On October 4, the third year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, in the late autumn of 620 AD, in the northern part of Liangzhou, more than 400,000 Turkic cavalry rushed south, and the dust that had risen rushed straight to Liangzhou City.

At the northern city gate of Liangzhou, Liu Shan looked at the Turkic soldiers and horses that could not see the edge of the line. For some reason, the Liangzhou garrison, who should have been nervous and even worried, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. At the beginning, everyone around him saw Liu Shan's nervousness. Even when Liu Shan learned that the Turks had gone south, he unconsciously stepped on the city wall, and he took a very fast step, with a little confused and hurried pace, so that the people around him could tell that his general was worried at this time.

As the enemy is in front of the enemy, everyone can understand this kind of performance. However, when the Turkic army was overwhelmed by the mountains, Liu Shan breathed a sigh of relief, which was something that the soldiers around him could never imagine. Is it that more than 400,000 troops fewer? Looking at the dust and cavalry in their eyes that were blocking the sky and the sun, many people who saw Liu Shan's expression asked themselves in their hearts.

Perhaps, only at this time Liu Shan knew why he breathed a sigh of relief.

The war in the Central Plains has not yet been settled. After the chaos in the late Sui Dynasty, China's territory was fragmented, and various anti-kings gathered to condemn the Sui Dynasty. Various forces divided the forces on China's territory and acted independently.

Tang King Li Yuan, Zheng King Shichong, Xia Lord Dou Jiande were the most powerful anti-kings among the heroes. Apart from these people, there were many generals who had their own troops. It can be said without hesitation that the land of China at this time was a chaotic world of frequent wars, which is why the anti-kings in the north were not able to fight against the Turks at this time. The originally huge land was broken by the anti-kings, and the strength held by the anti-kings in the hands of the anti-kings was much less. Moreover, they had to deal with the provocation and pressure of the people around them. In the case of constant internal struggle, they had no ability to resist external humiliation.

In this case, when all the anti-kings were unable to fight against the Turks, some anti-kings even surrendered to the Turks, and some even used the power of the Turks to Zhuolu Central Plains.

It can be said that the Han regime at this time was a regime in the stage of internal and external troubles. It was strong neighbors and the battle was in full swing.

As Liu Shan, he knew this reality deeply. The reality is that if the Turks in northern Liangzhou could take Liangzhou, point the front of the Hexi Corridor, and then threaten Chang'an, which is located in the Wei-level land, then under the threat of the powerful Turkic cavalry, the King of Qin would have to lead his troops to save the dangerous situation in Chang'an. If there is another battle in the Central Plains, I don't know when the pace of Chinese unification will be delayed, and the delay time is impossible and dare not imagine. Even if everything goes well and the Turks are repelled, the army will be launched again, and the preparations in the middle make people feel scared.

This is the best ending. If Chang'an falls and the Turks move forward, the Khan of the Turks will never stop his ambitions. In the end, the military attack ends to endanger the rule of the Han Chinese in China.

There is only one way to get the Turks to take back their claws, that is, let the Turks know the pain at one time, how to let the Turks know the pain at one time, that is, to make the Turks lose the army at one time, even if they think about the south invasion, they feel afraid of sleeping at night.

This is why Liu Shan could breathe a sigh of relief when he saw more than 400,000 troops approaching the border.

If the Turks only had more than 100,000 people, even if they defeated their opponents, the Turks would gather more people to have a bloody pre-sham. However, once the strength of their entire nation's army was seriously damaged, they would not even have the chance to avenge their pre-sham.

The purpose of this battle was to defeat the Turks and let the Turks take back their claws. In fact, it was to make the Turks unable to invade the south, allowing the Tang army to free up their hands to clean up the end of the Sui Dynasty. After the unification of China, it was time to settle the accounts with the Turks.

Liu Shan’s idea is that if the foreign war is to be carried out, and if the country wants to be able to effectively resist foreign humiliation, it must first handle its own internal affairs. Can you imagine a terminally ill patient, let him defeat an athlete? That is impossible.

On the other hand, Liu Shan also knew that using gunpowder and hot air balloons was actually a cold war. This new thing and new thinking emerged, which could achieve good results when it was first applied to the battlefield. However, once the idea of ​​the war was not new and the enemy was prepared, it would not have a good effect in the future. After all, people are not fools, nor are Turkic people, and there is only one chance, so Liu Shan hopes to destroy the opponent in the only one chance.

