Chapter 63: The City (Part 1)

As dusk approaches, the Yinshan Mountains are covered with a layer of golden light.

Wang Hua looked at Zhang Shougui and Lu Gongren. Here they were about to separate.

This time Wang Hua brought a lot of soldiers, an army of ten thousand.

However, there were still fewer soldiers for this mission. In fact, it was also the trouble he caused by himself.

When he was in Fengzhou, he joined forces with Zhang Renyuan to build four cities. The first one to the east is on the other side of the river in Shengzhou. In addition, the Shanyu Protectorate Palace was like two ghosts slamming the door, protecting the safety of Shengzhou and Yunshuo.

But this time, Chang Yuankai's army was drawn into an empty city, which benefited the Turks. In order to evacuate the captured people, a floating bridge was built on the Yellow River. The Yellow River was full of harm, and only the rich one was rich. The Yellow River started from Qingtong Gorge and went straight to Hekou Town. There were no large tributaries entering. The water was gentle, and there were a large number of plains on both sides, namely the Yinchuan Plain and the Hetao Plain, and there was not even a flood season or a lurking period. Therefore, it was very easy to build a floating bridge.

This surrendered city happened to become a barrier to the Turkic floating bridge.

If you want to block the people captured by Mochu in Henan, you must first seize the Dongshoujiang City and destroy the floating bridge. But it is not easy to take it down. Shengzhou stationed 3,000 Turkic troops, of which 1,000 soldiers were stationed in the Hebei Sujiang City. The city wall is very tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it will take it down in a short time. Otherwise, the Turkic soldiers guarding Shengzhou would immediately use the floating bridge to defend sideways. And Mo Ju, the brave general praised by Mo Hegan, was attacking the Shanyu Protectorate, and they would come back to respond at any time.

If he was asked to come back, Zhang Shougui's four thousand troops would return in failure. Then this strategy would fail.

Then there was the Zhongshoujiang City, built on the Anbei Protectorate. There was also a second floating bridge built by the Turks, with only one thousand soldiers stationed. The difficulty of attack was relatively relaxed, but Wang Hua's appointment made the generals a little worried. Wang Hua asked Lungong and his son to lead two thousand soldiers to attack.

Now there are many powerful generals in the Blood Camp. Why did Wang Hua use this Tubo people who don’t know about this mission?

But this surrendered city was the most confident that Wang Hua was. It was low. If Lun Gongren and his son could not even complete this task, the Lun family would not have established such a great reputation in the Tang Dynasty. Li Longji would not have personally gone to Lun Gongren's bedside to visit him.

Wang Hua himself also led the four thousand army.

There were also three thousand Turkic people stationed in Fengzhou and Xishoujiang City, and they were far away from the Turkic army. However, it was the most difficult.

The Yellow River started from Huaiyuan City and did not flow far downstream. In later generations, it was divided into a shoe-shaped fork to the north. In this shoe-shaped basin, it later became a dotted line in the north. The river surface was very small, and then there were countless ditches and rivers, densely distributed. But most of these were artificial rivers, but in the Tang Dynasty, the two Yellow Rivers in the south were a little wider, and Fengzhou was in the middle, and it seemed to become a river heart continent. The area of ​​this river heart continent was several times larger than that of Chongming Island later.

Fengzhou is on Hezhou. The Turks in Dahezhou did not build bridges because there were simple stone bridges that communicated between Hezhou from north to south. Therefore, Wang Hua not only captured the Xishoujiang City on the north bank of Hezhou, but also had to break through the Turks' bridges to defend. At the same time, the bridge on the south bank must be destroyed so that Wang Hua could use the convenience of the Yellow River to quickly transport materials in the subsequent battle.

Also, Wang Hua is likely to use the Yellow River to set up a battle formation hundreds of years ago. Liu Yu's Yueyue formation

Not only that, Mochu used his intuition to arrange many backup plans before he knew Wang Hua's intentions. Wang Hua also had an intuition, that is, the Turks might send more reinforcements to support Mochu.

It is impossible for Mochu to be unable to get back, not only him, but also the two ministers, Apodagan and Tsuyu Valley. Once all three of them were shot dead or captured, the Turkic human and heaven would fall by half. But the most convenient path was undoubtedly from the west side of Yinshan Mountain, and the Xishoujiang City would become the first major road at that time.

At that time, he may face ten times the oppression of the enemy, so Wang Hua himself presided over this side.

In this battle, both Wang Hua and Mo Chuo showed a sensitive sense of military smell. They also had many counselors and generals under their command. Before the battle started, a strong smell of smoke was already filled with the air.

In addition to these three surrendered cities, there is another city. On the east side of Shizui Mountain, Wang Hua named Anyuan City. It is this Anyuan City that prevented Mochu from going south to Lingzhou along the Yellow River, which reduced the burden of defense when Mochu invaded.

But the other three cities have now become a burden for Wang Hua.

The sky gradually darkened, and Lu Chengxin came over and said, "Gangshu, come and see."

Wang Hua followed him to the top of the mountain, took a telescope, and looked at the West. Countless people walked over on the western mountain road, mixed with cattle, sheep and supplies. Some were a little better, some were ragged, and there were some Turkic soldiers on both sides, holding whips and scolding them.

