Chapter 220: Encirclement, and Counter-Encirclement

In such a feint attack and small-scale offensive situation, the most elite part led by Li Chengqian turned fiction into reality and snatched Wuhai City with a thunderous momentum.

But it was constantly harassed by the Tang army.

During the day it was relatively quiet, but at night there was a sudden and fierce attack from nowhere, and the enemy advanced and retreated, and there was not a single frontal contact.

In this not very wide mountainous area, the Tang people seem to have become the masters of this land, and they seem to know this terrain better than the Tuyuhun army.

Then there was a constant attack, retreat, attack, retreat, and gradually, there were more and more displaced people living around it, and it became more and more chaotic, and under the guidance of those who had a heart, those displaced people gradually began to follow this huge army.

Things became more and more uncontrollable, and Qualu gradually went from disdain at first, to irritability later, until now, he seemed to feel a little powerless.

However, after Li Chengqian occupied Wuhai City, he still left after snatching it as usual, and began to break the grain and grass into pieces for the first time, and everyone who had carried more than ten days of grain and grass began to flee in the mountains again.

At this time, Kwa Lu seemed to be in a hurry, divided his 200,000 troops into three routes, and crushed the Tang Coalition Army with an absolutely strong attitude.

However, Li Chengqian began to lure the enemy troops in different directions with small cavalry, and then began to gather again in the night, and began to fierce cocks towards the opponent's left army

This chaotic battle situation lasted for several days, with dozens of small-scale battles breaking out and large-scale battles taking place twice, each time the Tang Dynasty moved towards it with the strength of the whole army.

On the third day of the fourth month, just when the other two reinforcements returned, Li Chengqian led his army to enter Wuhai City, which had been swept away......

Kwalu, who was supposed to crush the Tang Coalition Army in a three-way flank situation, began to camp outside Wuhai City after losing 30,000 people.

At this time, after a series of suppressions, Qualu angrily began to attack the city.

It's just that in the eyes of Li Chengqian and other generals, this kind of anger is just a counterattack before death, and looking at the camp of displaced people behind the Quarlu Department, he couldn't help laughing.

Time

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A large number of wounded soldiers, routed soldiers, and civilians who assisted the Tuyuhun in the siege of the city retreated from the city. The sounds of chaos and the wails of imminent death filled the wild.

Li Chengqian and Niu Jinda stood at the head of the city, watching this scene of defeat.

"Qualu wants to fight me to the death, attacking the city day and night, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to hold out for long."

Li Chengqian frowned slightly, let out a sigh, and sighed in a low voice.

After a while, Niu Jinda on the side smiled slightly, and then shook his head: "We have enough grain and grass!" The enemy army was exhausted some time ago, and now the fierce attack is just a desperate counterattack! ”

Li Chengqian turned his head and glanced at Niu Jinda on the side, and then laughed, "You said that if we wipe out all these people, how long can Fu Yun hold on?" ”

"How long? Look at the hundreds of thousands of people in front of you, how long can you attack. ”

"Naturally, the longer it drags on, the better, and in addition, the Tubo people have already arrived in Baizhou."

“…… Right. Niu Jinda hesitated for a moment, and then said, "But there are only 30,000 people in Tubo, and a small Baizhou has already made it difficult for them to move......

"It's not so bad." Li Chengqian closed his eyes and opened them after a while, "Lu Dongzan is a smart person, he is waiting for me to propose a higher price......"

After he finished saying this, he looked at the siege in the distance that was beginning to get closer and closer, and let out a sigh of relief, and was about to pull out the horizontal knife in his hand, but was held down by Niu Jinda on the side: "Cheng Qian, you haven't slept much for half a month, listen to your uncle's words, hurry back to sleep, your iron body can't stand up to staying up like this, isn't it?" ”

Li Chengqian licked his somewhat dry lips, looked at the wrong one who had begun to attack the city in the distance, and waved his hand violently: "Defend the city!" ”

The sky is getting warmer, the sun is gradually becoming blazing, and the arrows that come and go continue to make a sound in the air, Li Chengqian rubbed his somewhat stiff cheeks, turned around and went back to the city tower, accompanied by the shouting of killing that broke the sky, and gradually fell asleep.

And Quarlu sat on the war horse, looking at the city wall in the distance with a gloomy face, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes.

On the seventh day of the fifth month of the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty, the weather gradually warmed up, and the air slowly began to fill with some rancid and sour smells, and in the Tugu Hun in the distance, it is rare to see the shadow of the homeless people, Li Chengqian knows that these homeless people have been pacified by them to other places.

It's only been seven days, and the number of fires on the opposite side has changed from three at the beginning to two now, and the crazy siege tactics have gradually slowed down.

Li Chengqian took the note in his hand and smiled slightly.

