After a few days, the Khan of Tuyuhun issued a series of orders. The first was to appoint Tuyan as the general, commanding all the Tuyuhun spirit cavalry except for the 60,000 near the royal court, and began to fight the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way. The second was to issue a national guard order, so that the people of the whole country should prepare for the Tang Dynasty's army. Because Tuyuhun is a nomadic people, the strong children of their clans join the army, and the elderly and children among the clans are also good at riding horses. Therefore, the issuance of this order invisibly established countless Tuyuhun defense troops mainly for the Tang Dynasty. Although such troops formed by the elderly and children do not pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty's cavalry, it also caused a lot of trouble, especially the food routes of the Tang Dynasty.

When Tuyan was ordered in danger, he made some adjustments and integrated the 200,000 army, and formed 110,000 elite cavalry with his 70,000 elite cavalry and the 40,000 elite cavalry given to him by Tuyuhun Khan. The central army, who acted as the main army, mixed the remaining 60,000 cavalry of Tuba and the 40,000 elite cavalry flocked to various places, divided it into two left and right armies, deployed on both sides of the central army, and he began to slowly shrink the defense line and narrow the defense. The three cavalry formed a horn-shaped force, and the defense suddenly formed an iron barrel formation.

Then, he transferred out ten thousand elite cavalry from the central army and handed them to Tuba. As a vanguard army, he wandered outside the defensive positions, acted as a roaming cavalry, and a large number of cavalrymen who monitored the army.

Although Tuba's brave general Tuyuhun was not smart enough, he was also brave. Tuyan felt that such a task was handed over to Tuba. Another reason Tuba was definitely competent was that Tuba had fought with the Tang army and understood the way the Tang army fought.

"Don't worry, General, Tuba will never let down the expectations of the General and Khan." Tuba took the order and assured Tuyan.

"Then you go," Tuyan said

"Yes-" Tuba left

Seeing Tuba and ten thousand troops slowly disappear from his sight, Tuyan felt a sense of melancholy in his heart

In fact, it was just an excuse to let Tuba act as a swimming cavalry. Tuyan already knew the operational deployment of the Tang army. The 170,000 Tang army was not a unified group, but adopted a dispersed combat. This combat method is very flexible, but the disadvantage is that it has few troops and is easily surrounded and annihilated by large cavalry. Therefore, Tuyan asked Tuba to lead 10,000 elite cavalry to swim outside the defensive position. The purpose was to lure the Tang army cavalry. When the Tang army cavalry fought with Tuba, he led the army to encircle and annihilate. To put it bluntly, although he gave Tuba ten thousand elite cavalry, Tuba's current identity has become a bait, which is the bait to lure the Tang army.

Because Tuyan is very clear that the large-scale cavalry of the Tang army will not value Tuyan's 10,000 cavalry, and will not encircle this 10,000 cavalry, so the number of Tang soldiers who can lead the army to annihilate this 10,000 cavalry will definitely not exceed 30,000. For the army of only 30,000, Tuyan has the ability to lead the three left, middle and right troops around him to siege and annihilate.

Tuyan felt that it was a bit cruel to make Tuba and Ten Thousand Spirit Cavalry as bait. If his guess was wrong, these Ten Thousand Spirit Cavalry might become the soul of the Tang army under the sword. But this is how it is to lead troops to fight. Even the soldiers of the Central Plains who have always been known for their kindness said that charity does not control the troops, let alone that he is a Tuyuhun person?

Under dusk, I saw the 10,000 elite cavalry disappearing from afar. Tu Yan stared for a long time, and then slowly returned to the tent of the army.

The sunset fell into the clouds in the west, and the early spring season in the northwest was still very cold. When the cold wind blew across his cheeks, it made the pain of cold wind blew across his cheeks without changing his face. He still stared silently at the front. Although he was not a talented general with outstanding strategy, he still had a lot of combat experience. Otherwise, how could Tuyuhun Khan hand over 100,000 troops to his command and cooperate with Tubo to attack the Tang Dynasty? Therefore, he also knew that Tuyan asked him to lead 10,000 elite cavalry to swim in defense.

The real reason outside the position was that he could refuse at that time, but he did not do so. Because he knew the crisis facing Tuyuhun, he knew the combat capability of the Tang army, so he thought that he could exchange his 10,000 elite cavalry for the biological mother of the Tang army's 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry. This transaction was very cost-effective because he knew that what the Tang army lacked was cavalry. Only by completely annihilated one or two Tang army cavalry could we truly curb such a large-scale crazy attack on Tuyuhun by the Tang army.

Just when Tu Yan sat upright on the horse's back, his thoughts were flying

A scout suddenly rushed towards the location of the Central Military Network where he was located

"Report-General Tuba, the Tang cavalry was found thirty miles ahead." The scout rode his horse and rushed to Tuba. Before the horse stood firm, he hurriedly said.

"Thirty miles?" Tuba was surprised. He did not expect the Tang cavalry to be so fast that they had advanced to this position.

