Chapter 269: Division of Troops

East of Lanzhou

After escaping death on the east bank of the Sushui River, a sky-high fire set by Jin Mingyin on the stone bridge temporarily stopped the footsteps of the Liao army, allowing An Yi to take these Xia soldiers who had just escaped from Lanzhou City to get a precious respite.

However, An Yi did not order the whole army to march day and night, and tightly took advantage of the time difference on the stone bridge that could block the Liao army for half a day, and galloped towards Tongguan.

Because An Yi knew in his heart that even if they kept going to Tongguan day and night, half a day would definitely not be enough to deal with the unclear situation in Tongguan.

Therefore, An Yi only ordered the army to gallop at full speed for nearly thirty miles when it left Sushui River, and after completely throwing off the Liao people's sentry cavalry, he slowly slowed down the marching speed, relying on the terrain of the northwest along the way to artificially create some traps and obstacles, intending to delay the Liao people's troops.

When the army marched to the Sushuichuan Gorge, An Yi ordered the whole army to stop advancing, rest in place, and use the three chain bridges in the canyon to set up an ambush.

This Sushuichuan Gorge is the place where An Yi led the army from Shuzhong to Shaanxi at that time, and encountered He Liu.

Before Anyi, I also knew that there were two roads to walk in this place, one was to cross the foothills and take the avenue, but it was far away, and the other was to cross these three large chain bridges, but the distance was more than doubled.

The reason why An Yi made a galloping posture when he just left the north bank of Sushui River was to find a place like Sushui River Canyon to place Xiao Yan'er together.

After all, this Empress Dowager Xiao led the Liao Dynasty army to Lanzhou and hit the Xia army hard, and no one in the northwest could compete with them, and when the fire on the stone bridge was extinguished, she would definitely have to march quickly to pursue Anyi, and she would definitely not think that this group of defeated soldiers would still be waiting for her here.

It's not that you can use the opportunity to fight a surprise ambush to eliminate how many Liao troops here, after all, the Xia army has been running around and fighting for many days, and it is an established fact that the people are sleepy and lacking, and the plan is that as long as you can pour a bucket of cold water on them here, you can frustrate Xiao Yan'er's prosperous soldiers, and you can also make them not chase and fight without scruples.

Then he turned to march towards Tongguan at full speed, and as long as he could finally leave a day difference when he arrived at Tongguan, Anyi would have a way to enter the pass with a large army.

Of course, the task naturally fell on the veteran Jiang Shang,

First of all, it is mainly because An Yi is more at ease with the Sichuan Shu Army, and the second is this kind of ambush warfare, Jiang Yun's firearms battalion is naturally the time to show his strength.

Until the twilight, Jiang Shang had basically completed the ambush of the Sushuichuan Gorge, and under the dark night, it was like an invisible net, waiting for the prey from the northwest grassland with fangs.

Except for the men and horses who were ordered to set up an ambush, all the rest of the Xia army camped and rested three miles north of the Sushuichuan Gorge in accordance with An Yi's instructions, recuperating and recuperating to deal with more unknown dangers in the future.

Including comforting himself, in the past few days, it is really the first time that he can get this little half a day of respite,

He first went to the tent of the Chinese military camp to see Liu Siyi, who still looked like a sleeping beauty, and the rush in the past few days made Ning Er and this Imperial Doctor Li next to Liu Siyi also have red eye circles, and Xin'er also yawned and looked like kowtowing and napping.

Although An Yi was more anxious than anyone else, he didn't know that this patient matter could not be guarded by anyone, so he asked Li Quan and Ning Er An Xin to go and rest and slow down, after all, there is still a long way to go.

Then he stood in the tent instead of a few of them, sat in the corner of Liu Siyi's bed, and glanced at Liu Siyi, who was angry, very distressed, and sighed softly,

"Alas, Siyi, Siyi, how long are you going to sleep, do you just ignore your husband?"

An Yi leaned on the bed rail, muttering with his eyes slightly closed, but reading and reading,

suddenly

He felt a fragrant breeze blowing in his ears......

You can't go wrong!

Even if this feeling is just a gentle brushing of the comfortable face, he will never admit that he is wrong, with some enchanting and charming in the softness, like a temperament, slowly inhaling the spleen and lungs from his snort, refreshing people's hearts.

"Husband, do you want to think about it?"

When An Yi slowly opened his eyes, Liu Siyi was already like the first time he saw her in Qianyun Tower, wearing a bright red brocade skirt, with her delicate Ling Xuan blade hanging from her waist, pasting her smiling face in the midst of beauty, using slender fingers to run the bun next to her ear, and gently teasing An Yi's forehead,

"Thoughts! Are you awake? ”

The excitement in An Yi's heart was overflowing for a while, and he stretched out his arms to take the blue man who was kneeling in front of him into his arms,

Merely......

