Chastity Layman

The sky was gloomy, with dark clouds hanging low.

The siege had lasted for three days. In these three days, A Fuluo had launched several attacks, but each time he was repelled by the strong bows and crossbows of the Tang army.

A low-level ice wall has become a hurdle that the Turks have never been able to overcome.

The flag of Dongshou surrendered city on the top of the city, and the military flag of Zhenwu Army complement each other, and they have always stood firm.

The four sides of the stockade had been trampled badly by Turkic horseshoes, the white snow had been trampled into black mud, and there were dried blood stains everywhere on the ground.

Afuluo joined forces with Qiongqi and other tribal leaders to besiege this small village with more than ten thousand troops. As a result, over a thousand people were killed or injured, but they still had nothing to do with them.

Now it is really a bit of a difficult situation to ride a tiger.

At this time, A Fuluo had no face to retreat, he joined forces with several tribes to mobilize tens of thousands of people. As a result, there were so many casualties, how could he retreat without breaking through this stockade?

But in the stockade, Cheng Chumo had no interest in paying attention to them.

After fighting for three days, all the initial excitement and panic were gone, and now Cheng Chumo was as calm as water. The thousands of Turkic corpses outside the stockade are his best achievement and the catalyst for his rapid growth into a qualified general.

Cheng Chumo had already seen through the reality on the other side.

With this strength, it is impossible to storm the village.

Although the Turks also began to collect trees to make some ladders, he was not afraid.

To put it bluntly, he saw through that these people were not Turkic elites, just a group of mobs, and only two or three thousand people could really fight. However, due to the heavy casualties before, these Turkic people on the opposite side are not united now.

The recent attacks have been very sloppy and anticlimactic, which already shows that the opponent's heart is not in the same place.

The village is now divided into three shifts, and everyone takes turns to rest and defend the city.

He inspected around the wall, then got down from the top of the wall and returned to the tent.

Looking at the statistics submitted by the army.

There is no need to worry about food at all. The cattle, sheep, dried meat, and frozen meat in the hands of the merchants are enough for them to consume. There is no need to use the meat floss, rice noodles, and fried noodles they have in reserve.

Even the merchant guys are calm now.

When he was not on duty, he even began to sort sheepskins and sheepskins in the stockade, sorting herbs and so on.

"Military envoy, I think the morale of the Turkic people is not good. Tell me, can we mess with him?"

"How?"

"Organize a night attack and counter-attack. Let's recharge our energy and then go out of the city to attack the camp. It's okay to come and go without indecent assault." Joining the army is also bold.

Cheng Chu laughed silently twice.

Of course he has considered this.

"We are now invincible and in no rush to take risks."

Of course Cheng Chumo also wanted to fight back, and he was aggrieved by being surrounded and beaten every day, but he was not in a hurry to take risks, because it was safer to defend the city now.

"It's not a problem to be beaten passively."

"It's not that we won't fight, it's that the time has not come. It's only been three days. The Turkic people may not be able to do it. Maybe they deliberately showed us that they are waiting for us to go out. It may be a trap, so let's hold on first. , don't wave."

"Then when can we fight?"

"What's the rush, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, let's stay here now, shelter from the wind and cold, and have beef and mutton every day, how cool is it?"

Joining the army said, "It's boring to eat beef and mutton all day long. I still want to get rid of these Turkic people so that I can go ice fishing on the Yellow River. The big carp in the Yellow River this season are very delicious."

"Don't worry, count the time, our reinforcements should arrive, wait for two more days, the Turkic people are blowing the north wind outside to eat ice and snow, life is much more difficult than ours, at least we still have a warm kang."

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At this time, Qin Lang was indeed on his way to help.

No matter how cold the weather is and no matter how difficult the road is, Qin Lang must rescue him.

It was he who wanted to set up Dongshoujiang City, and it was he who asked Cheng Chumo to lead troops to form the Zhenwu Army and station them there.

Now the Turks came and he had to rescue.

The sky was full of wind and snow, and the roads were difficult to travel. Qin Lang brought a thousand Fengzhou Tang troops, and summoned his uncle and nephew, ministers of Qin Guosheng, and asked them to gather two thousand Turkic cavalry.

