Chapter 289: Let's Talk

Tongguan

Since An Yi picked Zou Shilong's head, most of the more than 10,000 defenders who were originally stationed in Tongguan have already been moved.

After all, the people who paid the military salary are gone, and there is no intention of sending new general soldiers from Beijing and Taiyuan to take over, plus these soldiers are all from Guannei, who wants to blow the swishing wild wind every day and have to be on guard against the Liao people at all times?

Therefore, basically the remaining lieutenant generals could not suppress the three-digit deserters every day, and within a few days, there were less than 300 people left in the entire Tongguan, and even the people who carried the flag were not even ready every day.

It's been more than 300 years, when did this Xiongguan in Great Xia end up with such a desolate and lonely scene, if Emperor Taizu Gao Yuanquan knows, I don't know if the coffin board will not be able to suppress it.

"Sigh Rule~"

The horse neighed, Xiao Yan'er was still wearing the heroic sunset red cloud armor on her body, but she didn't wear the golden phoenix winged helmet that could catch people's ears in the sun as usual, and let the three thousand green silk and black brocade like a waterfall be scattered on her shoulders, and the silky smoothness and the fortitude given by the metal shoulder armor neutralized each other, and a different kind of aura lingered on the delicate facial features.

"Empress Dowager Qi, Tongguan is ahead, the Xia army has not completely withdrawn, and the generalissimo asks whether to try to tackle the problem." An order soldier of the Liao army, Pegasus, came to report.

Xiao Yan'er raised her head, and for the first time, she looked at this Han Xiongguan so delicately, and commanded lightly: "Tell Han Shuai, don't be tempted, just attack directly." ”

"Yes!"

Whether it was out of unconditional trust in the Liao army's soldiers, or for the contempt for the Han people who had no time to care, in short, Xiao Yan'er's decision always seemed to be correct, and there was no need for the infantry of the rear army to erect the ladder up, and Han Guangde's first round of arrow rain went down, and most of the remaining 300 defenders in the city had already fled.

"Don't retreat! Don't withdraw! ”

The unnamed lieutenant was very faithful, holding a round shield in his left hand to parry the rain of arrows from the sky, and in his right hand he clenched a long sword dripping with blood, and cut down two soldiers who dared to flee in a hurry against his orders.

However, the defeat was like a mountain, and now in this situation, even blood could not make the frightened Xia Jun have any courage to resist, and one by one the soldiers who risked the danger of being volleyed down and the sharp arrows pierced through the chest, ran to the city without their lives.

"No orders from me! No one is allowed to withdraw! ”

The adjutant general's shouting did not leave any of his soldiers behind, but it did attract a loyal soldier.

The soldier was holding on to the shield that he didn't know he had ever found, and at the same time he pulled the adjutant general's armour and shouted, "General! Withdraw! The court doesn't want us anymore! Who else are we fighting for! Withdraw! ”

"You fart!"

"Boom!"

The soldiers didn't expect that their kindness in braving the rain of arrows to persuade the deputy general to leave would be smashed by him like a donkey's liver and lungs without saying a word, and if it weren't for the fast movement of his hands, half of his shoulders would have been cut off by him!

"You!"

"Tongguan of the Great Xia Dynasty! Can't give it to the Liao! If you want to go, you go, I won't go! ”

Seeing the decisive appearance of the deputy general, the soldiers also shook their hands angrily, "Then you will be buried with your Great Xia Dynasty, and I will go!" As he spoke, he stared at the iron shield and rushed towards the city.

"Coward! All cowards! ”

The lieutenant general brandished his long sword and cursed angrily at the backs of the last Xia troops fleeing.

The rain of arrows soon stopped,

After all, Han Guangde felt that the arrows he shot were about to be more than the people on the city wall, and when he estimated that the Xia troops in Tongguan should all scatter and flee, he began to order to break open the city gate, and the army waved into the pass.

It's just that the only thing that surprised him was the lieutenant general on the city wall.

When Han Guangde climbed the city wall, the deputy general was already in a blood-stained battle robe, with two white feather arrows stuck in his back, and a steel spear and pestle in his hand were tightly held on the ground, supporting his crumbling body, and the corpses of two Liao soldiers were lying horizontally at his feet, which seemed to have just been killed by him.

"Come on! Lao Tzu is not afraid! ”

Although he was already pointed at by a circle of Liao soldiers with longbows full of strings like the moon, he didn't see the slightest fear on his face, and still roared at the crowd.

Han Guangde looked at him, and then took his point steel gun from the hand of the soldier next to him,

The old marshal didn't intend to give his loyal warrior any due treatment, he was still more concerned that when the Queen Mother came up, there should already be brightly armored columns on the city wall to greet him neatly.

Han Guangde pointed the tip of the gun forward, and then hooked his hand at the lieutenant general with an expressionless face.

"Come!"

The deputy general understood this very provocative gesture very well, clenched the long sword in his hand, and almost hysterically exerted all his strength to slash towards Han Guangde.

"Boom!"

"Poof~"

Sometimes strength can't help you kill your opponent quickly, not to mention that this lieutenant with two arrows in his body is also far behind Han Guangde in terms of strength.

As soon as it was combined, it was easily killed on the spot.

"Lift it up, drop it down!"

