After three days' journey, Yang Chong's army rushed to Rouyuan Town, and Shi Wannian led 5,000 allied troops to meet him, trying to take advantage of the exhaustion of Gaochang's army and win the battle. However, the hard bows and giant crossbows of the Gaochang army made Shi Wannian stop, especially the giant crossbows on the ten carriages, which came from the idea of the transiculator, and the fan-shaped angle made the opponent suffer; The coalition forces themselves were a temporary grouping, and after losing more than 700 men in one attack, they immediately died down.

The next day's battle made Shi Wannian lose his soul, it stands to reason that Yang Chong is here to recover Yiwu County, he should be more anxious than Shi Wannian, but he didn't expect Yang Chongli to set up camp and didn't fight for a day. Shi Wannian concluded that Yang Chong was waiting for a large number of infantry to come up with siege equipment, so he could only send men and horses to challenge, but Luo Shixin was picked off five generals in a row in front of the army, and no one dared to fight.

Yang Chong knew that in order to reinforce the Qinghai war, Qu Tugai transferred all the food and materials to the sea, and when Tutun set up a run, he burned the granaries of Yiwu City and Rouyuan Town, and Shi Wannian's army was in a small city, and the pressure on materials was no less than his own. After the two sides held each other for four days, Ye Heilong's grain team and infantry followed, and Du Yan collected all the donkeys and vicuñas, and the speed of travel was naturally much faster.

That night, thousands of rockets were fired into Rouyuan Town, and the rockets designed by Yang Chong were not to hurt people, one was to tie flammable materials such as oil-soaked linen cloth to the back of the arrow, and then shoot them into the city with a bow and crossbow after ignition; Most of the houses in the city are made of wood, and the fire can't go down, and the war horses in Rouyuan Town neighed all night, and they can be clearly seen outside the city, and the fire has not been extinguished until dawn. Most of the miscellaneous people in the coalition army have stopped, and after so many days, the Boluo tribe has not come to help, and must have fled with a large number of prisoners.

Shi Wannian persuaded for a day, and finally at dusk he saw a cavalry of the Tiele people coming from the east, about a thousand people, and a thousand horsemen quickly rushed out of the Gaochang military camp to intercept them; The two sides were inseparable from each other more than ten miles away, the Tiele people lit a fire for help, Shi Wannian was afraid that the fighter plane would be fleeting, and let the two thousand people of Zahu go to the Gaochang military camp on the one hand, and on the other hand, he took a thousand cavalry to meet the Tiele cavalry.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they ran to the battlefield, Tiele and Gaochang rushed over together, and Shi Wannian didn't even have time to expand the camp, so he was killed and fled back to the city with no more than a hundred people; More than half of the 2,000 cavalry attacking Gaochang County were killed or wounded, and the wounded could not retreat, and finally all of them were hacked to death by the other party, and Shi Wannian lost nearly 2,000 people in one day.

This was Ling Jingxian's strategy, taking advantage of the night to shoot rockets to disturb the morale of the opponent's army, Suo Yanshou took a thousand people out of the camp secretly, detoured to the east of Rouyuan Town, and then pretended to be Tiele people to the west; There were Tiele people among the soldiers, Suo Yanshou and Bo Luobu had fought each other, and all the formations, horns, and fires were in perfect contact with each other, which finally made Shi Wannian fooled in impatience. While rewarding everyone, Yang Chong ordered another night of rockets, 2,000.

The city fell into a sea of fire again, Shi Wannian could not resist everyone, so he could only agree to abandon the city and flee, more than 2,000 people escaped from the east gate, and were discovered by the scouts of Gaochang County, Tuoba Anhu immediately led 2,000 horsemen to chase and kill. The coalition army collapsed when it went out of the city, and Tuoba Anhu bit Shi Wannian's largest team and beheaded four hundred; Yang Chong ordered Ye Heilong to lead the infantry to stay in Rouyuan Town, and 4,000 cavalry went straight to Yiwu City.

