LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 96
Chapter 95: Return To Court
The two armies faced each other, and the soldiers on both sides stared vigilantly ahead, and the battle was about to break out.
At this critical moment, black smoke suddenly rose from the rear, and a curious soldier looked back, and was immediately beaten back by the chef at the back.
“Don’t look back, those who fall back will be killed!”
The Turkic soldiers were ordered not to turn back, but the Xuan soldiers on the opposite side could see it clearly. When Geng Rui saw the black smoke lit as promised, he immediately shouted loudly: “Attack!”
According to the plan discussed earlier, General Geng arranged for several soldiers with loud voices, shouting while rushing: “The Turkic camp is on fire, and we have taken over the Turks’ nest!”
Really got him.
Tsk, people can’t be seen.
Xiao Jingduo and others, who had just succeeded, are now being forced by the chasing troops. In order to avoid the scouts of the Turks, they traveled lightly and could only bring a maximum of a hundred people, but there were five or six hundred chasing soldiers behind them, and they were all elites.
The voice fell, and another arrow flew. The guards narrowly avoided, panting. Before he could lose his breath, he heard Xiao Jingduo ask, “Which one of you has the loudest voice?”
There is a large Turkic army in front, and there are chasing soldiers behind, even in this case, Xiao Jingduo’s voice is still calm and calm. Xiao Jingduo’s attitude greatly appeased the others, and before a few people could think about why, they scrambled to say, “The humble voice is loud!”
“I’m the loudest voice in our town!”
“General Xiao, I…”
“Okay, shout together, try to provoke the Turks.”
“Ah?” The few people who were still elated just now were stunned, “We are already like this, and we still want to provoke this group of barbarians?”
“You just shout back and say that they have been tricked again. Don’t worry about the rest.”
“What, there is still a team ambushing in the royal court?”
“What do you think?” Xiao Jingduo was helpless.
On the contrary, another person understood: “General, are you saying this on purpose so that they will not dare to pursue it?”
“So that’s how it is, so I can understand…” A soldier riding on a horse, cleared his throat with force, was about to shout back, but got stuck as soon as he opened his mouth. “General Xiao, I don’t know anything about Wen Zou Zou, what should I call them?”
“It’s enough to scold people, what’s ugly!”
“Understood!” These rough men took a deep breath, holding the reins tightly in their hands, but they laughed out loud.
“You pig brains, you have been deceived again, this is our plan, and you are tricked again!”
Several light cavalry quickly flew across the grassland, followed by black Turks. And these few people are not only not afraid, but also dare to laugh arrogantly and provocatively. These rude and loud voices reached the ears of the Turks, but made the Turk leaders hesitate.
“They say this is a tactic to move the tiger away from the mountain. Could it be that they have other soldiers in ambush?”
The Turks were stunned, Xiao Jingduo took advantage of this gap and led the people to accelerate again, and he was about to run out of the range of the Turks. The Turkic leader gritted his teeth, and finally said cruelly: “One group of people will go back to see the situation, and the rest will chase after me!”
Xiao Jingduo and the others ran for a while, and suddenly encountered a large army head-on.
“General Xiao, we seem to have gone to the Turks’ lair!”
“I think you are the pig’s brain, look up, isn’t the opposite of General Geng’s handsome flag!”
Everyone rejoices: “We’re back!”
But before returning to the team, a harsher reality was still in front of them. Behind them were the chasing soldiers who were reluctant to give up and were angered by them. In front of them was the main army of more than 20,000 Turks. They had to break out of the siege alive before they could join the forces of the Xuan Dynasty on the opposite side.
At the juncture of life and death, Xiao Jingduo’s heart calmed down, he said in a deep voice: “Rush to the right, and scatter the right flank of the Turkic infantry!”
Turkish infantrymen were holding spears, burying their heads and rushing forward. Suddenly there was a cry of killing from the rear, and then they saw a team of cavalry descend from the sky, rushing back and forth in the team, the infantry’s right flank was very Soon to be washed away.
When the other Turks reacted, the situation of the battle could no longer be reversed.
The Turks were worried that their tents would be burned, and now they saw a Xuan Dynasty cavalry rushing behind them, and the right flank was defeated. Under the double attack, many people were timid .
Morale is often the decisive factor in a battlefield.
This battle killed 5,000 enemies, captured war horses and countless knives. Old General Geng finally let out the sullenness he had been besieged a few days ago, and he was indescribably refreshed.
A few days later, the Turkic Khan sent a peace book, and the feng shui took turns. This time it was their turn to put down their posture and make peace.
The old general Geng Rui beamed and sent the Turkic Khan’s letter of reconciliation to Chang’an. Not long after, the envoys for peace set out from Chang’an and came to Monan and the Turks to negotiate peace.
The Turks have always been a big worry for the Xuan Dynasty, not to mention that the emperor of the Xuan Dynasty took the initiative to make good friends with the Turks for the sake of stability. . This first battle was won, the positions of the two sides were reversed, and there was endless jubilation inside and outside the hall. It was a great happy event.
Geng Rui and the Beizheng Army achieved such results, and it was natural to reward them for their merits and deeds, but before the results of the peace talks came out, they still needed to be stationed in the desert to prevent the Turks from doing anything wrong.
On the second night of the peace negotiation, Xiao Jingduo took the initiative to come to the main tent to find General Geng.
Geng Rui was writing a document to report casualties, prisoners, etc. to the imperial court. He looked up and found Xiao Jingduo coming, and said with a hearty smile, “It’s you, sit down!”
