"It looks like it's hard to beat the brothers in Lanzhou." Tang Yuan stood at the head of the city and couldn't help but sigh.

Tang Yuan followed Tang Su to Hezhou, which was only a day's journey from Lanzhou's rapid march.

The soldiers who withdrew from the city of Lanzhou also came to Hezhou, and at this time, the great Sima Tang Zhen still had a total of 190,000 men and horses that could be mobilized.

If you count from the beginning, Tang Su had 90,000 soldiers in his hands, Da Sima brought 180,000, the Liang army was 270,000 in total, and now there is a shortage of 80,000 people, nearly 50,000 sacrifices, more than 10,000 remnants, nearly 20,000 serious injuries have not healed, and more than 2,000 of them are missing, and I don't know if they died in battle or fled.

Whether it is becoming an unknown martyr or becoming a deserter in fear of war, it is a very common thing in wartime. In such a large-scale operation, the number of "two thousand" is no longer large.

Of the remaining 190,000 people, Tang Zhen asked the Flying Tiger Army to garrison 30,000 troops in Great Xia City, at the forefront; Tang Shuo's subordinates led 50,000 people to garrison Donggu, this is an ambush, once the enemy counterattacks, the Flying Tiger Army can abandon Daxia City and run to Donggu, and the Punishment will fight a large ambush here.

There are 110,000 people left, Tang Zhen hasn't figured out how to arrange it, his first task now is to find out the true intentions of that group of Donghu people, Da Sima believes that the character of the Donghu people is internal and external, they rarely ally ally with others, how big face is King Sangla this time, in order to invite them?

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The leader of the Donghu people, Erjin Zahehan, led 50,000 horses and horses to sweep through the Tiger Ben army, and won a respite for the king of Sangla, Tunmi Sanza.

In fact, Zahehan was not invited by Tunmi Sanza, he was just attacking a small tribe on the grassland, and by the way, he wanted to sneak attack Datong Mansion and grab some supplies to go home. As a result, halfway on the way, he heard that the Han people and the Sangla people in the Longyou area were fighting, so he ran over to join in the fun, and he found that the Tiger Ben Army was well-equipped, if these equipment could be worn on the body of my Donghu people, wouldn't it be invincible in the world?

Just when the Tiger Ben Army stormed Lanzhou, Zahehan suddenly attacked the Tiger Ben Army and broke three villages overnight.

The soldiers in these three big villages were the soldiers who took turns to attack Lanzhou, and they were already tired and exhausted, and when they were resting, they never expected that a tiger and wolf army would suddenly come from behind and be caught off guard.

The news reached the Tiger Ben general Ximen Kuo, who asked the 9th Division of the 1st Division to unite and pursue this mysterious force, but was ambushed by the enemy and almost completely wiped out in a valley.

This battle was fought in a nest, Ximen Kuo attacked the heart in a hurry, causing eye disease, his eyes were red like blood, he could not command the army, and now he was recuperating, and the big Sima Tang Zhen asked Hu Ben Zhonglang to temporarily command Xiao Fei to temporarily command the remaining Hu Ben army and stay in Hezhou City.

Da Sima Tang Zhen said angrily: "Even if the Donghu people sneak attack from behind, the Tiger Ben Army should not be so vulnerable, how many times have I said that the open and dark sentinels must stretch out for fifty miles, you just don't listen!" ”

After all, the Tiger Ben Army is not the Tang family's troops, otherwise the old marshal would be able to remove all those Zhonglang generals from his post in anger.

Hong Mingshan said ashamedly: "At that time, we arranged sentries on both sides, and we calculated that the enemy army did not have the strength to kill, so there were no sentries behind us. ”

Hong Mingshan was right, according to the situation of King Sangla at that time, he said that it was impossible to kill anything, but who would have thought that at this time, Donghu people would be killed behind his back.

Da Sima was even more angry: "Sentinels, scouts, and heralds are like the eyes of a general. If you fight with your eyes closed, who can you win? Arrange sentinels, no more than a hundred at best, and how many of you are missing? ”

Hong Mingshan was speechless.

Even Xiao Fei, who was sitting on the side, was red-faced, although Xiao Fei was not attacked this time, but as a colleague, he still felt that his face was gloomy. And he didn't actually arrange sentries behind his back, and the reason why his second division was not beaten was entirely because of good luck.

"The last general is willing to get dressed up and touch the Donghu people again!"

The air in the tent was tense, Xiao Fei finally couldn't sit still, stood up and said: "The failure of the first and ninth divisions is due to carelessness, I will definitely go step by step this time, and never give the enemy a chance to sneak attack and ambush." ”

After the handsome tent, it is the place where the marshal speaks, and those who can communicate with the marshal are all at the level of the lieutenant general, although there are dozens of captains in the room, but they are basically speechless.

But at this time, suddenly a loud voice shouted: "It's better to let us go, we have a way to deal with the Donghu people." ”

Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was an unfamiliar face, this person had a tall nose and deep eyes, a typical Western Regions face.

"You are..."Da Sima hesitated for a moment, saw Tang Yuan beside this big man, and immediately reacted: "Could it be that you are Cao Po's enemy?" ”

"Dashuai is right, I am Cao Po's enemy."

"What can you do to deal with the Donghu people?" The old handsome man was expressionless: "Back then, Ben Shuai once followed Emperor Kaiping on an expedition to Mobei, but he had seen the power of the Donghu people. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor said that this group of Hu people was different from ordinary Hu people, they fought extremely tenacious, so they must cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and let their development leave a big trouble. At that time, we 200,000 people, divided into three routes, chased them all the way to the North Sea, the king of Donghu committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea, and then we returned to the Central Plains, thinking that they had been extinct, but never thought that fifty years later, they would come back again. ”

Cao Podi's Chinese is not very neat, and he can also listen to Da Sima's words, but he generally understands the old man's words, that is, the Donghu people are very powerful, you can't underestimate the enemy, and what can you do to deal with them?

Cao Po said: "They are greedy for money, especially greedy for money, as long as they give money, they can leave." ”

“……”

Everyone was stunned.

Xiao Fei suddenly said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about, you barbarian, he killed our people, and we still give them money?" ”

Everyone's anger was ignited by Xiao Fei's words, and they all burst out loud.

Da Sima waved his hand and said: "You don't have to argue, within the tent, everyone can speak freely, if the plan is not appropriate, you can discuss, there is no need to quarrel." In fact, Cao's method of breaking the enemy is not a mediocre move, thinking that when Han Gaozu encountered the siege of the White Horse, didn't Prime Minister Wang Ping bribe the enemy generals with money, and finally the enemy withdrew? There is a history to be checked, so Cao Po's method is also a method. If the Donghu people really leave after getting the money, we can let go and destroy Sangla, and when we are done, we will settle accounts with the Donghu people. It's a roundabout way. ”

Da Sima said a word, and the room immediately fell silent.

It seems that everyone has acquiesced to this ploy.

So, who to send to negotiate with the Donghu people?