Defend the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 96 Who Scares Who
"The descendants do not kill!"

"The descendants do not kill!"

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Nearly [-] people shouted in Tubo language, "Those who surrender will not be killed", and the roar shook the sky.

Surrounded by Chen Lvshuai, Su Dasushi, Yinniang and others, Han Pingan rushed down the mountainside with the handsome flag along the gentle slope, crossed the battlefield full of blood and corpses, and came to the place just listed. Before the battle.

It turned out that the two regiments that were throwing stones on both sides of the valley were busy collecting weapons and armor, treating the wounded, and capturing wounded slaves.

Behind them were the six regiments who had just formed up in the valley. When they first came out, only the two rows in front had weapons. As the collected weapons continued to be delivered, almost all of them now had them.

After Suda Bolu and Suda Shagun finished their charge, they made a full circle, and led their cavalry back to line up on both sides of the valley entrance.

Li Chengye fought bloody battles for nearly half an hour, and the six regiments he led suffered heavy casualties. Two of the regiment commander Guang died and one was seriously injured.Six of the brigade commander died in battle, nine were seriously injured, and the team leader suffered even more casualties.

They should have rested in the valley, but he was really worried about his son-in-law, and asked the remaining three regiment leaders to shrink the previous six regiments into two regiments and return to Taniguchi again.

There was blood all over their bodies, and the knife in their hands almost cut the gap.

Han Pingan felt uncomfortable in his eyes, and thought to himself that the saying "kindness does not command soldiers" is true at all, and he really can't be a general if he doesn't emphasize enough in his heart.

It's not that I didn't think about not being so positive and tough before, but I stayed in the valley.

But this is a mountain pass, not a valley in the true sense. The valley is not only flat but also very wide. The widest point is three or four miles, and the narrowest point is more than one mile.

There are only a few places on the mountains on both sides where stones can be thrown, and they can't be thrown far. There is not enough time and materials to build a fortress, and there is even a shortage of knives, guns and arrows.Nearly [-] Turkic cavalry are a new force, allowing them to charge and kill in the mountain pass, and they cannot give full play to the powerful impact advantage of the cavalry.

If you stick to the mountain pass, in the face of Tubo's successive offensives, it is estimated that you will defend for an afternoon at most.

Only let the six regiments be tough first, and arrange an ambush in the mountain pass, using the enemy's psychology of underestimating the enemy, and first dampen their edge.

Then let Su Da's two elder brothers lead their troops to charge and kill the enemy by surprise.

While killing and injuring as many enemies as possible, put on a decisive battle posture so that the enemy will not dare to attack easily.

As it turned out, Mazatata was bluffed.

Afraid of being raided by cavalry again, instead of only allowing slaves to enter and not allowing slaves to retreat as before, while ordering the slaves who had been dispersed just now to withdraw, they were busy rearranging their troops, and they could clearly see that they were Summon the cavalry, intending to use it to deal with Suda Bolu and Suda Shagun.

When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, and now we are fighting for morale.

Li Chengye and the others yelled while wandering in front of the formation: "Erlang, did you see that we have killed so many servants who came just now, isn't it just desperate, who is afraid of whom!"

A leader of the night watchmen even picked up the head of a Tubo warrior with a horizontal knife, and roared: "See, this is the fate of daring to offend my Great Tang Tianwei!"

Su Dasushi stabbed Han Ping'an's arm, Han Ping'an reacted suddenly, rode his horse and ran to a group of soldiers, pretending to be relaxed and asked with a smile: "Gu Sili, how many Tubo did you kill just now?"

"According to the long history, six of them were cut off by the humble staff!"

"Battle with fewer hits, four points for kills, top rewards, you kill six Tubo in the battle, the first rank in the hard battle in the prison city, and reward five ranks as usual. From now on, you boy will be regarded as the same as my Tang Dynasty!" From a fifth-rank cavalry captain!"

Huang Dafu and the others are all honored officers. Even though honored officers are not officials, Gu Sili is still very envious. Hearing what Han Pingan said, he couldn't help grinning and said, "Xie Changshi."

"What is riding a captain?"

Han Pingan drew out his sword and pointed to the Tubo army that was forming a distant formation: "If you want to make meritorious deeds, there are plenty of military exploits there. As long as you work hard to kill the enemy, it is not impossible for Shangzhu Kingdom."

Gu Sili always felt that the reason why Han Shiyu and the crazy brother married Yinniang to Qu Tong was because of Qu Tong's military achievements and because Qu Tong was from the Shangzhu Kingdom.

Gu Sili was so excited at the thought that he would also have a chance to become the Shangzhu Kingdom, he raised his knife and shouted: "Kill!"

