Chapter Ninety-Three: The Great Retreat

Hong Laoqi brought a lot of carts, the carts were loaded with all kinds of materials, among which the most warm furs, the rest were some wound medicine and food, and after the Xixia people carefully checked it, they let these people walk into the battlefield where the flames were not extinguished. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Man has already accepted his fate, when he broke through just now, his war horse was unlucky to be shot by a crossbow arrow, which knocked him to the ground, after the wall of fire disappeared, he wanted to continue to fight with the Tanguts, but was captured by the pikemen, after poking a few blood holes in the legs.

Liu Man knew very well what it would be to be caught by the Tanguts, so when he was tied to a wooden stake by the Tanguts, he was ready to be disemboweled.

There were many companions who were captured, and the wooden stakes stretched from the Xixia camp to the bottom of the Shuiquan Pass, and there were more than 200 people.

Most of the partners lowered their heads and waited for the final fate, and some of them raised their heads and screamed, hoping to be liberated as soon as possible.

Qiu Ba cried the most sadly, he originally followed closely next to the commander Leng Ping, but Leng Ping, the bastard, was in danger, he rushed wherever he went, Qiu Ba was slashed by the Tangut people more than a dozen times along the way, if it wasn't for the good armor on his body, he would have been divided by the Tangut people's war knives.

Eventually, he was knocked off his horse by a heavy chain hammer, and when he fell to the ground, his left leg was trampled by a damned warhorse.

The thought of dying soon, Qiu Ba was in pain.

Whether you are scolding or crying and begging for mercy, the Xixia people will not let go of any small soldier, Liu Man knows this, and Qiu Ba also knows it, although Qiu Ba wants to beg for mercy, he still gritted his teeth and didn't open his mouth, but the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

Liu Man was really spoiled by Qiu Ba's crying, and couldn't help scolding: "When the fighting man goes to the battlefield, he just ties his head to the belt of his pants to beg for a living, and if he dies, he will die, what are you crying about?" ”

Qiu Ba sobbed and said, "Don't you think Lao Tzu has been wronged?" ”

Liu Man smiled and said: "What is there to be wronged, didn't you receive five taels of silver before the war?" King Hami owes us nothing. ”

Qiu Ba said angrily: "Lao Tzu didn't say that King Hami is not authentic, Lao Tzu remembered the eight taels of silver that existed in Boss Leng's place, and he knew that today, Lao Tzu had already spent the silver in Qingxiang City, but now it is cheaper for Boss Leng." ”

Liu Manleng paused for a moment and said, "I also have a dozen taels of silver from Hong Laoqi, and I don't know if I can send it home." ”

"Your silver has long been spoiled by Lao Tzu, that turtle dancer's ass, tsk, no amount of silver is enough to stuff it in."

A familiar voice slammed into Liu Man's ears, and when he raised his head, he saw Hong Laoqi standing in front of him with a grin.

Liu Man's heart ached, and then he understood Qiu Ba's feelings just now.

He sighed and said, "Well, your Lao Hong didn't escape after all, let's walk Huangquan Road together as brothers." ”

"Phew, bah, if you want to take Huangquan Road, you can go, Lao Tzu has to go back to hug the ****** of the Guizi dancer."

Only then did Liu Man find out that Hong Laoqi's fur, although he was not wearing armor, was neat up and down, not like he had been captured.

"Don't look at it, the brothers can't die, of course, there is no way to die in battle, the general sent me to the Tanguts to exchange prisoners of war, the Tanguts agreed, don't worry, this will loosen the ties for the brothers."

Liu Man watched in disbelief as Hong Laoqi cut the rope on his body with a fork and found an old sheepskin jacket to put on himself.

Immediately after that, he heard Hong Laoqi whistle, and a group of Uighurs stepped forward to help the captives untie their ropes and help them into the carriage, and then three military doctors began to treat the wounds.

Qiu Ba was already rolling on the ground with joy, regardless of the scars on his body, being alive was already the biggest reward for him.

Liu Man was lying on the cart, looking at the clear blue sky, and suddenly shouted: "Lao Tzu has finally been treated as a human being once." ”

Hong Laoqi stuffed the hot wine gourd into the arms of the brothers and said: "This time the king of Hami can be regarded as having made a bloody investment, and the general said before I negotiated with Zhang Han and Kui Ming, as long as I can save you, I will agree to the Xixia people on any conditions."

Do you know, in order to save you, this time we returned all the territory we fought to the Tanguts, and spared the captured Tangut nobles. ”

Liu Man took a sip of wine and put the wine gourd back into his arms, and said with a white breath: "This Hami country is only a startup now, and that Hami King is indeed a good man, one person has laid down such a big country in the Western Regions, and now it is so atmospheric, I don't know what it will become in the future." ”

Hong Laoqi smiled and said: "Lao Liu, you and my brother are all bachelors who don't want heaven and earth, I think, we might as well join the Hami army."

Anyway, the kings and generals here are all from our Song Dynasty, and they are quite happy and there is nothing wrong with them. “

Liu Man smiled: "You mean that our brothers have taken root here?" It's natural to take root, but you can't find a woman from the Western Regions, and you can't do it with a big butt. ”

Hong Laoqi laughed and said: "Half of the people in Qingxiang City are Song people, and there are more than 100,000 Han people on both sides of the Hami River, so it shouldn't be difficult to ask for a mother-in-law." ”

Liu Man said with a smile: "Go back and look again, and see if King Hami still believes our group of captured people." ”

Hong Laoqi said with a smile: "Your position as a team leader has not been cut, who cares if you have been captured or not."

