Chapter 157: Xiao General Cheng Wuting
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"Marshal, the last general will lead the people of the headquarters to report to you!" Cheng Wuting, with a large group of personal guards and many sergeants escorting the Turkic leaders, rushed to Pei Xingjian, who was standing on a hillside waiting, and saluted loudly.
"General Cheng has worked hard!" Pei Xingjian returned the salute with a fist on the horse, with a slight smile on his face.
"The last general, the last general has failed the trust of the commander and led his troops late..."Cheng Wuting looked at Pei Xingjian apologetically, and then looked at the generals who were watching him next to Pei Xingjian, and immediately changed his words, "The last general is fortunate to live up to his mission and intercepted the fleeing Asid to serve his duties," Cheng Wuting said and waved his hand, ordering the sergeant behind him to serve the bound Asid, and some other Turkic leaders escorted him up.
The capture of Ashid made Cheng Wuting breathe a sigh of relief, and this battle has finally made a great contribution, otherwise he would have no shame to see Pei Xingjian.
With Cheng Wuting's drinking order, Ashde, who was tied up like a zongzi, was served, and some other Turkic leaders were escorted to Pei Xingjian.
"Come, untie the serving chief!" Pei Xingjian ordered loudly, without any expression on his face.
With Pei Xingjian's order, several sergeants hurriedly loosened their ties for Ashid's duties.
Ashide moved his hands and feet, which were somewhat numb, and looked at Pei Xingjian, who was riding majestically on a horse, as well as the generals beside Pei Xingjian, with fear on his face, stepped forward tremblingly, and respectfully saluted, "I've seen General Datang!"
Ashide didn't know who the boss of the Tang Dynasty in front of him was.
Pei Xingjian didn't have any expression on his face, and looked condescendingly at Ashid who bowed his head and bowed down, "You are the one who instigated Ashina to rebel and Ashste Fu to rebel?" ”
"Ben... The little one is..."Asid replied with his head bowed, he wanted to ask who the Tang commander who defeated him and did not seem to be angry and arrogant.
For many years in the Tang Dynasty, most of the leaders of the Turkic people speak Chinese very fluently, and there is no difference between them and the Han people in terms of language.
"Ben Shuai heard of your name when he was in Anxi a few months ago, I originally thought you were a Turkic chief who knew the righteousness, but I didn't expect that you were a fanatic who didn't know the height of the sky, and he didn't want to be my Tang Dynasty's guest, but he was willing to be a prisoner now!" Pei Xingjian said lightly.
Hearing Pei Xingjian say this, Ashid's head slammed, and he was even more frightened in his heart, raised his head to look at Pei Xingjian, and said tremblingly: "Handsome... The handsome is Pei..."
"That's right, Ben Shuai is Pei Xingjian!" Pei Xingjian said proudly.
"Ahh Asid screamed as if he had been hit in the body, and fell to the ground. In the minds of their Turkic people, there are many people who are the most feared in the Tang army, Li Jing, Li Shiji, Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Zheng Rentai, Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian, etc., these people are invincible in the Turkic conquest, countless Turkic sons have died because of them, and many people will instinctively be afraid when they hear these names.
Among these people, Li Jing, Li Shiji and other older generation of Tang generals have passed away for many years, and only Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian are still alive today, as far as they know, Xue Rengui was exiled because of the battle with Tubo and the defeat of Dafeichuan, and has not been used, according to rumors, Xue Rengui has died of illness not long ago, and now there is only one general left in the Tang Dynasty who has no defeat in the Turkic war and makes the Turks fearful, that is Pei Xingjian.
Pei Xingjian's name is like a rune, which is very intimidating among the Turkic tribesmen, and some women even use this name to stop their children from crying.
Pei Xingjian led a delegation to escort the Persian prince back to Persia in the previous year, and went to Anxi, and the leaders of the former Eastern Turks in Anbei, including Ashid's service, all knew that Pei Xingjian was in Anxi, preparing to quell the rebellion of Ashina Duzhi, and they felt that Pei Xingjian would stay in Anxi for a few years, and now there was no other general in the Tang Dynasty who could lead the troops to fight, so they dared to raise troops against the Tang Dynasty when Ashina supported the army, and echoed.
The Turks still underestimated the combat power of the Tang army, and when Xiao Siye led the troops to quell the rebellion, they were defeated in battle, and many clansmen returned to the Tang Dynasty, but later Xiao Siye was careless, so that Ashide took advantage of his duties, and it was Ashide who personally planned the attack on the Tang army's grain convoy, and took advantage of the heavy snow night to raid the Tang army's camp, forcing Xiao Siye to lead the remnants of the army to escape. It's just that the combat power of the Tang army is really strong, although Xiao Siye ran away, the other Tang army generals still resisted desperately, and finally retreated into the cities under the rule of Shan Yu Duhufu, and they attacked the city unfavorably, so they had to retreat hundreds of miles.
