Section 10: The end of the camel city
Yun Ye didn't plan to enter the Star Gorge, and he didn't even prepare to seize the Star Gorge, he was just in Liwei to buy a little time for Zhou Zhong to hurry.
Others are all small troops as cover for large troops, who would have thought that Yun Ye's aggressive attack was just a show, the generals all over the world, no one could take their minds to think about other things under Yun Ye's attack, even if they knew Yun Ye's intentions, they didn't dare to be distracted, because his attack was too unreasonable and too violent.
The crossbow arrows on the camel city did not let go of any suspicious place, and the ambush prepared by Lu Dongzan for Li Jing in advance immediately showed its original form under the indiscriminate blow of the gunpowder crossbow.
Those things that look like stones, in fact, are made of cowhide, which is full of soldiers, the original purpose is to hit the enemy by surprise, now under the bombardment of gunpowder crossbows, countless Tubo people panicked from the cowhide tent hidden in the pile of rocks, and before they ran far, they were shot down by the crossbow arrows that were as dense as flying locusts, and then dragged away by the cavalry guarding the camel city with iron hooks, and the camel city is generally not allowed to have dead bodies and other things on the way forward.
The road became narrower and narrower, and after five miles deep into the Star Gorge, the camel city stopped advancing, and the mournful horn sounded, and it was a whole row of trumpeters blowing the trumpet, and the long strip-shaped camel city soon became a square city, and the eight-ox crossbow in the middle of the city was pushed to the front without exception, and all the crossbow arrows were raised high, and the trebuchet was ready.
Lu Dongzan didn't believe that Yun Ye could do anything, his army had retreated to two miles away, that place was not accessible to the camel city, Yun Ye wanted to completely occupy the Star Gorge, then fight a normal war with himself, fight with real swords and guns, instead of relying on the power of weapons to show off his might here.
The bolt flew with a thud. Flying into the sky, almost obscuring the sunlight from the canyon, the oil exploded and fell into a huge net of fire, and at the same time the oil drums hanging from the hot air balloon also fell from the sky. The air was filled with the strong smell of fire oil.
The net of fire turned into a ball of fire, covering the narrow canyon, and the oil and gas were carried into the canyon by the cold wind, and in an instant the air began to burn. As far as the eye could see, black and red flames were raging everywhere.
"Back to the army!" Yun Ye gave the simplest order, this saturation blow could make the flames in the canyon burn for at least three days, and everything that could be burned on the ground was burning, which fully proved the wise saying that there is no grass everywhere in the camel city.
Lu Dongzan waved his hand to fan away the black smoke in front of him. He was already a little confused, Yun Ye could only block the path of his army's advance by doing this, and he didn't have much lethality to the Tubo army, no matter how big the flame was, wouldn't he be doing useless work if he couldn't burn people?
Soon he understood why Yun Ye did this, and when he saw his soldiers holding their throats and gasping for breath, he understood a truth, this time the by-product of the flames. That is, smoke, poisonous.
"Next! Shameless! Lu Dongzan had a soaked wet cloth to plug his mouth and nose again. cursed Yun Ye fiercely, it seemed that the canyon couldn't stay, so he had to order the withdrawal of the army, the fire had become a prairie fire, and it was swept over by the wind, and if he didn't leave, he would explain the army here.
Stratagem is always coherent. A single plan is not called a strategy, the cavalry led by Cheng Chumo has bypassed the Star Gorge from the meadow of the frozen hard state in the distance, and pounced on Lu Dongzan's army, seeing that Lu Dongzan's army is at its peak, and the army formation is not chaotic at all. Lu Dongzan had no intention of fighting, but stationed the army at the exit of Xingxing Gorge, and established a strong camp, with his back to the Black Stone Mountain.
This confrontation lasted for seven days, and Cheng Chumo could not find any opportunity to take advantage of, so he had to return the same way, at this time the fire in the Star Gorge had just been extinguished, and an ochre-red canyon had become black, and it was really not a single grass.
Lu Dongzan sent scouts into the canyon, and after advancing less than two miles, most of them were killed and wounded by the Tang army's crossbowmen, and there was a pass standing in front of them, and countless Tang troops wearing pig's mouths were busy nervously, and they were preparing to establish an offensive outpost here.
This is Li Jing's military horse, seeing the stitches and inserting needles is originally Li Jing's strength, and he can use the potential he can use to the extreme, Li Jing doesn't care who drove Lu Dongzan out of Xingxing Gorge, he only has victory or defeat in his eyes.
Yun Ye led the army to continue to Yumen Pass, and it was also a serious crime for the army to miss the deadline, and the Han general Li Guang was unwilling to be tortured and humiliated by the small officials because he missed the deadline, so he committed suicide with a sword.