We were originally mercenaries in the mouth of the king of Hami, not Hami, and I heard that only those who have a gold seal on their arms are considered Hami.

Brother, think about it, it's not a matter of being captured now, but it may not be so easy to be captured in the future, and you may need to fight to the death. “

Liu Man nodded and said: "This is the truth, I didn't have a position before, and if I have a position, I will die to the end, forget it, I will talk about it after returning to Hami Country, I will be very satisfied with this year and this year, in the end, we lost this battle, and I don't know what it will be like to go back." ”

Qiu Ba, who was lying next to Liu Man, spat and said: "We didn't lose at all, I listened to my commander's envoy, the reason why we will attack Western Xia this time is because there are too many displaced people in the country, and the food in the country is not enough to eat, and the king of Hami wants the general to come out with more than 300,000 people to grab food, and he has to eat the enemy."

Now, we have grabbed a lot of grain, and we have also eaten the grain of the Tangut people for five months in Xixia, how much food has this saved Hami?

Think about it, more than 300,000 people are tossing around like this in Western Xia, how many years will it take for the Western Xia people to recover to their previous situation?

At least, for three or five years, the Tanguts did not have the strength to cross the Hanhai Sea to attack Hami.

My commander said that this is a way of attacking instead of defending, and using us mercenaries to buy time for Hami.

The Hami Kingdom has received 100,000 displaced people, as long as the king of Hami is given three or five years to settle these displaced people, he will soon be able to raise an army of 200,000, a real army! It's not the homeless people who followed us to grab something. “

Liu Man smiled and said: "If you say that, we really haven't lost, but the brothers are seriously injured." ”

Qiu Ba snorted coldly and said, "Speaking of which, King Hami took good care of those of us who came out of the same clan as him, so he fought a tough battle at Shuiquan Pass.

I heard that the Qingtang mercenaries under General Li Qiao suffered heavy casualties, they were chased and killed by Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu for more than 200 miles, in order to cover those homeless, they fought hard with the Tangut people one by one.

It is estimated that there are not a few of the more than 4,000 Qingtang people left. ”

Liu Man said with a smile: "There are people above who are good at doing things, Lao Tzu used to say this to others, after all, one day someone is going to use this to talk about Lao Tzu, hehe, it is estimated that King Hami is not in the mood to redeem the Qingtang people with things like silver." ”

Hong Laoqi said with a smile: "You are wrong, the military order for this replacement also applies to the Qingtang people, but unfortunately the Qingtang people didn't catch up, most of them were killed by others, I changed it back to less than ten, and I don't know if I can go back alive." ”

Zhang Han and Kui Ming saw that the Hami people did not mean to entrench themselves in Hexi and not leave, so they no longer chased Meng Yuanzhi tightly.

If this group of people is forced to rush and go back and fight again, Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu will not be able to accept this painful price.

As soon as the Hami army officially engaged in the battle, the battle losses of the Western Xia people were extremely staggering, and more than 6,000 warriors died on the battlefield, which had already made Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu, who were extremely scarce in their hands, feel painful.

Fortunately, the Hami people still count when they speak, and one city after another gives way, and the Xixia people receive it one by one.

These cities were not greatly damaged, except that the grain, cattle and sheep in the cities were plundered by the Hami people.

The tribal leaders who had lost their property, cattle and sheep, after the Tanguts entered the city, frantically asked Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu to launch an attack as soon as possible and take back their property, cattle and sheep from the hands of the Hami people.

Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu ignored these people's demands, and they did not have a garrison city by city, if they did that, they would not have much bargaining chips in their hands to suppress the retreat of the Hami people.

The wounded soldiers in Hong Laoqi's hands are rapidly decreasing, and those seriously injured soldiers have long been killed by the Tanguts, and those who can be tied to the stake and beheaded alive are all slightly injured. According to the agreement, every time the Western Xia people regained a city, some wounded soldiers would be sent away by Hong Laoqi.

By the time the Western Xia army arrived at Shazhou, it was already a month later, and in the wounded barracks, there were only Hong Laoqi and Liu Man, who were the more than 30 people in charge of the palace.

The Hami people maintained the greatest sincerity along the way, and Zhang Han and Kui Mingyu did not embarrass the wounded soldiers.

Now, as long as the Hami people give up the sandbar again, then this method of exchanging prisoners, which has never appeared in history, will be successfully completed.

Meng Yuanzhi stood at the head of Shazhou City, looking at the quietly standing Western Xia army, his heart was full of emotion.

This land in Hexi was the land he opened up for the first time in the name of a general, and if he gave up completely, he was still unwilling in his heart.

However, he knew very well in his heart that he had sent troops this time because he had not hidden the false Pang and did not dare to leave Zhuo Luo City easily.

If he hadn't left Zhuo Lo City and came specifically to deal with his rabble, it is estimated that there should not be many people who could return to Hami alive.

If you can't keep it, it's better to give up...... (To be continued.) )