Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 958 Breaking off the grain road and retreat

At this time, more than 70 people who were killed or injured just now had already been carried to the back of the hillside, and the members of the medical rescue team were busy treating the injured soldiers.In addition to the guards on duty, other people also began to take turns to line up for meals at the positions of the fire leaders of the companies on the hillside.

Marched overnight last night, and fought another battle just now, and the soldiers were very tired.After eating, they have to seize all the time to rest.Everyone knows that they cut off the road of Wu Shengjun to Lanzhou. Yingcheng Linbuchi of Lanzhou led an army of tens of thousands without food and grass supply, and was cut off the retreat. How could they give up? The Tubo army will come back soon, and come again There will inevitably be more troops.

On August [-]th of the second year of Tianding, when the sky gradually darkened, Yang Yanqing ordered the engineering battalion to set up warning ropes and copper bells in the surrounding woods, and lit a pile of them on the road where the enemy troops came. Heaps form a column of bonfires.

Yang Yanqing believed that the enemy army also needed to rest, so the possibility of attacking at night was not great. However, he still strictly followed the relevant regulations and sent out several guard posts. Every moment there will be a battalion of soldiers ready to face the enemy's night attack.

At the foot of Yang Yanqing, from the south slope to the west road at the foot of the mountain, there were more than [-] dead bodies on the short tens of meters of the hillside. These people were lying or lying down, and each of them showed strange distortions. Both eyes were wide open, and the expressions on their faces were ferocious. It was obvious that they all experienced a painful and violent struggle before dying.

The stream farther away has been clogged with corpses to form small pools. The stream has soaked the corpses into white, and dyed the grass and soil on both sides of the waterway into blood red and dark black.

The one-sided battle continued two or three times in the afternoon, the intensity of which can be seen from the shocking scene in the woods opposite the Second Brigade of the Qinglong Army Infantry.Around these trees, there were many corpses of soldiers of the Tubo army. From the depths of the forest to the front of the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom, the weapons and shields of the soldiers of the Tubo army were scattered everywhere.

At this time, the engineering battalion has already set up temporary tents, and even the people who helped the medical team set up a field hospital. Yang Yanqing smiled at the engineer battalion commander Ma Lijun: "With your engineering battalion, whether it is infantry or cavalry, All you have to do is fight.”

Ma Lijun was already used to this kind of praise, and he replied with a smile: "Our engineering battalion has spent so much money on His Majesty and the court, so of course it's worth it."

"Hmm... A few days ago, the spies from the Ministry of Security said that the Song Army also wanted to form an engineering unit." Yang Yanqing said.

Ma Lijun laughed a few times, and said with pride on his face: "Don't worry, deputy commander, the engineering battalion is not so easy to form."

"That's right, His Majesty personally came up with the charter for the formation of the engineers at that time, and equipped them with various ingenious tools produced by the Equipment Department. They had a whole set of unique skills, and they also had their own professional engineer training and combat regulations, but no one wanted to imitate them. You can learn it." Yang Yanqing smiled and nodded in agreement.

After laughing, Yang Yanqing went up to the ridge to have a look. Today's battles seemed to be printed in a mold. The Tubo army transported 2000 people through this road, and then braved the long-range attack of the Xiangfu army. Unfold, and finally rush out desperately, and then be repulsed... After a while, another 2000 people will come to die.

Looking at the battlefield full of corpses in front of him.Ma Lijun asked curiously: "Deputy Army Commander, today's battles were won too easily, have we killed a thousand enemies?"

Yang Yanqing shrugged his shoulders, his face was full of cold murderous intent, and said lightly: "I only killed 1000 or [-] Tubo dogs, which is not enough." Yang Yanqing smiled and pointed to the battlefield below, "These are in the Tubo area. The army is full of tribal miscellaneous soldiers with weak combat effectiveness, and we should be able to meet the real test tomorrow, and the elite of Tubo dogs should also come."

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"Report... I report to Master Yingcheng Linbu that Wu Sheng's army appeared on the grain road in Lanzhou, and an army from the Xiangfu Kingdom appeared. They occupied the Dafengkou and cut off the grain road." In Lanzhou City, a Tubo scout rushed into the city, All the way on the rampage, he came to the original Lanzhou magistrate's mansion where Ying Cheng Lin Buchi was, entered the meeting hall where Ying Cheng Lin Buchi was, knelt down and said loudly.

Yingcheng Lin Buchi's expression changed, and he said, "What, the entrance of Dafeng was blocked by people from Xiangfu Kingdom?"

"This is probably a member of the Xiangfu Kingdom's special brigade." Huangfu said in a timely manner with a look of surprise on his side.

Yingcheng Lin Buchi frowned. When they captured Lanzhou City and the three counties under its jurisdiction, the food and grass in the city had already been burned or mixed with poison by the defenders of Xiangfu Kingdom.Today, half of the grain and grass is raised by the Tubo people themselves from the Hehuang area, and the other half is secretly arranged by Zhao Pu and Cao Wei to be transported from Qinzhou in the Song Dynasty.As for the food stored in the homes of the common people in Lanzhou, it has long been robbed by the Tubo people with people and belongings, but now there is not much left.Therefore, transporting food from Wu Shengjun is their only way of food.