"Yes - just thirty miles ahead" the scout continued

"How many people are there?" Tuba asked

"The number of people is about 10,000 to two people," the scout replied

"What kind of outfits are the Tang cavalry?" Tuba asked again, "Is it black-clad armor?"

"No, not black-clad black armor" the scout said with certainty

"Hmph--" Tuba sneered. When the scout said he had discovered the Tang cavalry, he instinctively thought of Li Ke's black armored cavalry, so he specifically asked the scouts about the Tang army's uniform. Now it is not Li Ke's black armored cavalry. Tuba had the idea of ​​annihilation of this Tang cavalry in his heart.

Because Tuba felt that if the Tang army was a black armored cavalry, he thought that his 10,000 cavalry was facing more than 10,000 people from the opponent, and that he was simply hitting the stone with eggs, but not a black armored cavalry. Tuba was confident of fighting for the battle.

"You keep monitoring" Tuba issued a military order to the scout

"Yes" the scout left

Tuba said to the personal soldiers beside him, "Order the soldiers to dismount and rest and eat."

"No" cavalry took the order and left

He said to himself, "In a battle tonight, we must annihilate this Tang army."

By the stream, Yuwen Guo was quietly serving his own war horse. His war horse was a tall blue horse and a gift from the Northern King Li Ke. Yuwen Guo treated it like his own woman.

On the edge of the stream, the camping was his 15,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry. After several battles, even though the Youzhou Iron Cavalry was strong in combat, they lost 5,000 people. It had been reduced from the two people at the beginning to 15,000 people. However, the weak base of the number of people not only did not weaken the combat effectiveness of this cavalry, but instead strengthened because the number of people decreased. However, after the baptism of the war and the beating of the war, this elite cavalry was able to fight well. If it were not for the suspicion and reaction of the court, Yuwen Guo thought he could apply to join the Youzhou Iron Cavalry to the Black Guards.

When Yuwen Guo thought of the black-clothed guard, he was very envious

He envied the strong combat power of the Black Uniform Guard and the excellent equipment of the Black Uniform Guard

As the backbone of the Beiwang faction, he knew very well that the Beiwang, who had tens of thousands of troops in the Black-Clothed Guard, paid for his own money, while the Black-Clothed Guard army had become a real professional soldier. They would receive military pay every month and receive pensions after death. After being disabled, the Beiwang would arrange their next life. When they were forty, the Beiwang would find them a job so that they would not have to worry about food or clothing in the second half of their lives.

Therefore, Yuwen Guo knew very well that for the same elite cavalry and the same people, why is the combat effectiveness of the Black Guard stronger than other Tang Dynasty cavalry and infantrymen? This is the reason. Because of the special care of the Northern King Li Ke, the soldiers of the Black Guard will not care about life and death on the battlefield, but only care about victory and defeat.

Also, what Yuwen Guo envies the most is the equipment of the black guard

He knew very well that since the two horse-raising bases of Mobei and Youbei, the Black Guards' horses were selected by both places, and they were all excellent war horses. The other war horses of the Tang army were all raised by themselves. They were simply unable to compare with the Turkic war horses. The most important ones were weapons and armor. The Black Guards' weapons were definitely the most exquisite existence in the Tang Dynasty. Not only their hardness and sharpness, but also their strength and patience were absolutely first-class. Because he wore the Black Guards' armor, which was light and solid. The Black Guards' sword he used was handy and easy to use.

Yuwen Guo was so envious of this alone, and saw a pedestrian riding to his side, and the war horse was still steadily stopped. Then he saw the horse rider jumping off the horse's back.

"General, Tuyuhun Sperm Cavalry was found thirty miles ahead" Scout replied to the report

"Do you want to ride the Tuyuhun spirit?" Yuwen Guo did not seem too surprised, but asked lightly, "How many people are about ten thousand?"

"There are about 10,000," the scout replied

"Ten thousand people?" Yuwen Guo said to himself, "You can practice your skills for everyone."

"General, we also found Tuyuhun scouts nearby," the scout continued

"Hmph—Tuyuhun scouts actually discovered us," Yuwen Guo said lightly, "You go down and continue to monitor."

"No" scout left

Yuwen Guo continued to play with his war horse, but his mind was already in the battle tonight.

In such a flat and wide area in front of us, the enemy and our army are thirty miles apart. If no one can find anyone, it is nonsense. No cavalry can hide so well. Since we have discovered that we must fight, how to fight is the key to the problem.

Yuwen Guo knew very well that the Tuyuhun scout discovered his army, and since the Tuyuhun army did not escape or attack, they must be thinking of countermeasures and the best time to attack themselves, so Yuwen Guo seemed so calm. This was his maturity after several battles, and it was also a kind of tempering after four years of college career.

After a while, Yuwen Guo handed over his war horse to his personal soldiers not far away and ordered, "Let the army eat and prepare to fight to the death to the evening."

"No" personal soldiers took the order and left

And he still stands in the stream, looking at the east sky
Chapter completed!