Chapter 303: Under the city

A fast horse galloped in the direction of Li Jing's camp.

"Who?" In the darkness of the night, the sentry shouted loudly.

"Reconnaissance battalion report!" The tired voices of the people who came rang out in the darkness. A bronze medal was thrown into the camp wall.

Moments later, the door opened.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Jing invited the generals to the big tent.

"Ladies and gentlemen, a scout came from the Southern Route Army last night to report the news, and today I will let this scout tell you about the situation on the Southern Route Army's side in public! Someone, invite the scout! ”

Moments later, a soldier walked into the tent. Zhang Yunwen looked at it, but it was a person in his reconnaissance camp. This person Zhang Yunwen also recognizes that his name is Ling Zhong, the biggest characteristic of this guy is that he can blow, and he can often blow a long story about a trivial matter.

After Ling Zhong entered the big tent, he saluted the people on all sides and said, "The chief manager, the generals, the leaders, when it comes to the march of the army on the South Road, it can really be described as earth-shattering ghosts and gods!" I waited with the prince to go south, all the way to the south, the terrain gradually rose, the population disappeared, there was no one for thousands of miles, only my army crossed the mountains and mountains in the vast wasteland, marching alone! The terrain here is high and dangerous, and it seems that it is difficult to breathe when marching on it! Although it is summer, on the top of the mountain, the snow is covered with snow, which has not melted for a long time, and the cold wind is howling, piercing people's muscles and bones. Frost in the middle of summer is a common occurrence. I don't know how many brothers fell along the way. When we arrived at the valley of Poluozhen, there was no water source here, so we had to make people eat ice, horses chew snow, chew dry food and horse meat, and travel all the way south. It was then that the four pigeons you allotted to us were eaten by the soldiers! Speaking of this, Ling Zhong complained with a sad and indignant look, "Just eat it, they actually don't have much meat, let's feed the pigeons more fat when we feed them in the future!" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Yunwen turned his gaze to Li Jing expressionlessly, but saw the latter smile awkwardly and twisted his head to the side.

At this time, Ling Zhong continued: "Finally, in May, I waited to catch up with Murong Fuyun in Wuhai and fought with him. General Hou suspected that Fu Yun continued to flee westward, so he led the army to chase westward, and at the same time sent me and other horsemen to various departments to report the results of the battle, and asked the generals to pay attention to search for Fu Yun's whereabouts! ”

After listening to Ling Zhong's explanation, Li Jing motioned for him to go down, and then said to the generals in the tent: "What do you think?" ”

Xue Wanjun took the lead and said: "The last general thinks that after the battle of Wuhai, Fu Yun's sharp spirit will be lost, and he will hold his head and run away, and do something to escape!" ”

He Li also said: "If you can know his whereabouts and send cavalry to kill him, you will definitely be able to capture Fu Yun alive." Alas, it's a pity that the prince and General Hou are not familiar with the terrain and miss the opportunity! ”

When the two of them finished speaking, Li Jing smiled and said, "The two of you have the same thoughts as the old man. But where is this Fu Yun now, can the generals have a guess? ”

The generals fell silent. At this time, Zhang Yunwen said with great certainty: "In the middle of Fu Qi City! That Fu Yun is in the middle of the city! ”

"Oh, how did Yunwen determine it?"

Zhang Yunwen said with a smile: "In the east of the West Sea, in the south, he has nowhere to go but to the west of the West Sea!" ”

When Li Jing heard this, he immediately nodded slightly, and said: "The old man also thinks that this Fu Yun is in Fu Qi City, so my army should march as soon as possible and rush to Fu Qi City!"

Fu Qi Castle is located on the west side of the West Sea. The shape of the entire western sea is like a fish, and the city is in the mouth of the fish in the west.

At this time, Murong Fuyun was indeed in the city. As the capital of a country, although Fu Qi City is not as good as Chang'an and Shangzhou City of the Tang Dynasty, it is comparable to Zhongzhou City, both in terms of population and the size of the city.

Although the walls of Fu Qi City are not made of bluestone bricks like the walls of the Tang Dynasty, the walls are made of thick clay and coarse wood. It is no less sturdy than the brick-built walls.

