Chapter 111 Li Shimin is deeply trapped

There are only four moats in the Huaergou camp, and there are four low walls that are as high as the people, and such fortifications are actually a little stronger than flat ground. Naturally, Ko Wentai did not give it in vain, he made full use of the advantage of being outnumbered and strong, covered the people with shield soldiers, frantically filled the soil, and quickly filled in the first trench.

In Chen Ying's plan, the real purpose of the four trenches, which are not too wide, is actually to act as a wall of fire. As long as the refined fire oil is poured into the trench and then ignited with a rocket, a wall of fire will be formed that can be burned three or four feet high, and as long as the fire oil is not stopped, the fire inside will not be extinguished.

This is Chen Ying's helpless move not to build the city wall in order to save time. But now Duan Zhigan was afraid that he would beat Murong Fuyun's subordinates too badly and scare them back. So they didn't pour fire oil, but just used a rain of arrows to block the approach of the rebels.

Although Ko Wentai used shield soldiers to cover the situation, the people who filled in the trenches also suffered heavy losses. After all, although the crossbow machine can only shoot flat, the bow and arrow can be like a broken cannon, using a curve to shoot around, bypassing the shield soldiers in the front row, and specifically shooting the rebel cannon fodder behind.

Looking at the piles of corpses and the wounded wriggling in pain in pools of blood, Ma Mengming was dumbfounded, and he had a new recognition of the Tang Army's arrow array.

Ma Mengming sighed a little unbearably and said, "This ...... Why bother! ”

Duan Zhixian smiled bitterly: "To be honest, isn't it good to be a citizen of the Tang Dynasty in your own right?" What the hell do you think they're trying to do? ”

Ma Mengming had already seen that it was his old master, the former crown prince of Gaochang, who commanded the attack. Ruthlessness is the characteristic of an emperor, although Ko Wentai is not an emperor yet, he has the potential to be an emperor, but he sits back and watches thousands of people die and is indifferent.

Ma Mengming is not an emperor, but he definitely knows the emperor.

In Liwentai's heart, Gaochangguo's society is more important than Mount Tai, and there is nothing that cannot be abandoned, especially the ant-like grass people and slaves.

In the sparsely populated Western Regions, in addition to the climate problem, the environment is harsh, and the most important thing is that there are frequent wars here, because this is the forefront of the collision of Eastern and Western cultures, and the war between races and countries is alternate. During the Western Han Dynasty, there were 36 countries in the Western Regions, and during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were 50 countries in the Western Regions. In the Tang Dynasty, how many kings there were in the Western Regions, I'm afraid the people of the Western Regions themselves don't know.

It is possible that today he is still a king, and tomorrow he will be dead in the wild.

In the Western Regions, the cheapest thing is actually human life, and the highest value is actually gold and silver, but grain.

Lu Wentai looked at the first trench that was filled, looked at Murong Shun triumphantly and said with a smile: "Okay, I want half of the steel in Huaergou, you are not allowed to regret it!" ”

"This is nature, our Tuyuhun is not a ruthless and unrighteous Tang people, our Tuyuhun warriors are the most faithful to their promises!" Murong Shun pulled out his knife and said, "Who dares to stop you from taking half of the steel here, first ask the knife in my hand if you agree!" ”

"So much the best!" After receiving Murong Shun's re-commitment, he led his rebel soldiers to attack the first low wall.

This time, Ko Wentai also took a simple and rough way to deal with it! Under the order of Ko Wentai, the rebel soldiers carried the thick trees and acted as a chariot to launch a fierce attack on the low wall!

"Knock Knock ......"

The crashing wood against the low wall made a loud noise. Although the Tang soldiers guarding behind the low wall desperately poured arrows down, and although these rebel soldiers were killed by arrows all the time, they continued to attack as if they had no regard for life.

The arrows on both sides flew in the air, the sound of sharp arrows piercing into the flesh filled the eardrums, and the wounded who were dying from the arrows let out a terrible scream, however, at this moment, no one cared.

Duan Zhigan looked at this scene and sighed: "This group of people really dare to work hard! ”

However, desperately solves the real problem. Just like a baby, no matter how desperate he is, he can't defeat an adult.

Steel crossbows made of stainless steel, mountain mulberry recurve bows made of fine Tuomu, bleed rebel soldiers all the time. Unless the physical strength of the Tang soldiers is exhausted, unless the arrows of the Tang soldiers are exhausted, they will not be able to capture Huaergou at all.

If it weren't for the fear of scaring away these rebels, tens of thousands of catties of fire oil would have fallen, which would have caused heavy casualties to the rebels.

No matter how hard he tried, he was actually just doing useless work.

However, Lu Wentai was very confident, and he thought that he could conquer the Huaergou camp.

On the bank of the Daban River in Mulei County, Chen Ying led the Xiao cavalry and the Yue cavalry to camp here. The soldiers of the whole army, who were sleepy and tired, snored like thunder after camping, only Chen Ying had no sleep.

When he returned from the camp, he found that the lights in Chen Ying's big tent were not extinguished, Guo Xiaoke thought about it and went into the big tent.

Seeing that Chen Ying's brows were tightly locked, Guo Xiaoke tried to ask, "Is Dadu Hu worried about the safety of Jin Mancheng?" ”

"It's not!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Murong Fuyun is destined to have no joy in the air!" ”

Guo Xiaoke felt that Chen Ying seemed to be overly careful, even if Murong Fuyun's command was just a group of rabble, even if it was 200,000 pigs, roaring, it was not something that human beings could resist. What's more, Jinman is nominally a county, but in fact, the county border is larger than a state in the Central Plains, and Duan Zhigan and Zhang Huaiwei have less than 40,000 horses under their command, so how can they guarantee that the county is foolproof?

