"The enemy army is mainly an infantry army, and most of them have valuable troops, estimated at 30,000 people, and the advance has reached five miles outside the city," the scout reported

"Is there cavalry?" Wu Xiao asked

"Report to the general, see the cavalry at the end" scout and report again

Wu Xiao waved his hand after listening, and the scout officer went down.

As he spoke, the sporadic fires on the horizon in the distance were getting closer and closer, slowly connecting into a network of fire that stretched for several miles in front of the city.

"All the commanders of the cavalry battalion" Wu Xiao said, since entering the small hall on the city floor, soon all the commanders of the black cavalry battalion and the brave cavalry battalion arrived, Wu Xiao unfolded the map of the city, and arranged the combat mission, the people of the black cavalry battalion were fine, and the generals of the brave cavalry battalion heard the content of the order, and several faces were frightened.

Wu Xiao glanced at them and emphasized, "Do you understand?"

Only then did all the commanders say in unison: "Command", and then returned to the camp to prepare.

At this time, the enemy's army has reached the city of Guandi, and those with good eyesight on the city tower can even see the portraits of the enemy troops under the city, and a noisy sound of scolding is heard.

With the sound of a rapid war drum, the enemy began to attack the city, with the soldiers in front and the infantry behind, pressing towards the city, while the archers defending the city rained arrows at the enemy position, and from time to time the enemy army fell.

The enemy's 30,000 men were divided into three echelons, and now the first echelon began to attack the city, and the other two echelons were still waiting outside the range of the defenders' arrows.

Wu Xiao looked at the dense place of the enemy's torches from a distance, and a Turkic general rode a tall war horse, standing quietly, and while Wu Xiao looked at him, he seemed to be looking at Wu Xiao on the city tower.

On the side defending the city, the bow and arrow were behind, the Mo knife hand was in front, and the heavy soldiers were on the side, but a burly Turkic soldier tied himself to the top of the ladder, and the people below lifted him up and pressed him to the battlements on the city wall.

When he was about to lean against the city wall, he saw a flash of sword light on the city wall, and a strange knife hand split him with a ladder, and the Turkic soldiers holding the ladder below also fell to pieces.

Of course, there were also brave Turkic soldiers who climbed the wall between the defenders, but soon he found two soldiers with shields in their left hands and knives in their right hands surrounding him, squeezing him with their shields to the corners, and then piercing his abdomen with a blade that came from between the two shields.

The enemy obviously did not expect that the city of Guandi was actually a hard bone, and the battle lasted for an hour, and the two armies suffered damage to each other, but obviously the enemy suffered more serious damage.

The enemy has changed the second echelon to attack the city, and the defenders on the city walls have also rotated twice.

At this time, the soldiers of the first echelon of the enemy army under the city were resting on the spot in the distance, bandaging and stopping the bleeding, and the soldiers of the third echelon were obviously frenzied, and the formation was out of order, while the enemy generals were obviously in a rage.

Wu Xiao stood up and said to the two commanders guarding the city: "The city wall is handed over to you", the two commanders responded with fists, Wu Xiao raised his iron spear, and Zhaohu walked down the city wall.

There were already soldiers waiting downstairs with two war horses, and the two got on their horses and went straight to the south gate, and the five thousand cavalry at the south gate were already on standby here.

Yan Nu rode a black horse and stood in front of the team, behind her was the commander of the nine black cavalry, and then behind was the brave cavalry battalion.

Wu Xiao rode his horse to the front of the army, Zhao Hu protected his right side, and Yan Nu protected his left side.

The south gate slowly opened, and five thousand cavalry rushed out like arrows, and in the sound of horses' hooves, the ranks gradually lengthened, forming a long snake formation, bypassing the city wall, and rushing towards the enemy's second echelon resting position.

Wu Xiao and the three of them were sharp arrows, and they were unstoppable wherever they passed, opening the way for the cavalry troops behind, but seeing Wu Xiao's iron spear sweeping left and right, the Turkic soldiers blocking the road flew upside down on both sides.

The second echelon of the enemy army was already repairing, and there was no formation to speak of, and suddenly the Wuxiao cavalry attacked, and there was no power to fight back, and the cavalry had a huge advantage over the infantry, not to mention that the Turks did not expect that even the old army of Changzhou City who had been stationed in Mobei for many years did not dare to go out of the city to fight easily, and this new army that had just come to the battlefield actually rushed out of the city, and was completely unprepared for a while.

With just one cup of tea, Wu Xiao's cavalry chiseled through the Turkic position, and the follow-up cavalry followed Wu Xiao like a rolling torrent, harvesting the enemy troops on both sides while running.

Wu Xiao then turned his horse's head and rushed towards the third echelon of the enemy, he shouted: "Change"

Zhaohu rushed to the front with his horse, Wu Xiao moved to the right, Zhaohu would only be more ferocious than Wu Xiao, and his huge copper hammer would last to see the whole corpse.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemy commander shouted loudly, trying to gather his troops and then counterattack.

At this time, Wu Xiao had rushed to the main general not far away, and he shouted to Yan Nu: "Kill him"

Yan Nu comprehended, inserted her double knives into her waist, pulled up the strong bow hanging on the side of the horse, pressed her right foot on the bow body, pulled her hands on the string, and used her best strength to fill the bow, slowly aiming at the heart of the enemy's main general, and when the black horse took off, the giant arrow shot like lightning.

Passing through the middle of the two enemy cavalry, it was stuck in the back of the general's heart, and the whole arrow passed through the body of the general, and plunged into the abdomen of the person in front of him, and he also rushed off the horse.

