Chapter 21 Close the door and beat the dog
At the west gate of Jincheng, three thousand Tubo cavalry gathered quietly, people carried horses and hooves, lurking half a mile away under the cover of the night, their eyes were looking at Jincheng with a little fear.
The huge outline of Jincheng was like a beast, and in just four days it devoured tens of thousands of their compatriots.
They are not good at siegeing cities, but they have never fought a tough battle. However, there is no tough battle as difficult as Jincheng.
Wei Buyi looked at Jincheng with gritted teeth, stroked the scar on his face, and looked at it with a grim smile, with an indescribable cruelty. He was the commander of Tubo and the first vanguard of the siege. After four days, the more than 9,600 soldiers under his command were fighting for only 1,300,000, and almost all of them were buried under Jincheng City and burned to charcoal.
The military system of Tubo was different from that of the Tang Dynasty. Tubo was one military and political, and the military and civilian were one. Wei Buyi, as the commander of a ten thousand men, was equivalent to a landlord, just like the leader of a small Turkic tribe, whose soldiers were his own people. If he died in battle, he would not fill his system. Although he would not take away his title as a ten thousand men, his strength was no different from that of a thousand men.
If Qili Xu hadn't seen him feel pitiful and had used his own soldiers to fill him up with three thousand, it wouldn't be his turn this time.
Regarding Jincheng, Wei Buya was full of only one thought: blood debt and blood payment!
Qilixu had issued an order to rob and slaughter the city two days ago. Only by slaughtering the city can the Tubo warriors who were killed in Jincheng rest in peace.
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Wei Buya looked at the three piles of torches lit near the Ximen wall. His eyes as big as lanterns were filled with bloodthirsty light. With a whistle, three thousand Tubo cavalry slowly approached Jincheng. When they reached 300 steps, they suddenly whipped their horses and rushed into Xicheng.
The horse's hooves stepped across the wooden suspension bridge and passed through the city gate!
Wei Buya roared and roared: "The general has ordered that he will kill the city for three days. He will kill whatever he wants; he will rob him as much as he wants..."
Bang!
Before Wei Buya's roar could be finished, and before he could finish his words, his body flew up in fog, hitting the inner city gate, and hitting him to death...
Wei Buya likes meat and has severe night blindness. The gates of the inner city are painted red and are not conspicuous in this dark night. He only thought that all the gates of the inner city had been opened. Facing the confined city gate, he rushed over without any scruples, and the war horses stopped in time. He was careless and flew up in the air with the inertia...
The main general was killed in front of him, and the confused Tubo raiders had not yet reacted.
A raging fire had already lit up behind him, and dead branches of crock pots filled with tinsel oil were thrown down from the wounds of the city tower, forming a wall of fire.
Under the reflection of the fire wall, the Tubo soldiers suddenly saw the surrounding city towers full of archers, and the suspension bridge was slowly pulled up at this time...
The strength of a city does not depend on how high and thick the walls are, but on whether the design of the urn is exquisite.
Although Jincheng was disrepair for a long time, eight hundred years ago, Jincheng was the frontier of the Han Dynasty, and the urn was completely based on the terrain of Jincheng. It was also because of the existence of the urn, Pei Min had the opportunity to invite you into the urn and close the door and beat the dog.
The Tubo soldiers trapped in the urn city had almost no power to fight back. They could not give up wings and flew up the city wall, so they could only crowd in one place, passively shooting arrows to death.
Almost effortlessly, the Tubo soldiers died one by one under the bows and arrows of the Tang army.
"Sweep the battlefield!" Pei Min didn't know how many days he would have to hold on. He saved the arrows and other equipment, and could be recycled without wasting. He paused and said, "Remember to burn all the corpses and burn them cleanly." He emphasized the matter of burning corpses again: be careful to sail for ten thousand years. He would patiently give instructions to each war ended.
There was such a battle in his memory: a battle in the cage during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Because the defenders did not handle the corpses properly, the plague spread, and the entire city's population of 200,000 survived less than 4,000.
Pei Min is delicate in his military use and will never allow such tragic things to arise under his nose.
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The summer morning is coming very quickly!
Before the hour of Mao was yet, the sky was dawning.
There is no movement in the west city of Jincheng, and no soldiers will be rewarded. How could Qili Xu not know what happened?
He raised his fist and wanted to vent, but slowly put it down.
Now that things have come to this point, it is useless no matter how angry it is. He attacked Xiao Jincheng with 60,000 yuan, and lost 25,000 troops in ten times! This embarrassing record has never been fought in Qili and Xu's army for 30 years.
After resting for a while, the sun jumped out of the horizon, and the colorful light shone on the battlefield...
Qilixu sounded the horn of the attack again!
The shouts of killing were earth-shaking, and Tubo soldiers rolled over to Jincheng like a tide.
Looking at the standing Jincheng, Qilixu had only one thought in his mind: "Jincheng must be taken down, and more than 20,000 soldiers have been lost. They filled the moat with their lives and fought most of the defenders on the city walls for them. How can they be worthy of this sacrifice now when they retreat?"
Just as the siege was in full swing, Qilixu suddenly got a message!
