Chapter 112: Changes in Songzhou
"Why are you here?" Wang Zhuan casually wiped his face with his big hand, wiped the sweat on his hands, and then patted Li Su's shoulder.
"Stop! Stay away from me, don't touch me. Li Su was so frightened that he took a few steps back, it was so dangerous, the sweat on his hands slapped on his shoulders, and he was so bad that he couldn't sleep tonight.
Wang Zhu knew Li Su's problems, and he didn't mind, he laughed a few times, and wiped the sweat on his lower body with sweat on his lower body, and then ...... slapped Li Su on the shoulder and repeated what he said just now: "Why are you here?" โ
Li Su's heart twitched, and he looked at the big hand on his shoulder speechlessly: "Do you have to pat me to be comfortable?" โ
Wang Zhu hooked Li Su: "Let's go, find a place to talk, here the fire captain and the team are all looking at us, and they are very fierce to our new soldiers, but they don't dare to provoke." โ
Led Li Su to the outside of the fence of the Modao team's camp, Wang Zhu brought two flat stones, sat down, Li Su stared at the stone hesitantly, his expression was very entangled, Wang Zhu quickly understood, wiped the stone a few times with his belt as a rag, raised his eyes and glared at him: "Okay, right?" Stinky fault! โ
Li Su sat down contentedly.
He took out the muntjac meat that Niu Jinda gave him from his bosom and handed it to Wang Zhuan: "Hurry up and eat, the chief manager will reward you, and I will get you ...... if you want to eat it later."
Wang Zhu was surprised: "The chief manager is so good to you? โ
Li Su said gloomily: "Don't mention it, this is a sad (thing, in short...... Let's just think I bought this piece of meat for 500 yuan. โ
Wang Zhuan was stunned for a long time, took the meat, and said with a smile: "I don't lack meat here, I'll send it to the second child when I go back, his crossbow and arrow camp is really bitter, every meal of a dry cake and a small group of wild vegetables, I saw it from afar on the march the day before yesterday." That kid's face is turning green......"
Pointing to the temporary practice ground that had been cleared out, Li Su said, "You all practice every night after camping?" โ
Wang Zhu said with a smile: "Marching during the day and practicing at night, but it is us new soldiers who are training it, and veterans do not practice." โ
"Tired?"
"It's okay, I just don't get enough sleep. Eat very well, better than others, the fire chief said that we are the Mo knife team, and it takes a lot of effort to dance the knife, so we are extra prepared for a piece of meat at each meal......" Wang Zhu grinned and smiled very happily: "I don't dare to eat like this at home, and I am lucky to be able to eat one meal in half a month." โ
Li Su's face was a little heavy: "Have you learned the ability to go into battle?" โ
"You don't need any skills, just dance the knife, and then look at the order flag of the captain or the captain, and the red flag will advance and the white flag will stop. If you don't see the white flag wave, you have to keep dancing the knife, no matter how tired you are, no matter how man or horse breaks into our formation, you will crush him in the blink of an eye. There is also the formation, it must not be messed up, whoever messes up the formation first will be killed, this is an iron law. โ
Li Su nodded: "It's time to go to Songzhou when you speak, don't panic when you go into battle." Follow Brother Paozawa, especially when you kill for the first time......"
Li Su paused as he spoke. The first person he killed was the association rate, and after he killed, he didn't feel anything, because he was also injured at that time, and he only wanted to live, and after being rescued, he felt nauseous and trembling, and he didn't eat for a few days. Every night when I close my eyes, I see bloody corpses, and it was a very uncomfortable time.
If he was asked to do psychological counseling with Wang Zhu after the first killing, he wouldn't be able to say anything, at most he would be used to it, "Spit and vomit." โ
Who knew that Wang Zhu didn't seem to have any psychological barriers, and grinned: "Killing a Tibetan thief is a murder." I only slaughtered animals, our fire chief said, all barbarians outside the Tang Dynasty can be considered human? Macaque! โ
Strong pride and self-confidence, this kind of national feelings almost penetrate into the bones of every Tang people, the Tang people look at the world differently, looking at foreigners are a monkey, Hu Shang is a yellow-skinned monkey, Tubo is a red and white monkey, the Japanese are dwarf, the Eastern Turkic ...... Well, the Eastern Turks have been wiped out by the wise and martial emperor, and all of them have been incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, so the Eastern Turks are slowly evolving from the direction of the monkey to the people, in short, everyone lives on a strange continent where people and monkeys coexist.
This is the real racial discrimination, which does not discriminate against the so-called superior and inferior people, but against people and other species.
Li Su didn't expect that the low-level officers in this year would even work as a psychiatrist, since Wang Zhu didn't care, Li Su naturally didn't need to say anything.
Tonight, he ran out of the marshal tent of the Chinese army to see Wang Zhuan, for this is also the reason, he is very worried about the Wang brothers.
As the sun began to sink in the west, it was already evening, and the golden afterglow spread fairly on every corner of the land, and the summer cicadas chirped with all their might before the last shred of light faded away, adding a touch of annoyance to the quiet wilderness.
