Shule Town, guarding the envoy's mansion.
Fumeng Lingjin was practicing martial arts in the yard.
Wang Tao, an official, walked over quickly and said loudly: "General, I have something urgent to report."
Fumeng Lingjin stopped, took the towel from the guard next to him, wiped his sweat, and said to the king: "Tell me, what's the matter?"
Wang Tao saluted and said: "General, in the past two days, no business travelers have come from the direction of Tuoyunbao.
The business travelers who went west from Shule Town have returned one after another.
When my subordinates learned about this situation, they immediately went to inquire.
The business travelers said that a section of the mountain road leading to Tuoyun Castle had been dug up, making it impossible for carriages and horses to pass through.
They could only go back and wait for the mountain road to be filled up before leaving."
What a shrewd man Fumeng Lingjing was, his face changed and he said: "You mean, Tuoyun Castle is being attacked, and someone dug the road deliberately."
"It's very possible that as far as I know, Panzhu Junxiu has been heading to Tuoyun Castle with her more than a hundred female cavalry for three days, and she still hasn't turned back.
If Tuoyun Fort hadn't been attacked, what would happen these days?
Maybe there were no business travelers coming from the west.
In the past, there would have been an endless stream of business travelers coming from the west. , but no one came in the past two days, and the business travelers who went to Tuoyunbao to clear customs also returned halfway.
The only explanation is that Tuoyunbao was attacked.
Xi Yunqing may have sent a messenger to ask for help, but he may have been intercepted and killed on the way.
The thieves also dug up the mountain road, trying to prevent the merchants and our army from going to Tuoyun Castle."
After listening to Wang Tao's analysis, Fumeng Lingjin's face kept changing.
After a moment, he immediately made a decision: "I have traveled thousands of miles to come here."
Wang Tao reminded: "General, General Cheng has been sent by you to the Protectorate to collect military supplies."
Only then did Fumeng Lingjin remember that Cheng Qianli had been sent to Kucha Town.
He immediately said: "Wang Tao, go beat the drums and gather the soldiers immediately.
Assemble at the school ground.
Hurry!"
"promise" After a while, the sound of drums beating on the school grounds could be heard in the entire Shule Town.
Both soldiers on vacation and soldiers training in the camp quickly rushed to the school grounds in full force.
Bi Sichen, Kang Huaishun, Chen Fengzhong and others also arrived one after another. , not long after Fu Meng Lingjin arrived on horseback, a middle-aged man wearing eunuch clothes also hurried over.
The middle-aged eunuch saluted his husband Meng Lingjin and said: "General, we are late, please forgive me, please forgive me."
Fumeng Lingjin had no expression on his face and waved his hand: "It's not too late, Ambassador Bian, there are various signs that Tuoyun Fort is being attacked.
Tuoyun Fort has less than 500 soldiers and horses, and the city wall is not high.
Once A large group of enemy troops are attacking and they cannot hold out for long.
Now there are only these generals in Shule Town who can fight.
There are only a few of them, but I really can't worry about leaving Tuoyun Castle, so I decided to personally lead a thousand light cavalry to rush to Tuoyun Castle.
I will leave this place to the lieutenant envoy.
After the general leads his troops to leave, the lieutenant envoy will immediately hurry up.
Close the city gates, send people to guard the city, and prohibit anyone from walking around."
The lieutenant envoy is called Bian Lingcheng.
He is the supervisor of Fumeng Lingcha.
The lieutenant envoy is the eunuch supervisor sent by the imperial court.
He has no actual military power.
He only supervises the generals in important local towns on behalf of the emperor to prevent the leading generals from overestimating their troops and being disobedient.
The imperial military and political orders were issued, but the supervisors had the power to report to the emperor privately.
Every move of the leading generals would be reported to the emperor by the supervisors.
Therefore, none of the generals liked these eunuchs.
Bian Lingcheng thought Fumeng Lingcha wanted him to lead troops to reinforce Tuoyun Castle.
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After hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "General, please don't worry, our family will definitely do what the general ordered."
After an explanation, Fumeng Lingcha took a thousand light cavalry from the garrison and carried a large amount of wood to Toyun Castle.
It was carefully considered to only carry a thousand people.
