Three days later.

The sky is cloudless, the sun is high, but it can't give the slightest warmth to the snow-covered earth, the cold wind tirelessly ravages the vast snowfield, the snow on the blowing trees falls, and the snowflakes are flying all over the sky.

In an open area, countless people are arching their bodies desperately digging snow, and behind them is a clear passage, about ten meters wide, winding away, like a black python slowly swimming forward, looking particularly abrupt in this white ice and snow world.

After digging for three days in a row, it was not very far from Yingzhou, the Turkic army followed and waited, and the Khan rode on his horse and looked into the distance, and said with a cold face: "Speed up, send everyone to Ben Khan, and in two hours, Ben Khan will stand outside Yingzhou City." ”

Immediately someone ran to give the order.

Soon, a large group of people were driven over, all of them were young and strong of the Xi nationality, holding rudimentary excavation tools in their hands, but no one dared to resist, these three days, there were already thousands of people who were beaten to death, everyone rushed up in a swarm, joined the excavation team, many people followed to the front, digging in sections, and the efficiency was much faster.

No one noticed that there were countless Tang troops lying on the hillside in the distance, everyone was wearing thick woolen coats, their clothes were white, and they blended with the snow, Qin Huaidao was also among them, carefully observing this scene, next to Fang Yiai, and couldn't wait to ask: "General, do it, the one who rides the horse must be a big man." ”

"That's mine." Cheng Chumo said in a low voice.

"Whoever kills whom." Fang Yiai said disdainfully.

"Be quiet, listen to the general's orders." An Guogong reminded.

Everyone didn't say anything more, and looked at Qin Huaidao one after another, their eyes full of war intent.

Qin Huaidao motioned for everyone to shrink down, besiege the city, draw a line with his fingers on the ground, and said: "Assuming that this is the passage they dug, the three thousand soldiers of An Guogong pressed down, the formation was scattered, let go of the excavators, and only attack the Khitan soldiers." After speaking, he drew a line next to him and looked at the three brothers of An Guogong and the Cheng family.

Everyone nodded silently.

Qin Huaidao continued: "The two thousand forbidden troops bypassed the front of the people digging the passage and went to the other side, forming a two-sided attack, and the action must be fast, not too close, to avoid accidental injury to their own crossbow arrows." ”

As he spoke, he drew a line on the other side.

The two brothers nodded knowingly, their eyes feverish.

Qin Huaidao continued: "After eating the vanguard troops in one fell swoop, the two armies quickly advanced backwards, swept forward in a V-shaped line, and tried to kill about 20,000 of them, and the remaining enemy troops will definitely flee, taking the dug passage, and riding horses, the speed is faster than ours, don't chase, defend on the spot, and protect the materials." ”

"Just let them go?" An Guogong is unwilling.

"Yes, let them go back, don't forget that there is still the Siwandan Department in the Khitan territory." Qin Huaidao reminded.

"General, this is driving the tiger and devouring the wolf?" An Guogong reacted, his eyes lit up, and he said with some excitement: "As long as they let go of about 30,000, in order to survive, they can only rob the cattle and sheep of other tribes, and fight with the Siwandan Department. ”

"Therefore, the most important thing is that the Khitans bring some supplies." Qin Huaidao reminded.

"Understand, that's the booty of the Khitan sacking of the Xi people, in addition to cattle and sheep, there are a lot of good things, just cheap for us." An Guogong said excitedly.

Qin Huaidao looked at the Cheng family brothers and Wei Chi brothers, and advised: "Everyone, the key to this battle is to be fast, eat 20,000 people as soon as possible, protect the supplies as soon as possible, and don't be destroyed by the enemy. ”

"The general wants to take them in?" An Guogong asked in surprise, in An Guogong's opinion, the law of the jungle, the rules of the grassland, keeping this group of captives will only waste food, it is useless.

Qin Huaidao didn't explain much, nodded and admonished: "You must be fast, act!" ”

"Obey!" Everyone agreed, and they went back to the ministries one after another.

Soon, the army rushed down the hill on the sleds, although the gentle slope was not steep enough, but it also made the starting speed a lot faster, one by one with sticks to the ground, the body was pressed forward, and sliding away.

Seeing that Fang Yiai didn't have anything to do with herself, she was anxious: "General, what are we doing?" ”

The dignified Yulin Army sat and watched every time, and the soldiers also had grievances, but the good discipline made everyone not show it, just looked at Qin Huaidao, his eyes were a little hot, and there was some eagerness.