Now Yun Ye is also facing such a problem, but his mentality is relatively stable, he will never commit suicide, Su Dingfang is waiting for himself with his neck stretched at Yumen Pass, he will help him drag the angel, besides, there are few angels who are willing to go to the Gobi Desert to wander without doing anything, and the last one has already died in Chaos Stone City. Especially I heard that the current general Yun Ye is extremely short-tempered, and he has reached the point of killing people when he sees people, and when he walked to Ranshi City and couldn't find anyone to kill, he ran to kill more than 2,000 Tubo people, and I heard that a monstrous fire was also set in Xingxing Gorge, burning all the stones there to black. Such people can't be provoked.
"Your Majesty has an order, ordering Lantian Hou Yunye to return to Beijing immediately, and it must not be postponed!"
Ma Zhou stood on the camel city and read the emperor's order to Yun Ye.
"Gone?" Yun Ye planned to listen to a long passage, but he didn't expect it to be just such a sentence, and it was an order rather than an edict, what he gave to Du Ruhui just now was an edict, and the handwriting on it was written by the emperor himself, and his awkward Feibai could not be imitated by anyone else, how could it become an order when he got here, and the most outrageous thing was that Ma Zhou actually took out an arrow from his arms and gave it to himself, what is the matter?
This was the case in Li Jing's camp last time, why is it still like this in his own camp this time? Don't say a word about the superfluous, just send it away in such a short sentence?
"You are a general, don't take the arrow, what edict, the old man's edict is full of good words, but not necessarily better than your military order, since you were given the arrow, it means that you are still a general, no one hits your military idea, Your Majesty This is to calm your heart, I want you not to be too impatient, and I am worried that you will be delayed on the way back to Beijing, so I specially gave you the arrow, not the edict, don't you know, after receiving the edict, the courtier has a month's vacation? I'm afraid that the military order will not be such a good thing. Hurry up and enter Beijing, Your Majesty is probably impatient to wait. ”
Du Ruhui seemed to be really a little jealous.
"Li Jing also said the same thing last time, could it be that the fewer words His Majesty said, the more important it is? What's the reason, Ma Zhou, you came to sue me, what the hell is going on? ”
In front of Ma Zhou, Yun Ye didn't have the slightest intention of being polite.
"General, Du Xiang is right, His Majesty intends to reward all the meritorious ministers at this year's Yuan Day celebration, not only do you have to arrive in Chang'an before the first day, but Zhang Shuai and Niu Shuai in Liaodong must also rush back to Beijing, and the people who replace them are already on the road."
"What do you say about Dafeichuan, why is no one willing to go to Dafeichuan? Why didn't General Li Jing go back to Beijing with me? ”
Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and said: "General Cheng is reluctant to come down from the plateau, what do you say that he will naturally come down after he kills Songtsan Gampo, since General Cheng stays in Dafeichuan, General Li Jing needs to contain Lu Dongzan and prevent him from merging with Songtsan Gampo." Otherwise, General Cheng will be in danger in Dafeichuan, so ah, except for the two of them, the rest of the people will return to Chang'an, and the three generals on the grassland are no exception. “
Knowing that Ma Zhou was talking nonsense, Yun Ye still believed his nonsense, he had been out of command for too long, so he would form his own faction in the army, and Li Er, who was trying his best to turn the general into a leading symbol, how could he let these people master the same army for a long time? In the future, the generals who will lead the army will lead different troops, which is basically a foregone conclusion.
Yun Ye went down to the camel city to Yumen Pass to hand over the customs documents, and when he came back, he found that someone did not allow him to go to the camel city again, and only said that he asked the general to leave for Chang'an immediately.
After reading it carefully three times, I found that this person didn't know it, and after a closer look, I found that this was a eunuch with no eggs, that day, Xiaomiao, Liu Fang, they were all on the camel city, and their own softness was also on the camel city, why didn't they let them go to the city?
"What the hell are you going to take over Lao Tzu's mother-in-law?" Yun Ye asked by the neck of the eunuch.
"His Majesty has an order, ordering the Marquis of Lantian to return to Beijing immediately!"
"You're the fucking booty of embezzlement?"
"His Majesty has an order, ordering the Marquis of Lantian to return to Beijing immediately!"
Yun Ye knocked out this guy's three teeth, he still said this, but this is a camel city, his own territory, he doesn't let himself go to the camel city is a joke, and the surrounding pro-soldiers are ready to tear this guy apart.
However, Yun Ye didn't let them do it, and he beat up the eunuch who received the camel city, it is estimated that it will be fine, if someone else does it, whether the person who does it is reasonable or not, Li Er's general practice is to ask for the reason after cutting off his head. "Camel City will give it to you tomorrow, His Majesty's order is still to be obeyed, and he will return to Beijing immediately, and he will not say that he will not sleep."
Overnight, the camel city became unrecognizable, and the military order only required that the camel city be handed over to the eunuchs, but it was not said that even the people would be handed over together, these soldiers were brought out of Chang'an by themselves, and they naturally had to be brought back safely.
Tian Yuanyi didn't leave, his official position was already firmly tied to the camel city, so he looked at the devastated camel city with a heartache like a knife. (To be continued......)
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