Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 142 I will take you home!

For the Anxi Army, which has been trapped for 40 years, Chang'an is nowhere near as close as the sun. At least the sun can be seen by looking up.

"Boss, isn't it a little too unkind to let people leave in such a hurry?"

Yang De was silent for a long time and suddenly asked.

Guo Xin's gaze was profound, looking at the vast mountains in the distance.

"Tibet is about to launch a general attack on Kucha. If we don't leave, we won't be able to leave."

……

"Maybe this is the reason why Guo Xin didn't keep us..." Li Shimin sighed and sighed to Li Qing.

"After this battle, the fall of Qiuci marked the complete withdrawal of the Anxi Protectorate from the stage of history." Li Qing looked forward with flashing eyes, "On the day the city was broken, the Tubo dragged the soldiers of the Anxi army behind their horses and shouted that there would be no more People from the Tang Dynasty..."

*Rage value from Li Shimin +50000
"What?!" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and became furious in an instant.

He gritted his teeth and said: "Brother, let's go back and mobilize the army and horses now! I want to crush Tubo!"

"Move more, and it's time to let Zhinu and the others contribute." Li Qing sneered, "Deploy [-] heavy cavalry from the Anxi Protectorate of the Yonghui, Chongsheng, Jinglong, and Kaiyuan dynasties. First, take Qiuci The siege is lifted."

"What's the point of bullying the Anxi Protectorate who has been trapped alone for 40 years? If you have the ability, let's take a chance on the prosperous Anxi!"

At this time, Li Zhi, who was watching a short video, was horrified when he saw Aye suddenly appearing in front of him.

If it's broken, you won't find anything wrong with me again, right?
He looked at Li Shimin fearfully, but he never thought that Li Shimin had no intention of beating him. Instead, he said straight to the point: "Draw me five thousand elite cavalry from the Anxi Protectorate!"

"Okay, Aye!" Li Zhi agreed without thinking. After a while, he hesitated and asked, "Aye, who are you going to fight?"

It's okay not to mention it. As soon as Li Shimin said this, he gave him a vertical slap on the head.

"Tibet!"

"I told you not to save Tuyuhun!"

"Hey, hey, hey, Aye, Tuyuhun is still here..." Li Zhi tried to please him like a dog.

"Let me remember this beating of yours!" Li Shimin snorted, "After I conquer Tubo, I will hang you up and beat you carefully!"

Li Zhi could only apologize, thinking that once the troops here were mobilized, he would hide as far away as possible. It would be best not to let Aye find him in this life.

……

In the 19th year of Zhenyuan, Qiuci City.

"With an army of one hundred thousand, Tubo is really enough to give us face."

Yang De stood at the top of the city, looking at the Tubo army not far away, and sighed involuntarily.

As the saying goes, when the army reaches ten thousand, it is boundless; when the army reaches one hundred thousand, it reaches the sky. Even though Tubo only "claimed" to have one hundred thousand troops, the number of actual combatable troops was just over thirty thousand.

The most important ones left were the slaves and civil servants conscripted by Tubo.

"Besieging but not attacking will exhaust all our supplies." Wang Erhan put his hands on the buttresses of the city wall and looked into the distance.

"He thinks well, but he's afraid that his appetite will break and his big teeth will break!" Yang De snorted coldly. He reached out and patted the spear in his hand, and gently twisted the tassel of the spear that was almost gone.

"Yang De! Yang De!"

Someone called him downstairs at the city gate. Yang De immediately stuck out his head and asked loudly: "What's wrong?"

"The prince asked you to go to the Protector's Mansion!" The visitor said concisely, "Come on, something big has happened!"

Yang De was horrified. Something happened to the king, right?
He immediately dropped his spear and hurried towards the Protectorate's Mansion.

The county prince is the soul of their army, so they don't dare to make any mistakes.

"What's going on?" he asked as he ran.

"Ask me, I still want to ask you!" The man asked back: "What did the seriously injured brothers in your food transport team eat?"

Yang De was immediately stopped by the question. He frowned and said, "It's just a normal meal. What else can we give them to eat? Don't be pretentious and tell them what's wrong!"

"Are you sure you just eat normally?" The man said anxiously, "Ms. Ganlin, I eat the same thing as you, why don't these fingers grow?"

