Then, he instructed his soldiers to wear their clothes inside out.
Although these clothes had an additional layer of earth-yellow fabric on the outside to differentiate them from the old-style military uniforms, the inner layer was still dark blue. When worn like this, at a glance, they still appeared to be troops of the Da Ye Dynasty.
So, they timed it perfectly and sent the archers wearing the reversed uniforms to ambush the Western Turks on the grasslands of Shouyang, luring them into the cold cedar forest. However, before that, they had long set up hidden troops in the ditches on both sides of this forest. Once the archers led the Western Turks into the forest, they immediately retreated to the sides, while the Western Turks, charging straight out of the forest, ran into Wang Shaoji's main forces coming north from Zhiguan Pass aiming to reach Taiyuan.
And they happened to be wearing those dark blue uniforms!
Thus, a narrow escape turned into a confrontation!
