Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 934 Tuoba Gelu's Hesitation

The Tubo army captured a large number of people in Lanzhou, built earth mountains on the east, north, and south sides of the city, and built a large number of ladders. Under Cao Wei's guidance, they even built a few car crashes and stone throwing machines. .With the help of these siege equipment, Gaizhu City was attacked day and night.

Fortunately, there are twenty giant crossbow guns and fifty trebuchets at the head of Gaizhu city, as well as hundreds of gunpowder packs in stock, as well as a lot of light fuel and other sharp weapons for defending the city, otherwise Gaizhu city would have fallen long ago.

In addition, Ding Jiagang also ordered people to quietly use a rope to drop into a basket in the middle of the night and send some people to plant a lot of landmines within a hundred meters below the city, especially in the area facing the city gate.When the Tubo army began to attack the city during the day, they stepped on landmines and suffered unexpected losses.

However, the Tubo people quickly thought of a way to deal with it, which was cruel and simple. Before attacking the city, they began to drive a large number of captured people to the front, which turned out to cause great difficulties for the Xiangfu army defending the city.In addition, a soldier of Ding Jiagang's engineering company used light fuel to invent a flame-breathing firearm, which was extremely effective in resisting the siege of a ladder, even far more useful than explosive firearms.

Under the guidance of Cao Wei, the Tubo army attacked the city in different ways, while Ding Jiagang used various methods to adapt to the situation.Naturally, the Xiangfu army with rich experience in defending the city would not lose to the Tubo people, but the huge gap in the number of troops between the two sides was irreparable.The three consecutive days of strong attack certainly caused heavy casualties to the Tubo army, and Ding Jiagang's troops were on the verge of collapse, and now more than half of them have been killed or injured. There are no more than 2000 soldiers who can barely fight. Even if Ding Jiagang hadn't found reinforcements two days ago When they arrived in Jingtai County, they almost ordered to abandon the city to break through.

But they waited for a day and a night, only to find that the reinforcements did not cross the river immediately!

Therefore, Ding Jia just ordered Zeng Guoyong to lead [-] dead soldiers out of the city in the middle of the night to break through and ask for help.

As a result, he was the only one who crossed the Yellow River alive.Kou Zhun blushed when he heard Zeng Guoyong's introduction. He was both ashamed and ashamed. After all, he was not in a hurry to rescue Gaizhucheng. It was he who proposed to use Gaizhucheng as a base to contain the Tubo troops, but no matter it was him, he never felt ashamed at all. Deng Chongxuan underestimated the ability of the Tubo people to attack the city. To be precise, they did not expect that there would be a master siege master in the Tubo army.

"Since Gaizhu City may be breached at any time, let's cross the river tonight!" Deng Chongxuan said decisively after thinking for a while, with a decision in his heart.

"Is it too late?" Wang Chao said worriedly.

"I've been preparing to cross the river all day and night, so everything is ready in time!" Deng Chongxuan looked at Wang Chao, then at Kou Zhun and Zeng Guoyong, "And we crossed the river overnight, just by accident, and we couldn't beat the Tubo people by one mistake. !"

In the early morning of July 28, I went down to the valley.

Tuoba Gruller stopped on the side of the road, looked at the groups of cavalry and infantry who were silently marching eastward on the avenue beside him, and then glanced at Zhe Yuxuan who was following him, and couldn't help but feel in his heart. It was a moment of hesitation.After he learned that Song Jun had come to provoke him, he was a little worried.In addition, he knew that the country was already at war on both sides, His Majesty was seriously injured, and Jia Xian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was grey-haired about the supply of grain and grass. Naturally, it was best not to start the war lightly under such circumstances.So he wanted to lead the main force to station at Huangwan Pass. With the defensive capabilities of Huangwan Pass, even if the Song Army's northwestern frontier army of [-] troops came out in full force, he would have the confidence to defend it for several months, and let the Song Army be beaten to death. flow.He believed that Dang Jin would definitely be able to figure this out, so his plan was to scare off the Song army after he brought the main force of the White Wolf Army to Huangwan Pass, so that Dang Jin would not dare to act rashly.

Of course, if the provocative Song army does not return to Dakouzhai, then he will destroy or severely injure it with lightning speed according to His Majesty's previous order.

Unexpectedly, by mistake, halfway through, he realized that Zhang Shouyi had sent troops on his own initiative. Have such guts.Moreover, judging from the information he had obtained before, the relationship between Zhe Yuxuan, the deputy army commander, and Zhang Shouyi was not good, let alone that the two could work together like this.

However, although Tuoba Gelu's plan was almost certainly disrupted by this change, he didn't intend to blame him at all.In Tuoba Gelu's view, this is also a good thing. If his generals are all dumbfounded, they will only do what he orders, and they don't know how to adapt, that means they can't make any mistakes. Bagelo also has a headache.What's more, His Majesty had the intention to act first to scare away the Song and Liao armies. Zhang Shouyi and Zhe Yuxuan's doing so was not considered a private conspiracy, let alone a big deal.

