300 Destroy the Turks and finally leave

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In the winter of the 18th year of Daye, Xu Feng ordered Bai Qi and Zhou Yu to lead 200,000 Sui troops to take the initiative to attack the Turks outside the pass.

"Tell Bai Qi and Zhou Yu that this attack was tentative.

Let them test how the strength of the Turkic cavalry has recovered. They should not go deep into the grasslands and deserts to avoid a decisive battle with the Turks."

Xu Feng gave clear instructions in his orders to Bai Qi and Zhou Yu.

Xu Feng did not participate in this battle, but waited for news from Bai Qi and Zhou Yu in Dongdu.

At the same time, Xu Feng asked Li Jing to be prepared at any time and be ready to go north at any time.

In this battle, Bai Qi and Zhou Yu each led an army to fight against the Turks.

Bai Qi led his troops from Yanmen Pass to cross the Great Wall, with the goal of capturing Hetao.

At this time, the natural pasture of Hetao was still in the hands of the Turks, and Xu Feng had long wanted to take it back.

The Turks also attached great importance to the Hetao area, not only because the rivers here are abundant, but also because it was a springboard for their attack on the Sui Dynasty.

After Bai Qi led 100,000 Sui troops to appear in the Hetao area, he was discovered by the Turks. Then more than 100,000 Turkic cavalry were dispatched to fight Bai Qi.

On the other hand, Zhou Yu sent troops from Zhuo County and attacked from east to west, spanning hundreds of kilometers, without encountering Turkic cavalry.

At this time, the Turkic territory basically included the entire Mongolian country in later generations, and was further north to the North Sea area, which was the Baikal area in later generations.

After Zhou Yu penetrated into the Turkic territory for hundreds of kilometers, he did not encounter Turkic troops. This made Zhou Yu feel reluctant and dared not go further.

After all, the order Xu Feng gave them this time was a test, and they did not want to break out in a decisive battle with the Turks.

However, just as Zhou Yu led his troops to the south, he unexpectedly encountered tens of thousands of Turkic cavalry descending from the north.

This Turkic cavalry was a reinforcement sent by Shibi Khan in the Turkic tent, which is the Turkic royal court, after receiving the attack from the Sui army in the Hetao side.

As a result, the reinforcements had encountered Zhou Yu's army before they arrived in the Hetao area.

The two armies immediately broke out in battle. After a fight, the Turkic cavalry did not take advantage and took the initiative to withdraw.

Afterwards, Zhou Yu decided to go south to Hetao area and meet with Bai Qi to assist Bai Qi in recapturing the peace talks.

This battle lasted for more than four months from the winter of Daye in the 18th year to the spring of Daye in the 19th year, and finally ended with Bai Qi and Zhou Yu's victory.

Bai Qi and Zhou Yu finally regained Hetao and drove away the Turkic troops occupying Hetao.

In this battle, the Sui army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, but defeated more than 300,000 Turkic troops, killed more than 70,000 cavalry in the enemy, and completely recaptured Hetao, which was a great victory.

After the war, the Sui army harvested more than 100,000 excellent war horses from the Turks' horse farm on Hetao, which made the Sui army no longer lack war horses.

"Haha, OK, OK! Winning this battle will greatly boost our army's morale.

After regaining Hetao, I will no longer have to worry about forming cavalry without war horses."

Soon, Xu Feng received the good news sent back by Bai Qi and Zhou Yu in Dongdu, and laughed excitedly.

Before, the Sui army was short of horses, and there were still 10,000 or 20,000 horses, but Xu Feng formed a large number of cavalry troops in order to deal with the Turks.

It is not a set of 10,000 or 20,000, but a set of 100,000.

This made the Sui army unable to gather enough war horses, and the cavalry team on Li Jing's side had not been completely formed yet.

Now, with the recapture of Hetao, the Sui army no longer worried about lacking war horses.

"The Emperor of the Sui Dynasty is too much!"

On the Turkic side, Shibi Khan was very angry because of the loss of Hetao and decided to take revenge on the Sui Dynasty.

Then, Shibi Khan summoned various troops and gathered a large army to go south again. This time he wanted to step on the Central Plains.

This time, Shibi Khan summoned most of the Turkic tribes, and finally gathered more than 500,000 troops to kill them in a mighty manner.

Less than a month later, war broke out in Hetao again.

This time, the Turks came out in full swing and had huge troops. After entering Hetao, they fought with Bai Qi and Zhou Yu for two battles, and the Sui army did not take advantage.

Afterwards, Bai Qi sent someone back to Dongdu and asked Xu Feng for help.

"The Turks really don't know how to kill them. I'm worried about how to wipe them out, but they actually came to their door.

He sent a command to Li Jing and asked him to organize his troops and follow me in two days to go north."

