Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 489
Chapter [-] The Reinforcements Arrive at Drum Gathering Generals

"Lingzhou?" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The Doctrine of the Mean says that there are nine scriptures for every country in the world, one of which says: People from far away are soft. Since they are gentle and far away, Siyi are naturally grateful for Huaide and call me the Holy Son of Heaven. In power; but, do you believe this?"

Shan Xiongxin is the most knowledgeable person in Wagang Village besides Li Mi, Wei Zheng, and Xu Shiji.He has read "The Doctrine of the Mean" and understands its meaning.He shook his head and said: "Zhuhu are afraid of prestige but not virtue, Xiong believes it or not."

"Of course!" Chen Ying nodded and said: "Go to Lingzhou, and first give Yu Guni an admonition. If he can turn his back on the wrong way, I will give him a chance to reform himself. If he persists in his obsession, then You don't need to be polite."

Shan Xiongxin nodded as if he understood, hesitated for a moment, thought for a while and said, "A secret letter from Chen Jinyong alone may not be enough to convict Yu Guni, right? Did Xiongxin go to Lingzhou to search secretly? Evidence of his treason?"

"No need!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "I'm not a judge, and I don't need him to be convinced. I just need him to submit. If he doesn't want to submit, then there's no need to stay."

"Inappropriate." Shan Xiong said: "Yu Guni was not rude. The so-called malicious intentions are just our speculations and have not been confirmed. We suddenly raided them. The name is not justified. In the future, they will It is quite detrimental to us to preach the Lord's treachery. Besides, if he really intends to betray the Lord, he must take strict precautions, and I'm afraid he won't be able to get it right."

Chen Ying asked: "What should I do according to your suggestion?"

Shan Xiong said: "My lord, please write a letter to Yu Guni, saying that you need his support now, let him lead [-] cavalry into the customs. To send out his generals or to shirk, that is to rebel, of course you are welcome."

Chen Ying nodded and said: "That's fine, this general doesn't have the right to deploy troops yet, so let's talk to His Royal Highness first, and ask him to help with customs clearance documents."

Just when Chen Ying was about to write a letter to Li Jiancheng, a flash of light suddenly appeared in his head.Chuluo Khan Ashina Tulifushe should be dying soon, and he vaguely remembered that the Jieli Khan Ashina Dubi who had forced Li Shimin to form an alliance under the city should also be in power.

Although Chen Ying is not an expert in history, he does not remember when Ashina Thalifush died or how he died, but one thing is known. He was relatively restrained towards the Tang Dynasty, and no war broke out. His political ideas were mainly to support the puppet regime. .

However, as Ashina Duobi ascended to the throne of Khan, he immediately invaded Yanmen, and successfully captured Tang Dynasty Hanyang Gong Su Gui, Taichangqing Zheng Yuanxuan, and Zuo Xiaowei General Sun Shunde. On the eve of the change, Li Jiancheng was restrained in the north and ordered to stop the Turkic army. Even Princess Pingyang died in battle during this period.

Now, although it is said that history has changed because of Chen Ying.However, the only thing that remains unchanged is that Jieli Khan hates Datang very much. He will definitely take advantage of the main force of Datang to march eastward and fight with Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande to go south.

Chen Ying immediately wrote on the paper: "His Royal Highness, I have recently heard that Luo Khan in Turkic Chu is critically ill, and I am afraid that he will live forever. If the Turkic Khan alternates, it will definitely lead to a change in Turkic strategy towards the Tang Dynasty. It is necessary, His Royal Highness, please make a decision as soon as possible. In addition, I have heard that there are Turkic envoys in the Lingwu General Yu Guni, and I am worried about his recurrence, so please transfer him to lead his troops into the customs..."

Just before Chen Ying's secret letter was finished, the sound of war drums was already sounding, and Guo Luo reported to Chen Ying: "Dou Jiande's general Cao Zhan led more than [-] troops to call for war!"

Chen Ying ordered without hesitation: "Order the Modao Army to repel them!"

Finally, Chen Ying finished writing the secret letter, but before he could use the seal, he heard Guo Luo report again: "General, Cao Zhan's troops have retreated!"

Only then did Chen Ying gently hand over the secret letter to Shan Xiongdao: "You take the secret letter and go directly to the East Palace to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and then go to Lingzhou via Chang'an!"

Shan Xiong said: "Humble and obey!"

Shan Xiongxin put away the secret letter, then turned and left.

"and many more!"

Shan Xiongxin turned around, bowed and said, "What orders does the lord have!"

"Pay attention to safety!" Chen Ying said solemnly: "In case of inevitability, escort Baicheng county master to enter the customs!"

Shan Xiong's confidence warmed up, he turned and left the big tent.

Just then, footsteps sounded.

Li Xiuning entered in style.

