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Batu saw that the plan was about to succeed, but he didn't want to be discovered by Fan Yunchao, and in the end, even his first strategist Zhou Shibin was shot dead by the Tang people under the city, and he was extremely angry!

However, at this time, it was getting late, and there were still thousands of Tang prisoners on the ice field who had been hit by the eggs of ice leeches, and then forcibly attacking the city would only increase the casualties of the Meng Yuan army, and he could only accept the fact that he had returned in vain today.

Batu hatefully ordered the whole army to return to the camp, he whipped a few times on the horse's buttocks, quickly passed through the entire Mengyuan army, and drove the horse alone to the front, and the generals saw that Batu's face was not good, and they all distanced themselves from him, so as not to vent his nameless anger on their heads for a while.

At this time, only one person dared to come up, that is, the second traitor who appeared just now - Qin Shilian, he and Zhou Shibin both have the word "Shi" in their names, but they do not have the slightest bit of the character and arrogance of Huaxia scholars.

The two of them don't want to say that they respect the king and follow the Tao, self-denial and public service, and they don't even have the minimum limit of being a human being, except for the only flattery and ghost tricks, the two never do good deeds, and even most of the Mengyuan people look down on them, but because of General Batu's face, everyone maintains a superficial harmony with them.

Today, Zhou Shibin died in front of the battle, Meng Yuan people did not have the feeling of being sad at all, and the happiest person was probably Qin Shilian, usually the two of them were embarrassed, but they were secretly fighting everywhere, but Zhou Shibin relied on the fact that he had been admitted to the Tang State to show talent, so everything always pressed Qin Shilian.

Today, Zhou Shibin really suffered retribution, Qin Shilian pretended to be Qi Qi on the surface, but he was secretly happy in his heart, he now needs to consolidate his position in Batu's heart in time, so as to replace Zhou Shibin's previous position as soon as possible.

Qin Shilian rode his horse to Batu's side and said flatteringly in Mengyuan language: "General Batu, why are you unhappy? Although we did not send those Tang untouchables into the city today, we also succeeded in dividing the soldiers in the city and shaking their military morale, which is also a great harvest and worth celebrating!"

Batu turned his face murderously and said: "Harvest a fart! I regret not listening to your slander and using the leech eggs of ice sewage that the Lord Shaman strictly forbids! If we take Dunhuang City by this, we may be able to explain our exoneration, but now that Dunhuang City cannot be taken, we will inevitably be held accountable by the Khan and the Lord Shaman! Then we will all die ugly!"

It was Zhou Shibin who insisted on using ice leeches, and Qin Shilian was not clear about the degree of harm and punishment consequences of this poison, but his mind was flexible, and his eyes rolled, and he immediately took it into account:

"General, since we can be exempted from the crime by taking Dunhuang City, why don't we just do it and just seek the result, regardless of the process. ”

Batu's eyes widened and asked, "What good idea have you come up with, let's hear it?" ”

Qin Shilian lowered his voice and said: "This batch of Tang prisoners was just picked up by us from the Western Regions in the morning, and we sent them directly to the battlefield in the afternoon, without delay in the middle, as for where the ice leeches in their bodies came from, we really don't know." ”

Batu nodded and said, "If this explanation is also in the past, you continue!"

Qin Shilian saw that Batu agreed with this statement, and immediately said boldly: "For the ban on ice leeches, only the requirements of the Mengyuan Empire are stricter, but the people of the Western Regions have not heard of such an explicit provision, so if it is used by the people of the Western Regions, are we ......?"

Batu clapped his hands and said, "Yes! We really didn't use it, it was all used indiscriminately by those barbarians from the Western Regions who didn't know the depths!

But now that the Tang captives are dead, how can we send the ice leeches into Dunhuang City?"

Qin Shilian smiled and said: "General, this is very simple, aren't we Mengyuan people good at making eagles? If the eagle accidentally dropped some rabbits, geese, marmots or something that had fallen into the Gu in the city during the hunting process, what does that have to do with us?"

Batu's eyes lit up, and he laughed: "I really didn't see it! You kid is even more vicious than Zhou Shibin, it seems that the position of Sima Counselor of the Chinese Army belongs to you!"

