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Chapter 60 The surprise attack on Talas (5) The reinforcements are suspicious

"Dalang!"

As the order was issued, Sun Xiurong quickly calmed down.

"According to Erweitler's qualifications, it will probably be tomorrow morning for these things. One night will be enough for our army to do a lot of things."

Sure enough, when night fell, Yang Shouyu directed everyone to build a short wall of about fifty feet (150 meters), about three feet high and three feet thick, but the enemy still had no movement.

"The Nangong pushes the wall, and the young soldiers bury the pot and make rice, rest!"

Sun Xiurong's order continued, but this time the Heifu did not refuse. He also realized that he had to guard the hard-earned seizure (Sun Xiurong had promised to give them two pieces of cloth each), and he had to push down the outer wall.

After all the walls were pushed down, it was midnight.

A large fire appeared from the north!

The low wall was built around Erweitler's tower. When Sun Xiurong saw the torch, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief - "Fortunately, if he was still stupidly staying in the camp and enjoying the capture, his army of only about 1,500 people would be wiped out until tomorrow morning."

I thought again, "Eweitler is still good. I didn't push it until tomorrow morning to attack. I also know that our reinforcements may appear at any time."

However, the eight hundred young soldiers had already used up their meals and had rested for about two hours. These young soldiers let them go out to the camp to fight the enemy cavalry again, and they definitely had more defeats than wins, but they could still shoot on the low walls. In addition to the things reported by Yang Shouyu, there were naturally some arrow branches in the camp. Most of the cavalrymen who used the cavalry to thrust cavalry and others had their own weapons, but the arrow branches used by Erweitler's personal soldiers must have reserved.

...

Back to an hour ago, the middle hour of Hai (about 10 o'clock in the evening).

An army came outside Talas, an anxious and embarrassed army. Erweitler, who had just returned to the city, didn't want to pay attention to this army, but after hearing that the leader was Dumodu, the general who was the black surname, decided to accept him.

Dumodu is a general in the Tuqi Shi Hei surname who runs side by side with Mohe Dagan. He was originally assisting Tuhuo Xian Khan in the city of Suoye City, but now he must have escaped when he has run here.

After the daytime battle, Erweitler felt that he was indeed lacking in military affairs. In addition, Dumodu had just experienced a battle with the Tang army. Although this person had never dealt with him before, he was Ye Hu of the left-wing Axijie tribe. The largest tribe near Talas City was besides Geshu and Axijie. Accepting him would be of great benefit to him in the future.

Dumo is about forty years old, tall and majestic, with long black hair spread out and a black belt strapped on his forehead. This outfit is the symbol of the Ashijie tribe.

Among the ten Western Turkic tribes in the past, except for Axijie, the other four of the five left wings were tribes with yellow-brown hair, while the five right wings were mainly black hair. This is why the black surname and Huang surname were said to be the saying of the Tuqishi tribe represented by Sulu was one of the five right wings. The core territory of the right wing was in the Yili River Basin, while the core territory of the left wing was the Shuye River Basin.

At present, among the five left wing divisions in the past, the tribes that Axijie and Tuqi were divided by Axijie and Tuqishi, while half of the tribes in Geshu were divided by Geshu and Tuqishi, leaving only Geshu, Axijie and Basaigan. Among them, Basaigan went far north of the Aral Sea, and the tribes that Tuqishi Khanate could control were Geshu and Axijie.

Among the five right wings in the east, the most powerful one is naturally the Mukun tribe where Mohe Dagan is located, and there are also the Huang surname, such as the Hu Luju tribe, which still occupies the best pastures of the Yili River. Their noble chiefs generally have yellow-brown hair.

The Mukun tribe of Mohedagan was originally nomadic in the upper reaches of the Ertzis River (later Altay to the Jaisangbo area). After the rise of Tuqishi, Sulu asked him to move south to the south of Rehai to balance the Hulu's surname. With Sulu's acquiescence, Mohedagan annexed many small tribes of Huang and black surnames, and finally became a majority of the Ashiyu tribes in Dumodu.

The pasture of Dumodu is located downstream of the Saiye River, near Talas City. In the Saiye City, he supported Sulu's eldest son Gu Chuandang Tuhuoxian Khan (actually the Peach Blossom Stone Khan). In fact, he must have the intention of expanding his sphere of influence to the middle of the Saiye River.

Dumodu, dressed in black, crawled in front of Erweitler.

"Khan, for the sake of immortality, please give me guilt!"

"What are your crimes? Gu Chuo is the eldest son, and it is your duty to support him. Well, the situation is critical now. I need to unite and fight the enemy together. I ask you, how did Gu Chuo be defeated and captured?"

Although there were also Gu Chuan's deserters who fled from Sui Ye City to Talas, they were soldiers after all and were not familiar with the overall situation. Although they conveyed the message that Gu Chuan was captured, Erweitler still didn't know what exactly it was.

"Report to Khan, this time Gai Jiayun brought a whole army in the west, about 20,000 elite Tang army soldiers. Such military strength is not something we can compete with. Moreover, Shiguo and Shiguo each dispatched 5,000 infantry and cavalry, which totaled 30,000 infantry and cavalry."

"At my suggestion, 15,000 troops were stationed in Saiye City, and there were two camps outside the city, guarding the two sides of Saiyechuan. After the Xiazhen guarded the north bank, Gai Jiayun's army arrived, bombarded the south bank camp with a crossbow. In less than an hour, a gap of about ten feet was opened. Before that, the general of the Nanying camp knew that it would be impossible to get it. Khan, you know."

