Ma Sanbao followed Li Jing's gaze and looked at the soldiers who were lighting fires and boiling water. When he saw the soldiers gathering in small groups and stuffing handfuls of snow into the cauldron, he sighed.
No more words were spoken.
He knew very well that Li Jing was right. For those soldiers, money was the other half of their lives. It was impossible for them to abandon money before their strength and spirit were completely exhausted.
After all, for them, as long as they can still take it and take it away, they cannot give it up.
"I'm going to kill the sheep..."
After Ma Sanbao sighed, he reluctantly dropped these words and drove away the cattle and sheep.
The food and grass they brought had been exhausted long before they arrived at the Turkic royal court, and now they had two meals a day of cattle and sheep.
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There were so many of them that they had to eat dozens of sheep for each meal, so killing the sheep took some time.
Just when they were killing the sheep and cooking the meat for soup.
Su Dingfang was also killing sheep, but he only killed one sheep. After killing it, he put it on a blazing bonfire to bake. Luo Shixin took a small knife and kept making incisions on the sheep.
So that the mutton can be heated evenly.
"When it comes to eating mutton, it's most enjoyable when cooked. It always tastes less delicious when grilled."
Yin Kaishan sat on the side of the bonfire, holding a piece of naan bread with a knife before baking it, and said with emotion while baking it.
Su Dingfang did not answer Yin Kaishan's words, but asked back, "Where is the prince?"
Yin Kaishan curled his lips and said with some interest: "The prince is still in Dabin..."
Su Dingfang frowned and said, "Where is Li Daozong?"
Yin Kaishan glanced at Su Dingfang, took off the naan cake stuck on the knife, took a tasteless bite, and said in a neutral tone: "Still guarding the place where His Highness asked him to guard..."
Su Dingfang said a little unhappily: "Shouldn't we let them lead the army over? We only have less than 30,000 troops here, which is not enough to face Sunishi and Tuli's army.
Only with the help of the troops and horses in their hands can we annihilate Sunishu and Tuli's troops."
Yin Kaishan's mouth was a little dry as he gnawed the naan cake. After taking a sip of the cold river water, he said angrily: "Do you think they are me and they will listen to your orders?
His Highness did not appoint you as the general manager here, but instead asked His Highness King Xiangyi to take charge of the battlefield here.
Logically speaking, you should listen to His Highness the King of Xiangyi, not let His Highness the King of Xiangyi listen to you."
Su Dingfang could not refute Yin Kaishan's words, and frowned and said: "Now it is not a question of who listens to whom, but that only when we gather together can we have a chance to annihilate all the soldiers and horses of Sunishi and Tuli."
Yin Kaishan signaled Luo Shixin to quickly brush some oil on the sheep, otherwise it would dry out. After Luo Shixin started to oil the sheep, he said slowly: "Aren't there still soldiers and horses from the Twelve Guards? They are already delaying the attack.
The state has blocked Sunisi and Tuli's retreat. Even if we cannot annihilate their troops in one fell swoop, we can continue to encroach on them and eventually eat them all away.
It just takes more time.”
Su Dingfang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "It would be nice if things were as simple as you said. We are now surrounding Erque Er. Sunisu and Tuli cannot go east or west, but they can go south.
To the north.
They probably would not choose to go south, so after their defeat, they would definitely flee north.
I asked King Xiangyi and Li Daozong to lead their troops over, just to block their gap to the north.
If they don't come, Sunishi and Tuli will definitely escape from the north.
By then we will not be able to accomplish all the success in this battle.
This is not what His Highness wants to see."
Yin Kaishan opened his mouth and said helplessly: "Don't tell me these things. If you tell me, I can't be the leader of King Xiangyi and Li Daozong. You should tell them."
Su Dingfang suddenly frowned even more tightly and said nothing.
Luo Shixin had been concentrating on the barbecue without saying a word from beginning to end.
He is a strong general, a brave general, not a wise general. He is good at small-scale troop formations, but he is still lacking in large-scale layouts and troop formations.
Therefore, he left all matters of troop formation and layout to Su Dingfang.
Su Dingfang has made a plan, and he just has to execute it.
He believed in Su Dingfang's brain and believed that Su Dingfang would not cheat him.
Just when the mutton was about to be roasted, the military scouts arrived.
"Three generals, the Turks seem to be preparing to withdraw..."
Su Dingfang stood up immediately, and without waiting for Yin Kaishan to ask questions, he made a judgment, "Li Jing should have succeeded. Jie Li will give up opening the second portal, shrink all his troops, and fight to the death with His Highness and the others.
"
"Then let's..."
Yin Kaishan questions.
Su Dingfang didn't wait for him to finish his words and said decisively: "You and Shixin will lead people to outflank them from the left and right, and I will lead the Chinese army to penetrate directly into their inner circle. I hope the troops and horses of the Twelve Guards can be put to use.
