Chapter Ninety-Five: Fiction and Reality in Calculation 3
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The thin monkey looked at the city wall that had been swept away by the crossbow arrows in shock, and turned around and gave Zhao Dahui a thumbs up. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Team Xue, trouble make way, sniping the enemy outside the city has to rely on the divine arm bow." Zhao Dahui triumphantly commanded his soldiers to push the Divine Arm Bow from the slope to the city wall, and shot and wounded several of the farthest escaped enemies like a hare. The Divine Arm Bow was far beyond the ordinary range and power, frightening the rest of the white warriors who fled into the wilderness.
"Get out of the city and catch the mouth." Seeing that there was no place for the city wall, the thin monkey turned his head to look at Ma Ling and Du Huan, who had rushed to the south gate, and immediately turned on his horse after getting permission, and led his team out of the city to chase the enemy.
"Du Changshi, the enemy in the east launched a fierce attack when he saw the flames rising, but he was shot by our army with a bow and crossbow and killed more than ten people and then retreated decisively and did not stay. Our army was a step late in leaving the city, and it was difficult to catch up. Judging from the dress of the corpse, it should be a mocking person. ”
"Tell General Ma Bei that the enemy on the west side of the country wanted to move to the southern wall, but was horrified by the crossbows of the engineer battalion, and most of them were killed and wounded, and the rest hid in the woods."
"The enemy outside the northern city wall did not retreat, and suffered many casualties. We caught a few live mouths, who claimed to be the personal guards of Prince Hui Yehu, and were ordered to come and steal the fierce oil fire. ”
Military intelligence collided everywhere, and everything went smoothly except for the south.
"Prince Ye Hu?!" Du Huan sighed: "If Ye Hu's personal guard is so pustuple, how can he become the prince." I heard that Prince Yidi Jian and Prince Ye Hu are not on good terms, and this time the soldiers and horses may have been sent by Yidi Jian. However, these samurai are dead soldiers and will never change their words. ”
"What is the origin of the men and horses in the east, fierce as tigers, retreating like the wind, not inferior to our army's tooth soldiers." Ma Lan doubted.
"If what I expected is right, it should be the Luoluo River from Youzhou."
"The strongest soldier under An Lushan!" Ma Lan shook his fist: "I really want to compare with them on the battlefield." ”
"It's better not to have that kind of opportunity." Du Huan smiled bitterly: "Du Hu and Fei Langjun did not hesitate to go to Chang'an by themselves and get involved in the whirlpool of the Korean dispute, just to avoid such a nightmare coming true. ”
Ma Xuan was about to answer, but suddenly saw a thin monkey roaring with a toothed soldier.
"Turgish and Great Cannibals!" The thin monkey jumped off the horse's back quickly: "Du Changshi, Ma Beijiang, the south is attacking the city with the guards, and the west is the big food warrior." ”
"No, it won't be a Turgish. With Yiyue here, why does the Kudulu Special Service need to make dangerous moves? Moreover, a few months ago, the Turkish army had reached a reconciliation with the Hezhong army and coordinated to harass Khorasan. Du Huan has a lot of confidence in Ayi Tenggena: "Someone must be trying to stir up the relationship between the Tuqi Department and Beiting." Although this group is not as strong as the Falling River, it can be called well-trained, and they are clearly prepared. Looking at the west of the moraine, the most suspicious should be Gelulu Xiaoye's protector Ra Sihan, otherwise why would Telke stay in Tingzhou and not return for a long time. ”
"And let Prie catch Turke?"
"Turk is cautious, he has no handle, and we can't arrest people at will. There are some things that you just need to know in your heart. Du Huan rejected Ma Lan's proposal: "However, we also have to give him a small warning, lest he think that there is no one in the North Court." ”
"Fei Langjun's fierce oil fire shines in Talas, no wonder it is so remembered." Ma Lan sighed.
"No matter how many troops and horses there are, they can't take away the formula of fierce oil and fire." Du Huan tapped his temples and said with a faint smile.
"Du Changshi, what about the captives?" The skinny monkey asked for instructions.
"After recording a confession and selling it to Su Yeju, Fei Langjun's mine is short of manpower." Du Huan has no mercy on the enemies who dare to offend the North Court.
"Du Changshi is strategizing, and he is like a god, except for the accident in the south, the rest of the places can be described as smooth sailing." Ma Lan smiled.
