Chapter 402: Moon Shadow

This was still a one-sided war. When Li Wei's big red figure jumped over the fire, the Tuyuhun soldiers began to run away.

It is not because the Tuyuhun soldiers are so cowardly.

The war has exceeded the limit of patience between the two sides. The Tang Dynasty was not better, which made Li Jingxuan and Liu Shenli troubled for a while, including the casualties of soldiers brought by Li Wei, which reached more than 80,000. It was the largest battle to sacrifice since the founding of the Tang Dynasty and was even more tragic than Xue Rengui. In the Battle of Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui had 100,000 people, but only 50,000 regular troops. But this time, the casualties of the regular troops of the court reached at least 70,000.

Or Qin Ling will focus on Li Wei, otherwise there will be greater casualties.

After Pei Xingjian took office, in order to involve Tubo's troops, the war almost never stopped. The gunpowder, arrows and crossbows he sent, the weapons and equipment he had consumed, as well as winter clothes and armor were all piled up with money. But to save the prince, even Zhang Da'an would not dare to talk too much about it, otherwise someone in the court would have made a fuss about it.

Tubo sacrificed even more, including more than 120,000 soldiers killed by Li Wei. Li Wei and Pei Xingjian also learned from Tubo, and plundered a large number of people one by one. Among them, there were not many soldiers from Tubo's direct line, less than 30,000. Some of them were Dangxiang people and others, as well as some other Qiang and Hu people. But the main one was the Tuyuhun soldiers.

Although Qinghai is not as harsh as Qinghai later, it is a place of high and cold. Tuyuhun was not the most prosperous time. It went to Wuzhou, Fuzhou, west to four towns in the Western Regions, south to Zishankou, and north to occupy prefectures and counties such as Shanhe.

Half of it can withstand such troubles? Of course, once Li Wei escapes, the Tubo crisis will be equally serious. All tribes are dissatisfied. Seeing that Tubo seems to be cowardly, the idea of ​​independence in their hearts will be stronger. All nobles will also be dissatisfied, which shows that the Tubo war is a war to plunder wealth. The war is for profit. What kind of war is not to seek profit?

The war in Jiuqu is still going on, and the remaining elite soldiers and generals are all in Jiuqu. Murong Zhu doesn’t know much about military affairs, and the soldiers she dispatches are not elite soldiers. Besides, time is so hurrying, and even a good defense location doesn’t have time to choose a good defense location. Where can I go to recruit elite soldiers and generals?

It was already in chaos. When the Tang Dynasty army came over, some people were clever and clever. This was not good. If you had to defeat the war, you would still run first. But there were some soldiers who were very brave. After all, the nation grew up on horseback in such a harsh environment.

Some soldiers and soldiers' families were killed by the Tang Dynasty army and had a sense of death.

This group of people continue to resist.

If the prince would not take risks, Xin Chengsi took the gun and Zhang Qianxu drew his sword, and he had already jumped into the fence first.

He kept waving the little round shield to block the arrow shot from behind Li Wei. He shot Zhang Qianxu's elbow with one secret, raised his knife and cut off the arrow with one knife. Another slap in the horse, and the war horse rushed into the camp where he was Tuhun.

Then 6,000 Tang troops rushed in quickly.

This is the real brave man.

I have never eaten any bitterness along the way. I have passed the bad weather like Jishi Mountain and the coldness of Poluo Zhen Valley. The Jiezhichuan has been walking in the uninhabited ice and snow for nearly ten days. When I returned, in the northeast of Dengping City, some of the mountain paths in those mountains were almost only one foot wide, and there were cliffs below, which made people dizzy when I looked at it. Not to mention a few dangerous battles.

Going home now!

But blocking their way home, did that soldier not stimulate all the potential of the body?

They roared one by one, and their weapons kept waving and harvesting. It was Li Wei who was sandwiched behind Xin Chengsi and Zhang Qianxu, raised his bows and arrows, and killed several Tuyuhun soldiers. One Tang army was cut off an arm by the enemy, and his teeth were so painful that they were not stopped. He had a blood-spraying broken arm, holding a spear in his hand, shouting: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Not only him, they were like wild beasts, with their hideous eyes open, and they kept shouting and fighting. Don't say that Tuyuhun's group of scattered soldiers and scattered soldiers who were rushing to organize, even if the regular army encounters such a fierce army, they will retreat. After a fierce battle for a while, Li Jinxing and Li Wei's army had not yet met one south and one north, and the Tuyuhun army was defeated.

There was no pursuit, and there was no time to count how many enemies they had killed. Looking at the dead bodies all over the ground, they just counted the injuries of their own army. After fighting for a while, nearly two hundred soldiers fell down again. The morale became more fierce, but their physical strength was a little overdrawn. Some casualties were caused. The injured soldiers bandaged the wound. Li Wei shouted: "Retreat!"

