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Chapter 100: The Eve of the Bloody Battle

Yang Yuanqing was stunned. The Uighur envoy was here. What's going on? He didn't even think about it, and quickly ordered: "Take him to see me quickly."

After a moment, the young Uighurs's thousand-man commander was taken to Yang Yuanqing, and he bowed and bowed, "The Uighurs's thousand-man commander was so miserable that he met His Highness the King of Chu!"

Seeing that this man was very fierce, Yang Yuanqing nodded and asked him in Turkic words: "What's the matter if you come to me?"

"I will send a letter to Your Highness at the order of the Chief."

He presented the letter to Yang Yuanqing, and Yang Yuanqing took it. The letter was written in Turkic text. He read it quickly, his brows frowned slightly, and a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

Then, the look of surprise disappeared and his face completely returned to normal. He asked without saying a word: "Since your chief is unwilling to serve the Turks, why don't you withdraw troops now?"

Tu Midu gave another tribute, "I am only responsible for delivering letters, but I am not authorized to answer other matters!"

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him. This was a person who was quite responsible. Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Okay! Go back and tell the chief that I have accepted his letter."

"Go away from me!"

Tu Midu bowed. He was about to retreat, but Yang Yuanqing suddenly remembered something and said with a smile: "Can General Tu Midu do me a favor?"

Tu Midu hesitated for a moment, and he couldn't push the King of Chu to ask for it in person. He nodded silently. Yang Yuanqing whispered a few words to a personal soldier next to him and handed him a silver medal.

The personal soldier nodded and clasped his fists at Tu Midu and said, "Please! I'll explain your highness's arrangements."

Yang Yuanqing looked at Tumaki and walked away and couldn't help but smile. The arrival of this person tonight was an unexpected gain.

At this time, Luo Shixin on the side said with some concern: "Your Highness, beware of the enemy's fraud at this critical moment."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment. In fact, he was quite surprised that the Uighurs sent people to contact him in private. This is by no means a trivial matter. We must be careful of fraud, but we must also see hope in the middle.

"I know, thank you for your reminder!"

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The night gradually became deeper and the soldiers were already asleep. Yang Yuanqing was still pondering about the Uighurs in the big tent. This incident happened unexpectedly, but it was reasonable. Yang Yuanqing had been dealing with the Turks for nearly two years, and he knew very well.

The relationship between the Turks and the Tiel tribes was always a kind of relationship between enslavement and enslavement.

The strength of a grassland nation first means conquering and conquering other grassland nations. In the grassland where strength is the most important, the conquerors deliberately maintain their own rule, while the conquered ones prepare for war and get rid of being conquered and then conquer others.

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The Turks had extremely strong enslavement of Tiel tribes. They were afraid that other tribes would become stronger, so they levy the Tiel tribes to weaken the strength of the grassland tribes. The Tiel tribes would hand over half of the newly born cattle, sheep and horses to the Turks every year.

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This heavy tax retribution also caused the resistance of the Tiel tribes to rise and fall, which became six means used by the Central Plains dynasty to weaken the Turks. Historically, the Sui Dynasty mostly used internal contradictions to weaken the Turks, such as the Eastern and Western Turks.

Internal strife.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, it was changed to use the resistance of the Tiel tribes to weaken the Turks, but this would lead to the emergence of new and more powerful grassland nations, such as the Uighurs and the Khitan.

Whether it is the internal destruction of the Sui Dynasty or the external disputes of the Tang Dynasty, it is actually not the fundamental solution. The fundamental solution still depends on iron and blood.

Yang Yuanqing sighed slightly at the dark clouds in the distance, but no matter what, the Uighurs' rebellion could be used, but it was definitely not on the battlefield, but after the war, the grassland order was rebuilt after the war.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing's eyes turned to the north, and he was full of expectations for tomorrow's battle.

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The cold wind roared in the dark night, and a team of cavalry were running on the grassland. The young commander Tu Midou led more than thirty followers all the way.

Behind him, in addition to the dozen followers he brought, there were twenty Sui army scouts, all dressed in Turkic army costumes, headed by a 30-year-old captain named Zhong Gensheng.

A native of Taiyuan, who can speak fluent Turkic language, participated in the battle against the Turkic people in Fengzhou. This time he entered the Turkic camp under the order of Yang Yuanqing.

Tu Midu was in a heavy mood. He didn't know whether his decision to lead the Sui army into the camp was correct, but he knew very well the chief's thoughts. The chief hoped that the Uighurs would win and lose all. If the Sui army failed, they could go from Sui.

The dynasty seized rich spoils, but the Turks failed, and they could also reap the most precious freedom.

But the young Tu Midu hoped that the Turks would be defeated. In his opinion, no matter how rich the spoils were, they were not as precious as freedom. The Uighurs could even take the Turks and replace them. It was precisely this idea that he resolutely agreed to help the Sui army denounce him.

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The cavalry team rushed to the northwest. The area of ​​the Turkic camp patrol area was ten miles. The Turkic deployed 20,000 sentries on the periphery, divided into three lines of defense to strictly prevent the Sui army from attacking the camp at night, but the westernmost defense was

It is the responsibility of the Uighur Army.

The cavalry gradually approached the checkpoint. In the dark night, a team of patrols roared, and more than a hundred bows and arrows were aimed at them, "Stop!"

Tu Midu stepped forward and replied, "It's me, Tu Midu, go out to do business under the order of the Chief!"

