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Chapter 506 Red Mist
The most intriguing thing is that the court did not give Wang Hua an accurate answer, but issued an imperial decree. At the beginning, Tang Xiujing was appointed as the general manager of Qinzhou, and Tang Yinian resigned.Once again, Zong Chuke was the general manager of Qinzhou, Liu Jingren, the general of Yulin, was the deputy general manager, and Xue Sijian, the general of Zuojianmen, was the governor of Qinzhou.

After hearing the news, everyone laughed out loud. Will this Zong Chuke still fight?
But he was severely reprimanded by Wang Hua, and told some stories about Zong Chuke, don't underestimate this man, he also has military knowledge.Proud soldiers must be defeated, do you understand?Don't say that the opponent's soldiers are several times your own.

Everyone was surprised, it turns out that bad guys also have goods.

Wang Hua was speechless, and after a long time said: "Who said that bad people have no goods? The more bad people are, the more capable they are, otherwise how could he become bad?"

This made everyone put away their contempt.But after everyone left, Wang Hua and Zhu Dian looked at each other and laughed. Maybe Zong Chuke had something to offer, but he had never been to the battlefield.Besides commanding such a big battle?Even Wang Hua was cautious, how could he be undefeated when the imperial court sent him here?

However, before the imperial court sent Zong Chuke, it was absolutely impossible to think about it this time.

Civil war, after Wang Hua finished laughing, he sighed inwardly.

The other person, Chang Yuankai, also didn't worry Wang Hua, but he had a striker under his command. Speaking of which, he had some connections with Wang Hua. He laid a great foundation in the north, ruined it for Chang Yuankai, recommended it to the imperial court, and asked the imperial court to assign him to Shuofang.

But it's not without good news.

After receiving Wang Hua's letter, Li Kailuo was the first to come to Lingzhou. In fact, in the final analysis, Wang Hua didn't call him, otherwise he would have come to Lingzhou long ago.There are only a few relatives in the family. Father-in-law Li Kaigu was not reused because of Da Zuorong's defeat.

After receiving Wang Hua's letter, he immediately asked Wang Hua's people to transfer his family and came alone.

Then there is Zhang Xiaosong, who betrayed Zhang Xiaosong for Webster and suffered so much that no one can complain.This time following Zhang Ren, he was willing to make great contributions again, but he was frozen by the court again.Therefore, under Wang Hua's call, she immediately and quietly came to Bazhou.There is another person that Wang Hua did not expect.Wang Jun, under the care of the Wang family in Taiyuan, his experience has been better in recent years.In Wang Hua's mind, he was the least likely to come to Bazhou, or was the Taiyuan Wang family instigating behind the scenes?
This is not impossible, and now I am more and more tied to the chariot of the Taiyuan Wang family.If he falls down, it will be very difficult for the Taiyuan Wang family to have a good life now.Do you want to ask them to ask Wang Haibin, Xue Na's favorite general?But Wang Hua just thought about it, don't make this cheap senior uncle anxious.

Wang Hua was very happy when he came. He wouldn't ask in a nonchalant way, why did you also come to Bashu?

But the other person hesitated for a long time, and finally saw many veterans of the original blood battalion coming to Bazhou, and that was Xiao Song.If you don't come, you can't, the others went to Eight States together, and if you stay in the court, it will be a thorn in Webster's eye in the future.Although he was a little hesitant, Wang Hua was still very happy to come.Now the blood camp has no shortage of strong generals, what is lacking is wise generals like him and Zhang Xiaosong.

Another important person, Guo Zhiyun came to Bazhou very early.His position was promoted by Wang Hua. Although the tragedy of the two blood camps had nothing to do with him, he was also suppressed by the court because of his relationship with Wang Hua and Kong Heizi.A few months ago, he had the idea of ​​defecting to Lingzhou, but because of the strict surveillance of the court, he gave up.Just when the court relaxed its vigilance, Wang Hua's letter also arrived.Without saying a word, he collected his luggage and left immediately.

Seeing their arrival, Wang Hua said happily, "Not one is missing."

It was much less, Lao Wu's two transfers, and many soldiers left.Wang Hua only brought back five hundred or so soldiers, and many of them remained in the Central Plains or frontier fortresses.But the most important thing is these five people.

When these five hundred people arrived in Bazhou, they immediately caused the generals of the Seventh Army and the Four Brigades to bombard them. Now there is no shortage of soldiers, but the lack of middle-level generals.These people came just in time.