Eagerly, he raised his arm, revealing his right hand that was missing his middle finger and ring finger.

"He's clueless..." Yang De pressed his arm, "What's going on!"

While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the Protectorate's Mansion.

"This is exactly what I want to ask you!" Guo Xin stood at the door, waiting for Yang De's arrival. Standing behind him was a seriously injured soldier in the grain transport team.

"This, this, this..." He trembled and pointed at Sanyaozi: "Sanyaozi, isn't your arm gone? This..."

"I don't know why, but it suddenly grew out." Sanyazi patted his right arm, "It's strange to say that I just slept for a while, and suddenly I felt very itchy. When I got up, I saw , the arms have grown back..."

"What a pity, my wound hasn't healed yet!" he added.

"Who said otherwise? My femur was broken by the Tubo dog, and it healed overnight?" The old soldier on the other side also patted his leg, "They say it takes a hundred days to break the bones, but I It’s the same now as it was before I was injured…”

"Think carefully, is there anything abnormal..." Guo Xin looked at Yang De and asked with burning eyes.

Yang De thought for a long time and patted his thigh: "I remembered that the young master named Li Qing gave me more than ten pills, saying they could relieve the injury. I didn't think much about it at the time, so I just gave them to The brothers ate..."

"As soon as Captain Zheng said that, I also remembered it!" The three-year-old son who lost his arm said: "At that time, I was in so much pain that all I could think about was wanting to die. As a result, Captain Zheng fed me something, and I couldn't eat it. It hurts!”

"Yes, me too!" The other man with a broken femur also agreed.

"That young master, is he really a god?" Yang De couldn't help but slap himself in the face, and it made a real snapping sound.

"Hiss... it's not a dream!" He said in hindsight: "Is it possible that the young master is a god?"

"This……"

Everyone looked at each other, and if you asked them whether they believed it or not, they would only believe in the Tang Dynasty; but the incredibly miraculous thing in front of them told them that everything was possible.

"It's your good fortune to meet such gods." Guo Xin said in a deep voice: "Now that the matter has been clarified, let's not worry about it anymore... Yang De, you take these brothers who have been seriously injured Go around the city and let all the brothers see that God is still caring for us, the Tang Dynasty!"

"No!" Yang De took the order and left with a few people.

Guo Xin's order was undoubtedly correct. Seeing these comrades who had lost their limbs and reborn, the soldiers in the city were even more motivated to fight.

At the same time, the Tibetan envoys who came to declare war also arrived in Kucha City.

It's nothing more than rubbish talk about persuading surrender. Anyone who dares to resist wherever the Tubo Heavenly Soldiers go will be crushed. However, the Kucha defenders were not moved at all and did not care about the Tibetan people's trash talk.

Seeing that the Tubo envoy looked down upon the white-haired old soldiers in the city, after he left, Guo Xin killed cattle and held a banquet to reward the soldiers, and selected a thousand cavalry to go into battle, preparing to catch Tubo off guard.

Of course, the Tubo people did not expect that these old guys would have the courage to organize an attack. While they were in disbelief, they were also full of contempt for their suicidal attack.

In their view, this kind of behavior is tantamount to death.

Guo Xin held the battle flag of the Tang army and rushed into the Tubo camp personally. This group of capable old soldiers who were despised by the Tubo people was one to ten, and they were invincible. Taking advantage of this surprise attack, Guo Xin led his team to destroy all the Tubo trebuchets, and killed more than ten centurions and more than a thousand soldiers.

The Tubo people were furious. On the one hand, they mobilized troops and horses from the rear to increase the strength of the siege, and on the other hand, they repaired the trebuchets. A few days later, the Tubo people mounted tall ladders and attacked the city of Kucha. However, Guo Xin had already been prepared. He ordered his people to dig a number of caves on the city wall in advance. When the ladder approached, a piece of wood was stretched out from one of the caves. There was an iron hook on the wood, which hooked the ladder user. It could not retreat; after that, a large log was stretched out from another large hole to hold up the ladder so that it could not move forward; finally, a log with an iron cage tied to it was stretched out from the entrance of the hole, and there was a burning fire in the iron cage. Under the burning flames, the ladder was burned from the middle, and all the Tibetan soldiers hidden in the ladder were burned to death.