Bringing too many people would affect the marching speed, and bringing too few would not have any effect.
Tuoyunbao is not too big, and it is not too small.
One thousand people It used to be enough to fill Toyun Castle.
In half a day, Fumeng Lingjin led his troops to the break of the dug mountain road.
He walked to the broken road and saw that the break was two feet deep and five feet long.
At this time, there was a sound of horse hooves on the opposite side.
When it came over, he looked up and saw who it was if it wasn't Panzhu Junxiu.
Panzhu Junxiu also saw Fumeng Lingjin and his thousand men and horses.
She immediately shouted: "General, Tuoyun Castle is being attacked by Tuqishi's army."
Fumeng Lingjin immediately arranged for soldiers to build a bridge with wood, and talked with Panzhu Junxiu.
He quickly learned about the current situation of Tuoyun Castle, and he became even more anxious because of this.
He must arrive at Tuoyun Fort within one day.
That is to say, before dawn tomorrow, the Tuqishi people will definitely launch another fierce attack tomorrow.
Fortunately, Zhao Ziliang led people to raid Tu Qishi's camp, killed all the sheep and a large number of cattle, drove away all the remaining cattle, and burned the camp with fire.
This made Tu Qishi The overall morale of the Qishi army was low, and the Tuqishi people were not able to organize another attack in the afternoon.
Late at night, Fumeng Lingjin finally arrived at Tuoyun Castle with a thousand troops.
This made Zhao Ziliang and others breathe a sigh of relief.
He ordered the southeast gate to be opened wide and introduced Fumeng Linggan and a thousand troops into the fort.
Zhao Ziliang and others went to the fort gate to greet him, "General, you are finally here."
Fu Meng Lingjin nodded and asked: "Where is Xi Yunqing?"
"Lord Castle was seriously injured.
Although he was awake, he was unable to get out of bed and was resting."
"Let's go and have a look"
As he walked towards the fort, Fumeng Lingjin asked: "I met Panzhu Junxiu on the way here.
I heard her tell me some things, but they were not very detailed.
Please tell me more about it, general."
"promise" After Zhao Ziliang's introduction, Fumeng Lingjin also understood the current situation.
He said: "It seems that the Tuqishi people can only eat the killed cattle and sheep.
They can't last a few days.
I will I have brought a thousand men, enough to last them until they retreat.
Is there enough ordnance in the fort?"
"We had some reserves before, which should be enough.
Previously, it was mainly because of the lack of troops.
The other party launched a fierce attack again, and we almost couldn't resist it."
Fumeng Lingjing said: "I have heard from Panzhu Junxiu that you have done well in these raids, which severely dampened the vigor of the Tuqi Shiren.
Please arrange for the soldiers to rest first, and we will meet again later.
Let’s discuss how to defend tomorrow.”
"promise" At dawn, when the sky was just getting bright, Zhao Ziliang led a dozen people out of the fort gate and came to the open space under the city wall.
They used ropes to measure the distance from the city wall to the open space in front.
He ordered the people to walk at fifty steps and one hundred steps.
Some small stones were piled up at the four points of one step, one hundred and fifty steps, and two hundred steps to mark them.
In order to see clearly, white lime water was poured on the stones.
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After arranging things outside the city, he returned to the city wall inside the fort and ordered people to move all the crossbows onto the city wall.
A large number of crossbow arrows were transported to the city wall in bundles.
In addition, a large number of stones and rolling logs were also transported up. , he also ordered pots of fire oil to be boiled scalding hot.
Just after breakfast, Fumeng Lingjin came to the city wall with several yamen generals, school lieutenants and executive officers.
Seeing that Zhao Ziliang had prepared all the defense work on the city wall, he admired him very much and kept praising him.
This made Bi Sichen and other people around Humeng Lingjin extremely envious and jealous.
"General, look, the Tuqishi people are coming."
A voice broke the silence on the city wall.
Everyone turned their heads and looked forward, only to see a plume of smoke rising from the sky in front of them, and gradually moving in the direction of Toyun Castle.
This undoubtedly indicated that Tuqishi's army was coming again.
Fumeng Lingjin immediately raised his hands and said loudly: "Soldiers, prepare to fight":