readx; After running out of the most stalemate area of the battle, Cheng Chumo tightened the reins of the horse with one hand, stopped the horse, turned his head and rushed at several generals who were commanding the battle, like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests, and roared with full anger: "The whole army retreats!" Don't be a rival! With that, he ignored the cavalry entangled with the enemy and continued to pursue Wei Hong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The generals were ordered to begin to organize a retreat. Although the Turkic horses are very strong in terms of endurance and speed, but in this period, the quality of the Tang Dynasty war horses is not much worse than the Turkic horses, in the case of a small number of people, strong mobility, and retreat at full speed, it is very difficult for two thousand Turkic cavalry to stop a thousand cavalry, and they can only shoot with bows and crossbows in pursuit.

Wei Hong, who was running at the front, in order to wait for a sword to come from the east, could only let the speed of Luohe Meiju slow down, so that he not only waited for a sword to come from the east, but also waited for Cheng Chumo to come. Cheng Chumo caught up with Wei Hong, and while riding his horse and fleeing, he shouted at Wei Hong at the top of his voice: "Sir, although the enemy army is twice as large as ours, the enemy army is by no means our opponent in terms of combat effectiveness, why don't you fight with the other party, but retreat?" With this withdrawal, we have no chance of winning at all! ”

Wei Hong's eyes gradually appeared in Liangzhou City in his field of vision, and he responded loudly: "Our purpose is to protect the retreat of the main cavalry, since the goal has been achieved, there is no need to fight the enemy to the end!" Our side has just experienced a big battle, although the morale is high, but the heart has enough spare strength is already insufficient, a thousand cavalry against two thousand cavalry, it is a victory, but also a tragic victory, in the end the cavalry can survive, very few! This time the Turkic army is coming, if we can keep some cavalry, we can strengthen the defense of Liangzhou City! Killing the enemy is not the goal, keeping Liangzhou City is the top priority! ”

Hearing this, Cheng Chumo finally understood, stopped talking nonsense, followed Wei Hong's side, and ran towards Liangzhou City. Finally, when they ran to a distance of less than two miles from Liangzhou City, the Turkic 2,000 fast cavalry no longer pursued, for fear that a large army would suddenly be killed from Liangzhou City and annihilate them all. Although the 1,000 cavalry led by Wei Hong lost more than 300 people when they blocked the enemy army, and when they retreated, they were chased and killed nearly 200 people, but they were able to save half of them, which was already a blessing in misfortune.

By the time Wei Hong entered Liangzhou City with half of the surviving cavalry, Wei Zheng and several senior generals had already begun to prepare intensively to defend against the enemy. Qin Huaiyu was injured and had been sent to the rear for treatment, except for Qin Huaiyu, everyone who participated in the battle this time was commanded on the city wall, including Wei Zheng.

Now the total strength of Liangzhou City is less than 8,000 people, and the Turkic 20,000 iron cavalry is about to come to the city, plus the 2,000 fast cavalry that pursued just now, the total strength is 22,000 people. In normal times, defending a city is the easiest battle, and it is usually easy to deal with two or three times the number of troops on your side. But this time the situation was different, the defenders of Liangzhou first experienced a night attack by the Tuyuhun vanguard army, although the city gate was not broken, but there were many damages, and there was no time to repair it. In addition, in the battle with the main army of Tuyuhun, the original 15,000 soldiers and horses lost half of them, and many of them were injured and in a very poor state. In this way, if you want to hold Liangzhou City, it can be said that it is extremely stressful. Moreover, I don't know when the alliance army of Tubo and Zhangxiong will arrive, if the alliance army is also coming to Liangzhou City, in the face of the attack of 50,000 troops, Liangzhou City will definitely not be able to keep it!

Wei Zheng handed over all the command of the front line to Wei Hong, and he himself rushed back to the Assassin's Mansion to report the situation in Liangzhou City to the capital. Wei Hong, who took over the burden, calculated the time, and estimated that the Turkic army would come in another hour, and the time was urgent, so there should be no slackness. Therefore, Wei Hongyi issued three orders in a row, and ordered Cheng Chumo and Li Dejian to be the front-line commanders, leading 3,000 soldiers to guard the city gate with all their might, even if they tried their best to kill the last soldier, they definitely couldn't let the city gate be lost! The second order was to order Chi Baolin, who led 3,000 soldiers, to guard the three city walls on the left and right sides of the front. Finally, he ordered a partial general named Du Ye to lead 1,500 soldiers to defend the city and guard against the enemy's sneak attack on the rear.

After the distribution, Wei Hong sent someone to call Sun Changqing to the city gate, although Wei Hong's official position was lower than Sun Changqing's, but at this time, as the commander-in-chief of the front, plus Wei Zheng temporarily handed over all the powers to Wei Hong, so Wei Hong unceremoniously pointed fingers at Sun Changqing and ordered him to do things, and his tone was not negotiable: "Sun Tingshi, you quickly send people to transport all the arrows hoarded in the city to the city wall." I will let the enemy lose 3,000 before he reaches the city!" ”

Sun Changqing is not good at being the backbone, but he is at ease when he is a subordinate who acts obediently. got Wei Hong's order, and without saying a word, he did it directly. Under the full dispatch and command, it didn't take long for the 200,000 arrows hoarded in Liangzhou City to be transported to the city wall.

Wei Hong distributed the 200,000 arrows equally among the 3,000 soldiers guarding the city wall, nearly 70 each. Then, he said to Yu Chi Baolin: "When the Turkic army launches an attack, as long as the other party enters the firing range, immediately order all the staff to shoot arrows!" Be sure to shoot all the 200,000 arrows before the other party reaches the city. Even if a hundred arrows hit an enemy soldier, they can kill them with 2,000 soldiers in one fell swoop! One less enemy, and the pressure on us will be reduced! ”

Under normal circumstances, 200,000 arrows is the ratio of an army of 20,000 people, which can support several major wars. If you aim and shoot, you can get rid of at least 10,000 or so soldiers. But now there is no chance to shoot Wei Hong, shoot 200,000 arrows at the fastest speed, even if a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, it can shoot some to death!

After distributing the arrows, the most important question surfaced in front of Wei Hong's eyes, once the city gate was breached, how to resist? For the sake of safety, Wei Hong transferred back 500 soldiers from behind the city to act as temporary laborers, and inside the Liangzhou City Gate, he used tables, cabinets, stones, bricks and other things that could be used to firmly pile up the city gate from the inside and completely seal the city gate. In this way, even if the opponent breaks through the city gate, it can be blocked for a while.

Just when Wei Hong was preparing to defend against the enemy in every detail, Wei Zheng appeared in front of Wei Hong again, his old face was a little pale, and his expression was very worried: "The old man has sent an urgent call for help to the capital, coming and going, it will take eight days at the earliest, and Liangzhou City can get reinforcements!" Wei Hong, do you have the confidence to hold Liangzhou City for eight days? (To be continued.) )