The camp of the 1st Brigade was finally discovered by the enemy scouts, and the Sogdian commander Mezli brought 500 cavalry and went around the vicinity of the Liang camp, but he did not attack, and left with his men.

The Sogdians' horses were very good, perhaps some of the blood of the Great Wan Horses of the Western Regions, with slender statures and extremely fast speeds, and they were a head taller than the Mengma used by the Liang army.

Among the Liang army, only officers above the rank of lieutenant would be equipped with such a high-headed horse, but unfortunately Chen Mu has not yet done so for the time being.

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On the fifteenth day of July in the first year of heaven, the bright moon was in the sky, round as a silver plate.

Under the moonlight, two soldiers in Hufu secretly approached Jiuquan City, and suddenly their whereabouts were exposed, and the enemy cavalry came back, and flying arrows continued to cut through the night sky.

The two Hufu soldiers were extraordinary, and they saw that they were carrying martial arts between moving and jumping, and they used all kinds of cover around them to quickly run towards Jiuquan City, and when the distance was close to the range of the heavy crossbow, the Hu cavalry who pursued them slowed down, and shot a few more arrows, but failed to hit the target, so they gave up the pursuit.

The standard-bearer in charge of the lookout at the head of Jiuquan City took a bow and was about to shoot these two Hu soldiers, but was stopped by Dian Xiaozhong: "Why did these two people come rashly, there must be a reason, prepare to hang the basket, hang the two of them for me and ask!" ”

Sure enough, the two Hu soldiers jumped into the hanging basket and came to Jiuquan City with a squeak.

One of them was very short, took off his dogskin hat, and saluted to Dian: "The centurion under Chen Mu, the captain of the temporary first brigade, is tall and strong. ”

Another tall man said, "Gundam." ”

"Well done!" Dian Xiaozhong smiled, patted the two on the shoulder, and then led the two into the watchtower to see Kong Xiaoxian.

When Kong Xiaoxian heard that reinforcements were coming, he was overjoyed and came to see the Gao brothers.

Gao Zhuang took out a piece of paper with Chen Mu's seal on it, Kong Xiao took it and looked at it first, and was sure that it was correct.

Wu Dong, the overseer, craned his neck and glanced at it, but did not speak.

Kong Xiaoxian smiled: "How many people and horses did Chen Mu bring, and how much grain did he bring?" ”

"1,000 soldiers and horses, 200 militias, 100 Sogdian prisoners, enough food for 2,000 people to eat for half a year. Now, a month has passed, and we have eaten some of it, and the rest is enough for 2,000 people to eat for five and a half months. ”

Kong Xiaoxian was overjoyed and said: "When does Chen Mu plan to send troops, and which door does he want to go?" ”

Gao Zhuang said: "Chen Xiao said that he hopes to have a 'sound from the east to the west'. He asked that the two of us not have to return immediately after we got to the city. He said that tonight, the soldiers of Jiuquan City will break through the east gate, and Captain Chen will kill from behind the enemy, and then we will fight out of the city with General Kong. When the enemy forces from the other gates are attracted to them, the food caravan will enter through the west gate. It is hoped that General Kong will open the blocking stone of the west gate, and then the transportation troops will enter quickly. ”

Kong Xiao asked first: "Chen Mu is so confident that your brother will definitely be able to send the news in?" ”

Gao Zhuang said: "Captain Chen said that even if our brother's mission fails, he will attack according to this plan." He believed that General Kong could see Colonel Chen's style of play and would try his best to respond when the time came. ”

Kong Xiaoxian nodded: "Those who know me, the shepherd brother also." ”

Then Kong Xiao went to arrange tactics first.

Kong Xiaoxian's characteristic is that once the tactics are formulated, they will be resolutely implemented, and in the course of the battle, no one is allowed to question his tactics, otherwise they will be dealt with as disturbing the morale of the army. ——Disturbing the morale of the army, one of the iron laws of the Liang army "Thirteen Slashes".

sub-hours.

The east gate of Jiuquan City suddenly opened, and the Liang army had five hundred soldiers, roaring out.

