Wu Sanrong's mind was like a knot. It took Xu Huai a lot of effort to get him to shut up and listen to the whole story of Chen Zixiao and Xiao Yanhan before and after they were captured.
After that, Xu Huai threw Wu Sanrong, who fell into silence, into the room where Chen Zixiao was detained, and asked Chen Zixiao to continue lobbying.
Xu Huai also hoped that Wu Sanrong could believe it completely and without doubt. He only needed Wu Sanrong to truthfully report to Xiao Linshi the intentions and the whole story that Chen Zixiao and Xiao Yanhan knew after he was released.
And this matter must be communicated directly to Xiao Linshi by someone like Wu Sanrong to ensure that only a very small number of people know about it and will not leak it out.
Otherwise, Xu Huai couldn't even imagine what Wang Zhen, Wang Fan and his son would think of them after they knew that Chen Zixiao and Xiao Yanhan had been captured by them long ago and were finally handed back to Xiao Linshi as a bargaining chip to escape.
Not to mention Yue Hailou, Ge Huaicong and others knew about this.
Tianxiong's army burned, killed and looted Datong City. The conflict between Han and Tibet was so fierce that it was impossible for Xiao Linshi to let the lower-level generals know about it.
With Xu Wuqi, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Pan Chenghu, Yin Peng, Tang Qing and others taking turns watching from the front, Xu Huai also took the time to recharge his batteries.
Xu Huai did not go back to his room to rest. He spread some hay in the corner of the room where Xiao Yanhan was imprisoned. Without taking off his clothes and armor, he curled up on the hay with his knife in hand and fell asleep against the hard and cold wall.
When Xu Huai woke up, two torches were burning brightly on the wall of the room, but Xiao Yanhan, who was tied to a pillar, stared at him energetically.
Xu Huai stood up and checked whether the rope binding Xiao Yanhan was loosened by her breaking free.
"You seem to be sure that no reinforcements will arrive, and Ge Huaicong will definitely not be able to fight out from Shengde Gate?" Xiao Yanhan stared at Xu Huai and asked.
Xu Huai ultimately needed Xiao Yanhan and Chen Zixiao to help ease their tense relationship with the Khitan people in the Yunshuo area.
Xu Huai didn't even hide his life experience, nor did he deliberately hide the progress of the war situation in the past few days from Xiao Yanhan and Chen Zixiao.
From the beginning, some bad omens can be seen from various signs or clues. It is expected that Xiao Yanhan has not been exposed to such far-sighted people.
However, these people's expectations for the future, whether they are pessimistic or optimistic, are just guesses until it happens. And no matter how pessimistic the predictions about the future are, as long as things don't happen, who wouldn't feel lucky?
Xiao Yanhan herself was extremely uneasy at this time. She was not sure whether this battle could really severely damage Tianxiong's army and completely crush Yue Qian's ambition to invade Yunshuo. However, she could not see such luck or restlessness in Xu Huai.
uncertain.
With such extraordinary determination and calmness, how could she not be curious at this time?
"In the eyes of most people, the future is a completely invisible fog, but you have to know that in the eyes of a truly wise man, the future may still be obscured by fog, but it is definitely better than what ordinary people see.
Much thinner," Xu Huai glanced at Xiao Yanhan and said, "Telling this to you, you may not be able to understand, after all, you are not of this level!"
When Xiao Yanhan heard Xu Huai's words, she wanted to roll her eyes and shouted: "What's the point of pretending? Do you think pretending in front of me will be of any use?"
Xu Huai opened the window, and an increasingly cold wind rushed in, making the torches sway. Xu Huai discovered that it was actually snowing outside.
There wasn't much snow on the ground yet, but the rustling snowflakes were large and dense.
The sounds of fighting that could be vaguely heard in his sleep had almost stopped at this time.
The night sky was pitch black, but from the burn marks of the torch, Xu Huaineng judged that it was already late at night. Looking into the yard, he saw Xu Wukun replacing Niu Er on duty under the eaves. He frowned and asked, "When did Uncle Qi come here? What are you doing now?"
It's time, how long have I slept?"
Even though Xu Huai took advantage of Zhu Zhi's greed for life and fear of death and sent him and several Zhu family generals to deceive them to suppress Jie Zhong and others, he still asked Xu Wukun to stay with Zhu Hang so that Ge Huaicong, Zhu Hang, Yue Hailou and the others would have nothing to lose.
They can grasp the movement immediately.
"I just came over and asked Niu Er and the others to go down and get some time to sleep for two or three hours. It was almost midnight, and the peasants stopped attacking after the heavy snowfall," Xu Wukun said.
"How many waves did Ge Huaicong organize his troops to kill through Shengde Gate?" Xu Huai asked.
Xu Huai had no doubt that Ge Huaicong could not break through the defense line organized by the peasants outside Shengde Gate, but he still had to know the detailed process, and only in this way could he judge the degree of anxiety in Ge Huaicong's heart.
