Chapter 473: Lure the Enemy Deeply
Qin Heng ordered the troops to move to Wencheng County as planned.
"Let's go!"
The soldier below was a little confused and asked, "Where are you going?"
"Let's retreat to Wencheng County and leave this place to Master Qin Liu."
"A Sheng, I leave this place to you." Qin Heng said before leaving.
Qin Sheng: "Don't worry, big brother, I'll take care of everything."
Outside the city, in the Xianbei tent, the atmosphere was depressing.
The healthy soldiers were cleaning up the camp.
They quickly cleared out a place, and after Tuoba Lian and Yuchi Rui moved in, the wounded were also moved in one by one.
Some soldiers carried the bodies to bury them, some went to search for war horses in the wild, and the rest collected the remaining strategic materials.
Most of the tents were destroyed and the food supplies were burned. The few remnants they salvaged could only sustain them for two or three days.
Tuoba Lian said nothing.
His father Khan had assigned him three thousand cavalrymen, but now he only had more than eight hundred normal war horses left.
Those people took away more than 400 horses last night.
The rest were let go. They recovered more than 800 horses alive. Some died, and some were seriously injured and difficult to treat.
As for those teams searching in the wild, I don’t know how many they can find.
The camp was processing the dead horses and preparing to kill them for meat.
When Tuoba Jin led his troops to the scene, he saw a camp that had been ravaged.
Tuoba Jin was invited to the temporary tent where Tuoba Lian was staying.
"What's going on?"
Yuchi Rui replied, "Last night our camp was attacked by the Dragon City soldiers."
"Do you know who did it?" Tuoba Jin asked. The person who could make Lao Qi's camp like this must be a serious threat.
Yuchi Rui: "I only heard them calling the leader Sixth Master."
Tuoba Jin pondered, "I heard that the generals defending Pingzhou now include several sons of Qin Yue, the Duke of Dali." That's why Pingzhou became difficult to conquer.
Tuoba Jin had not yet fought with Pingzhou, so he did not know that the level of Pingzhou's soldiers had improved compared to before.
Yuchi Rui frowned, "Didn't Qin Yue die in battle two years ago?"
The enemy almost wiped out the Qiang Hu tribe. Later, the remaining Qiang Hu remnants were frightened and left their homeland to live with their Xianbei tribe. Today, the Qiang Hu tribe has completely lost its power.
Tuoba Jin explained the relationship between the Qin family and Pingzhou Governor Lu Desheng.
"Sixth Master?" Hearing this name, Tuoba Lian remembered that when he was escaping last year, he was also stopped by a young-looking guy named Sixth Master. Even his two generals, Lian Helan Hui and He Xiji, died at his hands.
This Sixth Master should be that Sixth Master. For a moment, new and old hatreds surged into Tuoba Lian's heart.
"What's the loss?" asked Tuoba Jin.
"The camp was almost completely destroyed, and the food and fodder were burned. We managed to salvage some, but it was only enough to last three days. Of the more than 3,000 war horses, only about 800 remain. Of the 30,000-man army, over 10,000 were killed or wounded last night, with the cavalry battalion suffering heavy damage. Currently, only about 13,000 men remain fully combat-ready."
Hearing this report, Tuoba Jin gasped, "Tuoba Lian, what are you doing? How did you suffer such heavy casualties?" Don't you patrol at night? Otherwise, how could you not know that three or four hundred people had sneaked into the camp?
"You underestimated the enemy and neglected your duties. Think about how you're going to explain this to your father, the Khan!"
Tuoba Jin finished speaking and just as he was about to stand up, he was stopped by Tuoba Lian, "Second brother, help me!"
Tuoba Lian knew that this failure, coupled with his capture in the middle of last year, must have disappointed his father. He was likely to be eliminated from the line of succession by his father.
He hoped that his second brother could help him atone for his sins, then there would still be a glimmer of hope.
Tuoba Jin raised an eyebrow, "Reason?"
Tuoba Lian gritted his teeth and said, "Help me this time, and I will stand on your side in the future!" His hope of becoming the heir was slim, so he had to choose one of his brothers to stand on his side.
"Okay." Tuoba Jin agreed.
He had originally come to support Old Seven, but now the main force had become himself. Moreover, with the Second Army in such a state, how could he not attack Dragon City?
Now, I have an ally for free.
"Second brother, you have to help me avenge what happened tonight." Tuoba Lian made the request.
"good."
"After I capture Dragon City, I will massacre all the Han people in the city!"
"It's a small matter."
Dragon City, Wild
Gao Lei and a small group of people were lying in the dense forest. A war horse was tied under a big tree not far away. Their people teased it from time to time, making it neigh.
Sure enough, not long after, sounds were heard coming from far away.
Not long after, a small Xianbei team of about ten people appeared. Almost each of them rode two horses, with more than twenty horses.
"Quick, right here, there's a mare eating grass!"
The Xianbei team was so focused on finding their horses that they fell into the trap set by Gao Lei and others without realizing it.
After a fierce battle with a huge disparity in strength, Gao Lei led his men to collect the spoils.
Every team member was very excited.
"Boss, a total of twenty-four war horses were captured!"
"I'm rich, I'm rich!"
"Take them back! Take them all back!"
War horses are a scarce commodity no matter where they are. They sell for at least three hundred taels each on the market, and five hundred taels is the normal price for a good horse.
The Sixth Master had promised that for every war horse captured, he would be credited with military merit and rewarded with thirty silver coins.
For them, thirty taels is thirty taels, and any money they can earn is good.
"We have to work harder recently."
"That's right. Since Sixth Master has left us here, we can only fight in the wild."
This time, they were left behind. Chen Jinlong and the others could accompany Sixth Master on major missions, but they could only take on smaller ones. Suddenly, everyone felt a sense of crisis. As for military merit, they tried their best to earn as much as possible and not be left behind by Chen Jinlong and the others.
Dragon City, City Gate
After a test attack, Tuoba Jin discovered that the gate of Longcheng was somehow built and was extremely strong.
During the second attack, he simply gave up attacking the city gate and climbed up the city wall.
The Xianbei were tall and strong, and they were not afraid of fighting the Pingzhou soldiers head-on.
Tuoba Jin gave the order, and under the cover of the catapults, the Xianbei soldiers set up ladders and bravely advanced.
Qin Sheng and others were on the city wall, and they could see that the Xianbei were very determined to attack the city in this battle.
After all the defensive materials in the city were used up, Qin Sheng and his men withdrew as planned.
After Tuoba Jin captured Longcheng, Tuoba Lian found that the entire Longcheng was empty and there was no one for him to kill.
He was so angry that he ordered his men to burn down the Longcheng County government office and the houses on both sides of the street.
Tuoba Jin didn't care about these. To him, if he could successfully take over the salt lake in Longcheng, everything would be worth it.
The subordinates reported, "Second Prince, Seventh Prince, we have found traces of the enemy's retreat."
"where?"
"They went southeast."
That direction is the direction of Longcheng Pharmacy.
"Also, we found this along the way."
When Tuoba Jin saw that the thing in the soldier's hand was none other than chalk, he became anxious.
Tuoba Jin recalled the incident in Feiru where the tax grain had been burned by the Dali people. The Dali people were so despicable. Would they destroy the salt lake just because they realized they couldn't defend it?
Tuoba Lian immediately said, "Second brother, I'll go after him!"
As he said this, he rushed out, and the cavalry he led followed quickly, followed by the infantry.
"Bring more people and beware of ambushes!"
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