Qin Shilian hurriedly bowed on the horse and said: "The career of the lower official is all in the general's thoughts, if the general is willing to give it to the lower official, the lower official will naturally be grateful! If the general still doesn't want to give the lower official, it means that the lower official still can't do it, and he will redouble his efforts in the future." ”

Batu nodded and said, "I just like to see you Huaxia people who want to but don't dare to say it, and always speak in a crooked way." Don't worry, a talent like you will still be used, and I will promote you to the position of Sima Counselor of the Chinese Army when I go back. ”

Qin Shilian immediately thanked him, and his flattering words spurted out of his mouth like a tide, making Batu like a falling cloud, which was very useful.

After listening for a while, Ba Xiang remembered something and shouted to the back: "Someone." ”

In the middle of the general of the Meng Yuan army who followed behind, there were immediately two people dressed as captains who stepped forward to listen to the order, these two people were fast and slow, the captain in front was very fast, and the captain in the back asked with some surprise: "This officer, which battalion are you from? Why did the marshal call people, you want to come forward to listen to the order?"

The captain in front not only did not answer, but also urged the horse to speed up, because the two sides were not far apart, this captain chased after Batu and Qin Shilian almost after a breath or two, and the captain behind realized that something was wrong at this time, and immediately shouted.

Batu was talking to Qin Shilian about some details of the Gu operation, and he didn't pay attention to the movement behind him at first, until he heard the captain's loud warning, and then turned around to look.

I saw a sword training light slashing head-on, Batu had been on the battlefield for a long time, and immediately knew that someone was sneaking attack, his body fell on the horse's back, and his feet clamped the horse's belly hard, and the war horse under his crotch was a famous BMW of the Mengyuan Empire, and he reacted almost instantaneously and jumped out directly.

When Batu's body passed by Qin Shilian's horse's head, a punch hit Qin Shilian's mount in the face, and the huge fist directly knocked Qin Shilian's horse sideways, blocking the horse of the sneak attacker.

But even if Batu reacted quickly, he still let the sneak attacker slash in the back, and the knife was very powerful and sharp, directly cutting through three layers of cowhide armor and submerging into Batu's back.

Batu let out a wolf-like howl, but he didn't dare to turn back, and continued to urge the war horse under his crotch to gallop forward.

Qin Shilian is not a military general, his reaction was much slower, and he didn't understand what was going on, he only felt that the mount under his crotch suddenly turned sideways and threw him up, his own riding skills were not good, this time he directly threw him out of the horse and flew towards the sneak attack captain.

The sneak attack captain didn't have time to take back the knife that had been slashed at Batu's back, and immediately pulled out another knife from his waist and stabbed Qin Shilian in the air.

Qin Shilian screamed, and was stabbed by the knife from the back waist, stabbed out of the abdomen, and picked on the long knife, Qin Shilian kept struggling and screaming on the long knife, the assassin didn't say a word, pulled back the first knife, and saw the knife light flashing on Qin Shilian's neck, and cut off his head.

All this happened between lightning and flint, and after the general of the Mengyuan army reacted, Batu had been injured, Qin Shilian had been beheaded, and all the Mengyuan people rushed up with a roar.

Another lieutenant, who was about to obey the order, rushed to the front and swung his knife at the assassin, but the assassin did not entangle with him, but smashed the body of Qin Shilian, who had no head on the tip of the knife, towards him, and at the same time urged the horse to chase Batu.

At this time, Batu had already run out of a few zhang, his mount was very powerful, the mount under the assassin's seat was just an ordinary captain-level war horse, plus his riding skills were still slightly inferior to the orthodox Mengyuan people, and he chased farther and farther, and at the same time, the other generals of the Mengyuan army chased closer and closer.

The assassin let out a long sigh, separated Qin Shilian's hair, tied it around his waist, reined in his horse, turned around and rushed towards the Meng Yuanren general who was chasing behind.

Under the flashing of the sword, no one could parry the assassin's three knives, and someone fell under the horse with a knife, but more Mongolian generals pounced, and more than 30 generals surrounded the assassin in the middle, but they just couldn't take him down.