Qin Huaidao said with a smile: "Didn't you say that the person just now was a big man?" I've left it over to you, and you have to live it. ”

"Haha, the general is wise." Fang Yiai was overjoyed, and shouted to everyone around him: "Brothers, the general trusts, we can't coax it, rush down and capture it." ”

"Obey!" Everyone was overjoyed and quickly rushed down.

Qin Huaidao didn't rush, got up, looked at the army rushing down, was a little excited in his heart, and said to Luo Zhang, who was accompanying him: "After this battle, the Khitan is not to worry, and there are these Xi prisoners in hand, if nothing else, you can take the two places, and it can be regarded as an explanation to the imperial court." ”

"Then do you still attack Goguryeo?" Luo Zhang asked curiously.

"Let's see the situation."

"If you want me to see it, just take it in one fell swoop, although the Khitan and Xi people have a lot of credit, but compared with Goguryeo, Goguryeo is a saint's heart disease, if you take it, the merit will be great, and Uncle will become a new generation of military gods." Luo Zhang said sincerely.

"But it's also a great achievement." Qin Huaidao said casually.

Luo Zhang was stunned, his expression changed slightly, and he said: "That's right, even if you don't win Goguryeo, Uncle is also suspected of being a meritorious master, and the saint is not good to reward, after all, Uncle is too young, can there be a way to deal with it?" ”

"Don't worry, I know it." Qin Huaidao smiled confidently, pointed to the person in front of him and added, "Did you see the person riding the jujube red war horse?" In his forties, wearing a white mink scarf, holding a sword in his hand, not a common Khitan knife, it should be a khan, you go to catch him, it is also a great achievement, the khan's war horse should be good, you need to change to a good horse. ”

"Whoa!" Luo Zhang agreed and hurried away.

Qin Huaidao remained immobile and continued to watch the battle, as the main general, as long as he won the battle, the credit would be big enough, and he couldn't go to rob everyone again, not to mention that if he really wanted to participate in the war, the soldiers would be distracted in order to protect themselves.

The main general, it is better to stay in the command position, rather than fighting on the front line.

In front, the soldiers rushed down, with the help of the upper wind, the crossbow arrows were dense like rain, whistling away, on the other hand, the Khitan army was crowded in the passage no more than ten meters wide, and there were many people, and there was no place to hide.

I can't turn around and run, all of them are like live targets, although they also shoot back, but they are limited to peripheral soldiers, and the people in the middle can't shoot, they will shoot their own people, unless they are thrown at the sky, and the accurate head is equivalent to nothing for the soldiers who rush down.

A crossbow arrow came, Zhang Gong counterattacked the team and fell, and before anyone else could react, another crossbow arrow came, and then there was a continuous stream of crossbow arrows, like layers of bamboo shoots, shooting groups of people down.

Under the attack of more than 5,000 people, in the dense rain, continuous crossbow arrows, the Khitan ghosts who were shot cried wolf howl, and they turned around and ran away.

Seeing this scene, Qin Huaidao smiled, with the light of Zhizhu in his eyes.

Luo Zhang slid the sled and rushed down, and also saw this scene, he didn't rush to make a move, his eyes were staring at the target, although he didn't understand why Qin Huaidao concluded that the other party was a khan, but he also decided to take it.

Soon, Luo Zhang caught up with the attacking troops, and saw that the Khitan was fleeing frantically, the target was mixed inside, people were crowded, many people were sent down, trampled to death, and participated in the ups and downs, but there were people around the target to protect him, and even slashed and killed the people who blocked him with a knife, and he was happy in his heart, it was really a big fish.

The next moment, Luo Zhang rushed through the formation, continued to move forward, and rushed directly to the passage dug by the Khitans, his body rose into the air, and slammed into the people around the target, the sled board was long enough, and this hit down a large piece, Luo Zhang quickly pulled out his legs, got out of the sled board, and pulled out a knife to slash wildly.

The snow in the passage is very shallow, and the movement is not restricted, but there are many people, squeezed into a push, Luo Zhang cut over a few people to the target, but more people rushed up to block, so they had to give up the arrest and continue to slash, where are these people Luo Zhang's opponents, they soon fell down several times, and there was a gap.

The opportunity was rare, Luo Zhangfei pounced, pulled the person off the horse, and put the knife across the opponent's neck and shouted: "Don't move, or you will be hacked to death." As he spoke, he pulled the other party back and came to the edge of the passage, with his back against the thick snow, blocked by snow, and the enemy could not sneak attack behind in a roundabout way, but only faced the enemy head-on.

