Chapter 83: The Soul of the Tang Army
"Dragged down and chopped~"
The furious Dazha cut down the three generals who were not in favor of attacking the city today, this is already the second batch he has cut down, he boasted that he captured Songzhou City within three days, but now he was blocked outside for ten days, that Songzhou City stood as solid as a rock, and the 100,000 army was knocked out of more than 40,000 people, how could he not be berserk? Every time he sees it rushing up, he is finally beaten down, that feeling is like a roller coaster ride up and down, and now the morale is especially low, if he doesn't capture Songzhou again, the reinforcements of the Tang Army arrive, then he can only withdraw all the way, then he will face the result of beheading, and all the people in the family will be reduced to slaves, and he will not allow such a result to happen.
"Tomorrow the whole army will attack, concentrate all the forces to attack the West Gate, it is bound to capture the city of Songzhou, when the city is broken, the army can carnival in the city for three days without punishment."
Hearing such an order, the generals and soldiers who were originally demoralized immediately came to their senses, what are they fighting for life and death, isn't it just to rob more people and property, and now the main generals have allowed them to do so, and the beast in the blood is full of beastliness. And Li Tiezhu finally rushed back to Chang'an City after a lot of hard work, but he found that the inspection at the city gate had been strengthened, and he felt that something was wrong, so he found the black army stronghold outside the city, with the help of intelligence officers, Li Tiezhu successfully mixed into the city, he quickly contacted the old bachelor, and told him the situation in Songzhou briefly, and asked him to quickly find Du Ruhui, the old bachelor was also shocked when he heard it, and felt that this matter was not so simple, but now he wanted to quickly find Du Ruhui, the old bachelor got rid of the eyeliner in the city, and secretly came to Du Mansion, But Du Ruhui has not come back from the last dynasty, he can only wait anxiously, and wait until almost the evening to wait for Du Ruhui who is tired to go home, when Du Ruhui knows that the old bachelor has been waiting for him for a day, he also feels that something must have happened, he quickly asked people to bring the old bachelor to the study, the old bachelor finally saw Du Ruhui in the study, and quickly took out the letter in his arms, and then waited anxiously, Du Ruhui looked at the envelope The paint was intact, he tore open the envelope, and read the contents of the letter at a glance. Then he slapped his hand on the desk and said.
"Bastard, who, who, in the end, 100,000 is in a hurry, you go back quickly, I will enter the palace, I hope it is not too late."
The old bachelor watched Du Ruhui make such a big fire for the first time, he hurriedly said goodbye and left Du Mansion, he also had to arrange for people to investigate this matter, this matter revealed the smell of this conspiracy inside and out, Du Ruhui asked people to run next door to inform Fang Xuanling, and he strode outside, Fang Xuanling was just eaten dinner by Du Mansion's housekeeper hurriedly asked him to go out, saying that Du Ruhui was waiting for him outside, Fang Xuanling felt that something was wrong, and he secretly asked the housekeeper of Du Mansion.
"Is there someone in your house?"
The housekeeper of Du Mansion naturally knew who he was asking, and the identity of the old bachelor was also known to Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling, including the three of him, he looked around, and then nodded, Fang Xuanling didn't say anything, didn't eat anything, and hurriedly went out, seeing Du Ruhui walking around anxiously at the door again, Du Ruhui also saw Fang Xuanling come out, pulled them into his carriage, and then asked the coachman to rush to the palace as quickly as possible, seeing that his old man was so anxious, he knew that something big must have happened, and went to have something to do with Li Yong.
"Is there something wrong with Li Yong?"
"See for yourself."
Fang Xuanling took the letter handed over by Du Ruhui with a regretful face, and after reading the content of the letter, he looked at Du Ruhui with a big change on his face.
"This ...... It's true? ”
"Is this still false? It's not that you don't know Li Yong's personality, don't you think it's strange? Duan Zhixuan's 50,000-strong army has been in Songzhou for more than a month, and there has been no news at all, not even a military report. ”
"As Li Yong said, isn't that Songzhou?"
"See the saint first."
Because it was almost curfew, there were few pedestrians on the road, and the carriage quickly arrived at the palace, but at this time the palace had fallen and could not enter, Du Ruhui could only let the palace guards inform Li Er, these guards all knew Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling, and the prime minister appeared at the same time, they did not dare to delay, and hurriedly ran to the Ganlu Hall to report to Li Er, Li Er was still reviewing the folds, and he was also a little surprised when he heard Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling asking to see him together, he quickly asked people to take them in, and the guards put down two baskets and hung the two prime ministers into the palaceAfter the two prime ministers entered the palace, a pair of eyes were watching in secret, and then turned to leave.
"Sage, the two prime ministers Du and Fang are waiting outside the hall."
"Please."
Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling entered the hall and saluted Li Er.
"See the saints."
"Excuse me, give me a seat."
"Thank you, saint."
The two didn't sit down at all, and Li Er could see that both of them were anxious.
"Two Aiqing, is there any urgency to find someone in such a hurry?"
"Qiqi Sage, there is indeed an urgent matter, and it is related to Songzhou."
Du Ruhui took out the secret letter he was carrying and handed it to Huang Yan, Li Er opened the letter and read it, and after reading it, he directly kicked the desk over, and the table was scattered all over the ground, and Li Er's temples were bruised.
"Okay, okay, if it weren't for Li Yong's cleverness, he would still be kept in the dark, Li Junxian."
Li Junxian, who was wearing armor, walked in from outside the main hall and saluted Li Er with his fists clenched.
"The minister is here."
"Let the hundred horses be checked to see who is so bold that they dare to intercept the six hundred miles of urgent military information, and they are not allowed to let any of them go, Huang Yan, go and invite Li Jing and Xu Shiji into the palace."
"Yes."