He is now neither a member of the Thief Detective Action Team nor Han Ping'an's personal guard, but the deputy brigade commander of the Fourth Regiment.

As soon as he opened his mouth, his subordinates followed suit and shouted to kill.

If it were the veterans of Yele Town and Shouzhu City, no one would take the titular Captain Qi or even Shangzhu Kingdom seriously, but most of the people present were newly rescued slaves.

These slaves are not all Han Chinese, but they were all the people of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate or the nephews of the Anxi people. They don't know that the officers are almost worthless. Have military merit.

They watched one by one, one regiment watched another regiment, and suddenly shouted and killed, and their morale was higher than before.

At this time, a Tubo warrior came to the front of the battle on horseback, looking at his posture and wanting to negotiate.

What Han Pingan needed most was to delay time, so he hesitated for a while, and went up to meet him under the guard of his elder sister and brother-in-law, but unexpectedly, it was an acquaintance who was not considered an acquaintance.

"Basang, you're not dead yet."

"Are you Han Sanlang, son of Han Shimei?"

"you remember me?"

"Almost didn't recognize it."

Basang looked at the army waiting behind Han Ping'an and the other three, and asked with a gloomy face, "Han Sanlang, you dare to collude with Dashi. Aren't you afraid that your emperor will punish you?"

"Where is Dashi?" Han Ping'an pretended to be surprised and looked around.

Basang gritted his teeth and asked, "Didn't those Turkic warriors come from Dashi?"

"Tell them, Basang, what did you do as an envoy? The news is too poor. They are all Turkic warriors who led their troops to attach to my Tang Dynasty, just like your thousand household leaders also have Turkic warriors under their command."

"The small tribe of Suda Sushi has only a thousand people."

"They followed Su Da later. In fact, it doesn't matter if they came from Dashi. Dashi is now on good terms with me, Datang. Over the years, Dashi missions have been going to Chang'an one after another. You often go to Yele City, you should be clear about this."

"So your father and son are determined to be enemies of my Mazha Department?"

"It was you who started the war first."

From the moment he saw Tang Jun in the mountain pass, Basang realized that his hometown had been copied.

Yele Town actually had nothing to be afraid of, even if they colluded with the Xuebu Turks, there was nothing to be afraid of, but it was absolutely unreasonable to send troops at this time, and in the end, they took a back route.

Basang took a few deep breaths, stared at Han Pingan with murderous eyes and asked, "Where are my people?"

Han Pingan said without hesitation: "Some died, and some became prisoners."

"Where is the family of the head of the thousand household?"

"Same."

"Let people go, spare you not to die."

"Basang, I heard from my father that you have been to Chang'an before. Speaking of which, you are also a person who has seen the world. Are you getting more and more confused as you get older? If you let me release him, I will release him. When I am the governor of Yele What is Governor Shi here for?"

Han Pingan snorted coldly, and then said: "Almost forgot, there are not many of your family members left, all of your living family members are in my hands! Help me send a message to Maza Tata, surrender quickly, I Spare his life and that of your family."

Even with that mental preparation, hearing it with your own ears feels completely different.

Basang was so angry that his face was livid, and he said bitterly: "If a woman dies, she can find her again, and if a son dies, she can be reborn. You can wait to be buried with them."

"If you want to kill me, it depends on whether you have the ability."

"Wait."

Basang was just here to find out what was true, and didn't expect to have anything to talk about, so he put down a harsh word, turned his horse and went back.

Back in front of the battle, Yinniang couldn't help but said, "If you dare to scare us, kill a few prisoners and show them."

An old lady is an old lady, she really doesn't talk too much.

Han Pingan sighed and said in a low voice, "You can't kill now."

"Why not."

"Killing them will jump over the wall in a hurry. We have killed thousands of people and can't die anymore. What we have to do now is to delay time."

"Sanlang, why don't you talk to them again?" Li Chengye asked calmly.

Han Pingan said helplessly: "I also want to talk, but we raided their lair and killed so many of their clansmen. This feud has become too big. There is no talk. Negotiations can't delay the time."

"What should I do?"

"According to the previous agreement, they can scare us, and we can scare them."

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At dusk, Tubo adjusted his formation, and the drums sounded again.

I saw hundreds of Tubo cavalry, guarding the densely packed slaves on the left and right sides, pressing up heavily.

The black crowd is full of people, even if there are not ten thousand, there are seven or eight thousand.

Han Pingan glanced back, and Su Dasushi immediately waved the flag on the mountainside behind.

Immediately afterwards, flames shot up to the sky on the hillside, and two puffs of wolf smoke several tens of feet high were rolled up.

The wolf smoke was set off just now, and two groups of Turkic cavalry were killed.

Now let off wolf smoke again, what does it mean?

