Chapter 208: The Battle of Yaozhou (3)

Dozens of trebuchets were placed on the side of the Frog River, lined up, and then Pei Xingjian shouted: "Release!" ”

One by one, the big stones roared away, and the defenders at the head of the city had already seen that the situation was not good, and they lay behind the city wall, not even daring to lift their heads. I didn't ask for much lethality, and it wasn't time to attack the city, so I showed my might, tested it by the way, and went back immediately.

It was getting late, and the siege was tomorrow, so the order was immediately given to make a fire and make food, and the sun was still high in the sky, so the soldiers were allowed to rest. The generals were in a meeting, and only now did Li Wei tell the complete battle plan, Xue Ne was first stunned, and then surprised.

Li Wei patted him on the shoulder and said, "Lone said that you can't look at the surface when looking at problems. ”

"Whoa!" Xue Ne straightened his waist and said, but his eyes couldn't stop being excited, he had been practicing and preparing in the capital since last year, and seeing that four months had passed, he finally had a decisive battle.

He looked at the princess who was playing the flute not far away, made a gesture to wipe her neck, and said, "Do you want to ......?"

"Well, she's useless. But don't do that, how to say it, she and Wang Dianzi have also saved some of Lone's subordinates, and they are weak women. War is about killing, but we can't let the murderous intent blind you. You can kill soldiers, and you can even kill people who resist, but it's better not to touch women and children. That's the bottom line, unless women and children take up arms to resist. ”

"Whoa!"

"But I don't know, how did she send the news?"

Did you hear her flute, through the voice change, these messages are in the voice change, and the principle of Lone's horn sound is the same nature, in fact, it turns out that Lone is just suspicious of Pei Shilang, and quietly monitored. It was she who was delivering the news and following her to confirm it. ”

"It's a pity."

"Don't be a pity, Tubo can be strong, not about Qinling, Tubo has also been full of talents in recent years. It is a pity to stand in our position, but it is a happy event to stand in the position of Tibet. Li Wei closed his mouth when he said this, and the princess finished blowing a song and walked over.

Xiao Yingying asked, "Prince, why don't you build a pontoon bridge?" ”

"Tomorrow will attack Yaozhou City, the soldiers will rest for the night, recuperate, and get up tomorrow morning while building a pontoon bridge while preparing to attack."

"Hmm," he replied, and the actual little silver tooth gritted. Now the army of the Tang Dynasty has begun to rest, and its own army does not know where, because of the change, it must be very hard, one is a tired army, and the other is a well-rested army. Even if the Tang army is unprepared, its own army will suffer heavy casualties.

All this is caused by this prince who has come up with a trebuchet, otherwise it will be an attack, and it will not be able to be attacked in a few days, and the casualties of the Tang army will definitely be very heavy at that time.

Very well thought. Then I thought of the names of the camellia that the prince said, and I thought of hatred in my heart, and I must catch this prince back and go to the palace to plant camellia for myself. I think better, that is, I caught it back, Princess Wencheng is still alive, her prestige is not as good as it was back then, and she still has it, how to deal with it is not easy to say, can the prince of the Tang Dynasty plant camellias?

……

When night fell, the Tang Dynasty troops fell asleep, and from time to time there were snoring sounds of some soldiers sleeping badly in the camp.

In the distance, the Tibetan army was hurrying overnight. Meng Jian said: "General Gar, do you want to take a break, anyway, there are only more than sixty miles away, and you will definitely be able to arrive before dawn tomorrow." ”

"So your hundreds of thousands of subordinates actually let Liang Jishou defeat miserably!"

One sentence makes Meng Jian speechless.

also has to give Meng Jian a face, he only has about 10,000 people under his command, but this time in the general battle, there are nearly 50,000 troops, most of which are allied forces between Meng Jian and Nanzhao. So he said slowly: "A great victory is in sight, although the soldiers are tired, they have confidence." Once stopped, the sharpness is lost. Besides, the Tang Dynasty army rested early in order to attack Yaozhou tomorrow morning, and it will wake up early tomorrow. So it had to be there in the early hours of the morning. ”

"Yes." Meng Jian was a little unhappy in his heart, but he had to admit that his command level was too far from others, such as his subordinates, after being sorted out by these generals in Tubo, the discipline became much better. The defeat of Qiu Longdu had nothing to do with Tubo, and it was his own son who commanded it.

But seeing the soldier's panting, Mangda Chabu still ordered the soldier to rest for a while, and after a while, he gave the order to set off again. When there are still more than forty miles away from Yaozhou, the other two armies will all rush here, and they will be combined into one.

There are more than 20,000 troops, and there are nearly 10,000 Tibetan elites, which looks very impressive. At this time, together with the "stragglers" of the various edicts, they became optimistic. As soon as morale was high, the pace of the march began to pick up.

Compared with the fatigue of Mangdian Dachabu's subordinates, Xue Rengui's subordinates are cultivating and accumulating sharpness. He followed the prince all the way, but took off his armor and divided into several roads, stopping at Wumeng Mountain. Then I got the news and started training again. It wasn't until Li Wei sent a large number of scouts to sweep the Fangyuan of Yaozhou that Xue Rengui divided his troops again, divided them into more than a dozen roads, and sneaked into the mountains east of Yaozhou yesterday. The big war was coming, and they even rested earlier than the Tang army outside Li Wei.

