This day, the setting sun is like blood,

The Central Tang Army and the Northern Qi Army fought a bloody battle outside Zuoliu City from Day to Dusk.

At the sunset, the king of Northern Qi led his cavalry to swallow snakes and galloped over, fighting fiercely with the former general of Northern Qi Tian Wu outside Zuoliu City. However, when Tian Wu was under the command of Tian Wu, Xie Wen had the intention of being right anyway and turned against him at the fortress. Tian Wu died in the chaos and was stepped into a meat paste by a horse. The middle Tang army attacked the enemy's snake-swalking army at all costs, struggling to delay time.

At the hour of You, the middle Tang army successfully attacked and broke the Northern Qi army camp. Seeing that the Snake Swallowing Army was ready, the situation was not contrary to its situation, so they led their troops away.

Both sides suffered damage in this battle, just like Duizi. Although the middle Tang army seemed to have won a great victory in this battle, the cavalry was almost completely damaged. The ordinary infantry of the Northern Qi army probably only withdrew more than 10,000 remaining troops. Overall, the middle Tang army was slightly superior.

This is the news sent back by the spies from the Western Rong to the Western Rong court. This news can also be said to be in a proper way, with almost no exaggeration or falsehood.

However, there are certain things that cannot be seen by spies just by their eyes. They are really like drinking water, and they know their own warmth and coldness!

For example, the Tang army's tent at this time was in a fierce debate.

"What? In the camp of the Northern Qi army, there are very few food, supplies, and so on. At most, they can only be supplied for two or three days? Could it be that someone misreads it?"

"Yes, I have already carefully counted it, and it seems that these food and supplies are under special care. Once I find that something is wrong, I will immediately ignite the fire."

"It seems that these thieves have already made some plans!"

"As the saying goes, "The cunning rabbit has three holes. It seems that the Northern Qi thieves should have prepared a large camp to store their food, grass and supplies."

"It's okay, our army's main force is still there, and we are not afraid of any tricks they are playing. If we go to break it tomorrow, we will kill the infantry of the Northern Qi bandits today. They will be able to gather 20,000 people at most. What will they use to guard it?"

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Just as the crowd was talking about the unbreakable relationship, suddenly the curtain of the military tent was lifted, and a man with a wide nose and mouth came in. The man was wearing a tiger-headed armor. Although he was not tall, his power was revealed while walking, and he felt the slightest like a general. As soon as the man came in, the tent was quiet, and he said at the same time:

"I've seen the general."

This Han was the general of the middle Tang Dynasty, Tang Lie. He was deeply trusted by the king, and his sister was the concubine of the West Palace. He was also a fierce general in all battles. Therefore, even if he was the commander of such a large army, he could steadily suppress the group of arrogant soldiers and generals under his command. However, at this time, Tang Lie's face was ashen and his eyes were slightly narrowed. He didn't look like he was in a happy mood in a game. He sat down directly in the military tent with a big horse sword. However, he didn't speak much, as if he was thinking about something.

When they saw that the main general was like this, the rest of the people exchanged glances with each other and then did not speak. After a while, Tang Lie let out a breath and said lightly:

"I have been asking people to come over to Wu Jin before, but I never saw anyone else. After a long time, my personal soldiers came to repay him. It was said that Wu Jin had died in battle."

When the other generals heard the news, they all responded, but most of them seemed cold. Only one person stood up in surprise and said:

"Wu Niqiu is dead? His cavalry is at least ten thousand, right? Why is he, the cavalry commander, dead in battle? Could it be that Tian Heng, who has just surrendered, refuses to do his best?"

Tang Lie said coldly:

"Tian Heng was also killed in battle! Not only that, Wu Jin's four deputy were also buried in the chaos."

After hearing Tang Lie's words, the other generals present changed their faces. Although the mid-Tang cavalry has never been valued, the large-scale fall of cavalry generals has really caused an ominous premonition in their hearts!

Among them, a very mature infantry general Huo stood up with a sound. His armored heart-protecting mirror had a wolf head pattern. It was Hou Lie who directly commanded the Zhennan Legion. This man was very arrogant on weekdays, but at this time he couldn't help but lose his composure:

"General! How much did the cavalry lose? Even the commander and others died in battle?"

Tang Lie said silently for a while:

"When the war started, it was already dusk, and the sun was also falling, and our attention was also focused on the camp that captured the Northern Qi bandits. At that time, my request was to hold back the attack of the Snake Swallowing Army, so our cavalry took the initiative to attack, and the battlefield was six miles away from the main battlefield. Therefore, I was not very clear about the specific situation of that battle, but according to the current reward, the cavalry that returned now was almost all broken and broken, without a complete system, and it would be good to have three or five hundred people."

After hearing Tang Lie's words, everyone present was shocked:

"The cavalry we were waiting for was completely destroyed, and only three or five hundred cavalry escaped? What is this enough? Not to mention the investigation and protection of the army, it is not enough to use it to send messages!"

"How could he lose so badly? He can escape even if he can't win?"

"Yes, even if the Northern Qi thief cavalry is stronger, how could it be defeated with such a war loss?"

