"Dadada~!"

Less than fifty miles from the city of Danzhou, two fast horses gathered together from different directions and galloped towards a makeshift camp, and the scouts on the war horses began to roar from a long distance.

"Chief Administrator, something strange has been found in the direction of Sandalwood Station!"

"Governor Qiyu, the city of Danzhou has been broken by the Turks, and all the dangers in the city have been lost. There are a lot of soldiers who have escaped from Danzhou City in the forest in the north, please ask the chief if you want to recruit them! ”

A white-robed Confucian general in his forties strode out from the tent, holding a long sword at his waist, surrounded by a group of generals wearing heavy armor.

Only the personal guards beside him know that since he came to Danzhou for a few days, this unknown general seems to be much older!

He is the boss of the entire Hebei Province, and he is also the top boss of Cheng Yanjin, the general manager of Youzhou Road, Wei Xiaojie!

With two thousand elite cavalry of the Tang Dynasty in hand, they can basically walk sideways anywhere and come and go freely. Even if he went deep into the steppe and made trouble in the rear of the Turks, he Wei Xiaojie could calmly lead the team away.

But now, just a few dozen miles away from this temporary camp, there are tens of thousands of people who have fled south in panic.

Let him Wei Xiaojie lead the army to charge into battle and go north to fight against the Turks, and he will not frown! But if he let his elite cavalry cover tens of thousands of Danzhou people to break through the encirclement of the Turks, it will be a bit difficult for a strong man!

He's just a military strategist, not a strategist!

Originally, when he received the news from the scouts that a large number of Turkic cavalry had been found in the direction of Yanle, Wei Xiaojie immediately led two thousand elite cavalry to the direction of Danzhou, hoping to enter the city before the Turkic soldiers came to the city.

But what people never expected was that as soon as the Turks arrived at the west gate, the city lord of Danzhou City didn't even say hello, so he fled to the east gate with his family and the wealthy merchants in the city, leaving behind the bewildered army and hundreds of thousands of people in the city.

The city of Danzhou has no leader, and there are many factions of grassroots officials, and the strategies conveyed to defend against the enemy are very different, and the defense is full of loopholes.

The spies planted by the Turks in the city were even more rampant, spreading rumors of the defection of the city lords, the surrender of the defenders, and the massacre of the city by the Turks. Encourage the people to break through the south gate and flee from Danzhou, away from the battlefield.

In just two days, a city has fallen!

First of all, the lord of the city fled, and then the whole people of the city fled. As usual, as long as the granaries in the city were unharmed, a few thousand defenders could rely on the walls to resist the Turkic attack.

But the truth is so bloody!

In order to express his determination to be loyal and patriotic to Li Er, who was far away in Chang'an, Shi Zhaohuan, the governor of Danzhou, recommended himself and personally raised his sword and leather armor to resist the enemy's command.

In the first round of the Turkic charge, the tall Changshi Zhao Huan disregarded the dissuasion of his subordinates, dressed up brilliantly, and finally died tragically on the city wall without accident and was martyred.

The lord was about to die, his own soldiers fled, and Danzhou began to mess up again.

If it weren't for the Turks who were worried about the granaries and weapons depots in the city, they would have let the spies in the city act as internal responses, taking advantage of the chaos to burn the granaries, and breaking the idea of the Tang Dynasty soldiers guarding the city.

But that's it, and the defenders who fought separately lost the city in two days.

The reason turned out to be that the north city gate and the west city gate were desperately resisting, and the east city gate and the south city gate successively received rumors that the enemy army had broken into the city, and after unconfirmed, they fled to the nearby forest with the fleeing people. . .

After combining the information submitted by all the scouts, Wei Xiaojie's head was hot, and he had the urge to vomit blood and die on the spot.

Pig teammates, what are you doing, the first place in the pit dad!