Chen Yingxin said happily: "San Niang, why are you here?"

"Should I not come?" Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying with a warm and angry face and said, "Please explain to me what is going on with Baicheng County Lord, I seem to have just heard about Baicheng..."

Chen Ying didn't hide anything, and said directly: "There is news from Lingzhou, there is a change in Yushe's headquarters, and the East Turkic sent envoys to lobby Yu Guni, I can't guarantee that there will be no accidents in Lingzhou. In any case, nothing can be violated." , I want him to be transferred to the pass, after all, a county head of Datang was kidnapped by Turks, and Datang is also disgraced."

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying suspiciously, and said with faith and suspicion: "It's true, the conscience of heaven and earth, if I have a one-word lie, I will be pierced by ten thousand arrows, and it will not be good..."

Li Xiuning covered Chen Ying's mouth with her hand.

Chen Ying reached out to touch Li Xiuning's hand.However, before Chen Ying could make another move, he heard the drums of war outside the tent beating together again.

"Dong dong dong..."

The drums were beating more urgently, and Chen Ying could tell that the number of Xia's troops attacking this time should exceed ten thousand.

Li Xiuning's expression changed.

Chen Ying's face became even more gloomy.He cursed secretly in his heart: "Damn Dou Jiande, can't you fucking come a little later?"

Chen Ying and Li Xiuning came to the frontline battlefield hand in hand, but saw that the densely packed soldiers of the Xia army had already set up their formations, in a posture of a desperate attack, with archers in front, sword and shield soldiers behind, dozens of arrow towers, slowing down. The tree rises slowly.

Chen Ying didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered all the Modao army to put on armor and prepare for battle.

However, it was very surprising that Cao Zhan's troops slowly completed the arrangement, but did not launch an attack for a long time. At this time, the two sides were at a stalemate at a distance of [-] steps.

Chen Ying didn't order the soldiers of the Modao Army to attack. After all, the distance of [-] steps would consume a lot of energy for the soldiers of the Modao Army wearing heavy armor.

But after waiting for nearly half an hour, the soldiers of the Xia army still had no intention of attacking.

Looking at this scene, Chen Ying couldn't see Xia Jun's real intentions.

Almost in unison, Li Xiuning and Chen Ying said: "They are deliberately delaying time."

Chen Ying and Li Xiuning met in the air and smiled at each other.

Chen Yingdao: "I have to say, this Cao Zhan is a smart man, if he doesn't make a move, he will be fine, and if he makes a move, he will hit the Mo Dao army's weakness."

The armor of the soldiers of the Modao Army is too heavy. Even if they don’t move while wearing the armor, it is still a burden for the soldiers themselves. It is definitely not a big problem for the light infantry to stand for two hours, but if the Modao Army stands for two hours wearing armor and holding a knife Time, it is estimated that some people will not be able to support it.

A look of worry appeared on Li Xiuning's face, she looked at Chen Ying and said, "What should I do?"

"Hmph, the Modao Army is not feeling well, and they are not feeling well either!" Chen Ying looked at the "Cao" general flag that was hunting, and said with a relaxed smile on his face: "Order the first, second, and third regiments of the Modao Army to stay where they are." Stand by, the others will immediately return to the camp to rest."

Chen Ying's advantage is that this is not flat ground, but a gentle slope.He could hold Paomaling for half an hour with eight or nine hundred Modao soldiers. It would take at most a quarter of an hour for the other six Modao troops to come to support them.In this way, Mo Dao Army has enough time to deal with emergencies.

Sure enough, when Cao Zhan watched the Mo Dao army decrease by two-thirds, he felt a little anxious.He also only ordered half to stay where they were while the others rested.

Although Chen Ying could effectively avoid the problem of excessive physical exertion of the soldiers of the Modao Army, Xia Jun also adopted the method of dividing the troops to rest, which resulted in a stalemate between the two armies.

Dou Jiande's army and Chen Ying were in Paomaling, either confronting each other or breaking out into small-scale conflicts. It seemed that Dou Jiande was not going to rescue Wang Shichong, and it seemed that Chen Ying had nowhere to say anything to Dou Jiande's army.

However, no matter whether it is Dou Jiande or Chen Ying, they are all accumulating strength and preparing for a fatal blow.What Chen Ying was waiting for was the war horse sent by Chang'an. As long as the horse arrived and the hooked and sickle cavalry had passed three to five days of adaptive training, Chen Ying would unceremoniously come to Dou Jiande to kick a battalion with ten thousand horses.

In fact, Dou Jiande was not idle. He knew that the Modao army could not be defeated by swords and guns. He planned to build a large number of small trebuchets. Using this kind of trebuchets that could be placed on bullock carts, he would give Chen Yinglai a fairy flower.

