Meng Bochang finally agreed to rule the city with Linzhong.

The 2,000 slave army quickly attacked the northern city, the 3,000 iron-faced Jile broke through the city from the west, and the 4,000 Feng'an army entered the city from the east and south gates without bloodshed. The street fighting in Toyoshu Castle began. Generally speaking, the significance of street fighting is only to express a certain attitude, and it is not decisive for the overall situation of victory or defeat.

Xiao Qijin and Manle also understood this way at first, so when the street battle began, neither of them came to the front line to supervise the battle, but boiled tea and wine and secretly discussed one thing in the tooth tent.

The cause of the incident was a distress letter from the Vulture tribe of the Yinshan Mur, which was originally a branch of the Mengwu tribe on the banks of the Wangjian River (now the Erguna River), and later moved to the west of the Yinshan Mountains in the north of Yunzhou, and had many contacts with the central part of the forest. The barbarian wife is a vulture.

At the beginning of April this year, the former Feng'an Jiuniang Guan Biao led hundreds of personal soldiers of Bai Shuihu to defect to the Vulture Department, because Bai Shuihu had half of the blood of the Muwei people, and Jin Mili, the leader of the Vulture Tribe, took him in. Seeing that the white water fox was shrewd and capable, he married his young/female Molleri as his wife.

Jin Mili had three sons, all of whom died in the war with the Khitans. After secretly observing the White Water Fox for a period of time, the old Jin Mili selected the White Water Fox as his successor and gradually handed over the military power in his hands to the White Water Fox. At first, the White Water Fox was quite respectful to Jin Mili and the elders of the Vulture Tribe, but after holding the military power, he immediately changed his face. He coerced his father-in-law, Kim Mi-ri, into handing over the chief's scepter and proclaiming himself chief.

However, the Vulture tribe has a council of elders, and major matters in the tribe must be collectively decided by the council of elders. In addition to the leader's scepter as a certificate, the change of tribal leader also requires the coronation and recognition of the Council of Elders. The White Water Fox tried to use the power in his hands to coerce the Council of Elders to crown him, but was resisted by the Elders.

Annoyed and ashamed, the White Water Fox dissolved the Council of Elders by force, declared that all power in the tribe belonged to the leader alone, and was ruthless to those who opposed him, punishing them with flogging and exile, or beheading their hands and feet, and punishing them as slaves.

The aristocratic elders who opposed him died mysteriously one by one, and the vulture was shrouded in a white terror.

Jin Mili, who had led the wolf into the house, regretted it and wrote to the barbarians, hoping that Lin Zhongzhong would send troops to help him expel the White Water Fox and restore his power.

The barbarian advocated sending troops to rescue the troubled Jin Mili, and his reason was that the vultures under Jin Mili's rule had always gotten along well with the central part of the forest and had never clashed. A friendly and gentle vulture tribe was beneficial to the central part of the forest to defend against the increasingly powerful Khitans in the east. And let the vulture tribe fall into the hands of the white water fox, from the perspective of this person's cunning, fierce, and vengeful character, it will become a disaster in the middle of the forest in the future.

Little Zikin agreed with the brute analysis, but disagreed with sending troops to help, believing that a strong and ambitious vulture would be more beneficial to the middle of the forest. First of all, the civil strife in the middle of the forest has just ended, and it will take a long time to adjust and recover. During this period, the greatest threat to the central forest came from the Khitans in the east and the Tang in the south, rather than the Vulture tribes, which were much weaker than their own.

Taking a step back, even if the vulture tribe was quickly strengthened under the iron fist rule of the White Water Fox, it was so powerful that it surpassed the middle of the forest. But he is bordered by the Khitan in the east, the Tang Dynasty in the south, and the Changyi Khan's jurisdiction in the north, and this unfavorable geographical situation is destined to make the White Water Fox have nothing to do. On the contrary, his strength will attract the attention of all parties, and in fact serve as a cover for himself.