The soldier who was in good spirits had already woken up from sleep and opened his eyes.

At this moment, two war horses galloped over, and Xue Rengui got up. In terms of physical bones, the old general's body is still very strong. greeted him, it was a scout sent by Li Wei to inform Xue Rengui. Mangrandachabu sent away five thousand scouts, which seemed to be huge, but the quality of these scouts was very poor. Of course, Li Wei also took the scouts back early, leaving only a few people, and these people are definitely the elite of the elite. The news is still coming, but the princess doesn't know it.

When Xue Rengui heard the scout's report, he immediately ordered the soldiers to get up, but instead of leaving, he made a fire and cooked food. After eating, I set off in a hurry.

……

Just after the third watch, Li Wei suddenly got up and ordered the soldiers of the whole battalion to get up, and they were also making a fire to cook.

The princess and sisters also woke up and found Li Wei strangely, and the princess asked, "Prince, why did you get up so early?" ”

"Look at the fog."

"What's wrong with the fog?"

Li Wei laughed secretly in his heart, this little girl is actually very shrewd, but she is too shrewd. The big war is coming, and I thought I was sloppy, but the fox's tail was all cocked out. did not break it, and said unhurriedly: "Such a fog, there are no five fingers on the opposite side, and at this time, if you build a pontoon bridge, even if you are a prisoner, you will not die many people." The siege effect is better, and Lone's subordinates will also sacrifice a lot. The truth is the same as that of Qiu Longdu. ”

"Why did you say yesterday that it was a siege in the morning?"

"This is a military secret, how can you talk about it casually."

"Then I wish the prince an immediate victory."

"You don't seem happy."

"Where, I'm just worried that a lot of people will die," said the princess with a worried expression. The main worry is that this dead prince is too bad, if his own army is too late and captures Yaozhou City, it will be too late.

"You're kind," Li Wei touched her head, then left, went about his own business, separated the two side camps, and concentrated them in the north and south two camps. The captives were taken out again and the pontoon bridge was erected. Turning his head to look, the princess was leaning on a reed bush, playing the Qiang flute, and Li Wei did not pass. After she finished playing the flute, she walked over and asked, "Princess, why haven't you left yet?" ”

"Leave, why should I leave?" Although the princess said this, her face changed.

"Your task is completed, is it possible that you don't want to go back to Tubo, but want to go to Chang'an with Lone?"

"Why do I want to go back to Tibet?" The princess's expression turned pale, and Wang Dianzi wanted to look for a weapon, but he didn't find it, so he grabbed the princess in front of her and protected the princess.

"Wang Dianzi, are you the princess's sister or her maid, why are you so nervous?"

Wang Dianzi listened, retreated to the side again, but immediately reacted, the traces were revealed, there was no need to cover up, and he protected the princess again.

But the princess's bearing was very good, she was anxious at first, and then she quickly looked peaceful, and asked without anxiety: "Since you all know that I am from Tubo, why did you deceive me just now?" ”

"Lone once said to you, you are a gentleman, not a rotten wood, others treat you sincerely, and you need to return it with sincerity. As soon as you come up, you don't stay in Lonely, how can Lone treat you with sincerity. It is not the way of a gentleman, but it is related to whether the southwest is stable, the safety of more than 10,000 troops under his own hands, and Lone will not be a so-called gentleman. Lone's army has to be mobilized, and as soon as it is mobilized, you have to play the flute, what should Lone do? ”

At the mention of playing the flute, the princess's face turned red.

"You look good when you're blushing," Li Wei praised her appearance for the first time, but the princess had mixed feelings in her heart.

"Lone can explain it like this, and it can also explain the past, the battle of Qiu Longdu did take advantage of the fog. However, Lone didn't want to attack the city, which had always been a cover to catch a bigger fish. The ministries of Nanzhao, do you really put it in your eyes? "Even after the combing of the Tibetan people, it is impossible to immediately become an elite army. Besides, unlike the Tang Army, which came from various tribes, Tubo was tyrannical and arrogant, and these soldiers were not very convinced. He tortured some of the captives and obtained a lot of useful information, but he didn't put it on the table, let alone say it to the princess.

"So you took advantage of me."

"I can't say that I used it, the strategy was made in advance, and it was still such a plan before I met you. If you think about it again, if you don't report the news, will your Tubo people's actions change? ”

"But, this time you're going to lose."

"Why?"

The princess gritted her teeth, but said nothing.

"You mean there are fewer lonely people? Yes, and most of them are new recruits, even if they have been practicing for so long, the common people account for a large proportion, especially the soldiers recruited by Jiannan, and some are not even government soldiers. But that's not the case with the elite troops. ”

"Where?"

"On that side," Li Wei pointed to the east, and said, "Let me tell you another name, the leader is your defeated general Xue Rengui under Tubo." ”

"You ......" the princess was so angry that she almost vomited blood.

"But you don't have to worry about your safety, Gu will not kill innocents indiscriminately like you in Tubo, and will let you go, but you didn't take the opportunity to leave just now, just accompany Gu to watch a good show."

The show had begun, and the roar of war horses galloping could be heard in the distance...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )