Chapter 534 Burning the Qiang River, no way out
Below the city of Diezhou.
Wu Su threw away his helmet and armor, wearing a tattered cowhide armor, but still failed to escape the pursuit of the Tang army. Sitting in the prisoner camp, Wu Su lowered his head and sighed.
"Careless!"
The other leaders who were captured were all silent, and at this moment they were very disdainful towards Wu Su. Careless mother, why didn't you see through the tricks of the Tang people earlier?
No one wants to be unreasonable.
Old Liu with white beard and hair led a group of Han and Qiang to clean the battlefield excitedly. There was no waste on the battlefield. The arrows shot can be recycled.
"Wei Gong is a god!" Lao Liu has lived in this place all his life and fought countless battles, but he has never seen Qin Lang fight like this.
This battle was really well fought.
What a stroke of genius.
While using singing and dancing to lure and paralyze the Tuyuhun people, at the same time secretly mobilizing soldiers and horses from nearby castles.
Tuyuhun people only know to watch the singing and dancing every day, but they don't know that Qin Lang has already completed the layout without making a sound, killing him with one blow.
"The Tuyuhun people underestimated the enemy and were arrogant, and that's what gave me an opportunity." Qin Lang was not too proud. Qin Qiong once taught him the essence of using soldiers, to control people rather than control them, that is, to always look for the initiative.
The use of troops is ever-changing, but if you master the initiative, you will be invincible.
Wusu let Tuoba Chici go deep into the Qiangshui River Basin, and stared at Qin Lang in Diezhou himself. There was nothing wrong with his arrangement, but the problem was that he still took it for granted. Dare to go out of the city to fight.
Even in his heart he had been looking forward to Qin Lang going out of the city and down the mountain to fight, so subconsciously he didn't strengthen his vigilance.
Qin Lang's troops seem to be scattered and scattered in various castles, but in fact Qin Lang has been sending people to keep in touch with the villages through mountain trails, etc. He deliberately waited for many days, just to wait for Dangxiang Qiang to go deep into Qiang River Stay away from the Tuyuhun people, so that you can take advantage of the opportunity and find an opportunity to defeat the Tuyuhun people.
Under normal circumstances, Wusu would set up camp at Shijing Mountain, and it would be impossible for Qin Lang to annex him with fewer hits and more. But Qin Lang mobilized Wu Su with a few simple tricks, making the dangerous camp he had carefully selected earlier useless.
Two ambush raids resolved all of Wusu's favorable conditions.
"So many people have been killed and so many have been seized, we're really screwed." Gao Zhensheng said excitedly.
This is really a big victory.
Tuyuhun people have always been cunning, even more treacherous than Turkic people.
When the Central Plains conquered Tuyuhun, they were often able to defeat them but could not annihilate them. What these people are best at is that the enemy advances and retreats, and the enemy retreats and advances. It is very difficult to wipe out the Tuyuhun people.
But this time, the Tuyuhun people stumbled.
Ten thousand horses, all wiped out.
This is also due to the terrain of Qiangshui. If it is on the grassland in Tuyuhun, it will definitely be difficult to surround and annihilate the enemy like this.
"Pass my military order to burn the grass in the Qiangshui River Valley!"
Qin Lang, who was victorious, issued a puzzling order.
Burn all the grass in the Qiangshui River Valley of Die and Fang Prefectures.
Burning grass, this was a favorite strategy used by the Tuyuhun people in the past. Once the Central Plains dynasty made a large-scale crusade, they would often avoid fighting. If the Central Plains army pursued them, they would burn grass.
Burn the pasture along the way, so that the chasing soldiers have no grass to eat.
Naturally, they couldn't pursue any further, so they could only retreat.
Using this tactic, the Tuyuhun people made repeated crusades and attacks against the Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui, and they returned without success.
Now, Qin Lang intends to follow the path of the enemy, leaving the enemy nowhere to go.
"Burning the pasture, our livestock will have no grass to eat." Lao Liu worried.
"In war, there must be some sacrifices. Although we burn grass, it will cause a lot of loss and inconvenience, but it is not fatal. We can harvest some grass first, or slaughter some livestock. The court can also compensate everyone. Take some loss, bite the bullet, we can get through."
Burning grass is to deal with the enemy.
Although they had just won a new victory, Tuoba Chici led 50,000 troops into the Qiangshui River Valley. This is an indisputable fact, and their strength is still very strong.
The most important thing is that Qin Lang has already received some scattered news about Qin Qiong's battlefield.
Xifeng Bulai and other tens of thousands of horses were blocked behind the Baishui River Valley. On the surface, they asked Qin Qiong to surrender, but in fact they had already quietly traveled eastward, crossed mountains and ridges, and entered Wuzhou in the lower reaches of the Qiang River, and were about to travel westward along the Qiang River to return. Tuyuhun.
Their route is Wudang Fangdie, and Diezhou is their exit.
Once Xifeng Bulai and Tuoba Chici join forces, there will be 80,000 to 90,000 troops, and Diezhou's troops will definitely not be able to stop them.
Therefore, burning grass is the best policy.
Even if they can’t be stopped, they can burn the grass. The 80,000 to 90,000 Qiang people will have no grass to eat along the way, and their horses will die in large numbers. Even if they finally escape back to Dangxiang, it will definitely be a huge blow.
And if luck is good, many Qiang people starve to death, and the escape is not fast, then Qin Lang may have the opportunity to wait for the reinforcements dispatched by the court, and maybe be able to surround the Dangxiang people in the Qiangshui River Valley.
If there is such good luck, then the party members really want to say goodbye.
But this possibility is unlikely, but it is worth a try.
It is not necessary to encircle all the Qiang people, but as long as it can hurt the muscles and bones, it is also very cost-effective.