This was another group of captured people, and Mochuo sent soldiers to move to the Turks.

Wang Hua threw down the telescope, turned his head and asked, "What does it mean to call me to come and see you in terms of integrity?"

The young man stumbled: "There are many people in this group, and there are not many soldiers on the other side. Anyway, we have come to Yinshan. Now it is approaching dusk. Should we rescue them?"

Wang Hua asked: "In terms of integrity, do you think we can keep all the Turkic soldiers at this time without any accident?"

There is no answer to integrity.

What is an accident? Unexpectedly, there were only a hundred Turkic soldiers escorting this group of people, but there were mountain tombs on both sides. If something happened, it was possible that the soldiers could escape with the help of the mountain tombs.

"Besides, we are killing these Turkic soldiers, how can we resettle these people?"

But when he talked about this, Wang Hua was also depressed. He knew that these days, the Turks were crazily transferring the people. When they left Lingzhou, they learned that they had kidnapped thousands of people. After these few days, they could not know how many people were.

There was no way, but watching things happen under his nose still made him feel unhappy.

The two walked back to this hidden ravine silently.

It will get dark in a while.

Wang Hua asked the soldiers to eat dry food, looked at the sky, and said, "Let's go."

Ten thousand troops broke out of Yinshan and began to divide into three places from the plains, rushing towards their respective targets.

Although Mochuo was empty in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty and was relieved to transfer the people's supplies to the Turks, it was not without benefits. The transferred people were the people of Shengzhou and Fengzhou, which made the wilderness empty and empty, leaving only pieces of green grass, and the fishy smell of the Yellow River blowing from the air. Therefore, the three armies galloped on the wilderness, and no one noticed it.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Yellow River, a large army was running. Mochu's son-in-law Huobo Jie Lifa Shi Ashibi and five thousand people were running towards Fengzhou. Along the way, they almost all rushed to the road except for resting for two midnight. Seeing that Fengzhou was about to arrive, Ashibi even agreed to the soldiers resting.

The Russian special service also set out from Shengzhou. He only took a short rest in Shengzhou for a while, and greeted Yibili, the general stationed in Shengzhou, and immediately ran northeastward. This was to summon Moju to return to Shengzhou to defend immediately. After the greeting, he had to cross Yinshan and go back to recruit troops to further support.

Although he was not as talented as the two advisers around Mochu, his father had already guessed something.

Mochu did this not only for the people, but also for the sake of the blood camp.

But he just guessed a little bit that the Mochuo Battle would definitely be a battle. At this time, the Blood Camp first fought several times, and then after the Tubo battle, although the morale was high after several great victories, the losses would not be low. At this time, defeating the Blood Camp or hitting the blood camp hardly weakened the strong momentum of the Blood Camp.

But he would not destroy the Blood Camp. This is to allow the Blood Camp to continue to survive and to flee with the Tang Dynasty. In this way, no matter the Blood Camp or the Tang Dynasty government, he would not be distracted by him. After almost the waste, he would start again and pick up the bargain.

Fortunately, when Mochu received the message, it was already several days late, otherwise Wang Hua would have no chance of winning in this battle.

He led four thousand subordinates to run wildly on the field, not realizing the arrival of the crisis. There was no one inhabited in the field, and because of the negligence of the Turks, no spy was patrolling.

Soon he arrived in front of Xishoujiang City. In front of a ditch a few miles away, Wang Hua stopped the war horse and everyone stopped.

Wang Hua looked at the Sujiang City with a telescope. There were several soldiers patrolling on it. Obviously, because of relaxation and absent-mindedness, several people gathered together and were talking. Because of the night, they didn't see it very clearly, but none of the soldiers looked out of the city.

Wang Hua turned around and nodded the names of more than twenty soldiers. Most of these soldiers were brought from the south, with light bodies, and then nodded at Li Xuejun.

Li Xuejun understood and said nothing, and got off the war horse.

More than twenty people quietly touched over. When they came to the moat and built the moat, Wang Hua was still in Fengzhou. Therefore, he knew that although the moat was not big, it was very deep because of the water from the Yellow River. He gently got into the water and took the lead in swimming over. Others also swam over. Regardless of the wet clothes on their bodies, they touched the city wall for a while. More than twenty were stuck to the corner of the wall. Li Xuejun took out a scratch hook from his arms and threw it on the wall. The scratch hook grabbed the battlements and made a slight sound. Several Turkic soldiers heard the sound and stood up together. They were probably the leader and shouted in Turkic words: "Who?"

Wang Hua made a gesture, and everyone closed their breathing together, pressing their bodies tightly against the city wall.

Several Turkic people looked at it, but there was no one on the top of the city. They looked outside the city again, but they didn't see anyone. They thought they had heard it wrong, so they sat down again, started talking, and burst into laughter from time to time.

Li Xuejun threw an inquiring look at Wang Hua. Wang Hua nodded and whispered: "Be careful."

"I know," Li Xuejun said, grabbing the rope and immediately crawled towards the city like a monkey.