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Tang Lie suddenly said:

"I also have a responsibility for this matter. At the beginning, we asked our cavalry to fight against the cavalry of Northern Qi. At that time, there were serious casualties. After the Snake Swallowing Army appeared, they issued strict orders to hold back the enemy's efforts of two or three incense sticks."

"As a result, the combat power of the Snake Swallowing Army is very strong. However, the two deputy generals under Tian Heng turned against each other, divided more than half of Tian Heng's troops, and bribed Tian Heng's personal soldiers. As soon as both sides took over the formation, Tian Heng was tragically plotted against. This is the main reason. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the elite cavalry under Tian Heng's command was not strong, it would not be defeated by a single rush!"

Hearing Tang Lie's words, several generals in the military tent were fighting old wars, and even immediately outlined the general situation of the battle in their hearts. The two cavalry troops seemed to hedge against each other. However, one of the cavalry suddenly split, and at least a small part of the army parted ways with the main force. At the same time, the commander was tragically plotted to be dismissed.

It is obvious that the next cavalry that collided with the enemy head-on immediately encountered a very tragic disaster. They were defeated in a scattered manner. Even if there were people who dared to rise up and fight against the trend, they would be destroyed even if they could not even raise a wave. At the same time, the rebels turned around in advance and circled a big circle, and then intercepted the retreat of the cavalry that fled and retreated. With the help and intervention of the internal thieves, and the opponent was indeed an extremely powerful army in the world, it was not surprising that they would achieve such a result.

The big tent fell into an embarrassing silence again. Everyone was thinking about their own affairs. Tang Lie's white hair seemed to have a few more strands of it. After a while, he sighed and said bitterly:

"I was eager to achieve this battle. I wanted to complete my achievements in one battle. When I saw Lu Yu's imperial flag erected there, I thought I could win completely by breaking through the opponent's camp. Unexpectedly, the opponent caught this and made me feel cruel. When I returned to my country in the future, I should apologize to you."

Of course, the other generals immediately spoke out to comfort him. Hou Lie pondered for a while and suddenly said:

"If it seems like this, the other party's purpose of taking this step is to exchange for our cavalry?

Tang Lie sighed and said:

"I'm afraid the other party is going to play this idea."

Hou Lie said:

"Our main combat force is not the cavalry, and the cavalry is just an auxiliary role. Although there are heavy casualties now, there may not be no supplementary places. Since the Xirong barbarians can exchange food with us, they can naturally exchange horses with us!"

After hearing Hou Lie's words, Tang Lie's eyes lit up:

"You are right. Get the map!"

Soon, someone took out the map and spread it out. Then he saw Tang Lie's face was a little flushed and poked the map with his finger and said:

"It's been four days since it's raining for four days. If the rain stops in the ghost place of Northern Qi, it's not so easy to get off again, so the road surface is almost done. Before, we could only walk thirty miles a day, but now we have a total of fifty miles! Not only that, you can see, if you walk this path from Zuoliu City, you can only enter the mountain for more than two hundred and seventy miles, and there is also Dazu County here along the way. Junwan County can attack and replenish food and grass. Junwan County is only sixty miles away from Lushan here. After entering the mountain, things should not be too simple. The Northern Qi thieves have no infantry! Can cavalry still grow wings to chase us?"

After hearing what Tang Lie said, the other generals were also excited after hearing this. They felt that he seemed to be saying something very reasonable, but they chose to forget a few things. First of all, after the road was done, the middle Tang army could indeed walk twenty miles more every day, but the road was doing this thing that would have an effect on both sides. Think about it, the infantry could walk twenty miles more every day, so how many miles could the cavalry go every day???

At the same time, the Central Tang Army was a foreign tourist army after all, and was still very unfamiliar with the environmental terrain of the Zuoliu City in the Northern Qi Dynasty. Moreover, the various surveying and mapping methods at this time were not developed. No matter how accurate the military map was, the error was huge. At this time, the behavior of the Central Tang Army was not as good as seeking medical treatment. It seemed that they had caught a life-saving straw and refused to let go.

The next sentence from Hou Lie is almost a footnote to the psychological activities of the generals of the Middle Tang Dynasty at this time:

"Anyway, we can't underestimate the enemy, but we can't be ambitious and destroy our own prestige. Even if the thieves in the Northern Qi Dynasty seem to have done anything, the dead cannot do anything, right? The thieves' heads chopped off by their own hands are not carved with wood?"

After hearing Hou Lie's words, the rest of the people were also excited and said:

"Yes, after this battle, was the killing of the thieves in the middle Tang Dynasty fake? It was also the bullshit Snake Swallowing Army who saw the opportunity quickly and ran away like rabbits. If they were really the best in the world, why didn't we dare to rush to the formation when we had become exhausted soldiers all day long?"

"That's right, we fought head-on with the Northern Qi bandits and forced their central camp. There were cavalry from Northern Qi next to them attacked and harassed each other. Even so, the losses of our soldiers in the end were only four or five thousand. The losses of the Northern Qi bandits were seven or eight times that of ours. What's the point of being so soft and pussy?"

