Let's say that Gu Dazu and Shen Zesi took more than 30,000 soldiers and retreated all the way to the hinterland of northern Xinjiang, and after passing through several small towns, they stopped in Taoyang City. 79 free

At this time, two days had passed since they retreated from Northern Xia City. Along the way, the Anbei soldiers followed the strategy of clearing the wilderness with strong walls mentioned by Shen Zesi, and wherever the Anbei soldiers passed, there was no food left.

The scale of Taoyang City is second only to that of Northern Xia City, and here, there are also strong walls and fortresses. Further on, there were still some small towns, and if the Turkic pursuers came, the Anbei soldiers would have no place to defend at all.

Therefore, Gu Dazu decided to stop in Taoyang City and fight the Turkic army again, and by the way, he also waited for the return of Zheng Xian and others.

Regarding the tragic situation in Northern Xia, Gu Dazu was aware, but he couldn't be sure. After they stayed in Taoyang City for five hours, they had not yet seen Zheng Xian and those government soldiers arrive. Then Gu Dazu knew that Zheng Xian and those government soldiers must be more than lucky.

Ah Xian...... couldn't help it, Gu Dazu's tears fell. The Gu Zheng family has added another heroic soul to Northern Xinjiang. This is already the twenty-seventh, and the children of the Gu Zheng family are almost gone!

Silently reciting Zheng Xian's name, Gu Dazu closed his eyes. This fierce general, who is nearly half a hundred years old, for Zheng Xian, and for those dead Gu Zheng disciples, is in tears at this moment.

Shen Zesi held back his tears, he didn't want to disturb Gu Dazu's grief and fragility at the moment, but ...... But the scouts have already come to report, and the Turkic pursuers have appeared.

"How do the Turkic pursuers look?" Before Shen Zesi could ask, Gu Dazu asked. In just a moment, Gu Dazu wiped away his tears.

Now, this is not the time to grieve. The Turkic pursuers have appeared, and the Great Eternal reinforcements have not yet arrived, and he still has a lot to do.

"The speed of the Turkic soldiers has slowed down significantly. There were many Turkic wounded soldiers, and the spirit and movements of the forward troops were obviously not as good as before. ”

Shen Zesi carefully said the scout's report, and his heart was once again sad because of Zheng Xian.

He knows. The Turkic soldiers will be like this, it is the credit of Zheng Xian and the 5,000 soldiers. It was they who, with their blood and bodies, inflicted the casualties of the Turks and suppressed the morale of the Turks.

"Their wounded soldiers don't care about the aftermath. Just chase it like that. It seems that our strategy of clearing the wilderness has also worked. I wonder how many days the Turkic grain and grass can last? ”

Gu Dazu was not only asking Shen Zesi, but also asking himself. How many days can the Turkic grain and grass last? How many days can the soldiers hold Taoyang?

These answers, he didn't know. But he knew that this time, the government soldiers had no way to retreat, so they could only hold on to Taoyang and wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the Guannei guards, or ...... Wait for all the soldiers to die.

What they have to do is to resist desperately. That's all.

On the Turkic side, the leader Uji stared at Taoyang City in the distance, a huge city that stood quietly, surrounded by towering walls and fortresses. It must be easy to defend and difficult to attack, just like Northern Xia City!

Thinking of Beixia City, Wu Ji's eyes suddenly became vicious. He didn't expect that the soldiers of Anbei would be so desperate, and the huge Northern Xia City couldn't find a grain of grain!

The soldiers of Anbei Mansion are even more ruthless. He actually drugged the water source in the city. Those water that was as red as blood, Uji was unwilling to even look at it, how could he drink it?

It has been six or seven days since the raid on northern Xinjiang, but they have not received any benefits in northern Xinjiang, not a single grain or water. It's all self-bringed. More than 100,000 people and horses consumed grain and grass, that's a huge number.

If this situation cannot be solved, then the grain and grass will be reduced day by day, and the raid on the northern frontier will be in vain! This expectation made Uji feel. The situation is getting worse and worse for me!

At this time, Uji fully felt the disadvantages of expeditionary operations, no wonder the previous leaders had never gathered troops on such a large scale, and it seemed that they could not solve the problem of food and grass supply.

It must be replenished with grain and grass in northern Xinjiang, and the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture must be annihilated, and the time must not be delayed for too long. Thinking so, Uji soon launched the first Turkic siege!

As Uji expected, Taoyang was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and this time the siege of the city, the Turks were defeated.

God knows why there are so many city-guarding crossbows in Anbei! Obviously, three planes have been destroyed in Northern Xia, and now there are two more planes in Taoyang City, forcing the Turkic soldiers to retreat beyond the range of range, and they can't get close to Taoyang City at all.

This result made Uji angry. Unlike Gu Dazu, who waited for work at ease, these Turkic soldiers were always in a state of fatigue.

In Beixia City, they encountered desperate resistance, and finally attacked the city, but they found nothing, and they still had to chase the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture. When they came to Taoyang, they were still facing the same situation.

Even if Uji had the heart to attack the city, these Turkic soldiers would have to camp and live. In desperation, Uji had to order to bury the pot and make rice, and the soldiers would rest well and attack the city at dawn.

And at this moment in Taoyang City, the soldiers of Anbei Mansion were grief-stricken, and the calls for "avenging Zuo Duhu" and "killing the enemy for the brothers" continued.

It turned out that these government soldiers, when they saw the Turkic army appearing, also knew the death of Zheng Xian and the five thousand government soldiers. Immediately, some government soldiers choked up.