Several of the guards tried to come to the rescue, but they were bogged at and shouted something.

Luo Zhang didn't understand a word, so he ignored it directly.

At this time, the attacking troops arrived, a crossbow arrow roared, impenetrable, countless people screamed and fell, Luo Zhang pulled the target into the snowdrift behind, and the whole did not enter.

Luo Zhang was wearing a white coat, the attacking troops knew that it was their own people, deliberately avoided the area, and continued to chase forward, Luo Zhang got up, lifted the target from the thick snowdrift, and shouted: "If you don't want to die, be honest." ”

"Surrender, I surrender." The other party hurriedly spoke, and he was quite fluent in Tang Chinese.

"What identity?" Luo Zhang asked.

"Khitan Khan, Brother Cave, this general, please inform your army not to kill again, we are here to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, and there is no malice." The other party hurriedly said.

As soon as Luo Zhang heard that it was really a big fish, he was immediately overjoyed, and looked around, the team had already attacked, Fang Yiai and Li Yixie grabbed a few people over, and pressed the Khan to meet him, and listened to Fang Yiai scolding: "Bad luck, it's not their Khan, who are you arresting?" ”

"I'm sorry, this is the Khan." Luo Zhang said with a smile.

Fang Yiai became even more depressed when she heard this, and scolded: "You are shit luck!" ”

Luo Zhang smiled and didn't say anything, and didn't point out that it was Qin Huaidao who reminded him, looked up, and saw that Qin Huaidao was sliding over, so he shouted: "General, the Khitan Khan is here." ”

Qin Huaidao came roaring on the sleigh board, stopped suddenly, looked at the Khan, and the Khan hurriedly said: "This general misunderstood, we are here to surrender." ”

"Surrender?" Qin Huaidao looked at the other party, his eyes were sharp, as if he could see through his heart.

The Khan hurriedly said: "Yes, Toucheng, we have no ill will. ”

"Why did you attack the Xi people?" Qin Huaidao frowned and asked coldly.

"They attacked my Khitan first, and asked the general Mingjian, we are really here to surrender, you can take me to see the Tang Emperor, and ask the general to restrain the army and stop chasing and killing." Khan hurriedly said.

Qin Huaidao suddenly thought of something, his eyes became cold, and he sneered: "If you can't beat it, you will surrender, do you think that the Tang Dynasty can't do without you and need you to contain Goguryeo, do you think that with your existence, the Murwei and Yan Ya in the north will not go south?" ”

"You ......"

The Khan's face changed greatly, and his expression was seen through his thoughts, and he thought about it, what if he saw through it, there was no Khitan containment, and the Northeast was even more chaotic, and said: "The general is wise, with my Khitan clan, there is no chaos in the east, please rest assured that the Khitan is willing to fight for the Tang and be the vanguard of the Tang army, as before." ”

When attacking the Eastern Turks, the Khitan was the vanguard.

Qin Huaidao knew about this, and sneered: "When you are full-fledged, go south again, sack my Tang people again, and then surrender to sincerity after you can't beat it, surrender and rebel, rebel and surrender, if there is a benefit, you will take it, and if there is no benefit, you will surrender, but it is a good calculation, if you want to surrender, you can also show sincerity." ”

"What sincerity does the general want?" The Khan saw that the trick of Toucheng was as good as ever, and Tang Jun was as benevolent and righteous as ever, with a good face, and his heart was settled.

"The Covenant of Khitan and Goguryeo."

Khan's face changed greatly, he stared at Qin Huaidao and stopped talking, instinctively not wanting to admit it, but he didn't admit that the other party might not accept Toucheng and would die, but admitting it would also be very troublesome, and he was in a dilemma for a while.

Qin Huaidao saw the other party's thoughts, and said coldly: "Since there is no sincerity, everyone will listen to the order." "A huge outbreak of killing intent, if you really accept this person's surrender, how can you face the murdered people of the Tang Dynasty?

"In!" The crowd shouted.

When the Khan heard this, he hurriedly said, "Wait a minute, how do you know about this?" ”

"This is not important, I will give you a chance at the end, will you say it?"

"Surrender the covenant and possibly accept the Khitan surrender?"

"You are not qualified to negotiate conditions with me, kill you, General Ben will look for it slowly, it doesn't matter if you can't find it, if you have that thing, what to do and what to do." Qin Huaidao said coldly.