"Zhao Huan, a pig's head, is a good Confucian student, he doesn't think about how to stabilize the people in the city, drum up the morale of the army, dispatch the materials to defend the city, and learn from others to go to the city and command blindly, he really has the courage of ten thousand people?!"

The more Wei Xiaojie listened, the more angry he became, and he scolded Danzhou City. Then he turned to look at the other scout, and roared:

"What's going on with Sandalwood Station?! How did the Turkic cavalry of the Tang Territory come and go freely? What happened in Liaoxi and Yanzhou? So many Turkic cavalry appeared out of thin air behind him! ”

The scout couldn't take a break, turned over and dismounted, took out the secret document obtained from Yang Miao from behind his back, walked quickly to Wei Xiaojie and said:

"Back to the general manager, Yanzhou Assassin Wang Shu colluded with the former Sui official Zhao Deyan to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, the mighty army guarding the territory was completely wiped out by internal and external raids, the city of Liaoxi was besieged by the Turkic army, and the surrounding counties have fallen."

"Wang Gui, the lord of Danzhou City, is a member of the Yanzhou Assassin Wang Shu tribe, and when he saw the chief leader leading the troops, he was afraid of being implicated in the crime of rebellion, so he fled to Goryeo with the rich merchants in the city overnight. . . ."

Wei Xiaojie immediately grasped the point of the question and continued to ask:

"In addition to the city lord Wang Gui and some wealthy merchants in Danzhou City, who fled to Goryeo, how do the remaining officials choose? All involved in resisting the Turkic invasion?! How many remnants have gathered in the forest?! ”

The other scout fell to his knees and replied with an oath:

"The subordinates combined all the relevant information, and the rest of the people in Danzhou did not join the enemy. It's just that Zhao Huan, who has never experienced a battle and is dressed too conspicuously, was shot by the Turks by decapitation, resulting in a complete defeat of the defense line. ”

"The largest in the forest is the chief bookkeeper Sun Qun, a group of remnants of the army. There are about 1,000 people, and they are currently very short of food, and they don't know that the Sandalwood Station has been breached. When their subordinates returned, they were still gathering strong men and stragglers. ”

Wei Xiaojie walked back and forth, and suddenly his eyes lit up. immediately ordered his soldiers to gather soldiers and horses to bury the pot and make rice, and then muttered in the ears of the deputy generals Zheng Jun and Zhu Xu.

After everything was arranged, Wei Xiaojie came to the gathering place of the fleeing people to appease everyone.

"Dear folks and elders in Danzhou City, our Datang reinforcements are coming from all directions, there will be food, and Danzhou will be recaptured. From now on, you will follow General Zhu's cavalry, and he will escort you safely to Youzhou. ”

An old man on crutches wept with joy when he heard this, and he instructed two young men in the clan to support him tremblingly towards Wei Xiaojie.

At the age of seventy, his wrinkled face is very pale, but he can't hide his sharp eyes, just a short distance, but he has walked out of an inexplicable majesty, and his identity makes Wei Xiaojie suddenly interested.

"Liu Xin of the Cai clan of Danzhou, meet the general."

Wei Xiaojie withdrew the guards, showed a sincere attitude, and returned the salute:

"The contemptible Hebei Provincial Governor Wei Xiaojie, I don't know what the old man has to teach?!"

Cai Liuxin may be too old and has a hard time talking, so he got straight to the point and said:

"The grass people want to make a deal with the general!"

Wei Xiaojie sighed secretly, businessmen's pursuit of profit is deep in the bone marrow, when is this time, do you still want to make a fortune with blood? ! So he said with a smile:

"Oh~! I don't know what the old man is talking about?! Although the official is in a high position and has a heavy army, his family is not wealthy, and the old man may be blind! ”

Cai Liuxin laughed, shook his head and waved his hand:

"Don't blame the general! Lao Yu is not a mercenary businessman, he just wants to contribute a little bit to the Tang Dynasty's fight against the Turks, and send 20,000 stone of military rations! ”