"I don't know what happened in Songzhou!"

At night, bonfires at the foot of the mountain were like stars reflected in the sky. In Diezhou City, the soldiers were very happy. During the day, the Qiang people launched a tentative attack, and the archers used Qiang soldiers as targets to practice in the city.

He easily shot and killed more than 200 people, and the Qiang people retreated down the mountain in shame, but Wusu had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

The Qiang people didn't even have time to take away the dead body. Some seriously injured soldiers lay on the ground, screaming and screaming.

"General Qin recovered Qichuan, General Zhang Shigui led his army to reinforce, and Songzhou and Qichuan will be stable. Now, Duke Wei is stationed in this Diezhou. This time, the Dangxiang Qiang who invaded tens of thousands of people will definitely be back. Their best ending is to beg for surrender. If you are not lucky, you may be wiped out by the Baishui River."

Lao Liu has been in the frontier for 70 years and is very familiar with the Qiang people and knows the frontier here. Qin Qiong is blocked at the two ends. Now that the Qiang people want to go home, it is really difficult.

"With the urinary nature of the Qiang people, the biggest possibility is to surrender, but these people are capricious, and it is normal for them to surrender today and rebel tomorrow. It is best to take this opportunity to trap them in Fuzhou and find an opportunity to annihilate them."

Qin Lang admired this old governor in leather armor. Although he was old, he was still very cruel. The key is that he was still very old and had a very accurate grasp of the situation.

Such people are indeed the talents that the frontier needs the most, but unfortunately they are old.

"I am just worried that Zhang Shigui's army of more than 20,000 will not be able to keep up with the logistics and food and salary."

"I grit my teeth and can always survive. Didn't Wei Gong say that he had destroyed more than 20,000 Tuoba Qiang and his vassals and seized countless cattle and sheep? Situ took down Fengchuan, and also annihilated thousands of enemies, and seized many cattle and sheep."

Dinner is quite rich.

Wolf soup, with barley tsampa, and a plate of cold wild vegetables to marching and fighting, it is really rare to have such a meal.

"Since Emperor Wu of Zhou drove the Rong people west and captured these places and established prefectures and counties, the conflict has never stopped for fifty years. The Tuyuhun people and the Qiang people have always wanted to regain the Qiang River, Baishui and even the hometown of the Minjiang River Basin."

The Qiang people have always believed that these places belong to them, because they belong to the Qiang people since ancient times, but for the Central Plains, when they are strong, they must expand their territory. Once the territory is successful, then this territory belongs to the Central Plains. Even if they are lost for a while, then the emperors who have some ambitions must find a way to recover them.

For the Central Plains dynasty and those aspiring kings, the territory of the Central Plains can only increase, but must not decrease.

Although Diezhou and other western borders were pioneered by Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, Yuwen Yong, from then on, these territories had already belonged to the Central Plains, and no emperor would be willing to give up again.

Just as Emperor Yang of Sui once destroyed Tuyuhun and destroyed Yiwu, setting up the four counties of Yiwu and Qiemo, those places have been included in the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of the Central Plains dynasty and became places to be recovered sooner or later.

The same is true of the four counties of Liaodong that were established in the Han Dynasty. They are now occupied by the Goguryeo people, but they will be recovered sooner or later.

Even Yang Guang is ambitious to recover Liaodong. How could the current Tiankhan Li Shimin let go? It’s just that he has no spare energy yet, but sooner or later he will be put on the agenda.

Even if Tuyuhun and Dangxiang did not come to fight this time, the court actually had to fight them next.

The intrigue of this war was that Qin Qiong was appointed as the governor of Songzhou and regained Songzhou, which was taken away by the Qiang people in the past few years. This was just an introduction. Qin Qiong was appointed as the governor of Songzhou, which was a sign that the court had to take action against Dangxiang Qiang and Tuyuhun.

So this war is inevitable.