A moon hangs in the sky, and not far from the right is the vast Qinghai. The southeast wind blows, and the fishy smell of the salt water lake is also blowing, but the army does not delay for a moment. It stomps on the moon shadow and disappears into the vast dark night.

...

At this time in Suzhou, a man also woke up from the bed.

Wang Fangyi!

This man has not fought in a battle so far, and is worse than Pei Xingjian. It turned out that he was the magistrate of Anding County. Because he wanted to mourn his mother, he returned to his hometown for several years. After the mourning, he was transferred to Suzhou. He did not dare to relax if he didn't fight.

Suzhou is the throat of the Hexi Corridor. Tuyuhun was lost and it was a very thin piece. It was easily invaded by the Tubo people in the south and the Turks in the north. So he trained his army and had the same idea as Li Wei to build the city wall.

When he was a child, his father died of illness, and his mother, Li and his mother-in-law, had a disagreement with Princess Chang'an. Li Shimin scolded him. Li had no choice but to move from the capital to the countryside with his son. Wang Fangyi was very smart since he was a child. He saw a lot of land in the countryside that was deserted, so he led his servants to reclaim land and plant trees. In a few years, he actually obtained dozens of hectares of fertile land. Of course, this is the transcendent status of the Wang family in Taiyuan. Those lands are deserted, so you can open it for you if you want to?

However, with this property, I had some extra money in my hand. Seeing that the people of Suzhou were living a hard life, I took out my private money and built some water mills by the water, collecting a small amount of rice and flour processing costs. Last year, a locust plague occurred in the Hexi Corridor, so I used this money to help the victims and built hundreds of houses to help the hungry people avoid the cold. Therefore, it was not easy for local people to erect memorial monuments for him.

From now on, he is just a good official, but he also has extraordinary military talents.

After receiving Pei Xingjian's letter, he immediately opened the map to read.

I don’t know, God knows where the prince will break out, but it cannot be said that the prince will not return. Once he returns, the first difficulty is Fuqi City. After passing Fuqi City, it is unlikely to go east. There will inevitably be pursuers behind him, and there are some military camps of Tubo people in the north of Haibo. If you can overcome the first difficulty, the second difficulty may not be able to overcome it. Although there are roads such as Zhangye. So once you return again, the tenth chance is to go on Suzhou Road.

I dare not be careless, especially Empress Wang is his cousin. If he is like the governor of Yazhou, he is not prepared and does not respond in time, and the prince is in trouble, he can imagine how the queen will take revenge on him.

Thinking of this, I had to send a scout to Fuqi City to pay attention to the movements.

The scout had just received information, and the Tuyuhun people were organizing the defense line and mobilized them. As soon as they asked, no one thought of hiding it. Dafeichuan even let the Tang army kill the corpses everywhere, and there was no need to hide it.

Several scouts hurriedly returned, and called to open the city gate and report it overnight, and said, "Emister, you are so amazing."

Wang Fangyi smiled and said nothing, what a god? He just prevented it from happening, but he didn't expect it to come true.

He quickly got up, regardless of the late night, and began to recruit troops.

...

Lunzanpo Province was afraid of another mistake in Dafeichuan City, so he personally led 10,000 vanguard troops to pursue it.

As soon as he left Dafeichuan, he met Murong Zhu and fled with defeated soldiers.

Killing Han Xin has never seen such a brave army. No wonder the Gar brothers are so besieged and not surrounded. The Tang Dynasty army wants to go home from the west. You must be cruel, I will flee to the southeast.

When I saw Lunzan Po, I cried.

"Shangshu Murong, what happened when you get up?"

"I've been killed, I've been killed," In fact, the Tang army did not pursue the enlargement of the results, and two-thirds of the people escaped. But how could Murong Zhu know?

"What's going on? Tell me."

After telling the story, Lunzan Po said, "You are a pig, you obviously have the idea of ​​piled firewood and weeds. Why don't you send someone to ignite them in advance?"

This is the reason, but just to ignite firewood, hundreds of subordinates may have to sacrifice and be at a disadvantage. How can Murong Zhu know? Or dig some deep trenches in the camp, and it can still be pulled out at this time. However, Tuyuhun immediately army, asking them to put down their war horses, supplemented by trenches and fences, and do infantry combat, how can Murong Zhu know?

In fact, it was impossible to fight immediately at that time, but it was just a defeat. The best way was to give up the director, hold on to the position, and wait for Lunzanpo's army to arrive.

But Murong Zhu could have thought that he had already drawn Jiuqu to fight, so why should he stay in the rear?

Murong Zhu dared not say anything after a pig scolded her.

This is polite, otherwise Lunzanpo would have cut off his head with one knife. He immediately let the defeated soldiers dismount and leave the horses for them to replace them. He also asked the scouts to go back and notify the army, and immediately speed up and catch up, and like the Tang army, he chased them almost without rest.

...