In such a city wall, Fu Yun did not feel a trace of peace of mind, and he was often even awakened at night, covered in sweat. In the dream, he dreamed that the city of Fu Qi where he was located was broken by the Tang army, and the Tang army with a hideous look rushed into the palace and cut down people like fierce beasts.

Therefore, he has been planning to leave Fuqi City, go west, enter the vast desert, go to Khotan and Qiuzi States, avoid the pursuit of the Tang army, and then return to the country after the Tang army withdraws. Just like what was done during the Great Cause years.

However, he didn't know that the Tang Dynasty was not the Great Sui, and the Central Plains would not be chaotic anymore, so where would he have any chance to turn over?

Arranged outside the city, there is an army of 20,000 people, which can be said to be the last elite force of Tuyuhun. In the battles of the previous months, the number of Tuyuhun killed and captured was 100,000, and almost half of the country's troops were lost, and most of them were elite. It should not be difficult to have such a large army on the outskirts of the city, plus the 10,000 defenders in the city, to hold the city.

However, Fu Yun's mind was planning this escape.

At the end of July, when the rangers reported that Li Jing's army was coming up from the south, Fu Yun panicked, and after handing over everything in the city to his cousin, he set out with 3,000 cavalry and his family on the road to the west.

Murong Fuyun's cousin who stayed in Fuqi City was called Murong Ping, and he was also a gray-haired old man. Among the royal family, it has always been unappreciated. Now, Fu Yun has introduced him to oversee the affairs of Fu Qi City, which is obviously just using him as a shield.

However, this old man was impressive, and within a few days of taking over Fu Qi City, he quickly stabilized the situation in Fu Qi City, and calmed down some nobles who were about to surrender to the Tang Army with iron and blood, and showed their determination to resist with their blood. The hearts of the panicked people gradually settled down, and the soldiers and the people gradually hugged together, preparing to fight with the Tang army in Fuqi City.

When the news reached Li Jing's ears, Li Jing was a little surprised and said, "What? Fu Yun ran away? Come out with a person named Murong Ping? ”

Zhang Yunwen nodded: "Yes, Fu Yun fled westward, there are 30,000 troops in the city, and the city is tall, I am afraid it will be difficult to capture it in a short time!" Besides, now that my army has not yet arrived, only my army is here, and it may be difficult to form a threat! ”

After hearing this, Li Jing silently calculated the day and nodded: "Okay, since that's the case, the old man will wait until the day when the six armies arrive in early August before attacking!" But before that, we have to take a heart-to-heart attack on the defenders in this city! ”

As a result, every morning, the sound of the Tang Army's camp drills resounded throughout the world, waking up all the people and soldiers in the city of Fuqi a few miles away. When the Tuyuhun people looked at the city, they saw that the Tang soldiers were divided into two units, training and fighting, and the bursts of murderous intent and the chilling murderous aura made these Tuyuhun soldiers, who were also elite veterans, frown. They are not like fighting with such a Don army.

Then, a band of horsemen on horseback and wrapped in thick armor galloped to the city. Shoot the arrows tied to the letter of surrender, shoot them into the city, and then calmly depart. At the beginning, the Tuyuhun people also released a few arrows and shot at those Tang troops, but the arrows hit the bright and dazzling Mingguang armor and were bounced off, and they couldn't hurt these Tang troops at all. I had to give up stupidly and watch these Tang troops shoot arrows towards the city.

Look at the persuasion letters that have been shot into the city, what kind of persuasion is there, it is simply a war report, which lists the losses of Tuyuhun in the major battles since the beginning of the war. As soon as this letter came out, the hearts of those who had been settled down were terrified again. Although ordinary people knew that the war had been defeated, they did not know the specific losses, and now when they saw these figures, they immediately knew the erosion of the battle situation on the front line, and they were even more reluctant to fight again.

It's not just these people who have this idea, but even many nobles and royal relatives are doing this. Everyone was unwilling to fight again, and Murong Ping was helpless, so he had to say: "The old man can only do his best!" ”

However, with the continuous arrival of the army along the way, watching the continuous expansion of the Tang army camp outside the city, and finally divided into three large camps to surround Fu Qi City, even Murong Ping couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart. But he decided to wait and see for a while.