Chapter 16 of the third volume of the Emperor's Prosperous Era is incompetent, exhausting the three armies

The rain came and went quickly, and in less than half an hour, the clouds and rain began to take a break, but it brought great annoyance to the entire grain transportation team, and the sergeants and people who were wet in the rain were shivering with cold, and Yang Guang also yawned several times in a row.

This is not the biggest annoyance, after the spring rain, the original dry road was drenched in the rain, a foot down will bring up a large piece of mud, the vehicle is a deep trace, accidentally will fall into the mud, fortunately, the ground has not been completely watered, the wheels are not deep, but it has greatly slowed down the speed of the team.

"Lord Wang, take a rest." Zhang Heng pushed the car hard while persuading Yang Guang.

In order to speed up the speed of the car, Yang Guang did not hesitate to get off the horse and personally push the cart forward, those who were only used as a monitor to protect the grain in the past, Yang Guang had to join the ranks of the cart under the drive of Yang Guang, although there was inevitably a little complaint in his heart, but the same is true of the prince, the mood calmed down, with the help of the sergeant to push the cart, although the speed of the grain cart is not as good as before the rain, but it is also much slower than the speed of the snail in front.

"No, if this king rests, how can he let the soldiers be willing to push the cart, it is related to the grain and grass of hundreds of thousands of troops, if the delay in arrival affects the morale of the army, resulting in the defeat of our army, what face does this king have to go to see his father?"

"Lord, how can the army not have grain in stock, the grain and grass are not tight for three or five days, if the prince is tired, how can he be worthy of the emperor and the queen's mother."

"Needless to say, don't say three or five days, this king will not let the grain and grass delay the arrival for a day." After Yang Guang finished speaking, he continued to push the grain cart with his head down, and cheered up the people next to him.

Just when Yang Guang's grain transportation team was in trouble because of the rain, Dou Rongding's army, which went to Liangzhou to help, fell into the predicament of water shortage, and Dou Rongding's father Dou Shan was the imperial servant of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Uncle Dou Chi was a pillar of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and now he is the Taifu of the Sui Dynasty. Dou Rongding's wife is Princess An Cheng, the sister of Yang Jian, the current Emperor of the Great Sui.

The Dou family is simply a family of horses. Dou Rongding has no strengths except for his appearance and three beautiful beards, he puts all his energy on the decoration of lavender shaved face, Fu Fan Shi Zhu and other appearances, and is ashamed of doing his job.

Yang Jian actually knows how patient he is with his brother-in-law, for fear that Dou Rongding will make a mistake. The eldest grandson and Shi Wansui were both transferred to Dou Rongding, both of whom were literate and martial, and they were both the most outstanding talents in their generation. Before leaving, he asked Taifu Dou Chi to tell Dou Rongding that he should listen to Changsun Shengdi's opinions more when marching and fighting.

It was Apo Khan who had retreated last time to attack Liangzhou. Yang Jian thought that there were two people who were supported by Changsun Sheng and Shi Wansui, and Dou Rongding was no longer able to resist Abo, which was equivalent to giving credit to his brother-in-law, but Yang Jian really underestimated Dou Rongding's stupidity, Dou Chi didn't ask for it, it's okay, this entrustment. Dou Rongding didn't listen to the eldest grandson's words. Everywhere is contrary to each other. Finally, he brought an army of 30,000 into the death place of Gao Yueyuan in the north of Liangzhou.

Takatsuhara is an undulating sand dune with no water in the area. Although it is not yet summer, it is indispensable for the sergeants to consume ground water every day, how to garrison the army in a place without water.

When Changsun Sheng saw that the troops were camped in Gaoyue Yuan, he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly rushed to the commander's tent and said to Dou Rongding: "Dashuai, this is a Jedi, and it is not suitable to garrison troops. ”

Dou Rongding looked at Changsun Sheng, stroked the beard on his chest, and reprimanded majestically: "Gong is just a small chariot general, and if he settles the general trend of the art of war, won't he be born after hearing about his death, and this commander is going to garrison troops in such a Jedi!" As soon as Apo came, he immediately led his army to defeat them, so why not? ”

Changsun Sheng's grade is too different from Dou Rongding, no matter how anxious he is in his heart, he is helpless, he just retreats, and there is a burst of laughter behind Dou Rongding.