And Han Guangde didn't seem to follow the "script", with a shocked expression and sighed: What a warrior, bury him for me,

Perhaps the moment when the vice general was thrown off the tall wall of Tongguan, he was still entangled in his mind, whether this Tongguan was from the Great Xia Dynasty or his own......

"Empress Dowager, the Xia army in Tongguan City has been completely cleared, and the main passes in the city have all been controlled by us."

As Han Guangde himself thought, when Empress Xiao walked up to the city wall with the two jade legs that showed all the lines under the riding uniform from under the city, the Liao army in the city had indeed set up a neat formation to greet him.

Xiao Yan'er slowly walked to the side of the city wall, holding the wall battlement with both hands, looking at the northwest direction, the orange-red sunset no longer had the dazzling power of the golden one, like an old man in the twilight, holding a flaming red Liuyun crutch, staggering to the back of the West Mountain,

"It turns out that from this Xiongguan overlooking the northwest, it is such a scene, you see this twilight sunset, how much like today's Great Xia."

After watching for a long time, Xiao Yan'er lowered her head, held the powder fist with her jade hand, and gently knocked on the wall stacked with huge stones, and sighed: "This city wall is stronger than any city in the northwest of the Han people, and it has been more than three hundred years, and our Da Liao is the first time to set foot on this Xiongguan." ”

Han Guangde smiled behind him and said: "Queen Mother, when you were in Lanzhou, you also said the same, I estimate that in the future, you may have to repeat this sentence several times." ”

After hearing this, Xiao Yan'er just picked a delicate tip at the corner of her mouth, and quickly regained her composure, she slowly turned around and instructed Han Guangde: "Old handsome, pass the order, the army will rest for half a day and then go east at full speed and continue to advance." ”

"Queen Mother, with all due respect, now Daxia has been divided into two factions, King Gao Cixun and King Yong Gao Cixiang, because of Chongzheng's death, in my opinion, these two factions will soon fight for the throne, let's not step into this quagmire, it is better to wait for the two of them to fight each other and reap the benefits of the fisherman."

Han Guangde's words are not unreasonable, judging from the current situation, this is indeed a good policy.

It's just that this ambitious Queen Mother Chengtian doesn't think so,

"I understand what Lao Shuai means, this mess in Daxia is not easy to mix, I'm afraid that King De and that Uncle Jingyuan in Taiyuan City also want me to go all the way to Wang Jingli."

She paused slightly, and then said: "However, the two kings of De and Yong are not idle princes who swallow their anger, and when one completely annexes the other, I don't know if I will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse." And let's put the army here, it is inevitable that the two of them will fight carefully and leave one hand to deal with us, after all, we are foreigners, no matter who ascends the throne, if there are no soldiers in their hands, what will they talk to us? I think the two little princes know this very well in their hearts. ”

Han Guangde's logic for these things is far worse than Xiao Yan'er, what he cares about is that if he wields the east according to Empress Xiao's intentions, the problems in the military battle array,

"Queen Mother, if we go all out to the east, then do we need to divide our troops to defend the pass in Taiyuan? Otherwise, once the two of them are caught in the front and back, we are located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the situation will be very disadvantageous. But if we divide our troops because of this, Wang Jing, who is high in the city and deep in the pond, will also let us fall into a bitter battle. ”

Xiao Yan'er smiled lightly and waved her hand at Han Guangde and said: "At this point, although the old man can rest assured, it is the same reason that we will sit in Tongguan to reap the benefits of fishermen, and they will have scruples when they fight." Let's go out of the nest to fight into the Central Plains, and they will keep the same capital as us, because these two gamblers are essentially the same whether they are in agreement with the outside world or the first civil war, and they both have a second game, and they will not bet all the chips in the first game.

Therefore, the old man can be relieved, even if King De wants to meddle in his affairs at that time, King Yong's side will definitely withdraw from the battle, so that we can inflict greater damage on King De, so we will never be in danger of fighting on two fronts. ”

I don't know why, when Xiao Yan'er mentions nosy people, the figure in plain clothes and white robes always comes to mind.

Han Guangde nodded, "Okay, that's as the Queen Mother said." However, can you please ask the Queen Mother to postpone the rest time a little, the morale of our Khitan sons is really a little low. ”

"I understand the hard work of the old handsome, and I just persuaded me to wait here for the sandpiper and clam to fight, I'm afraid there is also this consideration, right?"

Han Guangde bowed slightly in acquiescence, "Queen Mother Mingjian." ”

Xiao Yan'er thought about it for a while, and then nodded slowly: "Okay, then rest for half a day, let's wait until dawn before we set off." Although it is said that the old prince in Beijing came forward to suppress the situation, but the time left for us is not very sufficient.

Another is that the soldiers have lived in a foreign country for a long time and are eager to return home, so that the problem of low morale will only get worse and worse as we drag on for a long time. ”

"Yes, Queen Mother, the old minister knows it."

Han Guangde bowed to Xiao Yan'er again, and then continued: "Queen Mother, as you can see, which pass should be the next target for our army, and the old minister should also order the sentry cavalry battalion to prepare early." ”

Xiao Yan'er's beautiful eyes condensed a sword-like gaze towards the east, which had gradually risen into the night, and faintly spit out two words,

"Wang Jing!"