Chapter 36 Sheep Intestine Ridge
"When the people of Chang'an cheered for Wang Hua's second victory, they didn't know that they were just in a farm, growing vigorously like those young seedlings.
But Wang Hua gave this credit to Li Xian not only to make Li Xian achieve meritorious service. There are other intentions. First, he is afraid of monsters. The people hope that an omnipotent person will appear. But what would he think if this omnipotent person really appears? Second, it is a false reputation. China has not attached much importance to natural science in all dynasties. For example, Jia Sizhi, a famous scientist who wrote "Qimin Yaoshu", has not been recorded in official history. If it were modern, you know Andy Lau, but you don't know that Yuan Longping is fine, but you must say it. If it is despised, it will be despised. But it was normal in ancient China. He took the credit of cotton in his hands, which was not as great as the battle that just happened. There is no need to fight. The third is seeds. Seeing the benefits and the yield, the first batch of seeds will become popular goods. People who can do favors, but those with less distribution also hold grudges.
It’s better to give Li Xian at least two years. He will stay on the throne for several years. Paying a little attention to himself in the past few years will be of great benefit to his development. Also, this is a major event that benefits the country and the people. Li Xian handed it over to Lao Wu and will soon be spread across the country.
It's almost March.
Wang Huatou was hanging on his arms, lying on the green grass, looking up at the stars in the sky. Another day passed.
Now they have entered the hinterland of the Turks. Not far away, they can reach the upper reaches of the Hurricane River, not far from the political center of the Turks. If they are in the daytime, they can see the solemn and solemn figure of Wudejian Mountain. I believe that even Mochuo Laozi and Liuli will start to be unable to calm down.
Wang Hua stroked a soft grass on the ground with his hands. At this time, the vegetation on the Mongolian Plateau was not seriously damaged, with Gobi and deserts, but not many. He was still thinking about another thing. It was this land that caused a lot of suffering to China. First, it was the Huns, Xianbei, then the Turks, Khitans, and finally Mongolia. Cars came and went, like a carriage lantern.
Is this a land that nourishes the warriors?
Wang Hua couldn't help but laughed at his strange thought.
Kong Heizi came over and asked, "It should be almost the same."
Wang Hua nodded and could not attack any further. The scout had already come back to report that the Turks in front began to gather a large number of troops. After all, it was not their tent. If Wang Hua led thousands of people to pick up their tent, the Turks' prestige on the grassland would hit the ground.
Wang Hua stood up and said to the soldiers: "Get ready to set off now."
Instead of continuing to attack north, they retreated south, but in addition to the soldiers, there were many people. In recent years, in order to fill the domestic population, Mochu captured a large number of people from the Tang Dynasty and asked them to be slaves to the Turks. However, in order to prevent them from escaping, most of them were scattered in the north of the desert. It was not until Wang Hua attacked the desert that he saw these Tang people from the aristocrats of some tribes. Some had been tortured to death by the Turks, and most of the remaining ones were not in human form.
As we came all the way, because there were few Tang people scattered here, a large number of tribes heard that their attacks had fled early. They only rescued more than 2,000 people of the Tang Dynasty.
These people will also take them back.
But seeing the tortures these people suffered, no one said that Wang Hua's methods were cruel and fierce.
The night wind blows, bringing the fragrance of many wild flowers.
From time to time, the cries of cattle and sheep came, and many children jumped around. They didn't know the true meaning of this journey. Only some old people were sitting in the cart with crystal tears in their eyes.
Guo Zhiyun, the general of the Right Camp, rode a horse to Wang Hua and said, "Wangzhongying, this line of people is too big. If Mochu hears it, he refuses to withdraw his troops. This battle will lose its meaning."
The appointment of this person also caused a stir last year. At that time, Guo Zhiyun entered the camp with Guo Yi from the Sandu Prefecture of Qinzhou. After having a conversation with Kong Heizi, Kong Heizi listened to the ten-study analytical costume and took the initiative to recommend it to Wang Hua. Wang Hua seemed to think that this person's name sounded very familiar, and those who could make him familiar were all famous figures, so he immediately recruited them into the big tent to discuss it.
