The battle in Gongyue City was progressing smoothly, far beyond everyone's expectations, including Qin Mubai.

Originally, Qin Mubai used a one-handed agitation method, let Ni Shu Si come and give Tang Jun a go, and then used his absolute strength to convince him. Just like "boiling eagles" and "taming beasts", it fundamentally smoothed out the wildness and temper of the Turkic people in Beiting.

The generals of the North Court were indeed aroused, and the Khan of the North Court heard about this, and personally led tens of thousands of reinforcements to Gongyue City to supervise the battle, putting on a posture of fighting against the water. In this way, the number of soldiers and horses in Beiting increased to about 300,000. According to the instructions of the veteran soldier, the army of 300,000 was divided into four parts, three of which were set up as an iron triangle outside the city to form a horn guard, and the city also hid elites and a large number of bows and arrows to defend it.

Xue Rengui only led 30,000 elite Yue cavalry from his headquarters and the fire god with less than 1,000 troops in Zhao Tong's department, and carried 20 Shenwu cannons all the way to the front of Gongyue City. Knowing that the Tang army only sent 30,000 soldiers and horses as the vanguard to take the lead, he wanted to hit the Tang army by surprise first.

As a result, the three battalions of soldiers and horses outside the city in Beiting had an army of nearly 150,000 troops, taking advantage of Xue Rengui's distant arrival to gain a firm foothold, poured out of the nest, and slaughtered with the momentum of Mount Tai and the frenzied attack.

Xue Rengui was in danger, and turned half of the elite cavalry into infantry shield regiment players to protect the Shenwu cannon and the god of fire, and ordered Zhao Tong to command the god of fire to bombard and kill the enemy; The other half of the elite cavalry is led by him personally, and after the Shenwu cannon is powerful, he will face the enemy head-on.

As a result, the Turks, who faced the Shenwu cannon and the god of fire for the first time, reacted in the same way as the original Tubo people - when they heard the sound of a cannon, many soldiers, including horses, were terrified!

The soldiers and horses of the North Courtyard who charged recklessly suddenly had a big mess!

After a round of artillery bombardment, the Vulcan cavalry charged and swept under the personal cover of Xue Rengui. Another round of gunfire rang out, and the smoke rushed into the sky, and the Turks who were charging in front were completely frightened and defeated, and suddenly there was no battle, and there was an unexpected rout and escape!

Xue Rengui took the lead with the prancing horse and crossed the halberd, and led the most elite Yue cavalry in the Guanxi Army to take advantage of the victory to cover up the killing, killing the people and horses in Beiting, crying and crying for their fathers and mothers, and the corpses flowed into a river of blood for hundreds of miles!

It wasn't until he chased to the foot of Gongyue City that Xue Rengui stopped on his horse. Seeing that the city gate was closed and the river was extremely wide, and the city head was also densely covered with bows and crossbows, Xue Rengui was not in a hurry to attack the city. He held up Fang Tian's painting halberd and pointed at the head of the city, and shouted angrily: "The Turks in the North Court listen! You are not obedient to the king, you are stubborn, you plunder the trade routes and abuse my people, kill my marshal and humiliate my envoys, this hatred is not shared! Today, my Tang Heavenly Soldiers went to hang the people to fight against the evil spirits, and they didn't open the city and surrender quickly! The commander of the Tang Guanxi Army, Qin Shaoshuai, has an order, and those who surrender will not die! Those who want to go out of the city to surrender with mud are forgiven for their sins and sealed as marquis! ——If it does not fall, when the city is broken, the jade will not be burned!! ”

Xue Rengui was originally a person who practiced martial arts, full of vigor and thunder, coupled with the prestige he had erected in the North Court, these voices roared, and some of the Turkic soldiers guarding the city were frightened.

Roared, Xue Rengui still couldn't enjoy it. At a glance, at the head of Gongyue City, a wolf's head and tooth flag of the north court fluttered high, and I was very unhappy in my heart. I looked at the distance, and it was about a hundred paces. With a thought, he took the tiger-striped thrush bow given to him by Qin Mubai from the saddle, and took an iron-tired boxwood bow from the soldier. Take two giant bows with the power of two stones into one, and combine the two strings into one to wind the bow, and shoot an arrow with divine power!

That arrow, like a goshawk pounced on a meteor piercing the moon, was fierce and accurate, and the thick poplar pole with the mouth of the bowl wearing the wolf's head and tooth flag was shot alive with one arrow!

The wolf's head and tooth flag are like a kite with a broken string, and it flutters down. The Turkic soldiers at the head of the city were shocked and screamed again and again - this flagpole, even with a knife and axe, was difficult to cut down in one or two strokes, but it was broken by Xue Rengui at a distance of a hundred paces with an arrow!

What if the arrow is shot at a man? …… No wonder at the beginning, Mud Sip was nailed to the ground by him with an arrow!

"A certain arrow will take someone's life!" Xue Rengui put on his bow and arrows again and shouted.

