A small hill not far from the city was surrounded by clusters of firewood burning, making crackling and crisp sounds.
After three or four days of trekking, the Tang army finally arrived at the Jiuqu line on the afternoon of May 21, the eighth year of Tianbao. After scouts, most of the nearby Tubo army were huddled in the city wall, outside the Jiuqu city.
No Tubo soldiers stationed in the city were found.
After a discussion with the marching Sima, the commander of the Tang army Gao Xiuyan issued an order to hide and ambush the entire army. The scouts of hundreds of people investigated for a long time before they found this more than 300 feet five hundred steps away from the city wall.
Gao Xiaoshan. As soon as he saw this excellent natural bunker, Gao Xiuyan was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Tang army to set up camp on the spot.
The temporary camping site chose a small leeward depression. First, the terrain here is significantly lower than the sunny side of the hillside, which is easy for a large number of troops to hide. Second, a large river called the Ya River flows through the depressions between the mountains, which can be solved at once.
The army's drinking water problem.
"Try more hard and set up this and the pole!" Dou Qing pointed to the north corner of the tent and ordered a veteran of Tongwu.
"Oh, ah." The veteran nodded quickly and walked towards the tent with a wooden pole.
It's strange that the leather surface of this tent is not the common triangular burlap of Tang army, but a mixed product sewn from several curtains and leather. Due to the hasty work, a discerning person will definitely be able to
I saw the crooked and thick threads at the joints. However, this marching and war is the most important practical thing. It is not about making a new jacket for the young lady, so why bother with needles and threads, and threads are pierced?
What's even more strange is that this temporary tent was so big that it was terrifying, with more than twenty triangular single-top tents on it.
From a distance, this giant is like a giant thatched house wrapped in yellow cowhide. Although it looks ugly, it is novel inside and outside.
"General, after the last pole is built, the work will be completed!" Dou Qing saw Li Kuo walking in front of him, and hurriedly bowed and reported the latest situation.
"Yes." Li Kuo nodded with satisfaction and patted Dou Qing's arm: "Brother Dou, thank you for your hard work this time. If this plan is successful, you think you have made great contributions."
Dou Qing did not dare to take credit, so he waved his hand and said, "What are you saying? If you hadn't come up with such a clever plan, wouldn't everyone be anxious to be in this mountain bump?"
"We cannot say this. If the brothers had not tried their best, we would not have completed the work so quickly."
"Don't fight with you two." Li Zigu walked over and said with a smile: "Qilang came up with a clever plan to be the first, and Captain Dou took action to make the project complete as scheduled and was in the second seat."
"San brother, you are such a good person. You have told you all the good things!" Li Kuo had completely emerged from the shadow of being forced to marry by his third brother, and his intimate relationship with Li Zigu was the same as before.
Li Zigu coughed lightly: "Now is not a joke. Gao Shuai wants to discuss important matters with you, and come to the Central Army as soon as possible."
"Yes." Li Kuo closed his smile and nodded.
This time, in the central army tent, the marching commander Gao Xiuyan was walking anxiously.
"Hiss", the curtain opened and a cold wind was poured into it.
"You guys are here, come and take your seat!"
Gao Xiuyan was obviously very anxious and his voice was extremely rapid.
Li Kuo and Li Zigu entered the seat one by one according to the middle ranks of the army, and bowed to Gao Xiuyan.
"We are late, please forgive me."
"Forget it." Gao Xiuyan waved his hand and sat in the main seat and said, "I'll call you all overnight today. You should all know the reason. It's been five days since we arrived in the Jiuqu Generation, and so many people have been on the way.
Tang's actions have passed, even if he does a good job in the hidden work, the Tubo people have noticed it."
"Gao Shuai said it right. The scouts we sent searched the mountain, but they didn't even find a figure. In my humble opinion, there should be no large Tubo army within a radius of dozens of miles, and they should have obtained it.
The news huddled in Jiuqu City.”
A Tang army general who looked like an adjutant patted his chest and responded first.
"Yes." Gao Xiuyan waved his hand and signaled him to be calm: "The reason for marching all the way is to avoid leaking the wind. Now it seems that there is no airtight wall in this world."
He originally wanted to lead the crowd to defeat the Tubo army stationed outside Jiuqu City, and then concentrate his superior forces to attack the city. Now it seems that this plan is impossible to achieve. Although the number of Tubo people is less than that of themselves, they have a strong position.
The city can be defended. As long as they close the city gates and refuse to go out to fight, they will have no choice. Although he has 30,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 warriors of the White Wolf clan in his hands, he does not have the absolute certainty and courage to forcibly attack the city.
Although Jiuqu City is not as tall and strong as the Central Plains city, it is still dozens of feet high. His number is only twice that of Tubo people. Even if he seizes the city, the losses will be very heavy.
Besides, their mission was not to seize the city, but to siege the city to force the Tubo people on the Chiling line to return to help. However, it is obviously not a good idea to waste outside the city. The garrison in Jiuqu City should be 10,000.
Within 20,000, the food stored in the city was conservatively estimated to be enough for the Tubo people to eat for two months.
Two months! Gao Xiuyan smiled bitterly in his heart. Don’t say whether the Hehuang Battle will be over in two months. Even if the army can stalemate with the Tubo people on the front battlefield, the Tubo people will not be exhausted by then, and he will have tens of thousands of dollars.
Brothers may be dying from hunger!
Fortunately, Li Kuo came up with such an amazing plan!
He glanced at the boy and Gao Xiuyan felt mixed feelings.
As the commander of the First Army, he is in a very contradictory mood now. On the one hand, he is glad that he came up with a clever plan for the young man, but on the other hand, he feels a strong sense of threat. Recently, this young man has performed too well and too
It's so outstanding that it's even overshadowed myself!
Humph, if he is more honest, he will give him some sweetness. If he is not aware of his advancement and retreat, he will take this opportunity...
"Thanks to the Tubo people who came up with such a clever plan, this is a little bit of afflicted by the Tubo people." He thought so, but a smile had already been on his face. "I hurried to call everyone today, just tell me
Everyone, the river has been modified!"
Looking around everyone, Gao Xiuyan said proudly: "In the past, Wang Ben borrowed the Tianhe River to flood the Liang, but now I, Gao Xiuyan, lured the river to flood the nine curves. I just hope that everyone will work together to win this strong city, and then history books will be released.
The above will also write a note for us in a rich and colorful way!" (Note 1)
Note 1: In the 222nd year of King Zheng of Qin (225 BC), Qin sent general Wang Ben to lead troops to attack Wei, and led the Yellow River and Dagou to flood the capital of Wei Daliang (now northwest of Kaifeng City, Henan Province). Daliang City was destroyed and the King of Wei surrendered.