Otherwise we have to chase to Gyeongju.
This is not a good thing for us."
The soldiers and horses in Suizhou have been fighting against the Turks for more than half a month, and every one of them is exhausted. If they continue to pursue for a long distance, many people will surely fall on the road, and there will even be serious injuries.
After all, it was freezing cold and the roads were not easy to walk. In addition, the roads in Sui, Yan, and Qing prefectures were very rugged.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty pursued them when they were trapped and outnumbered. If they were not careful, they would fall off their horses. If they were running on a mountain trail, falling off their horses would mean death and they would not be able to be saved.
This kind of damage could have been avoided, but Li Shenfu and Li Daozong were unwilling to come over. If the soldiers and horses of the Twelve Guards were useless and could not stop the Turks from retreating, then this kind of damage would have to be borne.
"I haven't eaten the meat yet..."
Yin Kaishan saw Su Dingfang abandoning Luo Shixin's roasted and crispy mutton and leaving, and couldn't help but shout.
Su Dingfang turned around and glared at Yin Kaishan, and said angrily: "How long has it been and you are still thinking about meat?"
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Su Dingfang said fiercely: "Then take it and eat it on the roadside!"
"okay!"
Yin Kaishan agreed happily, went up and cut off the hind leg of a sheep, took it and left.
Su Dingfang stared at Yin Kaishan's back, opened his mouth several times, but didn't say a word.
Luo Shixin silently cut off two legs of lamb for himself, and packed the rest for Su Dingfang to take with him.
Su Dingfang looked at the big meat bag handed to him by Luo Shixin's Bubu and became even more speechless.
"Wang Xuance?! Where is Wang Xuance?!"
After Luo Shixin left, Su Dingfang raised his neck and shouted.
However, no one responded after a while. After asking Buqu, he found out that the stubborn Wang Xuance had gone to thresh the grass valley with a group of boys again.
It is said that it is a grazing valley, but in fact it means picking up stray Turks and hunting them, or sneaking into the place where the Turks store their cattle and sheep.
In more than half a month, Wang Xuance and other young men had beheaded more than a hundred Turks and plundered thousands of cattle, sheep and war horses.
Although it was much inferior to their performance in Hebei Province, when they were in Hebei Province, they had tens of thousands of people under their command. When they arrived in Suizhou, they only had five people left.
Five people stayed away from the battlefield for more than half a month, so it was quite remarkable that they could achieve such a big gain.
"These little bastards are really annoying!"
Su Dingfang cursed loudly, mounted his horse and returned to the Chinese army camp.
He was too lazy to investigate the whereabouts of Wang Xuance's little boys, and there was no time for him to investigate them in detail.
Su Dingfang returned to the Chinese army camp and immediately led all the soldiers in the camp to fight towards the place where the Turks were stationed.
For more than half a month, the people who followed him have gained a lot of credit. The people who followed him also knew that they could gain a lot of credit by following him, so even if they were exhausted and exhausted, when they heard that they were going to kill the Turks
When he was a man, he still picked up his energy, mounted his horse, and followed him out fiercely.
The army turned a corner at Yanchuan and entered Yanzhou.
At the same time, soldiers and horses led by Yin Kaishan and soldiers and horses led by Luo Shixin also entered Yanzhou.
Sunisu and Tuli already knew about the attack on the Turkic Royal Court. Fortunately, Sunisu had separated from Jieli long ago, and his home base was not in or near the Royal Court, so Wang
The court was attacked, but he didn't react much.
Tu Li was actually the same, he was separated from Jie Li, and his hometown was far away from the royal court, so he shouldn't have cared about the royal court being attacked.
But after receiving Jie Li's order for them to withdraw, he ran faster than a rabbit. He did not stop anyone from stopping Su Dingfang and the three of them, nor did he retreat in an orderly manner. He just ran to Qingzhou with his people in a swarm.
The reason why he rushed to Gyeongju in such a hurry was because he had a different intention.
The royal court was attacked, and the southern expedition was about to fail. Jieli's prestige in the hearts of the chiefs of various tribes would be greatly reduced.
If Jieli does something unpopular at this time, the chiefs of each tribe will definitely have dissent, question the correctness of Jieli's southern expedition, and oppose Jieli.
This is an opportunity for him, an opportunity to take back the position of Great Khan that should belong to him.
As long as he takes the position of Great Khan, he no longer has to guard Jieli and oppress him, and he can also oppress Jieli in turn.
The resentment and resentment accumulated over the years can be vented in one breath, and can be vented on Jieli, so that Jieli can also know how he has lived these years.
However, his disorderly, unorganized and undisciplined retreat gave Su Dingfang and the others a great opportunity.
The three of them don't need to make any arrangements at all, nor do they need to advance slowly and steadily, nor do they need to use their brains. They just need to bite Tu Li without letting go, and bite off a piece of meat from him from time to time.
