"So now that you all know the situation, then make a decision, who will go and who will stay.

It is impossible for this side of Baodun Valley not to make movements, even if we do not move outside the valley, we must let the Qingtang people in the valley see that we are not going anywhere else.

Therefore, there will not be too many soldiers and horses to Huaihe Village, who is willing to undertake this difficult task? ”

"The last general wants to go!" Miao Lu was the first to stand up.

Then inside the military tent was a group of people shouting, "I'm going, I'm going, and so on."

Tang Ning closed his mouth and didn't say a word, this time he didn't want to be this urgent pioneer.

"Oh, all of you want to go, but only two people at most. Let's draw lots to decide, who will go to Huaihe Village and who will stay in Baodun Valley! ”

After You Shixiong finished speaking, all the generals were very much in favor. It is certainly dangerous to lead troops to Huaihe Village, and if you don't do it, you will lose your life. But opportunities always coexist with dangers, and if they act according to You Shixiong's arrangement and succeed in the end, it will be a great credit.

Glory and wealth are beckoning to them, where are these people willing to give up opportunities to others easily?

Drawing lots is a good idea, and everyone agrees with it. Fair, no black-box operation.

You Shixiong checked the head, found a bamboo tube, and put chopsticks equal to the number of people in it, two of which were long, and the rest were short.

The generals drew one by one, and the results were all short. It wasn't until the seedlings stepped forward that they pulled out the first one at once.

The generals were very envious, and then the rest of the people went to smoke one after another.

Tang Ning had the urge to turn his head and run, he made up his mind to be the last to draw, but looking at this posture, it may not be the last one, and the one that grows will not come out.

In the end, everything was exactly as Tang Ning expected, and he gloriously pulled out a long chopstick from the bamboo tube.

Looking at You Shixiong's appearance of taking the lead in applauding, Tang Ning was very suspicious that this was a black-box operation.

Therefore, when a big soldier is not good in every way, you have to do whatever the leader tells you to do.

After drawing lots, You Shixiong made up 4,000 people for Tang Ning and Miao Lu, and then led all the troops and horses to gather five miles south of Baodun Valley.

His 2,500 Zhenjiang Army brothers naturally wanted to bring it, and You Shixiong also allocated 1,500 to himself to make up 4,000, and to Tang Ning's surprise, 500 of the 1,500 people were cavalry.

On Miao Lu's side, because his subordinates themselves had 1,000 cavalry, the two sides were combined, a total of 8,000 people, 2,000 cavalry, and 6,000 infantry.

Set off after dark, and by the moonlight, Tang Ning and Miao Lu embarked on the road to Huaihe Village.

On the road, you can see the traces of Qingtang people's life, but maybe it's because of the war

Perhaps for other reasons, the place has been deserted.

In the middle of the night, Tang Ning estimated that it would be the second half of the night, so Miao Lu ordered to rest. I didn't dare to light it, and I didn't need to light it.

It's June, and it's hot during the days and cool at night, so the ignition will heat up instead.

Early the next morning, after eating, they went on the road, and on the way, the cavalry easily destroyed a Qingtang scout, and also saw a rebel tribe. This rebel tribe wanted to be able to fight Ali Gu with the Song army, and Miao Lu readily agreed, there are many people and great strength.

But Tang Ning made three chapters with them, the first of which was that at any time and in any situation, they must obey the command of the Song army and must not act arbitrarily.

The leader of the rebel tribe thumped his chest, and God knows if he listened.

After walking like this for three days, the army finally arrived at Huaihe Village. Now it is still far from Huaihe Village, and Miao Lu first ordered the whole army to rest. Except for late at night, all the soldiers, including the more than 400 Qingtang warriors, did not rest much, and they were already tired.

Miao Lu's order made them finally breathe a sigh of relief and have a good rest.

This break is two days. Because Miao Lu decided to take Huaihe Village directly in one go, he was ready to let the soldiers rest until they were full of energy before fighting.

In two days, Tang Ning saw Miao Lu's command ability as an excellent general, and his scouts were like a big net hanging around the entire Huaihe Village.

