Chapter 238: The Siege Begins
In Changze City, the heavy snow stopped at the beginning, Xue Rengui, who was wearing armor, climbed the corner tower step by step, looked up into the distance, and saw that there was nothing but snow in the world, and he could only hear the cold wind in the treetops in his ears, and all life could only lie dormant in his cave under such severe cold.
Xue Rengui couldn't help but think of Li Chengqian's inconvenient movement but he had to march down to fight in such bad weather, and he couldn't help but feel a little worried, but this worry quickly turned into anger against the Turkic Li Simo and Xue Yantuo.
Xue Rengui lowered his head and looked at the 200,000 troops stationed outside the city, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth in the tents that were in a circle, he didn't expect this Bazhuo to be so straw, and the soldiers surrounded Changze City, but they only shot arrows into the city to persuade them to surrender, and they didn't dare to really attack the city.
Xue Rengui thought that more than 20 days had passed, and the reinforcements from Chang'an were almost there, and slowly walked down the corner tower with a cold smile on his face.
Since Li Chengqian left, Xue Rengui had to inspect Changze City every day, looking at the military arrangements on the one hand, and the Qiang people living here on the other.
The faces in the city heard that Xue Yantuo had besieged Changze City, and they spontaneously came to help the Tang army build the projects and equipment to defend the city.
Many of them have just divided the local Haoqiang's family property, and they are grateful to Datang Fa, but these days they heard that Li Chengqian was sick in the city, and they were surrounded by Xue Yantuo outside the city, and they were all worried.
However, the people left behind by Li Chengqian quietly spread the word that the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty was trapped here, and the Tang Dynasty would inevitably send troops quickly.
Therefore, these people are bent on helping Datang defend Changze City, and when Datang sends troops to defeat Xue Yantuo, they will be able to live a good life next year.
Compared with the quiet and orderly city, the tent outside the city has been noisy into a pot of porridge, they have been in Changze City for more than 20 days, and Bazhuo has never ordered the siege of the city, which makes other tribes except Hui are very dissatisfied.
These tribes have been in the bitter cold land of the north for a long time, and they only want to enter the city and loot, so they don't care about Li Chengqian's life or death, and as for the anger of the Tang Dynasty, Xue Yantuo's headquarters will naturally bear it.
The charcoal fire in the big tent was very hot, but the atmosphere was a little solemn, and several tribal leaders wearing heavy fur furs felt unbearable heat.
"Dadu, we have been in Changze County for more than 20 days, if we don't attack the city, the reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty will arrive!" Tong Luo Leader Tong Luo Zhier was angry and ruined.
"Yes! Oh, yes! Then we will be on both sides. The leader of the Ori Mo Weisheng hurriedly echoed and said, the Orimo clan of the Ori tribe has always been friendly with the Tongluo tribe, and the strength of the Ori Clan is low here, so the Chestnut Weisheng has always been the first to look forward to the same Luo Zhierma.
"Dadushi brought us here to capture Li Chengqian alive to threaten the Heavenly Khan, but now he is just besieging the city and not attacking, do you have to wait until the army of the Heavenly Khan comes to destroy us?" The leader of the servant bones asked unceremoniously.
Bazhuo has a left-leaning temperament, and since he believes in Tu Midu, he will naturally not change easily.
Moreover, Bazhuo had long been dissatisfied with Tong Luo Zhier and the servant Gunashi, and at this time he had no respect for himself when he listened to them, and his heart was full of anger, so he had no time to think about whether what they said was right or wrong, but he felt that they were questioning their authority.
At that moment, the pale-faced Bazhuo stood up and glared angrily at Tong Luo Zhier and the servant Gu Nashi, suppressed his anger and said: "Since Ben Khan has decided to besiege Li Chengqian, he naturally wants to besiege it to the end, and he can't escape in the city.
When the Tang reinforcements arrived in Ben Khan, they would fight them head-on, and then attack Changze City in front of them, and the Tang Dynasty was worried that Li Chengqian would naturally let me make an offer.