Second, the White Water Fox was a rebel general of the Tang army, and if the vulture tribes under his rule clashed with the Tang army, they might turn the eyes of the Tang people that had been on the Uighurs to the Murwei people, if so, it would be a blessing not only for the middle of the forest, but also for the Uighurs as a whole. After more than 100 years of strength, the Uighur Khanate had entered a precarious and dangerous late period.

The prairie eagle is too old to fly, and now it needs time to rest in order to recuperate and regain its strength.

"Let the Tang and Khitan people keep an eye on the White Water Fox. That way we have enough time to sort things out. "This is the final decision of little Zijin. In order to comfort his uncle, little Qijin promised to give him the necessary shelter, provided that the good-natured old leader would leave his tribe alive.

"Uhhh

Outside the tent, there was a long, muffled sound of a horn.

"What's going on?!"

At this time, it should be a high-pitched and agitated charging horn, how can it be such a low and gloomy siren? Xiao Qijin was surprised and immediately ran out of the tent.

"Oh no, Khan! The Tang army came to kill. ”

The head of the guard, Monto, broke in with a bloodied Guli Tu, and there was a long scar on the left side of his face, and his expression was very weird.

"Nonsense! The city of Fengzhou has been broken, where did the Tang army come from? The brute shouted.

"The Tang army, which was attacking the city with us, suddenly turned its face and started a war against us." Bone exhaled and roared. The scar on his face was chopped by the Tang sergeant who suddenly turned his face. At that time, he was searching for property in a house with two guards, and suddenly a group of Tang soldiers broke in at the door, and they cut without saying a word. Gu Litu fought and escaped, and his two guards were killed by the Tang army.

"And they did!" Xiao Qijin gritted his teeth with hatred, his face full of remorse.

The Manichaean monk Billian Cheng and the barbarian had reminded themselves that the armies of Feng'an and Yongfeng had been standing still, and there might be some conspiracy hidden, but Xiao Qijin thought that sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight and falling into the well was something that the Han people often did, and it was not worth worrying about. On the contrary, it is even more doubtful that they actively attacked the city from the beginning.

"How's the battle going now?" At the critical moment, Xiao Qijin showed the calmness that a commander should have.

"Most of the 5,000 people who entered the city have been lost, and the remnants of the slave army are retreating in the direction of the Horn River. The main force of the Feng'an army is now attacking the slave barracks. The soldiers of the iron-masked machine entered the city and were besieged by the Yongfeng army, and the whole army has been annihilated......"

"Please uncle return to the camp quickly, collect the remnants of the army and retreat to the Ice Rock Valley in Henan, and then I will lead the army to join you." The heavy casualties of the Iron Mask Machine did not seem to cause Xiao Qi Jin's anger.

The Ice Rock Valley is fifty miles north of Fengzhou City, north of the Yellow River, the terrain is dangerous, it is the only way to go out of Fengzhou into Yin Mountain. Don't think about building a pass to defend here, Xiao Qijin went south through this place, 10,000 troops fought hard for three days and suffered casualties but nearly 1,000 people broke through the pass, and only 150 corpses of the defenders were checked after the war.

"He is neither kind, nor am I righteous. Guarding this pass is like occupying the north gate of Toyoshu, and as long as we are happy, we can fight Toyosu again at any time. ”

Yang Hao and Meng Bochang's sudden turn of face caught Lin Zhongzhong off guard, and the losses were extremely heavy. The 2,000 slave bundles and 3,000 iron-faced machines that broke into the city were almost completely wiped out.

At the same time as the melee in the city, Li Tong and Zhuang Yunqing each led a battalion to break through the camp of the slave bondage, capturing hundreds of wounded soldiers and veterans. Because the floating soil cover is too shallow, some of the carcasses have been dug out and torn apart by wild dogs, and stumps, broken arms, intestines, hearts and lungs can be seen everywhere on the river beach.

Zhuang Yunqing was furious and ordered hundreds of captives to be taken to the river, so that they could dig up and wash the corpses of the people, and the corpses were put together intact.

