Xuan Yi and others, who received Zhao Ziliang's order, immediately led five hundred cavalry to attack and harass the Great Food Army, and attacked the tail when they had something to do. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to maintain the speed of the march, Daoud had to send soldiers and horses to chase and kill the five hundred light cavalry led by Xuanyi, but this small Tang army disappeared without a trace, so that the attacking Great Food Army could not find the enemy, so it could only return in a huff, but when they had not been long gone, this Tang Army came out to attack again, and in just two days, the entire Great Food Army was panicked, the army was in turmoil, and the marching army began to become loose.

I don't know what's going on, the news of Said's defeat in the desert and the rebellion in the country suddenly spread throughout the Great Food Army, these two news made the soldiers of the Great Food Army return to their hearts like arrows, and their will to fight has dropped significantly, coupled with the fact that the Tang Army keeps attacking and harassing, and they can't fight and catch up, which makes many soldiers of the Great Food Army frightened, and deserters appear from time to time during the march and rest.

The appearance of the deserters made Daoud realize that the problem was very serious, and if he did not think of a way, the army would collapse in an instant, and he had to reluctantly order the execution of the captured deserters, but this method did not prevent the deserters from continuing to appear.

On the evening of the fourth day of the ninth lunar month, the Great Food Army camped by the river, and the general reported to Daoud: "General, in the past two days, the Tang army has been attacking our army incessantly, attacking and raiding our army twelve times, each time it can cause us 100 to 200 casualties, and now we have lost more than 2,000 people, if we continue like this, I am afraid that we will lose half of our troops before we wait for Tuozhi City!" ”

After listening to the general's report, Daoud also became worried, it is not a way to go on like this, and he must find a way to solve this matter. He ordered 2,000 men to be left to be responsible for the break, blocking the attack and pursuit of a small group of Tang troops, and the brigade continued to advance.

But this method doesn't seem to have much effect, the small army of the Tang Army didn't pay attention to the two thousand food army left behind, and ran to the front and hung behind the people of the big food army brigade, from time to time to carry out sneak attacks and harassment, and the two thousand food army cavalry who stayed behind the break couldn't withdraw when they got the news at this time, because they had been entangled by the three thousand people and horses led by Chu Ge who came up, and the two sides had a fierce battle, and the big food army had scruples and couldn't do their best to fight, so they were defeated by Chu Ge in one fell swoop, some were killed, and a small part fled. Some were also captured.

After Daoud learned that the two thousand cavalry after the break were eaten by the Tang army, his heart was like a knife, and the Tang army sometimes couldn't shake it off like a dog's skin plaster, and sometimes he gave him a hard time, constantly eating away at his men and horses, so that his men and horses were getting fewer and fewer.

Daoud finally realized the terrible thing about this tactic of the Tang army, he couldn't do anything about it, seeing that the troops under his command were getting smaller and smaller, and the morale was getting lower and lower, he had to order to discard some baggage and heavy equipment, let the army advance lightly, increase the speed of the march, and advance at full speed towards Tuozhi City.

On the afternoon of the sixth day of the ninth month, Daoud finally returned to Tuozhi City with an army of less than 6,000 men, because he had speculated that the Tang army might send a detachment to attack Tuozhi City, so when the army approached Tuozhi City a few miles away, he began to sit on horseback to observe the stone capital city bathed in the setting sun, and sent detectives to investigate the details.

After the detective cavalry investigated, he came back and reported to Daoud: "General, we have explored the four gates of the east, west, south and north respectively, and have not found anything abnormal. ”

Daoud said, "I remember that it was Yage who was in charge of garrisoning the city, right? Let him come out and see me! ”

The captain of the cavalry said: "General, I saw Yage under the North City Gate, he was on the tower of the North City Gate, I told him that the general had returned with his troops, and asked him to open the city gate and come out to meet the general, but he said that he had to see the general with his own eyes to open the city gate!" ”

Daoud asked, "Did you really see Ager?" ”

"Yes, General!"

Daoud thought for a moment and nodded, "Yage is right, in this situation, it is right to be careful!" ”

When the Great Eater marched to the north gate of the city of Tuozhi, Daudrema stopped and shouted to the gate: "Where is Yag? Come out and meet me! ”

After a while, Yage, who had been appointed by Saeed as the defender of Tuozhi City, appeared at the head of the city, he looked down at the city, and said in a loud voice: "General Daoud, aren't you going north to reinforce the governor?" How did they return so quickly, and the army seems to have been engaged, and the number has decreased a lot! ”

On the city wall, a row of soldiers of the Great Food Army stood empty-handed by the battlements, and on their sides were some stone soldiers with weapons, and behind these soldiers of the Great Food Army there was also a row of Tang Army soldiers with sharp blades, the sharp blades in their hands were on the backs of those soldiers of the Great Food Army, ready to stab the sharp blades into the bodies of the soldiers of the Great Food Army at any time.

