On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 93 Victory on the third front

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 93 Victory on the third front

As Shetu abandoned his army and left, the Turkic soldiers no longer organized effective resistance and scrambled to flee.

Li Chong now regretted that he only brought 5,000 cavalry to attack the camp. If the remaining 65,000 Sui troops also participated in this battle, how could they only capture a mere 1,000 people?

But he also knew that, regardless of the size of the 70,000-horse cavalry, he could quietly reach the vicinity of the Turkic camp without being discovered.

A night attack was inherently dangerous. Once the entire army pressed forward, he could not bear the consequences of failure, not even Yang Shuang. This meant that the Turks could go south from Shuozhou and sweep across the entire Hebei Province.

In the Turkic camp, the dead lay next to each other. Most of the thousands of corpses trampled on each other in panic and died.

The Sui army was busy setting fires, creating chaos, and chasing and taking pictures, but they could not take care of killing the enemy troops at the same time.

Although less than 10,000 people were captured and executed, countless livestock were captured.

The Turks only focused on their own escape and threw all their livestock to the Sui army as spoils of war.

As the various Sui troops who pursued and took pictures returned without success, the sky became slightly brighter.

Since the Turks did not organize effective resistance, and Cui Che's troops were not the arrow troops attacking the camp, miraculously, there was no attrition of the 500 cavalry under his command. Only two unlucky ones were hit by stray arrows, and they were dealt with promptly.

, it’s not a big deal.

Under the command of Li Chong, various ministries drove back more than a thousand Turkic prisoners and countless cattle and sheep.

Outside the Sui army's camp, Marching Marshal Yang Shuang personally climbed up to the watchtower in front of the camp, and he and Marching Commander Shi Li Che beside him looked north, eager to see.

Li Chong, Cui Che and others attacked the camp and fought hard, but they had no sleep. Yang Shuang, Li Che and others also waited worriedly all night. It was not until Li Chong sent people to report the victory some time ago that they put down their worries.

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"Could it be that Duke Wuyang (Li Chong) encountered Turks again on his way back!"

Seeing that there was still no sign of the return troops, Yang Shuang wondered to Li Che beside him.

Li Che smiled and said:

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Shetu was wounded and fled, and the Turks were defeated. How could there be another setback? It must have been that too much was captured in this battle, which delayed the trip."

When Yang Shuang heard this, he sighed heavily and said:

"It's a pity that God keeps taking pictures. Cui Che only wounded him with one arrow. Otherwise, the Turks would have no owner and would fall into civil strife. Maybe we can drive straight in and seal the wolf as a slave!"

No general can resist the temptation of sealing the wolf and living in Xu. Of course, not everyone has the right to offer sacrifices to the emperor on behalf of the emperor.

Li Che comforted:

"The Turks are inherently divided within themselves. In the battle with Bai Dao, and Shetu abandoning his army in embarrassment, their power will be severely damaged. Although Shetu is alive, it is no different from death!"

Yang Shuang also knew that things couldn't be perfect. It was just a small-scale attempt. It was a surprise to be able to defeat the main Turkic force. How could he force the leader to take the picture?

He wanted to say something to Li Chong, but he heard a faint sound coming from the north.

The sound was getting closer and louder.

"I'm wearing iron armor and carrying a long sword. I'm going to fight with you. The road is long.

"We share the same hatred of the enemy, we share life and death. We fight with you, and our hearts are not sluggish."

"Treading on the swallows, I chase the beards. I fight with my son, and I sing fearlessly."

Five thousand people sang in unison, and the singing became louder and louder, waking up the early morning of April 14th, the third year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign.

In fact, the Baidao victory caused far more damage to the Turkic forces than postwar statistics. Since livestock, grain, grass and other materials were left in the camp and captured by the Sui army, the regrouped Turkic army faced a serious food shortage problem, and the ensuing

The epidemic spread and dealt a heavy blow to the Turks.

The long journey back from Daqingshan to the north is full of abandoned corpses, and the dead are countless.