Picked a branch and scratched it on the ground, Wang Zhu was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "Li Su, I and the second child have entered the government soldiers, and we have stepped into the ghost gate, we don't know if we can live in this battle, and now we can only love me and the second child are dead, so I entrust you with one thing, my fourth child is less than a year old, and he is still young, if I and the second child really die in battle, my father and mother ask you to take care of it, and when the fourth child grows up, he can support his father and mother for the rest of his life, and you will ...... again."
"Don't say anything unlucky!" Li Su interrupted Wang Zhu and accentuated his tone: "You will definitely go home safely." โ
Wang Zhu smiled very calmly: "Life and death are fate, the road is chosen by yourself, and you don't complain about whether you are dead or alive, but there are some things that you can't let go of, we grew up together, you have changed a lot in the past six months, and your skills are becoming more and more inexplicable, but you and I are still brothers, these things can only be entrusted to you." โ
Li Su sighed heavily, Wang Zhu was born burly and strong, and his face looked old, sometimes even Li Su forgot, Wang Zhu was actually only one year older than him, sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys, it was the ignorant season when he was drunk and fighting, quietly liked a girl in the neighboring village, and did some stupid things for that girl, but he, for the sake of the whole family, stepped into the ghost gate without hesitation.
How is the "peace" of the Taiping years defined?
The two of them looked at the sunset in silence, and they were not in the mood to speak, and after a long time, Li Su suddenly jumped up and kicked hard at Wang Zhuan's ass.
"Bastard bastard! If you want to live a good life, open a shop with me, do business with me, what can't you do? I have to enter the government to do this kind of life-saving thing! I sue you, I won't even accept your corpses when you and the second child die, and you don't bother to care about your father and mother, bless them under your own nine springs! Cowardice! โ
After saying these words like venting, Li Su patted his ass and left, without looking back.
Wang Zhu sat in place and looked at Li Su's back, and suddenly grinned, smiling very happily.
After nearly twenty days of walking, the army was getting closer and closer to Songzhou.
Hou Junji and Liu Lan's troops had arrived at Songgangpo garrison 50 miles away from Songzhou, and the two armies set up an offensive position against Songzhou in the east and the north, only waiting for the arrival of the oxen to form a three-sided encirclement of Tubo.
This was a strategy formulated overnight by Li Shimin and officials of Zhongshu Province and the Ministry of War before the army was marching out, and when it was about to reach Songzhou, Niu Jinda ordered to speed up the march so as not to delay the fighters.
Without any brewing or warning, the clear sky was suddenly overshadowed by the clouds of war.
When it was a hundred miles away from Songzhou, the former army scouts of Niu Jinda encountered the Tubo scouts, and the two sides fought fiercely, and the corpses of more than 20 Tubo scouts were left on the land of the Tang Dynasty forever, and the Tang army scouts also lost more than a dozen people.
At the same time, a bad news came from the front, as Niu Jinda expected, Songzhou Governor Han Wei failed to hold the city, three days before the arrival of Hou Junji's department, the Tubo soldiers captured Songzhou City, when they set foot on the Songzhou City The moment they set foot on the head of Songzhou City, Han Wei ordered people to open the city gate on the other side and abandon the city in the starry night to escape, and the next day when the wolf bรจi escaped from the department, a total of more than 300 people remained.
The word "abandonment" seems harmless, but I don't know how many lives it represents.
After Han Wei abandoned the city, the dragons of Songzhou were leaderless, naturally unable to hold on, and were attacked by the Tubo soldiers into the city to burn and loot, the people of the city were slaughtered by thousands, property was plundered, houses were burned, women were raped, and under the scorching sun, a tragedy was staged in this border city.
Today's battle situation is completely different from the plan, the 50,000 army was originally to understand the siege of Songzhou, and now Songzhou is occupied, so the strategic plan has changed from breaking the siege to besieging the city, and recovering Songzhou at any cost.
The three marching commanders were furious, they regarded this battle as another shame after the Weishui Alliance, and swore a poisonous oath in front of the soldiers of the three armies to return the number of Tang people slaughtered by Tubo ten times, otherwise the gods would not bless it, and the sky would be thunderous.
On the ninth day of the seventh month of the 11th year of Zhenguan, Niu Jinda's department arrived at the south of Songzhou City and camped forty miles south, and after reporting to Hou Junji and Liu Lan's department, the three armies advanced to Songzhou, and the forward cavalry battalion totaled 18,000 cavalry and began to clean up the remaining enemy outside the city.
A siege incident caused by the failure to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, originally with a little bit of not too serious charming, before the Tang army set out, the people in the streets and alleys of Chang'an talked about it in a romantic tone, but now, Tubo has brazenly captured the Tang City, slaughtered thousands of Tang people, the news spread to the Tang army camp began, this battle has become a national war to wash away the shame, from the generals to the civilians, no one looks at this matter with a romantic eye.
More than 18,000 cavalry began to sweep indiscriminately outside the city of Songzhou, but anyone who could not speak Chinese, all were killed and slaughtered, the three armies slowly advanced from the northeast and south, and imposed the law of encircling the city of Songzhou, only to let go of the west city, Hou Junji sent 5,000 elite cavalry to ambush fifty miles to the west.
ps: There is one more ...... (To be continued......) R1292