The night at the edge of the desert in June was still a bit cool.
The soldiers were crowded in the tents they had set up.
Zhao Ziliang was a little excited and couldn't sleep.
He had too many things to worry about.
He had so many things in his mind that he was worried about gains and losses.
However, He knows this situation His mood was not good.
If he didn't get enough rest, he would lose his energy, and his lack of energy would cause his brain to function slowly.
This would be detrimental to the upcoming war.
He had to force himself to sleep and hand over the tasks of patrolling sentries and patrols.
Responsible for the marching commander Chen Qing.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Ziliang was suddenly woken up by someone saying, "General, the scout is back."
Zhao Ziliang woke up immediately, stood up with his sword in hand, looked at the oil lamp, and saw that it was a personal guard.
He rubbed his face, took a few deep breaths, and waved to the guard: "Let him in."
"promise" Zhao Ziliang sat down on the horse, and a knight walked in outside the tent.
When the knight saw him, he immediately clasped his fists and knelt down and said, "General Qi, General Xuanwu asked me to report.
We have figured out the location of the Great Food Army in Hengda."
Luo Si's situation, this is the sketch of the Dashi Army camp drawn by General Xuanwu."
As he said this, he carefully took out a folded piece of yellow paper from his arms and handed it over.
Zhao Ziliang took the yellow paper and spread it on the desk.
The guard immediately took the oil lamp and put it aside.
Zhao Ziliang looked at the rough sketch of the layout of the Dashi Army's camp drawn by Xuan Wu under the dim oil lamp.
This sketch is rough but detailed.
The camp of the Great Food Army is deployed on the east bank of Hengluosi, close to the river.
The camp is connected to the pontoon bridge leading to Hengluosi City.
The entire camp is in the shape of a "pin".
The Chinese army and the commander's tent are deployed directly by the river, in a "pin" shape. the top of.
On the left, that is, the camp to the north is the main force of the Food Army; on the right, that is to the south, is the camp of the servant army.
The Chinese army, the main force, and the servant army surround the prisoner camp.
The main force of the Food Army is not yet known.
The specific number of soldiers and servants, and it is also unclear how many prisoners there are in the prisoner camp.
Looking at the prisoner camp written in a box in the middle part of the sketch surrounded by the food army camp, Zhao Ziliang knew that he and his army were still late, and Gao Xianzhi had been defeated.
After looking at the map, Zhao Ziliang raised his head to look at the sentry and asked, "Does Xuan Wu have anything else to say to this general?"
Tan Shao clasped his fists and said: "Yes, General Xuanwu asked the villain to tell the general that from the investigation, there are corpses, weapons and armors of our Tang army everywhere within a radius of dozens of miles to the east of the Dashi Army camp, as well as discarded A large amount of food and baggage, which means that General Gao Xianzhi’s army has been defeated.
As for whether General Gao Xianzhi has escaped safely or been captured by the food army, it is temporarily unknown, but we have captured several people from the food army.
After interrogation, we learned that General Gao Xianzhi was defeated the day before yesterday.
Our army killed countless people and captured countless people.
It has been two days and the battlefield has not been completely cleared.
The Food Army has not yet had time to clear away the corpses, weapons, armor and a large amount of luggage at the battle site.
From this, it can be seen that the main force of the Food Army should have been busy capturing our prisoners and hunting down our deserters in the past two days."
Just now Zhao Ziliang just guessed that Gao Xianzhi had been defeated.
He was late.
Now that he heard the news of Gao Xianzhi's defeat with his own ears, he still couldn't bear such bad news.
You must know that Gao Xianzhi had destroyed the entire Anxi military force this time.
They were brought out, and they also brought 20,000 soldiers belonging to Beiting.
This defeat can be said to be a huge blow to the entire military strength of Anxi.
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It can be described as extremely heavy losses, at least within two or three years.
It is impossible to regain the previous strength.
His fists were clenching loudly.
It took a long time for Zhao Ziliang to calm down.
He ordered the sentry who reported the news: "Go back and tell Xuan Wu that he has two things to do: first, send people east to investigate the news. , see if there is an Anxi Army breaking out.
If so, where is this army now?
If you find out the news, come and report immediately.
Now that the Dashi Army has just won a victory, they must not have thought that there are enemies around here, so The defenses will also be much lax.
There are definitely not many patrol sentries responsible for guarding.
Even if there are, the range of activities will not be too large.
You tell Xuanwu not to move these patrol sentries before morning time.
When morning comes, Immediately clean up all the ranger sentries facing our army, but no one is allowed to escape.
It would be better if the food army relaxed its vigilance due to the great victory and did not arrange vigilant rangers."
Tan Shao clasped his fists and said, "I understand, I will definitely tell General Xuan Wu."
"Well, you can eat something and leave immediately."
"promise" After sending away the detective sentry, Zhao Ziliang meditated for a moment in the tent, turned around and shouted outside the tent: "Come here, go find Bai Xiaode."
"Nuo" The guards outside the tent agreed and someone left.
Usually when Zhao Ziliang said that he was looking for someone, he must see him immediately, so the guards did not dare to delay.
In less than a cup of tea, Bai Xiaode came in fully dressed, cupped his fists and said, "General, you are looking for me."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and asked: "Bai Xiaode, do you still remember the time we went to the Dashi Kingdom to welcome Princess Hera?
Does the Dashi people have a habit of praying several times every day?"
Bai Xiaode said: "Yes, I will remember this very clearly.
It was quite strange at the time, so I paid special attention to the captured Dashi Army.
They had to pray five times a day."
Zhao Ziliang pondered for a while and then asked: "Then do you remember about what time they started praying in the morning and at what point they started praying?"