It's just that Guo Xiaoke didn't know that when Chen Ying had already fled from Liwentai, he had planted a fine work beside Liwentai, and it was too easy to stand out among the rabble of Liwentai and Murong Fuyun with the elite of the tiger. Murong Fuyun didn't know that he divided 200,000 horses into thirty-six generals and four great generals. Each general has a number of governors, and among the thirty-six generals, there are four generals who are righteous followers. Among them, Guo Luo also became the ninth general under Murong Fuyun.

If he wanted Guo Luo to kill Murong Fuyun by surprise, Chen Ying could order it at any time.

Chen Ying suddenly looked at Guo Xiaoke and asked: "Xiaoke, you said that from the Western Han Dynasty to the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then the Qianliang, Houliang, Western Qin, and Northern Wei, so many dynasties, so many heroes and heroes, why don't you see the Western Regions like the Central Plains, becoming counties and counties?" ”

Guo Xiaoke thought about it, quietly patted Chen Ying's sycophant and said: "Because the successive protectors of the Western Regions are all mediocre and incompetent, and no one can have the eloquence of the protectors. ”

Chen Ying pointed to his head and said: "I know very well whether I have any eloquence, if I insist that I have something better than others, that is, I have a heart of continuous exploration, dare to come out and do things that others dare not do, under the protection of this capital, the Western Regions will soon become a historical term, and in the future, the Western Regions will become our Datang's Xizhou Road, and Longyou Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, and Jiannan Road, become an ordinary part of Datang." ”

Chen Ying never thought that the Western Regions were difficult to govern, a treasure everywhere, a mine that could be mined at any time, and land that could be cultivated everywhere, this was a heaven-sent land, a land of anointing, of course, if you don't take it, heaven will abandon it.

Of course, Chen Ying didn't want to be the protector of the Western Regions or the so-called protector of the Anxi Metropolis, and now his son is about to be a hundred days old, and this father, he has never even seen his son. This made Chen Ying very guilty. He just wants to maintain the stability of the Western Regions as soon as possible, and also draw a blueprint for the Western Regions that can be built, and then he can take over the official position of the protector of the Western Regions and return to Chang'an to visit his son.

What has made contributions, what has left a name in history, and what national social organization, in Chen Ying's view, is far less important than his own son.

Just when Chen Yingfu was thinking about it, Li Shimin was thundering in Dingxiang City at this time.

When Li Shimin confidently led the newly formed Xuanjia cavalry to rush into Dingxiang City, he thought that he would encounter a fierce battle, but he did not expect that Dingxiang City was empty.

Just when Li Shimin felt bad and was about to withdraw from Dingxiang City, the beacon fire on the distant mountains ignited, and the atmosphere in Dingxiang City became tense.

In Li Shimin's Chinese army battalion commander's tent, carrier pigeons, scouts, and military envoys kept coming and going, and bad news kept coming:

"Shanyang is attacked by the Turkic army!"

"The Turkic army has been discovered at Yanmen Pass!"

"Yingzhou has discovered the Turkic army!"

"The patrol cavalry sent by Wuzhai Fort encountered the Turkic scouts and killed eleven enemies!"

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Li Shimin received a bad news, Fang Xuanling was on the sand table, and constantly planted the flags representing the Turkic army, each flag representing a cavalry of about 1,000 people.

It is not difficult to see from the sand table that in the area between the line between Weizhou (i.e., Datong) and Changzhou (now Yulin), except for Weizhou, where no enemy troops were found, there were Turkic armies operating in other prefectures and counties. No Turkic army was found in the area of Killing Tiger's Mouth, but there were also scouts in action, which should not be taken lightly. Yingzhou, Linzhou, Shanyin, Shenchi and other cities did not have many troops to defend, and the Turks caught Li Shimin off guard, and the situation suddenly became extremely grim.

The more Fang Xuanling analyzed, the more angry he became, threw a flag away, and scolded angrily: "How can the Turks know our marching route so well!" ”

Du Ruhui is also gloomy as water.

If they were only suspicious at first, it is almost certain that there will definitely be someone who betrayed Li Shimin and sold their marching route to the Turks.

Whether it is Qin Qiong or Cheng Zhijie, their two armies have a total of more than 30,000 elite troops in 20 Zhichong Mansions, and they didn't even see the ghosts of the Turks, and all the places where the Turks should not have appeared appeared.

The Turks were well aware of the situation of the 24 prefectures and counties of the Great Governor's Office, and they took advantage of the situation to enter the key point.

Although the Turkic cavalry was known for its strong mobility, the movements of tens of thousands of cavalry gathering and moving were quite large, and the scouts of the Tang army were so far away that it was impossible to be ignorant of their movements.

However, the Turkic army did it, and the assembly and mobilization of hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry easily concealed Qin Qiong's department, which was looking for the enemy army on the grassland, avoided Cheng Zhijie's department, and went straight to the line of Yingzhou, which had the weakest defense, and there was only one explanation: the Turks knew Li Shimin's attack route and troop movement well in advance!

PS: Two more 7,200 delivered, good night everyone, ask for support, pretend that someone is chasing!