Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 927

Seeing that the Tubo army was about to set fire to the city gate, Ma Yongbin let out a long sigh, and looked at the battle situation on Tuoba Fengxiong's side in a blink of an eye, and found that the Tubo army had broken through several gaps, and rushed to the top of the city like a flood.

"Stop!" Ma Yongbin lamented in his heart, he no longer had the will to fight in his heart, so he was waiting to find a way to escape, at this moment, he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Where are Company Commander Ma and Company Commander Tuoba? "

Ma Yongbin was stunned for a moment, followed the prestige, but saw that at this critical moment, Zeng Guoyong came to the city with a team of troops.

This is really like a drowning person who was about to drown in the water and saw a life-saving plank.The head of the city suddenly cheered, and Zeng Guoyong poked his head out. Seeing the tragedy of Bu Gai on the city wall, he raised his spear and killed a group of Tubo soldiers.

Ma Yongbin glanced briefly, and saw that Zeng Guoyong had brought quite a few people, three or four hundred people.In addition to the part of the battalion that was originally resting, there are more than [-] personal soldiers directly under the brigade headquarters.This group of fresh troops killed the generals, and the Tubo soldiers who just thought they had a firm foothold on the city wall immediately fell into a difficult situation of being divided and surrounded.

Ma Yongbin and Tuoba Fengxiong were overjoyed and surprised that Ding Jiagang would make an exception.But at the moment the crisis on the city wall was still unresolved, it was not the time to ask carefully. While fighting hard, the two watched Zeng Guoyong's reinforcements, and hundreds of civilian men came to the city with large gunpowder bags one by one.

At this moment, deafening explosions were heard in succession from both the South City and the North City.

Immediately afterwards, I saw an unknown major, commanding dozens of soldiers brought by himself, igniting a matchlock attached to a dozen large gunpowder bags, and then struggling to hold the gunpowder towards the Tubo army outside the city. Throw it out.

Ma Yongbin saw that the gunpowder packets fell halfway, and before they hit the ground, they exploded in mid-air with a bang.

The huge shock caused by the explosion of more than a dozen large gunpowder packs made him almost stumble.But he still saw the ladders of the Tubo army. In an instant, they were either blown away or blown into two pieces.Then at least hundreds of Tubo soldiers died directly in this earth-shattering explosion.Even the Tubo people who were still alive under the city wall forgot to fight at this moment.

Just as Ma Yongbin stood up straight again, he heard the sound of horns and war drums from the East City Tower.At some point, the gate of the east city had already been opened, and a whole battalion of cavalry, holding the battle flag high, roared loudly and rushed out of the city.

Ding Jia has just set the direction of his counterattack on the east city where they are located!
"Kill!" Ma Yongbin heard Tuoba Fengxiong roar loudly, and couldn't help shouting loudly: "Kill!"

They brandished their sabers and killed the remaining Tubo soldiers on the city wall.

And those Tubo soldiers who were still at the head of the city no longer had the will to fight, and dropped their weapons one after another.

To Ma Yongbin's surprise, the Tubo troops outside Dongcheng were not defeated.Because immediately after, they heard the sound of war drums and horns from the south, which was Gwang Dorje's general order, an order to attack!
These Tubo troops only hesitated for a while, then shouted loudly, brandishing all kinds of weapons, and rushed towards the cavalry battalion of the Suzaku Legion, which was leaving the city.

The reinforcements brought by Zeng Guoyong also quickly got off the city wall, mounted their horses, and joined the battle.

But neither Ma Yongbin nor Tuoba Fengxiong left the city wall.Tuoba Fengxiong directed the remaining subordinates to escort the captives to a safe place, while Ma Yongbin felt that he was almost exhausted at this moment when it seemed that he was about to win.

He just stood on the top of the city, watching the decisive battle between the cavalry.Ma Yongbin didn't know that the battle was actually only halfway through.The Tubo army has enough troops to help.

Ding Jiagang retained a new force, so Gwang Dorje naturally also retained a new force.

However, the Tubo army invested far more troops in the siege than the defenders in the defense. In this way, the new forces that the two sides could use for the cavalry decisive battle were almost the same.

Therefore, although Ding Jiagang had used his last bargaining chip, Gwang Dorje still waited patiently under Cao Wei's guidance.

On the siege, Gwang Dorje lost a move.Ding Jiagang's intention is now very clear, he was willing to take big risks, Gwang Dorje used most of the troops to attack the city, but he only used a small number of troops to hold on.At the most critical moment, when Gwang Dorje had dispatched most of his troops and his defenders were about to reach their limits, he suddenly did not hesitate to expend a large amount of gunpowder packs at one time, greatly demoralizing the Tibetan army.Then, he stormed the weakest and most exhausted part of the Tubo army with his remaining elite.

If Cao Wei hadn't been in the Tubo army camp, Ding Jiagang might have counted Gwang Dorje in it.

However, now with Cao Wei's guidance, Ding Jia just made some mistakes.

The vigorous and elite cavalry army he took pains to keep may not be able to defeat the Tubo tribal army in the east so easily.

