Chapter 229: Counting is Counting
When Li Chengqian heard this, he said to Wang Qun, who was standing next to him, "Go and see what's going on?"
Everyone in the tent was looking at the information collected by these Heavenly King Qun, and they clearly knew that the party Xiang Mi Bao clan was bent on attaching himself to Liu Lan, and there must be some conspiracy when he suddenly sent someone to the camp of the Tang Dynasty, and they were all waiting for what they wanted to do.
Others were fine, but Cheng Wuting couldn't help it, holding a piece of information in his hand but constantly turning his head to look at the door of the big tent.
After watching it several times in a row, seeing that Wang Qun never came back, he asked Li Chengqian with a smile: "What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince want to do when this Mi Bao clan sends someone?"
Li Chengqian had already read these materials, but his mind was not on this at this time, he sat on the head and was holding a pen to think about the poems he had memorized, copying two poems and sending them back to Chang'an to the crown princess and Wang Liangdi, and he missed them a little bit in his heart for so long.
Wen Yan glanced up at Cheng Wuting and said, "You want to capture me alive!" ”
Wei Chigong, Qiu Xinggong, Su Dingfang and the others raised their heads and glanced at each other, and their eyes showed a look that was really like this.
When Cheng Wuqi heard this, he stood up and said excitedly: "They actually want to capture His Royal Highness the Crown Prince alive?
It's really alive and impatient.
The minister asked him to go and behead the people he sent, and then lead the troops to Dejing County to capture Mi Duo——, and Liu Lantong to capture and behead ......"
Li Chengqian couldn't see that he said directly: "You have to sort out this information today, and then come up with a plan for how to quell the rebellion in Dejing County, otherwise you don't have to go out this time to attack Dejing County." ”
"Huh?" Cheng Wuting looked at Li Chengqian in embarrassment, and when he saw that Li Chengqian ignored him, he could only start working in frustration.
The others smiled knowingly.
After a few months of contact, everyone also saw that Li and Chengqian almost regarded Cheng Wuting and Wang Fangyi as younger brothers, and everyone was naturally happy to see it.
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Woowoo...... Woo woo –
Woowoo......
It snowed heavily for two days and two nights.
The cold wind still swept the snowflakes in the air, and the withered yellow hay was covered with a thick layer of white snow, which looked soft as if it was covered with a quilt.
But this layer of quilt feels by no means warm, and it is cold to the bone.
In this way, if you stay outdoors for a day in the weather, you don't even have a fire, and no matter how good your body is, you can't bear it.
Thinking like this, he wanted to know what time it was, and habitually looked up at the sky, only to see a little snowflake falling.
He snorted heavily, and then said to the soldier beside him: "Go and tell the brothers to make a fire and roast it, and don't freeze and get sick." ”
"Hey!" The messenger happily answered the call and ran off into the distance.
The dead grass under the snow is still dry, and it can be ignited by removing the snow from above.
The Qiang soldiers who received the order shook off the felt covering their heads, slowly cleared out and lit some dead grass one by one, and the small red flames swayed and slowly grew larger under the eager gaze of a circle of Qiang troops.
The Qiang army sitting around stretched out his already unconscious hand, greedily absorbing the heat emitted by the flames.
The Qiang army looked at the small flames and exhaled bursts of white gas, but in their hearts they were cursing Li Chengqian, a lazy ghost.
It was said that he would personally lead the troops to attack the county seat of Dejing early this morning, but now it is late at night, but he has not yet reached this valley ten miles away from the city.
These Qiang troops are the elite of Liu Lan and Mi Bao's Pochao clan, and the ambush here is to capture Li Chengqian, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, alive.
However, from noon to late at night, they still did not see the shadow of the Tang army, and at noon someone came to report to them that Li Chengqian was driving the elite of the Tang Dynasty in a luxury car early in the morning and came to Dejing County.
They heard that Li Chengqian's car was very gorgeous, surrounded by colored satin and silk, and gold and precious stones were hung on it......
The Tang army that followed Li Chengqian was all wearing Mingguang armor and holding spears made of refined steel in their hands......
Just thinking about these things makes people very excited, not to mention that they will immediately surround these rich Tang troops and capture the other party's crown prince alive......
More than 10,000 soldiers of the Qiang Army have been excited for a day, but they haven't even seen the hair of the Tang Army until now.
More than a thousand bonfires are lit on both sides of the valley, and from a distance, you can see the red light in the valley when the stars reflect the snow.
Xue Rengui rode on a tall horse and looked at the valley mercilessly, calculating in his heart that Su Dingfang and Qiu Xinggong should have gone around to Jingde County by now.
Xue Rengui looked up at the sky to see if there was a signal light, but Cheng Wuting next to him turned back to him and said, "I'm afraid His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has miscalculated this time!" ”
Xue Rengui looked at Cheng Wuting in shock when he heard this, and said in his heart: His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very kind to you, how dare you be disrespectful behind your back?
