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After returning to the city, Governor Feng Jingyu's disappointment was beyond words, and he clenched his fist with one hand and smashed it heavily into the palm of the other.

Although Lou Shide was quite disappointed in his heart, he still cheered up and said: "Brother Buzulu was able to gather the Turkic remnants and make troubles for the frontier. It is not a coincidence. It is difficult for Zhuhu to be bewitched by him. But It is not completely harmless for Mo Chuai to abandon his party members. Now the valley is full of barbarians, and it is also difficult for the Turkic thieves to advance."

Although the current situation in the valley is quite different, Lou Shide is still optimistic. He looked around at Feng Jingyu and the soldiers who went out of the city to fight back, and said with a smile: "This attack can be forced to silently abandon his party members. It cannot be called useless. If you rely on your own cunning and refuse to do your best in times of danger, then your army will not be tenacious, and if you are in an enemy country, you will not be able to fight bravely. Once you are weak, you will be in danger!"

A resourceful person is actually not suitable to be the commander of the army, or as the commander of the army, he must be good at self-obscurity, so that the soldiers cannot rely too much on the commander's resourcefulness.

There are many smart people in the world, but there are very few who are qualified to be generals.Smart people are used to choosing a more labor-saving way to achieve their goals, and doing things may be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

But the soldiers are fierce, and the army and war are the most complicated things in the world. A true elite teacher needs to have a certain amount of stupidity, and can't weigh the pros and cons too clearly.Those who are good at using soldiers are seldom known for their treachery.

Silently sipping this trick, abandoning allies on the battlefield, giving the soldiers the idea of ​​avoiding the battle, but they are not fighting at home, which is tantamount to abandoning external help and at the same time disintegrating their own fighting spirit .

Even if it can be effective in a short period of time, the long withdrawal distance cannot bring the war to a fast-paced end. As long as the Tang army can maintain pressure on its army, its army will surely be defeated.

Lou Shide felt this way, not simply to comfort the soldiers, but because he really felt it.

During the Yifeng period, he responded to Emperor Gaozong's call and joined the sidelines as a civil servant, and followed the then Prime Minister Li Jingxuan to the Turks.As for the battle at that time, Li Jingxuan's war thinking was quite similar to that of Mo Chuai now. The army was arrogant and aggressive at the beginning, but after a small setback, it led the troops to stop fighting, resulting in low morale and repeated defeats.

Mo Chuo led his troops to bypass Helan Mountain and directly attacked Yuanzhou. He was unexpected and extremely brave.

But the following actions lost such a fast pace. The army was blocked by the river valley and the city for more than half a month. It seemed that the convening and luring of the Hu troops made the army stronger, but the original vigor was no longer there.

Knowing that the Tang army will launch a night attack, but failing to make accurate precautions, this will make the soldiers less sensitive to the crisis. This is a fatal omission for the army that has penetrated into the enemy's territory alone.

No matter how resourceful Mo Shui is, if he wants to extend his perception and prediction to the entire army, it will take some time to convey his intentions. Once he encounters the same elite enemy, this is an opportunity to catch him.

But even so, the current defenders of the Tang Dynasty in the valley obviously don't have the ability to capture and use this fighter.Now the land of the river valley has become chaotic, with barbarians fleeing and wandering everywhere, splitting the Zhuzi cities still guarded by the Tang army into isolated islands, making it even more difficult to gather troops to launch a counterattack.

Although these chaotic barbarians are just a rabble and their combat effectiveness is not high, because they are trapped in the narrow and narrow area of ​​the river valley, when their desire to survive erupts, the destructive power they erupt cannot be underestimated.

The several sub-cities that were breached yesterday have been evacuated into empty shells, and there is a precedent for the Turks to set fire to the city, and the Hu people dare not enter the city again to avoid disaster.Therefore, those sub cities that are still under the control of the Tang army have become the choice of some Hu people.

Although the current order has collapsed, some Huren chiefs are still rational. They have just been abandoned by the Turks, and they no longer dare to continue to be enemies with the Tang army.