There was a little wind and grass within a radius of twenty miles, and he couldn't escape the perception of his big net.

When would it be good if the scouts of the Zhenjiang Army were so powerful, Tang Ning thought silently.

Forget it, after this battle, let's get some horses for the Zhenjiang army first......

In the middle of the night of June 8, the Song army launched an attack on Huaihe Village.

Huaihe Village is located on the north side of the Jishi Army, in the entire Qingtang territory, it belongs to a place close to the west and close to Tubo.

Although the defenders of Huaihe Village knew that they would defend it here as a barrier to Qingtang City, they did not expect that the Song people would actually come to the city anyway.

No, the enemies here are all the elite troops of Qingtang, and the reaction speed is naturally not the same level as those stinky fish and rotten shrimp in Dangcheng or Kuozhou City.

When the Song army launched a charge, they had already discovered it, and the defenders on the wall immediately warned them, and the soldiers in the wall grabbed their weapons and climbed up.

However, the tiger squat cannon brought by the Song army made them suffer a lot, this small trebuchet has great strength and speed, although the killing range is much smaller than that of large trebuchets, but the destructive power should not be underestimated.

The ten tiger squatting cannons never stopped on the way of the Song army's charge, and the stones fell on the wall, which soon smashed the wall to pieces.

The stone walls can't withstand the power of the tiger squat cannon, let alone this kind of wall made of thick wood.

Time sawdust flew everywhere, and the Qingtang defenders on the walled wall had no choice but to retreat. The archers, who had only shot a round of arrows, could only carry the bow to their backs and take out their short soldiers to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the Song army.

After destroying the gate with improvised battering rams, the Song army rushed in and engaged in a fierce battle with the Qingtang defenders at the gate of the wall.

I thought that the gate was destroyed and the battle was half over.

However, the resistance of the Qingtang people was more fierce than Tang Ning and Miao Lu expected.

The Song army could not advance an inch at the gate, and even if they sent troops around the side gate, they encountered resistance from the Qingtang people.

As soon as the battle began, it entered the white-hot stage, and directly began to compete for the willpower of both sides.

Tang Ning and Miao Lu rode on horses, and under the arch of their own soldiers, they stood on a small dirt slope and watched the battle from afar.

Miao Xu's face was as usual, but Tang Ning's expression was a little nervous, this is the gap between rich and inexperienced.

"General Miao, do you want to send some more people to support? I also have some incendiary bombs here, so why don't you use them all? ”

"What are you panicking about?" Miao Lu glanced at Tang Ning: "If you can't even eat this little Huaihe Village, what else will you say to capture Qingtang City."

Keep your incendiary grenades, they're not suitable for use now, and they might come in handy later. ”

Miao Lu said, grabbed the horsewhip and nodded in the direction of Huaihe Village and continued: "Look at it, are these Qingtang people brave or not?

Let me tell you, the real courage is still to come.

The soldiers under Ali Gu were divided into three ranks, and the most elite part of the entire Qingtang soldiers were stationed within a radius of thirty miles from Qingtang City as his own soldiers.

The second is what we are facing now, although it is not the most powerful, but it should not be underestimated.

Finally, the Qingtang people you met in Wachui Village and Dangcheng are all stinky fish and rotten shrimp that are not worth mentioning.

What kind of tie knot, that is, relying on his own tribe to take refuge in Ali Bone, plus he still has two hits, so he got a general to do. ”

"I see." Tang Ning nodded, and then he frowned again: "Then how many elites are there near Qingtang City?" ”

"About eighty thousand."

"Huh? Wouldn't we be at a loss? The two lines of the north and south combined, there are only 100,000 people, and this is not counting the war damage......"

"Who told you there were only 100,000 people?" Miao Lu looked at Tang Ning like an idiot: "Do you think that only our side came to send reinforcements, and the people in the north were given up by the imperial court?"

From the very beginning, the brethren on the northern front were responsible for attracting firepower to us.

Lakh? Hmph, there are more than 100,000 on the northern front alone. We're not here to clean up a meal and go home! ”

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