"The little general of the chariot cavalry dares to show off in front of the big handsome and bring humiliation on himself."

"That is, what do you say about retreating 300,000 soldiers, it's just self-boasting, otherwise why doesn't the emperor promote him, if he can retreat 300,000 Turkic troops alone, then what do you want us to do?"

"Changsun Sheng is just a boastful person, how can the commander of 30,000 soldiers dare to be stationed in the Jedi to meet the Turkic 100,000 people, that is the real hero."

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Dou Rongding smiled when he listened, his official position was already a good grade, and there were more than a dozen people around him who were higher in grade than Changsun Shengdi, and they gathered like others, and most of these people were the children of the family, and everyone looked at the eldest grandson unpleasantly.

This is not only the reason why Sun Sheng put forward his opinions to Dou Rongding many times during the march, but also because Changsun Sheng was incompatible with those children of the family when he was forbidden to the army, and when those children were rubbing fat and powder, Changsun Sheng was studying the military book hard, practicing archery, and appeared to be independent and special, and later he was one stone and two eagles, and he retreated from the Turkic army of 300,000 in one word, and his reputation was greatly enhanced.

Just a day after Dou Rongding's army camped in Gaoyueyuan, the Abodi army also rushed to Gaoyueyuan, and when they saw the Sui army stationed in the Jedi, they were overjoyed.

team and Sui army fighting, the two sides fought fiercely for a whole day, although the Apo army is many, any cheap, at this time the Great Sui army is composed of the forbidden army and the government soldiers, the annual training of the government soldiers must reach March, the forbidden army is all composed of recruits, armor, weapons are not the Turks can compare, if the same strength, the Turks do not dare to fight, often retreat.

On the first day of the battle, the losses of the Turks were much greater than those of the Sui army, and on the second day, Apo immediately changed his tactics, just surrounded the Sui army with light horses, and did not fight, and he sent camels to transport a large amount of water from behind, and the Sui army fled in embarrassment every time the Turks attacked, and the morale of the Sui army was still high in the first few days, thinking that the Turks were nothing more than that, but as the water brought gradually ran out, but could not get a little replenishment, the army could not help but panic.

Dou Rongding wanted to command the army to fight with the Turks several times, but Apo had already decided to win, and he did not fight with Dou Rongding at all, but relied on the fast horses, and kept avoiding the real and the false, the Sui army only had 10,000 cavalry of 30,000 horses, and without the support of infantry, the Sui army would never dare to let 10,000 cavalry fall into the 100,000 Turkic army, so it had to fight on a small scale, although many Turks were killed and wounded every day. But compared to the 100,000 Turkic army, Apo didn't care at all.

A few more days passed. Even the water in the commander's tent was gone, and some soldiers had fallen down because of thirst, and Dou Rongding himself was also hungry and thirsty, and secretly confessed to his subordinates to slaughter war horses and drink horse blood to quench their thirst. As soon as the news spread, the thirsty soldiers who were almost smoking, followed suit and secretly slaughtered their horses, and some of the precious cavalry soldiers were suddenly turned into foot soldiers.

"Kill!" Shi Wansui's spear stabbed out again and again. Several Turks screamed and clutched the place where they had been stabbed by Shi Wansui, and fell down with their eyes wide open. In the blink of an eye, they were trampled into meat by the iron hooves of both sides.

This is the seventh day of the war with the Turks, and Shi Wansui has no skills to use. Every time they go out to fight, the Turks are far away, and today Shi Wansui has a temperament, only with a thousand of his cronies, and bites the Turkic defenders, and when the Turks rush left and right, they are clothed.

Shi Wansui was already a general of Yitong when he was under Yang Yong. Later, he was promoted to the rank of general. But he made a big mistake when he was on the ground. often bullied the locality, and also raped and killed the daughter of a local squire. If it weren't for Yang Yong to protect him, at this moment, Shi Wansui may only have the share of being assigned as a pawn, although Yang Yong protected him, his position as a general still could not be kept, and he was demoted to General Yitong again.