What is surprising is that the Boluo tribe did run away with a large number of captives and materials, and Shi Wannian saw this situation, so he didn't dare to stay longer, and fled back to his post and kept secret. Yang Chong ordered to go out to settle the people, let Tutun set to pacify the people of the old city, and stationed himself in the new city, Tuoba Anhu asked if he would pursue, Yang Chong shook his head and said: "Send someone to send a letter to the Boluo Department, as long as they surrender and put the people back, they will give Rouyuan Town to live in; He also sent people to recruit Shi Wannian. ”

Ge Qian ran away in Lu Yanchi, but there were more than 1,000 Sui troops led by Yiwu County Kai Cao Shen Military Dugu Lan and the town lord Mai Zhongcai around the sea, when Shi Wannian broke the city, the high-ranking officials sent by the imperial court all died, only Dugu Lan escaped with more than a dozen horsemen, fortunately, there were 500 soldiers under Mai Zhongcai, and the two immediately gathered all the Tuntian soldiers who stayed in Huanhai, issued weapons, and repelled several attacks by the rebels.

Knowing that Yang Chong had recovered Yiwu County, Dugu Lan came in a hurry, Yang Chong praised a few words, and immediately asked Dugu Lan to take charge of shipping grain from around the sea, and sent someone to inform Qu Tugai. Six days later, the envoy of the Boluo Department arrived, confirmed that it was Yang Chong in Yiwu County, and immediately said that he would send back the people who had been robbed, and more than 6,000 people from the whole clan would descend the mountain one after another. The people of Baishan Tiele are afraid of Yang Chong, but they also know that this Han man is full of words.

Ten days later, the people were put back, along with the chief of the Bo Luoqiao Department, Yang Chong wrote a letter, asking Hao Wen to accompany Bo Luoqiao to Rouyuan Town, and handed over to Ye Heilong, and instructed Bo Luoqiao to send back half of the materials he had grabbed, and the other half was equivalent to two hundred war horses. Dugu Lan and Mai Zhongcai, who sent the grain, saw Yang Chong's majesty, and Mai Zhongcai asked Yang Chong: "Why didn't Lord Yang recruit them as soon as he came up?" ”

Yang Chong said with a smile: "The Hu people pursue the principle of the law of the jungle, they are only willing to obey the most powerful person, if you don't beat him up, everything you say is empty, if we are blocked in Rouyuan Town, no one will believe the promises made." When the Bo Luo Department settles in Rouyuan Town, Shi Wannian will surrender the city, he is used to a comfortable life, and it is difficult for him to wander around again. ”

Dugu Ran, who was in his thirties and had no bad experience in the army, asked, "Lord Yang, is it okay for the crimes they committed?" ”

Yuan Renhui interjected: "Then what do you want, we have a total of this little army, if the war continues for a long time, food will be a problem, as long as the situation calms down, sooner or later Shi Wannian will know that it is very powerful." ”

The two didn't deal with each other in Chang'an, so angry that Duhu turned around and left; The Duhu Gate Valve is too high, Yang Chong is not interested in Duhu Lan, but he values Mai Zhongcai, who is a few years younger than himself, although this master is a reward given by Yang Guang for the sake of Mai Tiecane's death, but Mai Zhong can guard the sea well, and he really has some ability. Yang Chong asked Mai Zhongcai: "Do you want to bring cavalry?" ”

Mai Zhongcai was overjoyed and asked, "Which army?" ”

Yang Chong pointed to the gate and said, "Didn't you see that Xifeng Changshan was recruiting?" If you wish, go back to Huanhai and ask if any of your 500 soldiers and those tuntian soldiers are willing to be cavalrymen; I will promote you to be a thousand-commander, and the number of people is not enough to replenish from the recruited soldiers, Qu Tugai, I will go to say hello. ”

Yiwu Zahu was originally a lot, and more than 1,000 soldiers with horses were recruited in more than half a month, Mai Zhong brought 600 people over, and Yang Chong selected 200 people from the infantry to him, plus 200 soldiers from Xifeng Changshan, enough to make up 1,000 people. Yang Chong gave Mai Zhongcai more than 500 war horses captured by Tuoba Anhu, plus 200 war horses sent by Bo Luoqiao, and the rest of the difference was exchanged for salt and Bo Luobu by Tang Bi, who took over Lu Yanchi.

(End of chapter)