The king behind the empress

Chapter 470
The most important thing for the army to go out is food and grass. Now there are only seven days left of food and grass. The surrounding towns have also been looted by barbarians, and the city has been burned to scorched earth. It is not an exaggeration to say that the walls are cleared.

Therefore, Tong Wenshan's army couldn't find any supplies other than the seven-day ration.

In fact, if it weren't for the loss of nearly 4 people in the army, I am afraid that there is not even seven days of rations.

Tong Wenshan rubbed his brows vigorously. Now he is faced with a very difficult choice, either abandon the camp he built and lead the army to retreat. In this way, the [-] soldiers who died in the battle before will be sacrificed in vain. Sufficient activity space will be regained.

Or, in the case of shortage of food and grass, stick to the camp, crucify the barbarians behind the county town, wait for the left minister to solve the court's affairs, and then send a large army to support and destroy the barbarians.

If you choose to retreat, the remaining 4 troops can be saved, but the price is to allow the barbarians to re-occupy those spaces. When they come back to clear them later, the loss of [-] troops cannot be solved.

And choosing the latter means that if the left minister can't even solve the court's problems and send reinforcements and food, then they will all die here meaninglessly.

Tong Wenshan thought about it all night in the tent, and finally he decided to withdraw the army. It was not that he didn't trust Prime Minister Zuo, but that the time left for Prime Minister Zuo was too short. Seven days was not enough for Prime Minister Zuo to settle everything before sending reinforcements.

However, he wanted to withdraw, but Wu Lianghe refused at this time.

Wu Lianghe, who originally planned to launch an attack in two months, found that after Tong Wenshan had spent a lot of effort to build a strong camp, he was actually very worried, because if Tong Wenshan sticks to this camp, he will choose to attack by force. If not, the loss will be heavy.

But because Tong Wenshan's choice of location is too important, Wu Lianghe can't let it go, so during this time, he has been thinking about countermeasures.

But before he could figure it out, he found that Tong Wenshan actually retreated on his own initiative. After learning about the situation, his first thought was that Tong Wenshan's move must be fraudulent, but after observing for a while, he found that Tong Wenshan was Really withdraw the troops, and completely abandon the camp that was built so hard.

Faced with this situation, the keen Wu Lianghe felt that there must be something wrong with Tong Wenshan's army. Combined with the news he had received, the answer was almost ready to come out about the politics of the Imperial Party and the Prime Minister's Party in the Weiguo court.

It must be that the party struggle in defending the country has affected Tong Wenshan's army, otherwise Tong Wenshan would definitely not give up the great situation created by sacrificing [-] soldiers.

Wu Lianghe, who came to this conclusion, no longer cared about his plan to go out in two months, and directly assembled the wolf guards. As for the soldiers, he sent as many as he could, and then he directly brought the most elite troops under his command. Wolf guards, go to pursue Tong Wenshan's army.

Under such circumstances, Tong Wenshan would never let go of the [-] troops in his hands!

Most of the wolf guards were cavalry. Although Tong Wenshan set off one day late, it was not a problem to catch up. In just half a day, the wolf guards who were rushing like the wind had already attached to Tong Wenshan's army.

And Wu Lianghe, who was following Tong Wenshan's army, was not in a hurry to let the wolf guards take action, but kept sending small groups of wolf guards to harass and hinder the marching speed of Tong Wenshan's army.

Facing this situation, no matter how experienced Tong Wenshan was, it would be difficult for him to come up with a solution right away.

The strength of the wolf guards was already far superior to them, and now they were cavalry, harassing them from a long distance. Unless he could stop and build a camp to fight, there was nothing he could do.

But the problem is that the reason why he gave up the previous camp and withdrew his troops was because his army had no food and grass and could not afford to fight a war of attrition, so it was simply unrealistic to stop.

In the current situation, these wolf guards are like real wolves, staring at them patiently, consuming their physical strength bit by bit, and when their physical strength is exhausted and their resistance is at the lowest, then these wolves , will swarm up and tear them to pieces.

This is the first time Tong Wenshan has encountered such a marching style army. When dealing with the harassment from the wolf guards, he set up ambushes several times, but they were all keenly detected by the wolf guards. , the wolf guards directly killed them, and couldn't stay at all.

