The Tubo soldiers who were fighting to the death with Yanyun's army at the gap suddenly heard a commotion behind them, and their fighting spirit was immediately drained, and they became panicked. The Yanyun army was still fighting back desperately, but the Tubo army could not resist immediately. They were cut down in pieces and fell backwards. They rolled and climbed along the earth slope where the city wall collapsed and ran back to the earth beam, and then ran back to their own army's formation. . A great battle has come to an end.
Songhe saw that Xiliang City was almost captured, but failed in the end. He couldn't help but feel upset and wanted to kill people. Songhe shouted hysterically: "Attack, attack, keep attacking!" The generals looked at each other in embarrassment. Duosang said: "General, after the great battle just now, our army's morale has been depleted. If we attack again, there will be no other gains except sacrificing soldiers in vain. It is better to rest for now and attack again tomorrow!" Song He looked at it. The officers and soldiers of the army all looked shocked when they saw those who had just retreated, while those who had not yet entered the battle also looked demoralized. They knew that Duosang was right. There was no choice but to nod and order the army to retreat temporarily.
Song He and others returned to the big tent. Song He was very angry and yelled: "It's just that little difference, just that little difference! Damn it, it's too hateful!"
Duosang said: "General, since this method of accumulating earth to attack the city is very effective, why not let us pile up another earth beam to attack the city defense." Songhe's eyes lit up. Duosang continued: "Today one earth beam almost broke through the city defense. If there are two earth beams, there is no reason why the city cannot be breached!" Songhe nodded and said excitedly: "Just do it!" Then he said to Duosang Said: "Without further delay, you immediately lead the army down to pile up the earth beams!" Duosang agreed and ran down.
Song He said to Zhan Dui again: "Zhan Dui, you lead a team of soldiers and horses to protect you from the side." Zhan Dui was a little reluctant, but he did not dare to disobey Song He's order. He responded and ran down. .
Songhe walked to the simple sand table, looked at Xiliang City on the sand table, frowned slightly, and murmured: "This city really consumes our boss's energy! Once the city is breached, we will definitely rob it for three days." It only takes three nights!" He smiled, and couldn't help but imagine the scene of plundering the city, and his heart was filled with a sense of cruelty and revenge. Then he thought again: 'I heard that Yeyi Guanyin is extremely beautiful, but it's a pity that His Majesty has taken a fancy to her. Otherwise, she could have been taken into his room. 'When I thought of playing with King Yan's woman, every cell in my body became excited, and then I sighed regretfully.
Pacing back and forth in the big tent, thinking of Rouge Mountain and Xuanhua Mansion, he couldn't help but murmured: "I wonder if Awang and the others have captured Rouge Mountain and Xuanhua Mansion? They should have already captured it. Wait for me here. After occupying the Xiliang Mansion, Haha, King Yan Yang Peng has become a turtle in the urn! Yan Yun's current situation cannot raise a large army to counterattack. What will Yang Peng do?" He smiled and said, "Surrender should be impossible. , they should flee back across the desert." After a pause, he thought: "I can't just take the Hexi Corridor and stop, I have to continue attacking eastward." However, thinking that Yan Yun still has about twenty people in Ningxia, Wan Dajun, this idea of continuing to advance eastward could not help but waver. He shook his head and murmured: "This kind of thing should be decided by your Majesty!"
He turned to the generals and smiled and said: "When the Xiliang Mansion is defeated, Yeli Guanyin will naturally be dedicated to Your Majesty, and I heard that the guards under her are also extraordinary-looking beauties, so I will make the decision to reward you!" "All the generals were overjoyed and thanked them one after another: "Thank you, general!" One came and said with a wretched face: "I heard that Princess Yeqi Guanyin of the King of Yan was the eldest princess of the Liao Kingdom at that time. She was a rare and peerless beauty in the world! It's really incredible. Do you know what beauty looks like?" Songhe said sternly: "This is a beauty that is dedicated to His Majesty. Don't even think about it. Even if you meet it, you must not look at it. That is a great disrespect!" The general was thinking. Rin, Weiwei promised.