There was a spy who was on an errand in the middle of the Tuyuhun Dynasty, and all the roads for transporting military grain and grass were nearly in his hands, although occasionally one or two supply troops would come over, but it was only a drop in the bucket, which seemed to be a little inadequate compared to this huge army.

And Li Chengqian's side, in the three rows of houses behind him, there are full of secret beef jerky, mutton jerky, pork jerky, as long as there is water, even if the other party surrounds him for half a year, he can support it.

After all, Qualu pushed it away, and after leaving behind the corpses of more than 30,000 people, he retreated unwillingly.

I still remember the way Kwalu stood outside the city and shouted angrily at Li Chengqian, I still remember the heart-rending way of Kwarlu holding his own soldiers who had died of breath crying, and I still remember that Kwalu led 200,000 soldiers and horses, and he played a high-spirited rebuke to Fang Xuan.

Li Chengqian admitted that Tuyuhun's soldiers and horses were very strong, their momentum was very high, and even the command of the generals was in place, and they were a group of tragic heroes.

Yes, they were betrayed from the very beginning!

The benefits involved in the relocation and destruction of hundreds of thousands of people are astronomical, not to mention that it is still spring ploughing time.

Although Kwa Lu wants to leave, some people are not very willing, such as Lu Dongzan, who is watching the excitement in Baizhou. He still has a very thorough view of things like the battlefield and the strategic situation, Kwalu is different from the Tang army, in terms of grain and grass, on the land where tens of millions of people live, Datang can easily meet his needs when he lays down a place, but what about Quarlu? It may be a coincidence that the grain and grass were robbed once or twice, but this time, the things in it are somewhat intriguing.

So when he learned that Quarlu wanted to retreat, Lu Dongzan finally decided to capture Baizhou, and then took his remaining 25,000 soldiers and horses to aid Wuhai City.

"Lu Dongzan is a personal essence, and it is also the hope of the rise of Tibet, and this hope is not what I want to see!"

In Li Chengqian's eyes, Lu Dongzan is very capable and courageous, but this is not a good thing for him, so in Li Chengqian's eyes, Lu Dongzan's Tubo is far more threatening than Quarlu.

In a sense, Lu Dongzan is the key to the rise of Tubo, Tubo has a natural advantage, if it is allowed to develop, the future Tubo will be a greater threat to the Tang Dynasty.

But now, it is the honeymoon period between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, if Lu Dongzan is rashly eliminated, it will definitely cause irreconcilable contradictions between the two countries.

The court of Chang'an gradually began to criticize Li Chengqian's deeds, and impeachment recitals from all over the country poured into Li Er's desk like snowflakes, and the scribes talked about the impassioned war in the restaurant and the green building, and told Li Chengqian's shamelessness and cruelty

On May 30, Li Chengqian's troops and Yu Nan's team in Fuluochuan round, together with the 180,000 army of Tubo, Chen Bing Shanshan, and at the same time, Li Jing's troops entered the palace Longyou Qiang tribe, after the Qiang people surrendered, the tribe moved to the Tang Dynasty, Fu Yun reprimanded the Qiang people for being unkind and unjust above the court, and in desperation, he forcibly ordered Xiqiang and the prince Quarlu to attack the Tang army.

In these few months, Li Chengqian ordered all the troops to loot grain and grass around Shanshan, and then drove the people to surround Shanshan City, every time they besieged the city, they would retreat ten miles, so that the Tuyuhun people began to accept the people, two or three times, Kwa Lu finally ordered the city gate to be sealed, not allowed to enter, not allowed to go out.

Then there was a large-scale riot of the displaced people, under the continuous siege of the Tang people, the displaced people could not advance or retreat, but could only shout at the city gate every day, and then the army began to clash with the people.

On June 13, Xiqiang was under pressure to command 30,000 troops to aid Kualu, but when crossing the Yellow River, he was attacked by Li Chengqian, and the casualties were not counted.

At this time, the city of Chang'an began to raise grain and grass on a large scale, and transported grain to the west through the Dunhuang line.

On August 28, after a two-month siege, the siege of Shanshan began, and then an offensive was launched.

Shanshan's defensive force has gradually begun to loosen, at the same time as the battle began, the grain and grass in the city has begun to run out, at this time Fu Yun in the city began to recruit troops on a large scale, and more than 300,000 recruits from all over the country began to be divided into two groups towards the east and west lines, which also included the 80,000 elite soldiers led by the eldest prince Murong Shun to defend the royal city.

As reinforcements continued to arrive, Shanshancheng had been resisting Li Chengqianhan's frantic attack for nearly half a month.

With the continuous tribute of the Tang army, Shanshan has gradually begun to shake up, and at this time, Li Chengqian began to divide 30,000 troops, known as 80,000 troops, Chen Bing on the west bank of the Yellow River, and Murong Shun Yaoyao on the opposite side.

On the shore, Li Chengqian and the former Prince Tuyuhun looked at each other across the river for half an hour.