Therefore, some of the Hu chieftains tried their best to restrain their troops, avoiding the valley exit where the Hu people attacked most rapidly, and tried to move under the Tang army's sub-city, shouting loudly that they were willing to surrender, and cooperated with the Tang army in the city to defend against the Turkic offensive.

However, when the Tang army organized the defense line in the valley, in order to prevent the Hu people from being cowardly and self-confident, they did not recruit too many Zuojin Hu tribes.

Among the Zhuzi cities, the most barbarians gathered around Qingshui City, one is that Qingshui City is the center of Zhuzi City's defense line, and the castle is the largest, and the other is that this city is guarding the pass of the river valley and wants to enter the south side of the valley. , must pass through this.

Therefore, a large number of Hu people gathered under Qingshui City, constantly clamoring and begging, even cutting their faces and kowtowing, hoping that the Tang army would take them in or let them flee south for their lives.

But the defenders in the city were resentful at the failure of the previous plan, and even more hated these Hu tribes for helping the evil and walking with wolves. Faced with such pleadings, they only responded vigorously.As a castle in the center of the river valley, Qingshui City was full of things and weapons, and the soldiers fought back with hatred, and soon there were corpses strewn across the grounds in front of the city.

The Hu people saw that the Tang army showed no mercy to them, so they gave up such attempts and continued to attack the castle.

Just as Qingshui City repelled the attacks of the barbarians, there was a sudden rush of drums and horns in the south of Houluzi City. Judging from the rhythm, there was an urgent military situation that needed to be conveyed.

Feng Jingyu and Lou Shide on the top of the city looked at each other, and saw a trace of suspicion and faint surprise flashing in each other's eyes. Obviously, they were both guessing or had news of reinforcements.After all, there was a fierce battle in the valley, and it was not an important turning point, and it was not worth using such a degree of encouragement.

"I will guard the city, Brother Zong, please lead everyone in to check."

After pondering for a while, Feng Jingyu said quickly, and at the same time leaned closer to Lou Shide and said in a low voice: "If there is no turning point, brother Zong will go, this city will be the place where Feng died!"

Lou Shide opened his mouth, but didn't say anything else. After patting Feng Jingyu's arm, he quickly descended from the top of the city. He gathered 200 troops in the middle of the city, and rushed out from the south gate of Qingshui City. So far, the Hu people and tourists went straight to the sub city where the drum order was issued.

"The last general, Li Ge, was ordered by Chief Qibi to enter the valley first to announce the news. Chief Qibi was dispatched by His Royal Highness King Yong to lead [-] fine horsemen to aid Yuanzhou, and he will arrive in the valley tomorrow afternoon!"

At the gate of Zicheng, Li Ge and the guard were waiting here, and when Lou Shide arrived, he crossed his hands and said.

When Lou Shide heard this, his face immediately showed joy, and he couldn't help but said: "His Royal Highness King Yong is sincerely a benevolent king. He not only secures the pass, but also cares deeply about the soldiers and people of Yuanzhou. We, the generals of Yuanzhou, failed to do our best to guard the border , I'm really ashamed..."

He didn't have time to blame himself in detail, and then he said: "The reinforcements will arrive in the afternoon tomorrow? But the situation in the valley may not be able to last... When His Royal Highness King Yong sends troops, do you have any other instructions?"

"Your Highness personally said that the only thing to do is to kill the enemy, and you must not allow Turkic wolves to come and go without danger and get used to coming in and out!"

Li Ge said quickly after hearing the words.

When Lou Shide heard this, he clapped his hands and praised: "Your Highness is truly ambitious! If that's the case, then I understand, please tell General Li to report to Chief Qibi, the river valley is already difficult to support, and we need to make new plans to defeat the enemy... ..."

He quickly explained his strategy, and after Li Ge repeated it correctly, he asked people to replace the horses for Li Ge and others, and the city guards went out of the city together to announce the news.