Old Liu had no teeth and could not eat mutton offal, so he had to drink soup, "I predict that the Qiang people will come to attack at night tonight!"

"They don't have a chance during the day, and they won't have a chance at night." Qin Lang caught a sheep egg from the bowl. It tasted a bit savory and was not well handled, but the food in the army should not be too picky.

He and Lao Liu's judgment were the same as that of the Qiang people who attacked at night. The Qiang people would definitely give it a try, but it would not work.

Qin Lang accompanied Lao Liu to have dinner while talking about a lot of past events in Western Xinjiang, and talked about going to bed in the middle of the night.

After waking up, Zhang Chao told Qin Lang excitedly that the Qiang thieves attacked last night, but they were prepared for it and deliberately let them go to the city and then shot all the Qiang thieves to death.

"How many?"

"three hundred!"

Qin Lang just said with a oh, no surprise or joy, and the ancient well was not wavered. For Qin Lang, this could no longer touch him, it was just a cold number.

He added another record to his battle, killing 300 Qiang thieves, that's all.

The breakfast turned into beef boiled noodle soup with beef, added some wild vegetables, and ate it in a mess, filling the belly, and patrolled the city and then summoned the soldiers who guarded the city and killed the enemy last night, praised them, and went to visit the injured soldiers.

Several soldiers were unfortunately killed, and Qin Lang also went to mourn and organized a cremation ceremony for them, and the soldiers saw them off together.

The flames engulfed the corpses, including the children in the middle, there were also the defenders of Diezhou, and several soldiers attached to Qiang City.

No matter how different their original identities were, they were cremated together as the victims who died in battle and died for the Tang Dynasty.

In the morning, Qin Lang and his soldiers chose a house in Diezhou City and converted it into a Martyrs' Temple, and supplied the spirit cards of the more than a dozen soldiers who died. He personally wrote a monument to let the craftsmen remember it on the stone tablet and commemorate it forever.

Afternoon.

A pillar of smoke lit up on the beacon tower on the north mountain of the city. This was Taiping smoke, telling the defenders of other castles that they were safe and without police.

Soon, beacons in other forts also rose.

All the castles were peaceful and unscrupulous. Although I saw a large group of soldiers coming out of the Qiang Camp in the morning and heading to the castles, they obviously could not do anything to those dangerous castles.

After the war.

The Qiang people seemed to be angry with the smoke, and actually sounded the horn again and launched another attack.

This time, it was obviously not just a test. Na Wusu seemed to want to attack without regard to casualties and want to take it down.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were arranged at the foot of the mountain. They seemed to have made many shields temporarily and made large wooden rafts of one person tall with newly cut trees. They were extremely simple, but very wide and thick. They did not need cowhide or inlaid iron pieces. They could hide their whole body behind them by holding them up like this.

The Qiang soldiers all faced such a big shield.

Although it is extremely bulky, it is actually a relatively strong defense.

The Qiang people shouted horns, and each carried a large wooden shield and slowly came up the mountain.

Old Liu looked at the battlements for a while, his eyes showing disdain.

"If such a simple wooden raft can break the danger of my Diezhou, it would be ridiculous." In fact, the soldiers defending the city have to face all kinds of siege equipment, such as the Central Plains City Defense War, and even various special siege cars. Compared with this simple wooden raft, I don't know how many times the advancement is.

Some siege cars, one layer inside and one layer outside, are made of raw cowhide and wet wooden boards, and they are forced to form a moving castle, allowing soldiers to hide below and approach the city wall.

But you have Zhang Liang's plan, I have a ladder, and there are various ways to resolve the situation on the side of the city, and there are even many equipment to defend the city.

Old Liu waved his hand and asked someone to prepare to roll stones and beat wood.

On the city wall, simple wooden pulley sets were erected and the rolling stone wood that had been prepared early began to hang up.

"I have also prepared a lot of big grass balls. I can ignite the fire and throw it into a big fire ball. There are also many wooden barrels, which can be filled with hot feces and thrown into it......"