The khan felt something different from Qin Huaidao, at least he didn't have the good face of the Tang army generals he had met in the past, he would be benevolent and righteous, and he would be famous.

In the face of life and death, the khan hesitated.

"Don't want to say? Then don't talk about it. Qin Huaidao said coldly, and he was about to give an order.

Khan panicked and didn't want to die, so he hurriedly said, "I said, in my arms." ”

Luo Zhang quickly searched his body, took out a piece of exquisite silk silk, Fang Yiai took it, and handed it to Qin Huaidao.

Qin Huaidao opened it and saw that it was indeed an alliance, the two parties formed an alliance, the Khitan took Yunzhou, and the Goguryeo took Yunzhou, but Youzhou was given to the Taiyuan Wang, with three signatures and handprints on it, one of them was surnamed Wang, with this thing, the Taiyuan Wang's family was completely finished.

At this moment, Qin Huaidao was very settled, put away the silk silk, and asked: "At the beginning, the Hundred Cavalry Division pursued Wang Tongbiao of the Taiyuan Wang Clan, and later a cavalry appeared, who was it?" ”

"Sivantan Ministry." The Khan decisively betrayed the Sivantan tribe.

When Qin Huaidao heard it, it was indeed the Siwan Dan Ministry, but he still asked, "Reason?" ”

"Taiyuan Wang and Xi Wan Dan have a close deal, the relationship is very expensive, Xi Wan Dan wants to seize the position of the Khan, is worried that there is no opportunity to show favor to the Taiyuan Wang, so he sent troops, this Khan is worried, some time ago Taiyuan Wang came to lobby, said that as long as the alliance is formed, it will be vigorously supported, in order to keep the Khan, there is this alliance, this Khan is also forced to be, but also ask the general Mingjian, from now on, no longer dare."

Qin Huaidao saw that the situation was very close to what he had guessed, and asked, "Where is Wang Tongbiao?" ”

"That bastard ran away." Khan said angrily: "I originally wanted to trick him over and send him to the general, but this person was cunning and ran away with his 10,000 black-clothed troops. ”

Qin Huaidao could see that the other party was lying, the bullshit deceived people came to surrender, joining forces is the truth, and if he was defeated, he would talk nonsense, but he didn't break it, and asked: "Where did you go?" ”

"To the east, the details are unknown."

The most likely thing to go east is to go to Pingzhou and join forces with the Goguryeo army, but it just so happened that he turned around and shouted: "Captain Fang, take someone to watch them, search their bodies, don't hide their weapons, Captain Li, go and inform those Xi people, let them continue to clean up the passage, and this general will accept them." ”

"Obey!" The two hurriedly received their orders.

Qin Huaidao looked ahead, the pursuit had stopped, most of the Khitans had successfully escaped, and the soldiers were collecting scattered war horses, cattle and sheep, and guarding materials, so many good things could not be lost.

Everything was planned.

The Khan hesitated for a moment and asked, "General, how are Ben Khan's people?" ”

"Not dead, your wife and children are alive."

"General Xie's grace not to kill." Khan said gratefully, and the whole person relaxed a lot.

Qin Huaidao waved his hand and slid forward.

Luo Zhang was worried about Qin Huaidao's safety, so he pushed the khan to Fang Yiai, picked up the sled board, and chased forward along the passage.

The Khitan can't stop it, and the Murwei and the Yan Yan in the north can't stop it, what value do you have?

Without the value of containing the ministries, will Datang still accept its own surrender?

Thinking of this, the khan became nervous and enjoyed power and wealth, and the khan was reluctant to die.

Qin Huaidao didn't know the change of Khan's mind, and went all the way to the material stacking area, and An Guogong greeted him excitedly: "General, you have made a fortune, there are a lot of materials, more than He Da and Hebu, the number cannot be counted for a while, there are also a lot of silver, grain, cloth and green salt, etc., and there are countless arrows." ”

"Then don't count, let all the war horses, donkeys, etc. go north and return at any time." Qin Huaidao didn't expect that there would be more than the capture of He Da and Hebu, and smiled happily, with so many materials, he would not worry about fighting for a few months.

An Guogong agreed, this battle was fought, it felt more dreamlike, there was no difficulty, and he returned, while giving a loud order: "The general has an order, and all the materials are loaded with horses, donkeys, etc." ”

The order was quickly delivered.

Tents were dismantled and placed on horseback, bags of supplies were carried on donkeys, cattle and sheep were gathered together, and the faces of the soldiers were full of joyful smiles.

