Nearly half a year after the last Tang Barbarian War, the Tang State entered a wartime state of national security.

After the previous ceremony, it was only a second-level alert (mainly small-scale battles), but now it has been upgraded to a fourth-level alert.

The third level is the level of the Tang Barbarian War, which is dominated by medium-scale conflicts and does not consume the foundation of the country.

And now, the barbarians changed their previous rhetoric and quickly took the initiative to attack, resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and the death of hundreds of thousands or even millions of people, touching the bottom line of many high-level Tang countries.

As a result, Chang'an quickly issued an order to use the war preparation granary to move north to support the border, and at the same time send troops to the south to provide assistance.

This unexpected war broke the previous plan of the Tang State, and the Tang could only resist quickly.

Chang'an successively issued notices to Guanwai Dao, Guannei Dao, Jiangnan Dao, Jiandao, Dongyi Dao, Xingye Dao, Nanyue Dao, Jixi Dao and Desert, each of which needed to dispatch 20% of the existing troops of the whole province.

It doesn't sound like much, but according to the different situations of each province, the number of troops dispatched is also different, and then it is reported layer by layer, and this time the army has a total of 1.3 million.

Not counting logistics, real troops.

And the provinces will definitely hide something, and only dispatch less than 20 percent, or even 10 percent of the army.

The reserve of soldiers of the Tang State can be seen!

Chang'an took the lead in opening the forbidden army and went to the extreme north to support, and the forbidden army was led by Chen Yu. The Central Forbidden Army totaled 30,000, each armed with a Gongzi knife.

The rest of the local armies, slowly following up, directly took Chang'an as the central axis, and went north in two lines to support the extreme north and Tianbei provinces.

The closest way to Chang'an is to cross Tianxin Lake by boat, but the fastest way to the border is by land.

The Extreme West Province is bordered by the Extreme North Province, and the Tianbei Province is bordered by the Kanwai Province.

This back and forth, it was delayed for more than a week,

The holy decree of returning to the extreme north was carried by the central forbidden army led by Chen Yu.

Large ships could only carry 3,000 people, and ten large ships were connected end to end, departing from the port of Chang'an one after another to the extreme north.

When Chen Yu arrived with his troops, Meng Yan had already retreated to Shuzhou Mansion.

......

"Kill!" Meng Yan raised his knife and jumped off the city wall.

The sky is getting darker and darker, as if Tiandao has closed his eyes, and he can't bear to look directly at the tragedy here.

The battle became more and more intense, and the worried Meng Yan did not wait for the barbarians from other directions to come to the enemy.

Seeing that the defenders on this side were about to be unable to support him, he could only mobilize troops from other directions to help.

Over time, it became a meat grinder, with countless blood and corpses flowing on the ground, and it also represented the direct loss of a member of countless families.

In order to survive, all people have no choice.

Meng Yan's eyes were red, his heart was full of grief, and he finally couldn't help it, and he also drew a knife and jumped down.

Seeing this, Xu Yunshen also followed closely and jumped down.

He looked back when he jumped, and shook his head at Duan Qiushui, meaning: Don't follow down.

Knock! Knock!

There was more than one sound of landing, Xu Yunshen looked left and right, and there were many soldiers who continued to fall from the city wall to participate in the battle.

He ran forward with the crowd, picking up a knife to use as a weapon along the way.

His strength was damaged, and he didn't have the confidence to break through the barbarians' defenses with just his fists.

The handle wrapped in the cloth strip was full of dark red marks, and Xu Yunshen waved it twice, and the blood on the knife dripped down.

There are still some left on it, which are frozen from low temperatures and clinging to it.

Xu Yun sighed deeply and touched those traces, the biting cold was like the resentment of a person after death, like a maggot attached to the bone went down his fingers and entered his heart.

He shuddered.

He didn't shiver, but, today.

The new Tang soldiers joined, and the barbarians were beaten back a lot, so Xu Yunshen did not have any barbarians.

Xu Yunshen took a breath and ran forward.

The feeling of being cold and hot accompanied him for the next half hour.

The beast known as War finally had its fill, stopped chewing, and spat out the survivors.

Meng Yan lost an arm, which was accidentally torn off by the barbarians.

There was a gloomy look on his face.

There are bright stars in the sky, and there is no moon.

But the starlight is also enough to illuminate this brutal battlefield, which is full of devastation and tells the unknown past.

Meng Yan sat on the ground, and there was a corpse under his buttocks - a naked body, which should be a barbarian.

Xu Yunshen threw away the thin knife that had already curled the blade, twisted the clothes on his body, and squeezed out a lot of blood.

"Lord Wang, what should I do next?" Xu Yunshen asked Meng Yan.

Meng Yan glanced at him blankly, his eyes rolled for a long time, and then he looked at the city wall, which was empty.

Duan Qiushui and Huahua didn't know when they had come down, and the adults were holding weapons in their hands and leading the children.

The child looked excited, looked left and right, and licked his lips from time to time.