"Smooth sailing?!" Du Huan suddenly had a strange feeling: "How can it be so smooth?" Donggong took great pains to win over Cheng Qianli, and used fierce oil and fire to lure all forces into Tingzhou to make trouble, how could the means be so simple? ”
"It's not good, don't general, quickly lead the troops back to the city with me, the enemy must still have a backhand!" Du Huan couldn't tell what the problem was, but he vaguely guessed that the attack on the military village was just a cover, and the other party was not here from the beginning.
The fire flashed, and the sound of killing was faint.
Tong Luo Puli, who was hiding in the attic of the inner city, held a longbow and stared at the gate of Chengfu, and there were dozens of Su Ye Dart masters lurking in the streets below. Tong Luo Puli was not worried about the sound of fighting in the western suburbs, she knew that her husband and Du Changshi had been on guard for a long time.
"My sword skills are not much worse than Thirteen Niang, but in terms of the ability to climb high and low, I am indeed far inferior to her. If Thirteen Niang is here, she will definitely be on the roof, after all, that has the widest view. Tong Luo Puli, who had been nervous for a long time, couldn't help but desert.
At this moment, the street suddenly rushed to ride a few horses, and with the flickering lights in front of the Cheng Mansion, Tong Luo Puli was stunned to find that the leader was actually Yuan Zai, the judge of the North Court.
"Judge Yuan braved the snow to visit Cheng Qianli, what is his intention?" While thinking about it, Tong Luo Puli sent a code to the Su Ye Dart Master below.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) Yuan Zai entered the Cheng Mansion for a while, and saw Cheng Qianli, who was dressed in regular clothes, whipping his horse and jumping out of the gate, standing on the horse's back and looking west. Yuan Zai and more than a dozen Beiting tooth soldiers who were draped in their bodies followed closely behind, and everyone was a little nervous.
"Oh, it turns out that Judge Yuan found out that something had happened to the military village in the western suburbs and came to tell Cheng Qianli." Tong Luo Puli saw that Cheng Qianli only brought more than ten tooth soldiers, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Cheng Qianli was convinced that there was a change in the military village in the western suburbs, and immediately urged the horse to the south, probably planning to go out of the inner city to the west gate to investigate.
After waiting for Cheng Qianli and Yuan Zai to disappear in the vast wind and snow, Tong Luo Puli whistled, flew down from the attic window, jumped on the back of Xue Moqiu, bit the tail of Cheng Qianli and his party and walked along the Fu Street to the inner south gate.
The city is lonely, and the wind and snow are blurred.
When Luo Puli led the Su Ye Dart Master to arrive at the Inner South Gate, he suddenly felt like a man on his back.
"There are enemies? Could it be that Cheng Qianli has soldiers and horses in ambush here? With Luo Puli holding a knife in her right hand and Du Huan's fish talisman in her left hand, she slapped her horse forward, she was confident that with the combat power of Su Ye Dart Master, she could control Cheng Qianli neatly. But after she hurriedly passed through the inner south gate, she found that Cheng Qianli and his party had just stepped onto the side street, and there was nothing unusual on the street except for pedestrians and a few lonely carriages.
"Tong Luo, why are you here?" Cheng Qianli heard the sound behind him and turned his head in doubt.
"Deputy Cheng Duhu, I ......" Tong Luo Puli was pondering how to explain, but heard Yuan Zai shout sharply: "There are assassins!" ”
"Assassin!?" Tong Luo Puli followed the prestige, only to see a slender scimitar from the opposite side of the inner city rapidly whirling, pointing straight at Cheng Qianli's throat.
"Deputy Cheng, be careful!" The earth-shattering change made Tong Luo Puli a little dazed for a moment, but she subconsciously chose to remind Cheng Qianli.
"Damn!" Cheng Qianli, who was born in the army, waved his knife, and the magnificent scimitar fell into the snow in response.
"Big Eater Hundred Refining Scimitar?" Tong Luo Puli had rushed to Cheng Qianli's side, and identified the source of the murder weapon from the pattern of the knife blade cascading like waves.
"Carriage! The assassin is hiding in the carriage! Yuan Jae shouted.
"Carriage? Judge Yuan is polite and polite on weekdays, but he didn't expect to have such an eye in a critical moment! After being reminded by Yuan Zai, Tong Luo Puli also noticed that the carriage wandering around the neighborhood was a little strange.
The Beiting Tooth Soldiers divided four people to protect Cheng Qianli, while the rest of them ran to the carriage with their guns. The defenders on the inner south gate also noticed the change in the street below, and hurriedly went out as a group while beating the drum to give the alarm.
