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    Chapter 63: Diacheng (Part 1) The sky is approaching dusk, and the Yinshan Mountain is covered with a golden glow.  Wang Hua looked at Zhang Shougui and Lun Gongren, they were about to separate here.  This time Wang Hua brought a lot of soldiers, ten thousand troops.  However, for this mission, there are still fewer soldiers.  In fact, it was him who caused the trouble.  When he was in Fengzhou, he and Zhang Renyuan jointly built four cities. The first one in the east was across the river from Shengzhou. Together with the Shanyu Protectorate, it was like two ghosts beating the door, guarding Shengzhou and Yunshuo.  Safety.  But this time Chang Yuankai's army was withdrawn and the city became empty, which actually benefited the Turks.  In order to evacuate the captured people, a pontoon bridge was built across the Yellow River.  The Yellow River has many evils, but only one thing is rich.  The Yellow River starts from Qingtong Gorge and goes straight to Hekou Town. There are no large tributaries entering, and the water is gentle. There are a large number of plains on both sides of the river, namely the Yinchuan Plain and the Hetao Plain, and there is not even a flood season or a rainy season.  So building a floating bridge is very easy.  This surrendered city happened to serve as a barrier for the Turks' pontoon bridge.  If you want to stop the people captured by Mochu in Henan, you must first capture Dongshoujiang City and destroy the pontoon bridge.  But it was not easy to win. There were 3,000 Turkic troops stationed in Shengzhou, including 1,000 soldiers stationed in the surrender city of Hebei.  The city wall is already very tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it will take a short time to capture it.  Otherwise, the Turkic soldiers guarding Shengzhou would immediately use the pontoon bridge to defend from the side.  Moreover, Mo Ju, the brave general Mo Heqian admired, was leading an army of 6,000 to attack the Shanyu Protectorate, and they would come back at any time to respond.  If he is allowed to come back, Zhang Shougui's four thousand troops will return in defeat.  Then this sub-strategy will fail.  Then there is the Zhongshoujiang City, which was built against the Anbei Protectorate.  There is also a second pontoon bridge built by the Turks here, with only a thousand soldiers stationed.  It is a little easier to attack than others, but Wang Hua's appointment made the generals a little worried.  Wang Hua asked Lun Gong and his son to lead two thousand soldiers to attack.  Now that there are so many fierce generals in the blood camp, why did Wang Hua use this Tibetan man whom no one understands to carry out this mission.  But this surrendered city is what Wang Hua is most confident about.  The difficulty is low. If Lun Gongren and his son could not even complete this task, the Lun family would not be able to establish such a great reputation in the later Tang Dynasty, and Li Longji would not personally visit Lun Gongren's bedside.  Wang Hua himself also led an army of four thousand.  There were also 3,000 Turks stationed in Fengzhou and Xishou Jiangcheng.  And stay away from the Turkic army.  But he has the greatest difficulty.  The Yellow River started from Huaiyuan City and flowed not far downstream. In later generations, it divided into a shoe-shaped fork to the north. In this shoe-shaped basin, the north side later became a dotted line, the river surface became very small, and then there were countless ditches and small rivers.  Densely distributed.  But most of these are artificial rivers, but in the Tang Dynasty, the two Yellow Rivers in the south were both quite wide, and Fengzhou was in the middle. It seemed to have become a river center island. The area of ????this river center island was several times larger than the area of ??Chongming Island later.  Fengzhou is located on Hezhou. The Turks of this large river continent did not build bridges because there were originally simple stone bridges connecting the north and south of the river continent.  Therefore, Wang Hua not only captured Xishoujiang City on the north bank of Hezhou, but also broke through the Turks' bridge defense.  At the same time, the bridge on the south bank must be destroyed so that Wang Hua can use the convenience of the Yellow River to quickly transport supplies in the next battle.  Also, Wang Hua is very likely to use the Yellow River to set up a battle formation hundreds of years ago.  Liu Yu's Queyue Formation was not only like this, Mo Chu used his intuition to arrange many back-ups before he knew Wang Hua's intentions.  Wang Hua also had an intuition that the Turks might send additional reinforcements south to support Mochu.  It is impossible for Mochu to be unable to go back, not only for him, but also for those two ministers, Apodagan and Dunyugu.  Once all three of them are killed or captured by themselves, most of the Turkic people will fall.  But the most convenient route is undoubtedly from the west side of Yinshan Mountain, and Xishou Jiangcheng will become the first priority.  