Chapter 125: Yumen Snow (12)
"Erlang is here, Erlang is here!"
Just when the gate entered a highly tense state of alert, there was a sudden cheer behind the gate, Zhang Yitan listened carefully, and said to Li Jiyan excitedly:
"General Li, Erlang is back, I said, Erlang will come back!"
Erlang is Zhang Yitan's younger brother Zhang Yichao, the current Shi Jingfeng's pro-soldier team, more than ten days ago was sent by Shi Jingfeng to take a team of soldiers to Guazhou and Shazhou to transport heavy weapons, but he didn't come back for a long time, everyone thought that he must have met the Tubo soldiers on the road and couldn't come back. Zhang Yitan was uncomfortable for a long time, but he always thought that his younger brother would come back. 张意谭 says:
"Erlang has been traveling abroad since he was fourteen years old, and has been to Logos and Sogdia, and such a long road has not bothered him, so how can such a small road stop him?"
At this time, Zhang Yichao came back, and Zhang Yitan was naturally excited. After Li Jiyan ordered his subordinates to be on guard, he said to Zhang Yitan:
"Let's go, let's see what Jiro has brought."
A group of soldiers were surrounding a blood-stained teenager and asking questions. Behind the young man were several carts and dozens of soldiers who were sitting on the ground resting and drinking water desperately, who, like Zhang Yichao, were also covered in blood and dust, and they knew at a glance that they had experienced a fierce battle. Shi Jingfeng has already descended from the other side. Seeing Shi Jingfeng and Li Jiyan, Zhang Yichao hurriedly stepped forward and hugged his fists:
"I've seen Governor Stuto, General Lee! marked Zhang Yichao to live up to his mission, and a total of 100,000 arrows were transported! ”
"One hundred thousand, one hundred thousand!"
The soldiers whispered and became excited, and each of them knew very well what the 100,000 arrows meant to the current Yumen Pass. However, Shi Jingfeng and Li Jiyan noticed that only about 50 of the 150 soldiers who followed Zhang Yichao returned.
Shi Jingfeng looked at this sixteen-year-old boy, his tall body was straight, his battle robe was torn to the ground, there were several scars on his body, his helmet was crooked to the side, his exposed hair was messy, his face was covered with ash marks and blood stains, his eyes were trying to open wide, and they were full of bloodshots, but they were full of excitement, Shi Jingfeng and Li Jiyan were familiar with it, it was the excitement that did not relax after the fierce battle.
A sixteen-year-old boy who has not yet taken off his childishness has the appearance of an adult at this moment. Shi Jingfeng couldn't help but soften in his heart, but the words he said were hard, and said:
"You have worked hard, and I will take credit for your efforts. Take your people to eat something hot, soak your feet, and get some rest. ”
Zhang Yichao said:
"Governor, your subordinates are not tired, and your subordinates have confidential military intelligence reports."
Shi Jingfeng and Li Jiyan glanced at each other, and Li Jiyan loudly ordered the soldiers to move the arrows to the gate. Shi Jingfeng took Zhang Yichao to his hall. Later, Li Jiyan also came, said hello to Shi Jingfeng and went to the gate. Shi Jingfeng said:
"The Tubo army is under the gate, there is not much time for you, you have to explain things clearly as soon as possible."
Zhang Yichao said:
"My subordinates saved. The governor, Shang Tazan, sent a large army to bypass the Yumen Pass, enter the desert from the Jin Pass, and attack the Jinchang Shazhou. ”
Rao is Shi Jingfeng has been through ups and downs for a long time, and he couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the words, and asked:
"What's going on with Erzhou?"
Zhang Yichao said:
"Jinchang has been lost, the situation in Shazhou is unknown, the subordinates took their subordinates to leave when they were fine, to Jinchang met the Tubo army, the subordinates sent people back to report the news, while leading people into Qilian Mountain to hide, several fierce battles before breaking through, fortunately the arrows were not lost."
Shi Jingfeng secretly thought that this was a fundamental method of warfare, as long as the connection between Yumen Pass and Guazhou was cut off, Yumen Pass could only rely on its own reserves to hold on. The question is, why didn't Shantazan adopt it sooner rather than later, and why did he adopt it now? Isn't that too time-consuming? Asked Zhang Yichao, Zhang Yichao's task was to transport arrows, and he was not very clear. Shi Jingfeng couldn't figure it out, and there was a warning signal on the close, so Shi Jingfeng asked:
"Does anyone else know?"
Zhang Yichao said:
"The subordinates knew that the matter was very important, and specially instructed their subordinates not to mention it to anyone."
Shi Jingfeng praised him for doing a good job, so he hurriedly put on his helmet and went out, Zhang Yichao wanted to follow, but was reprimanded by Shi Jingfeng:
"Rest well!"
When he arrived at the gate, he saw Li Jiyan standing in his position commanding, and when he saw Shi Jingfeng coming up, Li Jiyan didn't pay attention to him, and only after he finished the order did he look at him with an inquiring eye, Shi Jingfeng said in a low voice:
"Jinchang."
Li Jiyan couldn't help but gasp, and Shi Jingfeng said:
"When this battle is over, tell it to the brethren. Shang Tazang of the dog day, I have to be ruthless to him today! ”
Shang Tazang is going crazy. He took the soldiers who had just regained confidence to kill under the Yumen Pass, and after sacrificing the soldiers who died in battle, Shang Tazan commanded his subordinates to start the attack on the Yumen Pass, and the result was surprising to him.
The discovery of this greatly boosted the courage of the Tibetan army, and they finally believed that Shang Tazan's judgment was right, and in fact Shang Tazan's judgment was originally correct, provided that there was no "accident" of Zhang Yichao. After the end of the temptation, the Tubo army's attack on Yumen Pass also increased. As a result, when the Tibetan army was once again massively assembled to prepare for the siege of the city, the overwhelming rain of arrows covered the city again. What made Shang Tazan even more angry was that,* after killing and wounding his soldiers again, he also collectively mocked in the Tibetan dialect:
"Welcome to death again!"
The angry Tibetan army attacked again, and they were greeted by a dense rain of arrows. Then attack,* or entertain them with a dense rain of arrows. As it was getting late, Chantazan finally realized that he had an inexhaustible number of arrows. Distraught, Chantazan had no choice but to order the troops to retreat. Along the way, Shang Tazang couldn't understand why he miscalculated, could it be that Tang would be the Zhuge Liang of the Tang legend?
"Quick, quick!"
Dozens of miles to the east, a team of cavalry was galloping along the foothills of the Qilian Mountains.