Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 468
Not only Wang Ping'an was taken aback, but all the guards around him were also stunned! 20 control strings, what do you mean?20 people came to attack?Then there is no need to defend the city, pack your luggage, and run to Yumen Pass quickly!
Brother Yelujun hurriedly said: "It's not 20 Turkic soldiers. Master, please don't misunderstand. Control strings are not the same as Turkic soldiers."

Before he could start to explain, the scouts who came rushing to the post arrived at the post, rushed to Wang Ping'an's front.These scouts were all panicked, and when they got up the hill, before they could get off their horses, they shouted Turkic words at Wang Ping'an.

Wang Pingan hurriedly said: "Don't worry, take a breath first, and speak slowly!"

The scouts jumped off their horses, took a few deep breaths, and then spoke out about the enemy's situation. Their Central Plains dialect is not very good, but they can only be regarded as fluent. When reporting, it is inevitable that Turkic dialect is mixed in. Fortunately, Yelujun My brother was translating by the side, and Wang Ping'an could understand.

After the [-] pioneers led by Qu Zhimao, the troops from the headquarters of the Dayan Department marched. It could almost be regarded as a whole army to attack. There were no old or weak, all of them were young and strong.However, young and strong here does not refer to young men, but also young women.

In the court of the Tang Dynasty, when it comes to the size of the Turkic tribe, "accounts" are often used to count the numbers, and when it comes to attacking troops, there will be "control strings" to count the numbers. The soldiers are also counted, saying how many Turkic soldiers there are.

Controlling strings refers to Turkic people who can participate in battles.Turkic women are very different from Central Plains women. It cannot be said that everyone can draw a strong bow, but eight out of ten young Turkic women can draw a bow. This is not an exaggeration.

Combat does not specifically refer to hand-to-hand combat.On the contrary, generally speaking, the Turkic people really seldom fight against the enemy. Instead, they use cavalry and shooting to attack the enemy, attacking quickly and retreating quickly.It is very important whether it will open the bow or not.

The Central Plains infantry charged and formed a square formation. Women must not join the formation, because the attack is not sharp enough, and the escape is not fast enough.But the Turks are different. As long as they can ride fast horses and shoot bows and arrows, they are warriors. Men and women can go into battle together. Men fight close to each other, while women attack enemies from a distance and cooperate with each other!

Therefore, when the Turkic people went south to the Central Plains, they often frightened the border guards, how powerful our tribe is, and how much control they have.At first, this kind of statement was quite scary, but later the border guards also understood that the so-called control of strings turned out to be for women to enter, so it didn't matter.Of course, if the border guards beat the Turkic people away, they would still regard the Turkic women as real fighters when remembering the military exploits, and selectively forget that they are women, so the military exploits will be great!

But now in Zheliu County, it doesn’t matter anymore. The Dayan Department has 20 control strings, which is too much. If you subtract half, there are still [-] Turkic soldiers, and they are not as tired and hungry as Zheliu Turkic soldiers. For the tired soldiers in winter, the two armies don't need to fight, and the outcome will be known!

After Wang Pingan heard the explanation, he also jumped up and down anxiously. He asked: "Did our Tang Dynasty offend the Dayan tribe? It seems that they didn't. Why did they raise their troops to attack? Is it possible that they want to fight my Tang Dynasty?" No?"

Ouyang Li also said: "The King Khan of the Dayan Tribe wants to take up the banner and become a Turkic Khan himself?"

Wang Ping'an wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, shook his head and said, "It's not like, if that Khan wants to become a khan himself, he should curry favor with my Tang court. How can he lead troops to attack? That doesn't mean erecting two khans at the same time." Great enemy. He has offended both the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic Khan!"

He waved his hand and said: "Explore again, we must find out the movements of the Dayan Department."

The scouts agreed in unison, drank a few sips of water, and mounted their horses again.A scout got on his horse and ran down the hill. He didn't go far, then turned his horse's head and ran back to the hill.The scout said to Wang Ping'an: "Ping'an Khan, if we go to visit the Dayan Department, they will definitely send people to visit us, you must be prepared!"

Wang Pingan hummed, looked at the scout, and said, "Okay, I will definitely be careful. By the way, what's your name?" He looked familiar with this Turkic soldier, but couldn't remember who came.

The scout touched his chest and saluted, and said: "The villain's name is Kabazi, Ping'an Khan knows my father!" After speaking, he was laid off and left.

Wang Pingan thought: "Karbazi? Who is he, and who is his father?" For a moment, he didn't remember.

Brother Yelujun usually gets along with Turkic soldiers a lot, he whispered: "When he was in Ganzhou, his father followed his master to that town, the night he killed Chigeba!"

"Oh, so it's their father and son!" Wang Pingan remembered.He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he didn't remember who the Kabazi were, but just being a little nicer to them at that time, they firmly remembered the insignificant care for him, and they were willing to make great efforts at critical moments.

He sighed, and said: "Staying here is not an option. Let's go back to the city and make preparations early. It is estimated that the army of the Dayan tribe will arrive at Zheliu tomorrow." With the guards, he returned to Zheliu county.

At this time, the news of the enemy's attack had already spread, and the Zheliu Turkic soldiers quickly gathered in the county, very fast.From the time the news came out to the present, in just two hours, more than 2 Zheliu Turkic soldiers rushed to the county seat.

The weather is cold, and the damaged city walls have not been fully repaired. If the enemy really attacks the city, I am afraid that they will not be able to defend the city walls. In the end, they will either fight in the streets or pull out of the city to fight in the field. This is unavoidable!

