"Master Imperial Master, something bad has happened!" Ruocha's voice came from outside the tent.
"What's the matter?" Chi Yan, who was lying down, had no choice but to sit up again. Helian Changji, who was next door, also rushed over from the adjacent tent.
"Tanma came to report that the Longnan Pass has been lost, and the Qi army will arrive in about an hour!" Ruocha said with a pale face.
"Where's the number of people?" Chi Yan asked.
"About 10,000 cavalry, mainly from the Ganzhou Army, and hundreds of cavalry in colorful costumes, I don't know where they came from."
"Are you sure Li Hao's elite has not returned?" Chi Yan asked.
"No, there shouldn't be anyone fifty miles behind this cavalry group."
"I think so. Suzhou didn't come so quickly. Ganzhou must have gotten the news in advance. They immediately sent people to attack. Although we have many people, the outer city is vast and we don't have much advantage in any aspect. If we are attacked
It would be bad to get through it and let Li Hao escape!" Chi Yan said.
"My people are tired of attacking the city for days. I don't trust the rebellious officers and soldiers. Sir, it's better to let Kangche's army go." Ruocha said.
"Okay, the combat power of the Kangche cavalry should be able to defeat the Ganzhou cavalry. Don't wait for Li Hao. Attack the city in advance. If you can break it within two hours, you don't have to be afraid even if the 20,000 cavalry come back!" Chi Yan said
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"Woo - Wu -" The alarms sounded almost simultaneously from the sentry towers at the four corners of the inner city of Xining. The soldiers who were resting against the wall and the common people got up one after another. Many tall women were already participating, holding various kinds of weapons.
Weapons, keeping an eye on the rebels coming from all directions.
"Is Ruocha crazy? How long has it been since they attacked?" Li Hao said angrily.
"Not even a moment has passed. He is just a villain. You can't believe anything he says! This time there are strong attacks from all sides, and that guy is going to fight for his life!" Uzan drew his knife and stood upright on the northwest city wall. In the past, the rebels were the main attacker.
The direction has always been to the North Gate and the West Gate.
"The reinforcements are coming soon! The rebels are going to be finished -" Li Hao roared, and the other party's actions showed this fact. Li Hao had a tall figure. Although he was only a fourth-meridian cultivator, he was full of energy, and his roar could be heard in the night sky.
Very far away, when the people defending the city heard the king's cry, they all shouted, and the people in the city, old and young, began to cheer in unison: "The reinforcements have arrived! The rebels are finished!"
The cries of one hundred thousand people drowned out the cries of death from the thirty thousand siege troops, and even hit the opponent's morale. Many people unconsciously turned back to check, and their forward speed slowed down significantly.
"Quickly pass on the message. There are no reinforcements. Let all the people besieging the city scream!" Ruocha shouted urgently. After a cup of tea, the 30,000 people besieging the city and the 30,000 attackers all shouted: "
Not a single reinforcement!"
Inside and outside the city, the original shouts of killing turned into: "Reinforcements are coming!" "There are no reinforcements!"
After guarding for half an hour, many rebels rushed up the two-mile-square inner city, but no reinforcements were seen. Like everyone in the city, Li Hao's heart was slowly sinking. The situation on the city was about to change.
It looks like it's about to collapse.
At this time, an uncoordinated sound suddenly came from the south gate. From the outer city to the inner city wall, more and more people began to shout: "There are reinforcements!" "There is a cavalry attack!" "There are enemy troops behind us!
"
Ruocha, who was supervising the battle in the direction of the north gate, also noticed something strange and shouted: "Go and see what's going on?"
Before his men could run away, someone had already come to report: "A large group of enemy troops appeared at the south gate. They broke through our soldiers guarding the outside and are attacking the siege army from behind!"
"How many people came?"
"I don't know, at least several thousand!"
"Ming Jin retreated his troops, the siege troops stopped attacking, and all turned to the south gate to destroy the enemy's reinforcements!" Ruocha shouted urgently.
Seeing the rebels retreating like a tide, the defenders worked together to eliminate the enemy troops that had already attacked the city, and began to shout excitedly: "Reinforcements are coming!" "Reinforcements are coming!"
Helian Changji and Chi Yan both arrived at the Chinese army's tent in Ruocha. The fierce battle at the south gate stopped soon after, and it was confirmed that most of the incoming troops were officers and soldiers from the southern border of Tuyuhun, and they were all retreating southward.
The southern territory of Tuyuhun is mostly high mountain desert, and the population is even sparse. When Ruocha rebelled, he did not include those people at all. After less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, Ruocha already knew that the opponent only had 3,000 riders at most, and it would not constitute a serious problem.
Too big a threat.
Ten days ago, when the rebels chasing the Ministry of Rites mission came back to report the situation in Shiqu Town, Ruocha had thought of detaching 5,000 cavalry to recapture the town at the pass of the two countries, but he was worried that if too many Qi soldiers were killed,
The frontier army would be an obstacle to the future friendship with Qi, so they did not listen to Chi Yan's temptation and left it alone. They only waited until they broke the city and usurped the throne. The opponent's hundreds of cavalry were not a concern at all.
Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Rites, who usually waited for food and drinks, actually recruited three thousand cavalry in the southern border in one go. When he besieged the inner city, in order to facilitate the passage of the cavalry, he cleaned the obstacles set up in the outer city very clean. In some places,
It was also widened, which would facilitate the sneak attacks of those reinforcements!
"National Advisor, I am going to ambush 10,000 cavalry outside the city, and use some peripheral troops to continue attacking the city. I guess they have also seen that the city is about to be broken, and they will attack soon!" Ruozha said.
