Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 70 The Battle of Minzhou (4)

The next day the sky was bright and misty, and Xie Yingdeng, who had been fighting all night, also retreated.

After returning to the camp, Xie Yingdeng ran to the coach's camp without stopping to find Qin Shubao who hadn't slept all night.

"Brother Shubao, what's the matter?" Xie Yingdeng asked nervously.

Qin Shubao lowered his arms and said, "The west side of Erlang Mountain was quiet last night. No news is the best news. It seems that His Highness has succeeded."

Phew, Xie Yingdeng let out a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair. How could he not know that no news is best.

He was invited by Corporal Li Chengqian. To Qin Shubao and the others, Li Chengqian was just the crown prince, but to Xie Yingdeng, Li Chengqian was his monarch.

Qin Shubao: "How about the casualties of the former army?"

"With more than 300 casualties, Tuyuhun will not be lower than us. It is a tie."

After getting the answer, Qin Shubao nodded, walked out of the tent, looked at the west and muttered: "Success or failure depends on one action."

At the entrance of Xishan Valley, Li Chengqian was lucky. The patrol team who came to change defense did not find the first team. The leader of the team rubbed his hands that were frozen stiff, and after cursing a few words, he called his men to light the fire quickly. water, tents.

Everything is so natural, as if nothing happened last night.

After Li Chengqian and his party took a short rest, the whole army took advantage of the light to speed up their march.

Tiemen Pass at the foot of Kongtong Mountain in the west of Minzhou City, here is the turn of the Tao River, this area is the beginning of the Qin Great Wall, about three miles away from Tiemen Pass in the dense forest Li Chengqian is discussing with several generals.

"Your Highness, the spies said that the soldiers patrolling outside the city are sluggish. It seems that our whereabouts have not been exposed." Qin Huaiyu whispered while bending over.

Cheng Chumo on the side also echoed: "Yes, Your Highness, before the enemy finds out, let's kill him directly, catch him by surprise, and take down the iron gate in one fell swoop."

"The enemy has 1000 troops guarding Xiongguan, but we only have [-] people. We don't have an advantage in terms of strength and terrain. It's hard to say whether we can defeat them just by killing them like this."

Seeing that Li Chengqian disagreed with Cheng Chumo, he became anxious, and couldn't help asking: "Your Highness, the longer the delay is, the worse it will be for us."

"Originally my plan was to sneak attack at night, but after we wiped out the patrol in Xishan, my mind changed.

Chu Mo, haven't you asked why you wear such a Tuyuhun military uniform?
It is used here. Later, you will lead people disguised as Tuyuhun people to escort a hundred Tang army prisoners to earn money to open the city gate. "

Oh, Cheng Chumo immediately agreed when he heard that he was asked to go, but Qin Huaiyu frowned and said, "Your Highness, this kind of thing is too common, can they believe it?"

Li Chengqian patted the shoulders of the two of them: "Since they invaded Minzhou, they have never lost a battle. In addition, the defenders of Erlang Mountain thought they had defeated our army's attack. Do not believe."

"Okay, let's go down and prepare. Huaiyu and I wait for you to open the city gate, take the opportunity to cover up and kill them, and take down the iron gate in one go."

What Li Chengqian said is not wrong. The defenders of Tiemen Pass did not take the battle at Erlang Mountain seriously. In their view, the Tang army was weak and vulnerable, just like the two thousand captives in the pass, they could only obediently stay in prison.

As for why Li Chengqian chose to let Cheng Chumo go, it was because this buddy could only act like a fake. Li Chengqian and Qin Huaiyu didn't even have beards, so they looked fake.

But Cheng Chumo is different. Although he just turned 20 years old, he has a long beard. In his own words, it is called masculinity.

Cheng Chumo was wearing the military uniform of the Tuyuhun Elementary School captured in Xishan, sitting on a tall horse, whipped a whip on the face of the Tuyuhun soldiers who came to interrogate him, and scolded: "What the hell, I can interrogate you, hurry up and let the master go in, and delay my Wu Qishi About the general, I will kill you."

Kada, the guard of the iron gate gate, saw Cheng Chumo and others who were making noise before closing the gate, stepped forward and said proudly: "Whose subordinate are you, that you beat the general's soldiers before the gate?"

Cheng Chumo saw a Tuyuhun man who looked like a general yelling at him, then dismounted and trotted up to Kata and said obsequiously, "I'm so rude, please forgive me, general.

General Wu Qishi didn't let the younger one down. Didn't he arrest some Tang people? My general said he wanted to keep the younger one as a slave and send the younger one to Taozhou. "

Seeing Cheng Chumo's slavish face, Kada curled his lips and said, "Wu Qishi doesn't want to fight hard for the Great Khan, so why the hell is he thinking about capturing slaves.

Don't you know that this general also has military law?A lot of generals like you have been arrested recently, and there are still two thousand Tang prisoners here.

If you want to go there, go there, do you still have military law in your eyes, do you still have this general? "

Cheng Chumo's eyes lit up when he heard that two thousand brothers were pressed here, and then he took out a money bag from his arms and presented it to Kada, saying: "Don't be offended, the general, it's a young man who doesn't understand the rules. Please take this small amount of money to the general, wait for it." When my general returns, he will also have a heart."

Kada thought about the purse in his hand, threw it to the followers behind him, and said to Cheng Chumo: "Okay, I see that you are quite clever, so let's forget this time. Go back and tell Wu Qishi not to think that hugging the king's thigh is comparable If you don't look down on others, you will still be Khan's relatives."

"Yes, yes, what the general said is very true." Cheng Chumo dealt with Kata, and waved to his subordinates to follow up.

When the team had just passed the closing door, Cheng Chumo immediately said to Kata in front of him: "General, there is something small that I haven't told you yet."

"What's the matter?" Just when Kada turned around and wanted to ask, he felt a chill in his stomach, and when he looked down, the tip of a broken blade had emerged from his stomach.

The sight in front of him stunned the surrounding Tuyuhun soldiers, and before they could react, the soldiers who came silently along with Cheng drew out their weapons one after another, and slashed at the stunned Tuyuhun soldiers.

Cheng Chumo fired another arrow, and shouted to the people around him: "One team will control the door, and the other team will follow the general to kill it." After speaking, he pulled out the horizontal knife and rushed towards the wall with his men .

Li Chengqian, who was waiting outside the city, saw the sound of arrows rising from the iron gate, and immediately ordered the whole army to attack.After three hours of fierce fighting, Li Chengqian successfully captured the pass, killing more than [-] defenders and taking more than [-] prisoners, while the Tang army suffered more than [-] casualties.

Li Chengqian wiped the blood on his face and said to Qin Huaiyu next to him: "Immediately close the gate and pile up three piles of wolf smoke, and then let people go to see if there are any trebuchets, and if there are any, push them to the bank of the Tao River to break the ice on the river." , burn the bridge to me."

"No, the last general will take orders."

(End of this chapter)