The enemy's main general's eyes widened, and he slowly looked back, but before he could finish turning, Wu Xiao cut off his head with a knife, and shouted before picking up the iron spear: "The enemy general is dead, all-out attack."

The Tang army saw that its main general was so brave, and his personal heart was excited, and the more he fought, the more courageous he became, while the morale of the Turkic army fell to the bottom, and there was no longer the heart to fight, and they fled to the way they came.

The Tang army chased straight out of thirty miles, and the Turkic army of 30,000 left half of its corpses and fled back to the base camp, Wu Xiao ordered the pursuit to be stopped, and the whole army withdrew.

After returning to the city, Wu Xiao immediately ordered the military engineering battalion to step up the repair of the city wall fortifications and strengthen the city gate to prevent the enemy from returning.

This battle killed 15,000 enemies, and the new army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, which can be described as a great victory, and when the generals saw Wu Xiao again, they had already admired the five-body surrender to the ground, and they were excited, Wu Xiao won the hearts of the generals and soldiers of the Nanyuan New Army at this time.

It's just strange that from beginning to end, no reinforcements have arrived in the direction of Changshu, which casts a shadow on the hearts of the generals of the new army.

On the second day, the expected counterattack did not appear, and on the third and fourth days, half of the enemy's shadow could not be seen, as if the Turks had forgotten the battle of Guandicheng, or it was just a whim of them, coming to fight a guy, and seeing that they didn't bargain for each other, forget it.

The defenders of Guandi City were inexplicable for a while, Wu Xiao sent someone to Changzhou City to send a battle report, and received a commendation order from Marshal Zheng Gu that night, and asked him to stick to the city and not go out of the city at will to face the battle.

Wu Xiao ordered the military battalion to use the unique yellow clay of this place and glutinous rice pulp to make rammed earth bricks one by one, which were used to strengthen the outer walls and city towers.

On the one hand, he ordered people to drive huge ballista carts, and erected one at five-foot intervals on the city wall to form a penetrating fire network, which was very effective against the enemy's heavy cavalry and siege equipment.

But this time the Turks changed their strategy, and a few days later, groups of people from the surrounding areas came to Guandi City, asking to enter the city for refuge.

When asked, I learned that the Turks dispersed their cavalry into small groups of troops, broke through the border defenses between large towns in Mobei, and attacked and harassed, burned, killed and plundered the vast area south of the Changzhou defense line.

Its intention was nothing more than to lure the main force of the Tang army out of the city to meet the battle, Wu Xiao thought of it, Zheng Gu also thought of it, it was the next day, a messenger came to Guandi City, and asked Wu Xiao to go to Changzhou City to participate in the military meeting of the Mobei Theater.

When Wu Xiao came to Changzhou City with a hundred cavalry to command the camp, he immediately noticed a tense atmosphere enveloping the entire camp, and there were countless eyes in the camp looking at this group of people in Guandi City intentionally or unintentionally.

At the gate of the camp, Yan Nu stopped and grabbed Wu Xiao's right arm, and Wu Xiao glanced back at her.

Yan Nu looked at him and shook her head, she intuitively felt that this big camp was full of hostility towards them.

Zhaohu also said: "Big brother, something is wrong, or we should go back."

Wu Xiao looked inside, paused for a while and said, "It's okay, you two go in with me, and Dazhu will take people to stay outside the camp."

The salt gang brothers Dazhu nodded in understanding, and he ordered a hundred cavalry to be on guard and stand by at any time.

Wu Xiao walked in with Zhaohu and Yan Nu.

At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army was full of people, and when Wu Xiao walked in, a pair of indifferent eyes looked at him at the same time, only Marshal Zheng Gu's face was as usual.

Zheng Gu motioned for Wu Xiao to sit down on the right.

"Dare to ask this newcomer General Xi, where are your relatives now," a stubble-covered general asked Wu Xiao stiffly

"Now Chang'an City," Wu Xiao said

"Why did my relatives come to Mobei, and now they are robbed and killed by Turkic dogs, but your relatives are enjoying peace with the emperor Lao'er in Chang'an City," he asked sharply

"The generals responded to the policy of the court and moved their clans north, which is really a credit, I think the marshal will definitely ask the emperor for a reward for you," Wu Xiao said slowly

"You ......" who didn't know what to say for a long time

Another general stood up and said: "I heard that the strategy of moving north is your idea, and you also said that there is a fort in five miles and a battalion in ten miles, which can be interconnected into a network, so that the Turks have no return, but now it seems that this is not the case, and the Turks will die as soon as they come."

The generals who were full of tents all echoed, and the sound was higher and higher, until Zheng Gu knocked twice on the table with a pen holder, and then the generals slowly stopped their voices and returned to their seats.

Wu Xiao slowly stood up, walked to which general just now and asked, "The Turks don't dare to capture Changzhou City, why is this?"

Which general glanced at him: "The little doll who has not dried up is still here to test me, there is a high city and a big fortress in Changzhou, how dare the Turks come to attack the city with all the cavalry"

"Why did Nafeng Prefecture fall," Wu Xiao asked

"Fengzhou has been fighting all year round, and the city wall is being destroyed and is not surprising, how to defend it, and it is not surprising that it is lost," the general said angrily

Wu Xiao turned around and said to the generals: "As this general said, the Turks with high walls and big walls dare not come, and the Turks without protection can drive straight in."

He paused for a moment and continued: "Not long after the new military households moved north, the houses they live in have not been built, and in the event of war, how can they have time to build camps and forts, there are no fortifications, and once the Turkic cavalry comes, they can't stand firm, how to form a network."