, the general is worried that this is the enemy's temptation. Our army went to the rescue, and then set up an ambush halfway."

Song Jingang laughed loudly when he heard the words, and said: "You are right. In my opinion, it is also true in nine out of ten cases. The barbarian cavalry is good at field battles, but short at siege. If they don't have an absolute advantage, they will not use their own power Those who short attack our strengths will surely have ambushes along the way. However, since our army knows that the enemy's tactics are nothing more than this, why should we be afraid of them!"

Hearing what Song Jingang said, all the generals slapped the table and laughed.

On a hill thirty miles away from Fanyang, under Bai Yan's yellow axe, was Khan Li Chongjiu's guard of honor.Li Chongjiu stood on the top of the mountain with his hands behind his hands, and the white scorpion made of white ox hair was fluttering in the wind.

"Report!" A soldier came to Li Chongjiu with a long voice and said, "Report to the Khan, Song Jingang has led an army of ten thousand out of the barracks, and is now coming here."

"Oh," Li Chongjiu turned around and asked, "How is the enemy army distributed? What's the speed?"

The soldier said: "Song Jingang personally led the army to walk slowly behind, and led by four thousand armored troops, and moved forward quickly. According to this, it will not take a day to resist Fan Yang's city."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said: "Order all the ministries to ambush on the mountain road, and don't send troops until I order."

After the soldier retreated, Li Chongjiu waited patiently for the news. It didn't take long to receive the news that Song Jingang had entered his ambush circle within a short distance of [-] miles.

"Report!"

Another spy came to report. Li Chongjiu saw that the other party looked flustered. Obviously Song Jingang hadn't caught the trick. He only heard the spies trembling and said: "Our army ambushing in Quezi Valley was suddenly set on fire by Song Jingang's army. The army was besieged in the valley."

Li Chongjiu heard that Song Jingang had seen through his intentions, and secretly thought that Song Jingang was indeed a famous general like Xue Shixiong, who was cunning and cunning.

"Big man, at the entrance of the valley, Song Jingang's army guarded it with powerful crossbows, and asked me to set fire to the hay and burn the mountain. The fire is raging now, and the two thousand cavalry of the Ertuo army are trapped in the valley and cannot enter or exit. If the fire continues If the fire continues, all 2000 people will be burned to ashes, Khan must think of a way." The spy said anxiously.

(End of this chapter)