No one expected that the follow-up army of the Tang Army would launch a full-scale attack on the Turks within two or three months of the defeat of the previous army, and no news leaked in advance. According to the information that Ashid knew about his post, Pei Xingjian had just returned from Anxi, and at most he could arrive in Chang'an a year ago, and even if he wanted to lead the army to the expedition, it would definitely be in the coming year, and even because of Xiao Siye's fiasco, it was possible to send troops out again after a year or two. Ashide also never dreamed of taking office, and it stands to reason that Pei Xingjian, who could not lead the army at this time, would appear in front of him.
Also, at such a time when it was completely unsuitable for the Tang army to fight northward, the Tang army would send large armies to attack them several times, which Ashid could not have imagined in any case. This also led to the invasion of the army led by Xiao Siye, their Turks would fail again and again, and finally Asid was fortunate to take advantage of Xiao Siye's carelessness to raid the Tang army's grain and grass, and raided the Tang army's camp, forcing the Tang army to retreat, which lifted the threat of the Tang army's pressure.
But this kind of joy after the victory didn't last long, and he suffered such a nightmare, and Ashide didn't know whether to believe it or not, whether the person in front of him who called himself Pei Xingjian was really Pei Xingjian, could this person fly? In just a few months, he returned to Chang'an from Anxi, and led the army from Chang'an to Anbei... The Tang army will enter the camp when they are unprepared, for many leaders including Asster, this is a heartbreaking time, countless clansmen lost their surnames when the Tang army rushed to kill, and more were captured by the Tang army, a tribe of more than 100,000 people was completely wiped out by the Tang army overnight, such a terrible thing has not happened for many years.
When the Tang army attacked the camp, Ashide did not dare to confirm that it was the army reinforced by the Tang Dynasty, and when he led the remnants to escape, he encountered the resistance of the Tang army in all directions, so he was convinced that it was the army of the follow-up reinforcements of the Tang Dynasty that entered Anbei and launched a full-scale war against them. If you know that the Tang army has such a terrifying attack power, it is Pei Xingjian who commands the battle, and Ashid will not dare to rebel against the Tang Dynasty no matter what.
Asid finally woke up to the fact that legends are not just legends, but they are very scary in reality.
Under the gaze of Pei Xingjian and other Tang Dynasty soldiers, Ashid stood up, knelt on the ground, almost threw himself on the ground, bowed respectfully, and bowed down and said: "General Pei's prestige is like thunder, no one knows it on the grassland, and now he is defeated under the general, he has nothing to say, and he is convinced..."
"It's good to be convinced, presumably by tomorrow, you can also meet a few other leaders and talk together!" Pei Xingjian had a faint smile on his face, and ordered the sergeant, "Take Ashide down as the chieftain, so that I can wait, and I will have a few words with the chief in a while!"
"Yes, Dashuai!" The triumphant sergeant took the order and escorted Asid to his post and the other Turkic leaders behind him.
After Ashide was escorted down, Pei Xingjian turned his head and said to Cheng Wuting on the side: "Fortunately, General Cheng led the army to arrive in this battle, otherwise he would have let Ashide run away from his post, General Cheng has made such a great contribution, and this commander will go to the court to ask for credit for General Cheng!"
"The handsome has won the award, the last general, the last general..."After receiving Pei Xingjian's praise, Cheng Wuting did not feel the slightest pride, and wanted to apologize in front of Pei Xingjian for not leading his troops in time, but seeing Pei Xingjian's unusual look, he changed his words and said: "Dashuai, even if Ashide runs away, there are only more than 1,000 people, and it will not be able to become a climate, and he will definitely come to surrender due to the threat of my army!"
When Pei Xingjian was talking to Cheng Wuting, Liu Yi on the side also carefully looked at this famous fighter in history.
Cheng Wuting is only in his forties, and the perseverance and courage on his face, and the majesty revealed invisibly, are still a little eye-catching.
Cheng Wuting also seemed to notice Liu Yi's unusual gaze, and followed Liu Yi's gaze.
"General Cheng, this is Liu Yi, the famous inspector of the school Zuo Qianniu Wei Zhonglang during this time, this time he will go on the expedition with Ben Shuai," Pei Xingjian introduced them with a smile, "This raid on the camp where Ashid was served, and it was the more than 2,000 people and horses he led that caused the defeat of the Turks... This is the inspection of the school Fengzhou Governor Cheng Wuting..."
"I've seen General Liu..."
Liu Yi and Cheng Wuting both saluted each other.
