Chapter 372: Retreat Truth
The soldier himself also looked a little confused, but he still reported one by one: "Report to General Situ, the situation just now is like this. After the soldiers who stayed in the city gathered just now, we planned to touch the position of the back door and open the door for General Situ. But not long after we came out, we were discovered by enemy soldiers, and we had no choice but to fight with them. ”
"And then?" Situ Xiaofeng asked, wondering even more: Could it be that with less than 10,000 soldiers, the defenders of Lilac City on the other side could be beaten away?
The soldier replied, "Then while we were fighting, the general named Qiyangrad came running and commanded his men to retreat with a look of panic. Our people took advantage of the situation to chase after us, but found that even the garrison of the grassland tribe outside Lilac City had begun to retreat, and our captain couldn't figure out whether the other party was really returning and cheating us, so we first asked us to come over to report to General Situ, and they stayed there to observe the situation. ”
"Hahaha! It must be that General Ben's strategy has succeeded! These cowards of the steppe tribes, when they saw the soldiers left behind by the general, must have been frightened to the sky, so they ran away directly!" Situ laughed wildly at the sky, said arrogantly, and then waved his big hand and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Children, immediately follow General Ben and drive those mongrels of the steppe tribes out of our Lilac City!" With that, he rode his horse and rushed towards the city gate not far away.
The soldiers rushed into Lilac City after Situ Xiaofeng in clusters, but most of them despised him in their hearts.
This so-called "general", when he confronted the steppe tribes head-on, always hid in the back, and kept saying that he was strategizing and coordinating the overall situation. After the enemy captured Lilac City, he casually devised a plan, leaving behind 10,000 soldiers who would definitely be slaughtered, and he was the first to escape from the pass.
Originally, among the army of the grassland tribes, there were more than 100,000 soldiers stationed in Lilac City, and Situ Xiaofeng's customized strategy looked like a child playing at home, and no matter how you look at it, it will not succeed.
As a result, now the other party retreated suddenly without knowing why, and the soldiers all thought that the other party could not be frightened by their sudden appearance of soldiers, but that something important must have happened to make the other party give up Lilac City, which had spent so much time and troops attacking.
Only Situ Xiaofeng firmly believed that his strategy must have been too perfect, causing the other party to flee in fright, so he triumphantly went to reap the results.
In fact, an hour earlier, the soldiers of the steppe tribes who had invaded Lilac City were still celebrating, and their main general, Qiyangrad, was also enjoying the joy of victory in the city lord's mansion of Lilac City.
"Congratulations to General Qiyangrad, this time you can take Lilac City, presumably His Royal Highness the Prince will reward you heavily, it seems that you are not far away from becoming a four-star general, I seem to have heard the sound of the horse's hooves of the prince's messenger coming to announce the good news. Morgani said to Qiyangrad with a smile on his face.
He was the military advisor who accompanied the army this time, and he was also a rare sorcerer, and he was the one who proposed to poison the river outside Lilac City.
"Aha! Then thank you to Master Mo Jiyan. Qiyangrad smiled with a swaggering expression, and then said: "Having said that, the successful capture of Lilac City this time also has a lot of credit for the military division! If it weren't for the strategy you came up with to poison the river and prepare such a fierce poison, I'm afraid it would take me a little more time to completely capture the outer city." Strategist, please rest assured, when the time comes, I will definitely say a few kind words for you at His Royal Highness the Prince, so that he can also promote you. ”
"Hehe, then I'll thank the general first. Morgani smiled and saluted Qiyangrad, and said with a look of unfinished business: "But I really can't imagine that this Great Xia's army is so vulnerable. The strategic location of this Lilac City is so important, I originally thought that the Great Xia Emperor Yu Shaoxi would send a powerful person. ”
"When this guy named Situ Xiaofeng first came, he was still very vigilant for a few days, but I didn't expect that as soon as the general came out of the horse, he beat him like a lost dog in the inner city and didn't dare to come out, it was just too useless. Morgani shook his head, still a little incredulous.
"Cut! he's just a gutsless rat. Qiyan Gelle sneered, looking very disdainful of Situ Xiaofeng, and then his expression changed, and he said with a solemn face: "I heard that there is a person named Lin Tianqing in the Great Xia Empire who is very powerful. Now that we have taken Lilac City, it must not be long before the emperor of Great Xia will send Lin Tianqing out to meet him, and at that time, I will be able to meet him. ”
"I think that Lin Tianqing is just in vain, besides......" Morgani flattered Qiyangrad a few words, and was about to continue to pat himself, but a herald suddenly broke in outside the room, looking a little flustered, and holding a small note in his hand.
"General Qiyangrad, Master Mo, something is wrong!" The herald handed the note in his hand to Qiyangrad, and said with a panicked face: "Just now the villain received a flying pigeon summons, which actually said: The three cities of Mazar, Hexige, and Isuda have all been captured by the enemy!"
Taking a deep breath, the herald continued: "The enemy general who led the troops was Lin Yu, the general of the Great Xia Empire, who made a detour to the Ximu Empire, set off from Demu Xi City, and led a legion of about 100,000 people to kill everywhere, invincible, unstoppable, and now he is approaching Dadu, so Dadu may be captured at any time. ”
"What!" Qiyangrad took the note in disbelief, opened it and read it, his face pale, and his trembling hand handed the note to Morgani, who was standing aside.
"The flying pigeon biography said that General Qiyangrad should immediately put down all the affairs in his hands, quickly lead the army to return, and protect the capital, in case the Lin Yu army took advantage of it!" The guard finished reporting the contents of the entire note, and looked at Qiyangrad and Morgani at a loss, waiting for their reply.
After reading the note, Morgani was also a little weak in his heart, so he had to ask, "General, what is this...... This looks like His Royal Highness the Prince's handwriting! And His Royal Highness's seal, it should not be a random forgery...... But we've just taken Lilac City, what are we going to do now?"