In the second half of the night, news came from the Khotanese army in the east that a ragtag army composed of foreign races was surrounded and annihilated by the Khotanese army and Chang Zhong's troops who arrived later.

In order to complete Gu Qing's military order, Shen Tian ordered Zhao Ping to lead 3,000 Khotanese troops out of the battlefield and rush to the ambush circle to block the back road of the Tubo army, while Shen Tian led the remaining less than 2,000 men and horses to fight against the 4,000-strong ragtag army.

After calmly analyzing the pros and cons on the battlefield, he chose to lead the army to wander around, not to confront the enemy head-on, and to leave the enemy at one touch, and then turn around and run, the miscellaneous army chased and killed, Shen Tian fled, and the miscellaneous army stopped and planned to abandon Shen Tian's department and march in the direction of the Tubo army in the west, Shen Tian ordered to release the arrows, which provoked the ragtag army to chase after him again, and Shen Tian fled again.

So repeatedly consumed, in the vast desert and the miscellaneous army circle, until Zhao Ping completed the task of sniping the Tubo army, when the army returned to help, and Shen Tian played a cooperation, both sides launched an attack at the same time, the miscellaneous army suddenly knew that it was deceived, and the offensive and defensive momentum reversed, until Chang Zhong led five thousand left guards to come to help, and the miscellaneous army finally lost hope completely.

Unlike the treatment of the Tubo army, at the end of the war, the miscellaneous army was in a desperate situation, and many people dismounted and surrendered, but Shen Tian did not accept it, he did not need to be taken prisoner.

The exterminated alien army, leaving their lives behind is definitely a hidden danger for Datang, and none of them can be left.

As a result, this ragtag army was completely wiped out in the true sense, leaving only a few captives who could speak in the middle of the conversation for interrogation, and the rest were all killed.

After the annihilation of the miscellaneous army, Shen Tian hurried back to report and plead guilty to Gu Qing.

Gu Qing did not treat him for his crime, this is an unexpected situation on the battlefield where manpower is irresistible, there is no way to blame Shen Tian, as for why this miscellaneous army is so coincidental, why it is far behind the Tubo army and marching towards Qiuzi City, all the truth awaits the result after interrogating the prisoners.

"Find a place to sleep, sleep and wake up." Gu Qing patted Shen Tian on the shoulder and said.

"Master Hou, the last general should die, delay the fighter, please punish Master Hou." Shen Tian felt so guilty that he couldn't do it.

"I don't blame you, I really don't blame you, it's because I didn't think about it, I didn't expect such an accident to happen......" Gu Qing comforted gently.

After the war, the aftermath was very cumbersome, as the boss, Gu Qing didn't need to participate in these, he just needed to wait patiently for the military report from the generals below.

Early the next morning, as soon as it was dawn, Gu Qing returned to Qiuzi City.

The guards are less than one-third, most of the living guards are with injuries ranging from severity, Wang Gui was carried on a stretcher, fixed between two horses, Wang Gui was fated when he charged yesterday, after the first one rushed out, he was immediately annihilated by the torrent of the defeated army of Tubo, but he was still struggling to chop in the torrent, I don't know how many people were cut over, and then he was knocked over by a camel and fell to the ground, and was trampled on countless feet by the Tubo army.

Wang Gui kept rolling and dodging in the crowd, and he also took a cold shot to make a secret calculation. The Tibetan soldiers were busy running for their lives, and had no time to clean him up, and finally Wang Gui was exhausted, and was slashed in the back by a Tubo sergeant with a weapon, and gave him a blow to the neck, fortunately Wang Gui dodged quickly, and the knife that slashed to the neck was deflected and cut to the shoulder, so Wang Gui fainted, was buried in the deep sand, and picked up a life.

On the way back to Qiuzi City, Wang Gui was in a good mood, lying on a simple stretcher, looking up at the blue sky and white clouds above his head, and the corners of his mouth were grinning.

Originally, with the mentality of atonement, with the heart of death, he was the first to rush to the enemy formation without hesitation, but he did not expect to survive unexpectedly, although he was seriously injured, Wang Gui felt very happy.

Compared with the robes that died in battle yesterday, he is really happy.

It's good to be alive, but as for atonement, is it atonement? It doesn't matter, anyway, it's good to be alive.

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Gu Qing was silent all the way, looking at the lack of one-third of his personal guards, his mood became even more uncomfortable.

Back outside Qiuzi City, Gu Qing suddenly found that hundreds of people were standing quietly outside the city gate, and thousands of people densely occupied the open space outside the city, but they were silent.

Seeing Gu Qing and others coming, the people bowed to Gu Qing one after another, as if they had agreed, and said in unison: "Lord Hou resisted foreign insults, relieved the people from hanging upside down, and the people of the city were grateful for generations." ”

Gu Qing hurriedly dismounted, personally helped the old people led by him, and slowly looked around the people, Gu Qing was speechless, so he had to return the salute.

An old man sighed: "Master Hou is skilled in using soldiers, winning more with less, and not letting the war spread to Qiuci City. ”

Gu Qing smiled bitterly: "The elder is serious, it's just lucky." ”

The elder shook his head and said: "It's not luck, it's your ability, since Hou Ye took office in Anxi, he has expanded the city and built the city to resist Tubo, everyone knows that Hou Ye wants to make Qiuci City prosperous and make the people rich, Qiuci City is fortunate to usher in a good official." "First Reading Network

Seeing Gu Qing's tired face, the elder woke up like a dream, and hurriedly smiled: "When you are old, you love to nag, Master Hou will go back to the house to rest, but you have to take care of your precious body." ”

Gu Qing nodded, smiled apologetically at the people again, and then led the guards into the city.

