The wait was always long, and the coalition forces camped motionless for two days without any sign of sending troops in order to wait for reliable news.

According to reason, the coalition army should take advantage of the fact that the morale is still sufficient, and continue to attack the city with all their might, and compete with the Tang army for casualties.

Even if it is a one-to-ten price in exchange, it will definitely be the advantage of the coalition forces. Moreover, the coalition army can rely on the large number of people and constantly attack the city with sparrow warfare, even if the Tang army's weapons are good, it cannot withstand the fatigue of repeated sieges.

But the Coalition didn't do that, they were wasting precious time.

It is possible to wait two more days for an early encounter with the Tang Army's reinforcements and a tragic battle will break out, but all the high-ranking generals of the coalition army unanimously acquiesced in waiting for news from the Church of Our Lady.

The cost of attacking the city is too high, even if they can capture the city, these Western Regions coalition forces can't afford such a price. In these countries with small populations, every soldier is a valuable labor force that cannot be easily compromised.

Dunhuang is only the first city they encountered after entering the customs, and it is also the first obstacle encountered, if too many troops are consumed on it, the next war is completely meaningless, and they have no capital to fight against the Tang army.

What's more, if the cities behind are equipped with such terrifying weapons, then what are you playing? Everyone went home to wash and sleep.

The coalition forces did not move and rested in place, but the Tang army was not so calm, they had suffered losses from two night attacks, so they paid close attention to the movements of the coalition forces day and night, and did not dare to relax in the slightest.

And Chen Fei was even more crazy, making thunderbolt fires, and almost squandered all the materials collected in the city in two days, creating more than a thousand thunderbolts, which made the Tang army's confidence a little thicker.

At present, there are still more than 4,000 thunderbolts, and if you save a little money, you can still resist them for a while.

Although the two sides are not at war, the atmosphere between the two camps is very delicate. When the Tang army saw the enemy's scouts flashing in the distance from a distance, they would unconsciously clench the weapons in their hands.

At noon on the third day, a fast horse bypassed Dunhuang and entered the coalition camp from the southwest, and the information requested by the Church of Our Lady was returned.

After multiple investigations by the Church of Our Lady, it was finally confirmed that the defenders of Suzhou and Ganzhou were not equipped with thunderbolts. As soon as the news arrived in the camp, Ying Hao summoned all the generals to announce the matter.

"Is the information reliable?" Some generals asked questions, obviously suspicious of the news of the Church of Our Lady, fearing that this was another smoke bomb released by the Tang army, so they deliberately lured them to attack, and finally caused them to run around at both ends, and lost a large number of soldiers, and the gains outweighed the losses.

"The news this time is absolutely reliable, and the conclusions reached by our people who personally infiltrated the Tang Army's armory to investigate can't be wrong!" Ying Hao is full of information, he may be deceived by outsiders joining forces, but he believes that his subordinates will never deceive him.

The generals of the coalition looked at each other, hesitating whether to trust Ying Hao again.

Seeing everyone hesitating, Ying Hao couldn't help but snort angrily: "Everyone, what are you still hesitating about? Now, do we have a choice? Isn't it just for this result that everyone has been waiting for so many days? Now that I get the news that everyone wants, but I don't believe me, how can I achieve great things if I hesitate like this? I should make a military order here if someone dares to do so, and if the information is false, the military order will be dealt with! ”

Seeing Ying Hao's military order, everyone's expressions changed, seeing that Ying Hao was not joking like this, it seemed that he could be trusted for a while, and some generals took the lead in expressing their willingness to believe.

Someone took the lead, naturally someone followed, and soon, the generals in the camp no longer hesitated and chose to send troops to Suzhou.

However, sending troops to Suzhou naturally did not swagger around under the nose of the Tang Army, who knows if the Tang Army would stab them in the back.

Therefore, they discussed, arranged the time for sending troops to the evening, and arranged the broken army to prevent the Tang army in Dunhuang from chasing them out and making no preparations.

The Tang army in the city naturally did not know the plan of the coalition army, and still nervously guarded the wall, always paying attention to the sounds around the city, for fear that the coalition army would carry out another sneak attack at night and suffer heavy casualties.

After nightfall, the allied soldiers quietly bypassed Dunhuang and left for Suzhou, the nearest city to the east.

Although there are more than 100,000 people in the coalition army, Ying Hao is very careful, in order not to alarm the Tang army, more than 100,000 people are dispatched in batches, so as to reduce the sound of the march to a minimum, to avoid the Tang army from being alert, and he also left 10,000 soldiers, ambushed on the road to Suzhou, if there is a Tang army chasing out, ambush it!

Overnight, the 170,000 allied troops made a big shift under the night when the Tang army could not see, but the Tang army on the city wall was unaware, still staring nervously at the range they could see, unaware that the enemy had quietly moved away.

The next morning, the soldiers on the city wall glanced at the enemy camp with their worried eyes, and then yawned a lot, waiting for the soldiers to take over for a while. After another night, I can get a good night's sleep. The soldier thought beautifully.

"Huh? Wait a minute!! He suddenly realized that something was wrong, and he froze halfway through the yawn, and glanced at the enemy's base camp with wide eyes, two or even three eyes.......

"No... Gone? The soldier jumped up on the spot in shock, pointed to the position of what should have been the enemy camp a few miles ahead, and said in surprise: "Why is the enemy gone?" Where did they go? ”

There was a commotion on the city walls, and almost at the same time, all the soldiers standing on the walls discovered this fatal problem.

The army of more than 100,000 disappeared silently overnight, and it is suspected that the army has withdrawn!

After receiving the news, Chen Fei and other generals hurriedly climbed to the city tower, took out the binoculars and looked at them again, and finally confirmed that the enemy had indeed disappeared, and he had disappeared cleanly with the battalion!

"Victory! We've won! Forced back an army of more than 100,000! There were soldiers cheering on the city wall, and then, under the leadership of some people, almost all the soldiers shouted "Datang Wansheng!" ”

"Something isn't right." Chen Fei touched his chin and felt that things were not so simple.

If he wants to capture the old man, he played this trick when he was dealing with the Tubo soldiers a year ago, faking his own withdrawal, and then taking advantage of the enemy's slack to give the enemy a fatal blow, he was afraid that the Western Regions Alliance would also play this trick.

"Send out scouts, and search me all within a radius of twenty miles! If you want to search carefully, you are not allowed to miss a direction! Also, give me a good judgment on the enemy's march, and we need to figure out where the enemy is going! ”

At the end, Chen Fei added: "Strictly order all soldiers not to relax, if there is any misconduct, military law will deal with it!" ”

(End of chapter)