"Soldiers, obey orders! Zuo Duhu and those brothers, in order to give us more time, will desperately defend the city. Now, we must defend Taoyang City to comfort their spirits in the sky! ”

Gu Dazu's expression was still sad, but more of it was his determination to kill the enemy desperately.

The grieving and indignant soldiers gradually quieted down after hearing Gu Dazu's words. However, their hatred of the Turks deepened, and their determination to defeat the Turks became stronger.

Zheng Xian's death has become their inexhaustible motivation. The mourning soldiers will win, and there is a reason for this, because death forged their courage and faith, and they were ultimately indestructible.

In the conference hall temporarily set up in Taoyang, Gu Dazu discussed the battle plan again and again with Shen Zesi and other generals.

The Turks were exhausted and ready to bury their pots and rest, but for the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture, what they had to do was just beginning.

"Okay, go and do what you planned. Remember, only nuisance, not war, let the Turks also try that kind of grievance! ”

These things, when Shangguan Yongping came to the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, they had done it once in a child's play, and now it has become a delaying tactic.

Shen Zesi, the left capital guard, and Guo Yi Duwei and other generals. Since the capital was ordered to leave, tonight must be a sleepless night.

That night, when the Turkic army was tired and fell asleep. The gate of Taoyang City suddenly opened, and a group of Anbei soldiers held torches aloft and bows and arrows in their hands, shouting and rushing towards the Turkic military camp.

Behind them, the drums and gongs of the attack were constantly beating, and the momentum was so great that the Turkic defenders were taken aback, and they hurriedly sounded the horn of the warning!

"Alert! Alert! Anbei Mansion soldiers raid! Anbei Mansion soldiers raid! ”

Such a shout instantly spread throughout the Turkic camp. The Turkic soldiers thought that the Anbei soldiers really launched an offensive in the middle of the night, and hurriedly got up to meet the enemy.

It was only when they rushed out of the tent with weapons in hand that they realized. Those Anbei soldiers who rushed out had already retreated to Taoyang City. The drumbeat of the attack on Anbei's side has long stopped, the torches have long been extinguished, and the city gate is of course tightly closed!

So quickly, so silently, as if the cry was just an illusion.

Only then did the Turkic soldiers realize that it was a false alarm. The exhaustion of being awakened from a deep sleep immediately hit their hearts again. Without waiting for the order of the leader Uji, the Turkic soldiers retreated to their tents and went to sleep.

But not long after they fell asleep, the same warning sounded again, and there was another rush of confusion, only for the Turkic soldiers to realize that it was another false alarm.

At this time, Uji's face could be said to be green, and after two consecutive harassments, he already knew that this was a tired enemy plan for the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture.

Damn it! Hasn't Dayong always been known as a soldier of righteousness? The soldiers of benevolence and righteousness do not use tricks, how can the soldiers of Anbei Mansion use such indiscriminate means?!

Resentment is resentment, and angry horses are angry and scolded. Uji has no way to deal with this situation at this time! You can't let the soldiers attack Taoyang City with sleepy eyes, right? Perhaps, the soldiers of Anbei Mansion are waiting for them to go!

Amid the curses, the Turkic soldiers returned to their tents and prepared to sleep. But this time, it took them a long time to fall asleep. I was afraid that the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture would come to disturb me again.

In this way, when they finally fell asleep in a daze, the drumbeat of those attacks sounded again, and those specious shouts and shouts reappeared, and by this time, the sky was already slightly bright.

This time, the Turkic soldiers were already very experienced, and they knew that the soldiers of Anbei Province were just bluffing this time, and they got up slowly, not wanting to pay attention to these drums at all.

As everyone knows, this time, the soldiers of Anbei Mansion really attacked! In the fierce drumbeat, the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture actually launched the crossbow bed to defend the city, and when the Turkic soldiers were still confused, they had already fallen!

More than 10,000 soldiers from Anbei Prefecture rushed to the nearest Turkic tent, and while they were still wearing armor, they came to them and slashed them down. Clusters of rockets, simultaneously fired from the ballistae defending the city, were aimed at the Turkic tents.

It has to be said that this range is just right. Soon, a raging fire broke out in the Turkic tent, and with the help of the north wind, the fire spread quickly!

When the fire was ignited, the Turkic soldiers also reacted and launched a crazy counterattack against the Anbei soldiers, their numbers, after all, accounted for the absolute majority, and soon, there were casualties among the Anbei soldiers.

"Retreat! Return to Taoyang City! Shen Zesi shouted, and the soldiers of Anbei Mansion who raided retreated into Taoyang City like a tide, and pushed away the dilapidated crossbow bed for defending the city!

And the crossbow arrows on the city wall still firmly blocked the Turkic soldiers outside Taoyang City. The Turkic soldiers could not go any further, so they had to hurriedly retreat to put out the fire!

The nuisance strategy of the Anbei soldiers has achieved miraculous results. At the cost of thousands of dead and wounded, the soldiers of Anbei Prefecture destroyed more than 10,000 Turkic soldiers, ten times the number of words, which is a miracle.

However, this was only the beginning of the Battle of Taoyang. Because immediately, the Turkic soldiers launched a frantic attack on Taoyang. Gu Dazu and Shen Zesi, will they repeat Zheng Xian's fate?

At the moment, no one knows. The smell of blood in Taoyang is getting heavier and heavier.

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One more! Thanks to Oshiivy for the pink!