He originally wanted to keep Li Daliang to guard Fengzhou, but Li Daliang insisted on going with him. He was worried that Qin Lang had no experience and would be in trouble if something happened. He wanted Qin Lang to stay behind, but Qin Lang didn't agree.

So finally get out together.

It's only sixty miles a day.

This is still not carrying any extra baggage. The soldiers carried fried noodles and meat floss, and also brought bean cakes and a small amount of grass for the horses, trying to reduce the burden to the greatest extent.

Everyone has two horses.

At night, I chose a leeward place to camp, boiled a pot of boiling water, and made fried noodle porridge with beef floss. It was a bit monotonous, but simple and convenient.

Sleep after eating.

At dawn, we continued on our way.

After traveling for six days, they arrived at Zhongshoujiang City.

In the icy and snowy land, Huyan Valley enters the mouth of the Yellow River, and a small, crude city stands there, with a red flag standing out.

Yuchi Baoqi had already brought a thousand cavalry and left the city a few days ago to go east for reinforcements. Zhong Shou surrendered and left 500 soldiers and horses to defend the city.

Qin Lang had a rest in the city that night, and finally ate fresh mutton hot pot. The little fat sheep was delicious, and he didn't have to sleep in the ice and snow any more. He slept on the kang until dawn.

At dawn, Qin Lang simply took away the five hundred guards in the village.

The stockade became an empty stockade, and the original caravan was also ordered by Qin Lang to withdraw to Fengzhou.

"Aren't you going to send someone to stay behind?"

"What is there to guard such a small village?"

Bringing 500 people can also add a lot of combat power. If it is true that Qin Langdong was defeated in the army, he would have to run to the south of Shengzhou, and it is impossible to run to the city of Zhongshou.

There are still four hundred miles away from Dongshoucheng City.

Qin Lang ordered to speed up the march, marching eighty miles a day.

After driving for five days with 3,500 riders, they finally approached Dongshoujiang City.

In the distance, a group of people came galloping.

"It's Military Envoy Cheng and Military Envoy Yuchi!"

Ah Huang led a team of soldiers to meet him, and soon came back to report the good news.

After all, Qin Lang and his team came a bit late.

Qin Lang received the news two days after the Turks surrounded Dongshoujiang City, and it took another eleven days to get here, but three days ago, Cheng Chumo had joined forces with Yuchi Baoqi and the five hundred garrisons in Shengzhou , and some nearby sidekicks, totaling more than 5,000 people, launched a night attack against the Afuluo tribe on the night of three days ago.

Afuluo's tribe was unable to attack for a long time under the Dongshoucheng City, and hesitated, unwilling to leave.

Who knew that Cheng Chumo had secretly received the news of the aid, so after secretly planning, Cheng Chumo came to fight against the encirclement.

In the dark night three days ago, Cheng Chumo suddenly led the Zhenwu army in the city to break out of the stockade and go straight to the enemy camp.

Yuchi Baoqi joined the Shengzhou army and the Huxie army, and they were furious, and the Turkic people were extremely panicked.

Cheng Chumo broke through the Turkic camp in one fell swoop, the Turkic ministries had no intention of fighting at all, and at this moment they were only concerned with fleeing and had no intention of fighting.

Flowering in the center, surrounded on all sides.

Tang Jun chased and slaughtered the Turks like chopping melons and vegetables.

On the banks of the Yellow River and at the mouth of the Jin River, their screams were heard everywhere.

A Fuluo's handsome flag retreated to the north, but Cheng Chumo clung to it, and before he could escape two or two places, he was caught up by Cheng Chumo. A horse spear won the essence of the old devil Cheng, and he stabbed left and shot right. People can be enemies.

In the end Cheng Chumo took out two hatchets and killed Adhuo Luo's guards one by one, cut off his handsome flag with another axe, and beheaded A Fuluo under his horse with another axe.

When Qin Lang saw Cheng Chumo again, he felt that this brother had changed.

dramatic change.

The whole temperament is different.

He seemed to be a little darker and thinner, but he was more composed.

Cheng Chumo was riding on a horse, holding a flag in his hand, but it was a wolf flag, a blue wolf, which was the blue wolf flag bestowed by Jieli Khan to Afuluo.