The Turks at the head of the city were terrified, and without exception, all of them shrank their heads and hid under the female wall. Many people shrunk their necks and were afraid that it would be unsafe for Xue Rengui to penetrate the city wall with an arrow, so they simply lay on the ground and crawled away.

Xue Rengui did not shoot an arrow, but laughed loudly. All the officers and men of the Tang Army laughed together!

"Spread the word to Mud Cooked! Hugh is ignorant of current affairs, bringing the danger of extinction to the Turks! Open the city early and wait for the disposal of my young marshal, there is still a glimmer of life! - Withdraw troops!! ”

Xue Rengui led the army to retreat ten miles to the village.

The frightened Turkic soldiers on the tower of Gongyue City did not dare to look up. It took a long time for a bold person to peek out from the eye of the female wall, but he couldn't even see the shadow of Tang Jun, only a piece of smoke and dust left by the horse's hooves.

On the battlefield, at least 30,000 corpses were left behind. In this battle, Xue Rengui won quite thoroughly; The little fighting spirit that the Turks had finally been aroused by the Fa was instantly wiped out. In Gongyue City, there was a rumor that everyone was in danger, and even the Khan wanted to be familiar with the marshal and was about to lose his control.

At this time, Qin Mubai led the main force of the Guanxi Army, and the 100,000 allied troops of Nanting that had just been accommodated, and came to Gongyue City to join forces with Xue Rengui.

Qin Mubai and the generals heard the details of Xue Rengui's vanguard battle, and they all laughed happily. Qin Mubai said that it turned out that Xue Rengui, who had always been taciturn and almost wooden, would also tease and scare people. The Turks of Beiting, who were tossed a few times by him with insults, may really have no temper.

The next day, Qin Mubai did not delay, and raised an army of 300,000 to besiege Gongyue City. All the Shenwu cannons totaled sixty, and all of them were aimed at the north gate of Gongyue City.

Before starting the siege of the city, Qin Mubai gave an ultimatum to the city - let Xue Rengui shoot a letter of persuasion to enter the city. The letter said that if Beiting did not go out of the city within an hour to surrender, then the Kansai army would have to attack the city strongly. After the city was broken, the khans and marshals of the North Court and all the officials and generals were not pardoned. If you surrender at this time, you can still avoid death.

Then, Qin Mubai and the others began to wait patiently.

At this time, Xue Rengui asked Qin Mubai: "Young marshal, I still don't understand. What is the difference between recruiting Beiting now and accepting the surrender of Mud Sip at the beginning? ”

"It's a big difference." Qin Mubai said with a smile, "When the mud was ripe and surrendered, it was a fraudulent surrender. Even if it is not a fraudulent surrender, it is also a temporary surrender with a ghost in his heart, and a delaying tactic. I would never accept such a surrender. Now the situation is different. You fought so beautifully in the Vanguard battle, and it saved us a lot of effort. Originally, I planned to persuade Gongyue City to surrender after a few rounds of siege battles, when Gongyue City was about to be unable to hold on. The goal, of course, is to minimize the casualties of our army as much as possible, as well as to buy time and protect this historic city on the Silk Road. Now, you, the pioneer, have done what I want to do in advance, and in just one battle, the Beiting people have lost a trace of anger. Now the success rate of the surrender should not be low. Because I feel that people in Gongyue City are starting to lose heart. ”

"Probably!" Xue Rengui also nodded approvingly, "When I came to Gongyue City for the first time two days ago, although they had just been defeated, the bows and crossbows at the head of the city were dense, and the banners were also very neat. But when I looked at it again today, the crossbowmen at the head of the city cowered and hid under the female wall, apparently afraid of our artillery. Moreover, their banners are also a little messy, indicating that they have not reached the command and the army is not in harmony. ”

"So, let's try our luck!" Qin Mubai raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "In the art of war, it is said that 'a soldier who surrenders without a fight is the best policy.'" Ten simple words, but it is more difficult to do than to kill a million enemies. Because it is better to kill than to punish the heart. It is a hundred times more difficult to punish the heart than to kill someone. Dealing with an opponent like Beiting, I already have an idea in my heart. First, we must have a tough attitude and not give him the opportunity to play tricks; second, to completely destroy his confidence militarily and crush their fighting spirit; The third is to win and surrender when their fighting spirit and belief collapse. I think that unless all the people in the North Court are crazy, most of them will consider surrendering. ”

Xue Rengui suddenly smiled, "That's right!" ”

"What do you mean—that's right?" Qin Mubai asked.