Hanon said: "General, everyone has been working very hard during this period. After we capture Xiliang, can you make everyone happy?" All the generals showed expressions of concern and eagerness. Songhe said with a smile: "Of course, after we capture Xiliang Mansion, I will give you three days off. During these three days, there will be no military discipline and no royal law. You can do anything!" The generals were overjoyed and thanked them together. , and then everyone imagined in their minds the happy scene of burning, killing, looting and looting after breaking through Xiliang Mansion, and they couldn't wait any longer.
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kill! ah! …
In the middle of the night, a sudden murderous scream brought Song Hye to death. Songhe Gulu jumped up, picked up his weapon and ran out of the tent. At this time, the killing sounds and screams came more clearly, coming from the direction of the rear camp. Song He walked around the tent and looked toward the back camp, and suddenly saw the flames rising into the sky and the silhouettes of people. It seemed that enemy troops were rushing in. Song He was shocked. At this time, Hanon and his men rushed over and said anxiously: "General, they are the Yanyun Cavalry. The entire rear camp was rushed by them, causing countless casualties. What should we do?" Hanon was so flustered that he just said: I wanted to run away, but I didn't dare to say such words first.
Songhe looked at the rear camp and saw that although the rear camp was in chaos, the chaos was limited to the rear camp and did not spread. Song He immediately said to the soldiers around him: "Send an order to each camp. There are not many enemy troops. There is no need to panic. Keep a tight defense. No one is allowed to fight or retreat without my order. Anyone who violates this will be killed without mercy!" After making a promise, he immediately went down to deliver the order.
Song He said to Hanon: "Lead an elite force to support us. If there are many enemy troops, withdraw immediately. If there are not many enemy troops, cooperate with the soldiers and horses of the rear camp to drive out the enemy troops. If possible, eliminate them!" "Hanon promised and led his men to run down.
Song He said to the soldiers: "Send orders to all the troops in the Zhongjing Camp to assemble at the school grounds." The soldiers responded and ran down, and then the rapid trumpet sound sounded loudly, not only the Chinese army camp, but also all the surrounding camps. The horn sounded, and hundreds of thousands of Tibetan troops gathered in their respective camps. At the same time, Duosang's troops, who were working on the hillside outside the east city gate, had stopped working, gathered together, and formed a formation. Prepare for the unexpected. Duosang looked at the chaotic rear camp from the hillside, his brows furrowed and worried.
"General, look!" an officer shouted, pointing to the foot of the mountain. Duosang looked in the direction of his finger and saw that Zhan Dui's army, which was originally ordered to protect his own operating troops, left their place and ran towards the military camp. Duosang frowned but didn't say anything.
Songhe led the 80,000-strong Chinese army in the camp to see how the situation would develop. Suddenly, there was an extremely loud shout from the rear camp, accompanied by the rumbling sound of iron hoofs. The Tibetan soldiers were startled. They saw that many people in the rear camp seemed to be rushing this way.
After a while, the gate of the Zhongjun camp opened, and hundreds of people poured in, running until they reached Song He before stopping. When Songhe saw that it was Hanon who had been sent out just now, who returned, his helmet had disappeared, and he was covered in blood. There was a two-foot-long cut on his left shoulder. The blood was gurgling endlessly, which was shocking. He couldn't help being startled, and asked urgently: " What's going on? How many enemy troops are coming?"
Hanon had just calmed down from the shock, swallowed his saliva, and said: "Yes, it is the Yanyun Black Armor War Cavalry! The entire army in the rear camp collapsed! As soon as our 10,000 elites entered the rear camp, we found the fierce Black Armor War Cavalry They made a surprise attack, but before they could even gain a foothold, they killed countless people and retreated!"
Song He cursed angrily: "Waste! What a waste! You have so many soldiers and horses that you can't deal with just over 2,000 cavalry!" Hanon had nothing to say, but he was very unconvinced: "The enemy really only has more than 2,000 cavalry." People, but all of them are beast-like guys, and they are all cavalry. Who can resist such an attack! Even if you lead the army yourself, you will still be defeated! ’ I thought so in my heart, but I didn’t dare to say it out in my mouth.
