lying down

Ouyang was lying in the tent, holding a military newspaper in his left hand and a military map made by himself in his right hand.

The major events in November happened one after another, and it seems that there is no escape from the historical track. First, the East Turkic generals Yarkin and Ashnadur led their troops to harass Hexi.Zhang Shigui, the guard general of Suzhou (governing Jiuquan, today's Jiuquan, Gansu Province), and Zhang Shigui, the guard general of Ganzhou (governing Zhangye, now Zhangye, Gansu Province), commanded each other's troops and formed a corner. People return without success.Immediately afterwards, Zhang Gongjin wrote six articles requesting the court to hold the banner of justice for the Northern Expedition.

The imperial court agreed, and Tang Taizong used the Turkic attack on Hexi as an excuse, and on the 23rd ordered the troops to send troops in six ways to destroy the Eastern Turks.

Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of War, served as the general manager of the Dingxiang Road, with Yuchi Jingde and Su Dingfang as his deputy, leading the Chinese army; Xu Shiji, the governor of Bingzhou, was the general manager of the Tongmo Road, with Zhang Gongjin and Gao Zengsheng as his deputy, leading the main force to attack directly from the East Road In the hinterland of the Eastern Turks; Huazhou Inspector Huo Guogong Chai Shao was the general manager of the Jinhe Road march, and Qin Shubao was the deputy. He marched along the Yellow River on the west road, echoing Li Jing and Xu Shiji; Advance from Lingzhou to the northwest; Wei Xiaojie, governor of Youzhou, is the head of the Heng'an Road march, and Cheng Zhijie is the deputy, guarding the Yanyun area to prevent the Turkic army from fleeing east; , using the northeast to attack the Turkic rear, to monitor the Tuli Khan.More than a dozen generals led a total of more than [-] troops, all of whom were under Li Jing's command, and they counterattacked the Turks in six ways.

If the course of history is followed, this time the battle of extermination of Tutu, which is famous in history, will end in a great victory.However, although the Tongmodao march where he is located is the main force, there are only two shining points: one is to send troops from the cloud to intercept Xieli in Baidao (northwest of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia today), and the other is to join Li Ji. He led tens of thousands of fine cavalry to chase and kill Xieli.But the crucial battle was the final night attack on Yinshan Mountain, which had nothing to do with his own way of life.

These two shining points cannot be regarded as the key factors that determine success or failure. Li Ji, the military god, is interspersed almost from the beginning to the end. It doesn’t matter—there is no such person in history, is he here a spectator or a participant?Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little dazed: In his previous life at night, he often fantasized about the glorious battle of the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Eastern Turks, but now he personally experienced it, but it was a different feeling.

Ouyang has never been willing to be a vase or a decoration, otherwise he would not have become the king of special forces in his previous life and have the current family status.Although the green leaves with flowers are good, Ouyang decided to look for it, if there is any place he can estimate that can earn military merits.He doesn't intend to just be a spectator, because the reason is simple: he must earn as much military merit as possible in order to step onto a bigger "big stage" faster.

"It's hard!" He sighed, looking at the map he had drawn, only to find that it was not that easy to earn military merit.But at the same time, he was glad that he was not under Wei Xiaojie and Cheng Yaojin, otherwise he would be bored in the city and guarded, wouldn't he be suffocated to death?So I still have hope, it's just a little bit smaller.

It is difficult to make contributions in the normal historical track, but since I know how history develops, I might as well be a "Cheng Yaojin" who travels through time and space, and play a role at key times and key points.There are only a few key points in this battle. One is that in the first month of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Li Jing led [-] cavalry from Mayi (now Shuo County, Shanxi) and entered Eyangling (now northwest of Pinglu, Shanxi). Attacking and occupying Xiangcheng, this is because I am under Xu Shiji's command, so I have no chance at all, and the opposite side is not injured, so I am not enough.The second key point is that Xu Shiji sent troops to Baidao to defeat Jieli.The third key point is that after Jieli's defeat, he wanted to make peace. Tang Taizong sent Honglu Minister Tang Jian and General An Xiuren to the Turks to appease the Turks, but they were captured alive by Li Jing and Xu Shiji who followed closely behind.

The latter two key points are that the Bingzhou Army will be the main force under the leadership of Xu Shiji. You might as well use your brains and think about how to use this advantage to make a strategy.

Early the next morning, Ouyang came to the Chinese military tent with two dark circles under his eyes, but he saw that Xu Shiji's face was even more exhausted, there were no panda eyes, but the big dark brown bags under the eyes were very obvious.

The two looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. Ouyang stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Captain, your body is the capital of war. If you have nothing to do, don't stay up late."

"To each other, tsk tsk, look at your dark circles, maybe you haven't slept all night thinking about something? Come, talk to me."

Ouyang is not polite. He has never been a polite person. If there is an opportunity, he must seize it. The opportunity waits for no one!

"Captain, look, this is our position, this is the position of Commander Li Jing, and this is the marching direction of the other generals. Although we are a six-way army, we have formed a scattered front, and the entire predetermined battlefield is criss-crossed." It is easy to miss Jieli, although it is not easy for several armies to form an encirclement. Turkic horses are fast, although it is winter now, but he is more adapted to the weather in the north than us. If we let them run, we will It’s not easy to catch up.”