Although the wolf guards also missed several real opportunities because of this vigilance, but Wu Lianghe didn't care at all, he was like a wolf, leading the wolf guards to follow Tong Wenshan's army calmly , except for harassment, there was not a single large-scale attack.

This feeling of being treated as prey made Tong Wenshan extremely uncomfortable. Several times he directly stopped the army and wanted to fight to the death with Wu Lianghe, but Wu Lianghe did not accept the move at all, and retreated directly with the wolf guards , There is no plan to meet the enemy at all.

On the fifth day, the army was exhausted to the extreme, but they were still more than 80 kilometers away from Jingping Pass. With their current marching speed, it would take at least three days to get there.

In the big tent, Tong Wenshan, who had not slept well for five consecutive days, called Qi Chuanwu, his deputy general.

"Chuan Wu, we can't go on like this."

Tong Wenshan said wearily, "The soldiers are extremely tired from the continuous harassment. If this continues, when the barbarians really launch an offensive, the soldiers may not even have the strength to take up weapons."

"Master, what do you say?"

Qi Chuanwu also hadn't slept well for a few days, his eyes were red from the boil, he looked at Tong Wenshan, and asked, "Otherwise we'll camp here and kill these sons of bitches!"

"I can't fight, let me tell you the truth, now there are only two days' food left in our army."

Tong Wenshan smiled wryly. He didn't tell Qi Chuanwu about the shortage of food and grass, so Qi Chuanwu has been thinking of stopping to fight the barbarians all these days, but all these opinions have been dismissed by himself, "Now, you know why? I have always disagreed with the camping of the army, right?"

"Two days?"

Qi Chuanwu looked a little surprised, and after a while, he figured out the reason, and couldn't help yelling, "We are fighting on the front line, and they actually cut off our food and grass in the back."

"Those bastards in the imperial court, what are they thinking?"

Qi Chuanwu's words were not polite at all, he not only scolded the princes in the court, but even scolded the emperor.

"Speaking of which, the old man has dragged you down."

Tong Wenshan guessed the reason for this, and he said with a little guilt: "Before, we attacked the city too fast, which made them look down on them, thinking that the barbarians were nothing more than that, so they would naturally find ways to limit them. old man."

"And food and grass are the best place for them to start."

"This group of bastards, do they know what they are doing?"

Qi Chuan shattered the table into pieces with a palm of martial energy, and then said angrily: "If we lose, the barbarians only need to take down Jingping Pass, and then they can drive straight in and approach the capital."

"At that time, the capital will really have a good or bad situation. They bastards will all have their heads chopped off by the barbarians!"

Looking at Qi Chuanwu who lost his temper, Tong Wenshan sighed helplessly. Those people in the royal party don't care about the barbarians at all. In the past few days, he has sent out many memorials one after another, clarifying the interests and explaining in detail Barbarian strength.

In the end, nothing came to light. Tong Wenshan estimated that the royal party probably thought that he exaggerated the military situation and wanted to support him, so he pressed the memorial.

So at this point, Tong Wenshan no longer counted on those people in the court. He looked at Qi Chuanwu and said with a serious expression: "Chuanwu, you should also know the importance of Jingping Pass."

"If we are defeated, these barbarian cavalry will be able to kill Jingping Pass in less than a day. If that happens, Jingping Pass will be very important to our country."

"So, the old man hopes that you can take [-] elites to retreat to Jingping Pass first, and then defend Jingping Pass to buy time for the imperial court to deploy troops."

"Retreat first?"

Qi Chuanwu was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood that Tong Wenshan was going to leave him behind, so he stood up directly and retorted loudly: "This is impossible!"

"Tong Shuai, you lead the troops to withdraw, and I will leave behind!"

"You can't stop those barbarian cavalry. If the old man doesn't stay, we won't be able to leave."

Tong Wenshan stood up, patted Qi Chuanwu on the shoulder, and said, "Don't be arrogant, there are too few guards at Jingping Pass, and the life and death of Weiguo depends on you."

"Tong Shuai..."

Qi Chuanwu was a little excited, but just when he wanted to say something more, Tong Wenshan interrupted him directly, "Qi Chuanwu, listen to the order!"

"Here!"

Hearing Tong Wenshan's military order, Qi Chuanwu subconsciously responded.

"This commander ordered you to retreat to Jingping Pass with [-] troops and hold it for at least two months. If one day is missing, military law will be followed!"

