Chapter 1734: Several Parties Move Together to Wait for the Sun to Rise

Shi Yue's team's camp was far behind the Turkic team.

The Turkic scouts were many, so he was not in a hurry to get in.

He went 300 miles from the position of the Tianbing Army, due north, to the position of Huade County in Inner Mongolia at that time.

The place the Turkic people wanted to go was Guyuan County in Hebei Province at that time, next to Inner Mongolia.

Guyuan County was exactly 300 miles away from Huade County, and the Xi leader Li Dafang was in charge of this place.

Like Li Shihuo, Li Dafang did not marry a princess, and stayed in Chang'an with Li Shihuo.

At this time, his younger brother Li Lusu was in charge of the Xi people, and this was the Luanhe River Basin above Chengde at that time.

The place further east was under the control of the Khitan, where Li Shihuo was.

At this speed, the Turkic people could arrive before tomorrow morning. They had torches, but Shi Yue's team did not light torches.

As long as the telescope could see the light spot, it would be fine, and they would follow slowly.

The messenger was fast, and they had four horses each, and they carried less weight.

After an hour, the Turkic team slowed down.

The people on Shi Yue's side changed direction and ran diagonally to the southeast, where there was a small river.

There was also a river where the Turkic people wanted to rest, and they couldn't go there to let the horses drink water together.

The two teams all rested, and Shi Yue's three dogs got off the ground and ran to the river to lick water.

At this time, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty lit small torches, only dozens of them, to illuminate the horses and drink water.

About two quarters of an hour, the Turkic team moved forward again, and the Tang Dynasty followed.

The other ten riders continued to run, and they didn't give the horses time to stop and rest. Anyway, they took turns riding and ran three hundred miles, and they wouldn't be tired to death.

The teams in the two places ran one after the other until the second half of the night, less than thirty miles away from the Xi tribe.

The Tianbing Army knew that they had to rest. Obviously, the Turkic planned to launch a surprise attack at dawn, and the people were the most tired.

Sure enough, the Turkic team stopped again, but there was no river at that location, so they could only let the horses eat grass.

There was no river near Shi Yue's team either, so he put down the dog: "Go, find a nearby well."

The three dogs were stunned for a moment, then turned and ran in the same direction.

The team followed. The dogs were not running very fast, they ran and sniffed.

After about half a quarter of an hour, the three dogs stopped at a place and circled around.

Shi Yue immediately went over, and with the help of the torch, he touched and looked on the ground, lifted up a piece of grass, and the grass on it was still very high.

There was a wooden board underneath, and after removing the board, a pipe appeared. The people next to him took the parts on the pressure well, assembled them, and poured water into it to divert the water.

After more than ten breaths, the clear water was pressed out.

The soldiers took tools to collect water and fed the horses first.

This is why Shi Yue always brought dogs with him. They dug wells secretly and covered them, and often they didn't know where they were.

No obvious marks could be left next to them, so others could still see them.

The three dogs urinated in a large area, and unless it rained heavily, the dogs could still find it.

Even if the smell of urine is gone, the dog can still determine the location of the well, but it takes time.

After the horses have all drunk enough water, the people start to drink. Shi Yue continues to take out dried meat to feed the dog, and the dog has done a good job.

Elsewhere, a team of ten people arrived at the location at this time. They shouted loudly: "Scouts of the Tianbing Army, urgent military information..."

Under the torches of the camp, someone looked around with a telescope, and ten people lit torches and also held telescopes.

Both sides confirmed that they were their own people, and others did not have telescopes.

"Come here quickly." The other side called.

Forty horses ran over.

"I am Gao Li, a scout of the Tianbing Army. I want to see Li Xiaotang." The team leader of the ten people met and mentioned people.

"Wait, eat and drink water first." The person who asked questions just now ran away, and a group of Xi people who came over helped to lead the horses and delivered things to the ten people at the same time.

The ten people only drank water, did not eat, were not hungry, and were bumping on the horses. The food they had eaten before was still in their stomachs.

After a few minutes, Li Xiaotang entered the house.

"General Li, we are..." Gao Li explained the situation, but did not mention the possible problems inside the Turkic.

They are all attacking here, so what's going on inside is still important?

"Thank you!" After listening, Li Xiaotang turned around and ran out. The horses that were delivering the message ran away, and the camp began to get busy.

The people who were resting were woken up, and they simply ate something and drank a few sips of water to prepare to meet the enemy.

The village was made of soil and wood. The lower part was soil, and the wood was nailed into the soil, and there was another part on the upper part.

A ditch was dug outside, and there was no water in the ditch.

The ditch was not deep, but the horse would definitely not be able to get up after going down.

The people who were woken up cursed the Turkic, and when they learned that the other side had 5,000 people, they curled their lips again.

No matter how weak their Xi tribe was, it was not something that 5,000 Turks could defeat. Who were they looking down on?

Some soldiers took buckets to get water and poured it on the food and grass to prevent the Turks from having the opportunity to rush there and set fire.

Wet the outer layer first, wait until the enemy is repelled before drying it, and eat it by the way, the inside is still dry.

You can't just set fire to the inside, right?

The people in the front village of the Xi tribe were preparing, and another team of ten people returned to the camp of the Tianbing Army at about the same time.

Zhang Jiazhen was woken up, heard the intelligence, washed his face, and walked around the house with his hands behind his back.

After walking around for more than ten times, he stopped and ordered: "Send someone to find Zhang Zhiyun and ask him to send troops to the eastern line of the Tianbing Army.ＵU看书www.uukanshu.net The Tianbing Army sent 20,000 troops, heading straight north, then turning northeast, preparing to intercept the Turkic fleeing soldiers."

"Yes!" The messenger went down.

The horn sounded in the Tianbing Army camp, and the horns elsewhere followed suit.

Zhang Jiazhen wrote a letter and released pigeons. He had pigeons here, but no one knew how to train them. Usually, the pigeons were kept in large cages.

He caught two and put the letters with his own code in the bamboo tubes carried by the pigeons.

He let go, and the pigeons flapped their wings and flew up, then fell down again. The two cooed a few times, as if communicating, and flew up one after another, circling in the sky twice, finding the right direction, and disappeared outside the light of the torches.

"There should be some action. Since the Turks have come out, the court will respond." Zhang Jiazhen clenched his fists.

He was already depressed guarding here and wanted to send troops to fight.

The Tianbing Army was short of troops, and the court had to send more troops to fight.

When the time came, the Xi tribe and the Khitan would send troops together. Maybe when autumn came, there would be no later Turks.

The 20,000 cavalrymen with large backpacks organized their teams, one person riding two horses, and there were not so many horses for them to equip extra.

They were eating canned food, braised pork canned in bamboo tubes, chewing hard, throwing away the bamboo tubes after eating, and the team set out in batches.

There was no pre-war mobilization, Zhang Jiazhen stood on the big camp gate and watched.

At the same time, he prayed silently in his heart that his brothers would not die, and that he would kill the enemy and take back many horses.

The Turkic team, who were being missed, did not know that their actions had been exposed, and they set out again.

This time the speed was not fast, waiting for the daybreak, and giving the horses more time to rest.

The sun did not rise, but the darkness gradually disappeared, and the light appeared first in the west.

The Turkic team was less than five miles away from the nearest camp, and the speed of the horses began to increase.

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