Cheng Wuting didn't look at Xue Rengui, but pointed to the valley in the distance and said: "I used the art of war to roughly calculate that the enemy army here has 15,000 or 6,000, which should be the entire strength of Dejing County, and Su Dingfang may have no battle to fight at all when he detoured to Dejing County." ”
Xue Rengui took a deep breath, looked at Cheng Wuting solemnly and said, "Wu Ting, although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince treats us leniently, but as a courtier, we have to look like a courtier, how can we say disrespectful words behind our backs?"
"Ahh Cheng Wuting was startled when he heard this, and then remembered that what he said just now was disrespectful to Li Chengqian, and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean to, I just ...... it for a while."
Xue Rengui waved his hand solemnly and said, "I know that you don't mean to be disrespectful to His Royal Highness the Prince, but you are a trusted minister of His Royal Highness the Prince, if you let others hear this, won't it damage His Royal Highness's might?"
Cheng Wuting immediately understood what Xue Rengui meant when he heard it, and his intestines were full of regret......
Xue Rengui glanced at him and said, "Do you think that the thieves in Dejing County are here, and there may be no battle to fight on Su Dingfang's side, why don't you think about it, what if there is still foreign aid in the county?"
Cheng Wuting nodded again and again when he heard this.
Xue Rengui continued: "Besides, there are 8,000 men and horses here, as well as gunpowder, as long as we command it properly, we can completely annihilate more than 10,000 people." If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince hadn't calculated that there were more than 10,000 people here, why would he send so many men and gunpowder?"
Cheng Wuting hurriedly said: "What Brother Xue taught me is that I can understand the foresight of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. ”
Xue Rengui stretched out his hand and patted Cheng Wuting's shoulder and said earnestly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is magnanimous, you occasionally say the wrong thing in front of him, but you are not afraid, remember that you can't talk nonsense about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince outside." ”
Cheng Wuting nodded vigorously when he heard this: "Hey! "A bang.
Xue Rengui saw that he was taught, nodded with relief, and was about to comfort him with a few words, but he heard Lu Hong, the deputy general next to him, say: "Look at the Kong Ming lantern in the sky, General Su and they have already arrived at the edge of the county seat." ”
Hearing this, Xue Rengui hurriedly glanced back at the trebuchet lying on the sleigh, and the gunpowder loaded in the back, and with a slight wave of his hand, he carried the reins of the horse forward.
Seeing that Xue Rengui had given an order, Lu Hong hurriedly led people to pull the sleds to the mountains on both sides.
The road is surrounded by dirt hills on both sides, and the valley in front of it is suddenly wide, and the surrounding area is also dirt hills.
Because the land is barren and there are no tall trees on the mountain, and the location is so high that there is no water in the soil, and the wild grass grows close to the ground, and now it is level with the ground when it is pressed by the heavy snow.
Although it is not difficult to go up such a high slope normally, it is not easy to take a big guy like a catapult, and the movement here is very likely to alarm the Yeli Haojie and others who are ambushed in the valley in front.
Now that there is a thick layer of snow, I just need to pull the sled with a horse, and I don't even make a loud noise and go up.
Xue Rengui watched the catapult and gunpowder about to reach the predetermined location, and walked towards the valley with two thousand men and horses as soon as he lifted the reins.
Before entering the mountain, Xue Rengui also ordered the soldiers to deliberately make a noise to wake up the Qiang army in ambush in the mountain, so that they could extinguish the bonfire in advance......
Yeli Haojie was sitting in front of the fire and stretched out his hand to roast the fire, when he suddenly heard a rustling sound in the valley, and knew that someone was coming, he was shocked, stood up and said loudly: "Hurry up——, put out the fire quickly." ”
Mi Bao Songlai on the opposite side also heard the rustling sound, and saw that Yeli Haojie ordered to extinguish the fire, and hurriedly followed the order to extinguish the fire quickly, and everyone bowed down to avoid the discovery of the leading Tang army.
Because there was a thick layer of snow next to it, pushing some snow to the fire and pressing it on the fire was extinguished.
At this time, the Qiang army in the valley basically knew that the Tang army they had been waiting for for a day was finally here, and they bowed down one by one and stared at the entrance of the valley with their eyes.
After a while, I saw a group of Tang troops in bright armor riding tall horses in the heavy snow, and walked in from the entrance of the valley.
Yeli Haojie looked at the height and length of the Tang army generals led by him, riding a tall sweaty and bloody horse, holding a bright spear in his hand, and a big bow hanging on the horseback, which was very dazzling......
The other Qiang troops also drooled when they looked at these two thousand Tang troops, if they didn't know that there was still the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty behind them, they really wanted to rush out at this time and rob this group of Tang troops.
(End of chapter)