Now it has become the Tubo tribal army to consume the new force that Ding Jia has just sent out.

Cao Wei and Gewang Dorje stood on the watchtower, watching the battle situation in Dongcheng intently.Cao Wei is patiently looking for the most appropriate time, as long as he can defeat this new force, Gai Zhucheng will be at his fingertips.

The Tubo armies in the north and south were panting on the surface. After being hit suddenly, they needed to regroup, but behind them, there were still [-] riders who had not participated in the siege and were waiting for Gwang Dorje's flag order.

However, at this moment, suddenly, the pupils of Cao Wei and Gwang Dorje dilated.

Because, within their line of sight, something completely unexpected happened to them,
They saw that in the camp of the tribal army in the east, all the original battle flags were pulled out suddenly, and replaced by hundreds of scarlet battle flags in an instant.

From a distance, behind the forest in the west, the clan flags were flashing, dust was flying, and a large army was rushing towards here!

"The other party's reinforcements? Where did the reinforcements come from?"

As soon as this thought flashed through Gewang Dorje's mind, he heard the roar of cheers in the city and the sound of drums and horns. He saw Ding Jiagang in the city mobilizing troops in a hurry, and groups of defenders rode on horses and rushed towards the east city.

In the trap!Gewang Dorje didn't dare to hesitate any longer, disregarding Cao Wei's urgent dissuasion "wait a minute", he immediately turned around and ordered in a deep voice to the messengers beside him: "Command, all troops immediately spread south! Order Anduo to blindly go Lead the army to meet the army of Dongcheng, and cut off the rear for the army. Before the army retreats, all the equipment must be burned and lined up. Anyone who dares to disturb each other will be killed!"

July 24, Song State Dakou Village.

Dang Jin got up early in the morning and went to the military camp for routine inspections.

The distance between Dakouzhai of Song State and Huangwan Pass of Xiangfu State is less than a hundred miles. Due to geographical location and terrain, this is the most important section of the more than 2000-mile border defense line connecting the two countries.

On the Song side, 150 miles southeast of Dakouzhai is Gyeongju, the main garrison of the Northwest Camp, while on the Xiangfu side, the White Wolf Army is in charge of stationing here.There is even a brigade of the White Wolf Army stationed in Huangwan Guanzhong.

Recently, [-] Northwest Frontier Troops of the Song Kingdom stationed in Dakouzhai, and made a gesture of suppressing the border. On the one hand, it was to contain the White Wolf Army of the Xiangfu Kingdom; If the Tubo people do it, then Song and Liao can really send troops to invade Xiangfu at any time.

However, as long as Xiangfu Kingdom is not defeated in the Hexi Corridor, and is not defeated by the Tubo people, whether it is Song Dynasty or Liao Kingdom, they will not easily send troops to Xiangfu Kingdom and get angry.After all, it hasn't been long since they were defeated by Xiangfu Kingdom successively.But for the Song State, it was the imperial court and the Song Emperor who would not easily send troops to the Xiangfu State.As far as Dang Jin is concerned, he will never forget the shame of being defeated by Xiang Fuguo a year ago and being seriously injured. He dreams of revenge.

Therefore, when the Privy Council issued an order a few days ago to place the army in front of Dakouzhai to contain Xiangfu Kingdom's troops stationed on the border, he did not hesitate to mobilize all the troops to Dakouzhai, and every day, he was ready to go to Dakouzhai at any time. He is preparing to send troops to attack Xiangfu country, making sure that he does not miss any possible opportunity.Every day, morning and night, he inspected the camps of each army twice.

But today, when Dang Jin was leaving the city gate of Dakouzhai, he heard several horsemen chasing after them. These people beat their mounts loudly while shouting the official taboo of Dang Jin, so he had to stop his horse and send his own soldiers to go ask.I saw the soldiers leading the order to go forward, talked with those people for a few words, and then led them to gallop. When he arrived in front of him, Dang Jin couldn't help being surprised. It turned out that one of them, but he recognized it, was the palace. One of the eunuchs was called Hou Wengang. Dang Jin knew that this eunuch was quite trusted by the emperor, so he didn't know why he appeared here.

Although he was only a servant of the seventh rank, Dang Jin knew that the closest people around these emperors were the ones who should not be offended, especially the generals like them who commanded troops outside.So he didn't dare to be negligent, and hastily rode forward and asked, "Why did the envoy Hou appear here?"

But Hou Wengang didn't answer, just waved his hand, and a guard who looked like a big inner guard got off his horse quickly, solemnly took out an extremely exquisite sandalwood box, held it in both hands and sent it to Hou Wengang.Then Hou Wengang lifted the sandalwood box high and said sharply: "General Dang, you have the emperor's approval."

Dang Jin was shocked, rolled off his horse quickly, knelt on the ground, shouted long live, took the wooden box, inspected the seal and opened it carefully, after careful inspection, he asked the clerk next to him to put it away, got up and said to Hou Wengang: "The emperor's will , The next official knows. The envoy Hou has come to work hard, please go back to the post for a while to rest, after the official finishes this mission, come back at night, and then give the envoy a cleansing.”

(End of this chapter)