When the beauty he had been thinking about for a long time fell into his arms again,

The original smile on Liu Siyi's face has changed color, the intoxicating eyes are being invaded by the cold little by little, and the beautiful face is gradually losing her unique charm and enchantment, and a pair of black pearl-like eyes are suddenly smeared with a trace of fierceness.

"Anyi, do you think you can escape the palm of my hand?"

Obviously, this voice that doesn't seem to have a trace of emotion is no longer Liu Siyi's,

When An Yi rubbed his eyes carefully and looked at it intently, although it was the same face that was alluring, he had already changed his master.

"Xiao Yan'er!"

Without waiting for the frightened comfort to come back to his senses, "Liu Siyi" had already raised the Ling Xuan Blade in his hand,

"Do you think you can escape from my palm?"

The tip of the knife with a faint blue light slammed into An Yi's chest in response!

......

"Thoughts!"

When An Yi shouted and suddenly woke up from his dream, he found that the "Xiao Yan'er" in front of him had disappeared, and Liu Siyi, who was still unconscious on the bed, was lying there quietly.

Maybe it's really too tired,

An Yi rubbed his somewhat confused eyes, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to take a short rest, which can be regarded as calming his mind, but this time his eyes narrowed, and when he opened them again, it was almost dark.

"Hey...... Yo, my waist ......"

When An Yi straightened up from the bed, he felt that there seemed to be a circle of fine and dense silver needles around his waist, and the tips of the needles with cold light made his body twist slightly, and he could feel the stinging pain of the heart.

Alas, I really should have listened to my thoughts at the beginning, and I usually had nothing to do but get more guns and sticks, and exercise and exercise.

An Yi got up from the bed, stretched, and then shook his head, which was like removing the strange dream from his mind just now.

He turned around cautiously again, covered the corners of Liu Siyi's body up, leaned down and touched her forehead lightly, before walking outside the tent.

As soon as he walked out of the camp, he met Jiang Shang who was walking towards him.

"I was just trying to let Zhao Lingfeng and Zhao Shuang come over for you, what's the matter? But came to me? ”

Jiang Shang smiled and arched his hand towards An Yi, and patted his rough hand against his armor, "Uncle, don't worry, the people in our army have rough skin and thick flesh, and this march is nothing." ”

An Yi looked at Jiang Shang, although he was a few years older than his father, but this spirit was really like what he said, he couldn't find too much depression on his face, he was worthy of being a veteran in the army, his body bones were indeed tough enough, and he was much inferior in comparison, he held his waist while smiling and waving his hand: "The old general is really old and strong, I won't tell you, I rushed down this way, and I just squinted for a while, and this waist is like it is about to break." ”

He pointed to a small tent next to the big tent of the Chinese army, "The old general has something to say, let's go to the tent and talk about it." ”

Jiang Shang responded, and followed An Yi, one in front of the other, and the two people in front of him and one behind him.

Although this tent is small, there are just three small log stools inside, and An Yi and Jiang Shang sit opposite each other.

The rest was used as a small table by An Yi, and he gave two orders to the soldiers outside the tent, made a pot of hot tea and two large tea bowls, and placed them on the small wooden stool that was temporarily filled.

"Uncle, in this war, our Shu and Shaanxi armies have suffered heavy losses. After arranging the ambush, I carefully counted the number of people with General Liao, alas......"

Jiang Shang looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, but he comfortably picked up the small teapot on the table, poured a full bowl on the tea bowl in front of him, and said lightly: "It's okay, just say it, the general has come to this point, is there anything else that can't be heard?" ”

"Lin Muzhi, he died in battle."

When these words came out, An Yi's hand holding the handle of the small teapot and the other lightly pressing the lid of the teapot suddenly froze in the air, and it took about a while before turning to himself again, and the empty teabowl in front of him became full, and then sighed softly,

"This is war, what the general said, and I remember it."

Jiang Shang also nodded with a depressed look, and then continued: "The left and right guards of Chengdu have reduced nearly 30,000 people, and there are countless wounded soldiers, and Zhao Lingfeng's subordinates can still pull out now, not even 10,000 people." The green battalions of Long'an and Chengdu are now only five or six thousand people left, and more than half of them are killed or wounded, and the original green battalion and the guard house combined are more than 50,000 people, but now I am afraid that even 15,000 people will not be able to make up. ”

"What about the firearms battalion?"

