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Chapter Thirteen Playing with Remnant Turks

Chen Ying led the sixth Zhechong Mansion of Dingyuan Army, and the six Zhechong Mansions of Lingwu Army, totaling more than 11,000 soldiers. With the help of more than 600 civilians, he transported a month's supplies and slowly flowed down the Yellow River Valley.

Chen Ying did not have an impatient attack for the Turkic Ashidejie Lifa in Huaiyuan City. In fact, Chen Ying hated siege, and now all of his commands were cavalry. They dismounted and fought in the field and used precious cavalry to attack the city. That was something that only fools would do.

Chen Ying deliberately did not hide his whereabouts, with the purpose of luring Ashidejie Lifa to lead his troops out of the city to block. However, it was very unexpected to Chen Ying. As he went south, he only encountered small-scale Turkic cavalry surveillance from afar. As long as Chen Ying sent Lingwu cavalry to drive them away, they would never fight and would turn around and run away.

After walking slowly along the river valley for two hours, he only walked for more than eighty miles, and arrived at the intersection of the Yellow River and Hengqiang Canal in the south of Huaiyuan. This speed made people cry. At noon, Chen Ying ordered the pot to be buried to make rice.

When the smoke rose and the rice in the pot had not yet been boiled, Chen Ying, who was in the central army, received a report from Chen Jinyong.

"What? You said Huaiyuan City is empty?" Chen Ying received the news and almost choked by his saliva. Chen Ying asked incrediblely: "How is this possible? Aren't the Turks very brave? We are going to steal their sheep now. Shouldn't they fight against us, men, women, young and old?"

Chen Jinyong (Yiskar) was not embarrassed at all because he was a Turkic person, but said very seriously: "The more brave he is, the faster he dies. The Turkic people are also very smart. They found that the enemy is stronger than them, and when they cannot defeat them, they will run away like foxes and rabbits."

Chen Ying did not care about waiting for the battle meal to be prepared, so he hurriedly led the cavalry of the guards, Xu Jingzong, Asunasmo, Yu Guni and others to run towards Huaiyuan City. The intersection of Hengqiang Canal and the Yellow River is only more than ten miles away from Huaiyuan City. For the war horses running at full speed, it was just a skill of two incense sticks.

At this time, the gates of Huaiyuan City were wide open, without any trace of humanity.

Asanosmo jumped off the horse, took two steps at a time, and picked up a piece of pretty complete horse manure at the city gate without any concern. He squeezed it hard and the horse manure shattered. Asanosmo looked at the color of the horse manure and said with confidence: "Master, from the time of this piece of horse manure, it should be three hours ago!"

"Three hours ago?" Chen Ying said lightly: "So it was not dawn when Ashidejie Li ran away?"

Asunasmo nodded and said, "It should be so!"

Yu Guni said angrily: "Ashidejie Lifa is a rabbit, and he runs quite fast..."

Chen Ying said to Xu Jingzong: "Write a notice to the governor of Lingzhou and let him take over Huaiyuan City!"

Without spending a soldier and a soldier, Chen Ying had nothing to be happy about. Taizu said that it would be better to cut off one finger than to hurt the enemy's ten fingers. All the victories before annihilation of the enemy's vitality were actually flowers in the mirror and moon in the water.

Chen Ying thought about it and felt relieved. He built a sheepskin raft with great momentum, mobilized the army, prepared food and grass, and made the final preparations before the expedition. Such things could not be hidden at all.

If Ashidejie Lifa who was left in Huaiyuan City didn't know, then there would be ghosts. When Ashidejie Lifa learned that Chen Ying was preparing food and grass to build a sheepskin raft, he immediately made a judgment, and the Tang Dynasty was preparing to use troops to Huaiyuan.

If the Turkic army had not cooperated with Liu Wuzhou to attack Bingzhou, he could rest assured in Huaiyuan City. Chen Ying would not dare to break up, and at most he could grab some sheep and horses to go back. However, it is different now. Tens of thousands of Turkic army marched south and poured into Bingzhou in the Tang Dynasty. If Chen Ying did not make any moves in Lingzhou, he, the general manager of Lingzhou in the Tang Dynasty, would definitely be incompetent.

Ashidejie Lifa was very self-aware. The Thunderbolt City defended by Shi Liver could not stop Chen Ying. Although Chen Ying had only more than 4,000 troops at that time, and the troops he had set up were more than four times that of Chen Ying. At this time, the army he could use was barely more than Chen Ying, and there was no way to save Huai Yuan.

After thinking about it, Ashidejie Lifa decided to run away and run quickly.

Ashidejie Lifa's escape without fighting was both reasonable and unexpected.

In the original plan, Chen Ying used all the Lingwu Army and the Dingyuan Army to reach the sixth place, and a total of seven Zhechong Mansions went north. However, after discovering that Liu Tong was still a good staff officer, Chen Ying immediately adjusted the deployment and ordered Liu Tong to counsel military affairs as a marching Sima.

Liu Tong looked at Huai Yuan, who was empty and quietly said to Chen Ying: "Master, we can no longer hide our whereabouts now, so we planned before..."

Chen Ying said: "Changing orders every day is a big taboo for military strategists!"

Liu Tong said worriedly: "But now we cannot do something unexpected. The surprise attack will become a strong attack. I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve the results!"

Chen Ying looked at Ashinasmo, Chen Jinyong, Yu Guni and others beside him and said, "You think so too!"

Xu Jingzong nodded thoughtfully and said, "Not bad!"

Although Asunasmo didn't speak, he also looked very convinced.

Chen Yingyou smiled and pointed at Liu Tong and said, "You are wrong, you are all wrong!"

"Wrong?"

Everyone was stunned.

Chen Ying continued: "We are not here to rob the Turks!"

When Xu Jingzong heard this, he had already labeled Chen Ying in his heart - Shameless You.

Chen Ying said solemnly: "Our China is etiquette and benevolent, and our Tang Dynasty is also a great etiquette and country. We Chinese are gentlemen, with benevolence and righteousness and boundless love. We see ordinary Turks being bullied and exploited by their tribal leaders. Shouldn't we lend a helping hand? Save them from the fire and water?"

What Chen Ying said simply refreshed Xu Jingzong's psychological bottom line. He finally understood why he was obviously more talented than Chen Ying, but he had been doing poorly. Now he knew the answer, because he was far less shameless than Chen Ying.

Liu Tong agreed with Chen Ying's point of view very much and nodded deeply: "What General Manager Chen said is very..."

Chen Ying said with emotion: "Those ordinary Turks are living a miserable life. They work more than cows, eat worse than pigs, sleep later than dogs, and get up earlier than chickens... They have a beautiful daughter, and they have to give it to the nobles, the leader warms the bed, and is ruined by them. Can we remain indifferent when we see this scene?"

"No!" Chen Ying's voice suddenly raised octaves and shouted loudly: "So we want to help them and save them..."

In fact, what Chen Ying thought in his heart was: "Little guy, play hard with me and clear the world, lure the enemy into this trick, and I will mess with you all Turks."

The essence of fighting to support war is to grab it if you can, and run away if you can't. Chen Ying naturally knew that all nomadic peoples adopted slavery and exploited the ordinary people of their tribes very harshly. As the saying goes, wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance. Chen Ying didn't mind bringing the light of civilization to the Turks.
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