The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 98 Blocking
Xuan Shijing pulled out the horizontal knife hanging on the horse's back, but did not rush forward immediately. Although he had lived in Datang for more than ten years, he had never killed anyone, but he changed the horizontal knife like this and immediately stood on the edge of the battlefield Soon, some Tubo people followed him.

Xuan Shijing's figure is not considered burly. If it wasn't for the black leather armor, everyone would think he was a gentle scholar. Even if Xuan Shijing is wearing leather armor now, he doesn't look like a soldier or general. That's right, not only the Tang people will know this, but also the Tubo people. When the two armies confront each other, it is natural to pick the weaker ones.

Several Tubo soldiers left the battlefield and forced towards Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing turned over and jumped down, holding the horizontal knife in his hand, frowning at the few Tubo soldiers in front of him.

he never killed anyone
A Tubo soldier slashed at Xuan Shijing with a scimitar.

Xuan Shijing blocked the scimitar with the horizontal knife in his hand, raised his leg, and kicked the soldier. Although Xuan Shijing was young, after more than ten years of training, he had considerable strength. Kicking the Tubo soldier on the ground, the surrounding Tubo soldiers saw this and all raised their scimitars to attack Xuan Shijing.

Xuan Shijing sideways resisted and fought back with the horizontal knife in his hand, but he never killed these soldiers.

Cheng Chumo, who was fighting in the formation, turned around to see the situation here by chance, and rushed to Xuan Shijing's side, one by one, and dealt with these Tubo soldiers, holding Xuan Shijing with one hand, and protecting him behind his back.

"I said Shijing, my brother sees that you are not good at your hands, why don't you deal with them directly?" Cheng Chumo asked.

"Don't be afraid of elder brother's jokes, Shijing really can't do it." Xuan Shijing smiled helplessly. Seeing the tragic situation on the battlefield, Xuan Shijing's stomach was already churning, but he was forced to suppress it. Xuan Shijing remembered that when he was on the expedition team, his teammates had made an agreement with each other that if something happened to that day, if someone couldn't bear it and died, the teammates could eat the dead person The dead body survives, but the family members must be taken care of for the dead.

This seems like an unacceptable agreement, but in the harsh living environment, as long as there is a little desire to live, it is nothing.

But at that time, it was just a verbal agreement among the people, but now what Xuan Shijing saw was not a good corpse, but a broken body on the ground, and the blood that dripped on the ground soon soaked into the desert, Dyed that piece of yellow sand into dark red.

Just as the two of them spoke a few words, another group of Tubo soldiers surrounded them.

"Brother Chumo, how long have you been fighting here!" Xuan Shijing asked Cheng Chumo beside him while resisting the attack of Tubo soldiers.

"It's been a long time." Cheng Chumo's face was also a little grim at this time: "There is a steady stream of Tubo soldiers, and it seems that they can't finish fighting. It should be that the scouts miscalculated their strength." While speaking, Cheng Chumo again After chopping two people down, the horizontal knife in his hand was already a bit mutilated and curled, and it took a bit of effort to kill people.

"Brother, in Shijing's opinion, it's better for us to break through the encirclement and retreat to Shicheng." By now, Xuan Shijing had a general understanding of the current situation, and Cheng Chumo had a little over 2000 troops stationed in Shicheng. Among them are more than 100 auxiliary soldiers, plus the 300 people left in the camp, Cheng Chumo brought more than [-] people in this battle. Fang's army strength had obviously exceeded three thousand, and fighting in the wild was extremely detrimental to the Tang army, so they had to retreat and defend the city.

Hearing the words, Cheng Chumo also felt that what Xuan Shijing said was reasonable. The troops of Tubo's attack this time were no longer the number of small troubles in the past. It is obviously not wise to spend it like this when they don't know the specific information of the other party. .

Freeing his hands, Cheng Chumo took out a seal from his pocket and threw it to Xuan Shijing: "Shijing, hurry up and return to the camp with my seal, and tell the brothers who stayed in the camp to leave the camp immediately and retreat into Shicheng. Let's block for a while, buy some time, remember, be quick!"

Xuan Shijing took the seal letter and replied: "Understood, Brother Chu Mo, don't love to fight. It is the best policy to break through quickly." After finishing speaking, he picked off a Tubo cavalry with one knife, got on his horse, and ran towards the camp .

Shicheng is located on the edge of the Western Regions. The east and south are the remaining veins of Kunlun Mountains, which stretch for hundreds of miles and are uninhabited. The west and north are deserted. Generally speaking, the geographical location of Shicheng is not perfect, nor is it accessible. To put it bluntly, the fortress to the Western Regions can barely be regarded as a military town on the border. The harsh environment of Shicheng makes it extremely difficult to supply the army. There are no people in the area, so Cheng Chumo regards the supplies in the big camp so important. If the big camp is lost, I am afraid that the soldiers of this battalion will be trapped in the desert due to lack of supplies before they die on the battlefield. , because if there is no supplies in the camp, the soldiers in the entire Shicheng will not last until the day when Shazhou brings the supplies. In the past few days, Cheng Chumo has also received information that the Tubo army is also harassing Shazhou and Yangguan. It's going to cut off the grain roads in the Longxi area.

Gao Jun and Long'er waited anxiously at the gate of Daying, looking into the distance from time to time, for fear of missing Xuan Shijing's signal, but until now there was still no movement, which made Long'er feel very uneasy.

Long'er paced back and forth at the gate of Daying, muttering: "Why doesn't Young Master believe me yet?"

Gao Jun couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and said aloud, "It's a good thing that Young Master didn't send out a signal, it shows that their situation is not that dangerous yet."

"But I'm not at ease." Long'er still didn't stop, but in her line of sight, one person and one rider suddenly appeared, and when she looked closely, it was Xuan Shijing who was galloping.

Before the horse came to a complete stop before the camp, Xuan Shijing jumped off the horse, passed Gao Jun and Long'er, rushed straight into the camp, and shouted loudly: "Who is the head of the camp now?"

Hearing Xuan Shijing's shout, a sergeant ran out from behind the tent, saw that it was Xuan Shijing, clasped his fists and said, "This is my subordinate."

This person Xuan Shijing has seen before, that is, the sergeant who stopped Xuan Shijing's carriage outside the camp just now, and it is precisely because of this that this sergeant knows Xuan Shijing's identity, otherwise he would definitely not be so polite to an outsider.

Xuan Shijing didn't say much, and directly took out Cheng Chumo's seal: "General Cheng's military order, immediately pull out the camp and retreat to Shicheng, the sooner the better, General Cheng will fight on the front line to buy time for you."

As soon as the sergeant heard it, he knew that there must be a situation ahead, and the situation was not good, so he said yes to Xuan Shijing, then turned around and went down to give orders.

"strike camp!!!"

The remaining soldiers on all sides of the camp got busy.

(End of this chapter)