At that time, we may face ten times the oppression of the enemy, so Wang Hua himself will take charge of this aspect.  In this battle, both Wang Hua and Mo Chui showed keen military sense, and they also had many advisers and good generals under their command. Before the battle started, the air was already filled with a strong smell of gunpowder smoke.  In addition to these three surrendered cities, there is another city on the east side of Shizui Mountain, which Wang Hua named Anyuan City.  It was this Anyuan City that prevented Mochu from going south to Lingzhou along the Yellow River, which reduced the burden of defense in Lingzhou City when Mochu invaded.  But the other three cities have now become Wang Hua's burden.  It was getting dark, and Lun Chengxin came over and said, "Battle Supervisor, come and take a look." Wang Hua followed him to the top of the mountain, took the telescope, and looked to the west.  There is nothing on the western mountain roadPeople came over, along with cattle and sheep and baggage.  Some people were better off, others were in ragged clothes, and there were some Turkic soldiers on both sides, holding whips in their hands and scolding them.  This was another group of captured people, so Mochu sent soldiers to move to the Turks.  Wang Hua threw down the telescope, turned around and asked: "In terms of integrity, what do you mean by calling me to see it?" The young man muttered: "There are many people in this group, and there are not many soldiers on the other side. Anyway, we are here  It's dark now. It's almost dusk. Should we rescue them?" Wang Hua asked, "In terms of integrity, do you think we can keep all the Turkic warriors behind if we send troops at this time without any surprises?"  Integrity cannot answer.  What is an accident?  Unexpectedly, there were only about a hundred Turkic soldiers escorting this group of people, but there were mountains on both sides. If something happened, it was still possible for the soldiers to escape through the mountains.  "Besides, if we just annihilate these Turkic soldiers, how will we resettle these people?" But when it came to this, Wang Hua was also frustrated.  He knew that these days, the Turks were frantically transferring people. When they left Lingzhou, they learned that they had kidnapped thousands of people. After these few days, it is impossible to know how many people there were.  There was no other way, but watching things happen before his eyes still made him feel unhappy.  The two people walked silently back to this hidden ravine.  It soon became dark.  Wang Hua let the soldiers eat dry food, looked at the sky, and said, "Let's go." The 10,000 troops rushed out of Yinshan Mountain and began to divide into three parts from the plain and rush towards their respective targets.  Although this time, because of the lack of troops in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, Mochu moved the people's supplies to the Turks boldly and boldly, but it was not without benefits. The people who were transferred were first of all the people of Shengzhou and Fengzhou. This caused the desert to be deserted, with only  There are endless patches of green grass, and the fishy smell of the Yellow River water is in the air.  Therefore, the three armies galloped across the wilderness without anyone noticing.  At the same time, there was also a large army galloping on the south bank of the Yellow River.  Mochui's son-in-law, Huo Pojie Lifa Shi Ashibi, led five thousand people and rushed towards Fengzhou.  Along the way, except for two and a half nights of rest on the road, they were almost always on the road.  Seeing that Fengzhou was approaching, Ashibi did not even agree to let the soldiers rest.  Oteqin also set out from Shengzhou. He only rested for a while in Shengzhou, gave a warning greeting to the general Ibili stationed in Shengzhou, and immediately ran to the northeast. This was a call to Moju to immediately return to victory.  The state returns to defense.  After greeting him, he had to cross Yinshan Mountain and go back to recruit an army for further support.  Although he is not as smart as the two advisers around Mo Chui, he has already guessed something about his father's arrangements.  Mo Chui is doing this not only for the sake of the people, but also possibly to have a showdown with the blood camp.  But he only guessed a little bit, the Silent Sword War would definitely be a battle. At this time, the Blood Camp first fought several battles, and then went through the Tubo War. Although the morale was high after several great victories, the losses would not be low.  Defeating the Blood Camp at this time, or hitting it hard, would just weaken the strong momentum of the Blood Camp.  But he will not completely destroy the blood camp. This is to allow the blood camp to continue to survive and cause internal strife with the Tang Dynasty.  In this way, neither the Blood Camp nor the Tang government would be distracted from him.  When he was almost done with it, he would start again and get some bargains.  