On this day, the remnant sun is like blood,

The Tang Army and the Northern Qi Army fought a bloody battle outside Zuoliu City, from Dan to Dusk,

At sunset, the monarch of the Northern Qi led the cavalry to swallow the snake galloping, and the former Northern Qi general Tian Wu fought fiercely outside Zuoliu City, but Tian Wu's subordinates Han Fu, Xie Wen had already had the heart of the right, and defected, Tian Wu died in the chaos of the army, and was trampled into a pulp by horses, and the Tang Army sniped the enemy snake swallowing army at all costs, striving to delay time.

At the time, the Chinese Tang Army successfully broke through the camp of the Northern Qi Army, and the Snake Swallowing Army saw that it was ready for defeat and was inviolable, and led its troops away.

Although the Chinese Tang Army seemed to have a big victory in this battle, the cavalry was almost completely damaged, and the ordinary infantry of the Northern Qi Army probably only withdrew more than 10,000 remnants, and on the whole, the Central Tang Army had a slight advantage.

This is the news sent back to the court by Xirong's spies, and this news can also be said to be decent, and there is almost no exaggeration or untruth.

However, there are some things that can definitely not be seen by spies with their eyes alone, they are really like people drinking water, and they know their own warmth and coldness!

For example, in the big tent of the Tang Army at this time, it was caught in a fierce controversy.

"What? In the camp of the Northern Qi army, there is a pitiful amount of grain, grass, and baggage, and it can only be supplied for two or three days at most?

"That's right, it's been carefully counted, and it looks like the grain and grass are all guarded by special people, and once they realize that something is wrong, they will immediately set fire to it. ”

"It seems that these thieves have been planning for a long time!"

"As the saying goes, there are three caves of cunning rabbits, and it seems that the Northern Qi thieves should have prepared a large camp to store their grain and grass. ”

"It's okay, the main force of our army is still there, and I'm not afraid of what tricks they play, and I will break it tomorrow, not to mention that today's infantry army of the Northern Qi thieves was killed by us, three in and three out, and they can make up 20,000 people at most. What are they going to keep it for?"

“”

Just when a dry person said that he could not be opened, suddenly the curtain of the military tent was lifted, and a man with a wide nose and a big mouth walked in, this man was wearing a tiger's head armor, although he was not tall, but he was majestic between the walks, and there was a faint style of a general.

"I've seen the general. ”

This big man is Tang Lie, the great general of the Middle Tang Dynasty. Deeply won the trust of the monarch, and his sister is the concubine of the West Palace, and she is also a fierce general in a hundred battles, so even if he commands such a large army, he can steadily suppress this group of arrogant generals under his command, but at this time, Tang Lie's face is iron-blue, and his eyes are slightly narrowed, and he doesn't look like he is in a happy mood for a big victory, and he directly sat down with a big horse saber in the military tent. But he didn't talk much, as if he was pondering something.

Seeing that the main general was like this, the rest of the people also exchanged glances with each other, and then did not speak. After a while, Tang Lie exhaled and said lightly:

"I've been asking people to come over to Wu Jin before, but I haven't seen anyone else, and I've been reporting back for a long time. It is said that Wu Jin has died in battle. ”

The rest of the generals heard the news and reacted in their own ways, but most of them seemed cold. Only one stood up in surprise and said:

"Wu Loach is dead? The cavalry under his command is more than 10,000, right? Why is he, the commander of the cavalry, all dead in battle? Could it be that Tian Heng, who has just taken refuge, is unwilling to contribute?"

Tang Lie said coldly:

"Tian Heng was also killed in battle! Not only that, but Wu Jin's four deputies were also buried in the chaos."

Hearing Tang Lie's words, the faces of the rest of the generals present also changed suddenly, although the cavalry in the Middle Tang Dynasty has always been taken seriously, but such a large-scale, large-scale fall of cavalry generals has really made them have a sense of foreboding!

Among them, a very old infantry general Huo stood up, his armor heart guard was decorated with a wolf's head, it was Hou Lie, who directly commanded the Zhennan Army, this person was very arrogant on weekdays, but at this time, he couldn't help but lose his temper and said:

"General, to what extent did the cavalry lose that even the commander and others were killed in battle?"

Tang Lie was silent for a long time and said:

"At that time, when the war started, it was already twilight, and the sun was setting, and our attention was also focused on capturing the camp of the Northern Qi thieves, at that time my request was to drag the attack of the snake swallowing army, so our cavalry took the initiative to attack, and the battlefield was also six miles away from the main battlefield, so I don't know the specific situation of that battle very well, but according to the current report, almost all the cavalry troops who have returned now have been scattered and disabled, and there is no complete structure, it would be good to have three or five hundred people. ”

Listening to Tang Lie's words, everyone present was shocked at once:

"The cavalry we waited for was wiped out, and only three or five hundred cavalry escaped? What is this enough? Not to mention the reconnaissance and protection army, even it is not enough to use it to transmit messages!"

"How can you lose so badly? You can't run away if you can't escape?"

"That's right, even if the Northern Qi Thief Cavalry is stronger, how can it be beaten out of such battle damage?"