Bai Xiaode scratched his cheek, thought for a while and said: "It should be Chenshi, but the specific point is not clear, but it should be the second break of dawn until before sunrise, and we must finish our work before sunrise.
There were also tens of thousands of Dashi prisoners in Xilin Guards, and they did the same thing."
Zhao Ziliang did the math.
It is June now, and the sunrise is earlier than in spring, autumn, and winter.
It starts to get bright at about 5:30 in the morning.
It gets bright around 5:40, but the sunrise does not take place until 6:30. pm, that is to say, the morning prayer time of the Great Cannibal should be between 5:45 and 6:00, with only a quarter of an hour in between.
At this time, Bai Xiaode saw the rough floor plan on the table.
He walked over and took a closer look.
He immediately found that it was the camp plan of the Dashi Army.
He immediately asked: "General, the scouts have figured out the situation of the Dashi Army."
What happened to the Anxi Army?"
Zhao Ziliang came back to his senses and said sadly: "Yes, the Anxi Army was defeated, and it was a disastrous defeat.
We arrived late."
Bai Xiaode was also hurt when he heard this.
Although he was from Kucha, Kucha belonged to the Tang Dynasty a hundred years ago.
He had already regarded himself as a Tang person, and he was from the Anxi Army.
Now that the Anxi Army was defeated, he felt in his heart It was also extremely uncomfortable.
After a long time, Zhao Ziliang stabilized his mood and comforted: "Don't worry, although we are late, it is not too late.
According to the inspections of the scouts, many people from the Anxi Army were captured, and they are now being held in Dashi."
In the camp of the army, we still have a chance to defeat the Dashi army and rescue these captured Anxi troops."
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Bai Xiaode nodded, remembering that Zhao Ziliang asked him just now about the cannibals having to perform morning rituals, so he asked: "The general plans to use the cannibals' habit of performing morning rituals every morning to launch a surprise attack on them."
Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Yes, the Dashi Army has just experienced a great victory, and now they must have relaxed.
Our army's sentinel has approached their camp, and they have not noticed it, so they must be negligent.
This is a gift from God."
Good opportunity, it’s a short distance from Dashijun The camp is still forty miles away.
I have decided that the army will light a fire and make food at the Chou hour tomorrow.
We will set off at the Yin hour.
We only need to arrive near the north of the Dashi army camp before the Chen hour.
We will quickly launch a surprise attack while waiting for them to perform morning prayers.
You can go back and rest first. , be mentally prepared” "promise" After Bai Xiaode left, Zhao Ziliang immediately told the guards to wake up the cooks at the ugly hour and ask them to get up and cook at the ugly hour.
After half an hour, he would wake up the entire army to eat together.
After eating, they would march towards the food army camp.
The way forward The terrain is covered with green grass and flat ground.
The cavalry should have no problem marching forty miles in an hour, and the departure time can be as early as possible.
In fact, the cooking speed of the cooks and the eating speed of the soldiers were much slower than Zhao Ziliang expected.
At three o'clock, the whole army finished eating.
In order to allow the soldiers to digest the food as much as possible, Zhao Ziliang delayed it for another half an hour.
The whole army was ordered to set off.
On the way to the Dashi Army camp, in order to maintain the physical strength of the soldiers as much as possible, Zhao Ziliang deliberately slowed down his marching speed, and arrived about five miles north of the Dashi Army camp at about two quarters of the hour.
Xuan Wu rode his horse to see Zhao Ziliang and reported: "General, all the food soldiers in the food army camp have risen and are preparing to collectively perform morning rituals.
All the food army scout posts and sentries facing the direction of our army have been destroyed.
The general and his subordinates have been cleaned up.”
Although the mounts the soldiers were sitting on still retained considerable physical strength, Zhao Ziliang still ordered: "All the soldiers changed their horses and tied their muzzles.
No one is allowed to make a sound before the battle, otherwise they will be killed."
The military order was quickly conveyed, and everyone changed to an unmounted war horse.
The horses' mouths were tied with cloth straps to prevent them from neighing.
The army slowed down and slowly approached the Dashi Army camp.
At this time, the sky was starting to get bright.
When the army quietly arrived at the camp of the food army, the food army was kneeling on the ground in an orderly queue to pray.
Seeing this situation, Zhao Ziliang hesitated, and immediately took out the Golden Nail Zaoyang Huan and ordered the generals around him: "Follow me and kill the main camp of the Great Food Army, and then Xuan Er and Xuan Third, take the first and second battalions to capture prisoners.
Defeat the guarding Dashi army at the camp and rescue the captured troops and Fan soldiers; Bai Xiaode and Pugu Huai'en led the third and fourth battalions to attack the Dashi servant army camp, and the other battalions followed the general to attack the Dashi army.
Chinese army camp, do you understand?"
"clear" "Okay, all the soldiers will follow me to kill."
"kill" The sound of horse hooves sounded, and soon intertwined into a rumbling sound, like thunder, and the ground shook violently.
When the soldiers and generals of the Dashi Army who were praying heard or felt the movement, they couldn't help but turn their heads and look to the north. , only to find that a large black torrent was rushing over.
"It's the Tang Army.
It's the Tang Army.
Come and get your weapons.
Go and lead your horses."
The sharp-eyed soldiers immediately let out a shrill cry after seeing clearly the figures of the troops rushing over.
The entire main camp of the Dashi Army immediately fell into chaos.
The soldiers, generals and officers immediately looked for weapons and horses, but by this time it was too late.
The Tang Army cavalry rushing at the front directly knocked down the wooden fence used for protection.
The Tang army collided with the camp like a black torrent, and the massacre was officially staged
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