He raised a golden arrow, and the sentries all knew the Uighur warrior. Seeing that he had the golden arrow of the great chief, he retreated, and urged the horse to lead the horse to continue running towards the camp, and then continued to run.

After passing two checkpoints, the cavalry team was less than a mile away from the camp, and the outline of the dark Turkic dome tent could be vaguely seen.

Tu Midu held back the war horse and turned around and said in a deep voice to Zhong Gensheng: "There will be no patrols again. I can only help you so much. Tonight's command is 'Eve of the War" Take care of yourself!"

Zhong Gensheng bowed to him, "Thank you!"

He waved his hand and led the nineteen scouts to the east. Tu Midu looked at their far away backs, shook his head and urged his horse to go to the Uighur camp.

Zhong Gensheng and nineteen scouts wore a muffled hat and a thick leather jacket, and covered their sturdy leather armor with thick hair collars covering half of their faces. They were dressed in Turkic cavalry.

Run east along the edge of the camp.

Zhong Gensheng is an old scout who knows the rules of Turkic camping. They have passed three checkpoints. As long as they no longer enter the tent area, they will not encounter any cross-examination. These twenty Sui army scouts were specially selected.

Except for Zhong Gensheng and the other two scouts who were Han people, the other seventeen were Turkic people from the Wutu tribe.

They entered the Turkic camp from a quieter camp. Most of the Turkic soldiers had fallen asleep, and no one came to interrogate them along the way.

After walking for several miles, I walked forward and found the tent area. There were trenches on the ground. Teams of Turkic Guards patrolled back and forth, with very strict defenses. Zhong Gensheng turned around and nodded to everyone. He was ready to act, 'Click!

With a sound of ', a torch was lit, and then twenty torches were lit. They suddenly activated, ran to the camp with the torch in their hands and began to ignite large tents.

Large tents were lit, fires soared into the sky, and thick smoke rolled. Countless Turkic soldiers ran out of the tent, shouting loudly, and desperately hitting the ignited tent, and the Turkic camp was in chaos.

The Uighur chief Pei Sa stood in front of the tent and looked at the firelights in the distance. He suddenly turned around and glanced at the mistress.

Tu Miyaku lowered his head, Pei Sa turned his head and looked at the sharp light in the distance, and a fire of hope slowly flashed in his eyes.

Perhaps as Tu Milu said, freedom is more important than wealth...

Suli Khan was also alarmed. He ran out of the tent and looked at the sky-storming fire in the distance. He asked anxiously: "What's going on?"

A soldier rushed to report, "Khan, a spy from the Sui army sneaked into the camp and ignited the camp's tent. We are searching for it."

Khan Suli stomped his feet in hatred and said anxiously: "Order the guards to dispatch immediately and line up on the periphery to prevent the Sui army from attacking at night!"

Hundreds of thousands of Turkic Guards cavalry were dispatched, and they lined up in the wilderness in front of the camp to prepare for war. However, on the dark grassland, there was no sign of the Sui army except the cold north wind whistling.

The Sui army was just here to disrupt the morale of the army and interfere with the rest of the Turkic army, and there was no plan to attack at night. This fire disturbed the Turkic army overnight, and most of the Turkic soldiers were worried until dawn and could not sleep all night.

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As the sky gradually became brighter, the sound of trumpets in the Sui army camp sounded, and the sound of low trumpets sounded on the grassland. This was the sound of trumpets when the war came.

The soldiers of Sui army put on armor and helmets to pack up their war horses. The spear was sharp and the sharp blade was sharp. The bowstrings were replaced with brand new. The long arrows were inserted into the quiver again. The war horses were fed. The soldiers left their families with careful packages of wills and property.

OK, I silently handed it over to the lieutenant.

Under the constant urge of trumpets, the soldiers turned over their horses, gathered into cavalry teams, went out of the camp to travel north, following thousands of flying flags towards the Turkic camp dozens of miles away.

But after only a dozen miles of travel, a scout rushed over and reported to Yang Wuqingji, the commander of the Sui army under the banner: "The Turkic army has gone south, and now twenty miles away!"

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand, "The army stopped advancing and lined up!"

The 80,000 Sui cavalry began to re-arrange themselves and were divided into the left and right central armies. Yang Yuanqing personally led 50,000 troops into the central army, and the left and right wings were 15,000 people. The left wing chief general was Luo Shixin, the deputy general Wang Junkuo, and the right wing chief general Pei Xingyan.

Deputy General Xie Yingdeng, the leader of the rear army, was Niu Jinda, who led 10,000 troops to drag the back.

This time, the Sui army was mainly cavalry, with 6,000 heavy armored soldiers and 4,000 strong crossbow soldiers. Five thousand heavy armored cavalry were handed over to Li Jing. He led 15,000 men as side responses and was about to be in the middle of the war.

Appeared as a new force.

Eighty thousand Sui troops have completed the army on the grassland, and thousands of flags are distributed on the front line about three miles long. The strong wind blows the flag. The soldiers of the Sui army are full of morale and murderous intent. Even the war horses feel the war before the war comes.

The nervousness lowered his head and whispered, and the sniffed loudly.

At this time, more than a dozen Sui army scouts rushed to the Sui army formation. It was Zhong Gensheng and others who raided the Turkic camp last night. The Sui army soldiers thought they had been killed, but their accident occurred at this time.

The Sui army's formation was filled with joy.

Just as the cheers of the Sui army, a whimpering horn suddenly came from afar, and a black line about ten miles long appeared at the end of the grassland.
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