After the prisoners did these things with trepidation, they all thought that they would definitely die, and they didn't want Zhuang Yunqing to kill a single person, but to take the captives back to Fengzhou City to be imprisoned according to the usual practice.

Before the war, Yang Hao's order to the two was "Those who resist will be killed, and those who abandon their weapons and surrender should not harm their lives." ”

The two of them also admonished the soldiers in the same way, although after witnessing the corpses of thousands of people, this order has been tampered with by the soldiers to "Kill those who resist, and kill those who abandon their weapons and surrender." However, Li Tong and Zhuang Yunqing still restrained the soldiers and did not take bloody revenge on the prisoners.

Zhuang Yunqing appeased the angry soldiers: "The biggest difference between humans and beasts is that they can't kill each other, some people are willing to fall and want to be with beasts, do you want to be beasts?" After Yang Hao heard this, he praised Zhuang Yunqing and ordered him to take full authority to deal with the aftermath.

Zhuang Yunqing tracked down the murderers behind the massacre, and on the other hand, he issued a list asking the people of Fengzhou to recognize the corpse and the government subsidize the funeral expenses.

Meng Bochang, with Park Eunjun and Suo E as the forwards, and Li Changlin and Ma Heshang as the two wings, personally led the main force of Yongfeng's new army of 2,000 people to break into the Xiaoqi Golden Tooth Tent. There were originally 6,000 people under Xiao Qijin's Iron Mask Jile, in addition to the 3,000 people who were annihilated in the city, there were 1,000 people stationed at the two passes in the northwest of Fengzhou, and less than 2,000 people guarded the tooth tent.

The Iron Mask Machine is good at field warfare. Meng Bochang's new army was based on ghost towns and ghost pawns, and was good at small-group guerrilla warfare. Both the offensive and defensive tents are based on their own shortcomings against others, and both sides feel awkward and unable to use their hands and feet.

Xiao Qijin refused to fight, and the iron mask quickly withdrew from the camp and retreated north, and the north of Fengzhou was a wilderness. The iron-faced machine formation in the retreat was not chaotic at all, like a rolling torrent flowing northward.

Small forces of attack and harassment were Meng Bochang's new army's forte, and this tactic was flexible and mobile, and it was very effective in harassing tired enemy troops, but the shortcomings were also obvious. If you pay too much attention to flexibility and mobility, you will inevitably give up the constraints of formation, armor, etc. When the lightly armed Forces Forces came face to face with the heavily armed Iron-Masked Soldiers, their shortcomings were exposed: they did not dare to clash head-on, and they were incapable of massively killing and wounding the enemy.

Xiao Qijin quickly realized this, and after fleeing north for three miles, there was a dirt slope in front of him, and Xiao Qijin occupied the top of the slope, turned around and began to fight back. Meng Bochang could only bite the bullet and fight against Xiao Qijin.

As soon as the two armies clashed, it became white-hot. The war horse Xiao Xiao, flying arrows like rain. The iron-masked machine gave full play to the power of the heavy wing charge, fifteen horses in a row, twenty horses in a team, and launched a charge against the Tang army in a row. After Meng Bochang's new army fought a few face-to-face attacks, he found that the new army was not an opponent of the iron-faced machine, but the problem was that time did not allow him to make any more tactical adjustments.

In the offensive battle, the new army died under the hooves of the fast knife of the iron-faced machine, and if it continued like this, the new army that had worked so hard to pull up would be exhausted. The Forces nouvelles are the only troops that can confront the Iron Mask head-on, and if they are defeated, the military operation they instigated at the risk of dishonesty will be a complete failure. The fruits of victory that thousands of soldiers had bought with their blood would be destroyed in an instant.

You have to find a way to turn defeat into victory!

A spiritual light crossed Meng Bochang's heart——

"Park Eun-joon, Suo E, Lee Chang-rim, and Ma Heshang, each of them led the headquarters to fall with me!" Meng Bochang roared. The four immediately understood his intentions.