At this time, Guo Zhiyun was 35 years old, and it was the peak of his mental and physical strength. He first performed martial arts, and then talked to Wang Hua about military books. Wang Hua was praised. Of course, his favorites were Xian Xiaofeng and Xiao Guo Xiaoli. Unfortunately, these people were all big, and they couldn't even get it now.
So he said to Lao Wu, don’t fight in the court, this right camp general has a candidate. It’s this Guo Zhiyun.
Guo Zhiyun? Who is it? The ministers in the court were confused when they heard this, so they checked the files and found out that the people from Jinchang, Guazhou, who used their fighting skills to make up for Guoyi. There was nothing else. But Lao Wu was also annoyed. Yes, Wang Hua said that this person is OK, so that's fine.
After the appointment, he made extraordinary achievements in the invasion of the Turks. It was gradually accepted by the ministers. It seemed that Wang Hua had found a talent.
Wang Hua said: "It's okay for Guo Youying to be a stubborn soldier. The soldiers are not rational. Mochuo is very cunning in using troops, so this is why the Turks are today's powerful.
Da Guo nodded and looked at Mochu's battle. He was not like a rude Turkic man at all. On the contrary, he was like the scheming generals among the Han people who had divisive plans and counter-espionage plans, and they used them with more and less. The enemy advanced and we retreated, and we retreated, and we retreated, and we were extremely skillful.
"It is precisely because of his cunning that he will be suspicious. If he is based on common sense, he will be suspicious. Now we seem to have retreated. But two days later, our blood camp suddenly disappeared. He felt suspicious in his heart when he heard this, but instead, he retreated faster.
After hearing this, Guo Zhiyun thought for a while and said, "It's really possible."
Not in words.
The large group of people delayed their journey, although they were carrying many people, no matter how big the carts were, they did not delay their speed. Only the large group of cattle and sheep really became the source of speed in the mountains. The next morning, the army had only walked more than a hundred miles south.
Wang Hua ordered camping and rested for a while. He started again in the afternoon.
But the next day the scout came to report that more than 2,000 Turkic soldiers were chasing him not far away.
Wang Hua smiled coldly and said, "It's just right."
Otherwise, he would not be relieved to take the thousand soldiers back to the Tang Dynasty and would not be able to escort to Yinshan. According to the current itinerary, it would take five or six days, and the time would not be enough.
So Kong Heizi and a group of people were asked to surround him from the left back, and Guo Zhiyun and 1,000 people were surrounded by him from the right back. This time, Wang Hua had one of the biggest advantages. It was the broad vision. A metaphor seemed to be a normal person, and his opponent was just a blind man. A powerful blind man could be allowed to use conspiracies and tricks. A weak blind man could be eliminated directly.
Wang Hua brought other soldiers to the front.
It was originally scared that Wang Hua had just followed behind and saw Wang Hua's army coming. He wanted to retreat, but found two Tang troops from both sides. Let's escape. They couldn't escape. They blocked them. After a fight, hundreds of Turkic soldiers escaped. The others either became unjust ghosts under the spears of the Tang Dynasty soldiers or became prisoners of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.
Wang Hua clapped his hands and said, "Don't worry."
After these hundreds of soldiers fled back, they reported the news that almost all the Turks would never dare to chase after them again. Now they may have an idea that the further they go, the better.
Wang Hua ordered the soldiers to quickly go to Fengzhou to ask the garrison to send a large army to welcome him. This was for safety reasons. Although the journey back to the transportation was basically attacked by Wang Hua this time. The sheep were still in the territory of the Turkic people.
On the second day, the large army advanced more than 100 miles south again. It was already very close to Yinshan. Wang Hua asked the scouts to lead a few teams of troops to clean up the Turkic scouts behind him and began to change their clothes.
They took off their blood armor and no longer had their noses. The credit had been written clearly, and the soldiers of the Three County who returned were brought back to the Tang Dynasty. Then they put on the armor of the Hu people, bandaged the spear with cloth, and replaced it with the sabre and other weapons used by the Hu people. They carried a large amount of weapons and food. This time they could no longer provide for plunder, and food must be prepared.
I looked at Jihua. Until now, the soldiers in the Blood Camp began to suffer serious casualties. More than 100 soldiers were unable to continue fighting, and they had to go back to recuperate. More than 700 soldiers fell down one after another. So from the remaining 1,000, now there are only 800 soldiers left, 200 of them are now reduced to the remaining 1,000 soldiers. As a supplement.
