In the evening, piles of bonfires were lit in the Sui army camp. Yang Ji, the commander-in-chief of the Sui army, ordered that 20,000 sheep be slaughtered to reward the three armies. Although there was no wine, all the Sui army officers and soldiers were happily enjoying the joy of victory.

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In the open space in front of the Chinese army's tent, Yang Ji and several generals were enjoying today's dinner while enjoying the cool air. On the tables that were simply set up one after another, in addition to Shi Wansui, Yang Lun, Xue Shixiong and other later generals, there were

Meat, Yang Ji, Wang Xingben, Yao Junsu, Xue Ju, Li Datong and Su Quan all had wild vegetables, mushrooms and other vegetarian food in front of them. These vegetarian dishes cooked by Zhang Chuchen were extremely delicious.

"Vajra slave, you have always enjoyed meat, why don't you eat meat today?" This was not a formal occasion, so Yang Lun called him quite casually, and said with a smile: "Do you want to become a monk?"

"I'm not short of money, why should I have a family?" Yang Ji said with a look of disgust: "I have been eating meat for too long, and now I feel sick to my stomach when I see meat, and I feel sick to the point of vomiting."

"What your Highness said is absolutely true." Wang Xingben, Yao Junsu, Xue Ju, Li Datong and others heard this and nodded in agreement. Since they set out from Yizhou, they have eaten meat every day and every meal. Who can stand it?

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"You are so blessed that you don't know how blessed you are." Yang Lun was a little dumbfounded. For the first time in his life, he heard someone say that eating meat made him sick and made him want to vomit.

"I can understand it. It's just because I felt the same way when I went deep into the desert to plunder the Turks." Shi Wansui laughed and asked Yang Ji. "King Wei, now only a few Ashina steps are left.

We have 10,000 soldiers, what should we do next? Let’s fight tomorrow?”

Yang Lun answered: "This is also what I want to ask, but before I ask this question, I have to ask a question that I don't understand."

"What's the question? Just ask." Yang Ji said with a smile.

"In today's battle, Bujia Khan not only lost more than 100,000 troops, but he was also killed by me. It can be said that the overall situation has been decided. As for Ashina Budu who was caught in the attack from both front and rear, although Ashina Budu

Du still has more than 40,000 elite troops, but his military strength is far inferior to that of our Great Sui Dynasty and Qimin Khan. In fact, he can no longer afford to make any waste." Yang Lun looked at Yang Ji and asked: "I

The question is - our army could clearly defeat Ashina Step with one force today, why did it stop moving forward?"

"The Turkic soldiers under Ashina Buddu will indeed fall into temporary chaos, fear, and panic because of the war. But if we attack by force today, it will definitely arouse their determination to fight to the death, which will cause our army to suffer heavy casualties.

." Yang Ji finished explaining and said with a smile: "But if we wait two or three days, the effect will be completely different."

"What's the difference?" Yang Lun asked doubtfully.

Everyone also stopped eating chopsticks and looked at Yang Ji.

"Brother Wang may think that those defeated troops will increase Ashina Budu's combat effectiveness, but I think those defeated troops are not combat effectiveness, but spreaders of panic and fear." Yang Ji said: "The Art of War has something to say.

:'In all ways of conquering a country, attacking the heart is the top priority, and attacking the city is the bottom; winning the heart is the top, and winning the army is the bottom.' What we have to do is to defeat the enemy without fighting, rather than confronting the enemy head-on. Therefore, we must use the defeated army as a

This feeling of fear and fear has spread to the whole army. Now we are standing still and preparing to attack. This is to tell them: it is not that we cannot defeat them, but that we do not want to fight and are too lazy to fight. While they are breathing a sigh of relief, that feeling

The fear will continue to grow. Two or three days later, when our army attacks again, we will first use the golden wolf-headed banner and the heads of Bujia Khan and the Second Khan to intimidate them, making them lose their courage, and then use their troops to attack the enemy fiercely.

The morale of the army must be low, so our army can decide in one battle! Besides, if Ashina Budu wants to break out, he won't fight on our side, right?"

It's not that Ashina Budu can't be beaten, it's just that the timing is wrong.

For Yang Ji, this army no longer has any threat capability. However, after this war is over, Liangzhou will enter a period of rest and spend the extra time on building the place. The key is the Qiang issue.

is the most important problem to be solved. Although many Qiang villages have been persuaded by Wei Yunqi to come down the mountain, there are still many Qiang tribes whose villages have not come down. The secondary reason is that they do not trust the court, and the main reason is that they were bewitched by Murong Fuyun.

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During this period of time, these Qiang and Tuguhun people flirted with each other and were very dishonest. Not only did they try to fish in troubled waters, some Qiang tribes even robbed some caravans traveling between Guazhou and Ganzhou with the Tuguhun people. This was also Yang

Collect the news heard from Shi Wansui.

Naturally, Yang Ji had to liquidate the evil done by these people one by one; and liquidation meant that he needed an army capable of fighting to suppress it, so he did not want to waste his soldiers in this must-win war. Of course.

, Ashinabudu and Qimin Khan would be more complete if dog bites dog.

"You guys, after three days of separation, you really impressed me." Yang Lun clicked his tongue and said, "When did you become so cunning? Who did you learn from?"

"Of course I learned it from Sun Tzu." Yang Ji smiled: "Let's not talk about it anymore. How many prisoners did we capture today?"

"Your Highness!" Su Dan stood up and answered with cupped hands: "In a hurry, I counted more than 36,300 people."

"So many?" Yang Ji was shocked when he heard this.

"It's not much." Shi Wansui, who knew the situation better, said: "Bujia Khan brought an army of 350,000, and Yin Shishi led the army to defeat 50,000 forwards. Nearly a dozen people died inside and outside Datong City.