Wang Hua allocated 300 people, and nearly [-] others stayed.This is the backbone that makes up the militia.Although the fighting power of the militia is a little weaker, if there is a sheep led by a lion, it is not a sheep.

Now that many armies are coming to suppress the border, the number is several times that of them, and these 5 people have to come in handy.So a new establishment, the division, was formed on the spot.It is divided into three divisions: Tianzi Division, Dizi Division, and Renzi Division, led by Xiao Song, Zhang Xiaosong, and Guo Zhiyun.At the same time, he handed over the Suzaku brigade on his shoulders to Li Kailuo, and asked Mo Hegan to hand over the Xuanwu brigade to Wang Jun.

After all, when the battle started, he, Mo Hegan and General Zhu Dian were in command, but the two brigades, as regular troops, had to be stationed on the battlefield.

But the arrival of these people added joy and hope of victory to Eight States.

Wang Hua began to issue orders one after another.

The first is ideological work. It was originally a beautiful homeland. When autumn comes soon, we will have a good life, but the enemy will not let us have a good life. What should we do?
Mobilize and encourage the people.

But production belongs to production. Before the enemy arrives, spring plowing will continue, and what should be planted will still be planted.Although there is a good chance that a part of the crop will be severely trampled, it is better than nothing.At the same time, it is also Qinghe, and I believe that even the Tubo people will not run into the fields and spare no effort to pull Qinghe up for the sake of pure destruction.

Not only the production, but also the perfume is also in operation, but because it is purely picked wild flowers, the output is not high.The real benefits will have to wait until next year.There will be some this year, but the benefits will be minimal.

Even paper mills started working at the same time.

But these trades were not with the Tang Dynasty, but with Hu merchants on the Silk Road.Even the Tang Dynasty did not dare to block the Silk Road. Although the war was about to break out, there were still many Hu merchants coming and going on the Silk Road, but they all had some worries in their eyes.

The sword is ruthless, God knows if something will happen?

Many Hu merchants stopped and waited and watched in Qinzhou or Liangzhou.

It doesn't matter, no matter whether it is paper or perfume, the output is pitifully small.In addition to these two things, there is also ceramics, which are under construction, not so much as construction, but as experiments.Compared with Henan or Jiangnan, there are very few soils and materials suitable for firing high-quality ceramics.

The continuation of these workshops undoubtedly further boosted morale and popular support.

Then Wang Hua began to search the territory again. Next, he had to prepare a lot of weird things and ambushes, so that the territory could not be surrounded by a large number of scouts.This time the investigation was almost a dragnet search.

There are [-] militiamen themselves, and they have also reported some strangers of unknown origin.In this way, the scouts placed by various forces were almost wiped out.

Then all kinds of strange arrangements began.

This includes clearing the walls and clearing the fields, distributing food, cloth and other supplies to every commoner, but I have repeatedly told you to hide them well to prevent the enemy from attacking and searching your home.Whether to bury it in the ground or hide it on the mountain, whatever you want, but you can't let the enemy find it.

Passive defense, Wang Hua pays himself that he does not have this strength at all.So sometimes we take the initiative to withdraw some sites to make room for strategic space.This requires preparations for a large-scale retreat in advance.

On the other side, [-] elite soldiers from Tubo also arrived at Dafeichuan and Jishi Mountain at the same time.But there is also good news, the [-] soldiers were divided into two groups, [-] soldiers were handed over to Xinuoluo, and [-] soldiers were handed over to Ke Zangre.

Although the battle has not yet started, Xinuoluo saw this situation and quietly said to his adviser Mangbuche: "This battle may not be won."

Mang Buzhi remained silent. Although he had an absolute advantage in military strength, the Tubo army made Wang Hua split into two with just one sentence.Tang Chao didn't know what to think, but sent that Zong Chuke to lead the army.The only good news is that I heard that the [-] Turkic troops are slowly swimming to the west of Yinshan Mountain.But the whereabouts of this army is unknown, if they are attacking Wang Hua, it is undoubtedly good news.But with Mo Chuai's cunning, he will definitely not mobilize troops in advance, but will only act when the fierce battle between the two sides is in full swing.

The troops have an absolute advantage, but they are fighting each other, and the opponent's tactics are elusive, and there are like clouds of fierce generals.

Xin Nuoluo was faintly worried.

Mangbuchi was silent for a while and said, "General, sit and watch."

