12. The decisive battle is triggered

Gao Yue arrived not far from the southwest city of Huating and began to set up camp.

He and the main force of the Yining Army led by Zhang Jingze held each other across the besieging army of Xu Li and Xuli. As for the eight battalions of shooters led by Ju Wenzhen and Su Pu, Gao Yue ordered the selection of four battalions, and let one battalion set up a small camp every ten miles from Weishui to the northern boundary of Longzhou, and let Su Pu lead the other four battalions of shooters to serve as guerrillas, guarding everywhere and protecting the supply route.

"The number of thieves besieging Huating is more than we expected." Gao Yue looked at Xu Li's formation from afar, thinking that there were almost 20,000 people on the other side, and the original information was more than 10,000 people, almost doubled.

It is not possible to storm and rescue Huating City, Xu Li has more soldiers and horses than me, will Shang Jiezan's soldiers and horses on the Pingliang side suddenly come to help and join the war group? In addition, Gao Yue also looked at the Tiehua Mountain in the east of Huating City, where the twin peaks stood side by side, and the red flag of Xifan was erected on it, where Xu Li overlooked and controlled the eyes of the entire battle situation, and if he didn't dig it out, every move of our army was in its field of vision, which was extremely unfavorable.

"My last 10th battalion and Zhang Jingze's first 10th battalion were side by side, with their backs on the slopes of Wunian Mountain, digging two trenches, cutting down trees and erecting fences, to guard against enemy raids. Huating City's defense and people's hearts have been solidified, so there is no need to rush to rescue, etc. Gao Yue paced back and forth in the tent for a few steps, thinking so.

"Waiting for whom?" Zhang Jing, who came to receive the order, asked.

Gao Yue said in a deep voice: "Wait for the Dingwu Army from Xingyuan." ”

Then he added: "Wait for the possible Shang Jiezan." ”

On Xu Li's siege camp, "According to what I saw in Tiehua Mountain, there were less than 10,000 Tang soldiers who came to help, and our army had an advantageous situation. If we talk about sending reinforcements south, we are likely to be able to swallow this Tang army. The order is that our army will now cut down trees and erect fences along the banks of the water, and after Da Lun leads the Dongdai forbidden troops to come, he will first attack the reinforcements of the Tang army, and then trap Huating City. After the deployment was completed, Xu Li sent three bird envoys again, holding an urgent letter with arrow feathers, asking Da Lun not to attack Pingliang again, but to come here to make a "siege of the city and reinforcements".

In Huating City, "the well has been reopened!" With this cheer, the soldiers and civilians all lay on the edge of the well, looking at the spring water that came out again, and then they had an extra heart, and used wood to erect a barrier in the style of "dome" around the well, filled with yellow mud, masonry, and the inside was supported by triangular wood, and a mouth was opened next to it for a single person to draw water with a bucket, so that the enemy's flying stones could be resisted again, and there would be no more tragedy of the wellhead being blocked.

At the Diaoyao Gorge, when Xu Li's bird envoy just arrived at the mouth of the gorge, he saw Shang Jiezan coming in a queue, and also led 8,000 strong Dongdai forbidden soldiers, "Hurry back and tell Xu Li that once this theory arrives at Huating, he will be ready to attack." ”

Shang Jiezan had already finalized at this time: first send reinforcements, and then attack the city.

After capturing Huating, the entire transportation hub was activated, and he could directly go out of the Zhimo Yuan in the northeast of Huating, along the Weishui River Valley, attack Panyuan, destroy the Tang army's camp here, and force Hun Yang out of the Danzheng Gorge to fight a decisive battle with his iron cavalry in the flat area.

Once in this kind of terrain, Shang Jiezan and the entire army of Western Tibet will not be afraid of any enemy.

When crossing the canyon, the scout came to report: In the original area of Zhimo, a group of Tang soldiers appeared.

"However, there is no need to worry about the enemy's suspicious soldiers in the direction of Jingzhou." Shang Jiezan judged it this way.

However, this Tang soldier was the ten battalions of 3,000 soldiers led by Fuyu Huai sent by Gao Yue in advance.