In order to avoid the flames, the soldiers at the top of the ladder had no choice but to jump off the ladder, but they fell to the ground alive.

The Tubo army came up with many ways to attack the city, but they were defeated one by one. In order to harass the Tubo people, Guo Xin ordered people to beat drums at night, making a gesture of gathering troops to go out of the city to fight. The Tubo people did not dare to be careless and were on high alert all night long, unable to rest.

The Tibetans looked at the city from high places several times, but did not see any movement. After a few days, the Tibetans began to slack off and rested boldly while beating the drums. At this time, Guo Xin took advantage of the Tibetan people's relaxation and led hundreds of elite cavalry under his command to suddenly leave the city and charge directly into the camp of the Tibetan general. Tubo was immediately in chaos, trampling on each other in panic, and more people died at the hands of their own people than at the hands of the Tang army.

After experiencing several unruly sneak attacks, Tubo did not dare to approach the city, but surrounded Kucha City from a distance.

Half a month later, Tibet once again mobilized [-] troops to support the siege of Kucha.

After days of fighting and the siege by the Tibetans, supplies in the city were already stretched thin. Guo Xin even ordered that when the rebels were resting, they would catch rats and other small animals in the city to use as military food.

However, rats are also limited, so they have no choice but to kill the horses and eat their meat.

Due to the lack of timely replacement of casualties and lack of food supplies in Kucha City, the soldiers suffered from hunger and disease, and their combat effectiveness was seriously weakened. There were originally more than 2000 people, but now there are only more than [-] left.

Guo Xin stood at the top of the city, looking at the Tubo people in the distance who were still besieging but not attacking. No one knew what he was thinking.

The Tubo people were also afraid. Kucha City was completely tough, and the gains outweighed the losses when attacking. The battle-loss ratio could often reach an astonishing ratio of one to a dozen or even twenty. So in desperation, we could only choose to surround them.

Finally, after the first snow, the Tubo people finally lost their composure and ordered a general attack.

It was calculated that the food and grass in the city should be exhausted, and it was already snowing, so the Tibetan people could not hold on for too long, so after weighing the situation, the Tibetan coach decided to launch a final attack on Kucha City.

If you can beat them, fight them. If you can't beat them, come back next year. Anyway, there are only so many people in the city, and Tubo can afford it.

What kind of waves can a group of white-haired veterans afford? The Tubo coach felt a little disdainful. Even if they had to endure it, Tubo could still outlast these veterans.

Guo Xin himself also knew the situation in the city. I'm afraid this offensive won't last.

After waiting for more than a month, the Uighurs did not send reinforcements. It seemed that this time was the last battle.

"Head."

Yang De didn't say much, but used the city wall to hold the sword in his hand slightly.

His right arm had been chopped off by the Tubo people in a battle. Now he could only give up the spear that had been with him for many years and use his less skilled left hand to hold the knife.

"We will be brothers again in the next life."

Guo Xin smiled and put his hand on Yang De's good shoulder.

Yang De nodded heavily, without tears, only a smile of relief.

"Damn, I've been killing for more than a month, that's enough!" He smiled viciously, his hungry wolf-like gaze igniting a raging fighting spirit: "You'd better let me kill two more people today, otherwise I won't be able to shut up even if I die. Eyes on!"

"It seems you are really hungry, Captain." Wang Erhan smiled coolly, "Have you hallucinated because of hunger?"

"Get out!" Yang De weakly kicked Wang Erhan.

He forced his eyes, which were dizzy with hunger, to look up in the direction of the Tibetan military formation, and suddenly he was shocked.

"Boss, Erhan, look, what is that?" He pointed at the black mist in the distance and asked.

"It's broken. You're not really hallucinating because of hunger, are you?" Wang Erhan weakly raised his head, looked in the direction of Yang De's finger, and said "ho ho" twice, without saying a word for a long time.

The mist gradually dissipated, revealing a group of cavalry whose edges could not be seen clearly. The sun's rays flashed on the armor, and golden scales shone like waves.

"I'm so hungry. How can anyone come to help these days?" Yang De couldn't help but laugh at himself.

After guarding for such a long time, they no longer had any hope for reinforcements. The Uighurs may have their own affairs, and relying on anyone else would be in vain.