But after looking at the thin army of returning home, Wang Hua frowned, found all the young and middle-aged people from the refugees, gave them weapons and armor, and thus created more than 400 soldiers. However, they could not underestimate their combat effectiveness, and the recovery of food in a few days. In addition, they were eager to go home, it was possible that the combat effectiveness they exerted was stronger than ordinary soldiers.
Watching them go further and further on the horizon, Wang Huacai ordered that more than 3,200 people were divided into five teams, and they were broken into pieces, one person and two riders. Under the cover of the scouts, they gathered in the eastern part of Yinshan.
Wang Hua caused great harm to the herdsmen on the grassland. However, Hebei in March was also undergoing a cruel baptism.
March is the time for summer seeds, but because of the invasion of the Turks, Mochu was almost crazy after hearing Wang Hua's behavior. He launched crazy revenge in Hebei. But this time his "harvest is far less than the harvest when he first entered Hebei. Wei Yuanzhong won't say anything. Xue Na, Li Duoji, and Ji Wuzhi were all famous generals, especially Luo Wuzhi. The reason why he and Li Kaigu surrendered to the Tang Dynasty was because Mochu defeated the Khitan and made them desperate, so he did this.
Although their national concepts are almost non-ethnic, they have deep hatreds with each other. However, there are too many people who have hatred with Mochuo. Not only the people of the Tang Dynasty, but also the various people on the grasslands also hate him very much. It was just because of his powerful force that he had to surrender.
The sniping of these brave generals also caused some great casualties to Mochu's army.
After seeing such a result, Mochu became in a bad mood day by day. The main king Hua began to approach the Hurricane River, and his princess and his children were all in the tent. In addition, the army south of the Yellow River in the Tang Dynasty began to gather to support Hebei. He finally had the intention to leave.
At this moment, he received a piece of information. Wang Hua took the army back.
Hum? Mochu opened the map, but he didn't think Wang Hua would really go back. Now he brought his army to Hebei, which was when he was unscrupulous. But he never thought that Wang Hua would lead three or four thousand people to snipe him. Even if Wang Hua's army was Li Jing's army, he had to think twice.
Looking at the map, I couldn't figure out what Wang Hua was going to do. What surprised him the most was that this time, all the Turkish scouts were silent. No matter how many scouts were sent, they would automatically disappear on the grassland. In the end, the tribes did not dare to send the warriors of the clan to inquire about the news. They just followed their footprints and judged their whereabouts.
A few days later, news came again that Wang Hua's blood camp disappeared. There were only more than a thousand people. Among them, hundreds of were captured soldiers armed by the people of the Tang Dynasty, who arrived at Yinshan with captured livestock and refugee captives. Considering that a large number of Tang Dynasty soldiers who rushed over appeared in the south. The power in the south of the Turkic region was now empty, these tribes had to watch them climb over Yinshan and return to the Tang Dynasty.
Explained a lot of nonsense. Mochu automatically ignores it. What power is empty? Mainly let Wang Huada
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But what about Wang Hua's blood camp?
It was a headache. I had known this. Bu Xiaozhi gathered more than 20,000 troops to attack Fanye and see the idea of "exhausting the air". If he did that, he would release the Daizhou army and learn that Xiong Keji, who knew the virtual and the real, would definitely threaten the states to force the troops. The result was good or bad, and it was still a matter of both.
But what does Wang Hua want to do?
The reason why he was still attacking various counties in Hebei with peace of mind was because he knew that the tent was not so imaginable and easily attacked. He also had many trusted ministers who stayed in the tent. In this case, they would definitely summon a large army and prepare to deal with Wang Hua's arrival. Wang Hua really wanted to come five hundred to eight thousand. Three to four thousand can deal with five or six thousand troops?
But the grassland is vast. If the god of Wang Hua arrived at the tent without knowing it, what would happen? Mo Chuo fought a cold war and shouted: "Come here."
At the foot of the Yin Mountains, the sky is like a dome, covering all the fields, the sky is vast and the wilderness is vast, and the wind blows the grass and sees cattle and sheep.
Under Yinshan!
This is a section of Yinshan in the east.