However, although Zhe Yuxuan's words were reasonable, they could not change the essence of the facts. Zhang Shouyi and Zhe Yuxuan were going to drag him into a battle that he didn't understand at all.He is the regiment commander of the White Wolf Legion. As a matter of course, he should be in charge of all the information and control the situation and direction of the battlefield.But in the current situation, almost all the situations were relayed to him by Zhe Yuxuan.He hadn't had the time to see a Song army with his own eyes, but Zhe Yuxuan and Zhang Shouyi put such a rare opportunity in front of him.

If the Song Army really didn't know that he was leading the main force of the White Wolf Army, and if Zhe Yuxuan and Zhang Shouyi's plan succeeded, they could wipe out the Song Army's five thousand cavalry in one fell swoop, which would make his original idea come true. Fu Guo's fear can scare Song Guo even more, and it has dealt a heavy psychological blow to Song Guo's monarchs and ministers, reminding them of the history of the two disastrous defeats of Xiang Fu Zhan last year, so that Song Guo never dared to think unreasonably.At the same time, it can also deter the Liao Kingdom.

However, Tuoba Gelu, who had just arrived in the lower valley, was like a blind and deaf man.All the information in the plan he told Zhang Shouyi and Zhe Yuxuan was described to him by Zhe Yuxuan and Zhang Shouyi.If Zhe Yuxuan's and Zhang Shouyi's judgments were slightly different, the consequences might be completely different.

Therefore, what he has to choose is actually to trust or not to trust these two people.

For generals, this is actually commonplace.Therefore, the judgment of the ability and character of the specific person doing things is the key at this time.

They often have to make judgments among fighters and traps, and have to gamble to believe or inexplicably doubt the information provided by many people they don't know at all, and usually in this case, they don't have much time to go. Take it easy.

Fortunately, although Tuoba Gelu was a little worried about Zhe Yuxuan, he still trusted Zhang Shouyi's ability.Otherwise, the most important border gates such as Huangwan Pass would not be handed over to him for garrison.

In addition, Zhe Yuxuan's military rank and military honors are higher than Zhang Shouyi's, but he is willing to do the job of delivering letters for Zhang Shouyi. But Tuoba Gelu, since ancient times, has been single-minded in military power, this is certainly not a rare thing, but what is rare is that Zhe Yuxuan is willing to accept it without a single complaint.

In short, after discussing with the chief of staff and the military justice envoy, Tuoba Gelu finally decided that he could not give up this fighter plane, so he sent someone to send a reply letter to Zhang Shouyi overnight, agreeing to act according to the plan the next day.

For the sake of caution, Tuoba Gelu divided his troops into two groups again, and asked Sun Feiyu, the commander of the second cavalry brigade, to lead two thousand cavalry, pick bells in their hands, and stop the drums with stiff flags, and detour to Zhang Shouyi's east. From then on, Sun Feiyu led his army to seize the camp of the Song army, which could not only disturb the Song army's morale, but also prevent the main force of the Song army from having other plans.If Dangjin heard the news and came to rescue, as long as Sun Feiyu blocked it for a moment, Tuoba Gelu would be able to concentrate his elite troops, annihilate the [-] Song troops who came forward first, and then retreat the main force to Huangwan Pass.

This arrangement, combined with the strategy presented by Zhe Yuxuan and Zhang Shouyi, even if it cannot be called seamless, it can be considered very thorough.After careful consideration, Tuoba Gelusi couldn't find any faults. Even if Dangjin had some tricks and tricks, as long as he deployed such a surprise soldier as Sun Feiyu, he would always be able to escape safely.

However, when Tuoba Gelu woke up early this morning, thinking of Sun Feiyu's background, he muttered again in his heart.Sun Feiyu was the leader of Feibao Peak, the largest group of bandits among the [-] bandits in Huanglong Mountain next to Daxiaguan during the battle with the Liao Army last year. Of course, he was also a puppet supported by Shangguan Bingyun and Bai Zixuan at that time.But after the [-] bandits recruited An Na to form officers and soldiers, regardless of Sun Feiyu's ability, in line with the principle of giving the world's heroes a thousand pieces of gold, he still gave some military officials to the main leaders of the bandits, and Sun Feiyu even gave it to the brigade commander. Location.In fact, this is already regarded as a low official. If this kind of thing happened to Song Guo, then Sun Feiyu's official position is not only a brigade commander, but even a knighthood.

Suspiciousness is a common problem of many generals, Tuoba Gelu thought about Sun Feiyu's usual bravery and ability, and he was relieved.But he couldn't help thinking about the whole deployment again in his heart, and he didn't give up until he couldn't find any flaws in reality, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, it is too late to tell Zhang Shouyi to change his mind. If he changes his mind temporarily, it will be like killing thousands of soldiers under Zhang Shouyi's command. Others may do this kind of thing, but Tuoba Gelu has always been loyal to his soldiers Most importantly, he couldn't do it no matter what.

So, he really didn't want anything to go wrong.

Tuoba Gelu glanced at Sun Feiyu one after another, then glanced at Zhe Yuxuan, and quickly looked away. It was hard for others to imagine how much turmoil their leader felt in this short moment. .

(End of this chapter)