Song He thought: "The enemy's war cavalry finally attacked, but why are there only two thousand black armor war cavalry, and where are the other 20,000 or so war cavalry?" Thinking of this, he couldn't help but recall the battle during the day. Our side relied on the earth beam to break through the city and rush into the city. At that time, the situation was already precarious for the Yanyun Army. However, under such circumstances, the Yanyun War Cavalry did not appear. This is really strange! ?
It rang for a moment, but I couldn't figure out why. "General, look!" a soldier suddenly pointed at the rear camp and shouted. Songhe quickly looked towards the rear camp and saw that the originally chaotic and noisy rear camp gradually calmed down. Under the light of the flames, he could faintly see the Yanyun army who had raided the rear camp leaving the camp and disappearing into the night. middle.
Songhe couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that it would be nice if those Yan Yun soldiers were gone. However, Song He could not be happy for long. More than two quarters of an hour after the Xuanjia Army left the rear camp, the sound of fighting suddenly came from directly in front of the Tibetan joint camp. Song He hurriedly rushed to the front and followed the sound. Under the moonlight, he could only faintly see countless people in the fields a few miles away. The sound of killing was loud. It should be that the Yanyun War Cavalry had raided some of his own troops again, but the sight at night Not good, he couldn't see clearly what was going on on the battlefield.
The first thing Songhe thought of was to send troops for reinforcements, but then he thought of what happened to Hanon's troops just now. He felt that the situation was unclear and it would be inappropriate to send troops rashly, so he gave up the plan of sending troops for reinforcements and only sent scouts to investigate. Condition.
About a quarter of an hour later, the scout reported: "General, General Zhandui's troops were ambushed by the Xuanjia Army on the way back to the camp. The 20,000-strong army has been scattered!" Songhe frowned and shouted: " Explore again!" The scout promised, turned his horse's head, and rode out again.
After about a quarter of an hour, there was no sound of fighting in the wilderness outside the camp, only the faint sound of running footsteps and breathing could be heard. The scout ran back again and reported: "General, the enemy troops have retreated towards the south city gate." Songhe asked anxiously: "How are Zhandui and the others? Is Zhandui still alive?" The scout said: "Twenty thousand soldiers and horses were completely defeated. General Zhandui doesn't know whether he is dead or alive!" Songhe cursed in a Tibetan dialect in frustration.
Soon after, Zhan Dui's defeated troops returned to the camp one after another, and Zhan Dui was among them. It turned out that he was not dead, but had been stabbed twice on his body. He was covered in blood and looked very embarrassed. Zhan Dui rode up to Song He, turned over and dismounted, knelt down in front of Song He with his injured left arm in his arms, and said with great shame: "General, the last general, the last general,..." Song He was furious. , but seeing Song He like this, his anger immediately disappeared, and he said angrily: "Get up." Zhan Dui responded and stood up.
Seeing that it was very quiet outside the camp, Song He expected that the enemy would not attack again, so he ordered each battalion and army to take turns to rest, so there was no need to be all on alert. Song He and others returned to the tent, and Song He called the witch doctor to treat Zhan Dui's injuries. The witch doctor carefully took off the armor robe that occupied the pile, cleaned the wound, applied medicine, and bandaged the wound, step by step and meticulously. It's over, and exited the big account.
Songhe paced back and forth in the tent with a frown on his face, as if he was thinking about something troublesome. Zhan Dui said: "General, although our army was attacked by the enemy, the losses were not great. General, don't worry!"
Songhe shook his head, stopped, looked outside the tent, and said: "That's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is the Yanyun War Cavalry..." The generals looked at each other, not understanding what there was to worry about tonight. Although some men and horses were lost in the sudden attack by Yan Yun's war cavalry, it did not have a big impact on the campaign. In the future, just be careful to prevent your opponents from taking advantage of them. What is there to worry about?
