Jin Fu and more than 20 soldiers escorted Murong Yong into the mountains and forests for more than ten miles. After confirming that no pursuers could catch up, everyone was shocked and finally stopped with a sigh of relief. Murong Yong, on the other hand, was blinded by one eye being pecked by the huge golden beast, and could not get a bandage. He was in unbearable pain, lost too much blood, and had already fainted. Jin Fu hurriedly bandaged Murong Yong, then carried Murong Yong on his back to find a small mountain col with leeward wind, and then put Murong Shi down.
Seeing that the sky was getting dark, everyone built a bonfire and then sat together. The flickering flame also illuminated everyone's faces with uncertainty.
In the suffocating depression, a centurion of the soldiers couldn't help but raised his head and asked: "General Jin, we have lost all our supplies now, even our horses, and now there are Sui soldiers everywhere outside. We can't escape at all. Even if we are pursued by the Sui army, we will freeze to death and starve to death." After a pause, he asked softly: "Do you think there is still hope for the commander-in-chief?"
Jin Fu glanced at the man thoughtfully, but instead of scolding him, he asked, "How do you say this?"
"General Jin, we have done our best to the great khan and the commander." The centurion hesitated for a moment, then said: "General, it's not that we are disloyal, it's just that the situation in Tuyuhun is over now. Even if we escape to Fuqi City, If nothing can be changed, why should we just wait to die?"
"General Jin, I am a personal soldier of the military advisor!" The other person looked at Jin Fu's face and gritted his teeth and said, "The commander-in-chief said it was a lie. His real purpose was to let you lure the Sui army. But he waited until the Sui army passed, then went south along Xiti Mountain and fled to Supi."
Jin Fu's face changed drastically and he asked sharply: "What is going on?"
The soldier angrily explained Murong Yong's decision in detail, and then said: "Although their conversation was relatively quiet, I was at a disadvantage and could hear their conversation clearly. The military advisor did not want to leave with the commander. That’s why he brutally attacked me.”
"I asked why you didn't see the military advisor. It turned out that he was killed by the commander!" Jin Fu said in surprise.
"General, the commander is blind in one eye and cannot get treatment. He is afraid he will not survive." After hearing the soldier's explanation, the centurion seemed to have a reason for betrayal. He glanced at Jin Fu and said, He said directly: "Moreover, he brutally killed the military advisor. How can such a person be worthy of our service? In this case, it is better to hand him over to the Sui army in exchange for a chance to survive!"
"This..." Although Jin Fu did not continue, he knew that his heart was moved.
"Let me do it!" Murong Xiaojun's personal soldier drew his sword and strode to Murong Yong's side.
"Stop!" Jin Fu stepped forward and snatched the sword from his hand. Looking at the half-dead Murong Yong, he suddenly stabbed him in the stomach.
"Ah!" The severe pain woke up Murong Yong, but Jin Fu had already covered his mouth and suddenly pulled out the knife, letting the blood spurt on his body, and said in a sinister voice: "Commander, you I killed a loyal military advisor, and I did it for the sake of the country."
Murong Yong's left eye was wide and round, but his eyes slowly became blurry.
"Poof!" At this moment, Jin Fu felt a pain in his vest and looked at the bloody blade coming out of his chest in shock.
The centurion's voice sounded behind Jin Fu: "General Jin, for the sake of safety, I have to wrong you. You have the head of a captain of ten thousand and a commander-in-chief..."
"Pfft!" There was another sound of a sharp knife piercing flesh, and a soldier laughed sinisterly: "You are a centurion, and your head is also..."
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
When the remaining soldiers saw what they were doing, they started killing each other with roars and filial piety. Next to the dim bonfire, there were killing sounds and sword flashes everywhere. The private soldier Murong Xiaojun was influenced by his master and was quite quick-witted. He fled into the forest as soon as the centurion took action.
"Hahahaha..." The brief but fierce fight ended quickly. One of Murong Yong's personal guards gasped for breath. He looked at the corpses of the robes, let out a burst of triumphant laughter, and slashed them with a knife. After getting the heads of Murong Yong and Jin Fu, they couldn't find the baggage for a while, so they simply took away the two heads.
hair tied together.
Just as he stood up and planned to leave, Murong Xiaojun's personal soldiers stepped forward, slashed his neck with a knife, and knocked his head away. He took away the tied heads. He said coldly: "The credit belongs to me, thank you very much, brothers!"
"Papa, papa!" A burst of slaps suddenly sounded from the bushes to the east.
The Tyuhun soldier was startled, and hurriedly looked towards the sound, and found a tall and burly Sui Army general applauding with a smile, while dozens of Sui Army soldiers next to him were all looking at him with smiles on their faces.
The guard shuddered when he looked at the murderous and ill-intentioned Sui army soldiers. When he thought about the scene of fighting for the head just now, he was even more frightened. As he backed away, he said in trembling blunt Chinese: "General, I am Murong Xiaojun's personal soldier. In my hands are the heads of Murong Yong and Chief of Ten Thousands Jin Fu. I, I, I don't want credit, I just want General, spare my life."