"Why?" Xinuoluo asked strangely.If you are sitting on the sidelines, there is no chance of winning this alliance battle.

"Victory is of course icing on the cake, and it won't help the general's reputation much. If he fails, the general, including allies, will have a total of 50 million troops in this battle. It will be difficult to explain to the country. Since the country listens to Wang Hua, it is better to let Ke Zan Hot to be a striker, to test the opponent's reality."

Xinuoluo also fell silent, and finally agreed with Mangpoche's opinion.

As the army began to be called up, not only the army was called up, but also because of the coming of war, the taxes and duties of various ministries were increased.As a result, the various ministries complained. They thought that there would be fewer people, the area for grazing and cultivation would expand, and the harvest would increase. They knew that the tax might increase, but they still had a good life.

But now the crops have just been planted, and some have not been planted in time at all, so what are they used to pay taxes?

And because of the large deployment of troops, all the young and middle-aged people in the family were taken away, and there was a shortage of labor.

Now I really regret that I didn't go to the eight states, but thinking about it, it seems that the situation in the eight states is also not good.Everyone feels that the world is so big that there is no place for them to live.

After getting the supply, Xin Nuoluo was the first to dispatch, leading an army of [-] soldiers, and went straight to Hezhou.But it was so fierce that it stopped in front of Calabash Ridge.Then began to rectify military discipline.But he clearly aimed at Hezhou, but he focused on Kuozhou.

Although Hezhou is the largest of the three states, its defenses are dense, and there are two major checkpoints, Helan Pass and Fenglin Pass.There are countless rivers, and complex terrain such as small rocky mountains.Wang Hua's military strategy, Xinuoluo, has been studied repeatedly, and his use of terrain has reached an incomparable level.Sinoro didn't have to take the risk.

Kuozhou was acquired by Wang Huaxin, and the people's hearts were not stable. However, Kuozhou sits on the land of nine bends in the west of Hexi, and has a large border line with Tubo, and the terrain is flat and simple.Otherwise, in terms of area, Kuozhou has the largest area among the three states, but its population ranks last?Because the terrain here is flat and the people are rich, it has become the main object of looting by the Tubo people.

After last year's brutal battle, his men's morale was low.The first battle must be won.So he not only alluded to Kuozhou, but also targeted the outermost Dahua County.

He was worried about fighting on his own, and even though he was the first to dispatch, he himself might be the first general to fight on his own.

Following his movement, Ke Zanre also dispatched [-] troops to Shan County.I didn't use surprise soldiers, and I didn't dare to use surprise soldiers, so I fought steadily.He is eager for revenge, but Shan County is not so easy to attack. To attack Shan County, the three satellite cities must be removed, Linfan City, Suirong City and Dingrong City.

But these three satellite cities were not large in size. At that time, because Tubo occupied Dafeichuan, which was very close to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty built three satellite cities to defend and delay the Tubo army, so that the rear could be prepared.

Each city can hide two or three thousand soldiers at most.It is also impossible to have so many soldiers. Usually, only three to 200 people are stationed in these three satellite cities.

But Ke Zanre didn't dare to be careless, and still sent his general Chazhure, with [-] troops as the vanguard, to move forward to the first satellite city, Dingrong City.

From a long distance, the gate of Anrong City was wide open, and many people poured into the city, and then fled to the east from behind the city.Probably because he knew that the small city could not be defended, Wang Hua asked the people to evacuate to the rear of Shan County.But these people all carried a lot of baggage.The speed is very slow, there are soldiers urging at the gate of the city, and there are many war horses in the city.Seeing these luggage, Cha Zhure was a little jealous.What is Tubo missing now?It is the supplies. Originally, the lack of supplies, coupled with Wang Hua's toss, had to impose violent taxes on the various tribes in the grassland for this war. Now the people of all ethnic groups on the grassland are full of complaints.If it weren't for the fear of Tubo's strength, they would have rebelled.

Of course, he also looked at the top of the city. There was a blood battalion defending the top of the city, but there were not many people.According to visual inspection, there are about three to four hundred people, that's it, and the city is full.The main city is too small, and the city walls are only so big. It is not a city, even some luxury houses in Luoyang are larger than it.The only thing is that there is a regular city wall.That is, 400 people can enter, where should they stand?
As for the war horses in the city, it confirmed the speculation of tea candle fever.This was left for the Blood Battalion soldiers to escape.He didn't believe that the soldiers in this small town would dare to attack their [-] troops.

