Chapter 322: Striking the West
The five elements, five colors, and five sounds are scattered in all things, and nature is also induced.
Those who have a common language should be reconciled to each other; If the melody is the same, they will sense each other.
the same type, interdependent; Those who share a common morality are close to each other.
People who are in the same difficulties help each other and are in the same boat.
Only by helping each other on the same path can we promote their success.
Tang Anshu chose to leave in his early years, also because he found that his junior brother Hu Shen was not the same person as himself. He hid in Rouyuan, not only to escape the pursuit, but also to continue to practice his ideals in another way.
It's just that he didn't expect that the first time he met a fellow practitioner in his life was a child who was only eighteen years old.
Tang Xiaohao's eighteen-year-old can actually say the feelings of the year when he was not confused.
At this time, the sound of someone shouting was faintly heard outside the tent.
Tang Anshu immediately walked out of the tent when he heard this, and Guan Zhiqing, Bao Meng and others around the bonfire also immediately got up and looked at a wolf riding scout who was riding a horse.
Before the horses could stop, the scout turned over and dismounted, and was about to say something, but when he saw Bao Meng, he immediately knelt down and bowed.
Bao Meng immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
The scout replied, "Princess, Hacha City has been attacked!"
Childa asked, "When?"
The scout said, "Five days ago. The Metropolitan of Antai asked me to inform Bi'er not to leave the Ghost Lantern Park, because there is news everywhere that the monster has appeared, and the Metropolitan has sent scouts everywhere to find the princess and the colt, so that you can take refuge in the nearest tribal Tucheng."
Tang Anshu walked up to the scout and asked, "Don't panic, I'll ask a question, and you can answer...... Give him a drink of water first."
Guan Zhiqing threw the water bag to the scout, who took it and drank it.
After waiting for the scout to drink for a while, Tang Anshu took back the water bag and asked, "How did the monsters attack Hacha City five days ago? Let's be more specific."
The scout gasped, "In the early hours of the morning five days ago, monsters suddenly appeared outside the city and directly attacked the West Gate, and the first batch was probably less than two hundred, and they were all killed by arrows. Then came the second batch, which numbered about five hundred monsters, and most of them ordered people to throw fireflies."
Fireflies are a continuously burning orb that is not used for attacks, but mainly at night to illuminate the battlefield and make it easier to see the enemy.
The scout continued, "Then, we found that many monsters jumped directly into the pits dug outside the city, and Lord Antai immediately told us to pay attention to the vicinity of the city walls, and also sent additional patrols inside the city, saying that those monsters would dig tunnels into the city."
At this time, Childa and Bao Meng looked at Tang Xiaohao together, because when Antai commanded Childa to dig a pit outside the city, Tang Xiaohao bluntly pointed out that this was tantamount to digging for the enemy.
Tang Xiaohao sighed and said, "Sure enough, ......"
Tang Anshu said to himself at this time, "How could Antai make such a low-level mistake?"
Tang Xiaohao said, "That shouldn't be her own idea."
Tang Anshu seemed to understand something, and asked the scout again, "And then?"
The scout said, "The monsters that came after it no longer directly attacked the walls and gates, but directly burrowed into the pits outside the city, and most of them had to send people to call for help immediately."
Tang Anshu felt strange: "Asking for help? Isn't the tens of thousands of troops in Hacha City and the nearby battalions enough to deal with these monsters?"
The scout said: "Most of the troops were taken away by Prince Gulke, because a scout discovered the nest of monsters a few days ago, in order to completely destroy those monsters, Prince Gurke took away most of the most elite wolf riders and guards guarding Hacha City, leaving less than 3,000 horses to defend the city."
Childa was stunned: "Is it the first time to conquer those horses?"
The scout said, "Yes, most of them are still recuperating."
Tang Anshu felt incredible: "What is Antai thinking? It's a mistake that not even a petty lieutenant would make."
Cerda also said: "The horses and cavalry are mainly cavalry, if they defend the city, the war slave army is stronger than them, where is there cavalry to defend the city?
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When Tang Anshu was still thinking about it, Tang Xiaohao's eyes lit up and he understood something.
Tang Xiaohao walked up to the scout and asked, "Will the prince garrison in or near the earthen city of a certain tribe on this expedition?"
The scout said, "The monster nest found by the scout is the closest to the Zarank department, so the army led by the prince himself will be stationed in the Zarank department."
When Tang Anshu heard this, he immediately understood: "The sound is striking the west!"
Tang Xiaohao continued: "Divide and break."
After all, Bao Meng was Sangluo's student, and he immediately reacted: "The target of the corpse is not Hacha City, but the Zalanke Department."
Childa also understood: "The attack on Hacha City was only to allow the prince to lead his troops back to defense, and in a hurry, in order to rescue the capital of Hacha City, he will definitely bring back the army originally deployed in the Zalank Department. In an instant, the remaining army of the Zarank division will not be enough to deal with those monsters."
Tang Anshu nodded slowly: "Let the scouts who reconnoiter think that they have found the nest of the corpse, and lead Gurke to lead a large army to encircle and suppress it, and when he leads his troops to the Zalank department, he will receive the news of the attack on Hacha City." If the corpse is only stormed, Hacha City will be able to withstand it even if there are only 3,000 remnants left, but once the corpse digs the tunnel, it is impossible to say."