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Listening to these words from the generals under his command, Tang Lie's originally anxious heart gradually calmed down:

"Yes, the opponent is so weak, so what's there to worry about? So what if the cavalry loses heavily? What's the ability to pick up soft persimmons? If the Snake Swallowing Army is really so powerful, why don't even dare to touch our tired soldiers? It seems that it's just a reputation. The iron must be hard on its own. If the mountain is blocking in front, it will be chopped down with one knife, the water is blocking in front, and the step is on the other side. If you look forward to it, you will be underestimated by the people below!"

***

At the same time, in Dachenzhuang, twenty miles away, there were already a large number of military tents. People shouted and neighed, and there were figures coming in and out everywhere. However, these messy phenomena came to an abrupt end at the entrance of Dachenzhuangzhuang, because at the entrance of the entrance, there were already several neat rows of black-armored guards, and the armor on their bodies had exaggerated, weird and ferocious dragon patterns. The guards' expressions were cold and looked particularly cruel. The solemn intention on their bodies could be said to be about to come out. At first glance, they were like the kind of people who had to draw their swords to kill someone if they had a disagreement.

These black armored guards are the Snake Swallowing Guards beside Lu Yu. Although the battle today seemed fierce, they were actually completely destroyed. Almost the vanguards of the Snake Swallowing Army directly defeated the enemy. Even many people in the rear army had not been stained with blood, let alone Lu Yu's personal guards, which seemed to have gone out for a walk and did not waste any effort.

Therefore, Lin Fengjin proposed to borrow Lu Yu's personal guard to "suppress the scene for a while." Lu Yu nodded very readily. With these people here, he was on the line to stand on the wall of people, almost no one dared to speak too much. It was originally a mess that seemed like a pot of porridge. In front of this wall of people composed of Snake Swallowing Guards, he suddenly became honest.

Next to them were a few loud voices shouting together: The injured brothers were walking here, the hungry brothers wanted to eat and walked here, the brothers wanted to go back to the camp to sleep, the prisoners were being captured, or the spoils were going here.

The human wall formed by five rows of Snake Swallowing Guards formed four passages. After the chaotic crowd was initially sifted, it became very purposeful.

Next, the injured road walked about ten feet away, and then there were loud military men shouting next to him. If he could move, he would go to the left, and if he couldn't move, he would go to the right, so as to cleverly separate the seriously injured and the slightly injured.

Finally, after bandage treatment, those who can still go to the barracks directly, and those who cannot go to the battlefield will be sent to the rear. The advantages of local combat here are revealed. As long as you give orders, the county magistrate will come and take them away and foster them at the residents' homes, and there will be compensation in the future.

Lu Yu had just walked out of the medical passage here, and there were several generals accompanying him. The expression on his face was faint, and he could not tell what he had about the arrangement at this time. However, then Lu Yu walked towards the place where he was eating and found that there was another way to walk inside. At the end of the road made with fences and straw, dozens of stoves were lined up in a row. Each stove had a huge steamer, and there were people and dragons in front of each stove, which were very neat.

At this time, the general who could be led by Lu Yu was naturally his confidant. One of them went forward and called a soldier, and then looked at the food he received. The soldier was holding a large bowl with a wooden plate. The big bowl was filled with boiled corn and slag porridge, steaming hot, and next to it were four bowl-sized grain buns, emitting the fragrance of grain. There was also a small plate and a wide plate next to the steamed bun. The small plate contained vinegar and garlic juice, and the steamed buns were dipped in seasoning. The wide plate was fried with fat meat from cabbage. The white slices of meat were scattered in the cabbage, which were definitely not a symbolic place.

Seeing this scene, the general couldn't help but nodded, and then followed Lu Yu to the camping area. It seemed that it had been neatly planned. There were even straight lines sprinkled with white ash from carbon on the ground. Obviously, the camp plates were dug out according to the white ash lines on the ground. No wonder it was so neat.

Soldiers usually use the color and shape of military flags to find their own barracks. However, the organization was chaotic in the past, and the number of people was small. If there were too many people, especially those like now, which are not usually together, it is a big problem in all aspects.

However, this time, all the barracks were divided into four large areas according to the color of the military flag, black, red, yellow and white. Once there were soldiers who could not find their own barracks, someone first asked him, what color is the military flag of your team?

If the soldier answered Red, then he would naturally tell him that the large piece on the east side was all red in the military flag, so don’t go to the rest. Then he went to the place where the red military flag was camped. If the military man still couldn’t find his own troops, someone asked him whether the texture of the military flag was bird or beast. The shape of the military flag was on the left, and the shape of the beast was on the right.

After such diversion, the soldier walked along the neat aisle and basically would not get lost or get lost, and could easily find his own barracks.

After seeing these things, Lu Yu said to the people around him:

"Now you should know why I must let him be the chief manager of this camp?"

All the generals next to them were silent, and then one of them stood up and said firmly:

"It's true that the minister is waiting for me. General Manager Lin can create such a situation within a few days. He really has a gap in his heart. With him in charge of these trivial matters in the back, he is indeed far better than the general manager of the camp recommended by Weichen before. He can indeed afford the wise eyes of the emperor." (To be continued...)

Chapter 14: Great Talent:
Chapter completed!