"What a great idea! Don't stop, keep attacking!" Chi Yan gritted his teeth.
After resting for half an hour, the siege battle started again. Sure enough, soon there was another cavalry attack from the outside in the direction of the south city. Ruozha's 10,000 cavalry who were ambushing outside quickly surrounded them. This was the strongest army of the rebels.
The cavalrymen who attacked were also very alert, and when they saw something was not going well, they fled south again.
Ruocha's order to the ambush was to eliminate the reinforcements, so the ten thousand cavalry launched a pursuit without hesitation. Along the way south, except for the small town of Longqian, which was forty miles away, there was no place to hide, and Longqian City was already there.
After the surrender, a thousand garrison troops from the western part of the sea were replaced, so Ruocha was very confident that he would crush the last hope of the royal city.
After a short period of movement, the siege continued. However, not long after, the sounds of reinforcements coming from the east gate and south gate simultaneously came from the east gate and the south gate. This made Ruocha a little dumbfounded. He could only stop the attack and go to defend the enemy. The enemy also understood.
They retreated quickly. Ruocha did not dare to attack again at night and planned to wait until daybreak.
After checking the data several times, it was determined that the ambushes of ten thousand cavalry were chasing about two thousand cavalry, and the final surprise attacks from the east gate and south gate were one thousand cavalry each. The combat power of those cavalry was not very strong, and the horses were not very good either. Some of them were still
Among the people killed by Camel Huo's Shu horses, several were obviously from Qi, so these four thousand horsemen were obviously the four or five hundred horsemen of Qi State in Shiqu Town plus the reinforcements invited by the Ministry of Rites.
After finding out the details of the opponent, if you feel at ease, you can simply let the soldiers take turns and wait until dawn before attacking! But before dawn, the first bad news came. The ten thousand people who were chasing at night sent someone to report back, and the escaped ones
About two thousand cavalrymen fled into Longqian City. The town was very small, and the city wall was no more than two feet high. The pursuers immediately dismounted and attacked. Unexpectedly, there were a large number of infantry in the city. They should all be Qi people, with a total of four to five thousand people.
The cavalry alone will never be able to capture it. Now the small town is still surrounded by thousands of cavalry. What should we do next?
Ruocha had a headache and shouted to the messenger: "Didn't you say that there are not many soldiers within a thousand miles of Shu? Where did four or five thousand people appear?" He didn't know that these people really came from thousands of miles away.
Came here from Jincheng.
"I, I'm just giving orders..."
"Go away, let everyone come back!" Ruocha shouted.
Chi Yan said: "When the cavalry comes back, be on guard around the outer city. Don't wait for dawn and continue to attack the city!"
"Okay!" Ruocha said.
Only the second bad news came again.
"Your Majesty, the cavalry of Kangche Kingdom are back!"
"What's going on? So fast? Did you repel the reinforcements?"
"No, I want support!" Marshal Kang Che burst in from outside his tent and told Ruocha the second bad news.
The two sides met fifty miles east of the royal city, with almost ten thousand riders. The Kangche people were good at sabers and did not take the Qi people seriously. They only exchanged a round of shots, and more than a thousand riders rushed to the front, preparing to attack the Qi army.
A powerful dismount. The Qi army at the forefront was Lu Zhenyao, and Ling Yue led the armament hall. Masters from the four schools may not be superior in terms of shooting skills, but in close combat, those with martial arts took advantage. In just one round, they killed more than a hundred enemies.
He only killed and injured twenty or thirty people.
The Kangche people came here to fish in troubled waters. Seeing that the situation was not good, they hurriedly ran away. Of course, such a difficult bone was left to King Haijun, who had a great family and a great business. Those ten thousand cavalry were half of the entire kingdom's cavalry. How could they be willing to fight?
Spent it all?
Besides, the 10,000 cavalry behind Lu Zhenyao are no longer what they used to be. After Zhang Zhiren became the commander-in-chief of Ganzhou, he learned the hard lesson and trained the cavalry hard. Although there were only so many horses, these cavalry had to be retrained and replaced, and their combat effectiveness was also improved.
It has far exceeded the time when Gan Xing went on the expedition. Moreover, military discipline and morale have been greatly improved. So Zhang Zhiren gave an order and everyone rushed to be first. They pursued for forty miles and wiped out more than a thousand people from Kangche State in one breath, but he did not have much
loss.
Hearing Marshal Kang Che say that he was defeated in a tough battle and suffered heavy casualties, Chi Yan couldn't help but sneer in his heart, but there was not much he could do at the moment. If he sent people to attack, let alone attack the city, he would almost be unable to siege it.
I can only ask: "Where is the other person? Why didn't he come after me?"
"They only have more than 10,000 riders. They are afraid that there are too many of us, so they stationed themselves more than ten miles away." Marshal Kang Che was still very clear about the situation behind him.
"Prince Haijun, wait for the cavalry from Longqian City to come back, let them work hard, and first attack the Ganzhou cavalry with the Kangche army!"
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Before dawn, the 20,000-strong army marching in a pincer shape attacked the Qi army again. However, they found that the Qi army did not fight, but kept retreating, always maintaining a distance of five or six miles. The two armies did not dare to pursue it further.
When the 10,000 cavalry evacuated from Longqian, the two thousand cavalry who ran out of the city followed provocatively from a distance. The other two thousand cavalry did not know where they were hiding.
After retreating for twenty miles, Zhang Zhiren saw the enemy returning, so he ordered to follow them, always keeping a distance of ten miles. At this time, several cavalry came running quickly. The leader was Xinleshan. He came out of Longqian City and followed the rebels.