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Chapter 605 First Battle
It has to be said that knowledgeable heroes are everywhere in the world, and not only those who read and understand are knowledgeable. Under the premise that there is a huge gap in weapons and equipment, the grassland tribes have been able to compete with the Central Plains Dynasty for thousands of years. Not just galloping horses, sharp bows and arrows.

They have never lacked a cunning and insidious side, and they are better at using sneak attacks and sudden attacks, which has a lot to do with the barbarian's livelihood of hunting.

Jieli Khan gave up one of his sons and took Tuli Khan and so many tribes to go south with him. How could he be willing to be beaten at Yanmen Pass?

Since ancient times, the Hu people have spied on the Central Plains from outside the Great Wall. There are actually many paths they can take, but after many years of fighting, they quickly determined that only a few places are qualified to accommodate the march of the army, such as Yanmen Pass. Although the roads are narrow, But the terrain inside and outside the pass is flat enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops.

Relatively speaking, the conditions in other places are relatively poor. For example, the west side of Shuozhou is not impossible to pass people, but that area is a high loess slope with ravines. In the era of cold weapons, such terrain is obviously not suitable for formation combat. Not to mention that most of the grassland tribes are cavalry... After crossing the loess high slope, they have to cross the Yellow River. Could it be possible to swim across?

Therefore, most of the battles between the grassland tribes and the Central Plains dynasty took place around Yanmen Pass.

But there is one exception.

That is Ningwu Pass, also known as Loufan Pass.

As early as the Warring States period, King Wuling of Zhao once set up a building to guard against the Huns.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Loufan County and Loufan Pass were established.

Yanmen has mountains as a natural barrier, and it is difficult for cavalry to break through, but the Hu people often invade through Yanmen Pass instead of Loufan Pass. Naturally, there are reasons.

Because the Loufan Pass takes the river as a natural barrier, and there is a Hui River in the north of the pass. It is difficult for barbarians who are not good at water to pass through this natural barrier. , but it can also allow ten riders to advance side by side.

However, the river often stopped flowing in spring and east, and in summer and autumn, the main seasons of Hu people's invasion, the river was often full, which made the main direction of Hu people's attack still at Yanmen Pass.

It's no wonder that many people can't remember that in the past few decades, the only time Loufanguan has shown its face is in the third year of Daye. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, who went out to inspect the fortress, returned from Loufanguan in Shuozhou.

In the following ten years, Qimin Khan's soldiers surrounded Yanmen first, and then the world was in chaos. Liu Wuzhou and Yuan Junzhang rebelled successively. Yanmen Pass seemed to be undefended. generally.

In this case, many people have inadvertently ignored Loufanguan.

On May [-]th, while Jieli Khan was still storming Yanmen Pass, he secretly sent Ashina Sheer to lead the elite cavalry southward, and transported the soldiers across the Hui River on sheepskin rafts.

In fact, the Tang army had garrisons at Loufanguan, but there were not many. Ashina Sheer led hundreds of cavalry to attack at night. The Tang army was defeated and was driven out by the Turks.

Then Ashina Sheer immediately built a simple bridge with craftsmen who had prepared long ago. On May [-], nearly [-] Turkic cavalry entered Lanzhou from Loufan Pass.

The Turks marched extremely fast, as fast as thunder, breaking through Yifang County on May 21 and Jingle County on May [-]. Zhong Mo, the governor of Lanzhou, was defeated and died.

On May 22, Ashina Sheer led the Turkic cavalry to go south to Taiyuan Prefecture, looted two towns, replenished supplies, and then quickly went north.

On May 23, Fang Renyu, the governor of Xinzhou, sent troops to meet the enemy. Ashina Sheer sent a small group of troops to harass, and turned back to set up an ambush.

On May 24, Ashina Sheer went north again and defeated the Tang army outside Dingxiang County. Fang Renyu, the governor of Xinzhou, only escaped with his life.

On this day, Ashina Sheer led his troops into Daizhou.

On this day, Ashina Sheer was not surprised, but he was also surprised to find that thirty miles south of Nao County, a clean Tang army was waiting.

The reason why he was not surprised was that Ashina Sheer knew very well that although he marched fast, after all, he had fought many times. At this moment, Yanmen Pass should have got the news, and he should divide his troops to go south.

Ashina Sheer was surprised that it would be so fast. The distance from Yanmenguan to Nao County was not too far, but it was not too close. Looking at the Tang army in front of him, it was obvious that they did not arrive in a hurry.

The victories in the previous battles were largely due to surprise. The Tang army did not expect that the Turks would take the risk of taking the opportunity to pass through the building, and the Bingzhou pursuers did not expect Ashina Sheer to set up an ambush instead of speeding up the march.

In this battle... Ashina Sheer tightly held the horsewhip in his hand, looking around, there were about thousands of Tang soldiers, most of them infantry, but there were also more than a thousand cavalry, trying to go around... I'm afraid it's impossible big.

The Turkic cavalry does not talk about marching ranks. Once they are chased and killed by the cavalry, it is very likely that the organizational system will be scattered and the mountains will be scattered... And Ashina Sheer still expects these more than 4000 cavalry to put pressure on the Yanmen Gate Guards. Naturally not Ken didn't dare go around.

"Since the King of Handan took control of Daizhou, he prepared to build the Daizhou Army. He won the first battle at Yanmen, pursued him in the snowy night, and captured Yugushi alive." Daizhou Simaar Zhu Yichen squinted his eyes and looked at the opposite side, and said loudly: "This battle must not hurt Your Highness. face!"

Ma Sanbao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "I didn't expect Huairen to guess correctly..."

Three days ago, Li Shan, who was still in Guji Town, used Xue Wanche to send troops to attract the attention of the besieged army, and sent ten personal guards to rush to Yanmen Pass from different directions, and then abandoned their horses to go up the mountain from the trail, and crossed mountains and ridges to reach Yanmen Pass.

At that time, it was already May 22. After hearing that the Turks might use Daolou to trouble the pass, Su Dingfang did not hesitate, and immediately sent Ma Sanbao and Erzhu Yichen to lead [-] infantry, and [-] cavalry to go south immediately.

During the march, all kinds of bad news came one after another. Erzhu Yichen and Ma Sanbao knew one thing very well. They could not let the Turkic cavalry approach Yanmen Pass, so they could not defend themselves by holding on to the city wall. Even if they could not defeat the Turks, they must stop them. In the south of Nao County.

This is why Fang Ren Yuming, the governor of Xinzhou, knew that he was difficult to match, but he did not defend the city.

The key is timing.

Ashina Sheer hoped to arrive at Yanmen Pass quickly, and cooperate with Jieli Khan to break through Yanmen Pass, then the next thing will be easy to handle.

On the way from Taiyuan Mansion to Xinzhou, and then from Xinzhou to Yanmen Pass, all Tang army generals hoped to block the Turks to the south of Nao County, so that the army's morale could not be shaken.

Moreover, Ma Sanbao and Erzhu Yichen knew in their hearts that when they set off, Jieli Khan stepped up the siege again, and there was no longer any division of troops at Yanmen Pass.

Only three thousand infantry and one thousand cavalry can stop it?
Suddenly there was a strong wind blowing, and the yellow sand was swept up in the air, making it difficult for both sides to see clearly.

The next moment, there was a roar like a tsunami, and the Turkic cavalry wandered on the left and right wings of the Tang army camp, and the black feather arrows covered the sky and covered the ground.

(End of this chapter)