Li Junxian and Huang Yan hurriedly walked out of the hall to do errands after receiving the order, the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace began to clean up the desks that were kicked over and scattered on the ground and other things, Li Jing and Xu Shiji soon followed Huang Yan to the Ganlu Palace, knowing that the situation in Songzhou was in danger, the two marshals could not control the anger in their hearts, they were not afraid of dying under the enemy's open swords and guns, and the most hated were those who betrayed themselves behind their backs, and their actions were undoubtedly treasonous.
"These dog scraps, if I knew who they were, I would have chopped them up."
"It has been more than a month since Li Yong's letter said that the first letter for help has been sent out, and this is the second to send after the siege, so Li Yong and they have been holding on for about ten days, hoping that the reinforcements can catch up."
"Where is the nearest army?"
"Yizhou, it will take at least five days to get from Yizhou."
"Spread the decree, Yizhou Gao Shilian gathered 50,000 soldiers, and Zhang Shigui led the army to support Songzhou quickly."
The holy decree to support Songzhou rushed to Yizhou for 800 miles overnight, but Songzhou City was silent all night, because they wanted to reserve their strength to continue fighting with the Tubo people tomorrow, the next morning, the familiar trumpets and drums sounded outside Songzhou City again, and today except for Li Yong's defense of the West Gate, the other three Tubo troops are gone, everyone knows that the Tubo people are going to concentrate their forces to kill the West Gate, and the soldiers of the other three gates have also rushed to the West Gate to support, and the giant catapult took the lead in attacking, Under the city wall of the West Gate, a large area of the Tubo army braved being stoned to death, constantly rushing over, the situation of the West Gate is full of dangers, the Tang army is constantly dying, and there are constantly reinforcements rushing over to make up, and even many Tang troops are seriously wounded, before dying, holding the Tubo soldiers who climbed the city wall to jump off the city wall together and die, and the Tubo army of the whole army gave a chance to the Tang cavalry who were ambushed outside, they watched the compatriots in the city fight bloodily outside, but they could not do anything, because they had more important tasks, Today finally arrived, and the commander of the cavalry pulled out the long knife at his waist and roared loudly.
"Brothers, the brothers in the city are desperately resisting, and now our opportunity has come, follow me to storm the Tubo camp and burn all their grain and grass materials, rush~"
Five thousand cavalry rushed out like lightning, the Tubo camp was already empty, the camp was left behind were wounded and a thousand soldiers guarding the grain and grass materials, where to resist the fierce cavalry, five thousand Tang army cavalry horses stepped on the Tubo military camp, all the way to slash and rush to their grain and grass materials, and then set fire to the piles of grain and grass in front of him, at this time Dazha also received the news that the camp of grain and grass was sneak attacked, scared his soul out of his body, because if the grain and grass were destroyed, then his army would be in danger, he quickly let the troops who were attacking the city stop and turn around, Li Yong, who was covered in blood, also saw the fire of the Tubo camp, and knew that the cavalry he was ambushing outside had succeeded, and he shouted after hacking to death a Tubo soldier who climbed the city wall.
"Brothers, our cavalry has succeeded, kill, follow me out of the city to avenge the death of my brother."
Li Yong rushed down the city wall first, let the city gate open, those Tubo soldiers who had been killed suddenly received the order to retreat, and were puzzled, but when they knew that their grain and grass were not destroyed, the army was suddenly in turmoil, and they gave up the siege and began to retreat and turn back, but such a huge army had already rushed to kill, and suddenly turned back, where was it so easy, not to mention that the Tang army in Songzhou City led the army out, and the retreating Tubo army was in chaos instantly, and the cavalry who burned all the grain and grass in Tubo saw the friendly troops in the city killed, They immediately changed direction and killed the Tubo army, more than 50,000 Tubo troops were attacked before and after, and they were in chaos in an instant, even their respective generals could not restrain their own troops, Li Yong took the opportunity to hack all the defenders of Songzhou City to death, but the Tubo army was too much, and the Tubo army that had been chaotic for a while also began to slowly stabilize its position, and Li Yong and they were strangled together, Dazha also saw that this was an opportunity to destroy the Tang army, and ordered the army to attack Li Yong's side with all his might, just when Li Yong was under great pressure, A group of people rushed out of the city, these people had white cloth wrapped around their hands, legs, and heads, and the white cloth was stained with blood, and even some of them who had lost their arms, and those who had lost their legs rode on the people who had lost their arms, and they rushed out with weapons in their hands, and the Tubo army was also frightened by this group of Tang troops, Li Yong and everyone saw these soldiers who had been injured and could no longer fight, and now they appeared in this way, Li Yong shouted loudly in a voice that was already hoarse.
"For the sake of Datang, long live Datang, long live the soul of the Datang Army ~ kill ~"
All the soldiers of the Tang Army were like the invincible god of war, frantically hacking to death the Tubo soldiers in front of them, Duan Zhixuan stabbed to death a Tubo soldier who killed him with a sword, and Niu Jinda was even more fierce, holding a spear in one hand and a long knife in the other, and frantically stabbed the Tubo soldiers to death.
"Kill~ Let these Tubo miscellaneous pieces know the power of our Tang Army soul."
The Tubo soldiers saw that the Tang army was so fierce, they didn't dare to move forward, and the five thousand cavalry who rushed over from behind had already rushed in, they cut the Tubo army like a hot knife cutting butter, and rushed all the way until they chiseled through to the end, and then turned back to kill again, at this time the Tubo army had collapsed and began to flee in all directions, Li Yong picked up the black dragon flag that fell to the ground, covered in wounds and blood, and roared with a long knife.
"The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, where the dragon flag is, look at it, rush it~"
All the Tang troops burst out with all their strength in an instant, frantically strangling the soldiers of Tubo.