Knowing that the reinforcements are expected, Lou Shide's mind was settled, and he immediately ordered the soldiers in the city to beat the drums to send a message, and gathered all the people and horses from the several sub-cities behind Qingshui City, rushed out of the city, and cleared the distance between Qingshui City and Qingshui City. aisle.

"The reinforcements have arrived? This, this is really great!"

In Qingshui City, Feng Jingyu, the governor who supervised the battle at the head of the city, heard the news of the drum, and immediately burst into a smile of ecstasy, but soon revealed suspicion: "Abandon the city and retreat? This, this..."

The drum order sounded three times in succession, Feng Jingyu was sure that it was correct, although he was still puzzled, he knew that Lou Shide would never act recklessly, so he ordered the guards at the head of the city to convey the order to all the troops in the city.

Outside the river valley, the rising sun jumped out of the horizon completely, and the rising sun sprinkled on the earth, and many things in the field of vision were covered with a layer of golden light.

Sitting quietly in his Khan's tent, Mo Chuan was eating with his head down, listening to the noise of fighting coming from the direction of the river valley, with a smug and cruel smile on the corner of his mouth, he ordered: "The exit to the north of the river valley, continue to be strictly guarded. Make meals in the camp to feed our warriors, and after noon, go into the river valley to pick the sweetest fruit of this trip!"

However, not long after, the soldiers who came out to supervise the battle in the river valley hurriedly entered the account and said: "Khan, the warriors outside the valley have successfully invaded the river valley and are continuing to chase and kill those miscellaneous beards!"

"Who will allow them to enter the valley?"

After silently hearing the words, he was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and shouted in displeasure.

"Yes, it's Luo Teqin. Teqin said that Khan's trick was to use the lives of those miscellaneous people to successfully force the Tang army to abandon the city and flee..."

"Tang Jun abandoned the city?"

After silently hearing the words, doubts resurfaced in his heart, and he immediately pushed forward the case, put on his armor and went out of the tent, stood on the high ground and looked down, only to see that the tribal soldiers who had been guarding the exit of the valley had rushed into the valley, and were facing those The disorganized soldiers chased and killed wantonly.

Although the battle situation in the river valley is very good, there is a faint feeling in Mo Chuai's heart. The Tang army has been holding on to the river valley for more than half a month without moving an inch, so he wants to use the lives of those random people to attack the Tang army's city defense, but now the Tang army is obviously still there. Combat power, why did you give up the city so easily?

Of course, what he was even more dissatisfied with was that Luo Teqin, who dared to make a decision without asking for instructions. After this battle, he must be severely punished and no longer be condoned.

Chapter 0574 Huge goods are tempting, greed is unstoppable

"The Tang people's barn is really rich!"

Luo Teqin, the leader of the wolf cavalry, entered the warehouse in the city that had been controlled by the Turkic army. He saw the shelves full of silk, bamboo, various furs, felts, and metal objects such as gold, silver, copper, and iron. Can't help but let out such admiration.

The other Turkic soldiers around were also ecstatic for a while after seeing the scene full of goods.

These Turkic warriors, although they have been invincible in the north and south of the desert for more than ten years, they have always burned, killed, looted, and robbed.But the targets attacked and killed in previous years were just some Zhahu tribes, and the gains were nothing more than some people and livestock.Although there were victories and defeats in the several invasions of Datang Bianzhou, but such rich gains were rarely achieved.

After all, Yuanzhou is not directly on the front line of the battle with the Turks, and there are vast territories such as Lingzhou, the entire Hequ, and Fengzhou in Hetao. It is also an important place connecting Longyou and the Western Regions. Those pure border state military towns are comparable.

But after being shocked, the Turkic soldiers felt dissatisfied in their hearts, and they all said: "Luo Teqin, before the warriors entered the castle, there were already many miscellaneous people rushing in. They must have robbed a lot of property. These are our Turkic warriors. How can those lowly bearded beards occupy the spoils of war!"