At this time, the Turkic Khan outside the city might have some similarities to Liu Shan. At this time, he believed that Liangzhou had gathered heavy troops from the Tang Dynasty. As long as Liangzhou was taken down, it would be relatively easier for the Turkic cavalry to advance into the Tang Dynasty in the future.

The Turkic Khan regarded the Tang Dynasty as a wild beast wearing thick armor. At this time, he was about to tear open the thick armor, and the tear mouth was in Liangzhou.

In the words of the Turks, they wanted to have a decisive battle with the Tang army in Liangzhou. With the purpose of the decisive battle, the Turks who came from afar did not rush to attack the city. They first set up camp outside Liangzhou city.

On that day, the aggressive cavalry flooded the northern part of Liangzhou. The first Turkic soldiers did not attack the city walls guarded by Liangzhou, but were busy setting up tents, boiling water and cooking. They were busy until night. Under Liangzhou, there were torches and fires that could not be seen at a glance. The firelight of the Turkic camp made the blue-gray city walls of Liangzhou clearly visible in the night.

When the sun rose the next day, the Turks launched several small-scale tentative attacks. Hundreds and thousands of Turkic cavalry were calling out under the city of Liangzhou. When they saw the opponent's team, Liu Shan understood what the opponent was doing. How many people came from the opponent and how many people Liu Shan sent. The Turkic Khan was using a small amount of troops to conduct a tentative attack. To find out what the defenders in Liangzhou were fighting, Liu Shan also sent the new soldiers to fight accordingly.

The reason for sending new recruits is that Liu Shan knows that Gao Ming's opponents will first take a few virtual moves when fighting, and when the large army fights, they will first make a few tentative attacks. The decisive battle is not the time at this time. Moreover, sending new recruits can also numb the opponent, making the opponent unable to judge the virtual reality of Liangzhou at this time.

Some people don't understand this, but it's actually very simple. If Liangzhou has always been a defense and has never made achievements, he will definitely be despised by his opponent if he loses one or two battles. However, if this border city once covers tens of thousands of powerful cavalry to kill hundreds of miles, if he loses one or two battles, the opponent will doubt whether the opponent deliberately makes such a defeat and deceive himself. This can also be seen as a fight between two masters. They clearly know that the opponent is very strong, but one person will see that the opponent makes a clear mistake. Often, he will not easily use this mistake to expand his battle results. He is afraid that it is a trap and a false move. Just like after a person is bitten by a snake, he will feel scared when he sees the rope at night.

The real one is empty, and the virtual one is real. On the battlefield, the virtual and real one is the most confusing of the opponent.

In this way, on the second day of the confrontation between the two sides, a small war began. Often, hundreds or thousands of soldiers on both sides rushed to the battlefield. The two armies were ready to fight, and they were furious like thunder. The sword danced with tigers and tigers were roaring, and the horses were yelling as shocking. Even the shouts of killing seemed to be able to hear the sound of the slogan for a hundred miles and spread throughout the battlefield, but once the fight started, it was another matter.

The Turkic Khan was also tempted at this time. The soldiers sent were all cavalry from tribes that he did not trust very much, while Liu Shan sent new recruits. On both sides, one was a small Turkic tribe, and both wanted to preserve their strength, and on the other side, they were novices, and had not yet adapted to the blood and cruelty of the war. When the two armies contacted them a little, they often had no more than a hundred casualties, either you retreated or I retreated.

Of course, nine out of ten battles were caused by Liu Shan's men retreating to the city, and the Turks did not dare to chase them. As long as the opponent retreated to the range of the Tang army's crossbow, they would not dare to chase them. They had a tribe who had chased them before, but the final outcome of that tribe was very tragic. As soon as hundreds of tribe cavalry chased the city, they were nailed to death by thousands of crossbow arrows.

This kind of test took place for seven or eight days in a row. Liu Shan shouted that his new recruits were worried that there was no place to train troops. At this time, the opponent actually gave him such a good training environment. Liu Shan's newly-engraved army took turns to the battlefield these days, and some people even went on the battlefield no less than ten times. Although casualties were inevitable. However, after the bloody battle and fighting on the battlefield, the mental outlook of those new recruits changed a lot. Many new recruits who were originally unable to even hold weapons had a little calmness and courage as veterans.
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