“”

Tang Lie suddenly said:

"I am also responsible for this matter, at the beginning, I let the cavalry of our army go to the cavalry of the Northern Qi to fight-for-tat, at that time, the casualties were not light, and when the snake swallowing army appeared, they gave them a strict order, to be sure to delay the enemy's two or three pillars of incense. ”

"As a result, the combat power of the Snake Devouring Army is very strong, but the two deputy generals under Tian Heng actually defected to the battle, divided more than half of Tian Heng's troops, and also bought Tian Heng's personal soldiers, as soon as the two sides took over Tian Heng, it was a tragic plot, this is the main reason, otherwise, no matter how bad the strength of the elite cavalry under Tian Heng's command is, it is impossible to be defeated immediately!"

Hearing Tang Lie's words, several generals in the military tent were also old soldiers, and even immediately sketched out the general situation of the battle in their hearts, the two cavalry armies seemed to be two black torrents hedging towards each other, but one of the cavalry suddenly split, at least a small half of the army and the main force parted ways, and at the same time, the commander was miserably defeated.

Obviously, the cavalry that collided head-on with the enemy immediately suffered a very tragic catastrophe. was directly washed away in a fiasco, even if there were people who dared to rise up and resist and move against the trend, they would not even be able to turn up a single wave and be annihilated. At the same time, the rebel army turned around in advance, and after making a big circle, it intercepted the retreat of the cavalry who fled and retreated, with the help and intervention of the thieves, and the opponent was indeed a strong army in the world, so it is not surprising to have such a result.

Once again, there was an embarrassing silence in the tent. Everyone was thinking about their own affairs, and Tang Lie's white hair on his sideburns looked like there were a few more strands, and he sighed after a while, and said with some bitterness:

"This battle, I was in a hurry, I wanted to finish the battle, I saw Lu Yu's imperial banner erected there, I thought that I could win completely by breaking through the opponent's camp, but I didn't expect to be caught by the other party This point came ruthlessly. When I return to the country in the future, I should ask the king for my guilt. ”

Of course, the rest of the generals immediately spoke out to convince one after another, and Hou Lie pondered for a while and suddenly said:

"If you look like that, the other party's purpose is to do this. Do you not hesitate to use their infantry as bait in exchange for our cavalry?"

Tang Lie sighed and said:

"I'm afraid that's the idea that the other party is fighting. ”

Hou Lie said:

"Our main battle force is not the cavalry, and the cavalry is only a supporting role, although there are heavy casualties now. But there may not be no place to replenish, since those Xijon barbarians can exchange food with us, they can naturally exchange horses with us!"

After listening to Hou Lie's words, Tang Lie's eyes lit up and said:

"You're right. Bring me the map!"

Soon, someone took out the map and spread it out, and saw Tang Lie's face flushed a little and poked his finger at the map and said:

"It's been four days without rain now, and if the rain stops in this ghost place of Northern Qi, then it's not so easy to rain again, so the road surface is almost dry, before we could only walk thirty miles a day, but now we can walk fifty miles! Not only that, you see, if you take this road from Zuoliucheng, you can enter the mountain as long as you have more than 270 miles, and there is also Dazu County here along the way, Junwan County can easily attack and replenish grain and grass, this Junwan County is only 60 miles away from the foothills here, after entering the mountain, things should not be too simple, the Northern Qi thieves have no infantry army! And the cavalry can still grow wings to catch us?"

Hearing Tang Lie say this, the rest of the generals were also refreshed after hearing it, and felt that he seemed to have some truth, but he selectively forgot a few things, first of all, after the road surface was dry, the Tang Army could indeed walk an extra twenty miles a day, but the road surface would have an effect on both sides, think about it upside down, the infantry army can walk twenty miles more every day, and how many miles can the cavalry walk more every day???

At the same time, after all, the Tang Army is a guest army from other places, and it is still very unfamiliar with the environment and terrain around the Liucheng area of the Northern Qi Dynasty, not to mention that the various surveying and mapping methods at this time are also underdeveloped, and no matter how accurate the military map is, the error is also very large.

And the next sentence of Hou Lie can almost be used as a footnote to the psychological activities of the generals of the Tang Dynasty at this time:

"In short, we can't underestimate the enemy, but we can't grow the morale of others and destroy our own prestige, even if the Northern Qi thieves seem to have done something, but the dead can't do it, right?

Hearing Hou Lie's words, the rest of the people were also in high spirits and said:

"That's right, after this battle, is the Zhongtang thief who killed fake ?It's also that what kind of bullshit snake swallowing army saw the opportunity quickly and fled like rabbits, if they are really the best in the world, why didn't we dare to rush to the battle when we were tired after a whole day of fierce fighting?"

"That's right, let's go head-to-head with the Northern Qi thieves, force their Chinese army camp, and there are cavalry from the Northern Qi Dynasty next to them to attack and harass, even so, in the end, the loss of our soldiers is only four or five thousand people, and the loss of the Northern Qi thieves is seven or eight times that of ours, what is there to be afraid of such a soft egg pus?"