"At the end of the day, he organized troops to fight outside. He started with a tentative attack. By the end of the day, three thousand soldiers and horses passed through the Shengde Gate and formed a formation outside the city. Ge Huaicong thought that he could tear the fragile defenses of the Tibetan people to pieces in one fell swoop, and he also
He personally went out of the city to supervise the battle. However, just as the forward troops and horses passed through the opponent's defensive trench, more than a thousand enemy cavalry completely ignored the arrows on the city wall and forced their way in between Shengde Gate and the shallow trench. In fact, Ge Huaicong and the others did not
We have considered that the enemy will attack the west city wall, so during the battle, except for hundreds of archers, there are no more deployments on the city wall, so we cannot restrict the enemy cavalry from attacking directly against the city wall."
Xu Wukun said,
"I didn't expect that the enemy cavalry would charge against the city wall. The sparse defense on the flanks of the soldiers and horses leaving the city was understandable. It didn't last long before they were torn apart. In addition to Ge Huaicong and others who hurriedly escaped, not only were nearly three thousand soldiers
All the horses were annihilated outside the city, and Shengde Gate also fell into the hands of the enemy. After nightfall, Ge Huaicong organized several troops to recapture Shengde Gate, but all failed. The night battle had just stopped. At this time, Ge Huaicong will
Zhu Hang, Yue Hailou, Cao Shili and several other commanders and envoys were summoned by Yuhou to discuss matters. The halls and courtyards were all closed. We couldn't stand in the courtyard, so we hurried here!"
Xu Huai had long believed that Ge Huaicong would never be able to break out of the siege from Shengde Gate, but he did not expect that Shengde Gate would miss so easily - the collapse of the Tianxiong Army would come earlier than he expected!
"Where is Zhu Zhi?" Xu Huai asked Xu Wukun.
"He was resting in the yard outside, and they kept blocking him from coming in," Xu Wukun said.
"We can find him now!" Xu Huai shook his armor and said.
Xu Wukun ordered the two people in the corridor to find Zhu Zhi, and at the same time asked Xu Huai: "Is it time?"
Although Xu Wukun saw something was wrong and rushed over to report the situation, he still felt that people like Ge Huaicong should not be so unscrupulous.
How many days have you been trapped?
Although Tianxiong's army raided Datong and did not bring much supplies, there was still no problem with the food they obtained from plundering Xicheng to last for ten and a half months.
In his opinion, people like Ge Huaicong should hold on until the food runs out.
In that case, even if they escape back, they can still have an explanation to their superiors and subordinates.
"It is not necessarily confirmed that they will definitely leave tonight. They will also struggle and fear in their hearts, but it will not be later than tomorrow night at the latest," Xu Huai said. "They will never dare to wait until the army collapses. In that case,
The chaos enveloped them all, and they lost their last chance to escape. What's more, it started to snow again that day, and they would definitely consider delaying it any longer. The snow in Yunshuo was knee-deep, and they fled through the city, but they had no horses.
The question of how to escape with only one pair of legs——"
"Should we call out Lao Wu and the others?" Xu Wukun said.
"Let everyone rest for one more hour," Xu Huai said.
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"What do you want to see me for at this time?" Zhu Zhi walked into the yard and looked at Xu Huai with a guilty conscience and asked.
After entering Datong City, it was the first time that Zhu Zhi walked into the garrison of the Supervisory Military Envoy.
It was late at night, the snow was falling, and he could not see very far with the limited light of the torch.
Apart from feeling that most of the houses near the camp had been demolished, leaving only a broken wall, and that the place he passed was unusually empty, he couldn't see anything else strange.
"Ge Huaicong, Yue Hailou should have abandoned the city and fled westward before dawn. Your father should know their plan, but your father will not let us know," Xu Huai said, "I need you no matter what means you use, whether you lie or not."
, you can tie it up with a rope, now let your father come over calmly——"
"..." Zhu Zhi was stunned for a while, then shook his head and said, "My father doesn't want to come over, so how can I kidnap him so rebelliously? How can this be possible?"
"Forty thousand soldiers and horses destroyed Datong, and the Northern Expedition against Yan, which had been planned for several years, collapsed. You said that after Ge Huaicong, Yue Hailou and the others fled back, they would honestly take out the heads of the whole family and plead guilty to the imperial court.
?"
Xu Huai looked at Zhu Zhi and asked lightly,
"Even if Ge Huaicong, Yue Hailou and others do not put all the blame on your father, but with your father's temperament, will he defend himself in the face of the imperial court's accountability? If he doesn't defend himself, if he doesn't do everything possible to find someone to ask for help,
You don't know how much responsibility your father has to bear as the supervisor of the raiding troops, don't you? Young Master, don't you really think that as long as we climb over the city wall, everything will be fine? "
