Chapter 207: Besiege and attack
"Your Highness! What did Commander Liu Lan say in the letter? Why did it make Your Highness so embarrassed?" The deputy general asked hurriedly when he saw Li Daozon frowning.
Ever since he read the letter, Li Daozon has been like this. The deputy general was very confused. What was the content of the letter?
How could it make King Jiangxia Li Daozon, who was always calm in the face of adversity, become like this?
"Li Si! This is Liu Lan's letter for help. The letter mentioned the prince!" Li Daozon said.
The deputy general Li Si in front of him was his close confidant, the person he trusted the most. Li Si's original surname was not Li, but he was given the surname Li after he became his confidant.
In terms of giving surnames, it is really a tradition of his old Li family.
Li Daozon told Li Si all the contents of the letter, and Li Si finally understood how this matter was related to the prince.
"Prince! Then what should we do next? Is the person who delivered the letter earlier really the prince's man?" Li Si said.
"It's not impossible. Whether it is or not, the most important thing now is to rescue Xiazhou. Take my tiger talisman, and quickly select 20,000 soldiers and go to Xiazhou." Li Daozon said.
At this point, who cares who the previous person is.
"I obey your command!" Li Si accepted the order, took the tiger talisman from Li Daozon, and retreated.
Li Si selected 20,000 soldiers and went straight to Xiazhou.
Because the reinforcements from Shengzhou and Lingzhou did not have the same doubts as Li Daozon, they immediately sent troops to rescue after verifying that the letter was correct.
In Shengzhou, the general of the Left Guard, Ashina She'er, led 20,000 Hu soldiers to rescue, and asked his brother Ashina Wanwu to guard Shengzhou. In Lingzhou
, the general of the Left Wuhou, Xue Guwu, was stationed in Lingzhou, and the governor of Lingzhou led 15,000 soldiers to rescue.
Li Chengqian's men did not take them to Xiazhou, but went to Li Chengqian's camp.
In this way, they missed the people sent by Liu Lan to ask for help. When Liu Lan's men arrived in Shengzhou and Lingzhou, they found out that the reinforcements had already set out for several days.
At this time, outside Li Chengqian's camp, shouts of killing continued, and Menggu Evil Platform was attacked by Song Junming.
The two sides entered a stalemate, Menggu Etai held on tightly, he had sent people back for help, and believed that the Khan would soon send troops to support him.
Therefore, he had to hold on and wait for the Khan's reinforcements to arrive, so that he could counterattack the Tang army.
The prince of the Tang Dynasty was too important to them, and they had to capture him alive no matter what.
As long as they could capture the prince of the Tang Dynasty, they could force the Tang Dynasty to cede land and pay compensation in exchange for more wealth and women for them, Xueyantuo.
Therefore, even though Menggu Etai was attacked from both sides by Li Chengqian and Song Junming and was besieged in one place, Menggu Etai did not give up holding on.
At this time, Menggu'etai occupied a high ground, using the terrain and limited supplies to insist on fighting the Tang army to the end. Menggu'etai
had been holding on here for two days. Just two days ago, he was besieging and killing Xue Wanche. Scouts
came on horseback to report that a large number of Tang troops were killed in the direction of Xiazhou. He knew that the Tang army had received the news and rushed to rescue.
Menggu'etai immediately ordered to set up a battle array to meet the enemy. As a warrior of Xueyantuo, he would not allow himself to retreat half a step before fighting the enemy. When
the two sides met, no one was talking to each other, and they started fighting directly. At that time, the two sides fought fiercely.
When the two sides were tied, Li Chengqian, who had received reinforcements from Song Junming, immediately ordered bulldozers to fill the trenches. He
attacked the Xueyantuo army from behind and attacked Song Junming's reinforcements from the front and back to destroy Meng Gu'etai.
The Xueyantuo army, whose retreat was cut off, suffered heavy losses and was doomed to fail.
Fortunately, Meng Gu'etai saw that the situation was not good and immediately led the remaining forces to retreat to this high ground, thus blocking the fierce attack of the Tang army.
Otherwise, Meng Gu'etai would have been annihilated, but he was not much better now. The 50,000 troops he brought with him were now few and far between.
Meng Gu'etai didn't know how long he could hold out, or whether he could hold out until the arrival of his Khan Bazhuo's reinforcements.
Something was happening in the central army tent of the Tang army camp.
"Your Highness! Now that the crisis is over, Your Highness should return to the capital immediately!" Song Junming urged Li Chengqian to return to Chang'an.
He didn't want the prince to make any more mistakes. The remnants of Meng Gu'etai were no longer a concern. Sending the prince back to Chang'an was the top priority at the moment.
"General Song, don't persuade me anymore. I have decided to wipe out Xueyantuo. If he dares to attack me today, he will dare to kill his way into the capital tomorrow."
"If Xueyantuo is not eliminated, the Tang Dynasty will never have peace! I am not acting on impulse, but for the people of the world." Li Chengqian vowed.
Now he is fighting the enemy here to the death, can Song Junming dare to lead his troops to withdraw?
If he really dares to do so, he will be dead soon. If Li Chengqian gets into trouble, he will be accused of framing the prince, and it is not too much to exterminate his entire clan.
If Song Junming really dares to do so, Li Chengqian will definitely not be merciful. He will immediately have someone subdue him, and then take control of the palace soldiers he brought.
He will have tens of thousands more soldiers and horses to obey his orders.
As for marching and fighting, he has so many capable people in the East Palace, so he doesn't have to worry about it at all. Xueyantuo will definitely be destroyed.
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Li Chengqian, Song Junming could only sigh helplessly and stepped aside without saying anything.
Things have come to this point, and he can no longer control it! Song Junming was thinking that after the meeting here was over, he would immediately write a memorial to His Majesty Li Er and tell him everything here.
Everything was decided by His Majesty Li Er. In the end, whether the relationship with Xueyantuo would be peace or war would depend on His Majesty Li Er's opinion!
This supreme decision was not something that Song Junming could influence.
"Your Highness! Why don't we continue to attack Meng Gu'etai's troops, but set up camp here?" asked a military general from the East Palace.
Meng Gu'etai was now a frightened bird, and its strength was almost gone. It only took a few more fierce attacks to destroy them.
There was no need to go to such great lengths to besiege the Menggu Evil Terrace. They did not understand why the prince had to do this.
"I am waiting!" Li Chengqian said.
"What is your highness waiting for?" Cheng Wuting asked.
"Waiting for reinforcements!" Li Chengqian said.
Li Chengqian was indeed waiting for reinforcements, not only for his own reinforcements, but also for the reinforcements from Xueyantuo.
He had already ordered Xue Wanche to lead a part of the troops to set up an ambush on the road that Xueyantuo reinforcements must pass.
If the enemy dared to come, they would definitely be killed.
Li Chengqian was planning to surround the reinforcements and use Menggu Evil Terrace as bait to lure the fish of Bazhuo's army to bite the hook.