Liu Yi knows the name of Cheng Wuting in history, and Cheng Wuting knows that Liu Yi has performed unusually this year.
"Sure enough, it is worthy of its reputation," Cheng Wuting stared at Liu Yi carefully for a while, with praise in his eyes.
Cheng Wuting is not young, and Liu Yi is only twenty years old, but the official rank is almost the same, originally Cheng Wuting was proud of his military merits, but he was not promoted quickly, Liu Yi only relied on some three-legged cat kung fu, he was promoted in a straight line, some were not convinced, and now I heard Pei Xingjian say that Liu Yi only led 2,000 people, and dared to raid the camp of the Turks.
The momentum that Liu Yi invisibly revealed also made Cheng Wuting amazed, this is like what a twenty-year-old young man should have, only after many battles on the battlefield, can he have the momentum.
Ashide was escorted down, Pei Xingjian instructed the generals to arrange military affairs, and after the generals left, Pei Xingjian ordered Liu Yi and Cheng Wuting to follow him back to the big tent.
After a few people returned to the big tent, Pei Xingjian drank away other unrelated people, and then asked Cheng Wuting, "General Cheng, tell me about the combat situation of your department!"
"Yes, Marshal," Cheng Wuting also told Pei Xingjian about the battle after his leadership set off from Fengzhou.
After Cheng Tingting's men and horses set off from Fengzhou, they traveled all the way quickly, but on the bank of the Yellow River, they were delayed for a few days because of the ice edges, and when they crossed the Jinhe River, they encountered heavy snowfall.
Cheng Wuting led his troops to overcome the unfavorable factors of weather and terrain and continued to march, the time had been delayed for a few days, Cheng Wuting also urged his subordinates to speed up the journey, they eliminated some scattered Turkic tribes along the way, and according to Pei Xingjian's order, they marched to the Yinshan area, and stayed in that area to search for a small half a day, and finally encountered the rout of the Turkic army, and captured the fleeing Turkic chieftain Asde.
When Cheng Wuting escorted Ashid to take up his post, Li Zhishi, the general of the right guard, and a part of Cheng Wuting's men and horses, continued to search for the remnants of the enemy in that area.
"If you lose your horse, you don't know what is good or bad!" Pei Xingjian smiled faintly, "Your department was late, but you just happened to catch up with the remnants of the interception and killing of Astide's service, General Cheng, you are very lucky, this is a great achievement, hehe!"
"Dashuai, the last general is really lucky, just picked up a big fat fish!" Seeing that Pei Xingjian didn't say anything to blame himself, Cheng Wuting was also relieved, and asked again: "Marshal, Ashid's ministry was annihilated by our army, what happened to the other Turks?" ”
"Hundreds of thousands of horses on our side are besieging the Ashina Nishu and Ashdwin Fu from several directions, and it is not a problem to annihilate them all!" Pei Xingjian's expression was still faint, "As long as they can follow Ben Shuai's order, arrive at the required location and launch a surprise attack on the Turks..."
"Marshal, if Ashina's mud and Fu tribes are annihilated by our army, isn't the war over?" Cheng Wu seemed to come to his senses and asked hurriedly.
Pei Xingjian nodded, "Exactly, the big war will end, these people and horses have been wiped out by my army, and those other Turkic tribes still dare not come to join?" All we have to do is divide our forces and encircle the small tribes that don't want to come and join us... Spread the might of my Datang Army!"
On the grasslands of Anbei, in addition to the three tribes of Ashide Fengzhi, Asdewen Fu, and Ashina Nishuluo, which are the kind of large tribal alliances, there are also some other tribes of the Turkic system with tens of thousands or less, these tribes have been swinging between returning to the Tang and rebelling against the Tang, when other tribes rose up against the Tang, they followed the rebellion against the Tang, but the Tang army went out to quell the rebellion, and after the victory, they would immediately come to annex, several major tribes were destroyed, and the other tribes did not have to worry, as long as they sent a small number of troops to suppress it.
"The last general, this expedition, the last general only fought this small battle, it is not enjoyable, the last general asked to immediately lead the army to help the battle of encircling and annihilating the Ashina mud and the Ashdwin Fu department, and please ask the commander for permission!" Cheng Wu straightened up and pleaded, Pei Xingjian cared for him extraordinarily, and he had to make some achievements in return.
On the one hand, Liu Yi looked at Cheng Wuting and wanted to stand up and ask for his life, he also had a similar mentality.
"No longer needed!" Pei Xingjian waved his hand and looked at the dark sky outside the tent, "Presumably the war over there will also begin, our side has the advantage in numbers, if the generals command properly, it is impossible for the Turks to escape...... Let's just wait for the news!"
(To be continued)