From the perspective of the strategic situation, the world at this time is a mess of canine teeth.Chen Ying led the left and right guards and the left and right guards led the Modao army and the Beiwei army to confront Dou Jiande, while Li Shimin confronted Wang Shichong in Beimang Mountain.As for the Padang area, the pair of Li Xiaogong and Li Jing are also closely preparing for the fatal blow to Xiao Mian.

When Chen Ying and Dou Jiande's army were at Hulao Pass, Wang Renze, who was in Luoyang City, was also quite anxious. He had prepared for five or six days and could launch a surprise attack on Hangu Pass at any time, but Wang Shichong never let him go. This made Wang Renze very anxious.

He would send out a large number of scouts every day to scout for information in the direction of Hangu Pass, but without Wang Shichong's order, he could not mobilize the Heluo New Army at all except for his own soldiers and scouts.

When Wang Renze couldn't bear it anymore, he went to the palace to ask Wang Shichong to see him.

Wang Shichong told Wang Renze simply and clearly: "The time is not yet ripe!"

"When is the time to mature?" Wang Renze asked urgently: "Now Li Shimin is training soldiers in the Beiman Mountain camp. Given time, the remnants of the Tang Army's defeated generals will recover. At that time, won't it be even more difficult for us to fight?"

Wang Shichong said: "The only one I worry about is Chen Ying. Chen Ying's troops are fighting against Dou Jiande's army at Hulao Pass. Once there is a change in Hangu Pass, Chen Ying's children will definitely return to help. Hulao Pass is only more than two hundred away from Luoyang. Chen Ying’s troops can arrive in Luoyang within two days at most, and if he does the same, can you hold Hangu Pass?”

"This..." Hearing Chen Ying's name, Wang Ren subconsciously shrank his head back.

Wang Renze, this brat, has already been psychologically shadowed by Chen Ying.

Wang Shichong said: "Until Dou Jiande completely entangles Chen Ying's hands and feet, Hangu Pass cannot be moved for the time being!"

Wang Quan asked again: "Then we just watch like this?"

Wang Shichong said: "At the beginning, I was worried that the Tang Dynasty would put all the pressure on us, and Dou Jiande's army hid behind us and let us be pawns in the river, but now Dou Jiande has come, and it is only two hundred miles away from Luoyang. Whether he wants to be a fisherman or just sit on the sidelines, now that he has joined the game, he can only play to the end. Now it is the time of spring plowing, if Li Shimin has not achieved decisive results, he must retreat, of course It is not ruled out that Li Shimin would rather miss out on spring plowing and fight to the end with our Dazheng. But this possibility may not be great. Therefore, it is our Dazheng who holds the initiative power."

Wars are fought over economic, political, and military strength. Regardless of military or economic strength, Wang Shichong is clearly at a disadvantage.

"It will not be easy for Dou Jiande to capture Hulao Pass. The strength of Chen Ying's troops is superior to ours, and the Han people are good at defending. Now the Outer Eight Passes have been occupied by the Tang Dynasty..."

Before Wang Renze could finish speaking, Wang Xuanying's voice came from outside: "Father, I'm overjoyed, overjoyed, Tanggou has reinforcements leaving Hangu Pass to reinforce Beimang!"

Wang Shichong was a little suspicious of Wang Xuanying's brain circuit. If there were no reinforcements, he would not be sure of fighting the Beiman camp. Now that the Tang army came to reinforce the army, what kind of happy event is this?Upon hearing this, Wang Shichong became annoyed: "The Tang army went out of Hangu Pass to reinforce Beimang Mountain. I, General Zheng, were attacked on both sides. What a happy event!"

"Father doesn't know, this Tang army..." Wang Xuanying's eyes rolled quickly, and when he saw Wang Renze was present, he stopped quickly and moved close to Wang Shichong's ear, his voice was so low that no one could hear him clearly. What was he talking about? I saw him muttering non-stop, and the expression on Wang Shichong's face also changed like a lantern, first anger, then surprise, then doubt, and finally turned into surprise, grabbed Wang Xuanying's clothes The leader growled, "Really?"

"It's absolutely true, even if I give my son ten guts..." Wang Xuanying said with a smile, "My son wouldn't dare lie to my father!"

Wang Shichong took a deep breath and said: "This matter is of great importance. You send someone to stare at this Tang army, and I will come later!"

Wang Shichong pointed at Wang Renze with his hand, and said loudly: "Heluo new army, assemble immediately, and go to Beimang immediately. I don't ask you to take down the Beimantang camp. Be sure to block Li Shimin's children in the camp, and don't let out a single soldier. pawn."

Wang Renze said with great joy: "The last general takes orders!"

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At the same time, Li Shimin, who was in the Beiman camp, showed a long-lost smile on his face. He held a secret message: "Our reinforcements are here, let's gather the generals!"

(End of this chapter)