"It's pretty much the same."

Jiang Shang let out a heavy breath, gestured towards An Yi, and responded: "The entire firearms battalion is less than eight hundred people, and all the ten revolvers made by Jiang Yun and Jin Mingyin before were lost in Lanzhou, and there are many new-style firecrackers and projectiles, many of which are too late to be taken away, and some of them are brought out and shot on the city wall by the Liao. ”

It's really not a pity that these equipment are comfortable, as long as Jin Mingyin is there, just pile up the silver with as much equipment as he wants, and the main thing he feels sorry for is these guns trained by Jiang Yun,

He nodded, and also took a deep breath and said: "I don't know how long it will take for the soldiers and horses in my Shu land to make up for these soldiers who have been trained with great difficulty." ”

"It's not just our soldiers and horses in Shudi, General Liao's losses are not small, and now there are more than 20,000 people left in his hands, and the situation is slightly better than ours."

An Yi didn't speak, silently picked up the tea bowl in front of him, and took a sip on the side of his mouth, because there was no filter of the teacup lid, a few naughty tea leaves flowed into his mouth along the water, and he didn't know if the Pu'er given to him by the King of Shu was also contaminated with blood, and he always felt that drinking it in his mouth had a bitter taste,

"The two large corps of nearly 100,000 people, after the first battle, only three percent remained, 70,000 people, and it must be a black and oppressive piece in the northwest, and nearly 70,000 strong young men who are alive and well are gone."

It's just that having said that, the road still has to go, and the rest of the people still have to live, but Jiang Shang's words made An Yi change his mind slightly, and he thought about it in his heart and instructed Jiang Shang: "General Jiang, in this way, after this ambush, the speed of the Liao people's pursuit should not be so urgent, let's divide the troops here." ”

"Division?"

An Yi nodded, "Yes, divide the troops, you take Zhao Lingfeng, Zhao Shuang, Jiang Yun and them, as well as Siyi and Xin'er, and go back to Sichuan." ”

After hearing An Yi's words, Jiang Shang was stunned,

From a purely military point of view, the decision of comfort is undoubtedly the most correct, the soldiers and horses of Shu have just suffered heavy losses, and the morale has dropped to the freezing point, if they are forcibly pulled away from their hometown to the Central Plains, the morale of the army will inevitably be more sluggish, and even desertion will become commonplace, and there will even be the possibility of collapse and collapse.

If you can return to Sichuan at this time to make a little adjustment, one is to be able to make a little supplement to the source of soldiers damaged in the battle, and the second is the most important thing is that the young men of the Xia army who are fighting at home can also prevent the Liao people from infiltrating the central Sichuan region to the greatest extent and contain the forces that the Liao army can exert on the Central Plains.

But

Jiang Shang understands the key to this, and also understands the reason why Anyi will not return to Sichuan with the soldiers and horses of Shudi.

"Uncle, there are some things I shouldn't have talked about, but having said this, I Jiang Shang can't pretend to be deaf and dumb, if Uncle goes to Wangjing this time, one more soldier and horse, there will be one more strength, without his own soldiers, he has no right to speak."

An Yi naturally knew what Jiang Shang was referring to, but the fact that this veteran of a hundred battles on the battlefield could say these words from this perspective at this time also made An Yi's heart very warm, he smiled slightly, and said to him: "Don't worry, old general, sometimes things in Wang Jing can be solved not only by soldiers and horses." What's more, the comfortable lover, relatives, and family are all in Sichuan, and only the old general can reassure me when he takes these horses back, not to mention ......"

An Yi said as he leaned forward, and whispered to Jiang Shang: "The general is in Shuzhong, and I dare to give it a go in Wang Jing, and when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, there is a place to go." ”

Out of my mouth, into your ears, but Jiang Shang and An Yi both understand the weight of this sentence,

What does it mean to "have a place to go", and when Anyi takes Gao Ciyi Mountain to the end, what does this place refer to?

The ripper reigns!

"Uncle...... Please rest assured, Jiang Shang, since he is a saddle before and after the horse, he will serve his life! ”

Although An Yi just said that, he really only had a little temptation in his heart, after all, Jiang Shang and him were not related by blood, and the ancestors in the family could be regarded as having received the emperor's grace.

If Jiang Shang's answer just now was just ambiguous, I am afraid that after returning to Chengdu, Jiang Ruyue would immediately put him in the air, after all, where is Jiang Shang Jiang Ruyue's opponent?

However, Jiang Shang is really worthy of the trust of Comfort, and he gave him a reassurance.

"Anyi, thank you Brother Jiang here."