"How many people are there in Dafengkou Xiangfu Kingdom? Can you see their flags clearly?" Ying Cheng Lin Bu Chi was not an ordinary person, he suppressed the anger in his heart and asked.

The spy immediately said: "Reporting to Lord Ying Cheng Lin Bu Chi, the enemy army of the Xiangfu Kingdom did not find any flags, and the other side of the Dafengkou is difficult to inquire about. The number of people is estimated to be between two thousand and four thousand."

Yingcheng Linbu sighed, and said: "Yes, most likely it is the special brigade of Xiangfu Kingdom. Since the last time Gao Wuyang and Gai Zhucheng Ding Jiagang defeated that idiot Gwang Dorje with a suspicious strategy. , The special brigade disappeared into the mountains and disappeared. I sent many people into the mountains but failed to find them. I didn’t want them to cross the mountains and come behind us.”

"By the way, your Song State Song Wei Mansion has inquired about Xiangfu State's reinforcements. In addition to the special brigade and the Suzaku Legion, there are also 5000 Qinglong Legion members. Where is the Qinglong Legion now?" Ying Cheng Lin Buchi suddenly remembered. Regarding this matter, he said to Huangfutong with some dissatisfaction.

Huangfutong remembered that he had recently received information from spies from the Song Wei Mansion that the Azure Dragon Corps in Zhiyuan County had disappeared overnight. Because Xiangfu State's actions were too rampant, many of them were arrested and killed by the Security Department of Xiangfu State, and nearly half of the spies that Song Weifu had developed in Xiangfu State for more than a year were lost at once, which can be said to be a heavy loss.

While cursing the idiots of the Song Wei Mansion in his heart, Huangfu said without showing any emotion, "I was about to tell Lord Ying Cheng Lin Bu that I, the Great Song Dynasty, was in charge of Ying Cheng Lin Bu's lord, and the Northwest Frontier Army Commander Party The Marshal personally led [-] cavalry to ambush the White Wolf Army of Xiangfu Kingdom ten days ago. The White Wolf Army suffered heavy losses. Fu Guo's troops are weak, and it seems that the Qinglong Legion has not shown up after arriving in Zhiyuan County, and it probably turned around and went back to assist Huangwan Pass."

Ying Chenglin Bu chi nodded, his expression relaxed a little, but when he thought of the fact that Gwang Dorje had fought against the Suzaku Army with two or three times the strength more than ten days ago, and was finally defeated by the enemy, he was extremely annoyed, and couldn't help cursing: " It’s all because of this idiot, Gewang Dorje, who has been attacking Gezhucheng for a long time, and was defeated by the opponent twice, and the two combined cost us nearly 2 people.”

Huangfu Tong said: "Now Gewang Dorje with 3 horses is facing each other with Gaizhucheng Dingjiagang's less than [-] defenders and Deng Chongxuan's [-] Suzaku army on the bank of the Yellow River. Zhu Cheng, but at least the situation has been stabilized. As long as Master Ying Cheng and Lin Bu Chi can stabilize the situation in front of us, the Northwest Frontier Army led by the Great Song Party Commander will definitely not wait and see what happens, and the Liao Kingdom will not let it go This opportunity. By the way, I got the news that the Xiangfu Kingdom first marched westward to the Hexi Corridor, and now it is fighting on three sides. The food and grass are already unsustainable, and the emperor of the Xiangfu Kingdom was seriously injured by our Great Song assassins. Instability and panic, as long as Master Ying Cheng and Lin Bu Chi can persevere, Xiangfu Kingdom may fall apart at any time."

Huang Futong heard from the spies of the Song Wei Mansion that Ye Chen was seriously injured by the stabbing, but he did not hesitate to take the matter to Song Guo in front of Ying Cheng Lin Buchi.This gave Ying Cheng Lin Buchi another shot in the arm, and made Ying Cheng Lin Buchi more determined to fight the war with Xiangfu Kingdom to the end.

Sure enough, Yingcheng Linbuchi's face became more and more beautiful, and he said: "That idiot Gwangdorje was able to stabilize the situation under Gaizhu City, and he and the Suzaku Army have won and lost each other in these days of big battles, thanks to Little General Cao's credit."

Huangfu smiled together, and said: "What General Cao and my subordinates have done is to express our sincerity in the alliance between Da Song and Ying Cheng Lin Bu Chi."

Ying Chenglin Bu chi nodded, focused on what the spy said about the cut off of the grain road, thought for a while, and said: "Although the grain and grass in Lanzhou City are enough for my Tubo soldiers and horses to feed for two months, Wu Shengjun transported them to Lanzhou. The food road is no small matter, and it must be taken back from the special brigade of Xiangfu Kingdom. Come, pass me an order to let the big stone department and the small stone department each send 5000 troops to Dafengkou to deal with the special brigade. After taking Dafengkou back, it is estimated that the special forces It is difficult to wipe out the brigade completely, and it is bound to hide in the mountains and forests, waiting for an opportunity to rob and burn our grain roads. Therefore, the 5000 people from the Xiaoshi tribe were left to guard Dafengkou, and the 5000 people from the Dashi tribe were responsible for escorting the grain and grass with the Anduo tribe."

The continual autumn rain that fell in Huangyuan City yesterday gave Huangyuan City a hazy aesthetic feeling, but under this hazy aesthetic feeling, people even doubted whether the battle last night actually happened.

(End of this chapter)