After receiving the news from Bai Qi, Xu Feng couldn't help but sneer and decided to send troops north to fight the Turks.

Originally, Xu Feng was worried that after they led their troops into the Turkic territory, the Turkic territory would be vast and sparsely populated, which was really too big.

The Turks are nomadic peoples and can move at any time. It is too difficult to completely wipe out them all.

Even it is very difficult to find the main force of the Turks to destroy them.

Otherwise, the Han Dynasty would have only killed the Huns until they moved away, and failed to completely destroy the Huns.

Now, the Turks took the initiative to attack south. If this was designed, they might be able to achieve their contributions in one battle and completely wipe out the main legion of the Turks.

So Xu Feng personally led Li Jing, Qin Qiong and others to lead an army of 150,000 to the north to prepare for a decisive battle with the Turks.

Among the 150,000 army, there were 80,000 cavalry and 70,000 infantry. The infantry was also equipped with a large number of camp vans, crossbow chariots, and longbowmen.

Over the past year, Li Jing, Qin Qiong and others have designed a variety of infantry tactics against cavalry based on the unique new weapons of the Sui army such as longbows, camp vans, crossbows, hot air balloons.

In March of the 19th year of Daye, Xu Feng and Li Jing and others arrived in Hetao.

At this time, Bai Qi and Zhou Yu led the army and had fought several battles with the Turkic cavalry on the Hetao Plain.

Both sides had their own victory or defeat, and the stalemate continued.

The front line between the two sides was very long, from Hetao to the Great Wall in Yanmen to the east, they were all areas where the two sides fought.

The Turks did not know about Xu Feng's army's arrival in Hetao, so Xu Feng decided to fight against the Turks.

On March 17, Bai Qi led 60,000, 20,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry again to fight with 100,000 Turkic cavalry in the northwest direction of Hetao.

In other directions, there were cavalrymen from both sides fighting.

But Bai Qi and Zhou Yu have not found the main cavalry of the Turks so far.

"I will eat these 100,000 Turkic cavalry first. I don't believe it. I will not be able to attract the main force of the Turkic people at that time."

As soon as Xu Feng arrived outside the pass, he felt that he would take the opportunity to start a major battle and cut off the Turkic people first to see if he could lead the main force of the Turkic cavalry.

"Kill!"

A war between the two sides broke out.

The Turks did not know about Xu Feng's arrival.

Bai Qi commanded 60,000 Sui troops. After a day of fierce fighting, he defeated 100,000 Turkic cavalry and asked the Turks to escape.

The Turks fought this way. If they couldn't defeat them, they retreated. What they relied on was that they were all cavalry, and retreating was easy.

On the contrary, the cavalry of the Sui army accounted for less than half, and there were many infantrymen, so it was not easy to pursue the Turks.

"Unfortunately, the main force of the Turks still did not appear.

Forget it, don’t wait anymore, let’s eat these 100,000 Turkic cavalry first. Then, it will be enough to make Shibi Khan’s old dog feel distressed.”

Xu Feng and Li Jing each led 30,000 cavalrymen, lurking in the distance, hoping to wait for the main force of the Turks.

But unfortunately, the main legion of the Turks did not appear in the end, forcing Xu Feng to use these 100,000 Turkic cavalry to close the net.

"Kill!"

Xu Feng and Li Jing took advantage of the 100,000 Turkic cavalry to lose to Bai Qi and were about to retreat, and suddenly emerged from both wings to cut off the Turkic people's retreat path.

The three Sui army immediately launched an encirclement and suppression of the Turkic troops and surrounded them on three sides.

Now, it was difficult for this Turkic cavalry to retreat and were forced to fight the Sui army.

The two sides fought until dark, and the remaining Turkic cavalry took advantage of the darkness that some of the cavalry finally killed them.

In this battle, the Sui army won a great victory.

Less than 20,000 casualties were killed and more than 60,000 Turkic cavalry were killed.

Soon, Shibi Khan received the news, knowing that Xu Feng had arrived in the Sui army reinforcements, and also severely damaged his army.

This kid was more unbearable than Khan and launched a full-scale attack.

If the Turks had been hidden, Xu Feng would still be worried.

Now, Shibi Khan led the main Turkic army to take the initiative to fight the Sui army, which Xu Feng was happy to see.

This battle lasted three days.

Xu Feng, Li Jing, Bai Qi and Zhou Yu each led a Sui army and fought fiercely with more than 400,000 Turkic cavalry on the Hetao Plain.

Three days later, the Turks suffered heavy losses.

At this time, many tribes in the Turks did not want to fight anymore and demanded to withdraw their troops, and they suffered a major blow to Khan's prestige.

There was no way, Shibi Khan could no longer continue to be stubborn, otherwise he would find that he would be betrayal of his relatives.

So Shibi Khan had to choose to retreat.
To be continued...