At this moment, there were rapid footsteps at the door, and Duosang came back. Everyone's eyes focused on Duosang, and Duosang bowed to Songhe: "General!" Songhe snorted and said angrily: "You are finally here? It's okay, if I am killed by Yan Yun's army Now, you can come back and collect the body for me!"
Duosang was startled and quickly knelt down and said: "General Rong Zhen, the last general saw that the rear camp was attacked and was very anxious. However, he was worried that he would be ambushed by Yan Yun's warriors if he rushed back to support, so he stood still and did not dare to move rashly. If so, The Chinese army's camp was attacked, and the general is trying his best to get back as soon as possible!" Zhan Dui snorted coldly and asked: "Duosang, you are mocking my stupidity, that's why I was ambushed. ?"
Duosang was annoyed and said quickly: "I never meant this. The general is also a general of Tubo. How could I laugh at the general!"
Songhe asked: "Didn't I ask you to pile up the earth beams? Why did you leave your post without permission?" Duosang quickly said: "The general is also forced to do so. General Zhandui's troops have withdrawn. If the general continues the construction, he will definitely It would be attacked by the opponent's cavalry. In that situation, there was no room for resistance, and heavy losses would be unavoidable. Therefore, the general had no choice but to make his own decision, lead his troops to abandon the construction, and retreat."
Zhan Dui said angrily: "Are you accusing me of not returning support?"
Duosang said: "I have no intention of blaming the general, I am just discussing the matter. Please be clear to the general." The latter sentence was addressed to Song He.
Tonight, the joint camp was raided by the Yanyun Army, and the Zhandui headquarters was attacked on the way and suffered heavy losses. Songhe had suppressed his arrogance, so he lost his temper at Duosang and wanted to vent his anger. However, Duosang His words were full of truth, but he couldn't vent his anger. Songhe glanced at Duosang, softened his tone, and said: "What you did is reasonable, I won't blame you!" Duosang said: "Thank you, General, for not sinning!" Then he stood up. He stood up, stepped aside, raised his head, and inadvertently saw Zhan Dui glaring at him with a vicious and vicious look on his face, which made his heart tremble.
Songhe frowned and said: "During the day today, our army broke into the city and almost captured it. The situation was extremely critical for the Yanyun army! However, the strange thing is that in such an extremely critical situation, the Yanyun warriors actually He didn’t show up, which is really unreasonable!”
Duosang said: "The general is right, this matter is indeed very strange. Under the circumstances like today's daytime, it should be that as much force as possible is put into the counterattack, but the actual situation is that the Yanyun Army has been fighting from the beginning to the end. Only the infantry went into battle and no cavalry was seen. There is only one explanation for this, that is, the Yanyun cavalry was not in Xiliang Mansion at all during the day!"
Everyone was startled, and then started talking in low voices. Zhan Dui mocked: "Where will they be if they are no longer in Xiliang Mansion?"
Songhe suddenly thought of a possibility, his expression changed, he looked at Duosang and said urgently: "Could it be, could it be..." Seeing that Songhe had thought of it, Duosang nodded and frowned: "This is the only possibility. In this case, At such a critical moment when our army is overwhelming Xiliang Mansion, only in this case will Yanyun War Cavalry leave Xiliang Mansion!"
Songhe paced back and forth anxiously, and said worriedly: "If this guess is true, then Awang and the others will be in danger! They were unprepared and were suddenly attacked by more than 20,000 Yanyun warriors. Even if the entire army is not wiped out, the losses will be heavy!"
Having said this, all the generals present understood. Zhan Dui said loudly: "I don't think so!" Everyone's eyes immediately focused on him, and Zhan Dui continued: "Previously, we received confirmation from Awang and others that they occupied Rouge Mountain without any bloodshed. Even if the Yanyun war cavalry goes to raid them, our people have already occupied the advantageous location. It may not be easy for the Yanyun army to recapture Rouge Mountain! Furthermore, so far, we have not received any information from Awang at all. They sent an urgent report, so I think that even if the Yanyun cavalry tried to attack Awang and the others, they would definitely not achieve any results!"