After Xiao Jingduo sat down, General Geng Rui patted him on the shoulder and laughed: “Last time you did a good job, not only burned the Turks’ nest, but also scattered them. The right flank of the Turks shakes the hearts of the Turkic army. We were able to win a great victory, thanks to you.”
A considerable part of the 5,000 Turks killed were hacked to death in the chaos. It can be seen that without Xiao Jingduo’s surprise attack, the Xuan Dynasty’s victory would have cost much. Now that they have exchanged such small casualties for a big victory, after returning to the dynasty, they will be rewarded by the imperial court to resist foreign enemies. This is a feat enough to be written into the history books. Geng Rui was in a good mood after having won such an incredible victory. This experience is not inferior to his previous fighting career, and it is totally worth writing about. With the joy of both public and private, the more Geng Rui looks at Xiao Jingduo, the happier he is. Oh, this is the biggest contributor to this victory!
“The general commanded properly, and his subordinates dared not take credit.”
“Hey!” Geng Rui waved his hand, “The military doesn’t pay attention to officialdom, everyone can see that whoever gets the credit is whoever gets the credit. , Now it seems that you are indeed a man.”
Geng Rui had a very bad impression of Xiao Jingduo. A manly man, he should make his own achievements. This kid went to the princess, or joined the army at the princess’s recommendation. What is this? But after looking at it in the past few days, Geng Rui has to admit that Xiao Jingduo is indeed a talented person, and it can even be said that Xiao Jingduo’s military talent is quite amazing.
But even so, Geng Rui still dislikes Xiao Jingduo’s style, and this will never change!
The general Geng Rui greatly changed Xiao Jingduo, let alone the ordinary soldiers of the army. Xiao Jingduo took people to the rear of the Turks by surprise. It was also Xiao Jingduo’s idea to fall from the sky to break up the right wing of the Turks. All these credits are obvious to all. Xiao Jingduo’s reputation in the army is also getting higher and higher.
Geng Rui told Xiao Jingduo about some military affairs again, Xiao Jingduo listened for a while, and said in a calm and indifferent voice: “General, the Turkic peace talks these days must be relaxed. Defense, how about we take the opportunity to sneak attack again?”
Geng Rui paused, almost thinking he heard it wrong: “Fuck, now that we have made peace with the Turks, how can we go back on our word?”
It will also develop into a serious problem for the confidants of the northern border. Taking advantage of the peace talks, the Turks are slack, we might as well kill their vitality completely.”
As soon as Geng Rui thought about the meaning behind the dispatch of troops, he could no longer sit down, stood up and paced back and forth. “You are right, but the envoy is still in the camp of the Turks. If we do this, what should the envoy do?”
Geng Rui turned back and glared at Xiao Jingduo: “Boy, if I am the messenger of this peace negotiation, I will send you this sentence, and I will kill you when I return to the court!”
Xiao Jingduo shut up, but he knew that General Geng had been persuaded.
Geng Rui walked around the tent for several times, and finally sighed heavily: “Tell me about your plan in detail…”
In August of the first year of Qianyuan, the court and the Turks negotiated peace.
On an ordinary morning in August, there was a heavy fog on the grassland. The soldiers standing guard yawned sleepily, thinking to themselves, yesterday, the Khan and the envoys from the Xuan Dynasty drank Dadan happily, and they are still sleeping soundly. When will they be able to rest for a while.
The little soldiers who were waiting for the changing of the guard to sleep did not find it, and more than 200 people rode in the fog and dived towards them holding their breath. By the time the people at the observatory found something wrong and hurriedly warned, it was too late.
Xiao Jingduo immediately made a gesture to let the whole army mount and rush towards the Turkic king’s tent at full speed.
Many people were awakened in their sleep, and before they could realize what happened, they were stabbed in the throat. When the Turkic Khan was awakened, he learned that the Xuan Dynasty people had killed his tribe. This time he was so shocked that his guts were cracked. The Khan didn’t care about other things. The half-asleep Turks also ran around. Geng Rui arrived immediately with a large army, and cooperated with Xiao Jingduo’s forward team to start a killing spree.
This battle killed more than 10,000 Turkic men, captured more than 100,000 prisoners of war, women, the elderly, the weak, and infants, captured hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and killed the remnants of the previous dynasty. , to capture the three princes alive.
The only thing left is the Turkic Khan who escaped with his troops.
But the Turkic Khan has become a lost dog, and the next thing to do is to contact the marching generals of various places and jointly round up the Turkic Khan. His elite is gone, escaping for his life is a problem, and it is impossible to make a comeback.
In this battle, the Turks were almost uprooted.
Afterwards, the army that was ordered to resist the Turks returned from Monan with great momentum, passed through Yunzhong City, and walked all the way to Chang’an.
This is an unprecedented victory in the Central Plains against the Turks in the past 100 years. The Turks were almost wiped out. Although there were still some small tribes, they were not climatic and would not threaten the Xuan Dynasty.
Along the way, people continued to run out to watch and cheer!
Everyone was very happy, except for the envoys who came from thousands of miles to negotiate peace.
He was really angry, if it wasn’t for his cleverness that day, if he found something wrong, he would find a place to hide, and now he would have no life to return to Chang’an!
But even more angry, the envoy couldn’t say anything, and even congratulated the army with a smile on the victory.
“If you let me know who came up with this bad idea, I will never forgive you!”
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Xiao Jingduo returned with the army, and slowly, the majestic Chang’an City appeared in his field of vision.
He saw a group of crimson clothes from a distance, and at the very front stood a young girl, wearing a solemn black public uniform, with a wide hem and her sleeves clasped in front of her, she was smiling at this direction looks.
In the first year of Qianyuan, the Northern Expedition Army defeated the Turks.