Several generals with large axes and maces rushed up, roaring angrily to make the generals in the front row dodge, and the powerful heavy weapons smashed on the assassin's double knives, and they couldn't knock off the double knives in his hands, which were not heavy, but relying on the advantage of the weapon chief, they also contained the attack of the assassins' double knives.

The battlefield immediately entered a state of stalemate, and only then did some generals on the periphery react and immediately drove their horses to save the general, while others commanded the Meng Yuan elite soldiers who were still in a daze on the periphery to surround the battlefield; and some generals hurriedly took off their bows and arrows behind their backs, ready to cast cold arrows at any time.

As soon as the assassin saw that if he did not leave at this time, he was afraid that he would be surrounded by the Meng Yuan generals, so he immediately urged his horse to retreat, blocking a long-handled mace with one knife, and the other knife was quickly sharpened along the handle of the club, and as a few fingers of the Meng Yuan generals flew up, the assassin had already snatched the mace in his hand.

The assassin quickly put his double knife into the sheath, brandished his mace, knocked away the two enemies behind him, and fought out of the encirclement, and the generals of the Mengyuan army behind were in hot pursuit, and the two sides fought or stopped, until they chased to a very high mountain beam, and the generals of Mengyuan had surrounded the moment, and there was no way to retreat.

At this moment, he stopped on the top of the mountain beam, took off the big hat of the military captain on his head, revealed a round face with deep circles under his eyes, and shouted: "Grandchildren, remember what grandpa looks like! Today's killer Li Mao!"

After saying that, Li Mao jumped up from his horse and jumped directly off the cliff, he curled up as best he could, and rolled down from the snow on the mountain beam, very fast, and soon rolled to the foot of the mountain and stopped.

General Meng Yuanzhu hurriedly rushed to the bottom of the cliff to check, and saw that the black spot under the cliff was motionless, just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this killing star was finally dead, suddenly the black spot under the mountain moved again, and then this black spot moved quickly and ran towards a sparse forest in the distance.

The generals and colonels on the mountain immediately panicked, because the cliff here was very high, and no one dared to jump down to chase it directly, so they could only get on their horses and go around the mountain beam to chase.

When they reached the bottom of the cliff two quarters of an hour later, they had long since lost all traces of Li Mao, except for a series of footprints that had been almost blown clean by the wind and snow that stretched out into the sparse forest a few miles away, and then disappeared completely.

Everyone felt a chill down their spines, with such a top assassin in the Tang Army, everyone had to be vigilant at all times in the future, otherwise they wouldn't know when they would be killed.

Meng Yuanjun found General Batu, who was seriously injured and fell from his horse, three miles away from the place of the incident, because the field was not suitable for rescue, the Mongolian doctor in the army asked people to take two blankets, one was placed on the knife edge of Batu's back, and the other was used to wrap Batu's body tightly, so that the wound could shed less blood.

A few of the generals carried Batu on horseback and quickly returned to the camp, while others stayed behind to count the losses of the day.

In addition to General Batu, who was beheaded at the beginning, and Qin Shilian, who was beheaded, a total of 11 people were killed on the spot, 19 were injured, three of them were seriously injured, and another person had four fingers cut off and was completely abolished.

After Batu was rescued back to the camp, he found that the knife almost split his back, and even the bones of his spine had clear knife marks, seven ribs on the right side of his back were broken, and his internal organs were displaced and bleeding in many places.

The shaman in the camp used an elixir made by the main shaman himself to save Batu's breath, and it took another three hours to treat Batu's wounds and blood in the cavity, and sew up the wound on his back with fish skin thread.

Batu also did not wake up immediately because of excessive blood loss, and the shaman doctor specially explained to the military doctor that if the general did not have a high fever within three days, it was possible to wake up, and if the high fever did not go away, there was no way to treat it.

However, even if Batu wakes up, after being seriously injured like this, his martial arts strength will be at least fifty percent, and I am afraid that he will not be able to be a handsome man in the future.

Such tragic casualties were too demoralizing, and Meng Yuanzhong had to block the news and invite General Su He out to temporarily preside over the overall situation.

Under the gloomy clouds, the Mengyuan army also stopped attacking the city, and the Western Regions and the Western Tibetan coalition army had already stopped fighting for ten consecutive days, and Dunhuang City seemed to have returned to the peace of the past.

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