Mazha Tata didn't think that Han Sanfeng could move troops from other places besides the Xuebu Turks, but he had just suffered a loss, so he didn't dare to gamble again, and hurriedly sent an order to withdraw his troops.

Seeing the Tubo army receding like a tide, Han Ping'an smiled, Li Chengye, Su Dasushi and Qu Tong laughed, and even Yinniang, who never smiled very much, smiled.

Mazha Tata waited for half an hour, but found no movement.

Realizing that he had been fooled, he was furious.

Fighting depends on morale, and it is not appropriate to attack now, and it is already dark, so we can only order the army to set up camp first.

There is plenty of food and grass, and the last thing Han Pingan is afraid of is confrontation.

Let the soldiers light dozens of bonfires in front of the formation, and just like this, they were in a stalemate with the Mazha army from a distance.

Tang Jun can warm up the fire, but he can't even find firewood here.

Tang Jun can eat hot rice, but here he can only eat cold beef and mutton with mare's milk.

The house was raided, and the life and death of the son who stayed behind in his hometown was uncertain. The eldest son died in the afternoon.

Basang is a wise man who is second only to Master Pazhuo, and carefully reminded: "Dong Dai, this place is not suitable for staying for a long time. Wang Qingxiang and Han Shimei will definitely not just sit and watch Han Sanfeng and Li Chengye stick around if they plan such a big game. Come back and attack our way."

Before Mazha Tata could speak, the head of the Ram Bai family said in a low voice: "The army has been running around for days, and they haven't even eaten a few bites of hot food these days. Even the horses are exhausted. It is not appropriate to attack at night."

The head of the hundred households of Duoji even said bluntly: "I can't see anything clearly at night. If we attack now, I don't know how many slaves will escape in the dark."

Maza Tata said coldly: "Rest for the night first, and attack again tomorrow morning."

Basang didn't want him to make the same mistakes again and again, so he hesitated for a moment, and then summoned up his courage and said, "It doesn't matter if we conquer tomorrow, Wang Qingxiang and Han Shimei turned the entire Yele tribe into scorched earth for the sake of plotting, Han Sanfeng is just as bad as Li Chengye." Will leave us food and grass."

It is conceivable that Han Shimei's crazy son and that old bastard Li Chengye sneaked in during the days when they attacked Yele City, and they had already turned the places where the various ministries lived together into ashes. sheep.

Mazha Tata had never experienced such a serious injury. When he thought of his wife and children staying in his hometown, he felt ashamed, and asked coldly, "Is it possible that the big revenge will not be avenged?"

"It's not difficult to capture the mountain pass, and it's not difficult to kill Han Sanfeng and Li Chengye. The difficulty is that there are no horses, cattle, sheep, and food. How will we survive this winter and how will we survive the next few months?"

Bassang paused, and emphasized: "Wang Qingxiang and Han Shimei will definitely not miss this opportunity. They will neither nor dare to let us survive the winter safely."

The home is gone, grab a few women, give birth to some children, and it will be a home again.

But without horses, cattle, sheep, food and grass, it means that there is no way to survive.

Mazha Tata gained a lot of wisdom after eating a ditch, and no longer dared to pin his hopes on capturing the mountain pass and capturing Han Ping'an and Li Chengye's food and grass.

He was silent for a long time, then raised his head and said: "The Snow Department has sent so many warriors, my hometown must be empty!"

Basang finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that there were some things he couldn't say, and resolutely said: "It's more than [-] miles from here to the snow department. We don't have that much food and grass, and we have to avenge our big revenge. Dongdai, take advantage of the dark Ten thousand slaves go, and take all the horses."

"I'm leaving, what do you do?"

"I will lead an army to attack tomorrow morning. If I can capture horses and food, I will chase you."

"What if it can't be captured."

"There will always be a way." Basang thought for a while, and then said: "Wang Qingxiang and Han Shimei must be on their way to help Han Sanlang and Li Chengye. I will try my best to hold them back."

Going back is waiting to die, and crossing Congling is the only way to survive.

Mazha Tata thought about it secretly, raised his head and said, "I will take eight thousand servants to attack the Snow Department, and after I take it, I will bring food and grass to meet you."

When he came out, the meat he brought was almost eaten, and the remaining horses had to be taken away by Mazatata as army rations. Basang didn’t think he could last until the day when Mazatata captured the Snow Department and came back to support him, but he still He smiled and said: "Okay, let's prepare quickly, we must not let Li Chengye and Han Sanfeng see the clue."

The head of the Duoji household realized that this was a strong man who wanted to cut off his wrists. Thinking of his wife and children staying in his hometown, he said eagerly, "Dongdai, let me and Basang stay."

(End of this chapter)