Ten thousand people, and another 60,000 Tiele soldiers were dispersed by Duan Wenzhen and Qimin Khan, and Ashina Budu dispersed another 60,000 people. Now it is reasonable for us to capture more than 36,000 people."

"That's it!" Yang Ji nodded and asked worriedly: "Are there any seriously injured or disabled people?"

"No!" Su Yu said solemnly: "The wounded Turkic soldiers were very brave. Instead of surrendering, they dared to fight back against our army. Therefore, our soldiers were forced to fight and killed them one by one."

Are you the one who let people slaughter you?

"..." Everyone looked at Su Dan who was seriously talking nonsense, and they were speechless.

Yang Ji ordered: "Heroes are worthy of admiration and will be buried well tomorrow."

"Here." Su Dan responded and sat down again.

"In this battle, Datong City not only fought the hardest and sacrificed the most, but also killed the most enemies... If they hadn't contained Bujia Khan's army for me, I wouldn't have been able to kill the special forces in the Great Lakes area without any worries.

Kill." Yang Ji said: "So the first contribution should be made by the soldiers and civilians of Datong City and the soldiers and civilians of Ganzhou."

Everyone felt secretly regretful after hearing this. In fact, Yang Ji's contribution was the greatest. He annihilated many Turkic soldiers in the Great Lakes area, and there were many Turkic soldiers. Moreover, he was the commander-in-chief of this battle. In fact, the contribution made by the soldiers and civilians of Datong City was

It was because he used people properly, so in the final analysis, the first success was all on him. However, everyone also admired him deeply. He was willing to give up the first success that should belong to him for his subordinates, which is not something ordinary people can do.

Yang Lun, on the other hand, listened thoughtfully and roughly understood Yang Ji's intentions. After all, he was a prince, and he was appointed as the governor of Liangzhou, the general manager, and the general of the right guard. When he reached this level, his official career was almost over.

Well, if he wins the first achievement, how will the imperial court grant him a title?

Although in Yang Jian's era, there was no need to worry about his outstanding achievements, but what about in the future? If Yang Ji made meritorious deeds in the future, how would Yang Guang grant him a title? Therefore, it was actually a very wise choice for Yang Ji to voluntarily give up his first meritorious service.

And with Yang Jian's wisdom and love for Yang Ji, how could he treat his precious nephew badly? A lot of real property is definitely indispensable.

"Report to the King of Wei." At this time, a school captain hurriedly came to report: "Zhang Sima, Liu Governor, Deputy General Manager Zhang, Yang Mincao, Yin Bingcao and others want to see you."

"Please come quickly." Yang Ji quickly stood up to greet him. Datong City turned into a scorched earth. It can be said that everything is in ruins. Moreover, these great heroes worked too hard, so Yang Ji just asked people to reward him with his achievements.

I sent them there and let them have a good rest for a few days, but who would have thought that they would still come.

When the group of them had walked less than a hundred steps, they saw a group of exhausted warriors walking towards them.

Everyone is unkempt and shabby. Although they have lost their previous heroic appearance and grace, everyone has a tiger-like aura about them, which makes people dare not look at them.

"Zhang Xutuo meets His Highness."

"Liu Quan meets His Highness."

"Zhang Dinghe meets His Highness"

"Yang Shan will meet with His Highness."

"Master Yin Shi meets His Highness."

"Wei Yunqi..."

"Li Jing..."

"Dugu Pingyun..."

"Song Zhengben..."

When everyone saw Yang Ji leading the crowd to greet him, they quickly stepped forward to salute.

"No gift!" Yang Ji hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his hand to help everyone up one by one, looked at their haggard faces, and felt a little tight in his chest, pretending to be dissatisfied and said: "Didn't I let you rest? You are running away anyway.

Are you here? If you don’t obey the coach’s order, you will each be punished by eating ten pounds of roasted mutton.”

"???" Everyone looked at each other, speechless.

"What? Do you think the punishment is too light?" Yang Ji asked with a smile.

"Of course not!" Zhang Xutuo smiled bitterly and answered on behalf of everyone: "In normal times, General Mo and others would have wished for such a punishment, but today they smelled the corpses of tens of thousands of people changing from the smell of meat to the smell of burning.

It’s really hard to eat now, so if His Highness wants to punish us today, just punish us by not being able to eat.”

"Zhang Sima's words are right." Liu Quan also smiled bitterly and said: "You eat meat, we just drink a few bowls of water."

Yang Ji and others all laughed. Yang Ji smiled and ordered Li Daliang: "Go find some wine. This stuff is very sweet and can nourish the stomach."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Zhang Xutuo and others thanked them.

After everyone sat down again, Yang Ji asked: "You are all here, who will clean up the mess in Datong City?"

"General Manager Flexitu."

"General Manager Flexitu."

"Qu Tu Tong."

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When Yang Ji heard that everyone reported Qu Tutong in unison, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but he didn't take it to heart, and then said to Zhang Xutuo: "Zhang Sima, please tell me the situation on your side in detail.

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"Here." Zhang Xutuo took a deep breath and told the whole story from Yang Ji's departure from Ganzhou, to Bujia Khan's arrangements after his massive suppression of the border, and then to the court officials' detention of military information...

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At the same time, the Ashinabudu Camp forty miles away was filled with a sad atmosphere. The cool night wind was mixed with some sad tunes and wailing sounds. Those were the voices of priests mourning the dead, but

At this moment, listening to Ashina Budu's ears, the sounds slowly changed their taste, and the sound of crying became louder and louder, and soon filled the entire military camp.
To be continued...