Obviously, Yage and these soldiers of the Great Food Army were taken hostage, and they wanted to cooperate with the Tang army to put on a scene in the city to confuse Daoud.

Daoud listened to Yag's questioning and said: "Yag, I have received the news that the Governor has been defeated by the Tang army, and he has led his troops to retreat into the desert west of Henglus City, I led the army to encounter the Tang army near Baishui City, and fought with them for a few battles, when I learned that the Governor was defeated and retreated, I can only lead the army back, quickly open the city gate and let us enter the city!" There are Tang Army chasers chasing after you! ”

"What? The Governor was defeated and fled into the desert? This sucks now! Yag was taken aback, but he quickly ordered: "Open the gates of the city and let General Daoud and his army enter the city!" ”

There was a creaking sound, the drawbridge was lowered, the city gate slowly opened, when the drawbridge was all lowered across the moat, Daoud clamped his horse's belly between his legs, and was about to ride his horse into the city, but his crotch did not listen to the call, and he did not ambush and walk across the drawbridge.

Just when Daoud was puzzled, the war horse under the crotch turned to the side and ate grass, Daoud thought that the war horse was hungry, and his horse was quite spiritual, so he had to order the army behind to enter the city first, and he jumped down to let the war horse eat grass.

The Great Eater slowly entered the city through the drawbridge, and Daoud looked at the Great Eater and Yag at the head of the city, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it.

A subordinate general came over to Daoud and said, "General, this Yag is too rude, the general is here, he doesn't even go out of the city to greet him!" ”

Daoud was very generous, and he also understood Yager's responsibility, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, he is the guard of this city after all, and it is his responsibility to guard the city, and he can't go out of the city easily!" ”

At this time, Yag, who was standing at the head of the city, shouted: "General Daoud, why don't you enter the city?" Are you blaming me for not going out of town to meet you? ”

Daoud looked up and shouted, "General Yag, you think too much!" How could I blame you? My horse is very hungry, it wants to graze here, I will wait for it to eat enough before entering the city, you don't have to worry about me, just arrange camp and food for my army!" ”

Yage said: "This is all a trivial matter, I have already sent someone to arrange it, didn't the general just say that there is a Tang army chasing behind?" Then you better hurry into the city, if the Tang army pursues you, wouldn't it be very dangerous for you? ”

Yag's excessive enthusiasm made Daoud's heart vigilant, in the past, his relationship with Yager was not very good, and they couldn't get used to each other, Yag cared about him so much, it was really a bit abnormal, Daoud looked at Yag and the big food army soldiers at the head of the city, he suddenly found out why he felt wrong, because the big food army at the head of the city did not have weapons, how could this be? The defenders have no weapons, which is absolutely not normal! Don't?

Daoud chuckled in his heart, beads of sweat instantly appeared on his forehead, he immediately turned over and got on his horse, pulled the reins with one hand, and slapped the horse's buttocks with the other and shouted: "Yage has rebelled, everyone retreats!" Fall back! ”

This shout is to announce that the Tang army's plan has been seen through by Daoud, but at this time, nearly 3,000 people have entered the city, which means that the Tang army's plan has not completely failed.

I saw that a Tang army general suddenly appeared at the head of the city, Wei Meng, who drew his sword and shouted: "Put away the drawbridge, close the city gate, and kill."

With his order, the Tang army hidden on the city wall appeared one after another, the banner of the Great Food Army was immediately replaced by the flag of the Tang Army, the suspension bridge was pulled up by dozens of Tang soldiers with a noose, and the raised city gate was also lowered, and the Great Food Army was divided into two in the blink of an eye, and nearly 3,000 Great Food Army were completely locked in the city.

The big food army on the city wall that cooperated with the Tang army was quickly escorted down by the Tang army and tied up and guarded, and the big food army in the urn city was suddenly besieged in the urn city at this time, and they all panicked for a while, they wanted to turn around and rush out of the city, but there were too many people, crowded with each other, the war horses were tall and big, where it was easy to turn around, and the city gate had been put down, and it was impossible to rush out of the city.

A large number of soldiers of the Tang Army who appeared on the city wall, some horse bandits and robbers dressed in strange costumes, and a large number of soldiers of the Shi Kingdom began to fire arrows at the Great Food Army trapped in the urn city.

The overwhelming sharp arrows were shot down, and the soldiers of the Great Food Army were shot one by one, some were shot dead on the spot, and some people were not shot after being hit by the arrow, but the pain was incomparable, and there was a terrible scream on the spot, but the Tang army, stone **** and horse bandits and robbers on the city wall turned a deaf ear, and still kept releasing arrows, and the corpses in the urn city were all over the field for a while, and the blood flowed like a river!

After half an hour, nearly 3,000 food soldiers were all shot and killed, and occasionally some people survived, but they could not survive, and the corpses in the urn city were piled up on top of each other, and the bloody gas filled the entire town. (To be continued.) )