Su Dingfang ordered the Turkic soldiers to cut down trees, make fences, and put them on the city wall as city defense tools. In addition, he temporarily made some rough horses and placed them outside the city.It's easy to do things with a lot of people, and according to their working speed, it is estimated that the city defense will be done at dawn tomorrow, but whether it is practical or not is another matter!
Wang Pingan returned to the city, went straight into the fort, went to meet Fang Xuanling and the others, and discussed how to fight against the enemy.

Entering the hall in the castle, this hall is called Jubao Hall, which is the place where the robbers sit and divide the dirt. Wang Pingan felt that the name was not bad, so he did not change the name. The plaque was not removed, and it was still hanging on the beam.

Fang Xuanling was sitting in the middle of Jubao Hall, accompanied by Wang Wendu and Gu Lantian on both sides, but You Xiujie was nowhere to be seen. I don't know where he went.

Seeing Wang Ping'an come back, Fang Xuanling said with a smile: "No illness, it must be hard work to go out to investigate the enemy's situation in the cold weather. Come here, here is the best ginseng soup, you can drink a bowl." He pointed to the ginseng on the table. A small porcelain basin.

Seeing that he was not in a hurry, Wang Pingan calmed down a bit, found a seat and sat down, and said: "There is no need to participate in the soup. Mr. Fang, the enemy who came is the Dayan Department, with Qu Zhimao as the vanguard. This matter You already know the matter, right?"

Fang Xuanling hummed, and said: "A scout came to report. The city defense hasn't been fixed yet, right? If it's too late, then there's no need to do it." Seeing that Wang Ping'an was puzzled, he said, "Don't worry, the intruder The Turkic soldiers will not really attack Zheliu, they just scare us... just scare you, they are going to attack Shazhou."

Wang Pingan glanced at Gu Lantian at the side, and saw that the governor of Gu Dadu curled his lips and touched his chin silently. He laughed a few times and said, "It turns out that I was going to attack Shazhou, but I am also the governor of Shazhou. Are you going to send troops?"

Fang Xuanling waved his hand and said, "It's not necessary. The old man has already sent someone to notify the governor of Shazhou. It is estimated that the governor has already let the surrounding people enter the city, and the invading enemy will not get any benefit."

Wang Ping'an blinked his eyes, thinking: "The people from Dayan are going to make a trip for nothing, are they not so stupid? What we expected before they came, how could they not expect it!"

Fang Xuanling said: "No disease, this is the first time you deal with Turkic tribes, right? You still don't understand their way of doing things." He started to explain the current situation to Wang Ping'an.

The Turkic soldiers of the Dayan tribe were attracted by Qu Zhimao, there is no mistake in that.But King Khan of the Dayan tribe would not be so stupid as to borrow troops for nothing. It must be beneficial, so he must use mediation as an excuse.As for the mediation between a bandit leader and the Tang court...it doesn't matter, as long as there is an excuse to come!
The vanguard that Qu Zhimao had borrowed would definitely bluff around the city and make a strong attack.At this time, King Khan of the Dayan tribe arrived, and he would tell Wang Ping'an that we were fooled, deceived by Qu Zhimao, and made up a random reason, anyway, they were deceived.But it's easy to come, but hard to go back, because there is no food, no supplies, so you Datang people want us to go away, so please support us, if you don't give us, just hang on!

This is a threat in disguise. It's not that the Dayan Department doesn't want to leave, but that they can't leave, and they were deceived, so morally speaking, it's impossible to fight them.Here they negotiate and use soft knives, but in Shazhou they will not be polite and will definitely grab the surrounding areas.

Zheliu must agree to their conditions, at most they will give discounts on supplies.It’s okay if you don’t agree, they just hang on and eat, drink and sleep outside the city, who can bear it!They are all shameless, who can do anything to them?
In the end, Dayan took the materials provided by Zheliu and returned to the grassland with the property looted from Shazhou.If Wang Pingan had not pursued their robbing of Shazhou, they would have said that we robbed Shazhou because we had no food, and you were procrastinating and not supporting us.It's not that we wanted to rob, but you forced us to rob, and it's all your fault!
Anyway, Dayan's trip here will definitely return with a full reward and will not suffer. As for whether Tang Jun will retaliate in the future, we will talk about it in the future!

After listening to Fang Xuanling's words, Wang Ping'an grinned and said, "The King Khan of the Dayan tribe is a hero no matter what, so he wouldn't be so shameless?"

"Shameless?" Gu Lantian spoke, and he said: "I have seen many shameless things in Yumenguan all these years. This time is the most embarrassing time for the Turkic people. Anyway, they still treat Qu Zhimao as a fool." There is a reason!"

Wang Ping'an was a little confused, and said: "Then what should we do, just wait for them to use this disgusting trick, there is no way to break it?"

Fang Xuanling and Gu Lantian were silent, and after a long while, Fang Xuanling said: "Looking at the current situation, this is the only way to go. Our army has little chance of winning the battle, and it is really unnecessary. Neither the enemy nor us have started a war. I plan to, but if we don’t go to war...then we can only suffer for the people around Shazhou, I hope they can enter the city as soon as possible to reduce losses. There is really no good way to deal with these scoundrels.”

Wang Ping'an was extremely dissatisfied. As the prime minister of a country, he discarded the small and chose the big. From the perspective of the overall situation, he couldn't tell his mistakes, but suffering the people, how many family ruins and deaths would be included in these words what!

He stood up abruptly, and said, "Lord Fang, you are right, I admire you. But since King Khan of the Dayan Tribe is a scoundrel, why don't we also be scoundrels?"

(End of this chapter)