Song He and the generals felt that Zhan Dui's words made sense and couldn't help but nodded.
Seeing that everyone agreed with his opinion, Zhan Dui couldn't help but feel proud, and continued: "I think these two thousand Xuanjia troops came back after learning about the critical news of Xiliang Mansion on the way. Awang and the others might I have never encountered these people before." Everyone nodded.
Duosang said: "What General Zhandui said makes sense, but it is just a possibility. If the Yanyun Army raids Rouge Mountain, as long as they block a few exits, the terrain of Rouge Mountain is dangerous, and our soldiers will become turtles in the jar. It is impossible to escape and report the news. Therefore, what General Zhandui said is only a possibility, not necessarily the fact..." Zhandui was greatly annoyed and glared at Duosang, feeling that this guy was clearly going against him on purpose. .
Duosang continued: "If it is the worst case scenario, then Yanyun reinforcements will inevitably come in a steady stream. The 150,000 Yanyun army plus the surrendered Xixia army is equivalent to about 70% of our army's strength. , we don’t need to think about it any more, even in a field battle we may not be able to win!”
Zhan Dui sneered: "People like you just want to run away when they think of the worst-case scenario, but I'm not as coward as you!" He turned to Song He and said: "General, if it's as Duosang said, I I think it's a big opportunity!" Songhe showed confusion and asked: "What big opportunity?"
Zhan Dui glanced at Duosang, turned around and said, "General, isn't there a clever plan in the Han's Thirty-six Strategies of War called siege and reinforcements?" When Song He heard this, his eyes lit up and he praised loudly. : "Yes, yes, this is really a clever plan! What a clever plan! If it is really the worst case scenario, we will set up an ambush between Rouge Mountain and Xiliang Mansion, and the Han people will also besiege the city for reinforcements, and annihilate them all." Kill them! Haha!" All the generals felt that this move was very good, and they all agreed. Zhan Dui looked at Duosang proudly, and when he saw Duosang's depressed look, he couldn't help but feel even more proud.
Song He thought: "Both possibilities are possible, so the countermeasures for these two situations must be carried out at the same time." He looked up at the generals in front of him, hesitated, and said: "Zhan Dui, I will leave half of it." I'll give you the troops and horses, and you can continue to attack the city!" Zhan Dui bowed and agreed. Song He said again: "The rest of the soldiers, horses and other generals will follow me to ambush between Rouge Mountain and Xiliang Mansion." The other generals agreed in unison. Songhe said to the captain of the soldiers beside him: "Immediately send scouts to Rouge Mountain to inquire about the situation. No matter what the situation is, report back as soon as possible!" The scout responded and ran down.
Song He glanced at the generals and said, "Have a rest tonight and start early tomorrow morning." The generals agreed in unison and left the tent one after another. Zhan Dui was supported by a soldier because he was injured.
"General Duosang!" Zhan Dui shouted as Duosang rushed ahead. Duosang was walking and chatting with Hanon when he heard a shout from behind, so he stopped and turned around.
Zhan Dui walked up to the two of them with the support of his soldiers, and said sarcastically: "You want to make me a stumbling block. What will happen? The person the general trusts is me! You are always in the eyes of the general." He's an outsider! Do you really want to be the commander of the attack on Xiliang Mansion? What a pity, what a pity." Zhan Dui shook his head, "It's a pity that the general can't trust you!" Duosang didn't say anything. Zhan Dui laughed proudly and left with his head raised.
When Zhan Dui walked away, Hanon sighed and whispered: "Hey, those of us here at General Songhe are the children of our stepmother! It would be great if the general was the commander-in-chief!" Duosang shook his head. He shook his head and said: "We can't control this kind of thing!" He glanced at Hanon and said, "We only need to act according to orders and don't care about other things! General Songhe is commanding us now, and we will act according to his orders. That’s it! I don’t believe that General Songhe would deliberately make things difficult for us!” Hanon nodded, “I hope so.”
What happened after all, let’s see what happens next.