Meng Yan was silent and stood up, his legs and hands trembling a little.

It was only twenty meters from the city wall, but he walked for five minutes.

When he reached the city wall, he looked up, crouched slightly, then shook his head, and went in through the gate again.

Meng Yan stood on the tower again, just like he had done at the beginning.

But the soldiers are no longer the same as they were at the beginning, with numerous dead and wounded.

His throat moved several times, and his facial muscles kept moving, proving that he wanted to speak.

After a while, Meng Yan held back a sentence: "Surviving officers, gather troops, and count the casualties." ”

After speaking, it seemed that he had exhausted all his strength, and sat on the small bench that had not moved, and the only remaining arm rested on his lap, with little strength.

Huo Shi has always had to command, prevent the soldiers from going up, and fight regardless of the formation, causing the effect of half the effort, so he has been on the city tower.

But because of the constant loud roaring, his voice has become extremely hoarse.

Battles come and go fast.

It only took two hours to kill 60,000 barbarians and 270,000 Tang soldiers.

The barbarians were all wiped out, and there were still 10,000 Tang soldiers, of which there were only twelve officers, and almost all of them were the lowest military rank of centurion.

In other words, the more senior officers, all of whom had taken the lead, had already died in battle.

Meng Yan listened to the report quietly, and said "hesitantly" twice, and still looked at Xu Yunshen with some pride: "What's the matter, my soldiers in the Far North Road are not a bad breed, right?

Xu Yunshen nodded, sat on the wall, and took two big breaths.

Inhaling only the myriad smell of blood, he said:

"Is it worth calling back and forth?"

"Is it worth it, you have to ask the barbarians. Meng Yan asked him to get some bandages, bandaged his wounds, and said, "We Tang people, how many of us want to fight every day and tie our heads to other people's belts?

Cheng Tu, I get angry when I think about it," he spat on, "He has been eaten, and what kind of holy son holds the spoon and drinks the meat soup together! ”

Xu Yunshen listened to his complaint quietly and did not interrupt.

Meng Yan didn't continue, as if he had exhausted his physical strength, gasping for breath.

It's a bit like a desperate old dog.

Then he slapped his thigh, with his only hand, of course.

It may have been involved in the wound of hindsight, he hissed for a moment before saying: "Okay, we have to hurry to Zhenxiang Mansion, if there is another batch of barbarians now, we will all have to be planted here." ”

Fortunately, Meng Yan does not have the talent of crow's mouth to be domineering in it.

More than 10,000 remnants of soldiers, dressed in the starry night as a cover, hurriedly went to Zhenxiang Mansion.

The capital city of Shinhyang Province is not far from here, and it only takes one day to get there.

And the previous battlefield, under the instruction of Meng Yan, was not cleaned.

Because he knew that the barbarians would clean it up, because that was their food.

This is a tired army, but the victorious army is close to the defeated army, so Meng Yan is not overly demanding on the speed of the march.

However, in the second half of the night, the tail was dotted with scattered crazy barbarians.

They ran wildly on the grassland, and when they saw this Tang army, it was like seeing a shark with blood, and their eyes were extremely red.

Unlike before, most of them pounced on them to vent their desire to fight, while the rest of them quietly stopped their pace and turned back with the same speed.

After Meng Yan led people to kill these scattered barbarians, his heart sank when he saw the barbarians who looked like scouts in the distance.

"Speed up!!" he insisted on making everyone rush desperately, ignoring the soldiers' complaints.

The soldier complained at most, but in his heart he knew that he was racing against life, like a mirror.

More than 10,000 people began to run wildly.

Meng Yan fled from the Daimyo Mansion with 55,000 people to Zhenhao Mansion, and now, with more than 10,000 people fleeing to Zhenxiang Mansion.

The rest of the journey, under the rapid march, took only two hours to complete.

When he arrived at Zhenxiang Mansion, Xu Yunshen even saw the people of the big tribe who had lived overnight before, probably coming to the city to exchange supplies.

The whole city was quickly placed under martial law.

Meng Yan sat on the city tower with a bench again, as if there was no difference from before.

However, this time, he only had one arm left, and he was covered in blood.

Now only people are allowed to enter the city, but not to go out, so there are many tribesmen who are a little dissatisfied.

When they heard that the barbarians were coming, they immediately quieted down.

What's going on? I've already sent someone to the south to inform you, why don't the people here know anything about the barbarians? Meng Yan frowned.

Then he thought of a terrible possibility, that is: in the previous battle of the Zhenhao Mansion, there was always a pair of eyes watching them, but anyone who wanted to go out to ventilate and report the news was intercepted and killed.

But why did we succeed in escaping after the victory? Meng Yan was a little puzzled, could it be that he wanted to play the game of cat and mouse?

Watch out for my iron rat knocking your teeth out!" he sneered.

Then, in an hour, the city of Zhenxiang Mansion was broken.

Meng Yan took more than 100 people and fled to Shuzhou Mansion.

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