The soldiers in the distance and under the city were very worried. But Wang Hua was very calm in his heart. For example, the Turks were very cautious, and this method was not advisable. But now the Turks did not expect that this was the best method. He was even more at ease with Li Xuejun's skills.

After a while, Li Xuejun climbed to the top of the city, but she did not take action, but hid her body in a shadow on the wall.

Then Wang Hua also began to climb up, but it was not as good as Li Xuejun's posture, but it was also very fast. He still didn't do anything. It was not until the fifth soldier climbed up that Wang Hua rushed over fiercely. At the same time, Li Xuejun's body jumped onto a roof like a geese, and then jumped a few times to the city gate.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the Turkic city had already seen Wang Hua and the others and shouted loudly. But it was too late. Wang Hua raised his sword and cut one of the soldiers over. Several other soldiers rushed forward and ended the battle in less than a minute.

However, at this time, the soldiers in the city were also awakened. Seeing the situation on the top of the city, they saw a woman opening the city gate and shouting. Wang Hua gave an order and asked his men to put down the suspension bridge. He ran to the bottom of the city wall himself.

The city gate was opened and the suspension bridge was slowly lowering.

At this time, the Turkic soldiers also reacted, and a team of Turkic soldiers rushed over on horseback. He saw countless sounds of horse hooves galloping towards this side, rushing towards the city gate one by one, hoping to close the city gate again.

But at this time, Wang Hua started to jump from the side to the leading war horse, stretched out his hand and slashed the warrior down, and ripped the horse's head hard. The horses behind him had no time to give in, and several horses collided hard, and several Turkic soldiers were immediately knocked away. Wang Hua started to move again, and with the horses, he used the horses to take off the sword, and Turkic soldiers were chopped down by him. But more and more Turkic people were coming, and they were no longer able to resist Wang Hua.

But at this time, the suspension bridge was finally put down.

Four thousand soldiers rushed into the city like a whirlwind.

But Wang Hua did not stop, grabbed a war horse and rushed to the south of the city.

Ah Shibi was still running wildly with his soldiers, but his speed had slowed down. His confidant said, "General, let's take a break. If this continues, everyone will not be able to bear it."

Not only the soldiers could not bear the physical strength, but even the physical strength of the war horses was not.

Ashibi said, "Soldiers are more important than speed, you don't understand this principle."

"No, General, we can send a confidant to notify the Fengzhou garrison."

Ah Shibi looked at his subordinates, panted one by one, sighed and said, "It's up to your opinion."

When I heard that Ah Shibi finally asked everyone to rest for a while, everyone was cheering.

However, Ah Shibi was still afraid of something, so he immediately sent three scouts to send letters to Fengzhou City.

Fengzhou garrison Abdulli was drinking with everyone, which was the spoils captured from the ninth surname of Zhaowu.

Hearing that Ashibi sent someone to send an urgent letter, he did not dare to neglect him, he immediately opened the city and asked them to come in. Several scouts briefly told the matter. Abdulli was a little suspicious and was not very alert, but he also sent scouts to pay attention to the situation everywhere during the day. Not to mention the enemy, he didn't even see a figure of the enemy. Could the blood camp fall from the world?

At this moment, a subordinate came in and informed: "General Abdus, something big is wrong, the Blood Camp reached Xishoujiang City."

Abdulli was shocked when he heard this, but he still reacted quickly and said to Ashibi's men: "The Great Khan is indeed a clever idea. The Blood Camp is here. You go back immediately and inform the General, so that he can lead the army to support immediately."

As he said that, he led his army and set off from Fengzhou City.

When he arrived in front of Beihe Bridge, his subordinates reported that Xishoujiang City had been lost.

He thought about it and found that he would definitely not be able to take it back. The Blood Camp came prepared. Thinking of this, he reacted quickly, gave an order, and immediately retreated back to the south of the bridge. This ancient stone bridge was several hundred meters long, but the bridge deck was not wide. It was a natural level.

As long as you guard this stone bridge, it is equivalent to defending Fengzhou City. The Blood Camp was attacked by surprise and the number of people would not be large. As long as the Ashibi army arrived, the Blood Camp must retreat.

This is a very wise approach. Wang Hua left a thousand people to clean the Xishoujiang City, and came here with other soldiers. After looking at it, he couldn't help but frown.

Then the other soldiers from the Blood Camp arrived. Jiang Zhengdao, a regiment leader of the Yuheng Army, asked: "Battle Commander, what should we do?"

Now that you are rushing over like this, you will have a lot of sacrifice. This is the first battle. If you cause serious damage, it will be even more difficult to survive later.

Wang Hua did not answer. He was looking at the Turkic people on the other side. The number was not large, only one or two thousand, and some were on torches.

But Wang Hua saw a suspicious point after a while, that was, he started a sudden attack, and these Turks were not nervous at all. This was wrong. Not to mention the Iron Army, the Blood Camp or the Tubo people, when facing such a situation, even if they had a strong heart, they were somewhat panicked. For example, when Tuoba Tao guarded Kuizi Mountain, although they used bloody battles to block the tens of thousands of troops under Zong Chuke, they were still very nervous when they first saw the arrival of tens of thousands of troops.
To be continued...