In the carriage, Mu Tai'a saw a group of people pouring out of the inner south gate, and he was wondering if Pei's subordinates had successfully stolen the recipes and drawings, and a series of changes that occurred behind him made him feel deceived.
"Albenny, withdraw!" He who had no intention of fighting Mutaia rushed out of the carriage, mounted a large horse with a well-saddled sheath, and slashed the rope with his sword, urging the horse to the west.
"The Assassin is alert!" Cheng Qianli, who stabilized his mind, looked up to the sky and laughed, and his unprotected neck was exposed.
"Ahh Cheng Qianli suddenly let out a wail and beat his chest sharply, as if his breath was a little uncomfortable.
"It's not good, Deputy Cheng is poisoned!" Yuan Zai hurriedly held Cheng Qianli, who was falling like a mountain, and in a panic, his hand brushed Cheng Qianli's throat several times. But Cheng Qianli was so burly that Yi Yuanzai's body couldn't bear its weight at all, and the two of them fell together in the thick snow in an instant.
"Is it a poison needle?" Tong Luo Puli is not familiar with poison, but she has heard Su Sanniang say that some rangers are good at using poisonous hidden weapons. She searched against the route of the hidden weapon, and finally found that on the wall on the south side of the side street, there was a slender figure with a cat's waist speeding eastward.
"The assassin is on the wall!" With Luo Puli swinging his sword and pointing to the east, Su Ye immediately rode away. The soldiers of the Northern Court, who were chasing Mutaia, also stopped their horses and tried to turn.
"The Assassins are great cannibals, and they want to escape from Simon." Yuan Zai, who was overwhelmed by Cheng Qianli, was so frightened that he yelled, and the Beiting Yabing was at a loss for a while.
"Beiting Tooth Soldiers, chase the enemy to the east!" Tong Luo Puli glanced at Yuan Zai, and immediately showed Du Huan's fish talisman, and ordered in a coquettish voice.
Beiting Yabing already admired Ma Ling and his wife very much, and at this moment, seeing that Du Changshi Yufu was in the hands of Tong Luo Puli, he no longer hesitated. But when they wanted to turn around to the east, they heard Yuan Zai wailing: "Vice Cheng is dead to protect the poison!" ”
"What?!" The Beiting Tooth Soldier who was in charge of guarding Cheng Qianli's face turned pale, and hurriedly jumped off his horse to touch his snort. The military discipline of the Tang army is very strict, and the main general will be punished if he dies, and even if he can catch the murderer and avenge the main general, at most he will only reduce the punishment.
"The black-clothed food has a blood feud with our army, and in order to avenge the defeat of Talas, they actually assassinated Cheng Deputy Duhu with despicable and shameless means, which is unbearable!" Yuan Jae roared angrily.
As if to verify Yuan Zai's judgment, bursts of fighting and piercing weapons broke out at the west gate of Tingzhou City, but the east of the city was silent.
"Kill!" The red-eyed soldiers of the North Court rushed westward like mad tigers.
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) with Luo Puli stared at the panting Yuan Zai, and for a moment felt that he was so strange. But she didn't have time to think about it, and the scimitar tapped the snow ink and rode east. But when she caught up with Master Suye, she found that the footprints on the wall had long since disappeared......
When Du Huan and Ma Lan arrived at the West Gate with their troops, the tragic battle was nearing the end. Under the siege of the defenders of the West Gate and the soldiers of the North Garden, the corpses of nearly 100 black-clothed warriors were scattered all over the field, and some Tang soldiers were also slightly injured.
The humiliation of being almost killed by the Khorasan cavalry three years ago was unforgettable for the defenders of Tingzhou, and since then, the defenders of the city gates have been training diligently to wash away the shame. This time, the warriors of the Wuhu merchant shops lurking inside and outside the city attacked at the same time, and the defenders of the West Gate were a little flustered at first, but they quickly stabilized their positions and dragged the enemy with their geographical advantages and equipment advantages. The only regret was that the fierce Mutaia and Abeni had escaped before the North Court soldiers arrived.
Sorting out the before and after of Qing Cheng Qianli's assassination in detail, Du Huan looked at Yuan Zai coldly, and stopped talking.
"With Mr. Luo's dart head, how did Deputy Cheng Duhu get poisoned? What kind of poison did the assassins use? Du Huan asked.