The coming general was none other than Zhu Can. He and the soldiers had the spirit and the Gyrfalcon to guide them, and they effortlessly chased them here. Seeing that they were willing to sacrifice their lives, he watched the fun with relish until the other side came out. As a result, he came out to clean up the mess. After listening to the soldier's words, Zhu Can said contemptuously: "Don't worry, I won't kill you! Do you really think that I, Old Zhu, am a slave like you who betrays his master?"
"Really?" The Tuyuhun soldier was dubious.
Zhu Can seemed to have been greatly insulted and said angrily: "Your Grandpa Zhu is the confidant of King Wei. If he wanted to be an official, he would have become a general long ago. Do you still need these few heads? Do you want to die?"
"No, no!" The soldier breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhu Can asked: "Where is Murong Xiaojun? Where did he go?"
"He was killed by Murong Yong half an hour ago..." When the soldier said this, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "I know where Murong Xiaojun is buried. I am the only one who knows now. I can take the general there. That is a great achievement!"
How could his little idea of "carrying a corpse to protect himself" be hidden from Zhu Can? Zhu Can just snorted coldly and said, "Take me there!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" His life was in his hands, and the soldiers did not dare not to obey. They led Zhu Can and his party to dig out Murong Xiaojun who had just been buried. Zhu Can was too lazy to delay. He saw Murong Xiaojun's After the head, he cut off the head with a knife, and took the three heads and the soldier to find Yang Ji.
It was already midnight when Yang Ji saw the three heads. Although he didn't care about the contribution of Murong Yong and Murong Xiaojun, they were the core force of the Murong family after all. If they didn't die, they would be a big hidden danger after all. Now that they are dead, the battle on the West Road battlefield has come to a successful conclusion.
As for the slave who betrayed his master, he stabbed him to death. He is also the "lord" of many people, so how could he leave such a slave who betrays his master?
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The disastrous defeat of the Western Route Army not only caused Tuyuhun to lose most of its territory and more than 100,000 troops, but also dealt a devastating blow to the morale of the eastern army in Tuyuhun and the hearts of the people in the eastern region.
The entire situation also developed in a direction that was very unfavorable to Tuyuhun. Tuoba Chici, the leader of the party Xiang Qiang who supported Murong Fuyun, turned to the Sui Dynasty. Not only did he betray his faith, he also used it to assist Tuyuhun in defending Murong Zhao and the Sui army on Lintao Road. Then, he attacked the Tuyuhun garrison in Xiqingshan from behind, and attracted Murong Zhao's tribe, the Yizhou Sui army led by Yang Wutong, and the Liangzhou Lintao army led by Zhou Faming to enter, allowing the Sui army and Murong Zhao to easily occupy the Ela Mountains. In the area to the south, the military front was directed towards Dafeichuan.
Encouraged by the great victories in the Western Theater and the Eastern Theater in the South, General Shuihedao March led an army of 20,000 troops to conquer Shudun City, which was guarded by 30,000 Tuyuhun troops, and quickly occupied Zhangshan Pass.
Zhangshan Pass is located at the intersection of Zhangshan Mountain and Riyue Mountain, the remnants of the Nanshan Mountains in Qinghai. It is a strategic location for south-to-north and east-to-west travel. Yang Yichen occupied this pass and immediately cut off the connection between Dafeichuan and Qinghai Lake Basin. Provide a strong deterrent to the Qinghai Lake Basin, the core area of Tuyuhun.
At the same time, Liang Yuanli, the commander-in-chief of the Xiping Road march, asked Fan Zigai, the commander-in-chief of the rear army, to pretend to be a large army pressing down on the border, and confronted the Tuyuhun army in the upper reaches of the Changning River.
He personally led 10,000 elite troops southward along the Changning Valley at starry night, crossed the Xingling Mountains (Haiyan County) at the source of Huangshui River, and captured Longqi City in Xihai County during the Han Dynasty.
Xihai County was established by Wang Mang in the fourth year of Emperor Ping of the Han Dynasty to manage the Qinghai Lake area. The county was located on the east bank of Qinghai Lake (West Sea) and to the west of Xingling. It was named Xihai City (Haiyan Triangle City). Yong served as the prefect and was responsible for immigration and reclamation, which allowed the Han Dynasty to actually control this land, but it was later abandoned due to civil strife. It was not until the 14th year of Yongyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty that the Han Dynasty regained Xihai County and moved the western governor's mansion of Jincheng westward to the old Xihai City, changing Xihai City to Longqi City. However, due to the turmoil in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Xihai County was abandoned again. And it became the pastureland of the Qiang and Xianbei people. When they were conquered by Murong Tuyuhun, they became the territory of Tuyuhun.
The Sui Dynasty was a Han dynasty. According to the Zhengshuo inheritance, this land acquisition should be the lost land of the Central Plains Dynasty. Therefore, Yang Ji has always defined this military operation as "recovering lost land." Although it is the same thing, " For the small countries in the Western Regions who feared the Sui Dynasty like a tiger, the slogan "Recover the Lost Territory" was undoubtedly much gentler and would not make them sleepless.
At this stage of the battle, Tuyuhun was surrounded from all sides, and only the Qinghai Lake area and the Datong River Basin were left in the territory. However, the two plains were divided into north and south by Datong Mountain, which also made the situation in Tuyuhun very unstable. Wonderful, this country with hundreds of years of history is already crumbling and in danger.
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