Yinshan is an important watershed in the north and south climate. On the south side of Yinshan, the grassland is more lush. After passing Yinshan, it is still a grassland, but belongs to a desert grassland. Although in the Tang Dynasty, the difference between the grass can be seen from the growth of the grass.
At the same time, the overall terrain of Yinshan is also high in the west and low in the east. From the middle section of Langshan, there are few forests. Only the mountains are covered with grasslands of different sizes. This is an important pastoral area. But after the middle section, you start to see large forests.
This is a forest, with tall birch, poplar, mountain elm, mountain willow, and pine trees slapped in the spring of March, radiating vitality. There is also a small lake not far away. A few yellow sheep are drinking water by the lake, and they are watching alertly around. Once there is any movement, they will immediately pluck their legs and run away.
Wang Hua looked at the beautiful lake through several beautiful mountain willows, listening to the scouts in front of him.
interest.
The scout said, "Mochu withdrew his troops. But the army was divided into three routes. The left side followed Yinshan and went west, the right side crossed the Great Wall and the north of the boat. He led the central army and escorted more than 30,000 people from Hebei, and came northwest. It was also our direction.
“What is the specific number of people?”
"We are far away and cannot count clearly, but it is estimated that the left and right troops are about 15,000. There is another thing, our army also has 30,000 to 40,000 followers, but we dare not get too close to them."
Wang Hua called Kong Heizi and Guo Zhiyun over. Five teams were dispersed, only four and the other one. Before he arrived, the Turks looked different from those of the Central Plains. However, Wang Hua deliberately avoided all settlements in this line, and occasionally encountered one or two herdsmen who were grazing, because one person had two horses and rode at a fast speed, and they would soon pass by them. They would not see clearly. Another point is that Mochu is now starting a war, Wang Hua counterattacked the Turks, and there were soldiers and generals everywhere on the grassland. No one cared about the army of hundreds of people.
The army of the Hanzhi army arrived at Yinshan without knowing it.
Wang Hua opened the marching map and asked the scouts to mark the approximate location of the three Turkic armies on the map. Then he asked: "Uncle Kong, Guo Youying, what do you think?"
Kong Heizi said, "I saw the encirclement."
As he said that, he followed the arrows of the three armies and gestured with his hands.
"Yes, it's just the surround. Mochuo really thought we were still in the Turks, so he wanted to destroy our entire army once and for all. He really respected us. He used 80,000 troops to deal with three thousand of us."
Wang Hua didn't know that Mochuo had no more than 80,000 people, and he fought with Xue Ne and others in the front and back, causing seven or eight people to lose. However, the Tang Dynasty's army suffered heavy casualties. This is still good. If these brave generals were not stationed in Hebei, the Tang Dynasty would have suffered even heavier losses this time.
"So what will we do next?"
Kong Heizi and Guo Zhiyun both frowned. Don’t think about the middle route, don’t think about the other two routes. There are 15,000 people. This is not the 10,000 troops that they hurriedly organized on the grassland. These are the most elite army of the Turks.
Guo Zhiyun said: "Wang Zhongying, what are your ideas?
The next goals were not set because there were countless variables, and it was impossible to formulate a detailed strategic plan.
Wang Hua said: "We have to fight in this battle. We have to fight not only, but also hurt the enemy, otherwise we will still lose. Think about it, this time Mochu's damage to Hebei and our harm to the Turks, which one is greater?"
There is no need to answer this question. The grassland is vast and sparsely populated. Although Wang Hua used a cruel method to sweep out a large vacuum area, there might be many Turkic people, and many Turkic people fled when they heard the news. Even the Tang Dynasty soldiers and civilians who had captured three or two counties and killed more than Wang Hua killed this time, not to mention escorting more than 30,000 Hebei people to retreat to the grassland.
Wang Hua said again: "So we not only have to fight, but also find ways to rescue the people of Hebei."
Hearing this, the two people showed a puzzled expression again. If they wanted to rescue the people of Hebei, they had to face nearly 50,000 Turkic central army. For this reason, it would be better to say that Jiandong would add some appetizer to others.
Wang Hua understood their thoughts and said, "Don't worry, since the Hebei army sent tens of thousands of troops to follow me, I think someone in the court knew my intention."
Thinking of this, a general appeared in Wang Hua's mind.
Chapter completed!