Fortunately, when Mochu received the message, it was already several days late, otherwise Wang Hua would have no chance of winning this battle.  He led four thousand of his men and ran wildly across the wilderness, unaware of the approaching crisis.  The wilderness was empty without any human habitation. At the same time, due to the Turks' negligence, there was no spy patrolling.  Soon they arrived in front of Xishoujiang City. In front of a ditch a few miles away, Wang Hua reined in his horse and everyone stopped.  Wang Hua looked at the surrender city with a telescope. There were several soldiers patrolling above. Apparently they were relaxed and absent-minded. Several people gathered around and talked.  Because of the darkness, it was not possible to see clearly, but none of the soldiers looked outside the city.  Wang Hua turned around and named more than twenty soldiers. Most of these soldiers were brought from the south and were light-bodied. Then he nodded to Li Xuejun.  Li Xuejun understood and got off the horse without saying anything.  More than twenty people quietly walked over.  When we came to the moat, Wang Hua was still in Fengzhou when the moat was being built.  Therefore, we know that although this moat is not big, it is very deep because it draws water from the Yellow River.  He gently got into the water and took the lead in swimming across.  Others followed suit and swam over. Regardless of the dampness of their clothes, they reached the bottom of the city wall. Twenty or so of them clung to the corner. Li Xuejun took out a scratching hook from his arms and threw it onto the city wall.  The scratching hook caught on the wall stack.?Make a slight noise.  Several Turkic soldiers heard the sound and stood up together. The leader, probably the leader, shouted in Turkic: "Who?" Wang Hua made a gesture, and everyone held their breath together and pressed their bodies tightly against the city wall.  superior.  Several Turks looked around and saw no one on the city walls. They looked outside the city and saw no one either.  They all thought they had heard wrongly, so they sat down again and started talking, laughing cheerfully from time to time.  Li Xuejun cast a questioning look at Wang Hua. Wang Hua nodded and whispered: "Be careful." "I know," Li Xuejun said, grabbing the rope, and immediately like an ape, he quickly headed towards the top of the city.  crawl away.  The soldiers in the distance and at the top of the city were very worried.  But Wang Hua was very calm in his heart. If the Turks were heavily guarded, this method was not advisable, but now the Turks had never thought of it, but this was the best method.  He was very reassured about Li Xuejun's skills.  After a while, Li Xuejun climbed to the top of the city, but she did not take action. Instead, she hid her body in the shadow of the wall.  ¡° Then Wang Hua also started to climb up, but his posture was not as good-looking as Li Xuejun¡¯s, but he was still very fast.  He still didn't make a move. It wasn't until the fifth soldier climbed up that Wang Hua pounced on him viciously.  At the same time, Li Xuejun jumped to a roof like a wild goose, then jumped several times and came to the city gate.  By this time, the Turkic soldiers guarding the city had seen Wang Hua and the others and shouted loudly.  But it was too late, Wang Hua raised his sword and cut down a soldier.  Several other soldiers rushed forward, and the battle was over within a minute.  However, at this time, the soldiers in the city were also awakened. When they saw the situation on the top of the city, they saw a woman opening the city gate, and they started shouting.  Wang Hua ordered his men to put down the suspension bridge, and he himself ran under the city wall.  The city gate opened and the suspension bridge was slowly lowered.  At this time, the Turks also reacted. A group of Turkic soldiers rushed over on horseback, and he saw the sound of countless horse hooves galloping towards this direction in the distance, and they rushed towards the city gate one by one, hoping to close the city gate again.  But at this time, Wang Hua jumped from the side, jumped onto the leading horse, reached out with his knife, knocked the warrior off the horse, and gave the horse a hard blow on the head.  The horses behind them didn't have time to give way. Several horses collided hard together, and several Turkic soldiers were immediately knocked into the air.  However, Wang Hua regained his momentum, and with the help of his horse, he raised and lowered his sword from time to time, and he chopped off the Turkic soldiers one by one.  But more and more Turks were coming, and it was no longer something Wang Hua could handle alone.  But at this time, the suspension bridge was finally lowered.  Four thousand soldiers rushed into the city like a whirlwind.  But Wang Hua did not stop, grabbed a war horse and rushed towards the south of the city.  Ashubi was still running wildly with his soldiers, but the speed had slowed down. His cronies said: "General, let's rest for a while. If this continues, it will be too much for everyone." Not only the soldiers' physical strength was overwhelmed, but also the horses' physical strength.  