"That's right! Khan used such an ingenious strategy to allow our warriors to capture the castle of the Tang Dynasty. Those bearded people are more humble than livestock, and they must not be allowed to share our wealth!"

After Luo Teqin heard the words, his face suddenly became ruthless, and he said loudly: "Leave a part of the army to guard the property in these warehouses, and the rest will continue to chase and kill Zahu with me. Anyone who holds items in their hands will be killed." Kill them all!"

Speaking of this, he paused and added: "Those who have not been robbed, don't kill them yet. If you want to transport these goods back to the desert, you still need the efforts of these miscellaneous people!"

After hearing the words, all the Turkic soldiers responded one after another, and there was no need for centralized command. At this time, those miscellaneous soldiers were scattered inside and outside the city, running around like headless flies, trying to kill them all. It's not easy either.

"Luo Teqin, in fact, Khan didn't need to drive those alleys to fight against Tang Jun. Tang Jun was scared out of his guts, and he took the initiative to abandon the city and flee. Khan made such an arrangement, as if he didn't trust us wolves..."

After all the soldiers scattered to chase those beards, a wolf riding guard approached Luo Teqin and whispered.

"Don't talk nonsense! Khan did this to save the lives of our tribe's warriors."

After Luo Teqin heard the words, he stared and reprimanded.In fact, he also had a similar idea in his heart. Although at first he felt that Khan had a clever plan to drive them away from the miscellaneous Hus to confront the Tang army, but as the Tang army abandoned the city, this arrangement seemed a bit redundant.

Those out-of-control miscellaneous beards in the river valley were indiscriminate against each other. Although they were no match, they greatly restricted the mobility of the Turkic cavalry, preventing them from galloping recklessly and chasing and killing the fleeing Tang army. Come rushing into the castle.

I checked just now, and a considerable part of the stockpiles in the city were plundered by the miscellaneous beards who entered the city first. These are the spoils that their Turkic warriors should enjoy after traveling thousands of miles!Even if they were able to hunt down and kill those mobs who participated in the looting in time, they would inevitably cause certain losses, preventing them from doing everything they could for this trip!

Of course, Luo Teqin was dissatisfied with this point and dared not say it again. If Khan thought that Ye Hu was aggressively instructing them, it would have very bad consequences.

As soon as the group of them arrived near the city gate, they saw Khan entering the city surrounded by guards. Luo Teqin quickly got off his horse and went up to him, with a warm smile on his face again.

However, before he could open his mouth, he saw Khan pointing the whip in his hand at him, and the guards rushed up behind him, separating Luo Teqin from the other Turkic warriors.

"What is Khan going to do?"

Luo Teqin couldn't help but panic when he saw this, and asked in a hurry.

Silently dismounted from his horse, strode up to Luo Teqin, motioned the guards around him to gather around to block the sight of the outside world, then swung his whip on Luo Teqin's chest and said angrily: "Luo Teqin, how dare you disobey my order? Don't you Do you think I really dare not kill you?"

Luo Teqin was wearing armor, and he didn't feel much pain from the whip, but he was a little dazed by the whip for a while, and a little bit of embarrassment floated in his heart after a while, but seeing Khan's face livid, He quickly remembered what Khan had said to him before, and hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said, "How dare you disobey the Khan's order! But, but, the Tang army suddenly abandoned the city, and those morons in the valley seized the castle. The spoils that belonged to our Turkic warriors, I was worried that the loss would be even greater, so I ordered the warriors to enter the valley to hunt down..."

"Are you worried? My account is just outside the valley. Do you think Khan's majesty is not worth sending someone to ask for instructions?"

Mo Chuan became even more annoyed after hearing the words, and whipped Luo Teqin several times in succession: "Even if the master's cattle and horses encounter wind and sand, they can only return to the master's pasture to escape! Even if it is the first-rate horse on the grassland, if the horse is led The group has gone to other places, and they must be shot! I have warned you, but you have repeatedly despised me, took off your armor, and handed over your saber! The wolf rider is the Khan's guard, not your personal All the people can only obey the orders of the Khan!"