"The crossbow of the crossbow is three feet and five inches long and five inches thick. Not to mention a simple earth wall, even if the city wall hits, it will not last a few days. If it hits the human body, it will truly turn into powder. In order to avoid being bombarded by the crossbow, the general of the South Camp took the lead in dispatching five thousand elite cavalry from the other gates and was ready to take the initiative to attack."

"Khan..."

"Dumodou, you are one of the few powerful generals in our country, why do you cry?"

"Khan, you don't know that the Tang army has a new military branch!"

"Oh? Is it a cavalry or an infantry?"

"It's an infantryman"

"Infantry, the infantry, we have seen it before, wearing heavy armor."

"No, it's a big difference. They are all tall, at least six feet tall, wearing heavy armor, and each hand is a long sword made of fine iron. Later I heard that the Tang people called it Mo Dao, which is more than one meter long and weighs twenty kilograms. With one knife, the people and horses split. It's really terrible. They haven't dispatched cavalry yet. As soon as the Mo Dao war was launched, the generals of the Nanying camp cut into two pieces!"

"ah?!"

"Absolutely, in one day, they captured Nandaying. After occupying Nandaying, they used their troops to guard the Nandaying, and with the help of Hu soldiers, and then the entire army moved to my Beidaying. At that time, I didn't know the news about Nandaying, so I encountered a defeat that was exactly the same as Nandaying."

"No, when the Tang army attacked Nandaying, were you and Gu Chuo standing by and watching?"

“…”

"Who is the general of Nandaying?"

"Hu Luju's younger brother who is seeking service to Jin"

"No wonder, huh, Suo Shijin is the surname Ye Hu of Huang, and he relies on the Yili River Valley bordering the Tang Dynasty. After this defeat, he will definitely be completely disunited from our country and will completely surrender to the Tang Kingdom."

(Hu Luju tribe is the only Huang tribe among the five right wings of the Western Turks, and it is also the most powerful tribe. Even Tuqi Shiren can only implement a policy of being gentle to the tribe. The black surname, which was originally dominated by Tuqi Shiren, was very afraid of it. When the Tang army attacked it, both Guchu and Dumodu adopted the wait-and-see strategy, so Erweitler has this statement)

"I saw the opportunity quickly and fled into the Thunderbolt City with thousands of cavalry. At this time, the Tang army's crossbow and the Modao team's strength finally reached the Thunderbolt City. After Gu Chuo discussed it with me, he decided that he would take 15,000 Tukka Shijing Cavalry and fight against the Tang army, and stayed at the Thunderbolt City."

"In order to avoid being attacked by the Tang army's Modao team, Gu Chuo chose Heluo Ridge near the snow-capped mountains on the battlefield. However, he was defeated and was captured. Seeing this, I had to open the city gate and retreat..."

Erweitler fell into silence. He knew that in military terms, Dumodu in front of him, Suo Shijin, the Huang general in the Yili Valley who had not fought, and his younger brother Gu Chuo were all better than him. If he were in Suoye City, his fate would probably not be much better than them.

After a while, he still explained the situation of the Tang army in front of him. Of course, he omitted the Tang army in front of him, just a mixed force including young soldiers and tribal cavalry, and said, "About five thousand cavalry, Tang and Hu half each. When they attacked the camp, the momentum was fierce. I thought their reinforcements had arrived, so I had to retreat. Now I think it's still careless when I think about it."

"oh?"

"If the reinforcements arrived, they would definitely pursue our troops, but until I retreated into Talas City, I didn't see them. Most of the time I made a bluff that made me fool."

"not good!"

The person opposite suddenly said, Erweitler was also shocked, "What did you find?"

The opposite said: "The Tang army is self-reliant. There is only one field army in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. If the reclaimed troops are added, there will be at most two legions, with about 40,000 people. Gaijiayun has a legion in Suiye City. In this way, there will definitely not be many troops that can be used in the direction of Talas. The banners of Suiye City, Shiguo and Shiguo appeared. In Anxi, the greatest help of the Tang people is Bahanna. The military power of the Yutian Town must be dealt with Tubo, and it must not be moved lightly. The five armies of Gaijiayun can use Tingzhou, Tianshan, Yizhou, Kucha, and Yanqi. In this way, the Shule Town and Bahanna Town can come to Talas!

"Shi Kingdom, Shi Kingdom is directly facing heavy troops from the cannibals. How could he mobilize to the city of Suye for the sake of the Tang people? If you guess well, before that, Shule Zhenfu Menglingcha's troops and Bahanna's troops had secretly sneaked into Shi Kingdom, making it seem that Shi Kingdom still has heavy troops to guard."

"He asked this mixed Tang and Hu troops to attack Talas, which was definitely a cover, so that you could take the initiative. This is because, with the military strength of Fu Meng Lingcha, it is impossible to have Cheqiu and Modao camp. If you cannot break the camp, you can only fight in the wild."

When he said this, Dumodu secretly complained, "With Erweitler's virtue, the other party definitely does not have five thousand cavalry. If there were five thousand Tang cavalry here, how dare he go out to attack? It was mostly two or three thousand cavalry."

He continued: "It is estimated that this army has arrived in Talas early, or their main force has arrived one step later, resulting in today's daytime battle..."

"did you mean……"

"Khan, the main enemy force must have not arrived yet. Otherwise, they would not let you retreat to Talas in vain. There are so many dreams in the night. We must take advantage of the weak force of our troops to regain Ashabor!"

Erweitler was shocked when he heard this, "How should I deal with this...?"

"Khan, I am willing to lead my troops to capture Ashabor!"
Chapter completed!
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