Too much to take.  Ah Shibi said: "Soldiers are valuable and quick, but you don't understand this truth." "No, General, we can send a confidant to inform the Fengzhou defenders first." Ah Shibi looked at his men, all of them were panting and sighed.  He took a breath and said, "Just follow your opinion." When they heard that A Shibi finally asked everyone to rest for a while, everyone cheered.  However, Ah Shibi was still afraid of something happening, so he immediately sent three scouts to deliver a message to Fengzhou City.  Fengzhou guard Aduli is drinking with everyone. This is the booty captured from the nine surnames of Zhaowu.  Hearing that Ashibi sent someone to deliver an urgent message, he did not dare to neglect and immediately opened the city to let them in. Several scouts briefly explained the matter.  Aduli was a little suspicious and attacked the city. Although he was not very vigilant, he sent scouts to pay attention to the situation during the day.  Not to mention the enemy, not even a single figure of the enemy was seen. How could the Blood Camp fall from the sky?  At this moment, one of his subordinates came in and reported: "General Adushi, something bad happened. The Blood Camp has reached the surrender city of Xishou." Aduli was shocked when he heard this, but he still reacted quickly and attacked Adushi's men.  Said: "The Great Khan really has a clever plan. The Blood Camp is coming. You should go back immediately and notify the general and ask him to lead the army to support immediately." After saying that, he took his army and set off from Fengzhou City.  Arriving in front of Beihe Bridge, another subordinate reported that Xihoujiang City had been lost.  He thought for a moment and realized that he would definitely not be able to take it back. The Blood Camp came prepared.  Thinking of this, he reacted quickly, issued an order, and immediately retreated to the south of the bridge. This ancient stone bridge was several hundred meters long, but the bridge deck was not wide.  Exactly one??Natural level.  As long as you guard this stone bridge, you are equivalent to guarding Fengzhou City. The blood camp came by surprise and there will not be many people.  As long as Ashibi's army arrives, the blood camp must retreat.  This was a very wise move. Wang Hua left a thousand people to clean the city of Xishou. He brought other soldiers here, took a look, and frowned.  Then other soldiers from the Blood Camp arrived. Jiang Zhengdao, a regiment leader of the Yuheng Army, asked: "Battle Supervisor, what should we do?" Rushing over like this means a heavy sacrifice.  This is the first battle. If serious damage is caused, it will be even more difficult to fight behind.  Wang Hua did not answer. He was looking at the Turks on the other side. There were not many, only one or two thousand people, and some of them were holding torches.  But Wang Hua soon saw a doubt, that is, he had suddenly launched an attack, and these Turks were not nervous at all.  This is wrong, not to mention the Iron Army, whether it is the Blood Camp or the Tubo people, when facing such a situation, even if they have a strong heart, they will be a little panicked.  For example, when Tuoba Tao was guarding Kuizi Mountain, they held back Zong Chuke's tens of thousands of troops with bloody battles.  But when I first saw tens of thousands of troops arriving, I was still very nervous.  It is impossible that the Turks are more courageous than the soldiers of the Blood Camp. We have not fought against them once.  This made him a little uneasy.  After thinking for a while, he ordered: "Dismount." Dismounting means changing to a longbow, and now even Wang Hua himself has changed to a longbow.  After all, although the iron arm is good, compared with the long bow, the force is more clumsy and a waste of energy.  Compared with the two, the longbow has a longer range.  One by one, they dismounted their horses and rushed to the south of the bridge using the cover of their long bows.  But this time Wang Hua seemed to have encountered a strong opponent. Seeing the range of the longbow, Aduli gave another order: "Retreat." He asked the soldiers to step back a hundred steps.  When the Blood Camp rushed to the south of the bridge, there were about 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers, and they were preparing to use longbows to forcefully cover the cavalry behind them as they rushed across the stone bridge. Aduli shouted: "Attack." Although the number is now a little smaller, these  The Turkic soldiers knew that a large army would arrive soon, so their morale was very high.  Two hundred steps away, the war horses arrived in just a quarter of an hour.  Despite being shot by longbows, the soldiers fell down one by one.  But in the end, Abdulli was allowed to lead his men and rush to the king's picture, giving the cavalry an advantage over the infantry.  []
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