Lao Liu has many tricks, but it is actually quite effective in dealing with bulky wooden rafts.

Wooden rafts can prevent a crossbow, but it is useless to deal with more bulky rolling stones and beating wood.

The city was very patient and still put them close to the city before starting to fight back.

The Qiang people rely on the wooden rafts, which had no effect in front of the huge rolling stone wood. The huge rocks rolled down the city and rolled down the stone stairs, constantly accelerating.

All the Qiang people standing in front of them were pushed down and crushed, injured when they were touched, and broke when they were hit.

The drums of the Qiang people at the foot of the mountain were even louder, urging the Qiang soldiers to continue their attack.

Screaming in succession.

The attack lasted for half an hour, but the Qiang soldiers finally collapsed. No one could bear such a ruthless blow. From beginning to end, they could not touch the city walls of Diezhou. Who could bear it?

Tuoba Chici persuaded Wusu, who insisted on continuing to attack, could not bear such casualties, and if he continued to attack, he would not have the chance to capture Diezhou.

"The strong attack is not enough. Diezhou City is too dangerous. Just go up the mountain with this trail. How many times we go, we just die and can't fight anymore. Just send tens of thousands of troops to surround the mountain and we continue to go deeper."

Tuoba Chici had already received the news that Xifeng Bu Lai's subordinates had sent him to death. Qichuan was blocked by Qin Qiong, and Gansongling was defended by Jia Runfu.

Although Xifeng Bu Lai and others took Fuzhou and defeated Songzhou, they had become turtles in the jar. They were not sure of defeating Qin Qiong and Zhang Shigui's 20,000 troops, so they could only hope to detour the Qiangshui River, kill Tongwu, Dang, Fang, and Diezhou to go home.

They need to respond.

"If we don't take down Diezhou, we will go deep into Qiang River. If the Tang court dispatched troops from Tao and Minzhou, then will we also be surrounded like Xifeng Bulai?"

Wusu is not brainless either. He refused to go deeper under the city of Diezhou because he was worried about this problem.

"The king led his troops to defend the city of Diezhou, and I will take people to support him." Tuoba Chici planned to lead the troops of Dangxiang and Qiang in deep, but did not attack the city. He only plundered, burned and killed along the way, and oppressed the Tang army of Fang, Dang and Wu prefectures, so that Xifeng Bu Lai and others could pass around the city and return to Dangxiang.

Of course, we should also take revenge on the Tang people and rob them a few times to let them know about the anger of the Dangxiang people.

"Please keep an eye on Qin Lang here. If the Tang people dispatch troops from Longyou to help, the king will stop them for me."

Wusu thought for a while, "Well, I will continue to siege the city here. You should hurry up and pick up Xifeng Bulai, but I want half of the gains from the robbery!"

Tuoba Chici was dissatisfied, but he did not show it on his face. He thought about it for a while and finally bargained, and agreed to divide the gains from plunder, 30% of the gains, Tuoba got seven, and 30% of the gains.

Tuoba Chici continued to advance eastward with tens of thousands of Qiang people that day. He was in a hurry to leave Wusu, because he was afraid that this guy would continue to use the lives of Dangxiang and Qiang, but such a dangerous situation would be difficult to capture no matter how much life it was.

After several attacks, the Wusu faction was all Dangxiang Qiang, and more than a thousand people died in the front and back.

More than a thousand Dangxiang Qiang people were all the youngest and strongest soldiers, but they died in vain without even touching the city wall of Diezhou. More than a thousand people died, but no one of the Tuyuhun people was injured. At most, more than a dozen Tang soldiers on the mountain died in the trap.

Tuoba Chici couldn't afford to fight such a battle, and refused to fight.

As soon as Tuoba Chici left, Wusu immediately withdrew several miles and went downstairs to the camp, and no longer sent troops to attack the city.
Chapter completed!