Chapter 14: Retreat from the Enemy
Cheng Chumo, who was bending his bow and arrows on the city wall, was about to shoot the next arrow, when he suddenly found that the Tubo people outside the city had retreated, put down the bows and arrows in his hands, and Cheng Chumo said: "His grandmother's, why are they gone, Lao Tzu is fighting coolly." "The enemy can't come under your city wall, Cheng Chumo seized this opportunity to shoot dozens of Tibetan soldiers in one go.
The Tang soldiers on the city wall, like Cheng Chumo, are shooting the Tubo people, this is a real military industry.
Cheng Chumo walked into the city tower and saw Xuan Shijing in a daze with a bowl of water, and said loudly: "The Tubo people have retreated." ”
"Huh? Withdrawn? Xuan Shijing looked out through the lookout, and he had indeed retreated, leaving the corpses in one place and no longer caring about them.
"It must have been Gao Jun who led people to attack their camp, I didn't expect Gao Jun to move so fast." Xuan Shijing couldn't help but sigh.
"yes, but it would have been nice if he had attacked a little later." Cheng Chumo licked his lips, as if he hadn't enjoyed it yet.
"Although this is the case, but next, I'm afraid this battle will not be so easy, the Tubo people were attacked by Gao Jun this time, they will definitely be more guarded, and Gao Jun may not have much chance to succeed again." Xuan Shijing said.
"Then it is better to call him back." Cheng Chumo said: "Although it is in this form now, it is at least safer in Shicheng than outside. ”
"Not necessarily." Xuan Shijing smiled: "Let's stay in this stone city like a turtle in an urn, the initiative is still in the hands of the Tubo people, when do people want to come to fight us, when will they come, and Gao Jun is outside, the initiative is in his hands, the vast Longxi Road, can the Tubo people still spread their nets to catch him?" Even so, how could we send out so many scouts to let the Tubo people catch Gao Jun. ”
"You mean, let Gao Jun stay outside, even if there is no movement, it can distract some of the Tibetan people." Cheng Chumo sat down and looked at Xuan Shijing seriously.
"That's right, the art of war is cloudy, and the soldiers are not tired of cheating, let's leave Gao Jun outside Shicheng, occasionally deceive him, and by the way, find a way to send a message to the scouts outside, so that they can explore the grain route of the Tubo people as soon as possible, and then tell Gao Jun the news, what can be snatched away is snatched, and those that cannot be snatched are burned, although the grain in Longxi is precious, but even if it is burned, it cannot be cheapened for the Tubo people." Xuan Shijing said.
"Shijing, I found that you have more bends in your head than when you were a child." Cheng Chumo looked at Xuan Shijing with a wicked smile.
"Oh? Was I so smart as a kid? No, how pure. Xuan Shijing quibbled.
"Still pure? Back then, was it your idea to Chai Lingwu's kid to give Princess Baling a cute pet. Cheng Chu smiled silently: "Now Chai Lingwu's kid has gotten his wish to hug the beauty, but the cats, dogs, and so on in the house are about to overflow." ”
Xuan Shijing's cold sweat flowed down instantly, one of his ideas back then would not be to abduct Princess Baling into a cat slave.
Cheng Chumo interrupted like this, and the atmosphere eased a lot, at least it wasn't so tense that it was uncomfortable.
"Now the war should come to an end, this time Tubo has also lost a lot of soldiers, the next thing we have to do is to delay the time, hold the stone city, and wait for the war between the Duke of Wei and the Tubo army in Hanzhou, our days will come to an end." Xuan Shijing said that in history, Tubo and the Tang Dynasty finally embarked on the road of harmony, but Xuan Shijing did not know that Tubo's first marriage proposal was a failure, and there was such a war between Tubo and the Tang Dynasty.
"The battle of the Tibetan people was wronged." Cheng Chu sighed silently: "Forget it, don't talk about this, I have to go back to the camp to sleep, Shijing, you can help me watch it here, to be honest, I am fortunate to have you this time, otherwise my brother's battle would have been so easy." ”
"Come on, what are we two still saying these polite words, hurry up and go back to rest, I'll go out and count the military merits of the soldiers in a while, and you have to write an excerpt after you get up." Xuan Shijing said.
"Cheng, no problem!" Cheng Chumo readily agreed, and then got up and left the city wall.
After Cheng Chumo left, Xuan Shijing smiled bitterly: "I really don't want to see that battlefield." ”
"But Long'er saw that the little marquis was still very brave on the battlefield." Long'er looked adoring: "An arrow hurts the enemy general, little marquis, you are really too majestic." ”
"I have a few pounds and a few taels, others don't know, Long'er, you don't know." Xuan Shijing got up: "If you don't do that, how can you improve the morale of our Tang soldiers, don't say it, my arm is still a little trembling, it seems that the bow with two stones is still too reluctant." ”
"Little Hou Ye, how old are you, you are still growing your body, this is already very good." Long'er exclaimed: "Generally, there are only a handful of people at your age who can pull out two stone bows." ”
"Hahahaha, there is no second person who can be soaked in a medicine barrel by Yuan Daochang for ten years." Hyun Se-kyung laughed.
Xuan Shijing's body can have today, it is all the credit of Yuan Shoucheng, although most of those medicines are used to force out the residual poison in his body, but there are also some tonic drugs to strengthen the body and bones, at that time, Xuan Shijing's body gathered too many toxins, has been immersed in the blood, the body is weak, as the saying goes, deficiency is not replenished, but Xuan Shijing does need to strengthen the body to fight the toxins in the body, since the tonic can't be drunk directly, Yuan Shoucheng simply put it into a wooden barrel together to steam out the medicinal power to give Xuan Shijing a bath, It's a lot of waste, but it's still very good.
Although he said that he didn't want to see the battlefield outside the city, Cheng Chumo went down to rest, and a lot of things were waiting for him to do, Xuan Shijing still walked out of the city gate tower with a hard head.
The battle was fought for a long time, not a short time, and for a whole morning, the sun climbed high, and the whole person was warm.
Xuan Shijing took off his cloak and handed it to Long'er, wearing only a dark blue soft armor inside, walking on the city wall, inspecting the soldiers after the war.
I saw Wang Jin who was wiping the horizontal knife on the side.
"Wang Jin, right?" Xuan Shijing called.
"The subordinates are here, I don't know what the Hou Ye commands." Wang Jin heard Hou Ye calling himself, and quickly stood up.
"It's okay, the brothers aren't hurt." Xuan Shijing asked, there should be no big losses for the Tang army at this station, after all, condescending to the Tubo army, even if it is an arrow shooting, the Tang army has an advantage.
"Back to the Hou Ye, none of them were seriously injured, and a few brothers were shot by stray arrows that flew up, but they were not injured to the point, and they were fine." Wang Jin replied.
Xuan Shijing nodded: "That's good, let Sima in the army count the merits of the various soldiers in this battle, and when you General Cheng wakes up, I can write an excerpt for you to ask for credit." ”
"Yes!" Wang Jin hugged his fists in response.