Seeing that a thousand Sui troops dared to rush into his tens of thousands of rear troops, Ah Bo was furious and ordered to the left and right: "Surround him, don't let them run, kill one Sui army, reward one cow, and ten sheep." ”

Hearing that their own khan offered a rich reward, the Turks suddenly lifted their spirits, no longer retreated, and surrounded the Sui army in the middle, Shi Wansui suddenly felt that the pressure to advance was increasing.

"General, let's turn back, this place is already ten miles away from the camp, and if we don't go back, we will be stuck here!"

Shi Wansui's spear picked up two more Turks, and when he saw that hundreds of meters away represented the Turkic Khan, he raised his chapped lips, and then retreated.

"Kill!" A Sui soldier roared, the spear in his hand stabbed a Turk down, saw the Turk with a sheepskin bag hanging from his waist, his eyes lit up, he picked up the water bag with a spear, regardless of the fighting, pulled out the sheepskin bag stopper, and drank it in a big gulp. A Turkic man next to him was overjoyed, raised his scimitar and slashed directly at the neck of the Sui soldier who was drinking water, and the Sui army's head was immediately separated, and blood gushed out from the headless corpse, mixed with the water in the sheepskin pouch and flowed into the sand.

Shi Wansui was furious, took out a long arrow, and shot an arrow at the happy Turk, although hundreds of meters away, Shi Wansui's long arrow accurately shot into the throat of the Turk, and the Turk's smile was not yet gone, and he fell headlong into the sand.

"General, be careful!" Several Turks saw that Shi Wansui was holding a longbow in his hand, and felt that he could pick up a bargain, and the side horses viciously killed Shi Wansui, and Shi Wansui's own soldiers hurriedly reminded him.

Shi Wansui grabbed the bowstring with his mouth, took the spear back into his hand, shook his wrist a few times, and the silver tip of the spear quickly slashed across the neck of the rushing Turks, and several Turkic cavalry who rushed into the range of Shi Wansui's silver spear immediately fell in all directions, falling heavily on the sand, and blood gushed out from their necks.

Shi Wansui also followed the example of the Sui army just now, picked up the water bladder brought by the Turks and put it on the horse's back, although his throat was also very thirsty, he did not rush to drink, took off the longbow held in his mouth, and ordered: "Withdraw the army, try to grab the water bladder, but you are not allowed to drink water in battle." ”

The soldiers quickly passed on his order, but Shi Wansui did not turn around immediately, drew a long arrow from the quiver again, and shot it at the Turks standing in the distance.

"Apo is dead! Awa is dead! Seeing the great fall of the Turks, Shi Wansui's personal soldiers took the opportunity to shout.

Although no one believed that their own khan was dead, but suddenly the khan was gone, and the Turkic cavalry who were surrounding him couldn't help but look back, looking for Da, Shi Wanzai took advantage of the Turks' hesitation and poor command to lead his subordinates to kill the Turks

and returned to his camp.

When he saw that less than a thousand Sui cavalry stirred up his tens of thousands of troops and left safely, Apo Khan was so angry that he scolded his subordinates for their rice buckets, and desperately chased after his subordinates, until he had to stop until the periphery of the Sui army camp.

When he returned to the camp, Shi Wansui re-clicked his subordinates, less than 700 people came back from more than 1,000 people, and this impact lost more than 300 people, although the Turks killed at least 1,000, but it was not enough to make up for the losses of the Sui army, but the biggest gain of this trip was to recapture hundreds of sheepskin bags. Let the sergeant moisten his thirsty throat.

Changsun Sheng was greatly disturbed when he heard that Shi Wansui had only brought a thousand men to pursue the Turkic army. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Shi Wansui come back, and patted Shi Wansui's dusty shoulder: "Hooray, you are too reckless, don't do this next time." ”

Shi Wansui said in a sullen voice: "What about recklessness, instead of dying of thirst, it is better to kill a few more Turks." He took off the sheepskin bag he had just snatched from his horse and threw it to Changsun Sheng: "Here, you can drink some too." ”

The eldest grandson shook the sheepskin bag. There was almost half a bag of water in it, and Changsun Sheng knew that it was the water that Shi Wansui led his subordinates to exchange for their lives, and a little more water might be able to live one more day. Immediately glanced at Shi Wansui gratefully, and uncorked the sheepskin pouch. After a small sip of caution, he stopped drinking, and said, "Long live, can you give me all this water?" ”

Seeing that the eldest grandson was gaining inches, although Shi Wansui was a little unhappy in his heart, he still nodded, and the eldest grandson held the sheepskin bag. Walked up to some of the thirsty and fallen sergeants in the village. Gently pour water down their dry throats. Although a large number of horses are killed every day, the blood of horses is dry. There are still many sergeants who can't stand the thirst, as soon as these people smell the smell of water, they immediately go crazy and clutch the sheepskin pouch and take a big gulp, in order to let more people drink water, Changsun Sheng had to quickly grab it after they drank one or two sips.