"Here!"

Qi Chuanwu straightened his body, his eyes were slightly red, because he knew that with the wolf guards watching so closely, Tong Wenshan's leaving behind would be a dead end.

But what Tong Wenshan said is correct, his prestige is not enough to convince the crowd, if he stays behind, he will not be able to stop the barbarian cavalry at all, and Tong Wenshan who evacuated first will not be able to leave, so no matter how sad and angry he is, he will still Gritting his teeth, he accepted Tong Wenshan's last military order.

"I'm going to arrange the army, you are ready to evacuate."

Seeing Qi Chuanwu accepting the military order, Tong Wenshan nodded with some relief. He patted Qi Chuanwu's shoulder again, and walked out without further words.

When Tong Wenshan got out of the army tent, Qi Chuanwu roared angrily. The nearly [-] troops died here for nothing because of the infighting among those bastards in the court. He will definitely avenge this revenge!

He stood in the tent, tightly clenched his fists, and then swore with a ferocious face: "When I return to the capital, I will definitely kill all those eggless guys in the court, one by one!"

Tong Wenshan didn't know Qi Chuanwu's plan, and after making a decision, he quickly completed the deployment.

He didn't tell the generals under his command the truth, but just told them that Qi Chuanwu was going to recruit reinforcements, and as long as they persisted for three days, the reinforcements would definitely arrive.

Although many generals had some doubts in their hearts, seeing that Tong Wenshan himself stayed here, they didn't think much about it.

"They divided 1 people?"

Wu Lianghe couldn't help frowning when he heard the news from the wolf guards. As he was getting closer to Jingping Pass these days, he was also a little worried, so he originally planned to launch an attack in these two days. Today, there was news of Tong Wenshan's division of troops.

"This old man, what exactly do you want to do?"

Wu Lianghe held the somewhat rough map in his hand, pondered for a long time in his heart, a little uncertain whether Tong Wenshan wanted the strong man to cut off his wrist, or had other intentions.

"Jingping Pass... Jingping Pass..."

Wu Lianghe rubbed his fingers on the map for a while, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, "Could it be that Tong Wenshan wants the [-] troops to garrison Jingping Pass?"

Thinking of this possibility, Wu Lianghe's eyes brightened instantly. Before that, he only guessed that the party struggle in the court of the Wei Kingdom had some influence on Tong Wenshan, but he never thought that the impact would be so serious that Tong Wenshan's kind Famous generals don't even have the slightest chance of escape.

What's more, in Tong Wenshan's view, if he loses, Jingping Pass may fall.

"Is the party struggle in Weiguo so serious?"

To be honest, Wu Lianghe didn't even think about the idea of ​​attacking Jingping Pass, and he wasn't even sure that Tong Wenshan's army would be kept. Therefore, in his plan, he just occupied Longbei County and wiped it out as much as possible. The strength of Tong Wenshan's army finally took Longbei County as the foundation, and gradually expanded its strength.

But now, Tong Wenshan's decision made him suddenly see an opportunity to keep Tong Wenshan in Longbei.

"Utugen!"

Wu Lianghe shouted, and called Wutugen directly, "I'll give you 5000 people to hunt down the leaving army."

After giving the order, Wu Lianghe looked at him with a serious expression, and said, "Remember, you can only chase and kill them, and don't fight them recklessly."

"The lives of our wolf guards are more expensive than theirs. We can kill as many as we can, and we don't have to force ourselves."

Although Wu Lianghe knew that letting these soldiers go back to Jingping Pass would definitely become an obstacle for him to capture Jingping Pass in the future, but he still refused to use the most elite wolf guards to fight against these soldiers.

After all, although he has a large number of barbarians, it is very difficult to train them to become wolf guards. For him, these elites will die one by one, so he will not easily consume wolf guards unless it is absolutely necessary.

What's more, Tong Wenshan is staying in the army now, he has already gained the most, with a mere 1 people, it doesn't make much sense to stay or not.

"Here."

Wu Tugen felt a little dissatisfied with this mission, he was more likely to stay here to fight the army, or directly wipe out all the 1 people, rather than just chasing and killing some people.

But he knew how much Wu Lianghe valued the wolf guards, so he didn't dare to act recklessly, so he responded dully.

(End of this chapter)