General Pei City.
As one of the most trusted generals of the Fire Spitting Immortal, Wali was sent to garrison here as early as last year.
This is because General Pei City is the eastern gateway to Broken Leaf City and a strategic location.
Once General Pei City is lost, Broken Leaf City will be destroyed.
A barrier to the east was lost.
Faced with the siege of the Tang Army, Walli was a little worried.
None of the messengers sent to Suiye City came back, and no one entered from Suiye City.
This showed that the Tang Army had cut off all connections between General Pei City and the outside world.
In fact, the number of troops in General Pei's city is not less than that of the Tang army outside the city, and may be more.
However, Wali did not dare to lead his army out of the city to fight the Tang army, because General Pei's city is one of the eastern gateways to Suiye City, so it has always been garrisoned.
The people here are all infantry and there are very few cavalry.
Letting infantry fight cavalry is either seeking death or doing useless work.
Furthermore, Wali didn’t know that Zhao Ziliang’s actual number of troops was less than 3,000, so how could he dare to venture out of the city?
The mighty-looking Wali sat on a big wolf-skin chair with a deep frown.
Centurions and thousands of captains stood on both sides, and a young shaman wearing a headband sat next to him.
Wali looked at these centurions and thousands captains and said: "You should all know that the Tang army has been besieging the city for two days.
Outsiders can't get in, and we won't go out.
None of the messengers sent out have come back.
In view of the fact that the Tang army outside the city has Judging from the number of tents and fire stoves , the number of the Tang Army will not be less than 15,000.
According to our detailed reports in Anxi, the strength of the Tang Army's South Route Army is about 15,000.
In other words, the entire strength of the Tang Army's South Route Army is outside the city, but they Why only besiege the city and attack it?”
Everyone looked at each other, but no one stood up to speak.
It was obvious that these people did not know what the purpose of Tang Jun was.
Seeing that no one spoke, Wali was a little disappointed.
He looked at the young shaman next to him and asked, "Shaman, does the god have any revelations?"
In the era of the fire-breathing fairy Khan, the Tuqishi people still believe in shamanism.
There are very few people who still believe in shamanism.
The Tuqishi people originally believed in shamanism to worship the heaven, earth, mountains, rivers, sun, moon, stars, vegetation and gods, especially the infinitely powerful gods.
The supreme god.
When Xuanzang traveled westward, the Tuqishi people had already shown their respect for Buddhism.
Today, Buddhism has become very prosperous among the Tuqishi people, with everyone from the nobles to the general public believing in Buddhism.
The young shaman closed his eyes and kept mumbling something.
After a long time, he said: "The gods hinted that the Tang army did not dare to attack the city rashly until they found our loophole.
Once they found our loophole, the Tang army's attack would be fierce."
When it comes, Mr.
Wan Fu, it is better to be careful.
If you don't give the Tang army a chance, General Pei's city will be as stable as Jiedan Mountain."
Jiedan Mountain is located 20 miles north of Suiye City.
Whenever Tuqishi changes his khan, he must hold a ceremony to inherit the throne at Jiedan Mountain, so its status is very important.
Wali felt that the young shaman's words made sense, and was about to express his gratitude when a soldier walked in quickly from outside and bowed down: "Mrs.
Wan, there are movements in the Tang Army barracks outside the north and south gates.
They are very careful. , If it weren’t for the soldiers on the city wall who looked closely, they wouldn’t have been able to see it.”
Walli and the young shaman looked at each other.
He immediately stood up and walked out.
As he walked, he said, "Let's go and take a look at the city wall."
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Wali and others first came to the east city gate tower and found many torches lit up in the Tang Army barracks outside the city, and figures in the barracks kept flashing.
After observing for a while, Wali frowned and said, "What exactly does Tang Jun want to do?"
"It's not clear.
It would be nice if the ranger could go closer and take a closer look," the young shaman said.
"There are Tang Army scouts and cavalry patrols all around, and our rangers can't get close at all."
Wali said, turned around and left, and everyone followed.
Soon, everyone came to the west city gate tower again.
The situation of the Tang army camp seen here was the same as that seen at the east city gate.
"Are they going to attack the city overnight?"
This idea suddenly appeared in Wali's mind, but he quickly denied it.
If the generals of the Tang Army were not fools, they would not attack the city overnight.
The light is dim at night, and attacking the city overnight is very harmful to the attacker.
It is absolutely disadvantageous and can only increase casualties.
Moreover, General Pei City is a military fortress, so it will be more difficult and the casualties will be greater.
Wali and others did not dare to leave, so they stayed on the west city gate tower and took turns on duty.
Soon, Wali was resting under the city tower.
A centurion came over and reported: "Master Wanfu, the movement in the Tang Army's camp has stopped."
"Stop it, go take a look."
Walli quickly climbed up the tower holding the handle of the knife and stopped to observe.
As expected, the noise in the Tang Army's military camp stopped, and the lights in the camp were also dimmed a lot.
The number of torches should have been reduced, and the situation inside the camp could no longer be seen from the tower.