While Yang Shuang was expelling the main Turkic forces, Yang Jian's cousin Yang Hong, the king of Hejian, led tens of thousands of troops out of Lingzhou and fought with the Turks, beheading thousands of them.

Good news also came from the east and west wings at the same time. Yin Shou, the general manager of Youzhou, led tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry out of Lulongsai eastward and marched towards Yingzhou.

When Gao Baoning saw the Sui army coming at a fast pace, he was frightened and did not dare to fight, so he asked for help from the Turks.

However, the main Turkic force was in the north of Daqingshan at that time and could not rescue them.

Gao Baoning had no choice but to abandon the city and flee to Mobei on April 13, the day when the Sui army pretended to retreat but attacked the Turkic camp at night during the Battle of Baidao.

Yin Shou, the general manager of Youzhou, took advantage of the situation to regain Yingzhou. In order to completely eliminate future troubles, Yin Shou offered a huge reward for Gao Baoning and sent people to alienate his subordinates. In the end, Gao Baoning fled to Khitan and was killed by his subordinate Zhao Shuluo.

In the western battlefield, Dou Rongding, the general manager of Qinzhou, commanded nine generals and led 30,000 infantry and cavalry from Liangzhou to the north. In Gaoyueyuan (today's northwest of Wuwei, Gansu), they encountered the Turkic Apo Khan Daluo's troops.

Due to the lack of water in Gaoyueyuan, the Sui army soldiers who came from afar were thirsty. They had to spur their horses and drink blood. Twenty-three people died of thirst. However, even in such a predicament, the soldiers still followed Dou Rongding to advance bravely and fight with the Turks.

Several confrontations have repeatedly frustrated his edge.

Most of these soldiers were from Longyou. Last year, the Sui army in Longyou was outnumbered and defeated by the Turks. As a result, the Turks abused Longyou and lost all their livestock.

This time they were determined to take revenge and fight to the death with the Turks. The Sui army's bravery and fearlessness left a deep impression on Daluo. He did not dare to fight again. While leading the army away, he sent a secret envoy to ask for help.

Allied with Sui Dynasty.

When Yin Shou led the main force of Youzhou to destroy Gao Baoning, a Turkic army also tried to take advantage of the situation and seize Youzhou.

Li Chong of Shangzhu State led 3,000 infantry and cavalry to meet the enemy. They fought for more than ten days. Due to heavy casualties under his command, he had to retreat to Shacheng. Under the heavy siege of the Turks, the 3,000-strong Sui army suffered all casualties.

Even Li Chong died among them, but at the cost of their lives, they also caused great damage to the Turks.

In the end, they persisted until Yin Shou returned aid, thwarting the Turks' attempt to capture Youzhou.

In the western battlefield, Apo Khan Daluo returned without success and formed an alliance with the Sui Dynasty; in the frontal battlefield, he was wounded and fled, leaving countless Turkic dead; in the eastern battlefield, Gao Baoning's threat in the northeastern region was completely eliminated, and Gao Baoning recovered

Yingzhou and other places.

At this point, the counterattack against the Turks in the third year of Kaihuang ended with the Sui army's three-line victory.

The Turks had already suffered natural disasters, and now they encountered man-made disasters. The ruling class fell into a situation of blaming each other, and the accumulated conflicts were intensified, paving the way for subsequent attacks and killings among the khans.

But these are all things for later, let’s talk about Brother Che.

After the great victory at Baidao and the Turks fleeing northward in panic, Yang Shuang immediately took charge of the army, but did not really march straight in to seize the wolf as his home.

The army arrived in Shuozhou and waited for instructions from Chang'an, while Cui Che also temporarily left the military camp and returned to Jinyang.

Yang Guang had already heard about Cui Che's participation in the attack on the camp and the shooting of the photo by an arrow. He took a group of officials from the Xingtai Mansion ten miles out of the city to meet him. Cui Che almost broke the defense with his first sentence:

"Zicheng should aim at Shaitu's head, so that he might be able to hit his heart."

I suffered from heatstroke, but after drinking a bottle of Huoxiang Zhengqi water, I felt better after a good sleep.

(End of chapter)