Guo Xin took two steps forward in shock, pointed in the distance and said loudly: "Then... what do you see written on that flag?"

"What can be written on the flag? Uighur?" Yang De couldn't help but smile: "Boss, when did you learn Uighur writing?"

As he spoke, he raised his head and took a closer look over there.

"Tang? That's the Tang Army?" Yang De's voice shrilled an octave. While he was astonished, he shouted loudly to his comrades in surprise: "Brothers! The Tang Army is here! The Tang Army is here!"

"Yang Tou, stop comforting us." The person below said feebly: "Even if you make up lies, you still make up something reasonable. Even if you say that the Uighurs are coming to eat people, it is more credible than the Tang army!"

"When did I ever lie to you? It's really Tang Jun! If you don't believe me, come and see for yourself!" Yang De yelled: "If I lie to you, I'll give you my head!"

The people below didn't believe it and walked towards the city wall with weak steps, wanting to see how Yang De made up the lie. However, just as they were going up, the Tang Army cavalry in the distance had also begun to charge towards the Tubo people.

The torrent of steel formed by [-] heavy horsemen swept mercilessly in the direction of the Tibetan people, swallowing up the helpless Tibetan soldiers like a stormy wave crashing on the shore.

The soldiers of Anxi who walked up the city wall looked at the battle situation that instantly reversed in front of them in disbelief. After the shock, they were ecstatic.

The court is back! After so many years of absence, the imperial court is finally back!

Of course, the Tubo people also noticed this Tang army. The momentum of the [-] cavalry was like the earth shattering, and even the earth trembled violently under the trampling of iron hoofs.

However, the Tibetan people did not have the kind of organization that could be used as an arm and a finger. In their eagerness, they were unable to organize effective resistance. Kucha City, which was originally in their pocket, instantly became out of reach.

What kind of city are you attacking? Your ass has been stolen!
The endless cavalry who couldn't see the edge awakened their primitive fear of the Tang army.

The sporadic resistance that was limitedly organized was dashed away by the ruthless heavy armored cavalry. Most of the Tubo soldiers instinctively chose to escape the moment they saw the Tang army's cavalry.

They didn't know why the scouts didn't come to report the appearance of this cavalry unit. They suddenly appeared diagonally behind them, like jumping out of a crack in the rocks, and dealt them the most fatal blow.

However, running away is useless. How can a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse? Even the small steps of a war horse cannot be outrun by humans. A considerable part of the Tubo soldiers died in the pursuit of the Tang army's light cavalry. The few infantry who were able to resist were beaten to pieces by the heavy cavalry.

The Tubo commander was a very thief, and the moment this "main force of the Tang army" appeared, he rode away on a fast horse. The Tubo army, which lost its leader, was like a headless fly, and could only passively bear the fate of defeat.

In fact, even if there is a coach, the difference is not big, it is just a little futile resistance organized.

The veterans of the Anxi Protector's Mansion knelt at the top of the city, bursting into tears and wailing loudly.

It has been 40 years. Not to mention the people of the Western Regions, even they have not seen the Tang army for 40 years.

The people are looking forward to Master Wang, why aren't they looking forward to it?

They also wanted to go out to help, but they were too hungry and couldn't muster any energy to go out of the city to fight. They could only stand at the top of the city and watch the Tang army's cavalry charge wantonly among the Tubo crowd.

The morale of the Tubo army collapsed and they were defeated like a mountain. In just a few sticks of incense, the battle situation was completely locked.

Letting others continue to pursue the group of Tibetan soldiers, Li Shimin rode his horse and arrived at the foot of Qiuci City with Li Qing.

The city gate slowly opened. Guo Xin, the king of Wuwei County, led the crowd, forced himself down from the city wall, and greeted the long-awaited Master Wang at the city gate.

Li Shimin took the lead and came to the city gate.

Guo Xin and the other soldiers looked at Li Shimin, who was wearing the armor of Admiral Tiance, in astonishment. They recognized the man in front of them as the one who promised to take them back to Chang'an.

"Soldiers..."

His eyes were red, and he looked lovingly at the veterans of the Anxi Protectorate who were standing at the city gate.

"I will take you home!"

(End of this chapter)