"It's like your wrist." Xue Rengui laughed in a low voice, "Soft with rigidity, rigidity with softness." When you refused to surrender, Hong Tai and I felt that you were very different from usual, because you had already made a decision in your heart. It seems that how to do the right thing, how to lay out the tracks, when to use the regular soldiers, and when to use the strange soldiers, is really a university question. Young Marshal, you have really learned the true essence of the art of war - if you want to talk about strategy and scheming, I think the mud is still inferior to you! ”

"Hehe, don't exalt me too much." Qin Mubai frowned slightly, and said, "That is, for an opponent like Ni Shusi, I will use the means of persuasion to surrender in the end." I haven't even thought about the Galqin Mausoleum. Because the mud is ripe, he is the wolf king of a group of wild wolves, and in the end he will think about the survival of the race; But Garchinling is a lonely and arrogant goshawk, if he breaks his wings and can no longer fly, he would rather kill himself than humbly steal his life......"

"Actually, I also admire the ...... of Garqinling," Xue Rengui also sighed lightly and said, "He is a ruthless character with ability, but it's a pity that he was born at the wrong time." If he can join hands with the young marshal to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty......"

Qin Mubai smiled and waved his hand, "Mud is ripe, it's still possible." The Galqin Mausoleum is impossible! ”

"The young marshal wants to slurp with mud?" Xue Rengui exclaimed.

"Didn't you hear Bo Bu Qinqin Khan say how majestic the mud sip is in the Western Regions?" Qin Mubai gently picked the corners of his mouth, "We are like hunters patrolling the Western Regions now, we don't need such a good eagle dog as mud sipping, what else do we use to go?" ”

"But he is the young marshal, your father's killer? ......" Xue Rengui was quick for a while, and he actually said it. He suddenly felt speechless and was about to confess his guilt and apologize, but Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said:

"That's right, he's my father-killer. It was he who personally commanded the raid that killed my father. But...... At that time, each was his master, and there was no selfish enmity on the battlefield. Not only did my father admonish me, but I also had this realization myself. If we talk about hatred, I commanded many battles to pacify Tibet, killing hundreds of thousands of enemies. And how will it be calculated? In the end, Garqinling didn't hate me, he didn't hate me, he didn't hate me, and I still had tens of thousands of Kunlun iron horsemen under my command, and they didn't hate me either—is it true that my Qin someone's heart is worse than these people? ”

"......" Xue Rengui was speechless and had to be silent, and finally nodded lightly and said, "Xue, there are a lot of people killed......

An army of 300,000 surrounded Gongyue City like an iron bucket, and it did not leak. The barrels of dozens of Shenwu cannons pointed straight at the city gate, ready to go.

Gongyue City, a hub ancient city located on the Silk Road, has many white jade Manichaean churches and ancient Western Regions buildings, as well as the Khanting Tooth Tent built by the North Court with huge financial resources. The city was once a dazzling sight on the Silk Road, and business travelers who came here were all amazed by the beauty of the city's architecture and never forgot to return.

At this moment, this ancient city is facing a catastrophe. It's hard to imagine what this ancient city would have become if the cannon fire of Shenwu had ruthlessly destroyed it.

Qin Mubai had also heard of the name of Gongyue City for a long time, and from the first day he set foot in the Western Regions, he had thought that in the future, he would set up the "Anxi Capital Protectorate" in Gongyue City, a historical ancient city located in the heart of the Western Regions.

Therefore, there is also an important reason for his persuasion today, which is to protect the integrity of this city.

Time slipped by slowly. The Tang soldiers who were deployed in the field were all waiting patiently. Qin Mubai rode on the horse, slowly beating the saddle with a horsewhip for several seconds.

Finally, the north gate of Gongyue City was slowly opened from the inside. A group of people came out of the city, the first one with a full beard on his face, wearing a pure white moon robe, and holding a tray in both hands and walked out slowly.

Someone beside Qin Mubai suddenly whispered in surprise: "Young marshal, Beiting has come out to surrender!" - Look, the white flag is raised at the head of the city! ”

Qin Mubai was also happy in his heart - it was really successful!

The drawbridge was lowered in the city of Gongyue City, and the bearded man in the moon robe walked from the drawbridge with a team of people behind him. Qin Mubai stood on his horse and looked at the man, who was about forty years old, and indeed had a domineering extravagance that no one else had on him—guessing, it should be the Khan Desire Valley of Beiting!

Behind him, there were several generals in military uniforms. The person closest to him, with a tall body and a half-white beard, a majestic and unique eye, should be a muddy slurp!

The moon-robed man walked to the place ten steps in front of Qin Mubai's horse and stood still, stared at Qin Mubai with his bearings, and said: "If you want to set up, you are willing to lead the officials and generals of the Northern Court and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Gongyue City to return to the Tang Dynasty!" ”

With that, he bowed his head, knelt down on his knees, and raised the tray high with both hands. On the tray, it is the mouth of the thin field deed and the seal letter and other things. The officers behind him knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Qin Mubai stared at these kneeling people in front of him, looked up at the sky after a moment, and said to himself in his heart: "Father, have you ever seen this scene in the heavens?" - Your long-cherished wish has been fulfilled at this moment! From now on, Datang will cover the sky with one hand in the Western Regions, and no one can match it! ”