"The assassin should have used a hidden weapon such as a poison needle to shoot the throat of the mid-range deputy capital protection, but unfortunately the hidden weapon did not know where it fell, and the source of the poison could not be traced for the time being." Tong Luo Puli was a little frustrated.
"Damn, I didn't expect them to dare to assassinate Cheng Qianli in the face of the world's disapproval." Du Huan looked up to the sky and sighed, annoyed, he naturally didn't believe that it was a poisonous hand under the black-clothed eater: "All the plans to protect are ruined in one fell swoop, this is my sin!" For the sake of today's plan, we must inform the capital of the changes in Tingzhou as soon as possible, and at the same time make every effort to arrest the ghosts, snakes, and gods of all walks of life who are still on the run! ”
The wind blows the snow and the shoes step on the frost and cold.
When there was chaos in Tingzhou City, on Chengdong Avenue, several carrier pigeons fluttered out of the carriage, cut through the overlapping snow curtain, and flew to distant Chang'an.
In the carriage, Pei Cheng picked up a glass of warm rice wine and handed it to Duan Daluo, who looked indifferent: "Mrs. Duan has worked hard, and the victory in this battle is all your work." A thin glass of wine, talk about respect. ”
"I'm just a sword that obeys orders, and Shopkeeper Pei hollows out his mind and lays out the maze, which is the backbone of winning this battle." Duan Dala took the wine glass and put it aside.
"Duan Niangzi is too cautious, she has been with her for several months, and she still doesn't trust so." Pei Cheng also complained truthfully and falsely.
"I don't believe in anyone but Master." Duan Dala is as cold as ice for thousands of years.
"The Wuhu business is really ridiculous, although a certain person had planned to blame them, who knew that he was clever and fell into the net." Pei Cheng didn't think it was upset, and changed the topic with a smile.
"The leaders of the Black Eaters are actually quite alert, but they guessed wrong from the beginning." Duan Daluo said lightly.
"The people in white were just coming to Tingzhou to inquire about intelligence, and I temporarily decided to pull them in, which can be regarded as compensation for Beiting." Pei Cheng took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "An Lushan's Luoluo River, Yidi Jian's personal guards and Mou Sihan's personal soldiers will all suffer a lot of losses, let them go underground to find Cheng Qianli to settle this foolish account." ”
"Unfortunately, we couldn't find the recipe and the drawings. I thought that Wang Zhengjian's secret room would hide countless secrets, but I didn't expect that there was only a messy sand table inside. Duan Daluo was a little regretful.
"Wang Zheng sees that he is thoughtful, how can he put secrets at his fingertips." Pei Cheng smiled: "I can probably guess where the recipe and drawings are, but I don't care about it at the moment." ”
"Where are you hiding?" Duan Dara's narrow eyes became as sharp as a snake.
"Duan Niangzi, a certain strategy is not profound, why do many heroes who dominate one side join us one after another?" Pei Cheng did not answer the rhetorical question.
"Why?" Duan Dala was also a little puzzled.
"Greed!" Pei Cheng said: "They were more or less suspicious, but the recipes and drawings were too tempting, and they didn't want to let go of the slightest possibility, so they had to obediently listen to a certain dispatch." If Duan Niangzi can't put down the recipes and drawings, be careful of being used. ”
"I'm not a general who leads troops to war, why do I need recipes and drawings?" Duan Dala snorted coldly, pulled a blanket and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"Duan Daluo, you are willing to travel thousands of miles west to disturb Tingzhou, and what you can't let go of is naturally not the recipe and blueprint." Pei Cheng, who sneered, looked west and muttered: "Wang Fei, Wang Fei, you will lose the third encounter!" ”
The clouds are low and twilight, and the snow is dancing back to the wind.
Not long after Pei Cheng's carrier pigeon spread its wings and soared into the sky, several pigeons also flew in Tingzhou City. Two groups of carrier pigeons, one after the other, flew over the vast land of 4,000 miles, and scattered into Chang'an, where the snow was dotted.
At this time, it was noon on November 22, and in the territory of Beiting, all the men and horses besieging the military village in the western suburbs were wiped out, except for most of the people who escaped by taking advantage of the snow to drag down the river; Captain Terk was summoned by Du Huan to the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate and was reprimanded, and he immediately left Tingzhou in disgrace; Pei Cheng and Duan Tula, who had changed their faces, walked unhurriedly on the way back to Chang'an. In the Huaqing Palace in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, the splendid Winter Solstice Dynasty will come to an end......
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