When Luo Teqin heard this, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes, but after a moment of silence, he kowtowed and said, "Thank you Khan for not killing me."

Seeing that Luo Teqin obediently handed over the command of the wolf cavalry, Mo Chuai's expression improved slightly.

This Luo Teqin can also be regarded as the patriarch of their khanate's restoration of the country. He was one of the 17 people who initially followed his brother Gu Dulu to rebel against the Tang Dynasty. Fall to kill each other!

In addition to being annoyed that the wolf cavalry had violated the order, Mochuo was also very satisfied with the successful capture of the Tang army's remaining sub-city in the river valley.This time the commanding army traveled thousands of miles to the south, and there were voices of opposition among the tribes, but the rich harvest in Yuanzhou was unprecedented in Turkic in recent years.

The proceeds of the looting had already been sent back to the tooth tent on the Yu Dujun Mountain, as a comfort to the elders of the khanate.As for the looted gains in Yuanzhou, Mo Tiao did not plan to transport them back to Dujun Mountain.

After all, his power in Yazhang is relatively weak, whether it is his other brother Ao Xigen or the important minister Ash De Yuanzhen, their influence is higher than him.So he wanted to transport these materials back to Nanya Black Sand City, which was his sphere of influence.

With such an outstanding victory this time, coupled with the huge batch of materials in his hands, he has enough bargaining chips to pull the power of the Khanate back to Monan, and will use Datang as the main attack in the future Target.

After the big victory, Mochuo did not lose his mind. After all, he is still in the territory of Tang Dynasty, how to safely evacuate is the next most important test.

After preliminarily counting the goods in the remaining ten sub-cities, Mo Chuai was stunned by the huge amount of goods.But after interrogating the miscellaneous beards who entered the city first, and learned that Tang Jun did not abandon the city and fled under the condition of holding on, Mo Chuo felt more and more that there must be something strange.

"The army must be withdrawn as soon as possible!"

After making a decision in his heart, Mo Chuan immediately ordered his followers to quickly prepare vehicles, horses and animals to deliver supplies.

Now, the strength of his tribe is less than [-] people, and the materials in the cities have far exceeded their carrying capacity, and there is no need to be greedy for the materials looted by those miscellaneous people. It is better to leave Yuanzhou as soon as possible.

"First move the ordnance, ironware, grain and other materials, and if there is room for other materials, then pick them!"

Sometimes, the loot is too rich to be regarded as a burden. There are so many supplies in front of you, but you can only carry away part of them. Hu servants are fine, if these miscellaneous Hus provide transportation capacity, they will definitely be able to transport all the supplies away, leaving nothing to Tang Jun!

But as soon as this thought came into his mind, Mo Chuai felt a greater sense of crisis: even he couldn't help thinking this way, one can imagine how those tribal soldiers would feel!

The reason why he gave up those vassal vassals was naturally after full consideration. He knew very well in his heart that these vassals only regarded their Turkic troops as thugs who broke the original order of this territory, and they were not of one mind with their Turks from the beginning to the end.Once this group of people is taken in again, it will definitely cause great harm.

Even if he knows the pros and cons so well, he can't help but be deceived by the goods in front of him. Those who are used to being poor will definitely be even more greedy.

"Quickly send out scouts to investigate within thirty, no, fifty miles of the surrounding area. Once you notice any signs of Tang army activity, report back quickly!"

Although I have realized in my heart that the Tang army may have abandoned the city to lure them to stay in the border with these goods, so as to buy more time to encircle and suppress them, but such a huge effort was spent to get such an amazing return. Also really reluctant to give up.

While stepping up to order his troops to pick and carry supplies, he also sent out scouts to investigate the enemy's tracks.Turmoil broke out in the two capitals of the Tang Dynasty. It is absolutely difficult to deploy a large number of troops to reinforce Yuanzhou in a short period of time. Even if there are reinforcements, they may not be their opponents.