"What!" Qili Xu looked at the messenger in front of him in a daze, shook his body and almost fell off the horse's back. He said with difficulty: "The Tang army has passed Weiyuan? It is approaching Dalai Valley? How is it possible?"
The messenger said tragically: "Wang Haibin, the vanguard general of the Tang army, was extremely brave. He defeated nearly 10,000 troops in the army. Under the leadership of Wang Haibin, 30,000 Tang army leaders rushed straight into Dalai Valley."
Qilixu was completely stunned. Despite the huge gap in strength, he could still find excuses to say that the Tubo soldiers were not good at siegeing the city. But they lost the field battle, so where can they find excuses?
"Where did Wang Haibin come out?" Pei Min was fine. He was the top scholar in civil and military affairs, and was very famous in Chang'an. Wang Haibin, even though he racked his brains, he could not think of such a person in his memory!
The messenger said: "It is the Feng'an Army envoy."
Qili Xu really didn't expect that the three brave generals of Tubo, Beeflu, Rana and Haoqi, would be defeated by a small military envoy, causing a small military envoy to fall into ruin.
"Master Dayan wants me to withdraw?" Qilixu had already guessed the intention of the messenger coming, and his mouth was full of bitterness.
The vanguard of the Tang army had approached Dalaigu, and it would not take long before their main army would arrive. At that time, they would not be able to leave. Moreover, during this invasion, they ordered 100,000 troops. Ten thousand of them remained in Taozhou and attacked Jincheng. He brought 60,000 troops. The Dalaigu now has only 20,000 troops, and the defeat has been decided.
If they retreated in time, they would be considered as neither losing nor winning. If they retreated in time, the army would be defeated and Taozhou would follow in danger. If they were taken back by the Tang army, they would lose badly.
"withdraw!"
Thinking of this, Qilixu also reflected the decision of a young general, Zhizhiji, and issued an order to withdraw troops. After the colleague who issued the order to retreat, he called his confidant to do a good job in the palace.
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
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Thousands of words, these three words are gathered on the Jincheng City Tower.
The soldiers fighting bloody battles shouted and hugged each other, and some even left tears.
Happy for victory, happy for protecting your family, and happy for being able to survive.
Pei Min looked at the Tubo army retreating like a tide, and was about to pull out the camp and leave the Tubo army. The big stone in his heart finally landed: the Tubo army's fighting method of using injuries to exchange for injuries and death to exchange for death was the most unwise, but it was also the most difficult to deal with. Although it was only four days, for him, it was just like after half a month. Not to mention the six thousand available soldiers were injured, half of them were killed.
In order to replenish the military resources, he had arranged for the strong men to do a short training and decided to let the people climb to the city to defend. Fortunately, he had not taken this last step, and it was time for Tubo to retreat.
"Deputy envoy, we retreated, we defended!" Yang Yun was as happy as a child. After these days of actual combat, he made great progress. He should not speak in commanding soldiers in the same way as before, "Would we chase us? It's not that easy to run!"
Pei Min looked at Yang Yun who had already shown his courage and patted him on the shoulder happily and said, "It is not easy to chase him. The other party's command experience is not easy. Arrangement of the palace back is inevitable. How can we have the strength to fight with them now! The best way to rest honestly is to rest."
Yang Yun looked at the soldiers who were so tired after being overjoyed that they were lying on the ground like a dead dog, and said regretfully: "What a pity, I want to get another great contribution."
"Haha!" Pei Min smiled and said, "Defend Jincheng and kill more than 20,000 Tubo soldiers, so he has made a lot of contributions... But you are right, how can you not get any credit for me? Take a good rest. No matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat." He looked at the Tubo army retreating step by step, and thought carefully in his eyes.
"Second envoy!"
Pei Min was thinking about making a comeback.
Lu Yu escorted Yilidou to the top of the city, "This bastard is hiding in the pigpen, and he is only catching it now."
Pei Min looked at Yili Dou with a sneer.
Yilidou touched the cold gaze, his whole body trembled like a god's upper body, and his face was blue and purple.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid!" Pei Min said with a smile: "Thanks to you, I can kill three thousand more Tubo thieves. This is your credit." As he said that, he ignored the smell of pig manure on Yilidou, hooked up with his shoulder and hugged him tightly.
Yili Dou seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, and his eyes showed survival.
Pei Min smiled and said to Tang Bing on the city tower: "If you still have the strength, shout with me, it's easy to leave, I won't send you off!"
Under his command, "It's easy to leave, don't send it!"
Four words resound throughout the world!
Yilidou didn't understand the reason for a moment, but then he thought about it, but he understood it, roared loudly, trying to struggle, but he hugged Pei Min tightly and couldn't move.
The Tubo people couldn't understand the Central Plains dialect, so Pei Min didn't care, but the Tubo generals would definitely understand it.
"Don't think I'm cruel, and don't tell me that the disaster is not as good as my family! Compared to the fact that you almost caused me to be slaughtered all over the city, I'm kind enough!" Pei Min said as he used his strength to get stronger and stronger, strangled him to death.
He believed that if Qilixu or someone else who knew Yilidou would think that Yilidou had colluded with Tang Jun when he saw this scene.
Chapter completed!