Tang Xiaohao said on the side: "If Lord Antai hadn't listened to my advice to stop, it is estimated that those pits outside the city would have been dug into underground passages by those corpses."
Gilda frowned and said, "After the accident between the Wada and the Guran tribe, Lord Antai assigned the scout horse riders and war slave troops to garrison near the remaining tribes Tucheng, so the garrison around Tucheng is now three times as large as before."
"Three? The corpse is not a corpse, and the corpse can be killed directly, so as long as you have a well-trained army that is several times larger than the corpse, you can definitely win," Tang Xiaohao paced back and forth, "The person who commands these corpses also knows this, so they must find a way to lure the heavily stationed troops away."
Tang Anshu said to the scouts, "You go to the nearest military camp immediately, and ask them to immediately contact the prince who is returning to Hacha City to personally recruit the army, and warn the prince to divide at least half of his troops back to defend the Zarankk department."
Tang Xiaohao added, "Tell the prince that I said it."
Naturally, the scout couldn't mention Tang Anshu.
The scout immediately mounted his horse after receiving the order, and soon disappeared into the night.
Tang Anshu frowned and looked in the direction the scout had left, "Why destroy the clan? What exactly is the purpose? Do you want to destroy the Torth Ministry?"
Tang Xiaohao had already walked to his horse at this time: "Go to the place and grab the leader, just ask yourself."
The little bell immediately followed, and Bao Meng and Gilda immediately went to untie the horse.
Guan Zhiqing looked at Tang Xiaohao on the horse: "What's the use of a few of you going? Sent to death?"
Tang Xiaohao patted his horse and left, throwing down a sentence: "Save people."
Guan Zhiqing frowned and looked at a few people in the distance: "If you are too young, you are easy to be impulsive."
Tang Anshu said, "It's not impulsive."
Guan Zhiqing was puzzled: "What is that?"
Tang Anshu sighed, "He just did what he thought he should do according to his instincts."
Guan Zhiqing also sighed: "In the future, Wu Tianlu will definitely blame me for not taking good care of him, a righteous brother."
Tang Anshu came to the wooden frame where the mutton was hung, and when he just picked up the knife and was about to continue to cut the meat, he looked at the knife in his hand and remembered a past incident when he was young.
In that battle, because of the mistakes of the generals of the army, the city was broken, and in order to preserve the strength, the generals decided to lead the troops to break through.
Tang Anshu strongly objected, because it was only a city gate that was broken, as long as the rebels who were about to rush in were blocked, there was still hope, otherwise, once the rebels entered the city, it would be those unarmed people who would suffer.
Although the main force of the rebels is the army of the separatist forces, the rest are all bandits and bandits, and the purpose of these people joining the rebels is to make a fortune, and the commander of the rebel army has informed the whole army that as long as the city is broken, the whole army will be allowed to loot for three days.
Tang Anshu knew very well that the three days of looting meant that the smiling faces in the city they once defended would no longer exist, and those who were in order to help
The people who helped the defenders of the city to take out the food stored in their homes will be in purgatory.
No matter how Tang Anshu persuaded him, the commander of the city defense had already made up his mind, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to knock Tang Anshu unconscious and take him away.
Because the commander knew very well that even if Tang Anshu was alone, he would fight to the death with a knife.
He didn't cherish Tang Anshu's talent, but he was worried that Tang Anshu would be captured alive by the rebels.
When Tang Anshu woke up, it was already nightfall, and the army hid in the mountains not far from the city, and the entire city had been burned.
The fire lit up the sky directly, staining the moon and stars red.
Tang Anshu clenched the knife in his hand and watched Guan Zhiqing say the previous words again: "He just does what he thinks he should do according to his instincts."
Guan Zhiqing didn't say anything, but sat back on the edge of the campfire.
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Zalank Department Tucheng, the prince's big tent.
Dressed in the armor of the clan king, Gulke sat there, a long, sharpened knife on his knees.
He closed his eyes and listened to the sound of soldiers running outside, and the howling of the cold wind.
Chu Yan slowly emerged from the darkness like a bat again, and this time he landed directly in front of Gurke.
Chu Yan frowned and looked at Gurke: "My Royal Highness the Prince, why are you still here? Shouldn't you personally lead your troops back to the city of Hacha?"
Gurke slowly opened his eyes: "Is my life worthy of the lives of the people of the Zarank tribe?"
Chu Yan smiled: "You are alone, there are thousands of people in the Zalanke Department, how can you compare?"
Gurke's voice trembled, "This is the last time, and then my father should be resurrected, and my death will be atonement."
Chu Yan stepped forward slowly: "Your Royal Highness, no one knows about the agreement between us, why should you worry?"
Gulke gritted his teeth and said, "My conscience is troubled!"
"Conscience?" Chu Yan laughed, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, who has not killed thousands of people in his hands? Didn't you kill a lot of people before?"
Gurke stood up and clenched his long knife: "But those are enemies, don't you have a conscience? Your conscience has been eaten by dogs?"
Chu Yan immediately nodded: "That's right, my conscience has long been eaten by a dog, but I found that dog, and then ate the dog too, but unfortunately, my conscience has been digested by the dog, and I still haven't got my conscience back."
Gurke slashed directly at Chu Yan.