Although Mo Shui sent many scouts, he didn't know that these scouts were soon attracted by other things after they left the city.Inside and outside the river valley, there are a large number of miscellaneous people who are full of wealth. They are like walking parcels one by one.

After all, the goods held by these miscellaneous beards themselves belonged to the spoils of their Turkic warriors.And those miscellaneous Hus have no power to protect themselves against the well-armed Turkic warriors. If they don't chase and kill them at this time, it is simply unreasonable!

Chapter 0575 Although the battle is abundant, the return journey is unpredictable

"Which group are you warriors from? Follow me quickly and kill the miscellaneous beards in front! They are carrying a lot of gold and silver, and they are fleeing out of the valley!"

Not long after one of the scouts left Qingshui City and headed south, they encountered another group of knights on the way. Although one of the leaders looked relatively unfamiliar, he had long braids and was dressed like a Turkic nobleman.

Although weaving hair is not just a Turkic tradition, the Turks have dominated the desert for hundreds of years, and they have often entangled with the Central Plains Dynasty. They have already formed a certain system of uniforms, which is not available in other Hus .

So when they saw that man dressed in accordance with Turkic etiquette, and raised his hand and threw some gold and silver artifacts to them, the Turkic cavalry did not doubt that he was there, and subconsciously followed him.

Arriving at a remote corner of the river valley, the nobleman leading the way suddenly stopped and shouted: "It's right here!"

As soon as the words fell, the nobles turned their horses from behind to shoot back at the Turkic scouts, and hundreds of soldiers rushed out from the surrounding valleys. They were Tuyuhun soldiers who had been Turkic vassals before.

Although these Tuyuhun soldiers were far inferior to the elite Turkic scouts, they were not without skills.

Turks were born as forging slaves in the desert, and Tuyuhun was able to dominate in Hexi because of his excellent horse control skills, which is why he was coveted by the Tang Dynasty and Tubo.

As soon as the Tuyuhun tribe appeared, they each occupied a high point, dropped their long hooks and accurately hit the mounts of the Turkic scouts below.Although the efficiency of such a fight is slow, it is also quite rewarding to deal with a small group of Turkic cavalry.

"Wait until you clean up the battlefield, and I'll lure a group of Turkic cavalry here. Save more heads, and only after the Tang army returns can we survive!"

Murong Sheli, who was pretending to be a Turkic nobleman, rode back on his horse, shook his braids and continued to speak.

He doesn't look like a Turk, so it's quite difficult to pretend to be a Turkic nobleman, but because he can speak Turkic, he hooked up with Mo Chuo, and because Mo Chuo cut off his hair, he humiliated him, making his appearance very deceptive, the more Turkic he is Elite, on the contrary, the less likely to doubt him.Now it can be used to trap and kill some Turkic soldiers, hoping to please the later Tang army with this.

After all, compared with the cruelty and tyranny of the Turks, Tang Jun's reputation is still better.Moreover, the news of the coup d'état in the country of Tang had been heard by many of them, and Mochuo was using this to lure them.

Now that they have broken with the Turks, if they can't get Tang's understanding, they will really die without a place to bury them.Moreover, the country of Tang was in turmoil, and if they wanted to stabilize the situation in the states, they would definitely have to rely more on these Hu tribes.

In addition to the Murong clan of Tuyuhun who was quietly trapping and killing the Turkic soldiers, other Hu chiefs in the valley were also carrying out such activities.

As for the idea, it is naturally more or less similar to Murong Sheli, and in addition to asking for the understanding of the Tang Dynasty, those goods that were looted by the rioters and thrown inside and outside are really tempting. Who can treat money like dung?

Of course, if these miscellaneous mustaches want to completely restrain the Turks, they will not be able to do it, otherwise they will not be used by the Turks as consumables.But even if they can't fight against the large Turkic army, they can still kill some Turkic people who are alone.

If the Turks were actively creating chaos by trapping the Hu tribes in the valley before, then the chaos in the valley is now completely out of the control of the Turks.