Now that Li Chengqian is seriously ill, we will capture him, if he dies in our hands, will Datang still let me make a price?"
Ba Zhuo said that he didn't know how to refute him for a while, but they didn't know how to refute him, but they didn't know how to think about it in reverse, if they could fight with Datang head-on, wouldn't Datang even more want to take what they wanted?
As soon as Bazhuo finished speaking, he heard someone outside the tent shouting: "The Tang reinforcements have arrived!" ”
Then a cold wind blew into the big tent, and the leader of the Xia tribe, Juyan Huze, strode in, and everyone was shocked and looked at him.
As soon as Bazhuo gained the upper hand, he suddenly saw Juyan Hu Ze lose his temper as if he was holding Zhizhu, so he asked angrily, "What happened?"
Hu Zejuyan didn't hear the bad tone of Bazhuo, and hurriedly repeated: "Dadu, the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty have arrived." ”
Hearing this, Ba Zhuo said very angrily: "Ben Khan knows! Ben Khan asked you how many reinforcements have come from the Tang Dynasty?"
Tumidu stepped forward and took Juyan Huze's hand and said, "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”
Juyan Huze gradually stabilized before he continued: "I heard that it is a hundred thousand troops of three roads!" ”
Hearing this, Ba Zhuo snorted coldly, raised his head and said disdainfully: "Ben Khan's 200,000 army is waiting for work, why are you afraid of his 100,000 horses?"
Ignoring the scorching, the servant asked directly:
"Where is the Tang Army?"
Juyan Hu Ze said with a sad face when he heard this: "It is less than two hundred miles away from us!" ”
Bazhuo listened to the light of his two eyes, and shouted, "Good!" ”
Everyone in the tent couldn't help but look at him, only to see Tu Zhuo take two steps forward in high spirits, and pull out a short knife with a "swish".
Diagonally holding the short knife, he said loudly: "General Ben Khan ordered that 30,000 tribal troops from the Tongluo Department and the Servant Bone Department each be sent to attack the city, and the rest of the people will meet the enemy with Ben Khan." ”
"Why is Dadu going to attack the city now?" Tu Midu was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't care about anything else and asked.
At this time, Bazhuo Zhengxing did not bother with him, but explained to everyone triumphantly: "We are now storming Changze County, so that the Tang army that comes to help will run here desperately!" ”
This move is indeed poisonous enough, Bazhuo meets the 100,000 army of the Tang Dynasty with 140,000, and mobilizes the Tang Dynasty army to march desperately, which is really a good calculation.
When all the leaders heard this, they all thought that this was a good plan, and they all said loudly: "Obey! ”
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Knock knock knock......
As soon as Xue Rengui returned to Changze County, he heard a drum outside the city, Xue Rengui lightly pressed the table in front of him and got up and strode out.
Since the siege of the city by the Bazhuo army for more than 20 days, Xue Rengui has never taken off this suit of armor weighing dozens of catties, and he has long been unable to feel it on his body.
Xue Rengui walked quickly to the city wall with his soldiers, only to see the sound of killing under the small Changze City, and the dense Xue Yantuo people were holding various weapons in their hands, rushing to the city wall like hungry wolves.
Seeing the besiegers rushing under the city walls, the defenders on the walls began to shoot arrows down.
"Whoosh"
A rain of arrows fell, Xue Yantuo's army was shot down countless times, and the offensive in front was immediately frustrated, but the soldiers behind still rushed forward listening to the drums, and many people ran over after stepping on the corpses of their comrades or trampling them to death.
Tong Luo Zhener, who was supervising the battle behind, looked at the dead and wounded clansmen in front of him expressionlessly, and said in a calm voice: "Release the arrow!" ”
When the herald beside him heard this, he immediately raised the tooth flag in his hand and shook it.
The archers in charge of pressing the formation in the back immediately drew their bows and arrows when they saw the flag moving, and only when they saw the flag in front of them shake again, they released their arrows together.
"Whoosh...... "Whoosh" A bowstring sounded, and the arrows flying into the sky were like a big net covering the sky and the sun, and they quickly covered the head of Changze City.