A general with a tired face led a group of soldiers with broken armor and blood stains like fierce soldiers from hell to the world, leading horses silently through the crowd.

The people automatically and consciously made way for Gu Qing, and then saluted again, expressing their respect for Gu Qing with simple etiquette.

In the crowd that greeted him, Gu Qing glanced at him inadvertently, and suddenly found a pair of clear eyes, quietly watching him in the crowd.

Those eyes were no longer as charming as before, and there was a little more indescribable taste in their eyes, like the bright moon reflected in the clear spring, bright and bright.

Gu Qing hurriedly glanced over, and went straight into the city to return to the Jiedu Embassy's Mansion.

Back in the house, Gu Qing found a room to sleep in and slept until sunset before waking up.

Gu Qing who woke up was covered in a cold sweat, he didn't sleep well this night, and he kept having nightmares, which were full of swords, killings, blood, and the screams of the soldiers, as well as the wounded soldiers who were still thinking about their parents, wives and children when they were dying, all of which became an inseparable part of the nightmare.

When he came to the front hall in his clothes, Gu Qing still had a tired look on his face. Chang Zhong and other generals had been waiting for a long time, and when Gu Qing was sleeping, Han Jie and his guards stopped outside the door, and no one was allowed to disturb them, so Chang Zhong and the others had to wait for Gu Qing to wake up.

The scribe wrote a report of success, and the song was written beautifully, "more than 20,000 were completely annihilated", "more than 4,000 remnants of the Shishi Kingdom were completely annihilated", this report was handed over to Chang'an, and you can imagine how much Li Longji was so happy.

The Anxi Protectorate has been silent for a long time, and there have been victories and defeats in foreign conquests in recent years, but like Gu Qing today, he completely annihilated 20,000 Tubo troops, and more than 4,000 miscellaneous troops, which is really a rare victory since the Tianbao years.

In his later years, Li Longji was very happy, and he was especially happy to show off his martial arts to the courtiers and envoys, and the victory commanded by Gu Qing undoubtedly gave Li Longji an excellent performance to show off, which made Li Longji's face even more brilliant, especially Gu Qing was personally transferred to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and he made this contribution in less than half a year after coming to Anxi, wouldn't it prove that the Tang Dynasty Son of Heaven has the wisdom to know people and talents, and is a rare wise monarch throughout the ages.

In short, this victory is a rare big victory in Datang, and Gu Qing and this victory will become a typical benchmark for Li Longji to show off.

What Gu Qing cared about was not victory.

"How many casualties are we?"

Chang Zhong was stunned for a moment, his originally happy face suddenly darkened, and he sighed: "There are a total of 15,000 people in my left guard and Khotanese army, with more than 4,000 killed in battle and more than 3,000 wounded...... The damaged weapons, ordnance, and horses have not yet been counted. ”

Gu Qing sighed: "It's said that it's a 'big victory', but it's just a life for a life......

Chang Zhong's face was solemn, and he said in an aggravated tone: "It's a big victory, Master Hou, it's a big victory!" 4,000 for more than 20,000, Datang has won a unique victory in recent years, how can there be immortals at war between the two countries? We've taken a big advantage. ”

After a pause, Chang Zhong said again: "That's right, Master Hou, last night counted the Tibetan prisoners, our soldiers pulled out a big fish from the captives, the commander of the Tibetan Zhap was pulled out by us, after the defeat of the army, the beggar Zhapu changed his outfit, mixed in the surrender of the Tubo soldiers, and later the soldiers found that the Tubo army looked at the eyes of the beggar Zap, and after interrogation, they found this big fish. ”

Gu Qing nodded and said: "Your Majesty will be very happy to take this Tubo commander into custody, and after the interrogation, send a partial army to escort him and the Tubo generals to Chang'an to offer prisoners." ”

Chang Zhong said excitedly: "The great victory and sacrifice of prisoners, Chang'an will definitely be very lively, under the great joy of the Son of Heaven and Longyan, there must be a lot of rewards for us, right?" ”

"The military merits are ranked after the generals have discussed, and as for the reward of the Son of Heaven, it is not clear. To be honest, Shen Tian's military merit ranking should be above you, you are fighting a tailwind battle, but Shen Tian is a headwind, much more difficult than you, look at their tragic appearance when the Khotanese soldiers returned, Shen Tian's military merits are above you, are you convinced? ”

Chang Zhong nodded and sighed: "The last general is convinced, Shen Tian's luck is not good and he bumped into this gang of outlaws, the last general later led his troops to fight with that gang of miscellaneous troops, their combat power is stronger than the Tubo army, but Shen Tian is outnumbered, and he still retains his strength on the premise of not delaying the overall situation, and when the reinforcements arrive, he said that Shen Tian is more meritorious than the last general, and the last general is convinced." ”

Gu Qing snorted and said, "Since you are convinced, then draw up a list of meritorious service according to this, Shen Tian is the first meritorious, and you are the second." ”

After Chang Zhong left, Gu Qing rubbed his forehead and sat alone in the front hall, thinking for a long time, he decided to ask Chang'an to increase the garrison by the way, this time his 15,000 soldiers and horses were lost by nearly one-third, the loss was too great, and he had to replenish the source of troops immediately.

Not only that, but he also ordered the recruitment of unity soldiers within the territory of the Anxi Protectorate, and the unity soldiers should also be trained as regular troops, striving to train a strong and invincible army within two years, only in this way can he have a strong capital in the coming troubled times.