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Listening to these words of the generals under his command, Tang Lie's originally restless heart gradually calmed down:

"Yes, the opponent is so weak, so what is there to worry about, what about the heavy losses of the cavalry, what kind of ability to pick up soft persimmons, if it is really so powerful the snake swallowing army. Why don't even our tired soldiers dare to touch it? It seems that it is just a vain name, and the iron must be hard by itself, and the mountain is in front of it, and it is cut down with a knife, and the water is in front of it, and it is stepped on with one foot.

At the same time, in Dachenzhuang, which is twenty miles away from here, a large number of military tents have been densely packed. People shouted and neighed, and there were figures coming in and out everywhere, but these chaotic phenomena came to an abrupt end when they arrived at the entrance of Dachen Zhuang, because at the entrance of the village, there were already several neat columns of Xuanjia guards, and the armor on their bodies had exaggerated and strange and vicious dragon patterns, these guards had indifferent expressions, and they looked extraordinarily ruthless, and the meaning of killing on their bodies could be said to be about to come out. At first glance, it is the kind of person who will draw a knife and kill people if he disagrees.

These Xuanjia guards are the snake swallowing guards beside Lu Yu, although today's battle seems to be fierce, in fact, it is completely devastating, and almost the vanguard troops of the snake swallowing army directly crushed the enemy. Even the knives of many people in the rear army were not stained with blood, not to mention Lu Yu's personal guards, it was completely as if they had gone out to walk their horses, and they didn't spend any effort at all.

Therefore, Lin Feng proposed to borrow Lu Yu's personal guards to "suppress the scene". Lu Yu nodded very happily, with these people standing on the human wall in shifts here, almost no one dared to speak more. It was originally chaotic and became a flow of people who seemed to be a pot of porridge. In front of the human wall formed by the snake swallowers, he suddenly became honest.

Beside them, there were several loud men shouting together: the wounded brothers go this way, the hungry brothers who want to eat go this way, the brothers who want to go back to the camp to sleep here, the prisoners who want to hand over the booty this way.

The human wall composed of five rows of snake swallowers formed four passages, and the chaotic crowd was initially sifted through the comb, and the purpose became very clear at once.

Next, after walking the injured road, there were loud soldiers shouting beside them, going to the left if they could move, and going to the right if they couldn't move, so that the seriously wounded and the lightly wounded were cleverly separated.

In the end, those who can still go into battle after bandaging and treatment will be directly let go back to the barracks, and those who can't go into battle will be sent to the rear, and the advantages of local combat here will be shown.

Lu Yu had just walked out of the medical passage here at this time, accompanied by several generals, and the expression on his face was faint, and he couldn't see what he had to say about the arrangement at this time. But then Lu Yu walked towards the place where he was eating, and found that there was another way to go inside, and at the end of the road that was temporarily made of fence walls and straws, dozens of stoves were lined up, and there were huge steamers on each stove, and there were people lined up in front of each stove, which was very neat.

At this time, the generals who could be taken by Lu Yu were naturally his henchmen, one of them stepped forward, called a small soldier, and then looked at the food he received, this little soldier was holding a big bowl with a wooden plate, the big bowl was boiled bud rice and big dregs porridge, steaming, next to it was four bowl-sized multigrain buns, exuding the fragrance of grain, there was a small plate and a wide plate next to the bun, the small plate was filled with vinegar and garlic juice, the bun was dipped in seasoning, the wide plate was the cabbage and fried fat meat, and the meat slices of the white flowers were scattered in the cabbage, which was definitely not symbolic and put a little。

Seeing this scene, the general couldn't help but nodded, and then followed Lu Yu to the camping area, which seemed to have been neatly planned, and there were even straight lines sprinkled with white ash of stone charcoal on the ground, obviously the camp plate was dug out according to the white ash lines on the ground, no wonder it was so neat.

Soldiers usually use the color and shape of the military flag to find their barracks, but in the past, the establishment was chaotic, and the number of people was small, but if the number of people was large, especially the current mixed formation of several armies that are not together in normal times, it is a big problem in all aspects.

But this time, all the barracks are divided into four large areas according to the color of the military flag, black, red, yellow, white, once there is a soldier who can't find his own barracks, the first person will ask him, what color is the flag of your team?

If the soldier answered the question of red, he would be told that the large area to the east was all red with the military flag, and that you should not go to the rest of the place. Then when he arrived at the place where the red flag was encamped, if the soldier could not find his own troops, someone asked him whether the texture shape on the flag was a bird or a beast, and the shape of the flag and the bird was on the left, and the beast was on the right.

After such a diversion, the soldier walked down the neat aisle, and basically there was no such thing as getting lost, and he could easily find his barracks.

After seeing these things, Lu Yu said to the people around him at this time:

"Now you should know why I have to make him the head of this big battalion, right?"

The generals next to him were all silent, and then one of them stood up and said categorically:

"It's really a minister, Chief Manager Lin can make such a situation in a few days, he really has a gap in his chest, and he is in charge of these transfer trivial matters in the rear, which is indeed far better than the head of the big battalion recommended by Wei Chen before, and he really deserves the wisdom of the king. (To be continued......)