"In your opinion, how should the battle be fought?"

"Captain, look here!" Ouyang walked to the map in two steps and pointed to a place.

"Dingxiang?!" Xu Shiji had some amusement in his eyes.

"That's right here. This is where the Turkic army's tooth tent is located. It is the key location for the first battle. In the south of Dingxiang City, there is an evil Yang Ridge, which is the main throat leading directly to Dingxiang. If you can send troops to cover your ears with lightning speed A successful sneak attack will definitely scare them, and it is equivalent to inserting a sharp wedge into their hinterland, forming a hole in their front line, and then they can make a fuss around it."

"It's kind of interesting... But if you go around, I'm afraid your idea is not here?"

"Hehe, the governor still knows me well. The Turks at least say that there are nearly [-] to [-] troops behind the formation. I have no intentions here. However, if the governor agrees to raid Dingxiang and make the illusion that the army is following, he must Don’t dare to press the army, if it retreats, we will be encircled by the six-way army, then I will look for opportunities to meet Xieli for a while.”

"Your 60 people, even if he Jieli is defeated, there will be no less than a thousand guards around him. How do you succeed? If you think life is too long, you don't have to die like this! I can think about the surprise attack on Dingxiang mentioned earlier. .”

"Captain, the boy is very sorry for his life, but don't forget that the special brigade is different from elite soldiers. Its essence is to complete seemingly impossible tasks."

"Discuss later!" Xu Shiji waved his hand and sent Ouyang away, which made Ouyang very depressed.Originally, I wanted to copy the history before this battle, so that when Bai Dao had an opportunity, I could succeed in the first battle, but I didn't want to be rejected by the governor.In the end, Xu Shiji was still not so clear about the role of the special brigade in the army. In his mind, the special brigade was the best of the best soldiers, but it was far from the point where dozens of people could capture the lord of a country.

Although a little frustrated, Ouyang understood Xu Shiji's caution.Xu Shiji was just a general manager, and he had to control Li Jing, besides, to capture Jieli with 60 people, in anyone's eyes, it was tantamount to fantasy, Xu Shiji would not let himself die in vain.

It has been clearly written in the military newspaper that Li Jing's army gathered in Mayi, and Xu Shiji's army gathered in the clouds.The two troops are stationed at about the same distance from Eyang Ridge in Dingxiang, and the three places are arranged like the word "pin".If Xu Shiji adopted his "copied" opinion and reported it to Li Jing for a fight, there would be a [-] to [-]% chance that Li Jing would not attack alone like in history.Just kidding, I gave Xu Shiji this opinion much earlier than the historical fact that Li Jing raided Dingxiang, Ouyang didn't believe that Li Jing had planned it long ago.

Whether to fight or not, how to fight, in the final analysis is the business of the six managers.All Ouyang can do now is to prepare for the battle. Didn't Xu Shiji say just now that almost the entire Turkic territory is snowing heavily, and the road is far more difficult than imagined.I also have to make some preparations for fighting in the snowstorm in advance.

Needless to say, weapons and armor, eating and walking are so different that they need to be prepared.

Regarding food during the march, there are regulations in the army: one person supports two liters of rice per day.With six branches of millet, one person receives three liters, three infusions, three spoons, three copies, three kui and three grains of millet per day.Salt, half a day for one person.did you see it?Only rice, millet, beans and salt, but no meat.It is even more strange to want to eat a meal of meat during the march.But Ouyang couldn't bear it. Their special brigade had to perform special missions, so they had to have a certain amount of physical reserves and restorative food. If they only ate some rice, noodles, vegetables and no meat, Ouyang's mouth would fade away.

It is also impossible for the army to make special food for the special brigade, so Ouyang can only do it himself, and quickly prepare the food for his special brigade before the army goes out.What he was going to make for his special brigade was "compressed biscuits". This was not the compressed biscuits used by the military in his previous life. With the current technology, he could not do that. He could only use some raw materials to grind them into powder, and then compress them into biscuits manually.Ouyang was willing to spend money on the raw materials. Ouyang went back to the city and bought ten pigs himself. They slaughtered them on the same day, sliced ​​them into big meat strips, seasoned them with salt, onion and ginger, and dried them in the air.After air-dried for three or four days, it is ground into powder, and the boiled rice and beans are also ground into powder. After mixing the two, mix them with bacon juice, press and dry.For this reason, he went to the city and spent money to hire ten people to do it in the back kitchen of the restaurant. It only cost a hundred taels of silver, which is really a drop in the bucket for his current net worth.

As for marching, Ouyang didn't want to think too hard about it.He simply made fifteen sets of simple snow carts that could be disassembled, and went to the horse market to order fifteen horses.At this time, people can't help raising horses, but they can't afford it.If it is an ordinary draft horse, it costs about 3000 yuan a horse, and the discount is only three or four taels of silver.If it is a war horse, it can range from four or five golds to as many as a dozen or dozens of golds, that is to say, four to five hundred taels for a war horse.

When Ouyang finished these piecemeal, it was only three days since the army left for Yunzhong.