Wali said to the young shaman: "Shaman, what on earth are Tang Jun doing?
Now they have almost extinguished all the lights.
Even if they want to sleep, they shouldn't extinguish all the lights."
The young shaman couldn't understand.
This Tang army was so strange and weird.
The young shaman suddenly felt a chill.
Suddenly, he thought of something and asked quickly: "Captain Wan, I remember you told me the day before yesterday that there are two Tang armies, one is the South Route Army and the other is the North Route Army."
Walli didn't understand why the shaman asked this question and said: "Yes, these two armies have fifteen thousand men, half of which are infantry and cavalry."
The young shaman asked: "If the cavalry of the Tang Army's Northern Route Army marched at full speed, could they reach Suiye City now?"
Wali's face paled when he heard this.
He also understood what the young shaman was worried about.
Although the road from Kucha Town to the west to Suiye Town was longer than from Sule Town to Suiye City, the road was It is much easier to walk.
If it is a cavalry, as long as it is elite enough, it can reach Suiye Town within ten days, but this There is a premise that no enemy troops were encountered along the way, and there were no Tuqishi towns on the road that the North Route Army took.
Apart from the Tianshan Mountains, there was endless grassland, and there was also the Ili River as a water source along the way. , as long as you prepare enough food and fodder, you can march four hundred miles a day without any problem.
"Shaman, what you mean is that the cavalry of the Northern Route Army of the Tang Army walked north of Rehai, bypassed General Pei City and arrived at the foot of Suiye City, and this Tang Army gave up the siege.
We are going to rush to the foot of Suiye City to join the North Road Tang Army, and then Attack Suiye City together.
They were making a fuss in the camp just now, and they are about to set off."
The young shaman nodded and said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time.
Apart from this possibility, I can't think of any other possibilities."
Wali frowned and said: "But isn't this Tang army afraid that we will go out of the city and attack their back?
You know this is very dangerous for the Tang army?"
The young shaman said: "The Tang army from the north came in a hurry, and there were not many cavalry.
To attack the city, a large number of infantry were needed, so this Tang army rushed to join them impatiently.
And in Suiye City, The Fire-Tumbling Immortal Khan still had an army of nearly 40,000 men, and the Tang army had no advantage in strength, which was why they were in a hurry to set off.
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It was obvious that he was running in danger, and he made all kinds of cover-ups to show that they were still in the camp outside the city.
In fact, the two camps on the east and west outside the city had become empty camps.
He wanted to use the two empty camps.
Trap our army in the city so that his back will not be attacked.
If the captain does not believe it, you can send a ranger to get close to the camp to have a look, and you will know the truth soon."
Wali thought for a while and thought that what the young shaman said made sense.
As long as Tang Jun didn't leave, he could reassure himself by sending someone to take a look.
If the shaman's guess was right, it would be a great opportunity to defeat Tang Jun. ah "Come here, send a ranger to investigate the Tang Army camp outside the East and West City.
You must investigate in detail and report back as soon as possible."
A centurion immediately touched his chest and agreed: "Yes, Lord Ten Thousands" Half an hour later, a ranger captain ran up to the tower panting and bowed to Wali: "Master Wanfu, the Tang Army barracks outside the city and outside the city are empty.
The east and west barracks are empty.
There is only one man."
None” Wali didn't believe it and pointed to the watchtower on the Tang Army's camp in the distance: "It's impossible that there's no one there.
Isn't there a person on the watchtower of the camp?"
The Captain of the Rangers shook his head and said: "Sir, those are not human beings.
Those are straw men who used wild grass to build the city.
The Tang army put armor on those straw men and let them hold spears and spears.
They were the little ones who confused us at first.
People thought they were real people and were too scared to get close.
Later, the villain saw them motionless and realized something was wrong. , I tried to get closer, but to my surprise, they didn’t seem to have seen them.
The little people rode horses until they reached the camp, but they still didn’t move.
So the little people knew that something was wrong, and boldly entered the camp, only to find that they were all straw men. , after searching, the villains found that there was not even a single person in the entire camp, it was completely empty."
Walli gasped and cursed: "The Tang people are cunning, so cunning, and they are so courageous that they don't even leave a single person alive."
At this time, the young shaman recovered from the shock and asked: "Captain, how many war horses are there in the city?"
Wali said: "There are not many war horses, less than two hundred.
Shaman, why do you ask this?"
The young shaman thought for a while and immediately said: "Captain Ten Thousands, hurry up and collect the horses from all the residents in the city.
You should be able to collect 2,000 horses.
Leave a thousand people to guard the city and let all the two thousand soldiers ride over."
Chase with all your strength, rush to the rear of the Tang army, and fight all the way to the foot of Suiye City.
When the Fire-Spitting Immortal Khan sees that the back of the Tang army is being attacked outside the city, he will definitely open the city gate and send out troops to attack.
When the two sides attack, the Tang army will be defeated."
Although the soldiers in the city are all infantry, the Tuqishi people grew up on horses.
As long as they have horses, they can mount them and fight.
Wali was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately said: "Okay, I'll go get ready right away":