At this time, it is rare to be able to face up to the enemy's strength and realize one's own shortcomings. Su Dingfang is very supportive of the grass-burning strategy.
Qin Lang looked at the beautiful rivers and mountains, and could only say that he could not care about environmental protection for the time being.
Burn grass and defend the city.
These are the two tasks Qin Lang entrusted to them, to burn all the grass in their defense lines.
Strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, did not give the Qiang people a chance to replenish, and did not even leave a blade of grass for their cattle and horses.
The fire burned for seven days and seven nights.
Die and Fang prefectures, the grass was burned.
Even many mountains and forests were burned.
Below the city of Diezhou, on the banks of the Qiangshui River, stands a Beijing Temple high up.
It was built with more than 5,000 Tuyuhun heads, and the remaining 4,000 captives were taken by Qin Lang to the copper cave in the north of Diezhou for mining.
It was a good copper mine. Old Liu told him that in the past when Diezhou was mining on a small scale here, Qin Lang had thousands of Tuguhun captives in his hands. Originally, Su Dingfang and others suggested that they should all be killed to avoid wasting food. After all, there is no way to send them out and sell them for a while, and it may be a disaster to keep them.
Qin Lang finally felt that it was too wasteful to kill prisoners after the battle was over.
So they were escorted to mine. The mine was also very dangerous, and the troops were stationed separately, so there was no need to worry about the party members coming back to rescue the prisoners.
Exchanging mines for food is not a waste of food.
The grass burned for seven days.
The mountain fire has not been extinguished yet, and Tuoba Chici returned from the east with 50,000 Dangxiang Qiang. They retreated westward slowly in an orderly and well-guarded team.
"Do not intercept?"
Zhang Chao asked Qin Lang who was standing on the top of Diezhou City.
Qin Lang just stood there quietly, watching the Qiang people slowly pass down the mountain.
He shook his head.
"Tuoba Chici is very cautious, look at his team, there is no flaw."
"Then let them go like this?"
"if not?"
Zhang Chao patted the battlements regretfully, "What a pity."
"It's a pity, that's how it is in war. You don't get what you want every time, so you have to look for opportunities. We have too few soldiers and horses now, and the total number is only five or six thousand. It's okay to guard the castle, but if you say It would be reckless to gather together and go down the mountain to intercept the battle."
Don't stop returning to the teacher, don't chase the poor.
Right now, Dangxiang Qiang didn't even care about waiting for Xifeng Bulai and the others to come over, and was about to retreat in a hurry. Tuoba Chi's speech was very ruthless. At this time, he abandoned his companions just to protect himself.
No one knows how long it will take for the reinforcements from the Tang army to arrive. Although the mountains are high and the water is dangerous, and the roads are difficult, if the reinforcements from the Tang army arrive first and block their retreat, then it will be too late to regret.
Although Qin Lang is in Diezhou now, Qin Lang can't do anything to them.
Qin Lang felt regretful, but he still enjoyed it.
Do it if you have the opportunity, let it go if you don’t have the opportunity, you can’t force it even if you don’t have the opportunity, otherwise the consequences will be serious.
Now that Tuoba Chici is determined to escape, Qin Lang insists on stopping him forcefully, he will definitely do his best, if he intercepts more, the consequences will be disastrous.
Qin Lang is unwilling to make such a fearless sacrifice, if he doesn't have a chance this time, let's wait for the next chance.
Burning grass had a great impact on Tuoba Chici. The biggest impact was that Tuoba Chici was forced to abandon Xifeng Bulai, and ran away ahead of time before he joined him.
He had already gone deep into Dangzhou, but now he retreated all the way. There was no grass along the way, and the horses were starving to death every day.
The weather is hot, and the meat spoils quickly.
Tuoba Chici was really in a panic. When fifty thousand people went deep, he was frivolous and proud, but now he is extremely depressed.
Qin Lang watched them pass by in embarrassment at the top of Diezhou city.
However, Su Dingfang Xijun bought all the generals, but they were not so determined. They all attacked and bit from time to time. Tuoba Chici was heavily guarded and didn't have many chances, but their attacks still added to the party members. A lot of stress.
"Don't chase!"
Qin Lang sent people to pass orders to the generals, and when they passed by, he would bite a few bites and he would be done. If he really wanted to pursue him, a bad one might end up like a warrior.
He was very shocked when he heard the news of Samurai Xun's defeat. He played poorly with a good hand of cards, and he didn't know what punishment he would suffer if he settled accounts after the fall.
"Tell the generals that the fat sheep is still behind, let Tuoba Chici pass by, and we will wait for Xifeng Bulai to come over.
Tuoba Chici saw that the situation was not good and ran fast, Qin Lang had no choice but Xifeng Bulai was severely hit by Qin Qiong in the Baishui River Valley, and detoured thousands of miles to the Qiangshui River Valley. It was not easy to escape this way, losing Tuoba Chi The resignation responded, and now that the grass was burned by Qin Lang again, Xifeng Bulai's men and horses had no grass, so it was impossible for them to escape back like Chi Ci.
They may have to walk here.
"The reinforcements from the imperial court should not be far away, and there will definitely be my grandfather chasing after Xifengbulai, so we should keep an eye on Xifengbulai."
If all Xifeng Bulai's troops can be blocked and gathered together to wipe them out, then Datang will gain a lot in this battle.
Tuoba Chici ran away and ran away. Ten birds in the forest are worse than one bird in hand.
Injuring his ten fingers is not as good as cutting off one.
Eat Xifeng Bulai, then Dangxiang will definitely be hurt this time.
Old Liu sighed very much, "Sanlang is young, his concentration is really amazing, an ordinary general."
(end of this chapter)