The terrain here is very complex, including mountain love, salt water, grassland, Gobi, and even to the north, there are large swamps at the foot of Qilian Mountains. In fact, it is not only Dadou Road and Suzhou Road, but also through this terrifying swamp area, but also through Jiankang, Sanshui and Zhangye. Some roads have to turn northeast, which is impossible. Some roads pass through the swamp and are not familiar with this swamp area. Moreover, the three roads are very rugged. The Han people are not familiar with this.

The one I walked the most was Dadou Road, and Suzhou Road also took the road. The road was better than Sanshui Road and was not easy to walk. I also passed a swamp area and had to cross the Qilian Mountains along Beidachuan. Fortunately, there were many tribesmen of Qibianming in the army. A few of them passed by here and could serve as a guide.

Under their leadership, they continued to run wildly. The scenery along the way was also very beautiful. The snow water of the tall Qilian Mountains in the north had not melted yet, it was pure and pure, and its figure was graceful. But no one wanted to take a look.

Gradually approaching the mouth of Peking University Chuankou, suddenly, the smoke and dust rose up on his face.

Compared to this Tang army, Lun Zanpo also brought elite soldiers, and they were resting well. After chasing for several days, they gradually caught up with them.

Li Wei turned his head and glanced, saying, "Switch the horse and leave!"

As long as you reach the Qilian Mountains, according to the terrain of the Qilian Mountains, Tubo will not be afraid of catching up with many enemies. Do you really have no Tang army stationed in Suzhou? Besides, the name Wang Fangyi is very familiar with, and it seems that he is also a famous general in the Tang Dynasty. Now that he has not made any military achievements, what he may remember is all amazing famous generals.

The army rolled westward, and the back was catching up. From morning to afternoon, it did not catch up or throw it away, and just bit it tightly.

Li Wei was speechless and thought to himself, Grandma, did I kill your whole family in Gar several lifetimes ago, and wouldn’t I feel sorry for me?

That's not. Once Li Wei escapes, what kind of pressure will the Gar family face?

The sun gradually turned westward, and it was one step closer to the Qilian Mountain Pass, and suddenly a thick stream of smoke rose in front of it.

Li Jinxing said, "Your Highness, if it is our army, you can be safe without worries. If it is the enemy's ambush..."

The following words were not continued. At this time, all the Tang soldiers were exhausted. Although they were energetic, they had no physical strength. How could they fight against each other?

"It is a blessing that cannot escape, but a disaster that cannot be escaped. You cannot stop. Take advantage of the speed of the horse at this time, if the enemy forcefully breaks through, otherwise the consequences will be more serious."

"Here!"

The army crashed into the approaching smoke and dust.

As we got closer, suddenly a sharp-eyed soldier shouted: "It's our Tang army, it's our Tang army!"

***For nearly half a year, I didn’t eat well and didn’t sleep well. I could only have a little more stable time in the north of Jishishan Mountain. Finally I saw my army.

As we got closer, everyone saw two big words on several big banners: Tang, Wang.

You can even see the Tang army's armor.

There were bursts of cheers.

Li Jinxing smiled and said, "This Wang Fangyi is pretty good. He actually welcomed him here, and he is determined."

In his eyes, Wang Fangyi was still a literati and was very careless.

Li Wei also smiled slightly, but at this moment, his whole body seemed to suddenly soften, and he was shaking immediately, almost carrying it.

The two armies collided, and an official in an official uniform turned over and dismounted, saying, "I was too late to save my palace, so please forgive me."

The first time I saw it, I turned over and got off the horse. I was in my fifties and looked elegant. I was a Confucian general. I helped Wang Fangyi up and said, "What crime is there? I can save it in time, otherwise I will not be able to rest tonight."

Wang Fangyi smiled, but his eyes were still very respectful, so he didn't know how to escape. Anyway, he would definitely not be able to escape if he was in the situation of the prince. He said, "Your Highness, you should take the soldiers to rest for a while first, and leave it to me to deal with it."

There were not many people, and the time was tight, so I only summoned 6,000 people. In addition to the guards in the city, I also recruited some soldiers from some local Turks, Shatu people and other Hu tribes. But differently, now, whether the prince's army or the Tubo army is a tired army, his own army is a gathering army. I do not seek victory, but I can protect the prince from evacuating safely.

The Tubo people chased after him. Knowing that the Tang Dynasty reinforcements had arrived, Lun Zanpo was still unwilling to accept it. He chased him in front of him and asked the army to stop and see if he could fight.

Wang Fangyi rode out on a horse, and said without epistemology, pointing at Tubo ***, saying, "Listen to the Tubo people, our crown prince of the Tang Dynasty has returned home safely! From then on, the sun and the moon have opened a new chapter. Qinghai will no longer be the world of you Tubo people. Although Qinghai is good, it is better to return home early, otherwise you will wait for destruction!"
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