"Lisan, immediately lead the team to rush forward for me, and target Guazhou City." At the source of the Qingshui River, Li Lisan, who was originally urgently transferred to the rear army of the Tiance Army to serve as a blocking mission, and his 30,000 disrupted troops received Wan Yi's urgent order before they were ready. In Wan Yi's opinion, he was able to receive the news from Guazhou, so Cao Rengui, who was halfway there, must have guessed what Wang Houchun was doing in the city, and if Cao Rengui returned to help at this time, the troops in Zhang Sheng's hands would not be able to cope with the impact of the 100,000-strong army, so almost when Li Tianyi's side was about to disarm the Uighurs who broke through, he also came to Li Lisan's side.

"Don't worry about the establishment, tell the brothers below, only recognize clothes and not people, generals at all levels gather the soldiers around them nearby and reorganize while pulling out, you must arrive before Cao Rengui attacks Guazhou City, and then don't care so much about me fighting." After Wan Yi sent Li Lisan away, he hurried to Liu Xuan's side, thinking about whether he could continue to send troops to reinforce Guazhou, but found that at this time, the remaining Uighurs on the main battlefield had been cut into parts and parts, and the grenades that replaced artillery as close support weapons became the best weapon for the Tiance army to attack. This latest thing sent by the logistics department is similar to a wooden stick, which is better than a rifle. For the Tiance Army, which has just transformed from a cold weapon, this thing is actually similar to the hidden weapon used before, although it is not used much on the battlefield, it is a weapon that everyone will give themselves a little bit of life-saving. It's just that these grenades that have reacted well are actually half-finished products in Li Xuanqing's eyes, and what he originally wanted to imitate was the kind of long-handled grenades of later generations, at least they were simple and easy and powerful. However, the technical conditions of the production line for casting shells did not reach the level of later generations, and it was not possible to embed more appendage fragments and steel balls in the bomb body. Although Li Xuanqing couldn't see it, the response of the Flying Eagle Brigade after the trial was not bad, Qin Yao immediately produced a batch and sent it over after learning that his position was often broken through by the opposing cavalry on the Western Front. During the positional battle just now, many soldiers forgot to use it as soon as they were nervous, and only then did they remember. In fact, not only soldiers, but even high-ranking generals like Wan Yi forgot that they actually had this close-range infantry support weapon.

"You're here, I'll go and see Gao Siji and see how much combat strength their cavalry still has." Wan Yi nodded, at this time, the battlefield did not need him as the supreme general, and each department could make its own decisions, so after saying hello to Liu Xuan, he took his personal guards around the battlefield to find the Chinese army under the command of Gao Siji's corps. Compared with the main army, which needs to be responsible for three aspects of encirclement, Gao Siji of the rear army only needs to attack in one direction, although the troops are small, but only need one direction to attack, in fact, the task is much easier than Xue Wanli, and the most important thing is that they are from the grassland for a long time, almost all of them are one person and two horses, and even after the destruction of the southern Tartars, they have begun to configure one person and three horses. Gao Siji had already begun to collect his troops at this time, because although the battlefield ahead was chaotic, the main force of the Tiance Army was constantly cutting off the Uighur cavalry, and the remaining 30,000 or 40,000 people had no power to fight back at all, and it was not a good thing to have too many troops at this time.

"General, the banner of the marshal is coming." Gao Siji originally planned to let the guards pass on the order to gradually shrink, but the voice of the chief of the guards came from his side, and Wan Yi's handsome banner came quickly towards his side.

"Let's go, follow me to see the big handsome." Gao Siji's heart moved, Wan Yi came over at this time, and what tasks could not be accomplished, you must know that he is the commander of an army, controlling hundreds of thousands of people in the Western Expedition Group Army, although the battlefield is nearing the end at this time, he can't run around casually. Therefore, Gao Siji almost went to greet him while ordering the people around him to be on guard immediately.

"Dashuai, the last general Gao Siji came to report." Gao Siji stepped forward, turned over, dismounted, and saluted Wan Yi.

"General Gao, you immediately dispatch two battalions of cavalry to immediately set off to the east to chase Li Lisan, and help him clear the Guiyi army outside Guazhou City." Wan Yi didn't explain much to Gao Siji, but just asked him to immediately dispatch cavalry to cooperate with Li Lisan to besiege the Guiyi army outside Guazhou City. In this way, the 50,000-strong Tiance army will inevitably be able to hold Cao Rengui back.

Gao Siji was originally a famous general, although he couldn't guess what happened specifically, but Wan Yi personally came over to transfer troops to show that something big must have happened over there, so he directly asked the deputy general User to immediately lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to quickly cross the horse.