But now, this flag was in Cheng Chumo's hands, not only that, but there was also a human head tied to the flagpole.

"The last general pays his respects to the governor!"

Cheng Chumo jumped off his horse, thrust the flagpole hard into the snow, and saluted Qin Lang.

Qin Lang looked at the flag and the head a few times.

"Who is this head?"

"Turkic Qijin A Fuluo, the leader of the Zhiluo tribe, this time he joined forces with Qiongqi and other tribal leaders, and pulled more than 10,000 people to attack, but was finally beheaded by the last general and took his banner .”

Qin Lang jumped off the horse and looked at the leader twice.

His face is ferocious, and he will not die with peace in his eyes.

"If I had known you were so powerful, why would I have to rush the road for eleven days, it was cold and tiring." Qin Lang patted Cheng Chumo on the shoulder, "Good boy, kill the general and capture the flag , great."

Cheng Chu smiled silently, not showing much complacency.

"What's the result of this battle?" Qin Lang and Cheng Chumo's Wei Chi Baoqi and others went to Dongshoujiang City.

"A total of 3,278 levels were beheaded, 2,749 prisoners were captured, and thousands of tents, bows and knives, horses, cattle and sheep were also seized."

The results of the battle were still very rich. Afu Luotuo's family came to besiege the city with their mouths. They wanted to break through the Dongshou surrendered city and loot it for a fortune. In the end, he was beheaded and half of his men were beheaded and captured.

Only half of them escaped, but most of the tents, cattle, sheep and horses were left on the battlefield.

"How about our casualties?"

"More than a hundred people died in the battle, and more than three hundred were injured, which is not bad."

This battle loss ratio is indeed very low, but the Tang army first defended the city, and later won the night attack, coupled with excellent armor and good protection, this battle loss ratio is quite reasonable.

Cheng Chumo waited until dawn that day to pursue and kill them for more than 30 miles, and finally withdrew his troops and returned.

After three days of rest, the East Surrendered City is now very lively.

After Qin Lang entered the city, he first asked Li Daliang to take the soldiers to inspect the heads, inspect the prisoners, and register the captured gains.

Jinshui River Estuary, on the north bank of the Yellow River, in the east surrendered city.

Eight thousand warriors gathered.

Kill cattle and sheep, stew meat in a big pot.

There was laughter.

Some people even suggested that they simply take these 8,000 soldiers to sweep eastward, uprooting the tribes that invaded this time, such as Aburo, and taking them back as slaves.

Qin Lang smiled, raised his glass and proposed that everyone celebrate Cheng Chumo and others together, but there was no response to this proposal.

This battle is no longer a skirmish. He believes that Xieli Khan will never sit idly by. It is very likely that Xieli has already arrived.

After dinner.

"Choose a prisoner, I have a letter for him to bring to Jieli Khan!"

Li Daliang frowned, "Is Jieli coming?"

"Well, according to the report from the explorer who just came back, Xieli has already gathered people and will lead his troops here at any time."

"Then we retreat?"

Qin Lang smiled, it was within his expectation that Jieli would come, but I heard that Jieli only brought 20,000 people here, so there is no need to worry too much, Jieli may be angry when he comes, but well, just rely on He only brought 20,000 horses, so it was not necessarily necessary to fight.

"The alliance between Weiqiao and Bianqiao has been going on for more than a year, so let's meet Jieli Khan again."

"Sanlang, Jieli Khan is not that stupid Aduro, the attached wolf guards under his command still have armored riding gear for heavy cavalry."

"It's a world of ice and snow, so what's the fear of armored cavalry with heavy armor?" Qin Lang said, "Don't forget, we are the winners this time, so as long as we break down, we are not afraid of Xieli."

Qin Lang believed that there would be no fight with Jieli, because the number of troops on both sides was already quite large, and a war of this scale would be impossible to fight in this season and in this place.

It's like fighting with people. Three or five people can fight at any time and anywhere. If you say that there are one or two hundred people from both sides, it will not be easy to fight.

The battle is over, and now the two sides have brought large groups of troops, and it is a war of words if they want to fight.

Retreating at this time would mean being undefeated and defeated. Now that they retreated, the Dongshou surrendered city would be sent out for nothing, Qin Lang was not willing.