After taking his own soldiers out of the village and joining up with the nearest army, Zong Luohu looked at the sky and said to the soldiers next to him: "Sons, raise our banner!" ”

With Zong Luohu's order, the flag soldier next to him took down a large flag from the saddle, and after unfolding it, a silver-edged banner embroidered with Li characters hunted in the wind. The pro-soldiers next to him also took off the flag on the saddle, and after unfolding it, it was a white-edged Zongzi flag, which was specially ordered by Zong Luohu before the war. According to his own words, he was a guest army who came to help in the war, so naturally he couldn't use the silver-edged banner used when he was there Xue Ju, and he had to distinguish it from Li Wenyuan's Li Ziqi, and he couldn't trespass.

The two banners were hunting in the wind, stirred by the wind, Zong Luohu looked at the soldiers on the left and right sides with bright armor, drew the sword at his waist, pointed to the front and said, "Sons! Come with me and go and cut down those Turkic barbarians! ”

After saying that, Zong Luohu clamped the horse's belly with his legs, urging the war horse under his crotch to take the lead to the company camp of the Turkic army.

After Tuoba Shishu withdrew his army to the camp, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to his subordinates: "Have you forgotten all those black liquids? You don't remember the fire from hell that can't be extinguished? They even asked me why I wanted to quit the army? ”

The leaders of his subordinates were reminded by Tuoba Shi Shuyi, and then they suddenly remembered the trebuchet position that was burned by fire in the defense line of the Great Wall, and the wails of the soldiers in charge of operating the trebuchet in the fire field drifted into their ears again. Tuoba Shi Shu saw that the faces of his subordinates were not good, and he knew that he couldn't just blindly grow others to destroy his own prestige, so he smiled and said: "However, although this kind of fire is very powerful, it is not without countermeasures. ”

Tuoba Shishu got up, led the leaders of the camp tent to the camp gate, climbed high and looked at the black earth on the ground and said: "You see, although once those fires are burned, they can only wait for them to be extinguished by themselves, but if people are not in them, they can't hurt people." ”

Tuoba Shi Shu then took a longbow and an arrow from the hands of the person next to him, and after igniting the arrow, Tuoba Shi Shu opened his bow and set up an arrow, throwing the arrow far away onto the black mud. Then, under the gaze of the crowd, the fire on the arrow slowly extinguished, but the black mud did not move at all.

The green tendons on Tuoba Shishu's forehead jumped, and then shot out a fire arrow, which was extinguished again, and the black mud did not move at all. When Tuoba Shishu saw this situation, there was something bad about the drama in his heart, and an ominous thought came up, could it be that he was played by those Han people?

In order to confirm his thoughts, Tuoba Shi Shu ordered people to find some warriors who were not afraid of death, and went there with a shovel to brave the sparse rain of arrows to dig a piece of black mud back, Tuoba Shi Shu threw the black mud into the fire, and the fire did not become vigorous, but was pressed a little weakly by the black mud, and gradually seemed to be extinguished.

Tuoba Shi Shu kicked over the brazier, stepped on the black mud fiercely under the stunned gaze of the leaders, and scolded: "Despicable and shameless, damn Han people! They deceived me in this way! Come on, prepare to attack the city, I will personally lead the team, I will slash Zhuang Fudi! ”

Not long after Tuoba Shi Shu led the troops out of the camp, he saw countless clay pots flying in the air over his head and landed in the company camp behind him, and it was the familiar smell and black viscous liquid flowing in the company camp, many leaders wanted to go back to the camp to rescue, but Tuoba Shi Shu pressed and did not agree.

The army leaders under Tuoba Shi Shu were arguing noisily, some supported Tuoba Shi Shu and should not act rashly, while others preferred to believe that they wanted to rush in to rescue supplies. Tuoba Shi Shu was dizzy from the noise, and when he was constantly thinking about what should happen in his mind, he suddenly heard bursts of exclamations from the crowd behind him. Tuoba Shishu turned his head to look, only to see a sky-high fire burning in the company camp.

Tuoba Shi Shu trembled his hands, and secretly lucked in his heart, if it weren't for his momentary anger and gathering outside the camp with the army, most of them would have become victims in the fire at this time.

Zhuang Fudi watched the Turkic military camp outside the city burn into flames, and then walked down the battlements and returned to his headquarters. A staff officer next to him asked Zhuang Fudi: "Chief of Staff, why don't we throw a flask while the Eastern Turks are still in the camp?" In that case, one of these Turks will be burned alive, and some trouble will be spared. ”

Zhuang Fudi nodded and said, "You are very right, but the governor means to defeat the Eastern Turks on the opposite side, not to annihilate them completely. We still need them to flee back to the steppe to defend their own territory, and now annihilating them can only cheapen the northeastern tribes such as Goguryeo, after all, we can't continue to expand northward now, and a single western expedition is already almost draining the Western Regions that we have managed so hard. If we force our march north, the command will make our defenses weaker, and every city we occupy in the future may become the next Wuwei County, and we will exhaust the last shred of vitality when we are exhausted, and finally be defeated by the enemy. ”

The staff officer nodded as if he didn't understand, and then said earnestly to Zhuang Fudi: "Chief of staff, one of my clan was slaughtered by the Eastern Turks, if you want to take me with you when you go on the Northern Expedition in the future, even if it's just to serve you, I'm willing." ”

"Don't worry, I won't participate in dealing with the Western Turks, but I won't miss it when dealing with the Eastern Turks." Zhuang Fudi nodded and said.

"The enemy is coming!" Someone's shouting voice interrupted Tuoba Shishu's dull gaze. He saw the army led by Li Wen, who was rushing at the city gate not far away, and was about to order his men to go forward to resist, when there was a commotion behind him.

Tuoba Shi Shu's mood was extremely irritable now, and when he just turned his head and was about to reprimand his subordinates for doing things carelessly, he saw the source of the riots in the rear: an army with the banner of Li and Zongzi was killing towards his side.

Tuoba Shi Shu suddenly woke up, and the Xue Ju reinforcements that had been mentioned in his intelligence, but he had never looked for them, finally jumped out at this most critical time and hit him his soft underbelly.

(End of chapter)