In fact, when Wan Yi asked Gao Siji to send troops, Wang Houchun was also solemn on the city wall of Guazhou, this plan was originally planned by him, so he naturally knew where the risk was, so almost at the moment when Zhang Sheng surrendered the defenders in the city, he directly ordered the entire battalion of Anxi Battalion to immediately build the city, and asked Sima Daoxin to take his men to watch over these surrendered personnel. After all, Sima Daoxin belonged to the same camp as them before, and several of them had a very good relationship with the generals, taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Houchun asked him to find a way to persuade these people to really return to the Tiance Army and the Tang Dynasty.

"The second chief, it's really high, you can take Guazhou City so quickly." Zhang Sheng saw Wang Houchun standing on the city tower staring at the night sky outside, and said with a smile: "I had too much fun fighting today." ”

"Enjoyable? You'll have a great time later. Let your men and horses immediately put all their strength on the castle tower, and bring all the weapons you brought into the city, as well as the bed crossbows for the Guiyi army, and so on, you can use as many as you can. Wang Houchun shook his head, as if he was listening carefully to the movements in the night sky, and his voice became extremely low and said: "In addition, a small number of men and horses will be placed on each of the other three city walls, Cao Rengui is coming soon, get ready." ”

"Cao Rengui is coming?" As soon as Zhang Sheng heard this, he immediately understood what was going on, so without saying much, he immediately arranged for people to go to several other guards immediately, and at the same time commanded some of Sima Daoxin's county soldiers to move out the city collection equipment of the Guiyi Army, whether it was useful or not, move it out first.

Zhang Sheng had just finished doing this, and before he could let his men rest a little, a little spark appeared on the horizon outside the city, and he heard Wang Houchun's voice coming: "This Cao Rengui is really not ordinarily careful, it seems that the arrangement on the senior brother's side should not be needed." After muttering to himself, he said: "Zhang Sheng, remember that your men and horses must hold out for two hours, and the reinforcements on the marshal's side are estimated to be behind Cao Rengui, whether we can hold Guazhou City depends on whether your men and horses can withstand these two hours." ”

"Don't worry, as long as I, Zhang Sheng, am not dead, Cao Rengui of Guazhou City will not be able to take it away." Zhang Sheng laughed cruelly and immediately dispatched his personal guards to dispose of the dozen bed crossbows that had just been brought up, while Wang Houchun left his personal guards on the city wall to prepare to put explosive bags at any time to support, although there were only a dozen left, but in the most critical time, these explosive bags must become a sharp weapon to kill and injure the Guiyi army.

Wang Houchun didn't have much interest in defending the city, if it wasn't for the fact that he had just recovered Guazhou, and there were still prisoners inside, he wouldn't mind letting Zhang Sheng go out to fight for a while, and the sharpness that frustrated Cao Rengui made him unable to see the reality in the city, so he would get through these two hours first. But now, I am afraid that once Zhang Sheng's troops leave the city, there will definitely be big problems inside, and even Sima Daoxin himself may repeat. However, as long as the men and horses of the Anxi camp are in the city, Sima Daoxin must obediently guard the prisoners, Wang Houchun is actually quite interested in this Sima Daoxin, so after throwing the city wall to Zhang Sheng to deal with himself, he directly took a few people to Sima Daoxin. At this time, Sima Daoxin took his own county soldiers to escort all the more than 20,000 surrendered righteous troops to the large camp in the city, and the soldiers and generals were guarded by the division.

"General Sima, life is so comfortable, don't you know that there is still a crisis in this Guazhou City now?" Wang Houchun saw that this guy even put the wine and food on the table, and immediately understood that this guy was also attentive, but Wang Houchun didn't care at all, and stepped forward to say a word.

"My name is Wang Houchun, please take a seat." After Wang Houchun came over, he ignored the few people around him and stood up and said with a smile: "Don't drink the wine, everyone will have to fight in a while, and you will need the help of a few generals at that time." ”

"War? Isn't the war in Guazhou City over? Sima Daoxin didn't know what Wang Houchun was thinking, but he understood that the young man in front of him was only afraid of his extremely high status in the Tang Army, so he directly followed the other party's thoughts and asked.

"The battle of Heyuan, my Tiance army, has already won. Cao Rengui is only afraid that he will not be able to catch up, he will definitely catch up now, so now he needs your help to withstand two hours, the main force of the Tiance Army is already chasing behind, and now the key is these two hours. Do you have a heart? Wang Houchun smiled faintly, as if he was saying something insignificant, but his eyes suddenly shone sharply.