He shouted: "Come on, come on."

Take down this Anrong City immediately, and go after the people.

Ten thousand Tubo troops came like the wind.

Seeing Tubo coming, the soldiers guarding the city immediately closed the city gate regardless of the lives of the people.The people outside the city who had not yet entered the city left their luggage and fled in all directions.

Seeing this situation, Chazhure forgot all Ke Zangre's orders, and gave another urgent order.

Before arriving at Anrong City, they all dismounted from their horses and took off the siege equipment from their horses.Holding simple wooden ladders and holding shields in their hands, they came to the bottom of the city wall one by one.At the same time, a group of archers followed. Although they were at a disadvantage, the suppression of the bows and arrows of the archers could reduce the pressure on the siege soldiers.

Very mediocre style of play.

But it also allowed him to see the fighting power of the blood camp. Although the number was small, none of the soldiers on the top of the city was timid. They picked up bows and arrows one by one, shot up and down the top of the city, and shouted.When the Tubo soldiers came to the corner of the city wall, another batch of rolling logs and stones fell from the top of the city wall.

However, there are too many Tubo soldiers, which may be dozens of times that of the defenders in the city.

Although many Tubo soldiers were killed, more Tubo soldiers rushed to the corner of the city wall.Under the cover of the shield army, thousands of Tubo archers gradually approached the city wall.The bows and arrows of these archers finally suppressed the firepower of the soldiers on the top of the city, and several soldiers of the Blood Battalion were killed by the arrows thrown up because of carelessness.

Still pretty mediocre.

The tea candle heated up and pressed his hands: "Up, press up."

The record of the blood battalion weighed on the hearts of the Dafeichuan soldiers like a devil.If you don't take down Anrong City in one go, you will probably pay even more damage.

But at this moment, a strange thing rose up in the city. Dozens of them, like an oval ball, floated slowly over the tea-candle-warming army by the east wind.

Seeing this weird thing, almost all the Tubo soldiers stopped.

Chazhure drank another sentence from behind: "What are you looking at, attack the city."

But he went to look up by himself, and he didn't see such a thing before, each of them was not very big, and there was a small hanging basket underneath, and he didn't know what was burning inside, and it was shining.At this time, the tea candle fever is not thinking about why it can rise to the sky, but thinking about what effect it will have.

He didn't believe that Wang Hua was intentionally trying to confuse.But no matter how he thought, he couldn't figure it out.

The fighting resumed at the top of the city, even if the tea candles were hot, the soldiers came back to their senses.They were in a daze, but the Blood Battalion soldiers on the top of the city were not in a daze, and continued to shoot down arrows and logs.This is not the time to daze!
The tea candle fever did not take care of the casualties of the soldiers under the city. During the siege war, it was always beneficial to the soldiers defending the city.He continued to look at the dozen or so strange spherical objects.The wind is not very strong, because of the lightness, these dozen orbs are shaking slightly in the air.There is also a long rope dragging behind, all the way to the city.

He couldn't figure it out, this made him a little uneasy, and he even wanted to shoot the rope with an arrow, but it was pulled up from the city, so it was far away from the ground, and the range was not enough.

At this moment, more than a dozen large and powerful slaves appeared on the top of the city, but they were not aimed at the ground, but aimed at the spheres in the air. Two soldiers opened their crossbows and shot arrows at the spheres. past.Behind these arrows trailed long fireballs.

This kind of rocket had already appeared in the blood camp last year, and this was the second time it appeared on the battlefield.

Tea Candle Fever didn't know what the Blood Camp was going to do, but he still hurriedly gave the order: "Retreat."

But at this time, more soldiers suddenly appeared on the top of the city, and they threw down the bags in their hands.As the red powder flew down, the Tubo soldiers under the city howled in pain and closed their eyes one by one.

At this moment, those spheres were also shot by rockets, and burned rapidly.As the sphere burned, the sphere also began to fall, but at a very slow speed. At the same time, because the sphere broke, the same red powder also scattered down.But this time the area of ​​the scourge was larger.Although the southeast wind is not strong, there are still three or four levels, and the powder is everywhere in the air, as if a layer of red mist has spread.Even the heat of the tea candle was caught in the trick, a few points fell in the eyes, and it was so hot that he began to rub his eyes non-stop.

The entire battlefield was filled with this layer of red powder.

Then the gates of the city of Anrong were opened.

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