From time to time, everyone glanced at the direction where Qin Huaidao was, as if it was the sky, the sun, and the god of war, with him, there was nothing to fear in any difficulties and opponents.

An hour later, all the supplies were carried on their backs, gathered together, and prepared to go, even the Khitan war horses that were killed did not let go, they were all meat, there were too many people, and no material could be wasted.

Qin Huaidao saw that there were still many children and women among the Xi captives, he shivered with cold, and gave an order to let them come over by themselves, strip off the clothes of the killed Khitan warriors and put them on, and hand over the loot they found.

This move made the Xi people's hearts reassured, and their desperate eyes were more shiny.

Two hours later, the passage was dug to the boundary of Yingzhou, and the ice city was in sight.

When the khan saw the towering Yingzhou, and saw the sudden extra ice city next to the Yingzhou city, he suddenly felt that he was a little ridiculous, such a majestic city could really be won by tens of thousands of Khitan people?

Also, what about the soldiers and horses of Goguryeo? Didn't you say that the Goguryeo soldiers besieged the state?

Thinking of this, the khan realized that something was wrong, and asked Fang Yiai, who was in charge of guarding: "This general, Ben Khan remembers that Goguryeo sent 50,000 troops to besiege the camp, what about the people?" ”

"I went to your steppe and slaughtered a few tribes." Fang Yiai said.

"What?" The Khan was shocked, and the other captives also changed color, and their eyes were full of anger at being betrayed.

said that they would form an alliance and carve up the Tang Dynasty together, but they didn't know that the other party had a backstab, 50,000 troops entered the grassland, and the Khitan warriors were fighting outside, which tribe could stop it?

At this moment, Khan's face was so angry that his face was pale, he was furious, his red eyes were staring at the east, full of hatred, he was convinced to lose to Qin Huaidao, and there was nothing to say about being attacked by the Tang army, after all, he made a mistake first, but this betrayal could not be forgiven, let alone acceptable.

Endless anger burned in his heart, and the Khan, like a mad hungry wolf, suddenly shouted: "I will generalize you." ”

Qin Huaidao was not far away, and rushed over when he heard the voice: "Are you looking for me?" ”

"General, I swear to the gods of heaven and surrender sincerely, I only hope that the general will give the Khitan people a chance to take revenge, and I am willing to lead the Khitan warriors to go to Goguryeo to take revenge. Khan said murderously.

Qin Huaidao saw that the other party was self-contained, not Ben Khan, and the oath of the gods worshiped by the Khitan people, which was the most solemn and sacred oath, it can be seen that his mind had been decided, he thought about it and said, "Look at your performance." ”

"General Xie." Khan said gratefully.

Qin Huaidao looked at the other party, his micro-expression proved that he was not lying, motioned to Fang Yiai to the side, and asked for a while, only to know that it was the reaction after learning that Goguryeo had entered the grassland, so he advised: "Captain Fang, the army has its own rules, and in the future, things in the army are not allowed to be revealed at will. ”

"Whoa!" Fang Yiai didn't expect that he had violated the rules with a casual remark, so his heart tightened, and he hurriedly agreed.

Unintentional mistake, Qin Huaidao didn't want to say anything, signaled Fang Yiai to leave, but his mind was alive, the khan wanted to take revenge, wanted to make meritorious service and live, but it was credible, but his identity was special, he couldn't lead the troops, otherwise there would be troubles, the Khitan soldiers could be used, but the young Zhuang among the Xi captives could definitely be used, and whispered to Luo Zhang beside him: "Luo Zhang, do you want to give you an army belt?" ”

"It's all up to Uncle A, Uncle has a need, and he has an unshirkable responsibility." Luo Zhang agreed indifferently.

"When I go back, I will give you an army and train according to your Luo family's art of war." Qin Huaidao smiled with satisfaction.

"Will it violate the rules of the imperial court and cause trouble?" Luo Zhang reminded.

"Wouldn't it be better to be in trouble? The saint doesn't need to reward me, and there is no need to worry about high merit and shocking the Lord. Qin Huaidao said with a smile, his eyes shining.

Luo Zhang understood that this was self-defilement, thought about it, and said, "Okay, listen to Uncle, it's a pity that Uncle is so great." ”

"There is a lot of credit, but the reputation is different, you should also be famous, the prestige of the Luo family needs you to support it." Qin Huaidao said in a low voice.

Luo Zhang thought of his decadent father at home, and his eyes were red.

Thank you all for coming all the way!!