As soon as Wang Houchun's words were finished, everyone's faces changed, and Sima Daoxin secretly complained, and was about to speak when he heard Wang Houchun continue: "Cao Rengui will be defeated in this battle, and Guazhou City is already in the pocket of my Tiance army. The battle of the Tang Dynasty against the northwest was also in line with the general trend. Ladies and gentlemen, don't you want to make a contribution to your family for eternity? I don't plan to let you go up to the city wall to fight with the Guiyi army, you just need to do a good job of logistics, and your credit will be calculated separately at that time. ”

"I wonder what the general needs us to do?" Wang Houchun's words obviously made these people think, and one of them, who was sitting next to Sima Daoxin, asked.

"Help transport the city collection equipment, and then take it to block the city gate under the city, don't let Cao Rengui really knock the city gate open. Don't worry about the rest, you're worried about the Tiance Army, in fact, I can't be completely at ease with you. To be honest, if Cao Rengui comes back, it means that they have already learned the news of the defeat on the front, and you will be able to verify what I said. Wang Houchun directly said that everyone's thoughts were broken and smiled: "The battle to defend the city will start soon, so you can think about it." ”

"General Sima, take your men and horses with me, it's up to them whether they live or die." Wang Houchun also ignored the reactions of these people, so many years of experience in the war made him not much exciting about this war, so he simply came to be ruthless, I believe that these people will figure it out as long as they don't have a problem with their brains, but this Sima Daoxin is very interesting, after hearing his words, he didn't care about anything and directly pulled his more than 4,000 county soldiers to help Zhang Sheng.

At this time, all the guards were gone, at the beginning, those prisoners didn't find anything, after all, they had just been disarmed, many people were stunned, and the situation of the Guiyi Army over the years was not good, and the treatment of the soldiers was basically zero, so many soldiers basically had no idea of belonging, and it was actually not bad to be a prisoner.

Most of the Guiyi prisoners were happily eating their meals, but some gradually found out that something was wrong, and the county soldiers guarding them were gone, leaving only those soldiers carrying food around them. Without the guards, this group of people also started their own thoughts, and as soon as the main force of the large army left, their group of people lost Guazhou City, if they were caught by Cao Rengui, they would definitely all be killed.

"General An, you are the highest-ranking official we have here, what do you think we should do now?" These people gathered around An Dawu and said in a low voice. In fact, these people's minds at this time are also very complicated, they naturally understand the military regulations of the Guiyi Army, and all those who want to understand but do not gather around An Dawu at this time are thinking of this truth, rather than being killed by the military regulations of the Guiyi Army, it is better to follow the Tiance Army, anyway, I have never heard of the Tiance Army killing prisoners.

An Dawu was just about to speak when he heard the faint sound of a horn and shouting of killing, "Did you hear that?" Cao Dashuai has already led the army to fight, although the Tiance army in the city is strong, but the strength is insufficient, plus Sima Daoxin's county soldiers are just less than 10,000, and they are definitely not Cao Dashuai's opponents. If the big guy listens to me, then find a way to rush out of here, and then cooperate with Cao Dashuai to recover Guazhou. ”

However, when An Dawu's side was discussing, the group of generals that Sima Daoxin had found before also discussed the results, and they actually had the results when they saw Sima Daoxin following Wang Houchun without looking back, but what these people thought more clearly was that if they wanted to follow the Tiance Army to make a career, they couldn't be like Sima Daoxin, after all, Sima Daoxin had already submitted a letter of submission.

"Yang Langjun, what should we do? According to the meaning of the general Wang just now, to help defend the city? One of them asked, and the group began to think about what to do as soon as they agreed on their opinions. These are all the identities of Lang Generals, and they are also the main generals of the Zhichong Mansion of the previous government military system.

"General Wang meant to hold the city for two hours, and now half an hour has passed, before the shouting of killing sounded, indicating that Cao Dashuai's soldiers and horses have just begun to attack the city, I think the Tiance army will definitely be able to withstand it. We didn't play a big role in the past and now, so we might as well solve the troubles here. The Lang general surnamed Yang shook his head, pointed to the prisoner camp behind him, and said: "There are so many prisoners here, and now Brother Sima's soldiers and horses have also gone out, if there are no strong soldiers and horses to guard it, I am afraid that there will be a big chaos on the side of the Tiance Army." The brothers immediately went to gather their subordinates and then held the commanding heights everywhere, once someone launched a rebellion, they would immediately go up, and our glory and wealth would depend on today. ”

"Okay, since Brother Yang has decided that a few of our brothers will do this." The Lang general who spoke just now clapped his hands and smiled bitterly: "But we don't have any weapons in our hands, and these Tiance troops are too ruthless, and they don't have anything left." But before he finished speaking, the soldiers who had been busy with his side suddenly put down the burden of food in their hands and said, "A few Lang Jun, in the Xuanying Guard of the Xia Tiance Army, the weapons have been sent to you, gather people and horses to come with me." ”