After Fuyu Huai arrived, he immediately contacted Liangyuan City in the southeast and Lianyunbao in the northeast, telling them that "the military strength of the Fan soldiers in Pingliang has gone south to Huating."

After Xing Junya, the general of the Shence Right Army in Liangyuan City, got the news, he immediately led 5,000 Shence troops and went back to Heishui to join Gao Yue.

In Jingzhou, Liu Haibin, the new envoy of Jiedu, also immediately asked Zhang Yufei and Liu Guoguang to select 3,000 light horsemen, and hurried out of Lianyunbao to meet with Fuyu Huai. He personally led 5,000 archers out of Jingzhou City, and went to Danzheng Gorge to prepare to meet with Hun Xuan, and prepared to encircle Shang Jiezan.

At this point, on the dividing line of Tang Fan, around the small Huating City in Longdong, soldiers and horses from all walks of life are frequently mobilized, and a big war is about to break out.

On November 2, Shang Jiezan arrived at the foot of Huating City and discussed Xu Li's division.

For a time, the number of troops in Xifan here reached about 30,000, and the army was magnificent, well-armed, and had ...... grain and grass

"Why hasn't the grain and grass in Xiaolong Mountain been delivered yet?" Shang Jiezan was furious.

Originally, the transportation route of Xifan, the south is the big earthquake pass, the north is the Liupan Pass, since the siege of Huating, Shang Jiezan let the birds make the Longshan, Shan, Qin and other prefectures and counties to send an order: the grain and grass are concentrated in Shuiluocheng (now near Zhuanglang, Gansu), and then use the hard-working calves to transport, over the small Longshan to supply the army.

However, Xu Li told him with a sad face that on the side of Xiaolong Mountain, there had been no bull team coming for four days, and he didn't know what the reason was for the time being.

In addition, the tactics of "using war to feed war, plundering and supplying" that Xifan had obtained could not be brought into play: the previous guerrilla army of Ju Wenzhen had successively defeated many of the Tibetan cavalry that had been copied and captured, killing and capturing many people.

Hearing the report of his subordinates, Shang Jiezan was terrified, and the grain and grass in the camp could only be used for ten days.

"Could it be that the Tang Army cut off the grain route of Xiaolong Mountain?"

Hell, why did the Tang Army cooperate so closely this time, it was ghostly, everywhere!

"Comment, why don't we give up attacking Huating and Pingliang and retreat to Longyou?"

Shang Jiezan was both angry and unwilling to accept such a suggestion from his generals, "You are all warriors of Dafan, don't you know that I, Dafan, have been a warlike cavalry and archery nation since ancient times, and we have never obtained such things as military food and forage from the land, but plundered from the enemy." After finishing speaking, he flicked the whip that was originally rolled up, pointed to the sand table and said, "The solution to this problem is very simple, there are hoarded wheat in Huating City, and there are also mountains of supplies in the Tang army reinforcement camp opposite, either capture Huating or defeat the Tang army reinforcements." Fools, my Dafan Jing Cavalry used to be able to travel thousands of miles, and raided the Tang family's Ancheng City for a long time, didn't they all come over like this? ”

"The great admonition is!" All of you are ashamed, and you are all ashamed, and you quickly apologize.

"Three days later, a decisive battle will be held." Shang Jiezan pointed to the location of Gaoyue's camp on the sand table with the whip tip, and then the whip tip moved to Huating City, "Tell the Han army to pile up firewood and grass under the city and force the city to surrender, otherwise they will pour fire oil on the city." ”

At the same time, Shang Jiezan, who was good at psychology and tactics, also stepped out, stood on the north bank of the river, shouted to the opposite bank, and asked the commander of the Tang Army to come out and talk to him.

Because Xu Li told him in horror that the strange black and white beast battle flag had appeared again.

After Marquis Yu entered the tent and came to report, Gao Yue smiled at Xing Junya, who had just come to help from Liangyuan City, and said, "It's just in time. In the battle of Gou Touyuan in the past, Ben Yin used Shang Jiezan to praise me and won by surprise, striking his fierce flames; Today, Ben Yin did the opposite, but he wanted to use Shang Jiezan to know me, and then shock him. ”

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