The Hungarian commander Balben, who was surrounding the east gate, was taken aback, and hurriedly organized a counterattack, but was still caught off guard by Kong Xiaoxian. Just when the two sides were fighting, Chen Mu led 500 soldiers to kill from behind, and the two sides surrounded and beat Balben. Let's look for books

The battle was fought so hard that the Hungarian camp was wiped out in one fell swoop, but the problem was that the Sogdian soldiers who were trapped in the north, west, and south of the city did not move.

"Brother Shepherd, didn't your Eastern Route Army bring food? If you really can't do it, go to the east gate! ”

Chen Mu said: "Fortunately, I still brought some of it, I will hand over the food to you, you go back first, and I will find a way to leave the food." ”

"Brother Shepherd, won't you come with me into Jiuquan?"

"Big brother, let's all go in, and there will be changes in the future, how to solve it? In the event of a defeat of Wuwei, we will be all finished. ”

Hearing this, Kong Xiaoxian frowned, thought for a while, and said, "Okay, I hope you are okay outside." ”

Kong Xiaoxian didn't want to give a death order, and asked Chen Mu to follow him into Jiuquan, but he didn't have the confidence now, and he was even more reluctant to leave all the other food outside. Besides, Chen Mu only brought 500 people, which shows that he didn't want to enter the city at all.

The twisted melon was not sweet, Kong Xiaoxian could only return to Jiuquan with some of the grain, while Chen Mu took his soldiers and quickly returned to the Dongting Mountain camp.

Why don't the Hu soldiers of the other gates come to support Balben?

It turned out that after the enemy general Mezri discovered Chen Mu's troops, he had already informed Balepun and asked him to make a good defense to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking, and to play tactics such as "striking the east and attacking the west", but Baleben said that the enemy would never dare to come, and if they dared to come out, I would destroy them on the spot.

The arrogant Balepun paid a terrible price for this, and he led the remnants of his defeated army to Mezri, and made Mezri grit his teeth with anger. However, Mezli still stuck to the other three gates and did not use troops, so that Chen Mu's Ximen grain transportation plan failed.

While Chen Mu attacked the east gate, he asked the soldiers to carry a small bag of grain on their backs. When I got to the vicinity of the east gate, I threw away the grain first, and then went to war, and now handed over the grain to Kong Xiaoxian, which can be regarded as solving Kong Xiaoxian's urgent need.

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"The information is wrong, and there are more than 2,000 soldiers in Mezli."

The lame man was in charge of delivering grain to Ximen, and he never found a chance, so he withdrew his troops according to the original plan, and after returning to Dongting Mountain, he said to Chen Mu.

"I saw that they had brought women with them, dressed in animal skin armor and carrying knives in their hands." Zhang Han was quite dissatisfied.

Yuan Hong said: "The Hu people are like this, regardless of men and women in the war, they all rush up. ”

Chen Mu said in a low voice: "Fierce, but savage. If such a Hu person enters the Central Plains, it will be a catastrophe for the Central Plains culture. ”

Zhang Han said: "In this way, there are still more than 3,000 enemy troops now. ”

Chen Mu waved his hand and said: "I have seen the camp in Mezli, and the defense is relatively complete, if you want to take down his camp, it will never be as simple as fighting Balben." Now that there is food in the city, I don't think we should rush to attack. ”

"What then?" Yuan Hong asked.

"It's better for us to play defensively. We have a lot of heavy crossbows ready, and they don't dare to offend us easily. Even if he came, he would pay a terrible price. When he loses the ability to encircle, he withdraws his troops. Chen Mu pointed to the sand table with a branch and said, "We can actually contact the Sangla people, let's say that Princess Sangla was robbed by Mezri." ”

"But the princess is in our hands."

"Then send it over."

Yuan Hong smiled bitterly: "Isn't this a deception, people know that the princess was sent over by us on our own initiative, but they will turn against us." ”

Chen Mu threw away the branch: "Of course we can't take the initiative to send it over, we have to let the princess go by herself." ”

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