"Capture the thief and capture the king first! Capture the thief and capture the king first! ”

The six hundred Tang troops shouted in unison, like a black iron stream rushing towards the big black Qi Jin three miles away.

It's a suicidal attack tactic.

There were at least five hundred guards in front of Xiao Qijin, but on his flanks were fifteen hundred iron-faced soldiers who were getting more and more courageous. Although the 600 people taken by Meng Bochang only accounted for 30% of the Tang army, they were the elite of the army. The already precarious formation of the Tang Army, which he left, suddenly collapsed.

And the six hundred people who attacked Xiao Qi Jin Daxu fell into a huge pocket again.

"It's insane......"

The wise man Bill Liancheng couldn't judge Meng Bochang's intentions at this time. In his opinion, Meng Bochang's style of play is tantamount to asking for his own death. The Tang army was defeated several times in a row, its morale was completely lost, and its weaknesses were exposed. Facts have proved that the iron-faced machine is the nemesis of the ghost army, and under the winning streak, the morale is high, the time, place, and people are all in my hands, what can the six hundred Tang Army do? !

The facts roughly confirmed the judgment of Bierliancheng, and the Tang army, which was attacking on the back, encountered the stubborn resistance of 500 iron-faced machines, and was unable to advance half a step for a while. At the same time, the main force of the iron-faced machine had broken through the position of the ghost army, and was besieging Meng Bochang in an iron-clad manner.

"Please leave quickly, Meng Bochang's arrows are superb, be careful of hurting you." Xiao Qijin's personal guard chief Meng Tuo saw the Tang sergeant approaching Daxu step by step as if he were dead, and suddenly realized that there was a trick hidden in it.

"The Uighurs are all very good at archery!" Little Qi Jin roared viciously. Seeing that his treacherous friend was about to be captured by himself, Xiao Qijin couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart.

A golden light suddenly streaked across the sky.

When he was still two hundred steps away from Xiao Qi Jin, Meng Bochang shot a golden arrow, and Xiao Qi Jin fell in response.

Tang Jun let out a thunderous roar. The Iron Mask Machine is a mess. At this time, the southeast was dusty, and two Tang armies were killing at the same time. The Tang army in the east was Yang Hao's four regiments of nearly 1,000 cavalry, and in the south, there were more than 400 cavalry led by Shi Xiong.

The commander was seriously wounded, and the Uighur army was leaderless. Bill, the Wise Man, had no intention of fighting and ordered a retreat to the north. At first, the iron-faced machine was guarding Da Xu's retreat in a disciplined manner, but he was attacked by Yang Hao and Shi Xiong of the Tang Army from both sides, and the formation was also chaotic, but fortunately, it had not yet reached the point of collapse.

Yang Hao didn't dare to continue to chase forward, Meng Bochang's new army had already been lost, and although there were still five or six thousand people in the city, they were all newly recruited. At this time, Yang Hao was concerned about supervising Liu Wei and Don't Siguo to fulfill their promise to withdraw from Fengzhou.

Meng Bochang's arrow did not shoot Xiao Qi Jin's vital point, not that Meng Bochang shot inaccurately, but that the chief attendant Meng Tuo, who was guarding Xiao Qi Jin's side, had been highly vigilant, and at the critical moment he pushed Xiao Qi Jin, and the golden arrow penetrated Xiao Qi Jin's shoulder blade, and Xiao Qi Jin fainted in pain.

Meng Bochang was excited, looking at the layers of corpses of the new army around him, he slammed the carved bow in his hand to the ground, full of remorse.

Yang Hao picked up the carved bow and persuaded: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, not to mention that we have won this time." You don't have to dwell on it. ”

Meng Bochang shouted angrily: "What do you know about stupid melons, you don't have a three-point risk of fighting a snake." I'm doing this for your own good. ”

Yang Hao was scolded by him in public as a "stupid melon", unhappy in his heart, and sneered: "For my good, I'm afraid that Xiao Qijin hates you the most now, right?" ”

Meng Bochang pulled the carved treasure bow and smiled coldly: "What do you know?" ”