When Shi Wansui saw this situation, he knew that he was wrong to blame Changsun Sheng, and he said to his soldiers: "Take out ten more water bladders." ”

Although more than a hundred water bladders were grabbed, only about half were left now, and after hearing Shi Wansui's order, his subordinates quickly divided ten water bladders, like the senior Sun Sheng, to feed the sergeants who had fallen to the ground with thirst.

Seeing that there was water, the other sergeants also became agitated, staring at the water bladder desperately, eager to grab it immediately, but they didn't dare to make a mistake because of Shi Wansui's usual prestige.

A voice that made the sergeant hate rang out: "Where is the water?" Don't drink it, keep it for the big handsome. ”

Shi Wansui looked coldly at the people who came over, the person who came was Li Min, the grandson of Taishi Li Mu, his father Li Chong, Li Chong died in the last battle with the Turks, Li Min inherited his father's title, and was only twenty years old because of the shadow of his father and ancestors to sit on the position of hussar general, Li Min was born in the general, but he had no talent, only singing, dancing and flattery.

Li Min had already seen the water bladder in the hands of Changsun Sheng and Shi Wansui's subordinates, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Quick, bring it to General Ben." ”

Changsun Sheng and the sergeants ignored it at all, and Li Min was furious: "If you don't listen to the military order, do you want to rebel?" ”

Shi Wansui shouted loudly: "There is no water, blood needs to come here." After speaking, Shi Wansui peeled off the lichen armor on his body, revealing his chest.

"Okay, okay, I won't meet you, I'll go find the handsome." Although Li Min's position was above Shi Wansui, in the face of Shi Wansui's anger, he didn't dare to make a mistake, so he had to return to the inner camp and report to Dou Rongding.

When Dou Rongding came over, more than ten water bladders were all empty and thrown to the ground, looking at these water bladders, Li Min picked them up one by one in disbelief, but he was disappointed that he couldn't even pour out a drop of water. Immediately said angrily: "Dashuai, I really saw them drinking water just now." ”

Dou Rongding has reined in a lot after this setback, he is not a stupid person, he probably knows the origin of this water, and knows that even if there is, I am afraid that Changsun Sheng and Shi Wansui will not take it out, in the face of this dilemma, he needs the help of Changsun Sheng and Shi Wansui to fight their way out of the encirclement, and it is not appropriate to offend these two people for the time being, and he shouted: "Forget it if there is no water." ”

Li Min was stunned for a moment, and wanted to say more, Dou Rongding had already said to Changsun Sheng with a smile: "General Changsun, General Shi, this marshal has important matters to discuss, please come to Ben Shuai's tooth tent." ”

"Yes." The eldest grandson and Shi Wansui had no choice but to follow Dou Rongding and enter the handsome tent.

As soon as he entered the tooth tent, Dou Rongding bowed to Changsun Sheng: "General Changsun, Ben Shuai regrets not listening to the general's words at the beginning, so that our army fell into a desperate situation, Ben Shuai is not sorry to die, but these 30,000 loyal and brave people can't die in vain, and I hope the general will come out to save me." ”

Changsun Sheng shook his head, in such a Jedi, surrounded by the superior forces of the Turks, and lacking water sources, since it was Sun Wu's regeneration, it was impossible to think about it in a short time.

Seeing Changsun Sheng's expression, Dou Rongding's face suddenly despaired, his staff accompanied him to wipe the fat and powder, eating, drinking and having fun, by now he had no master, and finally mustered up the courage to ask the eldest grandson for advice, but he didn't expect that even Changsun Sheng couldn't think about it, and muttered to himself: "Could it be that Ben Shuai is really going to die here." ”

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