Chapter 1103: Retreat to Tangtougou Pass

Zhou Wen had already arranged for Leting to make preparations. He only waited for the relocated people to arrive before recruiting troops. Therefore, the 5,000-strong army was quickly recruited. He only relied on Leting's 5,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry. It was still far from enough to attack Wuhuan in western Liaoning. Originally, Huangfu Chaobo thought that Huang Xu would lead the army to support Laoting. Under the current situation, it was obviously impossible for Huang Xu. After careful consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to send Zhang An led 10,000 Qingzhou infantry and 1,000 cavalry to support.

Originally, Huangfu Chaobo wanted Leting to dispatch 5,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry, but Zhou Wen disagreed. In the end, at Zhou Wen's insistence, Leting only left 1,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry. One thousand cavalry defended, and the remaining 9,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry were dispatched. A total of 22,000 troops from the two families marched towards western Liaoning. According to the news from Leting's own spies sent to Yangle and Liucheng, Liucheng is currently There are only less than 10,000 remnant soldiers left in the two cities of Yangle and Yangle, and they are guarding the last family members of the Wuhuan people, about 200,000 people.

For Leting, this is the best time. If Liucheng and Yangle can be captured in one fell swoop, Wuhuan in western Liaoning will become a historical name, and these hundreds of thousands of people will become Leting's The population is enough to increase Leting's strength several times. Moreover, Wuhuan at this time also has several famous historical generals, all of whom were famous foreign generals during the Three Kingdoms period. If Leting can get these generals, his strength will be Take it to the next level.

Just when Laoting was busy recruiting troops to attack the Wuhuan people in western Liaoning, the battle situation in Longhua changed again. Tangtougou Town finally failed to hold off the Suli army for half a month. Huangfu Chaobo successively attacked the town. Four thousand soldiers were invested in it, but after ten days of fierce fighting, the four thousand soldiers were basically lost. In the end, there were only less than 500 soldiers who could fight.

The most important thing is that there are already some gaps in the city wall of Tangtougou. Although the Xianbei people do not know how to build sophisticated catapults and other large-scale long-range siege weapons, they still have no problem with simple weapons such as battering rams. There are dozens of them. The battering rams launched an attack on the city wall in a few days. Although they were eventually destroyed by Zheng Xiong's men, the Xianbei people made new battering rams every day and put them into battle. Now this thin city wall has several places. Cracks appeared, and it is estimated that it will not be able to hold up for two days.

After Huangfu Chaobo received the battle report, he ordered Zheng Xiong's troops to withdraw to the pass overnight. In the end, only 419 of the 4,000 soldiers were withdrawn to the pass. In terms of generals, except Zheng Xiong, the captain, only one of the four captains was left. There are still six people left among the twenty song leaders, and eight people out of the forty village leaders, but they are said to have suffered heavy losses.

While Zheng Xiong and others were evacuating, there were still nearly 300 lightly or seriously injured people who could not be evacuated, who were left in Tangtougou Pass, quietly waiting for the Xianbei attack early the next morning.

When the morning sun shone on the earth, the Xianbei army's cheers rang out a few miles outside Tangtougou Pass, and then a few pillars of black smoke rose in the town. They were the remaining lightly and seriously injured people who were setting fire to the morning in the town. The ignition materials had been prepared, and soon a few pillars of black smoke turned into a huge fire, trapping the first batch of thousands of Xianbei soldiers who entered the town, and perished in the sea of ​​​​fire together with the Tang soldiers who did not retreat.

On the wall, Zheng Xiong led more than 400 soldiers who had withdrawn from the town to the pass. They looked at the light of fire several miles away. Looking at the fire, Zheng Xiong clenched his fists, closed the corners of his mouth, and gritted his teeth. There was a "cluck" sound, and there were hundreds of my brothers in the sky-high fire. Not only Zheng Xiong, but also the hundreds of soldiers who retreated with him were also clenching their teeth, tense and filled with grief and anger. Each of them held their hands tightly on the wall, until their knuckles turned white.

"Are you heartbroken? Are you resentful? Are you helpless?" A familiar voice sounded behind them. Zheng Xiong was startled. He quickly turned around and looked behind him. Sure enough, it was his lord. When Zheng Xiong saw this, he looked towards him with red eyes. Huangfu Chaobo saluted and said: "My lord, those brothers were the ones who gave up inside with their own hands in the end, but now we can only watch them die together with the Xianbei people!"

Huangfu Chaobo walked to him,

He patted his shoulder gently and said softly: "I understand your feelings very well, because I have done the same thing. If you don't give up on them, more soldiers will lose their lives. As a general, you should Be stronger, lead them, turn grief and anger into strength, kill more Xianbei people to avenge the soldiers outside the pass! "

Having said this, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the surrounding soldiers and said slowly: "Soldiers, the brothers outside the pass have perished together with the Xianbei dog thieves, but they died worthy. They died for more soldiers and people to survive. Damn it. We originally lived happily here, but the Xianbei dog thief wants to interrupt our peaceful life. He wants to wipe out all of us, and then take all our wives and children as slaves. The sacrificed soldiers died to stop the Xianbei people. They used their deaths in exchange for our survival, and we need to kill more Xianbei dog thieves to protect those soldiers and our own wives, children, and children from The humiliation of the Xianbei people, otherwise how can we be worthy of the souls of the dead soldiers in heaven!"

"Kill the Xianbei dog thief and protect the safety of your family!" As soon as Huangfu Chaobo finished speaking, a soldier shouted loudly;

Soon, this call was echoed by more and more soldiers. In the end, the cry of "kill the thief" rang out from the entire wall. The loud voice reached into the sky, making the Xianbei soldiers several miles away change their expressions when they heard it.

However, shouting and killing could only boost the morale of the Tang army, but could not stop the attack of the Xianbei army. The Xianbei army was numerous and powerful, and it took less than half an hour to put out the fire in the town. Afterwards, Suli ordered people to tidy up the town and set up his tent in the town.

Next, Suli arranged personnel to prepare his tent while arranging tens of thousands of troops to rush to the Tangtougou Pass in the west. He was not overjoyed because he had captured Tangtougou Town. Tens of thousands of Xianbei troops rushed directly to Tangtougou Pass.

Tangtougou Pass is now a medium-sized pass. After several reinforcements and heightenings by Longhua City, a medium-sized pass with a height of more than three feet and a width of more than ten feet has been built. Huang Xu is now responsible for defense. Now, there are 5,000 combat soldiers and 4,000 guards in the pass and the 5,000 guards of Huangfu Chaobo, a total of nearly three schools of soldiers and horses for defense.